The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-22 00:00:00

end chained, through the striate of Liverpool, in and open
three nusnibuoes, some of the men uttering the most out-
rageous shouts and Itoprecitiuns, to the great annoyance of
posseroby. The cause list is not heavier than usual at the
I first anises of the year.

THE POLICE COURTS.
_ WIMSHIP: STREET.

Aare Brows, a middle-aged woman, was charged with
robbery from a little girl, named Anne Bates, 10 years of
•
The complainant stated that, while proceeding through
Old-street, upon an errand for her mother, about 10 o'clock
in the morning of Tuesday last, she was suddenly accosted
by the prisoner, who, after inquiring what o'clock it was,
affected to be greatly pleased at the beauty of the shawl she
was wearing, and requested that she would lend it to her
for a few minutes, for the purpose of showing it to a friend
of her's, who wished to purchase one of the same pattern
fur her daughter. On refusing to entrust her with the
shawl, the prisoner intimated that she would leave her much
more then it was worth by way of security, and having
handed her a smell packet, which she assured her contained
75., deliberately stripped the shawl off her shoulders and
walked off with it, directing her to wait there till her re-
turn, when she would bring her a new gown and cloak, but
strictly enjoining her not to open the paper for fear of losing
the money. After waiting patiently for upwards of an hour,
witness returned home to her mother, who found, on
examining the pretended packet of 'Leer, that It contained
only a few pieces of fist pebble, and the prisoner was seen
nn more until the preceding evening, when witness acci-
dentally met her in fthorcditch, snd gave her into custody.
&Trent Harvey, 140, stated that at the time in ques-
tion his attention was attracted to a crowd of persons sur-
rounding the prisoner. The women was endeavouring to
d herself from the grasp of the complainant, who
woe pertinaciously to her dress, and charging her
with Mirky robbed her, which the woman at first stoutly
denied, boa ea taking her into custody, she voluntarily
acknowledged that she had stolen the shawl at the instiga-
tion of matter wan, who bad disposed of the booty, and
nessislissi the satire produce of it. On their way to the
Mate. bouso, he detected her in the act of destroying some-
thing which he fewood out of her hand, and found it to con-
do of • parcel otpowabrokers' duplicates, relating to seve-
ral shawls and other articles of female wearing apparel.
The prisoner destined offering any defence, and was ae-
cordingly rinnoodol for a week.

11ARLBOROUG R. STREET.
George Mayer, pour= at the Bull's Head public-house,
No. 101, Tottenham-court-road, was summoned for having
wantonly chopped the fingers of John Edward Cooper, a
child about seven years of age.
The complainant, the child of respectable parents, living
in Howland-street, said he was on Friday week in Bull's
Head•court, with some of his schoolfellows, when the de-
fendant came out of the public-house and chopped him over
the fingers with a carving-knife, cutting three of his fingers
severely. Complainant knew of no cause for this act ex-
cept it was that some of his little schoolfellows were
,placing
their fingers against their noses, in defiance of the prisoner's
fellow-servant. The prisoner said, when cutting at him,
" You'll remember this." _

The mother of the child mid the certificate of the surgeon
would prove the serious character of the injury.
The defendant said he bad the carving-knife accidentally
in his band, and being left-banded, as he opened the door
the knife went against the child and cut btu band. The
injury was quite an accident.
Mr. Hardwick could look upon the case only as an exhi-
bition of cruel and unmanly temper, which might have re-
sulted in maiming the child for life. It would have been a
cowardly act to use the knife against a man of his own size,
but to raise it against a mere infant was such a piece of
savage brutality that be could not do lees than impose on
the defendant the highest penalty of bk, or sin weeks'
imprisonment.