The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAY.

BOW-STREET.—John Robins and David Rawl:, who
described themselves as eners, were placed at the bar
before Mr. Hall, c with being drunk and disorderly
in Museum-street, on Saturday night. Robins was further
charged with furiously driving a cart, and assaulting police-
man E 62 ; and Russell with assaulting Policeman E i 6, and
attempting to stob him with a large clap knife.—Policeman
E 62 said that on Saturday night, a little after seven o'clock,
he saw a cart and horse standing opposite to a public-house
in Museum-street, without an 7 one attending to it. At length
Russell came out of the public-house and attempted to get
into:the cart, but he was so drunk that he fell back on the
footway. Witness helped him to get up. He said the
cart was his, but there was another young man in
the public-house, who drove it, and he has sober.
Witness then allowed him to return to the public-house.
After a few minutes some people cane out of the pub-
lk-house, carrying Robins between them, " bundled him
into the cart," and stave him the reins. Witness, per-
ceiving that he was quite drunk, ran to the horse's head
and attempted to stop him, but the prisoner Hogged the
horse violently. Robins then drove down the street and
round the corner into Great Russell-street, at a most furious
rate. At this moment Russell came out of the public-house
and ran in the same direction. Witness ran after him, and

caught him in Russell-street. He was about to take him to
the station, but seeing the cart, which had been stopped by
somepassers-by at a short distance, he left Russell and ran
towards it. When he came up to the cart he proceeded to
take Robins into ci.stody. He, however, resisted, struck
witness severaltimes, and at length succeeded in getting
away and driving off again. He was afterwards stopped in
Hart-street, Bloomsbury, and taken to the station.—Police-
man E 146, said that he found the prisoner Russell in Rus-
sell-street, lying across the footway in the place where 62 had
left. There was a crowd round about him, from whom he
learned that the prisoner belonged to the cart which he saw
at some distance. Witness took Russell into custody and
followed to Hart-street, where he found the cart and the
prisoner Robins, who was then in custody of policeman 62.
Policeman E 56 received the charge at the station. Rus-
sell appeared very low-spirited, and said that he had been in
the habit of driving for fifteen years, and had never been in
any "mess" before. Witness, to encourage him, said he did
not think he was in much of a mess now. The prisoner a
few minutes afterwards took from his pocket a large and for-
midable-looking clasp-knife (produced by witness), with
which he made a stab at him, but witness saved himself b
throwing up his arm. He received a severe cut on the back
of the hand. It was cut to the bone. Another constable
went behind the prisoner and seized him, while witness dis-
armed him.—The other policeman corroborated this state-
ment.—The prisoner Russell, who is gardener in a gentle-
man's family,said that he very much regretted his misconduct,
and was ready to make any reparation in his power. He was
drunk, or he would not have done it. He hoped he would
be treated leniently as it was his first offence.—The prisoner
Robins, who is a market gardener, made a similar defence.—
Mr. Hall remanded the prisoner Russell, and fined Robins
60s. for the assault on E 62, and 50e. for the furious driving,
or in default of payment sentenced him to 21 days' imprison-
ment for the former and 14 days for the latter offence.

CLERKENWELL.—Fan ro MIMICAL PoLICI.—In
several cases of persons being brought to the station-house
drunk, and incapable of taking care of themselves, the police
applied to Mr. Greenwood that he would order each prisoner
to pay 7s. 6d.. being the amount of the doctor's fee.—Mr.
Greenwood said he did not understand this demand, and in-
quired of the inspector on duty how it happened to be made
so indiscriminately.—The Inspector stated that they had re-
ceived strict orders from the Commissioners of Police, that
whenever a person was brought to the station-house,
ready insensible, they were at one to send for a
man. As most of those charges were brought in at onset-
, amiable hears, the fee charged for the attendance was Ts. 6d.
—Mr. Greenwood said the law gave him no power to order
payment of this sum, and thought it would be very hard to
compel every person so charged to pay it.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Tes KNlnt.--Janies Calla, a
young man of very juvenile appearance, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with haring attempted
to stab Mr. Henry Stephens, landlord of the Rutland
Arms public-house, in Pearson-street, Kingsland-road.—
The prosecutor stated that shortly before 11 o'clock on the
preceding night, the prisoner entered the house and called
for some liquor, but was induced by his mother and sister,
who came in immediately afterwards, to leave the place and
accompany them home without it. Scarcely ten minutes
had elapsed however, when he again hastily entered the
house, followed by another of his sisters, who in an agitated
manner requested witness to give her brother into custody,
as he had just before attempted to murder the sister, who
had previously accompanied him with a large clasp knife
which was then open in his pocket. The prisoner
had in the meantime entered the tap-room, and
was seated on a table, when the witness approached
him, and seized one of his arms to get possession
of the knife, but before he could do so, the prisoner suddenly
drew out the weapon and mule a thrust at his breast with
such force, that after penetrating his coat and waistcoat, the
point was fortunately impeded by the buckle of his braces,
or it must inevitably have entered his body. The prisoner
made a strenuous effort to disengage the knife, but before
he could do so, witness forced him back against the wall,
where they continued struggling together until a man named
Hurlock seized hold of the weapon and snapped the blade
close to the handle, in effecting which three of his fingers
were cut to the bone. The prisoner was ultimately secured
and handed over to a policeman, who conveyed hiin to the
station-house.—On being asked if he wished to make any
answer to the charge, the prisoner expressed his intention
to reserve his defence, and the Magistrate ordered him to be
committed for trial.

BOUT R WARB .—A BELGIAN OFFICER CHARGED WITH
ROBBERY.—John Joseph Perrent, described as haring held
high military rank in the Belgian army, was brought before
Mr. Seeker, charged with stealing a gold eye-glass, silver-
mounted riding-whip, two leather printing blocks, and vari-
ous other articles, the property of Edward Guige, the in.
ventor of an improvement in the manufacture of leather, re-
siding in Russell-place, Bermondsey.—The parties being
foreigners, solicitors and interpreters were employed on both
sides. On the part of the prosecution it appeared 'that the pd.
sonerlbeing at the time of his arrival in straitened circumstances,
the complainant admitted defendant as an inmate of hishouse,
where he resided for some months entirely at his expense,