The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-30 00:00:00

DAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1860 •
BALL' ORIMINAL COURT. ivisaportant elleii bh am exhibition of Mrength was
t to assis, WI l the mos time he could not help
eloweeig dot ems awe lately to being the
120,11111111•1 MD and prevent honest and upright
almai ismsdlis with it, them to Bad that
stielip=ztbs Mao woo tad,* upon their honesty
sled
A vest ow aV61::• has were than called ea
t..„ the sitoWarmosogroi in
a o so
Bewiloo, la wiresaiwg up, of the
i to lim ado, al the Amp, =sidtiretalit agree
W lamed ommel for the ildwolud that the wee-
mout wee mime wade paper, mad tijarpi to him that
wide hualusweepillem were /Meg es wince to this
inearmask gm ildsigant wma net is writisg such
a letter am tbe ens is question, demises; its restitution.
The principal question for the oonailseatios of the jury,
however, snub whether the leiter was wridsa without rea-
lisable au probable emse. amil. whoa ;gam beard that
!Maur 1811 uz the gime subject had beau mat
co the MID. . widek letter was all produced
bills presumlow Mad sur were thus pmereuted from
knowing all IMLele at Up ewe, it wee for them to decide
whether OA iseassae diabielW to their
The lestylmwesiblistysetemed a ounitsatarttio.
Mr. TAmemi WlMlllni fire, • Imam la Dereatehire,
surrendered to mom • amp el bads( vulawfally mot
fat gale bk WY he ...n Netaserket a spoistity of meat that was
.
mama hfr.
Corporattenaliguideoswitoted the preatiaoatme.on
y retained, with Mr. ito=a, for the de-
. defended at Irst said that be wee sot guilty of
the sausitto market for food, but shot oon-
-11=444 ,i,
ant had pleaded
*dee lemon frilie had been Isplly
smiliallalillllo, &Wm* AM probably no intention
SW ail it was Use detildliadima el tili
te prosecute in sampatel.......att
wee seat to market. la de
they valid be cement with the d essilaat 'deft Ma
,harm be
to appear. sod teceive Mora when
'Ms =rdes mid it was immatint it should be gas.-
ter keserm set Mar that sofookili might be exceed by
reed Ned as Qum but drat a penalty attached to
does who VIM guild,( thew. Iwm what he knew of
the hi of Mit ems larcer. ands of would
1671= whe
dmat. t& .berthe
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am dock.,
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mimed into the ropiest rearillesift sad IMI 41"ari:
from custody.

'Zikr

OLD COURT.

