The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-21 00:00:00

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Mr. Lawson—Oh, yes, very often. The profits an
lugs wins they are received, bet the lanes are dna coo-
aidersble.
no then Is • lon of 6741. es the

iiieet;toisiasic
lake( the meek.

Mr: Cawrrnes—The truth is, stock of that description
fetches very little more than waste paper. Ifetwitheisad-
ing what is said elsewhere, I hope your Maim will be ao
party to destroy the elarealleatioa of eardloldia If your
Hamar km+ the satiety which pumas eat Oman in
watching the clan of °eradiate, yea Medi be nravineed of
the mistake fallen into by them elm maid do away with
elarifi the diatiarties, sad who, whit* to haw a rest
deal about the subject, really Mew
The Commimioner—l heave thee wee sew pre-
roomed se impolitic es the abdlables the denser ewthisete.
I entirely pee with Mr. Loewe is Ilmosplaka that
there is very gresteaxisty ea Ow pert of tradem se to ma-
dam themselves at to subtle thstheaves to a higher elms of
owetheate, end *et the dried etbein pissed is the lowest
elms idea opethealvery famine* apes thew ;mad I thiak
that a the elmMaritioa be elmilthed, it will be • groat
public ansehied. TIM is wmalt of sty experisoce. I
hase_reat plume la • drat clam midi/loam to
Mt. 'Ammar, beam= I believe 11W1 to be a very respectable
tot sad Mee. be bee not boss able to succeed in
beim% ander Ma dilasulties be whisk be was placed, the
tanaste he made is such a sae se every ass oeot
to make as maintain his mead. That he boa
art sameaded in evenossiag these Maculae" Is so reams
Wbe liallald be treated with harsh.... I think be is
entire/ to a Int dew eertifeste. I have great
Oassore in gram's( it. mad I hope he will be more suessis-
dal in Maims hereafter.
This was oleo • divided mortiap in the maw matter.
arms& small debts were preyed ; awl a dividrud of 6". or
fis. IL is the persad is expected shortly to be declared.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-SATURDAY,

Brim Ma. Oaertmelowas PIMIUJIM
Jars hcocza.—SCUIDULII DISMISSID.
furo TTTTT To lirsoz.vaurs.
Tide isesivent, who had kept the Bell Tavern, Aldgate,
sad whose are was reported three weeks back, appeared
kr farther examination. Mr. Dome sad Mr. Sargood op-
posed for mediae% and Mr. Cookesupperted. Mr. Nichols
sppeared tar the hisolvent's beetber. Jacques.
- Apoint Wen reopeatim the sehediele.ef owe* ill
It transpired es the present trzamiasties taut the =t
had executed • deed he his brother. WUI hums, shoe
he bad bees is Wliaccreee-Streit Prises. Tie died was

the Wisedllth Janty, aad is his I ea
the Ist of February all auralion of the traretion was
omitted. It wu dammed ea the last occasion that the in-
solvent bed ashore is a freehold house which he had soar
over to his brother, who became liable es a bill of ea-
change. The insolvent pus, rit was alleged, an equitable
shim in July, when the bill was giro, sad on the 11th of
'misery he 'rested the deed in queries and maimed all
asention, sad ia as amendment just filed the date of July
was inserted. Mr. Dowse and Mr. Serpa preyed the
sort to dialers the schedule as wilfully untrue, as a cau-
tion to all parties who came before the court to file correct
schedules.

NiT6Ortaissioner Phillips was clearly of opinion that
tke emiseice of the property from the schedule was wilful,
and had bees diseovered by the sanest accident. It was
to mark such a ease, sad the wheat& mast he
=1
. Not only was no disclaim* wade of the truss&
ties la the schedule as filed, but la the affidavit to reddest
dime was so otescion of it. The parties had better Naiad
what they wen &heat is the mot schedule.
The samba* was dianissei, wed die twins; wbo woo
ow boils mat auk to palm

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE
HOME ClRCUlT.—Kiscsirox. MA9cu 19.
isua.—llawas Ma. Bans Auto's. W.
r. Lit MAUL —FIUINT TRIATIZI.

