The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

POLICE COURTS.-a ti IS DAY.)

DOW-STREET.
RITRLER 01 AN ENDA= SAILOR AT MASORA/.
1,0,0 ilarmtrr, a Dane, demribel as an able-bolie.l
xeim.un, was brought up before Sir Thomas Henry, in
'cuttooy of Duck, one of the summoning °fibers of the
court, on an extradition warrant issued at the instant* of
the Danibb government upon the charge of having oom-
mittedtve Orlin.) of murder at Shanghai.
J. L. It. de Koeford, secretary to tho Danish Lega-
tion, attended to watch the case on behalf of the Dxnash
authorities.

/d r. Raeford put in the various documents in the CAW
including the depositions before the Delilah Consular Court
at Shanghais, at which a verdict of murder was tem.'
against the prisoner.
The officer Buck stated that on the 23rd instant, at
stout 8 o'clock, he was vu board her Majesty's ship
Tamar at Plymouth. where he saw the prisoner. He showed
the prisoner the warrant issued by Sir Thomas Henry,
and teed it to him. He then asked the prisoner if his
name was Edward Sommar. He said it was. Witness
asked if he was the man who had been convicted at
Shanghai ? He replied that he was. Witness then took
him in custody. The captain wished witness to mention
that the prisoner's conduct on board hail been very good,
and that he had always shown himself ready to persuade
the other prisoners to behave themselves.
Sir Thomas Henry asked the prisoner if he had anything
to say why he should not be sent to Denmark to be sen-
tenced by the Criminal Court at Copenhagen. It appeared
that according to the Danish law the court at Shanghai
had no power to pass sentence.
The prwouer—'Then lam going home now. But why
have I been kept so long? It is now sixteen months since
my trial.
Buck explained that there had been to Danish man-of-
war sailing from Shanghai since the conviction. After
some delay, he was sent away in an English troop ship,
which arrived in the Plymouth Sound on Thursday, and
it was now proposed to send him to Copenhagen.
Sir Thomas Henry said the proceedings at the trial at
Shanghai were all before him. The charge against him
was that he had stabbed an English sailor, who unfortit-
nately died from the wound. The jury convicted him,
but found that there were extenuating circumstances, the
prisoner having found the English sailor in bed with a
woman whom he had known. Although the deceased was
an Englishman, the prisoner being a foreigner, could not
be bled in England for an offence committed abroad.
The prisoner said he had no objection to be sent to
Copenhagen, but he denied stabbing the man. He was
convicted on the evidence of Chinamen, who would &wear
anybody's life away.
The prisoner was committed to prison to await the order
of the Secretary of State for his surrender to the Danish
officers.

TAMES.
CNVOITNDED CILILEOE AGAINST • MEL.

Eli:abed 11,;;;;,agt41I6, was brought before Mr.
Benson, charged with stealing clothing to the amount of
35f., the property of Constantine Theofoiney, a Greek,
who keeps a seaman's boarding-house, at No. 15, Rateliff-
highway.
There were several boxes the property of seamen in the
house, and these, the prosecutor alleged, had been plun-
dered by the girl, and twelve suits of clothes removed.
He offered the girl 1/. it she would give up all the pawn-
brokers' tickets relating to the clothes, but she
denied that she had stolen or pawned anything.
Be alleged that she had shown a piece of gold
which she could not have obtained honestly, to a Russian
sailor living in the house. She explained that while her
master was in the hospital and her mistress
was in prison some money was given to her
by her master to keep the house and pay for
provisions, and that she showed the same to the Russian
boy, who asked her for it. While her master and mistress
were away several foreign sailors left the house, and it
was probable they carried the missing clothes away.
Mr. Benson said that was very probable, and expressed
his belief in the entire innocence of the girl. Re could
not understand why the prosecutor had given the girl into
custody without a tittle of evidence against her.
The prisoner was discharged.

MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY Nzoirr.

