The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL.

Edward hard, a oommission agent, was charged before
Alderman Copeland with couipiriog to defraud Mr.
Leaman. a merchaut of Aldersgate-street, of goods to the
value of 250/., and with stealing other goods to the value
of 2UOL
Mr. Morgan (firm of Rumphreys and Morgan) conducted
the prosecution, and Mr. Maynard (from Mr. Beard's office)
the dormice.
Miss Partridge, erho lived opposite the prosecutor's pre-
mier, stated that she knew the prisoner from seeing hint
(wig to and from Mr. laversaa's warehouse on business.
On cos occasion after the premises were dosed the saw the
prisooer apparently unlocking the door, which he eventually
upend and then entered the warehouse. Thep was another
man with hint, but he remained outside. Theo •
shortly afterwards brought out two large parcels goods,
one of which he handed to his companion sad they both
walked away. Mr. Leversoe said be bad been in the habit
of doing business with the prisoner, but he was never in
his employ. He had no authority to enter the premises
after they were closed, or to remove any of the goods.
Alfred Cotton, assistant to Mr. Russell, • pawnbroker, of
Fore-street, deposed that prisoner pledged at their shop
five pieces of doeskin on the 29th of August last, sod that
he redeemed them on the 9th of September.
lin. Smith, the wife of the prosecutor'i clerk, who had
absconded, was called to prove that the prisoner was acting
in collusion with her husband to plunder the prosecutor, and
she stated that they were together on the evening previous
to the day her husband disappeared.
Mr. Morgan said he bad some difficulty with the pawn-
brokers, who not only declined to afford the officers any in-
formation on the subject, but had also refused to attend.
lie therefore asked for a remand.
Mr. Maynard said no goods had been produced, and those
referred to had not been in any way identified; so that
abate wan not a tittle of evidence to detain the prisoner
ulion•
Mr. Mania said there was an officer of the D division
present with a warrant for the prisoner's apprehension on
• charge of unlawfully pawning • large quantity of silk
handkerchiefs.
Alderman Copeland, having inspected the warrant, de-
cided upon remsoding the prisoner for • week. and declined
to admit him to bails
BOW-STREET.
.

Impeder Walker, of the C distils)°, appeared to a sum-
mon charging him with assaulting the Rev. R. Hibbs
Mr. Wontner appeared for the defendant.
The Rev. Richard Hibbs, 14, St. John's-place, Regent's-
park, mid I am a clergyman of the church of Ragland. On
,&y last. at about a quarter to 5 o'clock in the afternoon,
on the east side of Waterloo-place, I was preaching, and bad
been preaching for near►y an hour. Defendant came up.
1 do sot know whether any covetable was with him.
While turning round I found myself pushed by him. This
via after I had in vain tried to elicit from him what
I was doing contrary to the law. Theo he said, " You
must go away," or some such weeds. I did not continue
pewsking. but only spoke to people to ask them to be wit-
nesses. Mr. Hibbs proweded tocall the magistrate's attic.
doe to two points of law. The act relating to street musi-
cians seemed to show that the law contemplated the assem-
bly of ponces to hates, for, of course, musicians were not
supposed to play only to the air. If people might assemble
to hoar music, surely they might to hear she Word of God.
He also contended that as, in the case of preachers, the
Aker was not justified in taking any person in custody
unties in the cane of being unable to obtain the preacher's
address, therefore they could hardly be justified in using
such viola te. as to push him from the stool.
A atwitter of witnesses having been examined on each
side, Mr. Carrie observed that he thought he bad
clearly stated his opinion on ► fanner occasion, but
he would restate it to make it quite clear. The
first question was, whether Mr. Hibbs was justified
in what be was doing, for. if so, the police must be in the
wens. Now, without looking at the particular acts of par-
liament, it was clear that the use of the highway was for
perwas to go backward and forward. and no one amid be
considered as having any right to the use of it for other
purposes. That applied equally to preaching and to the
musicians alluded to. If they caused a crowd to assemble
it might become a nuisance, which it was the duty of the
inspector to remove. He did not believe there had been any
excess of duty, sad he should dismiss the summons. He
hoped there would be no more of this. Yr. Hibbs moat see
sow that be was in the wrong. As to preaching being
allowed in other places, the police ought, perhaps, to put it
down is all, but they were not milieus to do so unless
there was some complaint, as there was a desire to act with
gentleness in these matters. If it was overlooked in one
owe that was no answer in another.

