The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAY.

CLEIIKENWELL.—CosiIit:CT OF PARISH AUTOO-
RITIRS.—Three miserable looking females, harkg with
them their families, consisting altogether of nine children
under eight yeas of age, applied far advice. They were
married women, whose husbands are working men, but un.
tortunately having been out of employ for a lengthened
period, they had, in the hope of finding work, gone on what
is called tramp in search of it. Being reduced with their
children to starvation, neither of them having tasted food for
36 hours, they had Bought for relief at St. Pancras work.
house, in which parish they are residing, but they could
obtain no food, consequently they now requested the inter-
ference of his worship.—Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered nourishment
to be given them, and told Cole, the warrant officer, to take
them to St. Pancras workhouse, with a request from him
that their wants should be attended to.—Shortly afterwards
Cole returned with the unfortunate families, and stated that
he had introduced them to Mr. Coulthard, the overseer, and
explained the wishes of the bench, to which he bad replied
that he would have nothing to do with the applicants, and
that ho did not care for Mr. Tyrwhitt.—The
Diagi-
strate remarked that the observation of the overseer in
reference to himself he could not but treat with the
most utter contempt, but it was really enough to make one's
heart ble,.d to knew that this is the way the unfortunate
poor arc treated too often by parish authorities. It was
right that the public should know how poverty is treated
by those whose sympathy and ki .dness ought ever to be
extended to the deserving, and it theca ever were cases
requiring immediate attention the present certainly were
those. For the present he must instruct Nesbitt, the officer,
to see to their wants, for he could not allow them to perish
in the streets, but he regretted to nay that the fund., or the
poor box were totally inadequate to do halt that was re-
quired to the numerous applicants for relief —Just before
the closing of the office, Mr. Cater, another of the overseers
of the parish, came to the court, and on the magistrate re-
ferring the painful cases to him and the circumstances at-
tending them he immediately consented to take them into
the workhouse.

MARYLLBON E.—ROBBERY BY Bovs.—Three boys I
named Thomas Scott, Charles Solomon, and William
Norton, were charged with having stolen about 111. from
the premises of Mr. John Taylor, a miller, residing at Rick-
manswortb, and who has also a large baking establishment'
in the Oval-road, Camden-town. On the previous morning
the foreman and another man, who lived at the house where
the baking trade was carried on, left home to go to church,
and on their return they were astonished at finding the front
door open, u it had been pulled to in the usual way on their
going out ; it was almost immediately afterwards ascertained

that the counting-house had been entered, and that from a
large box, the lock of which bad been forced, somewhere
about 401. in gold, silver, and copper money had been
abstracted. The prisoners were seen to fo into the premises
after the foreman and the other MO quitted, and the whole
of them were on the same afternoon taken into custody. They
were searched at the station, but no portion of the plunder
was met with. Norton and Solomon' had been in custody
before for felony and convicted. The prisoners, who denied
that they were the guilty parties, and mentioned the names
of others who ought to have been taken up instead of them-
selves, were remanded.
OVTRAOE ON A POLICE COIOVIABLE.—C. Vardy aed L.
Philip were charged with an assault on the police, whilst in
the execution of their duty. The prisoners were walking
together through several street& at the West-end, and after
looking down various areas Philip descended the steps at
three or four houses, and on coming up again in the course
of a few minutes rejoined Vardy, with whom be moved on
their movements having been watched by policemen Deplin
and Price, who took them into custody, when Vardy struck.
Price a tremendous blow, and on their closing they both fell
down in the road. While Price was in the act of getting up
Vardy kicked Dim three or four times in the face with all his
mieht, and on assistance being obtained he (Vardy) was,
with the other prisoner, conveyed to the station-house. hie
had upon him a "life preserver," together with many
skeleton and other keys. Philip had in his possession,
amongst other things, a chisel recently sharpened, and well
calculated for forcing opus a door. In the struggle which
took place in the road Vardy made strenuous attempts to
get his hand into his coat-pocket, with the intention no
doubt of drawing forth the "life preserver," and inflicting
injury therewith upon Price. The appearance of Price was
pitiable in the extreme; his left eye was completely closed,
and swollen ; his face also bore marks of the brutality exer-
cised towards him.—Mr. Broughton remanded them for a
week.