The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-06 00:00:00

MARYLE BONE.

A gentlemaitly-lookingnian,elcse;ibed on the police-
sheet as Edward Bridal, solicitor, No. 33, Cloudesley-
square, laliagOn, was charged with having indeoently as-1
malted a girl named Caroline Dolton.
There was =evidence in support of the allegation gone
into, the father of the girl (13 years old) not having brought
his daughter forward to be sworn.
The proceedings, which did not occupy many minutes,
were brought to a close by defendant tap/easing, through
his counsel, his regret for any misconduct of which he
might have been guilty, and giving U. for the poor-box of
the court.
SOUTHWARK.

Tiasotiy Connor was charged with committing a violent
sad unprovoked wank upon Charles McGowan. The pri-
soner, it is material to state, had been a protestant and is
now a Roman catholic ; the prosecutor had been a catholic
and is now a protestant.
Complainant said he was a scripture reader, under the
Rev. Mr. Armstrong, of Bt. Paul's, Bermondsey. On
Wednesday afternoon last be wu at home, and the house
he lived in as well as the two adjoining were inhabited by
persons who had like himself rcnounetd popery and become
members of the church of England. He was @tending at
the street door of the house he lived In, when he saw
the defendant, whom he knew before, approach. He,
therefore, went in, and was about to close the
door when the defendant rushed into the passage, collared
him, and pushed him up against the wall, and began to
strike him with his clenched Bats about the head and face,
while • man, named Hearn, held 3 him in inch a posi-
tion that he could not defend himself, and after heating
him in the way described, the latter ?tenon exclaimed,
" Connor, you have given him enough.' The defendant
and the man named then ran out of the hones and cusped,
Complainant added that he gave the defendant no provoca
tion, and that he was convinced that he had attacked him
on account of his differing with him on points of religion.
Mr. Bins, to complainant—Do you apprehend danger ?
Mr. Bokimon, on behalf' of the defendant, said that the
facts had been very much exaggerated. Instead of the
dreaminess arising oat of a religious feud, it was simply
a nee afeesault Ia which the complainant himself was the
ehiet eateeree. tie be Meek the first blow. He that pro-
ceeded to aress-amise the esoplainiust, who mid that the
defendant did net fates Ist sae Tracy who lived in the
house at the time elf the auselt. He (complainant) cer-
tainly objected le gem* Cease, to enter the house, and
that the latter then an* him. He did not strike in return

Clef;;;I;;;;;;M:1 to sse
Tracy, and It was Oar that purpose he went to the home,
when the ~ esmalt took place.
John Cots a mar-righted man, stated that he was in
the complikamrs Mane when the defendant rushed in and
assaulted him 1/Mmes. although he could not distinctly
see the blows lifvem yet beard them, and knew Connor 's
voice, and heard Mess say that the complainant had
pt enough. Afterwards saw the complainant bleeding
from the nose and mouth.

-Thu 141;;;;M-examination, said that he heard
the defendant say that the house belonged to Tracy, and
not to complainant. This was before the assault.
Witness was a convert to protestantism, had formerly
been a rigid catholic, but bad left it off. (Laughter.)
la reply to Mr. Combe, the witness said that he could
not torplala what Censor called at the house for except it
was to Ova the essoplobsant a " bating."
T. Rearm was neat called, and he stated that he ao-
eseapanied defendant on the ottomans in question, and
that theizlnsly eldest is ping those was to us mire for
rt they did nee gib arm to be on the
he Issuing hum oaths& to protestant, but to
see. Bat the osmplobsont, however, instead of giv-
ing them a civil mower, struck the defendant a blow on
the breast, and tried to shut them out. That a scuts
did then take plass between the potties, and he (wit-
ness) interfered to pot • slop to If, and that it was untrue
*atlas attempted to bud the annplainant while the defend-
sat was Mahn lam
Mr. Combo said that, after all, it was not satisfactorily
upload he whet immune the defendant called at the
bens% and that as the maws was so conflicting, instead
of sinking as um Mundt be would leave it open for the
somplahaing prelim to go before the grand jury, who were
then ag,rd probe aMU of against the de-
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Ns. iambs intimated that lat should proceed at once to
tiro tlessisas•6ooss hr that papaw

OCEAN SCREW STEAMED-L-11e Peninsular an!
Oriente Company's screw steamer Formosa is in the
Southampton Dock, undergoing extensive alterations, to fit
her for her Australian voyage. She was intended for the
Irish coasting trade before she was purchased by the above-
named company, hence the necessity for the 'lterations.
She will be commanded by Captain Per. The West
India Company's ships Clyde and Conway are undergoing
extensive alterations also in the Southampton Dock, to fit
them for intercolonial mail service. It is intended at pre-
sent to run them on the new station between Jamaica and
Savannah. It has at length been resolved to place a screw,
to be worked by stain, in the brig Brilliant, running be-
tween Bouthampbm sad Madeira. Thu is a great triumph
for steam. The Brilliant is one of the finest and fastest
ship la lies anardent service. She u fitted up in the most
elegant Myle, he dr conveyance of wealthy invalids, and
the boas rewmumaded by Sir James Clark and other
writhasat physitdamile their patients, es a means of convey.
when the di nireeablee of steam conveyance were
a /peel sari paastaality in going from port se port,
however, ass ths peat desiderata, and which ma be only
obtained IT mnaas of steam, and the owners of tha Brilliant
have bona impelled, reluctantly, to resolve upon putting
in a arm la desk ship, to be worked in dead calms only,
in order Se amps with the steamers, which touch at Ma-
deira, from this noestry.
FAUST% CONIPRIDIBID AIR-ENOINL—On Friday
last, the lad instant, Mr. Parley ran his small experimental
engine, worked by means of compressed air, en the Rasters
Counties Railway, at the junction near Cambridge, being
the semad experiment by permission of the proprietors.
He was attended, begether with his eons, by Mr. Blokes,
euperintendentof this MIMI at Cambridge • lir. Box (shyest-
bolder). and enema ether gentlemen aid anghwers. The
reservoir was oa:y aimed to 1761bs ; the set to
151b5., beim the premwes upon the pietism lint wide
was aniewyilehed ia hie minutes, whoa the reppriatar was
set to OMB, led paresnand the esesad was /sag minstes.
It was than redesad as the original pressess, mei amapieted
the the nag sad a balf in nineteen nelssina, disgolas the
' perfect control saw the power. The wake is imparlis of
containing a wadi gamer power ; hat it Ism deural ae-
-1 ftearry. only toe =lll that density kr impasikaat,
IS whisk about ih• amount prepamst Ths per-
formals pen Guam salisamitha to all pausal, vim magra-
tulatei Mr. Paw ea Wm swum