The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-02 00:00:00

WOU4EP-81'RETST„

P. 3. Moats, pi.— wabrol;r,Oliiiiitocbepel•road, was
summosed for refassag to deliver up a carpet pledged by
Mary Ana fitephems, the wife of a shoemaker.
The carpet in question bad, ca the demand of the husband
to deliver it up, bees, r It was supposed, legally delivered
vwcsoWhed—tordivr..l.4tho; prbaleci I se. clly at:LAI:MS=
the same day, and had made • dechestiou that she bad lost
the Meet.
Yr. Ceche, the magistrate, commented as the azbaor-
diaary circumetanse that two peruse of the suss ma*
should pledge a carpet of precisely the moo patient au the
same day. if. hard so doubt bat that the complainant's
=had bent delivered to the pruseater of the deck-
for the other carpet; sad as • pawnbroker was
saswerable for the safe Meru of all goods eotrnsted to him
he wee liable in this car. It was contended that defendsat
was not bah* as the Pawnbroker' Act made it compulsory
on him to deliver the goods pledged to the perms who had
given • proper derniptiom of them aid obtained • swarm
declaration before a magestrato—• clear indemnity to the
pawnbroker.
The magistrate made as order for the return duel carpet
with costs.
Defendant paid 195., vales of the carpet, and 355. Id.
meta The matter had previondy bees before the sessions
without goal decision, sad aa appeal being applied for •
car was granted, but the disputed matter has already cost
&loudest about 401.
THAN E&

Idward 11104, rnastVoi the ship Britein'sMe, wee
charged with brutally ill•usiag mad semulting a lad surd
flamed George Haila at ea
The oomplainent (between 17 sad 18 years of age) jobed
the ship at Barbadoes oa the homeward voyage, and thongh
well-behsved, industrious lad, was frequently Mused and
beaten by the master with his doubled fists, and also tithed I
by him. About a foetal/1M before Christmas he fail from
tee ot the oe to the deck, a depth of eleven fest, sad
waa seriously injered. sad bad to be eared lab the fore-
' wale, where the next monde, the accused punched him
In the ribs and belied him, and sat a dog be had on booed
at him, which bit him severely is the head. Biwa the skip
strived be had bees is the, Lades Hospital, and the,.
were under the arm, and other symptoms of such
s dangerous chancier that it was deemed advisable that be
should be admitted to the hospital again.
A demos was est up that complainant had threateeed
to give the defendant the knife, and that the dog had bit
him la pixy.
Cosonnued for trial. Ball accepted, himself In 1081, and
two sureties of 601. each.

BOY BCROLLIIS.--Thomas James and John
Early, both boys, were osessitted for trial by the Birken-
head wsgistratre on I:Whatley, for haring bonbon into the
office of Mr. Higheeld, an estate agent, is Bridge-street,
Birkenhead, and stolen a otab-box containing flee sorseelgne
and a tank draft for 321. 10s. One of the prisoners bed
been employed to s the oil" and bad noticed wham
be received his wages when Mr. Bightiold planed the cash-
box. The greater portion of the stolen property wig found
la the houses where the boys Bred.

