The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The June general sessions of the peeve for the county of
Middlesex commenced yesterday morning, at the Guild-
hall, Westminster, before Mr. Whateley, Q.C., presiding
for the AaditantJudge, Mi. Payne, deputy, and a bench
of magistrates.
Mr. Whateley delivered the charge to the grand jury.
The calendar contains the names of 54 prisoners for trial,
47 are charged with felony and 7 with misdemeanour.
Elizabeth Jetalus, U, a matronly-looking woman, was in-
dicted for stealing the sum of 161. lls. 70., and other sums,
the moneys of Sir Charles Napier, her master.
Mr. Metcalfe was counsel for the prosecution; the pri-
soner was defended by Mr. M'Donnell.
This case stood over from last session, and the facts as
proved in evidence by the pliant admiral and the other
witnesses, lay in a very narrow comperes. The prisoner
entered Sir Cherries's service es housekeeper before he went
out in command of the Baltic fleet in 1864, and was dis-
charged by him in February last, when about IL was due to
her for were, for which she was to call thenud day, but she
did not trouble herself about it. Sir Charles appeared to
have been very in keeping his amounts with the pri-
soner, and her regularly every month money with
which she was to pay tradesmen's bills, but she sppepaiated
the money to her own use and allowed the ameents to run
on in the tradesmen's books. In some instances the trades-
men wrote to Sir Charles requesting payment, but the letters
never reached his hands, for the prisoner used to
intercept them, and destroyed all those containing
bills, or relating to matters of account which she had re-
ceived the money to settle, and sometimes she even pre-
vented official letters addressed to him coming into his
possession. She did this in collusion with another servant,
the butler, it was suggested, with whom she was living, at
24, Cliftonatreet, Shepherd s-bush, when she was taken
into custody, by applying the steam from the spout of a
kettle of boiling water to the gummed back of the enve-
lopes, and those which they did not object to Sir Charles
herring were spin gummed down, dried, and put on his
table. After the prisoner left, some of Sir Charles's trades-
men's letters came to his lands direct and =tampered with,
and then the prisoner's system of fraud was made apparent.
When the prisoner was apprehended she said the prose-
cutor was au old vagabond, expressed her surprise that he
should have the derma hardihood and impudence to follow
her, and said the receipts for the money would be found in
an old hair trunk she bad left behind her. This Sir Charles
told her had been searched, and no such receipt& found.
The total amount of which she bad plundered her master
was about 2001., by receiving money to pay bills, and keep-
ing it from his knowledge that those Nib were unsettled.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The learned Judge said he bad taken time to consider and
consult with tke magistrates as to the sentence to be passed
upon her. A worse cam could not be conceived, and not
only as a punishment to her, but as an example and warning
to others, the unanimous judgment of the court was that
she be kept in penal servitude for five years.
The prisoner seemed astounded, and said she did not
deserve it.

The learned Judge—lndeed you do, most richly ; a worse
case I never hard of.

The attendance wu not so numerous sa might have bean
anticipated, and the subscribers were more engaged in dis-
cussing the inconvenience which was experienced by the
" two settling days" than in directing their attention to
bitting on coming events. Not an incident throughout the
afternoon requires especial comment. The following is the
list of prices :
ASCOT STAHEL
4 to A eget Lott Stamford'sliewcastle (off)
6 to 1 Mr. Hughes's Flitch (t)
10 to 1 Payne's eettli Venire= out of

ROYAL HUNT CUP.
9 to 1 apt Mr. O. lion's Old Robert (off)
100 to 8 Mr. B. Yen &•eck's Woodburn (off)
14 to 1 Lord Stanthed's Tyrant (t)
100 to ti Lord Coventry's Nareirsus (t)
100 to 6 Sir J. Hawley's Catawba (t)
100 to 0 Mr. tiorgant's Crater (t)
20 to 1 Capt. Little 's General Rea (t)
20 to 1 Mr. Fuller's Ambush (off)
25 to 1 Mr. flarou's White Ross (off)
GOLD CUP.
3 to 1 apt Mr. Postwood's Butterfly (off)
sto 1 Mr. Merry's Thorroanby (t)

ARCOT RACES.
HORSE. 9 ARRIVED. Bose Middleton, Neoptolemus, Bl-
rabbas, Little Nat, Wamba, Oliver Twist, Jason, Bastion,
Magnum, Mountebank. Butterfly, May Morning, Moursvieff,
Tousle, Ticket of Leave, Doefoot, Gift, Suburban, Recites,
Agnes f, Mentmore, Wing, Evening Star, Lucknow, Rose of
Cashmere c (2 yrs), Feodorowna, Ross of Cashmere c (3 yrs),
Concertina c (2_yrs), Concertina c (3 yrs), Newcastle, Nun,
Appleton f, Woodburn, Cockn-Hoop, Satellite, Optimist,
ore, Pomona, Little lady, I.rant, Emily, Neophyte,
Donna Carmen, Diophantes, indifference, Lupus, Gaspard,
Beech, Avalanche, Leontia, M. Philikme, rages re,
Rayon
Munehansen, lightfit, Tocher, Delusion, L. y Evelyn c,
Spoon/Atka, Promised Land, Queen Bee, Minas Golden
Pippin, Mannt•Anni, General Has, Morells Thunderbolt,
Forager, Cloversook, Sneer f, Precursor, Parmesan, Oyu.
Hens, Remelt, and c by Wiadhound.