The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

BOW BTREET.

Tae LONDON Dock ROBBSILIIDI —J. Clark, a carman,'
and B. Cohan:, who &scribed himself u a commission
agent, were finally examined, cheesed with being concerned
in the robbery or several begs of coff,e from the bonded
warehouse in the London-dotko, in N.vember sad Decem-
ber, 1849, alleged to be the property of her fdsiesty's Cue-
Mr. Ballantine conducted the prosecution.
Mr Humpbrat the solicitor, a:tended to watch the pro-
ceedings on hAtelf of the dock company.
♦ great number of the custom and dock officen were

present.
J. Burton, an accomplice, was vain examined. He said
be was formerly home warehouseman at No. 2 wsrehous., in
is the London-docks. Ile was now a general dealer, a..ei had
left the 'service of the company. In Nov., 1849, he delivered a
bag of coffee to Clark,who took it out of the docks. Want ea
took the bag of coffee from a pile in the warehouse. and
which was called by the company seeepinge of the different
warehouses. There were upwards of 100 bags of goody
and witness had assisted in '6f:reeling them fr.m different
corpses. Witness received his instructions to do so from Mr
J. Northcott, the deputy warehouseman They were not
sweepine", but goods of g'od quality. The coffee bad been
taken from the cargoes of three *hips. Mr. Nortbcott Is in
the service of the dock company at the present time. A heap
of these goods which were celled sweepings were kept in the
docks a year, when on order would come from the super-
intendent's office to make up what was called sweepings into
cases, and assort them according to their quality.
Mr. Ballantine—That was done by the directions of the
dock company ?
The witness—Yes sir, and the goods weighed by their
chief clerk. Witness never heard of any duty being paid
upon these goods. Witness also delivered two bags from the
same stock in December to Clarke, wt o conveyed them out
of the d eke. In January, 1850, witnius also delivered two
more bege to Clarke.
In cross examination by Mr. Lewis. who appeared for
Clarke, the witness said he made the first ref meet to the
custom* about a fortnight since. Witness was induced to do
so by the statements of C who he had heard had made
statements to Mr. Chandler, the dock superintendent.
Witness admitted that he was a thief before he knew
the prisoners. Be bed been a convicted thief, and tried
at the Central Criminal Court for robbing his mace,.
He might state that ho had committed stewards o' 300 felo-
nies by the directions of the company. The company sold
the goods, and received the bent fi.. Witness aid fraudu-
lently assist in reninying the Reeds. It was not done for kis
benefit, but for the benefit of the company. Wittiest elways
received bit orders in the warehouse. There were other
persons assisted in the unshipping of ttis coffee. The wit-
ness at first said he could not tell the names of the men
who assisted, but afterwards mentioned the mimes of
of the men. Witness first knew C Dins in November lest.
He accompanied Clerk to Collfirs's house for the purpoee et
reeeiviog a share of the dffee which bad been sold by Collins.
He had only two dealings with Collins, but he committed
five stealing' with Clerk.
In re.ezeminarion by Mr. Bsllantine, the witness said he
only received instructions from Mr. Northcott. The instruc-
tions wt re as follows : He entered the service of the dock tom-
pony in the taped, of an extra labourer, and after-
wards the company finding him useful raised bim to the office
of foreman. Mr. Northcott told him always to
abstract as much a, he could from each carp, before
it became housed or bonded These goods would be
called sweepings," snd ultimately sold for the benefit of
the delicacy. Witness obeyed the directions, and generall y
aberracred two tons from every hundred tone He bad
abstracted a great many teas while in the dock. and the
goods were sold for the benefit of the comp.ny. Mr North-
cott was, he believed, in London.
Mr. Humphreys said Mr. Northcott, or any eager at-
tached to the docks, were most willing to attend, it their
evidences were reepirad.
Mr. Ballantine objected to the interferecce of Mr. Ilum-
ohreys. He begged to suite that he should cot call Mr.
Isi.irtheott as a witness, but perhaps he might ►ppear in a
different situation.
Alter some 'nether evidence of a similar character to the
evidence of Mr. Benton,
Mr. Ballantine said these eases had been taken up by the
government, in consequence of the great fraw's upon the
revenue, and also for the protection of merchants who en-
trusted their goods to the care of the dock company.
Mr. Hall fully committed the prisoners for trial on the
several charges, and refused to take bail for their appearance.
Twee prisoners will be tried in conjunction with the
others already committed, et the next sessions.

