The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

UNLAWFUL CONCEALMENT OF WRECKAGE

87VRZ8.

On Saturday, John Bright,. John Simons, Henry
sumps, Witham Wadley, manners, appeared before the
msgistrates at Cokbastsr, to answer an Information preferred
by It. Regret', Esq., Receiver of Customs, for unlawfully
secreting wreck of the sea, on the 30th November, at Bright,

Mr. W. A. Neck appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr.
Goody for the defence.
Mr. Neck having briefly detailed the facts of the teas,
called Henry Hawkins, an aloe, of customs, who proved
that on the 30th November, between eleven and twelve
o'cloe.k, he saw defendants' smack, the Anne Maria, up.
preaching the gaud boat, at Brightliageee, and upon hie
kelting Whether they had anything on hoard, they
"Nothing bat firewood." Not being eatiefied, lee p
on hoard to rummage the vessel, and found the firewood
'poke of consisted of a jib-boom of a vowel cut up. He found
past of the bed cabin filled with cut riggieg, half wet.
Upon further search in other parte, he discovered other
rigging concealed, and in the aft bed cabin, part of altbt
which, he should judge belonged to • weed of from 120
to Ibo tone bombes; he found the remainder of the jib in the
forecastle, and some more wreckage, apparently the jib sheets,
under the cable. , Ho asked defendanta where the articles
came from. They said they did not know, and he took pcs-
malice of them.
Me. Haggett, Receiver of Wreck, proved receiving the
articles into his peeression' which, he said, were certainly
from a wreak, and were too large to be used on lewd doe
fondants' ama,ck. Ono of the crew, not present, told hint
that he was sorry for what ho had done, and hoped ha would
look over it.
Me. Goody addressed the court in defence, and contended
that his clients had been lawfully engaged in salvaging, and
fully intended to have delivered up the wreckage to the
receiver.
Mr. Gower mid he would tell them, as a nautical man,
that defendants were bound to report the wreckage se soon as
possible, and if they neglected to do so, it became an illegal
pomeesion.
Mr. Goody respectfully submitted that the question for
the magistrates to deride was not es to reporting, but secret-
ing, and that secreting referred to parties who had been en-
gaged in plundering a wrecked 'mewl, and not those in cow
session of salvage property, and therefore the present cam
must fall to the ground.
The cowl wee cleared, and upon its being re-opened,
The Chairman mid the bench had come to thu mutation
that the defendants were guilty. They were not ruts that
in awarding the penalties they had determined to Impose
upon them they discharged their duty as they ought to do,
bat they considered that there were alleviating circumstances
in the case, and that the wreckage goods might Nighty
have been picked up instead of plundered trim the
They fined John Simons, muter of the marl, 40s. ; Heel
Simons, who had before been convicted, 49e. ; and IVardley
and Bright 11. each, with 9e. expel:we each.
Mr. Goody said, considering that the bench were applying
an act for plundering to a cape of salvaging, he hoped they
would not think it affinitive. if he took the opportanity
of
making Chia a special cam of appeal to the Ciuit of Queen's
Bench
The Chairman said they quip understood Mr. Goody'e
argument, and were of opinion that there was nn ground far
an appeal, but they would be happy to have thin iota re'
considered by • higher tribunal.—Eseez Herald.

The English engineers hare now been seven
months in their Neapolitan prison.
By advicca from Sicily, it appears that the earth-
quake whit* lately did so much damage to the kingdom ci
Naples did not extend to that island. A Naples'eUaets/es
that instead of two torrents of burning Lica, which Vesuvius
has been hitherto throwing out, there are now three, which
continue to run slowly towards Ottajano.
The German journals publish a hitherto unprinted
poem by Goethe. It him been disooverrd by Proteins
Kehlert, of Breslau, in the album of a fellow-student d
Goethe, the late Dr. litase, of Strehlon, in Sil The
acmea with which the student-poet had loscribet bitueelf .
the t' Stambuch" of his friend are characteristic ft the
anacreoutic view he took at that time of Infe. They TIM 111
follows

Der Reiche.
ja, ich bin Mrklick ruicb. ich baba.
Doe gottlicho Gerchenk, the Glebe,
Mit Wenignm ecrimugt re mein.
Min Madchm, wag, mich nu kmuun,
Der Frtunde viol, vin rut Gorham,
[lnd Mulich eine Mich, Wein.

Leipzig, 12 Mel, 1767.
"At the Count do Flandre," says the Nord of
of
Brussels, "was in the afternoon of Chrisiumeoluy
in the park opposite tho peisce, a wet kitig nom arming a
blouse and wth a cep on his head, atrptaai up to the piaci
and said, ' Sir, will you give the a light ? Thin prince taking
his cigar from his lip', offend it to the men, sad the letter
quietly lighted his pipe and returned, with an esprimicis d
thanks,' the ague of his rol el higluirre. After tile sorb.
man had gone a few step • gentleman atoppod hits
said if be knew of whom he Led begged a light? ' late
*amend the mai. 'lt is the Coant de Flambe, eon of the
King: The Count de Flea:tare? exiiiiinott the raw,
Well, I atm not Reny to have nude hie acluaiabuszo i ke I
• nry Fibs essiimits: "