This was as tiOato recover three several penalties of
1001. each from the dafendasit, for unlawfully, and eon-
teary to the provisions of tba statute of this 25th Geo. IL,
kreping open a pine* called the Rotunda, in the Blaekfriars-
road, as one of theatrical entertainment, without a lionise.
The evidenee went to show that on the MA, 28th, andl
<9th of December la-t a lad named Phillip% the sot. of the
phintilf. went to the itotunds, and, having paid two-pence
for admission, he took a seat in a place fitted up like a thea-
tre, and where dancing, and singing, and a pantomime were
performed upon a regular stage. The usual prices of ad-
mission were a penny to the gallery, two-pence to the pit,
and threepenee to the bones, but this being Christmas time
the price of admission to the gallery was raised to two-
pence. The audience were aunt!, boys and girls, some of
them of disreputable character, and it appeared that there
were three " houses " every night, and that four or five
hundred persons were present at scary performance. The
defendant was proved to be present, and that he acted as
the proprietor of the establishment, and received the mossy
that was taken at the doors.

Mr. Joyce, on b. half of the defendant, did not attempt
any answer to the facts, but submitted that the evidence
was insufficient to flu hint with being the person legally
responsible for what was going on in the place, and he urged
that the proceeding being of • penal character the jury
ought to insist upon having clear and positive testimony
before they found a verdict against the defendant.
Baron Alderson having briefly summed up,
The jory at once returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
the amount of penalties sought to be recovered.

