The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-20 00:00:00

SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS.

The general quarter sessions for the county of Surrey were
held yesterday, at Kingston, before Mr. E. Peubryn, chair-
man, Earl Lovelace, Lord Lovaine, Mr. Alcock, M.P., Mr.
Locke King, M.P., Messrs. Briscoe, Trotter, Freshtield,
Puckle, Bonner, Austin, &c.—From the reports of the gover-
non of the gaols of the county, it appeared that they were moat
inconveniently crowded with prisoners, particularly Guild-
ford and Brixton.—Mr. Smallpiece, the county treasurer,
made a report of the state of the county finances; and it ap-
peared that he had a balance of more than 8,0001. in his
hands, and that a fresh county rate would not be required.—
Col. Challoner called the attention of the court to the heavy
charges for coroners. Daring the last quarter the expense of
coroners' inquests was more than 8001.; the preceding quarter,
6901. ; and during the year the cost to the county under
this bead had amounted to between 3,0001. and 4.0001. Ile
wished to know how it was that the expense of unseen' in-
quests had increased so much.—Mr. Smallpiece said that
coroners now were empowered to pay witnesses and other ex-
penses, which very materially increased the cost of inquesta.
TKO COUNTY COVRTS ACT.—Mr. Austin called the atten-
tion of the court to a subject, which he said was one of very
considerable importance, in emulation with the administra-
3ion of the new County Courts Act. Ile said that the judge
of the court at Guildford bad 6-It it necessary to commit a
party for some default to the Guildford geol. but the governor
refused to receive him, as a person so committed did not come
within the description of any of the classes of prisoners for which
the prison, in accordance with the rules sanctioned by the
secretary of state, was calculated as a receptacle. The
the
then committed the: party to the county gaol; but the ex-
pense of conveying him such a distance, the bailiff being
entitled to Is. per mile, and the whole of which fell upon
the suitors, being so great, it was impossible to continue to
commit to that prison, and the law was, therefore, quite ino-
perative, so far as the power of commitment, which was a
very important one in some Well, was concerned. The
judge of the court had informed him that he felt so strongly
the importance of the power of committal, as regarded the
working of the act, that unless the court made some altera-
tion in the regulation of the gaol, upon the next occasion
when any one was committed by him, if the governor refused
to receive him, he should prefer an indictment against
him, in order to try the question.—The Deputy Clerk of the
Peace, who was appealed to by the court, said that in his
opinion the governor was duly justified in refusing to receive
such prisoners, as according to the gaol regulations, upon
which alone he could act, there was no class to receive
them.—After some discussion, the court passed a motion
calling upon the Secretary of State to sanction a fresh rule
giving the governor authority to receive all prisoners com-
mitted by the judge of the county court.—Mr. Austin
said, that having proceeded so far, the next question was
hew these prisoners were to be accommodated. The gaol
already contained a much larger number of prisoners than
it was calculated for, and he suggested that application
should be made to the Secretary of State to allow twenty
female prisoners to be removed to Brixton gaol, to make
room, for the county court prisoner.—Mr. Pacifier hoped
they would not think of sending them to Brix-
ton. The gaol was already . so full that the pri-
shams were sleeping three an a lied. (A laugh.)—
After some further discussion, the Chairman said that on a
former occasion when Brixton gaol was very much crowded
by prisoners, the visiting justices made an application to the
Secretary of State, and he relieved the gaol by discharging
a number of prisoners, and he suggested that a similar course
might be adopted at Guildford. The court concurred in the
suggestion of the chairman, and a motion to that effect was
put and carried. The committee appointed to superintend
the erection of a central gaol for the county reported that
they had completed the purchase of some land for the site of
the building on Wandsworth common, and the necessary
steps will therefore shortly be taken to commence the new
prison. Some other routine business wan then disposed of,
and the court adjourned.

POLICE. v ESTEROAT.
MANSION.MOUSE.—PEOrnASIONAL SECRZTII.—CIiar-
a notorious petitioner of the humane, and an
able sinumer of characters calculated to excite deep commi-
seration, was brought before the Lord Mayor by tiorsford,
the officer of the Mendicity Society.—The prisoner, who
has been several times apprehended and convicted u a com-
mon impostor, was seen by Horeford dressed in deep mourn-
ing, with a widow's cap drawn closely over her head, and be
bad no doubt that she had been calling upon some of the
charitable victims of the City for contributions. Her hus-
band,. who was of the same profession, sad in all probability
airrymir it on within a street or two, bad been several times
committed by magistrates, but had not a quarter of the
experience of common goals to which his wife could lay claim.
