The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-06 00:00:00

AIA Li Azoe, InuIOLAY Z V KIN AIN G, MARCH 6, 1856.

offered to the company by the executive government,
and when the intention of the directors to recom-
mend the shareholders to accept the terms was made
know:4ft wes intimated that the government did sot
intend to submit the proposal to the council this
mosion.

The directors are in negotiation with the go•
vernment upon this point, and they justly allege
that to rocks a purchase and not take delivery for
sight or nine months is neither in accordance with
mercantile usage nor common sense.

The Mamas in the population of the eoloay daring
the past year, from January 1, 1956, has been
44,945.

The yield of the diggings continues to be very
satisfactory. and about 50,000 oz. per week is the
average quantity brought down by mon. A large
quantity of Victoria gold is now being shipped to
Sydney, and the mint there is in full employment.
The issue of the mint is about 20,0001. per week,
which will have to be increased to keep pace with
the demand for coin. Ton are already aware that
this issue is not legalised in Victoria.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

11117012 !ADD =TM Minn MITA AND AM JONTICI
William Griffiths, 34, • powerful looking ass was charged
with the capital °fierce of cutting and woundleg Alfred
Mille with intent to murder him.
Ile primer was else cheesed bathe terms of • particular
statute with having caused bodily friary to the lremcator
dangerous to life.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clark coadneted the prismatic*,
which was Instituted by cedar albs Hom. Efetartary.
The prosecutor deposed that he wee • weeder belongiog
to the Millbesk prison, end in January last the prisoner
was • eteaviet einfld there under • sentence of
penal servitude. Oa the 12th of January be sad
an umber of other senviets who bad to undergo hard labour
were removed from their cells, and man lied in • sitgie
file to the tread-wheel under the charge of witness end
HMO other warders. The prisoner was neer'y the
last of the tile of Poovitte, and as they were going sins,
the prisoser stepped eat of the rank and struck him oa the
heed with • heavy Iron rine, with grope attorthel tilt. He
bled a gnat deal and wee se illy laseasible and when he
partly recovered himself, be sew the prisoner straggliog
with another of the ward. re, nod by the militant' of lour of
the convicts he was mewed. He had not spoken to the M-
auer on that morning, and he gave him no provocation for
the attack he made upon him. Oa the previous week he
had reported the prisoner for theabordinate conduct, and
threatening that he would do witness some 'ajar, it he did
not mind. He had also reported him for seying thee he
wished be could break down the tread-wheel, and he would
do all in his power to do /3.
After • short deliberation they found the prisoner guilty
of wounding the prosecutor with intent to do him grievous
bodily harm.
The kernel judge, in passing sentence, told the prisoner
it the jury bad takes • very aserrafal vitae oft is use, in
acquitting hies of the latent to mama murder. The offence
holed committed was undoobtedl• • mast serious one, end
be could rot au any palliation whatever fir it. It appeared
that be felt him' elf th some way aggrieved at the treatment
be had received in the pritho, but the prosecutor had co-
ating whatever to do with that; he merely perforated his
duty es one of the °Moen of the prison, and in obe-
dience to his orders. Bran supposing that the prosecutor
bad assulthi him on any previous occesion,which, however,
he had positively denied, It was not reetended that on the
'sorbing of the occurrence he had gives the prisoner the
west provocation, and theft was no doubt that he had pre.
paned himself with the deadly instrument that had been
produced end that lee had g me out of his cell with the de-
liberate intention of making this attack Eon the prosecutor.
Under time eircumetascos he felt that be had no Monthlies
but to pace a severe sentence ; and he should thwart re order
him to be ',smarted for life.
When the prisoner heard the @gateau, be etelaimed
in au impudent tone, "Thank you—l am very much obliged
to
John
Bernard Trams, • vary peetable-lookingyoung
man, surrendered to take his trial
tor the nuaalaughter of
lames Tangos.
_ _

Mr. Bodkin sad Mr. Clerk readeete4 the Tr*erutiort ;
the prisoner was defended by Mr. Billsetlie.

