The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-07 00:00:00

head from the !prisoner. She seized him, and a 'Woggle
took place between them, during which she received other
injunes ; but at length her cries brought assistance, and the
prisoner made his escape. The prosecutriz was found in •
fainting state and almost covered with blood; and it appeared
from the testimony of the surgeon, that the injuries she received
were of a very serious character, and at one tints he appre-
hended afatal result. When the prisoner WU apprehended he
admitted he had assaulted the prosecutrix, and said he bad done
it for satisfaction and revenge. The prisoner, in his defence,
denied that he had ever said anything about satisfaction or
revenge, but said that on the night in question he went to
the prosecutriz's cottage, and they had a little dispute, and
; she seized him by the throat, and threatened to give him in
charge for beating his wife. This irritated him, and he
' took up the candlestick, and struck her in the head, in
order to make her loose her hold; but she kept pushing him
along, and when she got him outside she left hold of him,
and he walked away ; and this, he said, was " the long and
short of it.".—The jury found the prisoner guilty upon that
count in the indictment charging his intent to be to do
grievous bodily harm ; and Mr. Justice Erle sentenced him
to be transported for life.

NEW COURT. Before the Cl GIMOTI Serjrant.
IN THE RATTER OP FRANCIS OLIFIERES.—Mr. Clark-
son applied to the court to restrain the witnesses from going
before the grand jury, as the principal one was unavoidably
absent. This it was said would postpone the trial until the
next session. The prisoner was charged with stealing or
feloniously receiving 4001. worth of jewellery. The court
having granted the application Mr. Ballantine applied for
the prisoner to be liberated on bail. The Common Serjeant
said that was a very different matter, and he thought justice
would be best applied if the prisoner wee kept in custody.
BUROLARY.—EIisha !,ode, a young man, 23 years of age,
was indicted for stealing 60 sovereigns, 60 half-sovereigns,
and other monies in silver, the property of his employers,
Messrs. Martin and Co., dressers, in Whiteehapel. Mr. &Den-
tine prosecuted, and Mr. Doane defended the prisoner. The
prisoner bad lately been discharged from his situation as shop-
man. The robbery, from certain coincident facts, had been per-
petrated by some one possessing acomplete knowledge of the
whole premises. A screw-driver, which had been mimed
from the premises alter the prisoner's discharge, was, with a
dark lanthore, and a quantity of housebreaking implements,
found upon the premises, from which it was presumed that
the prisoner was a party to the crime, and consequently he
w.as.‘23prshended.—Mr. Ludlow, with whom the prisoner
b , said the prisoner was not at tome at all on the night
.01L727th November.—Thomas Peters said he was sure the
prisoner was not at home on the night of the 27th of Novem-
ber. Witness met him next day, and he said to hint, "If
you will but say I was at home laefore eleven last night you
will save me, and I will make it all right with you."—An
alibi was set up, but it was not substantiated, and the jury
finding the prisoner Guilty, he was sentenced to ten years'
transportation to a penal settlement.