(Before the litecorder.)
Manaress, • essales d the &OA har,
etteratet take his trot an indishaset which
chard him with Wing knoireaod feloniously sent a
maw letter to one NEM costondsd Mallost,
seed demanding the rertoration el • sirloin *lunge docu-
ment, without nameable and pentane main
Mr. Charnock and Mr. A. Collins conducted the prosecn-
Sloe ; Swami Reliant's@ Ina modally retained, with Mr.
Poland, to conduct the defame.
Yr. Clurnock, in opening the cue to the jury, mid that
ditueel t indictment was found under a very wintery
which made it haw for my one to attempt to
eased property or mythic of Wm from mother by
maw d meowes and threats. The peassedar was •
gentlemen named Ricks, who was • t in the
Sal Surrey and it appeared that hi the
cocomsocement of the mead wr be was destroys of
up • mef volunteerunder the tide of the
The &hods* who, he believed, me
by birth • German, had redded a peal many years in this
country, and wee • member of the
the'bar and ft would mem
• that he was very andoce to obtain al ef n
aco of volunteers, sad ait the time Mr, Padre wo
es ea-
* framing ths aria to wine he bad alladed, the
Went and Maw
objet and tP=entar
uadortook to moist him in MK object with the Alen-
tempt upon the condition that he should undertake to
equip one company of sixty Men at hie own expense at the
rate of 31. lS• for lIMA NOM The defendant sammted I.
this peopoition, anal drew sip an egreemen by which be
undertook to =Lathe eist,y men spat the condi-
tion of his appointed captida-oansnandant of
the corps, and prosecutor, Mr. Mick., was to
have the appointment d the daln4sreiliet and the-
other sonewandmiami Where. The defendant dried
this apemen anal *sided it to Mr. Rieke, but It
tt:t that very short* afterwards be was diratidied
and mid be thoaght that the men
mitt to Zil=alke aost of the outfit, but Mr. Ethel
teM hita tite thh wend be totty at variance with the
wed= opts wild" No was to meths the appointment of
a6=llllbiiir difhlfikaalid not be weeded to.
with Lad
1,0116101 k Gip ist-r.".--ihselli=4:ll, it the atd
be itad the iiispelther. Sad Ahmed * ham
myth*, more to do with the walike, Nod Maar fre oblate
possession of the sweramit Walt into, and
which had been male the whits/ iressedinp by
gr. Bickeo dihisti, be h*/* that
ins the sub tof W pmsasi 11110m01' inter was
de!ad the th Jul Joly, and oonteMed the forkeriarg pongee :
• within thirty-four bows yc..de nisi rise* the
knr yam wrote to me yesterday, awl ehe !auks the new
whin/ pet °Windham me ley ett. vialdtr, I *III
=le stele teak Maw the -lisnlimand. -Far the
thevainnteermemmant,tismay
osermarybisc ma* phindhe silted to the
, beam. ea that yew brother was
the Lindeman Mein. etre!
and new another mealm it the eassettrita tit
trying hie hand at the *s amemmind. littsc
aim astaimed • sistowas. the presesake alum
mined Lardrani lather, and alesEeinri of
Jamey. sad autism but the erten given
ma the poetics aid Imo * srappio the t.)
The learned aimed thsermail letter MINIM UT the
Wn to the peeesentget
sewhth ._._stated tkt!
the " bubble " had buiell. sod 'dojos! am to on
quiet, m if he ware set. and annoyed hint eay more, he
amid lay ail the desementa before the authorities of the
Wewellee, and the rant would probably be that be would
to triloArriadedeebed. eapidoetilmithat
Ilealhaepot the egmentsm=striMpeastag, and
the delmdeni being about to go abroad, be was required to
fad bail to answer that action, and upon his return to this
wintry the present charge was preferred againet him.
Mr. Julius St. Jetta Aka was then examined—He said :
I live at No. 7, Flm-grove Brixton, and am a lieutenant of
the 3rd Royal Surrey /Mia. I biome acquainted with
Mr. Steinmetz some
5 nianiredsziszeid be told me he had
7. an ensign in the V and that after spending
be had been Waved, bad set been ails
abide his captaincy, end had therefore left the
Miintait. H. said he was very anxious to obtaa
a captaincy. I told him that I believed a number of
Impostable men, clerks and Wen, would be willing to
form a company of rifles if they could do so without ex-
pew for equipment sod that if he would undertake to
pny the expense of War equipment at a sum not to °nosed
Si.lQs..per man, I bad no doubt the Iced-lieutenant would
wept their services, and appoint lie the captain of the
corps. The defendant shortly after this produced the egret
meta which has been Wined to oaf headed it to me, in
order that I might take the necessary steps for the forma-
t.s of the corps. Deng the erinvereations I had with the
prisoner he told me that he had originally studied for the
church, and also for the bar. I Wed him why be bad lift
the ter, and he said that nose but ropes made seemed is
it, and that ha could sot reconale it with his ammieriee.
(A laugh.) He also told me that he had etadied ad Myths,
and that he was afterwards made ,an amidst in
the Victoria Rides, but ea he it deastred, be
threw up his appointmest. Setae Ws sifter the agreement
had been signed, the defendant aid be thought the men
ought to repay him the mosey he advanced for their equip-
meat, and I told him that each •
_,promeding would be
quite contrary to the agreement, and that the men would
be dissatisfied. The defendant then add that the matter
rest rest, and he would sot go as with it. The defendant
more me • photographic portrait of himself for me to show
to the corps, and he afterwards Liked ma to give it back to
him, and he then said that he would hate nothing more to
do with the matter.

eitzar WESTARX RAILWAY.

