The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-29 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD ClRClllT.—ilowxotria, MARCa 27.
DMPIIAT. ATTIMTT or ♦ PIRISOMIR TO =OM FROM
CUSTODY. _ _ _

F. Williams, aged M, triaiiidined for having mit and
wounded John Morgan, constable, of lonestom, in this
scanty, with intent to kill and murder the said Jam Mor-
pn.—Mr. Iluddlestons promented the prisoner, who was
undefended.
The primer was taken late custody by Morgan, upon a
charge of AWL, a pig's cheek (to which Marge he pleaded
geiltyrkilmies seas..), and was b.ie conveyed by him to
Usk heal. The prisoner had behaved, it seems, in • most
orderly manner till he got near to Usk, and was convening
with the mutable upon the mountainous state of theenntry
when usillinft he streak Merges a severs blow upon the
head, whisk diammi him, and then threw him heavily upon
the grommil, Meg upon him As soon as Morgan was a
little reserend a desperate struggle 'trued between him and
the prisoner, the two being linked together by the lundbolts.
The primmer was evidently the stneger man, and had the
Met of the memennter. While the mustsble was upon his
beck on the posed the prisoner knelt upon his chest, drew
a large knife ?rein his puke% mud endeavoured to cut the
constable's threat, and iimi imilisted tern slight wounds
upon it, the one just over the sasatii artery. Be also cat
hi. threwilt the ear and on the shook, and Morgan was
litwallp smothered with Mood. The poisoner then 'flameout ed
to cut his min throat, bat wu prevented from doing so by
the coontaltis, who, in preventing him, had his hands se•
verely:mt. The contest continued till a gentleman, who
rode by on horseback, sent moistens, to the 'unstable from
Usk. A man, in Morgan, a mu& to the constable, and
one or two others, going to the " Mee of action," the wit-
s. ss Morgan meld that when he went to the spot he did not
knew the mutable Morgan, *mph he was his 0311a11
he wu covered to thickly with blood and wounds. This
witness took the knife from the prisoner.
The prisoner, in kis defence, said that he was subject to
fits, and that kis head was affected, and at times he did not
know what he wu doing, which was the case wham he at-
tacked the emastable. _ _ _

The jury bend him Guilty, end Mr. Justice Coltman
sentenced him to be transponed for 16 years.
&MUSLIM • WITI.

John Beet, a cripilisaeilit:Ohio;as carried Mt* court,
wan charied with stabbing and wounding his wife, Mary
Bess, at Balerslty.
Rees ass jealous of his wife, and oa the evening of the
fled of August had had a quarrel with her. Prisoner, eller
he wee in bed, asked fora pair of seinen, to cut his wife's
wedding-Hag out of the collar of hie coat, in whisk he had
town ft. About 5 o'clock the next morning, a man and
his wife, who were lodgen In prisoner's house, heard
the proncutrix cry out in Walsh " Oh, God l" The
man immediately imitated to the prisoner's room, and
pulled his wire out of bed ; she bad been stabbed through
the nose, on the neck, and at the bottom of the abdomeu
and the witness described the floor as covered with blood
from the wounds. The prisoner was heard to drop some
thing out of bed on the floor, and a pair of tailor's soasson or
shears, with which the wounds had evidently been perpe-
trated, was found.—A sarmaa who examined the wooled.
described them as net dangerona.—The women said she did
not whit her husband punished ; she bad bean obargenble
upon** parish of Bedwelty, and the parochial augharldes
had caused the prosecution to be inelltuted.
• The jury nand the printer Guilty, bat, ha emmideration
of having afready suffered nine months' i umeieresealnhe
was ealy sanaira **undergo a week's farther ins

MIDLAND ClRClllT.—Wittwtcn MARCH 29.
gm Palm—Before Lad Oaiel Judas Wilde.
The learned Judge having charged the grand jury in the
Crown Court, entered upon the civil business soon after
eleven o'clock. Mr. Justice Maul. is too ill to attend in
court.

rimier/Tama /01 SeDrriox.
Mr. Mellor applied to the court, on the part of the crown,
to &sob:gm:she rooognisanoss of the witnesses for the prose-
cution White and Edward Ring for sedition.
White was now under condoensent for a similar effenoe, and
as the peso. of the town of Birmingham had not been dis-
turbed, the Attorney-general did not think roper to prose-
cute the iadietateati. His lordship assented to the applies-
tioa, and the reeognitanoss were discharged.

