The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

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eITII, Stns.-11MM ns 1.041, CHILE AMEN AND A SPACIAL kit.
M YoU ANO eioItEOUATI.,N 401. ROCREATEM r LEY..
This caw was ommtenced on Friday, and woo to-day
again adjounnd.
Mr. Crowd, r, Q.C. (who wa( specially retained), Scrjeant
Channel', Mr. Row, and Mr. Wilk-, were for the plaintiff.
Sir F. Tlwsiger (who also came down upon a special
retainer). Serjeant Slur, Mr. lkedeo, and Mr. 11orill were
Mr the defewlant.
Tbe parths upon this record have been in litigation for a
very ronshlerable period, And a variety of suits have been
tried between them. The matter inquired into, howeser,
is one utterly devoid of interest to the public in general,
the only question involved being the richt of the corporation
of the city of Rochester to levy a incruze toll of four-
's-Fur per rhahlron upon coals deliver.," to the defendant,
who is an estensive lime-burner in the neighbourhood of
that city. The general richt of the plaintiff was admitted,
but the grounds on which the defendant relied for an ex-
emption from this impost appeared to be, that the
Were not brought to him for wile, but for his own pri-
vate use, and id., that his premi- s were not within the
jurisdiction of the corporation. tpon the last trial, in
at these .issices, the plaintiffs had a verdict, and the
Present was a new trial granted on the ground of misdis
(xenon.
The ease for the def4,ndant was coneln46l this alter-
' noon, and Mr. Crowder replied upon the whole ques-
lion. The Lord Chief Justice will sum up on Monday
morning.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Sintr.wsnunr, MARCH 21.
The iunount of business at thew which ennt-
mewed ytltterday, is sery limited, the ealt-ndar exhibiting
the n ones of only 25 prisoners, whose olfeneta may b thus
apsault. 6 Itoo..ehreaking. 5 ; pgrault with
intent to do bodily injury, 3; highway rubbery, 3; conceal-
ing birth, I ; pouching, I; Weeny, 6.
Mr. Justice l'atteson presided in the Crown Court: none
the ra..4.4 tried there to-tlty presented any fe.tture of
public interest.

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M%,eol.tt-ourrn T110K%14174.
Authotty Aloft (out OR bail) was charged with the man-
slanghter of John Smith. at Thornton, near Skipton, on
the *-Ith of Ike euilisy lad. Mr. Clardy prosecutes! ; Mr.
tfterend defended the prisoner.
On the day :Ilene mentioned a large Christmas party was
held at a puldie.house at Thornton. The prisoner and the
deceased were there, and during the greater portion of the
evening they were upon the most friendly terms. Soon
after midnight the tarty brute up, and the prisoner and
the deceased went away in company togethe r.
In the course of a short time they commenced wrestling
with each other, and the prisoner '43. thrown down
with gent slob nee to the ground. On getting up the pri-
soner was out of temper, sonic angry word. ensued between
him and the deceased, and a tight was the result. The
deceased was knocked down by a blow from the prisoner,
who then took hold of his antagonist by the hair and dashed
his head upon the ground, which was stony at this parti-
cular spot. Some of the party who had been at the public-
house rarer up and separated the two tombatants. On lifting
Smith from the ground it was discovered that life was
extinct.
The def. nee Ira. that the peisuner did not use any vio-
lence to Smith whilst lw was on the .round.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. with a strong re-
commendation to mercy, believing that the prisoner had not
dashed the di excuse's head upon the stones.—To be impri-
soned, without bard labour, fur six months.
REGINA V. AGONY, SMITII, AND St AItEE.
The defendants, Malthtte 'Mono, Route, and
11-i/firtm Smith, were charged on indictment found at
the Hull Sessions, with stealing 148 sovereigns, and other
property. (rum the person of Wm. Ilaslewooel, and there
, were ...tend remarkable circumstances in the ease. The
prosecutor is a hawker, but he was Out present at the trial,
being now in the llouse of Correction. at Beverley, for non-
payment of a tine on a conviction for hawking without a
licence, and helng on ill as to be unable to leave Beverley.
On the Gth March. ISIO, the prosecutor was at a public-
house which the prisoner Smith then kept at Hull, and the
other prisoners were also there. The prosecutor made a
wager with Scarfs that he could prmluce a hundrel
' sovereigns in an hour. He went out, and returned iu about
forty minutes. with a purse containing lin sovereigns. The
money was produced in the presence of all the prisoners,
and the pnesecution alleged that the okl man was rendered
stupid with drugged spirits, and that when he left the
house he was attacked by Rooke and Searle, who effected
the robbery. To connect Smith with it also, the evidence
of a girl who lived in his house at that time was proposed
to be given, to prove that she saw Smith dealing with a
War quantity of gold the day after the robbery. AU the
prisoners were committed fur trial at the Hull sessions, but
the raise had been removed by writ of certiorari, and hence
' its appearance is the court of Nisi Prius.
! The girl referred to as having lived with Smith had got
away from Hull since the prisoners were committed, but
she could not now be found, and the prosecution alleged
that she was taken away by the procurement of the pri-
soner.. The depositions of the girl wore sought to be put
in, awl. after an able argument as to their admissibility,
3.lr..lustiee Cresswell admitted theme, subject to the opi-
aloe of thajadies hereafter, should that opinion be deemed
necessary.
After the learned counsel had addressed the jury fur the
prisoners, witnesses were called to give Smith a good cha-
racter.
The jary found Smith
.1104 Guilty, Rook, and Scarf.
The defendants will be brought up next term forjadgeisent.