The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-20 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT—CAnzawas, MARcH 19.

(Before OW Jambes Oockbaris.)

ICIIIIIUDOE V. cßuw. MACS OF PROMISE OF MIIRIAGI.

Counsel fur the plaintiff, Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr.
Naylor ; for the defendant, Mr. Keane.
The plaintire father resides at Ashdon, Essex, on the
borders of eambridge3hire, and im • farmer, bricklayer and
publican, his wife attending to the public-house, which is
separate from the dwelling-house. The defendant is a
young man of good prospects, being foreman to his* uncle,
who is a miller, while his father is • fanner, having 50 or
60 acres of land of his own and several cottages, and the
match was coaridered to bee eligible one. Four years ago
the defendant was received as a lover, when he took the
opportunity of seductn_ g Ups young woman, and . child was
bons in Nov. 18456. Vain app,Wed to be refused to nuke
say reparation. To obtain eampeseatios for this the pre-
sent 'Mice was brought.
The jury found a verdict for the plilintiff—ds.rnages 11501.
Several other cases were heard during the day, und a spe-
cial jury case concerning a disputed will at Barham P3UIIIIIII
for to-morrow.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Darn, MARca 19.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)
CHABGIL 01 EMEZISMINT AGAINST A CLEROTMAZ

The Rev. Henry Omitlea Garrett, late curate of Chester-
field, Derbyshire, was charged with taking and converting
to his own use, on the Gth of December last, 18/. :is.
the property of the Rev. George Butt, vicar of Chesterfield.
This case excited intense interest, and the court was much
crowded.
Mr. Baden prosecuted ; prieiner was defended by Mr.
Stephen.
The prisoner was last year the curate of the parish
church, Chesterfield, of which the Rev. George Butt is
vicar, and the offence charged against him was, that he ap-
propriated a sum of money which had been collected in the
parish church, in aid of the Church Missionary Society, and
which had been entrusted to him, to his own use, instead
of using it for the purism, fur which it was collected.
Evidence having been gone into,
The Judge said he wee of opinion that it was • case of
civil liability, and not one for a criminal prosecution. Pri-
mmer had dome an act which be ought to be ashamed of,
but which clearly did not come within the act of parlia-
ment. The prisoner acted as treasurer to the society, and
the parent society ought to have made him pay it in a civil
court. Under the whole of the circumstances, the prisoner
must be acquitted on this charge.
There was a second charge fur dealing loa, the property
of the clothing club, but Mr. Baden declined to offer any
evidence.
His Lordship said the jury would return a verdict of not
guilty ; at the name time they could not but lament to see
a clergyman placed in such a diegrnoeful position.
The prisoner then left the dock ; but se be wee going out
of the court.door he was apprebeeded ea • warrant by
Superiateadeut Radford, of Chesterfield, on • charge of
embezzlement at Cardiff.

There win a second alit= in attendance with a warrant
&phut htra.

OXFORD CMCI7IT.--RTAPPORD, MARCH 19.
Caowx COUlT.—(Bolore Mr. Justice Heeling.)
CONHITRINO TO DZEHAVD THE LULL OF WTANTORD.

Grorye Hackett was arraigned on the charge of conspiring,
between the year 1851 and June, 1889, at the partsh of
Linville, with. one Janice Parish, to defraud the Right Hon.
George Henry Grey. Earl of Stamford and Warrington, of
certain sumo of money.
Mr. Whiteley and Mr. N'lslion were for the prosecu-
tion ; and Mr. Haddlentone and Mr. Motter.un for the
defence. _ _

It seemed that Hackett during the years in question
wee steward to Lord Stamford, and, with Parish, who is
his brother-la-law, sammor and collector of income and
unused tams Pariah, however, had been the acting
amemor and collector, and Hackett had been so only in
i name. The easeennent and also the demand papers were
all made out by Parish, who had now left the country. It
wee shown that from 11161 till last June the Earl of Stam-
ford and Warrington had paid as much as 1,40 W. income
tax more than he ought to have paid, and the theory of the
Lion was, that Parish and Hackett had conspired
pros
to defraud his lordship. The yearly payments
were collected in moieties, and the but moiety demanded
and paid was a larger sum than his lordship should have
paid for the whole year.
For the defence It was maintained that Hackett's offence
was an overweening confidence in Parish. It was shown
that his iluties w steward were vary .serous, and that hav-
ing no reason to suspect that Parish was otherwise than en
honest man, he had paid him the amount that lie had de-
manded, without aseertahting the sum at which his lord-
ship was amused. It was also urged that the entries of the
moneys he bad paid as income tax were made in Looks that
were kepi ePee in the steward's oboe, to which his assistant
and others had moms.

