The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS THURSDAY EVENING% APRIL )B,Z 1860.

1112 SUPPOSED MURDER AT STAMFORD.
Additioual evidenced an important character
was taken yesterday in the ewe of Henry Cathy, charged
with the murder of Elisabeth Pulley, under borrAile
CYCALMIPLIVICO• already described in this Monet.
The inquiry was renamed before the mayor (W. Langley,
Baal, and other magistrates, at the Town.hall, which wee
crowded throughout the proceedings.
Mr. R. W. Owego, managing clerk to Mr. W. Repine-
sou, eibeitor to the decreed lady, was the first minim
examined. He confirmed generally the evidence of me-
moir+ women+ as to the discovery of the body of the de-
he having been one of those who first
metered the home after the shocking occurrence.
He also Wiled that on the ehinmey-Peoe of the room in
which the deceased lay was a 1111:10 bottle, which he had
lace aacertained had contained sherry. The staircase im-
spedeitely adjoined the kitchen door. On the Min be dis-
covered a paw, of candle about an inch long. In the
breakfastroom opposite to the kitchen, there wio on the
true • bottle maturate; sherry, with • me glass, which
had hem and, be the side of it. About three glasses of
wise had been taken from the bottle. Three bunched of
key. were lying &bout, bet he could not be sure whether '
they WINO Al on the table of the breaded-room In
the northeast bedroom were four seta of drawers,
mil some bores Some of the drawers wee'
lock,sl and some unlocked. They contained various
letter* and Papers. which appeared to have been disturbed
sod turned over and left in a vm, loom way. He did not
then observe that any violence had been used to open the
drawers. He next west into the south-red bedroom, and
fouhd It 111 an unfinished state, with several boxes in it. In
ow of the boxes, which warn u.le ,he fogad • quantity
title deeds. Having looked an the rooms, he
be Lid up the house and took chimp of the hop. At that
time be cease to the madonna UM lam Pansy hid sca.
distally set herself oo firs and bees burnt to death. In
the afternoon of the same day be again welt through
the home with • relative of the deceased. Oa
the 30th of December last he lad gives deceased
• cheque me the beak of Messrs. Peacock and Co.
for Ilyf. Ida. Id. He had mess to believe also that she
bed another cheque for upwards of 5001. They searched for
• will, bat foieW nose ; but found the cheque for 5001., of
which he leek poeseenon. Homing Mime Pulley's eccentric
habits he did sot in the first instance suspect that there
hied bees any robbery, although he found some
at the einteets of the drawees in confusion. He
attributed the disordered erierßlitel of the em-
us to the secentric halite of the deceased.
On leaving the house be pm the hody in charge to Mee.
Wallace and MK Little. with ujsaetioss to seerch for the
inereseffe pocket sod a ring, which he knew Mies Parry
ws acesetemed to wear. He was afterwards told that
anther the pocket nor the ring had bees found. Hie sem
poem were then ...roamed, and he semi to the coechmion
that a robbery had been committed. On the Friday (the
day after the discovery of the be 4) the Win ander and
serrousding the body were idled in his presence, but the
nag was sot found. The home was then closed
natal the With, when he made • further exami-
sates of the ashes, and found the pieces of cord produced,
which appeared to have been Must. There was a small
quantity of human hair amongst the siftings of the mhos,
awl .inhering to the hair was what be then thought to be a
piece of hone, hut which he had since ascertained was •
tooth The ring me not found. On the '47th the house
was thoroughly searched, and every boa examined, but they
were usable to find say plate, with the excepting of • salt
mom, • mestard spoon, and • pair of sugar bows, which
were marked with initials, and one or two other small
articles.
iT;hraisirol money fond in the hones comided of
meses ane up in • merther • patsy, • haMperay,
and three farthings. lo Due of the drawers ap t*. he
found a portion .4 a writiegsiesk. To one drawer of
smother set violence had been med, but the lock bed sot
given way.
The premier, es hinter Liked if he had any question to
pet to the witness, replied --I am innocent of the cheep
against ma, and mind ask any question, because I know of
nothing connected with it heyood what I hear in this hall.
(leorge Jabes Menton examined—l am a cabinet maker,
reeling in this town, and am 20 years rime. On Monday,
the lOUs March, I went to the prisoner's shop to work.
The shop is at the heir of his house in St. Martin's. In
the aftemous of the day tamed I saw • rosewood box, with
hr.. lending, ori a shelf in the workahop, to which shelf I
bail neemiun to go for a plane. The shelf ma m the
aide of the shop, high up, WNW the tiles ol the recd.
I could not reach it without a stool. The box
wee about It in lons. 10 in. wide, and about si deep.
I teak up the box sod tried to Mee the lid, bet it ap-
pend to be locked, sod I did not open it. I wan at
work in the mine shop the mat day. Robert March
we there also. About 10 o'clock in the morning I saw
March standing on a stool sythe shelf before named. n •
Cmewaa not pneent. March took up the box which I
pr;viously seen on the shelf, brought it down and
plated it on • booth at which we were working. The boa
wee opened by March in my presence it wee unlocked), and
something ma heard to chink inside. The box turned out to
be a writing desk hued with blue leather. There were
an ink gleams in the desk, but there were holes
fee them. A penholder lay in a partition between
the two holes for the inkstands. March it up the lid of
the lower tart of the desk, sod I them saw six gold rings,
me Scots about twice the Me of • sovereign, • silver
min than • dull tog three or four enesiler elver coins, •
about the aere of half •= , and a silver Ma Two of the rings were haltmoarniag
dap ;ea one of them was an inscription," Thomas Palley,"
and beim that lam ws " Elisabeth Palley.* The Mbar
ring was inscribed inside " Mary Chamberhain." A third
rim was such narrower than the two first described,
and this had no inecriptios on it ; • fourth was
est with small white beads ; the other two
were plain wedding rings, and tech had an in-
heerriptios on it—use "Rule you," and other words, which
I =Ma remember. 1 canact say what wee the inscription
ea the other. There was dm what appeared to be the
silver top of an iakstand. I examined these article. three
es fner times, and thee Maoh closed the box, and replaced
it on the shelf, with an the things in it. On the same
shelf I also noticed two chimney ornaments -span of Un-
shaped china vases, blue and gold- —but I did not take them
down. Both the desk sal the orn•rnents could be sees
from the floor of the shop. After we had examined the
sleek, but the same afternoon. the prisoner got up to the
shelf and gave me two planes off it. About Wi-
pe two I saw the primmer take down the imamate
anal Ito, them on a bench at the end of the shop. He
anal. The ought to hay, gioe home ; they've no besi-
ege. there." He went away, and left them on the bench.
Precem then appeared to he intoxicated. The ornaments
were on the bench when I left the shop that evening, bed
when I went to work on the following morning they ROM
gem I had never sees the desk or the ornaments on the
shelf before the Monday morning. The box was lam
Imian4 but I did ant notice whether there was an inscrigo
Um Oahe on the lid. Oa the Tuesday, when I got home, I
arestiesed be say mother what I had seen.

