The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-01 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

BOW STREET.

Patrick Cteninaham: ;1a1;;;;;,Irsa placed at the bar,
before Mr. Vaughan, charged on suspicion of being con-
cerned in firing into the shop of James Reardon, inClinreh-
street, St. Giles s.
James Reardon, of 10, Church-street, general dealer, stated
that about 1 o'clock on Sunday morning he was in his
shop, when ho heard a sound like that of the report of •
pistol, and the woman called out that she was " bottled "
(hurt). There was • bole like • bullet bole through the
shutter (the shop being closed all but the door), and
through the window frame. There was • round bole
through the pane of glass, which was not otherwise broken
or cracked. Witness gave information to the police.
Between 10 and 11 o'clock on Sunday morning he saw the
prisoner showing a revolver to some other men in Church-
street, and asked to look at it. Witness detained it, and
gave him in cnstody,on the charge of firing into his shop.
The prisoner said 'lt was not me." Witness did not
know that there was any ill feeling between them.
Mary Reardon (no relation to last witness) said she was
waiting to be served when she felt something " hot" her
in the right side. Her stays and other clothes " saved"
it. There was a slight bruise in the place. She knew the
prisoner, and did not think he bad any ill feeling against
her.

Polioe•conetable Frost, )(R E, who took him into
custody, 'kited that the prisoner said he did not do it, but
he knew who did.

Prisoner—Did I not say a man named Halley'
Witness—He mentioned • name. I think he did say
" Ridley," or some name like that.
The prisoner was remanded.

A very respectable-looking man tome before Mr. Arnold
with the following complaint :
He said he lived in Dean's-place, Vauxhall-bridge-road.
He was sitting with his wife and child at supper on
Sunday night with the street-door open, when two men,
who were strangers, rushed in. One of them knocked
applicant's wife down, and the other then knocked him
down, and kicked him about the body.
Mr. Arnold—Did you know anything of the men?
Applicant—Nothing. When they had done I called a
policeman, and wanted him to take the men in charp,
but he refused, although other persons had been
gracefully treated. They gave one of these a black eye,
and the other they beat and kicked about, but the police-
man would not take the men. _

Mr. Arnold—Have you got his number?
Applicant—l have.
Mr. Arnold—His conduct is very extraordinary. Ac.
cording to your account you were sitting quietly in your
house when it was entered by two men. You and your
wife were grossly illtnsated. Other persons were also M-
used, and yet the policeman refused to interfere.
Applicant—And after this the men came out in his
presence from the public-house and challenged people
to fight, and he never interfered. He said he could
not interfere in the case of assault because lie had not
seen it.

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Mr. Arnold—l shall pant you and the woman who
complains of violence warrants free, and in the interest
of public justice I feel it my duty to issue a summons
against the policeman for neglect of duty.

GREENWICH.

Thomas White, described as • blacksmith, of Milton-
nest-Gravesend, was charged on a warrant with deserting
his wife, and leaving her chargeable to the parish of
Greenwich.

Mr. Jordan, assistant relieving officer, proved the
chargeability of the woman to the pariah rates, and said
that the prisoner had promised to come to tome arrange.
went with the board of guardians, but had failed to do so.
A brother of the prisoner here stepped forward, and
said that he had only beard the previous night that
the prisoner was in custody, but he had witnesses in
court who would prove that at the time of his (the
prisoner'a) marriage the husband of the alleged wife was
living.
The wife was then called forward, and admitted that on
the 6th July, 1847 she was married to one George Driver,
at Charlton Church, Kent end that on the 29th October,
1864, she was married to the prisoner.
In answer to Mr. Trail! she said she lived with her first
husband about two years. He was a seafaring man, and
she had heard he lost his life at sea.

John Potter said be knew George Driver and the alleged
wife of the prisoner, having been present at the first mar-
riage 20 years ago. He knew the wife previous to this mar-
riage, but had not seen the husband, George Driver, during
the past 17 or 18 years.
William Richardson said that In 1857 be was working at
Messrs. Scott Russell's, at Millwall, at the time of the
launch of the Great Eastern, and remembered that George
Driver, the first husband, was then working there as a
labourer. He knew both Driver and the woman in oourt,
the alleged wife of the prisoner, and that the first husband
had also filled the position of nurse In the infirmary of
Greenwich Hospital.
Mr. Trill said, according to the evidence given, it would
appear that the first husband was living three years after
the second marriage took place, and although such evi-
dence in a police•oourt was of no legal effect in dissolving
the second marriage, it was sufficient to restrain the parish
officers from advancing money to the wife, and from hold-
ing the prisor:rgrrionsible as her husband. The prisoner
was then disc

