The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-14 00:00:00

MONDAY tVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1846.

in her conversion to a steam rtard-ship, that she will be
undocked next spring tides from Messrs. T. and J. White's
and at Cowes. Last week the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir W.
Symonds, minutely inspected her, and exprcssed himself
highly satisfied with the work done to her. The inventor of
the screw proprller, Mr. Smith, has also paid his official visit
to this ship. The following is to be her future armament:—
On the quarter-deck, three heavy guns, namely, one 66-
pounder of &5 cwt., and two 8-inch shell marten of 615 t,;
on the forecastle, one 56-pounder of 86 cwt. ,• upper deck,
twenty-aix 32-pounders of 42 cwt.; and on the lower deck an
*equal number of 42-pounders, of 66 cwt. each. The Bull-
dog steam-sloop, Commander Davis, arrived at Portsmouth
on Saturday from Chatham. She requires some alight
reparation of defects, and will moat probably take the re-
mainder of the 74th Regiment about Wednesday to Scotland.
Her ultimate destination is presumed to be the Cape of
Good Hope.
Avenger, at.-frigate, Capt. Williams, was at Malta in
quarantine, on the 28th of August. A private letter dated
the 26th states—" We left Alexandria on the 20th.
During our stay there, the officers and ship's company
were supplied with every luxury by the orders of Ibrahim,
who, prior to our departure, presented the following officers
of the Avenger with a valuable Turkish sabre i—Capt.
Williams (and also a splendid shawl); Lieutenants Craw-
ley, Sibbald, Howie', Hawkins, and Tate (R.M.A.) ; Mr.
Tucker, Master ; Mr. Mackay, Surgeon ; Mr. Brickwcod,
Paymaster and Purser; Mr. Speed, N. Instructor; Mr.
Robinson, Assist.-Surg. ; Mr. Moore and Mr. Yound,
Mids. ; Mr. Cleveland, Master's-Assist. ; Mr. A. W. Chimmo
and Mr. Rowe, Clerks; Mr. Phillips, N. Cadet; and
Mr. Brooker, Clerk's Amidst. His Highness also presented
the ship's company with 6001., besides an immense
quuitil of sugar, rice, coffee, and other articles of consump-
tion. His Highness invited all the officers of tho ship to a
sumptuouspoi banquet given at his palace, placing at their dis-
carriage, horses, and attendants. Altogether, no
prince nor potentate could have been more splendidly fired
than we have been. His Highness appeared to feel that he
could not seem too grateful for the attention shown him in
England. We expect to sail about the 20th of Sept., and to
arrive at Portsmouth about the latter end of that month;
when there the defective state of our boilers, &c., will de-
tain us two months at least before we can proceed on any
further service,"
A2POW.VIMT. Sept. IL—Lieut. J. B. West to the America.
Peoscrnon.—Aestet,fturg. 0. T. Miller, of the Vindictive, to be
of the reaostiats.
8W4117: FRENCH N•yr.—The Monitestr publishes a Royal
ordonnance, increasing the list of Naval Officers in the follow-
ing proportion:—Ship Captains, from 100 to 110, 36 of
whom of the first-class, and 74 of the second ; Captains of
corvettes, from 200 to 230, of whom 76 of the first-class. and
164 of the second; Lieutenants, from 600 to 640, 110 of
whom of the first-class, and 540 of the second ; and Ensigns,
from 600 to 550. That ordonnance was followed by another,
appointing 16 Ship Captains, 61 Captains of corvettes, and
105 Lieutenants.
THE FRENCH SQUADRON OP EVOLUTION.—The Tots-
lontiaia, of the 6th inst., announces that the squadron of
evolution, commanded by the Prince de Joinvill^, would rot
return to Toulon, but sail directly for Brest, saber_ it is to
winter. "This measure," it says, " is deplorable, it will
inflict a fatal blow on our interest, and may have the most
serious consequences for the entire country. The prosperity
of Toulon, and the concentration in its harbour of the
greatest part of our nasal forces, are not a mere accident pro-
duced by a Ministerial caprice. It is the necessary result of
the state of our general policy. The Minister of Marine
appears to have misconceived, in this circumstance, the real
interests of that policy. When England collects an imposing
fleet in the Mediterranean, it does not behove us to remove
ours from that sea.

