The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-07 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

THIS DAY.

BO W.STERET.
♦ 1111A611111 "CAVORT OCT."

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Henry Made', a diseinted-lookiag yang nu, who is
believed to hove been frequently invested', was sherged by
fkrireent Thome., of the F division, with having in his
poesemion a quality of counterfeit coin.
The sergeant .id that, being on duty is Wyet-street
Wt evening, he saw the prisoner idling about, sad respect-
fag he was these for no goi.d, he watched ►im. The
raiDlltf, however, probably perceiving that be was wider
obeervatioci, walked in to the upper and of Wyeta-street,
where another yoneg man emerged from a mart, and re-
ceived something headed to bin by the prisoner. Winton
was at chi sairment approaching them, and seeing him,
they both teen to their heels. He followed the prisoner
and caught him before he had time to get rid of a small
paper "anew" which he h.d in his head, and was about
to band to the other, when winos interrupted him. Oa
taking this fun his band witness found is it
INITIS counterfeit eixpenen. On renorleg the prisoner to
the station sod en:chine him there, he found oa hiss one
bed sixpence sad a few 'Whop of good money.
The pruner offered a very siegoler &fun. He said
that the other eau had borrowed a shilling of him, and bad
given him the seven sixpences by trey of security.
Hs was remanded till the ease should he submitted to the
Mint solicitor.

A TOOTillrL OPPINDBIL
Martha Preston, a sharp, deceetly.dreased litUe girl, of
edema yeere of ego, wee or arced before the Hoa. G. C.
Norton with being totted 'annealed in the parlour of the
Duke's Arms public boom, in the Upper Mush, Lambeth,
for the ourpose of committing • felony.
Mr. Victor Hatiltoe, the landlord of the Dake's Arse,
Paid that when sleeting out hie house the night before, be
feud the prawn', concealed seder the bagateUe board to
Ma parlour. Be questioned her as to how she ease there
end what her bane's, wee, sad she replied that she used
to live at N0.,9, Peter- , Westminster, hat had latterly
been In the Westminster Workhouse, loom which she
bad been wee/ cut, sad she came there to sleep.
Not (Wag satisfied with her stateliest, he seat his
potato for a policesaao, and on going out he found
• ma standing rear the d, or who decamped on his ap-
preachiae his. Be meat her to the station-house, 'adman
atm an sprat had been Wight to hie how which was I
picked up la one of the streets through which she passel to
the statice-hosse. TIM spivs behaved to his cook, which
bad be.. take. from the boom whoa ske pots were cleaned,
aad the rigour wee elsecvoil is the beck yard darias the
evasksg.
Whoa riseetlased by the ressietrate, the primmer, ohs le
oateamaly 'amain kw besiege, &eland she bad seam bees
to the msrlibeeas at all, sad admitted that Ur statement le
Mr. leadora was wave. sad
The tasehmems desired that she shoed betakes to Peter-
Mma Ilelleh se Imalids whether there wee say troth i a bee

