The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

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TILE EGG THROWING ON THE "DERBY DAY.'
Mr. Clarkson applied to the court, as counsel fur Henry
Dimsdale, who was indicted for an assault, by pelting a re-
spectable gentleman with eggs on the return from the
Oaks race, to order a writ of certiorari to issue for
the removal of the ease to the Court of Queen's
Bench. Ile said he believed that other parties who
were included in the charge, and who were now
abroad, had ezpressed their intention to surrender
and take their trial, upon condition that the pro-
siest°, should offer no opposition to the peeped
mune, and he was willing to do so. The lammed
counsel added that he believed it would he better for the
purposes of justice that this course should be adopted, as k
would be the means of bringifliaput the whole of the farts
connected with the case. He added that he had affidavits in
support of his application.
Mr. Dallantine, who appeared for the prosecution, said be
had no objection to the removal of the case to the Qns
Baseh.
Nr. Justice Tattooed said that the court would look at
the alldavita before they decided upon the application.
CUARGE OP BURGLARY.

Charles Whiteher, 42, greengrocer, was indicted for
stealing a large quantity of mousseline-de-laine and merino,
the property of the London and South Western Railway
Company, and John &sward, a linendraper, in the Com-
merssal-road, who surrendered to take his trial, was charged
with feloniously receiving the property, knowing it to have
beta stolen.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Haddlestone conducted the pro-
secution ; Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Parnell defended Whit-
cher ; and Serjeant Wilkins and Mr. Parry were counsel
for Saward.
The facts of this ease have been given very fully in the
police reports. The property in question, it will be remem-
bered, was consigned, by a manufacturer in Paris, to
Messrs. Candy and Co., London, and it was stolen during
its transit from Southampton to the latter place.
The evidence was of a very complicated character, and
there were nearly fifty witnesses to be examined on behalf
of the prosecution.
The trial was proceeding when we went to press, and was
expected to occupy the court until a late hour.

CAPTAIN COMP, TUE ADNITILALIT SUPE/tII

MAIL yACILIST STATION,

will shortly obtain his flag, and vacate the office of superin:
Mildest in consequence. Naval men are on the gni ',Mu as

to who will insTresed Captain Corry iiEoUtlinititon.Tl;
name of his successor has not yet transpired beyond the
sanctum of the Admiralty. The salary of the superinten-
dent is SOU. a year. Captain Curry is the fourth who has
Med the oath dna the transfer of the mail packet station
from Falmouth to Southampton. The first was Captain
Alexander Ellice, brother of the Right Hon. Edward Ellice
and General Ellice, and who vacated the Mike on receiving a
high official appointment at the Board of Admiralty. Cap-
I taus Ellice was succeeded by Captain, now Admiral Sir
John Gordon Sinclair, Bart., a relative of the Earl of Yar-
borough. Sir John vacated the office on obtaining his V
and was succeeded by Captain Satith, the distinguished in-
ventor of the paddle-boa life-boat, the naval gunnery
target, Ac. &c., and who died while filling the office. Cop-
tain Corry, the present sawrintendent, is related to the
I Earl of Delmore.