The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-11 00:00:00

POLICE.—SAruaDAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Foitsiom CORRESPONDENCE or I
Josses( Ant. The Lord Mayor said that comment from
him was unnecessary upon the following correspondence,
which had taken place since he called the attention of the
public to the persevering conduct of Joseph Ady
Kingston, Canada, Sept. 11, 1147.—My Lad,—A sense of public
duty Indies.. me to transmit to your lordship the inclosed two Watts
team miscreant who is now living within your jurisdiction. The
letter addressed to M. De Blaquiere is .mulateel to produce nes.
chief of it maims a nature to other., that I hope to eland excused
for troubling your lordship upon the subject, with a view to punish
the author of this wicked project, or, at all event., to put a stop to its
further repetition elsewhere. I need not point out that the attempt
L the more diabolical from being made in a distant lead, when
inquiry seems precluded.-1 hays the honour to be, ty P. B. be
BLAU'S*.
To the wife of this lion. P. B. De Blaquiere, Kingsten.Upperainsda.
—August 6, lsl7.—Madam.—Soar husband has embarked in an
considered Illegal by 'sirloins acts of parliament, subject.
Ileu2cl=, him, and your children to serious Liabilities and inside.
may be dragged from home night or day, andoenflacd in a feloa'n
cell. The police may enter your chamber sad passer themselves of
your comb, jewels, and parephernalta, and leave you to the tender
mercy of the Ler. On receipt of 20e., I will point out the disease and
remedy. —lielpeen idly, JOS IPR ALIT.
The second letter alluded to in Mr. De Blaquiere's letter
to the Lord Mayor was to the same effect. It was directed
to " The Hon. Peter Boyde De Blequiere, Upper Canada,
North America." It would appear, therefore, that Ady re-
lied upon success in his experiment upon Mn. De Blaquiere,
should her husband have been abseat from home upon the
arrival of the post. Of the letter directed to Mr. be Mx-
quiere that gentleman took no notice, and Ady, not having
received the desired remittance in due course, then attacked
the lady.
A CLEVER Imroston.—Elizal,ells Jones war charged with
being a common Impostor. Balchin, City police, stated that
in Bishopseate-street, on Friday night, he saw a crowd of
people gathered about the defendant, who lay upon the pave-
ment, apparently in the agonies of death. There was • greet
deal of compassion and sympathy expressed for the conditieo
of the woman, until another policeman came up, and looking
at her, reoognised her as having, on a former occasion, seemed
to be in a similar extremity.—Sergeant Dunlison, City police,
stated that he never beheld anything like the success of Mrs.
Jones ; her breathing was rapid and convulsive, her eyes
were closed, and her jaw was relaxed. It WAS supposed by
many of the crowd that she could not reach Bartholomew's
Hospital alive ; but the moment that the policeman, who
, had encountered her in her former at, spoke to her as an old
acquaintance, up she rose with all the vivacity of youth and
health, swore at the officers and everybody else, and insisted
upon being allowed to so home without interruption.—lt
was further stated, that the defendant, when found in the
same neighbourhood about a fortnight ago, wee carried to
the hospital, examined by several of the medical gentlemen,
and pronounced to be au impostor.—She was fined ss. for
being drunk, that being the excuse she offered for her con-
duct. Rather anon then Ids. was found upon her.

GUILDHALL. HOW TO oar cr CHIMP TEA& —J.
Styles, a marinostore dealer, living at No. 8, Idilton•street,
Cripplegate, war charged with unlawfully converting 131bs.
of leaves of tea that had been used, into a spumous tea, by
means of their being dyed and dried. There wu also another
complaint laid out in the information, for fabricating a cer-
tain description of tea, by mixing a peculiar shrub with
colouring, &c.—J. Jordan, officer of the customs, deposed
that on the 20th of Jung he went to the defendant's house,
and saw his wife, who said he was not at home. Went into
the back room and found a pan before the fire, with old tea
leaves in it, drying. Saw • deal box, containing wage
leaves, in the room. Under the bed found more old leaves,
with gum about them, and mixed in a preparation of what
seemed to be stone blue and French chalk. Ina cupboard in an
adjoining room discovered three paper bags filled with spurious
tea, in all 131 lbs. Also saw • sieve' with some old leaves sticking
in it. fled received information that the prisoner had been
selling mine cheap teas to grocers.—The samples of the stuff
said to be tea in the paper bags were produced, and their in-
spection created some amusement. Several excise officers
gave corroborative testimony, and deposed to the probable
object of fabricating genuine tea.—Mr. Phillips, chemist to
the excise, bad anal} sod the contents tithe paper bags. The
black was dried exhausted leaves. The green was dried
leaves, covered with • slight coloured coating, and the mixed
hadsome genuine in it. From what be bad seen of the colour-
ing matter, it consisted of the ordinary atone blue, Prussian
blue, cheese. and Dutch pink.—Mr. Alderman Musgrove in-
dicted • plushy of Ca. oa each of the Blba. found in the cup-
board. Es wee thankful to the Excise for plummeting the
affair. he the Imposition was a serious fraud on the poorer