GREAT FIRES AT SHOREDITCH AND DEPT
, FORD -(TB1S

TMs mmagieg two very merlon@ ContiagratiOta Raba
occurred—one fa Churchmrest, tthorediteh, and the other
is Crows street, li,'Olford—both smosellenied with • cos-
'Womble loss of propsnry
Th. ant gm b.ppigr, d between two and three o'clock, on
the premises of Mr. Lsm,yert, a jeweller, carrying on busi-
ness at 38, Church-street, leading out of Bhorediteh to
Bethnal•green. At the time Of the outbreak amoral lodgers,
as well as the landlord and his family, were
I. their beds asleep. Before the policeman who
• was on duty in the street discovered the fire,
it had made such progress that the residents found the
flooring of their bed-rooms to hot that they could scarcely
stand upon the boards. They immediately made for the
staircase, which they found in a r.qular sheet of flume, sad
the heated Bethke, coupled with !age bodies of sparks,
' dray. the inmate* back, and as a lam resource the offrighwi
parsons were obliged to make for the back windows, oat of '
whir* they were enabled, with the aid of the
pollee and the fire amps, to rehab the ground.
The fire was not subdued until the prissiest were burnt
down, sad those belonging to Mr. Bounden, eatiag-bow
keeper, sad Mr. Bterlieg, a chemist, seriously damaged.
The occupier was insured is the Bun ofilee.
The other fire happened in the presume belonging to Mr.
P. Rushton, licensed victualler, sad proprietor of
ere Ship Defiance, Grote-street, Deptford. The flames
eommenced in the left-hand room of the grouad-floor, used
as the tap room, from wheat* they 'abraded to the bee, in
whisk a large quantity of spirits was stored. A police
officer of the R division w ho discovered the fire, after
repeatedly kaciakisa at the door, managed to arouse the
imeater jut fa snidest time to thabie them to meape.
Mounted poem Minn having been seat to call the ',gime
with all pagan& expeditioe those from Grows-Mk, her
Mejoety's sad the tondos staticise.stteadea, sada'
the dirmtlea et Mr. Readareea, the shletoMeer of the die.
trial. All Made at ease west to week, but the It. mould
not be eatiagulelmmi until the premises and Oafs matests
were nearly isserermi.
The sufferer wee homed fa the Atlas Fin OMee. The
origia of the fin meld at be sommited km

NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION RAILWAY.-

(THIS DAV.)

This morning a special general meeting of the
proprietors of this railway, ecasequat apes there not
ham, been a queen at the ordinary panel meeting,
was held at the London Tavern, to receive the report of the
directors for the half-year ending 26th Jane last, sad for the
transaction of the meal half yearly busier/. Ms. J. Min
DLirrost presided.

The freowlag report was read by the &weary :
With the view es awry out fully the wirh es.
pored at the lest genial amble, • spatial essuaittee,
alasill at she ap-
w ebedea other geatioassa, as
=dies
the wesollaraaidte as *mamma ow the
f resiriai the Wash loweeh available ley Se ample
*. of that broads sad may ether parts et pee Mao
1 between With and Hawes. In Plasm* of MB ,gb.
Mat the equities bas bees etranatistimi an
1•11001 osiriam, whe has toned his ells he a
saw lies of railway s &Wag the to
welsh your act appals; OM report of this awal=sra:
ewith that a she has had the
arl the direelese, sad they tally sake with the Om
e=8"11 of year ems Nikita', that this Vs
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Aim= te OM= (say the 96).
aetr~e Ml. at dry hors less inn, vety intros le dna
Ikkelblie of the eseseep, mei to pat as si r Ibir aw
iillse ;atde is Mls., issolai Is seat Imeseina
pie nes= le ne==wt nap ietr mese is
UM= el year property, they as winks le
ink hams nil= nee has nesass Is a p►
as et triage( up,
of esti eneeely kg
te dee* the =sie of yes en= The stew
aim at the aseste, duly audited,
eta= bean
yes. The dines= fast *sprees their
that have boa usable to dint a Elul seahmostrll
ile
Leeds pweshase, seder whieb, it will he NOM.
aired, yew oseaalldsd to a sus of 0,0001., widely
with lats? al seat. for Ave years, Is se win
• Wa. ,of Liverpool. hauls(
seat at this bawl, the digesters have elefted
Walpleg ef 49, Westliesise-terrese, Is his stead."
The kihrerfai le the babies sheet kw the lalf-year mug
WA Jame, 1866:
Da.
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Pliii;the Sin=s4
sad Ind the one airries.

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Ilawbsw. 1=1•1 Awakes.
W. .

• esppleiasetary tepees Wag abe mad. esamealag that
the updating by whisk It bad bora biped M 110111“11 the
eseapeay ben Ite dllleeltbe bad failed, sad that the Gk.

