The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-31 00:00:00

THY ACC DL IT THZ GREAT NORTHIERN RAILWAY.

EXAMINATION ON TIN GUARD.

James Ifirmnien, aged 32, a guard on the Great Nor-
thern Railway, re.iditig at Sheffield-street, Manchester,
was placed at the lar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with
being drunk and negligently omitting to perform his duty
while guard of a railway train os the hn3 of the Great Nor-
thern Railway, whereby the lives of several persons tra•
yelling by the train of which he was a guard were elldal2-
gored, in the parish of St. Pancras.
The evideoue went to show that the priwiner was drunk,
sad did not put the break on. The dri3ar pre the usual
signals, but the prisoner took en notice of them.

The prisoner in defence said that he Lad had four glasses
of ale and a slam of gin at Price...rough, but he was nut
drunk. He put the break on, but ultuotrh it was found
off at the station that might have occurred by accident.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a rory ..6.111,1 matter, and sent
him to the House of Correction with hard labour for two
calendar months.

801711fWARK.

♦ HAISTICR CLOCI-MAIIII CHARGED ROTH STEALfI!G A TIME.

FIMR AND A CLOCK.

John Leogfru, a German cock-maker, was brought before
Mr. Bonham charged with stealis; • time-picoe and clock
from the shop of Mr. John Riixleo, soother German clock-
masker, carrying on Wainer at 152, Gromelbetreet.
Ties prosecutor mid that he kept • shop at the
latter address, sod that he sold and repaired
clocks and timepieces. On Thunday afternoon last he
LiTtl• timepiece which be had for wile on the shatter-
oil • clock belonging to • customer on the ;roved
near it. He left for • few mini:tes, soil when he returned
to the shop he mimed them both. The clock was packed
up, addreand to a penult at Tooting, and wee waiting fur
the carrier to call far it.

iii-iijakcdWhether either of the articles had
been found?

The prosecutor replied in the affirmative. As he was
palmind a rtils clock•coaker's shop in Market-street, he saw
his timepiece in the window. He immediately called a
pokice-:actable and entered the shop, when lie gave the
prisoner into custody.
Joseph Allen, police-constable 39 If, mid that he wee
called by last witnois into the pnarner's shop nt 41, Market-
street, when the timepiece was poslucul, and identified by
the proesentor, who gave him into custody. As they were
going to the station•lionse the prisoner admitted steeling
the timepiece, but he denied all knowledge of the dock.
The prisoner said that was quite true. He pleaded guilty
to the chew, and wished his worship to dml with him.
Mr. liwelsam toll him his was a bad case—robbing a
fellow tradesman in such a barefiscAl manner. He sentenct
him to forr mouths' hard labour in Wandsworth House of
Correction.

GREENWICH.
CAUTION TO SERVANTS.

John Cox, a man about 35 years age, and describing
himself a. a hawker from Itasibul, Berkshire, was brought
up on remand, before Mr. Maude, charg Al with gaining ad-
mittance to the house of Mr. John Kensington, • gentle-
man residing at Charlton, for an unlawful purpose, under
pretence of having been sent to look at the gas.
From the evidence given it appeared that on Friday
afternoon last the prisoner rang the door bell, whim
was answered byYarb Stiles, the servant, to whom
he stated that be had been sent from Woolwich
to look to the gag. The servants wore engaged at the
time in pecking up the furniture, the family being
about to remove, and on the prisoner being admitted
he proceeded into the kitchen, where under pretence
of wishing. to see the lady of the house privately, he
succeeded in getting rid ef the servant for • short time.
On the return of the servant and the gardener, •
parcel was observed packed up reedy fur removal,
which had not been observed previous to the prinoner
admittance into the home, and as it appeared the
servant had been called back when about going to
tell her mistress that she was wanted, the prisoner
made another ...plicatin to see Mrs. Kensinton, and af-
terwards severel,d in making his escape. lidermation was
then given to the police with • description of the prisoner,
and OLI the following, morning police-constable Moore,
164 it, apprehended him at Lewislmm, when on beingtold
the nature of the charge against him, he denied having been
In the neighbourhood of Charlton at the time stated, or in
any person's house.
The prisoner now admitted being at the residence of the
prosecutor, but denied that he said he had been sent to look
at the pa,
The witness Stiles said she could nut be mistaken in what
she had stated, fur the prieouer told her twice that he had
been sent for that purpose, before she admitted him.
Mr. Maude said that had it been clearly proved that the
property found packed up in the kitchen had been so packed
up by the prisoner he should certainly have felt it his duty
to have committesi him for trial. As it was, there was no
doubt in his (Mr. Maude's) mind that the object be had in
view was an unlawful one, and he would therefore be ire-
prieened sod kept to hind labour in Maidstone gaol for
three months.

The prttooer, without making may remark, wee thee
removed.

DINTRCCTION or Pftormery BY Flu=—This
Murialay) morniog, at a few minutes before 2 o'clock, •
fire happened in the premises behaving to Mr. Powi• •
wham-taint, situate at No. 11.12, Tooley-street, Borough.
The building and all it oontained were nearly destroyed.—
During the whole of the night a tremendous are has
been rasing at Bermondsey-wall, and it was not entirely
eatinztivited at noon to -flay. The premises in which the
di.. te r "cell melt belonged to Mr. H. Haden, the great
vfhartinTer. It began in the upper portion of a warehouse
over title feet long and nearly forty feet wide, and
Alb", with " rattans, " a most costly description of cane, and
fancy work. The contents, which will amount in rain, to
sone thousand pounds, were uninsured, but the building
sr,. insured in the Man-oilloe.

RErNIONS AT 11111 CRYSTAL PALACL—The
second annual gather* of the Linnets and leather-drawn
of Bermondsey took place yesterday at Use Crystal Pales%
and was celebrated with every concomitant which Mew
in the train of a fine day, and in the unquenchable desks si
some 1,40) turd morkini men, with their wives and
to enjoy themselves. A compact between masters tad iima
to set apart one itsy in the year upon which they should sod
for purposes of recreation was eciescientiously kept, and the
varied resources of the palace and its groonda—itie he.
Fmptu games, and its many incitements to innocent esi..
roent within soil without the splendid ha
mind in full play on this occasion as on the last.
cricketing, foot racing,ke., amongst the orthodox
kin in the ring amongst the unausonised hnt relished sanum-
meats of a humanity of which "tanners and leather-dressers"
are within time pale—them constituted the bulk of Q.
iimusements whit h were not set down in the official pow
gramme, and which perhaps were the more deli:Soil&
because they were spontaneous. The stout tanners, Nod
their sympathetic (undies, were secompanied by a eompis
of excellent beads, the one an offshoot from a leatbsn
dressing arm in Bermondsey, soil the dim nob owl
of the If division of police, whose pecans. mmatilen
for the day was to sods not to excite the pulsing
of the humble leather-dressers living on the southern
• .

bank ~l thiiThansee. The poli.e auld—with its full
el drum-major and master, with ita little
ye PoTorthe books, unit pretty faces to look over them—
shone in the Baum of brazen glory, and worked themselves
up to the Coldstream pitch of ardour, if not of musical
precision, to the deli bt of the assembled crowds, who,
secure from arrest, could suffer themselves to be moved
without the fear of being " moved on." The glories of the
day continued until the lart train was announced, but per-
pett,ejerremdin+on the pert of the bend enlivened the
homely hut substantial repast of the pleasure seekers In the
terrace dining room, and of the more elegant banquet of the
mestere in the new dining-rooms. To-day the file of the
Benevolent Society of Porters will he ("cantina , with, we
trust, all the good humour which characterised the opening
on Whit-Tumlay.