Policecotedishle Didrmple said —Since the prisoner has
Dew in custody I hare been employed to search his hoes.
and premises Ou the 24th March, in • firephsee in the
primmer's workshop, when there had been • fire on the
I homed the four pieces of brims now produced.
=Zed s: ihe search on Moods., the 26th, and sifted th e
as in the grate ; and I then loins! a lock, an escutcheon,,
some screws, hinges, and other pieces of bites (pradoced).
On further searching the workshop I found in • boa (pro.
diced) lOW more erneaseatal braes work coiled up.
The whole of the pieces of beam corresponded, and ap-
peared le have bees the binding of a wntakoleak.)
The wheats *twos was recalled, and said -The lock
on the dab we similar to U,st now produced by Policeman
Dalrymple. The desk was inlaid with brim, tinnier to
that now produced. I cannot say whether it was of the
eaaet patters, but it seemed to correspond, sod was about
the suns length. The Musts and other portions prodweed
appear to be the mine noticed on the desk in the prieuns?.
The declined to put any question to either Mun.
tea or
Hobart was sort WWII/Md. and confirmed the evi-
denced Meatoir. He them mahatma —On the Thursday
I was still at work for Corby. la the attersime the pp-
weer mad be wasted to see ins sad I mimed the wwkeM
by the beck way. While 1 gut tato the shop primmer was
there He " I suppose ames, mem is a desk IMMO
Milt with Mos Pulley's same!" I rephed that I bad. He
said, " It's balm ; erimothil Hbi,:edt." Primmer then
seed he would go sod fetch the and he left the she..
la shunt a garter of an hour he and mid " It's a
nem; saw. hut something lam it.' He did not bring the
new, or show them to me. Miami* he again said he
would go and feta the rings. He returned in a short time,
awl sod, " I Imps you wee t say anything about it. The
ass! was sinsand ma • time age. I don't know what might
the coommunnew." Tyro or throe times in the course of
the Aftervoon of the maw day the primmer repeated his re.
tnw st that I weimid any mething about what I hail seen. He
*pp. ired eery uneasy. I told him I oh• 'oil out stay
.with
him any loamy Ikea that eight, and I left
woionit asagesei say reams [The witness epTertdolare
wireol NA= hap sobs predoond being similar to what he
hid ou the dark in the prisoner workshop.)
air Supenateadent here produced that portion of
• entities's* mode to 0.041 Z pew, and which had hiss
/mad le the deem...l's hare.
The witness March mid the pen.supporter protiumd ap-
peared as Beath tt Istonind to the desk men ta the pit.
weer'. poonraainn. and which iba.ic was then without a pew
estmorter.
Mr haperintsadeet Ward further_ deposed that had
remised rem( the entire (he,r4a lam& of bap food in
onward. Imam sae et which exactly 'Med the emiell home
lork dineovered by Pubsougii Dalrymple is 110 ihismste 01
the primaries workshop.
Susannah Masten ImMier of the witness es•
araiio+H stated that es eimesquesee of said So her
bry her OM she went to the primmer's home, them se w
Ilea Corby. Whams told bar what Me me bad ad. Osn
She mulls AIM= primmer weed to wilasee's hawk and
" What about them bsys and the welling sleek cud
Maim ?" Witness said she bed bees told by his on that he
hed nee in Oarby's permaius lulluslems raw with UM
maw " Palley' on thaw "No such thing," said the
prisoner, "it was eet the name el Pansy. MA serwastldag
imam to it" He added that the hoz eras
two
to tli•
party to whom it Islonged. This be repealed taro sr Wee
times over.