NORTHERN CIRCULT.—LivaaPooI., MARCH 28.
THI ARSON CASS.

_ -
We gave yesterday the leading particulars of the charge
against W. C. Demathe, an 'Stepan paper-ruler in Liver-
pool. of having set fire to his premises, with a view to defraud
the Yorkshire Insurance Company. It wu urged in de-
fence that there could have been no possible motive for the
perpetration of the crime. u theiuncr had u much =in-
mired as insured property upon the premises at the time of
the fire. The jury retired, and, of nearly u hour's oat-
sultation' returned into mut with a verdict of Nod Guilty.
The verdict was hailed with loud applause in court. One
young !gentleman, seen to clap his bands, was arrested by
order of Mr. Baron Alderson, and committed to custody till
the rising of the court on the following day.

Nal Pairs.-sslore Mt. Justice Colaridis.
KANONALL AND ANOTHER V. BENECILI AND OTHERS.—
ALLEGED INTEINOZMENT OF PATENT RIOHTS.
This ease an alleged infringement of a patent for an im-
proved mode of "stretching, drying, and finishing woven
fabrics," whisk occupied the mart the whole of Monday and
Tuesday, was sot ooncluded whoa our despatch left. Not
many of the witnesses for the defendants had then been
called.

WESTERN CIRCIIIT.—Bomene, MARCE 27.
Thai amine manmeneed yesterday. The comasietion wee
opened by Mr. Justice Williams. Lord Chief Justice Dan-
iell followed in the mein.
This UMW Lord Denman took his seat in the Crown
Court. The business to be disposed of is unnesally heavy for
Cornwall ; the calendar containing no fewer then 77 pri-
mness, and many of the offences charged are of a serious
character.

The sheep of the Lord Chief Justice to the grand jury
was very Shen, hie lesviship observing that as he grew older,
he became mote sad more sensible of the importance of eco-
nomising public time. Almost the only point in the charge
of other than local importance was the observation that with
the depositions of witnesses returned by committing magis-
trates, there should alto be forwarded the statements of pri-
soners made before committal.

The trials of prisonen on some charges of slight import-
ance were then proceeded with. .

POLICA—YzaTaRDAT.

MANSION-11011813.—A GIRL IMITZED BY urn
FATIISII.—T. Fawcett wee eharged with having kicked his
daughter, aged 18, in so dreadful a manner that considerable
deuts are entertained of her recovery. The phone, had
gene hose intoxicated on Sigurd& night and began to beat
his wife, who escaped front kta . The daughter was
not se fortaaata. TM prisoner Malted her twigs. She cried
oat warder, aad seen after blame insensibie, and slam that
time td attacked by hysterisal and it
es Sunday that the would have died kiss
of the in
• binspar * win tad sees the poor girl, date a painful
&gadgets e<ter
Mr. Hall, a sargs=, her condition was doubtfal.—The
primmer was renunded.

