The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-15 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Lnwoug, Das. 14.

Mr. Justko Crompton took his sera la the crown court
..only after nice o'clock, and the trial of the city prisoner
was then proceeded with.

MORONI/WWI ASSAULT AT LINCOLN.
Israel Taylor was clammed with having, on the 16th Sep-
tember last, telomoualy out and wounded Elijah Taylor with
intent to do Men strume bodily harm.
Mr. Flowers prosecuted.
The case wee one of stabbing arising out of a drunken
brawl, the prisoner and prosecutor being brothers.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy on the ground of his Mimi; received provo-
cation.
He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.

WESTERN CIRCUI I.—Exeree, Drs. 14.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell.)
The court was oocupted nearly the whole of yesterday
trying canes, which are not lit for publication.
In conesquence of no return having been made to the Home
Secretary of the ease of Thomas Kavanagh, a master mariner,
charged with having " wattled" a veeeel with intent to de-
fraud the underwnters, It WM adjourned until the March
assizes.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIvaaPooL, Dec. 14.
CROWN COII1T.—(134(011 Mr. Biro YArtia.)
♦ HUSBAND KILL= IT 111 Will.

Susan Train. ins @tugged with having murdered her
husband, Alexaoder Trotter, on the 3rd Oct. last.
The patties heed in a court off Sbaw•hill, Liverpool, and
on the night of the day in question, both being very much
intoxicated, the decoyed made several efforts to sink, the
who ran ow.y. Bhe afterwards went beck to the
roiaur and upstairs, where he wee heard calling out to the
prisoner in threatening language. The prisoner went Into
the house and came oat with. table knife In her hand. The
deceased rushed down attire, and she ran away. He overtook
her end made en effort i. oinks her, but a man named Roche
caught hold of him. He escaped from Roche and ran at
his wife, who then struck him with the knife. He fell,
wounded in the collar-bone, and was conveyed totiteNorthern
hospital, where be died in an hour. The prisoner gave vent
to the most pattelusate supremos@ of contrition immediately
lifter her husband kilo

The jury found. verdict of ifemslaugAter, and the pri-
soner was sentenced to three month.' uupriaoninent, with
hard labour.

Alai° HT ♦ TOBACCO PIPE.

Michael Borne was charged with the manslaughter of
Thomas Denies, at Wigan, ori the of October. On the
night in question the deceased loft a publie•houee in Wigan
about r 1 o'clock. The Owner and some other men weer
standing in the street: The deceamed went towards them and
aid something to them, when one of them, who was stated
to be the prisoner, struck him a blow in the mouth which
knocked him down. His bead come with a violent blow
against the kerbstone, and a tobacco pipe which be had in
hie month at the time was faced into hie throat, where a
portion of it broke off. This the surgeon stated was the im-
mediate Maas of death.

Witnesses were celled with the view to show that the pri-
soner was not the men who struck the blow, and the another
of Betas stated that he was in bed before I l that night.
The jury returned a verdict oh bet Guilty, and the pri-
soner was dierberged.
Mr. Justice Will.. was expected at Liverpool last (Wed-
nesday sight), and until the civil cases commence on Ptid.y,
he will try prisoners in the Nkd Piing Court.

YORK, Dic. 14.
(BMore Mr. J tistios Wiegman.)
MANNLAUORTIR AT LEROIII.

Proderieb 80b,... Johnson, 23, was charged with the man-
slaughter of John Fletcher, at Leeds, on the 12tk of Novem-
ber last.

Mr. Vernon Blackburn and Mr. Bruce were for the proem
rutin. ; the primmer wan defended by Mr. Foster.
The deceased was • publican. and kept a house known by
the name of the Holmin-the-Wall. Oa the 1 Ith of Novem-
ber lest be late his home about eleven o'clock in the morning,
and nothing more wse known reepeoting him until between
eleven sad twelve the mine night, when he entered the
Templar's pubhc.bouee, in Templer-street. He wee in the
company of an abandoned female n.med Anne Green, and
shortly before 'indolent be left the Loopier's public-house,
end went away with tin* girl. The demseed wee then affected
with liquor, sad he proceeded with this girl to • boom of in-
terne, kept by a women named Johnson, the primei is
mother. The hemmed rat down in a lockleg-chsir, and was
asked by Gesso, and by another girl named Eosebeth
Rhodes, who was orpiment, and .1.0 by the prisoner to pay
fur some liquor whiob would be sent tor. He declined
to accede to this regnant, upon which toe prisoner told him
that he had better leave the home. The deceased said
nothing in reply, mid retained his seat. The prisoner
became excited, and seized hold cf him and pushed him out
of the bones. He tell down wan stone steps with great
violenos outside the door, and was very much hurt. The
girl Orem remarked to the prisoner, 00, Fredetick, you
should not have done en, you Easy knee hurt him." Imme-
diately alter this the prisoner west to the door, and lifted up
the deceased, who was lying In an treenrible state, and
brought bus again let., the home. aid plaited him upon the
beeirth-rog in front of the tire. The decemed remained in
thin position tor the re...inner of the nieht, no augment was
called in to attend up n nod he we. nut removed from
the house until n. xi day, when be wee in a dying
state, and wee taken Miele la a ode. About en
hour after the deceased wee Wand the primmer led
a quarrel with the girl Rhoden, and struck her severely
on the minnh sad Dose. Rhodes then ma est of the=
and breught la a policeerenstable. who sew the d
lying is trout of the tire. The Owner's to Abet mated to
the .11Icer that the eft ceased was a penes ietiotat elle knew,
and mot be was to him alone. The police ems sr Wl-
solisently did not take any further soden of the deeee.ed, and
Ike them the premium. Alter the dammed wee moneyed