The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-10 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

BOW-BTREBT.

A mane( respectable appearance, e,who said his name was
Willisas Cole, was chaird with threatening the lives of
emend of the Ommoisaioners of Lunacy, azeniall of
Lord Shaftesbury. The prisoner described zdn
occupatice, 'Ed_ pie his address at the Crown Coffee-as js
eohous,
Bradge-etreet, Westminster.
Lard !Shaftesbury, wbo bad sign tim charge upon the
police-Meet, end Mr. Lutridge ((Cronemlssism of Lunacy),
were aommusedated with mate wpm the hooch.
Thomas SMier, one ci the smessengere to the Commis-
elopers of Lunacy, was the but witness. He stated that
since Priday last the prisoner had called daily between
11 and 12 o'clock at the Mims of the commissioners, 19,
Whitehall-place, and had employed very violent ex-
pressions.
Mr. Henry said the winsome must repeat the words used.
The witness—He said, "1 will smash that —Lad
Shaftesbury ; and 1 will send all the commissioners to
the bulks, if Sir Richard Mayne does not." He attracted a
very large mob by his conduct and by his singular appear-
&nos, wearing a coloured cloth over his shoulders. and
having on a blue cap. He knocked at the door on Taw
day and yesterday, asking who were the commissioners
=and using the same violent conduct and threatening
Defendant asked whether the witness had not told him
than Lord Shaftesbury was sot in town, whereas he was now
in court.
.

Tbe ;Moses had only said be WY not at the ales.
The defendant asked if wither did not soy, " Will you
call pin in the muse of the day!'
The witness might have said that Defendant irked him
who VIM the ocimatunionere present, and he replied, " Mr.
lintsidge, Lr. Gaskall, and Mr. Proctor." The defendant
then said that the oommissioners had made emertioes which
they ought to be ashamed of.
The delemilmot—l spoke the truth when I said so. You
yawed! bays made wartime that you might to be ashamed

—Yr. Henry inked if the dimes kivir the dellthimat.
The inters • said he had known him for adorn Ms sow
Wis not amass that he hod any oecoopaticie, bus breed be
beat the Society of Arta. Witmer relieved Med ' lee' was
labouring lades shandies el ishillent i hilhoselthall low
his osednot Had seen hiss &need in a mine& hems
cloth, coloured Gap, mut peonlidhesea, lin '
Perk if iIIINIMIM d the "Senn LesgseitViViolea..
inking the people by his sadden alerts sad Wale IMMO.
The defendant mid it wag not he that Miss thy
& hasten vibe had so td es to be linidilligy
of credit. The Earl of Shaftenbruv wee so s el
him thin he was of an infant ohild. He Wigs' mit his
own right and that of other victims, who bad
eonined as lunatics, to the fullest mvedidat tidier
to • reform of the propent system. It to
Yellen on the cease of Mr. Percival, Hr. .•-• eik sad
others who had been subjected to this sob of trealtheed.
He (the defendant) had petitioned the House d' Oh&
moth on the subject, sod the matter bad heat tay
by Hr. J. A. kM. eebuck, P. In my own urge&
honed the defendant) I was wined to Vim el.
Wight, apprehended at an hotel by two pubes
handcuffed, and dragged before a poor ell infirm
incompetent man . sensed book, who *same *Ater.
Mg m to hoar the charge of lunacy against ine, and
Induct the lightest &Wow et 'monde theirmed it. la
that nee, ea it will be in this, every fallacy was ahead up
by my own witnesses. If the Earl of ithaftesbery, who
really bee a r pad far With, were to set as his own copra.
dons be would do Indies ; but he is misled by the sta;e-
meats el oat& .7'he loth thing I did on tenon/sing my
liberty wan to sewn the anima of Dr. Holt end awes%
physician, and with thine in my pommies polleee right
to go dined without the ithmteresse of the et any
other mash I eas‘lar thud the !rd elf thabsehary has
paid me a lidgk eemidlosent by atteathei hose to-day ; . and
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sown all upon bent Maio what he Yes to say in jihad*.
Mos of them
' The Earl ' wee mat willing to & so. Bin
lonbildp wee them He said that peloosally hotfoot
1 Tery thile el the ddeidat, whom he bed sever seen mail
Mid thy. H. wes &lin with ether oniamimionen whoa a
pith dethrbanos aloes in the Mead. Bo treat to tha
abb., and as the whew, feataatieally demo& wearing
• lino imp, and with • thick in his hand, which he was
thigiiithing eves lain bevies he walked up and den. He
o
iima. wierasibwr amid it mai* Da • wedding heath
Wm betellthees ideentod bin of the pentledies thready
shoed in evidence. He (Led litallsolowy)then mods in-
quiries, and aeoertained that thodalendentleadbamempatad
tams ociased in eirybuna, and me edlbee Ille Widellie doh-
siege ;in hd. be waa • dampener kaiak. Bo goird
ithebeglisey) them vast iii the - Othethdoners of Polios
and applied dor bah& sadslisime, vibe he obtained.
Upon idnening to the oboes et Na istsmy Othantheiseses,
soon ebonies& the ildsnind tam fame spin, when he
(Laud
es game Ma into melody, and • had him
es havansiwris.
The debechat—Yen bath sworn that I ban bees sevsnl
times
Thelaist. ilisZlita-a-rioThat I am informed so. I
know
ibebeenwo in I,
and
thszluz having been corn-
The =at—And pray, my lord, are you aware of the
thumbs el that whim?
Load Itholledloay—Very good. I have not visited it
myself les • hag time, but I trust to the reports of the