Stamp. He did not strike Mr. Stamp, but merely seized
him by the collar. Me. Stamp threw warming-pans at him,
aad be wondered 'now he escaped injury.—Mr. Stamp said
ho defended himself with frying-pans only, as he conceived
he had a right to do against any man who attacked him in
his own shop.—Mr. Hardwick thought the defendant had
used too much violence, inasmuch u he had given the com-
plainant a blow in the first instance, and had followed up his
violence by a second blow.—Fined 401.
SOUTHWARK. Cairrixo NATIVMEe. Elizabeth
Ray, a pretty-looking young girl, belonging to the Gipsy
tribe," was placed at the bar charged with obtaining •
merino dress and five shillings from Catherine Murphy,
under the pretense of telling her fortune.—Complainant, a
decent-looking female, said that she was in the service of
Mr. Williams, of No. 10, Portland-place, Old Kent-road.
On Thursday evening, the 27th ult., the prisoner came to
her master's house during the absence ef the family, and
asked her whether she would like to know her "future des-
tiny," telling her at the came time that Ne could cast her
nativity. The complainant being rather eager to know
under what planet she was born, asked the prisoner into the
kitchen, when the latter produced a pack of cards, and, after
selecting one, asked her to cover it with four pieces of silver.
She acordingly placed on the card four sixpences, when the
prisoner asked her to wrap the whole in four pieces of paper,
and hand them to her, as by the cards and money she should
be able to find her " lucky star." The prisoner then placed
them in her pocket, and departed, promising to call on the
following evening, and reveal to her the sect-A. Prior, how.
ever, to her leaving, she gave the prisoner two shillings,
which she promised to return with the cards. On the Fri-
day evening the prisoner came to her again, and said that
she could not find her nativity unless she had some of her
apparel, as it was necessary tor her to wear something be-
longing to her, while she was pursuing the study for her
" lucky planet '." Believing Nat what she stated was gospel
truth, she handed her her best Sunday gown and • shilling,
which she promised to return on the Saturday evening, and
reveal to her her future destiny. The prisoner then went
away, and she saw nothing more of her until the previous
evening, when her fellow-servant saw her enter the Rising
Sim public-house, near her master's house. She immediately
went in search of her, and finding her in that house, she
asked her for her dress and money which she had robbed her
of. The prisoner told her that she had given her the dress
and money for her trouble, and that else might do her
worst. She accordingly cancel a police-constable, and gave
her into custody. Mr. Cottingham asked the complainant
how old she was, and whether she could read ? Complainant
replied that she was 28 years of age, and that she could read
and write. Mr. Cottingham : How came you, a young woman
of y our age and intellect, to believe the foolish statement of this
poor miserable girl, who could neither read or write. What
could make you suppose that she was possessed of exigerna-
tural knowledge? It is, in fact, a disgrace to you, as the
very appearance of a poor creature like the prisoner, ought
to have opened your eyes to the deception.—To the prisoner
What answer have you to make to the charge ?—Prisoner:
Please your worship she gave me the gown and money for
telling her fortune.—Mr. Cottingham said that the words of
the act of Parliament said, " obtaining money by subtle
craft." New he could not say that she had, as the com-
plainant had intellect sufficient to have known better ; but
he could not so overlook the dress ; she had converted that to
her own use. 11e then asked how long she had carried on
that trade ?—Serjcant Watkins said that she was connected
with a gang of gipsies, who gained • profitable livelihood by
duping servant girls. When she was searched at the station-
house duplicates of property amounting to 41. were build
on her, Most of the articles were dresses and shawls.
—Mr. Cottingham said, had the complainant been a
mere child, or an ignorant person, he should have
dealt differently with the prisoner; but she was a young
woman possessing her faculties, and ought to have
known better. He hoped that for the future she would
exercise common sense, and that it would be a warning to
her not to believe in such idle stories. As for the prisoner,
he should punish her for the dress, as it was clear that she
intended to steal it. He accordingly committed her to the
House of Correction for two months.