This proweation, it sopeand, was institattd by the direc-
tion of the Bond of Trade. The prisoner was the chief
mate of a nerehent vessel ca Ind the Kings, and it was
alit god that be had by wastes wed brutal violence
caused the death of one of the manes on board
the vestel. It appeared that the weasel was at Shanghai
to the autumn et bast year, and that, Wag abort-handed
a her stew, the donated, who, it appeared, was •
Frenchman, was shipp3l at that tort, tourist in savigetiag
the Mirage to Sashed. According to the evidence fct the
la the high
firv;ali% wlslands,thitu..lfwas apt. deiawd, witrwasneter
a very ill stets of health, was pet Is irons sad kept on the
deck, sad it wee also mated that when he was suable to get
up from weakness, the prisoner beat him son cruelly with
a thick reps, and it 'prated that he died very charily after-
wards, and his body was thirties into the its. There was
nannies on board the vessel, and cointrytenily there was
no diatinet evidence as to the cause of death, and it also
appeared is the coons of the an. that the dictated was in
• very diseased state, and that there was as impression on
board the ship that he was " from his dilly, sad
that he had also pricked his fate with bamboo, in onr r to
sake it swell and give hiss the appearance of having the
nervy, with a view to suable him to escape from his due
shire of the labour on board the ship.
The Court, at the close of the case for the I roseenticia,
espoused as opinion that the ',ideaa was not sataeleat
to maintain • charge of manslaughter, as there wee clearly
not only no distinct evidence as to the cause of death, or
that it resulted in any way from an act done by the prisoner.

The jury ememently returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
There was ausether iadiemeat for miedeme Sadist
the primer, la Meths assaulted the deceased, which arose
out of the some drangestemee, and Mr. Justice Erle {s-
quired of the hewed mensal fee the peesesaden wheth.r,
after the venlig. that had Mee =l4, he meidend it
necessary to pressed Mb that
Mr. Clark said that the Beard of leafs, by whom this
promotion was diremell, felt that it was of very great he-
memos thee the seems employed la the am rem, t mitre
*MI met be enhasseadto keprewer sr easel treatment, sad
le Mt IMOt mallerthe elemmetemes, be was Justified in
WM,* MINIM sifts jury whetbee the prisoner had not
eve Msed maim said -_teem Mime mesas the un-
happy Meimeall eau. amid whelisr be wee sot at ell meet.
guilty Odle ellemeof ealawfally meandlei.
• Mr. Judea Reis said that the beresi mensal was of
mane at kliethip le take my steps Its Mena with !thud to
the isilletmeet k quelled.
The primmer was thee with the gems of raids-
meentrar le Megan, assallted the deceased sad
occesiased him Make berme.
The evident* in seppset alines charge wee precisely the
muse as that whisk was relied apse to mapped the theme
of amelathkeer. The ea ef weatediag" was alleged to
be that the Omer by lie mew gee of a rope had broken
the eldest the deesmed. and SWIM the bind to low.
This that was emolelte be oral"- 1. as la the first rue,
by the tribute ef Mee mama en hued the med. but al-
though they all spoke to various mthefelelsem baths hem
committed by the thinner, they malleadielei Mk ether in
several materiel part ed's&
Mr. Ba'laatials male as chin Mims le the lay m behalf
of the defendant, sad le esateaded shut there was teething
Si dhow that he bad dens wee than was necessary for the
presenatien of the diselpithe of the vessel, sad that the
statements of tat wineries bed hem very mush
with Nerd sifts see MM bed been dam by tb..la=
Mr. Outer, the swath of the Mirage, was wiseda
h *aus, tabs Masi Mat he always considered the the
fondant a Mod is Mmese man and a good .fikttr.
la mein te a question suggested by the jury, C
Carta said that it was by his odes that the deco
pat in hem, sad he nem for 'ivies the order was that
the crew amplathed of the deeeesth, sad owed that he
was la the habit of prickles hie thee with bombes,
end by this mesas be gave himself the amuses,
of Masse, sad so ''skulked" from hie work. He she
stated that there was a good deal of MMus amen the
crew, partly accesioath by the as of melt meet, awl IW bs
in emsequesse gam the den and sad others Mu we*
teak Meta food sad Mae from hie own table.
Other whamsa wire examieed, who else gave the de-
fendant the character of a kind and Immune man.
Mr. Judos Erie, in leaving the case to nut jury, said
that although he had put it to the leaned weasel for the
prosecution before the trial mammoth whether he easel-
dere& it arosestry to primed with the resent charm, be
had only does so upon the proud that as the prisoner lied
beta placed la jeopardy upea a maid more serious chugs,
upon exactly the sum eviMsee, it was sot usual to premier/
with a Moor charge ender soak eircuestuese, mid be did
not at all complain of hie laying the present charge Were
them. la law, statleablediy, if the jury should believe that
the Osamu by the me of the MG had cut the skis of
the isms= sal sassed the lowing of blood, be
wadi Is pay of the sharp imputed to Mat
kr the gumai twiistasst, but it was at the same
time ter ems le ;coed& r whether under all the edema-
Meese, se they had been proved by the evidence, it was
made out thee the de &Used acted wilfully cad maliciously,
eemfratkor he bad done more than he effirs'alered to he has
ditobj p
ury ig:atone he Isratizrtaaard the ship.
rnd a
audio
ci
Grille.
Mr. Jost'es Ede said the Court wield milder whet
memo - ought to be ormetemed.
Robert Cummins, 51, deeeritted as a brickmaker, was in-
dicted for having feloniously in his possessioe two forged
Bank of Ragland notes, for 101 rah, without lawful neat,
and with Latest to atter them, sad thereby defraud the
public.
Dlr. Bellandne and Mr. Clack deducted the prosecution ;
the primer was defended by Mr. Parry.
It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution that
on the let February, sem racers, helmets( to the 111 &vi-
sion of police. in emergence of ieformatioa they had re-
ceived, were watchieg a bones is fiesirles-read, Old Hem-
med, and the primmer and another ma cam out, and oa
the emstable laying hold of him, he dropped as envelop,
that was found te contain the number of torpid awes au n-
dosed in the iadietment. The prisoner gam an explanation
sato the maser In which the forged notes mate into Itle
omades, cad them appeared to be good Freud for believ-
ing
that hefted foe a long time bees imaged la proceedings
of, this denigrating.
The jury retuned a verdict of Gritty, cud the prisoner
was sentenced to be kept in penal servitude foe six than.

