The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-15 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

CLERK ENWELL.
CRUELTY TO • BULLOCK. —Joseph Fisher, of Woodside,
Hatfield, a drover, was charged with crueU usbeg a but
lock. It appeared that on Saturday the prisoner and two
other men were employed to drive some oxen from the Tot-
tenham station to a arm aalornsey. In the Green Lanes a
fine " thrte-yesr-old steer," over. fatigued from the journey,
fell down. The prisiner and the other men resorted to •
new means of torture to force the poor brute to get upon
its legs again. One of them held the tail out tight to its hill
length, whilst the two others, holding a stick of ground
ash, one by each end, "sawed " the poor animal with great
force under the extended tail.
Sergeant Judd, 44 N, declared that he never saw an ani-
mal seem to suffer more under any punishment. It writhed
and quivered, and made a most piteous noise. This officer
interfered as soon as he could get up ti the group, and took
the prisoner into custody. The beast's tail was broken in
thrert places. The under side was quite etript of the hair
and skin, and was covered witltblood.
The magistrate, having severely reproved the drover for
his cruelty, sentenced him to pay a fine of 405., or be impri-
soned for 14 days with bard labour.
SOUTHWARK.
CRARON OP UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COIN: ASSAULT
ON A POLICPSIAL—C. Harper and Eliza Nicholson were
charged with uttering counterfeit coin, and the former was
further charged with breaking a policeman's arm.
Policeman Whitlamb, 89 ki, stated that on Saturday sight
whilst on duty in Star-owner, Bermondsey, he noticed the
prisoners together, and knowing they were common utterer,
of counterfeit coin, he watched them, and observed the
female enter two publio-houses, while her companion waited
at some distance. The policeman finding that the woman
had passed two counterfeit shallop', went up and took'them
both to the station-house, where they assumed to be
strangers to each other. Subsequently to the charge having
been entered on the police sheet, and when the policeman
was in the act of taking them to the cell, Har-
per threw himself on the ground, and swore he would
not be locked up, at the same time making violent mai/Once.
The rliceman pointed out to him his folly, and the pri-
soner gavehim a desperate kick, which fractured the bone
of disarm and rendered him powerless. Other policemen
coming to his assistance, both the prisoners were then
dragged to the cell and locked up.
Harper complained that he was treated in a brutal manner
before he offered any resistance, but this assertion was com-
pletely refuted ; and evidence having been adduced that
both the prisoners were well known as common utterers of
counterfeit coin, the magistrate committed them on the first
charge, adding that he should also commit Hooper for
breaking the policeman's arm while in the execution of his
duty.

MONEY MARKET.

MONDAY ETZNING.

The advises from Hamburg in the City to-day are
to 11th inst. They contain no intelligence of interest,
or in any respect to vary the last accounts of the
market, owing to the continued excitement and sus-
pension of business from political moves. Exchange
was quoted as follows :—Oa England, at shor.,
13.101; ditto, at three months, 13.9 ; on Paris, three
months, 1871 ; on Amsterdam, two months, 35.60.
The advice, from Amsterdam and Rotterdam, of
11th inst., received today, are equally devoid of any
fresh feature. The prices of sugar on the day snbee-
queit to the public side at Rotterdam, were quoted at
an adcance on the sale prices.
There are letters received to-day from Smyrna via
Trieste, dated 29th ult., but they add no fresh infor-
mation to the letters received lasts eek, the markets
continuing the same, and exchangquite as high as
the previous quotations.