The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-10 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

THE WINNER OF TEI DEIST AND THE STAKEHOLDER.

nomad Mandan, a faabionably.dremed young man, cap-
peered before Mr. Combo on a warrant charged with com-
mitting an aasault upon John Cooper under the following
drcumstancee :
The complainant, • billiard marker, in the Westminster-
bridge-road, mid that himself, the defendant, and several
others joined in a sweepstakes for the Derby, the subscrip-
tion for which was half .a-crown each. The defendant neg-
lected to pay his subscription, bat oo the drawing taking
plans Macaroni, the winner of the Derby, was, however,
drawn in his mine. Witness was the stakeholder, and he
considered that the defendant was not entitled to the
money, inasmuch as he had not paid Iris subscription.
Mr. Combe asked what was the amount of the stakes
Witness replied that it was 2t, but as the defendant had
not paid his subscription be considered he was not entitled
to the money. He met him afterwards at the bar of a
public-house near the Westminster Theatre, when the
defendant in • pasaionate manner demanded the
2!. for Macaroni. Witness told him be was not
entitled to it, and he should not pay him. The
defendant said, " If you won't pay me, spend the mosey at
the bar." He told him he should do so such thing, when
the defendant struck him • violent blow.
Mr. Combo asked what the defendant was ?
Complainant believed he was a respectable young man,
who did • little betting at times.
The defendant denied that be bad anything to do with
betting, and said it was quite au accident that he had
not paid the half-crown before the drawing took place. He
expressed his willingness to do so immediately afterwards,
and on complainant refusing to receive it or pay him the
sweepstakes, he struck him ; but he was sorry for it, as he
was en old friend of the complainant.
The latter here expressed his willingness to withdraw the
charge after that, but still he should not at present deliver
him up the stakes.
The warrant was then dismissed on the defendant paying
the costs.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. —A meeting of
this society was held at Burlington House on Monday even-
ing, the Bth of June ; Sir Roderick I. Murchison, K.C.8.,
is the chair. Amoog the 28 fellows elected were his
'Royal Highness the Count de Paris, the Earl of Belmore,
fir John P. Bodeen, Mr. Walter Buchanan, M.P., Mr.
9, W. Courtmay, M.P., Mr. C. F. Heneage, Sir T. D.
Lloyd, Viscount Milton, Mr. St. Andrew St. John, the
800. H. P. Vereker, Mr. W. 0. White ; also Lieutenant-
Colonel the Chevalier Bookie? von In■tatten, of Vienna, as
honorary and oorrespoodieg member. The President stated
th►t he had received a telegram informing him that Captains
Spoke and Grant left Alexandria on the 4th inst. by the
Pets for Southampton. and are due in England on the 17th.
The council bad decided on having en extra meeting to
receive them, and the day would be announced as soon as
arrangements could be made. The President pert commis.
ideated further intelligence of Madame Thine and her
daughter. who after having gone as far as Gondokorn and
retuned to Khartilm, had started afresh in their steamer
for the Bahr-el.Gazal, the great western affluent of the Nile.
He then read a letter from these ladies, after which he
called attention to the explorations which M. du Chaffin
was about to undertake into the interior from the west
coast of Africa, stating that be had resolved to go alone,
.and bad embarked the whole of his capital in the Dereasary
preparations and the purchase of scientific inetruments.
presents, to. He proposed to raise additional means by the
sale of a number of gorillas and other curious animals
which be had brought from Africa.
A young non-commissioned officer of artillery, in
garrison at Wursbnrg, recently fell in love with the daughter
of an innkeeper of that town, and made her an offer of mar-
riage, but the match was opposed by the girl's parents
because the young man we, poor. In their despair the two
lovers last week resolved to commit suicide, and after taking
the sacrament at the parish church, they tied themselves
al:gather with a cord, jumped into the Maine, and were
drowned.