The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

ARILIL U. 1863.,

THAMES

The new magistrate, 2irt William Partridge, late stipen-
diary at Wolverhampton, who has been appointed to suc-
ceed Mr. Pelle, presided for the fad time yesterday, and
to the despatch of business with great alacrity.
Mccnew magistrate will find plenty to do at this court
The district amigned to it contains a population of 3E0,000
=blades the 84. Katharine, London, Regent's
West India, and Rest ladle. Docks, the river below I
bridge, sett sea wages and maritime cases continually
arising in port of Louden.
On Mr. Partake taking his seat en the bench,
Mr. Gomm, from the elks of Mr. Hadipoo, solicitor,
applied for a surnames against a worse for assaulting
another at a heard, whisk was granted.
A poor women, who had bean severely batten on the
fleshy part of the right arm by another, made application
to his worehip, and hared her arm.
Mr. Partridge hoped he should sot hear many cases of this
description, and granted a warrant for the apprehension of
the alleged offender.
After dimming of numerous appliations the magistrate
proceeded to bear the night charges.
!aim Grady, an Irishman, sad one of the most noisy fel-
lows that ever presented himself in a court of justice, was
charged with vagramy. The iiriumer had no coat on, his
sleeves were tacked up, and his hair was in a disordered
slats
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Yr. John Wier, • plumber and brass finisher, of No.
136, St. George-street, alias Batdiff-highway, said he was
ma ag aloof Jubilee street, Stepney, on Thursday night
at nine o'ekek, and saw the prisoner, wbo woe making •
great distarbsooe, is • little sweetmeat shop. A woman
was there greatly terrified, and he went to her assistance.
The pmmer left the shop and west over to soother, also
lAA by a woman, of whom be solicited alma, and ma thl
woman refusing to gin him anything be said 1111 was done
blind, and abased her in a shocking manner. She called for
help, and he then clung to the coaster and uttered the mast
fearful imprecations and curses. He dragged the Primmer
out of the shorind followed him into the Ifilrood.road.
The prisonerbagged of several grams, who gave him
money. Thom t at did not IMO abused sod threatened.
He called • pajama., and fare the primmer into custody. _
The prisooor abused the Within", and railed him • bad
name. . _

Partridge—Behave yourself, dr. I will suffer no
witness to be abused.
The prisoner, in a boisterous manner, said he was nearly
blind, and had been under an operation at the Ophthalmia
HospitaL
A pollosman s►d the prisoner wu very drank and very
noisy laded
Tbe *num, in a loud tone, said he eau a very poor men,
and inn obliged to big for hie living.
Mr. Partridge said the print/nen conduct was very
sandaloa►, sad he wan • most nofit person to ask for
or rennin elms of the benevolent. He thud the prisoner
I,a. for being drunk, and to addition one month's imprison-
ment sad hard labour as a rogue sad vagabond tar sainting
alias in a public thoroughfare.

THE POLIOE SYSTEM OF LONDON.

TO THB MTGE OP TSB W.

bra,—The following are reasons why the rate-
payers of the metropolis should resist the motion of Sir De
Lacy Evans for the amalgamation of the City Polios with
the tome under the direction of the Home Secretary :
1. Because it is a step towards the neutralisation system of
France and Prussia, and is opposed to the interest of
freedom and local self. government. 2. Because it will be
made a plea for vesting in the °antral government the
poike of all the other free municipalities of Great Britain.
$. Because it will frustrate all hopes that the ratepayers of
the metropolitan districts may obtain their riabie with
reference to the mitred of their own police when
they may be created irate free menicdpidities. 4. Became
the existence of a cheap sad ellicasolly managed
police force in the My meditates a check epoe the cost of
the metropolitan police force. is respect of which the rate.
payers have no coatroL 5. Bemuse the existence of a
municipal polies form in the Eby amistitutes soa,eraeguard
against the abuse of the force in the hands of the govern-
ment ; a tendency to which has bees made apparent of late
by the detection of metropolitan police spice at Warsaw.
& Because the liberties of England and the free discomion
of parliusent Wolf would be at the mercy of any govern-
meat who might Ow in Prussia at this moment) use both
army and polies to mistral freedom of speech and actioa
en the pert of the people or their repreeentatives. The
aof the City, in this matter, is that of the ratepayers
of the metropolis ; it is the cause of freedom and
and also of public order and the best interestillehe
peopl&—l am, &c.
A METROPOLITAN RATEPAYER.

