The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

William Ileales, w lic7deac is • cab proprie•
tor, and Mary King, a midule•aged female were placed at
the bar for tattler examination, on a charge of bkaling a
carpet bag and bundle, containing a suit of clothes,. the
property of James Bryson, a mechanic, residing at Swindon,
iltabire.

About fear weeks ago the prosecutor was coming along
the Kent-road with a bundle and carpet hag in his posses-
sion, .cud was accosted by the male prisoner, who pressed
him is get into his cob. He did so. and the vehicle had
nut proceeded more Was 131.1 yards when it was pulled up,
and the female prisoirwii had been before on the Lox
with her companion, the cab. She had not been
there long when slie ed some money from the pro
secutor, and accused him of taking liberties with her. The
prosecutor denied that he had done so, cud refused to give
her money, upon which the female got out, and the male
prisoner, instead of driving to the Crown public house,'
at the Obelisk, St. Ocorge's, proceeded into Lock's-fields,
and puked no at a public house. Ile then demanded ionic-
thing to drink, and while the prosecutor was in the act of
p.ij lug for some gin at the bar, the male prisoner drove off
with his cab and the property. He would have escaped
from justice with impunity had not a constable, James Os-
born, 23 l', very properly taken the number of the cab on
seeing the prosecutor get into it, and observing a female on
the b4l. On information being given at the station, Os-
born 'went to inquire about the cab, and ascertained that
Healey, though its owner, had neither number nor license,
and further that the plate and number (1,606) he was using
was merely borrowed from a cab proprietor earned Duke,
in the Certain-toad, Shoreditch. The office:, upon further
inquiry, found that the cab was kept and used for the sole
purpose of robbery, and that the female prisoner was always
to be st en close to where the cab pulled up, and was made
use of by Healey fur the purpose of putting her into his
vehicle with drunken fares (a class of persons he generally
looked out for) for the purpose of robbery or extortion.
Remanded.

Ilehry Beady, about Chi 'ears of age, who carries on the
businessof a wholesale tallow-chandler and melter, was
charged with assaulting his wife, who was in a very bad
state of health.

A solicitor, on behalf of Mn. lteady, ezplehted that this
case would not lure been presented to the magistrate, it
the defendant had entered into an arrangement to allow
his wife a separate maintenance, suitable to her position in
life.

Mrs. Ready, who appears to be a few years older than
her husband, stated that her private residence was in
Regent-street, Mile-end. On Wednesday last, in cod e-
quence of having been confined at home a good deal, she
went out for a few hours in the evening, and on her return
home a few minutes past ten o'clock, she found her husband
reading a newspaper. There was nothing provided tor her
•upper as she expected, and rho remarked that she was
so faint, that she requited something more than bread,
which was on the table. Her husband replied that he had
had nothing else, and there was nothing more fur her.
She cut a slice of bread and butter, and partook
of that with a half pint of beer, and while finishing the last
drop of it, he took up his own pot, which had contained
beer, and threw it at her, but it only ►truck the lower part
of her dress, and did not hurt her. Ile ,then, without say-
ing a word, took the poker frum the fire-place, and struck
her • everal heavy blows with it ; one blow fell on her
knuckles, and broke one of her fingers, the second on her
wrist, and the third on the top of her, knee, and the blood
flowed from her fingers and knee.

Dlr. Beady, jun:, a highly respectable gentleman, who
was accompanied by his solicitor, said that his father had
been in the practice of besting his mother fur many yeses
with his fists, and throwing things at her.

Mr. Ingham said on this evidence he could not do other-
wise than commit the di.fendant fur trial for assaulting and
maliciously wounding his wile.

hirORTANT PARLIAMENTARY HETURN--Yeater-
day an important parliamentary return was printed show.
ing the population and inhabited houses according to the
census of 1851, returning or not returning member* to par-
liament. Mr. Hume has obtained this return, which will
be of importance on the dissolution of parliament. There
are numbers of towns, containing upwards of 2,000 inha-
biannts, not returning members to parliament. The follow.
ing " unrepresented metropolitan perishes" appear in the
return ; Chelsea, with a tomulstion of 56,538, and 7.591 in-
habited houses; Kensington, with 44,053, and 6,136 inha-
bited houses ; Hammersmith', 17,760, and 3,115 inhabited
houses; and Fulham, with 11,886, and 1.797 inhabited
houses. In the county of Middlesex the population I.
1,886,576, sad 239,362 inhabited houses.

THIS DAY, Noow.
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Cindy.

The returns from the following places did not reach this
office in time for publication yesterday; they therefore
indicate the state of tho weather on Saturday morning at
nine o'clock.