The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONS.

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MIDDLESEX.
ve.leiany, Mr. Shared', the barrister appointed
j. new. the 11.1 of voters fir the metropolitan county, held
his cued at the Mack 1.) liedfont. The day's rev6iins
~.speisid the psris`.es and places within the polling dia.
ant of liselfunt.
Mr. Davis. ap,eased on behalf of a newly-formed regis-
ratios society, stated to be antler the auspices of Mr.
orpoi.; ; Me. W. H. James represented the old Trailers-
bve odes ; sad Mr. 1'..1. Jones defended the conservative
interests.
In the parish of Bedfast the name of Charles Soith
waaans, en the register as of her Majesty's
Boy, was cbjt :led to by Mr. James. This did not
coos:dote a legal place of abode, and Mr. James, taking
advantage of the 7th and 100th sections of the act, had
wiereiy Peseta soli e en the overseers.
Mr. Davies tkcagist it would be found that is most such
cm. th. ileseripti ,n would be suffiei•nt. He stated a ease
which nuns ander Lis Toxic* so ne years ago, where a
tob:e lord gave hi. Andress "Louise." He (Mr. Davies)
wised the iodic% by throwing it down in the Royal Ha-
cking*. That eon.tituted a tried service. This was, of
WOW. prior to the yassing of the act legalising the service
of cot".

batristsr, after referriag to the 7th and 100th sectional
et the 1G jstratios, Act, expunged the name.
Ins 114se, William Rosati', rector of Shepperton, whose
sualiticatioa was described as rent•charge and glebe laud,
ass objected to by )Ir. James for insufficiency in the de-
ocisption of qualitlcation
lilt Overseer buil br. n inatructed to say, on the part of
rye r etor, that he had a rent-charge and glebe land upon
elwch he cleaned.

The liamster-1r should bt described u a freehold; the
num num bt struck out.

beponged accordingly.
When the Overseer of Staines handed is his lists of ch.
pctionr,
Mr. James raid he had to complain of the annoyance and
rapsres be had been put to by the overseer publishing a
bet et übjettiout RI overseers. by his so doing, a report
bad braise current that he (Mr. James) bad entered
°kite:ions to his own party. Thu was not the ease,
act b.ith himself and Mr. Jones had been at considerable
troub:c to discover whence the objections emanated.
The barrister—l do tot me what I have to do in the
Whiff.

James merely wished that a like annoyance might be
emested in future by the c art calling upon the overseers
to Le more earefal in future.
The overseer 'aid it was his first year of office, and he
thought he was only complying with his instructions.
E mister roil it was vexatious, bu• he hod no power
to eeninsit ILe
1100 the cyst for making out the lieu.
The court thou adjourned till this day, when it will ba
at the Ref Lion, llrentford.

1.1T.1L ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND

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On Toesday afternoon an accident which wu
attended with fatal and disastrous consequences occurred on
the Manchester, Bunton, and Matlock Railway, one man,
named Michael Barks, a stoker, receiving such injuries as
to cause his death the following morning, and others being'
dreadfully bruised and injured.
Fran information received it appears that during the
afternoon of Tuesday an engine had got off the down line
to M .flock, and help bad been sent for from Derby. An
engine was speedily despatched conveying several men to
reader assi•tnaee. On their arrival, however, it was
thought they had not sufficient strength among them to
rep's,' the engine, and a message . was sent to Derby for
farther aid. Another engine, conveying fourteen or fifteen
men, was immediately sent, and on these arriving at Amber_
gate the engine war reversed, and it ran towards Matlock
with the tender first. Before this last assistance arrived
the men first sent had succeeds din getting the dislodged
engine replaced on the line; and thinking the distance
but short to Ambergate, they started to proceed thither on
the line they were on, instead of running a short distance is
the opposite direction, and getting on to the up line by •
siding, which they could have done. The consequence of
this was, the two engines, on arriving at a curve, came into
fearful collision, although the drivers abut off the steam and
reversed the engines immediately upon coming in sight of
each other. One of the men on the tender jumped off before
the a ngines came in contact, but the others were scattered
shout in all directions. Many of them were seriously
bruised on vari..ns parts of their bodies, and others rendered
insensible. Information was immediately despatched to
the .t.mberg►ts station, and from thence a telegraphic
message was sent to Derby for medical and other amnia-
Wee.

