The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-09 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YnnaDAY.

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Swan Ma.numeniter ADM" Morrow !coos.
The goosed Quieter Sessions of the NOM for the county I
oillikillesen esmommeed yesterday morning at the Sessions.
bressacCterkteawell. There were 100 prisocers fur trial, 95
of wham were indicted for felony, and 6 fir misdemeanour.
In delivering the charge to the grand jury, alter they had
been semen, the learned judge hay.ng celled the attention of
that hod to the state of the calendar for the present session.
that there was ens subject which he desired to
heimg lake their particular notice, 'Hiatus, as it did, not
sa the administration 'rif justice, but public time, public
senveniesee, and the county 'opens's. At the last session
the %rand jury at this court were kept waitinv some consi-
derable time in consequence of the refusal by see of the City
authorities, presiding at the Central Criminal Court, tibia
happened to be then sitting, to permit a policeman, who was
• witness in a case there, to attend and give his evideece in
a ease in which be was coseerned is this court, and the wa-
w that the prisoner was discharged, there being
a.
presented against him, and it was impossible that he
(Kr. torjeant Adams) could keep the grand jury waiting
until the Common &orison *hoes to allow the man to leave
the court. The very same thing occurred the nest
day, but there was no failure of jocks in consequence, he
was glad to lay ; for by consent parole evidence was given
et some documents in the policeman's pore/aim ; but the
Common flojetint sent a message which he certainly consi-
dered es below the dignity done court of justice to send to
maths,. lie had since been informed that at the time the
essomislad Oman seat refused to permit the officer to Wive. the
whom the officer was to give his evidence
m.
est been arr_eigned, and could not, therefore,
be taiga ire NM time. This court, thercfore, hid come to
the restilatkm. net Ibr the purpose of entering into a contest
with ennfame Jamisdietion, bat with the view of pre-
' vends", fee the future, any similar failure of junkie
and the recurrence of such unseemly Mend:
I ings—that when any pollee constable had a ere
at this and another at the Central Criminal Court,
he should, if the two courts happened to be sitting at the
same time, present himself at this court first, and on kis
mentioning the circumstance to the court, such an strange-
mast should be made m would enable the officer to attend
the other court without any inconvenience to that, or to this.
lie was quite sure that this arrangement would meet the
approbation of every one of her Majesty's judges. His
lordship then proceeded to make some remake upon the
gra.nd juries of this coontry being sworn secret tribunals.
Since the revolution the administration of justice in Rag
land, had been universally esteemed the purest in th
world, and that purity was attributable to the publicity
with which it was serronaded. Bearything that transpired
in an linglish court of judos was under the immediate eye
of the public, and It was the knowledge of
' that publicity that kept judges, juries, counsel, and
witnesses to their various duties, and deterred them from
&vied.' from the strict line of propriety they were bound
to observe. Not so, however, with grand juries. They
were bodies irresponsible, and sworn to 'term, without the
requisite means and facilities for investigation, with no band
to guide them in the discharge of the duties ,brawn upon
them, with no previous knowledge whatever of the matter;
brought under their consideratioo, and these circumstances
too diet resulted in the complete frustration of justice. His
'optimise told him (and every day convinced him more and
more of the feet) that publicity was the most important
element is the admiaistration of justice, and that the ser-
vices of grand juries might be dispensed with altogether
aids advantage to the community.
Thu grand jury then retired.
AULT/LT.

Abrahams Weldor., 33, a coach- muter, was indicted for
assaulting Mary Wastes, his wife (since deceased), and also
for ismalUng Mary Ann Coney.
It appeared, from the evidence of Mary Ann Coney and
the other witnesses, that the prisoner and his wife had fur
setae time lived in an upper room of the house, No. 7, Co-
lonnade, Russell-square, but, in consequence of his being
out of employment, and his intemperate habits, they expe-
rienced severe privations, and they had scarcely an article of
furniture in their abode. They frecthinstly quarrelled about
the raiserable °milkiest of their hose and his conduct, sad
on the 6th of December, they and Mary Ann Coney, the
wite's Omer, eat down to partake of a breakfast, procured
with a burrowed sixpe as what the saintlier applied a very
foul epithet to kis wife. She replied that it sho neeseved the
name be bad called her, he was then eating the produce of
the conduct that entitled her to that appellation, whereupon
the prisoner come eased throwing spooneful of hot tea into
her hoe, and she in return threw a mugfull or tea over him.
Me had their child, about Myths months old, in his arm.,
and rising from kis seat he dealt her, with the hand be had
at liberty, some blows on the side of her heed, sad would
hare dose more bad not Coney takea up a knife and threat-