The moment she saw the officer's face, than which she had
often said she world rather see the d—'s, she ran into
• public-house and managed to get rid of her widow's cap,
but was seized in possession of a petition clairoiag, in
pathetic language, the aid of the benevolent, and of a letter,
of which the fellowirg, which caused much laughter. is a
espy. It was directed to her husband, who is cured Peter
Mies, alias Wood, alive Thomson :
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knot anima awn wr h wadi love limn
, we hone Ode ell rasa e. meliense Wine pan bare
Give our beet remsele be Um AYe. . awl MS km we are very
awry to heard her hesamel kisY leanaln es ell se skies We
haw been mats Ine day Is thle MOW
know It we& Wiflows Men hang eery wellielely, Sea OsiL Yet
a doable are freute4. awl ems pemille ti main In the mem
day. We hare ea some IMAM, asemawry lately. We have
got a capital reolpt ayea Waklt Missed mays he will all you
fora trifle. We aspen to be In llembalima Ls skeet a week, and
you can address • letter to es at Jae** In Old Tbomaa-street,
where the old woman Is still staylam—WlM lien =pets tostreet,
all in-
quiries friends, we remain, your Name trienda RICIIMID and
CRAILLWT.
Hereford said he had ascertained that every one of the tigna-
turas was fictitious ; but he could not find any person to
whom she bad applied on the day he apprehended her—A
venerable gentleman, who was sitting next to the Lord
Mayer when the prisoner was prat to the bar, said, " Why,
that got half a sovereign from m 7 wife ems time
age, at Brixton."—The Prisoner Ah ! sir, you wickedly
wanted tuinveigle me. (Laughter.)—The I:ord Mayor said,
no doubt, ~,„„ten of the villainous trade followed by the
prisoner would not hesitate to make any charge, either for
mow or revenge. He much regretted that the evidence
*pipit has jou short of eourietron ; but she should be

ltc..atetent /hors;tertainly Allowwatched,. and the heavies!
her coeuchor —The r?" Yon shall never see my face
egetat not col hut:4nd. et if we ones get out of the City.—
The prisoner was t..en &mgarg,,,d.
G 1.7 I LD li AL L. - -Climate or OATAININO GOODS UNDID%
PALM/ FULTENC A.-A young man, named R. IVilliants,
formerly an au stunt at Messrs. Ant and Son's, warehouse-
men, at Stoke Newington, woe charged with obtaining silk
goods to t'ai value of 141. said upwards, under fake
Pretence-a —Mr. W. S. Been, foreman to Messrs. Brettle
end Co.) of 119, Wood.streat, Cheapside, warehousemen,
stets,. that the priaoaer collet on the 6th inst. with an order
for some goods, which be represented were for his employers,
Messrs.. Ant and Co. He was cloeely questioned, aid even-
twiny, they being satisfied with his answers, the articles to
the value of H. were given to him. On the Itta he agate
erne with a similar order to the same amount, which was
Kitimat) executed, making altogether about fourteen pounds
odd. On Monday they were informed that no each goods
had been sent for by Messrs. Ant and Son, nor had the pri-
soner been in their employment for the last nine months.
On previous occasions, when he called, he always
signed hie name Palmer, which wee not his right
one. They had been on the look out for hint, and bearing •
few minutes before that the prisoner was then at Mean.
Costa's in Aldennenbury, he (witness) proceeded there and
gave him into custody ; but in consequence of hie only
being just apprehended no further evidence for the present
could be produeed.—Williams, in answer to Ald. H. Hughes,
said that he certainly obtained the goods, because when he
left Moors. Ant and Son they deprived hint of 61. of his
salary—The prisoner was remanded until Friday.
CHARGES OP FELONY.—T. Merritt was charged as fol-
lows : —On the ith instant Mr. Crowther, saddler, of Pro-
videnoe-row, Finsbury-squire, trusted him with • pony
chaise to paint. The prisoner, after having given it one or
two coats of colouring, went to Mr. Duffy's Repository, in
Alder:orate-street, and there offered it for sale. Mr. Duffy
consented to purchase it for 31. 10s. if his foreman approved
of it ; but in the mean time • person happened to come in
who recognised it as one which he had made fur Mr. Crow.
