The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-02 00:00:00

ASSIZE INIELLIGENCE

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—NoRvrics, APIUL I.
Bsth courts npsissd gtsterday for WI despatch of bulgier.
Mr. Juoice Wightsten presiding t• the 'Anise coast, sad
Mart' Janie' Jervis sitting et nisi prigs.
This slugs list sustains three oaten for F: cis' jgries sad
twelve ordinary omos, sight of which hive bus disposed of.

ISFOLI emu mynas MITI&
PITT IP. WATTS.

This was s adios for a breech of promise Of merrier.
The damages were 1 dd at 1001.
Mr. SITJOISt W,IIs sad Mr. KUM appeared for the
Saietiffr sad Mr. Q.C., sad Mr. Naylor for the
dufradost.
Th 9 plaintiff is the &eights? of a sosi-porter at King's
Lynn, sod the defendant is a earposter sad builder in that
taws. Is Demob. r 1863, the plaistif became hoses-
keoptr to the defendant, a enrespondeme peofusely so-
kneed with doppr.l poetry and religious saunas Meng
previously fused betwaa them.

."to set a losses pet,•
wrote the &Mutant. ie one of his When,

tt None bean a warmer, names tow beert;"
and the plitintiff 's batten, althorqh she was gnarly Mama
by her trientla for psraitting the defendant (a monied
man) to ply attention to her, declared that nothing say Imo
mild ray should keep her from the object of her &Mistime.
Thom letters mete written in the Within of the first Mn.
Wattr, who tad been in a lunatic asylum, and who died
shortly after the plaintiff became housekeerr to the delis-
Cwt. In July, 1855, the plaintiff left the defendant's honer,
and shortly afterwards he married as bin woad wit. a Mita
Mead. Mr. Wilkie, the plaintiff's attorney, met the de-
fendant in the street after his marriage, and be then stated
that he would have 'serried the plaintiff if the hal not
taken an anti-macessar from his house.
Tee defence off, ni by Mr. O'Malley was, that the plain-
tiff went to live with the defendant at 81. a year and at
allowance far boots and shoes, and that the action for breech
of promise criginated with Mr. Within' the attorney.
Without justifying the lettrrs written by the defendant, the
learned tionosel submitted that they could not be said to
protein, marriage, aa this first Mrs. Watts was elite at the
time they wire penatid.
The Chief Jostles batting suised up,
The jury kited a verdki fix the Velatiff—Dalessee, 60i
now, COCe7.-111701/1 R !marten inerniaw.
CUALOII OT altrae MST TO • GAOL.

Sandi Baanible, a surriad woman, wee elarged with
wilfully owl. g Ira to the Great Yaratnt► borough poi
en the 19th lir.
The este was rather an eztretirdimuy essia The prisoner
was toothed I. the gaol for eons ofseme, and oa the
*Teeing of the 19th alt. the gs truer of tie prima, Joseph
Giles, was awoke by the riogiag of a bell It.. the plane
when she slept. On going to the teem he feud that a
are had broken oat la It. The smoke wee so deans that to
had to retreat immediately from the door of the room, and
prison.r's bedstead sad the au were burnt before the an
wee extieitaleted The prisoner's gown was also bent to
tinder. It was proved that on the Friday bcone the are
otearred the priestlier Wok two Mean natant, front a shelf
in the day-room, *eying she did net like to be left alone M
the dirk ; sad she mans some statement to the gaoler to
the effect that she set errs to her bed with the vim of de-
stroyioa herself, bat on feeling the are at her foot she
"repeated of the enl," sad rug the boll for the purpose
of alarming the establishment.
She was limed Guilty, sad judgment of death wen ordered
to be recorded against her.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—TAunTox, Mu= 31.

CII•103 OF 1111:11011.

Jsmet Howell, 30, was indicted for the wilts' warder of
his wits, Eliza Howell, at Bath, on the 20th of January; and
Ce wigs also await aid on the ordowsz's iaquisition fox mane
tisughtsr.
Mr. Lemprie►e prooseutod. The prisoner was node-
fended, but, at the, request of his lordship, Mr. Palladia
watched theca,* oa benslf of tte amused.

The prleoeer, who woe a fla hawker by trade, mudded
with hie wile is an attic at 14, Avotostreet, Bath. On the
evenlog of flo•orday, the 19th of Jasuary, they were &fak-
irs., tra(ther at the Seven Dials public-hoses, and is the
thane of the evening some words passed between them, the
wife cattier her husband by an opprobriou epithet. On
repeating the words, he struck his wife as the mouth so es
to make it bleed. The woman lathed bee head sport her
band, and remained crying for come time. After a
short tine the husband asked his wife to drink.
At first she refused, but a reconciliation was coos
elLeted, and they remained together till the time
for charism the public-house, apparently on terms
of p rlict amity. The next that was heard of the
inmate was, that she was teen at the shop of a (wishbone,
is Avon.street, with another woman, where she purchased
mann (stables, and simmered to be petfeetly sober. In
the meantime tie husband had arrived at home. la the
attic wham he lived there was a woodea python, so this
that everything passing meld be distinctly heard in the
weer room. A man named Brawn, and his wife, lived on
the other side, and oa the night is question they beard the
primmer arrive at home' and make use of threatening ex-
avail me ramming hie wife. The woman arrived in two
or three minutes afterwards, and used for admission. The
husband came oat on the laadiwr, a mein ensued, oertsia
blow. Nand. followed by a heavy fall and grime. The
husband immediately disappeared. On Brows and hie
wile going into IloweVe room the women was Lined
on tie floor, her clothes saturated blood, and
bo. d all over the fl nor. The woman was lifted
on to the bed, the neighbours were called in, and a
policeman wee sent 'or. The husband had in the mean-
time gone for a midw.f., his wife beats at the time fir ad-
vanced in pregasney. On the arrival of the midwife she
saw that she could do nothing, sad sent for some settled
men, who aeon arrived, but the woman died almost imme-
diately afterwards from excessive haemorrhage prom/tidies
from two lacerated wounds oa the external organ. of gene-
ration, epos:artily armload by some blunt instrument. An
st•rmapt was made t s says the life of the child by mean. of
the Crisreen operstioo, but the child was also dead. The
husband on his return with the midwife was tikes into
etptody ; mad on learning that his wile was d' ad, he ap-
peered greatly distreesed, and said that he had sot Wended
to kill ter.

