The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-22 00:00:00

CEN--T---11AL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

ma October session of the Central Criminal Court was
atraiesth: toorning_before the Right Hon. the Recorder,
t Hon. the Lan Mayor (who took hiv seat for the
let as Chief Commissioner of the court in Ms
woe olpsaitT), Alderman Wilson, Alderman Allen,
an Dams Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow,
Sheaf! Lyeett, Mr. Under,Sheriff Creasy, Mr.
tllebraierif /De Jersey, ke. The fed edition of the
„miler contains the names a
The committals are 101
se prisoners, 91 males and
Diesseba follows r—Freen the
my of Landon, 44 ; from Middlesex 46 ; hem Rest, 7 ;
ask from the society of Surrey, 7. beveled pinnies are
at en bell. The offence are thus classified :—Aseaultang
wilb talent to rob, IS ; burglary, 17 , feloniously uttering
ougaisfsit coin, 10 ; embezzlement, 6 ; abstracting ;
2; tregery, 8 ; housebreaking sad larany, 1; larceny,
leresay in a dwelling home, 3 ; larceny from the pee-
ps, 3 ; Weeny by servants, 8 ; stealing and leseetiog •
re inter, 2; maaslaughter, 2; misdemeanor, 15; repay,
blanion• sosault upon a warder, 1 ; robbery, 4 ; MOUT-
iss deka goods, ; and wounding with intent to mnr-
se, 8.
The Reeorder, in Ids charge to the grand jury, said that
sae was only one charge of wilful murder, on which the
prism had been committed since the calendar was 'nada
*sad it appeared to have arisen throao a quarrel
be the prisoaer and the wife of the &oseasd, .and
the in the coarse of the disturbance that ensued the pri-
ses struck the deceased on the head with a
gamer, and canoed his death. This wee pima
bole a ease of murder, and if the feats should
s established as he had stated them, it would be
toeir clay to return a tree bill. The only other saes
waving the leas of human life was a charge against •
wan aimed Sarah Holmes of having amused the death
"I her child by neglect and starvation. The child
• eureka, is appeared, was born in the work-
bags, and there was no doubt that the prisoner
ee In a state of great destitution anclowirzot
mad the only question's for their o
yes wiasere the paeans was in a eonditioa
to provide neemery food and sustenance for it, and that
wallah was osessioned by her neglecting to do so. The
ody e her ores to which he considered it necessary to
aired were two charges of perjury of a very peculiar dia.
mien The first was against twes polisemen. and the
aquelien spinet them appeared robe that they had falsel
ganged two young men with being in the garden of a
bale at the north-west of the town with intent to commit
a I•l4lary. The parties accused were acquitted, and
wording to their evidenos there was not the slightest
fleastion for the charge made against them. This
esument was confirmed by the evidence of three
aoser persona, and it appeared to him that it ma • ease
is addi the grand jury ought to return a true
ta The ether charge of perjury was against two persons,
sbybew and another, and the offence alleged against them
en very peculiar. It appeared that one of the de-
foliants bad for a considerable time been in the habit
at roodeies • payment of • guinea a year from
peens who were liable to serve on special and
other juries, and it was alleged that the defen-
dilb In return for this payment undertook to get the
lades excused from serving on juries. The roods of
oration appeared
.to be that when one of the
room who was in the habit of making the pay.
seat referred to was summoned and fined for not
steed* the summons was sent to the defen-
dant, and'it appeared that he then made an affidavit that
et the time the summons was served the party referred to
it was out of town, and had not received the
seremeas, and upon this the fine was remitted. He
are at a loss to understand how persons of education
tad respectability could have lent themselves to such a
worm of proceeding to escape from the performance of
Mies for which they were responsible, and which ought
to bare been performed by them. These were, however,
tie facts, sad it appeared to him it would be the duty of
to mad jury to return a true bill.
Is the New Court, Mr. Commissioner Kerr took axe,
la to state that, as complaints had been made on a for-
me coercion of the inconvenience to which the juries
'steadies in that court had been subjected upon one occasion
swag to no judge being in attendance, it being his duty to
ins presided on the occasion, he thought it right to
Of that the mistake had occurred owing to the mew
sager of the court having wilfully neglected to deliver •
lialor to him informing him that hie attendance would be
mend. The mistake had arisen entirely through the
olligenee of the messenger, and he had since been dia-
domed. With regard to another complaint that had
he made to him that a jury had been compelled
n attend on a Saturday when the session was concluded
• Friday, all he could say was that the session had W-
arta sooner than was expected, and that the sheriffs
Li the entire management of the arrangement for sum.
rising *on, and they were the parties to complain to.
Hwy Newberry, M, described as a merchant, sorren-
End to take his trial upon a charge of stealing • large
'malty of boots, the property of William Austin. He
*ied guilty, but with the consent of the prosecution,
lie prisoner was admitted to bail, to come up for judgment
Am ailed upon to do so.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

SOUTHWARK.
DOBBIN/ A COUNTRY 01 RI. -CHAROZ OP HOCUMINC.

