The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

The Miamiareas Homers' Quarter Bseefons of the Pesos for
the mutt, of Middlesex communed yesterday morning at the
wiltidel4lll, bilk'. lb. Bodldu, Amount-
; sad the following hawk of
Elan, Mr. H. H. Harwood, Mr. Per.
bar', Mr. Bluish:4lm FletcLer, Mr. Charaten, Mr. Bey)*
Beahford, Mr. Coo, Mr. Hogarth, Mr. White, Kr. Bird,
and Kr. Arthur Bellantine.
_ _ _ .

TieMiseierointiiiitTeTie named/6 prisoners, 42 charged
with hike, mat three with misdemeanor.
The learned iMaletent-Jodge, in hie charge to the grand
jury, adverted in general tarns to the state of the calendar,
sad said there wee a cam which would be brought before

them to width ha thought it would he rigi.t to call
their particular sitention, but is cossequestoe of the late
&beery of the depositions, ha wee act altogether
informed of the exact circumstances. However, it

mimed that a perein of the name of Patinae
had bees charged before a magistrate with hay*, dis-
turbed, or bees concerned in disturbing, the smoke
of two pieces of public worship—a charge arising out of
the lamentable dissensions which &Timms time =fortunately
had prewiled in • parish In the amain district of the toe-
tropolia. The charge would probably be founded upon •
statute peeped in the reign of William sad Mary, and gene-
rally known as the Toleration Act, the 18th section of which
provides, "That if any parson or per sons shall wilfully end
malieiousiy or contemptuously come into say
or permit church, chapel, or other congeegatica
by this act, and disquiet or disturb the same, or
peeef ttifeelirebsrefore anovrti:htlecer, o7tpagon pence, o'
bryPlwr9°onoir upon
mailset witnesses, sum find two sureties to be bound by
yy is the peasi snot of 501., and in default of such
wtrim shall be committed to prison. there to remain till the
nal Omni et Quite lieseions, and upon conviction of the
✓id aim al Na nil General or Quarter Sessions shall sat-
in Iffie )61M nod }today of 201., to the use of the king."
near unseilsan of • elmlier character were made by •
misemesell MOO% 111 Ow. 111., c. 166. by_ which the
=l:n, mmeleliele INS 6111111111114 to 401. Whether the
nrindlanensta Ishii night be submitted to their
menifferalbn wma lined dist vim the one atatutear the
aisti any void ad anse youlltat tint their duty we. so
sad iris int Its shall hardly have concsivad It
insacmy M awl to the =Nor al all did not every day's
swims pew that rho ben sEri es ars soanimas
alma adds by prejudice*, and y in nirance to
matins inch as that out of which poseettion arms. It
wee his duty to the. malt= 4 bnpresellon bat that
which wee created bees Ms by the evidence laid
before them, and if that *vitiate* established • prima facie
owe apart the penes atemed, they ought not to
hesitate in finding • true bill, sad so place the
matter to a p opr train for farther investigation.
They all might Lmmt the want of some appropriate
authority by which the prosredlags which have glom rim to
these miserable diepwefms might be regulated and =s-
trolled, but it could sot be permitted, in • country
by law, that violist abase or indecent clamour rarti!
beard in churches or places see *part for the celebration of
divine worship. If they found that the defendant, by what-
ever motives be had been setnated, had so otastinotad
himself as to have maliciously or matetoptuously diagniabed
or disturbed the performaemi of Divine worship an the area.
lions to which the evidence applied, so privets 11101111111 et
feeling or prepowession whatever ought for • =mat le In-
terfere with the impartial maths of their jedges=eepeik:
vent the vindication of the law and the strict ad
of justice, one of the cbiel objects of which wee to take ewe
thet the peace of society Mould not be disturbed with
VilYirmed jury then retired to their room. The
traverse Jury having been called, the court proceeded to
mesh, the jury lots from the constables of the petty
swims) divisions of the county. Complaint was roods is
the entree of the morning of the negligence and =perk=
reamer la which the lots ware 1.1114• out. The names el
eons persons who had been dead for years wens retained ea
the list., as also thow of preens who years and yew eye
Ind give. amine that they were exempt by ream of baiw
OM 60 yews of age. Parma we summed whe have left
the remises for which they were rated more then a year be•
fore the making up of the list, and It wee Weed that it wee a
common thing for the jury papers to be left at houses end
never applied for. The result of this is that on the average,
out of 80 jurors summosed, scarcely 60 are liable to serve,
sad that number Is reduced by excuses. The fault does not
rest with the summoning officer, who acts under the *mho.
My of the sheriff. The names are taken from the list ea fur-
nbdied by the overseers, but it should be borne in mind that
the live sammeed on the Murat doors, sad all persona
see that their =wee are expunged.
Jot Laura= alias Jim y William. 44, wee indicted
twice tor Walls( pewter pota from public-houses.
lie pleaded guilty to the cherges, and also to having been
convicted of the same sort of offence on two former occa-
aft.
The Assistant-Judge said the prisoner, it wee evident, wee
• permit who lived ly this sort of plunder, than which none
could be more mischievous. The sentence= felt it to be Emcee-

eery to par might NOM a severe one to some persona, bat it
wan the duty of the court to protect limited victuallers by
maids( a severe exempt, of those who committed these
cdfinceit It wee not the mere vole. of the poem then was to
be cmaillered. Regular pot stealers were in leases with the
maims of coonteriat coin. The metal was seed in the ma-

