The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1847.

on Monday, pursuant to adjournment.—Mr. Stewart (soli-
citor ho the Board of Works) conducted the prosecution.
With respect to the charge of embezzlement entered into on
the last day, he observed that an objection was taken by the
prisoner's counsel, that the bank book was not legal evidence
to prove that no portion of the money in question (7901.) had
been lodged by Mr. Mason. He (Mr. Stewart) had now the
bank clerk to produce, who was able to prove that within tke
period alleged not one shilling of the money was lodgedby the
prisoner.—Mr. Hutchens, bank clerk, proved that no money
was paid by the prisoner within the period stated.—Mr.
Stewart then proceeded to offer evidence on the further
charge of forgery. The first case he would bring before his
worship with that object was that of a cheque for 1501.,
drawn by the Commissioners of the Board of Works for that
amount. It was dated the 27th of June, 1845, and numbered
2,070, and was intended to pay the labourers engaged at the
Limerick Canal, and signed " Tennent Smith." It was
charged against Mr. Mason that he h 4 altered this cheque
to the sum of 4501, by converting the figure I in the cheque
into 4. The cheque was paid, and 1501. of it was applied as
originally intended, for the payment of the labourers, but
3001. of it was lodged in the bank with au eudeavour to make
up the deficiency of 7901. previously abstracted by Mr.
Mason.—Mr. King identified the handwriting of the pri-
soner on the cheque. The figures " 4501." were, he believed,
but he was not quite certain, in the handwriting of Mr.
Mason; the name Tennent Smith and the endorsement were
also in his handwriting.—Mr. Conway said he was one of
the pay-tellers at the Bunk of Ireland. (The book produced.)
This book was a blotter, in which the entries of paid cheques
were made. There were entries of a cheque of tho Shannon
Commissioners—one for the sum of 1505 and another for
3001. They were paid to Mr. Mason in dockets. The
docket produced was one of the bank-bill docket', and was
dated the 27th of June, 1845. It was in tke handwriting of
the prisoner.—Mr. Stewart then brought forward the follow-
ing additional case, in further substantiation of the charge of
furgery. It was that of a cheque, dated the sth May, 1843,
and No. 1,578, drawn in favour of Martin King, and issued
originally for 911., but altered to 1911., and paid to Mr.
Mason.—Colonel Jones ; In the cheque produced I see
the words, " sth May," and " Martin King " writ-
ten. I kept a record of that and all other cheques, when I
signed them. I find I have a record of having signed a cheque
ou that day numbered 1,578. The initials on that cheque are
mine, and those of Sir John Burgoyne.—Mr. Stewart sub-
mitted that he had given sufficiently distinct proof, putting
the charge of mhezzlement totally out of the question,
that a forgery had been committed by the prisoner,—Dr.
Kelly said he had enough before him to decide him upon
sending the prisoner for trial, and would therefore commit
him.—Mr. O'Hea then applied that bail should be taken for
the appearance of the prisoner at his trial at the next en-
suing commission.—Dr. Killy refused to accept bail; but
suggested that an application should be made to the Court of
Queen's Bench, which had the power to grant it, which he had
not —Mr. O'llea then applied for an order from the bench, to
remove the prisoner from Newgate to the prison at Kilmain-
h am, on the grouad of delicacy of health.—Dr. Kelly refused to
do so, es the matter did not come under his juriddiction, and ad-
vised that a memorial should be sent to the Lord-Lieutenant
who had the power to do so.—A person, whose name we did
not hear, informed his worship that a memorial had been
forwarded to the Castle with that object, and that a verbal
answer was returned to the effect that the power to make the
order resided in the magistrate.—Dr. Kelly said that he
would not make any order of the kind unless he received a
written official notification from the Castle to that effect. His
worship then committed the prisoner for trial at the next
commission.

SCOTLA-VD.

EDISBUIIOII,.Nov. 8.

A meeting is to be held in Glasgow this evening
for the purpose of denouncing the adulteration of
meal and other articles of food. It was convened by
the Lord Provost in compliance with a requisition
which especially alluded to " the important facts
brought out in the Justiciary Court, on the 29th
Sept last, in reference to the extensive and pernicious
fraud practised on the population by provision dealers
adulterating the common necessaries of life."
The induction, or attempted induction, of the new
professor of Hebrew was to-day the occasion of a
" scene " at the university. After the annouace-
-1 went on Saturday that Lord Robertson would
grant no interdict the magistrates requested
that a meeting of the Senates Academicus
should be called at ten o'clock to-day for the purpose
of induction. At that hour, accordingly, the senators
met, and the Lord Provost, accompanied by the pro- ,
lessor elect and the college committee of the town
council, made their appearance ; on which, on the '
motion of Principal Lee, strangers and reporters were
ordered to withdraw. In substance the after pro-
ceedings were as follow :—The Provost introduced
Mr. Macdouall as the new professor of Hebrew.
Principal Lee said that sufficient time had not been
allowed for the senators to consider the matter; and
on ascertaining that Mr. Macdouall had not sub-
scribed the tests, he had a protest against his induc-
tion. Provost Black stated that election by the town
council was equivalent to induction, and that the
latter, as hitherto observed, was merely a formal act
of courtesy, and consisted in the simple introduction
of a professor elect to his future brethren. Against
this view a law professor took another protest. The
Provost and magistratest hen retired. What precise
shape the litigation will next assume it is difficult to
say, but there is little clout): that the case will be a
protracted one.

SUSPCC rEn MI:RD/IR.—On Tuesday, the body of a female
almost in a state of nudity, and apparently about fifty years
of age, was found in the Union Canal, near Muiravonside ;
and appeared to have been from ten to twenty days in the
water. The body bore the marks of numerous stabs and
cuts, which had apparently been inflicted with a knife or a
similar instrument ; and from these and other circumstances
it is naturally suspected that the woman had been murdered
before being thrown into the canal. Various conjec-
tures have been formed of the parties likely to have
committed the crime, and from the fact of the de.
ceased being • stranger in the district where she
was found, it is supposed that the murder (should it
prove to be such) has been committed at • distance,
and the body brought by a coal-boat or lighter, and thrown
into the canal. From the remains of a shoe which was
found on one of her feet the unfortunate woman seems to
have been a poor person, and probably a vagrant. She ap-
pears to have been about five feet six sad a half inches an
height, rather stout and well proportioned, with thin grey
hair. The authorities are engaged in the investigation of
the who'si circumstances, and the body is lying at Falkirk
for identification.