The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-01 00:00:00

WORSIIIP-STREET.

Mr. Joseph Samuels, who stood charged with on aggra-
vated assault upon his mother's servant, a young girl,
named Elizabeth Davey, appeared in discharge of his re-
cognisanics for final examination.
Mr. Talbot, secretary to the London Society for the Pro-
tection of Young Females, accompanied by Mr. Richard
Felld, attended to watch the case, that society having un-
dertaken to carryon the prosecution, and Mr. Norton ap-
peared for the defence.
. . . .

The iljp;itioo;,Wthich were very voluminous, having
been completed, and read over by Mr. Iturlatune, the
second clink,. . .

Mr. Arnold, after the usual caution, asked the defendant
whether he had any obsersations to offer upon the case, as
it was his intention to commit him for trial, when

Mr. Norton said that as the tnagistrute liod made up his
mind to that course, he should advise his client to reserve
his defence.

The defendant was then fully committed to take his trial
at the neat sessions of the Central Criminal Court, for a
criminal assault, but was again admitted to bail, himself in
1001., and two sureties in 5111. each.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

A foreign person presented the following note to Mr.
Ilan's, it k.

•' Monsieur to Islagistrat,—Nre des malheureux vous au-
rez la bonti• de purdonner a nu infonaut' ezili. Ne pouvaiat
rich avoir de la sucii•ti•, i•tunt sans travail ct ne connaissant
pas In langue do co pays. Sans chemises et autres effets, je
trouve dims unc atrreusc position. Avant entendu de
votre hunt., je vitals vous supplier, d'avoir pith do mui, en
Inc secourant cumun• it vous plaira. Dieu sous rendra votre
ct la rceunnaissanee sera 6teruelle.—Je suis avec
respect, .

" JOSEPH 2.111:1121'.1 WILL!, Rsfug, Polonais."
Mr. Hardwick put some qu.••tions to the applicant, and
elicited that he had taken refuge in France some time ago,
but having got his passpirt rare! thr Lyons about Is fort•
night ago. As boon as he reached Lyons he was placed in
the custody of a gendarme, taken to Boulogne, and from
thence compelled to go to England. Being without work
or friends, and in a state of utter destitution, he had written
the above note, in the hope of obtaining some temporary
IL*lititanee.

Mr. Hardwick requested the applicant to wait for a short
time, and then sent au officer to the Polish Society with a
message relative to the application.
M. Sulzcouski, the secretary, made his appearance, and
having been informed of the treatment the applicant had
sustained at the hands of the French authorities, said this
Win an exceedingly common case. For some time post it
had been the open practice of .the French authorities to
clear their country of idle, profligate, or criminal foreigners
by sending them to Englund. lie believed that not fewer
than 81-19 doubtful characters had been within a limited
period sent to this country. This practice would account
Mr the appearance of the applicant here, who, though with
a passport to Lyons. was compelled, when he got to that
city, to leave it, and to embark at Boulogne for England.
The French government hail doubtless !Mind out that the
applicant was without visible means of subsistence. and
had, in the customary way, provided means for getting him '
out of France into England.
Mr. Hardwick said it was a monstrous system to convert
England into the Botany Bay of foreign countries.
The Secretary said the practice of sending foreigners to
England was nut confined to France. The society had as-
certained that Polish refugees had been sent from Ham-
burg and from Switzerland here under the same eircum-
stances. With respect to the applicant, it was certain he
had not been sent from France merely from political causes,
and as he had no papers with him, it would be an
almost useless task to apply to the French embassy fur
information.

Mr. Hardwick considered something ought to be done to
stop a system that added materially to the load of pauper-
ism mull crime already imposed upon England. Ito hardly
knew what step to take in the present case. If he relieved
the applicant, it would only be encouraging others to conic
to the court, and uo real good would be done, so the appli-
cant could not expect to get employment here, when cc ery
department of industry was overerowcd. if the applicant
was allowed to continue in a state of starvation, he might
be driven to crime, and thus a magistrate hardly knew
what to do under such circumstances. Something effectual,
however, ought to be dime to stop a growing evil of such
magnitude.
Arrangements were made with the secretary to give the
applicant some trifling temporary relict, and he was then
dismiss. d.

THAMES.
The case of the young woman Newman, who has several
times been before the magistrate to complain of abduction
and criminal assault, affected with the aid of a young man
named Day, %UN yesterday again brought forward. No
evidence was adduced against the young man, but it came
out that the letter on which the young woman pretended
sho had met the accused party was written with her own
cognisance, and by her own direction.
Mr. Yardley remarked that the case was out of his hands.