The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1861.

TovertniCa Mary %taut. 4 yrs. L:stelb..!Mr. Birbype)
Mr. Ma:dull's Lain,
riyn, 1 tat alb
Cborchwarers chance, wed. Its: 41h ;Capt. Barclay, 3
Mt T. Barbra The Be*. aped, 11:at 411, ..11r. bulling 4
Mt. Johnson's I itsanal Jemml b yrs, 12st :M. tYwaer. 5
No bolting Woe by four lengths ; a bad third.
TKO Lora PLATIt of 5 soya each, with XI
added. About three-quarter, of a mile.
Mr. It Jacobi's Acre. 1 yrs. ost llb T. Johnsol I
Mr. T. Giblis Lady Twiny, 2 yrs. rat rib . Prior
Mr. Wagon Greybeard, yrs. Cat 1.:lb Mitchell
Mr. Tabun*, Pastime, h b yro, t ID, sumo;
W. T. Prit,Wa Rublersykti, S yrs. '.t 1011. ,Silichtingale
W. U. I, ants Little Bob, 3 yrs. tel. OP. canted lot 1218,
fOwner)
Captalu Giirtiefs Ma Ws, yrs, 7st 31b .... _Panora,
Kr Clinrchwar,l's Lancer, Syr,, tot sib.. ... Hornsby)
Daleiag : 2tol on Holderayke, and 2 to 1 apt Lady
WPaw. Woo by a length ; earns between monad and
ed.

Ni Orr. A ROW IND COMIIITFLEA. PLATE, a handicap of
BO eava. for all ages. About case mils.
Ur. U. Enrsus. Mertnattl, by Tram; S pi. i Slb
(J. Poisons I
Mr. J..1,1„1.t Estella, aged, itst Sib (Johnson.
Mr. Priee's lioblersyks, N yrs, eat 414 s Cflgtstlnyalt
Mr. Meltisb's I,,tetop, 4 yet, 714 Mb
%Wag Evea on Estella, and 2 to 1 apt Holdersyke.
Wen by two lengths ; a bad third.
A IRCRI/LIS RACE of 3 'ors. each, with 35 atkled. Hada,
about oes mile, over three flights of hurdles in each beat.
Mr Mellblisfiallstl. 4 yrs .ww.).10.1611r Headland' 2 1 1
Mr. T. Pries. 3yrs ost alb Matthews, I
Mr. What. Wild Bird, 4th pOtl, oat sin . Eamon, S 0
Mr. Bartaire a Miss Marls. 3 yrs (SOL), Nit Slb ear.
erl 511.. lestle, 0 0
Mest 1111 r Peerlies Plasm 3 yrs (MILL UM rat .ear.
0. Morph) 11 0
Mr. ti lowboy's's Catherine, ps Met lost 41b
Nlehtlngsle, 0 dr
Mr. SaCelale Well*, aced (SOL , 104 I Ilb
R. Woad) 0 dr
netting First beat, even on Flotilla. Woo by a Ist
Second heat. 6tol on Flotilla. Won by a length. &
bent, 2 to 1 on Gaylad, who won by half a length.

CO A INPIONSHIP OF THE Tli•MFB.—The great
race for the championship of the Thames amongst gentlemen
amateur" is to take place at half-past four to-morrow
' afternoon, the distance being from Putney to Mortlake.
The competitors are Mean. C. Patterson and E I). Brick.
woad, of the London Rowing Club, and Mr. A. Lloyd, of
the Leander Club. Although Mr. Patterson has proved
biased, is recent matches a great 'culler, maay frog he
menet stand sojol.a distance with the lame y of
somas as 11r. A toe race is expected.

THU Mono.--Owing to the heavy rains and
Masai south.weisterly winds which have prevailed in the
districts of Kinloch-Rannoch, Weems, Strathtay, and Athole
from Sowed:ay till Tuesday morning, the sport on the hills
has been vary poor. The parties who went out on Tuesday
found the birds scares and wild with the recent wet
and windy weather. The Earl of Mansfield and Lord
Stormont did not go out to the hills on the Logic
almond estate till Friday last, when they bagged
1131 brace of grouse, be/des snipes, hares, and
other garle. Their lordships also brought down
a great many blob on Tuesday. Lord Stamford and party,
as Friday blot at Lvosvilg, killed 42 br►ce of grouse in five
hours, and blood die birds stroug on the wing and very
numerous. as also deer and other sorts of game. With the
dry weather of Tuesday afternoon acid yesterday morning
birds will spin be got at within gunshot, and good sport
is confidently anticipated. Iu the Stormont estate the bird.
are not so numerous as is the Highland districts further
north. Several hundreds of game boxes are despatched to
the south daily from Perth by the Edinburgh, Perth, and
I sundae, and Scottish Central Railways. Price of grouse in
Perth, 3a to fel. per bract.—S.•ntsaaa.