SWIMMING RACES.—Yesterday morning the 600
yards open handicap swimming race took place on the Ser-
pentine for handsome silver medals given by the members
of the German Gymnastic Society. Of the fourteen en-
tered thirteen started, via., Mown. Jamas Cole, at scratch ;
W. Long, scratch ; C. Powell, RD sees. start ; G. D. Joyce,
27 secs. ; S. &Mall, 30 sees. ; W. Raymond, 45 secs. ; J.
Warrington, 50 sea. ; N. Collins, 70 sew. ; EL Davenport,
70 sem. ;G. M. Craufurd, 80 secs. ;W. C 6 an, 90 seas. ;
H. Matthews, 95 sea. ; and Joseph Cord, 120 secs.
Bo great an entry attracted a Loge assemblage of
spectators, and many boats were on the water. The
weather was fine, bat the wind caused a ripple
against the swimmers. Those who bad a start allowed
gained • yard in advance for every second, and the
two amateurs at the scratch dived and made
their way after the others. Cole had rather the best
of the start, bet in • few strokes Lon; paned him, the
two racing very fast towards the leading men. Collard
maintained his long lead for a great distance, but at about
160 yards Long gave way to Cole, wbo was soon in the
midst of the others, all lying close together, rendering the
race • very exciting one. Eventually Cole overhauled
Collard, and for a time it was doubtful which would win,
so close was the contest, Joyce being nearly level with
them. Cole, however, slightly forged ahead, and was
hailed the winner by only two seconds. accomplishing the
distance in 8 min. 5 sec., Collard being second, Joyce was '
third, but half • yard in the rear, Long was fourth, Devon.
port fifth, Powell sixth, Warrington seventh, and Collins
eighth, all these being pretty close together and well up
at the finish. Mr. Woodstock made a very excellent han-
dicapper, and he also officiated as starter and judge.
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Tam New Lira Barr.—Despite the fact that
the little raft, intended to act as a life preserver, and
called the Nonpareil, has actually craned the ocean, and
has been for weeks on. of the principal attractions in the
Great Paris Exhibition, we have not as yet heard of •
solitary steamer, packet, or peasengemarrying vessel of
any sort being fitted out with a similar life-saving ap-
paratus. We have already on our seagoing passenger
steamers, on our splendid tinder-box steamboats that run
up and down the Hudson, on the always-in-a-wind-run-
for-the-nearest-port steamers that navigate Long Island
Sound, every imaginable variety of utterly useless m-
etalled life preservers, in the shape of tubes,
and tubs, and stools, and bundles of corks, and tin
tobacco-cans or sardine-boxes fastened under saloon chairs
and settees. That all these are utterly worthless or worse,
some being mere drowning-traps, has been a hundred
times proved. The lifeboats which these steamers are
compelled by law to carry have never yet, in a sudden
alarm of fire or collimion, been found of the slightest use;
not but that the boats once safely settled on the surface
of the water, might be trustworthy, but the truth is,
(end every one with the use of his eyes can verify it •
wore of times a day, by merely observing the way
the boats are stowed on all our out ailing steamers
and ships), that these minor craft, on which may depend
the life of every human being the vessel carries, are slung
so awkwardly, and so out of manageable reach, that in a
panic, or even • moderate hurry, three or four of them are
invariably swamped, even in • smooth sea. And yet
now that a life-raft hes been invented, and been proved
to be absolutely unswiunpable, for strike bow it may—
sideways, edgeways, or bottom-side up—it instantly rights
itself, we have not yet beard of one angle 'easel being
fitted out with this most admirable invention. Surely, it
seems to us that, until • better life-preserver is disoovered,
every passenger-carrying ship or steamer should be fitted
with life-rafts after the fashion of the Nonpareil.—New
York Times, Sept. 16.

NEWBPAPZRA AND OTHER PRINTED PAPERS FOR
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the British rate of pottage on newspapers and other
Ciasedted papers originating ut the United Kingdom, ad-
to Greece, and intended to be forwarded by French
packet can after the Ist November next, be paid in ad-
vance. This postage, which most be paid by means of
postage stamps, is as follows :—For a newspaper not ex-
°siding 4 ox. in weight, duly registered at the General
Post-office for tranamiasion abroad, ld. ; for a packet of
printed papers other than newspapers, not exceeding 4 oz.,
3d. ; exceeding 4 oz. and not exceeding 8 oz., 6d. ; exceed-
ing 8 oz., and not exceeding 12 oz., 9d. ; every additional
4 ca., 3d.

Tar New Law or Doos.—On the first day of
next month the provision in the Metropolitan Traffic
Act will take effect, and, coupled with the new sot on the
dog duty, the law will assume a new phase. The polioe,
under the Trak Act, may take possession of any dog in
the street not under control, sod detain the same until
the expenses are paid. The pollee may require dogs to be
murxled. Where a dog is " apprehended "by the police
wearing s collar, a letter is to be sent to she
When a dog by been in the possession of the police for
three days it may be sold or destroyed. An important
addition has been made, to the effect that on oomplaint to
• magistrate that a deg has bitten or attempted to bite any
mem, be may order It to be destroyed.