fined tow It if be Aid not desist. The emus 'Memos Ise
told Osumi that hie dwell bus bar out of his pleas, sal
tepee fter gefteinsto p he seized her by the wee sad threw
bee eft Ignall4eleam Into the pump, sad he afterwards
eakeermesea. orkiag her by the hair of the head, be throw
her dams Wars. She, however, regalaed &einholen to the
room, .ad ea the following (by the primmer eemmenced
begin his wife, who was in saes • weak esmilden that she
seed mot stead, ate SIN bll, striking het head edema the
fireplace. H. the. hod the won is his erne, sadles said to
her, If it erns set for this p•or child I'd give it you."
She died ma the lellewlig Wedasedgs. • esionses bluest
was held wpm the body, and Mr. W.HensePeplesin, eargeon,
bs woe gelled in to mend bee, \gems staled that die &b-
-assi dial free seagestisa of the beet., Mew tree muses
paha* by viesses, the Joey careened a verdict
be that comet, sad the prisoner won taken labs onstedy. The
aw steed that there were ao 'sternal marks of
ulelmaa eigen thermos of the deeraised, but the congestion
ettlis beaks mighthave schwa from blame gives by ma *pea
heed. The nenilleem of heir, beereves, woe sash that • very
eight mum WOO lave prams& the songestiess, suds es the
yh
tram a rtunsii. /wefts defessee, said he mold not deny that
ea assault bid ben esmositted, but the prisoner had received
pest provosseses, his wits being a woman of very hay and
dirty habits, ad when else end the primmer quarrelled it
was is consequese oldie ebbe condition la which she kept
herself end the au. He would call Mermen to the pri-
soner's oharseter, sad their evidence would show Wake was
net a man of a brutal or malicious dieposition.
The learned judge said the counsel could not all witaern
to character la lOW of comma se•ault.
Mr. Panel said he was surprised to hear his lordship say
this, for he (Mr. Parnell) had never known In gay other
court such evidences to be refaced.
The learned ledge said that if Mr. Parnell had ems such
evidence essayed, It must hams been in a court where the
judge knew 'tithing of the law of evidence. Such witnesses
had never been examined la this tout. The maimabon of
the bar present mild tell his what the practice of this court
was.
Mr. Payee mid it was the invariable rule not to allow snob
evidence to be gives. Could Mr. Parnell give any issuance
la which he had known such evidence admitted ?
Mr. Parnell said it bad been admitted repeatedly by the
Recorder of London to hie personal knowledge ; but if the
learned judge decided the he would not bear the 'Mamma
dtours' he was bound by that decision, and he certainly
was surprised that hie lord.hip should refer him to the bar
practising in thb court fee a confirmation of that decision, for
he
had not by say means the highest respect for the members
of it.
Mr. Payne said be could not allow so unjustifiable and per-
enoelly lambing a remark as that just made by Mr. Parnell
to pass intaotioed. For his own pert he treated it, as far as
it applied to hiss as one of the counsel of the court, with all
the contempt it deserved.
The learned ledge hoped Mr. Paine would not notice the
matter, and he +Geld remind Mr. Pannell that the ileum
he should pursue to benefit his client was • conciliatory one.
Mr. Parnell exceedingly regretted that he should have
incurred the censure of the court, for there was nothing be
disliked more than an altercation with the bench or the her,
the former moserially. lie had rated what he knew to be the
practice in other court, and in asking his lordship to receive
the evidence he was not aware that he was ow ntepping the
; pasties of this court.
The learned Judge mid that his observations were not in-
tended us 'ensure.

