The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1847.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Before Mr. lierjeug Adams.

ABSINCI or Couwest..—on the case of two persons
named Neale and Brunton, who were indicted upon a charge
of assault, being celled on, a gentleman, who said he was an
attorney far the defence, addressed Mr. Serjeant
Adams, and said that Mr. Ballantine had been re-
tained for the defence but he was not in attend-
ance, and it was very hard for his clients to be put
upon their trial without their counsel. The brief and fee had
been given to Mr. Ballantine weeks and weeks before, and
yet his clients were now to be tried without him.—Mr. Ser-
pent Adams said he could not help that ; attorneys should
give their briefs to counsel who would attend.—The attorney
said it was not the first time he had been so served, but he
should know how to act in future.—Mr. Serjeant Adams
said it was too late to talk now—the case must prooeed.—Mr.
Payne (who appeared for the prosecution) said his friend,
Mr. Mellor, would defend the case in the absence of Mr.
Ballantine.—The attorney said this was areal hardship. Mr.
Mellor could not be so well acquainted with the facts as the
proper counsel, and it was very unfair that counsel should
take fees and " refreshers" and then fail to dis-
charge the duties for which they were paid.—
Mr. &testa Adams said he wished the attorney wou d hold
his tongue . the court did not know who he was, and could
not listen to him. The case most proceed.—Mr. Mellor
questioned the witnesses for the defence.—The defendant, in
the end were convicted, and liberated on entering into their
own recognisances, and paying a fine to the crown of ss.
each.

RIOT AT THE "SATIRIST'. OPPICE.—W. A. Chit:in,
G. Chislin (brothers), and M. Ransil:, surrendered to
answer an indictment, charging them with having committed
an assault on G. Mills, on the 30th of last September. This
case arose out of an affair which took place on the 30th of
September, an account of which appeared in our paper.
The Ghislins were in occupation of the Satirist office, 334,
Strand, and had received notice to quit from Mr. Barnard
Gregory, the landlord. They were to have left by Michael-
mas quarter-day, but, failing to do so, Bernard Gregory em-
ployed forcible means to eject them. It appeared from the
evidence now adduced, that a person named Timm (who was
said by one witness to be a carpenter, and editor of the
Satirist, which was afterwards denied) went with sa
or seven others and ejected the Chisling by force.
The Ghisling in turn got a reinforcement, and
attacked Gregory's party, whom, alter a sharp con-
test, they succeeded in routing, and they regained
possession. The prosecutor, Mills, was in the employ
of Timm, and he swore that he went at ten o'clock at
night, on the 30th, to the Satirist office, to ask for his
master, when, being recognised by the Ohiiline as one of
Timsn's men, they attacked him and beat him with such
violence that he was carried into a near public house nearly
insensible, and covered with blood. The prosecutor con-
tradicted himself in most of the material points, and posi-
tively swore that the defendant, Augustus Gbislin, was Men-
tal, and rice verul. He said that the morning after the
assault the whole affair was investigated before Mr. Jar-
dine, at Bow-street, when that magistrate refused to grant
either a summons ors warrant for either of these defendants,
although he told then the same story as now, about his being
carried bleeding to a public-house.—Mr. Serjeant Adams
could not believe that Mr. Jardine would have acted thus if
he had heard this evidence.—Another witness was examined
as to the affray, but instead of corroborating the prosecutor,
he contradicted him, and added more confusion to the case.
At length the patience of the jury was exhausted, and they
declared that if there were not other evidence it was a waste
of time to proceed. There being no further evidence,
the jury found the defendants not guilty at once, and
Mr. Serprant Adams said, a more unsatisfactory case had
never come before him, and as to the refusal of Mr. Jardine
to grant a summons for persons who had murderously
assaulted another, as this man alleged he had been, he did
not believe a word about it —This was the last case, and the
court adjourned till the 23d inst.

the previous afternoon, when he saw tho prisoner and an-
other man knocking at the door of a pablic-house. As it
was divine service at the time he requested them to go away,
They promised to do so, and complainant proceeded round
his beat. When be returned they were still knocking with
more violence than before. He told them to go away or he
must take them into custody. He was passing on when the
prisoner's companion came behind him and struck him a
violent blow on the back of his head. They then ran away.
He pursued them, and succeeded in taking the prisoner into
custody. The other man made his escape. The prisoner,
who pleaded drunkenness as the esuse of his committing the
offence, was fined 40s. or 21 days' imprisonment.
MARYLEBONE.—ROBBERY AT A RAILWAY STATION.
—Mr. Long received information that in the morning,
between 2 and 3 o'clock, a robbery to the amount
of (as it is supposed) from 1,2001. to 1,5001. was committed
at the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway.
Some offices at the railway were broken into, and a large and
weighty box carried off; and some drawers were forced open,
and cash abstracted.
CHARON AOAINST AN INSPECTOIL—Mr. Broughton, on
Saturday last, gave his decision one charge against Inspector
Hunt, of the D division, who, as alleged, had taken into
custody W. 8. Stocking, upon unfounded charges, and
caused him to be detained in a station-house for several
hours. Some particulars of what previously transpired have
already appeared. The magistrate, after fully reviewing !
the evidence, convicted defendant in the penalty of 51-
TIIAMES.—MURDEROUB Asset:tr.— William Carey, a
tall and powerful man. was brought before Mr. Yardley
on remand, charged with assaulting and wounding Elizabeth
Greenmay, who came out of the hospital to give evidence.
On Tuesday night last she was at the Effingham Saloon, in
the Whitechapel-roadond upon the termination of the per-
formances drank with the prisoner. She was about to de-
part, when he seized her, and said he would not permit her
to leave him. Presently the prisoner struck Greenmay a
violent blow on the mouth, and as she was staggering from
the effects of the blow, he kicked her on the side. She fell,
and while she was lying on the ground he kicked her in u
savage manner, and rendered ker completely insensible.
On recovering she found herself in a chair in a pastry-
cook's shop, and bleeding profusely. She was conveyed to
the London Hospital immediately afterwards—Mr. Pelham
said he was instructed that the prosecutrix had offered to forego
the prosecution on the receipt of 205., and he mentioned that,
because be could not be a party to the compounding an offence.
He then cross-examined the woman, who said she was still a
patient in the hospital, and was to return there directly she
had given her evidence. The prisoner's wife and landlady
offered her a sovereign, which she refused. She would
swear that she did not say to them, If you will give me a
sovereign I'll not swear against you."—The evidence
proved that the woman had received peculiar and serious
injuries.—Mr. Yardley handed a certificate he had received
from the medical officers of the London Hospital to Mr.
Pelham, and said the blows and kicks might have caused
more injury than they had done. He committed the pri-
soner for trial.—Mr. Pelham ; 'Yon will take bail of course ?
Mr. Yardley: Yes, good bail ; I am bound to do that.