THE CASE OP THE SLOANKS AND JANE WIL.
BRED —This morning the board of lioardiaos of the West
London Union, with a vise' of carrying out the resolution
passed at the meetiag of the board on Tuesday last, caused
printed placards to he issued and circulated at the various
police statiore and throughout the metropolis, oft ring •
reined of 201. for the apprehension of Mrs. Sloane, who is
described as being about 45 years of age, 6 feet 8 inches'
high, rather thin, and of a lair hut sallow complexion.
'fin PLYMOUTH MURDER.—PLYMOUTH, Jan. 1.
—The mayor having stated on Friday that it war the inten-
tion of the b-nth to give their decision this day at 3 o'clock.
al large a number of persons assembled in the hall, rad in
the approaches to it, as made it difficult for th tee whose
avocations compelled them to be present, to obtain admission.
The prisoner, having been brought into court, the mayor
addressed them to the following cif. ct:—This eau, wLiah,
be was pleased to say, had not had its parallel in the town
for many years, and would, he hoped, not be equalled for
many year* to come, had called for and received from the
magistrates who had been sssocieted with hia.self in the
investigation, the utmost possible attention and consist, ration.
On Friday, after the close of the examination, his brother
magistrates and himself tweed to go through the whole of
the depositioas again, and after spending many anxious
boors in this way, and having got oat an analysis of the facts
with the view of seeing how certain points in the evidence ,
might be oonneceed with certain parties,- and, after giving
dee consideration to the able speech of Ms. Hoot, who had
defended the prisoner', they had come to the unaninacus
conclusion to discharge Timothy Dmnovan, on his entering
late his own receptiveness to be forthcoming whenever called
' for. As to Harrington, the magistrates had concluded that
they would ant correctly discharge their duty if they did sat
send him to Exeter to take kis trial at the eosin's for the
county of D von ; end they considered it fortunate that they
were not called upon filially to try him, but that to would he
tried by a jury of his countrymen. lie would, therefore,
stand committed accordingly.
TEMPERANCE IN LIVERPOOL—It has usually been
a subject of remark (says the Liverpool Mercury) that tie
comber of prisoners charged with bung drunk and disorderly
was greater at this particular period than during any portion
of the year. This year, however, it is satisfactory to state
that the number of "drunk and disorderlies " was very
small for tit, Christmas season, and even be:ow the average
of ordinary occasions. The Beidewell books, on the 26th.
recerided only 23 prisoner a of the a' ore class, and of those 14
were charged with being booked for safety, and only nine
with being drunk and disorderly.
POACHING IN THE LINCOLNSHIIVE FENS.—This
lawless permit, says the Stamford Mercury, is • different
affair from the calling as practised amid game preserves in
the high country ; the fen poacher ie mostly checked in his
before he reaches manhood ; he is inviariably a "cute
chap " The calling in these parts, where game is scarce and
wild, requires perseverance sod powers of observation. The
poacher commences his course, for want of proper aupervi
lion, by netting and fishing in the drains and marshes ; be
soon learns the favourite runs of fish, and can speedily
noosz, a snipe or snare a pike. lie ni xt becomes a menu-
lecturer of nets and mares. The sea-coast farms are hie
favourite resort, especially in Moulton and Holbeach
starches, where the farms are frequently more than 1,000
awes in extent, sod on which the occupants join in pre-
serving the bares for the amusement of coursing. In these
militia( es opening upon the OMIT!, there is ample scope for
as poacher. In " the season of the year" he emerges from
his hamlet about 10 o'clock p.m.; he goes singly, for there
is no fear of meeting armed gamekeepers, and ha carries on
hie arm frequently not less than 100 snares, made of copper
wire, properly smoked and prepared. In his coabpocket is
wally toles found a short gun, the barrel of whisk uoicr,ws;
but it is only occasionally used ; he seldom has a dog, as it
would in the day-time betray the ca'ling of the muter. On
arrivirg at the farm, he observes at once the fields moot
likely for his purpose ; he see his snares in rapid succession
on road ways, toot-paths, sheep-walks, and in green lanes,
these being the runs of the hare wh.n not pursued. The fin
pacher seldom cares about setting • mare in a hedge-row,
for the hare, when arrived at a hole in a hedge-row, it it
bar time will pause at the least twig in its way, and bite it.
The snares being all set, the middle boors of night must b!.
paned somewhere jovially, if the finances will admit. There
are plenty of "Ire retreats" in these lonely situations, the
liras of which sufficiently indicate the calling of those who
patronise them ; there are now " Dog and Ferrets," " Sot's
hole," "Plank.hook and Shovel," and man y others of the
like import Lone before the first gleam of morning, the
seams must be taken up. The capture aerie brace of hares
is a good night's work for the poacher in Holbeach marsh,
and about two or three brace is considered • good night's
work in the neighbouring marshes. if the trespasser be
detected by an early riser, an information is laid. The youth
is for the first time taken into a court of justice; he is fined
405., expenses 205., and committed to prison in default of
payment. He comes out a marked and vicious man ; the
fanner shuns him ; he is frequently out of work ; be monks;
neglected, and at length pined out, he r. sumo his early
practice with more daring resolva, and is ready for any
fate. Again and seaia he is a prey for the officers of justice,
until transportation terminates his career, and his family is
*rows upon the parish. If the cottages of the peasantry
were more frequently visited by the clergy and the wealthy,
the children better instructed and more cared for than the
vermin on the land, and the sums of mosey now expended
in prosecuting offenders against the game-laws applied to
giving instruction and employment to those who most need
It, would not the county expenditure soot be greatly reduced,
and the country at large be greatly benefited?
PRIZE-FIGHTING IN SCERET.—At the meeting of
the Surrey magistrate* on Taesdsy, a lengthened discussion
took place oith reference to the conduet,of the'SouthWestma
Railway Company, n giving • special, train for the
she combatiats and their friends on the occasion of the
recent fight between the Tipton Slasher and Paddock. Oise
of the magistrate', Mr. Scott, who is also • director of the
mammy, on the part of that body stilted that they had es
knowledge at the purpose for which the train war toed
the o.casion referred to, and gave an asanrance that tars
faci:i'y for • similar " dentonstrati.n " should b: hereafter
afforded by the railway authorities. On the faith of this
MIMEO tbte indictment fora misdemeanor has been with.
drawn.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE BISILOP
OF OXFORD AND MR. ALDERMAN SADLER.

