The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

LAIII3ETH.
ROBBERY AT ♦ RAILWAY STATION.

Richard Barrington, alias Edward Leicester, aged 17, •
notorious thief, who has been frequently convicted of felony,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott on • charge of
breaking into the booking-office at the Annerly station, and
stealing therein a sixpence and other moneys belonging to
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company.
William Street, • porter in the company's mania., sta-
tioned at Annerly, said that on the day before while walking
along the station he heard a noise in the opposite or down
line booking-office like the breaking open of • door, and
on going over saw the bookingeffice door had been
broken open. On entering the office he found the prisoner
behind the counter where the clock generally stood, with a
hammer in his hand, and near the till, which was
open rand empty. The prisoner instantly dropped the
hammer, and he laid bold of him and took him to the sta-
tion-master's-office. On the way there the prisoner dropped
something, and taking a sixpence and five-pence halfpenny
in copper from his pocket said ' That's all the —money
I had out of the till" A little further on he said, "Ns •
lucky job for you my mate ran away, or else you would not
have come out of the office alive." The hammer produced
is the same the prisoner had in his hand.
Police-constable Robert Webb said the prisoner was gives
into his custody, when he acknowledged that 6d. and bid. was
all he found in or took from the office. He also said that if
he had known there was only so small a sum there he should
sot have thought of breaking open • door for it, and when
asked it the hammer found on him was the instrument he
used in breaking open the door, he replied " No, that's not
the sort of tool I work with." Witness found on the pri-
mmer 4s. 2d., besides the Hid. The prisoner had been
convicted at the Middlesex Sessions in June, 1861, for
tinning away with • suit of livery and a N. note be had been
sent to get changed by his master, and having been pre-
viously convicted of felony was sentenced to four months'
hard labour. He had also been convicted siuee then
for felony, and wee • notorious thief.
Mr. William Smith, the station-master, said he had been
in the booking-office about half-an-hoar before the prisoner
was found there, and locked the door on leaving. At that
time there was but • small sum of money in the till.
The prisoner, who offered nothing in defence, was fully
committed for rial at the next Surrey Sessions.

WANDSWORTH.
THE SHOOTING CADIC IN BATITIUMA FIELDS.-RECOVZRY OF

T 9/ WOUNDED NAN.

who;;I;;;
George Robert % y,a in custody since the
Bth of September ou a charge of wilfully shooting Henry
Cook, a grocer, with a pistol, with intent to murder, at No.
1, Thoresby-place, Battersea-fields, was again brought before
Mr. Ingham, for re-examination.
The following medical certificate was handed to the
magistrate
• I certify that Mr. H. Cook has much improved, and
will, in all probability, be able to appear at the court in the
course of two or three weeks.—Joan C. RICHARDSON,
police surgeon, dr., Battersea, Oct. 18, 1862."
Inspector Lovelace, who has charge of the case, said that
he saw Mr. Richardson on Sunday, and he informed him
that he had no doubt the 'roundel man would be able to
appear at the court. He (Cook) was able to be downstairs, to
the surprise of everybody.
Mr. Ingham supposed the wounded man would be able to
attend in a week or two.

Inspector Lovelace said in a fortnight.
Mr. Ingham said the prisoner most be remanded for ano-
ther week.
The prisoner, who made no observations, was then re-
moved to the cells.

GREAT WESTERN OP CANADA.-(THIS DAY.)