:Wray AP Ireland, aged Ifl dated th‘t lie bad lived
iiervoot with Vies Palley live or eiz beet several
year. IN The derea.ed hod • ed plat*. +hell
the miaow deerlihed , hod aim sumo now Wanes*

had beard deceased my, in reference to He plato she pos.
mined, that she could set up • jeweller's shop. The de-
ceased always carried a good deal of money about with her.
The prisoner was again remanded until Thursday the 12th
indent.
Fl RI AT W SIDON AMU.. Yesterday morning,
. shortly after five &dock, considerable excitement was
thecreet.eiuddeul in
.Highthiliketreet.a
aWlifireiteLtel, oprlmin
imoomerja
muerocemorof
• room, geaseal Mee, Spectacle-alley, Righetreet, Whits.
chapeL The %dies* on discovering the danger, ran to the
tost and second floor window-,, and screamed pitiably for
help. Samuel Wood. the Royal Fire Escape conductor, was
soon on the spot, and brought down M. Morrison, Sarah
Haywood, end a child. He then again ascended the ladders,
and brought down from the second floor front Mr. Joseph
Cohen and an infant ; being then informed that • young
man, named Isadore Lindeman, aged eighteen years, was in
the second floor back, he again tried to enter the building,
but was driven back by the smoke ; he again unshipped his
ladders, lamed with them two doors off, made a bridge with
them, got in the roof of • shed, sod at last succeeded in
reaching the second floor back, and brought down the young
man nearly suffocated. While this was going on, engines
had arrived, and the ire wee eventeelly subdued, but not
until conisidesable denier wen dew.
FATAL RAILWAY AOOl DINT. —About 12 o'clock
on Tuesday, the_ elpsidsiest the Elkton station of the
, Great Waters Raßwey had termed on the signals for the
, esprar tads which leaves Wolverhampton at 11.38, which
was just approaching. On reaching the platform be looked
hick, and maw an old woman standing just opposite the
place he had left, and motionless, in the very track et the
I train. He called to her, and the driver of the express blew
Mealy with his whistle, bat the woman never seined,
whether, fascinated by the danger, unable to avoid her gals,
or, what is whin se probable, sulkily putting herself in
the way of dosth:a view of the one made more likely by
the fact that she bad climbed • high embankment, and gees
out of her way to get into her then position. When the
ponderous train reached her, she wee at once knocked down
and thrown aside, and when lifted up wasquite dead. There
were, however, not many apparent injuries on the body,
with the exception that one foot was severed. She is be-
lieved to have beep a resident in Hinton.
Seniors ACC ID SST . —OD Sunday last, as a lad
'mead George Stevens, residing in Sidney-street, York•
road, and in the employment of Messrs. Chubb, the lock
makers, was paring some old houses in Maiden-lane,
ling's-cross, which are in process of demolition by the
Onset Northern Railway Company, one of the walls fell
spin him and completely bnrid him in the ruins. After
some tune le was with difficulty extricated and conveyed to
the Great Northern Hospital. where he was promptly
attended by Mr. Lawson, the surgeon, and Mr. Wallis, the
house surgeon. Both thighs were found to be broken, and
he had received a severe wound on the scalp, and other
injuries of so serious • mann as to place his life in con-
Oble danger.
A SHI T on nen —Fnmeotrrit, Arno. 4. —The
Neapolitan brigantine W. K. Routh, which arrived here
yesterday, reports that when off Sealy she taw • ship on
fire and busing, from 4 p.m. on the Rad April until 4 a.m.
on the following day. Her three meta were also seen to
go over the side ; a schooner was near her. According to
another account, the burning vessel looked like as Ammo=
cottee trader, being light.
lir Fitt nil "MIXT Or TER FACTORY' ACT AT
ODDRRIISIILD. —Os Tuesday, before the Hudders-
field magistrates, Messrs. Berry and Turner, woollen menu.
facturers, of Longwood, wen summoned at the instance of
Mr. James Bane, sub-inspector of factories, for committing
• breach of the Factory
to Act, by permitting • •sriainiailre
person tinder the age 18 be employed in their after
the hour of 6 o'clock at night. The defendants pleaded
gaty, and, being the tent offence, the minimum penalty
of IP. was indicted. Mr. Henry Hint, jun, of Ls/di-
ned, Huddersfield, manufacturer, was also summated
on three separate charges—the first, for permitting • lad
under the age Of 18 to work in the mill without fret re-
ceiving a certificate of his age ; the second, for neglecting to
enter the name of such person on the list of workers in the
factory; &nil the third, for allowing young persons under the
age of It to work in certain rooms of the mill, the inside
tops if which had not been whitewashed within the space
of 14 months, as required by law. Upon the former charges
the evidence given was not conclusive, and they were with.
drawn, Mr. Hirst being mulcted in the expense ; but in the
bane the charge was satisfactorily made out, and a penalty
of 3L was inflicted.
][Assuan UNDER DI/TIM:WHIR. —On Tuesday
there was • wedding party at St. Peter's Church, Liverpool,
the bridegroom a working shoemaker, and the bride of •
like sunk. Among the spectators in the entrance was •
women neither young nor interesting—in fact decidedly
*in. No sooner had the bridegroom approached her then
she flew at him with the energy of • 'maim, tore his clothes,
shirt, waistcoat, headgear (he wore a cap), belaboured him
with hearty good will, and knocked him down. At length
