The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-23 00:00:00

POLICE.•-•-YESTERDAY.

POW-STREET.—ROBBERY AT TH I POST-OFFICE.-W.
Round, a letter-carrier, was brought before Mr. Jardine,
charged with having stolen a letter containing two half-
crowns. The prisoner was on duty on Monday evening at
the inland office, and kis busineas wet to remove the letters
from behind the obliterating stamper to the sorters ; a letter
or packet addressed to Mr. Hogan, Greyhound, Dulwich,
which had passed through his hands, was afterwards missed,
an 1 the prisoner was removed to another room and searched.
On his person was found a purse containing 5/. Ss. fxl., some
ancient copper coins, four half-crowns, a sixpence, some
half-pence, awl two gold swivel watch-keys. The letter and
envelope, addressed to Mr. Hogan, Greyhound, Dulwich,
was in his coat-pocket. His lodgings at his father's house,
I Brewer-street, Pimlico, were afterwards searched, and in a
box was found four small packets, each containing twelve
gold watch-keys, a small gold and tourquoitse locket, a sove-
reign and several other things. He was then locked up at
the house of the officer of the Post-office, and on Tuesday
morning he said to that person, " I broke the letter open
going up stairs; it contained, two half-crowns; I do not know
what made me do it; I bought all the old coins." At the
request of the solicitor of the Post-office, the prisoner, who
said nothing in reply, was remanded, as there had been an
application made to the Post-office about a quantity of gold
keys which were missing, and there was no doubt the keys
now produced by the officer were part of the stolen property.
The second half of a 51. note for the poor-box, from E. C.,
was received this day.
CLERKENWELL.—CHARITY.—The second half of tha
51. note, 53,480, has been received.
Mary Ann Salmon, a respectable, well-looking girl, 17
years of age, was plead at the bar, charged by Mr. John
Just, watchmaker, of No. 11, Straban-place, Liverpool-road,
Islington, with stealing a bottle of wine, a quantity of wear-
ing apparel, and other property. It appeared in evidence
that the prosecutor had only returned from China within
the last few months, and he had been recently married. He
took the house in which he now resided, and the prisoner
was recommended to him as a servant. She had not
long been with them before she was suspected, and an
article was missed, which was found in her possession.
She burst into tears on the discovery being made. Wit-
ness gave her warning to leave the house, and she pre-
pared to do so. She roped up her trunk, and was about to
leave, when witness and his wife suggested that she should
open it, which having been done, the bottle of wine,
some shirts, and other articles were found. The prosecutor
said he had reason to suspect that other property had been
stolen, and requested a remand, in order that a search might
be made. The prisoner, in her defence, with an air of sim-
plicity, said, " I stole the wine." She was remanded, and
was taken to the lock-up place weeping.
WOES 111 P-STREET.—Two H re BAWDS EQU max xi. TO

NoNE7-lielerea Hurst, a well-dressed middle-aged woman,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, for final exami-
nation, charged with having feloniously received a large
quantity of manufactured silk, the property of Messrs. Jones
and Pain, silk manufacturers in Fort-street, Spite Melds—
. Humphreys, who attended for the defence, produced
a certificate of the prisoner's marriage, and contended that
his client had acted throughout under the immediate con-
trol of her husband, who was alone responsible for the
alleged criminality.—Mr. Heritage, on the part of the prose-
cution, would not dispute the prisoner's marriage; he would
show that such a defence was nugatory, by her previous
marriage to another husband, who had been transported for
a similar offence about eight years ago, and of whose exis-
tence for a considerable period after her subsequent union he
could produce the most conclusive evidence. The latter
ceremony was, consequently, invalid, and the prisoner must
be regarded as afeninte sole, and held responsible in law for her
actions.—Mr. Bingham, under the circumstances, felt bound
to deal with the prisoner as a free and voluntary agent, and
send the case for the consideration of a jury.—Prisoner com-
mitted for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—Mr. Brod.rip received the second
half of a 5/. note, No. 53,17.5, from 'E. C.," the first part
of which was forwarded on Monday for the poor-box. The
benevolent donor requested a notification of its safe arrival
in the newspapers.

LAMBETH.—Gnoss HY£OCRlST.—Elizabeth Dooling,
the young woman who a few weeks since obtained notoriety
by misrepresentation, before a magistrate at Hammersmith,
of the treatment which she had cperiencc•cl at tlyz " GJod
Shepherd" Ca-holic institution, at Chelsea, was placed at
the bar Lefore Mr. Elliott, on a charge of creating a dis-
turbance at the South London Institution, in Lockefields,
Walworth. On the prisoner leaving the Hammersmith
police court, 8,,e was provided with an asylum in the above
Institution, intended for the protection and reformation of
females. Here she so mist). haled herself that after escap-
ing from the asylum she was given into custody; and
Mr. Contys the secretary of the institution said that as it was