The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-26 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCA

THIS DAY.

COURT OF COMMON PLEA&
Tau Btaitimosas FRZINOLD LAND SotniTT " VOUS."
The L rd Odd Justice, on tacks his efts this sessaiss,
assessed that the wart would des Idessas as Woke
sett fa the two reitistration appeal ads et Cavell o. the
deniers of Add, Sitishigkess ; sad Bart= s. the ems.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

The Moventbar solos, and the int oder the anyeasity
of Mr. Adana& Yezaarab, eorissased this seralzilisasasarre
the ItiaM am die Lad Mayor, re Rreca
W. Raster. Ileitrior sad Carden, dr. der,
The amber epigram for trial Is 184.
The R 41•71161 bray chard re grand jury, sad an a-
ware that shbreb the amber of prows re trial .1
Ibis sears was sr greater thea the rad rums% pails
Arm rue of the most serous derratisr mad be raid
est bap using as the caselaelso, ben bidraprisass of the
arraerre of the edam that wen Waged IMAM' anaidellatisa
la rat errs, that dry d m antra tbe
re there was may layorarisoiestsr 1. doe arab oftiar-
pardon ever whir the Corsi °dolma Orr jwirldisa
=hard sin
after modes Ibi estabire et arises of
the fart desodpdea appried ia tbe cal•admr, sad
err daubs, MI me is Way dares Oa d inadab ; all
the errs of dr o, by to alteradoset oarstualat
Mr sere earner and by aerrylag ire arid ISM the ser
tsar of reasportadoe, appaartag to bs ciao aril in obtain-
lag a dearore in area erstrocioas armor.
The grad jury then retired.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Pic•Pooarre.—J. Wood and 0. {Vahan; wore charged
with picking the pocket of Hr. Hinton.
Peliesassa Gilbert, H 165, stated that on Saturday might,
between 7 aad o'elork, be wee on duty in plain clothes, in
High-strest, Whumatepsl, whoa he obeerved the prisoners,
who were la the empany of another man, busily engaged
in feeling the reit-pocket sof gentlemen. He at length saw
' Wocd abstract smithies' from the pocket of the prosecutor,
which he passed to Withers. Witmer asked the ;enamel= if he
had lost his pocket-Imadkerekief. He lel: in his puked, and
mid that it wee gene. He punned the prisoners, when he
observed Wither s give the bandit& rebid to • man, who rue
away. They were =nestled tv the station-louse, where the
prosecutor signed the sheet, bat stated that he had an im-
portant engagement at Windsor on Monday (this day), and
that he should net be able to attend. He (witness) added,
that a few days ego the :limier was seen in the Strand with
sem MUM men in picking pockets.
Winne of • tive character being given, show's'
the seseesket nod habits of the prisoners, they were r
mended fee the attendance of the prosecutor.

WESTMINSTER.
AT71311,7 AT SUICIDS.— J. Alifehall, butler in the servico
of Dr. Thorp-, No. 13, Upper Bilitave.street, wee charged
with eating threatened the lib of Julia Nott, his fellow-
servant, and also with attempting to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor.
Polito constable No. 200, B diviaion. stated that cm Satur
day night last he waa directed togo to Dr. Thorpo's residence
immediately. He wen., and on entering the kitchen he
head the prisoner in the act of unfastening his neckerchief,
which he pulled off and drew something up to his throat.
Witness aught hold of him, and disaevered that he had an
open razor in his hand. The prisoner struggled violently,
and endeavoured to effect his purpose, but was prevented by
the constable, who succeeded in throwing him to the ground.
Mitchell held the Yea .r firmly, and appeared determined on
de greying his life, bat after a short resistance witness
obtained possession of the open mar. Witness took him
into custody, and while in the hall the prisoner said "he
would do for the servant maid, if it was a twelvemonth to
acme." He said love reused hint to attestant his life.
Jolla Nott said she was housemaid in the service of Dr.
Tempe. Oa Saturday the prisoner came into the kitchen,
sad behaved in a very strange manner. He walked up and
down the kitchen, and said, " lie did not care
what become of him." lie frequently looked at
her in a very peculiar manner, and suddenly came up to
her and said, "he would do for her." lie left the kitchen,
and return, some time afterwards, and behaved in a similar
manner. Witness became alarmed, and he again went out.
She afterwards left the kitchen, and elle found hiss waiting
for her at the door. She ran up stairs, and he followed her,
exclaiming " that he would do for her." She ran to the
drawing room, and all the ladies ran out, and she did not
remember anything more.
The prisoner, in defence, said,he was very sorry for what
had occurred. His master bad told him on Saturday morn-
ing that he must either go into livery again cr leave his ser-
vice. He said he would sooner leave than go into livery.
He was much disappointed, and drank in thee course of the
day, and bemuse very much intoxicated. He did not know
what he was about.
The constable said the prisoner appeared perfectly sober.
Mr. Broderip directed the prisoner to find two sureties in
201 each, and himself in 401.
The prisoner was unable to obtain the required sureties.
and was lotked up in default.

