The Press. — 1856-12-06 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  two volumes of sermons by mistake, and begged to be allowed to read them before senciiug them back—thus adding dissimulation and the hypocrisy of the cloak of religion to your guilt. The sentence upon you is that you be imprisoned for six months, and kept to hard labour.  THERE CASES OF GAROTTING were tried on Wednesday at Stafford, before Mr. Baron Watson. In one case an acquittal took place, in the other two the prisoners were convicted, and severally sentenced to eight and six years' penal servitude. REDPATH AND KENT were examined at the Clerkenwell Police-court on Wednesday. The cases of alteration in the register in a transfer of 5,0001. Consolidated A Stock was gone into, and the prisoners were remanded till Friday, when fresh charges of forgery were brought against them, and they were spin remanded. THE THREE ITALIANS, Legava, Barbalano' and Pettrich, charged with piracy and murder on board the British barque Globe in the Black Sea on the.sth of July last, were tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge at Winchester on Thursday. The circumstances of the case have already been before the public. The prisoners conspired together to murder the crew of the Globe while en voyage from Constantinople to Balaklava. Circumstances prevented their carrying this horrible design into full effect, but they succeeded, on the morning of the sth of July last, in cutting the throat of one seaman, and stabbing, with intent to murder, two others. The prisoners then escaped in a boat, landing on the coast of Asia Minor, where they were afterwards captured. The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty." Mr. Justice Cresswell then passed sentence of death, without hope of mercy. MR. SNELL, the late chief and confidential clerk in the accountants' department of the Great Northern Rail-, way, was on Thursday fully committed for trial by Mr. Tyrwhitt on two charges of stealing cheques and embezzling monies belonging to the company. Mr. WILSON OVEREND, the Chairman of the West Riding Quarter Sessions, in addressing the grand jury on Tuesday, detailed the system of tickets of leave as followed out by the Government, and pointed out as a gross defect the fact that just previous to coming out of prison the men were allowed freely to associate together, though when out on leave if caught associating together they were sent back to prison :  When men, therefore, saw that in effect there was no difference between the punishment for merely associating with thieves and actually committing fresh acts of felony, they preferred their former course of lite, with the chance of escape from detection. The system was therefore, in that sense, a direct temptation to crime. But it was said that men were not turned loose upon society with tickets of leave until they had been trained and improved. But what were the facts? Why, since the act passed there had been no less than 160 ticket-of-leave men committed to the West Riding House of Correction at Wakefield for fresh crimes. That test showed whether the system was a good one or not. MABLEY, immediately after the sentence of death was passed last week, was removed into the interior of Newgate, and the whole of his clothing was taken from him, and subjected to a most rigorous search. in order to ascertain that he had nothing concealed by which he could commit self-destruction. During this process, the nonchalance and coolness he had evinced during his trial seemed gradually to forsake him, and on being subsequently conducted to the condemned cell, his courage completely failed, and the brutal murderer flung himself down overwhelmed with despair. Two turnkeys were placed in his cell, and till the time arrives for his execution he will never be left alone day or night.