The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

lu...corder, Alderman Wilson, and Sir C. Marshall, the'
Shen., DePutY-Sherial' dc. There are 165 prisoners for
trial at :he present session, 133 men and 31 women. The
addressed his charge to the grand jury,
of Byron surrendered to take his trial upon
him with obtaining 201. from
means of false pretences.
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The prosecutrix, • maiden laq, residing in Connaught-
terrace, Edgeware-road, saw an advertisemeut in the Times,
in which the advertiser was represented to be in want of 201.
for fourteen days, and was willing te give a bonus of 51. for
the acceu:modation, and to deposit secunurity,
of whi9olh c was
the
scribed as ac 0 not bulky," to die amours . for
repayment. yoeeentria answered the advertisement,
and the prisoner called qou!ter, and after some conversation
tea, which he represented to
he produced several warrants Pus
a pound, and upon
be young hyson, and worth six sh9ling7
his depositing these documents, and Orl a promissory
his
note for 261., payable in fourteen days, the
advanced him 201. The bill was not paid when it a. .rived7s
at m;:turity, and, upon further inquiry being made, it turtle..
out that the article to which the warrants referred was
worthless rubbish, and instead of being green tea it was
black, which had been coloured berets its exportation from
China, so as to resemble the; description of article. It
answer to questions put by Mr. Ballantine, it was admitted
'that the tea was in the same state in which it was sent from
Chins, and that the warrants for tea were very commonly
negotiable among brokers and other persons, and it also
appeared that upon one occasion the tea in question had been
put up to public sale, and had found a purchaser.—Mr. Bal.
lantine, on behalf of the defendant, argued that there was
no proof of fraudulent knowledge on his part with
regard to the teas.—The Recorder having summed up,
the jury almost immediately. returned a verdict of
Guilty.—There was another indictment against the
prisoner for a second offence of a similar character, but
it was not gone into.—The officer who apprehended the
defendant said he found in his possession several " duffer's"
watches, and also a 201. note.—The Recorder said that all
the property had better be placed for the present in the
hands of the Sheriffs, who would, no doubt, do what was
right in the matter.

POLICE .-YESTERDAY. ETERDAY.
MANSION-HOUSE.—Ronutso.—Edicard
Thomas Thompson, and Robert Chulme, were charged
with having robbed John Smith, a labourer of Porto-
bello, near Edinburgh, of 1701. in bank-notes. —John
Smith, who had been sent for to Scotland by the Lord
Mayor to give evidence, stated that he, on his way to
Bedford4quare, fell in with the prisoners, one of whom pre-
tended to be a stranger in London, when the other tendered
his services to show them some of the town. They all then
repaired to Gray's-inn Coll', c.house. He afterwards left to
go to Smith, Payne, and Smiths' banking-house, Lombard-
street, where he received on a cheque the sum of 1701. in 17
101. notes. He met the party whom he at first met with,
and whom he understood to be a Captain Harvey, in
company with Billington, and they all went to a beer-shop in
Holborn, where the following occurrences took place : —After
they had had something to drink, the prisoner, Billington, on
leaving the room, saying that he wanted to see his lawyer,
took from his pocket his pocket-book, and laid it on the
table, as Captain Harvey said something about his not stop-
ping, and he said there were bank-notes in it to the amount
of 5001. and bills. He stopped away about ten minutes, and
on hi. return again, said he had not seen his lawyer. Cap-
tain Harvey then said he would go and get a stamp for the
1001. which Billington offered to lend him, and he placed
his pocket-book, as a security for his return, upon the table.
The captain then went out, but he came back in,tantly and
beckoned to me, and, as I was going to him, Billington said
to me, " Why do you not do as Harvey has done, leave your
pocket-book on the table, as a security for your return ?" and
so I laid my. pocket-book upon the table, and we left Billing-
ton alone in the room.—The Lord Mayor : And all your
money was in your pocket-book?—The prosecutor: The
whole of the seventeen 10/. notes were in it. When Cap-
tain Harvey and I got about thirty or forty yards down the
street, I declined going any. further, but he wished me to go
further for a stamped receipt. I returned, and there was
no person in the room, and my pocket-book was gone. The
people at the bar said the person t left in the room must
have gone out at the back door, and I then gave information
to the police.—The prisoners were ultimately remanded till
Friday next, when other charges will, it is supposed, be
brought against them.