he escaped into the church, but she was not to be appeased.
She waited outside, interrupted him on his leaving after
the ceremony, and again attacked him and hie new bride.
The aid of an officer was invoked, and bystanders misted,
bat the enraged woman was not prevented from tearing
the bonnet of the bride, and damaging her clothes as well
as her features. At last the vixen was carried off to Bride.
well, and thence ht before Mr. Raffles. The above
facts were given in eve , and Mr. Raffles asked the pit-
•OlllCT what she had tohs:j. She said that she was • widow,
that the brul pursued her with loving impor-
tunities untileistr :Located to live with him. That shegave
him all her money, bought him his clothes, even those in
which be prevented himself that morning at church. That
she knew nothing of the marriage until that morning, and
when she did hear of it she was angry and took measures
to make him remember his falseness and her revenge. Mr.
Raffles reminded her she must not annoy persons in that
way, although no doubt she hail cause to feel annoyed at the
fellow's treatment. He discharged her with a caution.
Liverpool Post.
POOR-LAW MEDICAL Rem cr.—The bill intro-
duced into the House of Commons by Messrs. Pigott,
Sebolefield, and Briscoe, on the subject of Poor-law medical
relief, with a view to improve the position of medi.
cal officers and to secure more efficient relief to the
poorer ennui, has been printed. It extends to some fifteen
pages, and de operatton is confined to England and Wales.
The relieving officer and other parochial officials are em-
powered to grant an order on the medical officer to attend
sick poor; but is cases of emergency the medical officer is
empowered to attend without such order, and is to be en-
titled to the same remuneration as if it had been previously
furnished. Guanines are to examine the books of medical
officers, and inquire into all the cues upon them. The ap-
pointment of medical officers is vested in • majority at a
meeting of the guardians, at which more than three shah be
present. A provision o contained as to the qualifications
of nab ofti,:er. Medical officers already appointed are to
continue to act subject to the Poor-law Boardl. Parishes
may he taken from or added to the districts where either
of such changes may be considered desirable. Public vac-
cinators are to be registered medical men, and to have the
same qualifications as union medial officers. A number
of clauses are taken up bypovisions in reference to the
remuneration of medical officers, but as they are rather
eomplicated and net easily summarised, we refer those who
are interested to the bill itself. Provision is made that in
certain cases medical officers 1188 to be medical officers of
health. In cases of sudden death where no registered
medical man has attended an inquiry is to be instituted.
THE LATE DORI: RBA NC 114 AT ROHR—The Gior-
nide di Roma, official journal of the Papal government, has
the following respecting the late disturbances :—" On Mon-
day the 196, in the afternoon, the revolutionary faction
attempted to make a hostile demonstration, in the Corso,
against the pontifical government. A great number of fac-
tious persons had assembled there. The plot was discovered,
end the pontifical geadarmeris and the French i
held themselves in readiness to suppress all
ceder. Tower'', 5 o'clock some groups were got t
beaded by • couple of curriers, whom the gendarmes
quickly got hold of. The crowd began to hiss and to abase
the geodarroorie. and to try end rescue their premiers. Not
sncoseding, the rioters, who by this time had been joked
by all the lan rascals about the place, betook themselves
to the Piszes di Colonna, offering all manner of privoca.
tines to the plies. At this moment • handful of genii.
lanes fell courageosily upon the rioters, and dispersal aod
pat them to flight. Few persons have been wounded, and
those only slightly."
THE M A ILA. —SOUTHAMPTON, WIDN WHAT. —Tho
Azsgo left here today for New York, with the United
gyms mails, about 100 proeseigers, and • full cargo. The
80/11.411 also left for New York, with • lam. number of
sad • beeeyeargo. The Ceps mad packet Celt
=herr with shod 40 paessegsn and • full general cargo.
The Pen left with the sad China mail. :the bad
about 90 ansolget whom were Lieutenant-
Colonel Neal, Y ss~Wilson, Captains Patterson, Lindsey.
Wiltshire, Twiresth _lntasloy, *lore, and Fawcett; Lieute-
nants Gordan, lisbalt. Robison., Behan Woodward,
Hann and B. Woodward ; Resigns Jarvis and Meselield ;
Doctors Cheddrestt, Bretchis, Rennie, and Cowan ; As-
sistant Commliesery-General Williams, and the Revs.
Messrs. Itilderbank sad Nusworth. Baron Gros and Count
de Bastard will join the Pent at Malta. The Pere took out
400 packages of treason, worth 126,1971. Bs. 41, and which
consisted of bar silver, worth 70,4451. ; dollars. worth
37,86.11. ; 8,119 sovereigns ; watches, jewellery, Ac., worth
2,5411. 19e. cot. ; cots, worth 6,353/. Ifis. 6d. ; and five franc
pieces, worth I.2RM.
SIXTH K misneirrois Museum.—During the week
ending March 31, 1860, the visitor have been as follows :
—Os Monday, Tuesday, and Enturde (fne days). 4,256 ;
an Mondry and Tesedey (free eveeings , 4,589. Onthe throe
stesimita' days Wesel= to the public fist.), 1,.380; one
seedents' eve ing (Wednesday), 401. Total, 10,826 ; from
the opening of the Museum, 1,361,501.
GMAT NORTHERN HONPTTAL, K INO'S-CRORS.
Number of patients for the week ending March 31, 913, of
which 403 were sew MOIL

