The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

'RESS, TUESDAY EVE:

Atet.
dime in finds
ipanifid by ;nut

:,10)4fe 4P'tA
Ibe4men matked and _
yeeterday afternoon, socompanitid by Pm.
her Majesty, aocompanied by Prinow Beatrioe,
this looming.
Princess Lenin end Prince Leopold also went ont.

The Primes of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale,
arrived at Marlborough-house yesterday from Sandring-
ham.
Prince and PALMS. Christian and Princess Hewlett.
of Schleswig Holstein, attended by Lady Susan Melville
end Mr. G. D. Engleheand nine, Arthur, attended
by Major Elphinetone, undomore yesterday, to visit
Lewd and Lady Derby, at Knowsley Park.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of British Honduras, the Ba-
hamas, and the Governor-Gess:a of Canada.

\s JANUARY

12tINULL IGENCE
meolitvg vim leld

' • LIT. BELGIUM.
. large mesti .in Brussels on Go Sth
instant, to protest against the project of increasing
the military service. The meeting was attended
by deputations from the working men's societies
of Verviers, Liege, Antwerp, dco. The following
protest was adopted amidst vehement applause :
We protest with all oar emu against tie plan of ag-
gravating the terms of military Navies proposed to parlia-
ment. If this proloot of law, presented without our con-
sent and opposed to oar interest, is voted by the repre-
sentatives of privileged electors (there are only 100,000
rated voters in Belgium], we hereby declare that we will
not recognise this pretended law, and will refuse to submit
to this fresh iniquity.

THE PRESS IN FRANCE.
The Courtier Francais of yesterday has the fol-
lowing :
M. Lepage has this day entered the prima of Sainte-
Paseo to endure the imprisonment of one month to
width be wu sentenced for a libel on the Princes, of
MeMerniolt. We have therefore at this moment two of
our writers under prison bus, M. Lepage and M. Ct.
Duchene.
There are 17 journals under prosecution, but the
Libertl and the Courrier Francais are not amongst
them. M. Vermorel, the editor of the latter,
says that these two papers have been paused by in
order that they may be bit more surely and more
severely by M. Pinard, the Minister of the In-
terior, when they are isolated from their fellow
journals.

(izurn's =swum.)

;FABLING OF TAE PRUSSIAN
CHAMBERS•
- -- - -

BERLIN, J. 7.
The Prussian Chambers reassembled at 11.30
this morning.

THE GREAT FIRE AT HONG KONG.
(sr MALTA AND ALNIANDILIA STJAGRAPN.)
ALEXANDRIA, JUL 6.
The Chins mail brings details of the great fire at
Hong Kong. It occurred principally among the
Chinese hongs. Several godowns were burnt. The
total loss is estimated at 800,000 dole. Trade at
1 Hong Kong was very dull.

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LAW INTIELLIGE.NUE.
aids DAY.)
COURT 01 BANKRUPTCY.
(]Before Mr. CSAlDDissioser Holroyd.)
De BM P. A. 0. RICHARDS.
The bankrupt' • clerk in the Admiralty, lionteme6
House, was described as part proprietor of some clay
works at Lostwithiel, Cornwall. The debts are 576/. ;
moods stated at about 1001.
Mr. I. Bead, on behalf of the bankrupt, asked for an
adjournment, with • view to the payment of •
tion of s..aimind, which several of the roe
I had ahead to accept. He hoped to be able to
annul the bankruptcy in • month.
Mr, Aldridge, for the official assignee, stated that the
bankrupt was in receipt of an annuity of 60/., and it would
be necessary that he shod give information in his
amounts as to the particulars of that income.
An adjournment /or three months was ordered.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Reoorder.).