A SPIRIT-CAL HOAX. —During the pant week
(writes • correspondent) placards of • strange abandon
have been posted about the metropolis (Dome of them
havieg bees diked to the notes board of Dr. Cummings
Cbspd in Orown.ootirt) announcing that ea New Year's
Day "Guide Pods to Haves" would be erected in Laois-
ter-square, and contends' invitations to peak to attend
coached la the ant extraordinary and extravagant
tbiuMThe general belief was that they peomeded from
ornamis, who are now actively pursuing their work in
Loodos, with a view to obtaining recruits for their male-
mat by **Great sat Lake, while it was thought in
same gotten that the invitatioce proceeded from the
Primitive Methodists, who professed to hays something
like ow of their camp mortisp in Lobate. Tea o'clock
was the hour appointed for the erection of the " Guide
Pate," sod they were to remain up until 10 o'clock at
night. Accordingly at 10 o'clockyesterday mornings eon.
ei&able number o people wen to he seen Inodoriog about
Leioester-pears in the hops of being enlightened as to the
mature of the " Heide Post," but nothing was to be seen
swept the black desolate space covered with dirt, there
being no appear?, of Mormons, methodists, or other roll-
es teachers or 'porta." Whether or not the police gave
of the intended movement notice that such •
IliFinoete sot be allowed hasnot been ascertained, but
it quite certain that those who repaired to Leioseter-
Nears to receive religious instruction went away again
woefully unedified.
A Boor HANG= BY HIE FATHILII. —The Court of
Ailliiall of the Mamba has lust tried a man named Bouvet,
a smell farmer, residing at Oonlonvray-Bois Beata. on •
charge of having, on the 18th July last, murdered his own
sea Auguste, sired 18. Boast's wife was also charged as
an moomplioe in the crime. It appeared from the indict-
ment and the deposition of the witnesses that about half- ,
past four in the morning of the 18th July the villagers were
alarmed by cries of distrer in • field ear the prisoners'
resideece, and on going to satiertain the cones they found i
Baas and his wife standing near a beseh-tree, from which
the dad body of their eon was anspeeded by the Lech from
• cord wound three times round the trunk, and a strap
round his legs also bound them to the tree. The edemas
pretended that they had just found their ea in that state,
and that be bad either been murdered or had committed
meads. The police, having been informed of the fed,
immediately instituted an inquiry as to the cause of death.
The post-mortem examination "bowed that the deceased
bed received dreadful in in the abdomee and lower
part of the body, appareetly from kicks with wooden shoes.
end the surgeons gave their opinion that the deoeseed had
been strangled while in • elate of insensibility from the
I kicks, and afterwards tied to the tree where be was foetid.
j They also agreed that the crime bad bees committed about
twenty-four hours before. Sapid°e fell on she father, who
I bad on several occasions brutally gl.treated the poor lad,
and they were confirmed by confeedoes of two of the pri-
goners' younger children, who said that their poor brotha
. had been killed by their father. Both the father and mother
were arrested. It was proved
obi withers, that the 1
HARDWA ElL—Blarmammt, Ds o. 31.—Thew
to sot
deosesed w". °6 the morning Qin "glir boos moh business dose here this wash. In same tow io-
ta a barn, making himself • pair of wooden shoes, that is moo:work mem mimed aa the meaudeetraue ea maw
father was heard gamins; with him, and that the latter morning hot ea a rule it has been a ram' holiday,
assn the barn and looked the door soon after. The lad was day
eno more alive. Them vati no doubt that the murder sod in all probability there will act be malt doe* next
week, as many of the maaufacturers will be engaged in
was then committed, sod that the two pelican had re-
moved the body during the following eight. hemmed it to taking stock ; there is, howevr,. a fair quantity of orders
the tree, sod then mimed the alarm to turn aside suspicion is, "Mal" i° keep the wirks steadily reed
s~atil the
from themselves. It was clearly demonstrated that the °"11417 WI" ma's"' la thislastsrgaggig • bell/
lad could not have committed suicide by Imaging himself. amount • been doe* Durteg W whsle year
' The cord and strop which fastened the body to the tree trade bees "'"Yrd lager
were also identified as the male snooper's property. As the *h.," they "1r
ilure _, ._ll.llll Wall till a de°llWithia• /°°,'
' female prisoner had apparently only shied bar hsabsed in dim Is weasel'. with Nos maw-
' ressorlas the body, the jury acquitted hoe bet they forted . `""'"'s """' '" ton bus 6.1.17" "MO" the
pia male prisoner guilty of legioties mortal wanda. thatch Plar.
'Moot go intention to kill% and the Goan accordingly COBN.—Ctns*znal. 3L—The best wheat mods
oeshoserd Wm to sweaty years hard labour, the maximum man doe as dull as peneible.
penithemalt. I Wheat, Ms. to 3Ee ; looney, to 3'20. ; cats 18s. be
ktieworouTAN Heeerret., DIVONIII7II- 122 a. bolas, NIL 368.
' poasr, CITY.—Tbe to number of patted* relieved I 0•AIM". DSO. 31.—There was a moderate 'apply of
daring the week wdieg Des. 31 wee—Madoesl, 878 ; grain in or market this morass. For what last wades
enrsisal, 617 ; total, 1,486 ;of which 808 were sow mos. rates were bluely maistaised. Barley was dell, bed fie
• Oarerm. PeLeas. Haw-e-Otoww DAT.— I oats Dom was • good &mod at fad calm- Moms *AT
SAToRDAT. Duo. 3L—Agodscloam ca plume. mgro ; atk, , be quoted as follows :—Wiest, whits, sew, 14s. to WA N.
• tpr semen ticket., 3.886; tote. ; total for the week, ' ditto, old. Illa Qd. to 17s. gd. ; trim*, red,loow, 1311.;
80,813; ditto ohm Jose 10, 1864. 16,1181,689. to lbs. ; ditto, old, 14a. to UM led, ; balky, sew, da. 6d.