The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

ARCHES COURT.

FARNALL e. CRAIG.=6IARGiBA:iiiNST A CLBROTIIAN.
—This is a proceeding under the Church Discipline Act,
against the Rev. John Kershaw Craig, clerk, minister of
St. John the Baptist, at Burley, Southampton, fcr having
been guilty of adultery, fornication, and incontinence. The
office of judge was promoted at the voluntary prosecution of
G. R. Parnell, Esq., of Burley-park, in the county of South-
ampton. In consequence of a report from a commission of
clergymen to inquire into the case, the Bishop of Winchester
has sent it by letters of request to this court, where the
following proceedings have been had. The articles are 16 in
number, and charge the rev. defendant with having, in 1841 ,
and January 1845, been in the habit, after the female servants
had retired to bed, of entering their room, remaining therein
with them frequently for several hours, and committing
the crimes of which he is accused. He is also charged with
a similar offence on or about May, 1844, with Jane Shel-
ley, one of his servants, in Ridleywood, near his
residence, Picked Poet. Another of the charges states,
that in Dec., 1844, and Jan., 1845, Mr. Craig, fre-
quently in the kitchen of hie house, oat before the fire
between Amelia Archer and Charlotte Sims his servants
that daring the same period Charlotte Sims, on several oc-
casions, remained alone with Mr. Craig at night, in his bed
room, when he has put his arms round her neck, and be-
haved otherwire to her in an indecent manner: that on a Sun-
day, shortly before Christmas, 1844, two er three young girls
his parishioners, went to drink tea at Mr. Craig's house, and
after tea Mrs. lig played to them, in the drawing room, on
the organ, and they sang or chanted part of the church ser-
vice . that after the girls had had supper in the kitchen Mr.
Craig pulled back the chair whereon Ann Smith was sitting,
put his hands round her, kissed or attempted to kiss her,
and on the same occasion he tickled the knees of Jane Shelley.
The other charges pleaded that the reverend defendant per-
formed the church service negligently. The defensive
allegations denied the charges in detail, and added that the
promoter, Mr. Parnell, had manifested in various ways •
feeling of great personal enmity against Mr. Craig, and that
all the charges made against him have been maliciously
brought. That Amelia Archer has since her examination
on the articles been taken into Mr. Farnall's service, being
(and so well known to him) in an advanced state of
pregnancy at the time.—Dr. Haggard (with whom was Dr.
Jenner) supported the ease of the promoter, and urged that
the evidence produced before the court fully supported the
charges.—Dr. Addams (with whom was Dlr. Phillimore),
during. a lengthened defence, designated the case es one
springinganfrdol Tednineeer reandliedllo-feeblierafthrinwholt.t.—DT:
and Haggard
learned. judge
. announced that the decisionr
of the
court would be given in the first session of next term.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRClllT.—Woaciumz, .IcLY 17.
CROWN Cur:la.—Before Mr. Insilco Coleridge.
81/ROLARY.—Dasiri Roberts was indicted for burglary,
on the 20th of May last, in this city.—Mr. °reeves and Mr.
Gray were for the prosecution, and Mr. Cooke for the de-
fence.—The prisoner was a young man of 19, and at the time
of the burglary was footman in the service of the prosecutor,
a Mr. Meta', an elderly gentleman, who resided in a place
called " The Comraandery," in this city, his household
consisting of his wife and daughter, two invent women,
and the prisoner. The house is larr, having a long hall
running from ene end to the other, with a door at one end
leading into the garden, and at the other to the carriage-
way. The drawing-room and kitchen were on opposite
sides of the hall passage. Oa the morning of the robbery
the cook got up about five o'clock, and was surprised
to find the doors at both ends of the hall open, and
secured so with mats—her master's pocket-book a few yards
outside the doer leading into the: garden, and two silver
candlesticks, which had been left in the drawing room over
night, a little farther out. She looked up to her master's
I window and found it, too, open. She, thereupon, ran to
1 the prisoner's door and knocked him up. He was ten
minutes in dressing, and when he was dressed he went to his
master's door and knocked at it, and told his master that the
house had been robbed, who thereupon looked particularly
at everything about him, and found that the window had
been opened, and also the door of his bed-room, and that
his purse, containing notes, gold, and silver, to the extent of
901., had been taken. He thereupon expressed his surprise
how such a thing should have been done, when the prisoner
explained to him how easily a person on the outside might
have brought • ladder to the window (it was on the
first floor), and with a common dinner-knife open it, and
pointed out the marks of a ladder on the gravel below.
The cook found about the came time • dinner-knife, that
had been placed in a drawer in the kitchen on the previous
night, lying on the dresser in the kitchen; and It was after-
wards discovered that the ladder used by the burglar was
the prosecutor's own. This ladder lay in an out-house
neer the door leading from the hall to the garden ; and the
lremises were so constructed that if a stranger had used the
adder, he must have taken it round the house through the
street, and then taken it back again by the same direction ;
whereas an inmate could with ease, and without observation,
carry it in by one end of the ball and out by the other. The
prisoner was not at first suspected ; but he almost imme-
diately affected to he indignant at suspicions which he said
his master entertained of him, and on this ground left the
prosecutor's service in less than a week. In a very short
time he was found to be spending mosey at a most ex-

