The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-12 00:00:00

THE COLLIER STRIKE.

Attention le now directed (says the Nereartk C7tromick)
ho another of these exciting movement& at Bedlington Col-
lieries, where for some time past operations have hem me-
pada, between two and three hundred men having joined
to • demand for an advance of wages, which has virtually
been refused. In the district it sperm there are two pits,
and the sought-for advance in the one in connexion with
which the claim was made the minters expressed their
willingness to grant. Resolved, however, to ha them-
selves no loam by the transaction, they suggested what
would have been • decided disadvantage to the men,
by proposing to reduce the remuneration in the
companion colliery ; and rejecting this " robbing.
Peter-to-pay-Pad" process, the mime &handmaid them
work in • body. For the discussion of their grimness they
bad • great demonstration at the scene of action on Monday,
between three and four thousand rase, heeded by • couple
of bends, having mustered on the canton, and the meeting,
which was bold in a field, was presided over by Mr. John
Nicholson, of Sleek burn Colliery. The conduct of the col-
liery owners was &motorised as " truly reprehensible ;"
and the meeting unanimously resolved to support the men
"in seeking that justice which consistency of conduct and
force of argument have faded to obtain." The proceedings,
which were chanotereed by great order and decorum, were
under the auspices of the Northumberland Union.

CITY COrRT or Sroritas.—The Commissioners of
Bowers held their weekly meeting at Guildhall, yesterday,
Yr. Deputy De Jersey presiding. A report wee brought up
from the Special Gas Committee, to whom it was referred
sometime hack, to inquire into the insufficiency of the light
from the pa supplied to the City, and they recommended
that, for the present, the me of the =burettes should be continued at the close of the present 000 tract in them
' lamps where the apparatus is fixed inside the laothorn, is
c:rigin'
uence of the great shadow oast by them • and with
to the exceseive amount of sulphur found in the gas,
the committee stated that they had been advised by the
chemical examiner of gas that if the court were desirous to
put in form the requirement' of the act, the best opinion
should be taken on the subject, arid they recommended
that Mr. Hawkaley, the pa engineer, be retained to give
his advice aa to the beet coon* to be adopted
to reduce the amount of sulphur, and that his opinion
be taken, at a cost not exceeding 50 guineas. Dr. Letheby
reported, that the average illuminating power of pa sup-
plied to the city during the week had been above
the requirements of the act, but on six oceesions
out of 17, in the oase of the Chartered Gas, it had
base below the standard, sad once in seven on
that of the Great Central Company's. The average
power of the City Company's Gas had been equal to 13.17
candles, wherein that of the Chartered had but beau 12g.
The amount of sulphur in the City aad Chattered Comps.
aies' gas averaged 19.3 grains, but that of the Great Central
bad bear 21.1, and on every occasion the latter bad con-
tained more sulphur than was sanatiooed by parliament.
The medical officer reported that 263 houses had been in-
spcitied during the week, and he submitted a list of 621
for sanitary improvement, The markets and
slaughter-homes had been duly inspected during the week,
and the officers had condemned 2.360 lbs. of meat ea unfit
for human food; 970 lba were diseased, 57616 a putrid, and
814 lbs. from animals that bad died from fever from acci-
dent, or disease. Dr. Letheby also reported that the nor.
tality returns for the week were a little above the average
for the corresponding period of the last nine ysers-59
deaths having been registered during the last week, the
average being 51; 28, or nearly half, were among children
of less than eve years of age, and eight were among old
pampa of 60 and upwards. The chief eases of death were
as follows :—Plithisis, 5 ; ineseateric disease, 10 ; ppm-
mooia 3 ; brosichith, 2 ; whooping cough, 1 ; dipbt
3 ; merle* fever, 4 ; mee sae, 1 ; sad infantile diarrban, &
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THE POLICE COURT&
_ _ _ YAN&ON•HOUBE

Ifthecerd Rune: DreaM;;;yeeie;day again placed at fro
bar Ware the Lord Mayor, on remand, charged with de.
handing 73aat..0olosel Strange of a brie earn of raiser,
and Rem the application of Sleigh, who appear a&
the perooer , the cam was again adjourned for a weak as
taztber eridenoe having been adduced.

