The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT'S.

Iraitens Kelly, foreman tailor and entter•out at Mr.
Alexander Massey". outfitting warehouse and American
shipping office in Upper East Smithfield, appeared to an-
ewer a summons under the 10th and Ilth Victoria, eee.ll,
with having unlawfully persuaded one Alfred Reynolds, a
British seaman, to desert from her Majesty's service.
Mr. Swainson, principal clerk to the Admiralty solicitor,
conducted the prosecution, and called
Lieutenant Greet, commanding her Majesty's receiving
ship Crocodile,:lying off the Tower, who said that on the 26th
ult. he entered Reynold' as a volunteer for H.M.S. Diamond.
He gave Reynolds leave of absence fur two days. On Mon-
day, the 2stb, Reprilds asked for his leave to be renewed,
and he gave him leave of absence for two days more. Oa the
29th, having ascertained that Reynolds had been induced
to enter the American merchant service, and that he was in
the neighbourhood of Upper East Smithfield, he sent a
MAR belonging to the Crocodile to bring him to the ren-
devour on Tower. bill. Lieutenant Greet added that
the crimps and others, agents of British and American
merchant ships were constantly enticing men to desert
from her Majesty's service. At the beginning of the year
it was found necessary to intercept several British ships at
Gravesend, and take out the deserters from the royal navy,
hat the American ships could not be searched for them.

Mr. Swainson—No, for it would be a violation of the
American flag to do so; nor do we allow the Americans to
search any ships under our flag for deserters.
Reynolds said that he was passing the shop of Mr. Morey
on the 2tith of November, when the defendant called him
in and asked him if be would ship on beard an American
vessel in the river. Witness replied that he had already
entered the royal navy. The defendant said that made no
difference whatever, for he had only to keep on board the
American ship out of the way, and it would be all right.
Witness then agreed to ship on board tke Ophelia, an
American ship, and neat morning was sent on board.
His clothes were taken out of the boarding house,
where he had been staying, and sent on board
and he lost them all.

The defendant alleged, in reply, that Reynolds had in-
troduced himself to him as a Frenchman.
Reynolds denied that he introduced himself to Kelly, but
admitted that, at his solicitation, he shipped on board the
Ophelia as a Frenchman, and told the Americal consul he
belonged to Havre de Orate. He abandoned the Ophelia,
the day after he went on board, at Blackwell, because he
could get nothing to eat and the ship was a bad one. Five
others left her at the same time. He was born at Falmouth,
in England, and reared in British North America, and was
a subject of the Queen.
Several witnesses having been **Rosined for the defence,
Mr. Ingham felt it his duty to convict, and as this was a
most series, offence, which had been carried on extensively,
causing great inconvenience and injury to her Majesty's
service, he should order the defendant to pay the full
penalty of SOL or be imprisoned for six months.
Kelly again protested his innocence, and said he had a
wife and seven children. He implored the magistrate to
reconsider the matter.
Mr. Ingham—l am sorry you make yourself an instru-
ment for others. You are the only person I can lay hold
of. I can see no grounds for mitigating the penalty, but
plenty for indicting, both as regards the honour and safety
of the country.
The ins was paid.

