The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-17 00:00:00

NiIDLANI) CIRCUIT.-OAKRAN.WEDNESDAY.

Mr. Jiutice M.sule arrived rat Ctoldma on Tuesday after-
noon, and on Wednesday swig be opened this commis-
sifts. In his charge to the mad jury he congratulated
t►em on the fact of there being no prisoner. for trial.
There was only one ("WAYS tut /mat* at Nisi l'rius, Lowe
e. The London and North Western Railway Company. It
was tried at Leicester Sumiter_Lanaca, 18.i0, when the
plaintff WAS nun-suited. The action was to recover the

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emount of several years' occupation of a piece of land,
►ituate at Mutest, Rutland. The defence set up by the
company um., that they were never indebted, the land hav-
ing been let to Mr. Pickering, a contractor for the com-
pany's works. To-day Mr. Serjeaat Miller and Mr.
Hayes appeared for the plaintiff, but the managing clerk,
from the other of Mr. Carter, solicitor for Birmingham,
stated that the counsel retained for the company had not
arrived at Oakham, and begged that the came might be
again tried ►t the missing arises at Leicester. After a con-
sultation between the judge, plaintiffs counsel, and defen-
dant's attorney, it was arranged that the came should be
taken to Leicester, on the company's paying the costs of the
day.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Yottx, TCESDAY.
CWINII Oil 117.—811101 S MIL Jr-TICt WM/44mA
BURGLARY LAITY VIOLIINCR, NRAR RIPON.
Ephraim Milner, 19 ; and James Waterhouse, 26, were
charged with barglariously entering the dwelling-house of
Margaret Winterburn, on the 9th of March last, at Mark-
ington, and stealing therefrom a pair of boots and A teapot,
her property, and beating and striking the said Margaret
Winterburn.

Mr. lilanahard and Mr. Bower proscxuted ; the prisoners
were not defended.

On Saturday night, the Bth of March last, about 12
o'clock, the proeccuuni retired to rest, after having pro-
perly secured the doors and windows of her house. She
resides at the village of Markington, three miles from
Ripon, in the West }aiding of Yorkshire. At an early
hour an the following muraing she was awoke by a light
which was burning near to her bedroom window. The
prosecutrix got out of bed, and she saw Waterhouse and
another man upon the Moire. She was immediately after-
wards struck upon the head with greet violence, and was
so seriously beaten that she became meensiblt, and for •
fortnight alter she was very much indisposed in
consequence of the treatment she recessed. Oa
recovering a little, the prosecutris cried oat " Mur-
der," and her cries brought a neighbour named
Brown, who found her in a weak and excited state. The
burglars bad decamered. the cries of the prooecutriz having
alarmed them, mai the only thugs they had time to carry
et were the boots sad the tea-pot: b itsow that the gn-
eiss,* were the lathy party, it was proved that Martin
1...L.106rd a Birk amid Halltday to paws the beets is
•W'.m—Niatt ttC; isid ta*Pat. is two pines a few
res . .Both the pateenen wee 'ppm

G. Sims was indicted fur committing a robbery, accom-
panied with great violence, on the person of John Cox, at
West Ashton, on the lit of February last. The prosecutor
had been to Troubridge, about a mile distant, on the day in
question, and was returning at 11 o'clock at night ; on his
way home he had to pass down a lane called Pole Barn-
lane, where he saw the prisoner in company with three
other men; they accosted him, by telling him not to be in
such a hurry, but he passed on ; they followed him, and
Sims caught him round the neck, whilst another laid hold
of his legs, and he was thrown down. Sims then exclaimed,
with an oath, "We 'll have your life," and commenced
beating him violently on the head with a large stick. This
was continued for some time; when, the prosecutor lying
perfectly motionless, they desisted, and proceeded to pick
his pockets of all they contained, which, bewail., consisted
of only about 25., a knife, and a handkerchief. Three of
the men engaged in the robbery were tried at the last
assizes at Salisbury, and each sentenced to 20 years' trans-
portation. But Sims contrived to elude the police until
last week, when he was apprehended in Bristol. The jury
found the prisoner Guilty. and a former conviction having
hero proved against him, his lordship sentenced him to be
transported for 20 years.
This was the last case for trial, and the assizes concluded,
after occupying about a day end a half.

SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.-CARDIFF, JULY 13.

15,FUltg XII. h.Nrics 7m-rum's.

The court was occupied a great part of the day in trying
one Christopher Morgan, for two casts of rape upon chil-
dren, the particulars of which are unfit for publication.
The learned judge characterised them as the worst cases he
had ever tried. The prisoner was convicted in both
instances, and his lordship sentenced him to transportation
fur life.

Dennis Donoren and Danielliran, two Irishmen, de-
scribed u labourers, were indicted for having, on the 26th
of June last, in the parish of Lantrissant, in this county,
feloniously uttered a counterfeit half-crown.
The utterance having been proved, and the usual evidence
given for the Mint that the coin was counterfeit, his lordship
summed up; and the jury found both prisoners Guilty.
ticntence was deferred.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YEsTmay.
BLPOIS Mr 81[161E•lrf ADAMS.
THE CHINESE JUNE.
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Comtism Wasted, a woman of good address, and who
stated that she had been educated a lady, was indicted for
having stolen a pin, value 55., from the person of William
King, the master of the hand of the Chinese Junk.
The prosecutor stated that on the morning of Thursday
last he went into a public house fur the purpose of pro-
curing change to pay the musicians, who performed ander
hint on the Chinese Junk, when he met the prisoner, who
accosted him, and remarked what a beautiful pin lie had in
his scarf. Whilst pretending to look at it, she pulled it out
of the scarf and concealed it in her parasol, where it was
found by a police officer into whose custody she was given.
The prisoner, in her defence, add she went with two fe-
male friends to the public house where they were treated.
She certainly made a remark upon the pin the prosecutor
had in his scarf, and it must have fallen into the parasol.
She called two witnesses to character.
One of these stated that he kept a chandler's shop, at
which the prisoner dealt. She always paid for what she
had, and therefore he considered her to be of a very good
character. The other was the landlord of the house in
which she lived, and he considered her to be of good cha-
racter because she paid her rent.
The learned judge asked questions of these witnesses with
the view of Letertainiug whether the prisoner was not a
woman of the town. They denied that she was to their

knowledge.
The prisoner Paid she wu not a prostitute, but had been
unfortunate. She then mentioned the names of a co bnel
and a captain under whose protection she had lived, and
stated that she was well known to an eminent barrister,
whom she also named. She was once robbed of 9001.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The learned judge said the Chinese Junk was now a great
public nuisance, 44 they kept up music and dancing at all
hours of the night, and the managers had better benefit by
a warning, as they might be indicted.
The prisoner was sentenced to sia months' hard labour.