The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1851.

The Recorder—What was the condition of life of the
defendant
Mr. Clarkson—He bar bees augured as captait's clerk on
board the Howe. He is not yet 20 years ofd, and the act
tarnish:ad appears to be that of • tbcci3htless,
foolish young man.
Tne Recorder, after conferring with Mr. Alderman Ham-
phery, said he had fe4 considerable difficulty in diersing of
this case. He found that the offence imputed to the defendant
was that ot obtaining money by fraud, which was • very
serious owe, and which under ordinary circumstances would
always meet with severe punishment ; and the offence was
aggravated by the fact that the Fusco committing it occu-
pied • respectable position in ►ifs. This circumstance could
not be regarded el any excuse for departing from the usual
nineties, ; bat in the present case, however, acting upon the
ra•cnmibilit of the committee for this national exhibition,
who were all known to be persons of station and Integrity,
and upon their representation that the purposes of justice
would be answered without inflicting furtacr punishment
up:n the deterdint, be thought he should not be fa ling in
his duty to the public by ditectii.g that tht defendant should
erpear and rewire the je:;goteut of the court upon the in-
citement to which he had pleaded guilty, if he should be
caled upon to do so.

NEW COURT.—YESTERDAT.
Berme TEE Weenie sirsuaer.
UTIZEING BASE Coin,
The principal portion of the eta' was occupied in tiling
prisoners for peeling base coin. 'The circumstances under
which the uttorb p were effected were of the stated charac-
ter; in most instance. licensed victuallers being the parties
against whom the prisoners bed directed their opt ratioes.
EYBIZELISIENT.
William Gill, 26, clerk, pleaded guilty to an indictment
frieembeaeling pivotal aunts of money belonging to hie muter,
Alfred Ituding.
Mr. Clarkton, who appeared for tin prisoner, and called
several witnesses who op,ke to his precious good elit-
e:tette, said • clerk from the firm of the prosecutor, who is
a timber merchant, and one of the Surrey bench of magi.-
' testes, stated the; the prosecutor had no wish to Fees fora
heavy punishment,.
The Common Serjeant said that the prisoner's offence was
• bad one, Bed it was wholly on account of his previous good
character that the court pared the sentence it did.
He was then sentenced to six months' imerisonment.
A Fainter OP FELONS.
W. Weaver, 16, tailor, Emma Weaver, 10, sad W.
Weaver. the elder, their father, aged 66, a tailor, were in-
dicted, the two first pt hunch for stealing two polls of boots,
la victoria*, and a cloak, the property of Wiilism Ives, and
the elder Weever with receiving the victorine, knowing it
to have been stolen.
Tee facts of the case, although simple in themselves, die
glued a most lamentable example of depravity on the part of
the elder prisoner, whom it was very evident had trained
the two children to commit the tot, end since instructed them
to deny his knowledge of the property having been stolen.
The boy pleaded guilty, and both he and his sister, two
witched, equalid,and halt-starved looking little objette,cried
coat bitterly while the trial was going on, and repeatedly
kept saying their father was innocent.
It appeared tbat oa Saturday, the 21st of last month, a
little boy and girl, the son and daughter of the prosecutor,
aged seven and four years of age, were met in Church-
passage, Spitalfields, by the girl and boy, who having told
them they would bring them some nuts and cakes, enticed
them up a court, where they robbed them of their boats, and
the little girl of her cloak and vietorine, end left them
laming on a step where they were found by a oons'able, who
I removed them to the union, and subsequently found their
parents and having • knowledge of the boy from itie
I description the children Ran] of him, succeeded in taking
the boy, and from that circumstance discovered where the
alder prisoner lived.
Ball, a police-,ergeent, said from what he had heard he went
to Union-court, where the elder prisoner lived, and be there
sew Ikea gad the girl, who bad the victurine on her neck.
The constable then said he should search the place fur some
coats th..t had been worn by the boy, when the prisoner be-
came very abusive, and told the officer it was no use to
come there wi h his bounce, as he should not search his place
without a proper authority. The officer teen commenced Lis
search, but could not find what he wanted, and on turning
rosin: to the girl fouodtho victories was gone from her neck.
He 'eked where it was, when she said she hod not had it, and
folding her pinafore put it round bee neck, which she ender-
to persuade the isergeent he mutt have mistakea for
toe s Latch... The sergeant then asked the father what he
hat due with it, KI dhe said, " So help me God, I have Lot
got it ; I know nothing of it." Not being able to find it,
and feeling convinced that prisoner must have taken it, he
'torched him, and feeling something bulky under his shirt be
put his baud in and found the victoria* next his skin. Pri-
soner thou seid, " Oh God, see what dishonest children brigs
honest permits to."
Toe little girl declined making any defence.
The elder prisoner, when called upon for his defence,
elected to cry, end in a canting tone pleaded his innocence,
and during his statement kept looking at the children,
who seemed frightened and cried bitterly, both asserting
their parent's innocence.
The jury found them both Guilty, and said that the con-
'duct of the father was highly to be censured.
Mr. James Brown, of the are and Hounds,Stoke Hewing.
ton, said that the elder prisoner had been relieved by him
when he came begging at his house, and that he Lad given
him some materials, and forwarded him some money 12
months ago, thinking him poor and deserving, so plausible
was his story, but be no sooner got the cloth and morey
then he decamp. d, and he saw nothing of him until be was
in custody on this charge.
The Common Serjeant sentenced the two children to be
imprisoned for two months, and the father for twelve.
THE SLOALNES' CABI.
Shortly before the rising of this court the greed jury re
toned • tens bill spinet George Sloane, and Theresa, his
wife, for a misdemeanour.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YESTESDATe
Barone Mo. Virropos An, • 'holm or bloom VAT tA•
The January Generai quarter Session of the rease for the
county of Middlesex commenced yesterday morning, at the
Sessions Rouse, Clerkeewell. The °slender was unusually
beery, containing the names of not less than 112 prisoners.
Of thee number 101 were indicted for felony, and 11 tzr
demeanour.
Mr. Witham briefly addressed the grand jury, diving them
the usual directions ao to the mode in whim they should dis-
charge this duty they had to paten&

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Tea llmut OP:VILIANY.—Moses Mort was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having picked. a poor
WOMAD'4 pocket of • shilling, a peony, and the duplicate of
u
an article of dr.ss, which the complainant had just pawned
to purchase bread for her children.
Jarvis, one of the City detective police, said—At half-
past sic o'clock yesterday evening I saw the prisoner and
another boy folio. ing • female who had a child in her arms,
in Bishoregate-street. The prisoner Eton closed with the
woman, and dexterously slipped his band into her pocket.
I looked over his shoulder, and saw him looking et his
hand, in which I distinctly observed a duplicate, a shilling,
and a penny. 1 then took him into custody, and at that
moment he dropped what he had stolen upon the ground.
The prisoner is an old offender, and has been frequenUy in
custody.
Dinah Pardon, the wife of a hardworking man, ideatified
the duplicate, which she had just received, together with
the money, in lieu of a waistcoat, pawned for the price of
bread.
The prisoner we, said to be in the habit of watching for
visitors of pawnbrokers' shops.
The Lord Mayor.—Well, prisoner, what do you say to
this charge ?
Tree prisoner.—Why. not being brought up to any trade
war the cause of my doing it.
' The Lord Mayor.—l shall send the ease for trial, and I
trust that the judge will send the prisoner out of the coon-
, try. This is • case which is peculiarly calculated to touch
our sympathies. The poor woman was obliged to pledge
her husband's waistcoat for food for her children, and no
room, bar she pocketed the produce than a notorious thief
robs her of it ; and if it had not been for the vigilance of
the effacer, would have escaped with his booty. We are
overwhelmed with this class of offenders, but if this prieoner
be not transported I shall not know what to say of the ad-
ministration of the criminal law.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
DANOIROVII ASSALLT.—den Salter was charged with
having stuck • lards scissors in the breast of Catherine Daly,
• girl about 15 years of age, and residing in Pried's.
alley.
