The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

before this *out. On the next occasion the we armed be
adjourned sine die.
By adjournment sine die the law preceetlings in actions
revive, sad insoleests eon afterwards apply for a protecting
order.

STRATFORD PETTY SESSIONS.—YESTERDAY.
BUM lIIINYLCOTION, MALT/AMIN Thou AND DAVIS, JI:X101,
SAIPAILIOI AT bit Rex CHORCIL
Bernard Cook was charged with having broken open
the perish church of But Ham, Essex, and stealing there-
in's sundry articles. It appeared, from the evidence, thet
stkest seven o'clock, on Thursday evening last, the
Nine sr was seen lofterieg about East Ham church, and in
Ile course of an hour afterwards, as Mr. Martin, 2 tradesman
residing in the pariah, was walking near the edifice, the pri-
mmer suddenly jumped from one of the church windows,
with a bundle in hie arms. The prisoner made off as fast as
he was able, but was followed by Mr. Martin. who pursued
him for a considerable distance. At length a Mr. Matthews,
who witnessed the chase, joined in, ant followed the priv nes.
for nearly an hour over ditches and belga. After travtlling
several miles, the prisoner gave s'on- of exhaustion, and
plunged into a water-courss : he swam across, and was in the
act of stepping upon dry ground whrn Mr. Matthews cap-
tured him. The chase had extended over a distance of
nearly 10 miles. The prisoner was handed over to the police
and handcuffed. On their way to Ilford gaol, the prisoner
succeeded in slipping his handcuffs, and he immediately
darted off. Two farmers, who happened to be riding on
horseback, and witnessed the occurrence, went in pur-
suit of the prisoner, and with the assistences of a
mounted policeman who afterwards came up, ho was
conveyed safely to Ilf vd Gaol. On examining the church,
Sergeant Collier discovered the carpet of the vestry room
rolled up, ready to be carried off; and a quantity of the
church books, and other property, were packed up, in order
to b. removed. Several bo ha and important doc:m:nts
relating to the church were found to be missing.
Mr. Anderson, the governor of Ilford Gaol, stated that on
searching the prisoner, two duplicaus were found upon him,
one of which related to a watch which had bun stclen from
the house of a lady named Battle, at Barking, and pledged
in Whitechapel. Two men stand remanded for having bur-
glariously entered the house of Miss Battle, and stealing the
watch.
The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Cotton committed
him for trial for robbing the church, but remanded him upon
on of being concerned in the alleged burglary.

THE POLICE COURTS.
GUILDHALL.

THII CHARGE Or RAILWAY SPECULATIOX vet:ma
rams Pnwramcia.—Mrs Catherine Stults was alpha
placed at the bar, charged with commissioning Mr. William
Barton, of 10, Throgmorton-street, stork-broker, to purchase
1,0001. London and North-Western Stock, which stock was
purchased, and which she refused to pay for or the lost
thereon, amounting to 371. 18e. The facts of the case have
already appeared in this paper.
Mr. Huddleston (who appeared for the prosecution) ssid
that, without going through the evidence taken on the pre-
vious occasions, he would merely state that since the last
examination inquiries had been made, and it was discovered
that the prisoner's twher was gamekeeper to the Duke of
Devonshire, and was at present living in Derbyshire in inde-
pendent chuunstanoes, and it was his wish that his daughter
should live with him, but from some MIN she wu intiuced
to come to London, and had been living on her wits. It
would seem that she was acquainted with the porter
of the lodge at Devonshire Home, Piccadilly, and had letters
addressed to her there ; but she was not authorised by any
party to date her letters as from Devonshire House. He
(kir. Huddleston) was of opinion that the prisoner was
acting in concert with others, and it appeared the more
likely from the fact that since her apprehension and the re-
ports in the newspapers, the ovners of the "Old Friends'
Coffee-house" had decamped without paying their rent, and
it was not known where they had gone. The difficulty to
be gat over was, whether the law at fl,st sight would be suf-
lisient to reach the prisoner's system of what could be called
by no other name than swindling. He was of opinion that
it would ; as she had induced Mr. Barton to purchase shares
for her and obtained the contract note from him under the
pretence that she had money to lay out and that she was a
widow, both of which assertions were false.
SJOIO additional evidence was adduced, frosts which

appeared that the prism et had employed Messrs. Realties°
and Co., stockbrokers, to parchue for her a qunti'y
of shares in the Yurk, Newcastle, aid Berwick Railw.y,
and that she (prisoner) had received the awed contract
notice.
Alderman Gibbs said that he did not see how the cue
maid be sent to a jury. Ile was of opinion that the eon-
tract note was not a valuable security.
Mr. Huddleston contended that it was a valuable docu-
ment, and a moat important one to the holder. They were
not to look at what it turned out to be, but what it might
have been. He hoped the alderman would feel that
the present case was a most important one for a jury to
decide.
After some further discussion, the prisoner wu remanded
until Wedneiday next.
SOUTHWARK.
INSTURRAVOM AT THE SURREY THEATRE.—COrIiC-
IitH Judge midi James Downing, clerks in mercantile houses,
were charged with creating a disturbance in the Surrey
Theatre.
It appeared that on Saturday night, during the perform-
ance of ' The Lave Chase," the defendants occasioned a
great deal of annoyance to the audience by interrupting the
actin and vociferating their names as they appeared on the
stage. They were frequently remonstrated with, but they
continued the noise, until at length the constable made his
appearance and threatened them with expulsion if they clued
not behave themselves. Every time, however, that Mrs.
Nisbet appeared the defendants made a point of redoubling
their efforts to create confusion, and they were ultimately
dragged from their setts and locked up.
Alio said that he went to see " The Love Chase," and
could not help giving expression to his feelings in the usual
way by clipping his hands, and occasionally ejaculating
t' bravo." Ile did not do it for the purpose of annoying the
audience, but merely to gratify his own feelings on the oc-
casion.
The other defendant said that he accompanied his friend
to the theatre, and admitted that he applauded the actors,
and considered they were both hardly dealt with in being
locked up for their pains.
Mr. Cattingham said, that if the defendants had not
misconducted themselves they would not havo got into
this reeve • that there was no doubt the audience of a
theatre had right to express their approbation or dita2pro•
bation, but not in the manner that the defendants were
described to have done, by vociferating the names of parti-
cular performers, and giving vent to the expression of their
feelings hy loud and discordant hisses. Such conduct in a
place of amusement was in exceedingly bad taste, and had
the effect of causing a good deal of confusion, both before
and behind the curtain. The magistrate then ordered t'w
defendants to enter into their recognizwces to keep the
pease.