The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

The court resumed its sittings yesterday.. There were
present at the opening of the court the Lord Mayor, the
Recorder, Aldermen Sir C. Marshall and Farocomb, the
sheriffs and under.sheriffi, ►nd the usual authorities of the
City of Lyndon. '1 hese were 231 prisoners for trial at the
present session. and the offences are all of the ordinary cha-
racten—The Recorder addressed a few observations to the
grand jury is reference to the duties they were called upon
to discharge, and he said that, with regard to a charge of
bigamy that would come Wore them, he thought it right to
make a few remarks, in order that parties might know how
the law stood. In the case in question it appeared that a
woman was charged with the offence of bigamy, and it
would appear that the mart with whom the second cere-
mony of marriage was performed was perfectly aware at
the time that the first husband was alive. It was right that
persons who so acted should know that the law would not
allow them to escape with impunity, and that they wereliab'e,
under the statute, to be charged ae principals in the second de-
gree as being present aiding and assisting in the commission of
a felony, and were liable to be transported for 14 years, or to
be imprisoned for a lengthened period, and, at the discretion
of the court, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately
whipped. It was a case of very common occurrence in that
court, that a party charged with the offence in question
made it a matter of extenuation with the court that as fraud
had been committed upon the person with whom the illegal
marriage was contracted, because he or she, as the case
might be, was perfectly aware of the former marriage at the
time the second ceremony was performed ; and it was there-
fore very necessery that all persons should be aware how the
law stood, and the liability they incurred by acting in such a
manner. _ .

CITY SLAIIGHTER•HOUSEIL-SCIVril carcase butchers and
their servants surrendered to answer indictments preferred by
the corporation of the City, for keeping slaughter-houses in
Warwick-lane and other places in the neighbourhood of
Newgate.market, and allowing the offal and filth to remain
in them, and thereby creating a public nuisance.—Mr. Ryland,
who, with Mr. Laurie, appeared for the City authorities to
conduct the prosecution, said lie believed the court would
not be troubled with any evidence in support of these indict-
ments, as, in some of the cases, the nuisance which it was
the object of the prosecution to suppress, had been
already abated, and in others the parties were in the course
of abating them, and an arrangement would probably be
effected without the intervention of the court.—Some of the
defendants then retracted their plea of " net guilty," and
pleaded " guilty " to the indictments against them, and
they were ordered to enter into a recognisance to appear
and receive the judgment of the court if they should be
called upon to do so.—Mr. Clarkson, for one of the defen-
dants, informed the court that steps had been taken to abate
the nuisance complained of, and Mr. Ryland was willing, on
the part of the prosecution, to let the trial stand over to tho
neat session, and in the meantime it was very probable that
the nuisance complained of would be entirely done away
with, and it would, therefore, not be necessary to go into
any evidence upon the indictment.—Mr. Ryland said the
object of the City authorities was to relieve the inhabitants
of the neighbourhood in question, and the public in general,
from a disgusting nuisance. The defendant in this case bad
taken steps to abate the nuisanc3 so far as he was concerned,
and had promised to do more between this and the next ses-
sion; and if he was timero the object of the proeiecetion
would be attained, and it would not be necessary to offer
any evidence in support of the indictment.—The Recorder
had no abjection to the indictment being postponed under
these circumstances, but said he should require the defen
dant to enter into his own recognisance in 40L to attend at
the next session and take his trial, if called upon.