GUILDHALL.
°mew Turner wee obarged before Mr. Aldeno es Sidney
with Mobmtly swanning Thomas Turner, his father, by
striking hint on the head with a oair of tongs.
It appssred from the evidence that the ecwsplaiwast
through illness is an inmate of the Wed I" Alden Union,
and on Saturday last he rensivedpermission to. visitlds wife,
who keeps
i the hoots No. 23, New-street, CI, Alt Fair. The
pruoser s allowed to gasp there free, sad on coming
home is the evening be accused his mother of haves; taken
some of his batter. On the father goyim& " A bit of but.
ter," the prisoner seised • pair of Map wad knocked his
father senseless, infbopueithree serious. moon& upon his
bead, which bbd so y that it be awe neoawary to
take him to the hospital, where his herd wag dressed.
The prisoner bad nothing to say in hie dolmas.
The father begged the alderman sot. to punish his son,
bat prevent him from coming again to the house.
The mother alas pleaded hard it, favour of the primer,
although she at the same time mitnitted that he wee both
drunken and violent,

I.4prirpTa the gaoler, also row egnieed him as hewing been
at this court before on a •charge of being drunk aad
disorderly.
Mr. Aldermen Sidney said he would take into considera-
tion the wishes of his pumas, as he (the primmer) had pro-
mised not to go to tie home again, bet the offence was one
of seek an aggravated chancier that tie prisoner might
think himself fereanate that he had not murdered his own
fat
with herd her. Ho sheekl give him three month imprisonment,
lalmen.

A fashimalely-attired, good-looking man, who grave the
name of Wide Dewy Brown, was charged before Mr.
Barker with embezzling various sums of mosey, amounting
in the whale to about 2,0004, oc or about the Itith of
December, 1883, at 30. Ely-place, Holborn, the moneys of
hi employers, Mans. Gough and Silvestri, sleets° platen
eed silversmiths, of Birmingham.
Mr. Miller, solicitor, of Shcrborne-lan0. City, attended
for the persecution, and mid he should have to ask fora re-
mand, as the prisoner when he absconded went to America,
and had only since returned and given himself up. The
promauton, who are electro-platers and silveniniths, are
of Birmingham, and the prisoner, who was in their employ,
had ambessled various sums of moon, amounting in the
whole to about 2,0001. The prisoner had written to the
6rm • letter, of which the following is • copy :
"London, Oct. 8, 1864. —Gentlemen, —After • so-
journ in the trailed States, where I have under-
gone some terrible hardship, and Ending success im-
possible without • character, and with such • weight on my
mind as a guilty craniums, the thoughts of Shoes dear to
me at home, 1 have, without informing anybody, retuned for
' the express purpose of giving myself up, and throw myself
on your merciful coasideration. I cannot appeal to you for
merry knowing, as I do, the natural eggravation which
must, of cause, exist, owing to year severe loss, I shall,
therefore, go to 13ootland-yard and 'vs up myself to Ser-
geant Robinson or some other —I am, gavetissue,
your's, obedieotiv,W. H. BROWN.—P.S. My are quite
in immense, of this dep." He (Mr. Miller) might say that
the prosecutors had been telegraphed for but that there had
not been time enough for them to attend. A reward of
504 had been offered for the apprehension of the prisoner
Mr. George Carley, wholesale watch manufacturer' said
be resided at 30, Ely-place. and Meson. Gough and
Silvester hired ware-rooms of him. He was formerly
agent for titan, and the prisoner was his clerk. He suc-
ceeded me in my spay with the prosecutors. About six
months since the primmer left, au he had since heard that
the prisoner bad embezzled large earns of money to the
amount of nearly 2,0001. He had no doubt in his met mind
that the primmer had embezzled several large amounts. The
letter read was in the er's handwriting.
Police-sergeant Bmed29 A, mid that yesterday the pri-
soner came and asked for him, and mid he wanted to give
himself up for embatsling • large sum of mosey from his
employers, Mann. Gough and Sdneter.
The prisoaer said he did not wish to ask any questions or
to make any defame.
Mr. Barker remanded the prisoner for • week.
_ WESTMINSTER.

Edward Candace, a powerful man, was charged
wish the following outrageous aoudad :
Mr. James Watson, the proprietor of the Cheshire Cheese
tavern, Grosvenor-street, Pimlico, said that at &little before
six last night the defendant came to his house and made a
disturbance. Complainant's attention eras And directed to
him by finding that be had got a poor old man with a
wooden leg down, and was taking his stick from him.
Whet complaisant interfered defendant seized him by the
throat with great mimeo, and made his cheek bleed. In the
sculls with defendant complainant lost a valuable breast pia.
Mr. Arnold inquired whether the defendant had been
thinning
Cosoplainaut replied he did not exactly know. He wee
sot served at all in him house.