Tee wttneases who were called to prove the shove fasts
w. re cram-examined to show that the oendsort a the pri-
soner was the Iseult of drii.k, end that the injuries upon
his wife were unintentionelly inflicted.
At the close of the cue for the presentioe,
Dlr. Pooldea intimated that he could not read a mug
of manslaughter.
The learned Judge britfly summed up, sad the jury head
the prisoner guilty of suutilaeghter.
&tattoos deferred.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivaapooL, MASCII 31,

It ihert Byre sad Huey Byre were pat to the her. and
called nun by Mr. fihuttleworth, Clerk of the Crown.
Neither pritoser efil red any oburvatioo. The elder rt.
st:ner is • fine, welling& healthy. looking youog tats—the
your ger was Pale, sad his Astra by so moms propor-
tion, d to his relative.
His lordship (addreising the prisoner.) acid—Hobert
and Henry Ilere, you hive both pleaded guilty to as
outrage which, in the curse of nay experience, is per.
Getty ueparalleled. On the 23rd of :enure last beta ell
you proeseded to the house of Mr. Miranda, ia Gm&
Castle-atrest. • bull!on haiku and matey-dealer; and
that he must be in an extuteive way of Masses is primal
by the fact that the box which was tarried by the du% I
and which. without doubt, it was your latent to rse,, era-'
mined 1,6001. lien the lousier of you kamimed dome
with a lift-preeerver a young lad who was bade the
outer • and whom be was muerte' hose es blew yes
beat him with a poker, and contused M tit in %GUI it
broke. The other attack Hasher with a
and, having knocked his dews, jumped:ill=
beat him so that It was Oxt's enemy *sly
his being killed—that you had cot killed belt ; AeVies
the neighbours rushed ia to their reeeseArig ilmed MtM
weeder and covered with blood. AM idtb tun dimes
;mimosa who :sever did you as injury, epilog elm yere
mould have no 'amity, end who wan pailmt sleasgses
to you. This aserming a statement was Mil Oat year
family mad 7011/101•11111 were at the time is a auto of
very great poverty, and that, so far in they *biassed,
you Wife quiet, pssosati.e, sad well sesdarted, even
while suffering to that degree. Now, I deal sit leses
indulge my own holier, or ally feelings, but to whist
u well se I ma, and the law will permit, the people of
this commmity from outrages such as this; sad it weld
be perfectly Idle to Utak the law gave them preludes if
such an act as this received say but the severest pasha'.
mint—an act which appears the estioa of severs mere them
aerkidji dine. These Otago may be upped shewheite; be 4
rimiest to.. le guy* the tracer i.e... dot could be &m-
-islaid deed d murder—if imleml, it is short of it—mad
tlia. maalimilmg the whole drearaetsaese the crime of
niaAer met Wing eamialttel was sat as assitient, and that
one is net ea Wee the otter. pis my duty to pies nvh a
steams si wS pairmat ethos, hem eepeulog such an out-
rage as this. Tos are respectable Melds& sod it has been
stated that passety her urged yea ; bat the ease may be said
of every sea who appears sl the bar of this mum, sad it
would be mess to treat this lositmes but se all Ohms am
treated. The sentence is thattr be transpeellad he the
period of year natural lives. prisemer seemed
terribly aniseed, and cried with =rood Maw liee
elder appeared somewhat stained, bat ;we me interned
indicatlos of his holier.
Hobert Wilson was put to the bar this marmalagr is the
Crown Coat. mad having withdrawn his pies of met
previcualy memeled. pisseleil guilty.
His Leehitle seliFlkbert Wilma, yea bare
teethe alma eliempal agehmst yea( that sr leas:
houlameald larzbassr eir Weary Inn WO/ MOM
Your care is sults has the emilmey die ef mem.
Yours lea subleary—a pare robbery, edam sees we be.,
mad cads the most attemiess eiresematesees, 4,0141, "pa
.

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tisend 'Ott rude away withit. Ana
sell witannik It the that the character et that amm Is
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mid be eland sr al tad Is the "Wildest degree wosli
be utterly idle sad trtter'y t rattler. Tots law. In Ws Nee,
provide* ter the diff.rsot deems of seas different degrees
of pasishonese, end I ssentt massive bow there can be a
worse awe dee yours, taking a au= of 4,0001- and newel*
seder suet desentoseess. The soutanes of the alas is AM
pose be transported for fourteen years.