The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-04 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

01088 BARBARITY TO • DOO.
Frederick Akin, sped 57, a drover, badge 1,008, Kadin;
at 6, Hals-place, Lower-road, lalingtoo, was charged wits'
cruslif •• -trestjnlg • dog. and, further, with assaulting
Polios-atestable Hill, 428 A, at lidingtos.
Mr. W. Love, chid eller of the Royal flocasty for the
Preemption Cruelty to Aniniala, Wended for tbe prose-
cution, and stated that the ameba been brought under the
notice of the society by several ladies and gentlemen, who
described the prisoner a conduct ea disgraceful in the ex-
treme. Although the prisoner had been a drover for years
be did not believe that he bad been before convicted of
cruelty.

It appealed from the evidence that the constable saw a
dog in the Regent's Canal, and the prisoner on the towing-
pith beating it in • most unmerciful manner with a heavy
stink to prevent its getting out of the water. Some gentle-
men remonstrated with him for his brutal conduct, bat he
only swore at them and continued his ill-treatment of
the dog. He (the reparable) then took him Into custody,
on which he became very violent, and on the way to the
station threw him down and kicked him in the ribs and in
the lower part of his stomach. The blows and kicks were
given with such force that it caused him great Pl* and
made him spit blood. Had it not been for the assist-
ance of the brataodese be could not have got the priaoner
to the police-station. The prisoner bad been drinking, but
was not so drunk but that he knew what he was about.
The prisoner said he had no intention of hurting the dog,
and was only pushing it along with his stick to a slope
where it could easily get out of the water. As for assault.
iog the constable, he was very sorry for it, sad should not
have done it had he not been the wane for liquor. He
hoped the magistrate would take • merciful view of the

Mr. D'Eynoourt maid that di manner was no excuse
for mob gross sets of meaty, and sentenced the prisoner to
two mouths' hard labour in the House of Correction.
The prisoner, touching his head—Thank yen, my lord.
MARYLEBONE.
80881111 01 VALUABLit GOLD WATCH'S.
A respectably-dressed man, aged 38, named Albert Bender,
2, New Church-street, Ilarylebons, commercial traveller,
was charged with the following daring robbery.
William Ellis, jeweller, 1, Upper Gloucester-street, said—
As I wee shutting up my shop last Saturday night the
prisoner, whom I had known for a considerable time, PAM
up and asked me to lead him ss. Having lent him
money before, which he had repaid, I let him have the
amount. He had always given me to understand that he
was engaged in the City in a respectable firm. After I let
him have the mosey be said his employer had desired him
to procure • gold watch for him like the one I had
sold to himself ; be wanted • good one, and
I was to allow him commiaaion. Just at this mo-
ment, when he naked for some watches to take
away with him to show his muter, I observed that he
smell very strongly of liquor, and told him I thought it was
advisable that he should not take any then, but if he gave
me his inester's address I would go with them. He gave
me • false address. I placed several valuable gold
watches before him with • view his picking
out what he deental would snit his master beet
to select from. Whilst prisoner was doing this •
gentlemen male in for me to look at his watch,
and as I was so doing the prisoner took up some of the
wataes and walked out. I took bold of him, and took from
his hand two gold watches, and, believing those were all he
had I let him go, but almost immediately 1 missed two
more from the counter, and at once informed the police of
the lose. The value of the four watches was 351. The pri-
soner was most highly connected.
Shrubb, 95 D, apprehended the prisoner yesterday in
Earl-street, when he said he had pawned the two watches
for 81.
Remanded for a week.

_ -
seized with a fit, sad had to be carried out
and a doctor seat for.

THAMES.
ISITALISIO AN AbIZILIC.II2I CEIIBr.

George Tonliason, a tall man, was brought before Mr.
Woolrych, charged with *Gahm a very large American
cheese from the shop of Mr. Hoary Smith, a theme-
monger and butterman, No. 10, Road-aide, Mile-
end. A little girl gave information to the pram-
tutor that a n.an bad taken a cheese from his door, and
he went in pursuit of the thief. The prisoner was seen
at a distaime, carrying the cheats on his shoulders,
but finding it too heavy be threw it on the ground and
rolled it aloeg like a hoop. Mr. Smith captured tbe pri-
soner sod recovered the cheese, which was " raised " in a
Federal state, weighed 901ba., without the cloth and ban-
daps, and cost 21. 10e.
j hrdutir was drunk when be took the cheese,
out d a lark. _ _

Mr. Woolrych—You stole the theses. I shall not treat
thy as a lark u you plasm to call it. Yon are sentenced
to 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour.