animators of bad money, which another portion of the Crater-
ally got into circulation, and thus the public suffered and
the low priscipally fell upon the poor ; and thee • double
fraud was practised. Toe sentence upon the prisoner was
three years penal servitude.
IteArrl Nschols, reanian. second-mate, pleaded guilty to an
indictment for stealing 321., a watch, and other articles, from
• Chinaman, who went by the name of John Sidney.
The prosecutor, en intelligent young Chinamen, who spoke
English fluently, was called into the box, and it appealed,
from mowers to questions put by the learned Judge, that he
; was • ship's steward, and had focused ma acquaintance with
the primmer at Sydney. His arrived it London on the 28,11
of August, end fall in with the prisoner in St. Katharine'.
Dock. The prisoner said he would take ogre of him, and took
him and his things to a lodging-bonne. When he wee paid
off be hmd 361. 17e. 6d., of which stun be put 321. in the
savings bank. The prisoner winced him to withdraw it,
saying he would place it in the hands of the
Bishop of London, who wan a very good and
kind man, and would send it to him by remittances
when be went beck to Australia again. The Fri-
toner said he would show him over Loncloo, and took
him to places of aniuminsat—to Oravreend, Southend,
and Sheerness, all expense. being paid out of hie (the
Chinamaa's) money. At the last mentioned place, he alma-
dotted him without • penny, and haying got the key of his
carpet-bag and chest, be came up to London by the nerd
train, went to the lodgings, and by r•promadmg to the
landlady that the Chinaman had got • beautiful ship, sad
wonted kis things, got pommake of them all, sad so left
Chineasaa destitute red penniless. The case wee placed in
the hand. of Huth Andrew', 62 H, who traced the pri-
soner to No. 2, Woodville-place, °reverend, when In a boa
he found money to the amount or 211. odd, and wine of the
things which were in the chest when it was taken, end
the prosicutor'swatchwaa found at • pawnshop. The prisoner
said the money found there tram with@ prosecutor's though he
at once admitted the theft, but that it belonged to Catherine
Minch* a young woman he ems murting, who lived in the
mime house at Gravesend, and who had given it to him to
take care of.

The Chinaman said his money was In notes and gold; of
the inonry found in the b 4 71. 106. wee in sliver.
The Arsistent-Judge arid it woo a most cruel robbery, and
he doubted whether he ought not to sentence him to penal
servitude. . .

The prisoner sold he was very sorry, though that was
wall reparation; but be was led away by temptation. It
was his first, so it would be his lest offence.
The Assistant•JuOge sentenced him to hard labour for a
year, and ordered the money end articles found to be given up
to the Chinaman.
A young women, deeply &wed in black, and who seemed
much affected, applied to the court forthe money to be given up
to her. She geld her name was Catherine Mint bin, and /Impel.
sorter, who came home with one of her brotherafrom
paid his *armies to her, end they had weed to be married.
Placing every confidence in the prisoner, end having so
other friend to entrust, sloe gave him this money to take we
of. It was left to her by luz mother, who died on the 12th
of August, end she plead it in his hands, as she did not
wish it to be known that she had it through fear. Bhe pro.
&Lord her mother's will, by which everything 1.1 leis to
her, and if she was deprived of this money she should be
thrown penniless on the world.
The primmer said this was perfectly true. It was the
girl's mosey, and be would not touch it.
The Policemen said it was found in the Chinamen's box,
sad the applicant's mother bad been reoeivieg perish relief.
Applicant—Not for three years, sad this was what aim
had raved up. When the pr suer brought the Chisatean's
box he put tee money is it for safety. I never dreamt of
mach a thing that be mid tub.
The Amietant-Judge—Well, but what bee brume of the
Chinemaa's money f How was that got rid of
Primmer—lt ell went, my lord, in wanton extraneous).
The Ambient lodge eaid under the cirtutustancee he
should direct the umey to be retained by the pollee, and
leave the young women to Wog her action in the County
Court to try the question of right, and she had better have
the advice of mem remuemble solicitor.
Two tall, powerful rues, named Collins and Foster, were
indicted for !melee committed en swan upon pollee-con.
stable 161 K. This perbspe was one of the very worst wee
of assaithiog a policemen that ever came before the court.
The prisoner Foster was inciting Collies and another men to
fight in •ta rotro, when the prosecutor, at the russet of
the lasdlerd, went into the how, but was advised by him
not to faMefere alone, es they were each desperate roughs
that swam might be the result. Another polioemen cams
up, are they ash.cl them to be quiet and go awry. Foster gave
the prosecutor s ketich down blow, end while he was prostrate
pre him three kicks—one in the eye, which itorwreabas
tdieligured, and two wider the ear, from the *trots
be Wooloosed out of his eyes. ears, and nostrils. The other
Wow» also struck the constables. They were fousd
Guilty, and the learned judge seatenowl Foster to two years
hard labour and Collins to one year.
Gorge Spires, 21, journeyman baker, was Indicted for
mate riling mows remised by him for sad on account of
John Cook, his master. The jury found him Grillo. and
tt wee then proved that be had been wevietadot a liks
.Smoe with • former employer, although be got this
sitaistica with • " good " character. Senteuted to three
years penal servitude.
Mr.liihtan was for the prosecution.
The Ambient Judge mid the 31.1 instant had been fixed