The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-16 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

M ARMOR -HO USE.
George 1111 son was charged with having fraudulently
made use of a certificate of character not belonging to him.
The Quarter-Master cf the Naval Rendezvous, Tower-
hill, said—On Tuesday, the prisoner came to me at the
office and told rue he wished to join the navy. I asked him
whether he had ever been to sea. He replied, " Yes, in
the Electra." I then asked him where he had been since
he had been paid off. He mid, "On shore." He then,
at my request, produced his papers. They eansisted or
the document now handed in. (Here the witness produced
/the certificate, which appeared to belong to apereon named
Ilulip, whom it represented to be a man of very good
character.) The prisoner's appearance not at all corre-
sponding with the description in the certificate, aid not re-
sembling that of a seaman, I put a few questions to him
about the service and other matters, and found that he was
a regular impostor. I then reported him to the command-
ing-officer, who directed me to take him to Mr. Colemac,
of the office of the Registrar General for Seamen. The pri-
soner contrived to give me the slip on the way, but was ap-
prehended by an officer in Eastcheap.
The Lord Mayor asked what might hays been the con-
sequence if the prisoner had succeeded ?
Mr. Coleman—He might have been employed as a
seamen at wages of 11. 15s. upon tho good character in the
certificate: he having no character at all.
The prisoner said he was a poor labouring man out of
employment, and the certificate belonged to a half-brother
of his.
The Lord Mayor sentenced him to imprisoment for 21

days.
WORSHIP-STREET.
George Snowden, a muter-carpenter in Shaft-street,
Kingsland road, was charged with having cruelly mal-
treated his wife.
The parties had only been married about ten months, but
the wife, a delicate-looking young woman, had been the
victim of en attack of brain fever, caused by ill-usage, and
which nearly cost her her life. The husband induced her
to leave the hospital by promises of better behaviour, but
immediately afterwards resumed his harsh conduct towards
her. Oa the previous afternoon they were visiting at her
father's, and the prisoner, during the absence of her parents,
knocked her down and seriously injured her spine. As be
went away, he ordeved her to bring him hie tobacco boa,
which he had left behind him, but when she went to bun
yesterday for that purpose he stretched her seamless on the
Boor by a blow on the eye.
Prisoner did not deny the charge, but pleaded intoxica-
tion and his wife's alleged violent temper.
Mr. Mammal sentenced him to six months' imprisonment.
WESTMINSTER.
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Eliza Owen, a child only II yealsot age, and Eliza Owes,
her mother, a creditable looking married woman, with s
large family, were charged with uttering base coin.
In consequence of some suspicions entertained by a police
constable, in plain clothes, he watched the younger prisoner
into a baker's shop, in the Vauxhall-bridge-road, yesterday
morning, and saw her endeavour to put toff a counterfeit
shilling. She then returned home, and next went to Mrs.
Piic.e's,
_in the same neigLbourhood, and where she aqain
tendered a spurious shilling. It was, as in the previous
case, detected, and the officer then took the child into cus-
tody, and proceeded to the mother, on whom he found two
other counterfeit shillings, wrapped in tissue paper.
the prisoners were remanded till Monday.
ILARYLEBONE.
William Thomas, a ark-complexioned, well-dreesi

man, who for a long period of years has lamina upon the
nobility and gentry to a considerable extent, was charged
with a fraud upon Mr. T. C. Arbuthnot, 20, Albion-street,
Hyde-park.
Mr. Arbuthnot said, on Thursday morning last, between
nine and tea o'clock, the prisoner came to my house, and
stated to me that he had been residing in India, that he had
lost a fortune through the failure of some parties in Cal-
cutta with whom he had been connected, and that in order