BOW-STREET.—RoissaT ay • "Suavgiox."—W.
Maxims, a surveyor, am shagged oath stealing • theodolite,
worth 20i., the pro d lla Clippilog, el No. 9, South-
smeglowboildhige, H sad aviellear value 101., from
des sidahers of an en We flame fa i4pleigii,-61 bey in the
amiss d Kr. Chipping odaellay amain' be
vest idoltio mmearNi ehenems, use to bile saw doe
=time. Bohm he MA eleseee sib le 'lke
Niel " Bslfoo, ay leis have ay et the sietheela

i arrived yet?" Witness told him be did not know. He went 1
1
' Sown stain, leaviag the prisoner in the room.On returping,
he mused the theodolite, which was rife before he went
away, and the prisms* had decamped —Sergeant Thorium,
F division, found the theodolite pledged in Pickett-street, 1
Strand. He found the second one at the prisoner's lodgings. ,
There were twenty similar cams egaimst bun, and he had only
lately come out of prison, where he had been for stealing
mathematical instruments from a civil engineer who em-
ployed him.—The prisoner said he should plead guilty to
both charges at his trial, and would feel happy in affording
information respecting the other property mentioned by
Thompson.—He we remanded until Tuesday.
CHARGE OP PASSING COUNTIRFRIT COIN AGAINST A
CONSTABLE.—J. Allen, of the E division, was charged with
endeavouring to impose upon his superior officers by parsing
a counterfeit shilling, under the following circunutances :
Constable 79E, stated that on Wednesday last he wasengsged
attending on the inspector, previous to the men receiving
their weekly pay, and having celled out the name of the pri-
soner, to whom 17s. 74d. was due, he came forward and
signed the receipt list, after which he went to !investor
Crawley to receive the money. Having got the money from
the inspector, he instantly came to witness to pay 6,1 due for
cleaning his room, and tendered the shilling produced.
Seeing at was base coin he questioned him, and he said he
got it from Superintendent Griniskin. He had since re-
peatedly attempted to pass it at various shops, but it was re-
fused. Witness, represented the circumstance to his supe-
rior, which led to the apprehension of the prisoner.
The prisoner being called on to account for his conduct, said,
" I did not do it intentionally."—Mr. Jardine : According
to your own statement to the witness, your object was to
pus the counterfeit coin on some person.—Prisoner : I never
did such a thing before.—Mr. Jardine ordered him to he re-
manded until the elicitor of the Mint should be in attend-
ance to conduct the proceedings.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Roasisto Tits DEAD.—Eliza-
be lt Mary Collation, an elderly woman, was finally exa-
mined, charged with stealiog 200 sovereigns, and some
bedding, linen, and household goods, belonging to an old
woman named Smith, lately deceased, who was herself a
recipient of parish relief, end who bad employed the pri-
soner in her last illness.—E. Clark, the deceased's son, de-
posed that be last saw his mother about two months back,
when he visited her at her lodging in Spitalfields, and she
then took from the cupboard a bog of money, and after
having emptied it upon the table, counted up the amount—
just 200 sovereigns—and said to him, " There, my son, all
this will be yours, and you will find something still better
than that." She then shut it up again in the cupboard,
which was secured with a padlock, the prisoner being
present. Repairing to the room which she had oc-
cupied, he found it completely stripped of the goods,
and the bag of gold wu gone from the cupboard,
and he afterwards gave charge of the prisoner, who
had sold the things, and bad no d suld also stolen the
200 sovereigns.—Police-constables 7G H and 219 H produced
two bundles of bedding, linen, and a few household gouda,
which the prisoner had sold, but they found no appearance
of her having had any large amount of money, nor any trace
of the money.—The prisoner declared that, although present
at the interview between her accuser and his moth. r, she
never saw any bag of money, and knew of no such property.
—She was committed for trial on both charges.
Tien ALLEGED INPANTICIDI IN SPITALFIELDB.—Mn-
tiIdes Hainan, 22 years of age, who has been for the last fort-
night under police surveillance in Spitalfields workhouse,
wan, fur the first time, brought before the magistrate upon •
charge of making away with an infant to which she had re-
cently given birth. Her father, formerly a soldier in the
East India Company's service, was also placed at the bar
with her for examination. The coroner's jury had, in the
meantime, returned a verdict of" Found dead,' there being
no direct proof that the child was born alive. The evidence
was now recapitulated in the female prisoner's press nee, and
she was remanded for a week for the completion of the depo-
sition for her committal for Wel upon the charge of conceal-
ing the birth. The male prisoner was informed that bail
would be taken for him if he could procure it.