1 HAMES.--CONPLAINT AOAINBT THE EASTERN COEN-
TIES RAILWAY.—Mr. E. W. Cooke, muter mariner, of 1,
East-lane, Bermondsey, preferred a charge against the
Eastern Counties Railway under the following circum-
stances :—lt appeared from Mr. Cooke's statement that he
sent the carcass of a fine pig, weighing Bst., on the 18th of
June, from Colchester to London, by the Eastern Counties
Railway; and, as he had neither received nor heard any-
thing further of his pig, he applied to the London office, in
Shoreditcb, and, after several applications, learnt that the
pig, which cost him 31., had been sold to a sausage-maker
for 13s. Bd.—The servant of the company alleged that there
was no direction to the parcel ; so that, after waiting at the
office until it was unfit for food, it was sold to a sausage-
maker.—Mr. Ballantine said it was important that sausage
eaters should know that the maker, were not very particular
as to the ingredients of those delicacies. (Laughter.)—Mr.
Cooke said it was a very fine pig, and if there had not been
great negligence by the servants of the company, it would
have been delivered on the 18th ult. ; and he further said,
that when sold it was far too good meat for sausages. (A
laugh.)—Mr. Ballantine deeided that he could not assist the
applicant, who went away declaring he should instruct his
solicitor to commence an action.

BkRIIA RO r 8 TREATMENT 07 AN INFANT CH I LD.--011 Satur-
day, M r. Ely, polisher, No. 1, New-st., Whitechapel, presented
himself before Mr. Ballantine, and said that, being informed
by his wife that in passing through the street she frequently
heard stifled cries, accompanied by sounds like blows, in
the neighbourhood of No. 12, in the same street, he resolved
to mike some inquiries, and the result was that he ascertained
a little boy, not more than 16 months old, had been left in
charge of a woman at No. 12, whilst his father went into the
country on business. Be further heard that the woman was
in the constant habit of treating the poor infant with the
utmost cruelty. Day after day she went out to her work,
leaving the child wholly unattended to in a miserable apart-
ment for several successive hours. On her return the infant
was necessarily in a filthy state, and she used to immerse it
in cold water for hours. The affair at length got wind, and
the tale being circulated in the neighbourhood, a mob col-
lected about the woman's door and upbraided her with her
unnatural and most unwomanly conduct. Amongst °then,
Mrs. Ely remonstrated with her on her barbarous treatment
of the child, on which the nurse replied, " I'll go and beat
the little beset, and you shall not hear his cries." This con-
firmed Mrs. Ely in her suspicion that the mouth of the suf-
fering little one, whose sobs she heard on previous occasions,
had been gagged whilst it was being punished. In answer
to 3ther remonstrances, the woman, who, am it appeared, had
no children of her own, said she wished the little wretch was
dead, as its father had not lately made any remittances for
its support.—Mr. Ballantine, who seemed shocked at the
recital, directed Inspector Donegan, who was present, to look
to the case. Shortly before the closing of the court, the offi-
cer returned and said that the statement which Mr. Ely had
made was apparently too true, and from what he had him-
self witnessed he felt it his duty to take the woman into
custody.—Martha Green was then placed in the dock
charged with cruelly neglectin; a male infant, named
Arthur Boniface, supposed with intent to cause its
death, in the parish of St. Dunstan's, Stepney. The prisoner
had in her arms a most attenuated little creature, whose sub-
dued manner clearly evinced that the absence of pain was an
unlooked-for gratification. Though a year and tour months
old, it did net look the size of even a sickly infant of three
months. blr. Ely having reiterated his former statement,
Mr. Donegan was called as a witness. lie said that he went
at once, according to his worship's instruction, to No. 12,
New-street, where he saw the prisoner, and told her his bu-
einem. She at once pertly replied, " Oh, I know what you
want of me ; you have been told that I am in the habit of
putting the child into a pail of cold water, but I only throw
it into that tub," at the same time pointing to one of a very
diminutive size. He told her that her language only tended
to confirm the charge against her; that even her own word,
" throw," sounded very badly, and that any infant of six-
teen months' old who could fit in such a vessel as she pointed
out, must be a wretched little object indeed. He subsequently
traced the child to No. 18, North-street, St. George's-in-the-
East, where he found it alone in a wretched apartment, on a
piece of filthy carpet, confined in a dingy corner by a log
of wood. Nothing could exceed the filthy condition which
the poor infant exhibited; in fact, he was wallowing in dirt,
his only garment being an old piece of blue rag, and a cloth
which was swathed round the lower part of his person.
His head was covered with thick eruptions, and there
was a severe sore on his back.—Mr. Ballantine : Did it seem
the result of violence I—Mr. Donegan : It appeared to me
as if a pieta, of the flesh had been knocked off the back.
This reply created a sensation of horror throughout the
court. 11r. Donegan proceeded to state, that when the pri-
soner went with him to North-street, she gave the child a
piece of something like burned up batter-pudding, which
she said was its dinner ; and, though it was a most revolting
looking food, the little creature devoured it with a starving
voracity.—The prisoner here interposed, and said, " 1 am
very fond of the child."—Mr. Ballantine : You take a
strange mode of exhibiting your affection. You first leave
it to starve, and exposed in a lone room to all the dangers
incidental to helpless infants, and you then immerse it for
hours in cold water. I'll hold you to bail to answer this
charge.—Prisoner : I was ordered to put it in cold wster by
Mr. Compton.—Mr. Ballantine : I don't care who ordered
the barbarity, but if it be shown that you have executed it,
I'll see if I cael punish you. Roach (addressing the gaoler),
do not trust her with that child, but get some woman to take
care of it —Prisoner (sullenly) : I de not want the child.—
She was then locked up, in default of bail, and will be re-
examined on Thursday next, on which day the magistrate
directed the inspector to produce all the evidence he could
procure. The infant was conveyed to St. George's work-
house, and it was directed that the medical officer should
closely inspect its condition.
HAMMERSMITH.—Tits SWELL Mon.—Three fashion-
ably dressed men, who gave the names of William Barnet,
tobacconist, of No. 7, White Lion-place, Paddington ; George
Davis, of St. Pancras-road, Somers Town ; and James
it'Lean, who declined to give his address, were placed at the
bar before Mr. T. Paynter, the sitting magistrate, ou a charge
of having committed a daring robbery at the City Barge
public house, Strand on the Green, Chiswick. Mr. Robinson,
solicitor, Hatton-garden, attended for the prisoners Barnet
and Davis. It appeared that on the previous evening, between
five and six o'clock, the prisoners went into the above public-
house, and were met hy Mrs. Richardson, the wife of the land-
lord, at the foot of the stairs leading to the front room on the
first floor, which is a public room. They ordered a glass of
cold gin and water, and a glass of ale, with which they were
supplied. While they were in the front room, Miss Richard-
son, who was dressing in a back room leading out of her
parents' bed-roam, on the same floor, heard footsteps, and an
attempt was then made to open the outer bedroom door by
turning the handle. She subsequently heard the door forced
open, and being alarmed, hastened out of her own room,
locking the door after her. On getting below, she gave an
alarm, when the three men suddenly decamped, and the
bedroom being searched, the drawers were found to have
been opened, and a gold watch was missed, also 20e. in silver.
7 !se fellows were pursued and taken at Hammersmith, when

