The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

7HE POLICE CO ÜB7S.

MANSION•HOUSE.

dkrander frocia;;;l:T—Myers- -V.:440v, and Jacob
Goldwater, were brought before Sir IL W. Carden (in the
absence of the Lord Mayor from indispositical for further ex-
amination, upon the charge of being in unlawful pomeasice
of plates for the manufacture of Russian rouble notes.
The prisoners were again remanded.

BOW-STREET.

Mr. Willis. CstateerTsc4, late po•illiter of Berwick, but
now raiding at 9, But Mount-terrace, London, appeared
before Mr. Jardine to answer a summons, charging him
with having refused to pay 11. Oa. 2d. fOt postage of' leen=
Mr. Bodkin, who appeared as counsel for the prosecution,
said—Sir, I appear here on behalf of the Post-office authorities,
who seek to recover the sum of U. Os. 2d. from the defendant.
The latter was formerly in their employ as postmaster at the
town of Berwick, and for reasons into which I shall not
now enter, be was diemissad from that service. He haa
since been endeavouring to create discontent in the minds of
rengaged in various departments of the Poet-offloe
tr:s
air coining to them letters, many without the postage
being paid. Bolos of the pew= to whom these letters have
been forwarded have returned them, in many um =opened.
Any person who sends =stamped letters by post is liable to
pay for their postage, if they an refused or returned ; and in
the case of nearly 130 lettere, now produced in court, I think
I shall show you that they were fo=rded by the defend-
ant to persons, who, not helm; any desire to keep them,
have returned them through the poet. They allocaleined
nearly the lame enclosures, including a sort of printed head-
bill, abusing Mr. Rowland Rill, the escreiari of the Pest-
offios, to whom the nation is ender obligation for the greatest
national and social Improvement of modern dune. Like
many who have performed great public services, he has bean
made the object of frequent attack. That, indeed, is not •
matter for your oansideratios, but we feel that while it:is
bad enough to be =need, it is past all bearing that the abuse
should be carried on at the public expanse, and, indeed, at
that of the particular department which le the object of attack.
Mr. Bodkin then referred to Act 10 and 11 Vict. c. 32, pro-
viding that in proceedings of We nature the production of a
letter bearing the Post-office stamp which indicates that a
letter has been refused and returned is primp facie evidence
of that fact. The letters purported to come from "C. W.,
9, Bast Mount-terrace, London." That was the reel-
dance of the defendant, and the letters, "0. W.,"
were his initials reversed. On most of them
there was a seal with the letter " C.' This would
hays little doubt that the letters were nut by the prisoner
for it wee not likely that any other person would write lettere
from his address, containing se they did • request that web-
ecriptions should be forwarded to that address. But he would
also rive positive evideaos on that point. Mr. Bodkin then
eathd

Mr. Thomas Reynolds, inspector of letter carders in the
8.8. (south-eastern) district, who dated that on the 16th of
November he called on the =Landsat, at his reeklence,
Bait Mount-street, in that district, teldng with him the 121
letters he now produced. They all bore the Poet-dila, gawk
Indicating that they had been refund by the proms to
whom they were addreeeed. The postage amounted to
U. Os. 2.d. Whams hemmed= payment. DedWeit laid he
was not $ sender ; the Piabailbte had been deceived. Wit-
nem efterwerds ear again, and as if he had reosived •
letter from the weentery, Mr. Tilley f He said he had re-
ceived It, though not at the time stated. He added that be
bad reestvel se newer to a letter which he had written to
the Duke of Argyll. This was on the 3rd of March.
Mr. gee, a Mut in the Post-office at Birmingham, pro-
dated a Wu— which he had received through the poet. It
wee signed " W. Cutbbutson," and had an impresetam of the
fast " C." en the seal.
Mr. Jahn &pith, postmaster at Blrmingkam, stated that
he wee dark to the surveyor of the in which the
town of Berwick was situated, at the time when defendant
was paebaaster at that town. The letter produced, addressed
to ICr. Roe, end also one addressed to the Duke of Argyll,
wire in the defendant's handwriting, with which be was
familiar. The 121 letters, produced by Mr. Reynolds, ware
directed in the handwriting of the
Mr. J. Lawrence Beaufort, itctigoe surveyor of the
Birmingham, district corroborated.
Mr. B. H. Yates, clerk in the secretary's-office, General
Post-oelce, London, also Mots to the handwriting of the
letters prodoold.
Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, thee reed the letter to the
Duke of Argyll, and also that to Mr. Roe. That to the
Duke of Argyll consisted of a complaint that • former letter,
advancing dime charge wind Mr. Basked 11111, had
been answered, not by the Duke al Argyll heel, but
through Mr. John Tilley, whom Ms writer described es his
enim He usal weepicket that his letters
bad not the Duke of Argyall, for withal rem= he now
wrote to his grace under a double ow= and at his private
Wren. The Idiot oonoloded by soliciting a reply from his
geese personally. The letter to Mr. Roe, after shading
to the alleged grievant** of persons in the WOOS of
We Poet-cam, requested =headphone in favour c 4 the
.vietims."

lir. Clinbbernm. is definer, said k. wee •ot the mender of
the Idris; though he bed directed them.
Kr. Jardine would require nine evidence to satisfy him
that the writer of the subscription wee not the sender of the
letter.