CLERKENWELL.—UNPROVOK en ASSAULT BY A
POLICEMAN.—PoIice-oonotable No. 103 E, was charged with
assaulting • young man named Lucay.—The complainant
said that on Tuesday night last, near King's-cross, he was
collared by No. 36 of the E division. He asked "What
have I done ?" and before a reply was given, the defendant
came upend beat him mod unmercifully on the back and
shoulders with his truncheon. He was afterwards taken to
the station house, and charged with knocking at doors and
ringing bells, an accusation utterly groundless; and the
inspector, on hearing his explanation, liberated him and
advised him to apply there again for redress. On the follow-
ing morning the defendant called, and asked his pardon,
begging that he would not appear against him, as he hail a
large family, and they would be ruined. Witness extended
his band and forgave him. The affair, however, had
reached the ears of the commissioner', and he was new
reluctantly in attendance at their instance.—Sergeant Dyer,
2 E, said that the case was reported to him, and he considered
it too gross to be passed over, and laid the forte before the
commissioners, who had ordered a public investigation.—A
witness named Williams corroborated the complainant in
every respect.—The officer, 36 E deposed to the same facts.
—Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the defendant what he had to say ?
Defendant: I certainly did strike the man, and am very
sorry.—Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked that it was • very proper
case to be publicly dealt with, and as it was necessary the
police should know the use of the truncheon he should fine
the defendant 10s. He knew that his dismissal from the
force would foUow that conviction, or the penalty would
have been IW.
SOUTHWARK.—Cusiton or FORGEIIT.—E. Austin, •
bookbinder, was finally examined, charged with forging and
uttering cheques, thereby defrauding several tradesmen.—J.
Sullivan, of Great Peter-street, Westminster, said that he had
known the prisoner upwards of 10 years. On Sunday, the
19th ult., the prisoner came to him, and produced a letter,
which he said he bad received from his solicitor, containing
• cheque on the London and Westminster bank for • portion
of a sum of money arising from the sale of an estate. Ile told
him he was in want of a few shillings until he received the
money, and that witness should go with him to the
bank to see that all was right. Witness lent him
124. 6d., and the prisoner left the cheque in his hands.
The witness was induced to go to the bank, and as won as he
presented the cheque, he was given into custody. The
cheque was for 10!. 10s., purporting to be drawn by C.
Chester, solicitor, Brixton-read, in favour of Edward
Austin.—Mr. Chester proved that the cheque now pro-
duced was not in his handwriting.— Baker, 72
said that he took Sullivan into custody in the bank,
but on his giving information about the prisoner, and the
manner in which he became possessed of the cheque, the
magistrate released him. He afterwards in Westminster I
apprehended the prisoner. la his possession he found a
letter, and another cheque written in the same hand as that
stopped at the bank.—J. Hythe, hootmaker, Little Chapel-
street, Westminster, said that the prisoner came to him with
a letter and a cheque for 201. The former purported to
coma from Mr. Chester to the prisoner, inch:lung that sum
as a portion of property disposed of. The prisoner wanted
to borrow 61. of him, but he only lent him Gd. The cheque
and letter now producedwere sU proved to be forgeries.—
Two other tradesmen residing in Westminster also produced
similar cheques which they had lent money on to the pri-
soner.—ln answer to the charge, the prisoner said that he
did not give the cheques for the purpose of being presented;
he only left them in the parties' hands until he repaid them
what he owed.—Mr. Cottingham committed him for trial.
CAPTUILS OF A COINER AND IMPLEMENTS.—J. Brown
was charged with manufacturing. counterfeit half-sovereigns,
and having in his possession various implements and mate-
rial, sash sa axe used in ;preparing base coin.—Sergsant
Brennan, 20 0, said that from information he received from
the solicites of the Mist, he proceeded at four o'clock on the
previous afternoon to No. 18, Martin.street, Blackfriara-road.
Ile found the prisoner busy at a coke fire with plphins, and
other things used in manufacturing coin. The door was very
strongly barricaded with a bedstead and chairs inside, and ft
was with difficulty that the affixes obtained an entrance.
=Moan put something up to his mouth, and threw
on the bed, groaning dreadfully, and called 'out for
water. From every appearance he had no doubt that he
had swallowed some °fettle coin. A counterfeit half-sove-
reign was found on the hearth in the course of manufacture.
The officer said that the solicitor to the Mint (Mr. Powell)
was out of town, and as the prisoner was well known, he
prayed for a remand for a few days.—Mr. Cottingham told
the prisoner (who seemed seriously ill) that he had better
communicate with a medical gentleman immediately, as his
life was of more consequence than the charge against him.
—The
He
denied being occupied in making spurious
coin. He manufactured small medal, and wen in the set of
following that employment, when the officer suddenly en
tered his room and capsized everything.—He was remanded
for a week.