to obtain a maintenance, he wished to set up a school of a
superior kind en Neilgherry Hills, South India, for the in-
, 'traction of the children of servants of the East
Judie Company. He assured me that there was
a necessity for the school, and that he was well
qualified for the task, having been brought up by
one of the most eminent divines in this country. lie
drew from his pocket two papers, upon which were the
names of a number of gentlemen, purporting to be sub-
scribers in sums of different amounts. I gave him a sove-
reign, and at his request signed my name to one of his lists.
He then went away, and shortly after I learnt from some
friends upon whom I caUed and explained to them the cir-
cumstances, that the man I had assisted was an impostor.
I then made known what had transpired to Captain Woad,
the Mendicity Society's officer. I understood that the pri-
soner had previously called at my house, while I was out of
town, saying that he was a friend of mine, and wished to
see me.
The prisoner was remanded.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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Charles Russell was charged with having stolen a quan-
tity of printed works, the property of his employer, Elijah
Tucker, printer, No. 2, Perry's-place, Orford-street.
The prisoner was warehouseman to the prosecutor. Yes-
terday morning his master received some information which
induced him to send for a constable, and to ask the pri-
-1 soner whether be kad recently taken from the premises
any printed works or paper and sold them to isteesemonger
I. the Hampstead-road as waste paper ? The prisoner at
first denied that he had. About a fortnight previously the
prosecutor had missed several copies of a work he had just
printed. and on asking the prisoner where they were, the
prisoner said they had been delivered to the bookbinder.
This was unnamed not to be true.
Police-constable Lockerby said he asked the prisoner if
he knew a Mr. Cook, of the Hampstead-road. The pri-
soner said he did not, but when requested to say. whe-
ther he had sold any paper to • cheesemonger in the
Hampstead-road, be became agitated, end admitted he had
sold waste paper two or three times.
William Cork, cheetemonger, Hampstead-road, said he j
bad several times bought waste paper of the prisoner. I
Some of the paper bought as waste paper was produced,
nd identified by the prosecutor.
The prisoner said nothing in defence, and was fully com-
mitted.
Owen M'Carthy, an old Irishman, was charged by the
parish authorities of St. Martin's with haying been passed
to Ireland and with having again returned to England and
claimed relief of the parish.
It appeared that the prisoner had been twice committed
for the offence, and in defence he stated that the parish
lauthorities in Ireland had sent him back, paying his pas-
sage to England.
Mr. Bingham said, if this were true, it was moat repre-
hensible conduct. He would adjourn the ease, to give
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time to inquire into the matter.
LAMBETH.
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A young man of shabby genteel appearance stated that
he was authorised by the society of hairdressers and bar-
bers to ask the opinion of the magistrate on a matter of
great importance to the trade. Same months since the
members of the association came to a resolution to clone
their shops at two o'clock on Sunday afternoons, but many
of them continued to keep their shops open the whole of
the day. Could he have summonses against them for vier-
lating the act of Charles 11. ?
Mr. Elliott.—Why, by your own confession, you are
equally liable to punishment under the same act, for you
keep your owa shop open until two o'clock.
Applicant.—Yes, sir, that may be very true ; but there
are a number of persons who want waiting upon on the
Sunday morning, so that the thing cannot be avoided ; but
then all the business can be got over before two o'clock,
and therefore the shops might be well closed after that time.
Besides, London is the only proventied town in England
where the shops are kept open after two ; and I have
therefore to ask for summonses against those who are via
biting the law.
Mr. Elliott repeated that the applicant was not in a posi-
tion to proceed against the parties, seeing that he was him-
self an offender.
HAMMERSMITH.
George Thomas Jones, aged 42, who was formerly a police
constable in the P division, was charged by the Rev. R. G.
Baker, the vicar of Fulham, with obtaimag 21. front the
Lord Bishop of London, and 11. from a gentleman named
Hefty, by swans of false representations.
1 The Rev. R. G. Baker stated that in February last the
prisoner applied to him for assistance, as he wished to emi-
grate to Australia with his wife and family. He said he had
no doubt that if his cue was known to the gentry in the
neighbourhood they would assist him in carrying out his
desires. Witness looked over the papers handed to him by
the prisoner, and thiakimq that a case had been made out in
his favour, he recommended the prisoner to the Bishop of
London, who gave him 21., and to several gentlemen who
also contributed to the prisoner's scheme of enabling him to
go out to Australia. The Bishop of London gave the pri-
soner the 21. in May last.
The other cue was also proved; and it was stated in
evidence that the prisoner had left Fulham, but instead of
emigrating had taken a house in Greenwich and sold
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•eeimema.
The prisoner, in defence, said he still intended to

emigrate.
Mr. Beadon said it did not appear from his conduct as if
he intended to go to Australia. He should like to know
more about him, and he should therefore remand him, but
he would accept bail for his &pp° trance.
The prisoner was locked up in default of finding the re-
quired sureties.
A boy named William Jones, employed at the White
Beer .public-house, in Hammersmith, was charged with
cruelly ill-treating a cat.
Police-constable Thomas Blanks said, that about 11
o'clock that morning he was on duty in the Mall on the
side of the river in Hammersmith, when he saw the pi-
' soner throw a cat into the water. The poor creature tried
to get out, but the prisoner prevented it by throwing stones
at it. After struggling for its life for some little time, the
prisoner killed the eat by the stones he threw at it.
The prisoner said a woman gave him the cat to drown.
Mr. Beadon said, that if it were necessary that a cat
should be drowned, a weight should be tied round its
neck.
Bagley, the summoning officer, said the killing of dogs
and cuts as described was quite a COMM= pastime with the
s.
r. Beadon said if any of them were brought before him
be would give them hard, labour without a chance of paying
a line ; tor the pre•cnt case, however, he would inflict a
penalty of 2ds., or 14 days' imprisonment.
The prisoner paid the fine.

TRINITY COLLEGE CHURCH, EDINBERGIL A
motion virtually committing the Town Council to the
restoration of this beautiful relic of Gothic architecture was
paned ow Tuesday lan.—Sconown.