The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-12 00:00:00

charged with detaining a bill of exchange of 5001. alleged
to have been given to him to get discounied.—The com-
plainant, Mr. W. Clarke, an inmate of the Queen's Bench,
stated that on the let of April, being in want of ready money,
he applied to the prisoner on the subject, and it was arranged
that he should give that person his acceptance fur 5001., which
the prisoner promised to get discounted, and to hand him
over the money. Having waited for some days the prisoner
sent a Rote, stating that he should either obtain the money
at once for complainant, or deliver up plemasion of the 5001
bill of exchange. He had not done either, and complainant
found that the prisoner had negotiated the bill.—A clerk to
the complainant's attorney stated that the bill in question
was now in the hands of a tradesman named Hart, in Re-
' gent-street—that witness's employer had received instruc-
none to defend an action now pending at the Bristol Arsizes
relative to the bill in question.—The accused admitted that
he received the 5001. bill to get discounted, but that it mss
given for the express purpose of renewing another acceptance
of the complainant's, which was not paid when due. This
he had a letter to prove. He had had transactions with the
complainant to the amount of 3,6001.—The complainant
declared that the accused had awned a falsehood in saying
that he was concerned with him in money transactions
to the amount of 3,6001. He only had had one previous
transaction with him—Mr. Cottingham said that the note
produced showed that the accused promised in it either to
send the money for the bill, or the bill itself, if he
could not get it discounted. This wanted explanation.
—The accused said that the complainant wrote a letter
authorising his solicitor, Mr. Maws, to retain any money in
band belonging to him, in order to meet payment t f the
bill in question when it became due.—The complainant,
however, denied that he had given any such authority.—
Another clerk of the complainant's solicitor was called to
prove the prisoner's allegation, and, in giving his evidence,
he said that the letter in question was either lost or
mislaid, but that which the accused had asserted was
the purport of it. The witness added that he had also
been informed that the parties bad extensive transac-
tions with one another in bill discounting.—Mr. Cot-
tinithem said that what had just been stated gave a
different complexion to the case ; that instead of eating on
the accused to find surety he should adjudge him to enter
into his own recognisance of 1,0001. to appear at that court
on Wednesday next, two days after the next sessions com-
menced, and in the interim the complainant could indict
him if he thought proper.
STEALING DRESSED SKINS, Edward Keefe was
charged with being concerned in breaking into the pre-
mises of Mr. Jenkins, a skin merchant at Bermondsey, and
stealing upward of 3001. worth of dressed skins. The com-
plainant's warehouse was broken into about a month since,
and plundered of dressed skins to the above amount. Shortly
after the robbery some of the eking were traced is the pos-
session of a tradesman in Bermondsey, who was taken into
custody. He gave such information as led to the apprehen.
Lion of two men, who have since been convicted and sen-
tenced to transportation, and as it appeared that he was
exonerated from the charge of knowingly purchasing the
stolen articles, he was discharged. In the course of the in-
vestigation it turned out that besides the two men already
convicted another man was also concerned in the offence.
Evidence was now adduced to prove that the prisoner was
the man who drove the cart containing the plunder from the
complainant's premises. He was also observed lurking
about the neighbourhood in the vicinity of the complainant's
premises the night they were broken into.—The prisoner
was committed.
LAMBETH. ROBBERY BY • SOLDIER.— IVilliam
Cullamore, a private in the Grenadier Guards, was charged
with robbing a Mr. Gibson. On the preceding evening Mr.
Gibson had been drinking with the prisoner, who afterwards
proposed that they should go to Aatley's Theatre. They
get into a cab, and when the vehicle approached the theatre
a man, who was on the box with the driver, leaned back
and saw the prisoner with his hands in the pocket of the
prosecutor. A policeman was called, and the prosecutor,
who was rather tipsy, being aroused, found that he had been
robbed of nearly 21. The prisoner denied the robbery, and
said he had not more that a few pence about him, but on
being searched 11. 9s. lOil. was found on him.—The sergeant
of the company to which the prisoner belongs gave him a
very bad character, and said he had been frequently
punished for petty theft in the regiment.—The prisoner was
remanded.
THAMES.—OVERCROWDING STEAMERS ON THE RIVER.
—Three captains of steam-vessels belonging to the incor-
porated Blaekvrall and Star Companies attended to answer
summonses issued at the instance of the Wateriness Com-
pany, for an infringement of a by-law made under the
company's act, for having navigated certain steamers be.
tween Windsor and Yantlett-creek, the said steamers not
being licensed boats. The proceedings were instituted at the
instance of the Lord Mayor, communicated through Mr.
floodman, the chief clerk at the Mansion-house, in conse-
quence of the innumerable complaints made to Ilia lordship
concerning the overcrowding of the river steamers, as, if the
captains were compelled to take out a license, such license
would specify tke number of passengers they were severally
entitled to carry. The first ease gone into, and which
governed the rest, was a summons against Captain Stephen
:Main, master of the Brunswick steamer, one of the
Gravesend boats, for that he being a freeman of the Water-
men's Company had navigated that vessel from Blackwell
to Gravesend, the said steamer not being a licensed
boat, having thereby incurred a penalty not exceeding 51.
The case having been proved, Mr. Joseph Manyon, chief
clerk of the Watermen's Company, proved that the defend-
ant had been admitted a freeman of the company on the 3rd
of October, 1815. Re then read the by-law constituting
the enactment before specified, providing that it should be
illegal for freemen to navigate unlicensed boats, and that the
license should mention the number of passengers they were
entitled to carry, aced that such licenses should be granted on
the payment of a fee of Is.—Mr. Cooper, the solicitor for
the prosecution, stated that the object was not so much the
recovery of a penalty, as, if possible, to put a stop to the
present highly dangerous system of overcrowding the boats.—
Mr. Yardley was clearly of opinion that the law had been
violated. As a high penalty, however, was not sought, he
should inflict the minimum fine of 40s.—Similar charges
were then preferred against, and the same fines inflicted on,
Thomas Holten, master of the Satellite, and Wm. Joh?, Pa-
tient, master of the Railway.—Mr. Catterns gave notice of
appeal ; and, as the Police Act does not allow of an appeal
where a fine' of less than 31. is inflicted, by consent of all
parties the fines were ultimately fixed at 31. Is. each. It
appeared that no less than 40 similar summonses had been
taken out by the Watermen's Company.
WOOLWICH.—DESITITETE CONDITION OP SOLDIERS'
Wives.—Sarah Anne Buckley, the wife of a 'runner of the
Royal Regiment of Artillery stationed at Gibraltar, was
charged with stealing several articles from her lodgings,
which she had left without notice. The case was clearly
proved.—The Prisoner, who stood crying during the hear-
mg, with an infant in her arms, admitted pledging the arti-
cles, being driven to do so from want, having received no
remittance from her husband since be left Woolwich for
Gibraltar, and she could find no means of going out to him.
—Mr. Jeremy said that was no excuse. She should have
applied to the relieving officer. She must pay a fine of 205.,
or go to prison for 14 days.—Mr. and Mrs. Oleneston, the
persons she had robbed, paid the fine, and added some other
relief, they having only given information of the robbery to
SITS the woman from starvation.