The Joey Wend the primer Guilty.
The Warned Judge said that there was nothing in the
evident, to jastlfy the conclusion that the blows 'spoken of
had any relation to the come of the woustee death, or the
ease would have beam a very different one. The sentence
was that he be imprisoned two months in the House of Cor-
rection. He had already be. nin prison a month.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE. _

Ovraaou vrox ♦ Poucamur.—Delsis Ryan, Edward
Brasil, end Catherine Lanney were charged with having
committed a desperate assault uptnapoliesman named Not-
lay, in the neighbourhood of Widegate-alley, Bishopegate.
Notley, who was stated to be is the hospital suffering
from the effects of a severe beating and kicking, was seen by
another policeman staggering from weakneee and lose of
blood in Widegate•alley, at 3 o'clock in the morning, and be
supported him to the station-house. It appeared that in the
attempt to put an end to a tailor's row the officer had been
attacked, and that Ryan was amongst the most
violent of his assailants. Brasil was believed to
be another of those who made the formidable attack,
and a hat was picked up near the spot on which the
skirmish took place. A bonnet was also found there, to which
Catherine Lanney war supposed to have a claim. The police
had been called to the place by cries of murder, a word in
general use in that vicinity, but repeated in a tune which
showed that it was really meant. Ryan, who acknowledged
that the hat was his, war identified not only by Notley, but
by a boy who was tsking his father's supper to him at a
warehouse. _ _ _ . _ .

A boy, named George Ruby, who appeared to tie about
14 year. old, was thee put In the boa, and the Tratam•nt
was handed to him. lie looked quite astonished upon taking
hold of the book.

Alderman Hunsphary—Well, do you know what you are
about ? Do you know what an oath is ?
Bor—ho.
Alderman Haraphary—D3 you know what a Tata-

Boy —No.
Aldermsn Humphery—Can yea read ?
Boy—No.
Alderman Humphery—Do yon ever say your prayers ?
Boy—No, never.
Alderman Humphery—Do you know what prayers are ?
Boy—No.
Alderman Humphery—Do you know what God is?
B y—Ns.
Alderman Humphery—Do you know what the devil is ?
Boy—No ; I've heard of the devil, but I don't know him.
Aldermen Humpkery—What do you know ?
Boy—l knows how to sweep the evenings.
Alderman Humph. ry—And that's all ?
Boy—That's all; I sweeps the crossing.
The alderman said that en all his experience he had never
met with scribble like the deplorable ignorance of the poor
an'onueate child in the witness-bex. He of comae mould
not take the evidence of a creature who knew nothing what-
ever of an obligation to tell the truth.
The prisoners, who denied that they had been guilty of
any violence, were remanded till Friday next.
_ _ WORSHIP.BTABBT.

REFUSAL TO RIC1111YTZFAS;;X011; tlf AX OXXIDUA.—
R. Newell, the cooduetor of a Paddington omnibus, appeared
to a gammons to answer a charge preferred by Mr. Thomas,
the secretary to the Royal Soder, for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animal., for having unlawfully refused to admit
him as a passenger in his vehicle.
The complainant stated that on the morning of Sunday
ee'nnight he hailed the defendant's omnibus in the Cityroad,
for the purlieu of prom ding to the terminus of the South-
Eastern Railway, in time for the ten o'clock train to Dover,
where he had important business to trauma:. The defendant
immediately turned round and stared him in the fsce in an
insolent , but continued his course, and upon repeat-
ing the signal, which the defendant evidently observed, as he
made an impatient gesture with his hand, it was still dis-
regarded, and the omnibus went on until it reacted the
corner of a street at a short distance, when he suddenly
stopped, and took in three otter passengers. Witness then
entered another omnibus, which conveyed him to the
station, where he saw the defendant, and on demanding hie
reason fur rejecting him as a passenger he replied, in a care-
lees tone, that he had no time to stop.
. On being called upon for as explanation of his conduct
the defendant declared that his omnibus was lull at tee time
he was first hailed by the complainant, but that three of the
pusengen got out before the ste.ppeg• for the 'donation of
the others referred to by that gentleman.
Mr. Thomas, however, positively senteadiend the latter
part of his statement, as he kept the omnibus in sight from
the time he hailed it until it stopped to receive the other
passugen, and be felt quite satisfied that no one got *at
during that interval.
Mr. Hammill said that he considered the case had been
clearly proved, and as the defendant's conduct might have
been productive ofserious inconvenience to the complainant,
who had functions to perform, which, although they might
not be altogether practicable to persons in that particular
class, was of great public importance, and, as a warning to
others in a similar situation, he should impose upon him the
fall penalty of 205., and the costs.

