The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

CHAIIID WITH THJIZATIXLNG HUI win.

M.-. Jo.mph Laneadetar, a surgeon of No. 1, Park-road,
we,t Brompton, was charged with using threatening lan.
zone to his wife.
Mrs. Lancaahear said that on the 28th instant her hus-
band came home drunk and oommenoed a volley of abase at
and everybody he met. He called her beastly names,
and sitar putting them all in jeopardy fell on a chair
.ad went to sleep. He awoke very excited, and canning
the room, thrust his fist in her facie. She called for assis-
tance, mid he dusted, but afterwards came up to her and
aimed a violent blow at the back of her neck, which wan
fortunately warded off by bee daughter. Witt's= and all the
inmates of the home went in feu of their lives. He took up
a poker, and said he would do for them. His conduct was
fteo similar tothia on the present cocesion, and be had more
than once threatened to poison all the people in the house.
Nita Nancy Brewer having corroborated this statement,
Louise Laucashear, an intelligent girl, said that her
father came home drunk and went to sleep on a chair. He
woes .p and abused her mother, and would have struck her
!hr bead had not she prevented him. He said he would
do for her.

Mr. Tyrwhitt, after snimadvartbig on the defendant's
educe. said he wee sorry to ass • man in hie position in
He placed at the bar of a police-oourt charged with such an
• :Tepee. The case, however, did not appear to him of •
~hrttve nature, and he shouldi order defendant to End one
til in 101. for his good behaviour to his wife for six months.

WANDSWORTH.
DarWEIS CABMI.N.—iIIIATT FTSVI.

nal Spendlore, a licensed cabdriver, badge No. 8,51.5,
sa, placed in the dock before Mr. Ingham, charged with
drunk, end incapable of taking care of his horse
-:.,1 cab.

Polioa•ooaatable Purchase. 51 V, said, about a quarter
I o'clock this morning he was on duty in the Wands.
v>rth-road, near Vatuhall.cross, when he saw a home sad
standing by the side of Nine•elms-Lane. He went up
:El found the prisoner on the top of his cab fast asleep.
When he woke him up he made a strike at the horse, and
Er thou found that be was very drunk and inimpable of
The prisoner—I was • little the worse for drink, but I
vas capable of taking my horse home.
Mr. Ingham—You are fined 15a., or seven days' imprison-
=int.

Charki Barry, badge 15,684, was next placed in the dock
a similar .
Police-constacheblem Hedges, 159 V, said—About half•past
o'clock last night he was as duty in the Kingston-rood,
.o.bisdos-oocumon, when he mw the prisoner driving a
..Jrie and cab in mach • =inner that several "traps " had a
:beulty in passim. He fouled that the prisoner was very
..rook, and he then took him into custody.
The prisoosr— lam very sorry. I met a friend and he
gars n.r aglus and it overcame me.

Mr. Ingham—Yon an tined 15a or saran days' imprison-
ment.

-
he nrisoner—l hope you will take a littla off.
Jr. Ingham—No, I shall Dot.
Both fines were, however, paid.

(',%tmos LAW Corwra.—The first sitting of the
surt of Common Fleas in Easter Term in Middlesex, at
Prim, will be os Monday, April 18 ; the second
nis-
Lng day on Monday, April 2i. The court will sit in term
London on Friday, April 22. and Friday. April 29. The
stun, after term will be in Middlesex, on Tuesday, May 10,
;.2,1 to London on Friday, May 13. The Court of Exchequer
will sit as follows :—ln term, in Middlesex, first sitting day,
Monday. April 18; mooed sitting day. Monday, April 2% •
id sitting day, Monday, May 2. In Loudon, in term,
-ant sitting day, Friday, April 22; second sitting day,
rrilay. April •..ek After term, in Middlesex, Tuesday,
Mar 10; in London, Friday, May 13. The court will sit
..! Nisi Prius, in term, in Middlesex, by adjournmest from
!iv t.i day until the causes entered for the respective
M.,l,l:esex sittings sin disposed of.
Top. " AT NORWICH. —On Sunday morn-
:. it being Easter Sunday, the monks bad a grand pro.
e“,•0 from the "Monastery" on Elm Hill to Tombland
:strung a little before 6 o'clock), accompanied by a choir
Loy, and preceded be boys carrying two huge candles.
limns were suns, and "God Save the Queen" oleo
given on the route. There were several hooded monks,
,r,l the sacred banners and the order bora. aloft. Such
smug, sight, and at such a time in the morning,
ca-ised the inhabit/tots to wonder what it all meant ; and
persons who wereswakened from their slumbers were
rh ..unoyel on finding out the cause, and would have
hen better pleased if the "brethren" had stayed in their
es... until a more removable hour. It would appear that
t.,r rooks bare very little rest, as service takes place at
tle,l.apel so early as 1 o'clock in the morning, and coa-
t c.r, at intervals throughout the day. On Sunday after-
:. • n service is held for "boys" only, and sdroission re-
f to older persons of either sex. What sort of doe-
t•in. they instil into the minds of the youth of Norwich
Lr guessed. —Bor/ and Norwich Post.
lilt. IM nDATION AT SiIiFFIELD. —SOMe iM-
t correspondence has pawed on this subject between
Secretary and the Waterworks Company. A
hat. been received from Sir George Grey enclosing a
• .f th.. report from Mr. Itawlinson on the late inuada-
t .41 reminding the company of their serious respoo-
• ..:y .0 reference to the Arden reservoir which is in
.. of eoa.tructioa, and which Mr. Rawliosoc strongly
..d-ans. The chairman of the water company writes to
Grey to my that the Agden works have been
: l.

\ WI I L-KN,IWN POSTOR—N ‘roteos F.—Of
ot.ersed he has dropped his ieccod Prvsne of
• • , sod does sot r. 411 himseU by it. There is per-

• this ~mission • delicate forbearance, a sense of
r--._--I deference to the other bearer of that name, whom
r ...vdsea s his master. In the ingenuity of his maul-
. ..-u ,e 4.1 even religion has not escaped him. and it would
'`..hie to count how often be baa left the "establish-
' f, Rome, been converted, reconverted. reconciled,
• ,rou4ht home again—always, be it noted, at the',
• d • rge of so much money from the church fund, or
from the faithful, ever zealous and eager to
really devout and truly sincere convert! That this
aepiring and ambitions vagabond ma be seen in 1
,donal raid, he makes into the very best society, ,
.t Laing, at !met to ordinary eyes, ant-this( to ob-
i there ventures, beyond the triumph of seeing him-
` w!.-re exposure and detection would be certain to be
'+•.l he the moat condign punishment. At Rome, for
e Low. I cannot say—he obtained admionoo to the
.•rammont's meantime ; and at Florence, under
- •-te•t of being • proprietor, sad "a most influential" 1
• ' The nova, he breakfasted, by special invitation, with
'twill, and had a long and most interestiog con.
• *•,' with him es to the cooditious— of course political
'sld.a be would consent to support Italian unity.
,st have been done in pure levity ; they were into-
- • • ~•ureiono, thrown off in the spirit of those fanciful
erect violinists will now and then indulge in, as
. •"p i,v, "Is there a path too intricate for me to
there a pined* too fine for me to balance on?"
.3-.• deal of this fellow's long impunity results from
.. men feel in confessing to have been "done" by
\ body likes the avowal, acknowledging as it does
• '•e defect in discrimination, and a natural reluctance
a• baring been the dupe of one of the moat bare.
.1 ydgar rogue* in Europe.—/Packwootra