- -
A special general meeting of this company was
yesterday held at the Paddiogton station, fur the purpose
of oessidering the report of the directors on the subject of
nottitudpictiament far power to Mild cope/1 for laying
nib for the narrow gauge between Reading
mid Lorries, end far other wpm,' ; the Earl of Bac,
nom in the distr.
The molt was taker as ned.
The Onantilie then moved-1. That the special report of
Ike 11th of October, reserved for the consideration of this
inweilmr, be approved and adopted ; and 2. That the di-
rectors iss hisreby empowered to make application to parlia-
ment Mike earning session for • bill to raise additional
capital not exceeding 1,000,0001., for the purposes spool-
Red is the report, each terms as might be determined
on at the time.

After a dimwits Mr. 0111M1 prepaid u an amend-
ment that in the opinion of the meeting no further
works should be prosecuted at the ex pmas of capital, except
snob as were of pressing neesesity ; tt it be referred back
to the baud to withdrew such as were not immediately
•eeenaryt end that the onaidentiou of the remainder be
pastpeoed till the half•yearly gated meeting.
The amendment having btu seconded,
The CHAIRMAN replied in a very nitiefactory manner to
the remarks which bed been merle by the previous speakers.
With nerd to the anode of miming the money, he said it
would not be prudent to state then how they proposed to
take it. (Hear.)

A Pihommtion remarked that what was proposed mu
whether they had enough of confidence in the directors to
give them power which would enable them to do that which
might be necessary. He looked upon the proposal for lay-
log down the narrow pugs from Reding as a great boon,
and a large instalment of what he hoped would be ulti-
mately done—the laying down • mined gauge along their
*bole line. (Cheers.)
The amendment was then put, and only four hands were
Mimed in its f►vour.

The resolutions of the board were then put and
only two or three hands hewing been raised against=
The meeting then separated.

TRAFFIC RETURN&

unarars.

MIN rta• Man Taft', Y.&.
81POL Mr% 1111111W,11, INu Wit

Week ending Noy. 16
Great Western of Canada S 4
Week ending Nov. 17.
IL 'Art et Lombsrde-Voi.

it- --a
- •.x6 8.43

int/Lust. Line) 743 11,654 23,462 36,116 20.768
o Linlo
k,l44=keeling Nov. 18.
loodon, Tilbury, & South-
end Extension - 711 WI 919 WS
Whet Anglian - 409 611 921 901
Antwerp a Rotterdam - 443 WS 1.091 901
Metal and Exeter - 2,756 3,049 6,304 6,010
Week ending Nov. 24.
Weeth Wisteria
Eastern Junction 964 96 187 223 814
wales - - - 0.810 6,965
ending Nov. 23.
Central - 1,903 2,110 3.918 LIN
limbos Counties
i Miam
- ... 11144 10561 29.206 40,238 3,167
.... - ...- ...-. . .......

Crom-esamitied by Serjeant 13allantiae—I am a drill in-
structor ea well ea a lieutenant the militia. pad that tithe
only mode I have of Vrefi • Ilstilbeetl. I became
acquainted with the def eimaeriebee et ia *dyer-
thereent I inserted in mettspipete veriestang sow,
patriotic gentleman to ems hetived perride funds for
the formation of a Ale sampan. and stating that he would
in all probability have the command of such corps after it
was raised. I received another letter from the defendant on
the same day that the one wan eat which is the subject of
the present charge.
&menet Ballantine coiled for the production of this let-
ter, but Mr. Charnock said he haknot gotit.
Cross-examination coatinued—l beWrs that in this letter
the defendant offered to carry ant the agettelmmstirided
that it was submitted to the govergimWl and kid.
lieuterient, with all the other dormant; eaditated that if I
wee ea honest mau I could not object to mach a coarse. I
aecortainod that the defendant was gate &braid, end I made
as afffdavit, upon which he was arrested pad oompelled to
find ball. I bad comnienced an with egehem him to
recover 210 f. under the agreement, sad aio M. for ex-
penses that I had Incurred in the huirhasse. While the de-
fendant was abroad I preferred the "meat charge before
the grand jury without his knowledge, tad he was appre-
hended at his own house. I had beim greviously to Marv-
lobose polies court, and they declined to interfere, but told
me I had my remedy by going before the grand jury.
Reezarnined--thvingilrill instruction at schools by mill-
tary moil is not at all an unusual mode of obtaining a liveli-
hood. I attend ladies' schools.

