The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-06 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.--The Lord Mayor elect mentioned
in the course of the d I, that a paragraph had gone the
rounds of the newspapers, stating that it was his determina-
tion to commence business at the justice-room every day at
ten o'clock. He had, he begged it to be distinctly under-
stood, determined, for the accommodation of the public, not
to commence business until twelve o'clock, except upon
Saturdays, on which days he should commence investigating
into hackney-carriage complaints at ten o'clock, so that he
might be prepared to go into the general business of the
court at twelve o'clock. He had made the arrangement
under the impresaiou that it would give satisfaction to the
merchants and traders of the city of London.
GI.7ILDIIALL.—IMPORTANT TO CARRlERS.—Yesterday
a clerk from Mr. Farey's, of the coach and waggon office,
Ram Inn, Smithfield, appeared to show cause why he detained
a parcel entrusted to his care.—Miss Emma Hodgkin, of No.
13, Harewood-square, stated that on the 12th Sept. she
sent to the Parcel Delivery Company a package containing
a shawl and other articles, value 31. 10s., directed to Mr.
Shelton, of Headnam, and which was to be left at the
defendant's office until called Tor. It was delivered to the
clerk now present on the 14th or 15th Sept., when he signed
a receipt for it. On the 28th September an application being
made fir it, the parties were told that it had either been
called for or been sent to another part of the country. Com-
plainant had made several applications since, but failed in ob-
taining her parceL—The defendant said that he was not
liable, inasmuch as it was announced on the bills that they
were not answerable for parcels left till called for, and that
no booking had been paid.—Sir James Duke decided that
as the defendants had the choice of refusing the parcel, they
were, having received it, responsible for its safety. If, in
the present instance, they had declined taking it from the
ParcelsDeliveryCompany, the latter would have been obliged
to take it back, and it would not have been lost. Themoney
was then promised to be paid, and the parties left the court.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Richard Richmond and
Cornelius Hopgood, privates in the Scotch Fusilier Guards,
were charged with robbing a poor woman of 15s.—The pro-
secutrix, who was a servant out of place, named Houghton,
and had walked from Greenwich, met the prisoners in the
park while returning to her home at Chelsea. They saluted

her, claimed her acquaintance, and prevailed upon her to
walk with them—liachmond offering to carry her basket
She gave up the basket to his charge, but detected him,
shortly afterwards, in the act of drawing her money from it,
and the other prisoner bald her while his comrade escaped
with it. She reported the occurrence to a corporal of the
regiment, and he caused the prisoners to be given into cus-
tody.—They were committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH STREET.—Aasartv ott A MAR-
RIED FlXALF.—Ridaarsi Campbell, No. 8, Oxford Market,
and Thomas Ashdown, No. 108, Tichbourne.strewt, de-
soiked as gentlemen," and having the appearance of per-
sons of respectabiiity, were charged with having assaulted
and beaten Elizabsth Montague, a married woman, living at
No. 39, Silver-street, Golden-square. Mrs. Montague, whose
face appeared to be badly bruised, said she had been sitting
up with a sick friend, and about four o'clock that morning
she took a cab homewards, but was set down near Leicester-
square, as she had a message to deliver to her brother, who
lived there. Her brother answered her from the window,
and while she was speaking to him, three persons came up,
one of whom (the defendant Ashdown) assaulted her.
She told the defendant to leave her alone, as she
wished to have nothing to say to him, and she then
walked towards Oxendon-street. The defendant, fol-
lowed and again assaulted her. She screamed out for the
police. The defendant immediately knocked her down by a
violent blow on the face, and ran off. The second defend nit
also struck her while she was on the ground, ■nd followed
his companion. The effect of the assault woo to stun her for
a few seconds, but on recovering her faculties she rose from
the ground, pursued the defendants, who wore speedily e.p•
tured.—Charles Montague, the complainant's brother-in-law,
corroborated this statement, with refer, nee to the cause of
her being is Leicester-square at that hour of the morning,
and the convers►tion with her out of the window. He saw
the defendant Ashdown assault her as described. Ashdown
addressed some words to him, and immediately followed the
complainant. Witness did not see the second assault, but
he heard the screams of the complainant fir assistance. Wit-
ness dressed himself as speedily as he could, and got out of
the house, but by this time the parties were at the station-
house.—The defence of Ashdown was, that having spent the
evening with some friends at the Coalhole Tavern, he was on
his return home through Leicester-square, when, teeing a
female speaking to a man in his nigh:-drew at the window,
he supposed she was a person of loose character, and that a
little freedom with her would not be taken amiss.
