The Express. — 1863-12-05 (London, England)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.  Melon t►e Reeorder )  Charles Johnson and Henry Page, two respectable looking men, surreadered in ditchers., of their bail to answer an indielaseat charging them with unlawfully, maliciously, and feloniously assaultiog one Charles Fanter Jackson, with inteat to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. E. Palmer conducted the prosecution ; and the prisoner Johnson was defended by Mr. Montagu Williams, and the prisoner Page was defended by Mr. Daly. The facts an disclosed by the evidence showed that the prosecutor was a potman in the service of Mr. Brows, the proprietor of the Ranelagh Arms Torero, at Old Ford, and OD the evening in question the prisoners entered his roaster's house, whoa an altercation ensued between them sod the tor which ended in an assault, io the coons of which prosecutor which scded loan assault, in the conies of which tb. prosstor was kicked by Johnson in a most delicate part of his person and severely injured. After the owe had proceeded to its conclusion, The Recorder said that in his opinion the evidence could sot sustain the charge of felony, but there was no doubt the prix rose. had been guilty of an assault, for which he thought they ought to component* the injured party. After a conference betimes the counsel oa both sides this view of themes was acceded to, and an acquittal of the files, taken, the prisoners pleading guilty to a comma samult  The Recorder thereupon ordered the prisoners to enter into their personal recognizance in 501. to come up for judgment when called upon, end ordered them to be discharged. . . . . .  It was rumoured in the court that the prisouara had arranged to compensate the prosecutor by the payment of IW. to him.  Joseph West, 214, writer, and Susan Farmer, 45, widow, were indicted for burglariously entering the house of Francis George Widdows, and stealing therefrom a irantity of silver plate, wearing apparel, and other article* his proper ty. The jury Acquitted the female prisoner, Farmer, and found the prisoner West Guilty of receiving the property well knowing it to have been stolen. _ _  In answer to inquiries put by the Recorder to the police cams in the use, a singular category of the previous Mier lof the convict West was given. It apposed that out of the last twelve years the prisoner West had been six years in custody. He had been twice convicted of felony, and had undergone first six months, then eighteen mouths, next eighteen months for an agggravated assault on we of the warden of Parkhurst Prison, and lastly he was ben. towed to two yews' imprisonment. The prisoner had also attempted suicide on several occasions, aced on the whole he wee a mart dangerous character. The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to be kept in penal servitude for the term of six years. James Connor was convicted of receiving a portion of the valuable property stoles from the premises of Mr. Mahood, a jeweller, carrying on badness in Oxford-street, when jewellery to the value of between 4001. and 5001. bad been stolen ; and a prisoner named Western, who had been convicted at a former session for the burglary, having been brought up for sentence, The Recorder said that on a former occasion it bad been proved that the prisoner Western, who wee the ostler of • nab yard, had been very instrumental in aiding bunion in the commission of these offences. With regard to the other prisoner, Connor, he had already been several times convicted for similar offences to that of which be had now been found guilty. The sentence upon Connor was that he be kept in penal servitude for the term of eight years, and the prisoner Western for six years' penal servitude.  into the City, It would be a great boos Irr the 'metropolitan districts, for now they allowed no point to be made a startingpaint of, and the ammegesses was that the journeys were made more expedltiewely and the traffic not stopped. In such a use sa this be essidgeed it a great hardship upon his man, who bad been a coodoctor for sevestees years, to be toed, so that would be marked on his homes. He had already one endorsement on it by the City magistrates, and if another were marked on it they would take it away, and the consequence would be that the man would be thrown out of employ. In this came it would be particularly bard, as this offence was not of his own seeking altogether, as other omnibuses stopped there, and he, on behalf of the company, was bound to do the same. Mr. llaosteld midi he could not interfere ; it was a moo for the commissioners.