The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-05 00:00:00

11l SENTENCE UPON DR. 3MSTRUBST.

The public is probably not aware that the mark-
tlan and sentence of this prisoner will entail many larisiteree
and disabilities upon him' in addition to the actual punish-
ment that be will have to undergo. The arm of Money,
as the law at peasant steads, amount.; to Iskey, end say per.
son convicted of it immediately loess all clam to say pro-
perty, whether goods, chattels, or lead, of which he may be
possessed, or be entitled to in reversion, at the time at hie
conviction. It will be recollected that the unfortunate
deceased lady, Miss Banks*, only two days before her death,
made a will at the request of the primmer, under shish Dr.
Bmethuret was muds sole executor, and would have become
possessed of the whole of her property. It, therefore, the
had closed the promoting; sad no further steps had
pardon
taken in referceim to the &ergs of bigamy, be would In
all probability leave put the will in force, and as it is
doubtful whether the relations of the deoymd mold,
under the oirmunatanom mulct which the will wee

executed, apparently with the full knowledge and consent
of the deceased lady, have raided It, Dr. licestkord
would have come Into ported= of the whole of the
of Mn. Beare, whir is said to amount to several t=
pounds. The effect of hie conviction however, pre-
cludes him from obtaining anything wider the will, sad
al three upon whom the right devolvea to take possession
of Ids proper are not likely to interfere, Miss Henkel will
peebabl} be 000ddered r dying Intestate, and the property
will revert to her frill y 7. It hes generally been the practice
where parties posresaed of property have been charged with
felony, in order to obviate the risk of it going to the crown,
for the prisoner to execute en reigeozent of all by estate to
some relative before trial, so that in the event of a conviction
no seizure might be made. The law with regard to this
matter is eery peculiar. In ordinary came the property of a
felon Teets in the crown, bet in snow disorient the lord of the
twiner claims the right, and there are instenoes on
record where an ester:rive landed estate belonging to a person
convicted of felony has been claimed and eels= by the lord
of the manor. In the dty of Lenten, the =•=ration, by
virtue of ander charter, ale= the right to the property
of all felons cosvected within their juriediction, and the
sheriff' take pcseerion of all property found upon the pri-
sitters who are convicted at the Ceara Criminal Court; end
elthough ankles of a trifling rare= are usually gismo=
still the right is invariably obeerved. It may be
that in the awe of the aatessive gold dust robbery alma the
South likens Railway, a few years ago, when it appear d
that Tarkiste Banda to a consider able amount bad been per
chased with the proceeds of the robbery, the sheriffs
soccesefally sneerer their right to the peered= of the pro-
perty on behalf of the corporation. All the Interest in say
property that was poseessel by the prisoner prior to
tas coavittioa I. now, therefore, vested in the corpora
time of the city of Loudon, and they would be
the parties, If any, to derive gay Wart he might have under
the will of the deceased lady. It is very probable that It was
la ceder to prevent this melt that the endeavour wad made
at the trisl to procure ea acquittal by showing that the first
marriage was not a valid sew sad this view is ooaarmed by
the fact that It wee only a very short time before the canvas
to come on that the fame relating to the supposed merrier of
Ills. Johnson (or Mary Darrel) were laid before ociansel.
The counsel for the crown were of course well aware et
the drantatenors ormarted with the ruppord marriage, bet
it would not have been aseereary at all ore their part to have
made any allusios to them If they had not beta mods the
ground of defence far the prisoner.

M. LAIRATINIeS DEJITS.--The Journal de Saone-
4-14ire of Macon, of the 30th, says:—" M. de Lama:tine
left yesterday for Peels. No purchaser having come forward
for Me estates, sod the national subecriptkn having only pro-
dosed *Mat 100,000 tr., to pay own than 2,300,0001 r. of
debts, dl4, de Laroartim was obliged to aak for time. He
coiled all his meditate (more than 400) together at the
Chateau of Ilistcesa, sad proposed to per. up to them his
estates, the value of which exceeded hie liabilities. He elm
stated, that notwithatanduig the insufficiency of the national
subscription, be bed paid to hie creditors, in eighteen month%
out of the produce of Ids literary labour,, a sum ci
1,200,0001 r., and engaged to pay, in January and Febroaq
sext,a further sum of 300,000 fr.; so that hie debts would
be reduced to 1,000,0001 r. He therefore solicited the indent
gems of dividing him payment& Into three or four instalments.
hoping he mid, by labour end economy, to psy eve.", Oft hi
fell. Hoverer inconvenient it might be for revered =tong
the creditors to have their debts settled in three smell ter
meets, yet not one of them opposed the proposition:*
Harper's Ferry, of worse, is now the most em-
eking station on the Baltimore sad Ohio Kailrosd. TM
s, the Indus sitop, peer eagerly out of the wire
reVe as
Tilie sale of pikes has become a regular business, and
the prevailing cry for a time wee " Buy an Ossawatomier
A bogus wide of pike was invented by • shrewd speculator
is popular treatise, and pikes costing twenty-five cents
readily brought two sod three dollen. The railroad com-
pany finally interdicted the wile, for it became • nuisance.
The chess Ittwary of Professor George Allen, of
the noiversity of Pennsylvania, is said to be unequalled in
sir and inaporteare In this country, if not, indeed, in Europe.
It numbers over eta Misdeed volumes, a large proportion of
which are rare and costly works—many of them long AM
OW Of 'mini--eyed es the treatises of Costa, published ia
1479; Hernias., IM2; Jacobus de Cemolia, King Lopes.
end other eminent writers ore she game. It to a fact Mime
oaty to auttqusruns that the first Engliph book printed M
Ragland wee a work on chase, published by Caxton, in
Leedom, in the year 1492.