The correspondecco between the Riehop cf Oxford
and Mr. Alderman Sadler, arisirg out of a s:atement I
made by the latter at a meeting of the Town Council
of Oxford, that many clergymen in the loshop's
diocese were teaching Roman doctrine while reomv-
ing the church's money, has been published in a
pamphlet, from which extensive extracts have been'
made by the newspapers. The most characteristic
parts of the correspondence appear, however, as yet,
to have es7aped the caterers to public curiosity.
In the first letter, dated November 30, the bishop
categorically cal:s upon Mr. Sadler to name the
clergyman to whom he alluded.
Mr. Sadler, in his reply, dated Dec. 3, declines " to
usurp the special junctions of your Archdeacon ;" but,
nevertheless, names several clergymen to whom his

description appli,d.
On the Sth of December the Bishop again ad-

drtareriMr. Sadler to inform him that he was'' not
the accuser of the clergy ; ' adding that somo of the
clergymen i anted were not enbject to the Bishop of
Oxford, and that othLra of them Ind not pre,:chai

Roman doctrine.
Mr. Sadler exposed the evasive character of the
Bishop's letter in an answer doted December 7. This
letter called forth the following epistle em,nently
1 characteristic of him whom men_call_the Bishop of

Oxf.). d, and the god.„ Slippery Sara."
Cuddesdon Palace. Dec. 11, 1850.

