The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-22 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1851.

J 41100.1111141114 mummified by Mr. Bovill—Witnesswas
• Pailigella employ of thy South Western Railway
000111111111$11TWMIner. Witness remembered Plampin
asking hiss, an Ihe night of the Bth of May, when the
meil train wenn Mire. On the evening of the 9th of
=witness rent to Mr. Keeley's garden in plain
. At* a time Plampin arrived, and took up a
Wiz:whoa witness took him into custody.
rather, examined by Sir F. Thesiger—Witness
11111 • alb-driver. On the 9th of May, 1861, witness was
es Om Waterloo station, waiting for the arrival of the mail
MY. Witness had a passenger by the train who had two
Meal but very heavy packages. Witness was at Winchester
mime Plampin was tried, and to the best of his belief he
was the person who bad been his passenger.
William Edwards, examined by Mr. Crowder.—Witness
was a porter in the employ of the South Western Railway
Company, and was on duty on the evening of the Bth of
May. The train containing the specie arrived at 20 minutes
past 10, and left at half-past. About a quarter of an hour
afterwards witness saw • man who asked when the mail
train would leave for London ? Ile told him at two o'clock.
Witness then directed him to the White Swan to obtain
some refreshment. He afterwards left Winchester for Lon-
don. He believed that person was Plampin.
Walter Smith, examined by Mr. Greenwood—This wit-
ness corroborated the evidence of the former witness as to
the man Plampin being seen at the Winchester station with
two parcels, and his going to London by the two o'clock
mail train on the morning of the 9th of May, in the present
year.
Joseph Eldred, examined by Mr. Bovill—Witness kept •
coffee-shop at Shineditch. On the morning of the 9th of
May Plampin came to the coffee-shop of witness with
Pitcher, a cabman, and had breakfast. He left two heavy
parcels in the care of witness, which he afterwards took
away.
Wreke, examined by Sir F. Thesiger—Witness was in
the service of the defendants. The charge for carrying
specie made by the railway was 40s. per ton.
The two guards, the engineer, and stoker belonging to
the train which contained the specie were then put into the
box, in order that the Attorney. General mightcross-examine
them ; but upon cross-examination nothing material was
elicited, with the exception that the guards had partaken of
some beer with some of the servants of the defendants, who
had accompanied the specie to London.
The Attorney-General then replied, and
The Lord Chief Baron in summing up left it to the jury
to say whether there had been any negligence on the part
of the defendants.
The jury then retired for twenty minutes, and returned
into court with a verdict for the plaintiffs, stating that there
had been negligence and want of sufficient caution on the
part of the servants of the defendants.
In this case several legal points were reserved for the deci-
sion of the court above.

COURT OF BANBRUPTCY.—RATURDAY.
ihPLIPII Ma. Commoscenga OorLsvax.
IN as Da. Onatertm.n.
His Honour now gave judgment in the case of Augustus
Boui Granville, whose application for his certificate was
heard a week ago. He considered that the bankrupt had
acted unwisely in entering into numerous speculations, in-
cluding farming, the importation of seltzer water, an un-
dertaking for the improvement of the River Thames, and a
benevolent life insurance company. In other respects,
there were the favourable circumstances that his expen•
dilute bad not esrteded his professional income as a physi-
cian, and every farthing was vouched. The bankrupt would
receive an immediate certificate of the second class.
(throes Ma. CONXIMIOXKI nits.)
IN HE MatitillOTT.
This was the certificate nteeing in the matter of T. Mar-
riott, seed merchant, of Leighton Bursard. His debts were
4201. ; sates inconsiderable. There was no opposition.
His Honour granted a third-class certificate.

13IRMINGHANI BANKRUPTCY COURT.
SATURDAY.
BM= MR. 0.711111.1.40M11l RALGuY.
RV FFOIID AND WRAOOII'II BANKRUPTCY.