[Advertisement.}—Os MI LOMB or Timm AND
so bras Tim, end as now restored by the new patent system
of self-alhennn aft/soot springs: wires: or ligature& ant also
atipost extract/nu any testi fp roots. or say painful np.rstlnn.
by means of aft asd &al lihr Own, oboe ~aim the most per self adhedon, tamof 10 yesssi= by Thomas
Rowan!. ourct •:1 dentist he kb Omer the of Clatter'
bury The Invention Is a Importance many persona and
Owe Interested In It druid nod Oda tread.a lad panbatad.
Itimplan sal MAMA lb With edltieet, peke Is.. and sold
by all bor./taller,: or sent pest tree by Mr. Howard: 17, cleorse-
strest. Hsse.eer apart Lasstea. "We think It would he an set
of kvd..as‘ to prearet this hook to say Woad wise easy require
the .1.1 .1 a deatist "--Chettembea Joann/ This useful
tresilne we ^an drawly rernaimeml : the remarks on astladal
Mega an aspeamily ihmerviss Maantiaa."-11140aaa Ossetia

Kato iinulligna.

he had possesned bluebell of any part of Me lankrayn's
property since tbe beginning of the year ; whether be knew
of my of it being dimmed of out of the ordinary way of
trade; and whether he had removed, or aMsted in remov•
fag, any portion of it. All those questions he answered in
the negative • but witness@ were now called, who proved
that whin the state of Wells's affairs meld be no longer
kept a sserst, he went to the persons maesging the basi-
nesses at Newport and Cardiff, told them that the game
was up, and that they must save as much as they could.
Goods 114741 packed up in barrels, labelled fictitiously, and
consigned to =seamy psalms, and to people who bad
given no orders. Prisoner actively assisted in all this, and
even carried some lamp sugar in his carpet-bag.
A large number of witnesses were called for the prose.
cation.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty. and he wee sentenced
to 18 menthe' hard labor.
NORTHERN ClRClTlT.—Lrvisroot, Aran. 4.

(Before Yr. Jeetise Blsokbern.)
THE INVENTION OF IMMO HACHURE. —IMPORTANT
PATER CAM

The awe of Daniel Farwell., of Manchester, v. William
Ferrier Thomas, of Loodas, was tried, the action being
brought to restrain the defendant from selling or using a
sewing machine, allepd to be an infringement of a patent
assigned to the plaintiff by Charles Toit Judkina, patentee
of a machine invented by him, and patented by him in Oc-
toher. 1852.
_ _

Kr. Manisty, Q.C., who was leading counsel for the
plaintiff, entered at considerable length into the history of the
sewing machine, and thevarioussteps by whichtheinvention
bad been from time to time improved, until its adaptability
to practical purposes had been completed b' the invention of
Mr. Judkins, an American gentleman, which was patented
by him in this country in October, 1852. Before that time
Yr. Judkins bed made various improvements in sewing ma-
chines, and these he communicated to an Begliah_patent
agent named Hughes. In August, 1862, Mr. Hughes
applied for and obtained two patents in his own
name for the invention of Joulkins. In all these
machines, known as shuttle machines, there are
two needles which, by their action, form • loop
stitch ; and in all of them • shuttle, with a thread in it,
panes under and through the loop by which means the
stitches are fastened down. The machine patented by
JUdidni, in October, 1852, differed from those previously
patented by Hughes, in so far that it gave a direct and
simultaneous action to the needle up and down, to the back-
ward and forward motion of the cloth, and to the forward
motion of the shuttle, by the revolution of a double comb
attached to the main shaft or driving axle of the ma-
chine ; those actions in the machines of Hughes
having been produced by different and separate motions,
which, being more complicated, were more neatly in working
and leas satisfactory in result. Subsequent to the publics.
Boned Judkins' latest improvement, Hughes had adapted to
his machine • double comb, placed on the driving wheel,
differing in detail from that of Judkins, but identical in
principle and in all its essential points for producing corn.
Lmal action. It warn to restrain the defendant from using
this last-named application that the present action was
brought ; it being contended, on the part of the plaintiff,
that the alteration of Hughes was a mere colourable adap-
tation of Judkins' principle.
The examination of the witnesses was of very prolonged
duration, and the court was occupied during the whole of
the day in bearing the plaintiff's case.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Williams and Mr. Baron Channell.)
TEI QUI= ON THE FROIMMIITION OF ?RONAN NOM= r.

WILLIAM 001 AND OTHIRB.

