The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-15 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Milan Gazette, of the oth, publishes a bulletin
of the Bth, stating that the Austrians had sent troops
to Lognago, and that contributions had been levied at
Bevilacqua, Minerbe, Marega, and Tcrrazza. Another
body Itd been directed upon Marostica. Gen. Du-
rand° had sent a s'rong vanguard to Tiene, and another
to N ire, on the right bank of the Brenta, as also
, thi' first Unman legion from Padua to Vicenza. The
Ausrisns had ordered lodgings for 5,000 men at
Montagnana. From the 23rd to tha 30th ult., the
Alps of the Cadore had been attacked by the Aus-
trians at nine different points, by forces amounting
in all to 8,000 men, and had bets everywhere
repulsed, with a loss of 500 men and 234 pri-
, [mem The head-quarters of the Piedmontese army
are at Peachiera. Several divisions of Piedmontese
have move d towards Villafranca, and others to the
heights of the left bank of the Lake of Garda. Charles
Albert has made many promotions in the army.
The Ferrara Gazette, of the sth, states that Generals
Pepe and Ferrari arrived there cn the 4th. A Neapo-
litan battery of eight pieces and a company of sappers
are at Francolino. 1,000 Modenese were stationed at
Governolo.
From the 22nd Ilfarzo, of 9th, we learn that about
2,000 Germans have entered Belluno ; 3,000
are at the embouchure of Cadore. The former
are l'oles, the latter Croats. The inhabitants of
Cadore have massacred some of the latter. It was
said that on the oth a part of these troops
had marched towards Feltre, by Bassano or
Suprirolano. This latter point is well de-
fended. The bridges of Cordevola and 1)a Capo di
Ponte, near Belluno, are destroyed. 1,500 Austrians,
who have come from Belluno, with 3,000 who were
at the bridge of Prink, advance towards Castelfranco.
A letter from on board the Beroldo, published in
the same journal says: "To-morrow, we shall go,
with five or six gunners and aided by the Tripoli
and Melfatano, to endeavour to destroy two small

forts near Caorle occupied by 800 Croats. The squad I
ron stilt continues at Pirano, near Trieste. We are
betrayed by the Neapolitans.
Conlemporaneo says that the news of the fall I
of Peachiera arrived in Itome on the 4th, and caused
great rejoicing. Two companies of carbineere are
immediately to be raised and scut to the theatre of
WU.

The Eµ ca of Home, of the sth, states from Naples,
that the ministers had presented a programme to the
king and their resignation in case ho should not cocept
it. The condition. were : The dismissal of the Swiss ;
the re-organisation, as before, of the Nivional
Guards ; the convocation of the Chambers with the
same deputies; and complete oblivion of the past.. A
thousand Sicilians, the vanguard of 6,000 more, hail
entered Calabria. Lecce, Potenzs, Cosenza, and
Teramo had already constituted their provisional go-
vernments.

OEIOI ANY.—A letter from our Frankfort corres-
pondent, ortty3 " That a radical demonatration was ex-
pected for the 13th, but that there was no prospect of
its being formidable or leading to mischief.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(Tme DAT.)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
01.1. Comr.

The business of this mat was commenced this miring,
by Mr. Commissioner Bullock, who disposed of some uniin•
portant oasis of (deny pri wise the .arrival or Mr. Baron
Blare, who Sick hie 'sett n the bench at 10 o'clock.
ronceitY —Mira IV,Lhinson. 63, a reapectahledooking
man, broua,ht upon a writ of habeas corpus, from Br,stol, was
indicted for uttering a forged transfer deed, defrauding
theieby the Bunk of Entland. Mr. Clarkson
and Sir Johe Bayley were tor tho prosnution.
It appeared that, in 1837, a lady named Toddle died, and
in her will she bequeathed the sum of 2,0001. to a young
lady named Dickson, who was her nice, the money being
held by trustees until Miss Dickson attained her majority.
Whilst a minor, she became acquainted with a son of
the prisoner. who carried on the husinesa of a hall-
in .egrr in Mint-street, in the B trough, and, before tither rf
them was 01 age, they were married. The prisoner was in
air ill:cilia circumstances about that time, and, on
being pressed by his landlord, hr said that hit
son was entitled to a sum of money in right of
his wife, and in compliance with a suggestio of his, an ap-
plication was made to the trustees to pay over to the son a
portion of the trust fund. Thh was refused until the legatee
was of age, and then 0001. was paid. Subsequently another
11001. was paid, and the remaining 1,0001. was placed in the
Three-and-a. Half per Cent. Reduced Annuities, in the
mimes of the prisoner and Mr. William Sheppard, as
trusters for the legatee and her husband. The dividends
were paid under a warrant of attorney. The prisoner, how-
ever, took a fictitious William Sheppard to the Bank of
England, and represented him as the hood fide truster, and
rot the whole of the fund transferred to him and sold out.
The real Willi im Sheppard became acquainted with thi.,
and proceeding. were act 00 foot to apprehend the pri-
soner. The Bank of England was liable to reluiid
the whole earn to the hoi.3 fide trustee, and he was
liable to the legatee and her husband and her children.—
The tvidenee was given at considerable length, and in the
end the jury found the pii,oner Guilty. Mr. Baron Rolfe
sentenced him to bo transported for the term of bin natural
life. _ _ .

