The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

Mr. Jtatioe Cronaptor said it was for the jury to say if
they considered that there was any evidence of etdpable neg-
ligence on the part of the prisoner.
The jury upon thm held • short consultation together, and
they mid they note of opinion that the evidence was not
sufficient to convict the prisoner, and they at the same time
begged to be allowed to express their greatest dimatigaction
at the extremely defection mate of the signals end the bad
time kept upon the North Kent Railway.
Mr. Justwe Crompton said he quite concurred with the
jury that there our no evidence of culpable negligence on the
part of the prisoner. He was told at Lswieham that it was
all right, he knew that the train ahead of bite ought not to
have stopped at Lew/wham, and it was very pomade that he
did not see the light until he arrived at the bridge, es he
stated.

A verdict of Not Guilty was then recorded.
The priconer, John Griffith, wee then placed et the bee.
and arraigned upon another charge of manslaughter arising
out of the Fame transaction.

Mr. Bodkin said that after the careful consideration the
jury bad given to all the ein umetances, and the result they
bad arrived at, be felt that he was not called upon to offer
any evidence against the prisoner. He at the same time
thought it right to may that the managers of railway. were
in a position of very great reeponnihility, and in the present
enfants they bad done all in their power for the preven-
tion of accidents, belt m 'sometimes did happen in
such eaten the very additional meantime taken by them for
the prevention of accident. sometimes led to inconvenience,
and mire and to hove done eo on the present occasion, but
the director" were moot annions to do all in their power for
the prevention of accidents of thie'deerription.
Verdict, of at Ouilly were then taken in all the remaining
ante, and the penetrant were immediately discharged from
enatody.
Thom. Colnan, 23, wes indicted for feloniously wound-
ing Southern Bevingtn, with intent to murder him.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution.
The circumstances of this cane have appeared quite re-
cently in the police reports. The prisoner wan a convict
under lenience of penal servitude in the Penitentiary at
Millbank, and the prosecutor was one of the &existent
warders of that prison. On the mooning of Sunday, the 21st
of August' the prieerutor was engaged tn mooning the poi-
soner and three other penal class convicts from the chapel to
their cell,, and while so engaged, the Osmaer rushed upon
him and stabbed him in tLe cheek with an order knife which
he had by POMO mesons contrived to obtain possession of, sad
inflicted a moat venous injury upon him.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of wounding with
intent to do grievous bodily harm. _ .

Mr. Bodkin informed the court that the prisoner had been
three Umea convicted of burglary, and while undergoing his
sentence he wounded one of the officers who had him in
charge. For this offence he was tried at the assizes at
Reeding, and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation.
Ile was then removed to Pentonville prison, and here he
committed several asesulte upon the officer*' and was in con-
sequence removed to the Penitentiary, where he committed
the act of which he had now been convicted.

Mr. Damn Watson raid the prisoner appeared in be in-
corrigibly wicked, and the care woe one of the wont that had
ever come Wore him. He therefore felt it to be his duty to
pang the highe.t ecutenee tiled by the law for this offence,
which war that he be kept in penal servitude for the re-
mainder of In. life.