MZSDIKQ OP MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.

Tie,prdiunry t...-ting of the Middlesex magis-
tracy the renal/demi:fru of the banner relating to the
musty was held yeemniay, at theasesicen-house, Clerken-
well•green. Illr. Powsso. prodded. The barium on the
paper was very light. The usual reports from the com-
mittees were presented. The coroners' disbursemeuidi were
allowed. It appeared from the prism reports that there
were in the House of Correction, Coldbeth-fields, 1,470
prisoners, all males ; in the House of Correction at Wieet-
master. 57:;,..-01 f.trales and in the House of Detention, 217
of varsous denominatives. In the House of f'orrectiom Cold-
bath-fields, one primmer had been sentenced by the justices
to be dogtsd (one twodozen lashes, and anutherthrledosen).
for assaults upon officers of the gaol. The tions of
two offieers of the House of Detention were recommended
to be secepted, and the recommendation was agreed to.
One of them, Morley. was recommended fora superannua-
tion allowance of Cif. 1011. a year ifourteemaxtieths of
I*. 160; the other, ft Le Brurnent, was not recommended
for an allowance, as the conunittee thought he was not
isawicininsd by sickness. infirmity, or old age, from
contineim; to discharge his chaise.
The OW IMAN asked what're' the reason of Le Brnment
reslnttrarr, chairman of the committee, said they con-
sidered the matter. and thought it was not v. ease for a
pension. but it was a matter for the court to deal with.
Mr. serjeant PA YNE asked the chairman of the Howe of
Detention committee whether it was or was not a fact that
a prisoner named Ryan had. by order of the governor of the
House of Detention, been forcibly thrust into a bath with
his clothes cu, and held under the water. The prisoner
was under remand for housebreaking, and had a bath ac-
cording to the regulation, of the prison on the 13th of July.
On his return from re-examination be objected to have
a bath a sound time. By order of the governor,
two officers (memo% in endeavouring to force him
into the bath, tore his shirt, waistcoat, and coat.
They got him into the water, and the governor or-
dered one of the officers to hold his head under the water.
The other officer then put his foot ou the prisoner's back,
and pressed him under the water. His clothes, of course,
were saturated. The governor afterwards allowed him a
county suit, and had his clothes_ repaired. He (Mr. Serjeaot
Payne) wished to know, if this had takes place, whether it
had been brought under the notice of the committee, and
if so, why it had not been mentioned in the report.
Mr. WYATT said the committee were certainly aware of
the circumstance alluded to by the learned serjeaut, but
they did not consider the matter one to embody in their
I.II,BIITJEILEE PA UNE obeeryed that they might a well
have so reports at all if such an occurrence was tube parsed
over without notice. _ _

TheCesinuatt .aid be quite agreed that the matter
should hare been reported.
Ultimately it WV resolved that the subject be referred to
the justices for investigation, for them to report to the next
court.

Mortgages for i,ioo/. for the Hampstead Militia store-
houses, and for 6,000(. for Haswell Asylum were executed.
The other business was d a formal nature, and the court
was adjourned after a very 'hart sitting.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—Caorpos, AvouNr 22.
(Before 1i r. Justice Williams and a Common Jury.)
r. MANLEY.

This WWI an action to recover damages for • breach of
promise of marriage, and the damages were laid .t 5001.,
to which the defendant pleaded that no promise had been
made.

Mr; W. Chambers, Q.C.. and Mr. C. W. Wood were for
the plaintiff ; and Mr. Serjeant Shee and Mr. F. J. Smith
for the defendant.

