The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

SAW fittelligence.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-YESTEILDAY.
tissues Ma. Se..Jsafir Ants's, Asatsyver Jews.
Wm. Chambers, 22, was indicted for having stolen •
sovereign, the money of James Seeger.
Pamela Seeger, the wife of the prosecutor, who is the
landlord of the Ship Tavern,. Bach-road, St. George's-in-
the-East, stated that, on Out ntght of the 11th hest., the pri-
soner and another man cams into her house, and one of
them, not the prisoner, called for • pint of poster. They
then left the " public" department. and went to the private
bar, exactly opposite a shelf where silver coin was kept to
give change for gold ; at that time there happened to be •
sovereign lying on th shelf by the aide of the silver, and as
she was about to sit down in the bar parlour she observed
that the prisoner's companion was placing the end of a lung
stick he had with him on the shelf where the money was.
She immediately made a grasp at the stick, and a jerk oc-
casioned thereby caused the sovereign, which had been on
the shelf, to fall from it, the end of the stick being covered
with some adhesive substance. The prisoner, who was
standing close to the partition, then called upon his coin-
paniun to run, which he did without much hesitation and
got clear off. Witness gave an alarm, and the potman ran
round to the private bar door, and arrived there just as the
prisoner was about to make his exit after hie accomplice.
On being conducted back to the bar the prisoner disclaimed
any acquaintance with the other man and declared he had
not been drinking with him at all.
The prisoner, it appeared, tare a fake name and address
to a policeman who was ceilidhs to take him into custody.
The officer stated that the end of the stick was covered with
an adhesive composition like wax, so that being laid on
coin some would adhere to it.
In his defence the prisoner said he had nothing to do
with the two mea, and that Mrs. Seeger was mistaken in
saving that the man who had the stick was his accomplice.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Lockyer, the officer, proved former convictions against
the prisoner.
Mr. Sawyer, the beadle of the court, said the prisoner
first cams under hie notice some years ago, when he was
tried with a boy for a rohbery, in the commission of which
he had used the boy as his instrument. The prisoner was •
trainer of young thieves, and the result of inquiries made
by him (the beadle) at the time the prisoner was triad with
the boy were such that he should never forget them. The
prisoner was • twiner of thieves, and received the plunder
of his pupils.
The Assistant-ledge said he was happy when be bad an
opportunity of securing them trainers of young thieves, and
preventing them front practising their infamous avocations
for at least some time. He then sentenced the prisoner to
be transported for 10 years.
Janes Pinketi, 25, pleaded guilty to an indictment in
which he was charged with having committed an aggra-
vated assault on Joseph Brown, a child under four years of
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Mr. Ribton appeared for the prosecution, and said the
smith the defendant was charged with was of a very
brutal character—eo brutal, indeed, that, had the evidence
been gone into, the most severs punialuuent would have been
called for at the hands of the court.

The facts of the ease fully in the police re-
port, when the charge was made before the magistrate.
The defendant was a w , living at Bethnal-green, and
some months ago took the child he was charged with her
ing assaulted out of the workhouse, and kept it at his own
house. The child was en orphan, one of four children, to
whom he stood in the relation of uncle, and it appeared that
he was in the habit of togging it to en unmerciful degree.
On the 26th of February some lodgers in the house were
attracted by the child's screams, and they found that the
defendant had placed it on a table, with its face downward,
and bad most severely beaten it with a rod. The evidence
of a surgeon showed that the child's body was lacerated,
bruised, and discoloured, and that in some places the flesh
was completely cut out.
The Assistant-Judge asked the defendant what he had to
say to justify such conduct.
The defendant, a sulky, sullen-looking fellow, replied
that the child was idle and dirty. He did not flog it on
the table, as had been stated.
The Assistant-Judge said that was all nonsense—to flog a
child three years and a half old, for such reasons.
Mr. Ribton said that on one occasion when the child
complained of cold the defendant thrust its head into •
heap of mortar, which was lying in the yard.
The Assistant Judge mild not understand why the de-
fendant should have taken upon himself the responsibility
of the child's maintenance, and taken it out of the work-
house, and then have treated it in this way.
The defendant said every ens must know that children
required correction at times. He took the child out of
charity.
The Assistant Judge observed that that might be ad-
mitted, but it could not be admitted that children were to
be corrected in the way the defendant had acted towards
this child. He then sentenced the defendant to six months'
hard labour.

THE POLICE COURTS.
_ WORSHIP-STREET.

