The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

LAtdBETEI.

A DOCILE BUROLARY.—Fredersck Smith was placed at
the bar for final .examination on twa separate charges of
burglary.
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Arboal half put five o'clock on the morning of yesterday
week, Mr. John Welter, a commercial traveller, residing
at No. 6, Britannia terrace, Matthew-park, was aroused
from his sleep by a noise in the lower part of his house,
and on going to the window he mar two men going away
from the back put of his house. He gave an immediate
alarm, and ~on alter the prisoner yo• brought to his house,
without shoes or hat, and he immediately reivArnised him as
one of the men he had seen leave his house, He knew him
perticularly from his observing that he had on an outside
coat with a cape to it. On esamining the premises he
found that the thieves had entered the house by forcing
open the bark door, and they removed various tiniest' of
property from the parlours, but they were found in the
garden.
A second charge war preferred against the prisoner of
harieg broken into the dwelling-house of Mr. Charles
Francis, a printer, in the same neighbourhood, and stolen
therefrom a set of brushes, a jar of mince meat, and •
rolling pia. la this inatanes the thieves affected en entrance
into the house of Mr. Francis by forcing the fastenings of
• back window ; but it is supposed they meet have been
disturbed. as they had only taken • few things of compare-
tively trifling value, which were subsequently found in the
garden of Mr. Walter, with the things removed from his
house.

The prisoner, who refused to give any account of himself,
was fully committed for trial on both chug...

CHAROB or Ro 88888 BY A SEW/AMT.—Charles Cox,
a youth in the sermon of Mr. Thomas Lts, a draper, in the
Walwortb road, charged with stealing some pieces of ribbon,
the property of his mister, was remanded.

A HARD CABE UNDER THE GANZ LAwL—A
bleckamith, named William Brooks, of Manton Calabasas
about two months since convicted before the magistrates
acting for the Bath division of the county of Somerset, on
the evidence of two boys, of killing a pheasant, the chugs
being brompla mast him by William &ins, a gamekeeper.
I At We wWtly mooting of the sapid:ales in Bath yesterday,
Brooks applied to them, stating that, le eoseewaseee of the
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seeded in dada, two +liaison who could swear that the so
Ise which he was cenvieted was committed by an exams
elder! H. therefore wished to know whether, under those
eiresiastenoes, the magistrates could not re-beer the came ?
Mr. Taylor, the clerk of the peace, aid that the am,
attar eon,icikaa, 40.14 amberropeaed, and :the applicant's
wily remedy was, if he bad sufficient evidenee, to
indict the lap foe perfoly! Having read the depositions
taken whoa the cafe woe heard, Mr. Taylor said it appeared
to him dues wee proper ground for conviction, se he could
not se* what object the witnesses could have had in swearing
to a falsehood. Brooks stated that the gamekeeper gave
the boys aspeates each, and promised them more, to appear
mains him Inewegirtrates aid that the applicant should
Ron galled -Shames to robot the evidence of the boys.
Brooks replied that he did bring three respectable tautness,
who r. roved that he was olaurhen at the time to which the
shags refewpi. Two wettable, of the parish, who
enewpanied t, else sad that the lad. who gas.widow wore op Owl sail one of *am notch-
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but said Hnska Oat Ids way webs wee to powestir the
witnesses egged We.tai parjaryi Bach a mode of redrew
eta be nothing less Wes inositery to an innocent sad pop
MC.