The prosteentrix and the prisoner worked at the shop of a
tailor in the crowded neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane ; and
it appeared from the evidence of the girl, who iv a simple
Ida girl, that the prisoner, who iv also Irish, hated her, and
W threatened to despatch her more than mace ; that at last
dm pawner showed she was disposed to be as good as her
wed, by Hinging the scissors at the girl and wounding her
Is the breast ;and that there:waa reasonlo apprehend much
more serious violence, if any credit were to be given to the
words which fell from her.
The policeman who took the violent sentient into custody
said she stated that she was sorry she had not token away
the lite of the girl, and that she would take the first oppor-
tunity that presented itself to stifle the business.
In answer to questions pot by his Lordship, the girl said
she was able to earn 7d. • day when in full work, that she
had a brother with whom she lodged in the room of a poor
widow who had two eons and two daughters, and that they
all boarded and slept in the same room ; that she and her
brother, who earned Is. a day, paid tenponee a week for
their share of the lodging, and that there was nobody to pro-
test them but he that protected everybody.
It was stated that no immediate danger was apprehended
from the wound, but
The Lord Mayor directed that the girl should be taken
into the hospital, and particularly attended to until the day
of the next examination.
The prisoner was then remanded.
Sattavoessea.—The Lord Mayer stated that he had
resolved ten gainer from the Clothworkers' Company, of
Whisk be had the beam to be a member, and U. 10s. from
I. T., for the poor box.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. Talbot, the secretary of the Landes derdety for the
Peeteetioa of Young Females, and • City millenary,
waited upon the lining magistratervapeetleg the girl named
Ins Sowell, aged 15, who had beta violated by ea
elderly man at • low lodging house at Spitaltields in the
latter sad of November.
It wee stated by the City missionary that the child was
now in Whiteehapel Workhouse, when she had bees placed
for gaiety, that she Ltd so nether, sad that her lather had

deserted her; that, hs all probability, she would be very
shortly dismissed, when, unless she could be placed in some
reformatory asylum, she must inevitably be plunged into
ruin. Re further stated that she was ani interesting child,
and was very desirous to be saved front a life of prefficacy
aad vice. Re wished to know whether the magistrate
would appropriate the mor.ey contributed by the benevolsut
for the benefit of this child towards her suppsrt, it an asylum
could be found for her.
Mr. Arnold soil that he had been anplied to by e lady, who
had offered to take the child Into her service ; but teat be
thought it would be tar better to place her in an asylum.
where she would have the advantage of being well trained
sod fitted for domes is service. lie should be most happy
to eo•operate in the aocompli•bmet t of such an object, and
would not only pcy the =nary already given, or that might
be given on her account, to the treasurer of any society which
would undertake this duty, but should also feel disposed to
furnish a•eistance from the poor box, in order that such &de-
sirable rod might be ',cured.
Tbc Secretary of the Linden Society mid that, from the
caters of the mm, he had no doubt that the committee would
ladmit !strict° the uylvm at Tottenham, although, from the
want of innds, matey deaervicg objects were continually being
refused admisdon.
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The City Ilissionary stated that the Landon S xisty wee
the only suit ty In Louden established for the uforrocioa
of the yoeeg, who were either in daneer of becoming I
prostitute, or had become so, and he would take eau that
sue should be taught beim, the committee et the c ffi.e,New
Broad-street.
Ida Anted said that when the sue bad been decided, he
I should be glad to see the appiteacts again, and pay over the
mot.ey as he bid saggsatcd.
Inc applicants theft thanked the magistrate icr his kind-
OM, and withdrew.