TIM delendent--What proof have you?
Mr. Jardine—Your own handwriting.
Defendant—l had nothing to do with sending them.
Kr. Jardine—Have you any evidence ?
Defendant—l ham not
Kr. Jardine then ordered him to pay 11. Os. 2d. the amount
claimed, and 31. 10e. travelling emperor of mimeses'.

SUICIDE OF A HAIRDRESSER TO THE ROYAL
FAMILY.-04 Friday lest Mr. Charles Alder, who during
the present reign, and whose father daring the yelps of
George 111.. George IV., and William IV., had been em-
ployed at Windsor Castle as hairdresser, So., to the royal
establishment, put a period to his existence by placing the
stunk of a horse pistol, loaded with ball, to his breast, and
shooting himself through the heart. This melancholy
occurrence took place at his cottage residence, In Spring-
gardens, Windsor. At a coroner's inquiry, held on &Sur-
day last, before Mr. T. Martin, It appeared that a
motioned by pecuniary difiketlties bad at the Smer
committing the rash sot deceived him of his memos, and •
verdict to this elect was returned by the jury. Mr. Alder
had been left • handsome income by his father.
DEA= AT BEA FROM DRINHING.—The barque
babel* which sailed from Liverpool hr Cubs, • few days
ego, returned lan port on Sunday, with one at its crew had
on board. The deceased, whims lam was Clecege Rupee.,
skipped on board the Isabella as a manna. When the meal
was clearing the port Hula, went en board In a state of in-
toxication, and shortly afterwards, when in the Channel, it
was found that he was aiming and on search being mad •
he was found in his berth deed. Bynoopes from exoessive
drinking, was the cases of death.
THE POACHING AFFRAY IN CLULSHIRIL.—A peat
marten examination of the bodies if the murdered teen bas
been condueted by Dr. Bayer, of Biaatvidoh, end Ides. Belt,
of Woofs. On •qe left breast of Beech there were no less
than 72 gunshot wounds, several of the Its,
w=
having entered the heart. Maddock was
is the abdomen, and, judging from the appeareace if the
wound the gun could not have been above a yard at two die-
taut from his body when be received its discharge. A man,
named Joseph Malkin, of Halmermcd, suepamed to have bn
one of the gang of poachers, if not ona of the astmd soueer-
dents, has been apprehended at Silverdale, near Newceede-
under-Lyme. Re was found in the house of one
and we believe the house had to be broken into bail=
achansion wee effected. A police notice hen been lamed,
Ong • deseeipratm dtwo men, named Richard Bolton, et
Madaley, and John Data,. of Neweestle-under-Lynn,
who ere also involved in the affair, and have absconded.—
Staprdetirs Advertiser.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—OR Friday last, a
fatal accident occurred on the Great Western Railway Com-
pany's line, between the Gresford and Wrexham stations,
and about half a mile from the latter. It appears that the
various railway companies are in the habit of putting send
en the rails at this season of the year, to prevent the anginas
from slipping. At this employment several men were en-
gaged
on the day Is question, amongst whom was a man
named John Evans, he being in the drst of a row of waggons.,
throwing the sand in heaps or " coba" After having thrown
the usual quantity, the engine was started a few paces fur-
thee, and, to consequence of ERIN not bin aware of ft, he
was thrown out in front of the waggon, his body lying emcee
the rails, when one of the trucks passed over and killed Mat
on the spot. The body was carried to the Turf Tavern,
Wrexham. On Saturday morning an hapset was bell ea
the body, beton Mr. Bevis H. Thellwall, sorense, end • ele-
diet of " Accidental death" returned. The deoteasd was •
flan, robust yams man, 28 years old.
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of his followers, six or seven In number, sppeseed la the
uniform of British Senora of no high rank. A guard wee fa
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TALLOW.—The decline in the price of fellow which II
noted last Monday brought forward buyers to cover ma-
tracts for delivery in all this month, and in the course of the
week a conaiderable business was done at 60s. to 60s.
To-day there was not much done speculatively; at 602. 3d,
there were a few transactions for the year, but other psi
were comparatively neglected. The arrlveL to-day
about 1,200 maks, not inoloded in the stook; thus ate tom
on the water between 10,000 and 11,000 auks. The dame
ontiot was moderate to-day.. The make of town tallow is
reported rather better than for the last two math& We
quote :—Spot, 60s. 6d. ; all the year, 60a. 3d. ; January
to March, 60s. 6d. ; March (only), Hs. 3d. ; April to lone,
60a. to 3d. ; October to Doom oar, 60a.; palm oil, 44a;
oosoa nut oil, Cochin, 40a. ; ditto, