The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-01 00:00:00

THE DUBLIN OUTRAGE CASE.

The announcement of the verdict in the above
earns was received without any maniestation of feeling
save a alight murmur of approval, which proceeded from
the greater number of the respectable people in the body
of the court.

IFF r. us O'Brien then pronounced sentence as follows ;
—John Curran, after a very full and patient investigation of
your ease, which has lasted for several days, and during
which the various grounds that could be relied upon either
for proving your guilt or entitling you to • verdict of
acquittal !ewe been ea fully eonsidered—after all the wit-
nesses that were produced on your behalf have been exa-
mined so fully, and en much attention given to their evidence,
the jury, ootwithstandiug, have found you guilty. I have so
recently expressed my opinion of the euorwity of the crime
of which you have been convicted, that it is unnecessary for
me to repeat it ; but this much 1 must add, that where
• person is convicted of such • crime—still more, where
the person convicted is in the class of life to which you
belong—a class in whom such trust and confidence is re-
posed by the public, awl who have so many opportunities of
betraying that trust, and of attempting to indict injuries
extreme upon the wefts committed to their care—when, I
say, • primmer is coavioted, after a full investigation of his
case, of such • crime as that, it is the opinion of the court
that to impose Less than a severe and ample puoishnient—the
greatest that the law enables us to indict—would not be con-
sistent with our duty to the laws which we adminster, or to
the public, who are so deeply interested in the prevention of
such crimes as this. Recollect the rituritiou in which you now
stand. Recollect the situation in which you would have
' stood if the admirable and extraordinary heroism of that
young lady had not prevented the perpetration of your in-
tended crime. If you had perpetrated the odium whiohyou
have been charged with intending, at one period—sod not •
very remote one in our history—you would have paid with
your life the peuelty of your guilt. At present if you had
committed the crime which you are charged with having in-
tended, penal servitude for life you would have been liable
to bare undergone. It is for the young lady herself provides'.
dal and a blessing—it is for you a blessing that diesticomded
upon that occasion in frustratiug the purpose for which the
assault was isommitted. The utmost penalty allowed by the
law for as offence such as yours, is unprisooment for two
years with hard labour ; and having due regard to the admi-
nistration of justice and to the security of the public, sod to
deter persons in your statioo from ever attempting or think-
ing of such a crime, it is the duty of the court to pronounce
that sentence which I now pees upon you, of two years'
imprisonment, with hard labour.

The primer". who received the sentence with apparent
indifference and usoonown, was then removed.

A MALI Bnowrowla.—On Monday last, at the
Petty Sessions held at Luton, before Colonel Ames, chair-
man, and the Rev. H. B. Smyth, John Whitelock was
charged with brutually beating two girls, named Ann Wil-
kinson, aged 15, sad Eliza Darkey, aged 16, who had
been apprenticed to him to learn the bonnet trade by the
guardiaes of the poor of Hemel Hempstead, they being
orphans. The mart was excessively crowded, the inquiry
lasting nearly three bows. The poor girls were brought up
in the union drew, and excited the sympathy of all pre-
sent. Mr. Shepherd stated the is.., after which he
called one of the girls, named Ann Wilkinson, who
said the was 14 years of age last birthday, and had
lived with Mr. Whitelock nearly three years. On Sun-
day, the Ist of September last, about I o'clock in the
day time, Mr. Whitelock asked his own children and hie
two apprentices if they had seen his purse, which he bad
mimed on the previous night. Mr. Whitelock went and
fetched the horsewhip from the stable. The witness ran
late the little sitting-room. Mr. Whitelock followed,
and ordered her to kneel down. Being very frightened,
the Aida°. He then put her head between his legs, putting
his legs Glees together, and beat her with the whip behind.
He had the thong of the whip doubled down to the
end el the handl.. She called out as laud as she could.
He mid the more she helloed the more he would beat
her. She ens there more than an hour, and be wag
beating her more than half that time. They all west to
chapel (Wesleyan) but her, Betsy, Eire, and the baby.
Mr. Vihttelock had flogged her several times on her bars
person, and on her head, too. Mr. Whitelock aid, " All
the devils on earth shall not keep me from beating my
girls." Eliza Darkey, having gives confirmatory evidence,
stated that she had beeu with Mr. Whatelock nearly three
years. She had four dozen of bonnets given her to paper
oa Saturday, the 31st of August. Borne of them were fancy
bonnets. At about half-past 31 o'clock at night she had
done only three dozen end nine, and had then three boa-
nets to finish. Mr. Whitelock came in, and said, " Then
you have not done your work yet?' She said, " No." He
the should beat her. He then beat her with a risl
made from a birch broom, and it was ten minutes past 12
on &relay morning when he bad finished. The magis-
trates, after severely rebuking the prisoner for his inhu-
manity, sentenced bun to be Imprisoned in Bedford Gaol
for one month, with Lard labour, for the assault on Ann
Wilkinson, .4 at the expiration of that period to be
further imprisoned for one month, with hard labour, for the
I frank on Elise Darkey.
THE CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY BRlDGE.—Yester-
day the five iron cylinders nearest the Middlesex side west
completed above the level of high water, and are now being
filled in with brickwork and masonry. The extension of
the suspenaion pier on the same side of the water end the
construction of the abutment have been commenced. On
the Lambeth aide the lattice-work which assists in support-
ing the roadway has been carried out some distance be-
rried the auspensiee pier, and the greater portion of the
thrbetween the shore and the pier have been fixed.
mutest activity prevails in order to forward the work
while the genial weather lasts.
JHRBIBY Nsw LlFEBOAT.—Yesterday Rome eatie-
fastery trials were made is the Regent's Canal Duck, Lime-
homes, with a new lifeboat built fur the States of Jersey.
The boat is 30 feet long and 7 feet wide. She was built on
the and under the superintendence of the National
Lifeboatplea lnstitution liy Messrs. Forresta, of Liniehouse.
When capsized *be self-righted immediately, and emptied
herself of the water thus shipped in about twenty seconds.
Her stability was also fully tested by the lifeboat requiring
sixteen men to bring the gunwale awash. The cost of the
lifeboat, as well as her transporting carriage, has been libe-
rally defrayed by the State of Jersey. Some lamentable
shipwrecks have occasionally occurred on that island, like
Guernsey, where the National Lifeboat Institution has an
excellent lifeboat statism. We trust that the lifeboats on
both islands will, on occasions of disasters, be found a
essential 'treks In succouriug shipwrecked crews.
EXPORT Or SPEcts.—Livsnroot., Ocr. 81.--The
Canadian screw steamer Nova Scotian. Captain Ballantine,
which sailed banes this afternoon fur Quebec, took out
18,0001. ia aped*.