This was the day fixed fur the last examination of these
lxietrupts, hankers in the Cato banking establishments at
Stourbridge and Bromagrove.
Mr. Knight (31otteram and Co) applied for a further ,
adjournment on the grounds that the accountant had not
yet been able to prepare the balar.ce-sheet of the Liromsgrove
bank ; this account would be very heavy, and until it was
in a proper shape the assignees did not feel them-
selves in a position to do justice to that in-
quiry which they deemed necessary ; the accounts of the
two banks were so intimately connected that it would be
unfair to all parties to proceed further until both balance.
sheets were prepared, that of the Stourbridge branch having
already been tiled. There had been no unnecessary delay
on the part of the accountant; the Bromsgrove 141:mei:-
sheet wpuld be ready for tiling, by the 23rd of January, he
thereto& sogcested that the adjournment should be until
the 14th of February.
Mr. Elgie, on the part of the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway Company, said that he should not
oppose the application, althougn eight months was certainly
a long time to occupy in preparing a banker's balance-
sheet. He suggested, however, that the separate balance-
sheets of all the bankers should be ready by that time.
Mr. Commissioner Balguy—Certainly ; by all means they

should. . _
Mr. Knight—The accountant (Mr. Percival) informs me
that in the Brom‘groee bank there arc accounts extending
over eleven years and a half, which have never been
posted.
The adjournment to the day named was then assented to,
' u was also another application by Mr. Knight that there
should be a sitting at Stourbridge on the Gth of January,
and at Bromsgrore on the 7th, for the purpose of taking
proofs of the many small debts owing in the neighbourhood
of both those towns.
Proofs to a considerable amount were taken to-day.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
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NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—tioRx, DEC. 19.
Emil MR. BALM PLAT.
MURDER AT WAKEVIIILD.

Sarah Ann Hill, 25, was indicted for wilful murder at
Wakefield on the 20th of October last.
Thu evidence was chiefly circumstantial, the prisoner
being charged with the murder of her newly-born infant.
The trial occupied the court during the whole of the day,
and was brought to a conclusion on Saturday forenoon,
when the jury found the prisoner Guilty. His lordship
sentenced her to death, holding out no hope that mercy
would be extended to her.

Dec. 20.

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Itoroas Ms. lomms Kicve.
FIBLONIOOB ASSAULT VPUN A MARRIED WOMAN.

&MOON Yxka, 26, and John Morris, 21, were charged
with having, on the 16th of July last, at Birstel, near
Leeds, feloniously assaulted Bridget Brannagan.
It was proved in the clearest manner that the prisoners
had committed the offence with which they were charged
under circumstances of great atrocity, and they were sea-
-1 traced to transportation for 10 years.

THE POLICE COURTS.
CLEILKENWELL. _

Henry Martin O'Finnayan, aged 60, described as a
gentleman, was placed at the bar on remand, charged
'with obtaining from a woman named White 1/. 3s. 6d.
under the false pretence that he was clerk to Mr. Harry,
the barrister, and that for that sum Mr. Ilorry should de-
fend her husband, who subsequently was sentenced to
transportation.
Mr. /lorry raid he was a barrister, and bad chambers
at No. 1, Warwick-court, Holborn. He had not received
any money from the prisoner to defend a man named
White, who was tried at the Middlesex Sessions and
transported. The prisoner never was his clerk, and he
was never authorised to receive fees except when he was
specially sent for them, he (Mr. Hotly) sometimes having
employed him as a messenger. He never authorised the
prisoner to represent himself at the House of Detention as
his clerk.
Cross-examined—l knew the prisoner as an attorney s
clerk, and if I had not taken briefs from him all the
other members of the bar at the sessions would have been
glad to do so. I have not been in the habit of giving
him the clerks' fee when he brought me briefs ; might
have done so in some cases ; I cannot swear that I have not.
I have received the depositions in cases horn him, and de-
fended prisoners with no other instructions.
To the magistrate—That is a very common practice with
the bar at the sessions, and it is customary to take the
guinea without a clerk's fee at all. I have no clerk at this
time. I cannot say I have not done It. I never gave the
prisoner the half-crown out of the guinea. Flanagan and
Mrs. White came to me on the Monday of the sessions, and
she instructed me to make a motion to put off the trial of
Edward White until the neat sessions. She appeared in
great trouble and distress. She promised to
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me the
money at the end of that week or the next. The fee was
11. 3s. 6d. The prisoner introduced her to me. I made the
motion, and Mr. Witham postponed the trial. I have de-
fended prisoners, and made motions, believing that the fees
would be paid afterwards. In such cases the prisoner has
received the tees, and paid them to menfterwards. I have
defended cases on the promise of the prisoner that I should
be paid. I have received briefs from him. I expected to
receive the fee for the motion in question from him. I should
have looked to him for the fee entirely
Re-examined—l did not understand the prisoner to be
an attorney. I have known him to be clerk to eirveval at-
torneys, Tu., Davis, Head, and Williams. I knew him
first in 1847. I then lost sight of him fee two yeas, and
saw him again two years ago. He gave me briefs, but in no
particular character. He brought briefs and clients, and
the parties sometimes came without him. I did not an-
thorW him to receive money for me, but I had sot forbade
his receiving it. If he did receive money I expected ha was
, to pay it to me. In this case I expected he would receive
the money and pay it to me—not as my eterk though; but
as a client.