Michael Logan, a poor old man with a wooden lag, said
that defendant and his two companions amine into the /MOM
when he had gone for some refreshment, and seised what
he had called for and drank it. They then aaked him if be
would treat them with some beer, and upon his refusal the
defendant struck him a violent blow in the eye, sad followed
it up by sodesvouring to take his stick away from him.
When defendant was give. into custody be kicked witness
in the stomach on his way to the station.
Polios-constable, 40 B, proved that defendant committed
the assault complained of, on his way to the station-house,
upon the old man.

'lleteadeat dewed the eamalia, and maid h. was the ill.
used party.
He was remanded.
THAMES.

Jonathan ro%li
Cooper, a dock labourer, vs. bt before
Mr. Partridge, charged with violeatly amaultieg Mary Boyd.
The complainant, • widow about 30 years of age, stated
that • woman, with whom the prisoaer was acquainted,
asked her for the loan of 4e. She was tumble to comply
with the request as abe had no money, and had NM pat her
children to bed without any food. The woman then called
her vile names and took a coat away. She west after her
and was assaulted by the primes, sod others, who coed vile
language and threatened her life. She retreated to her owa
home, No. 9, Cartwright-dreet, and a quantity of mall
stone@ were thrown at her window. The primmer took up a
brick and threw it at the window. It pined through a pane
of glees, struck her on the chin, and inflicted • severe oon-
tusioa. The brick then fell upon an afflicted child and in-
jured it. The prisoner took up another brick, meet it
thrh another pane of glees, and struck her on the
shir. A third brick was thrown. It *attired her room,
but did not strike her. The whom, who was in great pain,
displayed the &mime oa her chin and shoulder.
The evidence of the prisoner was fully confirmed, and Mr.
Partridp said the prisoner was a savage and cowardly
fellow, and sentenced him to be • for two months
and kept to bard lobos,.

CHVIICH-RATII CONTEST IN ERR CITT.—The
parishioners of Bt. Katherine Cree rhumb, at the sisters
divines of the City in and around LeadenhaU street. were
yesterday summoned to attend a poll which bad been de-
manded at the vestry meeting held on the Thursday pre-
ceding, to decide whether a proposition then made for •
church•rate of 10d. in the pound should be carried or not.
Numerous circulars and handbills, were distributed through.
out the parish, most of which urged the ratepayers
sot to ociesent to the making of the large rate asked for by
the churchwardens. One of them called upon the rate
payers to decide whether 6004 should be levied on them
and spent in decorating an empty church. At the poll
yesterday Churchwarden Noah presided, and at the close b•
announced the number of votes recorded to be :—For the
rate, 68 ; against it, 47. The church-rate of 10d. was
accorditglydeclared to be carried. A protest against the
rate, which wee alined by • number of the inhabitants was
handed in to the churchwarden, to whom ► vote of thanks
was pained for preeiding, and the proceedings terminated.
A RAILWAY CARRIAGE ON Fias—On Monday
morning, as the train which leaves Newport at 8.35 was on
its journey to Ciudiff, when about midway between the sta-
tion the passengers in one of the carriages were alarmed
by • constant tapping, as of the tire of • wheel. Presently
a dense cloud of smoke filled the compartment, and then it
was found that the body of the carriage was on fire from the
overheating of • broken spring. For newel minutes the
passengers endeavoured to communicate with the guard, but
to no effect for some time ; eventually, however, the train
was stopped, and the presenters in the heroine compart-
ment ware placed is other carriages, and at Cardiff the
carriage was detached from the train.—Western Daily
Pro&