ther, whereupon the prisoner was detained until the arrival
of the owner, when he WAS given into custody. The chaise
was valued at 61. 10i.--The prisoner confessed his guilt, but
said it was through distress he did it.—Alderman Gibbs
committed him for trial.—A second charge was then en-
tered into, from which it would appear that about
three years since a Mr. John Roberta, of Dor-
chester-street, New North-road, lioxton, entrusted Lim
with a cart to repair which he never saw after. His son
afterwards got the prisoner to repair a cab, and part of the
expense was to be deducted as • partial equivalent for the
cart he had meld. About the 20th of September, the pri-
soner again called on him to ask fora ioh,'when it was agreed
that he should have a gig to repair provided he allowed 21.
as a set-off for the cart. This lie consented to, and the com-
plainant heard nothing more of the vehicle, until he went to
the prisoner's house in Clerkenwell, and there found the
body and shafts of his chaise only, the rest having been dis-
posed of. A person named Short, of Slater-street, Bethnal-
green, deposed to lending the prisoner 30.. on the wheels
and axle, although if the prisoner wished for them back he
was to have them on paying 35s.—The Alderman committed
him on this charge also.
A BINGULAR Joe r.. —Mr. Whilehorn, a carman, re.
siding in the New-road, St. George's in-the-East, was placed
at the bar, charged with being a deserter from the Scotch
Fusilier Guards.—Corporal D. Barclay, of the 2nd battalion
of the Scotch Fusilier Guards, stated that while walking
along Fleet-street the previous afternoon, he was accosted by
the prisoner, who said that at one time be belonged to the
same regiment, but had deserted some time ago. Seeing a
policeman near, lie considered it his duty to give him into
custody as such, and accordingly did Gibbs asked
the corporal if Mr. Wliitehorn appeared to be in liquor?—
Corporal Barclay said he considered him to be perfectly sober.—
Mr. Whitehorn assured the magistrates that what he said wee
in a joking way, and that he had plenty of persons who could
prove that he never had been a soldier, his ambition not at
all taking that direction.—A gentleman residing in Turner. ,
street, Commercial-read, here stepped forward and said that
he had known the prisoner since he was a child, and he at
present carried on his mother's business. Se far from beteg
a soldier, he was actually afraid of them, and had a hey
horror for such deadly weapons as they used.—Alderman
Gibbs: Tian you mean to say he only gets courageous when
in a certain state ? (Laughter.)—Gentleman : Exactly so.
After he has taken • glen of wine he generally becomes
most martially incliced. (Much laughter.)—Aldermas
Gibbs : Well, I think, after all the trouble the soldier bas
been at, and the great care he hes taken of the prisoner, the
least he can do is to compensate hint with five shillings for
his trouble--Mr. Whicehorn smilingly assented to this
arrangement, and left the dock.
ROBBERY AT A SEUVANT.—Margarre Burke, late in the
service of Mrs. Cocieer, of Thavies-inn, was again brought
up for final examination on the charge of robbing her mie-
trey, and absconding from her situation. A report of this
appeared in our impression of yesterday. The case was ad.
journed for the production of the property, which the pawn-
brokers having brought, was identified by the prosecutrix.—
Alderman Gibbs asked the prisoner what she had to say in
answer to the charge ?—She replied that she would not have
been guilty of such a crime had the not been nearly starved
by her mistress. The fact was, the house was • commercial
boarding-house, and she took the situation at the low
wages of 61. per year, because she was told she would
receive • good deal of money from the different
gentlemen using the house, instead of which, during
the two months she had been in Mrs. Cocker's
service, she had only received one shilling.—Alderman Gibbs
observed that nothing justified her in committing the theft
she had been guilty of, and therefore she must take her trial
for it at the Central Criminal Court —The depositions were
then made ma, and she was removed to New ate.
A Five POUND NOTE POUND.—During the morning the
Alderman stated that he had received a note, signed " M. A.
Lynn, of No. 2, Shutter's-court, Basinghallitreet," which
stated that the writer had found a five pound note, which
would be returned to the owner on application at the above
address and giving the proper number. He trusted pub-
licity would be given to the fact, as the loss of the note might
be of serious consequence to the owner.
CLERKEN W ELL.—Ro BOORT.— Eliza Torter,aservant,
was charged by T. Prussinowski, • Polish gentleman residing
in Baynam.street, St Pancras, with steeling a gold watch,
a silver watch, and other property.—The prisoner was in
the service of the prosecutor, and on Monday she was left at
borne to take are of the house and child. Mrs. Prussinowski
returned home at four o'clock in the afternoon, and found
the prisoner missing, and the place rifled and plundered of
the above property. Information was given to the polio',
and the prisoner was apprehended near Bermondsey work-
house. —T. Mason said, that on taking the prisoner
into custody, she said she was very merry. Ou being
searched some silver money was found, but none of the
stolen property. She did not say what had been done with
it —Mr. Prusainowski said that the prisoner could have
had no money with her when she absconded from his house.
lie had not advanced her soy wages, and she was com-
pletely rigged out from top to toe with new apparel.—Mr.