BOW-STREET.—Asaarur ON A SHERIFF'S BAILIFF.
—Mr. Richard Martin, who is connected with the Sun
newspaper, and is a member of the Irish bar, was re-exa-
mined upon a charge of having violently assaulted a sheriff's
officer named Alexander Dolby. In .1 uly.the complainant
went to the Sun office to arrest Mr. Martin upon a writ of
ca. sa. for 1201. He made use of the name of Martin, which
brought down Mr. Martin. He seized him by the coat : the
defendant tore away, followed by the complainant, and he
then struck him a violent blow with a stick, which rendered
him insensible, and he was confined for some time to the
house.—Mr. Bartlett, a surgeon, of Chancery-lane, who at-
tenden the complainant, described the serious nature of the
injury inflicted by the blow.—P. C. Thompson, of the
division, apprehended the defendant in Pump-court, Temple,
after some resistance and an attempt to make his escape.
He arrested him on a judge's warrant.—Mr. Clarkson would
not attempt to defend so serious a charge then, but merely
applied to Mr. Henry to admit his client to good and sub-
stantial bail.—Mr. Henry refused, but committed him to
Newgate to take his trial at the sessions ; and also refined an
application made by Mr. Hobler, the defendant's solicitor,
that he might be sent to Newgate in a cab.
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MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Charles Benson
Breary, a medical gentleman, living at 73, Great Portland-
street, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick, for an assault
on Thomas Road.—The complainant said he had two sub-
pmnas to serve on the defendant's brother, who lived at 73,
Great Portland-street. On the 16th instant he went to the
defendant's house, and on knocking at the door was admitted.
Having reason to believe that the party whom ho was in
search of was in the house, he went up stairs to the first floor,
and opened a door, which he rimed immediately, on dis-
covering that it was a bed-room. Complainant opened the
drawing-room door, but seeing two ladies in the room, he
apologised, and was going down stairs, when the defendant
suddenly rushed at -him, seized him by the collar, and
threatened to kick him down stairs. The defendant then at-
tempted to force him down stairs, and in the struggle usedmuch
violence, and hest one of his hands. Complainant told his ha
was a process server, and had two subpeenas to sera on his
brother. Complainant produced the copy and the original, to
show that he had authority for his proceedings. The defen-
dant, however, continued his attempts to forth him down
stairs, and called to his servant to fetch a polies constable.
Tho defendant ultimately left him, and went out of the house I
to get, as he said, the assistance of the police. Complainant
waited in the hall for about ten minutes, but finding no one
come he left the house.—Mr. Breary, in defence, said the
complainant was told that his brother was not within.
I Without mentioning his business, he said he would go into
1 every room in the house to satisfy himself; and he ran up
stairs and opened the door of more than one room. Defeo-
dant went after him, and insisted on his quitting the house
instantly, as he had an invalid patient under his care, who I
would be inconvenienced by his conduct. Asthe complainant
took upon him to open the doors of rooms in his house, he
(defendant) conceived he had a just right to prevent such an
intrusion, and he certainly did lay hold of complain-
ant's collar to move him down stairs, but without
striking or otherwise assaulting the complainant. He
(defendant) wished to know whether the complainant was
authorised to enter his house and search over it, on the
plea that he was serving a legal proems ? Indeed,
his opinion of the affair was that he was the aggrieved party,
and that he ought to have sought for redress by law against
the complainant.—The complainant's witness proved that
the defendant used considerable violence towards the com-
plainant —The defendant's witness said,
thet complainant
was told that Mr. Edward Breary was not omo ; but he
would not pay attention to this denial, and he made his way
up stairs.—Mr. Humphries said a small fine would meet the
justice of the case.—Mr. Hardwick thought that too muck
violence had been used by the defendant. The complainant,
however, was not free from blame in his proceedings, he
having adopted a course likely to produce irritation. As
more than justifiable violence had been used, he should
inflict a fine of 205., and cons.
CLETHEENWELL.ATTUEPTED MURDER AT DUNG,
Tex.—Yesterday, George Wilmot alias George Smith, was
brought before Mr. Greenwood for further examination,
charged with having attempted to murder Mrs. Susanna
Haines, the wife of Mr. Jcmes Haines, plumber and glazier, ,
of Paradise-terrer, Liverpool-road, Islington. The woman '
is still tOO ai to gyre evidence in court, and the prisoner was
again remanded for a week.
OUTRAGE DY A BROX/M.—About three o'clock in the
afternoon the inhabitants and passengers in the neighbour-
hood of this court were attracted by crowds of persons fol-
lowing an elderly man wearing a military cloak, covered with
flour, his face blackened with soot, and his hat broken es if
it had received a good " bonnetting." He was laughed at
and hooted all through Frederick-street, Bagnigge Wells-
road, until he received the protection of Cole, 200 N, Bing-
ham, BO G, and 13aymin, 76 E, who kept the mob back, and
the motley victim rushed into the court in a state of great
excitement, and begged the advice and assistance of the
magistrate, as he
was been outraged and nearly murdered.
Applicant's of
WU covered with blood and bruises,
but the soot was so thick upon him that they could not be
seen. He said that he had employed a broker uponyjun.roaa to collect, and he (applicant) had called him
repeatedly fora considerable sum of money which he had
collected, but he was always " put off." He called again
that afternoon, when the broker collared him, dragged him,
and beat him about the face and bead until he thought he
I would have killed him. He called to his assistance four men,
1 who also ill-used him, and with flour or whitening powdered
nearly smothered him, and not satisfied with this they black-
ened his face over with soot. They then beat his hat over
1 his eves, and in that state bundled him into the street to be
hooted and hunted by crowds of low blackguards. He
mentioned who the broker was, but he did not know his
1 men. Mr. Greenwood immediately granted a warrant.
LAMBETH.—Ax ax-Poucnetax CHARGiID WITH AB-
Ducnow.—J. Grant, late a policeman belonging to the P
division, was put to the bar before Mr. Elliott on a charge el
abduction.—Mr. Games, who attended for the prosecution,
said that in the month of January last the prisoner,
then a policeman, was in custody upon the present charge,
but kid managed to effect his escape. An application was
subsequently made to Mr. Henry, at this court, and a war-
rant was granted for the prisoner's apprehension ; but the
prisoner managed to elude the vigilance of the police until
the night before, when he was taken into custody. It was
not his (Mr. Games's) wish to go into the case beyond show-
ing sufficient grounds for the prisoner's remand to a future
and should therefore content himself by
Omerely requeet-
ut wrirrant 1•12