Catherine Weia4 and Jane Holly, notorious street thieves,
we brought before Mr. Beecham, oharged with robbing
Ji Pearett of her watch, under the following &Gum-
Inane :

The preeektrix, rather a good-looking country girl,
aid As had lately come from &Wolk to take service
is Leaden, and wm staying with her aunt in Bermonsey.
Oa Monday evening she had been on a visit to a
bind at Chelsea, and when she got into the Borough she
Mood leeway. She saw the prisoners near the bridge,
larked them to pat her right. They told her they
ma going In the direction she wanted to go and would
krar her. As they went along Toole7-dreet Welsh asked
fir lobed them ; and, at their solicitation, she entered a
silie-tionas and paid for a shilling's-worth of brandy and
ewer anti some ale. After she had drank a little she
hommpartially 11110011=i0U11, but she saw Welsh snatch
bewitch from her, breaking her hair guard, and they
the ran off. She followed them as well as she could, and
netling a constable, told him what had occurred, and
be Farmed them and took them into custody, when the
vitt% was seen to fall from Welsh.
Is oroacexamination witness said she was not drunk,
sad did not enter several public-houses with them ; neither
dilihe lend her watch to Welsh to raise money on to pay
Iwo sight's lodging.
heepli Berrel, 2:17
duty that on Monday night, the
lilt inst., be was on n Crucifix-lute, when he heard
ties of " police " under the railway arch. He proceeded
h that direction when he saw the prisoners running fol-
low's' by the proseoutrix, who was almost exhausted. She
*ever, pointed to the prisoners, saying that they had
* robbed her of her watch. He pursued them and
awed hold of Walsh, when she dropped' the
midi produced. With the assistance of another
Nicer the prisoners were secured and conveyed to the
aation•houss. In answer to his worship witness said that
the promentrix was much excited, hut she was perfectly
li)ber. He thought she bad been drugged.
The prisoners denied the accusation, and Welsh said the
rosecutrix handed her the watch to get money on to pay
KT lodging, and as she was taking it to a pawnbroker the
mutable stopped her.
Mr. Benham committed them for trial.

THAMES.
HITTING A MAN BY MISTAKE.
Alfred Price, a young man employed on board a river
dame r, wan brought before Mr. Paget charged with as,
malting Henry Moss, a oostermonger, of No. 2, Selfe's•
lame, Bromley.
The complainant, who had two black ere and a bruised
kne, mid he wu packing up his things in High-
, Poplar, on Saturday night, when prisoner came up
and claimed a long wooden board on which hie goods hail
been Placed and said " That is mire." lie replied, "No
meter, it has called me owner for a good many years and
I,n't part with it." The prisoner immediately struck
kip a violent blow on the nose and stunned him for a
suede or two. He bled very copiously indeed and found
se Sunday morning two black eyes.
The prisoner, whose left arm was in a sling, said he was
The
from the Hospital, where his had eu
tau splints and bandaged, when he met with the ben pt
corn-
gamut, and he mistook him for an old enemy of his and
struck him. He was very sorry, indeed, for what he had
dope; he drank a little too much on Saturday.
Hr. Paget said the prisoner had committed a very
noel assault upon an unofiending man, and without any
?mutation. tie could not admit the excuse made by the
Iner, and committed him to prison and to hard labour

A correspendent of the Manehester Examiner,
Ho lays that he makes his statement on good authority,
111 that the poor-law board is about to issue an order, the
tact of which will be!to increase the salaries of workhouse
d'APltina, and to give each of them a seat at the board of
illarMans with which he may be connected.
Prom the Ist of January to the 3d of October,
It, the number of immigrants that arrived at New
Tack
, from European ports was 186,642, as compared with
4,218 during the same period of 1865. The number that
',filed during September was 15,482.
Mr. Robert Halpin, chief officer of the Great
Irncol,,. has been entertained at a public dinner in Wick-
b7 his fellow-townsmen, in " recognition of his per-
nal worth, and become of the part he took in laying the
Atlantic cable." He was also presented with an address.
TRE IRISH SOLICITOR-GENERALSHIP.—Mr. Chat-
Q.C., haa been appointed to the office of Solicitor-
vernal for Ireland, in room of Mr. Morris, who has been
vliniated to the office of Attorney-General. vacant by the
Planation of Mr. John E. Walsh to be Master of the Ma.
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