A few minutes pelt 6 o'clock, an engine was got ready,
and Mr. Gisborne, the Midland Company's surgeon, Mr.
and other officials of the company, went off to the
scene of the accident. On arriving at Ambergate they
found rhat eight or ten of the injured men had already
been sent to Derby by another train ; and Mr. Oisborne
proceeded onwards and brought the remaining sufferers
with him to D:rby.
The following is a list of the sufferers, killed and
wounded, who were received at the Derby Infirmary:
Michael Barkes, stoker to ono of the engines, received es-
tensive lacerations on the back part of the scalp, and thigh
fractured. This poor fellow was insensible when taken up,
and continued so until 11 o'clock the following morning
(Wedan,lay), when he expired.
Edward Shepperd, with dislocation of the shoulder and
cation% coatusions of the body. _

Thomas 13lackarn, of Ambergate, with contusion of his
knee and much bruised on his body.
The following persons who attended at the infirmary were
also much injured :
George Richmond, eentased knee.
Calladiae, face and collar bone mach injured.
John Roberts, scalp wound, and severely bruised.

Thomas Tomlinson, cat fan, and lardiand arm end knee.
John Juksoa, *evenly inured on various parte of hie
body.
The following sufferers were attended at their reepectiee
boom by Mr CiMborzie
T Chamber, Liversage-street, fractured jaw, and exten-
sive tut on the month end lips.
Senate' Yost, Albion•stnet; Smeeton (drift? of one of the
•IFiaer), Canal-street ; Perry (driver), Carrington-street ;
hurt (driver), Litcburch-street ; received injuries more or
leis of a serious character.

Mr. Redfern, Arboretum-terrace, cut head, and injuries
oa :he body. Under the cue of his medical attendant.
The surviving sufferers, we understand, ass going on
very favourable.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF TIMBER AT
MANCHESTER.

Two men, named Thomas Peacock and James
Births, were yesterday brought before the magistrates at
the Manchester City Police Court, on the charge of steal-
iag a large quantity of timber from the premises of the
Harrington Carrying Company, near Knott Kill, in that
city Although the evidence referred only to the removal of
20'2 deal planks, it is understood that a much larger quantity
missing, but it is doubtful if the whole cam can be
brought home to the prisoners, on account of the difficulty
of identifying the property. On a recent examination of
the stack, it was found that 202 planks, belonging to
Mesas. H►y, Nish, and M'Kean, builders, in Oxford-
street, Manchester, were missing, the number in the yard
being 6.779, whereas it ought to have been 601; and it
was subeequeatly ascertained that yesterday week the pri-
loess landed& quantity of similar planks at the Bolton Canal
wharf, in Salford, from a boat of which Peacock was oap-
ti.a. These were delivered to a cabinet-maker in Salford,
tamed Henry Holt, who sent thirty of them to another
person in the lame line of business, to whom he had pre-
'mut, offered to sell them cheap. This person saw them
arrive is the boat, which had both the prisoners on board,
sad he understood Pitscok to say there were 272 planks,
and the price was ltd. per foot, which is much below their
value. This was about five minutes past 6 o'clock an
Wednesday morning. Mr. M'Neish identified the planks
as the property of Mauro. Hay, Nish, and WlLean, by
meant of their private mark. Inspector Maybury, of the
Manchester detective police, applied for a remand of the
case till Monday, *Lich was granted, in order that further
evidence might be obtained. Bail was accepted for the
prisoners appearance.

•
THE CONTABULAItIi PORCl.—Yellferdll, a return
to periiarneat wa• imbed of the ronstahulary force in ire-
and. On the Igt etral.er last the total number of officers
and moo. including 71 magistrates, wan 12.417, beside* 333
horse 4. The total taper,* of the f rttr in the year 15,2 was
572.5411. 11a. ad., of wktoli the properties *harmed OD the
conPYlldstaid fund was 643,433/. 17s. 110., and the amount
borne by ornstin, cities, and towns wan 29,0471. 161. Sid.

THE ATTEMPT TO ROB THE DUNDEE
BANK.-SINGULAR VERDICT.

