The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-28 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAY.

M A NS lON-HOUBll.—Atieo en 8 win tro.—Jonies
Edward Carnegie, alias Captain Carnegie, of the Royal
Engineers, was brought up for re-examination. The policeman
who apprehended the prisoner, said that he had relied at the
Atheneum and Carlton Clubs, to both of which the lion.
Captain Carnegie, to whom the prisoner mid be was related,
belonged, but it was supposed that gentleman, who dis-
Oil:lied all knowledge of such a person, was out of town, as
there were letters at the clubs directed to him.—Mr. Good-
man, the chief clerk, said the presence of the lion. Captain
Carnegie was necemary.—The prisoner was remanded till
Monday.
THE POOR-MR.—The Lord Mayor received the following
sums for the poor-box, and requested to be favoured with
the notice' of the benevolent donations in the news-
papers The Drapers' Company, 10/. 10a. ; the Leather-
sellers' Company,lol._,l 0. H. C., dl. ; A. 8., 21.
WORSHIP-STREET.—CONVICTION UNDER TAR FAC-
TORT Acr..- Mr. John Mummer, proprietor of a steam
cotton factory, in Golden-lane, appeared to answer an in-
formation laid against him by a sub-inspector of factories,
for having offended against the amended factory act, 7 & 8
Viet., by unlawfully employing six women above 18 years
of age at a later hour of the night than was authorised by
the statute, whereby he had incurred penalties to the aggre-
gated amount of 301. The inspector stated that in c ,nse-
quence of information he had received, he proceeded to the
defendant's factory at 9 o'clock on the evening of the 21st
inst., and on entering a room adjoining the main building,
he found two women at work at a roving machine, who were
shortly after joined by four others from a work-room up-
stairs. The defendant was present at the time, and witness
called his attention to a board hung up in the room, pur-
suant to the requirements of the factory set, and read to him
from it the clause upon which the information was grounded.
In swaer to the charge, defendant said he was not before
aware that women of mature age were prohibited from
working over-hours. Mr. Broughton ordered the defendant
to pay the mitigated penalty of 40s. in each, or in the whole
61., together with the costs of the information. The penalties
were immediately paid.
MARLBOROUGH STREET.— Broom° Liman I.
POSTOR.—AndTew AP Lean alias Handy, alias Healy, was
charged with having obtained money from a gentleman
named Gardner, by fraudulent representations. The ap.
prehension of the prisoner, who is an old begging letter
writer, through the agency of the Mendicity Society, occurred
in the following way. A man named Kirby wea
appre-
hended on Tuesday, and charged with having attempted to
obtain money fraudulently from the Hon. C. Caren • h, at
Burlington-house. It turned out, however, that his tale of
distress was not imaginary, for Sir Wm. Clarke, of 69,
Gloucester-place, came forward and spoke in behalf of the
accused. Sir Wm. Clarke it appeared, had given Kirby a

certificate of character, with which or rtificate 17.ebysiade
application for admission into the police. This cer:.'6,lte
was fraudulently obtained from Kirby by Hon an, w. 70
went about with it to various gentlemen, personating
Kirby, and obtaining money on the plea of paying
for a trifling outfit for the police. The fraud having
been detected, lioraford, of the Mendicity Society,
apprehended lld'Lean on Tuesday evening, after a
desperate resistance. Kirby was discharged and admitted as
evidence against M'Lean.—Mr. Gardner camu forward and
stated that hi'Lean had obtained from him at various times
about 30s. in money by representing himself to be the Kirby '
named in the certificate given by Sir W. Clarke. Having
some doubts about the accuracy of the prisoner's story on the
last occasion when he came for money, witness sent to Scot- 1
land-yard, and was soon put in possession of information that
left no doubt on his mind he had been imposed upou.—The
prisoner did not deny his guilt.—Mr. Hardwick said the
prisoner had been guilty of a double offence, and he should
therefore inflict
—the highest punishment allowed by law,
namely, three menthe' imprisonment.

