The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-08 00:00:00

know for the manteat who to apply it to. Mr. Boer said it
applied to Pryaae, of Hided. na read it again, sad sail
it :said not have applied to Mr. Fryono. Thd not say to
Mr. Beer that be thought it applied to Mr. Frye's*.
Mr. W. T. Harris, nevernor of the corporation of (sar-
i dims of the poor of Plymouth—Oa the 28th of January
there woo • tolloatiaa of gentlemen at the parochial other ;
the deputy...renew, Mr. Bassett, sad Mr. J. Beer were
peassei. The Journal was brought la and tha pasagropli
was read. Did not apply it to Mr. Pilau, badd that it
applied to some perste sosaeoted with the Boma Adria%
Chepd. New said is Mr. Boer's hsariog that It applied
to r. Pry's,.
Crowelawised—Then sight be veva or eight
walt ; then was • good deal of talklabout it. Whew
ha
heard it applied to Mr. Prynas he said it did not apply to
hint. Did sot say " Ay*, aye, young geuthatan, we staU
bear of some of your irides by sad bye about the cholera
patients" at that time. Had said so to Mr. Boor about six
weeks prelims, bat rot in refernan to this. Knew dun
Mr. Prynee had attended tie elegem hospital.
Mr. P. F. Gulthelanao pthesat en the occasion spoken to
by the last ultimo. Mr. Bear said, "It is Mr. Prynne who
is alluded to at Mead Chapel.' A discussion ensued, and
they came to the asnebriss that it was sot. They knew
Mr. Prp lane, and front ea obaraster he bore he could not
have done what wan reported; also roped, bad been in oil-
flotation about the Bossed Adam Chapel.
Mr. Chariot Bassett was also present at the meeting
spoken to. When the article was read be did not apply it
to Mr. Pr”re.
Mr. A. Rooker, solicitor, of Plymouth, had read the 'stick
is question, and applied it at onto to Mr. Bargees, and did
sot believe it could apply to Mr. Fryane. Knew that he
was a Faulk'.
Mr. Jams Bkardoe, auctioneer, of Plymouth, and Capt.
Monday, R.N., attributed it to Mr. Burgess. He woo called
minister or priest synonymously by the parties is the neigh-
bourhood.

Mr. C. Blackwell, bookbinder; Mr. W. J. Holden,
accountant ; Mr. Evans, formerly mayor of Plymouth ; Mr.
J. B. Turner (who had heard no *caudal soden Mr. Bargees
before January) thought the article applied to Mr. Burgess.
Mr. A. Hineston, sub-manager of the Devon and Corn-
wall Bank, Plymouth, and parish churchwarden, read tne
paragraph, but did nor know their to whom it wits applicable.
Several other witnesses wen called to prove that they read
the article in question, some on the day of the publication,
other from two to nice days after, and applied it to Mr.
Burgess. Om or two of them stated that they could not
apply it to anybody until they had baud it explained.
Mr Crowder, in reply, oommeired on the evidence ad-
duced by the defentant, and remarked that no person had a
right to publish that which war calculated and had a proba-
ble tendency to injure the character el another. It was not
necessary there wee no intention in the mind of the indivi-
dual who penned an article to injury any party. The ques-
tion for them to decide was whether the article In quota=
was capable of injuring the defendant's moral character.
His Lordship having minutely reviewed the evidence ad
dined on each aide,
At terry minutes to See o'clock the jury retired, and
after a short deliberation returned with • verdict of .lVct
Guilty, which was resolved with marked applause.

WESTMORELAND.—APPLEBT, MIGUBT 6.
The commission was opened here yesterday evening, by
Mr. AWNS Croswell. Owing to this small amount of
basin's', Mr. Junco Wightanan did not attend. The ca-
lendar contained 4 cases, viz.:-1 concealment of birth; 1
manslaughter (by • policemen whilst in the execution of his
duty at Kendal, the bill against whom was ignored by the
Grand Jury); 1 stabbing; I killing a calf and stealing the
flesh ; 1 unnatural offences (bill " not found"). There was
only one civil saw, and that was undefended.

AUGUST 7.
CROWN Cava, —Br.roas Ida. BISON Purr.
ABnucnoir._ _ _ .