THE ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET rye • Con-
temponry 'snow moat decidedly oa the sacra ant. Smithfield
is mot only doomed, but the removal of the great metropolitan
cattle market to Islington will take place sooner than its
warmest friends had ever anticipated.
ACCIDENTS DURING THE FOO. Throughout
'Wards, and Saturday the metropolis and environs was
visited at intervals by • dense fog. Between hand 10 • 'clock
on Satur.'ay, an alarming collieion between two omnibuses
took plate in Oxf.rd-street, by which two petsens were
sesiously injured, in consequence of being thrown off the
roof seat. Mr. Lenkiater, of No. 71, Clarendon-grove,
Somers Town, sustained a concussion of the brain and severe
spinal injury, and Mr. Carter, of the Old Sing John's Head,
Alton Store., 19, Orap•-street, Paddington, a compound
fracture of both legs. Between 8 and 9 yesterday morning a
man named Williams fell overboard from the brig Two
Friends, Blaney master, lying in Bugsby's Hole ; the dense-
ness of the fig prevented effectual assistance, and the poor
fellow was drowned. A great many accidents were attended
to at the different hospitals,.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH ON BOARD A VESSEL.—Oo
Saturday Mr. W. Peyne received intonation respecting the
death of a girl named Elisabeth Pledge, aged 16 years, who
was found dead under suspicious circumstances on board the
Pauline Hall, of Hiliand, Captain Carruthers. Mr. Heed,
the summoning officer of St. O!ave'e parish, Tooley.strei t,
in whose district the deceased wu discovered, informed the
coroner that the body had been removed to the workhouse,
where it awaited en inquest, but it would be useless to c.ll
an laquiry without first snaking a past mortem examination
of the body, as there did not seem to him to he any external
violence likely to account for death. From what be (de
officer) could learn since the police had bad the ease in
hand, ft would be ascertained that the deceased had di. d
from taking an immense quantity of holland.. The coroner
agreed with the officer, and at ono, pre an ceder for an ex- ,
amination, which was subsequently placed in the bands of
Mr. Pettigrew, the surgeon, of Toolay•street, Southwark,
and that gentleman will report accordingly at the inquest,
which is fixed for this evening.
MEETING ON CAPITAL TclatlimENTS.—On 'Thurs.
day evening, a public meeting, numerously attended, was'
heed in the lecture room, Nelson-street, to consider the sub-
ject of " hanging by law." Mr. James Gilmore having been
galled to the chair, introduced the subject of the meeting.
Mr. Thomas Pringle then moved, and Mr. Cooper seconded,
a anselstion to the effect that the gallows, as • moral example
it a preventative of aims, is inefficient and use's's: The
resolution wu put and carried unanimously end enthusiasti-
cally. Mr. Joseph Cowen, jun., moved, and Mr. Richard-
son seconded a resolution, that all moral means be taken to
abolish the punishment of death, which was also carried with
gust unaaimity.—Newourie Ounrdiars.
COLLISION ON THE DUNDEE AND PERTH RAIL-
WAT.-. An accident occurred on this line of railway, on
Thursday evening, at Mylnefield Quarry Junction, which
was accompanied with fatal eonsequenote. At 6.40 p.m. •
goods train took its departure from the Ilnion-street Sta-
des, sad, on its arrival at the Quarry Junction, it was
signalled by the foreman to stop, to take up four loaded
weeps' that were in a siding'. It was stopped, sod, as the
dome immogor train from Perth was almost due, it was
ilhoomoi mbether they should wait, or proceed to put on
the Bolsi ewes& They unfortunately thought there was
dmo. ma mot dr OM of the men with a signal-lamp, so es
to Mop OM bola &soli It some up. It appease that the
oompooto riplatimo require that a paean with • signal-
ling timid wooed 600 yards from the offset, but before the
puma who woe dirpatched could have got half that distance
sae of the weggons had been got a the aiding on to the
down line, on its way to the up line, when the nasitulitr
main was heard approaching at • fest spool. The men
the waggon back again, bat were able only to get it
tacked
to the siding, when the engine of the passenger train
dashog tato it with fearful force. The waggon vesa shivered
to atoms, and the massive stores were, with the fragments of
the carriage, hurled a considerable distance,_eonse up the
line, and the remainder into the quart. Nelsach to
observe, the signalma*, Craig, who wasmace, alms foreman tithe
qaarry, wu kind on the spot, hie body wee found cm the
lore dreadfully mutilated. The guard of she goods train,
Charts Balfour, was discovered lying at the bottom of the
quarry, where he had been thrown by the force of the colli-
sion. Some of the stores were lying on him, m also one of
the heavy wheels of the waggon. His leg was found broken,
and he was very much injured about different parts of the
body. He was tely placed out an engine,"and brought
on to Dundee Inteurny, where he lies in a hopeless wadi-
tion. The penmen W. the down train felt the shock, but,
fortunately, moo of thom sustained injury.