The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

TSB POLICE COURTS.

CLERK EN W ELL.
AII4ACLT NT A Dalilll.7lllo LODOSIL—Aybaer Horatio
Irebs was charged by lire. E.isabsth Obey, of No. 19,
Nutings•street, Barren-ereactat, wi:► having violently
assaulted her, and threatening her life.
Prisoner was a lodger in the house of the prommutrix, and
contracted a debt for rent, which, refusing to pay, they
levied on his goods, altar haring vita him notice to trait.
The prisoner, in fie, sought every mesas to annoy her
end her husband, and daring the sheave, of the latter he
wool &Lilo, and illFUlt her in a cowardly manner. Oa the
preceding day. whilst her husband wee from home, he
covered the stein with filth ; and, on reasonsersting with
him, he min d upon a piece of timber, which he tore from
the door, and beat her with it violently until he broke it.
He then repeated his violence with another piece of wood,
and thr, stencil that he would do for her. She here produced
the pieces of limber with which the prisoner had beaten her,
sad a sonsAtion of indignation was eel:lmA throughout the
court.

Prisoner denied the statement ante presecutric.
Witness repee•ed her assertion, and d the protection
of his warship. Her ha band wu from home, and she was
afraid to return thither.

Mr. Tyrerhitt made prisonor enrage to Imre the house,
with his goods, by .5 o'clock that ereolog; pay the rent,
and the amount of the &mega done to the door ; and fur.
then bound him over to appear next day to answer the chug*
of sesaalt.

Defendant, having been assured by the magistrate tbat
failure is these points should be the worse for hint, then left
the court, attended by an r
WORSIIIP•STREET.

Wtiii3lll BMCIMIN. a married man sad clerk in the City,
was charged with s grossly indeceat assault ape& two young
women La the pit of the Grecian Haloes.
The assault yes fully proved. and
Mr. Hammill Geed prisoner U. for each offence.
Ban IVOLIN Ca.—Tao second halves of two U. notes were
received from " B. A " and " A. A." for the poor.box.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A CLERICAL DILI; 1:11 Rev. Jacob Knight
was brought before Mr Br aterbten, charged with having
been found lying in Osendee-rfoot on the previous night
drunk, and incapable of taking cars of himself.
The police proved that, about 12 o'clock the previous
night the reverend gentlemen was lying "on the broad of his
back" on the pavement in Orenden.sueet so drunk as to be
qua' incapable of walking. He was taken to the statior.-
house. sod placed is one of the lock-up cell In a short
time the d gentleman became perfectly outrageous.
He called fur Instector WWI by name, and when the'
inepector came be demanded to be released. Oo receiving
a refusal he began to kick at the door with such pertinacity
end vigour as to split two of the panels. This violent
conduct be continued for mon than two hour', and
it was found at last necessary, in order to drown the noise, to
remove him to one of the lower c.a.. The upper cell door
was qui•• sound when the rev. gentleman was find placed In
the cell. The damage done was to the extent of 125., besides
an indentation of the iron into the wood in coast queues of the
great violence used.
. . .

Tree I.OV. defendant Paid be did not make any noise after
he was placed in the second cell; in fact he was quite
unoonecione of having act. din the way described. Hs had
dined with a friend and bad taken some wine, bat in
orJeleration as to quantity, being in a sickly state Of health.
In some condition of hid health even a single glass would be
Sound to overccme the ttker. He could assure the magistrate
that it we. quite as accident which bad occurred. He felt
exceedingly the disgraceful position in whisk he was placed.
Mr. Broughton asked him if he was a clergyman of the
Church of England. —The defendant said he was.
Mr. Broughton inquired if he had a cure ?
The defendant said not at present. He had formerly
cfacisted in a parish near Baldock, in Hertfordshire, but
had recently been on the continent. He again begged to say
it was an accident that had overcome him, and he was
truly ashamed at what had occurred.
Mr. Broughton remarked the defendant might well be
ashamed of himself. Here was a clergyman found at mid-
night stretched on his back en the pavement, in such •state
of beastly intoxication at wculd have diagramed the lowest of
the low. To the honour and credit of the established church
he was inclined to thick there was not another such ca-
-1 ample, certainly not many ouch, as the case before him
presented. Ile considered it not at all unlikely, if
the case became known to the defendent's bishop, that
would be deprived of his gown. How could it be ex-
pected that • man who got drunk and was found lying
about the streets of London could teach and instruct others
properly in their religious and moral duties ? For the da-
mage done the defendant was ordered to pay 125., or three
weeks' imprisonment.
LAMBETH.
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THE CASE CIT MANSLITOITTIIIRAT PECKHAM Hovel.—
Samoa 11111, a keeper at Mr. Armstrong's lunatic asylum,
Peckham, who has been is custody for the last week on a
charge of having mused the death of Moms Thomas Berne,
a It:Katie pauper, was further examined before Mr. Norton.
When the cum was Galled on and the prisoner placed at the
bar,

Mr. Bennett, addressing Mr. Norton, said that sines the
ease hid been last bef 're him, the Commissioners of Lunacy,
deeming it to be one of serious public importance, had re-
solved to take the prosecution of the case into their own
hands, and had, in consequence, sent their solie•tor, Mr.
Law, the gentleman near him, to attend to and conduct the
prosecution. He ( Mr. Bennett) felt it necessary to say thus
much, as it had been the intention of the board of guardians
of Clerkenwell parish tb have prosecuted, and they gave him
instructiots to that offset, and it sr. *sly She tact of the
Comm4itoners of Lunacy having taken up the prosecution
on public grounds that caused the guardians to withdraw
irons it, ss they had no wish to shrink from •public duty.
Mr. Lair stated the cue against the prisoner and said
that the *Droner had under a mistaken feeling as he (Mr.
Law) believed, refused to accept the evidence of some pieties
whom it would be his, Mr. Law's, duty to produce
before his worship, for t►e purpose of adding their testimony
to the deposition, and he doubted net that after hearing
them he, Mr. Norton, would feel it be his duty to send the
case before another tribunal.

Mr. Muncaster, an attendant at the asylum of Mr. Arm-
etvong, Mr. Burton, the present, and Mr. Hill, the late
medical superintendent of the establishment, and also Mr.
Poland, assistant mirgeon at Guy's, were examined at:e :
derable length, but their testimony did not vary is any
material particular from that which they had given before
the coroner, and which Ina been already publialied.
The medical witnesees, and particularly Mr. Poland,
attributed the death of the deceased to the effects produced
by the fracture of the left arm, and four of his rib, on the
right aide, and them injuriH, he was clearly of opinion, were
caused by violence, as they would not be puduced by a
mere fall.

Mr. Law here called into the witness box a man named
Donnelly, a patient in the asylum, for the purpose of hay*/
hie examination taken against the primmer; bat Mr. Her.
ring, a solicitor, who attended 011 behalf of the prisoner,
objected to the admiasibility of a lunatic's evidence.
A:ter a abort discumion on the subject, the prisoner was
again remands ant Mr. Law undertook to come prepared
on the next examination with cases in point, when the Me.
timony of a lunatic had been taken is tinily cases.
Mr. Herring applied that his client might be admitted to
bail ; but Mr. Norton, conceieing the charge to to one of a
teflon, character, refused the application.