The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-14 00:00:00

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MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Lmout, Dec. 13.

The Han. Mr. 'natio. Crompton arrived io Lao°La from.
Nerdisesploa by the 1.46 train. Hie lordship proceeded to
W City &eilons House, when the oontmiatiou for the cour:l3
of the olty wee opened, and after the chugs to the c
• jury, the court adjourned to the County Hall at 9 o clock
to-rworrow morning. There is but one prisoner for trial.
• His lordship then proceeded to the Crown Court and opened
the cooradisket for the county, and the court was then ad-
taradtill 11 o'clock. The matte contains nine prisoners,
but the Awes of none of them ant of e really seelotto
choroot/R. •

After the opening of the coonnhalta Mr. hullos Crompton
proceeded to the Cathedral to prays; sad err met in the
great transept by the Chancellor and the Rev. J. IL Gibney.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—WORCZSTER, Dac. 13.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)
The commission was opened here last evening, and bui-
l:tees commenced to•dey. Tow were 14 prisoners for trW
In the county gaol, and Bin the oily, but only one capital
offence among them.

ARSON IT ♦ DOT.

• little fellow, named William Osborne, was charged with
wilfully setting fire to a rick of Musa tits property of Ann
Muss, at Chums, in this county.
Cromwell osedocted the prosecution at the request of
the judge, sod Mr. Powell defended the prisoner.
The jury, after consulting together, bound him Guilty of
=Mr rick on lire, but '• not with latent to do any
SY Loodeblp said that mounted to • verdict of acquittal,
but the jury did sot intend that it should be so, for, main
mealting, they found ea saceeditionel verdict of GM*.
esatence wise deferred, so it is saki the prisoner has been
uf nob neglected, and is not perfectly mane.

110110LA1T.

Thomas Nairn was fund Guilty of a burglary at Dudley
cm the 22nd ()amber. Tee prisoner had succeeded in enter-
ing the house of a Mr. Hemming, but made so ninth nobs
that he disturbed the inmates, who caught him is the cellar
before he could secure say booty. He had only beat a law
dart out of prism when so detected.
Tan years penal earritude.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exenn, DEC. It
(Before Mr. Baron Chan=ll.)
BIGAMY.

Emily An., Ormond, a diminutive pima, of a remarkably
youthful appearance, was charged with bigamy, at Ply-

lir7Holdaworth promented, and Mr. Con defended the
primmer.
The prisoner yes elserly proved to hare beset married to a
sailor celled Ormond, In February of this year; and In the
November ensuing she married another sailor ogled Buckler,
bar farmer husband being Mall alive. Her defame wee that
her tint husband, who was not more than 19 years of ap
wham they ware married and she only 17, soon got tired of
her and that he wee in the habit of treating her meetly.
prisoner wee found thrifty, and wee sestsaced to two
scathe imprisonment.

KACRII.IOI BY SAILORS.

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Ames Elwood, Thom. Brown, Jaws Barrio, sad Joseph
Dwasis, four Isadore belonging to the Trafalgar, were charged
with sacrilege, at Plymouth, on the 13th of November.
Mr. Cole and Mr. Lopes prosecuted ; the prisoner, were
undefended.

On the morning of Sunday, the 13th uh., the church of
Bt. Andrew's, Plymouth, was broken into, and two cushions
and the oovenng of the communion table were stolen. Sob-
sapiently, the prieoners called at the shop of a dealer
named Zeffert, and offered Win a portion of the articles for
sale.

The jury found the prisoners Guilty, and they were ma.
fenced to ree yews' peal earvitude.

ANOTHER FEMALE BIGAMIST.

Caroline Randle, a good-looking young woman, was
charged with bigamy at Plymouth.
Mr. Carter prmecuted ; the prisoner was undefended.
The prisoter had married Jobe Randle, a sailor, and wham
be yam absent Me received half-pay from Ids. *Wet ha
Ms receipt of the halt-pay she married a private in the
marines, called Wheeler, Randle being still slim, and prei-
mint in court daring the trial.
witearisonse alleged that Itendle had base previously
bin this wee contradicted. She also sold trial be
had gess with a proa:itute, sad Mid told her to go mime
go IMO.

—The Jury Acquitted the prisoner, a verdict which wee re-
ceived by shouts of laughter by everybody in court.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIviiPooI, DEC. 19.
Canwm Counr.—(Be(ora Mr. Baran Martin.)

TIC DANOIM Olt MiDDLINO WITH POLICI OFFICHIS.
6b/Are Dorms, 19, Walkers It'llorst, 22, and Joseph
With, 18, yam indicted for feloniously cutting and wound-
In Joha Robinson James, a Liverpool police officer. On the
21st Angled, between 12 and 1 a.m., Junes, whim an duty
la Wellington-street, Liverpool, saw the prisoners and some
other men crowding together end unavailing. He told them
to disperse, which they did, bat soon afterwards they
oolleM ni ed and the deabance was renewed. The
usin laterfend, when 111. Ford (who is a cripple) struck him
violently over the head with a crutch, and idled him to the
ground. Oa rising James wee seeraled by Doran, by whom
the offloir's ear wee nearly cut in two, while Walsh kicked
him Tag .surely several times when ha was lying upon the
ground. A verdict of (hilly was retained in the cases of
*Toed and Loran, each of whom was sentenced to ten
ran' peal elevitude. Walsh. against whom the evidence
was not so complete, wu Argerfrad.
You, Dic. 12.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)

The following prisoner,, among other,, were this tneruleg
bra
tto the bar for sentence: ltiont Binrtey, for the manslaughter of his wife, In
Sheffield, to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. Hie
kedeldp, in sentencing the prisoner, remarked that he had
been found guilty upon clear evidence of killing his wifebti
*Wag her with a sand hammer. The deceased, it spinet
had earned a fire poker, but there woe no proof that she
used it to attack the prisoner. The jury had recommended
him to mercy, and his lordship had attended M that recom-
mendation in considering the extant of punishment which he
ought b receive.
&sued Nils, for a felonious asmult upon Mary Jane
Lumley, st Saddleworth, on the 21st of August last, to na-
=rears' penal servitude.
German, for uttering forged Bank of England
notes, at Leads, on the 16th of September last, wee sentenced
to five yews' penal servitude.