_
ANOTHER FILILTIII AT BRADFORD —A meeting
of the creditor, of Meseta H. Clough, Son and Ca, spin-
ners and manufacturers, was held yesterday, at the Talbot
Hotel, Bradford ; Mr. Losgbottoas, of Goasereall, in the
chair. The balancasheet, read by Mr. H. W. Blackburn,
accountant, showed the liabilities of Masers. Clough, Soo,
and Ca to be 92,7274 14e. 3d., of which 67,3234 ere due on
bills disoounted by the Leeds Bookie' Company. The mai-
-1 mated value which the estate is likely to realise is
23,4671. 17s. 73. It wee proposed to make an maignmeet to
Mews. J. Ingham, George Brown, and Alexander Hirst,
for the beoefit of the creditors, bet as there wee some
difference of opinion on this plink the meeting wee ad-
journed till Friday, to order that a circular might be issued
to all the creditors, requesting their comment to this opuses.
Hotaceopatbic practitioners, and the medical
nefessioa '
ge
ra rall
ney, Trowm h end
doctrlas cocoa as being the th-
soot heal
firsrin all
bVed into this country, then w to6be obtalwd no
preparations of cocoa either attractive to the taste or acceptable
to the thisatich : the nut was either applied in the crude state
or so inuakilfully manufactured as to slash' little solace.
J. Epps, of Landon, Homoeopathic Chemist, was iodated la tits
year Mt to turn his attentlos to this subject, and at le
sacceeded. with the mulattoes of elaborate sneak/cry. tabrs:
the trot to product as article pure In its composition, and so
Tanned by the perfect trituration It recedyas is the process it .
pares through, as to be stoat acre table to the delicate stows&
Ter general use Epts Cocoa is ed as aniinvigerstlag, !
r6611.:41 it hia work. "trilagaing oans of IttiVd,'" eqs
ar°6-
•• cocoa omits's. a great variety of bnportant nutritive petard-
pies—every ingredlest neersszy to the growth and sostanance
of the bedy." Again As a netaltive, mess steads racy much
higher than either coffee or tea." Directions—Two tempoosfule
of the powder in a breakfast cup, tiled up with Dot water
er still. Sold in tiehaod gib., gib., and lib. labelled by
grocers seafsethinan and elmnalsta--(

SUSPICIOUS DLITH BY DROWN:PO AT

BROMLBT.

Yesterday, Joseph Deans, sized 19, and described
u a hammer-taw el No. 21, Bright-street, Bromley, was
brought before Mr. Partridge, at the Timm
charged with the wilful murder of a young woman,l e=
Elisabeth Jennings.
Mr. Charles Bine, of the river Lea-office, Bromley, mid
be was oollector of tolls there. On Monday night at a
quarter before nine o'clock he my the prisoner and a female
pam his office. They were talking and appeared to be on
very friendly terms. About half an hoar afterwards he
baud screams proceeding from the river bank about 300
yards off. He ran to the spot and saw the prisoner appa-
rently in the act of jumping into the water. He saw
nothing of the female. The prisoner appeared to be in
great agony of mind, and said I will follow her bat I can't
swim. He told the prisoner it was no use to go into the
water, which was deep, if be could not swim. Wiliam
thee sent for the drags, and the river was drugged, and the
body of a female taken oat The pr sonar was not present
when the body we recovered. He took him away and
walked him about while the river was being dragged, es he
appeared to
otregreat drains@ of mind. Ile saw the body
of • woman past him, and the prisoner and be fol-
lowed it to a public.bonee, where be left the .
In answer to questions by Mr. Partridge the witness mid
he thought the screams, when he first heard them, were
made by boys. The prisoner bad his bands up to hi face
when he arrived at the spot where the woman was in the
river. The prisoner said the young Rom AWY walking
along the river side and she fell in. At least a minute
elapsed after hearing the screams before he arrived at the
-- -

'Mr. Breachley, a polioe-sergesot, No, 2 K., said—l was on
duty in Bromley last night, at 10 o'clock, and saw the body
of the deosased, Elisabeth Jennings, lying on a table in the
tap-room of the Fishing-boat public•honas. On leaving the
taproom be saw the prisoner seated on a form is front of
the bar. He seemed much distressed. I asked him what
was the matter, and he mid, I was walking along with the
young woman who is dead. I mid, when ? and he said
along the river Lea towing•patlt. I said it is a very sad
thing. He mid, yes it is ;we were going along and we were
larking. I said in what way ? He said she was laughing se
roe and I was laughing M her ; she had a purse in her band,
and I went to catch hold of it, and she slipped into the river
Lea.

The Prisoner—l was larking with the young woman.
Mr. Partridge cautioned the prisoner, and said he had no
occasion Wry anything unless he plasma, and that what
he did say would be taken down, and might be used in
evidence against him hereafter.
Sergeant Brenchley said there were many witnesses in at-
tendance.

—Mr. Fiirtridge—l cannot go further into the case today.
I shall remand the prisoner for a week.
The Prisoner—Oen I have bail.
Mr. Partridge, after some conversation with Sergeant
Brenchley, said, I will not take any bail wha4►er.