The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-03 00:00:00

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Till% ww MI leil.Nl to reenver lOW. for work -tnel labour
thou., feel for profession.,l unistanee Tendered as an
aortem y. it appeared that the defendant had liven enn-
tit...! i•. a littedir a.tlnm mar lirentford, and that a pertain
It mod lentoian inlrrfi•red to hare him relrn••d. The
pl Indic won intnalueed to the defendant with that sieve.
.4 writ of hakaua tonnes wax issued out by the plaintiff,
u;ina a hit% the defender apps aced before the lord than.
s lior, who diseliarweil him as bring of snund mind. The
il..fentl lat, on beim: applied to Fir the faints, it rlinrd to pay
and the pimeut rti•en.w:u then Iteouirht. The d,•fmre re-
Ind on era. that the• plaintiff had not been employed lty the
d 'ft Want, whn it ss•^mrvl was in the habit of drinking
fierly That he had hisainti. deranged °evasion:illy, hut
5, quiet in a private lonatie asylum restored him
L. hi• ; and that noel, would have been the rue in
the pr,sent instance if the plaintiff hail not interfered.
The jury gave a verdict Air the defendant.

WFSTMINSTER COUNTY COURT.—atrown.

11.1.f10g v. MATNRWM.—IItRuo hitviomm.

Vt:ls an attain to flyover • mini of shout :VV. from
Vir. Omer, Mathew., the I+..r of the Lyceum Theatre,
11,14.1' th.. f.4loWittg •innalar cirettni.taml.
!kl•la an atatial that in the year 18111 he entered into
an miariacment with Mr. 31athiara, by which he 11.111 to Via
• camber of large lookinipothowes in the Lyceum Theatre,
the hire of which was to he led. a year. In the Ilrat in-
It iiiri he had tlo wrurity of Mr. Fitrutt, a solicitor, but at
the and of the year it WIN withdrawn. Ile, however,
114,131.1,1. 41 in obtaining piquant fir what waa then due,
seed the balance he was comprlkd to apply for thruagh
thi. moot.

The tl adant'el tattontry pel:ell Mr. Al'bitri if he rttukl
r.-.w, to the di livrry of all the looting-glamous charged
for

Mr 111'ialin replied that though he dill not t tke them
wedded in filing thew up. and • great deal of
ti oil.le be bad with them.

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Tile intim mid there was lomethinß in the Lull of parti•
eulm• of a dillionoured cheque. What did the'. mean
Mr M'laan replied that it wa, .me given l.y Mr. Ma.
thew. For rme of the yearly payment*, but mu returned
dodomoured
Tip. defendant's attorney said he war inatructed to offer
y.. cent at "lie rate of lIW. a month.
Tto emu... Mend the offer a fair ow, and DIAAIV 211
iir.l, r f,r the rayaitst et IW. 'berth.

