The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-20 00:00:00

A-I,OBT HIJISBAND.

A respectably-dressed woman asked the magistrate's
advice. She said she kept a greengrocer's shop. About •
month ago she went one morning with her husband to
Covent-garden market. Whilst there she mimed him, and
bad not beard or seen anything of him since. She wished
to know if he could return and take her things.

The Magistrate said he was sorry he oliald not help
her.

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Applicant retired.

WORSHIP-STREET.
THE Racwrr OUTRAGE ANTI) ROBBERY ON A STANT
SERGEANT GE MILITIA.

Charlotte Young, charged last week with being con-
cerned in assaulting and stealing from James Pearce, staff-
sergeant of the sth Tower Hamlets Militia, was brought
ukfor re-examination.
. . . . . .

Long, 47 K, who has the conduct of the ease, produced
a medical certificate to the effect that prosecutor was
unable to attend from the effects of the injuries received
on his head by kicks ; they were on the former occasion
described as being of a very frightful character and it
was a matter of astonishment to all who saw the man
bow he was able to stand in the witness box
sad give evidence. The constable also said that he had
been incessantly employed in endeavouring to find out
something of the prisoner, but all be could ascertain was
that she was charged recently at the Thames Police-court
with drunkenness, and gave, as now, a false address, but
not the same. Not anything could be heard either of the
men engaged in the outrage.
Prisoner, who heard these statements, made no remark,
and was again remanded. She presents a respectable,
matronly appearance by wearing a neat bonnet and black
silk mantle, probably worth two guineas, but the mantle
covers garments of the most filthy description, and is
reasonably supposed to be worn with the view of more
effectually acting in complicity with ruffians such as those
who must have been engaged in this brutal outrage.

ROBBERY AND OUTRAZi BY A TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN.
Joseph Page, a tall, powerful fellow, who calls himself a
labourer, and refuses his address, was charged on remand
with a violent assault and robbery upon the person of Mrs.
Catherine Barnes, residing at Homerton.
The prosecutrix attended on a summons, her life having
been threatened by a woman who cohabited with the pri-
soner, and she now expressed great fear of violence from
his companions. She identified him as the man who at a
late hourof night, and while she was returninghome,dragged
bar up a narrow turning in Hackney, and assisted by
novae women subjected her to gross ill-usage, during
which her gold neck chain was broken, and a portion of
it, value X, stolen. She, however, raised an alarm, and
continued to hold him until the arrival of Sergeant
Busane, who heard her cries. The women escaped.
A conviction for felony, and a sentence of three years'
Penal servitude for it, was duly proved, and the prisoner,
who and it was " all made up " for him, was fully com-
mitted for trial.

TO TAN IMITOR OP TAN 11XPRESS.
SlR,—Finding by your Mansion-house Police
report our names are mentioned in a case of two lads
N an endorsement to a cheque, we beg to say we have
sot in; whatever to do with same. Begging you will
correct this in your next impression, we are, &c.,
W. EVERETT AND SON.
Royal Exchange, July 20.

Some of the Italian journals speak of a frightful
ato.atrophe at Piacenza. A small powder-mill blew up, and
communicated the fire to a factory of cartridges, which
likewise exploded. About sixty young women, some oil.
bas, and several civil labourers who were employed on
the premises, were all buried in the burning ruins. The
wet number of the dead and wounded is not yet known.
Marshal O'Donnell has arrived at Biarritz. After
*ruining there some time he intends visiting the theatre
et military operations in Germany.
The French Academy have selected as the sub-
ist for the prize poem of next year " The Death of Presi-
dent Lincoln."

The mortality is increasing at Amiens. On
llseday 46 deaths from cholera were reported.
Boulogne, Havre, Dieppe, and other French
*tiering places ere filling daily. The Duchene de Morny
h at Deauville, a town of the duke's creation, neer
%girdle, which is now in direct steam communication
i% London.

PEEL RIVER LAND AND MINERAL COMP.ANT
LIMITED (TRIP; DAT.)—At the half-yearly meeting held
this afternoon, at the offices No. 4, Moorgate-street
Buildings, Hr. Henry Hughes in the chair, an interim divi-
dend of l per cent, free of income tax, was declared,
AWL being tires abonbei.