The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-11 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

Sir Robert W. Carden asked whether the warrant he
had granted against John Levine, the auctioneer of the
mock auction on Ludgate-hill, and the summonses for
Jenkins and the two men who acted as "bonnets" at
that establishment had been served.

Mr. Davie the second clerk, said he had been in-
formed that Levine had disappeared from London alto-
gether, and it was thought he bad left the country. The
rest were keeping out of the way. They had taken down
the board over the shop front, with " Commission Sale
Room " on it, and had opened the shop ostensibly for the
sale of modern and antique paintings, bronzes, Ice., but
in point of fact the " mock auction " was going on there as
vigorously as ever by a fresh auctioneer and a different
set of " bonnets."

George Henndl, barman to Mr. James Sanderson, the
landlord of the Grapes Tavern, 96, Holborn-hill, was
placed at the bar before Sir Robert Carden and Mr. Alder-
man Hale, charged with stealing two marked shillings.
Mr. Sanderson said the prisoner bad been his barman
for six or seven months. Having suspicions as to his ho-
nesty, he marked 18 shillings, some of which he put into
thetill, and others he gave to friend■ to lay out at the
bar. About twelve o'clock be noticed there were nine of
the marked shillings in the till, and about twenty minutes
afterwards he went again and found only seven. He
called the prisoner aside, and said, " George, I have a very
unpleasant duty to perform. I am afraid you have
been robbing me for some time." He replied, " Are
you ?" lie requested a friend to call in • police-con-
■table, and when he came witness said to him,
in the prisoner's presence, " This is one of my
barmen, and I am afraid he has been robbing
me." He showed the policeman • marked coin, and told
him that within the last 20 minutes he bad mimed two
shillings similarly marked. The officer asked the prisoner
what money he had, and he answered, " None but what
is my own." The constable then said, " Let me see."
Upon which the prisoner pulled from his pocket • quantity
of silver and • half sovereign, and among the silver they
found the two marked shillings. Tho officer asked him
how be came by them, and the prisoner said it was all the
money be had m the world, and it was all his own.
The prisoner, on being asked if be wished to put any
questions to the witness, said, " I wish him to be as liberal
as he can. lam very sorry for what I have done."
Charles Harding, 326, corroborated a great portion of
the foregoing evidence, and said that at the station-house
the prisoner said he had taken it, and he was sorry for it.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and asked for the case to
be settled here. . . .

The court then sentenced the prisoner to six months'
imprisonment with hard labour.

THAMES.

William Wool, a seaman, was brought before Mr. Benson
charged with violently sasaulting George Trotter, whose
head was bandaged.
The complainant said be was a mariner, and that he lived
at the Sailors' Home, in Well-street. On Wednesday
afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, ho was entering the
Home, when the prisoner struck him a violent blow on the
head and knocked him down, and while he was down
kicked him on the forehead and inflicted a severe wound,
from which the blood flowed copiously. The wound was
afterwards dressed by a surgeon. The officers of the Home
at once secured the prisoner.
Mr. Benson—Did you have any quarrel with the pri-
eoner

Witneee—No, sir, I had not seen him before fora long
time.

The prisoner—He kept me in irons for a week.
The prosecutor said that he and the prisoner sailed in
the same ship, the Deerfoot. In the course of the voyage
he directed the prisoner to rig the royal studding sail boom.
The prisoner did not pay any attention to the order, and
half an hour afterwara he saw him indolently lying over the
yard. He ordered the prisoner to attend to his duty, and
reported his conduct to the captain, who put him hi irons.
Mr. Benson—You were an officer of the ship, I suppose?
The complainant—l was second mate.
The prisoner—He has been telling yarns about me. He
tried to coax me to Sunderland, to which place he belongs,
and wants to give me a good thrashing.
Mr. Benson—l have nothing to do with that. Your
defence makes the matter worse. You have shown a spirit
of vindictiveness. The complainant did his duty on board
the Deerfoot, and you neglected yours. I shall not fine
you, but sentence you to 14 days' imprisonment and hard
labour.

SHIPPING Duurriess.—lntelligence was received
at Liverpool yesterday of the following disasters at sea :
The Mansanito, bound from London to Constantinople,
had arrived at Gibraltar in • very damaged state, after
having been in collision with the screw-steamer Jubilant,
bound from London to Constantinople, which soot off
Lisbon. The Oriental, bound from Quebec to Conway,
with a cargo of timber, foundered on the 6th inst. off the
Smalls, after having been in collision with a steamer the
name of which is unknown at present. Part of the crew of
the Oriental wee picked up by the steamer Fitswilliam,and
landed at Greenock. A new timber laden Prussian or
Norwegian barque was passed bottom up off the Longships
on the Bth October. A quantity of wreckage and part of
• compass case, marked Shooting Star, have been picked
up near Milford. _

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