The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-28 00:00:00

P OLICE.-YESTERDAT.

GUILD H ALL.—ASSAOLT ON THE Poi.' ca.—A nn Elliot,
was charged with violently assaulting several ;police officers.
A constable said that about a quarter to It o'clock the
previous ev Mug, he saw the prisoner and a gentleman
getting out of a cab in Finsbury-place, South, when there
arose a dispute as to the fare, and they refused to pay the
cabman. Tte gentleman will intoxicated, but the prisoner
was not, and they ammenced rolling about the street and
created a great crowd. He went up to take the gentleman
to the station house, but the prisoner clung so closely to him
that he was compelled to call the wigwam of another offi-
cer, upon which she attacked him in a most violent way and
scratched his face. A third officer arrived whom she served
after the same fashion, and fought so desperately that it
took five officers to carry her to the station house.
Constable 115 said, he came to the assistance of the last
witness, when he saw • crowd of about 200 persona. The
gentleman and prisoner were on the ground, and she swore
he should not go to the station. He tried to part them,
when she flew at him, gave him a tremeadeus blow on the
nose, which made it bleed for nesrly half an hour afterwards,
and then scratched his face. Another officer then came up,
when she said, that if she must go she would have • fight for
it ; and she then attacked the other constable.
A man here supped forward, and said that he was the
prisoner's husband, and he was sorry to see her in such •
position. The fact was, that if she took a little drink she
became like a mad woman. She had never been in trouble
before.

A constable said, he believed the man who said he was her
husband, and his friend who was in court, were nothing
but bullies. They had been el the morning trying to bribe
him and his brother officers to suppress their evidence.
The prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
On hearing the lenience she screamed violently, and was
taken from the bar by main force. On the husband protasis-
hi; that she should not again be guilty of a similar offence,
the sentence war commuted to a fine of 40e.

BO W-STREET.—ALLIGED EILIBIZZLIMINT.—H. E.
Russell, described as a clerk, was charged with embezzling
money received by him on amount of the governors and
direct= of the Westminster Fire-office, in whose ferric* he
haC been for several years. It was stated that the prisoner's
de&lcatioas amounted to 8001.—Mr. R. Hughes said that on
the 29th January last he called at the Westminster Fire-
office, where he paid the prisoner 61. as insurance
money, and
got om him the receipt produced —Mr. W. M. Browne,
secretary to the directors of the Westminster Fire-office,
stated that the prisoner was in the service of the company on
the day mentioned by the last witness, and it was his duty
to receive money on account of the company. The pinta'
form produced was used ao a receipt for money, but the
counteifoil in the book relating to the sum in question was
filled up with another name In the handwriting of the sans
person who pawed the receipt. The prisoner should have
entered the amount in the books, but on examining them no
sun item could be found. The prisoner left the establish-
ment on the 7th February, and on the suite day witness
received the letter produced, which, however, bore no date :
Bir,—l must confess to you that I been =fortunate enough to
do that which Is wrong, and that my account is ear considerably
intsus. I will give you an explanation tomorrow morning, but to-
day it is =pashas. I hope, in consequence of my long, and I may
add fora long tline, faithful services, that the =teens. In oonaltiera.
Wm of my family, and ciicumstanoes unknown to them, will be as
leek= an p00h... I may also add, that nobody is impikabed in this
matter but myself.
The letter was in the prisoner's handwriting, and had his
name attached to it.
Mr. Humphries, for the prosecution, sail that for the pre-
sent he should not offer any farther evidence, and applied
that the prisoner might be remanded.—Mr. Rowlett, a
solicitor, who attended for the prisoner, applied that the do-
cuments found upon him might be restored, which was
refused ; and the prisoner was remanded.
CMAROn Or HONIIIIIT AGAINST • LETTIR•CARRIER.-
8, Penton-street, Pentonville, Feb. 27, 1849.-81R,—In
your journal of this day, I have permed a police report, in
which the name of " George Hilton" is introduced, under a
charge of robbery as a letter-carrier. I have a brother, a
letter carrier in the General Post-office, but he has never
been charged with any offence whatever. The false report
hes caused me much annoyance, and I trust to your sense of
justice to rectify it.—l am, sir, &C., DAVID HILTON, News.
vender.--_ -

--CaRKENWELL.—Sanctus AFT/LAT.—J. Carroll,
whom head was much disfigured with contusions and blood,
was charged with being concerned in an affray which took
place on 3lenday night between the Irish residing in the
neighbourhood of Saffron-hill—A police-constable said that
on the night in question, being on duty in Cow crow, he
beard a great noise of yelling and shouting, and found an
assemblage of about 140 or 150 Irish fighting together.
Having obtained the aid of several brother officers, they dis-
perse.' the mob all r much difficulty and risk, and witness,
with the other constables, proceeded on their beats, from
which, however, they were again speedily drawn to the same
scene of action, when they disowned a number of persons
lying on the ground bleeding and calling for help, amongst
whom was a man named Donough, who complained that his
leg had been broken This proving to bej the case, he was
removed to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and the accused
having been pointed out as the person who had caused the in-
jury, be was taken into custody. The officer had been to see
,the injured man, and stated that Donoagh exonerated the
prisoner, sad gave information implicating other parties.—
r. Combs immediately discharged the accused, and ordered
the officer to act on the particulars he had obtained.
MARTLEBONE...-UNAROI OF CIIILDDICRDZIL—EIisa
Mitcha was charged with murdering her female infant
The evidence brought forward on the first occasion by Berg.
Meelesday was that information weecommuilleated to the
polies with regard to a robbery committed at the bows of
Mn. &show Lodge Ville, St. John's-wood, and with whom
Mitchell lived as servant. He repaired to the residence of
the lays
_from whom he learnt that Mitchell was suspected
as OW Shia He searched her box, and in it found some of
the stolen articles and a quantity of baby linen which had
evidently been warn. Mrs. Ballow told wither that she
had a character from her (Mitchell's) sister, from whom she
had understood that Mitchell was a married woman and the
mother of a child. Hockaday questioned Mitchell as to
where the child was, when she alleged that she had given it to

the motherof B.Maisey, coachman to Mr.lierne of Long. acre
Oa being further pressed the prismer burst into tears, and
said what she had stated about the matter was not true,for it
we. Many to whom she gave the child. Hcckaday went
to Mr. Hume's, where he saw Maisey, who denied the
truth of the young woman's statement, and he went with-
out hesitation to Mrs. Benbeees with the officer. On his
arrival there, Mitchell repeated that eke bad given the
infant to him. It was further shown that the parties had
lived together as servants at Mr. Horne's private residence,
in Maids-vale, where the intimacy took place between
them, which resulted in the birth of a child. They had
taken lodgings sa man and wife. They temaised there till
30th Dec., the infant having been taken oat by Mitchell on
29th, she alleging on her return that ate had left it with
some one who would see that it was properly suckled and
nursed.

Eden Dimock, servant t 3 Mr. Newtan, Holland.cottage,
Kensington, deposed that on the night of the 2dth December,
she saw a female, whom she believed to be the prisoner,
standing at the garden.gate with an infant in her arms.
Twenty minutes afterwards she heard a child cry, and
found an infant lying on the gravel path ; it was very cold
and was screamiag. She took it to the station-house.—
The idc•itity of the child was established beyond a doubt
with retard to marks upon its person and the apparel in
which it was elad.—Maisey, who had been required to
sam consequence of Mitchell's statement, was dis-
charged, on his promising to attend nest Tuesday, until
which day the prisoner Mitchell stands remanded.