The defendant—Do you consider a smiths 's,* es • lunatic
asylum?
Lord Shaftesbary--Ceetainly not.
The delendent—How many other asylums law I been in ?
Lord Bleatteablay-4 mmHg ay.
Mr. R. W. 8. Lthridge produced the (Adel dominants
showing the date 1 the defeattant's receptiou into the
Fisheries Asylum, upon medical oettilloates, the 211 rd hum,
1818 i, also the notioe of his mope at the 99elt April, 1999.
He had also made inquiries at the workhouse d R. Jolts's,
Vie•Waiewier, to which defendant was oommitted by the ma-
situates el the district, and he ensped from thews on the
ease ow, the 19th March.
Mr. Henry ordered that the defendant should be taken
betas the medial offices of Bt. Martin's, to be examined by
the medial Ware.
1 The defendant would have great pleasure in going them
and wee mach obliged to the megististe.
He was then remanded.
MARLBOROUGHATREMT.
Owes Oos, a tan, dirty, labouring man, was caulk with
the following moth on • female.
The complainant said that the previous evening she wee%
a tavern in Little Windmill-street, having baby in am
arms, when the yawner, without the idirOthd provocation,
he being an entire stranger to be. eine* hat wow the
arm with a bar of iron, the effect of %being to didwooto boo
arm. She went to the Middlesex Boßdtad, sad ens told to
attend ague the following day.
Card, 38 C, proved taking the prisoner into custody.
Prisoner said he had no question to ask.
Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner for a week, for the
iteadance of the surgeon from the Middlesex Hospital.

BOUTHWAIUL

Boomed lie/bolo, mate at a carting esseeljgag off Top.
gdag'rwliart, Tooteretrest, wascharged
to murder Thomas Flood,'" eatmaa, by ethic!' =Pt
bad with a beery haudepike.

dt_ammed ham the fr;ideaos of Samuel Carter, • seam
to the Imams, lying in the tier off Toppiair
170,7 tat es Mo analog the injured man crowed his
venial for the purpose of going on board his own, which hid
outside the tier. The vend to which the latter bellowed
was berm& the one which the prisoner was on board. As
ems as be stepped on the desk of the latter the primmer
we at rep to him, and taking up some pieces of wao4 threw
them at him, at the same tune telling him, in bed language,
Past he should not MOW the vemeL The injured a was
pcomeding to his own mood when the primmer, ia a moat
melted steamer, seised a heavy hand a and threw it at
the other, striking him a tremendous blow on the heed,
which felled him to the deck, and blood gushed from his
lased end ears. He was picked up hisendble, and ma-
Toyed to a surgeon's, where it was discovered that hie head
was fractured. The prisoner was immediately given into
auTlthlshemr, in the coolest manner possible, said that
theism bad se right to cross his vowel.
The' was called, and he said it was moil for the
parties to vessels outside the tier to canon the
Mimes, end the prisoner must have known that.
The constable Informed his worship that the injured man
wee ia a tad state from the injuries received, aW not able
to leave his bed.
Mr. Bareham sessaisd the primmer until Monday, sal
refused to sompt baL

SAVINGS BANIDI.—It pies=ora it fortis-
wintery return relating to ea 117*Itind6.2.
that the axoess paid into the Oahe by
saving banks beyond thesumsdraws oat, for the year eliding
20th of November, 1861, Ins 145,10 W. The mow drawn
out by garbage banks, beyond the sums paid is, including
interest paid on the sums dawn out, was 1,179,8421. Ths
sums paid for the parches* of stock, Exchequer bills, and
Exchequer sad other beads, siacanted to 2,906,1081. The
sums received for ails of stock,. sod for Exchequer bills and
Exchequer and other boodepaid off sad said, emanated to
2,145.3964 The is nLabtr exposes defrayed bey the
e lOW
=Wieners, mad charged u the food al m banks,
per 8 Will. 4, cep. 14, sec.pon 21, were 628 i. odd. Dividends
reoelied bb, the oommissioners on stock investo* and la.
tenet ea bills, sad Exchequer sad ether bowls
woe 1199,1651.
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