THE BliagtlNG MURDER IN 31'. GILES.%

The circumstance" conmoted with the above murder are
not, even yet, very fully eiebooped ; lint it seems that
about saves eideek a Thewedsp morning • man aid a young
woman, whose name in Eema Jackson, and whose friends
are reported to live somewhere in the neighbourhood of Ber-
wick-street, Soho, went to No. 4, George-street, the door of
which was opened to than by • servant, who had been
monied from her sleep by the knocking at the door. The
man asked for a room, and they were shows up to the back
room on the first door, but the servant being sleepy failed
to notice the appearanoe of the wire, and can give so so-
count of them. As there was perfect quietness in the room
during the day no suspicions of any kind were aroused, but
at about half put Bye o'clock on Thursday evening the ser-
vant went upstairs, and finding the door unfastened
entered. On the bed abe found lying the woman she had let
iA the mate morning, her throat frightfully oat, several
weed' in her rock and throat, the bed itself being sate-
mtsd with blood. The walls were spattered with
blood in all directions. She immediately ran
down and gave an alum to the police, and •
medical man was called in. He found that in addition to
the windpipe having been severed, Bodleian in itself to
ease death, there wee another wound severing the carotid
artery, and on the back of the neck two large stabs running
obliquely towards each other. All the wounds bad bees m-
inted with great force, and it is certain that the girl
anaggled desperately for her life. No noise, however, was
beard, • oircumannoe which is all the more singular on
ameent of there being little coach traffic through the street.
Moreover, the landlord, whose practice it was to sit up
during the night, was sleeping all day in the back parloar
immediately under the room in which the minder took place.
The murderer escaped, bat by what means or whoa ia not
known. When the body of the murdered woman was
discovered life bad boos extinct, in the ot.is.oti
of the Burnam, for at kart four or rive
No instrument was found In the room, and the
man, prior to his departure, appears to hove togotanZ
collected everything belonging to him, so as to destroy all
trace of him. The woman, who is about twenty-sight or
thirty years of age, had on her arrival at the home • dark
bonnet, a dark monies and a sort of green striped dross. Of
the man, as before stated, nothing whatever n known, al-
though the polio' ainhoritier my they have a clue which
they hope may turn out asomedul. The girl has hem
identfie4 and information has been forwarded to Mr.
Bedford, the coroner, who will probably hold an inquest
os the body of the murdered woman. Later particulars state
that the doomed, Emma Jackson, lived with bee father,
mother, sad nether, in a little house immediately behind
and ecosened with No. 10, Berwiskotreed, • Weber's shop
in the possession of Mr. Andrew Oilmen. She is described
by those who lesew her is the seighboarhood as a quiet,
peaceable girl, bet as being ocessionelly ghee to mamma
She would remain at home for weeks work* bard, and
conducting herself respectably, bat at times she venial, to
use the language of her friends, "break eat" sad absent her-
self from home for days together, sad go with asybody.
She was a shirt maker, and in the parson of that ban-
nee" earned • decent livelihood. Aber use of her periodi-
sel fits of irregularity she returned to her home
about lime weeks ago, gad again promonted. ben
enflisery calling, esti! TWIPiII7 when she spun alr
sashed herself. About 1 (Mock aThursday morning, ling
slier they bed retired to red, Mr. Oshms'a family was
aroused by • violist knocking and drain at Ws doer. Mr.
Osborn. °egging down stabs, found two gkis etas og et his
door, who °communicated to him some of the parOeedan of
the murder of his lodger. They toid btu that she had had her
throat out, and requested hint to asoonammy them to George-
street, where the murder had been °omitted. He did aid
adopt that course, but commeniceted to Emma Judson's
mother the informattoo he had received. The father end
brother were then railed, end immediately proceeded, with
the polies who had by thin time arrived, to Georgestreet,
where they identified the body of the notational*
who, they stated, wad% yeas of age. The girls who had
communicated. the intelligence raid they were Windt*
acquaiated with the uafortunate deceased. Oes of tier
giris mid she had seen Emma Jackson early on Thmsdq
morning in the company of • foraigser, who was haniag his
boon cleaned at the corner of Oreekstrest and Comptes-
. serest, and that he bad the appearance of a Germs° beset
or sew baker, with which class of people the
abounds.
It appears that there was a murder in the same been.,
No. 4, ra.goeitrest., about tea years ago, far *az=
non et which a man named Connor was convicted esia
rated. That the murderer lived in the same
as the deceased seems to be poen clear, and the police are
making anxious *nides is that