The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-24 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS'.*

WORSHIP.STREET.
Th.l Ferrell, fieeeribed as a blacksmiths was merged
ee follows t
Mr. Harry OW Collision deposed that he occupied rouse'
peer the warehouse of Mr. Prim, boor meaufeaturer,
Siebepapteineset. Shortly after 6 redo&
that moraine be was *Moiled by a sort of nuabliag oohs
which evidently petwooled boa Mr. Payne's warehouse.
Whitest wallas to demsbleaself,witases futurity hastened
down aftby nod es ageing a private doer loading into the
street be Aeons& a 3mas ea tie opposite aids of the Irby
who stewed a law whistler and started off instodiately he
made his Whams at the gene ascent heard
th• sound stippreeeed Yokes tho warebewas, sad lad-
ing that the leek dthe doer bed been bream off. be seiner
hold of lbo losiselsor with bulk beads, and held it het, bat
his 4WD to keep Mine wen ateesoossly sesieted by some
meows bride,who waseseiel kisologit wt•, and the pri-
soner and two other sia, mired eat. and main off in different
•

dieeetilme. Wholes, however, seised the prisoner by OA
leper. aid a vision struggle ensued between them, is the
GOWN Oi whisk he was thrown heavily OR the pavement,
but he eseildely retaised his bold of him, and after rolling
over sash ether for several minutes the prisoner, in his
efforts to release himself, caught this* of his finger, be-
tween his teeth, and bit them to the bone. The prisoner
then grasped him by the throat, which he eomprsesed with
such tenacity that he would certainly have been strangled
but for the timely arrival of a policeman, whe had been at-
tracted by his wise, and with whom assistance the prisoner
was overpowered and secured.
Police-constable Sainsbury deposed that, alter lodging
the prisoner in the station-house, he found • powerful crow-
bar on the floor of the warehouse, and a large quantity of
goods packed up for removal.
Mr. D'Byncourt warmly eulogised the witness for the in-
trepidity and preemies cl Wag he had displayed on the
occasion. . .

The prisoner, who was reeogaised by the police as the
sesociate of a desperate gess of burglars, was ordered to be
remanded for the completive of the depositions.
The first halves of two 61 motes, from " F." and • " Port
Phillipan," and the semi ball of a 61. note from " An
Australian," ware nosiest' kw the purposes of the poor- box.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Asemsbed gentleman, was charged with
sa=smitiellinding as
• poliee-oonstable, and also a cab-
ana, who ad not appear.
Polies astable Herring, C 129, said—About ball-put 2
of that meeniag, • charge was brought to the Vine-street
station-bonsa, which caused a crowd to assemble before the
door. Tim wiener was among the crowd, drunk, and
making • disturbance. He went up to the prisoner and
told him to go away, or he should be obliged to lock bins
up. The prisoner immediately pulled a pee-knife from his
pocket, and swore if be attempted to touch him he would
thrust the knife through his heart. The prisoner then
rushed at him with the knife open, to make a stab at him,
but witness caught his arm, and the point of the knife came
near his (witness's) nose, and took a piece of
the skin of A cabman, who was present, assisted witness,
and in the struggle be received a cut upon his finger and
his cheek. Witness succeeded in depriving the prisoner of
the knife, and then be took him to the station.house.
The prisoner expressed mach coatrition for what had
atoned. He had dined out—bad taken too much wine,
and was entirely without recollection of what bad occurred.
Mr. Bingham said the constable had been seriously as-
united in the execution of his duty, and be thought such a
case must be sent to 'jury, and not derided summarily.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial.
Arthur Baxter was charged with musing the death by
violence of Elisabeth Williams, a woman with whom he
cohabited. _ _ . . .

—The ir;oner did not deny striking the deceased, but said
she was drunk sad hurt herself by falling about.
Remanded fora week.
BzwrivotAxcx.—From 8. Scott, RN., 101 , from T. S. the
half of a 61. note have been teemed for the poor-box.