THE FENIAN OUTRAGE AT MANCHESTER.

Yesterday morning the 23 prisoners who now stand
charged with the murder of Police-sergeant Brett, in the
attack on the prison van on the 18th of this month, were
brought from Belle Vne Gaol to the City Police-court
under military escort, and placed in the dock.
Mr. Robinson Fowler was the presiding magistrate, and
as on the preceding days of the investigation there was a
large number of the city justices and several officers of the
Rth Hussars and the 57th Regiment on the bench. Mr.
W. H. Higgin, deputy-recorder of Manchester, conducted
the prosecution ; and Mr. Cottingham, barrister, and
Mesas. Roberts, Bennet, and Ward, attorneys, appeared
for the defence of the prisoners.
Mr. Roberts again applied to the bench to have the
handcuffs taken off the prisoners. He said—You observe
the extraordinary quietude of the streets, and the utter
absence of all ground of apprehension. I ask that that
may be done. The men are there not only suffering from
those handcuffs, but from the fact that they have not been
out of their cells since they were first confined. Your
worship's opinion expressed, as I understand, on Satur-
day, has been productive of no good effect whatever. They
have been confined as strictly, and, if possible, more
strictly yesterday than on any of the previous days. They
come here not only manacled, bat jaded, and with all the
circumstances which belong to the method in which
they have been kept. I ask that the handcuffs may be
removed.

Mr. Cottingham—l support that application. I have
not had the opportunity that my friend Mr. Roberts has
had of ascertaining the condition of suffering that these
urZortimate men have been in, but I can support the
application which he makes now to have these unneceass7
and, unconstitutional restraints removed. I base my appli-
cation not only upon the &round of humanity to the pri-
soners, but on the assumption that the magistrates will
have some regard to the dignity of the bench, and to the
feelings of England respecting the proceeding by which
this court has been scandalised.

Mr. Bennet supported the application. He said—l
have seen my clients, and they do cry out against the
sufferings they have been put to unnecesaarily. As an
Englishman, I ay oat that my honour certainly is some-
what sullied by the men having handcuffs on. It is the
first time I ever thought myself a coward at heart, at all
events the bench—l should not say the bench, because I
believe it is not the doing of the bench, but that some
officials or other have put the manacles on and kept them
on. It is an act of dastardly cowardice, that is a disgrace
to this or any other country. Now, lam quite cer-
tain of this, there n has been a necessity for it
from the very commencement. These men have conducted
themselves quietly from the first time they were brought
before your worships. They were two hours unmanacled
before you, and they showed by their conduct that they
were desirous of keeping quiet. There has been nothing
in their conduct from that time to the present which
should lead you to suppose that there will be any distur-
bance whatever. I dare pledge my honour, which I yen•
ture to say has never been disgraced, that these men
would, if these handcuffs were taken off, be as quiet as
any other persona sitting in this court.
Mr. Fowler—l shall only repeat what I have said before,
that nobody more regrets that any prisoners brought
before any tribunal on any charge should be handcuffed.
At the same time, for reasons which I have already ex-
pressed on a previous day, I feel I cannot interfere.
Mr. Roberts—One of the men is mitering from diarrhcea,
and another partially so. Wilson was in the hospital, and
was suffering in the gaol the day before they came here.
I sak you to consider. It is cruel—wickedly cruel.
Mr. Fowler—Let ►medical man be at hand.

Mr. Roberts—You must not go on until 7medical man
arrives, or if you do, you must take the consequences of
your cruelty. (To the prisoner)—You are to be examined
by a medial man, and I suppose you will lose your hand-
cuff, for that time.

The evidence wee then proceeded with.
During the crass-examination of a witness named Edwin
Walton quite • scene arose in court. The witness said he
had aimed a loaded pistol into cowl and would use it if
it were necessary for his protection, but he denied he bad
ever said he would hang all the prisoners, and especially
Larkin. Larkin had asked him if this was a Christian
world ; to which witness replied, be would have • fair
trial, and that he (witness) would go to see him hung.
This the witness repeated in court, and the statement gave
rise to a peat commotion. The prisoners one and all com-
menced Miming, in the midst of which Allen sprung
to his feet as if he were going to leap over the dock,
and vehemently shouted, " It would take better men than
Ts are to bang me, at any rate,"—an exclamation that was
instantly endorsed by Gould, Nugent, and others. Order
was, however, quickly restored, and the examination was
adjourned until to-morrow.
Several of the prisoners were unmanacled, and they
made considerable noise in leaving the dock. Allen bad a
cuff on one hand, and upon hearing • man in the lower
gallery lay. "That's him," he put himself in • fighting
attitude. The prisoners talked very vehemently amongst
themselves, and seemed much excited by the evidence of
the last witness. _

The four men who were brought In from Runcorn, on
Saturday, have been discharged. It turns out that they
were at the soene of the attack, but were on the opposing
side. They pared up and down the line of prisoners to-
night, but failed to identify any of them.
The case for the prosecution will close to-morrow after-
noon. The defence, it is supposed, will not last so lenges
it was at first anticipated, owing **the number of prisoner
that have been disobaqrd.