Serjeant BaDentine, who was retained specially, with Mr.
Poland, in this case, on behalf of the defendants, made an
application to the court to postpone the trial to the next
esselon. The charge arose out of an inquiry that took place
before Mr. Train, the magistrate of the Greenwich Police
Court, as to the is of a vessel called the John Sugars
all the defendants were szareined, and the inquiry resulted
in the certificate of the captain, who was the present pro-
secutor, being suspended by the Board of Trade for 12 months.
' At the last sum= • MD was preferred, and found by
the grand jury, charging Con and the other defendants
with conspiring together to make a false charge against the
prosecutor, and at the present session five other bills had
nd against the same defendants for perjury. These
bills, he said, were only found late on the previous even-
ing, and he and his learned friend had not had any opportu-
nity of reading the depositions or of making themselves
acquainted with the nature of the charges that were to be
preferred. Under these circumstances his application was
that the trial should be postponed to the next session, end
be believed his learned friend, the Solicitor-General, felt
that the application was a reasonable one, and would not
offer any opposition to it.
The Solicator-General said that he left the matter entirely
in the hands of the court.
Mr. Justice Williams then directed that the trial should
be postponed, and the recognisance' of the witneesee were
respited to the next session.

Sydney Dyer, • diminutive looking lad, who was stated in
the calendar to be 15 years old, was charged with forging
and uttering • cheque for 1241., with intent to defraud the
City Bank.
Yr. Orridge conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner, it appeared, was formerly in the service of
Mr. W ht, an architect and surveyor, in King-street,
e, as offioe boy, and he thus became aware that he
kept an account at the City Bank, and also was acquainted
with his handwriting. On the 18th of February an order
for a cheque-book, apparently signed by Mr. Wright, was
Fesenled at the bank by a lad, and one was handed to him
by tke clerk. On the same day. a cheque for 124/.,purport-
ing to be signed by Mr. Wright, was presented to the
cashier, and it was rather a singular circumstance that,
although this gentleman expressed his opinion that the asg.
nature did not resemble his genuine signature, and the body
of the cheque was filled up in • manner totally different to
his own mode of filling them up, the cheeps was paid is
twenty-four 51. notes and 41. in gold. A few days after
this it appeared that the prisoner went to the shop
of Mr. Lincoln, • dealer in old Mint and other
eeriositiee, in the Blackfriars-road, and purchased
coins to the amount of about 21., which he took away with
kiss, and on the following day be went again to the aims
shop and purchased other coins to a considerable amount.
This proceeding excited some suspicion in the mind of Mr.
Idneoln, who raked the prisoner where he lived, and whe-
ther his parents were aware of his purchasing the coins.
He replied that they did, and that his father was very
plemed that he took an interest in the study of old ooina ;
sad that he was also so pleased with the purchase he had
made on the previous day, that he had sort him to make
another and larger purchase. Mr. Lincoln was not satisfied
with this very ingenious tale, sad be insisted upon accom
panying the prisoner to his parents to see if it was true,
and they started together to Wood-green, where
he said hie parents lived ; and after driving about
until 2 o'clock is the morning, without the pri-
soner being able, as he said, to find his home, they
returned to London, and on the following morning the pa-
smer was given into the custody of lnspector Moore of the
division of police. It was then ascertained that the
prisoner lived with his mother in Nelson-street, City-road,
and on his being searched 70 sovereigns were found in his
possession, and at his mother's house were found the coins
that he had purchased on the previous day The cheque-
book that had been issued upon the forged *order, and two
other forged cheques in the name of Mr. Wright, one for
3761. and the other for 3761. 10s., were likewise found in
the possession of the primmer.
When the prisoner was called upon for his defence, be
said there was no proof that he was at the bank, and he
found all the money that was taken from him by the officer,
tied up in a handkerchief, in Finsbury-square.
Mr. Justice Williams laving briefly summed up, the jury
at once returned a verdict of Oedty.
A certificate was then put in, by which it appeared that
the prisoner was summarily convicted in January, 1858, at
Clerkenwell police-court, of stealing two watches, the pro-
perty of his master, and was sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment and hard labour.
The learnedjudgeobserred that it was every dreadful aura
and he really did not know what to do with such • lad as
the . He then ordered him to Mend down, and
said liewould consider what sentence should be pronounced.
Augustus Robert Seymour, alias leaser, 37, a German,
wascharged with forging an indorsement to a bill of ex-
change for 401. with intent to defraud.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Poland conducted the prosecution, on
behalf of the Bankers' Association.
The facia of this case have appeared v recently in the
police report.. The endorsement allegedm, to ham been
forged was that of • gentleman normal Reed, who had re-
turned to this country from Australia in the Royal Charter,
and lost his life upon the occasion of the wreck of that ill-
fated vessel, on the 26th of October last. Among the effects
of the deceased was a bill for 40/., drawn by the Bank of
Australasia upon their agents in this country. This bill, by
some means or other, got into the possession of theprisoner,
who keeps • watchmaker's shop at Beaumaris, in which
neighbourhood, it will be remembered, the unfortunate
vessel was wrecked, and he afterwards obtained discount
for the bill, which at that time purported to bear the en-
dorsement of the unfortuusite dammed. Inquiry was
subsequently made in reference to the matter, and the
prisoner, upon being questioned, said that he had
sold • gold watch to • gentlemanly sailor-looking man
for 221., and received the bill in question in payment,
sad gave 18/. change. The prisoner, it appeared, also wrote
• bitter to the father of Mr. Reed, in which he requested
bins, if he wanted any further information, to write to him
pereonslly, as be was tired of the interference of " mer-
chants, esquires, and bankers." The father of the deceased
proved that the endorsement to the bill was a
rz teread written* was given that it was in the hand.
of the prisoner.
When called upon for his defence to the charge, the pri.
soar put in a to written statement, which commenced
with sonie doggrel verses, which the prisoner called " a new
masa of the Psalms," and he went on to state that he had
obtaleed the bill under the circumstances he had before
stated, and etpressed • wish that the man who had im-
posed epos him might " find his way to hell."
Mr. Justice Williams having summed up,
The jury almost immediately returned • verdict of Guilty.
The learned Judge, in passing *anemia said he thought
it was very probable that the prisoner had picked up this
bill sifter it was washed ashore, or had purchased it at • low