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At the Circuit Court of Justiciary, held at Perth,
en the let lest., Samuel Faulks was charged before Lords
Cockburn en 1 Ivory, wish hoeing, along with two other
persons uokuown, broken into the premises of the Dundee
Bank, Castle street, Dundee, daring the olght of the 31st
January, and the morning of the let February, IS-12, sea
with having attempted to commit a robbery, by bleaking
open one of the iron sales, the door of which was found
nearly destroyed, by means of housebreaking implements
left behind by the burglars.
The prisoner, who is a respectable-looking person, appa-
rently about SO pars of age, and with features eeeressive
of mildness and intelligence, pled not guilty.
the remarkable and mysterious incidents involved in the
tau, both is respect to the circumstances of the attempted
robbery and the supposed connection of the prisoner with
it, invested the trial with peculiar interest, and accordingly
the court was densely crowded on the occasion. Amongst
those present were the Lord Provost of Perth, Sheriffs
Crauferd and Me unit!), and various members of the Perth
and Dundee town councils.
After some formal preliminaries,
Mr. Charles Rose, manger of the Dundee Bank, de-
poned to having left the bank at 12 o'clock on Saturday,
the 31st January, in its usual state. He did not return to
it till the Monday following, when he was called up at eight
o'clock in the morning by Win. Ogilvie' the bank porter,
with the information that the bank had been broken into.
He found the premises had been entered by the coal
cellar belonging to the Episcopal chapel immediately
adjoining. A hole had been cut into the wall of this
cellar, which formed the partition betwixt this cellar and
the bank premises. The lath and plaster had been sawn
out and the stints removed. The bole was about 18
inches wide. There were two safes in the office, one the
book and the other the money safe. The attempt was
merle on the dcor of the book safe. The iron door was
cut through with centre bite, and pieces forced out.
Some of the bolts and tumblers of the lock had been cut
through. There had been an attempt to force the lock.
Stones at the edpe had been attempted to be forced off
by a crowbar. He found a great variety of tools lying
beside the door. No attempt had been made on the
money safe. The safes had two iron doors. The unlike
meets found were exhibited to the witness and identified
by him. [They fumed a most complete and skilfully fabri-
cated set of levers and apparatus fur boring and rupturing
iron, with saws, chiefly, and other implements fur break-
ing through stone and wood obstructions, apparently quite
new. They were evidently made expressly fur a bans rob-
bery, and as such were equally ingenious and formidable.
One class of the instruments was adapted to be used simul-
taneously by three persons, so as by the combined action of
crank and lever to force out pieces of the strongest iron
plate used for safe doors.] Besides these tools there were
found two bottles of champagne, some oranges end grapes,
three pairs of cotton drawers, a quantity of glazed black
cloth (to blind the windows with), a bundle of ropes, and
a paper of tacks. These were to en possession of by the
police, who bad been immediately apprised of the at-
tempted robbery. The cellar door was locked, but a piece
of gas pipe having been put into the keyhole, it had to be
forced open by a blacksmith. The cellar was found full of
rubbish.
Jane Millar kept a lodging-house in Reform-street, Dun-
dee. The panel (i e., the prisoner) came to lodge with her
three weeks before the robbery. Ile intro& cod himself as
Professor Faulks, and had a galvanic machine. Only one
gentleman came as a patient, a Mr. Sinclair. lie had three
small laines, and a large tin or iron box with him, the last
was particularly heavy. She saw that box opened once
about a week before the attempted robbery. On that oc-
casion she happened to go into the prisoner's room without
knocking, when she found him with the box open on the
table, and she saw three small tools, and three turned-in
tools and a large iron crow bar, also a saw. 1 he tools were
of a peculiar shape. The prisoner appeared agitated on
seeing her come in, and pot down the lid of the box. About
a fortnight after this she saw some tools in the police office,
and pointed oat amongst them these she bad seen lying
on the table in her room. Identifies these and the
saw. The prisoner left her house about four o'clock on
the Saturday, being 31st January. He was not in the
house all that night. He came back between eleven and
twelve on the Sabbath afternoon. She asked where he
had been, and he said he had been six miles in the country.
His clothe. were covered with white lime dust, and so were
his shoes. She brushed his coat. He appeared much fa-
tigued and worn out. Ile went out immediately, and did
not come back till near eleven at night. He stayed in the
house till the following Friday, when he went away in a
cab, saying he was going to Leith. lie advertised bie
profession in Dundee, and was quite well known there. He
kept regular hours, and hie conduct was proper and good.
No other man came to visit him but Mr. Sinclair, and he
never slept out of his lodgings except that single night.
The three small mahogany boxes contained rich jewellery.
Mr. Mackay told her he had apprehended Mr. Faulks on
Monday, the 2nd February, coming down her stair. She
only saw the tools on the table for a moment, and thought
they belonged to his galvanic machine.
Jane Lenience., servant of the preceding witness, cor-
roborated all the circumstances of her evidence except what
relates to the seeing of the box open.
George Simpson, writer in Dundee—Was in the street
on the night of 31st January, about ten minutes to 12. He
was attracted by a light in the chapel at that hour, which
was moving about. He saw the chapel door open about
half a font, and a man come out, who locked the door and
gave it two distinct knocks in doing so. The prisoner is the
man who came out of the chapel. Saw him by the gas
lamp. He went and joined two other persons in the Bank-
close. One of them was apparently a woman, but a very
strange-looking one. He said, on passing them, " Bloomer
again." He thought it was a man is woman's clothes. The
three persons moved away across the street. About ten
days after the robbery he gave a description of the men he
had seen to Mr. Mackay, the superintendent of police. On
atethrsamination he said be thought the man he had seen
wee lame. Knew Mr. Faulk.. He (witness) refused to
toreez any questions to Mr. Bell, Mr. Faulk's agent, be-
INS he hail said that he was constantly drunk. He was
net so late that night because he wished to get tome infor-
mation about stake nets.
James Cassidy—Was waiter in Mrs. Wallace's Rotel,
Salley-street, Dundee. Recollected a person coming to the
Imam ea Sunday, the Ist February, at about 12 o'clock.
Ho %shad es getting in. His clothes were white with
ihno duets mil be was rather fatigued and sleepy. He
asked far a birth to clean himself, and he brushed him. He
stayed and dined in the house. He went away about 6 or 7
at sight without paying his bill. The prisoner is like the
but can't swear it was him. Two commercial travel-
his ifaed with him.
Mrs. Wallas, gave similar evidence to the teat witness,
and said if the man who ease was not the prisoner it was
kis ghost.
After some further evidence for the crown, the following
exculpatory proof, in support of a plea of alibi, was ad-
deced.
John Howard—ls the nephew of Mr. Faulks, whom he
his Mows sines be was a child. Mr. Faulks had Fue-
ling he Mae tkr as a medical piranha, and he (wit-
tier) lei auleiedl bin in his profanes. Had used the
seas berm with him at many places in England. He
came ee Perth in the beginning of December, 1861, and
reenbedi till March, 18.52. He lived with Mrs. //Busmen.
ifferea• plate with Professor Faalka, medical galvanise,
on kb deer and advertised his business pretty exten-
Nicely. He k.d a good many patients. One of these was
named Benjamin Brown, who Wei ill &instant engineer
with Mr. Harrison, resident engineer to the Perth Rail-
way. Understood he had gone to Canada, bat was now
on his way home. Mr. Brown had a brother, who was in
the same employment. He remembered his uncle coming
to visit him in Perth. He gave witness notice of his
coming, sad he came on Saturday, lan. 31, 1852, by the
train, where he met him. It was a wet night, and he
borrowed en umbrella from Mrs. Slimmer. His name
was speaking to the editor of one of the Dundee papers at
the step of the station. He and winter then went to the
lodgings of the Messrs. Brown, in Prinee's-street, near the
Perth Railway. They then tune out. and witness and
Benjamin Brown went away, and his neck and Alfred
Brown were left in company
.together. They joined
again at supper in witness's lodgings, after having walked
about tows and called upon a Mr. Thompson. It would be
after eleven when they returned to his lodgings. They
then supped on cheese and biscuits, OM had same toddy.
Brown left about twelve. He and his as. slept it the
same bed, end they breakfasted together nut morning.
He took his icicle to his barber, James Roy, who shaved
him. This was about half-past tea They saw
Benjamin Brown that morning. They all dined together
about half-past two o'clock In witasiss's lodgings. They
went post-baste to the Dundee Railway Station about half-
past three, when his uncle left. Both he and Mr. Benja-
min Brown saw him into a carriage. His uncle saw
him In Perth but that once, and no other person visited
him in Perth. He was quite certain as to the date. The
reason was, there was a great talk about an eniatear thaw
trial peeformance,and it was the Saturday after that. He was
also convinced of the day from the book that his landlady kept
of Ws furnishings. It contained the entry of the cheese and
Waits which he ordered on that date, and he saw it en-
tered there ea that date. Witness then gave an account of
his ass's peeeeeiless after he left Dundee. He had gone
to Leith end hem thence to Glasgow, where he practised as
a medical galvanise, and circulated cards with his address
very extensively, and he also advertised in the papers.
I His uncle made a complaint to the police in Glasgow about
I a bill, but they declined to interfere. He gave his name
to the captain of police. He never concealed himself in
I any way.
I Mrs. Slimmon, the landlady referred to, was examined,
and corroborated the testimony of her lodger as to his
uncle coming to visit him on Saturday, the 31st January,
and remaining sod dining oa the Sunday. She did not see
him herself, but was told by the servant that it was his
uncle who was with her lodger. She was sure it was on the
day mentioned from the entry of the cheese, biscuits, and
I sugar, made in her small book of that date. She could not
have told what night it was the uncle supped and slept in
her house without the book, but from that she knew it was
on the 31st January.
Several other witnesses gave corroborative evidence.
Cleghorn then addressed the jury for the crown, and
Mined NM the jury for a verdict of guilty aa
/16.1ffiffilmiespatiated on all the circumstances which bad'
bags brioche on' with reference to the conduct of the pri-
soner, both prior and subsequent to the commission of the
attempt at the hank robbery, and said the way the prisoner
had acted with reference to the charge against him was a
strong proof of his consciousness of innocence.
Lord Cockburn then charged the jury. He remarked
ISM the fact of a man fleeing from an accusation was not
to be presumed a proof of his guilt, neither was the con-
verse to be held of a man coming and braving a trial as
undoubted evidence of his innocesee. Many Innocent men