Col,. Sm.-Bmm Ma. 'times COMULKOL
CHAILOR OF CHILD MVILDILIL

Ilia Lordship, on handing the depositions to oar of the
learned counsel to enable him to conduct a prosecution in •
tale of a axioms charaver, took occasion to observe upon
the ine invesienee that was created by counsel not being in-
structed to prosecute in such cases. If the object was
merely. he said, ti save a few pounds, he mast say that he
considered such • motive totally inadequate and unjustitl-
able. True economy was • thing that ought always to be
regarded, but in so important • matter as the administration
of criminal justie.., where the life of a fellow-creature was
(maxi', at stake, the saving of • little money ought not
for • moment to be catroidered. The learned judge added
that if the neglect to employ counsel really proceeded from
this cause, he must say that it was most disgraceful,
and he hoped it would not be the case in future.
Mary Anne Temple, 38, was indicted for the wilful mur-
der of her female illegitimate child b 7 suffocating it.
The circumstances under which this charge was preferred
against the prisoner lay in a very narrow compass. It
appeared that she had had two other children besides the
one in viatica, and that at the time the occurrence took
place she was in the service of a respectable family at
Chertery. It would seem that she was delivered of this
child on the morning of the 7th of March, and • very short
time afterwards the prisoner went to the house of • woman
named Humphreys, who lives at Chertsey, and she pro-
duced the infant, which was at the time wrapped up in •
shawl, and asked her *co take care of it for her for a short
time. The woman observing from the appearance of the child
that it had evidently only recently oome into the world, was
somewhat alarmed, and she rut some questions to the pri-
soner, who said that the mother of the child had given it to
her to take care of. Mrs. Humphreys enquired who the
mother was, bat the prisoner refused to tell her, ea she said
she had promised not to do so, and Mrs. Humphreys said
that under such circumstances she would have aothing to
do with the child, and she must take it away. The
infant, which at this time appeared to be perfectly
healthy and well, was accordingly again wrapped up in the
shawl and also in a flannel petticoat, and the prisoner placed
it wader her arm and went away with it, and from this
OM the infant was never again semi alive. In consequence
oissimething that traaspired very shortly afterwards, Mr.
liielbstesk the superintendent of the harms cosetabulary
Matins& at Uhlman, felt it to be his duty to go to the
hum of the prlssases master, where he saw her, and
asked her ts Ise him what had become of the child she had
labia to Kn. Ilistraphmys, and afterwards carried away
swim the eirrandawsne stated. The prisoner told him
that she had takes the child to its mother, bat she said she
did am know wheys the mother lived, sad she added that
she had pima her the child at the chunk, sad she took it '
away with her, mid she knew nothing more about it. Upon
hearing th:tialidra. -. lliddleeomb obtained the assistance
of a amellealand upon the fact being omertained
that the had very recently been delivered of •
child, the Miser teak her into custody and placed her is
the Christy psi*
_statics. He very soon afterwards re-
ceived further Warmed= which induced him to go to a
college, is the of Cbertmy, which had been
occupied by the 'a father, but which was at the time
empty, aecompashd by • constable named Moore, sad upon
making a search they found a hole is the floor which was
covered with • bundle of rags, and oa the mutable put-
ting his band into the hole he pulled out the dead body of
an infant. This turned out to bathe same child that bad
been taken by the prisoner to the house of Mrs. Humphreys,
and the surgeon stated that it was • full grown and appa-
rently healthy child, and the result of • pat-mortem ex-
amination clearly showed that death was the result of suf-
focation. and it was suggested, on the part of the prawn-
tioa, that when the prisoner took the child away from Mrs.
Humphreys she had wilfully suffocated it by pressing it
forcibly in her arms while it was enveloped in the shawl
and pet:iccat. There was, of course, no direct ',i-
diom of the feet, bet it was proved that while the pri-
soner was left in the charge of a woman, the wife
of one of the ecostables, at the station house, she'
appeared in a very low sad despoadiag state, &adobe asked
the woman whether she thought that she should be halm,
sad on her replying that she did net know, the prisoner
said—" I did it." The woman then asked what she had
dose, and she replied—" I euffmated the child, but I must
ham been oat of my senses at the time, and the devil
tempted me." The prisoner thee went on to state that it
was her iatention to have destroyed herself, and she said
that she weal bane to her mother's, sad sat up all night,
and if her mother sad sisters had not been shoat, she should
have jumped est of the window. It also appeared upon
searching the peisener's box that she had not provided
sloth's or asesmaries of any description for the infant,
which she mum have knows she was about to bring into
the world.

3d,. I.illey made a most earnest sad forcible address to
the jury is behalf of the prisoner; urging upon their
attention that the main evidence against her consisted
of het own statements, which he said, la her wretched and
eaiserable condition, ought not to have fall effect given to
them, at all evests to the extent of taking them as admis-
sions that she was guilty of the crime of wilful murder ;
and he submitted the possibility that in her alarm and ex-
citement at the moment, she had carelessly pressed the
child so unto GLOM its death. He likewise urged upon the
Jxry the possibility of the child's death having been the
result of mere accident, taking into consideration the man-
ner in which it was packed up, as it were, in the shawl and
pettiesst, when it was taken away by the prisoner.
The learned Judge summed up the cassia his usual kind
and impartial manner. He said that if the jury thought
the child was accidentally suffocated by the prisoner, of
course she was entitled to as asquittal altogether ; if, how-
ever, they should think it was not as accidental occurrence,
bat that the prisoner, by gram negligence and want of pro-
per consideration for the frail hake slae woe asaveying, bad
caused its death, is that cam it weal M6l amount to the
crime of manslaughter. if they should, however, be of
opinion that the prisoner had deliberately canoed the death
of the child, in that case it would be their duty to find her
guilty of the crime of wilful murder.
The jetty, after deliberating a short time, found the pri-
soner Gritty of manslaughter, but recommended her to
mercy on account of the condition of mind she was is at the
time.