priced some one else who bed done so, and the temptation
thm thrown in his way had led him to commit the forgery
of which be had been convicted. Under them circum
gimes, be did not feel himself called upon to pass such a
were sentence as was usually inflicted upon per,ous who
wine coavieled et fleiTMg mercantile instruments, and he
einsidered it would be a sufficient punishment that he
should be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for fifteen
months.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell )

Staples and George Chesterfield surrendered to
take their trial upon ea indictment for misdemeanor, pre-
ferred by the City authorities, in which they were charged
with having sent up to London meat in • diseased state,
and unfit fur food, with intent to expose it fur sale.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted ; sad Mr. Serjeant Parry defended
the defendant Staplee, and Mr. T. Atkinson defended
Chesterfield.

The cue, which occupied the court nearly all day, was
this. On the 26th of December, Mr. Taylor, a sideman in
New ate-market, received a hamper of meat consigned to
him from the defendant Staplee, of Croyland, Lincoln-
shire, for male. Upon the hamper being opened, Mr.
Taylor found it to contain three quarters of cow
beef, and part of the fourth quarter, weighing
in all about 50006 e, in a state unfit for food. Mr. Taylor
immediately gave information to Russell, the officer, and to
the beadle of the market, Kentish, and they at once took
possession of the meat, which was subsequently inspected
by Mr. Fisher, who condemned it and directed it to be de-
stroyed. Mr. Taylor had not previously to this had any
transactionswith Staples, but he had with the other defend-
ant, who is a butcher at Croyland. An inquiry was then
set on foot by the City authorities, and they found that
Staples wu a fanner at Contend, and had the management
of his brother's farm. Whilst the •
airy was going on a letter
came up from Croyland from a Mrands, a barber, residing
near to the slaughterhouse of the defendant Cheutedeld, in
which he stated that be had seen a dead cow sent from
Chesterfield's slaughterhouse, after being dressed there,
and that it was in a dimmed state. Mr. Muter, the uni-
tary inspector of Croyland, then ascertained that upon the
23rd of December the cow was found dead upon Mr. James
Staplee's farm, having been accidentally strangled. Its
throat we, then cut, and it was taken to Chesterfield's, and
there dressed and sent up to London. Some of the wit-
nesses said that the cow was in such a bad state that the
small whilst it was being dressed caused Chesterfield to be ill
for some time afterwards. The skin, when taken off, wee
gorged with blood and putrid matter.
In mu-examination it was elicited that the cow was in
milk up to the time of its being found dead.
Mr. Serjeent Parry, for the defence, argued that there
had been no intent upon the part of his client that the
meat should be exposed for sale if thought unfit for food.
There had been much exaggeration about the state of the
cow at the time of its being dressed ; the weather
being at the time warm, the tneat had spoiled by being
packed. The defendant had sent the carcase up, not think-
mg it unfit for food, and relied upon the went in London
not to expo,* it for sale unless be thought it fit for food.
Mr. Atkinson, in a most eloquent and able argument,
the same line of defence for his client.
adopted
Lordship having summed up,
The jury retired, and were locked up until nearly nine
o'clock, when they returned a verdict of Guilty.
Sentence deferred.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Elizabeth Peek was brought up on remand, charged with
forging the name of Emma Prebble, with intent to defraud.
From the evidence adduced now, and on a former occasion,
it transpired that Prebble, some three years ago, formed an
illicit connexion with a gentleman of good position, who
soon afterwards quitted England for India, without making
any provision for her, in consequence of which her confine-
ment took place in the workhouse. Subsequently, she went
to lodge with the prisoner, to whom she raided the circum-
stances which bad led to her being in a destitute condition,
and on whom suggestion it was resolved to apply for assist-
ance to Prebble's seducer, who did not aT: to be aware
of her condition when he left this coun . The prisoner
accordingly wrote to the gentleman in bble's name,
acquainting him with the birth of a child, and asking for
maistance, the result of which appeal appears to have been a
quarterl remittance of 161., by draft on the Oriental
Bank, e-street, payable to Prebble. Meanwhile, an
' arrangement had been come to between the two women
that the prisoner should take care of the child, whilst its
mother went to service, and that she should be remunerated
by receiving one-half of the money which its father might
send for its support, but the letters containing the remit-
tances, being sent under cover to the prisoner, she opened
them, and on several occasions kept back the letters them.
selves, cashed the draft they inclosed at the Oriental Bank,
having first forged Prebble's signature, and then told Prebble
that they were for smaller amounts than was really the
case, applying the balance tuber own use, in addition to the
money handed to her by Prebble, as the " half, " which it
had been arranged she should receive.
The prisoner, in her defence, alleged that she had a
general power from Prebble to conduct the correspondence,
and the money at her discretion for the benefit of the
child; t this statement wee altogether denied by Prebble,
who, on the other hand, charged the prisoner with forcibly
detaining the child, and endeavouring to intimidate her
(Prebble) by threats of writing, so as to stop the supplies
from its father.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
SOUTHWARK.

