The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-17 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

01.1) oOURT.—Deface Mr. Baron Ware.
TUX MUNDEN IN CULDIINTII• P/I ANN. Upon
the application of r. Bodkin, th trial of Henson, for the
murder in CotdbatMb-lields l'riaun,e nes pos.pontd to the neat

DelOun.
FUKOEIVI ON 'MK BANK 0C Er:ohm's—John Taylor
Cren, who pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge of utter-
ing a (urged 51. Bank of England note, was brought vp feu
and was eentencerl to transportation for 20 years.
A JOISTS AN Tit LI it Hsi ia—Mr. Bodkin said
he had to apply to the court bt relerence to the ease of
Ernest Charles Jones, who was charged with sedition, nod
whose trial was postponed to thy next session. The Solicitor
to the Treasury had fur the third rime received notice of
hail, but none of the parties had attended to justify their
bail, and he wished to know whether his lordship thought
it necessary for hint to wait any longer ? —Rimn Rolfe in-
quirt d what time the notice referred to? Mr. It alkin rani
gnat the parties gave notice that they would attend at tits
'attest of the court this day.—this lordship gave direction
th it the solicitor to the defendunt and the sureties should be
called, and as none of them answeeed he said he should no'
entertain any application that d iy, and the parties must at-
tend on the Inurruvr.
la KW MAO'. s lkfore the Recorder.
VILKANNTMENT OC TIIK GRAND JURY AGAINST (GRAN..
J la the course of the day the grand jury came into
court, and having concluded their labours uiadc a present
ment precise ly similar ts that made at the April session, ex
pressing their opinion of the u•clessness of the grand jury at
the Central Criminal Court, sad that instead of the system in
any way fist dieting rho ends of justice it was only calculated
to mow delay reed cap.-nue, to give an opportunity of
racking false cleirges against hrk, nt persona, and els r of
tempering with the witnesses for the prosecutions—The Re-
corder, on moth leg the presentment, said that there were
many who differed vvi,h the grand jury in the opinions they
..ow express d, and who cons dered that the grand jury was
an important essential in the constitution of the reunuy. He
should offir no opinion himself upon the subject, but would
merely remark that while the grand jury system formed
part of the law of the laws it must be carried out —The
grand iury were then discharged.
PAKLIAM I:STARA 114:1•011.7S.—WASTE l'Al•Kg —J. Grant,
an elderly 11140, and hie two children, Sarah and Witheim,
M. re indicted for stealing a qu entity or paper, the property
of John Ferrer. The eldest prisoner had been for
m-stio than twenty years in the royal tinvy, and, on his
having the service, obtained the situation of keeper of the
Master of Chancery's offices, in Cesium ry.lane. In the course
of the last month a quanti•y of p erlismentary reports were
Bud it was aster; seined that the prisoner had been in
the linbit cal selling the reports at waste paper. When he
was toe stioned he made no attempt to conceal the fact, and
metre II that he had alws)s been led to helieve that such
reports were his perquisite, u d •hat his predecessors in the
situation had always sold them for waste paper, and be had
openly done the same, and was not aware that he was doing
wrung.—The jury return. d a verdict of Not