The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-30 00:00:00

the loaned judge, bided* the male prisoner in their verdict.
—Direetiesse wan given that a specific indictment should
be preferred against him for that offence.
taw OUVET.—Botore tho Reader, Aldermen Hughes noshes,
Ihonrote, Kelly, Kr. lisorif Cabin, he.
RAILWAY SPACWLATIONIL— W. Meadows WWI Wined for
haring stole. a theodolite, value 211., the property of C. F.
Chau, in his dwelling-house. The prisoner was further
charged upon two separate indictments with ether offences
of a similar character. —The prisoner pleaded owsliy to the
whole of the charges, and of teeing been conted of
felony in May last before Mr. Bennet Adams, at the Mid-
dlesex Sessions.—The prisoner, when called up far judgment,
said that on the present as well as on the former OCONWOII
he bad been driven to dishonesty by sheer deetitetlen and
poverty. He bad been in the employ of many eminent en-
gineers (naming among others Sir J. Rennie, Sir I. Brunel,
and Mr. Stephenson), but he had been thrown out of em-
ploy, and his wife and child wen is absolute want, his wife
being °maned to her bed by typhus fever. lost before the
:raymania of 1845 had reached its climax a relative ad-
him the sum of 2,0001. to commence business with,
but unfortunately he embarked in railway *peculation', and
he lost all. From that time to the present his prospects had
gradually grown lees promising, and at last he took to steal-
ing to procure a subsistence for his wife and child.—
The Recorder said the prisoner could scarcely expect to
excite the commiseration of the court by reciting the losses
he had experienced by gambling in railroads. He stood
convicted four times of felony, ani he (the Recorder) saw
no mann for his not being treated like a thief of any other
denomination.—The prisoner hoped that if his lordship had
resolved to transport hint, he would send him " beyond the
seas," to sinne part of the world where industry, perseve-
rance, and honesty, would retrieve his fallen character.
That was all he wished fur.—The Recorder put some gore-
Sons to the police officer in the cue, from the answers to
which it appeared that the prisoner really was in distress,
pad that his wife was on a sick bed.—The Recorder said he
could not expect that the government would condescend to
accede to a recommendation of his ; but, nevertheless, he
would see that the proper authorities should be acquainted
with his case, and perhaps some aid would be granted
whereby the prisoner's wife and child might be sent out of
the country with him, and he might then begin afresh in
another country. In the hope that this would be effected,
the sentence upon the prisoner was that he be transported
beyond theses& for ten years.—The prisoner warmly thanked
his lordship and was removed.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Before Mr. Serjesut Adams.
The court sat this morning at the Guildhall, Westmin-
ster, by adjournment from Clerkenwell.
Or WHAT IJSE IS A JURY?—E, Mulroy was indicted
for an assault upon a policeman.—The defendant keeps a
beer shop in Pimlico, where on Oct. 2 a disturbance took plan
between a soldier of the Guards and some civilians, when
the soldier called upon the prosecutor to arrest young Id ul-
roy, and he did so. It was while he was taking him to the
station-house that the alleged assault took place, the de-
fendant and others rescuing the prisoner.—ln the corrobora-
tive evidence there were some material discrepancies, and it
was shown that the policeman got a posse of constables and
went to the defendant's house and dragged him out of bed
and locked him up only half dressed —The learned serjeant
said the policemen were acting illegally in arresting the de-
fendant in the mode they had done. He directed the jury
to acquit the min, as the evidence did not support the charge
as laid in the indictment —The jury consulted, when Mr. Ser-
jeant Adams said the man was not guilty in law and they must
acquit him.—.S.lme of the jury seemed disposed to enter
into a lengthy discussion upon the subject, several of them
vying, that believing the assault to have been committed,
they could not acquit the man conscientiously ; and one
said that the law took out of their hands the power it gave
them to exercise as jurors. Hr. Serjeant Adams said that
he knew what the law was better than tha jury, and they
could not find the man guilty. A juryman then wished to
knew what was the use of his being there, if he were to give
a verdict against his conscience, when Mr. Serjeant Adams
said, in a peremptory tone, that he was compelled to tell
them once more that they could not find the defendant
guilty.—A verdict ef Not Guilty wan then recorded, and the
(earned serjeant made some very stringent remarks upon
the conduct of the police in dragging a man from his bed in
the middle of the night. They should have waited till the
next morning.