The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-09 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAT.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A GAOL BREAIER.—On Satur-
day last, a fellow named Dennis Shine, who had been sen-
tenced to imprisonment for the term of eighteen months, for
• most desperate assault, contrived to escape from Giltspur-
street Compter, after having undergon nine months of his
sentence. He had contrived, while the bricklayers who
have been at work ou the top of the prison were absent, to
reach the roof by their means of access, and after having
stripped off his prison jacket and shoes, to step into a neigh-
bounog house at the garret window, and to escape through
the house, and out at the hall door, without interruption.
Shortly after one o'clock the escape was discovered, and
officers were despatched to watch the different neighbour-
hoods in which his friends resided, as he had not a
fiuthicg in his possession, and would have been compelled
to seek the as istanoe of those who knew him, or return to
his old quarters, or perish. The calculations of the police
were correct. After having undergone inconceivable fatigue
in evading pursuit, he gave himself up en Sunday morning,
and was reconducted to the Compter. lie contrived imme-
diately after his escape to reach the house of one James
Conway, with whom he had been well acquainted, and to
obtain • coat, waistcoat, and bat there, with which he ex.
pected to be able to disguise himself, but that manoeuvre
put Conway to inconvenience, without in the slightest de-
gree benefiting Shine. Conway was apprehended and
charged with having been an acaccessory after the fact to the
escape of Shine, by accommodating him with the clothes.
The statement of the witnesses, however, went no further
than pronn g that the prisoner called at Conway 's lodgings, and
prevailed upon Conway's wife, by operating on her fears, to let
him have the clothes, and that at the time Conway himself
was absent.—Conway, who said he had no notice that the Man
had escaped until informed of his visit, and of the freedom
he bad made with the wardrobe of the family, was at once
discharged.
THE DANGEROUS STATE OP TOWEH-STRBET.—Yesterday
a deputation from the inhabitants of Tower-street and its
vicinity, consisting of Mr. Howell, Mr. Barber, Mr. Finnic,
and other influential and respectable residents, waited upon
the Lord Mayor for the purpose of representing to his lord-
ship that great danger to life and limb arose from the narrow
state of Tower-street, which had become almost wholly im-
passable to passengers in consequence of the vast increase of
commerce. The object of the deputation was to induce the
Lord Mayor, as one of the Comqtationers of Metropolitan
Improvements, so to communicate the exact condition of that
crowded thoroughfare to his brother commissioners, as would
lead to ss speedy a correction of the evil as possible.--His
lordship advised the deputation to convene a meeting,
and determine whetter the line recommended before the

commissioners should be that adopted in the application
to parliament ; and he said he was satisfied that the commis-
sioners would render all the assistance in their power to
procure an improvement which would add so many facilities
of trade to that part of the city of London. Theimprove-
ments suggested consisted of a new street from Trinity-
street, prang through Seething-lane, Mark-lane, and
Mincing-lane, and coming out near St. Margaret Pater's
Church by Rood-lane ; and it was also contemplated to make
a thoroughfare at the Postern-road, which would be avast
accommodation to all the eastern parts of the metropolis, and
particularly to the enormous traffic of the docks. His lord-
ship said tkat if the inhabitants assembled and determined
upon a Olin, means would be at once adopted to prepare a
lull for introduction into Parliament. The deputation inti-
mated that the meeting should be called, and the suggestions
of his lordship should meet with immediate attention.

CLERK EN WELL. A SMALL LOAN. A poor old
woman, with a eery confident air, went up to the bench
and asked his worship if he would be so good as to oblige
her with a couple of shillings, so that she might buy a few
thine to sell in the street, as she had go other way of
making out • living.—Mr. Combe asked her why she
did not apply to the parish ? The woman said she had done
so, but they refused to relieve her. She went on to say
that she had a basket of fruit, but it was seized by the
police, so that if the magistrate did not relieve her, she
must starve or beg.—Mr. Combe sent an officer with her to
the workhouse.

