The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-07 00:00:00

GREENWICH.

SOBBEIT.
Jana Smith, of 147, atinories, City, a porter ie
Billings-
gate-market, wan placed in the dock before Mr. Trull
charged with stealisd
igaitszatity of shell fish belonging to a
poor woman, name Alin Rush, at Greenwich.
The prommArix said t t she attended Billingsgate-mar-
ket oe Saturday last and purchased a sack of oysters, harkg
disposed of some goods to enable her to get the money. so
as to provide !cc herself and two children. She had ice-
' merly employed the prisoner to carry her goods to the
railway station at London-bridge, and engaged him to do
so on Saturday : but after waiting at the station
three-quarters of an hour, and the prisoner not 'trivia; she
returned to the market, and then ascertained that the pri-
soner had bean seen offering the ask of shell fish for Isle.
She saw nothing more of the prisoner until yesterday
(Tneeday), when she gave him into custody.
The primmer, in his defence, said that be was coming
over Landoe-bridge, when he met two men, whom he Irmo,
and that one having takes the sack of fish off his shoulder
the other took him into a public-home in Tooley-strest to
give him something to drink, the other man making off
with the pmperty.
Mr. Trail said the prisoner had been guilty of a very
heartless and cruel robbery in robbing a person as poor as
himself, and in default of paying the value of the property
stolen and a fine of 10e., he wee sentenced to a month's im-
prisonment with bard labour.

SERIOUS AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—EarIy OL
Moods y morning as affray took place between two of the
Earl of Derby's keepers and five poachers, at Knows
park, the mat of Lord Derby. The keepers had been
'retching for these men for some time, and oo Moods'
morning saw them is • field at Rainford. One of them
having wt • dog at a hare, the keeper immediately secured
the man, upon which his four oompanions came to Lis rescue.
and • general fight ensued, in which the poachers, being the
grr party, got the best of it. The keeper, Robert
it= was so severely kicked and warded that little
hopes are entertained of his recovery. The other one,
Tinley, is also very seriously injured, being dread
fully cut about the face with his opponents
°ler. The Poachers, named reepectively John Reim.
William Swift, Thomaa Welding, James Hill, sod
Thomas Roberta, were apprehended the same day, and
takes before the magistrate at the St. Helen's potty
seseions, when it transpired that they were all bad chum-
term and oonoected with • gang of poacher, several rt
whom were committed at the last moire but one to a loot
tens of imprisonment for • murderous assault on keepers
likewise employed by the Earl of Derby. A certificate
having been reed from Dr. Shepherd, of Raeford, to the
effect that Brittle could not be moved, the prisoners were
remanded.

•••••—•—•_ •
britANDIIIM OFTHI AvawN STEAMER. —The Great
Eastern Railway Company's steamer Avalon, which
left Harwich for Rotterdam on Wednesday, in order to
commence the new tidal service between those ports oa
the following day, went tabors on Thursday moraine oa
what is known as the Hook of Holland, a range of sands
which stretch along that coast. At first all attempts
failed to get her off, and, as the wind and sea increseed
se the day advanced, the most serious apprehensions were
entertained an to her fate. News of the mishap harlot
been forwarded to Rotterdam two steamers were at occe
soot to her aid, but in consequence of the heavy lea
which broke over the beach she could not be approachea
till Saturday, when an unusually high tide fortunately
enabled the steamers to haul her off and tow her to Rater.
dam. The cause of this diameter to the Avalon (which has
sustained no material darasp) h under investigation. \
Rotterdam pilot had eharp of the ship at the time of the
neaident.—Brep and IVoncich Post.
Bruin or Lanornana.—The labourers ernplosra
ea
the large black of buildings intended for model Irdc•
ing.koneee, now being erected in Farringdon.road, have
struck for an 'draws of Is. per week. The roetreewre
have been hitherto paying 11, per week to their labourer"