The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

of the customs department to recover penalties alleged to
have been incurred by the dsfendant, a chemist at Hull, for
having harboured and illegally unshipped a large quantity
of unmanufectured tobacco upon ahtchthe duty had not
been paid. On the 20th of July I,', it appeared that a
customhouse officer, named Oleddoe, in consequence of
information he had previouely received, proceeded with some
revenue boatmen to Aldborough, which ho reached about
midnight, and passing through a field discovered
the defendant Nested in a small chaise. Having been
acquainted with each other before, the defendant stated
that he knew the object of Gleddoe's visit, but that the
vessel would not land her cargo that night. The officer,
however, was not dissuaded from endeavouring to effect his
purpose, but proceeded at once to the beach, which was
near, and there detected no lees than twenty beim of un-
manufactured tobacco, which bad just before been landed
from a veu,l called the Rising Sun. The officer subee-
quently found twenty more bales sanengst the cliffs, and
twenty-four balls concealed near the place were pointed
out by the defendant himself, who said the tobacco bad cost
11. a bale over the wets r, and he would have had it in his
chaise on its way to 1101 if the officer had arrived an hour later.
The value of the 64 hales seized was about 6391.. and their
weight 4,0631h5.. The Attorney-General, Sir F. The sigcr.
Q.C., Mr. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. J. Wilde, conducted the
case for the crown. Mr. W. Chambers, Q.C., who appeared
for the defendant, contended that the charge of illegally un-
shipping the tobacco was not proved, as the from
where the
defendant was seen in his chime was a mile from the beach
where the tobacco was landed.
The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, told the jury that
if a person was concerned in unsh,pping, by being a party
and ussiqing others in having the goods unshipped, he was
made responsible by the statute although he happened to be
1,000 miles from the spot where the goods were actually
landed.
The jury at once returned a verdict for the crown for
1,0171., being the full amount of the penalties claimed, and
treble the value of the tobacco.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
More Mr. Comminioner Goulbura.

AN OLD FIAT. BurreP, a bankrupt, was • grocer.
Mr. Lewis applied to the court to name a day for the bank-
rupt to apply for his certificate, the fiat haring been issued
so far back u the year 1813. The learned solicitar haring
referred to varinus act. of parliament, Itc., his Honour
granted the applicati ,n.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
Wore Mr. Justly (.Nowell and Mr. Justice Coleridge,

AN AGENT FOR HER MAJEsTY. FM/Cif Olifert/,
33, wire-worker, was indicted for stealing two brillian
brooches, value 4001., the property of John Linnet. Mr.
John Linnet deposed, that an January 1845, he carried on
the business of a jeweller, in Argyle-place, Regent-street
Ile was acquainted with the prisoner, and there had been
some business tmremetions between them a short time pre-
vious to the 7th January ; and on that day the prisoner came
to his shop and looked at:wo valuable brilliant brooches that
were upon the counter, and said that he had been employed
by her Majesty, and that she bad commanded
him to get her such browhes as those, and if she saw
them he had no doubt she would purchase them. Tho
priuner represented that he was regularly employed at
Windsor Castle, and received two guineas per day, and upon
the representation that the brooches were to be shown to her
Majesty for approval, he allowed him to take them away.
About a week after this, he again called upon him, and said
that he had sold one of the brooches, and he should have
brouaht the mosey, but had not asked Prince Albert for a
cheque it proper time, and therefore he must wait another
week. During the negotiation. the prisoner repeatedly men-
tioned the name of Prince Albert, and in the course of the
transaction he purchased a stick, which he said was for his
royal highneta, and paid him thirty-one pounds for it. He
afterwards lo t sight of the prisoner, and heard nothing of
his property until the February follow ing, when he receive' a
letter horn him enclosing duplicates for the brooches, and he
subsequently obtained possession of them from the pawnbroker.
John Reardon, shopraan to Mr. Lorton, a pawnbroker, de-
posed, that on the 7th January, 1845, the prisoner brought
the two brooches to his employer's shop, and wished to pawn
them for 2001. He offered him 1501, but he refused to take
that amount, and eventually pawned one of the brooches for
701. He came again in two or three days and pawned the
other brooch for 801. The prisoner had been in the habit of
pawning jewellery at Mr. Lorton'., but, in consequence of
the great value of those articles, he made particular
inquiries how he became possessed of them, and
he said he had purchased the stones abroad, and
had had them set in this country.—Miss Mary Ann
Skerritt deposed that she held an office in the Royal
household which required her to be in constant personal
attendance upon her Majesty. She remembered in the year
1812 that a person named Olifleres was engaged on behalf
of her Majesty to make an imitation in hair of the head of a
favourite dog that had died, but he never bad any interview
with her Majesty, and sher did not believe he was ever em-
ployed upon any other occasion. All the orders to the
tradesmen were given through her, and if there had been
any such transaction as that represented with regard to the
brooches, she must have been aware of it —Mr. G. E. Anson
deposed that he was the keeper of her Majesty's privy purse,
and also held the offices of secretary and treasurer to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and transacted all his
monetary affairs and paid all the bills. The prince never
drew any cheques to pay tradesmen, and the prisoner's
statement in that respect was therefore quite untrue.
Examination continued : The prisoner was once employed
to imitate the head of a favourite dog in hair, and he was
paid 121. for that service, but he had never been regularly
employed in the palace at the rate of two guineas per day.
—Mr. Justice Cresswell having summed up, the jury, after
a very short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty.—
Judgment postponed.
POST-OFFICE ROBBER-T.—MOMS/ Price, 35, a letter-
carrier, pleaded guilty to an indictmeut charging him with
stealing a letter, containing a half-sovereign and a sixpence,
the property of the Postmaster• General. Ho was sentenced
to be transported for ten years.
ALLEGED DEATH TROY HYDROPATHT.—Dr. Charles
Ilesiry Lordll surrendered to take his trial upon the coroner's
inquisition, in which he was charged as the principal in the
manalaughter of Mother Hobbs, 'by immersing her in cold
seater, and placing wet cloths upon her head &nil body ; and
Hope Bens, the snot of the deceased, was charged as an
accerwory, by being feloniously present aiding and assisting.
This ease, the particulars of which have already appeared in
our paper, arose out of the hydropatbic system of cure, and
it appeared to create a great deal of interest. The rand
jury ignored the bill that was presented to them, but it was
necessary to dispose of the (-loner's inquisition.--Mr. Jus-
tice Creuwell said he had looked over the depositions, and
he should be clad to know whether there was any further
evidence as to the cause of death than that which was given
before the coroner's jury, and upon which the grand jury
had ignored the bill.—Mr. Payne (for the prosecution) said
he believed not, but he did not feel himself justified in with-
drawing the can from tho consideration of the jury.—The
ease continued, but, ultimately, the prisoners were acquitted.
MANSLAUGHTER.—Mika Phillips, 69, WATATTMAII, was
charged with the manslaughter of Sarah Phillips. The par-
ties were man and wife, and, according to the testimony of
witnesses residing in the same house with them, the prisoner
was in the constant habit of ill-using the unfortunate de-
ceased. On the day named in the indictment the prisoner
was heard to threaten his wife with violence, and she shortly
afterwards complained that he had kicked her. She went to
the house of a neighbour, where she was taken very ill, and
died soon afterwards, and upon a post ',tortoni examination
it was found she had received a severe injury upon the
stomach, apparently the effect of a blow or kick, and which
was no doubt the cause of her death. The prisoner was
convicted, but the jury recommended him to mercy on ac-
count of his age. Mr. Justice Coleridge sentenced him to be
kept to hard labour for nine calendar menthe.