had fled rather than enenanter the ordeal of a public trial,
and he bad known a notorious murderer come freely for-
ward and defy the public prosecutor to prove him guilty.
His lordship put the ease as one which required the jury
either to believe the witnesses for the alibi ur not. If they
thought the ahhi made out, then there lens an ead of the
case. If they did wit, then he thought there was no
ground for discrediting the testimony fur the crown.
The jury retired about eight tr',loek, and after being ab•
sent (or about half an hour, rei.urnrel the follouing ver-
dict: "The jury unanimously find that the prisoner has
completely Lilted to make out an Masi. There is a ma-
jority in the prisoner's favour that the case against him is
not proven."
The peculiar terms of the verdict having given rise to
some remark from the bench and the bar,
The Foreman of the Jury said—lf the first part of the
verdict was irregular, the jury would withdraw it.
Lord Cockburn—Certainly not, gentlemen ; the verdict it
a good verdict.
fhe prisoner then left the bar, awl, joining his friends,
proceeded to the City Hotel, followed by a great crowd,
who occasionally .I'l)ns/id their sympathy with the verdict
of the jury by a congratulatory cheer.
[The Nara British Mail, from whose columns the above
has been condensed, says : " Such a ridiculous verdict in
quite enough to baud down • Perth jury to iminerkil
ridicule."]