The learned Judge, is prides sentence apes the pri-
sour, said that the jury had taken a most merciful vies, of
the ease. The crime of infanticide appeared to he greatly
oa the ieetesse, sad the judgm in the coarse of their duties
mould not sew go into any county is &Aglaced without lad-
lag °se or two, sad frequently more, of eta cases Is the
calendar. There were Dome very palatal ciretisasteamos in
her case. The infant in question was sot her lint child,
aad she must hare bees perfectly well aware of her ',sedi-
tion. sad yet she had provided no clothes or other au use-
ries for the infant. sad it was difficult to amount for her
taking the child and esseselieg it in this saossupied cottage
is any other way than by ssppais it was her intentioa
that Its life should be escrlbM The jury had, however,
very mercifully acquitted bard the crime of wilful murder,
and had only found bee of measlaughter ; but upon
that verdict be telt that is iwM be 'bisecting his duty if
he did not pass upon her a severs iselminc He then or-
dered the prisoner to be eseeperted dm 16 years.

THR DV= AT EGOIAM.
Just before the grand jury Were discharged they returned
a true hill against Edmond Alban, Etienne Barrennet,
Emanuel Barthelemy, and Philippe Eugene Monist for
murder.

It will be remembered that the prisonen, who are French-
men, Sr. charged with killing one of their countrymen in a
duel at Egli= in the autumn of last year.
Upon the applies ion of Mr. Parry, who appears for one
of the defendants, the trial was filed to take place en Mon-
day. Mr. M. Coamben, Q.C., and Mr. Ballannuse 111111 alto
'stained for the defence.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.--137A170110, MARCH 19.
ADCOCK. 0. at 1111111.—BILZACK or Pi 1,0111.111 Or MAR-

MIAOII.

This cease was brought by Miss Sarah Ann Adeock, aged
22, the only daughter of a gentleman of some position in
Birmingham, to recover damages of the defeadaat, by !re-
am of his failing to make her his wife. Kr. Russel, the
defeadant, is a surgeosi at Wednesbary, sad, in the course
of last June, he became upon intimate terms with Cie
family of the young lady. Ile was stench by her attractions,
and made proposal* of marriage to her. The parents ap-
proved of the proposal, and matters so far advanced that
the defendant delivered to the mother of the young lady a
draft of the oiled by which he proposed to settle 2,00 W. on
her, and DirirAdeoek agreed to settle the same amount
apes her. The defendant want the length of procuring the
license, but suddenly a peculiar change was observable
is his manners, and, on Jimmy 10th, 11153, he
wrote a letter to the mother of. the plaintiff, in
which be complained of the Fertile:um and unpleasant
position he had been placed in, relative to some gossip
sato his Stases to marry, and stated his desire to break off the
engagement. It monied that some rumour bad been spread
es to his state of health, which turned out gait, untrue, and
it was said that he had nada that gives of scandal a mise-
rably mow for set perhaski the seism mired.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 21. 1853.

Mrs. Adcock, the plaintiff's mother, was called, sad
spoke of the de ray Requsintaane with her daughter,
and propostee martiage to Ler. lisrae arranged that the
del' hd•ht.•. sisters should be the bridesmaids.' He gave into
her laah's the draft of a marriage settlement. The marriage
!kin• . was bought on the 14th of December, and the sp.
Pr^ aching event was the subject of guard conversation.
Afterwards his stake were lees frequent. There appeared
an alteration is him ; and on the 11th of January she re-
ceived the letter previously alluded to. He told her that
his income was 6001. • year, and that his father was worth
50,0001., and that he had two mw, each worth 50,0001.
Cross-examined by Mr. Whiteley—Remember speak-
ing to defendant in the course of October or September,
about an anonymous letter she had received. She told him
the purport of it—that he had had a *AVM illness. She
asked him if hews. in a position to marry, in respect to his
bodily condition. She wished him to converse with Mr.
Burdett, a Barron. on the subjoin. She had WNW Mr. Bur-
dett on the subject of Mr. Mussel's health; that was before
Mr. Russel saw him. She consulted him professionally as
to Mr. Rumel's health. She knew Mrs °oast. She was a
lady liviog near her. Mrs. Onset had some cenvenation
with her on the subject. She sat and heard wh.t she said.
and made no answer. She was sorry to say her daughter
was present when the conversation took place between Mrs.
Guest and hr reel f. The result of the cornrruniestion with Mr.
Burdett WAS quite satisfactory to her and the ladies of the
family. Alr. Russel expressed his satisfaction that the un-
pleasantness had been removed, and tho preparations (or
the marriage were continued after this.
Mr. Burdett, the surgeon, was next called. Had known
defendant fifteen or sixteen years. Had had an interview
with a lady, request;ng him to see Mr. Russel. The result
of his examination of Mr. Russel was perfectly satisfactory
to all parties.
Mr. Whateley then addressed the jury for the defendant,
and the jury, atter some hours deliberation, returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, damages 1001.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exnea, Kum 18.
Biauaa Ma. Rana, CMOMPION.