Denjontin Siviter, aged 33, was indicted for having, on
the Ist of June last, at Birmingham, unlawfully taken one
Sarah Upton ant of the possession and against the will of
John Upton, her father, she, the said Sarah Upton, being
an unmarried girl under the age of 18.
Mr. O'Brien appeared on the part of the prisoner. The
prosecution was not conducted by counsel.
Sarah Upton, a girl of the age of 15, was the principal wit-
neu, and made the following extraordinary 'Moment: The
prisoner was a Sunday-school teacher at Wrmingbam, and
the witness had !Pen a scholar in his Bible class. The
father of the wfinete was a tailor living in Birmingham,
and the prisoner was also by trade a tailor; and after the
girl hut left the Sunday school the prisoner, at the request
of the father, came to his house to teach the witness and a
younger sister reading and writing. That wee about
six months ago. During the intercourra thus originated
a very strange sort of istinney had sprung op between the
prisoner and his pupil. He had made her numerous pre-
sents, including a fur boa, a lace fall, tome ornamental card.
with verses on them, and a legit of his hair. She had in -
quently met him and walked with him slime, and had gone
several times with another girl of about the same age, named
Sarah Cartwright, to fetch the prisoner away from public-
houses. last before' Saturday, the let of June, the girl,
Sarah Upton, had written a letter to the prisoner, which tell
into his wife's bands ; and on the afternoon of that day he
met the girl, and sent her to the school-room to fetch her
copybook, in order that his wife might not have the oppor-
tunity of " matching the writing." After meeting him in
the sheets, about 8 o'clock that evening, she went to the
house of Sarah Cartwrigbt's aunt, and stayed there till past
10. She and Sarah Csrtright then went out again, and
about half-put IC met with the prisoner. The walked
about till 11 o'clock; the prisoner and Sarah Cuteeright
asked her to go home, but she raid one war afraid to go
home, as her father would beat her. According to her
statement, the Outser said to her, "You will be hippy
where I am, and I will stick to you like bricks." Sarah
Cartwright left them, and they went away together. They
walked on out of Birmingham, and first went to Smelt-
wick. They called at several plates for refreshment ; they
travelled on all that night and the neat day. They went to
Harley and Bourne-heath, where they were at eight o'clock
on Monday morning. The prisoner there said to the girl
that he would rob somebody, and she being afraid that he
would, and that they might both be taken into ecstodY,
asked him to take a room and get work out. However, they
went on to Belllaroughton, to, the Clent-bills, and to Stcur-
bride. Once the prisoner asked her if she would drown
herself, and she said she would not. Near Stourbridge, on
the Tuesday morning, about 2 o'clock, they found a cottage
open and they went in. The people said it was too late
for them to go on the read that night, and they might stay
there. The witness slept with the cottager's wife, and the
prisoner oat up. Afterwards they began to return towards
Birmingham ; they walked all the next night ; and on the
foll,,wing day the girl was found by her Whet in the streets
of Birmingham, about a quarter of a mile from his owe
house. _ . . .

Sarah Cartwright stated, that on the Saturday night both
.he and the prisoner aaaaaa I times begged Sarah Upton to go
home ; that she said she was afraid ; but that et last she
mid that eke would go home if tho prisoner would go with
her; that the prisoner said he would, and that when the
witness left them they were going in tho direction of Mr.
Upton's house.
Mr. O'Brien ad leered the jury; and
The learned Judge, in smraming up, told the jury that if
they thought that the prisoner, even in concert with the girl
herself, was a party to the removal of her from the parental
control, he might be convicted of the offence with which he
was charged.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The leaned Judas, in passing upon him the sentence of
12 months' imprisonment. expressed his regret that the law
did not enable him to inflict a punishment adequate to the
enormity of the offence, for it was too clear that the prisoner,
whi'at engaged in the task of expounding the Scriptures to
the witness, had availed himself of the opportunity to cor-
rupt her mind by attentions and conduct which, in h's
situation, could not fail to excite horror and detestation.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION HOUSE.

AIIeAULTIIIO A BOLICITO/I.—Johts Bennaore was °barged
before Alderman Gibbs with having assaulted Mr. G. Harden,
a eolleiter. _

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The oomplainaat said that he railed at the defendant's
house, No. 31, Newgate.street, at the request of a lady, his
client, to ask for the amount of a debt due te her by the de-
fendant. The reoeption he met with was such u was not
often given to professional men. The defendant not only
told him that the money should not be forthcoming, but
seised him by the cellar and shoved him out of the house-a
dangerous mode of disposing of a pecuniary demand, inas-
much as the agent might have come in contact with some
vehicle in that crowded thoroughfare.
Alderman Gibbs-Did you use any provoking language to
tke defendant ?
Complainant-Not at all. I merely told him the business
upon which I called upon him,and he said he would bundle me
out neck and mop, sad he certainly showed me that he was
ta earnest. . .

The defendant mid be had desired the complainant to
leave his horse four times before he proceeded to the dis-
agreeable task of putting him out, and then the force used
was net greater than would have been necessary to remove •
straw or say thing incapable of resistance.
B. Dutton, waiter to the defendant, said the complainant
come to the bar, and mister told hiss to go out and he would
not. Master then said if you do not I'll put you out, and
the gentleman said do it at your peril. blaster then told me
to open the door, mad ha took the complainant by the
Dolls, and just walked him out, sad then master walked
beak. _ .

R. Quanoll, a lodger in the bozos, mid, I was in the shop
at the time and beard some waeda at the bar. I then observed
the gentleman who complained desidedly obstructing the
business of the house. Kr. Beaman then placid his band
on the collar of the gentleman, who immediately walked out
as quiet sea lamb. No force whatever was used, for none was
neormary. I did tot beu any wards.
Alderman Gibbs eaktf the assanli was clearly proved, not
only by the statement of the complaisant, but by the evi-
dence for the defence, and the defendant must pay the
penalty of 20s. sad SOW, or so to prima fee 14 day.. The
fine wan paid.
RUFFIANLY CONDUOT....SONINI/1 Frost add George WAN
were eharloader the tellewtos eiroenotasees :
B. Liu Calaberwellowribwo proprietor sod driver,
said, T orating at lye tided', I was coming to the
city, sad es Leaderbridge, Fiat, who wee driving a cart,
kept covedag say lawns, sad at kw be tombs hold of
ea' of ay home sad threw it dews. I told an ether to
take blot to shave, sad he awl white. who was with him,
oared violist teekleose, bat ter width I would sot bate
come lorwowl "id Iheem
Is has gems tint the deferisat net only resisted sad
amassed 1110 diem, bat OINIINFFINIFINI to excite the mob
whist s, ea • seatleawa, who was one of the wit-
seinoolatea VW the *lemma =bit, rebtleammilisith
on, hid add with the ateel