The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-17 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE

With reference to a reTiOiVinthefiTvies of yesterday of an
application by °agnate Lean, Secretary of the Shipwrecked
Mariners Society, upon the subject of some shipwrecked
mariners, our reporter states that nothing whatever took
place iu the public court, and it was merely a privatenonver-
satins in one of the rooms belonging to the Manaton•tionse,
and the Lord Mayor was not even present.
The Lord Mayor, on taking the chair yesterday, stated
that gentlemen had written to him relative to the loss of
the steam ship Mars, by which most of the crew and pas-
sengers who were on board at the time Lad perished. A
good deal of property, consisting chiefly of provisions,
. which
was being carried from Waterford by different parties for
sale, bad been lost. A great deal of distress had been canted
by this sad calamity, aid an appeal had been made to pub-
lic charity through the medium of the preen. Receiving.
houses for contributions had been opened in various places
sa w in Waterford, and among those in London
the Pfiffficial Bank of Ireland were willing to re •
°sive contributions in aid of the widows and orphans of
thine who were lost by that sad occurrence. An appeal had
been made to him that he should be the medium i brough
which contributions should be forwarded to Waterford, but
finding that the Provincial Bank of Ireland, which was an
establishment of high standing and well-known respect-
ability in the City of London, had taken the matter in hand
and were willing to take the responsibility, he thought it
bad better be left entirely in their Lands. Although the
calamity was a very sad one, still be thought it would be
enfficieut if, is those few words, he commended that
charity to thepublic notice, and asked that any contributions
which they might think tit to make in behalf of that fund
might not be sent to him, but transmitted to the chief office
of the Provincial Bank of Ireland in Old Broad-street.
A gentleman representing hissers. A. C. Robinson and
Co., agents fur the Waterford Steam Packet Company,
thanked Lis lordship for the terms in which he had spoken
of the charity, and at the mine time thanked him for a
donation of W. Is. which his lordship had subscribed.
The Lord Mayor said he wished it to be understood that
the 51. 5a did not come from his o;zoansocket, but was from
ad a fu which was placed at his die
Mr. Stuckbury, from the office of Mr. Pearson, the City
Solicitor, waited upon the Lord Mayor for the purpose of
having some meat condemned which had been seized by the
inspector.
Mr. Wyld, inspector of meat and slaughter.bouses under
the Commissioners of Sewers, stated that he that morning
saw four quarter* of beef hanging in the shop of Mr. Scales,
a butcher, in High-street, t.ltigatii. He saw it brought from
I a cart and hung up, and immediately seised it es unfit for
human food. The animal bad died from disease, and had
not been slaughtered in the usual manner. It smelt very
strong of what be believed to Le physic, and independent
of that it was in a very bad state of disease.
The Lord Mayor having inspected the meat, ordered it to
be condemned.
WORSHIP-STREET.

William Deland, a young &To; describing himself as a
journeyman baker out of place, war charged before Mr.
Leigh with stealing 11a. 4d. from the person of Henry
Fluke, residing in Old Fonl.road, Bow.
The robbery occurred on the night of the 6th inst., when
the prosecutor, while in company with a friend, was, while
passing through a street in ffpitalhelds on his road home,
seized from behind and held round the throat with such
tenacity that, as be alleged, he could not speak for the
space of two minutes afterwards, sod was unable to resist
the rifling of his waistcoat pocket, which was turned inside
out, the contents fortunately consisting of the small amount
mentioned. Three men were engaged in the outrage, and all
escaped ; but the prisoner, who was sworn to as being one,
subsequently was apprehended at a coffee-house of very
doubtful character in the Kinpland•road. He denied his
guilt, and was fully committed to the Central Criminal
Court for triaL
James Connor was charged with stealing a deal box con-
taining various property belonging to Thomas Sadler, of
Bari-street, Finsbury.
This robbery occurred on the 15th lost., when at an early
hour in the evening the prosecutor's wife left the house,
securing the door, but not the front parlour window. On
retursiag at 10 o'clock she perceived the sash up and missed
the Do: in question ; circumstances also tended to show
that the robbery had but jest previously been effected, and
about five minutes after 10 o'clock, Rouse, 143 a, while on
duty in W hitechapel, met the prisoner with the box on his
back hurrying forward. The account of poeseseien not
being satisfactory, the thief wee taken to the etatioet-house.
Mr. Leigh ordered • committal for trial at the sessions.
This clam of offence is again frequent.