SEARCH FOR THE FENIAN DEASY IN SHREWS-
RURY.—An unfortunate gentlemen, from Glasgow, spend-
ing his holidays in Shrewsbury, has just fallen a victim
to the seal displayed for the capture of " Captain" Deasy,
the Manchester Fenian. From the statement of the Glee-
gow gentleman it appears that, having been overworked
in the commercial pursuits which he follows in his native
town, he had sought in Shrewsbury that total rest which,
he was advised, was necessary for his health. He arrived
in the town on Friday week, and took up his abode in •
widow's house in a quiet street near the rivers his daily
custom being to take • abort walk in the morning, and to
spend the rest of the day in Lis own room either reading
or writing. A few days after his arrival he had the mis-
fortune to attract the attention of • neighbour named
Evans, who, for some unaccountable reason, instantly oon-
ceived the idea that he was Captain Deasy, and under this
impression watched him day by day till his suspicion
deepened into conviction, and at length he felt it his dot
to lay • formal information in the hands of the borough
police. No steps in the matter being taken by
them, Mr. Davies, on Sunday evening, called upon Colonel
Edgill, chief constable of the county police, and laid before
him a description of thestranger, which so precisely tallied
with that of Deasy, se furnished by the authorities to-the
various police stations, that Colonel Edgill lost no time in
sending off • despatch to Manchester, and then proceeded
to inform the mayor. He found his worship in bed, but
on hearing the facts OA related by the chief constable the
mayor got up and at once went to the polioeoffice and there
took such measures for the apprehension of Deasy as only
needed the person's presence in the house indicated by the
informer to crown them with perfect sumer. Accom-
panied by Colonel', Captain Fenwiok, R.N.
governor of the county , Mr. Hughes, chief constarbleof
the borough, and luJi- risen policemen, the mayor went to
the house where Deady was suppoted to be hiding, and first
disposing the men round about it in such • manner as to
provide for the capture of the Fenian if he should attempt
to make• run for his liberty, knocked at the door, and
after some parley was admitted to the bedroom where the
mysterious lodger slept. After • few questions put by the
mayor and readily answered by the astonished Scotchman,
it became dear that there was a mistake somewhere, and
after apologisityg for the intrusion his worship and the
police °Mom withdrew. Early yesterday morning a
detective police oMaer from Manchester arrived in response
to Colonel Edgill's note, but on learning how matters stood
he returned home.

THZ CHURCH CONGRESS AT WOLVERHAMPTON.
The clerical and other members of the church congress
were arriving in Wolverhampton last evening in conside-
rable numbers. In respect of attendance, as of the nature
of the programme of the papers to be read and discussed,
this congress promises to be one of more than usual im-
portance. Customarily only a few hundred tickets are
taken before the eve of the congress, but {yesterday
afternoon 1,000 had been sold. The local interest
in the meeting was displayed on Sunday evening, when
the Bishop of Cape Town preached at the Collegiate
church. At that place of worship there are three services
on the Sunday. For fully half an hour before the after-
noon service was over the doors were thronged with
people wishing to be present in the evening, and before
the doors were opened there was 4 crush somewhat re-
sembling a Jenny Lind night at the opera. The doors bad
to be thrown open and the whole church left for the
streaming crowd to take their places as they chose. The
church was thronged from altar table to west
door, and after nearly 3,000 persons had got
in, hundreds had to go away. The health of Lord
Wrotteeley is sufficiently recovered to enable Wrottesley-
hall to be used by a few of his lordship's private friends,
amongst whom is the Right Hon. Sir W. Page Wood, but
it will be impossible that the hall can be used for general
visitor, as his lordship had at first intended. The Earl
of Dartmouth's residence is, however, literally thrown
open ; and the private gentry and the tradespeople are all
offering hospitality. Lodgings, therefore, are in abun-
dant supply ; and the arrangements with Messrs. Spier,
and Pond far the supply of refreshments from Bin the
morning till late at night, in the large Corn Exchange,
will be a great improvement upon former congresses.
' The meetings will take place in the Agricultural-hell.
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