Michael Raydon, an engineer, earning, it was said, SI. a
week, appeared to answer to a summons charging him with
assaulting his son James, a boy of 12 years of age ; and also
for neglecting to provide proper and sufficient food and
apparel for his said child ; and with otherwise neglecting
and him.
The particulars which led to the issue of the summons
appeared in the Doily News of Wednesday last.
Mrs. Croney, the wife of a bone-boiler, residing next door
to the defendant, now deposed that she bad at various times
given the child food, as he complained of being so hungry,
end went on to describe sets of cruelty which she had wit-
nessed as exercised towards the child On one occasion she
saw him, while nearly covered with blisters and sores,
obliged to go, stripped naked, to a tub of water in the yard
and wash himself all ever, and wipe himself dry with a
sparse towel. While performing this painful operation, one
of his step-brothers, younger than himself, stood over him
with a stick, and, poioting out some parts which the poor
little fellow had not touched, frequently exclaimed, " titre,
wash and torah this part, and this;" and If the child
hesitated but a moment, he struck him with the stick, or
thrust one of the sores. She was so disgusted with the
washy of the youthful tormentor that she did not hesitate
to threaten him with personal chastisement) but he
only laughed at her, and continued his torture.
The witness then deposed to certain facts in connexion with
the conduct of Cope, one of the parish relieving elk( rs,
who, she said, called at her house on the Friday evening
after the child had been brought to the court, and stated
that he had seen the child's parents, and that every word
the boy bad uttered was false. Cope shook the boy Tic..
Wetly, and acted with such heat, sad was so noisy, that at
the time she really thought he was not sober.
Cops, who was present, here denied the truth of this as-
sertion, and of others made by the witness.
Witness continued—When going away, Cope said, " I
wish you would bother your head about your own business
only, and let other persons alone."
Several other females residing in the immediate neigh-
bourhood expressed a strong opinion and conviction of
the totally neglected state of the child.
The last witness called was Loekyear, one of the sum-
moning officers, who bad the case in hand, and who took
the child before the parish surgeon. This witness said that
when the boy was pointed out to him that day as the child
he had taken to the workhouse, by the parish officer, be
declared he did not recognise him.
Mr. Elliott here remarked that a more extraordinary
change he had never witaessed than that which a tortnioht's
care and good living, and also a suit of clothes, had effected
in the child, and, in the 'Wanes of any other proof, this
change would be conclusive as to the fact that the child bad
been shamefully neglected.
The defendant said that his second wife was first cousin
to his first, and always treated all his children kindly, but
the sole canes of the boy being rather severely punished by
Ms was his own misconduct, and particularly his disposi-
tion to pilfer. He then called his eldest son, 22 years of
age, and his brother-in-law, both of whom deposed that the
boy's hush treatment was all occasioned by his own foie-
oesduct.
Mr. Elliot: remarked that, in addition to what he bad
stated about the child's altered appearance, there was !the
feet of the surgeon's certificate, which states that the child
was in a very neglected state, and appeared to have suffered
from want of sufficient and proper food. He (Mr. Elliott)
should not they express any further opinion of the case, but
should reserve his judgment for a week.

CHARGE OF SCUTTLING THE SCHOONER
SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS.

SHIELDS, Jaw. 22.
George Watson, late muter of the Sir Howard
Douglas, of London, was brought up in custody before the
Mayor of Teignmouth, Alderman Bertlemma, and J. Cop.
pin, Esti., this day, having been taken in Scotland, charged
with aiding in scuttling that vessel on the coast of Denmark.
One of the crew deposed that, on the night of the vessel
being run on the Sear Reef, the muter refused to allow
the witness, though it mashie tura, to take the helm. Wet-
son was remonstrated with by the witness for steering in a
wrong direction, end soon after the vessel struck. The
witness afterwards heard the men from the shore offer toast
the vessel off, bat Watson preferred to allow her to remain,
uhe said to get her off would ruin him. He (wittiest)
farther deposed to Anderson (the part owner of the vessel
having gone down below with the carpenter's tool., as
afterwards appeared, with a view to hole the ship. Various
other statement' were made by the witness, all tending to
prove that George Watson, the prisoner, was an acoompliee
in effecting the loss of the ship. The bench inquired if
Watson had anything to say is his defence ? He replied,
"Ns ;" and was fully committed to take his trial at the
next swim.
Mr. G. F. Lowrey. solicitor, appeared on behalf of the
prisoner; and Mr. George Kewney to Doodad the pro-
secution.

SHIP LAUNCH AT OLMIGOW.—On Saturday, at
two o'clock, the City of Baltimore, a magnifieent anew-
steamer for the Oriental and Peninislar Steam-ship Com-
pany, was Munched from the building-yard of Maims. Tod
and Macgregor, Glasgow. The City of Baltimore is the
largest vessel ever built on the Clyde, and sionseunently in
Scotland, and is, we balm, omisiderably greater inAngth
than the Gnat Britain steamship. We are sorry to learn
that, in consequence of her great size, and the breaking of
two of the hawsers, she came in violent collision with the
opposite bank of the river, and was slightly injured. It is
probable that tkie eaddest may render it necessary to glare
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