Tut CLAYILIDON MIIIDia.—SENTENCII of D/ATH.
George Sparks, aged 26, and Jana HileAeock, 40, were
indicted for the wilful murder of Mr. William Mecham',
on the sth of February, at Clayhidon, in the county of
Devon. _ .

Deceased was a miller and tax collector, residing at Clay-
hides Mills, near the remote village of Clayhidon, which
is situated at about five miles from Wellington, in Sonar-
setahire. The prisoners lived near him, sad were agricul-
teral labourers of the lowest elan. The younger prisoner,
Geo. Sparks, was a single man, and, it was alleged, was
betrothed to Hitchcock's daughter. The latter has a wife
and family, and was in the habit of jobbing about at diffe-
rent farms to work. Mr. Blackmore had a wife and one
son, and was a man universally respected is the neighbour-
hood. On the morning of the 6th of February it appears
that he left his house to collect certain arrears
of tithes. He obtained altogether about twenty pounds,
and it seemed that during his peregrinatione, he met the
two prisoners with Mr. Honeyball, a farmer, with whom
they had been working. Mr. Blackmer. greeted Mr.
Hooeyball, and told him that he had just been to his house
aad got some money. One of the prisoners beard this; sod re-
marked to Mr. Honeyball that Mr. Blackmer. "collected a
good deal of money; more he should think then anybody in
the parish." They passed on ; sad the primmer., after
baring been paid some small sums of money from Mr.
Honeyball, west to the White Horse lan, a beerahop on the
road. On his way home Mr. Blackmon would have to pass
this house, as the most direct route to his Dome ,• and it was
therefore suggested by the learned counsel, in his opening
speech, that the prisoners bad formed the design of robbing
anticipating that he would call at this beerhouse on
his road beets. Between 8 and 9 o'clock in the evening
Mr. Blackmon did call in at the White Horse, and was re-
ceived by George Sparks at the door. They then went in
and had some drink. They drank a quantity of beer with
ski and brandy in it, for some of which Mr. Blackmon
beid, and then played at cards with Sparks. It seams that
won the games, and Sparks had to expend nearly all his
money in paying the reckoning. During the time they were
la the house Mr. Blackmer. produced a half-crown, whi4 he
said was all the mosey he had got, thus showing, as it is be •
livred, that he was aware of being in bad compaay. To this
observation Hitchcock said, " I won' t rob you.eir," and Sparks
said, "Master is net *feud of us," spot which Mr.Blaek more
said, "No, by gams." Just before they left the house the
two prisoners were observed to leave the room, and come
beck again for a few minutes. They all left the how
shortly after Gee o'clock on the Sasday moraine ; and at
bar o'clock, as the deceased did not arrive at home, his
son got up, and went is search of him. The yeaag man
found him a short distance from the road —bleeding
—his skull fractured, and his jaw dreadfully lacerated. His
watch, which was afterwards found in his pocket, was
braised, and had stopped at seventeen minutes to two
o'clock. His purse, eontainieg two five pond notes, was
not taken; but he had been robbed of 111. in gold. The
prisoners were suspected of the murder, and were appre-
hended. Sparks made three isonfessiess of his guilt to the
constable, and the coroner, at the inquest. He said to
Braddick, a constable, in the presence of several persons,
" It's no use to care no more about it. I would as soon
toll the whole truth as not. I killed him with a part of a
pair of tongs. 1 think I killed him with the first blow. I
struck him twine afterwards." There was a pair of tongs
by the fireplace ia the house where his confession was
made, and the prisoner took them up, and showed the
people how he did it. He said, " I hit him back-handed,
and I threw the to Into the Bridge- house river." The
constable found the eke. of tangs (a murderous weapon)
at the spot indiestemilir the printer. It appears that it
had been taken firmer eittobenteaoiningtbeWhite Horse
beer-hoisseorbere the priesesers hed beam drinking. On his
waistcoat were egos of bleed ; sad on searching the house
where he lodged 101. 10s. in gold was found in a piece of
rag. One of the half-sovereigns was gone, which the pri-
soner aeseested tar by stating that ha bad Sung it over a
I hedge, whes.in 'reedy, to escape detection. In his coa-
-1 Cession the prisoner Sparks acquitted Hitchcock of any par-
ticipation in the crime • but as there were footmarks ear-
risponding with his bots, in whkh there were some peen-
' liar marks, he was committed for the same charge of wilful
murder.

