The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-08 00:00:00

PETITION OF RIGHT OF CATHERINE ROBSO,
AND ISABELLA AINSLEY. .

The evidence in liii;c7iseWasrintrieri yesterday at the
Westminster Sessions House. It was of • similar docu-
mentary character as that of the day preceding, being con-
fined simply to the establishment of the allegations in the
petition, and exhibited no feature of the slightest public in.
terest. Mr. Brooks, a stockbroker, was called to prove the
present velue of the property of the testator which bad been
paid to the crown. He calculated that the fund, which in
July, 1815, amounted to 139,4331., would now, with interest
in the Three per Cent. Consols, amount to about 435,7591.
The evidence having been concluded, Mr. Westmaoott, the
solicitor for the suppliants, gave • short resume of the facts
which had been established. The hour being late, the
commissioners thought it undesirable to commence the sum-
ming up then, and the court adjourned to Saturday next.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Before Mr. 13erfeent Adams and a 1411 bench of magistrates.
The December general melon of the peace commenced
this messing, at the sewions-houn, Cleskenwell. The
number of prieoners for trial was 106; of whom not one was
able to read or write well, sad 37 were entirely ignorant of
both. _ _ _

FLAW IN Al! INDicriaiNT,—Emma Stuckey was indicted
for stealing a smelling-bottle, laid in the indictment as the
property of Thomas, Baron Cecil. The prisoner pleaded
not guilty, and requested the court to postpone her trial
until the following day, in order that she might procure the
attendance of some friends, and have time to properly pre-
pare her defence.—The learned judge, who bad examined
the indictment, and had found it to bean invalid one, recom-
mended her to be at once put upon her trisl.—To this she
eusented, and the learned judge proceeded to question the
prosecutor as to his name end title.—lie said he was not a
peer of the realm, but the son of a peer, his name being
Thomas Cecil, though commonly he was known as Lord
I Thomas Ceeil.—The learned judge said this was fatal to the
indictment—in that the prosecutor was described as Thomas,
Baron Cecil, while it appeared that his real name was Lord
Thomas Cecil.—The jury were then directed to acquit the
prisoner, who was at once discharged.
ROBBERY BY A MEDICAL STUDENT.—Willians Wood, 21,
• medical student, pleaded guilty to two indictments, charg-
ing him with stealing al over-coats and a shirt, the pro-
perty of A. Young and J. W. Wakem.—Mr. Clarkson, for
! the prisoner, addressed tie court in mitigation. The pri-
mond, he said, was • young man respectably connected, but
had given himself up to dissipated habits, and it was in
order to gratify that unfortunate propensityzthat he had
committed the offence of which he avowed himself guilty.
, Up to the present affair his character for honesty had been
unsullied. He had been a pupil in the Edinburgh College
of Surgeons, in which city he acquired those habits which
had led him to his present position. He had been a pupil
under Dr. Partridge, of Spring-gardens, and had attended
1 the lectures at King's College Hospital, from where the arti-
eke in question were stolen. The prisoner had been connected
too with Derby Clubs, at sporting house, in the neigh-
bourhood of Saint Martin's-lane. The learned counsel
stated that he did not make these facts known to the
court, to iuduce it to depart from its ordinary course in
favour of the prisoner, so much as to show that his client
was not a thief by profession, that he did not owe his posi-
tion to any felonious propensity bred in his mind. He had
no doubt acted upon an impulse which had overcome the
caution which had been the safeguard of his former conduct.
He had been discarded by his profession, his reputation had
suffered an irretrievable blot by his expulsion from the
College of Saneons, and he (the learned oouniel) hoped that
any extenuating circumstances would be favourably con-
eidered by the court —Dr. Partridge gave the prisoner a
pod character, as did Mr. C. Hancock, a merchant. The
latter stated that the prisoner had been supplied with rea-
sonable means for necessaries, but he had not been freely
supplied with cash, in consequence of his habits.—The
learned Judge read the prisoner a lecture upon the coureee
' he had pursued, and said the court could not mitigate the
punishment ha had entailed upon himself. The case of a
poor ignorant uneducated person would have had more con-
sideration. The sentence was four months' hard labour,
two months upon each indictment.

POLICE.—YraniDiT.
MANSION-HOUSE.—Ca•aoas er FOROZCIT.—S. U.
&elder an officer in the Post-office, was *horsed with having
, committed forgeries—Upon the 22nd of July, 1847, Mr.
James, a solicitor, of Ely-place, transmitted a letter to Scot-
land to a Me,. Hedlow, Maiming a cheque upon Muter-
man's banking-house for 661. That letter never reached its
destiastion • but on the 23rd of July a forged cheque for
purporting66l. to he signed " G. James," In favour of Mrs.
Heaney, was received b; Messrs Meeterman, in • letter
dined " Ellen Hallow, and dated from Kensington, re-

MARYLBBONE.— UTTIRINCI • FORGED RAILWAY
Pass.--J. A. Sandlands was re-examined, charged with
uttering a ftsmd pass with intent to defraud the LOREI4III
and North Western Railway Company. On Tuesday, ths
Ath ult., the prisoner went to the station at Enston-equars
and presented a written paper purporting to be signed by
Mr. Robert Stephenson, the onapany's consulting engineer,
and containing a request that the bearer might be plied
fn e in a second class carriage to Birmingham and back on the
company's business; as it was quite evident from the appear-
ance of the document that it was a forgery, the prisoner was
given into cestody, when he &drained that he had written the
pass hisnaelf.—The magistrate committed him for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—ROSPERY or PLatra.—
W. Newman was charged with having been eoseerned in a
robbery at the residence of Dr. Manson, Park-street, Gros-
venor-square. On Friday week the plate, worth upwards of
501 was counted over in the presence of the prisoner, aad
placed in a drawer in which the property was usually kept
This drawer was secured by a lock and was also lined with
iron plate. The following morning it was found the drawer
had been broken open with considerable violence, and the
whole of the plate carried off. The prisoner had called to
see a female servant, and it being suspected that some one
acquainted with the place in which the plate was kept had
committed the robbery, suspicion fell on him. Several
articles of wearing apparel and other property were also car-
ried off. On Sunday the prisoner again called to see the ser-
vant, and was given into custody.—The prisoner protested his
entire innocence.--His uncle, a coach- builder, gave him a good
character, end said he had worked for him.—Culling of the
D division said he had seen the prisoner in the company of
bad characters--He was remanded.

.—From J. R. 101. hu been received for