The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-19 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDorroms, MAzcz 17.
(Before Mr. Juetiee Wightman.)

William Hoary Reed, 37, who wee convicted on the
lest day of the anises of obtaining money by false pre-
tences, was brought up for judgment.
The prisoner had married a lady very highly connected,
bat who appeared to have been discarded by her family,
and be obtained 301. of a jeweller, at Chatham, upon the
pretence that he had Ma of Exchange of very large
amount, that were acoepted by Messrs. Hankey, the
bankers, whom he represented to be his wife's trustees.
The jury ream ended the prisoner to mercy on the
ground that he had probably been deceived by his wife.
The learned judge briefly alluded to the circumstances
under which the prisoner had been convicted, and said he
thought the ends of justice would be answered by his
ordering him to undergo a further imprisonment of three
months. _ _

lam Reynolds, 35, was charged with cutting and
wounding Thomas Chambers. with intent to murder lum.
Hr. Ribton prosecuted. The prisoner was defended by
Kr. 13harpe.
It appeared that the prosecutor and the prisoner had
been drinking together for several hours at a public house
called the Buffalo, near Tunbridge, and in consequence
of their quarrelsome and violent conduct the landlord
turned them out. After leaving the publichouse they pro.
needed along the high mad, still quarrelling, and at length
they came to blows, and the prosecutor knocked the pri.
senor down. The latter, after searching some time in hie
pockets, pulled out a knife, and told the prosecutor he
would give him something to run for, and stabbed him
in several places. The wounds were of a most dangerous
character, and the prosecutor was for twelve days under the
ears of a medical man. The jury, without hearing the
details of the evidence from the wither's, at the sugeetion
of the learned counsel for the prosecution, and with the
radicle of the learned judge and the counsel for the pri-
soner, in consideration of the state of intoxication in which
both parties were at the time of the transaction, acquitted
him of the more serious intent charged in the indictment,
and found hies Guilty of unlawfully wounding only.
The prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy.
He was sentenced to six months' hard labour.

OXFORD CIRCDIT.—STAITORD, MARCH 17.
CzowN Couirr.—(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
THZ ACCIDINT AT KARL "NG PIT."

James (fellow, engine tenter, was arraigned for the man-
slaughter of one of the nine collier. who were killed on the
sth of May last, by being drawn over the pulley at Earl
Gnurrille's Big Pit, at Stoke-npon•Trent.
It was shown that the prisoner had charge of the engine
at the time of the accident, and that he knew that men
were corning up, yet he neglected to stop the engine before
the cage, containing twelve men and boy", was drawn over
the pulley, mid nine of the number were killed by being
precipitated down the pit, and three by falling upon the pit
When the engine was at work anal the prisoner was
at the handles, two men entered the engine-house
(contrary to rule) for shelter from the rain. By this
circumstance the attention of the prisoner seems to have
been called off only lung enough to permit the engine to
make half a stroke, which comprised a period of ten
' seotods, yet in those ten seconds the cage ascended about
twenty feet, and the catastrophe described was the mull.
Tle government inspector of coal mines for North Staf-
fordshire &reed that it waste the loss of those ten seconds
that the accident most be attributed.
The jury convicted the prisoner, but recommended him to
mercy. In this the prosecutor and the government inspeo-
tor joined.
Mr. Justice Keating raid he should take these recom-
mendations into account, and also the fact that four hun-
dred colliers, who worked at the colliery, bad petitioned for
the prisoner to he kept in Earl Granville 's service, and should
*entente him to six weeks' hard labour..

MIDLAND CIRCIIIT.—DEAPY, MARCH 17.
CWWIt COURT. —(Befor• lb. Jostles WUlee.)
Mary Nuke, gt, servant, was charged with wilfully mur-
dering her infant child, on the 9th December last, at
Marbeaten, near Deny.
Mr. Bodes prosecuted.; the prisoner was defended by Mr.
The case against the prisoner, which Ma* rested on the