The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-28 00:00:00

THE POLICE GOURTS.

GUILDHALL.

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Hormais Barrett, a girl not yet 15, was charged with
working an illicit still.
An Excise officer stated that yesterday afternoon he
went to a house, 2, Montague-place, Bartholornew.elose.
where he found the prisoner alone in the house, and a still
in full work, 41 gallons of spirits, and 80 gallons of mo-
lasses wash. The prisoner told the officer that there was
no one she in the house, and that her sister and herself, •
girl of 12 years old, worked the still, being paid 10s. and
ss. a week respectively.
The prisoner, • very shrewd Irish girl, now said that
she never worked the still, but a person who lived in the
house did it. Us was • man who took away the spirits
every morning in budder,. %a had 10s. a week, but she
declined to say who paid it her. She had an aunt in
London.

This person was stated to be in court, and being brought
forward said her name was Ellen Nagle, and that she
lived in Neptune-court. The prisoner was her niece, but
she did not know who paid her 10s. a week.
A Police-constable here stated that there war a man in
court whom ha bad seen in company with the two girls.
He was accordingly brought forward end stated his name
to be Edward Beamish, a native of Bantry, and that he
had been in London two years. He was quite unable to
say where he lived, but it was somewhere at the corner of
Out-,treat. Ile bad known the girls in Ireland, and
happened to meet them in the Old Bailey on Sunday morn-
ing, when they were spoken to by the police-constable.
The prisoner was very adroitly cross-examined by Mr.
Alderman Humphery, who suddenly askod him again
what his name was, when he exclaimed Edward
Barrett."

Alderman Humphery said he was certain he was tks
father of the girls and the proprietor or the still, and ffe
should detain him. He also believed that the woman was
their mother.

Bbe, however, stoutly denied this, or that the man was
her husband.
The prisoners were remanded, and the man detained for
inq • to be made.
Greorge Ryan, a reporter for the prep, was summoned by
William Hamilton Hawkins, also a reporter, for an assault.
It appeared that there was some old grudge between the
parties, which was renewed in consequence of Hawkins
having been subpaineed as a witness in a recent action
brought by Ryan against the Mormiag Adoertiser. The
parties met on Wednesday evening last at the corner of
Shoe-lane' and, according to the evidence of Hawkins,
Ryan referred to his being subpanmed as a witness against
him, and sawed him of blackening his character, after
which he sleuth him ea the eye and the mouth with his
est, and thew wishA Went stick on the neck.
The defaming whist Med the assault, but denied its being
is the first Wee se severe as stated by the complainant.
It was calmed by irritation arising from the complainant's
having lbw.
The wetlee spreerod inclined to go into a good deal of
meter, but the affair was settled under the
ag,ies of ski Woman, by Ryan's pledging his word to
keep the paw towerds Hawkins for 12 months.

WESTMINSTER.
Thomas Collins, the Innen who stands charged with
having obtained and pawned a great number of portraits
from persons of almost every condition of life, underwent
another examination,

Mr. Bina' appeared es hie behalf.
The pawnbroker sot having arrived in Lord Desert's
ease,
Mr. Arnold inquired whether the police were ready to go
on with any fresh charge 1'
Mr. Cummings, ma inspector of the B division, repPed in
the affirmative.

6.NieittOlas Joseph Crowley, artist, 13, Upper Fitzroy-
street, Fitzroy-muses, said ha knew the prisoner, who had
edied it his house several times. Witnew minted a per-
trait of Mr. Robert James Tennant, for that gentleman.
Ow the let July, 1848, witness received a letter from Mr.
Tennant, requesting that the portrait, which was La his
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al poramioa, night be given to the primer ; and
ea the the ram swath the prime: wrote Mta-

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