The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-30 00:00:00

cowl of the ease, that the priaoner bad bad an harem
torasmtion with another romper girl, who was likewise in
t'ar, family way by him, and to whom he had also &annals-
teed some unwholesome drugs, and that when the
pangste was compelled to lease the workhouse on ar,,,,unt
of her condition, that the prisoner wrote a chatalter for her .
in the name of his wife, with Or, view of getting, 'her into
the establishment of a respectable leanly at Bri,ghtos f.
the
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Mr. Herne addressed the jury at meteengt or
defence, and he urged them not to give cr to the story
that had been told by the two girls who had been called to
make out the case for the prosecution. He also said he
should produce witnesses to speak to the good character of
the prisoner.
Baron Alderson said it appeared to him that in the case
of a man who bad acted as the prisoner clearly had done,
and who was, at all events, guilty of the crime of luta.
ury, evidence to character would not be of very great
importance.
Mr. Home said it would show, at all events, what
bin conduet had been up to the time of the transaction.
The Rev. Edward !num was then called as a witness
for the prisoner, and he said that he had known him since
181'J, and he entertaiut d a high opinion of him. Ile also
said that he was in the habit of writing letters to him, iu
which his opinions upon religious subjects—
Baron Alderson interposed, and said that such evidence
as this ought really. not to be received. It only went to
show that a man might be capable of committing the most
atrocious offences under the mask of religion.
The learned Judge then summed up the case, and the
jury at once returned II verdict of
Ilis lordship having made some remarks upon the
abominable caracter of the offence he had committed,
Pentium, the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for
two years.

NOitFOLK iLLY 28.
CIVIL Slog.— isiYJSZ Till Low Criss e taloa.
BALnK C. ELLis.-18%ClE.
This CSW was resumed from Saturday, and several wit-
nous were examined tor the plaintiff, whose evidence went
to show that Mr. Bird was sane, and generally speaking
capable of managing his affairs.
Mr. Prendergast then addresinesi the jury on the part of
the defendant. lie commented en the statements of the
writner., for the plaintiff, and contended that there was
quite enough iis their evidence to prove the imbecility of
Bail.) Bird. It was a most extraordinary thir.g, he said,
that Warrely any of the witnesses who had been called resided
in Norwich. where the plaintiff lived awl was most known,
but the majority of them had come from distant village•
which he seldom visited with his lather. The witnesses he
should call were nearly all residents iu this city, and could
speak from almost daily experience of the indocility of
Mr. Hanley Bird. lie should show that Mr. Bird
was incapable of attending to the commonest affairs
of life, much laws was he lit to enter into such
• contract as that of marriage; and he should
prove that even on the slay of hi, marriage, subsequently
to the ceremony, he was tossiiil in the kitchen playing
with the 'twit sereants on his hands and knees like a
child. lie drew the attentiou of the jury to the fact of •
commission sal lunacy having been held with regard to
Mr. Rini', state oh mad ahurtly alter his marriage, and to
tliw decision arrived at by that CUMLIIWAIIJO, that he wax
incapable of managing hi, own affairs. This commission
he owl sat under meow-able circumstances, as it was able
to call many witnesses as to Bird's conduct who had
Siam died, and whose testimony could not now be ob-
tains di. lie fi It sure that the jury would feel themselves
in a gnat alt..ure bound by the decision of that commission
awl would return their verdict accordingly.
Mr. Prendergast put • copy ut the ueeision of the com-
mission of lunacy held at the Swan: to which Mr. Serjektit
Bylaw utnectsal, un the ground of the plaintiff's not being
in any way a party to the inquisition.
This sun' other objections were onrrulcd, and the docu-
ment was read.
Several witueues were then examined, who proved that
the jury were unanimous in their opinion of 'bailey Bird's
idiot y and incompetency to manage his affairs, and re-
counted a numb, r of answers given by him to questions
put to him during the inquiry, Boni which it was inferred
that he was of weak understanding. Several persons who
bail been acquainted with Bird were also produced, who
deposed to their belief in his imbecility, and the case was
again adjourned, alter occupying the court the whole of
the day.
JULY Z 9.

