The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

TILE POLICE COURTS.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Henry Poorer was brought bet Ore Mr. Bingham,
charged with having assaulted a police constable and in-
cited the workmen at the Crystal Palace to strike.
It appeared that some difference occurred among the
workmen with reference to additional time claimed by them
on account of the loss of time occasioned by loving obliged,
when the bell rang for breakfast, to go down from and up
to the roolof the building. This difference was adjusted,
and the workmen consented to abide by the terms of their
contract. Yesterday morning the defendant was active in
inciting the workmen to resist the terms of their contract,
and to demand that extra time should he allowed. The
defendant made a great noise, and swore he would be paid
for the hall hours, and he succeeded in getting a large body
of workmen about him, who consented to join in the strike.
The cashier, Mr. Ilan, was sent for, and he reasoned with
the men on their folly, and the men ultimately returned to
their work. The defendant was remonstrated with, and

requested to desist making a disturbance and interfering
with the business of the building. The defendant would
not desist, and a constable was called, to whom he was

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given into custody.
Police-constable Hart said he heard defendant say, with
an oath, he would not go to work on such term.. 'Witness
caught hold of him to take him into custody. The defend-
ant said he would knock witness down if he did not let him
go. Witness retained his hold, and the prisoner kicked
him on the shin. There were a good many workpeople
about and much uproar.
Thomas Hunfonl said after the hell rung the men as-
sembled in the building, hummed and struck work.
After they had been spoken to by Mr. hall, they seemed
willing to return to their work; the defendant, however,
did all he could to present them.
The defence of the prisoner was that the police-constable
collared him. He did not, however. kick the (-unstable,
nor did he attempt to indueo the workmen to strike.
Mr. Bingham said working men had no better friend
than he was, but then they must be obedient to the laws
and perform their duty to their employers. Where work-
men failed in these points ;mil broke their contracts, they
had no more determined enemy than he was. These
strike*, whether in little or in great, had invariably turned
out to the detriment of the working man. People who
paid their money away in the shape of wages expected a
fair day's work in return; but if they could 11- ,t get it, and
found that workmen combined for unlawful purposes, they
would take their capital to a country where they could em-
ploy it in quiet and With advantage. He should inflict a
line of 20s. fur the assault, or one month's imprisonment.

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THE INCOME T.tx.—A meeting of agriculturists
was held on Saturday evening at the Crown Hotel, Wor-
cester, T. G. Cartier, Esq., in the chair, for the purpose of
petitioning parliament against the unjust operation of the
income tax upon the agricultural body. The Ito,. J. Pear-
son made a lung speeth in exposing the unfairness of that
odious tax, and read a petition which he had prepared for
the occasion; but said that as he had beam just informed
that the Worcestershire Protectionist Society hail held a
private meeting that morning, and had come to the resolu-
tion not to support the movement against the income-tax
tor the present, he would withdraw the petition rather
than divide the agricultural ranks.—Mr. Cartier explained
that the Protectionist Society were of opinion that if a
petition against the income-tax were sent up, the govern-
ment would believe that this wan the only grievance which
the agriculturists cared about, whereas they were deter-
mined, in concert with all the other agricultural counties,
to demand and recover the general system of protettion;
they would go for no small reliefs.—A scaacioa took place,
in which Mr. Parry advised the farmers to turn their
attention to financial reform and reduction of rent., an the
only legitimate grown' of hope.—The meeting separated
without adopting any resolution.

-FURTHER EXTENSION OF COUNTS COURTS.—
Yesterday, Lord Brougham's bill, as amended on report,
for the further extension of county court:, was printed.
Some important alterations have been made since the bill
was noticed in the Express. Several clauses have been
added. Among others it is provided that the summons
issued in every case shall under the statement on it, or en-
dorsement upon it of the name and residence of the plain-
tiff or of his attorney, also contain a notice, that if the
defendant shall pay the debt and costs within four days
from tholliday of service, or promise within four days to pay
the same by instalments, as the parties may agree upon,
then all further proceedings shall be stayed absolutely iu
caws of payment, and in case of agreement to pay by
instalment, until default made in such payment; and on
default, judgment may be entered up, and execution had
thereon for the residue left unpaid. Suits above 201., are'
to be tried at special sittings. Clerks of attorneys may,
being authorised by their employers, appear and practise in
the county courts, flaying been in the employ of the attor-
neys for six mouths. The salaries of the judges are to be
fixed by the Lord Chancellor, and in no case to exceed
1,5001. a year. The report is to be brought up on Thursday
in the House of Lords.