My dear Sir,—My object ir. first addressing you was per-
fectly
simple. You publicly charged " many " not any clergy
with cot-scions perfidy, and challenged my attention to the
charge It such a charge could be substanliated by facts, it
was of the utmost moment to the church that I should know
those facts: it was doe.to my Stagy that it should be known
if those lactic Add not be substantiated. In your first letter
you lamed Dr. Puny as being the proof of your words. In
reply I explained to you that !..e was not une of my clergy,
being not only (as you understood me) as Professor of He-
brew, but 11113 es Canon of Ch. Ch., not under my jur:edie.
tios, but under the visitation of the crown. In your rm.'s'
letter you further name Mr. Allies, Mr. Pollen, end Mr.
Marriott. Only the last is ore of my clergy; and as to
him, though I consider his words highly objectionable, I do
hot think that they establish your charge of perfidy. I
gather, therefore, that you are unabl to establish the charge
you made by any allegations capable of legal proof. Here,
therefore, so far as I am concerned, this correspondence
closes. Only, before I lay down my pen, I will say thus
much on certain other paints touched en in your last letter.
Aud first, for the frequent attacks it contains upon myself.
I ded not commence this correspondence with any view of
justifying my own conduct. I eaould think this a most
prop. r mode of doing so. If I did not, I could sneerer all
your charges as easily aa, first, the one you have adopted
from Mr. Bricknell, via., that I had consurced many
chapels with stone altars, and was about to c ;Literate
another; whereas I nee. r knowinzly cons, crated any, nor
hi:Neve ignorantly more than one; and I ordered that listed
in Si. George's to be removed the v.ry day I learned it had
boss erec ed; alm:st • foresight before Mr. 11. wrote ; or,
secondly, the other, that I tolerated Mr. Allies, when I took
every step I coal with regard to him immediately on the
publication of his book, acting throughout with the full con
I currence of the present archbishop, and under the legal ad-
, size of Dr. Lusbiogton. But Ido Lot feel it right teen to