CHAZOI OF NOBBIIRY WITH VIOLZWCZ.
James Muthreek, 18, was charged with having, in oorn-
pany with other 'moon', violently assaulted and robbed
John Banton.
Mr. Houston prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended
by Mr. Streight.
The prosecutor in this case bad formerly been in the
Grvenadgiev Guards, but wssod discharged on Boxing-day,
haineted his peri o navies. On the of
the 27th ofcompl December hel had been to see some ofnight his
comrades at the Clielma Barrscks, and when he let t
he went to • public-house called the Coach and Horses,
in the King's-road, Chelsea, end afterwards to •
pie shop, close by, where he observed the
prisoner and two other men. The prosecutor left the pie-
shop soon after 12 o'clock, and when he had gone a short
distance be was attacked by three men, who knocked him
down, kicked him violently in the face and the ribs, in-
=thereby serious injury upon him, and they then
him of 30a. The prosecutor admitted that he had
been drinking • little on the evening in question.
but be declared that he knew perfectly well what he was
about, and be swore positively to the prisoner being one of
the men who attacked him, and it appeared that he picked
him out from several other persons when he wee firot ap-
prehended.
The defence that was set up was that the prosecutor
was too much muddled by the drink he had taken to be
able to form a correct conclusion es to the identity of the
prisoner, and witnesses were called to prove an alibis The
evidence given by these witnesses was, however, not at all
of • satisfactory character, aid they contradicted each
other in lime material particulars.
The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a
verdict of Guilty, and it appeared that the prisoner had
been for eight years known to the police as the associate of
convicted thieves, several of whom had been sentenced to
penal servitude, and he had himself also been in custody
for robbery, but was dimh
The prisoner was mentenZe.
to 12 months' hard labour.
(Before the Common Serjeant.)
ROBISKIIT WITH VIOLLIICII IX THI CITY.
Janes Riley was indicted for • robbery with violence on
Charles Herby and stealing from him a watch and chain
vales 401.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Lankford, and
Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor, a wine merchant, was walking along
Great Tower-street on Christmas-eve, when the prisoner
came up and snatched his watch and chain. At the same
moment he was knocked down by some one behind and
rendered almost insensible. A number of persons were
passing at the time of the robbery, and one of these.
attracted by the prosecutor's cries, sawsome one crouching
behind the wheel of • v He went up to apprehend him,
but the man kicked him on the and be was obliged
tolet him go. Shortly afterwards • policeman came up
and seized priarner whose identity was positively spoken
to by the prosecutor and a boy in his employment by
whom he was thoompanisd.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and it was stated
that there had been numerous robberies in the neighbour-
hood of • similar character.
The Common Serjeent sentenced him to 18 months' lin-
prisonment and to receive twenty strokes with the cat.

➢IIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. H. W. Cox.)
THE ADULTERER. AND Till HUSHAND.—A SAD CARL
William Nu WO, 43, • respectable-looking man, was in-
dicted for assaulting Walter Burdett, of 58 Milbank-
street, Westminster, with • hamer ; to w h he pleaded
hic
" not guilty." He was not defended by cournieL
Walter Burdett said he was a miller, and lived at Mill-
bank. On Saturday, the 7th of Deceinber, he was sit-
ting in biz mom at about 8 o'clock in the even-
ing, when a knock came at the door, and upon
gtting up to open it he found the prisoner there. He
saida " I've oome to settle you," and with a hammer he
had in his hand, struck witness on the right side of the
head, which made him stagger, and as he waa falling he
struck him spin on the forehead. He then fell to the
ground senselessand bleeding. When he returned to
oonsciousness he was in the hospital.
In cross-examination witness said he had had a quarrel
with him. That was about prisoner's wife. He had not
seduced her. She came and lived with him of her own
accord, because prisoner ilhused her. Prisoner's wife was
present when prisoner struck him.
Prisoner sold he bad no other questions to oak, he bed
only to say that prosecutor sedriced his wife.
Thomas Southard, lodging with the presecutor said he
was in the room on the evening in question. Proeecutor
opened the door, when the prisoner struck him • dreadful
blow, and as he was falling he struck him again. He then
turned to his wife and said, " You shallsensleu and the
have it too." The
prosecutor fell to the ground e
prisoner left, but not before be had made
a blow at his wife, who, avoiding it by bobbing
her head, received the blow on her back. The prosecutor
fell to the ground in a pool of blood. Prisoner said he
would do for him, at the same time shaking the hammer
in • threatening manner at him.
When called upon for his defence the prisoner said—This
man (prosecutor) seduced my wife about 14 weeks ago.
I went round to his house to fetch my wife and
child away from him, when he called me by •
terrible name,. and wanted to fight me, but I went away.
He told my wife there was a good house for her as long is
she liked to stop. On that occasion I went to bed by
myself, and the next morning found my wife with this
man. I took her away, and be followed her. When
I asked him why he followed her be struck
me • violent blow. Soon after that this man
and his witness got • healer and took away
nearly all my furniture and sold it, the prosecutor taking
some to his own house. When I found that be had robbed
me of my things as well is my wife and childnin, I admit
I struck him, I was so excited, but it was not with a
hammer. [This statement, delivered as it was with an air
of truth, caused • deal of commiseration for the pet%
miser.)
Mr. E. W. Cox, in summing up, said the jury were
to say whether or not he had exceeded the law. The
law only justifies violence when the adulterer is caught
in the act.
The jury, after a sheet consultation, found the prisoner
Guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy on account
the provocation he bad received.
of
Mr. W. Cox, in passing sentence, said the jury had
very kindly and very properly strongly recommended the
prisoner, to mercy, end there could be no doubt he bad been
very cruelly used. He might have killed the prosecutor.
&steam, nine months.