FOIL° En BANK Sort:el.—Pedro Germaine, 2G, apparently
a pp •rting character, was i•ulicted fur three distinct uttering■
of forged Bank of Encland notes.—Mr. Clarkson and Sir
John Bayley prosecuted ; Mr. Payne defended the prisoner.
The facts are very short and clear. The prisoner, it seemed,
w. nt to the shops of trailcemen, and after purchasing sume
&niche of comp iratively small ♦alue, tendered forged hark
notes in payment, receiving the difference in cash. Three
cases were clearly proved against him, and he was foam'
Gitilty.—Mr. Baron Rolfe sentenced him to be transported
for twen.y years.
THE CHARTIST LEADERS. _ _

At two o'cli:teis Mr.'''' plaecd at
the bar, when Mr. Clarkson, who, with Mr. Cockburn,
Queen's Counsel, was engaged for the defence, rp-
plied to have the trial postpiseed to the next !Lesion. The
learned gentleman salt that the grand jury hat rewrote'
true bills against the defendant for sedition; 11111 i
he moved upon an affidavit of the attorney
who was instructed to defend the prisoner; and i t which
affidavit, be stated that he had epplied for, but had not set
obtained, •copy of the indictment upon which his cheat was
to he tried, During the trial some most insporant questions
of law would arise, and, if time were not allowed, the pri.
inner could not be expected to he fully prepared to answer
the charges agsinst him. Under these circumstances,
and considering too that the indictments were of a very
voluminous character, which would rigitire some time for the
consideration of counsel, he would put it to those
who represented the crown, whether the application was not
a fair and a reasonable one.

Mr. Bodkin remarked that the application was a matter
for hi. lordship to decide a. ho might see fit. Oa the
part of the crown everything was ready to proceed
with the trial as fixed, and as such cases were of COMi•
&Table politic importance, it was desirable, much so,
that they should take place without delay. There was
no desire to deprive the clef...admit of every proper meats
of defence ; but Is thought it right to mention that, when
before the magistrate, the prisoner said he admitted haring
spoken the sedition imputed ti him, and he was ready
to di lend hintielf. A espy of the indictment hail bat n sup.
plied to tho attorney in this case, ar.d copies of the others
wi re ready for delivery.
Mr. loran Rolfe ask, d when the session would terminate,
and was answered oa Monday or Tu. seLiy.
Mr. Clarkson said Mr. Bodkin had not answered
his application at all. Tho attorney would not be ready in
awe k, even if the indictment had Arca delivered. lie
wished to know if the prisoner was to be deprived of Lis
proper means of defence because the crown was ready
I.r trial ; and he should like to know what
risht his learned friend Lad to get the trial fixed for to-
morrow, before the hill was even found by the grand jury.
A prisoner had a right to scrutinise the record, no as to be
prepared to offer a legal as well as a moral defence, and
how could this prisoner avail himself of that right if this
applicati. n were refused.
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, Mr. Ballontine, and Mr. Robinson,
made similar applications on behalf of their clients Williams
Fussell, and another.
Mr. Parry, on behalf of Mr. Vernon, made a aimiliar
application. The prisoner in any other court would be
entitled to this as a matter of right, end he begged to express
his surprise that the crown should have instructed any gen-
th min to oppose the application. There trial* Ind attracted
some public attention.
Mr. B iron Rolfe, interrupting Mr. Bodkin: This is an
application I must attend to. It is worthy of remark, that
iii any other court the prise ners could traverse by right.
I think the application reasonable; and as a fortnight
only will elope till the next session, and as there are other
charges in the indictments nut disclosed by the deirrsition.,,
I grant the application.
The trials, therefore, stand adjourned till July sessim,
which commences on the 3rd.
Mr. Vary then applied to his lordship to order the
crown solicitor to furnish Mr. Vernon's solicitor with a copy
of the indictment. The learned gentlemen founded his ap-
plication on a clause in 1 and 2 Geo. IV., but Mr. Baron
Rollo said he must have en affidavit of certain facts be-
'ore lim before he could entertain the applicition.
We n. de:stand that tbe chactis's for trial are to be
defended as follows: by Mr. Ssrjearit iVil-
kins end Mr. Ballatine ; Fu.,ell, by Mr. Serjeant Alien and
Mr. W. H Huddlostone ; Sharpe, by Mr. Serjeant Murphy
and Mr. Robinson; Er..est Jones, by Mr. Cockburn, Q.C.,
and Mr. Clarkson; Vernon, by Mr. Ilumfreys,Q.C., Mr.
Parry, and Mr. Metcalfe; and Looney, by Mr. Parry alone.