After ;leigthened trial the jury Acquitted the primmer.
XITILLORIKMART CHAIM, OP DISTURBITIG THE DRAB.
Pretoria /leper and James liltnril, loth colliery engineers,
were arraigned an the charge of unlawfully breaking sad
entering a certain burial ground au the 24th of Angell,
lea!, in Wolverhampton, and with there disinteering mod
digging up the dead laxly of a woman, formerly known by
the name of Rosa WOlfe.
The evidence showed that on the day in question a
Jewess had been interred in the Jews' Cemetery at °leer-
tampion sad that in the locality of the cemetery, which

is surrounded by colliers' doellity, there prevailed an
impreraion that the Jews buried-with their dead articles
of worth proportioned to the pecuniary ability of the
decimetre relatives ; and it would seem that some one who
knew of the interment and, imbibed that delusion, broke
into the cemetery, opened the pave, forced open the coffin,
took of a portion of the pave clothes of the cor, and
otherwise disturbed the in which the body had bersen
originalllaced, esamining the ears and finge,
it is prey spumed for ear- ngs and ruige. But they found
nothing to pay them for the smith ; and on going away
left the isopse thus exposesL
The case against the prisoners rested mainly upon the evi-
dence of a man whom they had requested to be an accom-
plice in the affair, but who, though he had refus saw the
prisoner,' enter and leave the cemetery an the nighted,
in (pa-
tina. He divulged the secret because be was in fear of his
life from the prisoners, who bad threatened to kill him.
The defence was that the charge was a delusion.
The ease (which will terminate the business of the amine
at Stafford) had not concluded when our parcel wan de-
spatched.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A case connected with the unfortunate Royal Charter
came before the court in which Augustus Robert Seymour,
alias Zimmer, a middle-aged man, described as a watch-
maker, of Bee:umaris, Anglesea, was charged with (urging
and uttering an endorsement to a bill of exchange for 401.,
with intent to defraud Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, of
Lombard-street, bankers.
Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the Bankers' Protection Com-
mittee, appeared for the prosecution, the facts connected
with which were, he said, of a somewhat peculiar nature,
and would, after calling some witnesses, compel him to ask
fora remand._ _

The learned gentleman prodnoed the bill, which presented
unmistakeable signs of having been saturated with salt water.
Mr. E. S. Crosver, clerk to Messrs. Smith, Payne, and
Smiths, deposed to the payment of the bill produced,
through the clearing-home, on the 10th December, to
Mega Roberts and Co.

Mr.lLWa;boundeposed that in the month of Novem-
ber last he was in the service of Mean. A. Spielman and
Co., bankers, Lombard-street, and en the 11th November
that house received the bill produced, from Messrs. Reece
and Co., their correspondents at Liverpool, and paid it to
Messrs. Roberts and Co., for collection.
Mr. J. T. Payne, a clerk at the Beak of Australasia
Threadneedle-street, deposed that they had • branch at
Sandhurst, Australia, and that as the Ith November lest
the bill and letter produced were received by them. The
bill was dated the 19th August, 1859, at Sandhurst; was
payable, 39 days after sight, to the order of Richard Read ;
sad was drawn on the Beall of Australasia, Threadneedle-
street. The letter enclosing it requiteted that the amount
might be sent in English notes to Liverpool ; but, instead
of that, the bill was accepted, and sent beck the same day
to the address indicated, viz., Messrs. Montt Brothers, Dale.
street, Liverpool.
Mr. It. C. Hannan, of the firm of Pinrda and Co.,
Bishopvgate-street, said that on the 77th December last,
from information be received, he wrote a letter to Augustus
Robert Seymour, of Beaumaris, asking him, on the part of
R. S. Rmd's father, the nature of the transaction by which
be became possessed of the bill. In reply to that letter he
received • letter addressed to himself, enclosing one for Mr.
Read, see.
Mr. Mullein read the letter addressed to Rears father,
follows :

