The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-06 00:00:00

frAtis' EXPlfittiet 'IIOI4DAT EVENISG, MAIMS 6, 1865. .

ray end Co. to prisoner In the month of September.
The detective was ordered to keep the whole of the stock
seized at More planes, together with quaotiti.e booed at
various others, ander look sad key, and thousands of pro.
ware thereby saved taw the mists. Oa the V.' ad of
I)eembr an appeal was made in the Clout of Chancery
against the order of the commissioner middle( In the Bir-
miogham Bankruptcy Court to search the home of Fainter,
the petitioning creditor. The appeal wardasenimed, and
the Lord Chancellor also decided that the Curt
of Bank-
ruptcy at Birmingham were right in instituting the pressed.
lap. Io the coursed the trial It wowed WA is August
last John Snuffler had been employed by the bankrupt to
take a large quantity of goads to Loudon to sell by audios,
for Levi, and that afterwards he wee tried at the eerier
at Birmingham for stealing some of them, whoa Mr.
Kennedy applied for the case to stand over till the primal
proetierhop were over, and Spurrier woo now celled as a
Miaow spinet the bankrupt.
Yr. Harm Martin mid, there was a time when • judge of
males la England eleared the pole of Mi the prison's they
°misfiled, and where this Practice had been departed from
a Muni ought certainly to be made to the judge who opened
• oommissiou of every primmer at the titm within each of
her Wisisety's prisons la the county. This practice bad been
departed from, and Spurrier's name had not come before
him, though he bad been committed for • crime. Dammed
that Spurrier had been bailed out to appear at the Birming-
ham Quarter Serious after this trial, as Yr. T. 0. S. Kyn-
aeraley. the atipendimy magistrate, thought it right the
present proceedings should be °occluded drat. Spurrier
amordingly came forward and swore that, natter direction
of the bankrupt prisoner, be had, within the time prescribed
by the act of parliament, asieeted Levi to remove his goods
to Boemberg's.
The prisoner was found Guilty of removing his goods with
the intention of defrauding his creditors.
The Judge said he would take an opinion upon the point.
of law in a superior court, not biassing it in any way
himself.
A charge of conspiracy was adjourned till Beat melees.
Bail was taken for the appease°e of the primmer is the
preent indictment in hie own reonisanoe for 2,0001. sod
two sureties in LOOM each the charge of doll•Pirmis
separate bail was given.

WESTERN ClRClTlT.—Warcarra, M►rka 4.

(Before Mr. Berea Munell.)
Reference was again made today to the
oft Irlielicrginiurder
use. The learned Judge, addressing Mr. Q.C.,
informed him that in the cue of " The Qum v. room-
field," mentiosed the previous day, be ion-• rarely de-
scribed the application then cads as au =parte statement.
What be meant to convey was, that in that stage of the
=wiinp be doubted whether the wart could interfere,
ry hulas found a true bill and the prisoner not having
been called on to plead. He now oonsidered that the affidavit
produced wee unanswered, and it would be his ditty to post-
pone the trial. Looking at all the circumstances of the
ors be had come to the oncludon to order the trial to be
postponed to the next assizes, and the reirogninnces of the
witnesses should be enlarged till then. Taking the medical
evidence offered in the affidavit to be reliable, the prisoner
will, from the state of his health, escape his trial only to
meet his death from the effects of his Mum.
The grand jury returned a Mos bill against James Piper
Piper, charged with the wilful murder of his wife, Emma
Sophia, at Partees. on the 13th January.
The grand jury also found a true bill in the case of
Thomas Dumphy, a soldier, charged with the wilful murder
of Daniel Barns, al Aldmehott, on the 30th December last.

NORTHERN CIRCIIIT.—DeRnem, Msmx 4.

(Moro Kr. Jastios Mellor.)

Matthew Atkinson, pitman, 45, was charged
_with having.
oa the ith of lieoeruber leak wilfully meiud Ellen At-
blown, hie wife, at the village of 24sen. sear Gateshead.
Mr. Blackwell and Mr. Layeock appeared for the prose-
cution ; Mr. 0. Foster defended the prisoner.
Mr. Blackwell, in opening the case, said the prisoner was
married about twelve years ego to the deceased, who wee
given to intemperate habits. while Atkisson was • man of
ungovernable passions. During the last four years they
had been living in the neighbourhood of Winlairm, and for
the whole of that period their home had been notorious in
the locality for the disturbance* of which it had repeatedly
been the ease. The prisoner had frequently indulged in
threats of the moat violent description against hie wife,
sod had said that he would some day take her life.
On the day in question, a man named Benjamin Hunter,
who lived next door, was aroused by hoarier; loud cries
from Atkinson's dwelling, and distinctly heard the xi._
goner saying' " I will kill you • I will kill you, you —"
These wore* were followed by blows which were so heaa3
that he could hair them in brown house. Thee mine •I
and apparently the sound of some people et the door
Atkinson's house. Be then heard the prisooor shout as if
he were speaking to the people outsider and saying, " If
any of you come io, I will shoot you." Just before he
heard these words the sound of blows Dams from the pri-
soner's house, and be could distinctly hear that the toep
were being used.
Mr. C. Foster addressed the jury at considerable length
on behalf of the prisoner, arguing, from the provocation the
prisoner had received, and the drunken condition that he
and his wife were in when he committed the offence, It

was owe of manslaughter.
The Judge summed up, and said be could not see Mat the
primes: had received such provocatioa es to reduce the
offence to that of manslaughter.
The jury, after an absence of thre►quarters of an hour,
returned a verdict of " Wilful murder.
The Clerk of the Court asked the prisoner if be bad any-
thing to say why sentence of death should not be pared
upon him.
Prisoner—WA sir, my life with that woman ha. been
horrid. I have been sized of my life for wen or eight
years with her. I had to fetch her away from other men
often. At two o'clock that morale; I had to go and fetch
her from a house where she was. She has gone away from
me seven times—(l had to fetch her from another man
that morniog)—and when she has gone from me I have
always fetched her beak. I felt so for her that I always
went and fetched her back again. My feelings were not
against her, and I could not see her wanting. I did not
know whet I haddoits, but her conduct put me to that,
and I am really tired, and I took her life. I flew no more
of it than yourself, my lord, till the neighbour, told me.
Hi Lordship—Have you anything more to say
Prisoner—l have nothing more to say, but that lam
tired of the life I have lived, and are bllllll2 for Well Of
eight year.
His Lordship then parsed seinen*, of death in the usual

form.
The wretched man may replied— a Thank you, my lord
I am prepared to dla any nelante.a