The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-05 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—Lewes, Ato. 3.
The commission for Sussex was opened on Wednesday,
and at ten o'clock this morning both courts opened for the
despatch of business, the Chief Heron presiding in the
Crown Court, and Mr. Jo tire Coltman at Nisi Prius. There
were only five causes entered on the civil aide, four common
juries and one special jury, and the whole ol the common
jury cases were gone through before twelve o'4ock, aid Mr.
Justice Coltman then proceeded to try prisoners. The qui
tam action against the Attorney-Oeneral, for alleged bribery
at the Horsham election, was to have come on at these
assizes, and some of the leading council of the circuit had
been retained for the de tence, but on 'aturday evening it
appears that the plaintiff countermanded the notice of trial.
It is but due to the dcf‘indant t. state that all the proceed-
ings on the part of the plaintiff appeared to have been
promo!), lollowed, and that every preparation had been made
to defend the action, if it had not been withdrawn by the
plaintiff.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—lrewtco, Avo. 3.
Before Mr. Baron Parke.
Citaßoe or Mrlil/Bli, Bowyer, 2G, of Haverhill,
was charged with having adui.inistered a quantity
of hemlock, or other poison, to her illigitimatc child,
Beatrice Bowyer, whereby the child died. The charge was
made on the first of last Dd.s, and the prisoner on being
taken into custody said, " I shall ha hung for this." A
policeman, who was requested by the orisoner to receive her
confession, said to her, Now I warn you that anything you
may soy will be mode use of against you." Council con.
tended that the use of this word "will" destroyed the value
of the confession, and ultimately the judge determined to
reserve the point. The confession was to the effect that she
had given the child hemlock, which she had gathered from
I the field', and that a person named Glasscock, with whom
she cohabited, bad advised her to do so. The cue min
cipally turned upon the admissibility of the confer-ion.
I'roof was adduced that the prisoner was seen returning from
a walk in the middle of the day with some sheep's parsley,
which she called hemlock, and which she said she wanted
in order to make a wash with it for her child's lett. She
was told that it was not hemlock ; and the person went back
with her, and actually gathered some he mlock for her, tell-
ing her that it was poisonous. Glasscock said that in the
middle of the day on which the child died it was quite well,
but that at 3 o'clock in the afternoon it was dead. On look-
ing round he sac a cup on the manteyiece which contained
the dregs of hemlock. Suspicion being excited, the local
surgeons examined the stomach of the child, but no poison
could be discovered. It was then sent to Professor Taylor,
of Guy's Hospital, who, in hie evidence, declared that he
found no trams of poison in the stomach. There were 23
witnesses in the case, which lasted the whole day, and did
not conclude until 11 o'clock at night.—The jury returned a
verdict of Nol Guilty
Avo. 4.—AusoN. —J. Chosen was charged with attempt-
ing to set fire to a stack of straw, the property of Mr. T.
Barnes, of Snipe. By the evidence, it appeared that this
stack stood within three feet of a hedge which divided the
premises from the road. Oa the Gth of Nov. some burning
materials were found in the hedge on the stack side, at half-
past 5 o'clock in the afternoon. They were soon extin
pushed, and, partly burnt, were found two pieces of cordu-
roy cloth. The prisoner was suspected, and on searching his
house the constable saw prisoner's wife conceding an old
pair of corduroy trouseoi under the bed ; she then went
down stairs and entered tho privy, and subsequently ano-
ther bundle of corduroy pieces was taken up out of the soil.
Both descriptions of corduroy corresponded with the pieces
found in a burnt state in the heOge. The prisoner was not
shown to have had any vindictiv, feeling against the prose-
cutor, nor was there anything particularly unusual or sus•
picious in his behaviour, can pung that he passed the pre-
mises just at the time of the fire—When our despatch left,
the jury had not agreed to a verdict.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Boumur, Aro 2.
Niel l'iuc...—Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and a Spacial Jun.
WARREN, CLERK, v. LUGGER A 141) OTRERS.—DILAPI-
DATION Or A GLEBE.—The plaintiff was the Rev. It. T.
Warren, the incumbent t f the rectory of Tregony-enm-St.
James; the defendants were the executrix and execu-
tors of the Rev. I. L. Lugger, deceased, the previous incum-
bent of the rectory. The action was brought to recover
1731. 84. 9d.—the alleged amount of dilapidations of the
glebe (upwards of 90 acres in extent) at the time of the
plaintiff's entering on the living. There was no denial of
the legal liability, on the part of the defendants, to repair the
dilapidations ; the only question being as to amount; the
defendants alleging that 1001 , which sum they had paid into
court, was the full amount.—The examination of surveyors
on particulars of dilapidation' wee gone into at great length,
and with much minuteness. There was a great discrepancy
between the results of the surveys ; that on the plaintiff's
side amounting w 1731. 84. 9d., or, according to a second sur-
veyor, to 165/ 2c. 4d. ; while the surveyors for defendants
named about 901. only as sufficient to repair the dilapidations
subetantially. The yury returned a verdict for plaintiff for
51. above the 1001. paid into court.
NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Besrsume, Aro. 3.
Sir T. Wilde, after the usual formalities had been ob-
served, opened the assize for Carnarvonehire. The calendar
was light, there being only three prisoners for trial—viz.
two felonies and a misdemeanor. None of these came were
of sufficient interest for a report.

POLICE.--YESTERDAY.
BOW-STREBT.—Tnn GOLDBUITII6.-11ALL Milti.--R.
Gordon, aa ctro-plate worker, 109, Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, was charged with feloniously transferring the
hall-mark of the Goldsmiths' Company to base metal, and
knowingly uttering the same for the purpose of defrauding
a enstomer.—The case was clearly proved, and the prisoner
was committed to Newlatis
BOITTHWARK.—LAROINT CT • POLICIIIIILX.—W.
Prim, a policemaa of the I.:Southwark division, was charged