John Goodman, a tall well.:dreeZll;an, was charged with
having assaulted and grossly misconducted himself-towards
a young married woman named Elizabeth Miller.
The complainant stated that, while paring through
Commercial-street, Whitechapel, on the previous night,in the
company of her husband and sister-in-law, the former of whom
was walking a short distance behind them, the defendant,
who was accompanied by two other men, suddenly placed
himself immediately in front of her, and assailed her in the
most offensive and indelicate manner, at the same time ex-
claiming—. take that, my dear!" On hearing her cries
If*? assistance, her husband instantly hastened towards them,
and threatened her assailant that he would give him into
custody for his disgraceful conduct, but he had no sooner
uttered the observation, than the defendant struck him :a
violent blow in the face, and immediately afterwards re-
newed the attack with a stick which be borrowed from one
of his companions, but her sister having asolutely seized
I hold of the weapon, end prevented him from using it, the
defendant, after again addressing her with insulting fami-
liarity, rapidly made off with his friends, but wee pursued
by her husband, and given into custody.
The complainant's evidence was fully corroborated by
that of her sister-in-law, Esther Pheasant, a respectable-
looking widow, and her husband also stated that on remon-
strating with the prisoner upon the wanton insult he had
offered to his wife, he instantly struck him in the fine with
such force that he bled profusely from the nose, and the
inside of his lip was cut open, as itnow appeared.
Mr. D'Eynoourt said that he considered the charge had
been fully established, and ordered the defendant to pay •
penalty of 205., or be committed in default for 10 days to
the House of Correction.

The flee ;;Sit csite7PSid, sad the defeadsat left the court
with his friends.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Edward T4ror a well-dressed young man, wu charged
with saaliely ;tabbing Jane Hall with a caning-fork.
The prosecunix deposed that she was a widow, and lived
at No. 10, Groevesor-mews, and that she had een living
with the prisoner as his wife for five or six years, and had
had one child by him, now five years old. She left him
about three weeks ago. On Saturday night net, about 8
o'clock, she met the defendant at the Post-office, and es she
was putting a letter in the box, he mantled it from her,
and told her the child was ill, and she went to his 10.!!13
to see it, and after some conversation with him, she
to pay Ss. a week towards *maintaining it, and to pay T.-71;
advance. On Monday night she took the money to his
lodgings,and before she gave it to him she told him she would
have her watch that he had got. He said he would not give
it up, and they qunelled. He then, taking up a carving-
fork, said he would finish her, and that one plunge would
be enough, driving the two prongs into her shoulder. She
seised hts arms, and told him she would be a long time
dying with a fork, and he bad better take a knife. He
then took up a knife, and her bands got triflingly cut.
Being strainer than prisoner, she held him, and be threw
down the knife and fork. She then got a policeman, and
gave him into custody.
Mr. Hardwick committed the defendant for trial.

MILITARY.
(FROM LAST NIOSIT'S ousrm.)
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Hanoi 28.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Captain Leopold
Orimaton Paget to be adjutant, rice Radcliffe, who re-
signs the adjutancy only ; Second Captain Richard
Phelips to be adjutant, vice Mountain, who resigns the
adjutancy only ; Second Captain Richard King Freeth
to be adjutant, vice Campbell, promoted.

THE MILITIA.
The following commissions have been signed
John Samuel, gent., to be second lieutanant in the Royal
Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia.
Fitzroy Campbell, Esq., late lieutenant-colonel Fusilier
Guards, to be lieutenant-colonel in the Ist Regiment of
Royal Surrey Militia.
Robert Grange, Esq., captain half-pay, H.E.1.C.5., to be
captain, in ditto.
Charles Craven, Esq , late captain Scots Greys, to be
captain, in ditto.
Morgan lieatman, Esq., to be oaptain, in ditto.
Charles Stephen Barron, EN., to be captain, in ditto.
Augustus Goldsmid, Esq., promoted, to be lieutenant in
ditto.

William Prescott Hinds, Esq., to be lieutenant, in ditto.
Thomas Bandon Kirkpatrick, Esq., to be lieutenant, in
ditto.

Oswald Lee Nash, Esq., to be lieutenant, in ditto.
Joseph Optima's, jun., Esq.„ to be lieutenant in the 2nd
Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia.
Captain Anthony Morris Storer, to be major, Tice Whit-
more-Jones, deceased, in the Oxfordshire Regiment of
Militia.

Edward Hobbouse, Esq. (lately lieutenant and captain
Coldstream Guard►), to be captain, vice Storer, promoted,
in ditto.
__

Thomas Newton Harrison, gent., to be lieutenant, vice
Watson, retired, iivilitto.

Anna aalvator Birds, gent., to be ensign, vice Hewlett,
retired, in ditto.

luau loan MiLtri I.—Her Majesty has been pleiti.ed
to direct that the North York Regiment of Militia shall be
formed into a Rifle Corps, and called henceforth the
" North York Rifle Regiment of Militia."

NEW DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS.
WILTS.
William Chafya Grove, Eq.; Alfred 2dorrison, Esq.
. DV RILAIL
Hwy lum Sauth, Esq.