The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-06 00:00:00

MORE MILITARY' " LARKING."

At the Preston Town-hall, on Tuesday, three
ollsers, whose names were sabered epee the charge sheet
as At.drew 0. °aglow, John Conroy, end Herm S.
Stewart, appeared before the asagisteates to Gnawer •
ohms of wilful deemme preferred against them by Mr.
/Acton, clerk to the Lmal Heard of Health of that tows.
When the ease wee galled only Mr. Oulow was in court,
sad Mr. Moak, whe appeared fir the defeadaats, intimated
to the heath that the after two geatiesten would be there
presently... a Gab bed bees east for them.
Mr. Asereft ante the am smut be treated as oldies?,
own, sad as these was .sly eme of the gentlemen roast
be should proceed with the charge against him only.
Mr. Monk observed that the others could not leave
parade.
Kr. Moak (magistrate) add they °geld sot make say
distiaction between these and ordinary cases. The other
gentlemen mast appear is court.
Mr. Asereft mewled that when a similar abuse was
brought against a man who worked in • min, he was obliged to
appear at the risk of teeing his esployseent, and he thee
stated the case : Oa Sands, storable last, • Ruhr before one
o'clock, the three defeedeats, Mr. Omsk', Mr. Cowin, sad
Mr. Stewart—the two fissbnamed gentlemen belouging to
the 97th Regiment, sad the latter to the 94th—wen corning
along Deepdaltereed. in • ear; two Wiesen*, on duty in
the esiehbourhood, heard • mush, sad saw the car 'teed.
leg ender a lamp ; shortly afterwards they Word another
smash, sad thee the oar drove off rapidly towards Church.
sweet, when the parses. ia it wire seen by constable Wean.
who was able to Identify them. The officers followed the
car to the Red Liss Hotel, tad eiseged the gentlemen with
the offences, whisk they did sot deny. Two of these gave
correct samos, bat perhaps sot, in Dee instance, a earned
description, se cue of these mid be was Liget-Omni
Oaslow—(laughter)--aad he (Mr. A) did set believe be had
arrived at that distinction yet. (Laughter.) Mr. Stewart, he
believed, gave • merest name sad daseriptioa,but be was not
are as to Conroy. Ho this quoted a Glasse in the act of
parliament relating to effacers of this description, which
specified that fel every sash Oases • flee of 61. might be
billeted urea the several pesos' by whom they wets 'eat
mined, who, is default, might be committed to prise. Per
sin mouths.
Mr. Meek, en behalf of the &badmen, said it was their
intention to plead guilty. The lamps, he believed, had
been broke. by • rabbit bevies been throws at each of
them. The fast was that the gentleatea had boss out
swami, sad when the wise was In the wit was oat," he
supposed.
After emu oessiderable delay, It wee sanosaced that the
other two defendant; wore osesing, sad almost immediately
after Mews. Comm end Stewart eases late wart
Policie•sergeast Walmaley befog thee salted, corroborated
the statement of Mr. Amon as to the breaking of the
Imam do. ; sad added that whoa be left the officers at the
Red Lice Hotel, after {wale( their same', Mr. Oeslow
followed Ida out, sad had nose seavessades with him.
Mr. Aeon* said that, as the &Imamate pleaded gailty,
he would not ask the mutable the particulars of that eon-
venation.
Mr. Monk apologised to the bona cm behalf of the de-
fendants, who were thus addressed boa. of the nag..
Wales.
nue bad been • great ember of lamps broken on Rose-
dale-road, by privates *tangoed at the barracks ; but it weld
sot be at all wondered at when penes, holding the eitaatioas
of defendants did the same thiag, sad wk. ought to know
better than to commit an outraged that kiad. It was their
duty, equally with the pada, to assist fa the pretestion of
property, end it was mash to be vomited that they had
placed themselves fa their pressed peoltios. It was the
L anaalmoss declaim et the heath that they he used 40s.
and costs, and regain* W make good the damage.—Maa.
cAuter Earonissr.

THE MAItCHBIII7II CITY °AM.—This building,
sompteted_wely sheet fire years dam, to mufti* 492 in-
mates, le elesoly bad to be too tmut ; and at a meeting
of the Masehester City Conseil, held yesterday, it wee pro-
posed te add 400 my tolls. The ianigelesey of the pro-
sent balblitog was demorunrsted within shoat eighteen
mimeo after it bad Mat opened, when the mess of pri-
mates wondered it weetwesry to °entreat fee the
ememasodstion of inmates la the Salford New Bailey,
=prime ; and after mdeamon to 'Mead this plan of
g oat at Preston sad I. tester, it has beta towed
that the separate system, spin width it wee designed to
week the owl, coati set be Midmily serried oat sakes a
maddierabla estessies was made. As to the met et the
prepseed mesas's% the chairs's' of the 'rot sommitise
gam It sa his own opinion (by whisk, however, he veleta
set be to ewe versus lowti) that the work night be dome
tar something Uke 24,00 W.
NEW Acr ox WzroDwa Rtmos.—Among the
ass of*, late swiss wee one to moms geld weddlag flap
fV thoommeies of the hawse awl relating is the man.
Mad end silver wares. and from the ezewiptiess eoetaised
a the mu Mods' to gebl warm Wedding slags am sow
mitred i• ba vorpol sod leeks&