The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY

whets the property was to be found.—lnspector Web-
ster proved that when in custody the prisoner said
he could bring a sack maker named Lingfield into
it, but that he would put the last witness to the
trouble of substantiating the charge as well as he could.
The next morning he said he bad got the wins from
Lingfield, for shoes he had made for him, and that
the cont Ants of the bottles was not exactly wine, but the
extracts of lees.—lnspector Lewis said he had learned from
several merchants that such robberies were of daily comer.
rence, but the original corks being removed it was impossible
to trace the wine, which was of an excellent quality.—Con•
stable Dill mid the prisoner told him he had bought the
wine from an auctioneer, but he could not produce the in-
voice, saying that having lost it he could not procure another.
—Mr. Justin, clerk to the solicitors for the Great Western
Railway, said he was assisted by Mr. Hunt, solicitor
to the Wine Association, to watch the case, and there was
very strong reason to suspect the wine had been purloined
from the carriers' waggons, the prisoner's lodgings being
situated between two railway statiens.—Supwietendent Col-
lard, of the Great Western and North Western Railway,
informed , the court that within a very short period he bad
received repeated communications from venoms quarters
that hampers of wine had been stolen from the carriers'
'reggaes on their Gamins from the different stations.—The
wine having been proved to be of good quality by a parson
who attended from the docks for that purpose, the prisoner
called Lingfield to prove that he had given him five or six
dozen of the wine, which was a:premed from lees, and a
man named Watkins, to show that he was in the habit of
purebsaing lees from different merchants, and that his had
given large quantities at different times to the other witness,
with whom he lodged.—Mr. Jardine having taken some
pains to elicit the truth from the two last-named witnesses,
and on their persevering to state that the wine was not
genuine came to the conclusion that it was a felonious
transaction, and ordered the prisoner to be committed to the
House of Correction for two months.

CURREN WELL.—Ton Mvrue Acr.—Simon Hors,
the owner of a beer-shop, No. 49, Baldwin's-gardens, Gray's-
inn-lane, appeared before Mr. Tyrwhitt charged by Thomas
Murphy, a private belonging to the 30th Regiment of Foot,
with having refused te billet him.—Complainant deposed
that he had been at Cambridge on a recruiting party, and
came to London on Thursday, on his route te Neweaatle-
upon-Tyne. He obtained a billet to be lodged in defendant's
house, and, on presenting it, the dlseendsme neared to re-
ceive it or lodge him, and he wee eland to sea ether se-
commodation for himself and onenor ecialer.—Mr. Tyr-
whitt asked defendant whet be hai_ kc f—He replied
that had only been in the lams a ferUfeftt ;he had paid
for his license, but he la sot yet received it, and if
he had erred it was thrash ignorance.—Mr. Tyrwhitt
fined the defendant in the mitigated penalty of Wu—The de-
fendant said he could not pay the penalty ; I have Oct got
24. in the house.—Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had no alternative
under the Mutiny Act in that case, and he then fined him
eat—Defendant I haven't it in my power to pay it —Mr.
Milieu (the clerk) : Have you got any furniture or goods
and chattels ?—Defendant : I have not, sir.—This statement
was corroborated by a policeman.—Mr. Tyrwhitt said he
was inclined under the circumstances to allow defendant to
speak privately with Murphy, in order to make Dome corn-
pensauon. They consulted together, and eventually de.
fondant agreed to give Murphy fie, and the cue was dis-
missed.
LAMBETH.—lnroarmer ro CABlERN.—Richard Gar-
dener, badge 1,179, appeared to a summons, charging him
with permitting a buck " to ride with him on his driving-
box, contrary to wish or will of his fare.—Police-constable
142 V, deposed that on the night of the 19th inst., at about
11 o'clock, while on duty in the Wandsworth-read, a lady
who was in a cab then passing, called on the prisoner, who
was driving, to stop, and complained that he had agreed to
take her to the Nag's Head, Battersea-fields, for a certain
sum, and then wanted to charge more. Witness asked the
lad whether the man on the seat with the defendant wu there
with her consent ? She replied he was not. The defendant
said he was merely giving the young fellow a lift, and did
not desire him to get off his vehicle.—Mr. Yardley severely
condemned the practice of permitting " bucks" to accom-
pany calls, and remarked that the drivers were liable to a
penalty of 20s. for carrying them, whether the passengers
objected to them or not. He then convicted the defendant
in a mitigated penalty of 6s. and costs.
SOUTHWARK.—TRI SURREY THRATRI. —A gentle.
man residing at Clapham-park waited on the magistrate for
the purpose of soliciting his advice on the following subject.