hi'Lean threw the watch behind him. Skeleton keys and a
jemmy were also found upon them. They were remanded,
as other charges are expected to be preferred against them.

WOOLWICH.—CHAROB OP SNUGGLING, AND DISPI-
SATE ArTzmrr To ESCAPE,—Janues 11.Espeot, the steward
of the Mohawk, Indiaman, was charged with smuggling
18 boxes, and 221hs of cigars, value 12/. lls. 10d. Mr.
Potbury, the solicitor of maims, attended oa the part of
the crown. As the ship was off Gravesend, the prisoner was
seen coming from the store-room with something bulky, and
on being challenged as to what he had got, attempted to
throw a quantity of cigars. overboard, but was prevented by
the officer, who took the cigars from him. When the vessel
arrived at Greenwich, the prisoner, seeing the coast clear,
made a spring over the side of the vessel, and had swam
nearly ashore, before he was captured by the officer, who
followed him in the ship's boat. In defence, the prisoner,
who admitted his guilt, said he bad brought them from
India, to supply the ship's company and passengers, but
knowing it was illegal to attempt to land them, had at-
tempted to throw them overboard ; under these circum-
stances, he trusted to the clemency of the magistrate, and
hoped he would represent the case in a favourable light to
the board. Mr. Potbury admitted there were mitigating
circumstances in the cue, and recommended the prisoner,
who was fined 1001., to petition the board. He was then
ocked up.