LAMBETH.--/YEEII AT MIN 01 Covers.—Yesterday
Mr. Meymott, clerk to the Commisioners for the Borough
Court of Requests, attended before Mr. Elliott, to give some
explanation in a ease which stood adjourned from*" pre-
ceding day, and in which an officer, named Retchey, belong-
ing to the Borough Court, had been summoned to show
cause why he detained a mangle and other property belong-
ing to an aged female, names' Smith. From what had
transpired on the preceding day, it appeared that Retchey
held a warrant from the Court of Rattiest' to seise upon the
goods of William Taylor, for a debt of 11. lbs. but that per-
son having no available property, the officer seised upon the
goods of his mother. The latter made application to Retchey
to adopt the means by which the court would be enabled to
restore to her her property, and was told that in the first
place she would have to take out a summons, which would
cost her two shillings, and that she would have two shillings
in addition to pay for the hearing of the mac—Mr. Elliott,
upon being made acquainted with this latter fact, caused a
summons to be lamed against the officer, to show cause why
be detained the property, and the poor woman having satis-
factorily proved that the property was hers, the magistrate
was about to make an order upon Retchey for its restoration,
when the latter requested the are might be postponed for
the attendance of Mr. Meymott, the commissioners' clerk.
That gentleman attended yesterday, and contended that the
magistrates of this court had no jurisdiction in the matter,
and that the Court of Requests had all the power to dispose
of it. Mr. Elliott ultimately, as a matter of favour, allowed
the case to stand over for a week, Mr. Ileymott undertaking
that in the interim the matter would be settled by the Court
of Requests, without any expense to the poor woman.

WORSHIP-STREET. Assanur ON THE POLICE.
William and Ruben Bray, two muscular labouring men,
and Mary Anne Bray, wife of the first-named prisoner,
were placed at the bar for final examination, charged
with having assaulted and wounded police-constable
Husseyseriously , H 214, whereby his life had been endan-
gered. Several witnesses were examined, from whose
evidence it appeared that between five and six o'clock in the
evening of Tuesday, the 26th ult., as police-constable K. 196
wason duty in Manchester-street, Bethnal-green, he observed
the three prisoners knocking violently at the doors of several
successive houses, and on requesting them to desist, he was
attacked by one of the male prisoners with such ferocity that
he felt it necessary to hasten off for assistance. Having met
the constable Hussey in an adjoining street, they both
returned to the spot where the prisoners still kept up the
same riotous behaviour, and the second officer was about to
seize the most violent of the three, when the prisoner Wm.
Bray wrested his truncheon from him, and struck him
such a merciless blow on the head that he was
felled to the ground and rendered insensible.—
Finding himself unable to contend against suck powerful
assailants, the other officer hastened once more to procure
further aid, and before he 'glen returned to the spot several
other policemen opportunely arrived, and found the three
lrisoners beating and kicking the officer, Hussey, who was
ying on the around completely helpless and covered with
blood. After a severe struggle the prisoners were ultimately
overpowered, but it required the united efforts of nearly a
dozen policemen to convey them to the station-house.—
Mr. Mears, the divisional surgeon, described the nature of
the.iniuries the officer had received, from the effects of which
he had *MT since been confined to his bed, and continued
for several days in a state of imminent danger.—Mr. Heri-
tage, who appeared for the defence, strongly urged the
m to deal summarily with the case in consideration
orairPe revions good character of the prisoners, but Mr.
Broughton said that the offence was of far too serious a cha-
racter to be memmartly disposed of, 'land he should commit
the two MAIO prisoners to Newgate.
Tits Itawovriaci Nuts...Not—ln the course of the after-
noon, Mr, Thomas Graeber, solicitor, of Billiter-square, ac-
oonymnied by two of the churchwardens of Bt. Matthew's,
Friday-street, who were alleged to have sanctioned the re-
moval of the extensive deposits of broken coffins and human
homes from the vaults of the church in Friday-street to the
field adjoining the Regent's canal, where they were fund
publicly exposed, presented himself in court, and Intimated
to the
had
that in ameequesios of the statement'
which had appeared in the public papers relative to the
grow transsotion, his clients had felt it their duty to come