BARBAROUS MURDER AT NEWCASTLIFUPON-TYNE.
—Os Saturday night • barbarous murder we committed
in one of the most frequented thoroughfares of the town of
Newcastle-upon-Tye*. Martin lAnskey, the victim, was a
Toeing men about twenty-seven years of age, who
bad worked as a miner at EJawick colliery for • few
days past. He lodged in Carr.atrest ; his wife lived at
Sunderland, and at the time stated he left • public-house
kept by one Hopper, in Old-street, and walked towards the
railway•stetioe, intending to take the train to Sunderland.
Two men, his comma, walked • few yards before
him, their amount of the affair is, that they heard
Laskin shout that he was stabbed, end that on turning
back they saw • man running away. A boy near
the spot states that • quarrel wore between Lesakey and
another man as they left the publinhouse, that the other
man was knocked down, andthat he immediately jumped
up, drew a knife, and stabbed Innikey in the neck, and
rue off. The cousins took the wounded man into Mr. Bon's
' chemist's shop. where a frightful gash in his neck was re-
vealed. Mr. Boe thrust in a handkerchief to stop the flow
of blood, and directed the men to take Leaskey to the
house of • surgeon living near. They, however, took him
into the shop of Mr. Jolson, chemist, sad said, " Here is •
man that has been murdered." Mr. Jobson asked who bad
murdered him! He rid, " I'm Loin, rie going," and
' without answering the question he sunk os the door of the
shop, and expired. The cousins are detained by the police,
bat tt has not been sicertained by whom the murderous
wound wee inflicted.
DISCOVERY OF A BASE COIN MANUFACTORY IN
LIVIEPOOto—One of the Liverpool detective police officers,
accompanied by two other police odious, on Friday eight
made a dement upon • house in 14, Court, Charter.etreet,
whisk bas been said as a manufactory for base ooio.
They were induoad to visit the premises in consequence of
some information which bad been given them relative to
property stolen in a different pan of the town. On going
Into the house, the wife of the occupier (a man named
Mary) ran upstairs, sod milled out, "The police arecoming."
The °Soars followed her, and burst open the first door
they came to, when they discovered that Man was in
the set of coining base half-crown pieces. with the mist-
ewe of two somas tamed Ann Lead and AnehMonald.
Man made • blow at Imes, the detective offieer, but the
letter pushed him ,Kahan the fire-place, and kept him
there until one of the other officers came up. Marc, how-
ever, after a desperate straggle, got away and ran into
the cellar of the house, from which he pared into an ad.
oining building, and made his escape along the roofs of tho
houses. The police then took the wpm into custody,
and also • person zeroed Bridget Fagan, together with
two men, named Thomas Brows end J. Carroll. When the
officers searched the premises they discovered • complete
&perste& for ooining—galvanie batteries, liquid for eleetro
pktisg, iron crucibles and spoons, together with monis first-
rate tools, end partially molten metal. A quantity of base
cola was also found in various rooms of the house. The
prisoners were brought before the magistrates on Saturday.
sad were remanded in order that the police might perfect
their isvestigatioos.
CURIOUS ACES Or PARLIAMENT REGARDING FISH.
—Early parliameetery esactmente es to fish are very flume.
room. Partaereltip with foreigner in fish is forbidden,
bemuse it raises the pries. None may store it up in cellars
to retail at exorbitant prices. The king's purveyors are to
have the drat choir ; ao fish except salt fish may he kept
in London beyond the seated day, on" pis of forfeiture and
floe. The City " swims of a fyseher,limit, the profits of
a dealer to a peony in the shilling. Forestalling and Tr
grating the market are prohibited, to hinder which, " none
might sell fish within doors, it must be sold in pique
market-place." No fishmonger might water fish twice, or
"sell what was bad." On breaking these rules, for
the first offense he was fined 12d., for the second
20d., and for the third he was " jogyd to •
pair of stoekys openly in the market-plers." A statute
made et Westminster, 13 Edward IL, passes rules
for the preservatioo of salmon. Theme record, also show
that at this early date there was a flourishing fishery on
the Norfolk oast, for cod, ling, and berriop, and that
Elakamb Me. and Cromer, were large towns. An act,
22 Edward IV., regulates the packing of small fish. and
enumerates opiate, eels, whitiogs, plaice, cod, and mackerel,
as part of the eargoes sold at Queenhithe while London-
bridge was under repair. By ordinance of Elizabeth, foreign
wit fish was prohibited, because it was found "terra M-
innow to the • fyshe taken mid oared by Englishmen in the
Wad voyages." The Fishroomiers' guild were fined 300
'narks by Edward L for (oresualien contrary to law, and
is the Libel. Bores it is ordained that no dealer shall buy
fish beyond Bayesed's Castle, to prevent their going oat to
nest the boats before their arrival at Loudon-bridge.
"Fresh lab was rely to be sold after mar, and salt fish
after prime."—City Fyne
Au old fonr•horse stage-coach will ere long be
less a novelty them premsture grey hair, which is fast dis-
appearing mader the effects of berrines Magnetic brushes end
Omaha, which recent improvements have rendered almost infal-
lible la restoring the colour to grey hair, and also in removing
the agony of tic dolortus sod nervous headache.—N.B. Couuter-
Setts are being made.—oaken. 32, basingludiatreet, LOllllOO.-