SOUTHWARK.—ALLEo F.D Rummer.—William Bar-
field, night porter at the Catherine Wheel, Borough, was
charged on suspicion of stealing a pocket-book containing
3001., consisting of a 1001. and four 501. Bank of England
notes, the property of Mr. Francis &tipper. The com-
plainant stated that he lived at Kingston, from which place
I he arrived in town on the preceding day, and, with a friend,
intended to visit the Princess's Theatre. The same evening
he deposited his pocket-book, containing a 1001. and four 50/.
Bank of England notes, inside his left boot. Subsequently
to quitting the theatre, he and bin friend proceeded to the
Catherine Wheel Inn, in the Borough, where they intended
to sleep. Previously to alighting, he distinctly felt that his
pocket-book was safe in the leg of his boot, and he and
his friend were shown up to a bed-room situated in the
gallery which surrounded the inn yard by the prisoner, who
attended with &candle, and assisted first Mr. West in pulling
off his boots. Afterw,rds the prisoner attended upon him,
and, while he (complainant) eat upon the foot of the bed,
the prisoner pulled off his left boot, and, the moment he did
so, he exclaimed that he hal left the gstes open, and that he
must hasten and lock them, or the yard would be
robbed. On saying these words, the prisoner hurried
out of the room with the boot, and complaisant, at
the moment forgetting the pocket-book was inside,
made no remark, but in • moment afterwards, recollecting
the circumstance, went into the gallery, and called back dig
prisoner. The latter returned in a few minutes, end when
he was informed that the pocket-book containing the money
was in the boot he had taken away, his reply was that he
knew nothing about it, and that be was certain nothing of
the kind was there; and ran and fetched the boot to prove
he was correct. The prisoner pulled inside cut all his
pockets to show that he had not got the pocket book. Com-
plainant went for a policeman, and the prisoner was taken
into castody.—Mr. Seeker said that be should remand the
prisoner until next Wednesday, and in the meantime gave
instructions that no time should be lost in making a furtner
and more minute search for the pocket-book and its contents.
—Application was then made to bail out the prisoner, who
was liberated in the course of the dal on his entering into
his own recognisance of 200/.' and hnding two sureties of
1001. each, his master offeringhimself as one of his bail.

THAMES.—ALLeoru B7LETALITY ON THE MOH SEAS,
—Mr. Pelham m.ide an application that summonses might
be issued against Abraham Matiger, the master, Richard
Donovan, chief mate, and three of the crew of the chip
Venus, lately arrived front Monte Video, f r assaulting a
man named John Brown, and continued ill-treatment of him
during the whole of the voyage. Mr. Pelham stated that
the complainant (who was in such a weakly condition as to
require the aid of two men on entering the court, and was
then, by direction of the magistrate, accommodated with a
seat) was the son of a licensed victualler in Tooley-strect.
Some time since, owing to bad health, he was recommended

