The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT'S.

BO %V- S f REST.

James Ilan, a jouroe;ManM iitress---and bed manufactu-
rer, was brought tat fore Mr. Jardine, charged with having
deserted his wife and family, and leaving them chargeable
to the parish of St. Gilm's, after several previous coavictions
of the same offence. . .

'M.cording to the statement of the wife, she had had seven
wins by the defendant, only two of whom were yet able to
do anything for their own support. On the last occasion of
his deserting her she was left in lodgings with only a shil-
ling in the world
The defendant assured his worship that no mortal man
could endure the temper of his wife. He had been formerly
in buskins for himself, but he had been literally driven
from his home, and rendered unfit for work by matrinio-
nial torture. He was impoverished, and therefore could
make her no allowance. Hence the law must take its
curse. His experience of "home" had lett him perfectly
resigned to a prison life.
Mr. Jardine said, whatever mightabe the faults of the

wife—even if she were the moat termagant of women, and
himself the most amiable of hushands—they did not justify
him in burthening the pariah with his seven sone. If the
iarochial authorities were bound to find shelter and food for
all bad-tempered wiles, it would be a fearful thing fur the
ratepayers.
The parish officer in attendance said that he had every
reason to think that in the present ease the fault, were all
on the side of the man; although in most matrimonial
differences, he had found the one as bad as the other.
Mr. Judine committed him to prison for two months.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
George Gant, cabman, badge 3,223, was summoned
before Mr. Bingham, at the instance of Mr. H. Thomas,
secretary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, (or cruelly illtreating and torturing
his horse.

George Charles Smith, one of the society's officers, stated
that on Tuesday, the 18th of last month, he was in John-
street, Word-street, when he saw the defendant drive •
horse and cab on the rank. After he ►ad stopped, he beat
the horse very much about the head with the butt-end of
his whip, and he then got down (rum the box. end went in
front of the horse's head, and took bola of the reins in
each of his hands, and sawed away at the animal's mouth,
which caused it to run back some little way. Defendant
then brought it up to its former place, sad beat the horse
with a strap with a buckle at the end, and nearly brought
it to the ground. _ _ .

Mr. Bingham said it was most brutal conduct on the pert
of the defendant to torture his bone in such a manner, and
he was very gl►d it had been taken up by the society.
He, ma a warning to others, should fine defendant 10s. and
coats.

THAMES.
Patrick Maypowder, an Irish labourer, aged 21, of No. 4,
Green-yard, itosemary-lane, was charged with committing
a savage and cowardly assault on Margaret Murphy, of N t.
7, Brown Bear-yard, Aldgate, and Ellen Mortice, of No.
64, Cortwright-igusre, Rosemary-lane. The outrages being
entirely unprovoked, Mr. Corrie who sat for Mr. Yardley,
sentenced the fellow to ais months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

11TH._

A wuherwoman, named Mary Aan Brooke, of Slaters-
buildings, Brook•green, charged her husband, Anthony ll'.
Brooke, aged 38, a coachman, with assaulting her.
The complainant statsd that her husband was in the habit
of visiting another woman. On Sunday and Monday he
was away from home ; and on Tuesday evening when she
came (rum her work she found him abusing her daughter.
She told him he had better go where he had come from ;
and after a sharp altercation he gave her a brutal beating.
Three or four months ago he wrote to her from Jersey,
stating that he wee verb happy there with his "dear Elias,"
and asking her to go to the woman's mother and till her
that they were very comfortable. At the end of this pre-
ssings epistle the cabalistic words,. " Pop goes the weasel !"
were written several times. The prisoner who had been
married 20 years, had pretended that be was going to work
in Devonshire, but instead of that he had taken 301. out of
the savings bank and gone on a pleasure trip.
Prisoner denied the charge; but Mr. Paynter sentenced
him to four months' imprisonment with hard labour.