"um !Ai LONDON GAZETTE.— Tuesday, Jas. d.
BAPIILKUPTIL

WILLIAM Baoroan, Fen Dry ton, Cam firmer, to sur-
render Jan. 1$ at 12, And Feb. 23 at 11, at halLatreet. Sot.,
Hub" Upper Carton-street, klnebury ; off. ark., Pesach, Guild.
hall-ehaatters.
Wee Cornea, Mashaster, whoa manaltaborer, Jan. 14 and Feb. 14,
at 11, at IleasMeter Court. BOIL, Abbott, Oldnam ; off. Nag.,
EsrbKskresa,Dltm, Dernalibre, victualler' Jan.l6 and Feb,l2,
at 11, at &Om Court. Sal., Turner, Meter ; off. esalg..
man, Exeter.
EDWARD Full% I:luUdford-atrest, apothecary, is& 211 at t,
3! a,

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and Sweetland,
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Quimairr..mossairq; aIL
DECLARATION OF DIVIDILND.
Osman Ehums, DrolOr!ch, Worotstenbles. salt mama darer-Ist

7117..-of 20.. any Thunday, at Christie s, Birmingham.
DIVIDENIML—Jan. IL W.II. Bstm Birmlngham. factor—Jan. 29.
J. Brain, Uolindartare, Pentondlia, copper plate dealer—Feb. I. T.
Byers, Upper Lissonotrat, Lissamgrove, lammed victualler—Jan.
Mk 0. Yea, Markdown, Darbydirs, paper mandato:sr - Jan. 29.
W. IL Lamm, Upper Nortonairds, Amoy-square, apothecary—
Feb. 1. W. Moody, Hattotreet, Aldgste, City, tailor—Feb I. IL
Vitt=Beery, Laaroshint, grocer—Jan. 30. C. B. Smith, Louth,
e, &spar.
CBSTIFICATMI sobs =km cones bit shown to tho astray,
as the of mossing.
Jan. 30. It. Busby, Woodatreat, Bothnal.green, sad Chigwell.row,
Esses,ironmoncow Itesparger—Jan. 29. D.C. Foster, St. John's4quare, Clorken.
well, .
CERTIFICATES to be granted, ands come be shown to the conirary,
within 21 days from date.
Jas. 2.
Jan. 1.
1.8 J. lloroton.lit.Maralt, Otouoestenhirs, bootmaker—
acter. Hall, tailor.
CERISFICATEB to bs sued mhos coma be shown to to.
' contrary.
Jan. 4. IL Clark Leicester, °Mind maker—Jan. 4. It. Alley,
Leicester, cabinet maker—Jam 31. W. Lorton, Liverpool, auctioneer
—Jan. 1. T. Wood, Waster, thaw merchant.
PARTNERSHIPS 11188OLVED.—J. Anderson and W. Baorce,
Durham scrasrymen—J. Birch and IL IL Brun* Mist Wincbristar-
strety, attais BridgmanWasburtosi, tes,
*smuttiest= agools sys— IL
—ll. J. Coaks and J. Koen—A. 8.. C. CorMandabould sod
L. C. Marta, Illtiandrest, Woad. *gravers on wood—L Clarks
and J. Foam, Qsassoudd, Chimpsids, Qty—T. Dam and F.
Mason, lyowisk, luadsos—J. Dunning and J. Mamma,
Lads, sttornem.ablaw—W. Ibligloy mid M. Billing, Holborn, brim.
foundars—V. B. radaullbs and L. IL Mord, d the solidified
milk—L. Tream IL Botbassay, and . Cutemasah,
City, stank% so fear regards F. Ilsothall—C. OW and J.Warburton,
Ibuabeska, cotton throw doublers—W. MIL T. E. Rasa,
E. B. Kum sod J. Willads, Wasossar Mid& wino 02 Air
as raps* J. William-4. Mani est C. F. Lc" 1411wPdl.