He said that on the preceding night he went with one of
his daughters to visit the Surrey Theatre. When they got
there they paid for their entrance into the pit, but, on
arriving there, they found that pert of the hones so com-
pletely full, that it was imputable to get even standing room,
'or to observe what was going forward on the stage. He
was about to quit the plus when he heard a man, sup-
posed to be eonauted with thitheatre, who in a loud voice
intimated to these who could get no places in the pit, that
there was plenty of room in the boxes, and that it
would be only a shilling extra. Applicant, however,
returned to the money-taker, demanded his money back on
the ground that there was no room in the pit but it was re-
f , and he was compelled to quit the place, determined
not to submit to the imposition that was attempted to be
practised. The applicant added that the loss of the mosey
was unimportant, hut upon public grounds he considered it
his duty to apply at this oourt, in order to ascertain if any
redeem weld be had.—Mr. Seeker mid that he had no
power to interfere in each a matter, but it appeared to him
to be a breach of contract. and that the remedy in such a
cue world be to apply at the eoanty court of the district in
whisk the theatre was situated; and he had no doubt
the applicant would there have that redress which be wished
to obtain.
THAMBS.—SurooLuter Cesar BRAND-r.—Mr, Chas.
flasher, the master of the brig Vigilant, appeared before
Mr. Ballantine, to answer a Custom-house information,
charging him with smuggling two gallons and one half-pint
of cherry-brandy, which had not paid duty.—lt appeared
that on the 11th of September the ship, of which the deca-
dent was the master, had just arrived from Dantsie, and was
niesred in the river off the Grand Surrey Canal Dock,
Betherhithe in readiness to be hauled into that place. The
deltadent left the vessel in a boat, which was rowed by two
Untie crew towards the shore, and it was boarded by Joshua
bottles
an inspector of the Thames police, who fouled 19
of cherry-brandy, which the defendant said he in-
tended as • present to the superintendent of the Surrey
Canal Dock, and was not aware it was liable to duty.—Mr.
Beverly, clerk to the solicitor of Customs, said there was a
much heavier duty on cherry-brandy than there was on
brandy in its pure state.—Mr. Ballantine said the defendant
would lose his cherry-brandy, and pay a fine to the Queen of
31., and the onto
HAKMEBBMITH.—Daento ROBBERT.— W. Beck and
R. Widmer were charged as follows : —On the after-
noon of the previous day as policeman Smith, T 92, was
passing
ol saong the cut side of the township of New Brent-
fend,t 1 o'clock, he saw tee prisoners rowing in • boat
towards the Thames, with which the cut communicates.
When they law hint they turned their boat and put into a
Otos called " Ciorbile-yard," leading into the High-street.
Widmer then jam out, and the policeman Smith, on run-
ning round into oring's-yard, found both prisoners gone.
On examining the boat, Smith found fourteen large copper
trays in the bottom, covered ever by a sack, which are be-
lieved to have been stolen from the warehouse of Mr. Win.
Ashley Rosh, of Brentford, and to be part of a copper erected
for the mantihuure of sugar from beet root. The prisoners
were traced and apprehended.—Bemanded.
ASSAULT ON UVRRBIRRO Vlllll.l DISTR•IIIING FOR
POOR-I•l2B.—Richard Jennings appeared to a warrant
charging him with having, on the 11th ineent, smalted
with a poker Mr. William Ambidge, sus et theemeesen
of the parish of Hammersraith, while tionemiang a ahem
warrant for poor-rates.--It appeared that cm as day in
question, Mr. Ambidge, with Mr. Salter, the mann over-
seer, sad Yr. Collis, a broker, went to the howls it defend-
sat's ham to execute a distress warrant, aligned by two
local negkezates, for poor-rates. The dace wee spewed by
the biker, who, on being asked for the reran
itasa to pay it, and on the parties sad" the
roe the defendant rushed in from the ant, ea
pen them wart into the book parlour, and re with a
poker in his hand, and Unweaned that if the aka= at-
tempted to remove • single esti& he would lurk their
brains out Defendant slam auk at Callis with the poker,
who warded it off, and the net amen dna Mr. Am-
bidge in the eye a tremarion Won Ina whisk he fell out
into the road. The pokier wee emend hen bin but the
officers were turned out of the boon cad the door shut
against them. The next day the father sent and paid the
rate.—The defendant was fined 41., or six weeks' imprison-
Meet On being removed from the kw, the defindens, with
horrid imprecations, told his father that if he pea thememey
to liberate him from prim he would never eater the hone
again as long as he lived.