The above case was ITSUencol from yesterday, and °m-
ph d the court sons.' hours longer. Several additional wit-
newas wore called for On defendant's case, and after a
lengthy reply by Mr. Serjeant kyles, and • careful sum-
ming op by Isis lordship, the jury returned a verdict fur the
defentlaut.
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JILT 28.
tWawa Pow- Bansaa Ma. Jaynes Casennikr-
CHAR.': OP SilllullNG WITH ISTSINT TO MURDER.
Noah Anne Moment", aged 251, was indicted oat the
charge of having, on liar 21th May, at Sall, shut at Daniel
Clements with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
'the prosecutor in this ease was a labouring man, re-
siding at Sall, and the prwouer was housekeeper to his
brother. On the 21th of May the brother went to Keep-
ham in a loony cart, and on his return home, having the
prisoner with him, he stoppill Wren• be reached hits own
and his father's house, which are situated close together,
and there the prisoner alighted. The prosecutor then
asked hi brother why he did not bring his load to the
don, and the result was that a squabble ensued, in the
course of which the prisoner threatened to shoot the pro-
stwutiar. Shortly afterwards the altercation was renewed,
and the pris•oler went in doors, repeating her threat with
an oath, and she pointed a gun out of her bedroom window,
and fired it at the prosecutor. The touteuta were received
by a lilac bush, which stood between the prosecutor and the
prisoner, and which was shattered to pieces. A person
who wine-sped this stated that he beard some abets or
something like shots, rattle in • plantation $0 or 90 yards:
from the house. When apprehended she said, " I would
bare loaded the gun with dirt, but Dilly would not let me.
I loaded the gun myself."
Mr. Palmer, in defence, did not attempt to deny the fact
of the shouting, but denied the intent to injure or murder
the prosecutor, and he suggested the probability that the
prisoner only intended to frighten hint. Ile then called
The prosecutor's brother, who stated that he saw the pri-
soner load the gun and that she put nothing but powder
and paper in it. The shot, if there hail been any, would
have gone 12 feet over the prosecutor's head, from the posi-
tion in which it was held. The prisoner could nut see the
prowentor, as he stood behind the bush. The perforations
so the leases et' the bush had been caused by witness's
having been in the habit of discharging his gun into it.
Another witness, named Allen, stated that he saw the
prisoner point the gun upwards, 12 feet above where the
prosecutor's head could be.
One of the witnesses fur the prosecution, a police officer,
was recalled, anal in answer to his lordship, stated that he
gathered fiesta haves under the lilac bush on the day after
this shouting, and that these leaves (produced) were pierced
with shots.
The jury were not satisfied that the prisoner tired the
gun with a felonious intent, and therefore Acquitted her.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.-Ba•ITORD, JULY 28.
flits. ihus.—liteinia Ys. !tones Eau.
Tut CIVISEN r. Itt'eittLir £5l) OTHER.. (S. J.)
This was an indictment against workmen for conspiring 1
together to raise wages; it was removed by certiorari from
the Court of Queen's 114:11CII for trial iu this county, and
wee traversed from the Isla assizes. In consequence of the
repeated strikes, sod the disputes between the masters and
the men throughout the manufacturing districts, the case
excited great interest.
Mr. Scrjeant Allen, Mr. Iluddleston, and Mr. Kettle,
were fur the prosecution; Mr. Keating, Q.C., Mr. Skinner,
and Mr. Vaughan, for the defence.
From the opening speech of the learned serjeant, it ap-
peared that the prosecutor, Mr. Edward Perry, is a tin
plate worker at Wolverhampton, and some time in the
early part of last year, Mr. Perry received a note from the
secretary. of a society in London, denominated the National
Association of Cnited Trades, intimating that in a short
time a deputation would wait upon him requesting him to
accede to • list of prices to be uniformly paid to the work-
men ; the interview accordingly took place; the prosecutor
refused to accede to this demand, alleging that his men had
never expressed dissatisfaction. The consequence of this
was (according to the statement of the learned counsel)
that a regularly organised conspiracy was got up. the pro-
*minor's manufactory was beret by persons who made
every attempt to persuade away his workmen, they were
made drunk, sent away, and funds provided for
their maintenance ; a secret committee was formed,
of which the defendants, in the employ of Mr. Walton,
of the o.d limit, were the active agents ; gradually the
workmen in the employ of the prosecutor were "spirited
off,- and to such an extent did the system succeed, that Mr.
Perry lost sixty men between July and November. This
entailed a serious loss upon him; he was usable to execute
his orders; he was obliged to send to Frame sad Germaay
for workmen, who almost as soon as they arrived were se-
duced away. After a while, the men returned to Mr. rem,
" penitent, miserable, starving ;" and in consideration of all
three circumstances, the prenevutor proceeded by this in-
dictment against the defendants for having interfered with
and molested his men; for having interfered with the pro-
secutor himself, and endeavoured to coerce him into changes
in the mode of conducting his business, and with venous
other diesel acts, thereby constituting a conspiracy.
Mr. Edward Perry, the prosecutor, said—l have been
thirty years a japan and tin-plate manufacturer at Wolver-
hampton ; in the month of April, 1840, I had about 200
persons is my employ ; they had plenty of work. Some of
them were earning If., others V., and good men as much as
li. per week. Up to that time there had been no complaints
ea the subject of the prices paid to them. On the 3rd of
April I received a letter from the National Association of
United Trades, it was dated, 259, Tottenham-court-road,
and stated that a deputation would wait upon me to con-
sult with me on the subject of a book of prices to be
adopted as a general scale by tin-plate workers, and ex-
plored a sincere desire that some arrangement of a satisfac-
tory character might be come to. The letter further stated
that the deputation would wait upon me in the
aberacter of mediators, without any intention to visit
as is an otrensive s irit of dictation. This was
signed *. Peele, ." On the Bth of April,
three persons named Green, Rowlands, and Peele, waded
rap= me. The latter said, " I am the secretary of the
National Association of United Trade., London. We In
podded over by Mr. T. 8. Dencombe, M.P., and the object
of the society Is the protection of National Indust/y.7 I
tithed him if he was the writer of the letter which I had re-
esived. He mid that he was ' • and Green then said, I
am a delegate of the National Association. We are here to
endeavour to terminals the whit_ ppy diaconate which
have so long existed in your manufactory." I replied that
I was not aware of any_differenoes existing. Upon which
be replied, You wM epos be made aware of that.
The lir** weans want a smitten ate of