to take assa srolitte ; not having been brought up to the sea,
he engaged wi apt. Fleming, of the brig Xenia, to per-
form a voyage with him to Monte Video and back, in the
capacity of cook and steward. On their arrival at the des- I
tined port Capt. Fleming detested him, and left him behind 1
in the place. He applied to the British consul to send him I
home, but without effect. After knocking about and shifting
for himself es he best could for some considerable time, he at
last engaged to work his passage home so cook and S'PW and
on board the Venus; but shortly atter leaving Monte Video,
the master and mate, together with three of the crew, who
acted under their directions, commenced a system of constant
gene
s:ititoonatnd inhumanity towards him, frequently striking
hu the s`ightest provocntion, heating him with
ropes, and not allowing him any rations. He became at lest,
from want of food, so distressed by hunger, as to be com-
pelled to resort to the pigs'-trough for sustenance. This
kotal usage soon debilitated his frame so much, that he
was obliged to take to his hammock, his body being
all covered with Mils. So far from coeupatainnating his
miserable plight, the mate sent one of the sailors to order
him to work the pumps. He replied that he was unable to
stir, when the mate crone down, and with an instrument
called a " tormentor," a thing like • tnasting-fork, with
commenced probing him in various parts of the
Mr
He then called two more of the men, and with their
assistance passed a rope all round him, and the bight of it
having been hauled taut, they " bowsed " him out, and
compelled him to gn to the pumps. He was so totally ex-
hausted that, on the vessel reaching Woolwich, he was
obliged to be removed, and placed under the care of two
medical men, named Sullen and Parker, a certificate from
whom, relative to the injuries on Lie body, was handed in.
The complainant having been sworn, and deposed to the
above facts, the summon-es were immediately granted.
A MISERABLE FA MILT.— Lieu/. Campbell, R.N., who
has been many times before this court, and also been
confined in various lunatic asylums, was again placed at the
bar, charged with constant violent and outrageous conduct
towards the Taejons members of his family, and demolishing
the furniture.—Mrs. Complicit entered into a Nine statement
with reward to her husband's nutria' ous proceedings, and
declared it was utterly impossible to live with him ; bat, on
being pressed by the magistrate, could not bring leeward say
distinct charge, merely observing that she was so frightened
she scarcely knew what she was about.—The defendant,
whose subdued manner and pallid countenance seemed to
show that he had been subjected to some severe discipline,
stated, in a very mild and subm Uri ve manner, that he had been
exposed to very cruel and unnatural treatment by some mem-
bers of his family. He said that his two sons, countenanced
by his wife, were constantly in the habit of striking him.
On New Year's eve they commenced beating him shortly
before twelve o'clock and beat the old year out and the new
year in. On another and more recent occasion his eldest
son, who watt apprenticed to • wire-worker, had constructed
a kind of iron ma-k which fitted tightly over the head and
face. This they had forced on him and then beat him most
unmercifully ; and only a few days ago they had tied his
hands and feet with ropes belonging to his other son,a sailor,
but at present at home, then taken him down stairs and
placed him in the coal-hole. He had done everything pos-
sible for his family. lie was in the receipt of his half-pay
and a pension of five shillings a day, and his half-rty he had
a-me time back assigned over to his wife, and had himself
instructed his son (the sailor) in navigation. A young man,
named Thomas Dando, son of the landlord of the house
where Lieut. Campbell resided, said that the circumstanced
the sons' binding their father with a rope and placing him
in the coal-hole was a fact. He had seen the mask men-
tioned by the lieutenant, but had not seen it placed on him.
—Kr. Yardley observed this was a very disgraceful family
exposure. Lieut. Campbell might at times be insane, and
with snob treatment it was not to be wondered at. There
could he no excuse for the very unjustifiable conduct of his
children towards Ifni. He should dismiss the case; and
recommended the lieutenant, if anything of a like nature
should again occur, to bring the parties before him, and he
would punish them rieverely.—Lieut Cample 11 thank. d the
magistrate, and withdrew, observing this was the 109th time
his wife had sworn the peace against him, and that she had
obtained ten certificates of his lunacy.
OREENWICH..—Tite LATE C.HAROE or FELONY AT
MAIZE HlLL.—Henry Colegate, alias Cockett, Gawp
Phillips, and John Jones, were brought up for further
examination, charged with selecting themselves in • cave
under the enclosed grounds of H. A. Soames, Esq., of Van-
brugh-fields, Blackheath, li,r the purpose of committing
felony, and also with breaking a p irtion of the cell at the '
station-house. In consequence of a letter which was found
amongst the stolen property, a clue to the owners of most of
the articles was obtained. This letter was addressed to
Master Edward Newman, of the Upper School, Greenwich
Hospital, and, on the facts of the case being communicated
to Sir Robert Stopford, Bart, information was &indeed that
about the Bth and 9th inst., the lockers belonging to the
boys of the Naval School bad been opened, and numerous
boxes stolen therefrom ; the said robberies baying been
effected by persons who must have scaled the park-wall into
the asylum grounds, and escaped with the plunder in the
same way.—Au officer, in charge of about • dozen of the
boys from the Naval School, attended, and each identified
the property respectively missing from the lockers.—P. Set).
Smith said he had made further inquiry since the first
examination, and discovered that the " cave " in which the
prisoners were found, had formerly been an ice-home, and
net being required by a subsequent tenant, was filled up.
The entrance to the cave is about two feet by two feet ax
wide ; about fifty feet of it a man might stand erect in.
Police-constable Pstmore deposed being spoken to by Mr.
Semmes, and going with that genti man to the spot, to his
discovery of the prisoners by means of • dog, and to smoking
them out by:burnt straw. The prisoners denied ail know
ledem -of the stolen property.—Mr. Traill said he should
again remand the prisoners. Phillips, w ith tears in his eyes,
declared bis innocence, and was about to explain his con-
du t, saying that he could call witnesses to prove that he
had slept at home during the nights in qiustion ; when Mr.
Traill remarked that he had better reserve what he had to
say, and in the mean time consult with his friends as to the
course be ought to take under the arcumstances.—The pri-
soners were then removed from the dock, Phillips being
placed in a cell by himself. It is believed that he:will make
disclosures of importance on the next examination.