The Express.
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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1817.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME ClRCUlT.—CitzLissroan, Jour 13.
Before Mr. Baron Parke.
Folsom's° nr • WlFl.—Errata Elizabeth Hasse, 24,
was indicted for attempting to administer to Thomas Bums,
he, Inisband, a quantity of a certain deadly
.poison,
called sugar of lealarge d, with intent to kill and murder him. No
comma was engaged either to prosecute or defend the pri-
mmer, and Mr. Eaanquet was requested by the court to
so mist the witnesses from the depositions. It appeared
from the seldom. ef_the prisoner's husband, who was con-
sionslity ehir dim beeeelf, that he was a widower at the
time he mental the prisoner, and had some grown-up
thilhea. For ems time prior to the month of April he had
bona 'offering Mom a liver complaint, sad a man named
Ideneleat,whelhed la the mune village, sad who, it appeared,
had the ugeldien el beep able to sore the disorder in
qualm, bed hem preseibleg for him, and had made him
same pills. On the 7th of April the primer was observed
by bee stepEieghtse to be mixing op soma flour and
water to a thick paste, and eke then saimelded it to the form
of two large pills, which she plead inn' the oven to dry,
and when they were dried she put Urea into a box w
contained use d the pills that bad hem ant by Merchant.
At this th ebarbeahmlwmledAddekead it appeared that
she tried to plank him to take same of the pills she had
rude. Farm einnueleneee that had previously occurred,
he had seas stupid= ef her latentioss, sad idler observing
that the Oh weft tee large and leo etreep he him, he re-
fried to lake them. The_priessu
_puma him to do
so and coed him that Tom W• 11111. bail amid that *ay were
jest the hip far his lumpish' s bee he pushes& In his re-
float The seat day she spate paves& him to take the large
pub, bate ledesed, and it appeared that after this they
were hair weer to the police. The presseater else seeded
that a sheet thee bin this happened, the primer had
brought hit moo hied potatoes, sad be hand they had
seek a sureeastale that he we obliged*, spit out whet he
had Yam: and *pen another oecsaionshelneoght him KEW
vbfik sense taste, sidle eakeed to drink it
Seed"' nuked Hume, the prime's
idaughter,
proud Ad die saw her mix up the lupe and place
hen, with *smell ones, in the box, and . afterward.
saw bee elle he same pills to her father, and press him to
tabs Mum wen two eseadons. She also stated upon the
oeseasm nabs bee wierhieu leads the mutton broth, she first
pat emu whit. purist its a basin, and mixed it up, and
then poured the Week into it. When her father refused to
drink it, the prisoner told her to throw it away, and, at
the wise time, directed her to wash the basin
and saucepan quite clean. The prisoner said it
was not true that she asked her to wash the
saucepan ; she
i did it herself. —Fox, the onetahle who
er took the prisonato custody, said that upon hie show-
ing her the large pills she at first denied all knowledge of
them, but she afterwards admitted that she had attempted to
administer them to her husband, bat she said she did not in-
tend to poison him.—lt was then given in evidence that the
two large pills referred to, upon their being analysed were
found to contain 261 grains of sugar of lead, and that, in the
state of health of the prosecutor, that quantity would on-
tainly have mused his death. The prisoner, in her
defeat* merely denied the charge. Mr. Bum
Parke, haying summed up, the jury, after deli-
berating for a few minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty.—
The learned judge, after addressing the prisoner, said
he felt it to be his duty to pan upon her the meet severe
sentence fixed by the law for this offence ; and he, at the
same time, observed that he knew of no other crime so
dreadful that was not visited with the punishment of death.
He then ordered the prisoner to be transported for the teem
of her natural life.—The prisoner heard the address of the
learned judge with apparent indifference and the mo-
ment the sentence was pronounced she sprang to
the side of the dock where her husband was
standing, evidently with the intention of indicting any in-
jury that might be in her power upon him. She was imme-
diately seised by we or three turnkeys, with whom she
struggled with the most desperate determination. Finding
herself overpowered, she turned towards her husband as far
as she could and grinned at him, and with a most savage
espressien of countenance muttered imprecations upon him,
the poor old man trembling in every limb, and apparently

almost dead from fright. The prisoner was at length
carried out of court by the husker.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—OXVORD, JOLT 13.
Before Mr. Justice Colerldas.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY TNI SECRETARY OF A FRINNDLY
Socirry.—Richard Waite, a member of a friendly society
called the Universalises' Club," held at Hampton in this
county, was charged with embezzling a sum of 3i, received
by him as the servant or clerk of the society. From the
statement of Mr. Pigott for the prosecution, it appeared that
the club met at pw.kdical intervals for the despatch of busi-
ness ; all monies were received in the first instance by a col-
lector, afterwards they were handed to the prisoner as secre-
tary, for the purpose of being paid by him to the bankers of
the society, Messrs. Chuck. Lpon a particular occasion the
prisoner suggested that the interest allowed by these
gentlemen was small, and that he could obtain a
higher rate from • firm in London, who, he said,
carried on business in Seymonr-streetBonters-town. Finally,
with the approbation end consent of the club, he drew out
the whole of the deposits front the Witney bank, for the pur-
pose of making the investment. From time to time he read
from a book a stab merit of the financial affairs of the oom-
pany, which seemed highly satisfactory. At length one of
the members, being anxious to see the account in -black and
white, looked over his shoulder as he was reading out of the
book, and observed the contents thereof were in the hand-
writing of the prisoner : this excited suspicion : an inquiry
was instituted. A letter was written to the firm in
London, which in due course of pest was returned
through the dead-letter office, and in the end it turned,
out that the prisoner had appropriated the funds of the
society to his own use.—Mr. Justice Coleridge remarked
there wu a difficulty at once apparent. This was a species
of larceny, and it was quite clear that, under ordinary cir-
cumstances' a man could not be guilty of riesling his own
property. Here the prisoner was a treats:odor the whole
club ; he received the money in question with the consent of
the society, for the purpose of investing it ; he was himself
interested in it. It never could be said that, under this state
of things, he was their clerk or servant. There was a
marked distinction between this case and that of "Rex v.
Hall" (Crown Cases, 474).—The prisoner was discharged.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Year, MONDAY.
Mr. Justice Wightman, in his address to the grand jury,
said, the calendar was unusually heavy, bath in the number
of prisenen to be tried, end in the nature of the cases.
There was the very great number of 96 persons for trial, be-
sides 7 who were out on bail, composing a catalogue of crime
almost unprecedented for the Summer Arises : 6 persons
were charged with murder, 3 with manslaughter, 8 with
stabbing, 16 highway robbery with burglary, 11 forgery,
9 horse-stealing, and 30 with various other offences. The
depositions showed that public-houses and beer-shops were
the places where most of the crimes originated, and the pre-
sent calendar was a terrible instance of the effects of intem-
perance.

SOUTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Csuntrr, MONDAY.
In the Criminal Court the most important cases were those
, in which a set of desperadoes were arraigned for, and con-
victed of, highway robbery. These delinquents had long
barn the terror of an infamous district in Merthyr Tydvil,
known as " China," sad which was the resort of thieves,
burglars, and women of the worst clam. They seem to have
established a sort of society among themselves, ever which
two of their number presided, with the titles of " Emperor"
and " Empress." These imperial personages, with others of
equal notoriety, have, by Mr. Justice Creswell, been sen-
tenced to transportation. This is a matter of no small im-
portance to Merthyr Tydvil ; as, in consequence of these
fellows and their associates, that town had acquired • very
unenviable degree of notoriety," China " and the " Chinese"
being names known to all the country round.

POLICE.—YEernaDAy.

MANSION-HOUSE.—OVIRCIAWDIXO OF TUN STEAK-
Vueste ox Tsa Teams.—The Lord Mayor said he
had received several communicatioas on the subject
of the unparalleled overloading of the steam-vowels
plying on the Thames; a subject which was daily
becoming more serious, In consequence of the vast in-
crease of what might be termed the river population. In
one of the letters which had been addressed to him, it was
stated that, on Sunday lest, one of the Gravesend boats bad
on board upwards of 1,400 people ; and the writer, after ani-
madverting upon the fact with very proper severity, said, he
held the Lord Mayor responsible for any accident which
might one day arise from the extraordinary inattention
thus paid to the regulations passed by the Court of
Aldermen, and confirmed by the judges. It was the
practice of the chief magistrate at this time of the year
to caution thou who superintended steam-vessels against the
violation of that particular by-law which was meant to
secure the public from the danger and inconvenience likely
to arise from allowing too many persons to crowd into the
boats, and whenever any case was proved conviction was sure
to follow. Beyond the exercise of that power the authority
of the Lord Mayor did not extend, and it was ridiculous to
attribute to him the passible consequences of the cupidity of
the steam-boat proprietors--Inspector Todhunter, by whom
the Lord Mayor requested some communication should be
made to the commissioner of the police, relative to the
bathe!' in the Thames, informed his lordship that the Gem,
Gravesend boat, had on board, en Sunday, upwards of
fourteen hundred people, who were all closely packed.
Even the paddle-boxes, contrary to all former ex-
perience, were crowded with passengers.—The Lord
Mayor said, one of his correspondents suggeeted the
use of a float-light, as a means of testing the numbers
carried by the steom-vessels, disclosing an index bylwhich
the mot number In each ship was ascertainable; and repre-
sented, that to reckon the passenger as they crowded into a
steamer in fine weather was an utter impossibility.—Mr.
Goodman (the chief clerk) said it was evident that, without
the interference of the police, the proprietors would gladly
continue to receive the superabundance. The penalty for
the infringement of the by-law to prevent the over-
crowding was, strange to my, limited to forty shillings,
although that by-law was intended to protect the
passengers from the most serious of all dangers, so that
the proprietors, whenever they incurred a penalty, were
sure to pocket a profit, which diminished the fine to a matter
of no consideration.—The Lord Mayor hoped for the co-
operation of the City police so far as the interference of that
body was justified. His lordship said he bad reason to sup-
pose, what his predenasors had apprehended, the occurrence
of some awful accident, which would, perhaps, be the only
remedy for the evil. All he could say as that there existed
a number of regulations intended, and he thoughtcalculated,
if tarried into effect, to accomplish all that was necessary,
and that he was ready, if called upon, to act upon every
occasion of infringement.
WORSHIP.STREET.—r•rat Anal:min.—J. Double
and J. Pritchard were charged with causing the death of B.
Novell, four yearsof age.—The defendants were engaged in
lowering butts of porter from a dray, in the Kingaland-road,
when the deceased, who was standing by, was suddenly
struck by one of the casks, as it was descending the slide, and
jammed with such violence against the adjoining hone-
trough, that he was killed on the spot. All the witnesses
concurred in describing the event as purely accidental, and
were of opinion that not the slightest blame attached to
either of the prisoner, who appeared greatly concerned at
the unfortuaate occurrence. They wen ordered to find bat,
to await the result of the inquest.