The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-23 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings in Banes.—(Before Lord Cbief Justice &will,
and Justices Bytes, Keating, and Brett.)
THIS IMW SEIBERT Arr.
This aiming Mr. Justice Wines look his seat upon the
hench half an hour before the full coart sat, and Matter
Gordon read the General Rules made for the Trial of
Election Petitions in England." The rules were 61 in
number, and were signed by Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Ju.-
tice Willer, and Mr. Antics Blackburn. Matter Donlon
bat, been appointed master under the new act.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(TIM DAY.)

'lle November session of the Central Criminal Court
was opened this morning by the Right Hon. the Recorder
(Mr. Russell 6urney), the Hight Hon the Lied Mayor
AAlderman J. C. Lawrence), Alderman Wm. Lawrence,
lderman Carter. Alderman Lusk, Alderman and Sheriff
Cotton, Sheriff Hutton, Under Sheriffs Crosley and
Sloe, 6:c.
Te tint edition of the calendar contains the names of
99 soners. whose offenere are thus classified
3 ; , 11; felonioudy uttering counterfeit coin, 1, ;
embezzlement, 2 ; feloniously administering a drug. 1 ;
feloniously casting corrosive fluid, 1 ; forgery, 8 ; lemony,
24 ; stealing a post-letter, 1 ; manslaughter, 2 ; felo-
niously attempting to murder, 3 ; misdemeanour, 6 ; rape.
2 ; feloniously receiving stolen goods, 2 ; robbery with
violence, 8 . • feloniously wounding, 5.
The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, remarked
that the number of cases this session was less than ordi-
ry and there were none of them involving the
highest crime known to the law. There, were,
however, three charges of wounding with intent to
murder, and the first to which he would allude
was that against Charles Seiler. The prosecu-
trix was Mrs. Russell, who lived ill the neighbour-
hood of Westbourne-park, and it appeared that, on the
night of the 20th of September last she was awakened by
hearing some one in tbe house. She got up and attempted
to give an alarm, but was immediately seized by some
person or per ons—for she was inclined to think there
were more than one—and received several severe wounds,
some with a• hatchet and others with a knife. She at last
got out of a window, and was afterwards found lying in
the garden. and it was at first expected that she
would not recover, but she did do so. The pri-
soner was not apprehended for a considerable
time afterwards, and the question was whether
he was the person who committed, the crime. At any rate,
from his own statement, and from other circumstances.
there was sufficient mime facie evidence to justify them in
returning a true biff. There was a charge against George
Cosbey, a schoolmaster, of causing the death of one of his
pupil'. The prisoner struck the boy on the head with his
Bed on the 31st of Aist, according to the statement of
some of the other radars, but the boy himself said it was
with his open palm. At all events, the boy complained of
some pain us the head and neck, and in a fortnight or three
weeks he died. Some question arose whether death re-
sulted from the blow or from sunstroke, but the medical
gentleman who would be called before them said that
sunstroke Was not the canoe of death, and that it must
have resulted from the blow. He was not the first
medical gentleman cs lied in, however, and at the time
there was no external mark from the blow. Of course a
master was entitled to inflict a moderate panhissent, but
genei ally speaking it was better to leave -the Mad alone.
The Recorder then *alluded to some other eases, add the
grand jury thereafter retired to their room.