TUE EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT GLASGOIV.
Yesterday (Monday) George Jackson, the person
is custody, implicated to the robbers at Mr. Rut's, was
brought up at the Central Police Court, and remanded by
the sitting magistrate for examination. A circumstance
came to our knowledge on Monday, which goes to prove
that the prisoner and hie associate had not laid their de-
signs without making themselves perfectly familiar with
all the facts connected with the watching of the Messrs.
Campbell's premises. The old private watchman leaves
Prlnce'acourt every Sunday morning at 6 o'clock, being
relieved by another constable, who takes duty at 7 a. in.
Fortunately for Mr. Reit, on Sunday maiming last,
the old watchman waited beyond his usual time, to
allow his colleague a longer sleep, he having been
occupied till a late hour the previous night in an.
other quarter of the city. This accounts for the
thieves being so checkmated in attempting to make their
exit at a time when they thought there would be no person
in the vicinity to raise the alarm. On measuring the hole
in the ceiling of Mr. Rail's shop through which the robber
entered, we find it to be only 14 inches by 13; so thst it is
protable that Jackson could hardly have wormed his way
through it, and, therefore, that his confederate must have
been a smaller man. We are aware that engineers do some-
times squeeze themselves into marvellously small manholes;
but we su•pect it would puzzle even Jackson to wriggle
himself down and up through such an aperture. It as a
Curious fact that the thieves left a number of watch keys in
a drawer on the counter, from whence they selected a few,
wii!st they took a quantity of gilt goods of very little coim
parative value. As we stated, all the more valuable wares
were secured in a strong safe, which the robbers never even
attempted to open.—Nurth British