enter upon such mater, here.
S,conelly, I did net intend to charge you with being a
slanderous calumniator. 1 believed you to have spoken
under the influence of warm feelinp on a moat important
subject without due caution ; and 1 d • ti to remind you
how easily such general assertions might lead a mon into the
sin of evil speaking
I have myself a vivid perception of the dangers to which
our church is exposed from the fearful tendency meads
Rome which hes manifested itself amongst us. I neither
deny nor undervalue the evil. To dent with it aright has
been my greatest tile' for years past. I have striven, and,
please God, shall strive with all hoeul weapons against it.
But I cannot take part in persecution : I cannot allow
Cnurch of England principles to be lightly branded es
Popish . I cannot bring sweeping charges, or admit them :
I cannot, because the perverseness. iestatility, lied duplicity
of a few has roused the heart of England, suffi r the prin.
ciples of her Hooker and Beveridge aed Andrew. a to be
condemned in their living maintainers. I believe that the
main hindrance in the way of a real squiratien of
Romanisers from us is to be found in the violmee and
unkind and unjust judgments which abound among us, and
which such sweeping censures as that I noticed in your
speech tend to multiply.
In concluding this correspondence let me rzmind myself
es well as you, that the weak of God must be done in meek.
nem, and that "the spirit of a sound mind" is also the
"spirit of love."—l am, dear sir, very faith:nee. y •:ure,
Mr. Aldt7flll',llSadler. S. Oxon.
Mr. Sadler replied on the 13th, at soma length.
The mos: important pa-sage in [re Etter is that ice
which be points out that the biahcp had, voluntarily
or involuntarily, confounded the scco4,l with the
first letter of Mr. Bricknell.
The bishop's rejoinder was brief:
Cuddeedon Dec. 14, 1850.
D:ar Sir,—l must adhere to my r. solution ci not being
drawn into a correspondence on otter p• melts than the one
on which I originally addressed you. But I must note
three points in your last letter:
1. 1 have seen no second letter of Mr. Brieknell'e, nor
was I aware when I wrote to you that he had writer n one.
2. I am entirely ignorant of Mr. P..ll•n's epic; preached
in this diocese.
3. 1 did not charge you with " coiling on me to take part
in persecution, &ei , enc.," I only indicated the principles
and limits by which I should be guided and restrained in
derling with men of whose epinioes I dis .pprov.set.-1 em,
dear sir, very faithfully your,, S. Ono's.
Mr. Aldermen Sadist.
Mr. Sadler was equally laconic ; be merely dis-
claimed any wish to draw his lordship it,ti a contro-
versy, and begged to forward Mr. Bricknell's second
letter to him. Here is that document; it is a clincher :
Eynsham Vicarage, Dee. 2. 1850.
My Lotd,—" An Incumbent in the Diccese of Oxford,"
in a communication which he has ad teemed to several of
the London sad provincial papers, has p sitively dieted the
truth of a statement which I ventured to make in my re.
cent letter to your lozdship, to the effect that "you have
already consecrated several stone altars even in cemetery
chapels within your deices.," and meets, upon what he
calls " the best grounds," that, upon " whatever evidence
Mr. Bricknell's belief may have been founded, the fact is
that the only stone altar ever consecrated by the Bishop of
Oxford w is in the cemetery chapel of Holywell."
My Lord, were this the case, most glad y would I retract
what 1 have advanced on this painful subj-et, and apologise
to your lordship, as it would be my betiodut duty to do, for
my want of " a more accurate acquaintance with the facts
on which I have professed to remark." Unfortunately it is
not in my power, consistently with the truth, to do tither
the one or the other.
That there is a stone altar in the cemetery chapel of Saint
Cr..., in the parish of Hoiywell, in the city of Oxford—that
there is another stone altar, with the addition of large wax
'Godley, in the cemetery chapel of St. S puichre, in the same
city ; that there is a third stone altar in the " SCapilla B.
Maine V. sp. piney,}" also a cemetery chapel, and in the
tame city ; that the cemetery chapel at Wantege contains a
stone credence table and piscine; that the little chapel at
Charlton, in the parish of Waning., adjoiniret my own
parish of Grove, has ekewiee a atone credence table and
piscine, that all these structures have been consecrated by
your lordship, in my own immediate neighb-nrhood, are
facts which I believe on the evidence of my senses, and
which fully justify my assertion, that your lordship has
"consecrated several stone altars, even in cemetery chapels,
in your diocese."
When 1 add that, in the parish church of "%Vantage the
communion table has been made to apptosim ite, as closely
as possible, to an altar ; that is is ,'reas,d, at different times,
in different colours—purple, white, or scarlet, as the season
may require ;* that the house occupied at Wanterre by the
Sisters of Mercy, an establishment, the " Mother Superior"
of which has recently apostatised to the Church of Rome,
contains a private chapel furnished with a marble %lab for
the celebration of the Eucharist-1 speak, not indeed from
my own personal observation, but upon te,timony which I
have y reason to believe.
But, to return to the alter at Saint Cross, "An Incumbent
in the Diocese of Oxford," taking upon himself to reveal
even your lordship's thoughts at a time when you came-
crated this structure, tells us that you " supposed it to be a
wooden table for the communion." He di es not tell us
upon what suppodtion your lordship accounted for the pre.
since of any such table, whether of wood or stone, in a
chapel to be used only for the burial of the dead, and sepa.
rated merely by a wall from the parish church. Your
lord-hip cannot but be aware of the ulterior object for
which these altars are introduced—an object which, in some
quarters indeed, is, even now, pretty plainly &veered.
That " the anal" at Saint Cross, ," at the time of its
consecration, was to covered that your lordship could not
see it, nor be aware of what material it was constructed," is
an assertion wtieb I as readily believe : it confirms the
beast of certain partite who, with all their reverence for
episcopacy, can disport themselves at the (loose of their
diocesan—" The altar was put in petticoats, and the bishop
was cheated!" So much, my lord, for Tracarian morality !
So much for the " method of economy," by which, even on
OCCAIIiOIIB the most solemn, a bishop may be " deceived fur
his good !"
There is yet another point, with reference to the altar at
St. Cross, to which I must briefly allude. "An Incumbent
in the Diocese of Oxford " states that, " as soon an your lord-
ship became ewers that it was a atone altar, you immediately
desired it to be removed." My lord, without pretending to
the information possessed by my reverend brother on this
subject, L will only remark that the altar is not yet removed,
though "consecrated more than three years since," and
though along time has elapsed since your lordship became
topmast of its real character.
I pass on to the church consecrated by your lordship at
Oxford on Saturday last. "Aa Incumbent in tee Diocese
of Oxford" states that your lordship, " having beard, on the
12th of November, that a stone altar had been placed in
at once signified to the parties concerned in the building,"
your "determination not to consecrate tee church until :he
altar was removed, and a wooden table substituted."

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