418111111ille of the eteapsay reseited the weer they bed
bees See some time pest
Tim Cattatatit 6:plaited that the priteipal object toes
which the soteetta bad beet ounweited wee to wwwwla the
views of the eltersheidere se to whittle's-up sailer the Hall-
ways Abaadoaissat Let. He did tot reacasaaad that

coarse, oa aroma a tha maracas upon whisk mewl-
larp ander that sot =tailed, sad wilds, la their
au% wail probably absorb all their mete. Ha

rreeWmaded thu the; abode watt he ems dm, longer,
aatil esseesupsey wee formed for ssktag the manual.
fades aim the Talley, with when they might negotiate
*w thedllmasel edtbe short paws e/ Has already made, sad
Owe eittbele bales% to misnames. The *apemen were
ealassd Is the aildwas of the whole basses. mad =plea-
tiere ewer resslOt during the period he hed bees is eller
foer yeah—barleg bees wily Mi. 7s.
Mr. WASSMIST. • &rester, streaaly advised that the
feeds fa bend iambi be divided witlest baying mews
to the Abeanumnent Act, the slateeholdese glyteg aa WNW-

'Akio' es Um dbeetaire to bra Ulna barseies t;the =test
of the mem se »paid. He was of epeeists these might be
some gumbos ea to the dint legality dash a Mop, but he
Wee prepared to take his share of the rosposnbnity.
Mr flai.zats, amnia director, supported t►is emu.
Soo, whisk wee opposed by the Mistreats, esettoor dimmer,
Mr. Bester, the milleitor, sad Hamel of the shareholders.
Ultimately a reselattea wee proposed reqsactlag the C-
reators to datialla their attempt+ to segatiese ea analogs-
most with some other eampeay, sal se keep the helms
of capital in head for t►e present, to whisk ea amesdneat
au moved is fawns of a ladeadiate division of the
mosey.

After sone eeaeldersble &lessees. s *Ow of kaatia Wei
takes, which resulted Is the las of the aeseadaent by 14
eons against 10, sail the earning of the origin' resolution
by 16 vote, against 9.
A Tote of thanks to the 'helium Um concluded the

GOVERNESSES BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.
(THIS DAT)

A general meeting of the subscribers to the Gower.
sews' Brevekat leatitatioa was held this writing at the
Hrover pure Bones, Sir Joss Foams, But, la the
chair, for the 'tribes of three estaultasts of 2CI. orb. There
were ao leas that 124 tadtd►tes pat la aeatiaatlos, most
of them being et adverted age, their ere raging
frost 66 it 80. The majority appear, from the pub
Belted statement of the laritetioa, to be the disseedeats
of panne who ore were well to do in the worl.l ,
may are the deoghtm of professiottal sea, others to Out
army and navy, clergyman sad loaded proprietors. Ore
is deseribed r "the derhor of • Free► nobleman;
her ►uband wee a panel killed I. battle, era after their
marriage." Care telaglead and brume • 'oversee 44 years
H•u. The ballot was opened at 12 ad dosed at2e'slock, bat
the result world tee be are knows until 6 reclnck. Is
additios to the 101. kiadly 'snorted fee the highest Rasa.-
metal radidar, the board propose to Weft the Cup.
petetmeat of failure by giving 104. ts each of the most Are
apes the poll.

Tint CREDIT Mosul= COMPANY main Baia ago
steeled as sasigsavelon of the diestent asphalts sea-
posies. Whoa the satalgesstios ass projeetal, a new
asphalt* 'messy, sada the same of Beak sad Co., as
stated with a capitol of 600,0005 , is slimes, sot, however,
with the view of embarking Lawefide is betimes, bat is tile
hope of Wag admitted to pratielpeto la the amalguastioa.
• iew mmallat later, is order to *Maio • lamer share is the
=Sit raked ite eepital to 1,000,000 f. sad three
its 3,000,0001. But, la spite of Its efforts, it
did test obeli the advantage of iwiag coalition' In the list
loblolt were suited togstast. Yorterdayve an
Ei' was made to tea Tribasai of Camera te has
ompemp amide* sad the Tetanal, is a lodgment
midalidestered Um the rupees fee which it wee sommeted
ofm,fiffirliairwit greeted the demead made. It was stated
Nam of Om prostrating that the sompaay baslsla/ wag lifted a Nail* elmilS—Gefirtfm‘