travagant rate, changing 51. notes in every direction, and
spending half•soverccgns as if they were coppers. Its w s
then taken up, and five 51. notes were lound on him, and
another was traced to him. None of the money traced to
was identified as the prosecutor's ; hut it so happened that
the notes lost by the prosecutor were nil Sank of England
noses, except one of the old Worcester bark, and another
of Farley's bank, and the sovereigns loft by him were all old
Victories, whilst one of the notes traced to him was cf
Earley's bank, and all the others were Bank of England
notes, and all the gold coins traced to him were old Victories.
It further appeared that the prisoner had had ample opportu-
nities o! knowing where his master left his money at night.
The prisoner had borne an excellent character for honesty.
Mr. Cooke, in addressing thc jury for the prisoner, contended
that everything connected with the burglary indicated the
conduct of an experienced thief, and not that of enters lona
cent country lad, and submitted that he was not culled on to
explain bow the prisoner came by the money with which he
was found dealing till a clear and otherwise unanswerable
case was made out, and that on the whole the prisoner was
entitled to an acquittal. His lordship summed up. Verdict
—Guilty. Sentence: Ten years' transportation.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—CAMBRIDGX, JULY 19.
The business of the assizes for the county of Cambridge
commenced this morning, and in amount bore witness to
the operation of the county courts set, and the recency of the
last quarter tcs-ions. The cause list contains four entries,
and the calendar the names of nineteen prisoners, of whom
two are charged with arson, two with burglary. The list
from the Isle of Ely is of a deplorable character. Of the
prisoners generally, four can neither rend nor write; nine
can read and write. imperfectly ; and the rest can only read
imperfectly. The property found on the prisoners, or seized
an belonging to them, consists on the whole of 41. Os. 34d. in
money ; four purses, four pocket-books ; three knives ; two
tobacco boxes ; two waistcoats ; and one pair of trousers.
Before Kr. Baron Alderson.

INTERFIIRING WITH THE PstocTons,-Frederick New.
mon was indicted for having assaulted Richard Martin, a
servant of the chancellor, mastirs, and scholars of the uni-
versity of Cambridge, then having in his lawful custody one
Rose Hannah Calder, with intent to rescue her, and set her
e large. The prisoner at first pleaded not guilty ; subse-
quently, and after some conversation with Serjeaut Bytes, he
withdrew his first plea, and pleaded guilty.—Mr. Andrews,
Q.C., then stated that the prosecution had been instituted
by the proctors, whose servant had been interfered with by
the defendant in the execution of hi► duty. They were not
desirous of pressing for punishment, their sole object being
to vindicate their authority, and make it known g. nerally
that the law protected them and their servants in the discharge
of their duties to the university. They would be content with
the recogni ranee* of the prisoner to come up for judgment when
called on. Mr. Baron Alderson directed that the defendant
should enter into his recognisance* in the SUM of 2001., on
the condition suggested by the learned counsel, and told
him that if he behaved well for the fature, Le would hear
no more of the matter. The defendant, who is a 1111)91aTiNg
man, then entered into his recognisance. in the sum of 2001.
His consent that that sum should in his default be levied on
his lands, goods, and chatteb, elicited loud laughter from
the spectators. It was understood, but as the case was not
gone into did not appear in evidence, that the offence of
the prisoner was an attempt to rescue a young woman whom
the proctors were taking to the spinning-house.