The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-08 00:00:00

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WiINMI We1ia0;11 Armor, Lilly a collector of rates ion
Mingles, *gala *preyed spa a charm of embezzling
various mss al raw ts the, emment of 700/. and upward*,
received by Mat en seamed et the parish of Bt. Mazy,
Islington.
Mr. Lamb*, the vestry clerk, said that sines the lest ex-
amination the prisoner's sureties bad paid the amount of the
bend. He &mild not now proceed with the lancer sem, as
he did not desire to Indict for • general deficiency as shown
upon the prisoner's accounts, but the embezzlement wee com-
plete as coon so • frenduirot non-amounting was shown.
He now intended to take three funher cases of specifics em-
bezelement, and If he should decide upon g ing on with any
more, be would give notice to the other side.
Three different ratepayer* then gave evidence of baring
paid MUDS of money for rates, and tar which the prisoner bad
given them no peeper receipts. These persona hail been
returned an defaulter, end no credit had been given to the
vestry t*pse t of the three rates.
Mr. Hiuniya, who appeared tot the prisoner, tad be
should roam the defence. . . . .

The prisoner was then committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Conn.. _

The agate ball am before was pat in, and the prie,ner was
liberated.

LAMBETH,

Mr. Benjamin Thomas Jon.., of 76, Mount-street. Groove-
nor-square, who, it will be reoollected, woothe prrercutor is
the case of Welter. and Edwards, the quacks, and who ob-
tained' conviction end 18 moatlas' each hard labour against
them, applied to the Hors. G. C. Norton for hi. advice and
assistance under the following somewhat peculiar thrum-
stances
_ . . . . . .

Mr. Jones sold be had undertaken the prcercution against
the eotorions quirks, Willem and Edwards on pubic
growndr, with a view of exposing end peens down their
peas pretties'. He bad mot cousidered what the stomp.. of
these preseedinge would be, bat be now &hoovered that, ea
proems- ter to the matter, lashed to pay no leas than 68/. He
weseet • very poor man, but hewn* by no means rich, end he
theestht ft very lard that be should have copy eo much money
in additive to lie lose of time, which was considerable. He
wished to sak his warship whether he would kindly suggest
some mew or sada him to an applicatiou to government
in order the; he might be repaid the express, or at all events
a pert of then.
Mr. Norton expressed his eitenisheseet that the applicant
should have bees saddled with the expanse of a case of ewb
public importance, sad said it wee his impeeesiou that the
whole charge would bare been bores by the merited profes-
sion, which bed been es muck heated by the expoeure
• eat of *camps who were add to have netted 3,0001. or 4,0001.

7:Samuel Smith, surgeon to the National Ear Institu-
tion, who accompanied Mr. Jonas, add that the "
Regbleation Society " woeld have taken up this prosecution,
rely that they bed no funds beyond what were employed in
scaliest unqualified practitioners. He could
=rnalorpeak to the disintereeted perseverance with which
Mr. Jo es had followed up the prosecution, and he thensht
it wouM be exiewilegly hard upon him to bear the expenses
31i it. Agar the opines expressed by his worship, that the
medicAl progenies ought to reimburse Mr. Jones the amount,
en opinion in which he All concurred, he begged to bead •
subscription list towards defraying the apneas with& dona-
tion of ft.
Mr. Norton said that wee very handsome, sad a very good
and if the sebsceipteose did not come up to the
tram required (bat of which he eatortained no doubt) be
would have no objection to apply to the Home-office for an
order for the differsoce.
Mr. Smith then ended.* in p enure rabsoriptinna. and
Mr. Jones having mimed We t cab is 114. Norton for hie
Wad attaiUm, the rift gleam

EXECUTION dT I'OBIC.

On Saturday, at noon, John Riley suffered the
puntehment of the law for the murder of his wife by cutting
her throat, at Bull, on the 3rd ult., under circumstances
which have been recently before our readers, by forfeiting
his °walla, on the gallows behind York Cude, la the pre•
seine of soma thousand, of spectator,.
_ .

The unhappy man wee oa several tines during the conned
Friday visited-by ths Rev. J. C. Theneson, the chaplain of
the prison, the last iakenew that day between the reverend
gentleman and the culprit being from half-past eight to nine
o'clock, at which time the wretched man we.' In a calm end
eatisiaetory state of mind. Shortly after the departure of
Mr. Thompson, tr.e convict partook of hie nipper, and he
then expressed himself to be in &perfectly happy slate, and said
he never telt in better spirits in his life. lie afterward' em-
ployed • portion of hi. time in reading the scripture'. He
expreined his deep sorrow for his foul transgreesions, sad
stated his firm belief that he should be saved.
The culprit has repnitadly confessed his guilt in general
terms and acknowledged the jtuitice of his sentence, bat has
not made any formal or detailed conlemion of the circum-
Mame' relative to the murder he perpetrated.
The culprit walked with a firm step on to the scaffold, and
the acertutomed prayers having been read, Riley was placed
under the fatal beam, and the bolt of the drop was withdrawn.
The unfortunate man struggled for • few momenta but soon
ell was over. Life terminated in rather lees than two
minutes after the drop fell, and the culprit apparently did
not suffer mach. The body wee suspended the usual time,
one hour, when it wee out down, deposited in a puffin, and
subsequestly interred, pennant to the terms of the sentence,
within the precinct, lotthe prison.