The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-12 00:00:00

routes in the metropolis for the purpose of taking an amount
of the paymenta made to the conductor by the passengers,
which entoequently wee cempared w ith the return sent in by
the conductor of the receipts on the journey. The case
lasted • considerable time.
The jury at the conclusion retired, and aftw a abort
Amos day speed to a verdict of Not Guilty.
The prisoner was liberated on bail, to appear to answer
=other indictment.
Wiairen Ntilitres, a reepectable-looking man, pleaded
a, on Tuesday, to tour charges of stealing natives from
The prisoner lied been in the habit of going about to house-
agents and getNtut keys of unoccupied house; on the pre-
tence of 'calm whether they 'rook! suit him, and then
stripping than of ball-pulls, doer handlia,lcod, Ike.
Mi. Cooper strongly urged that the prisoner hod only re-
ser' dto such a ourso through destitution, and witness:',
were called to character.
The Amide W-Judge neatened him to fi't en months'
bard labour.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)
Meares Lipman, 29, was indicted for hal fag feloniously
received a 801. note well knowing the some to have been
stolen. Ho surrendered in ; +tort ] ; answer the charge.
Mr. Tindal Atkinson appeared fur the prosecution; Mr.
Sleigh. and Mr. F. H. Lowe; were conneel for the prisoner.
The came for the prosecution our that on the 10th of Feb-
ruary, a man =mod Nicholls received from Meson. Hoare
and Co. two SO/. Bank of England not., which fur safe
custody he gem to his sister, a Mm. Darbey, wife of a man
now at sea, living at No. 8, Star-street, Commercial-road.
Her eon, a boy shout 12 years of ago, found ono of themcon-
cealed under the bolster of her bed, and he and another boy,
named Sharp, went down petticoat-lano to sell it, where
they were introduced by a men called "Buffalo" to the
prisoner at a public-house, and he then gave two sovereigns
for the note.
William Derbey, the boy, said he slept in his mother's
bed-room on the 10th of February, and un the e st morning
he found • note,which bethought was a of. one, c be stole it.
A boy named William Sharp lived neat door and he showed
him the note, and they then liaised to go down Petticoat-
line to sell it. When they got there a man named Lender,
et Levy, asked than if they bad anything to sell, and Sharp
said "No." He want after hint ea be went away, and
.•tught him back, and they went to a public-house with a
man called "Baffle." Sharp stayed outside. They went
into the tap-rear at the public-house. The prisoner was
with thew The welter was en old man. The prisoner
began the ten he two weep:lgo* while the waiter was
eat at the MMr end when he came in he crumpled the
asks la the palm et his hand. Before he bought
if be rhea bin (witone) to let him see the
asem bat he reened to tenet it with him until
he led the Owe "golden aovercigna " in his pocket.
He eheagad the el the sovereign]; at the bar, at which a
Lob was essener, sad gave " Buffalo" Se., the other man
le. 111 s, sad lied Is. Afterwards his mother, aunt, and
=lX:kik after the prisoner, and on seeing Lim in
he essegnised him at once. lie went up to him
sal mld,"Haie, pea remember that 501. note you bought
of ma, I flue was a Si. note, and ' Buffalo '
demanded fa el an" The prisoner said he knew Buffalo.
The whams the bed his attention directed particularly to
the Omer be the dock, and he swore distinctly end
poeitively the he wee the man.
Mr. MOO esieseled him to a severe cross-examination.
Ho said who Se ma in rettiooat-lane asked him if he had
anything to nil, be knew that he meant "nukes" or silk
handkerehleas, Red that when he offered the note for sale,
he told there net be bad dipped • sailor" fur it. Sheep
taught Marl them things.
Willis= Sams, the other boy, corroborated the
evident tf Dusky, ups the point where it related to his
going lob the laWe house with the two men. Tho public-
Imre woks Ifemashire-street, and woe called the BAITS
Heed. He NW not swear that the third man who watt
in with thine was the prisoner, am ho only saw his back,
He sow bin vine they MOO out, but that was only by the
side hem and he mak not ewear now that ho was the Iran,
althenchht lad men be wee et the fleet examination before
the pellse megbenen and be end ho was the man when he
ant pym k embody. Dusky gave him a shilling outside
thichilledthem.
lama at the pollee court were put in es...
dame lealZals eme.
atthe boy Derbey had stated more to-day
flea be MI when des ems wee before the magistrate. Wheu
the wiener inn bat waved he said he was not the man.
Xt. lied nine a very earnest address to the jury, con-
finable en the evidence mto the identity of the prisoner
se tbe perms who bought the Dote could not for a moment
be itheiltspon in a ease of inch serious importance. After
which,
The lesilledy of the Bull, in Devonshire-street, was called,
and she doled that either the prisoner or the boy woo at her
home ma the day in question. She wee the only person who
send behind the counter, and gave change, end site was
rake she never gave the boy change for a sovereign. She
knew Lipman but he had not been at her house for 18
months.
An old who was waiter at the earns house, was called,
sad he swore that on the day in question no such lump:action
as that spoken of by the boy took place there. lie never
saw the boy there at all, and Lipman had not been in the
house for 18 months.
A number of witnesses gave the prisoner en excellent
diameter.
Mr. Atkinson, In his reply, urged that (the boy'. state-
ment that the waiter was an old man, borne out by the old
man produced for the defence, went to corroborate his account
of what took place at the home, and dwelt with much forth
upon the fact that if the prisoner was nut there at the time,
evidence had not been given to show really where he wee
when the alleged transaction took place.
Creasy summed up the case with great core, and at

some length.
The jury retired, and after considering a short time, they
aims tato wart, when the foremen rood they had a doubt
in the cue, wW.h they gave the prisoner the anent of and
Acquitted him.
There was a manifestation of applause in the Mint, on
which the foreman mid there was nothing to justify it, and
it immediately ceased. But when the result was known to a
number of persona who led assembled un the green, they
cheered lustily.