A GIRL KILLED BY A BLOW IN THE STREET.

LNQUENT.-(THIS DAY.)

This afternoon an inquiry was held at the Laurel
Tree Tavern, Brick-lase, by Mr. John Humphrey; the
coroner, respecting the death of Matilda Evans, gad seven
years, who lost leer life under the following circumstances :
Mrs. Evans, &ant of the deceased, said that last Sunday
she sent her to the poet-office in Brick-lane. She returned
in a few minutes, and said that she had been struck with a
stick by some boys. tier bead was bleeding, and her eye
was seriously injured. She died on the let of April.
Jobs Baker, MI, Booth-street. Spitaldelds, said that he
sew three or four boys throwing a heavy broomstick tierces
the street from one to the other. One of them missed his
aim, and struck the deceued a dreadful blow on the heed.
The occurrence was entirely accidental. The boys were
about 18 years of age, and were licking among themselves.
Dr. Williams maid that he found the girl delirious from
the injury to the head. She died from concussion of the
biz's. The deceased appeared to have been in good health
before she received the injury in question.
The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a
verdict of " Accidental death," and added that page
of young ruffians were in the habit of infesting
the streets of that and other localities on Sunday
afternoons, and by their violent behaviour endangering and
annoying the passers by, and the jury considered that cen-
ter* wee du to the fact that the streets were not better
policed with a view to the prevention of a system that in
the present case ended in death.
The coroner said that be entirely concurred in the opinion
expressed by the jury. The practice in question was highly
dangerous end ought not to be tolerated.

DEATH or Me. Zoo, R.A.—We regret to an-
nounce the death of Mr. Augustus Egg, one of the fore-
meet of our Royal Acadarnicima. which occurred at Algiers
on Monday, the 26th elk Mr. Egg was born in 1817, and
is 1838 first exhibited at the Academy. His predaceous
early attracted attention, and in 1848 be was sleeted as
"associete." Le 1844 Mr. Egg executed his well-known
picture, "Gil Bias exchanging nap with Camilla."
In 1850 be executed what he generally considered
his best picture, in which Peter the Great sees Catherine,
his future empress, for the first time. In 1857, Mr. Egg
was selected to arrange the pilery of modern painting at
the Manchester Exhibitioe, sad in 1850 exhibited at the
Royal Academy a trilogy, which wee highly spoken of ;
and in the same year • subject from Thackeray's " Esmond."
He was generally imitaidered a clever painter of scenic and
humorous subjects, and Bludispeare is kin lighter armies and
the memoir *ratan of the 17th century furnish materials
for many of his most sucesealal pictures.
ALARMING FIRE AT A PUBLIC-HOIIB6--(rMI8
DAY.)r -At an early hour in the morning a fire was dis-
covered by the police to he ragtag in the premises of Mr.
T. Butt, Bosomed victualler, and proprietor of the Crown
acid Anchor public-house, 104, Brook-street, Ratliff. It
commenced maned a quantity of baskets and hampers in
the wine and spirit cellar, and the flames (amiss in contact
with the metal pipes, they bemuse melted, aud the spirit'
fr.2.2wa is a stated ignition. The inmates, whose live,
Zr"at first is dreier, happily reached the ironed in
ty.—The flames were confined to the lower pert of the
premises, but the damage done was considerable, and will
fall upon the Commensal Union Pire-office,
CONTIVRION OF THE MURDER= COoPER.—
Edward Cooper, who, it will be recollected, was sentenced
to death at the late Nivel/slimy Arises for the murder
of his child, • boy aged about eight years, by suffo-
catiug him, and afterwards berries him in • wood user
his own house, baa made a full confession of his pint to
the officers of the prime. The confession, however. Is not
to be published until after the execution, which is fixed
far Betarday next, the 11th instant. The culprit at first
%peered hardened, but since his confession has behaved
himself in a mom becoming number. He is attentively
niinietered to, sot only by the rev. chaplain of the gaol, bait
I ales by his own whit etergyinee, the Rev. W. Jones. He
has been visited by hie daughter, who, it will be remem-
bered, took her little broths, to bee father a few days
before the murder. The interview le laid to have been
very effecting.