WORSHIP-STREST.—A STALL AT rat GRICIAX
BLLOOX.—D. Donoghue wee charged with being conagratd
in dealing two 51. bank notes, the prsaly of C. Robertson,
lately belonging to one of the hawk is the royal navy.
The wife of the prosseater stated that on the evening of
the 19th inst. she usempnwisd her husband ti witness the
performances at the Gamin Saloon. and took her seat next
to a tea it use tithe Melts. Shortly bolero the close
of the kWar abruptly rase and left the
bum ; end earddng 1m her handkerside4 in the side
pocket of her drum the &enured that a man ease, con-
taining two 51. ads sad ether articles, con peking her bus
bend's Kahane best his slip, had been abstinuisi, sad that
h7ppm boa had ales liens deism Payment dike metes weeet
arty nut morning at tie bank ; anima the follow-
ing flaiorday they received informatics that ewe of them
had bum paid in through a banking-hoses fa lambard-
street, velum it was nitistately traced mike pmesselem of a
sallfaMellneed O'Connor, in Red Usmseresk OMiaswr
who lad rseeind it hum the prissier ma the missing after
the robbery.
The prisoner admitted that he had changed the note as
demeibed, kndsaid be bail obtained it from his niees,whil sin
=itwith, her some papers which Mr. O'Connor resew
sould be destroyed, se he might °dumb, "be
bush oat." and
tated
upon giving him m that they were burnt eastediugly.r The
Omer farther s that ai le the
wile Mr. WOunner retained • smuts es sift
Ile Kiser odd that uSe peeponer's lKg-
bp be dienovered newly- ' sal ern
a deposit-book of the Finsbyry tnge.les is *kW; es
asseunt had been opened a few days slim the robbery, and
a deposit entered for 41.
' le. W. O'Connor, who described himself era Bachelor of
Medicine of Trinity College, Dublin, stated that, an the
manning of Tuesday es'imight the atrium, whom he had
known emit years, requested change for a 61. note, which
he handed the prisoner, minus la. for a draught.
Mr. Hammitt ordered the prisoner to be remanded.

MONEY MARKET.
WEDNIIIDLT Beam°.
A mum having been current en the Stock Ex-
change of the Piedmont!". having been beaten by the
Austrians, there was a disposition on the part of spe-
culators to prelims Consolsioindrtstes market upend
firm this awning at the c . et yesterday,
end they Imo at sae q as highest 91off.
Bata few money Wee were merle in thweenree of the
day, and esmiderable glyousisveregnest tatorraket,
so *i.t towel** asee. to
911 to I, both pa audarimil
la Thelegentaills aline hat been little business,
the quotations being Sin to Ns. prem. toe March
bills, and Si.. to 391. we.. foe the. of lu mm Bank
Stock is gusted at 1081 Am the aseennt. India
Bonds, 60s. prom. In India Stock there Is nething
doing.

Ie the foreign market the-s tae nct been much
business done, acd prices hate been a shade lower,
principally in the Spacish American securities.
Mexican Bonds were quoted 314 and 301 ; Peru-
vian, 85; Brazilian, 82; Equador, 31; Portuguese,
271 to 8 ; Spanish Fives, 181 to 1 ; Danish Scrip,
8 and 7 pm. Deitch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
491 and 481; the Fora per Ceuta., 784, as the closing
prima of the market.

LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL BANIL—From the six-
teenth annual report it appears that the profits had 9011110-
what diminished in consequence of the reosnt depression in
trade and commerce. The dividend was stated to be 8 per
cent. for the past year, and a large mu wee carried to the
reserved fund. Though the railway 1111017itiSS had declined
In value from the muse befoul stated, they had condderably
improved einem the Ist of January. It was stated that the
beak, in sixteen yea*, end awn a capital of 338,6001., had
divided no less than 452,4071. among its shareholders.—
Liverpool Mercury.
THE JOINT-STOCK BANK, ISLE or MAN.—The
Judgment of the Chancery Court has been put into the hands
of Yr. Thomas KUM, the coroner of Gleinfaba, his autho-
rity entendilye over the whole Wand. The judament,
98,7401., with interest trans July 1, 1846, till paid, is for the
largest amount ever pronounced by any court in this island.
There is a probability of arransements being made with the
plaintiffs to receive the money payable here by instalments ;
so that property will not be wantonly sacrificed, which must
have beast the case weft an immediate realisation instated
upon. It is to be lamented that a conciliatory end common-
NOM muse was not adapted in regard to this anfortunate
affair at a mush earlier &ht. It would have saved many
thousands to the deeply-injured ahareholdere.—lsla of Man