—The clerk (Mr. Mould)—Without reference to this cam,
are there not a number of persons who prowl about the
court to get hold of poor persons, under the pretence that
they are attorneys or clerks ?
Mr. Horry—lfee; sad every tessabro of the bar at that
court takes bride tees Has. 1 eitesbut Is it tea lean
ago, and called • weft et the bee else to
men' the whole spent I poopessit Moe tbsee sb be
=droll of the atarawri of Ile mere mai *Me
clerks, so dot esrusi obruM ressive
brielb from wee bet the., but It woo met sierkill est I
with to say Met I smartie podialer ae am* of We
"Mew It is gessral asesept He bar.
TM issibmisk Mfr toseettebtlag the facts, sail he
&sold essisit Ms geloteso bill.
Flaie odd Mr. WOW beg Waved mist smelly to
him ia &ogles int be walla dunk. I bete less Brie;

with him (he said) for siz years in the same chambers, and
I have signed all his papers, and been consulted in all his
business matters; end didn't I make en application to my
school-fellow, the O'Connor Don, who was a Lord of the
Treasury, to get him made a county court judge, and
didn't I introduce all my friends to him as clients? I
have two brothers of my own, barristers, and I declare to
Clod I never bad a penny of this woman's money. I had
to write on the chambers' door every morning where
was going. Oh, Mr. Horry, what a cruel man you are.
The prisoner was fully committed, the magistrate con-
senting to take bail fur his appearance to answer the charge
at the sessions.
Aldborough Richardson Paris, of No. 26, York-road,
Kennington-road, was charged with stealing 20 dozen of
wine, value 401., the property of Mn. Mary-Ann Pass, of
221, Strand.
The proseentriz deposed that in August last she let a
furnished house, 64, Ouilford.street, to the prisoner, at 4
guineas a week, with an agreement that she Nut free access
to it. There were two wine cellars—one her own, which
was kept locked up, and the other for the prisoner's use.
Her cellar contained 20 dozen of wine. Ile represented
himself as a wine merchant. On Wednesday last she was
refused access to the house by the prisoner's brother, hot
subsequently she obtained admission, when she found that
the wine cellar had been entered and plundered of 20 dozen
I of port and sherry.
Caroline Potter, servant to the prisoner, gave evidence as
to the removal of wine in a cart on the 2nd of December by
the prisoner, end a man named John Simmons.
Tyrwhitt inquired whether the prisoner carried on
r thebusincai of a wine merchant in the house in Guilford-
street.
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Mrs. Pass said he did not.
John Howe, groom to the prisoner, said he had reason to
believe that he was in difficulties. Simmons was porter to
the prisoner. Saw Mr. Davis in his shirt-sleeves coming
from the direction ofthe wine-cellar, and he discharged his
servants at a very short notice.
James Brett, of the City detective force, apprehended the
prisoner at the Bankruptcy Court.—Remanded.