He certainly did put his arm round her waist,
but he denied having committed any indelicacy.—
He positively denied having struck the complainant at all.—
The defendant Campbell treated the charge us a conspiracy
on the part of the complainant to obtain money,—A wit-
ness, who described himself as assi,tant at the Coalhole, said
the complainant was very violent.—The complainant
declared the statement of the last witniss was untrue. The
defendant Ashdown struck her the first Vow, and as she
WAS about to rise, she received a blow from the defendant
Campbell.—Mr. Hardwick came to the conclusion !hat the
assaults had been proved. The complainant had fairly
accounted for being out at the Lte hour at which she had
been first seen in Leicester-square. She gave a consistent
statement of what had recurred, and she had marks of vio-
lence on her person to show.—The defendants were then
fined the full penalty of 51. each, or two months' imprison-
ment.

SCAM/ALM:a OCTRAGE.—Dennis Bryan, Patrick Byron,
John Daly, John Lennon!, and IV/Piani McGrath, five
Irish labourers, were charged with the following outrage :
The prisoners went into a coffee.thop and eating-house kept
by. Mrs. Gallen, No. 26, Buckingham-place. New-road, and
ordered dinner. They were supplied with eatables to the
amount of 4s. 7d. They continued in the house for some
time without pa) ing, and when payment was asked they told
Miss Gallen to bring them tea. They were told that no more
food should be served to them until they discharged their
previous reckoning. They refused to pay anything, alleging
they had no money, and were preparing to leave the house
when sonic of the neighbours and a policeman were called
upon to take them into custody. The prisoners then began
to smash plates and everything within their reach. They
struck at, and assaulted, indiscriminately, those per-
sons who were present, but they were finally
overpowered and lodged in the station-house.
A cuff e-shop keeper, in Warren-street, said the conduct of
the prisoners was not unfrequent, tts he had good reason to
know. It was only a few days ago that a gang of Irish
came into his shoo, consumed articles to the amount of
7s. 2d., and then left without paying, alleging that they
had no money.—The prisoners, in defence, said thty had
been first assaulted, and this obliged them to stand on their
own defence. They could not pay for what they had eaten
and drank in the house, but they offered to leave their
clothes as a security for the debt.—Mr. Hardwick said it
was impossible to suffer a set of worthless fellows to go
about like banditti, robbing industrious tradesmen of their
property in the way described by the witnesses. The pri-
soners appeared to be aware that the law treated such cases
of fraud as mere debts; but he could tell them that this cir-
cumstance should net avail them to the extent they reckoned
upon; for, whenever it was proved that these marauding
proceedings caused a riot, or breach of the law in any shape,
he should impose the greatest punishment the law permitted.
Four of the most active of the prisoners were fined 5/. each,
or two months' imprisonment; the fifth (McGrath) was
ordered to find bail for two months.

LAMBETH.— STEALING AND RECEIVINO. John
Phillips and John Me!lord, alias Price, were re-examined
on a charge of stealing plated ware goods of the value of
AO/. and upwards; and Abraham Deprece, a general dealer,
in Petticoat-lane, with having purchased the same, well
knowing them to be stolen. The particulars of the case ap-
peared in our paper of Wednesday. On the former
examination, the prisoner Dcpreco said he had paid 481. for
the property, and produced a receipt for that amount. On
the receipt alluded to being put in evidence yesterday, Mr.
Isaacs, Deprece's solicitor, requested to look at it; and,
after doing so, he folded it up carefully, and was about is
commit it to his waistcoat pocket. Mr. Elliott, perceiving
this, desired that he would at once return it, as it formed a
part of the case, and the evidence against one of the priso-
ners. Mr. Isaacs replied, that, with all due deference to
his worship. the document had been obtained under peculiar
circumstances from his client ; and, as it would form a parti-
cular feature in his defence, he must decline complying with
the request.—Mr. Elliott, with some warmth, observed that
he was somewhat surprised at such conduct on the part of •
professional gentleman, and that, unless he at once returned
the receipt, means should be resorted to to compel him.