" Beaumaris, 1890 2 Jany.
" Sir, —lt seems there shall be some bother about • bill
drawn from your son, and taken from me on the 314 Oct.,
is payment fora gold watch and chain; the amount was
221., and I gave 18/. change. The bearer was &gentlemanly
looking seaman, and of course had no idea to be • loser of
time and money, but as I on my arriving at Liverpool
wanted to change my bill, I was sadly disappointed, for
after a great trouble and lees of money and waiting for Ave
weeks for my money, I at last obtained payment of part of
my property through Mr. Reis, 12, Lord-street whom I
was obliged to pay enormous for his kindaess. I was once
a dupe, but no more, therefore if you have any request or
inquiry to make write direct to me, for I am tired of the
interference of merchant esquires and bankers.—l remain
yours truly, A. R. lirrsoun.
Mr. J. Read, senior, a mining agent, living near Ralston,
Cornwall, said—l had aan named Richard J.H. Read, who
went to Australia some time ago, and was a passenger
home in the Royal Charter which was wrecked on the cornet
of Weiss. The endorsement, "Rich& J. H. Read," on the
bill produced is not in my son's writing, nor is it anything
like at.
Alfred Furnell, detective—On the 24th February last I
was at Benurnaris, where the prisoner keeps a watchmaker's
WI went to his shop, and when I saw him I told him I
me down from London to make some inquiries re-
specting a bill of exchange. He said, "Yes, I know." I
asked him where he got the hill from, and he said a sailor-
looking man, somep like the mate of a ship, went to his
shop and bought • watch and chain for 22'., by which
he (prieoner) got 1 . He said he gave the purchaser 181.
change in gold. I said, "Don't you think you were very
foolish in parting with your goods for a piece of paper like
that'" To which he replied that at find he thought it
was a bank note. He said further that he kept books, and
he gave me a book, and showed me an entry dated the 314
October. Below the entry was the amber, 2,319, which be
said was that of the bill. He said also Oat he bad never
seen the man before nor since. He told me he had got the
bill cashed through Mr. Reece, of Lord-street, Liverpool,
who had taken 9/. for his trouble. I showed him the bill,
and asked him, if there was any of his writing on the back,
to tell me which it was. He said he signed his own name,
and Mr. Reece, the hanker, wrote what followed ; but that
the first endorsement was written in his shop by the man
who bought the watch and gave him the bill, no third per-
son being present at the time. On Saturday last I went
down to Besumaris spin and took the prisoner into cus-
tody. There were sax or seven watches in his shop win-
doer, but they seemed to be there for repair.
Prisoner—The first time you came hadn't I been informed
you were corning?
Furnell—Yes, I believe some one had told you I was
making Inquiries.
Prisoner—You didn't hear anything against me there?

Furnell—Yo.

Prisoner—But you heard something to recommend me, I
suppose
Purnell—l only found two people who knew anything
about you ; one where you lodged UAL), and one at a former
lurlbam Rattigsn, office•keeper at the Worship-street
Police court, deposed that he formerly lived at Presteign,
Radnorshire, where his father was superintendent of police ;
that he knew the prisoner, whose real name was Zimmer,
and was well acquainted with his handwriting. He had
not We slightest doubt that the endorsement to the bill,
" Richard J. Read," was in the prisoner's handwriting.
Prisoner—You recollect your father prosecuting me at
Shrewsbury last year?
Witness—Yea, I do.
Prisoner—He prosecuted me twice ; first at Shrews-
bury, where I was acquitted, and then he took me to Here-
ford on the charges, and I was acquitted there.
Witness—Yes, you were acquitted twice.
Prisoner—And your father lost his place for that, so you
hate me.
The prisoner was then remanded.

Tar MysTentrous MUTH ug GLasoow.—The
body of the young man, Wm. Biggar, who was found deed
in his bed in his lodging at r 2 Crown street, on Friday
morning last, was examined by Dr. Stewart on Saturday,
who is of opinion, as the result of his examination, that
deceased died from a suffusion of blood to the
brain. The marks of violence upon his face may
easily Le accounted for from the circumstance of
his having Leen found with his head resting on the
door and his lege upon the bed, indioning that he must
have endured great agony, and that in hie struggles Le pro-
' bahly struck his face upon the fender, which was near the
bed. The blood that was flowing from his mouth appears
to have Leen caused by the unfortunate man in his agony
having bitten his tongue nearly in two. His mother, who
le a widow residing in Maxvrelton, Binaries, has been in.
11 formed by the police of the oocurrence.—NortA AritssA
Daily Mail.
. .