Mr. John Bright was present this evening at a
dinner given in the Royal Hotel to the members for the
borough and the corporation by Mr. T. Avery, the mayor.
Mr. Dixon, the junior member for the borough, was in
Birmingham this morning for the purpose of being pre-
sent, but returned to London in order to support the
reinstatement of Mr. Fawcett's clause in the Corrupt
Practices Bill. Mr. Carter, the member for Coventry, was
absent from a similar cause. Among those present in
addition to Mr. Bright were the Hon. C. G. Lyttelton,
M.P., Archdeacon Sandford, Major Smyth, Mr. P. H.
Mints (the third liberal candidate for Birmingham at the
coming general election), Mr. H. Avery, Mr. Elihu
Berri% and the Rev. Canon O'Sullivan.
The customary loyal and patriotic toads having been
honoured,
The Marcia proposed the health of the borough members.
He expressed a hope that the meeting would not be
regarded as a political manifestation, nor as representing
in the slightest degree a party significance; he trusted that
party would be conspicuous by its absence, and he re-
minded his audience that he was surrounded by gentlemen
of every shade of party colour, descending from brilliant
orange into invisible blue. As a conservative, he spoke of
Mr. Bright as a brilliant orator, a high-minded. statesman
and patriot, whose voice had ever been raised in favour
of peace, law, order, truth, progress, and liberty ; as a
man who had never for ambition or selfish desires aimed
at the possession of place or power, who was a veritable
hammer in controversy, and who if sometimes exalted by
high passion had never been known to pervert hie glorious
gifts to any ignoble or unworthy purpose. Such a man
was for the country and not for party, and ought ever to
be so regarded. He also paid a warm tribute to the
merits of Mr. Dixon, the junior member for the borough.
The Mast was drunk with much enthusiasm.

Mr. Baton, in responding, proceeded to allude in a
general way to various public questions. In his public career
he bad always desired to serve the true interests of the
country, and he hoped that he and all of them would be
able to say, when their public life came to an end,
they were permitted in the quiet of domestic life to look
back upon political struggles, that all their efforts had been
directed to this—to achieve all that came before their
eye which was worthy of achievement, to do something to
smooth the path, and to enable their children hereafter to
make certain progress towards a brighter and hav=day.
Mr. Bright subesquently, in • brief com tory
speech, proposed " The Health of the Mayor, ' and the
proceedings were brought to a close.

WHITEHALL, JuLT 23.—The Queen has been
to direct letters patent to be passed under the
Et: sti geeal, granting the dignities of viscount and earl of
the United Kingdom of Cheat Britain and Ireland unto
William Ernest, Baron Faversham, and to the heirs male
of hie body lawfully begotten, by the names, idyl's, and
titled' of Viscount Helmsley, of Helmsley, in the North
Riding of the county of York, and Earl of Faversham, of
Ryedak, in the North Riding of the county of York.—
Gault*.
MELANCHOLY ETENT.—On Monday Mr. Henry
Schofield Johnson, M.D., of Congleton, died under pain-
ful circumstances. He left home in the morning about
half-past 7 o'clock. He returned at 11, and proceeding
direct to his bedroom, laid himself on the bedA short
time afterwards the servant heard him snoring heavily,
and thinking that he might be ill she went up to the room,
after which she hastened to get assistance. Dr. Warring-
ton, Dr. Beales, and Dr. T. Johnson were quickly in atten-
dance. They discovered that Mr. Johnson had taken a
dose of chlorodyne to produce sleep. They need every
means they could to save life, but Mr. Johnson died about
4 o'clock. Mr. Dunstan, coroner, held an inquest on the
body on Wednesday. The only medical witness called was
Dr.Wanrington. who stated that death was caused by
taking an overdose of ehlorodyno to produce sleep ; and
the jury found that death was produced inadvertently ami
not by design. It was stated that the deceased was in the
frequent habit of taking chlorodyne. It is inferred tlr it
he took an immoderate quantity on Monday. lie wan 43
years of ago, and leaves a widow but no family.—Buks
Adrertiwr.