The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-10 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTEEDAT.

BOW-STREET.—Wa. FEAROUN O'CONNOR AND THE
CHARTIST LEADIRE.-Mr. F. O'Connor, M.P., waited on
Mr. Jardine to ascertain if he could not be admitted as one
of the sureties for Mr. Ernest Jones, the chartist leader, who
has been committed for trial, without being obliged to delay
in town 24 hours, the time specified to gise the government
authorities the required notices for that purpose ?—Mr.
Jardine reared him to the solicitor of the Treasury, by
whom the prosecution was conducted.—Mr. O'Connor im-
mediately acted on the suggestion, and left in a cab. On his
return the magistrate had g it being then after five
o'clock, but it was understooo that he had been accepted as
one of the sureties. _ _

THE SPECIAIB.—On entering the court, the hon. member
wee asked if he wished to be sworn in as a special constable
(•here being a vast quantity being sworn in during the dam
and he replied "God forbid."

WORSHIP-STREET.—Tux VICTIMS OF A CHARTIST
Mon.—T. and F. IVoodioard, the young men who were so
brutally maltreated by • portion of the chartist mob on
Sunday last, under the false assumption that they were
special constables, and the facts of whose ease appeared in
our Wednesday's impreuion, applied to Mr. Arnold for
some pecuniary assistance from the poor box —lt appeared
from their statement that, in cons quence of the serious in-
juries they had sustained on the occasion referred to, and
from the effects of which both of them were still auffering,
they were incapaeit.itad from pursuing their ordinary avo-
cations, sad having been robbed by the rabble of eve, y far
thing they possessed, were reduced in consequence to a state
of destitution. One of the brothere, a printer, whose eyes
were frightfully swollen and discoloured, and his person
covered with bruises, intimated that be had made a painful
effort two days previously to resume his employ/nine at the
office of Mr. Nicholls, in Boston square, where he hid
been some time engaged. but was almost immediately
seized with such acute pains and throbbing in the head, ac-
companied by giddiness and dimness of aipht, that he was
compelled to relinquish the attempt. The other tsp.
plicant, a working silversmith, stated that his post.
Lion was even more bepoless than that of his brother
as he was se terribly disfigured that he could not offer him-
*elf for employment, if he were even in a condition to accept
it, which was ise tar from being the case, that on calling that
morning upon a dentist, who had humanely offered to supply
him with artificial teeth in the place of those which bad been
knocked out by the mob, he was informed by that gentle.
man, after an examination of his mouth, that be had sus-
tained a fracture of the jaw, which would necessarily pre-
clude the operation for some weeks, and how to subeist In the
meantime he was at a lose to conceive, u he was wholly
without means or a friend to assist Henley, the
chief usher, who had rescued one of the young men, at great
personal risk, alter he bad been besieged by the mob for
nearly two hours in a house where he had fled for refuge,
said he had been at some pains to ascertain the oorreouesi

of their representations, and was enabled thereby fully to
substantiate them.—Mr. Arnold said that it cert.inly ap.
peered a case deserving commiseration, but regretted that
the funds at his disposal would not enable him to afford
mere than 10s. for their immedi►te wants, which the appli-
ants received with a grateful acknowledgment.
WANDSWORTH. —8 HIEr-lITIALINO II? A MAATRIM
BUTCHIM—IItnry Ceased:, a butcher in the Borough.road,
Southwark, was charged with stealing an ewe sheep, the
property of some person unknown, from off Clapham•ooaa•
mon.—ln coasequence of several butchers at Clapham bay-
ing recently lost sheep which they had turned on the
common, and complained to the police, Sergeant Em•
memo, 16 'V, and two oonstables were ordered to keep
watch in plait clothes. On Thursday night, between 10
and 11 o'clock, Collins, 108 V, saw a cart drive past a
small flock of sheep; it returned again in a few minutes,
and the prisoner alighting, instantly caught hold of a sheep,
tied its hind legs together, and threw it into his cart. He
had mounted and was going to drive off when Collins
caught the horse's head and told the prisoner to stop. The
lett. r threw the sheep cut of the fore part of the cart, when
the wrgeant secured it. The prisoner then struck Collins
and the other constable with the butt end of his
whip, but he was secured after a desperate resistance.
Sergeant Emmerson said it would be necessary to remand
the prisoner to ascertain, not only who was the owner of
this sheep ; but, if possible to concert the prisoner with other
GUIs of sheep stealing. Within a very short space of time,
Mr. Neale, of Clapham, had lost three sheep off the com-
mon, Mr. Arnold two, and Mr. Terry one.—The prisoner,
in his defence, said he went out for a redo and to collect some
money, and as he was returning home there were a lot of
sheep lying in the road, and he ran over this one. He
thought it a pity the sheep should die, and believing its back
to be broken, he tied its legs that it might be quiet, and he
intended to take it to Clapham and find out what butcher it
belonged to, when as he was deiving off the policemen
rushed out on him and hit him on the head with their
truncheons. Ile aakd fur mercy; but they showed him
none. Ile thought it was very wrong tor them to take him
up and look him up all night.—Sergeant Emmental said
there was nothing the matter with the sheep : they had
brought it and the horse and art to the court.—Mr. Ileadon
remanded the prisoner.