Lord John Russell returned to his residence in
Richmond park yesterday morning, from Portsmouth. In
the afternoon the node lord proceeded to town.
Count Fankotf and suite embarked, on Tucsdny
evening, on boerd. the General S•earn Navigation Company's
mail steam-ship Caledonia, for Hamburg.
HALIA TO TILE BAR.—GRAT's-INN, Jest?. 14.—The
undernamed gentlemen were this d iy called to the degree of
Barrister-at-law, by the lion. ty of Gray's inn,—viz.,
Mr. Daniel Harnett Stack, A 8., Mr. Thomas Worthington
Below, and Mr. Leon Arnow'.
LINCOLN'S-INN, JUNE 14.—CALLS TO THE BAR.—
The Trinity Term calls to the bar of the Society of Lincoln's.
inn, comprise the fallowing gentlemen:—C. W. Good-
win, 8.A.; J. Hagan, Earl. ; E. Swetenham, MA ; J. E.
W.naham, M.A.; R. V. Wihiams, M.A.; and H. M.
Sterekdsle, Id A.
TILE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—We learn from a New
York paper that Sir John Richardson and his pony
arrived. at Like Superior on the 29th Apiil, and left
a few days atter, on their journey overhnd to the Arctic
regions in search of the bet expedition of Sir John Franklin.
TIIE WEST INDIA PACKET.—EarI Grey, the Secre-
tary to the Colonies, has ordere I the West India packet to
be detained until midnight on Saturday. The Post-01ft,
packet list announces that " the Thames, for the mails of the
morning of the 17th inst.,witl be detained until the arrival at
Southampton of the mail ( that is the ordinary Southampton
mail, we presume), despatched from London on the evening
of that day." It does not appear clear from this whether
the making up the Wet India mail is postponed, as well as
the departure of the packet. It is of the utmat importance
that merchants should know whether correspondence for the
West Indies can be posted up to Saturday evening or not.
SINGULAR OrERATION.—A bullock, in the pulses-
sion of Mr. J. Ormandy, of Old Hall, near inversion,
Ravine broken its leg about twelve weeks ago, and the Woes
not uniting after being set by a neighbouring practitioner,
the leg was, in opposition to his opinion, cut dl about a
tortnight ago, and the animal is now doing well, the wound
beiog almost healed. As this is a mode of treatment rarely
adopted iu such cases, it cannot but be interested to every
practical farmer and breeder of cattle to be assured of the
complete success of the operation.—Le hrosicr Gazette.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBCII.O3I, Jwni 14.
The acting chief magistrate of Greenock has, in
compliance with a requision signed by 230 electors,
called a meeting of the constituency for the 14th inst.
(this day)," to oonsider the propriety of petitioning for
a large extension of the suffrage, with a view of
streugthemng the hands of the hew reform party."