The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

Jain Elliott Malmo, an aged but respeetable-looking
man, was placed at the bar, having been committed by
Mr. Cooke, the magistrate, as a rogue and vagabond.
The defendant, • man of superior educates's, and who
was said to be • poison in holy orders and the author of
several works, has been often charged at the different
courts of the metropolis with begging and ha is also well
known from the fact of his selling cards by which be pro.
posed that anyone could without the aid of a master learn
to read or write shorthand In • few hours. Ica selli~
thee, suds he usually delivered a short lecture, and the
language used by him in so doing showed that be was a
man of considerable literary attainments. The offense
In the present case was that he wrote on the pavement
"A poor decayed schoolmaster, with diocese of the heart."
J. W. Horsford, William Hewitt, and Noah Gelman,
officers of the Mendleity Society, proved numerous eon.
victims against the prisoner, and coo of them said be bad
been a beggar for thirty years.
The prisoner denied the truth of the statement, and
said be was absent from England from 1829 to 1842, that be
was a priest of the Scotch Episcopal church, and that the
present chaplain of the House of Correction took his
degree at the same time as be did. He had sold cards
for learning shorthand in the striate, and when out of
them he wrote on the pavement " An old mehoolmaster,
author of eleven works, one of which has reached • third
edition." He challenged any one to say that either of
three representations was untrue.
Mr. Serjeant Dowling said it was evident that the pre
saner was • man of superior education, and it was pitiable
to see him in such a position, and he had used the talents
with which God had blessed him for very improper pur-
poses—to obtain alms from the benevolent. The court
would not inflict • higher sentence than twelve months'
imprisonment, and he hoped that when he same out of
prison at the end of that time be would be deterred from
following his old practices. The sentence upon him was
that be be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve
months.
SBOOND 0017BT.
(Before Mr. Deputy-Asainaat Judge Payne.)

Robert Skeet, 19 a shoemaker, wee indicted for ;Waling
a diver watch, value 31. 10s., the property of Alfred See.
ger, from his person.
Mr. Williams defended ; Mr. Lewis prosecuted.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Lewis, in opening the ease, said the pre:wee:am was
a commission agent, and on the 2nd bun. there was a
meted in Chapel-street, Shoreditch, and the pants. were
there. They wore looking at a lire. A constable who was
In plain clothes observed the prisoner, who stood close
by the prosecutor, put his band to his waistcoat pocket
and afterwards withdraw it and peas something to another
man. Prosecutor immediately discovered that be bad lost
his watch, and upon turning round seised hold of the
prisoner, who wee next to him, and gave him into custody.
Witnesses having been heard who proved these facts,
The prisoner's counsel said the prisoner bore a very good
character, and was In respectable employment at the time
this occurred. He also oemmented upon the improba-
bility of a young man commencing a career of crime in this
manner.

After one or two witnesses bid been examined, and
prisoner's good character proved,
Mr. Lewis said that upon tbat state of things he should
withdraw from the prosecution.
A verdict of .Not Gadt, vas taken, and the prisoner
liberated, and be left the court with his Mends.

THE LAW COURTS CONSTITUTION COMWHISTON.—
The last number of the (areas contained the terms of •
royal commission, issued on the 18th inst., to Lord Cairns,
1 Sir W. Erle, Sir J. P. Wilde, Sir W. P. Wood, Mr. Jus-
tice Blackburn, Mr. Justice Smith, Sir J. B. KAMA%
Sir Bounden Palmer, Mr. W. M. Janes, Mr. J. R. Quoin,
Mr. H. C. Rothery, Mr. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. Hunt, M.P.,
Mr. Childers, M.P., Mr. J. Holism', and Mr. F. D.
Lewndes, directing them to inquire into the operation
and effect of the present ecostitation of the English
Court of Chancery, the superior courts of law at West-
minster, the Central Criminal Court, the Court of Ad-
miralty of England, the Admiralty Court of the Cinque
Ports, the Courts of Probate and Divorce for England, the
Courts of Common Pleas of the Counties Paktum of
Lancastvr and Durham, and the Courts of Error and
Appeal from all the above-masticated tribunals, as also
into the operation sad effort of the present reparation
and division of their respective juriadittiorm.
MITEOPOLITAN Far. HOSPITAL, DITHNSHILE-
Noma, Crrc.—The aggregate number of patients; relieved
during the week aiding Sept. 91 wee—Medical, 919; our. I
giesi, 739 ; total, 1,858 ; et which 737 were new suss.