NEW COURT.

BOOM TWE ~R.DO.

Hem Jackets, 34. pr sou, wee Indicted foe felonnaly
missies to surcease himself to a flat of bssaraptcy.
Mr. Bobbins sad Mr. Poled rowans( ; sad Mr.
piny dehadod.
It spooned boa the statement of the Memel evened,
end the evident" of the ottoman, that In November, 1833,
the yrinort took a shop at Bon, mad shortly &heron& ap-
plied to sauced bones la the City to furnish bins with
rods to opsa the Mee, as a draper's. Amongst tin* when
he apt bid to. sad who were the pent.. to the bankruptcy, '
were Mint AbbottandNottlegbam,ead Masson and Moils,
of Aldermaston!, sad Crocker, of Frrey-street ; end tie
statesmen housed* to then gentlemen to ludas* ties to gin
him emit WM to the elf..et th.t h. lad takes the
drp et Stermiddi had boa a despot% *arse ye we, spas
• men. He said Mat a rapport tom In the oadertekied
he w.s Most Knish ease propeety to Butlaadshin, sad
wished the perneetcrs to write dews Mt so, and make all
die Insiske dry dresbt it. He deo showed Ara a will

at Deaters'-oolasoae, tawarralffig the truth of his weevil's'
The prow/den wrote doers into Ratlandshire to the par-
ties he had sealed, and received most satisfactory answers
in return. The coneequeeee was that the prosecutors let
him have goods emoontiog in value to about 3001. Prisoner
to pay 2004 upon emus of this early in the
Sor=isi:yd of 1854. The geode, and others from duff, rent
warehouses in the city, amounting in the whole to about
1,2001., wore cent down to Eton. The shop at Eton
was only kept open until the 11th If January, whew
it was found that prisoner had gone. The place wee
left quite empty, excepting a quantity of dummy puede,
filled with Bawdiest, which had been need in the shop to
give the appearance of etoek, and aid in tarrying oo the
demotion. It was then found that the will alluded to did
not refer t the prisoner, but to his father; and there was
not any truth in the story about the property coming to
hies and that ha had gone down into Ratlandahlre end oh-
Mined the letters written by the prosecutors, and himself
answered them. A fiat of bankruptcy was thee issued, and
the none notices served upon the prisoner at Eton, but
nothing was at that time seen or heard of the prisoner or
the goods. Bonte time after the prosecutors heard that he
was in Oxford Castle Osol, undergoing imprisonment for
obtaining goods by false pretences at Witney. Upon the
expiation of the mount* he was then suffering be was
brought up to answer this the roe.
Mr. Parry, for the defence, urged on the court that the
proof of service of the notice to surrender was not suf-
ficient._

The cout °sanded the objection, and the jury found
him Malty.
Mr. &Allmon said that primer r bad been guilty of very
fraudulent coodect in 1852. when he carried on a boot and
shoe trade, and war bankrupt. He had, is feet, far years
been carrying on a most deliberate syitem of fraud.
The Recorder, in pawing Old the prisoner that
his cue was about the wont he bed-ever heard, end be
should cot be doing his duty if he did not make •
ezanip'e of him, to opera'e es a warning to others.
He was mateeeed to sin years' petrel servitude.