The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

very little doubt that this ease was the ordinary ace of a
party having been defeated at the county court, and ad-
judeed to pay the amount of a claim made upon him, after-
wuos turned round upon the person making the shim, and
preierrid a charge of perjury against him, for which in
reality there ea; no foundati-n.
Several respectable witnesses gave the defendant an ex-
cellent character.
The lts. order, in his summing up, called the attention of
the jury to the precise nature of the charge against the de-
fendant, and to the evidence that had been adduced in support
of it, concluding by telling them that before they could re-
turn a verdict of guilty, they must be satisfied that the de-
fendant deliberately and wilfully swore to the truth of a
*natter which lie must necessarily have known to be false.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty
ROPIPRItY ABOARD A STPANTIII.
John PAM" 28, and John Connolly, 4.R, were indicted
for stealing five gold watches and two chains, the property
of the Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. reload prosecuted. Mr. Payne de•
fended Phillips, and the other prisoner had no counsel.
It appeared that the articles mentioned in the indictment
had been consigned to this country to a gentleman named
Muller, who desired to export them to Australia, and they
were packed up in a small box, and delivered on hoard the
Australian steamer, the vessel whose misadventures have
recently attracted so much public attention, to be conveyed
to their destination. At the time the property was sent on
board the Australian—namely, the 17th February—she was
lying in the East India Dxk, and the box containing the
watches was placed in a part of the ship called the treasure
tank. The prisoners and a number of other labouring men
had been employed on board the vessel in loading the
cal go, and they consequently had an opportunity of taking
the property, but it appeared that it was not missed, and
the vessel sailed from the dock on the 19th February.
In consequence, however, of the failure in her machinery
and other causer, the Australian was compelled to
put back to Plymouth, and from what had transpired in
the meantime a search was nude in the treasure tank of the
vessel, and it was found that the box and its contents had
been stolen. In order to connect the prisoners with the
robbery, evidence was given that almost immediately after
the sailing of the Australian, Connelly offered to sell one of
the watches to a watchmaker named Middleton, in the
Commercial road, who very properly refused to purchase it,
and detained the article ; and the other prisoner was found
to be in his company at the time, and to be dealing after-
wards with other portions of the stolen property. The pri-
soners received a good character, and there was reason to
believe that they could not resist the sudden temptation
afforded them by having access to so much valuable
property.
The jury found them both Guilty, and they were sen-
tenced to four months' hard labour.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-YESTERDAY.
The sittings of the court for the March adjourned ses-
sion were resumed this morcing at the Guildhall, West-
minster, by adjournment from Clerkenwell, before Mr.
Serjeant Adams, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Witham, Captain
Hinder, Mr. Pownall, Mr. ()shorn Yates, Mr. Woodward,
and Mr. Baylis. The number of prisoners fur trial was
79-6 for misdemeanour and 73 for felony.