—Mr. Isaacs, after some further hcsitation,saying he should
have a copy of the document, as well as the name of the
person in whose hands it was placed, handed back the
receipt.—Maurice John Pyke, of No. 7, Tenter-terrace,
Tenter-ground, Whitechapel, who described himself as a
silversmith, but at present out of business, and a bankrupt,
deposed that in the early part of lust month he was passing
by the shop of the prisoner Deprece, in Petticoat-lane. and
on going in asked him if he had anything for sale ? He re-
plied that he had some plated ware that would suit; and he
purchased a variety of goods of him fsr 211. These he sub-
sequently sold to Mr. Ball, at Newington, and to Mr. Her-
bert, at Brampton. In his cross-examination, this witness
admitted that he had been refused his certificate in the
Bankruptcy Court, that he had been a debtor to Mr. Allport
to a considerable amount, and that when he purchased the
property from Mr. Dcprece he knew them to be Mr. All-
port's goods, as they bore his numbers and were wrapped up
in the original papers.—The testimony of Mr. Ball and Mr.
Herbert completed the case, and the prisoners were fully
committed for trial.—On the application of Mr. leases, the
prlsonerDepreec was admitted to bail to appear and take his
trial at the Old Bailey.
THAMES.—TIIItEATENINO TO SHOOT.—.Ifr. Robert
Francis, a gentlemanly-looking man, 33 years of age, was
charged with having a loaded pistol in his possession, and
threatening to shoot his wife, Charlotte Francis. Mrs.
Francis, who appeared overwhelmed with grief, entered the
witness-box, in which she appeared scarcely able to sustain
herself, and was evidently most reluctant to give evidence.—
Mr:Tallantine : I am not inclined to judge more unfavour-
ably of the prisoner than yourself, but I want to know the
facts. Had he a pistol?—Witness, sobbing: He had. Sir.—
Mr. Ballantine : Did he prew nt it at you ?—Witm ss: I do
not know.—Mr. Ballantine: What did he say ?—Witness: I
do not recollect.—Mr. Ballantine: Had ycu quarrelled?
Witness : No sir, there were no angry words between us.—
Rebecca Ford, a woman who was with the complainant at
the time, saw the pistol, but did not hear the prisoner utter
any threat. Mrs. Francis, being recalled, said she did not
know whether he used any threat, and if she said he had,
she had done so in the flurry of the moment ; she believed
he only intended to frighten her.—The prisoner, in his
defence, said he uttered no threat, but merely told her to
keep off, as we had been separated for some time. and I did
not choose to he subjected to her persecution.-278 K, took
the prisoner into custody about ten o'clock on the previous
night, in Whitechapel, lust after the occurrence took place.
He found in his trousers pocket a small pistol of very neat
manufacture. The prisoner had also upon him a silver
watch, a bottle of medicine, and 3a 31d. in money. The
pistol was loaded with a bullet.—Prisoner : We were sepa-
rated for a twelvemonth, and she was bound over to keep
the peace to me on the kith of August last. The next month
she annoyed me again and assaulted me.—Mr. Ballantine:
That is no reason why you should attempt to shoot her.—
Prisoner: I did not. l had the pistol by the muzzle, and she
seized it by the handle.—Mr. Ballantine: Why did you carry
it about you? —.Prisoner: Through fear, and for my
own protection.—Mr. Ballantiue : You did not intend to pie
your teeth with it, I presume. A man dues not carry a
loaded pistol about with him wi.hout intending to use it.—
Prisoner: It was loaded ever since I was last in Liverpool.—
The prisoner was ordered to put in bail, himself in 601., and
two good sureties in 30). each, to keep the peace towards the
complainant. The prisaner, who is said to be a man of some
property, soon after put in the required bail and was
liberated.

GREENWICH.—Mr. Traill requested the reporter to
acknowledge the receipt of a 10/. note from M. T., fur the
poor-box at this court.