The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-15 00:00:00

PORT-01PIPICE DELINQUZNCY.

Yesterday, at the Liverpool issaizen, before Mr.
Justice Keating, Matthew Bell was charged with Melding •
post letter containing two half-sovereigns and twelve
postage stamps from the Liverpool post-office, on the 9th
instant.
The prisoner had been a letter-carrier at Liverpool for
five
.ysers. Several money letters, addressed to various
parties in Liverpool, having miscarried, certain tests were
applied in order to discover the delinquent. On the Bth
inst. Mr. Howson, the travelling inspector, enclosed in a
letter addressed to "72, Camden-street, Liverpool-road,
N.; two helfeovereigns and twelve postage stamps, all
marked. This letter was not posted in the ordinary
way, but was delivered to • clerk at the
window which was used for taking in large package..
A clerk, being previously instructed, took charge of the
letter at the window, sad gave it to the inspector of the
carriers, who kept it locked up all night, and on the morn-
'mo_f2he 9th lost. placed it, with 300 others, before the
r that they might be sorted. On its being ascer-
tained
diet no such letter as the one in question had been
offered at any of the homes in Camden-street, search was
made of the prisoner's house, where the stamps were
found. When these stamps were brought to Mr. Howson,
he applied a chemical solution to develop the marks which
had been made with " invisible ink ;" those marks became
perfectly visible, and Mr. Howson at once identified the
stamps. These facts were proved by many witnesses.
Counsel for the prisoner raised • point of law as to the man-
ner of posting the letter. His lordship reserved the legalcres.
Hone for a higher court, and placed the facts before the jury.
It appeared from the came cited that there was some doubt
m to whether the peculiarity of the manner in which Mr.
Howson posted the letter constituted it • post letter is
the legal acceptation of that term. If is was not • poet
letter, the crime of the priaoner--assuming that he load
stolen the money and the stamps as allege—would be one
of common larceny, and not felony. The Judge promised
that the points raised should be considered ; and if the
jury found the prisoner guilty, be should be dealt with
according to the declaim of the higher court.
The jury bad not returned their verdict when our parcel
was despatched.

TEL WTHERTOIfDI& —Prompted by human
feelings, several gentlemen in Boston and the neighbour-
hood are taking a deep interest in obtaining signatures to the
following petition to the Secretary of State, praying that
the sentence of death under which the unhappy man
Richardson now lies may be commuted to penal servitude
for life. The memorial has already received a great number
of signatures :—"That the prisoner, Thomas Richardson,
was up to the time of his conviction considered an industrious
and inoffensive man, and has been an inhabitant of Wyber-
ton for the last 20 yam. That your petitioners verily and
sincbelieve, from the deposition of the deceased police
cons WBrian, that the prisoner and himself were
perfect strangers to each other, and therefore the prisoner
did not entertain any premeditated malice or
towards the deceased, but that the prisoner was returning
from a Boston electioneering party, and under the excite-
ment of intoxic.ition committed the awful offence in an
unguarded moment, upon being suddenly challenged and
detected in an net of poaching. That your petitiosen beg
to state that the heinous crime for which the prisoner has
been sentenced to death is not associated with those shock-
ing and revolting atrocities that generally accompany the
crime of murder, nor was perpetrated with any hone of pin
or plunder. That while your petitioners would deprecate
any interference with the due administration of justice,
yet they humbly hope that the end and object of the pri-
soner's most dreadful punishment, and the salutary warning
and lesson it is intended to import, will be as fully and
efficaciously carried out by a commutation of the lenience
of death to that of postal servitude for life."—Staieferd
Mercury.
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