Walter Grinsione Boad, • young man of respectable ap-
pearsime, was charged under the following circumstances
Mr. Joseph Burgess Mead, general manlier to Marra
Peek, Preen, and Co., aerated bread and biscuit manufac-
turers, Mill-street, Dockhead, said that the prisoner wu
the general superintendent of their stables, and it was*
part of his duty to receive and account for return packages
at the factory. Last week he beard a rumour that the pri-
soner had sold two of their horses without the authority
of the Inn, and that he had converted the proceed* to his
own use.

iii7Bareham—You charge him with stealing them?
Mr. Mead—Esactly so, str. He had no authority to die.
pow of them. His duty was to see that the horses were
secure and properly attended to. The firm had twelve
horses which were kept in stables adjoining the factory, and
they were supposed to be safe until last week. On Friday
last I saw the pr sorer in the warehouse, and salted him if
it was true "that he had sold or offered to sell two of their
horses?" He replied, "I have done nothing of the sort"
He also said, "I am aware that rumours have been circu-
lated to that effect, but there is no foundation for them."
On Monday morning the prisoner should have attended to
his duties in the factory, but he left • note in the stables,
stating that he was unwell and could not leave home, bat
he would attend on Tuesday. 'He, however, did not return,
and on Monday last a man named Mitchell came and
claimed one of their horses, which he said the prisoner had
sold him. I did met see Mitchell, but on Tuesday I went
to him about the horse, when he said that he had pur-
chased one horse of the prisoner and paid him 91. lOs. for
it, and that Bond had sold another for the same amount.
Then I went to Bond's house, but he hail left home, and
nothing more was seen of him until apprehended by the
police.
After some further evidence, the prisoner was committed
for trial.

THZ LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.—DEFALCATIONS
or run RZOMTZAIL —ln as article upon this subject the
Literpool Mercury dates :—" For the last two day. the
judges of the Liverpool County Court, Messrs. Blair and
Hutton, have, with the srustance of the treasurer, been in-
vestigating the accounts of Mr. William Statham, the regis-
trar of the court. Up to the present time a deficiency to
the extent of KO. Ins been discovered. Although the
actual defalcation is not likely, owing to the system of corn.
tini)periodical payments, much to exceed 1,000/.. the
rYiry has brought to light a system of irregularities so
flagrant, that it is impossible that the registrar can
retain his situation. The oft recurring complaints of the
suitors are now easily explained, and it is not unlikely that
some of the inferior officers of the court—those at least who
were cognisant of the fact that money had been improperly
kept back—will also be compromised. There are other sub-
ordinates who, having become surety and accepted bills, wall
suffer pecanary loss which, in their position they are little
able to war. These testa cannot fax kept hack from the
Lords of the Treasury, in whose hands rests the power of
dismissal, and if we are not mistaken, information has
already been forwarded to the government on the subject.
The Rev. R. Statham, of Tarporley, and Mr. Richard
Bevan, wine merchant, are the sureties for the registrar,
and they will of course be responsible for the deficit. The
salary of the registrar of the county court is 70W., and, with
the fees arising from insolvency cases, his income reaches
about 1,0001. a year.',
THZ EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF THE MATRON
OF THE Curve UNION.—On Tuesday an inquest was held
at the CUR= Union Workhouse, on the body of Phcebe
Hunt, matron of that institution, whose death era., supposed
to have been caused by violence from a lunatic, as reported
in our columns. An old woman named Frances Pion, an in-
mate of the workhouse, deposed that a female pauper, Ann
Richards, a young woman, was admitted last Thursday even-
ing, whose conduct was very violent, awl who desired to
leave • that a struggle took place between her and Betty
Wood, assistant to the matron in the ward, in which
Richards bit Wood's arm. The matron interfered,
and went to Wood's assistance, and shortly after-
verde was seen to fall. The witness (Pion) saw no blow
struck by Richards, and thought Mrs. Hunt was in a fit.
Assistance was obtained, and it was then discovered that
Mrs. Hunt was dead. Fanny Sap, a pauper' who was
present during the affray between Richards and Wood, gave
evidence as to the outrageous behaviour of the former,
stating that Richards struek Mrs. Hunt a blow on her neck,
on which she fell to the ground, and never moved after-
wards. Wood, the assistant matron, confirmed the above
facts, after which the medical officer of the union, Mr. E. S.
Mayor, was called, and stated that on a poet mortem ex-
ammation of the body of the matron, he could discover no
bruin or external mark of violence ; the vessels of the brain
were congested, and he thought the immediate cause of death
was a cessation of the heart's action, which might have been
occasioned by excitement, or concussion from a fall. There
was no trace of a blow, nor if it had been struck would death
have taken place instantaneously. The coroner having
summed up, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with
the medical testimony, acquitting the persons connected with
the union of all blame.