Several crimsons deposed to t►e fact that they saw the
tracks of Hitchcock's boots war the ease of the mur-
der, bat not within 110 yards thereof. Hitch-
cock's explanatioa of the marks was that they
mast have been made when he came along the
lived in the custody of the constable ; bat it was proved in
evidence that there was a severe frost that monting, and
that it was impossible that foot prints could have been so
impressed on the road. Hitchcock further stated that he
and Sparks bad ptrted from Mr. Blackcaps, at a place
called the French Nut Tree, acid this was corroborated by
Sparks, who said th►t after he parted with Hitchcock be
went bark and committed the atrocious deed.

inureirerawiinl;;;.oZitiliiotleposed to the
above facts, and the court adjourned at nine o'clock on
Friday.
On Saturday. at eight Vela*, the case was resumed.
Mr. Ring addressed the jury en behalf of Hitchcock :
and

Mr. Henry eonsidered that the men were bound to eft
a week's notice of leaving, end ordered the defendant 'to
return to his employeseut, and give the proper notice, it
he wished to lases. It could never be allowed that a body
of win should Übe upon themselves to stop the business of
an establishment by deserting in eombinatiou at say hour
they liked. The other six men must do the same, or they
would be imprisoned.
The defendant expressed his willingness to do so.
_ CLERKEN WELL._ _

A care-worn looking woman, named Fisher, residing at
No. 7, Saver-street, liatton-garden, charged her husband
with endeavouring to strangle her.
The complainant said that four months ago she became
the wife of the prisoner, and was then reeessed of a very
comfortable home. Beer since their wedding-day she had
not been free from a black eye, her husband having almost
nightly returned home at all hours, dragged her by the halt
of her head out of bed, and threatened to murder her. Her
body was covered with bruises.
The prisoner, who behaved with extreme hardihood, WY
ordered to be brought up on a future day.

Mr. Coleridge, in a powerful speech, contended that his
client Spathes had no intends, of taurderiag Mr. Black-
more, but only to rob him.
His Lordship summed up at groat length, and after a
quarter of an boar's rjeliberaties, the jary returned a ver-
dict of guilty agaisast the primmer Sparks, but acquitted
Hitchcock,

His Lordship then proceeded In a mast impressive mea-
ner to pass upon Sparks the sentence of death. He held
out no mercy to the noformaate man; sad when he came
to the last words—. you will be hanged by the neck"—his
lordship was so much affected that he leaned upon the
bench and wept aloud.
The prisoner maintained throughout great firmness, a
solitary mar only Wag observed to roll down his cheek
when the kayoed judge exhibited so much feeling.