The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-13 00:00:00

THE

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUR'
(THIS DAY.)

NEW COURT.
(Before the (001000 811081111 t)
Caro/tat Mar?. Palrvr, 24, widow, was charged with
having unlawfully attempted to obtain pomessiou of a
chrluebw..k by false pretences.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted ; Mr. Cooper was counsel fur the
tkfeedant.

It appeared that on the 16th of February a man named
William tampion went to Messrs. eoutts'e hank, in the
Strand, lip! asked for cheque.book for Mr. Young, a
solicitor. Mr. Young hail formerly kept an account at the
httik, but it warn closed, and the clerk comemently was Allf •
prised that an applitutios should be made for a cheque•
as k, awl ltampson was queetimed, and he said that a Lady
Eel sent him for the ebequisbook, sued she was waiting
out.isle. No sub penult could be discovered, and
SIM pargi was in the result committed for trial, but the in.
games that were made raised very great doubt whether he
hail any guilty knowledge in the transaction ; and no evi-
dence was offered, and he warn disc upon bail. lie
afterwards went to Mr. Mara, the solicitor for the
prosecution, and informed him that it was the prisoner
who had scut bins fur the cheque-book, and that she pro-
mised to give him ten shillings if be succeeded in getting
one for her. fiarnmee's statement was eonfinned by the
fact that the premier knew that Mr. Young had kept an
...vomit at euutta's, as he bad acted pmfemionally for her
and hail paid her cheques, mid there were a great many
other eireuntstanees to show that she was really the guilty
party, and that the man Samp.ou warn merely an inDucent
agent in the transaction.
The jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict of
OHO, against the prisoner.
She warn sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
The witness Somp•••14 was then arraigned upon the in.
•lictment that was preferred against him at the last
sod no evidence beiug offered the jury returned a verdict of
ever OW If/.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

111110TAL 00ITDOCT OP A MITE TO HER ALIVANT.
A very quiet-looking girl, 16 yean of age, applied to the
angietraie /or a inuinioua order the following eircum•
stoma _ _

Siaatid that bat evening, while engaged iu the duties of
• domestic servant, her mistress told her to wipe nut a
washhaod basin and she was doing so when her mistress
told her not 'to look at her, and upon her replying
that she was mistaken in supposing that she was
doing so her mistress said she should horsewhip her, and
immediately lid so over her shoulders and hare arms. Ap-
plicant nu down stairs but her mistress followed, horse.
whipping her, miter which she threw down the whip sod
slapped her face. Applicant cried and said that she
would take the law of her, when bee mistress, Allieg
a can with cold water, poured it all over her. Aw-
Elleret's cities brought some persons in the sent
towards the spot, and a man entreated the
mistress to desist, but she said she should not, and further
ill-treated applicant, who was rescued from further violence
by the num she Lail spoken of. She then went home to her
parents, where she remained. •
Yr. Arnold immediately granted a summons.
WORSHIP-STREET.
iIIOHTICL ARMACIT.
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Jarmea Illaekett, a tall and powerful man, eras charged be.
fore Mr. Knox with cutting and wounding ama, his wife.
The complaisant, whose forehead was bandaged, said
that ow Friday week she obliged • woman known to
her for many years with a table-cover. This article
had not been returned, and the fact coming to the
knowledge of the defendast last night he grossly abused
her, commenced smoahing everything he could lay is hands
upon, and when she interfered to prevent hie breaking two
deciu;ters, he stepped back and exclaimed, "I'll break them
ea your head,' and latently struck her with one of them a
heavy blow ea the head. She ultimately charged him with
taw wan&

-IMr. Kowa—What is that mark out your throat?
Chnuibiblant—lt is caused by his having bitten me, after
gins( re the blow with the decanter. sir.
201 11—Yee afternoon 1 beard loud screams of
"murder"' prong from a house in Houndary.street,
IThereditch, and on entering found this man and woman.
She was bleeding from a wound M the forehead. and after
baring had the injury attended to by a surgeon, I conveyed
prisoner to the station-house.
Mr. Knox—What la the nature of the wound?
Constable—The cut is clean to the bone, sir.
Mr. Knox—What dose the defendant say to this charge?
Defeodant—Why, she is a very worthier woman, and as
ntarthe assault I was is linear, sad don't recollect it.
r:lsKaox —However aratines she may be Dot ear
thing eaa justify such a lintel not se Ilia, and you will go
far three months with bard lobos& to the Home of
Correction.

GRAND Rini Fm AT HMI& —Wednesday,
tae' 4th instant, is Azad kw the decd Ride Fete and con-
test for prises open In volesileen, ortallery. and "all
comers." The fete* by kind pentission of Major -General
Hay. Invpsetor-l;omald Mnaketry, to take place at the
olendid and extensive rayon of UM School of Musketry.
Myths, and the prises, as will boi ma by the list, are of
very considerable value. • great concourse, both fashion-
able, military, and vehmiser, is expected, sod the most
ampM erraemomenta hays bon made by the South-Eastern
Railway Company for the tooth of the visitors. —UMW
denier Ofs-vfee.

