The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-09 00:00:00

J v DOM EXT.

Thomas Bishtun, wits was eunvicted on Monday of a
common assault a io(n a young girl named Martha Bolton,
was brought up fur judgment.
The Recorder, addressing the defendant, said that a
very painful duty was east upon him, considering the
station that he (M.:Mutant) bad tilled at one period of hi.
life, and the estimation in which he appeared to be
held by his friends, to hove to pass sentence upon
him for the olleeice of which he had been found
guilty by the jury. The jury had acquitted him ot
the more heinous intention inyuted to him by the indict-
ment; but it was perfectly clear that he had acted with
great indecency towards the young girl, whom it was his
duty as a master to have protected; and that he was, at all
evems, most justly cone ieted of the crime of assault. Ile
regretted, for the rake of his friends, and the position he
had formerly occupied, that the present duty was coot upon
but the due administration ()fluidity let him no alter-
nat,e V, and he fe:t conipelled to order him to be imprisoned
in this House of Correction for three months.
Mary Anne Parhes and Jnne Lewis, who were convicted
of perjury at the Lod passion, and upon whom judgment
WAS respited, were then placed at the bar.
The Recorder, in passing stiltrileee said that the prisoners
had Itl(ell CO&Vrera Of every serious crime, that of ',aspir-
ing together falsely to charge a young man holding a high
podtion with being the father of the child of one of them,
Nlary Anne Parkes, when it :Apia and that she had con-
stantly cohabited with another man whom she hail admitted
was the actual parent of her child, and that there was no
real foundation fur the charge that was made. It ap-
peared, however, that she had become connected with a
discharged policeman, who sea- the person referred to, and
it aAe possible that they had both been made the tool
of that person, and the jury had recommended them
to mercy un that [recount. it should take that recommen-
dation into consideration, but it was 411110.414 e to pass over
such an offence without a sentence of some severity. He,
therefore, felt it his duty to order l'ark's, who had already
been in prison fur two months, to be further imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for nine months, and with regard to
the other prisoner, who probably had been led into the
commission of the offence by her companion and the man
to whom lie had alluded, the sentence would beets months'
imprisonment and hail labour.

THE POLICE COURTS.
BOW-STREET.

Thomas Trice, clerk, was chart:4l with breaking open a
desk, and stealing therefrom a 101. Bank of England note,
the property of William Bray.
Prosecutor stated that be lived at Bury-terrace, Clare-
mont-square, and is a clerk at Somerset-house. Prisoner,
prosecutor. and a Mr. Nlortin occupy a room on the second
Mu .r of Mike No. 0, Somerset-house. On Saturday last a
portion of prosecutor's salary became due, and the prisoner,
a- cashier, procured it ler hum, and, as witness was not in
the tithe, at the time, prisoner plat:edit in his desk. When
prosesmtor came in he found the money, consisting of a 101.
note, a hali-sovereign, route silt er, and I,,nee, For security
he placed the note in the lid of his desk, that being consi-
dered a secret place. Having put the coin in his pocket, he
locked the desk, and lett the notice at 4 o'clock. Ou Mon.
day morning he came to the office at 10 minim to 10, and
found the ensoner and Mr. Marlin there, both of whom I
directly said, "Here's a pretty to do; somebody has
broken open the desks." Prosecutor found that the
lid of his desk was down as usual, but the
luck was lying on it, and the 101. note missing.
Prosecutor asked who was there first, and prisoner, who
was sitting at his desk, replied that he was, and observed
that the deed must has e been committed by some one ac-
quainted with the place. He added that he had lost Ss.
from his desk, which had also been forced open. On pro-
secutor's were marks of lire-irons, which led him to sup-
pose that a poker had been used to push up the lid. }Ledo'
not recollect the number of the note, sad could not iden-

tify it.
Robert Smaller Morfin, a clerk in Somerset-house, said
he was enraged daily in the same room as prisoner and Mr.
Bray. 1k mein,' his money on Saturday, but took it
away with the exception of 31., which he left in his desk.
lie met defendant on Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, under
the archway leading to the office, who said to hun," Here's
agu ' all our drawers have been broken open." Witness
said he hoped Mr. Bray did not leave any money on Satur-
day, and prisoner said he hoped he had not ; he had loot