The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-17 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

THIS DAY.

Ric Mel Lay, a tailor, was eland with having smelted
a policemen.
The defendant was engaged on Monday night is a little
friendly row with several of his eountrynten, who are also
heights of the thimble, is the soars' of which the neigh-
bourhood was not only stunned wit► noise, but blood
I Bowed from the noses of preens who endeavoured t
prevent mischief, ameapt whom was the policeman.
A ?dermas Heater—Why, I sit ►en without being
aeatrested wit► ea Irish tailor charged with lighting and
&wanness. What have you to say ?
Defeadant—By the virtue of my oat► I *ever was drink
before, and I never struck • blow before, and then I &rat
strike till I was kayaked down admen times.

Fixed Ma shillings.
Jo/ht Taylor was charged with having robbed a lady of •
parse °attends' 265.
',Male, the detective O&M?, saw the prisoner put his
Mad is the lady's pocket, and apprehended him. The
saw did sot popostve that anything was paned by the
"dense to any Mbar penes. The lady, upon being gues-
timate. said alw bed bet bra ruse, from which she had a
ialaulas bean labia nine silver la a shop, but neither
pm. Mt Meer ems gou,g.
The whew was roperaimai by sevenl of the polies se •
mamma this& sad was committed for two months to Hol-
loway pries&

James Ready, a bliteissaili, employed at the the New
Westminster-bridge,m G
and a powerful-looking ruffian, was
st=before the H. G. C. Norton with violently ea-
Mrs COOPer, the wife of a henhouse keeper M
Stan/rem, end also assaulting two constables belonging to
the L
From the evidence it appeared that the primmer, while
la • state of istolicatiora, violently assaulted the landlady,
by striking and kicking her, merely because she refused to
supply him with more beer. The p dine were called in, and the
prisoner on seeing them declared with a dreadful ;ash, his
determination to injure them in • delicate part of their
He then made ever, effort is carry his threats
ai to eitecation, and, as the witnesses described, caught them'
by their trousers in his teeth like a 0 ball-dog," and it wee
with the greatest possible difficulty they were enabled to
take hiss to the station-hoes&

Is reply to the chirp the primmer said that same years
ego he rewired a severe lejery is the head, and when he
took drink he booms so afiscusd that he had no recolleetica
of what he did.

Kr. Norton observed that this was no jastileatka for ►is
brutal contact, and antteased the primmer to four months'
bard labour, and is addition ordered ►ias to fled hail for his
rod bliaviour for three mouths afar the expiration of his

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DlLtYd.

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P..AYKARKIT.
lasi ign.iflrrott toot Ids Imo of tits dap,
OW • ••••••kil theatriesl saner of Arty jests. H.
•190•10‘ tee tie lint time la Loads& at Oeveatirrame Is
the 7•9 z sad was raregaised, without • dismatisat
vein. as • masummate ease. This estimation bas seer
••vied• Public' Grain, madly se variable, has WM
ilum.4 its melba In the ease of Ferree. Hs is asid.ladeai.
by Maas is be deleiesit I. thee reality width was the Mr
eagaiskiwg feature M the maim of his great pnelosamor,
Sag ; to want the versatility sad brood humour of Nudes,
sad the pathos of Dories. But he has achieved a popula-
rity whisk was hoped the reach of either of those uteri,
sad has tendered it hapossible for my easesediag actor to
hops for sumer I. say of the parts whisk be has
as it were made his town, sakes by plsylag them in the
maim whisk he has preseribed. He has crystallised Lard
Ogleby, Ihr Peter Teazle, Bit Fretful Plagiary, and other
characters, sad say variation from the form he has chases
would be maidered an insult, or at least aa mwarraatable
isamatioa. True, than were some hate is his acting,
ma is his most palmy dap. He had very little play of the
features, sad that little ezpeaded its if in unpleasant sew
toetioas. His masher was hard, and his words wen jerked
out with unpleasant eaphsaie. He had, with few user
thee, but in toss for all hie shaman He ROM 'Mated
to give way to natural impulses. He acted too meek is short.
His Lord Ogl.by was more elegant sad 'detonate
this any real Lord Ogleby. His Bit Antony
Absolute was move demoastrative this the real ham el the
asperses Jack. His air Peter was UM *mimes, more
lapdog like thee the unfortunate banish basalt weld
have bees. But, on the other load. then was wonderful
art ens la this ezaggeratioa ; tee the whale securing of
the rams was heighesasel, and sue put was sot eariehed
at the ezpease of the other. Tbe propcotteas of light and
shale were perfectly reserved, sad we pardoned the in-
tacky of the soloariag for the sake of the increased effect.
Who caa forpt the intozicatiees of admiration which
his Bit Peter displeyed as he looked at his wife,
the !Willies mamas, in which he followed her about,
as if under a magnetic influent*, the selloatie.
AM shackle whoa he ensidered her as hie owe, the
air of bashfulness and honor whoa he was joked by his
hinds, the pride and the pleasure with width he patted his
capricious wife's hands, the mad neberance of joy with
which he contemplated the detestion of Jamb's " little
French milliner" behind the series, the ghastliasse of his
surpthe when he greeted his detected wife with Lady
nosh by all sloes horrible !" Is the whole nap of mo-
dem meting this has aim bas summed; sad we might
go through the whole of Fanan's chanatan, sad deliver the
same judgment upon them. No ass bas men his equal in
his ;oculist line. He leaves bolded him a loag lies of
thalamus for which there is so representative.
We used seemly make my remarks upon the short per-
formance of last night. Old habitat traced some of the
well-known points is the dressing seem ; bat it was evident
that power was wanting. An actor who has played so great
a part la the entertainaest of society for the last fifty ran
may well aford to display a little weakens when he team
the stage. The guesses thought nothing of what the
actor was, bat eneeetreted their thoughts oa the past, sad
applauded him for what he had been. And the applause
was vehement is the extreme. He was greeted on his
ottotoos more warmly than he bad ever been grossed is
bislael days. At the conclusion of his performaam the
aWo.f the spestatore in the pit and bone arm 'haul!
asemly sad milleued cheering for mono time. The is.
011161111111 did amol rebid. wail he had tom forward twist,
adeeaiWtl waits et Madkesabiefs and hats mad a stela
el Meat% Forma enrreasiled by the whole moray, and
sissy of his permesal Meads, took leave of the stage he
ever.

JULY

Two °lkon.
TM railway 'hue market to-day is very Motive,
and pries show searesly the slightset variatios. Da-
da; sad North-W.estera stook is 991 to
100}; Great Western.B7 to 1; 3Bd 711 to 1 ;
Laambire sad Yorkshire, 811 to 1; fleatbassteras,
181 to 1; Caledonians, 311 to #; sad Cheat North-
am, 221 to 231.
Preach sham are rimer.

OSDINAII =AMU MID MOCK.

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