The defendant in this case is a market gardener
and florist at Shepherd's-bush, having ten acres of
land, and at the time of his becoming acquainted
with the plaintiff was working for his father. The
plaintiff, who is en orphan, and bad been well
brought up. was at the time of first meeting the defendant
in service at Notting-hill, and defendant used to come to
the house for his father, who served them with green-
grocery. A regular courtship ensued after the manner of
persons in their station, be visiting her as often as
his duties would allow him and she could get
out from her place, and when she went into an.
other service at Twickenham, he kept up the correspon-
denceand visited, and also saw her friends, making them
and her presents of flowers and fruits. About forty letters
were sent by him to her, all in affectionate terms, calling
her his " bonnie Kate " and " dear Katie, his bonny
wife," and saying that when she was his there should be
early habits of going to bed. In another he spoke of his
being in delicate health from having been so much is the
propagating house ; and, in answer to an inquiry she had
made about pains which he felt in his feet, he said they
were better, for he bad washed them. In
one letter he told her that he should give her
a good kissing for having charged him with going after the
barber's daughter. Upon the no:anion of his father's death,
Let year, he wished her to go into black, and offered to
pay the expense. Since that time his attentions had begun to
cool, from what cause did not arsr,whand when written to
by a solicitor, he threatened to c e her with intemperate
habits, for which there was not the test foundation.
The jury found for the plaintiff—damages 73/.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Wore Yr. Justice Urn.)

The jury, in the awe of the Bey. Mr. Roe, found the
prisoner Gotlty.
The learned judge, addressing the prisoner, said that it
had become his painful duty to pass the sentence of the wort
upon him for the crime of which he had been convicted.
The jury had paid the most earnest attention to all the facts
of the case, and it appeared to him that they could not
come to say other conclusion than they had done,
and so far as be was concerned the evidence appeared to his
mind quite overwhelming to prove his guilt. He could not
find a single palliating circumstance in the case. The pri-
soner possessed many advantages of which a great number
of the unfortunate prisoners who stood 4 that bar were
deprived—he bad the advantage of a good position, which
he had disgraced ; of an education, which he had mis-
appropriated ; and of ability, which he bad abused.
There was no doubt that, disappointed in the
first instance with regard to the benefit that
he expected to have derived from his uccle's will, he had
tried every expedient that the law afforded to endeavour
to set that will aside, and finding that he was foiled in this
endeavour, he did not appear to have scrapled to attempt
to accomplish this object by forgery, effected under circum.
stances of the utmost skill and ingenuity. It was his pain-
fttl duty in such a case to pass • severe sentence ; and he did
so not in the way of retribution to himself, but as a warn-
ing to others who might be tempted to commit • crime of •
similar description. He then sentenced the prisoner to be
kept in penal servitude for ten years.
The prisoner did not exhibit the slightest emotion either
at the verdict or when sentence was pronounced upon him.

NEW COURT.
(Bekaa Mr. Justin Blackburn.)

This court was occupied the greater part of the day in
disposing of charges, preferred at the instance of the Post-
office authorities, against persons employed is that esta-
blishment.

Jabc: Wright, 19 letter•carrier, pleaded guilty to the
charge of stealing a letter containing a sixpence.
Alfred Chapman 20, was found Guilty of stealing a
le:ter, containing three 51. Bank of England notes, and an
order for 11. Bs. tid.. _ _ _

iiiffi; Wright, 18, alao pleaded guilty to a charge
of stealing a letter, containing money.
Peter Hollings, 34, pleaded guilty to stealing a letter,
containing two half-sovereigns.
Andrew Trouneon, !a, pleaded guilty toe charge of stealing
• letter containing a half-sovereign and a sixpence.
Jai% Smith, 18, another letter-carrier was charged with
stealing a letter coetaibing a cheque for 31. 3a., the property
of the Postmaster•Gener.

