The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-01 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

GUILDHALL.

Jan Marriott, of the White Swan, Skinner.street, was
summosed before Alderman Wilson, under the New Beer
Aet, for opening his hoes* unlawfully for the ash of malt
liquors oa Sunday morning, Dec. 24.
City police-constable 68 said, about a quests pre eines
o'clock on Sunday morning he saw two mast pa isle
fondant's house. He followed them in, mid saw Mrs. Wm,
riott is the am of platting a pot of beer on the mutter, cud
the barmaid by her aids giving dome. There wee a man
in front of the bar, drinking beer teas plat ck:sbielli be I
tried to hide. There were Kea
bar, some of them amokinigiliebrolrlir. Maiden that
was not right, and that she had better seed bee ensteeners
aw, upon which many of them left the house.
lire. Marriott, who appeared for her husband, said that
an omnibus stopped at her house every Sunday morning,
and brought travellers from a distance of thirteen miles out
of the country, and they required refreshment, with which
she was bound to serve them.

The police-constable said he knew many of them to be
working men in the neighbourhood, and not travellers.
Auderman Wilson said the defendant had told a false-
' hood, sad tried to deceive the court. It was very clear
these persons were net travellers, and he should mark his
' sense of her conduct by inflicting a fine of 40s. and costs.
Mr. Jolusakme, of the Bell, Pleet-etreet, was also sum-
mated under the New Beer Act, for serving malt liquor
during the prohibited hours oat Christmas-day.
Inspector Saunders said he saw a woman go into the
defendant's house about twenty minutes past throe o'clock
on Christma-day, and shortly afterwards come out with a
pot of beer M her hand. He said her what she bad got
time, sad a, said " Nothing." He went to Mr. John-
stone, who denied having sound her. There was AO other
person betas the bar.
Mr. Johnstone said the woman had worked foe him the
whole of Christmas-day, and his wife had given her the beer
when she was going home. He called the woman, who
proved this, and thealderman dismissed the summons.
LAMBETH.

Mr. Herring, relieving far of the pariah of St. Mary's,
Newington, attended before the Hon. O. C. Norton, is com-
pliance with a messier, from that magistrate, to give an ex-
planation of his conduct as regarded some poor people, who
had been sent to him from the wart to be relieved. For
several days part a considerable portion of the time of the
magistrate, at this court less been occupied by the com-
plgats of the poor of the district entitled to relief from the
pariah, but more particularly these of the pariah of New-
ington. The applicants from this parish not only coin-
planted ef not receiving relief, but of the harsh treatment
whisk they set at the hands of the officers. On Friday
these were not less than 27 cases fromNewington parish
alas% sad Mr. Norton finding that they were cumin which
the particle should have been relieved by the pariah akin,
sad set from the poor-box, desired Dixon, one of the sum-
moning officers, to take three of the worst cams te Mr.
Herring, and tall him they were deserving his immediate at-
tention. From these three Herrin/ selected one woman, and
said that ehe had been before the Board of Guardia'', en the
Thursday, when she was offered three loaves of keel, but
that she refused them ; and believing, therefore, Out she
imposed on the magistrate, requested hiss to take her back
to the court. Dixon did so, when the woman at once ac-
knowledged she had been before the board, and refined to
accept the three loaves for this reason, that they would be
as use whatever to herself and her hastily in the date they
were in. Her husband was ill, and unable to earn an
; her three children in a state of nakedness, and in
a room without a fire, and she would ask what use three
loaves of bread could be to her with her family is melt a
state.

ifizon, the Mar, awrobeested the statement of the wo-
man as respected the state of her children, and mid that a
greater scene of misery and wretchedness be Neer wit-
nessed than that which the unfortunate children ?resented.
He also said that he had leaned that the potion whose
duty it was to visit the family, and on whom report the
guardians sated, had goo' up-stairs to me the state
of the children. _ _ _

NortOt7oheerved, that this was preciseiy what he
thought. Prom what he had seen of the guardian of New-
legion pariah, he believed them to be moat lumens and
kind ; and he felt perfectly certain that if a proper repre-
sentation had been made to them, es it shoule hays been,
they would not have allowed the peal family a remain in
their present wretched state, or condos their cider to three
loaves of bread.
Mr. H Why charge me with all this! I wee oily
maim on the rd's order.
Mr. Norlea—l'll tell you why ; because it vas year duty
to hays silted this poor family yourself, ant not to have
allowed Nimbi* elms to go, who merely Mel a few quie-
tism at the deem, mil then made a false repmestation to
the geeedihee me at the actual mate of the fealty. I
halls de with a peat away Wring offices la my time,
but I see en then wee had Messpiela If the endues
of way use of then te the ewe eds. Sae I kiwe if years.
These are at went se lue *ea seveatsekeigisests in
the outer diet who have been refused rilet Irma your
parish, and I Win ea your laquiring into tick erase, and
relieving them or dealing properly with then.
A deeesh4seafag female, who stood is tie witness-box,
addressing she magistrate, laid that her husind had been
ill for les Wm, and her two children not much better,
and all thus, se well as herself, had not Wad a morsel of
food for • day and • half, and though she hid represented
these facts to Mr. Herring, ha refined to ao anything for
her.
Mr. Norton—Then, but for the half-cran I gays you
last evening yen might hays been with your family without
a morsel until this time on far as Mr. Herring is concerned ?
Woman—Yee, air, that we might untl this morning,
when he (Mr. Herring) assisted me with two loaves, but
what are two loaves to a sick family ?
Mr. Norton—Now, Mr. Herring, you her the statement
of this poor woman, and I request that on will at once
attend to her, and ie other caws, and if pat do not I shall
know what then to do.
Mr. Herring here matched up his hat aid left the court
in a hurried meaner, and certainly not &rampaged by the
blessings of his auditory.