POLICE.-YESTERDAT.

MANSION-HOUSE.—RODBERY or DtAXONDI.—Robe.
Kerr, captain of the barque Levenside, wham case appeared
in the provincial portion of our pa was with
having stolen two parcels of diamonds o per,
f the value of 3,3001.
which were intrusted to him to convey to the port of London
from Bahia. The prisoner bad left his vessel and come
ashore in a boat with the diamonds, and as soon as the per-
sons to whom they were consigned learned that the captain
had disappeared with them, a warrant was put into the
bands of John and Daniel Forrester, who after having traced
him from place to place with extraordinary skill and activity
at last pounced upon him in France, and hurried him away
to London with great expedition, having found upon him
about 300/., some of which was in Bank of England notes,
which had been paid in the Commercial Bank for a
cheque, drawn for the amount of a portion of the diamonds.
Mr. John M'Millan, part owner of the barque Levenside, of
Greenock, stated that Robert Herr, the prisoner, was the
master of that vessel. From information which the witness
had received, he had reason to believe that the prisoner bad
received certain diamonds to convey to this country. The
prisoner's receipts for two packages of diamonds were upon
the bills of lading, and it was the duty of the captain to
bring them to the port of London. The value, as appeared
from the bills of lading, was 3,3001. The vessel had been
reported in the port of London, and witness had seen the
manifest, in which the diamond, had not been referred to.
One of the parcels was consigned to Mears. Costello and
Co., and the other to Mmes. Schoocdcr and Co. Mr. F.
Costello, of the house of Costello and Co., stated that the
lirra had received the bill of lading, but not tbo diamonds.
The prisoner was then remanded till Tuesday next. The
prisoner, it was stated in the justice-room, was plundered of
almost all the money he possessed himself of by the robbery
before he quitted town, with the exception of that which
Joha Forrester took from him, and forty guineas, the price
which he gave for n gold watch upon selling the diamonds.
MARYLEBONE.—ROMIERY BY A al:Aßß.—Charles
Ginger was finally examined on the charge of having stolen
a parcel containhut 44 sovereigns and some silver, the pro-
perty of the Great Western Company. This case has
already appeared in our paper. Several additional wit-
nesses, necessary to the completion of the case, were present.
They, however, were not examined, as the magistrate
decided upon sending the prisoner into Wiltshire for trial
at the sauces, the offence having been committed in that
county.—lle was accordingly handed over to the custody of
Mr. Collard.

iidififiVAßK.—Cu.mso ANT WOUND/NO.—Henry
Hill, a butcher, was charged with inflicting on George Hard-
away a wound, from the effects of which his life is considered
in danger. The wounded man is at present confined in
Guy's lionpital, and therefore unable to attend the exami-
nation.—Policeman Berry, 171 7d, 'gated that while on duty
at 9 o'clock the preceding night in the London-road, he was
informed that a man had been stabbed by another in the
tap room of the Wellington, in York-atreet, in that neigh-
bourhood. He immediately repaired to the pubhe-house,
and us the tap-room saw a man who was wounded supported
by others, and he was informed that the priscmer. was the
person who indicted the injury ; and, at the same time; wit-