The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-27 00:00:00

CEERKEN WELL.

& man named Jeffrey was charged with being concerned
in the following desperate outrage, ur.d attempt, with
others, to murder police-constable Ilealey. The offence
now detailed took place between 2 and 3 o'clock in the
afternoon of Sunday, when the wounded man saw from GO
to Al thieves, from the ages of 12 to 2.1 gambling and
quarrelling at the back of sense very old almshouses in the
Shepherd and Shepherdess-fields, Islington, belonging to
the Cluthworkers Company, and having unawares pounced
on them single-handed, be was immediately knocked down,
his truncheon was taken from him, and it was handed from
one to anothr rof the vagabonds, and he was beaten with it
and other weapons by them until he was left for dead,
with ltightful wounds on his head and different parts of
his person, and all this was done iu view of numerous per-
suns, who, knowing the villains, dared not interfere, fear-
ful of meeting a similar or a worse fate. Information of
this murderous and unprovoked attack was soon made
known at the district station-house, whither the constable
was soon cuuveyed, and from thence to a hospital, where
he is ut present receiving that assistance which his condition
requires. Only two witnesses have at present been induced
to come forward to give evidence for the prosecution.
They, however, would not undertake to swear that the
prisoner actually struck the sufferer. Tho worthy magis-
trate adjourned the case for a further investigation.
LA.MBETII.__

John Mason, alias Be;;;;;;,iiia;-.11arnet, alias the Per.
W. J. Butler, alias the flee. C. W. Talbot, alias Blind
Johnny, and Jane Farrar, alias AP Ewen, two notorious im-
postors, were placed at the bar for further examination, on
a charge of couepiriog together to defraud various members
of the nubility and gentry.
The pretended rev. scoundrel, it appeared, had succeeded
in obtaining at. from the Dowager Countess of Shaftesbury,
in answer to a letter of " urgent distress " be had sent to
her ladyship. The scamo hail also obtained 21. from Lady
Beater by a moving appeal to her feelings, and represent-
ing himself as the Rev. William John Butler. The pri-
soner, who is a notorious begging.letter impostor, bad, with
the woman, been tried before on a charge of conspiracy to
defraud, by obtaining money undofalse pretences.
The magistrate said he would remand the prisoners, in
order that the case might be completed against them.
During the investigatiou, a letter which had been re-
ceived at the eotlee-.hop, addressed to the Rev. W. J.
Butler, Priory Lodge, Southampton," and re-addressed
"Cheltenham Coffeehouse, Bridge-road, Lambeth," was
handed to the magistrate, who opened it, and found it to
contain a of. note from that benevolent nobleman his Grace
the Duke of Portland.

Elliott at once, and to the evident mortification and
annoyance of the prisoners, handed the letter and its con-
tents to Mr. Ferguson, of the Mendicity Society.

Cornelius Carry, an Lash labourer, living in Green Man-
lane, Poplar, was charged with committing several violent
amanita, and, amongst others, one upon Ellen Quin, a girl
aged 13 years.
On Sunday night last the prisoner had been quarrelling
with and beating his wife, who ran away from him and went
to the house of her father, in Silver Lion-court, Poplar, fur
protection. The prisoner, who was armed with a poker,
went after her, and not being able to gain admittance to
the house, he smashed every pane of glass in front of it,
and shivered the door into a thousand pieces. The row be-
came generslamong the Irish in the court, and the prisoner,
who was mad drunk, laid about him with a poker, and
after knocking down his father-in-law, pursued his wife's
brother, an 1 made a blow at him, which fell on a girl
named Quin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Quin,
very respectable people, who keep the Silver Lion,
public-house, in Poplar, adjoining the court. Tho girl,
who had given him no offence, sail, " Don't you know me,
Mr. Carey?—it's Ellen Quin;" on which he inflicted
another tremendous blow on her head with a poker whisk
felled her to the ground, and he then commenced 'Lain!
her. Some persons went to her rescue, and the fellow lai
about him iu all directions with the poker, and meeting •
youth named James Cannily, he attacked him with great
fury, and, after dislodging some of his teeth with the poker,
he fastened his teeth upon Conolly's cheek, and bit him
severel
Mr. Yardley said it was not the prisoner's fault that he
had not committed murder, and his conduct was more like
that of • savage than anything else. Several persons had
been wounded ; a lad had suffered severely by the prisoner
biting him, and an inoffensive girl had been seriously in-
jured. Ile would give the prisoner time to reflect on his
evil conduct by fining him SL, and in default of payment
sentencing him to be imprisoned iu the House of COMX•
don for two months.
The prisoner was committed.

PICTORIAL LIBEL ON FATHER OAVAEZI.—We un-
derstand that Father Gavezzi has been advised to enter an
action for libel against some Newcastle and Sunderland
newspapers, which have pablished, as his portrait, impres•
skim from old stock woodcuts that they had on hand, of
the criminal. Archibald Bolus mad Patnck Forbes.—Shields
Gesette.