Mr. Clark. Mr. Metcalfe, and Mr. Collier conducted the
prosecution; the poisoner was defended by Mr. Lilloy.
It appeared that the prisoner was • lettercarner and
sorter in the Peckham distnct, and that in cousequeoce of
complaints of the loss of letters in that district, a test letter
as it is termed was made up in which a halfanvereign was
enclosed,
enclosed, and which was addressed to a fictitious person at
Peckham, but not within the prisoner's delivery. The
prisoner wail taken into custody upon his walk, and the test
letter was found in his possession, and he gave no explana-
tion bow it became so. Upon searching his lodging
a cheque for 31. 3s. that he had stolen front another
letter • short time before, and also a gold locket that had
been stolen from a third letter, were found in his bore and
he was unable to give any account of how those articles
came into his possession.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended
him to mom, on account of his youth.
Williams Pearce, 20, wee charged with stealing • letter,
containing • gilt chain, value 18s.
Mr. Cooper appeared for the defence.
The prisoner, it appeared, was a letter-carrier and sorter
at the South-Eaatern district office, High-street, Southwark.
The prisoner, George Biggs Wright, who pleaded guilty,
was Alpo employed in the same office, and it appeared
that be sod the prisoner lodged together, and occupied
the same bedroom. After Wright had been taken into
custody the officers went to his lodging to make • search,
and they found the prisoner, against whom at that time
there was no suspicion, in the room, and he took of his
uniform coat and threw it on the bed, and left the place,
and did not resume his duty. Upon his coat being exit-
mined there was found • packet addressed to • lady at Foot's
Cray, which had been posted just before, and from which the
chain in question had been abstracted. The prisonerwas taken
into custody • few days afterwards at Mortlake, and he then
made an observation to the officers to the effect that Wright
was the guilty party, and that he had nothing to do with
stealing the chain.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Justice Blackburn said he would look over the
depositions and consider what sentence should be pro-
nonoced upon the prisoners.
Peter Masterson, 22, • determined looking fellow, a
vate in the Roes' Artillery, was charged with the wilful
murder of Martin Murphy.
Mr. Orridge conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was
defended by Mr. Metcalfe.
The evidence in this case was very short, and was quite
conclusive of the fact of the deceased having lost his life
by the hand of the prisoner. It appeared that on the night
of the Bth of July, about a ijuarter.past ten o'clock, a
picket was out in the streets of -Woolwich for the purpose
of apprehending any soldiers who were out without leave,
and they came up with the prisoner, who appeared to be the
worse for liquor. He wee asked for his leave ticket, and be
made use of very bad language, and said he would show it
them, and then ran away, and when the corporal can.e up to
him he was very violent and threatened to rip him open.
He was secured without his doing any mischief, sad con-
veyed to the guardroom at the Arsenal, where the de-
teamed, who wee a sergeant in the Royal Artillery, was
seated at • table in the performance of his duty of writing
the charge against any soldiers who might be taken into
custody. When the prisoner was brought in, the de-
ceased asked him his name, and be replied that he knew
his name very well, for he had got him three
months by the court-martial—in allusion to his having
bees sentenced to that punishment for having thrown •
quart pot at the deceased. lie was asked his name a second
time, when he again made use of violent language, but upon
another sergeant named Ashton coming up, the prisoner
became coon composed and told him his name, and then,
by his orders, proceeded to a part of the guardroom ap-
propriated to the reception of prisoners. Everything then
was quiet for about halfan-hour, when it appeared that the
prisoner went out of the place referred to, and proceeded to
the coal-box, from whence he took a heavy poker, and he
then walked up to the deceased, who was still seated at the
same table, and struck him • tremendous blow on
the bead with the weapon. It appeared that when
the prisoner was remonstrated with by Sergeant Ashton,
be said that the deceased bad given him three mouths before
for throwing • quart pot at him, and be would serve him
out yet before he went to India ; and after he had been
secured and the poker taken from him, he made use of the
expression " I have bad it long in for him." The unfor-
tuuato
deceased, it appeared, lingered until the 11th of July,
when he died from con of the brain, the result of
the blow that was inflicted by the prisoner. The prisoner
was stated to have been somewhat the worse for liquor at
the time of the occurrence. but all the witnesses said that
be seemed to know perfectly well what be was about.
Mr. Metcalfe made an earnest appeal to the jury in behalf
of the prisoner, and he endeavoured to show that under
the circumstances, and taking into consideration the con-
dition of the prisoner at the time, they would be justified
in convicting the prisoner of the lesser offence of man-
slaughter.
Mr. Justice Blackburn having summed up, the jury, after
deliberating about a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict
of Guilty. They at the name time recommended him to
mom, on the ground that ho was under the influence of
know at the time the offence was committed.
The learned Judge at once put on the black cap, and
proceeded to pass sentence of death upon the pminner.
He maid it was Do pert of his duty to aggravate the position
is which he was then placed but be exhorted him to pre.
pare for the great change that awaited him. The recom-
mendation to mercy by the jury would be forwarded to the
proper quarter, but be could not hold out the slight"'

hope to him that it would be of any avaiL Ho then pamed
the sonteont of death in the usual form.

The prisoner turned round and laughed when the learned
Judge concluded, and left the bar apparently quite uncon-
cerned.