The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-09 00:00:00

THE JAMAICA PROSECUTION.

At the Bow-street police-court, yesterday, Lieut.
Herbert Charles Alexander Brand, M.N., was brought
up in custody of Taylor, one of the warrant officers of the
court, upon the warrant issued on Thursday, by Sir
Thomas Henry, on the charge of wilful murder of Mr.
George William Gordon, at Morant-hay, in the Island of
Jamaica, on the 2.30 d October, 18115.
Mr. Sheen (of the firm of Sheen and Roscoe, of Bedford.
row), conducted the prosecution.
Mr. Sheen observed that on the present occasion it
would be sufficient to ask the magistrate to allow the mi.
dence of Dr. Fiddles and Mr. Lewis to be reed over, and
then be-should ripply for a short remand.
Sir Thomas Henry—One moment, Mr. Sheen, if you
please. Lieutenant Brand, I wish to explain to you the
nature of the charge preferred against you plainly, and
apart from all use of technical language. You are charged
with having, as the president of the court-martial held at
Morant-hay, in the island of Jamaica,on she 'Gird October,
1865, signed a sentence for the execution of George Wil-
liam Gordon, which sentence was, it is alleged, without
legal authority, and therefore his execution was not justi-
fied. That is the nature of the charge against you. You
will not be called upon to make any reply to the charge at
present. But evidence will he given enough to justify me
in remanding you to another day, when another accused
will be brought forward, and the case will be gone into.
The depositions of Dr. Fiddes and Mr. Lewis having
been read over,
Sir Thomas Henry—The evidence which has just been
read is a portion of the evidence read when the warrant
was applied for and granted. You have, I understand,
no professional adviser here at present, and I think, per-
haps, it would be advisable for you to postpone anything
you have to say upon the charge until a future occasion.
I shall adjourn the cane till Tuesday. Have you any
friends to whom you could refer to give bail for your at-
tendance

Lieutenant Brand—Certainly not. I have no fl iends.
Sir Thomas Henry (to Mr. Shaun)—He la a lieutenant in
the royal navy!
Mr. Mann—Yee.

Sir Thomas Henry—Have you any objection to offer
why I should not take his own rccognieanoesv
Mr. Sbaen—l do not feel justified in giving any positive
consent to that course, although I shall not oppose it. As
I understand that there was some difficulty as to the serv-
ing of the warrant, I feel it to be my duty to leave the
matter entirely in the hands of the court.
Sir Thomas Henry—Then I must bind the prisoner over
in two sureties of 2001. each and his own recognisance of
5001., to appear here on Tuesday next.
Notwithstanding the statement of Lieutenant Brand
that he had " no friends," and notwithstanding the ru-
mour, which had in some wny got abroad, that he had re-
'dyed not to accept the option of being bailed out, but
rather to go to prison, two gentlemen attended in the
course of the afternoon before Mr. Vaughan and offered
themselves as sureties for his appearance on the remand.
They ware Mr. Francis W. Rowsell, barrister-at-law, 8,
Ring's Bench-walk, Temple, and Mr. Thomas Stilwell,
navy agent, 7t, Arundel-street, Strand. They were hound
over, according to the condition imposed by the learned
chief magistrate, in 200/. each, and the 'prisoner in his own
recognisancea of 500/.
Mr. liowsell wished to make a statement in reference to
the merits of the ease, but
Mr. Vaughan said ne could not hear any such matter,
The case was before Sir Thomas Henry, who had decided
to accept bail in a certain amount. The only question be
(Mr. Vaughan) could entertain was the sufficiency of the
bail. He could not enter into the merits of the cue.
The sureties were bound over, and the prisoner was
liberated.
Mr. Sham intimated that he had reason to believe that
Colonel Nelson and Governor Eyre intended to present
themselves at the earliest convenient time to surrender to
answer the charge.

THE ICE ACCIDENT IN THE REOENT'S-PARIC.
Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of the lifar7lebone
board of guardians. the following recommendations of the
committee were discussed, viz. that in consideration of
the praiseworthy exertions of the workhouse officials on
the occasion of the late fearful accident in the Regent's-
park, the salary of the master of the house (Mr. Douglas)
be increased MI. per annum ; of the matron, 20/. per an-
num : of the medical officer (Dr. Randall), :10/. per annum;
that the assistant medical officer (Mr. Fuller) be presented
with a gratuity of 20 guineas ; and that 10/. be distributed
amongst the nurses of the infirmary. The recommenda-
tion respecting the master and matron was adopted by a
vote of 12 for, to 11 against. The recommendation with
respect to Dr. Randall was negatived, on the ground that
his services were paid for by contract ; but on the motion
of Sir James Hamilton, it was subsequently resolved to
present him with a gratuity of 00 guineas. It was re-
solved to present Mr. Fuller with 20 guineas, as recom-
mended ; and the amount to be distributed amongst the
nurses was raised from 10/. to 201. The recommendations
to give gratuities were adopted without opposition ; but
the increase of the salaries of the master and matron was
very much contested, on the ground that it was an inop-
portune moment to discuss salaries.