North British L77$
Shropshire Union Si SIN IWO On TO
Btrksnhead — UN LOOS *666 2,the

EMPLOYMENT OP CHILDRAI IN FACTORIES.—Mr.
Thomas Ashworth, ex. et the borough, appeared on
Wednesday before the BeehiM birch in the elieracter of
defendant, to answer 35 irfeeetallAns, by Mr. Sub-inspector
Patrick, that the firm (Mews. Jan Ashworth and Sous)
had employed children after two o'clock on Saturday, the
3rd of November. Mr. Patrick, being sworn, stated that
at 38 minutes past two on the dentate in question he was
retithe na whoa be saw a greet nine persons leerier
e gmationed some of them, who told him that they
had Just left off work, and he then took down • number
of names. Mr. Thomas Ashworth directed their worships'
attention to the fact that, while the act provided for other
days that children, " shall not be employed at meal times,
or be allowed to remain in the rooms," it specified for
Saturdays that, " no young person should be employed
after two o'clock," and there it stopped, the legislature
the
evidently contemplating that would have to wait for
their wages. It happested—he bud almost said pmviden-
telly—that on the day in gelation his brother had ordered
the mules to bo stopped at one o'clock ; they were so
stopped, and the subsequent cleaning was over by • quarter
to two. The spinners then had to be paid before they could
pay their pipers, and, after all, the time reached was not
so to as that stated by Mr. Patrick, who must have been
mistaken therein. He maned several witnesses to prove what
he had stated, sod their worships dismissed the four infor-
mations. Mr. Patrick then withdrew the others, and paid
the witnesses for their attendance. Four informations
against Mr. Henry Haigh, cotton wiener, were taken next,
two of them being for employing boys without school certi-
ficates, and two for employe them full time, they being
under the legal age. Mr. •In stated that he left these
matters to a person whom he d, since Mr. Patrick's visit,
found bad been somewhat negligent. The Beech inflicted a
salty of 20s. in each case, and fined the father of each
to ss. for having neglected canoe their soma to go to
I, they being under the age of 13, and employed ia •
&Merv.
THE RAILWAY ACCIDRNT NEAR Linos. —An
lapel* as opened on Wednesday en the body of the poor
fellow who was killed by a railway accident on Monday,
near Leigh. The accident was caused by a goods train
coming unexpectedly down an incline whilst • party of
platelayers were mimed in taking up a rail. The inquiry
appears not unlikely to result in a charge of manslaughter
the foreman of the platelayers, whose duty, it is
against
was to such • case to station a signalman 1,200 yards
from the spot before permitting • rail to be removed. Ac-
cording to the evidence of the men driving the goods train,
the signalman was not at anything like this distance from
thejarty of workmen.
WRARTUL MORTALITY ON BOARD • BRITISH
HRIP.—A letter from Belize, Hoodlums, dated Septimber
17, states that yellow.'ever had broken out on board the
British mao.of.war Icarus at Munk Eleven of her
crew and two officzrs had died, and a great many were
sick, including Oaptain MEM. Subsequently, on her plu-
mp to Jamaica, she reported 33 dead, and still a heavy
sick list.

—WI. C. Eicke, the tether of the prosecutor, wee then pet
into the witness box, but he did not prove anything ma-