Antes Powell, an;;;;;;-cOerinet7or,badge No. 107, and
his brother, Alfred Edwin Powell, d • , badge No.
9,693, both belonging to the Hayes omnibus, were charged,
the former with haying unlawfully demanded of a gentle.
man, named George Polley, of No. 36, King-street, Re.
gent street, more than his legal fare ; and the latter with
forcibly taking the complainant's umbrella from him.
The complainant deposed that on the evening of the 24th
ult. he got into the defendants' omnibus at the Regent's.
circus, for the purpose of riding to Old Oak-lane, at Shep-
herd's Bush. On arriving within a few yards of the place
he tendered the conductor 6d. The conductor took the
money, and said, "My fare is a shilling." Witness told
him he had never been asked for more, and insisted on
being set down. The conductor refused ; and witness was
taken nearly half a mile further. At last he succeeded in
gettisg out, and the conductor then called to the driver. It
was raining very hard at the time, and witness had his um-
brella up. The driver came up to him and said in a threat-
ening way, " take it out of you," and insisted upon his
paying another sixpence. Witness, who felt that the driver
was about to strike him, refused to comply with the de-
mand, and the driver then forcibly wrested the umbrella
from him, and said, "Now go through the wet." The
driver then got upon the Us and drove off with his um-
brella.
Mr. Martin, for the defendants, called the summoning
ofilcer, who produced the table of fares, which stood as
follows;—" From Hayes to London, 2s. ; outside, Is.; from
Hanwell to the Circus, 9d.; beyond, Is.; from the Bank
to the Circus, 4d.; beyond, Is."
Mr. Poynter said the table was a complete fraud upon the
public, for it was so contrived, that it might be read in
several ways. All such lista should be so arranged uto be
understood both by the public and the conductor, and not
so contrived as to raise twenty questions as this one did.
Mr. Martin admitted that the table of fares was not a
clear one, and said that all these kind of disputes would be
fl:iian end to if the passengers paid their fares fipoll enter-
, as they did in Paris.
r. Paynter said the driver's conduct had been very
gross. Indeed he had committed a sort of highway rob-
bery, in taking the umbrella away from the complainant in
the mhe bad. He fined him 31. and 20s. costs, or
two months' imprisonment. He also fined the conductor
10s. and 2s. costs.
The conductor paid his fine, but the driver was unable to
do so, and he was sent to prison.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE—Friday, Dec. 9.

OSBORNE-HOUSE, Duc. 5.
This day bad audience of her Majesty : The Count de
Lavradio, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary from the King of Portugal and the Algarves, to de-
liver a letter from the King Ferdinand, Regent of the
Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarve' during the Mill*.
rity of his Son the King Don Pear' V., notifying the death
of her Msjesty Queen Donna Maria 11., and renewing the
credentials of the Count de Lavradio
And Brigadier-General Francisco Bolano Lopes, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Re-
public of Paraguay, on a temporary mission, to deliver his
letter of recall ;
To which audieners they were respectively introduced by
the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint James
Hansen, Bsci , to be Agent on the part of Great Britain in
the Mixed Commission established under the Convention
concluded at London, February 8, 1863, between Her
Majesty and the United States of America, for the settle-
ment of outstanding claims.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 30.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Honourable Henry 00010 Howard, now Secretary to Her
Majesty's Legation at Vienna, to be Secretary to Her
Majesty's Embassy at Paris.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Dhc. 7.
The Queen liaa been pleased to approve of Don JoU
Joaquin de Mora u Consul•Oenenl in the United King-
dom, for her Majesty the Queen of Spain.

FORRIGN•OFFICE, Dim. 8.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Robert
Campbell, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Dunkirk, to
be her Majesty's Consul at Rhodes and the other Turkish
Islands in the Archipelago.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Risen Kerr, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Rhodes, to
be her Majesty's Consul at Dunkirk.

DOWNINJ-STREET, DEC. 9.
The Queen du been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of MsjorGeneral Henry Godwin, C.B. ;
Brigadier General Scudamore Winde Steel, C. 8., of the
Madras Army; and Commodore George Robert Lambert,
of the Royal Navy, to be Ordinary Members of the Military
Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath : and of Lieutenant.
Colonel Edward Alan Holdich, of the 80th Regiment of
Foot; and Captains John Walter Tarleton and Charles
Frederick Shadwell, of the Royal Navy, to be Ordinary
Members of the Military Division of the Third Clam or
Companions of the said Most Honourable Order.
Her Majesty hu also been graciously pleased tomske and
ordain • Special Statute of the said Most Howurable
Order, for the purpose of authorising the admission Taw the
Military Division of the Third Class of the said Most Ho-
nourable Order of the undermentioned Officers in the
Service of the East India Company,—and to give
order for appointing them to be extra members
of the Military Division of the Third Clam, or
Companions of the said Moat Honourable Order, vix.:—
Lienteaant-Colonel James Colley Tudor, of the Bengal
Fusiliers ; Lieutenant. Colonel Hugh Fraser, of the Bengal
Engineers; and Captain Henry Blame Lynch, of the In.
disa Army.

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