CAS 117ALTIEN wr SZA. —A very favourable contrast
with the present severe losses among shipping will be found
monied in a lints return of "Transport Services during
um, 18e6, and 18511," not before published, by which it
appears that 886,138 officers, men, women, and children
were conveyed in her Majesty's ships of war, hired trans.
ports, and freight ship, without the low of a single life, and
that in conveying 80,082 hones and mules the low
did not amount to I per cent. This return also shows
that the Transport Board—Captain Craigie, R.N., Major
Robertson, and Mr. Drew, of the mercantile marine, ap-
pointed by Sir James Graham for this service—not only
protected the lives of those entrusted to them, but by
can and energy effected a saving of 1,080,5401. per annum,
of which 507,7201. arose from a decrease of shipping em-
ployed, and 482,820 f. by gradual reduction of freightage. It
seems that whereas at the end of 1854 and early in 1865
large dimmers were engaged at from 50s. to 555., and sailing
vessels at 20% to 33. per ton monthly, in January, 1866,
the rate paid for large steamers wee only 38s. to4oa. ; small,
SOL to 325. 6.1., and sailing vessels 15a, to 18s. per month.
A saving of between 60,00(11. and 70,0031. per month was
also effeoted by a provisional arreagemeat with the owners
peraorts of certain large trans
theservices of which were not,
hnmedietely
NowsteadAbbey is to be disposed of, under the
hammer of Meseta Pott and Neale, at the Auction Mart,
London, on the 13th of June.
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MONDAY, MARCH 19.—Admission on payment, 1,060; ditto
by season tickets, 399.; total visitors, 1,459.
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TALLOW.--This tallow market again declined last week, aml
stW looks down. The price for all this month continues nmul.
nay 3s. cwt. above that for May and June, and as the trade
wholly nt of the large
tsßussian holders to the end .d
' June, even c culatlng upon an average demand, It seem. highly
probable that until the price for May and June is accepted on
the spot, there will be no return of confidence on the side
the
consumers. It is therefore not surprising that every salemade
for March delivery has to be made by submitting to a price more
nearly approaching the price for delivery In former periods : at
the same time the prices at Petersburg and In the Interior id
Russia are (with the addition of chants of Import', about equal
to the price ruling here for delivery In October and Decenitke,
The market cloaca flat. Illpot and March, 68s. to 675. 6d April
to June, Me. add. to Ma. ad.; July to September, 63a : October to
December, Ms. Odessa sheep, 67,, 6d.; beef, 67a.: Palm oil,
to Ms. 6d.: cocoanut on, Cochin, Ms. 10d. to Ms. ; Ceylon. SD.
to 42a 4d. town tallow, Me. CA. net cash; rough fat, Is. 4.
3s. 6d.—ilrrom the circular of Moran finsith and Charies„dsted
Monday Evening

COTTON.—Lrrupoot, MARCH 19.—There has been a fair la.
with
tor cotton to-day without change hi prices. Tbe Europe,
with American advice., has not yet arrived. The sales are
to a Maud*, b
an, American, iltd to Std. ; 1.500 sera
~
Ed. to eld : SOO Egyptian, SO. to 101.1.
500 Perham, 7ld. to
Sad.: CO Bahia 7 5.16 d., of which 1,64)0 are for speculation and
export. The week's import le 22,4621 bales.

CATTLIL—UTERPOOL, MARCH 10.—The supply of cattk wai
about the same so on last Monday : of sheep rather larger. The
deemed fair for each at higher prima for good beasts : middling
without change. The extreme prices of Lot market were oh.
tattled for &beep. Numbers at tharket—Cattle, 2,101; sheep,
41,7g1

00A19.-L091509, mlzeri 19.-Bella Primrose, 135.; Huddle's
West Hartley, 15s. IA Burnhope Cas, 13s. ; Hymen Behside
West Hartley, 16a. dl. ; Chilton Hartley Steam, 16s. ; Hohniddo
Gas, 13s. ; Holywell, les. ; Howard's West Hartley, lea. 9d. :
Lambert'. West Hartley, les. Tanleld Moor, las. 9d.:
Taidleld Moor Butes. 19s. 9d. ; Walker Primrose, Us. ; Wylam,
16s. Id. ; Eden 'Slain, 19a. ed. ; Walls End Braddylla Helton,
20s. 3d. ; Walls End Fnunwellgate, 19s. : Walls End Haa.
well, 21s. &L ; Walls End Helton, Ma. 3d. Walla End South
Hatton, 21s. ; Walls End Stewart's, 91. ; Walls End Casson,
ed.: Walls End: Neagh Hall. 19s. ad. Walls End Kelt,
10e. 311. Walls End South Hartlepool. 19s. 9d. ; Walls End
Thornley, 175.: Wall End Trundon Thunder, 17n. ; Wall, Elul
Thorpe, 20s. ed. ; Carter's Hartle). 14s. rd.: Newton Main,
14a. ed.-nips at market, 90; Sold. 79.