Tas ''if;VIATIB AND Renewa."—A memorial
spirt the °juncos szpremisdle this volumehes bees gimped
by many of the rintv to the vitamin of Imegteo, sad for.
warded by the Rev. W. Turd, to the Bishop of Lichfield.
His lordship in reply writes—." I thank you for your letter
end for the memorial which accompanied it. I need hardly
emersiou that I quite agree in the desccipticie which they
logla ve of the ehameter and tendsecy of meek that is
esetened is the ' brays and Reviews,' mad medially eon.
cur with you and the other cle.rgyeasa who hams
ivied the memorial in your easphaMe manor
agaiest it. The Frays, however, differ very maisin
is their characters hem each other, as I doubt not
they are aware. As coming from those who haveaebeertked
the articles, sad an stall mitiodere of our church, the pas-
, mem to which Tee have adverted in some of the prays en
eammially painful. Our faith, however, hoe bees allured
Si do Mho trials before. an4l has come safely, I t say
more thee sal ely out of them. Clod, we cannot don will
mentale Hie truth. se He has nointsined it heretofore.
Oat this demon furnish the lee but the greater name why
we shoat he faithful to it."—Stofurdnire Aderreiser.
Aw brrrosx. Liu-n-I'ER IN run COUNTY Ootrirr.
—ANOTIIINS OATH CA•4C. -On Thursday. at the Wigait
County Court, before J. S. T. Green Esq.. judge. our
heard a ere in which was involved • question very
sunder to that raised in the Rochdale oath came. about
which so much he ben hood lately. Stephenson IL
Struthers, reporter, of Wilma, sued Charles Readines,
we nide! lecturer, ohs hee senturied the title of
" lcnonclaat," for 111. Ns., being the bahinee of as
linnet which he alleged wee dee to him for a report of •
debate which took place is Wine is pelarafiaaa.or
lateen Mr. Hutehinge and the defendant, w "
is Christianity or menlarere lost calculated to promote
human happiness." The defendant disputed the claim,
and ermsomuninel the plaintiff, but without shaking his
evidence. On the defendant taking the book to he swots,
Hr. Mayhew, solicitor, MIMI him if be believed in
the religious obligation of as oath. Mr. Bradlarigh
etroegly objected to the questing% asserting, however, that
be was willing to he swan ; bet the judge ruled that it
must be pet, and refused to allow the defendant to
make an affirmation. The judge again milted whether
the defendant bel;evesi is the esietenc• of a supreme God,
and he mewered that ho objected to give a reply, as if he
replied la the negative it would subject him to a criminal
preseentiem The ledge :—Thea I shall ant permit you to
give any widens at all, aid I thirds you escape very well
is me bong sent to gaol. The defeedaat then addressed
the men corrmeeted at length upon the plaintiff's eel-
demo, sad trusted that. although prevented from giving
eridenso, he should suffer no injustice. The judge said
that Mr. Beedienh would meet with the sumo measure at
justice se ear other individual, but be wee bound to non
sere out justice according to the legal stamdard—resseedieg
le Mee beg neogemed an become foadeseselally part of
the law of the land. The plaintiff had awes there we
a certain contract, and nothing had been extracted from
him en the part of the defendant to shake hie testimony
is that particular. Under then eirmunstancee be wee
obliged to Meet this as en nodefeeded case, and the verdict
would be for the plaintiff fur the full menet —dfandwater
Z.reatiner.

MTII.DER AT ROCHDALE—John War-
burton was yesterdsy remanded by the Rochdale magis-
trates, au suspicion of having marlerwl Ellen Garai*.
It had been presumed that demur! bad committed
suicide by throw**, herself into the canal, wherein
her body wee fogad, last Tuesday : hut it came out at the
iogneet before Mr. Darden, on Wednesday. that • Vele
unkeown bed hems helped net of the canal shout the tines
deceased was mimed. This induced Superintendent Picker.
ing to make inquiry, acid he aseertaisied that decreed bad,
while away from borne, been living for a period of
month. at Moston Bottom., liarpurhey. near Manchester,
with the prisosier, who yesterday admitted him intimacy
with the deemed He. boweew, dialed any keowledge of
the manaer of her death. Sergeant Ludlam baring pro.
diced the prisoner, some of those who helped him out of
the canal picked him out from others as the man, as they
behoyed„ He was, therefore, remanded. Warharton is a
mason, sad has lived some years in Rochdale with hie wife,
by whom he has two children. When apprehended, be was
workiag at Mr. Davenport's machine works. He is about
35 year* eM, and, it would appear, railed Mrs. Garai&
three thews a wash at Harporbee, during the. Are mouths
that she was away from her husfead.
A letter front Munich of the Gth feet. says :
"The Abbe Dellinger, a moon of the cathedral, is giving
• engem of lectures as the Pops's ternpond power. The
rNuncio, who ham been attaidin: this course, left
eset directly on the lecturer's stating that se far as
persesel observation estended the majority of the
Italia temple was unfavourable to the anew of the two
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