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THE POLICE couara
lIIAWSION-110CSIC. i
ft 0111,711.1 AT TN. CVlrrOil huts..—Frederick Sher- I
leld, a weigher in the Custom., VIM charged with basing I
abilim a picture frame and other articles.
Mr. Beverley attended from the ottire of the Solicitor to 1
the Custiwas. 1
A Custom lingo. officer maid-1 went, by the direction of I
the Cominiesioners, to the lodging of the primiirr in Char-
terhowie-strect. I met him on the way thither, and told '
bum that I had remised orders to search his place of rest-
de or; for things which wi re miring from the baggage '
warehous-, be to peoiligera lie replied "Cer-
tainly," mot he returned with me to his lodoing, and upon '
enteriirt the street door, he said "There la nu' thing I
',Touche. from the he...gage warehouse." I said - flow did
you emote to do such a things? " mot he nmlied,that be was very
were for it, but he had done it. I then searched the place,
and found the picture frame. I saw other things th.re
atm which I suapeetell had been taken from the warehouse, '
sod I afterwards ascertained that they belonged to pereins
who sire tit present at Antwerp.
The prisoner said that he had marehaeal the frame far
she Aare of a pot of ale from a man who had walked into
the warehouse and put another frame in the place of the
one in question. Ile called a brother officer to corroborate
bla statement, but was not successful in getting the necoe
sere confirmation.
The Alderman remanded the ease. but consorted to take
bail for the prisoner's appearance in a week.
A Boon CATHOLIC.—Mithed soil/iron. from the county
of Cork. who shout three weeks ago told a story at tlie
Mansion-house shoot persecution, and totichod the sitting
alderman's sympathies by declaring that 1.. voilse he hap-
pened to go to a protestant Owe of worship the priest
cursed him, burnt has Bible, and was the CAM! of AhllttiOT
his family up in the poorhouse, w. brought before the
Lord Mayor OR a warrant.
The aceount of the transaction in the justice-room had
been copied from the London newspaper. into the journals
of the c.ty of Cork, and soon afterwards a communication
was transmitted to the authorities at the Mansion-house,
born a gentleman in the saner countty, who dee: wed that
the whole of the statement about the persecution wis a tie-
sue of falashoods, that the injured concert to proteatantion
was as true a papist as ever light, d • Ire in Smithfield, and
that a constable wee on his way to London with a warrant
for liis apprehension for the forgery of orders for good..
An Irish constable accordingly appeared at the expected
time, and Michael Deady, one of the most active officers of
the City police, boon found out the delinquent, and brought
li:iu upon the warrant to the justice-room.
Thomas Wright, head constable of the county of Cork,
mid—l produce a warrant against the prisoner, which was
issued by one of the justices of that county. It is larked by
Aldermen Bibb*. The prisoner is, to my knowledge, the
person named in the warrant.
A respectable RUM, who is connected with the LOO.lOll
Missionary Society, and—The prisoner came to me and
represented that he had been the object of the most cruel
and unrelenting PP111.0.4:41600, and had born obliged to seek
refuge in this country in tonaequenee of the anathema, of
Me priest, who would bare burned him as well as his Bible.
The man repeated the stot7 of his suffering. frequently, at
subsequent intervals, and without the slightest variation,
sod I Inhered the statement, and assisted and recommended
hint to the Mansion-hour, in the hope of procuring for him
the kind treatment which he reteirid, and which it is on-
deg he so little deserved.
Deady said the prisoner stated upon being apprehended
that he was not at all a protestant, but that on the contrary,
be was es goad a catholic as he over had been in his liar,
and hei expected to db. in the same way of thanking. for
le; knew it was the only chime. he could have elsewhere.
Tim prisoner was dAivertal to the Cork constable, and
alltlSPit ili NM to the steamer for that city.
OUILDHALL.
Downtown ton lANZWILARLD. —Mr Alderman Hum-
Oarlie lad received several fresh &Amhara for Jane
One a rhea, wee rem Abe. by athirst et the City
AIM Oa,
who %awarded to him the fruits of a
ta
=el.
ia• ago It ern kiagW Mar PloV•1
E lap
• iwastity a au= abe tes a
Atioebet. km J. Maw *Woa si d • ma-

office order for If. Is., while another from St. Petersburg, I
dated January 10, 1851, sad signed Henry St. Leger, con-
tained SI.
BOW-STREET.
ROIIIIIKIZS AT TICS LONDON Daces.—COSter '
described as a commission agent, was brought up for final
examination, charged with stealing bags of coffee from the
London Locks, the property of the company. Mr. Italian-
tine on behalf of the Commissioners of Customs, conducted
the prosecution ; and Mr. Clarkson attended on the part of
the company to watch the proceedings.
In the early part of January, IMO. the prisoner brought
a warrant to the Docks for the delivery of four bags of rice
and Laving presented it to a delivery foreman named
Compton, he induced him to substitute coffee instead, an
understanding having been previously come to between
then that he shoed receive a certain portion of the pro-
ceed.; ani at a stated time, a carman being in attendance
for the purpose, he conveyed the goods to the shop of a
grocer in the Minories, who had advanced the prisoner 101.,
on his eepresenting that he had borrowed that sum, and
was obliged to refund it immediately. The goods were
subsequently sold to Mr. Bundy, a grocer, in Bermondsey-
street, and the prisoner discharged his debt. On the same
evening the delivery foreman met the prisoner at the Crown
and Anvil, in the Minories, and was paid by him at the
rate of 6d. per pound as his share. The gate-pass was made
to correspond with the goods mentioned in the warrant,
and bags containing cvffee and rice being somewhat similar
enabled the prisoner to have them pa/sod without being
detected by the gatekeeper.
The prisoner 1,114 neat charged with stealing four other
bags of eoffth on the 17th of October, 1849.
l'he prisoner went through the usual form of presenting
his warrants for the delivery of four bags of rice to the same
delivery foreman, for which he obtained coffee, and on the
Ist of February, 1850, basing again presented another 14Ut-
rust of the same description, he web equally successful.
Mr. Ilallantine mid there was another case against the
prisoner, and a bill of indictment would be preferred against
him upon it at the next session.
The prisoner said he would reserve his defence, and he
was fully committed to Nesgate on three distinct charges.
THE 1101.71010 i ROI:IIFILY.—Wm. Roberta, potbery at the
Sun and Punchbowl, in Holborn, and John Kerrie& White,
a clerk out of employ, were finally examined on a charge of
stealing 651., the property of Mrs. Foul!, the landlady, the
particulars of which have already appeased, and they were
fully committed to Newgate for trial.