The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-27 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

f3OUTHWABH.
A tall old man, of respectable appearance, dressed in
black, who gave the name of William Smith, and stated
himself to be a gentleman, with no home or habitation,
was brought up on a warrant by Sergeant !Peirce,
of the M division, charged with being concerned
with Joseph. Row, in custody, in obtaining the sum
of 1101. from Colonel Greer, of her Majesty's 68th Regi-
ment of Foot, by false and fraudulent pretences.
Mr. W. Edwin appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that on Monday, the 18th, Colonel Greer
saw an advertisement in the Times of two first-rate hones
to be sold, in King-street stable., Borough. He went to
the latter place, and saw a man dressed as a gentleman's
coachman, and a well made-up old gentleman, who called
himself Mr. Turner, and the owner of the hones, and
from his statement he was induced to give 1101. for them.
On the following day they were found to be worthless,
but the coachman was apprehended, and taken before the
magistrate on Monday last, and remanded, to enable the
police to capture the " old gentleman," who absconded.
Set Pearce said he saw the prisoner about to ante
a stable in Finsbury that morning, and being satisfied that
he was the Mr. Turner he wanted, he went up to him and
said, "Good morning, Mr. Turner, have you any horses
for sale!" Witness was dressed in plain clothes at the
time, and the prisoner answered, " No, I have no hones
to sell at present." He then told him he was a constable,
and that he wanted him for being concerned with another
in defrauding Colonel Greer of 1101. by selling him worth-
less horses. The prisoner said, " You have made a mis-
take ; my name is Smith. I know nothing of Colonel
Greer, and I was not there." The prisoner took out hie
pocket-book to get his card, and retired to the end of the
stable. When he came back again the pocket-book could
not be found. Witness added that the other man was re-
manded until Thursday, when the colonel would be in
attendance.
Mr. Woolrych accordingly remanded the prisoner until
Thursday next.

THE FATAL COLLISION AT LONDON-BRIDOZ.:

Mr. Humphreys, the Middlessx coroner, held an inquiry
last evening at the George and Dragon tavern, Wardwell,
on view of the bodies of Miss Rebecca Eliza Griffin and
Francis Goode, two of the four persons who were drowned
by the collision which took piece last Sunday week be-
tween the Eagle steamer and a small boat at London-
bridge, as has already been reported. The evidence was
substantially the same as that taken at the previous in-
quest upon Miss Sewell, held by Serjeant Payne, but the
cross-examination by Mr. Morgan Howard, barrister,
elicited the fact that as the steamer "lay dead" (not
moving with her paddles) athwart the river, near the
centre arch of the bridge, the men whose duty it was to
look-out were engaged in hauling in a rope from the direc-
tion of the Fresh-wharf, and although one of the men said
he k..3t one eye on the rope and another on the river, it ap-
that the boat had come nearly through the arch
before she was seen. Of the seven persons in the boat,
four were drowned, three of the deceased being young
women, and the fourth Francis Goode, being a married man
with eight children. The jury returned a special verdict,
"That the deceased were drowned in the Thames acci-
dentally, and that there was negligence on the part of the
steamer Eagle in not keep* a proper lookout."
CRYSTAL PALACE. —The ballad concert yesterday
evening was a success, 17,144 people being present. The
great orchestra, filled with nearly five thousand persons,
was, of itself a sight worth seeing. Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr.
Bentley, Madame Parepa, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mies
Edmonds, and Mr. Weiss, were each much applauded and
encored. The palace was lighted up after the concert, and
thousands of persons promenaded until 10 o'clock. So
groat was the success of the concert that it is announced
for repetition next Wednesday, with varied programme,
but with the same gingers. The great archery fete will
take place to-morrow, and being Coronation-day, a very
large attendance is expected en the cricket ground.
COAL EXPORTS nom GREAT BRITAIN. —From
the usual monthly returns of the exports of coal from
Great Britain it appears that during the last month there
were exported from Great Britain 851,894 tons of coal.
The following ere the shipments from the different ports :
From the northern ports, 426,883 tons ; from the York-
shire ports 36,933 tons ; from the Mersey, 75,429 toss ;
from the Thames, 6,779 tons ; from the Severn ports,
256,991 tons ; and from the Scotch porta, 48,880 tons.
When compared with the corresponding month of 1866
the increase for the pest month is 40,731 tons. The total
exports from January to May inclusive are 3,611,202 tons,
which shows an increase of 306,876 tons over the same
period of last year.
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