Berreant Ballantine then addressed the jm• for the de-
fence. He mid he believed that if he hid hams • legal
objection to the charge, and asked his lordship whether
each a me* as this came within the statute. he would at
ogee have decided that it did not, and it would have been
wanecismem fur him to have addressed them. He felt, how.
ever, that where a charge of thiskind was made manna a
gentleman of the highest honour and respectability by a
person like the prosecutor, it was his duty to put the jury
in powassion of the real facts of the ease, and satisfy them
that there was not the slightest foundation for the RC-
omatiou. He had no hesitation in saying that it ape
peered to him that anything more wicked and scandalous
than the present proceeding had rarely been met with,
and that it was the prosecutor who was the really guilty
party, and who was endeavouring to extort imam. from the
gentleman at the bar, and finding that he had haw in
effecting that object, he then adopted the expedient of per
bwriafeLpreeent charge before the grand jury without his
know ; •proceeding which, he could net help thinking,
it was a • to the law should be permitted. The real
tenth of the matter was that Ifir. Steinmetz, being &eines
of obtaining • position in omeezion with a rifle gimps, for
which he was perfectly well qualified, asketumbily
&towered an advertisement that had been heisted b Vie

prosecutor, and without considerstius he entered into the
agreement that had been spoken of. He afterwards com-
municated with the lorblieutenant of the oounty upon
the subject, sod the information he received from Lim
relating to the Eickes, induced him to come to the con-
elusion that he had better extricate himself from their
clutches us moon as possible, and while indignant at the
manner in which Le had been deceived, he wrote the
letter in questi.n, which, it appeared to him, could not
for a moment, he said, to come within the terms of the
statute, and the grand jury ought never to have fond
the ball, or incised soy bath when there had been no paw
lisninaaT inquiry before a magistrate. He could not help
expressing this optaiee, that it was monstrous that •
respectable man could be dragged from his home apse ea
Unfounded charge like this ; and he hoped that the theseth
proceeding would lead to sonic alteration of the kW am
the subject. The lammed counsel then commented um
the facts, and said that it was absurd to treat this agree-
ment aa a valuable sourlty, when, in point of fact, until
the cooditkei upon which it was given, namely, the appoint-
ment of Mr. Stalemate to be captain-commandant of the
corpe, had been fulfilled, it was nut of the slightest melee
whatever. He then called the attention of the jury to the
feet of the prolocutor having declined to Nodose a Wise
that had been written to him on the same day the the in
question was received; and he said that this letter, if It lad
been laid before them, would have explained the whole
matter, and would hive shown that there was not the keg
foundation for the present charge. With regard to tto
alleged threat, or menace, all that was stated by the
defendant was that if the agreement were not restored, the
whole matter would be submitted to the lord-lientmethe
and it appeared to him that be was the proper person is he
con sultob and that It was Idle to attempt to dieted such aa
observation into a threat such SS wee contemplated by the
statute. This learned servant concluded a very able speech
by stating that no ono appreciated more highly thou himself
the noble volunteer movement that had taken plans, sad

On Monday afternoon a conference of the op-
ponent& of church rates in Soniersetsitirs and Gloecester-
shire, to consider the steps to be taken in earning on the
anti•ehurch rate movement, was held in one of the largo
MOMS attached to Broadmead chapel, Bristol. J. Carvell
Williams, Esq., and Dr. Foster, attached as reprwientatives
of the Liberation Society, and Thorns' Waterman, Esq., was
chairman.

WATCHES Ire RELATION To THE FINE AMTS.—
'. Indeed, one of them has already made a very marked advance
in tide respect by producing artistically ornamented watches,
adapted to meet a high standard of cultivated taste. The maim
facturer here alluded to is Mr. J. W. Benson. of SS and 34,
Ludgate.hill. In recently visiting Ids Dewitt-enlarged oboe-
rooms we found a most rare display of h Ply-ornamented
watches of alt Elude. The watches here exhlbi anemias those
of any other English manufacturer lu respect to novelty of de-
sign. combining artbdic beauty and exquisite finish in the orna-
mentation. The settle reputation which Mr. Eetaion him gained
fee the perfect time-keeping qvalities of his watches Imes.
nothing for us to say on this point. Sir. Beason CAD meet the
views of the cconoink utilitarian with the tame facility as he
ean the wishes of the most elevated. A Meyer intent on Suouffeig
a superior notch of growl deAlgn and Main qualitie. cannot goal
meettug with rattefection at tide establistiment.--Ohesemir.
Iliosoet's Illustrated Tan /Min. post free fur two stamps. le
demriptive of every constriction of watch tom made. Ws• Ghee
ask by pat to ell vale of W. aktb&—illArort:ssivaunt.