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CENSUS OF THE POPULATtt)S.—Ycatel•day the
schedules of the population in Great Britain were collected
by the enumerators. There were 30,000 employed, acting
under '2,190 registrars and 624 superintending registrars.
In Ireland the collection will extend over two or three days.
The registrars are to verify the accounts, and, after correct-
ing any inaccuracies, to deliver them to the superintendent
registrars, and before the Ist June the accounts are to be
delivered to the Secretary of State. Abstracts of the re-
turns are to be printed and laid before parliament within
twelve months after the lot June. A table of allowances to
enumerators in England is by the act required to 1w kid
hefon• parliament in the month which has just expires'. In
Ireland the accounts are to be delivered to the chief secre-
tary, and when " digested rend reduced into order " they
are to be laid before parliament. In Scotland the accounts
collected by schoolmaster, are to be transmitted to the
Secretary of State. Parishes, At., are to lie reimbursed
the expenses by monies to be provided by, parliament.
TAUNTON LODGE is thus described by its sup-
porters:—." The convent commonly called Taunton Lodge
is a brunch of the order of the first Francis, which took ita
rise early in the 13th century; the religious exercising
every work of mercy and charity, and in many places took
the charge of hospitals. This English branch of the insti-
tute
settled in Belgium 230 years ago ; and as it was en-
tirely composed of British catholic ladies who did not know
language of the country sufficiently to take charge of
an hospital, tht•y confined then. lees to the -education of
the English young ladies. By the first French revolution
these ladies wen• forced to quit Belgium, in 1791. They
resided at Winchester till lifo7, when they settled at Taun-
ton, where they continue to educate a select number of
young ladies, and have likewise a day school, where a cer-
tain number of poor children are taught gratis."
THE FIR:4T OF TIIE NEW ENGINES built by Messrs.
Robert Stephenson and Co., for the South-Eastern Raft
way, to work their Great Exhibition traffic. ran an experi-
mental trip yesterday from London to Folkestone. The
engine, with a first and second-class carriage attached, con-
veying Mr. IL. Stephenson, M.P.. Mr. J. M'Gregor, Mr.
P. W. Barlow, and Mr. J. Cudworth, left the London-
bridge Terminus at 12.1.5 P.n. No trial of speed could
take• place until the Red-hill Junction was passed, a
Brighton train being in front ; hut from this point to Ash-
ford the journey was performed, without stopping, at an
average speed of 00 miles an hour. The trial was regarded
as satisfactory, the engine running at the greatest velocity
without oscillation. The engine is constructed on Cramp-
ton's patent. The inside cylinders are Li inches in diameter-
with a 22-inchstroke ; the drising wheels ,feet in diameter,
Mr. Stephenson, it is said, expressed himself much pleased
with the engine, and the speed at which the journey was
performed.
EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE RAILWAY.—

On Friday the formal opening of the Tay ferries in con-
nexion with this line of railway between Ferry-Port-on-
Craig and Droughty Ferry, took place in the presence of
the director. and a numerous party of their friends. The
docks at Ferry-Port-on-Craig are very extensive, and afford
ample convenience for berthing a vast tonnage of shipping.
A similar apparatus is here fitted up for the shipping and
unshipping of carriages as at Granton and Burntisland.
The vessel for the transportation of the trains across the
Tay is named after the builder, Mr. Robert Napier, of
Glasgow. Her dimensions am 140 feet in length on deck,
breadth of beam 2.-5 feet, and depth of hold 91 feet. Her
construction is similar to that of the Leviathan, which plies
between Grunton and Burntisland. After this date the

communication by Droughty is to he fully open for goods,
hut it will yet be two or three weeks before it will be tho-
rnighly completed for passengers, who, is the meantime,
will have to b • conveyed betwixt Ferry.l'o^t and Dundee
per steamer, hitherto.
IMPUDENT ROBBERT.—Yesterday afternoon, about
2 o'clock, a bay pony and a light spring cart, belonging to
Mr. Gale, 4, Horton-street, Islington, were left outside 6,
Bedford-square, whilst the owner was transacting business
therein ; a man leaped into the ehai.e, knocked down the
boy in charge, and drove off rapidly, and notwithstanding
an immediate penult, in which hundreds joined, distanced
all and got dear away.

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