This day the half-yearly meeting of shareholders
was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. FIRAD in the chair.
The abstract of the report has beau already published.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
mid that there was n considerable increase in the gcods
truffle. The y ^nl( r bat& was not quite so satisfactory,
but on th- •••• the state of affairs was gond, although
they mi.;lit • radar, the dividend was so. At the same
time, —• • .1 them that the lj per cent. dividend
for the Ise,. year had been honestly earned. The sum ac-
tually expended for renewals and maintenance was up to
the 31st July, 1862, 2841. per mile. That might appear a
large sum, but the expenditure on the great lines in Eng-
land was 3051. per mile. The opinion of the majority at um
board was that they should not charge posterity for pest me
and tear, but that it should be charged to current revenue.
if, howeser, the opinion of the shareholders was different
from that of the majority of the board, they would give
effect to that opinion. (Hear, hear.) The receipts of the
Detroit and Milwaukee line had increased satisfactorily. He
did not believe there was any real divergenoe of in-
terest between the bondholders themselves. Their object
was to increme the amount of traffic, out of the premeds of
which they would first pay the interest due to the bondholders,
and then pay the interest due to them. He believed that a
recourse to law proceeding. would not prove satisfactory
to either party. He suggested that a committee should be
appointed to consider Ws subject. With regard to the dis-
pute between them and the Commercial Bank, they must
wait for the judgment of the court before they could take
any further action in the matter. He believed they were
fortunate is having a gentleman of so much experience aa
Mr. Swinyard as their new manager. There was a differ-
ence of opinion as to whether Mr. Swinyard should have
a seat on the Canadian board. He differed from his col-
leagues on that point.
After some further remarks, the chairman moved the
adoption of the report.
Mr. O. Semi, in a brief speech, proposed an amendment
to the adoption of the report to the effect that the dividend
should be increased from lj per cent. to 3 per cent. per
annum. He said he proposed this amendment upon the
suggestion made by the chairman that there was a differ-
ence of opinion in the beard as to what the dividend should
be, and that it was entirely a question with the shareholders
whether the dividend should be so increased.
Mr. GIBSON seconded the amendment, after which a
lengthened discussion arose involving a considerable amount
of personal explanation with regard to Mr. Lance, one of
the auditors,having written explanations of his conduct to a
elms paper.
The amendment and resolutions were then about to be
submitted by the chair, when a long discussion ensued, in
which it was suggested that the amendment should be with-
drawn, and Mr. Sums said the principle that the dividend
should be increased being agreed upon, he would withdraw
his resolution.
The report was then unanimously adopted.

THE BIRKENHEAD RIOTS.

A MODEL PRIEST.

The following extraordinary letter from a Roman
catholic priest at Birkenhead appears in the Liverpool
Illemirp of to-day :

"TO THZ II;ITOZZ OF THZ LINTS/VOL UZZCORT.
"Gentlemen,—ln the Mercury of this day I god an
account of • meeting held respecting the late riot in
Birkenhead. At that meeting wan read a letter
containing an imaginary speech by me. Am usual
in such cases, the writer does not give his earns ;
but • certain Joseph Bay}.s vouches that be is a credible
and respectable person. Perhaps he is the same very re-
epectable and very credible person who has set it abroad in
the town that he saw Canon Chapman (who was more than
50 miles from Birkenhead at the tame) inciting the crowd to
break the window,, Ice. Whoever this anonymous calumniator
may be, I unhesitatingly state that no such speech was made
by me, nor by Father Golden, nor by any other priest,
and the writer of that letter must indeed have long ears to
have heard what never was uttered. I did tell the people
to go borne, and I did all Garibaldi • blackguard—l may
have called him a viper, though I do not think I did. It
is a name which is more applicable to that ungrateful man
who rushed to the priests to seek their aid to save his win-
dows and slandered them afterward; because at personal
inconvenience and risk they had saved the town from riot
and bloodshed.

" I did not even know that this famous meeting of •
debating society was going to be held until the RPV. J. T.
Bayles, son of Dr. Bayles, arrived at St. Werburg's Priests'
House, and beuged me to go to the scene of the commotion
and try to quell it. At great inconvenience to myself I left
the class I was instructing at the time, and hurried to
Trinity Church, where I used my utmost endeavours to
qnieten the justly-excited catholic..., and succeeded with
Father Golden in dispersing them and preventing further
destruction of property.
" Though repudiating the speech put into my mouth by
this very credible person, I wish it to be perfectly under-
stood that I do cot by any means lay the blame of this row
on the catholice.

" If misguided fanatics choose to call a meeting by large
orange-ooloured placards headed 'Sympathy with Gari-
baldi 'in the very eentre of at least 15,000 catholic., they
must take the coosequences and be answerable for them.
" They say they will bold another meeting. Let them do
as they like. I promise them in the name of myself and my
colleagues that we will not again act policemen, but those
who raise the storm may allay it.—Yours most obediently,
" ROBIRT WRIGHT BIiCNDIUT, M.A.
" St. Warburg's, Birkenhead, Oat. 14, 1882."

GARIBALDIAN MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL.--TWO
aati-popery and Otribaldiau meetings were held lad sem-
hag in Liverpool—one at the Collegiate Institute. where
Gavazsi lectured to some 3,000 persons, who crowded the
building in every part ; and the other in Hope Hall, where a
*umber of persons, chiefly Orangemen, were addressed on
the subject of civil rights and freedom of discussion. A
large police force wee in readiness to prevent a breach of
the peens, but fortunately their services were not required.
A row is expected, however, in Birkenhead tomorrow
night, when the " Parli imentary Debating" Society are de-
termined to bold their meeting, which wee stopped by the
mob last week.

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