LAMBETH.—FOROSIST or RACING Sweep-TICKTIS.
—O. Smith, who described himself aa a linendraper's rids & ,
ant, was charged with obtaining 61. from Mr. J. Park by !
Mee representations, and selling him a forged ticket for a
sweep.—Mr. Park deposed that on Tuesday night last the
prisoner offered to him for sale, at the Equestrian Tavern,
Surrey Theatre, a ticket for Reminiscence in a guinea sweep
for the Cesarewitch, which he said he was so fortunate as to
draw at Mr. Bare., the Windsor Castle, in Long-acre, He
first wked 71. for it, but ultimately agreed to take 61.,
which witness accepted. lie paid the prisoner in the pre-
SWIM of Mr. Harris, the landlord, and requested
. him to put
his name on the book, when he wrote 'I. Brown" on hie
ticket —Mr. Harris corroborated the statement, and said ho
took the ticket on the following day to the Windsor Castle
Tavern, in Lung-acre, and ascertained from Mr. Barr that it
was a forgery, sad that no twenty shillintreep for the
Ceserewitettled been at that time drawn at houee.—The
prisoner, in reply to the charge, said he had parehased the
ticket himself at the Founders' Arms pabile-lheass, in Hol-
Landotrest, Blackhriars-road, from a pima named Brown,
and he had ne idea that it was a forgery.—
Polka constable 101 L produced a number of tickets which
he found upon the person of the prisoner, and which were
for favourites, and similar to tba sae sal by Ma le Mr.
Park, and said, that when he took him iate weeedy,
that
of was in the set et *voila( of sae ef them, that
Masthin* of r " Rob Roy," to Mr. at Soled Lisa, West-
minster-bridge.—Mr. Harris *ea there could be
no doubt that a number of wen espied in the
fraud, and that the system eseekth ea to a very
considerable extent. —Mr. Mirth, if the Dover Castle
Dover-road, who, with a number of pastes at whose hosts;
sweeps are drawn, was in attendance, said, that no less than
three tickets of Cossack had been p seemed to him for the
same St. Leger Sweep. And he hW no doubt, as mated by
Mr. Harris, that frauds to a very considerable extant hed
been, and vm continued to he, practised on the public by
means of forged tickets.—Mr. Norton remanded tho prisoner
till Saturday next. Ball refused.
Barium) a Fzmea Nora.—Mr. J. Chisholm, the master
baker la the Sant-road, the particulars of whose examina-
tions on a charge of pemirA a " flash note" to a nmnof colour
end
treasterpes:72, at Pee=sal, to payment for a horse,
an
hare
'Wady IL jln our paper, was, finally examined, d
moan kr trial. - -

tHA.M.ES.—Aattria. 114/1111Itill; ox SIOYEMJAILD.—C.
Coleus wag charged with theteltieg a watch, • the property el
Thomas M.Gowao,.meater cif -she Connaught Ranger, lying
off Pickle Herring stairs. Early on Saturday morpieg Cap-
tain bitGowan turned in, leaving Ih:s witch in the state-
room. Shortly after, hearing some one In the place, he
jumped up, and, hastening to the spot, be 'wised a wan,
with whom he struggled, but wbnm it was too dark to re-
cognise. The man called out "Joe," when another person
came down and said, "'Tie all right, captain, give him to
me, take care of him ; I have been looking after the fal-
-1 low for some time." As he appeared to have something like
a truncheon in his hand, the captain understood hint to be a
constable, and allowed him to take the fellow away, the
soi-disonf constable telling the captain to be in readiness
when called upon to give evidence. When the two fellows
got an deck, they jumped into a boat, and rowed rapidly
away. A cap was found in the cabin to connect the prisoner
wilt the tranasetion.—Remanded for a week.
WOOLWICH.—BeIinnAT SYVOGLERC—Sarah Gan-
won, Sarah Clew, and Sarah Fraser, well-known bumboat
smugglers, of Portsmouth, were charged with having un-
lawful possession of tobacco, tea, cigars, &e. liable to forfei-
ture under the customs laws. The penalties amounted to
1001. each. Very extensive smuggling had been csrried on
by the crow of H.M.S. Fiagard, just paid off at the dock-
yard, and io consequence of information received by the
custom-house officers, they went to the residences of the
three prisoners where they discovered a large quantity of
contraband goads, tobacco, cigars, and tea. The prisoners
acknowledged that they bad brought the goods from the
Fisgard. The value of the tobacco alone would amount to
121. 12a., which at treble duty would be 3G guineas. The
three prisoners said they were widows, and they hoped his
woratip would considtr their innocent offspring, and would
not forget the temptation held out by the blue jackets.—Mr.
Jeremy said they must each pay the mitigated fine of 12
guinea'. The prisoners thanked the magistrate, and imme-
diately paid the amount.