Arnold decided on committing her for trial eventually, but
in order to give the officer an opportunity to trace the stolen
property, he remanded her for a week.
ASSAULT UPON A Wire —C. Westbrook was charged with
assaultinghis wife. It appeared from the evidence of a polic►
men of the G division, that on Sunday night, in consequence
of information received, he proceeded to a court in White-
cromet., St. Luke's, where he found • large mob of persons,
and a woman bleeding from the head, and insensible. Hs
found that she was the wife of the prisoner, who, after quar-
relling with her, seised a large hammer, now produced,
with which he beat her about the head and injured her
severely. He took the prisoner to the station-house. The
dim predated a medial] certificate, stating that the woman
was mint andonsly injured about the head, and the least
oasibmasst might endanger her life.—The prisoner said that
be was vary way for what had happened. The fact was, he
was quite drunk, and did not know what he was about at
the time.—Mr. Arnold remanded the prisoner.
WORSHIP-STREET.—AMIAOLT UPON TUB POLICE,—
John Kelly was charged with having assaulted and seri-
ously injured a polite constable.—The oonstable stated that
on the preceding eveaing he saw the prisoner and some
other men, who ware conducting themselves in • riotous
manner in Turk-street, Bethnal-green, and on requesting
them to go quietly home he received a heavy blow
from the prisoner, which felled him to the ground. As
soon as he recovered himself he caught hold of his
assailant, and endeavoured to spring his rattle for
assistance, but it was iaatantly wrested from bins by one of
the other fellows, and dashed to pieces upon the pavement.
The prisoner was then rescued by his companions, and
hurried into en adjoining house ; but he returned almost
immediately, and renewed his attack upon the witness, who
was again knocked down, and while lying upon the pwsd
the prisoner knelt upon his chest, and continued beetleg
him about the head and face until he was weir
plated y disabled. Several other officers at length cams up,
but all of whom suffered from his violence, and after a pro-
tracted resistance he was ultimately overpowered and 004
'eyed to the station.—The prisoner merely said he had been
drinking to excess, and had no recollection whatever of what
had occurred.—The =listed* ordered him to be committed
to the House of Correction, and kept to hard labour fur one
month.

81:11ERING THROVOH TRU Noes.—Henry Leggett was
charged with attempting to bite off the nose of Mr. John
Hawke, and also with violently assaulting several other per-
sons. The prisoner entered the parlour of a public-house in
the Kingsland-road and commenced using mast abusive lan-
guage to a number of working men, who were quietly taking
their dinner, and, upon being requested by the landlord to
desist, made such a violent attack upon him that he
was obliged to call for assistance. The complainant,
Hawke, then tame forward, and was endeavouring in •
conciliatory manner to induce the prisoner to withdraw, when
the prisoner inatantiv seized him by the throat, which sou much
lacerated with his nail and with a rapid movement fastened
his teeth into his now till it streamed with blood, and he
was forcibly dragged away by the bystanders. The prisoner
was then given into custody of a police-constable, who, with
great difficulty, conveyed him te the station.—The warrant-
officer stated that the prisoner had been nearly a dozen
times in custody upon similar charges, which in two in-
stances were of such an outrageous character that he was
committed for trial, and sentenced to lengthened terms of
imprisenment.—The prisoner, in defence, slid that he well
unfortunately subject to fits, and when under the influence
of excitement he lost all command our his actions.—Mr.
Hammill said that as he was evidently a person to be placed
under strong restraint. he should order him to pay a penalty
of 51., or be committed for one month, at the expiration of
which he must find substantial bail to be of good behaviour
for the next three months.

MARLBOAOL OR-STREET. A PUGILIST.— John
Croaky, who for all his clothing had bat a horse rug with •
piece of torn shirt, was charged with haring created • dis-
turbance at the Thistle and Crown, Thomas-street, and
assaulting the pollee—Mr. Bird, the Landlord of the public-
house, said that that morning his wife came up to him and
told him the defendant had *me into the house quite drunk,
was very quarrelsome, and Waisted on being 'tried with a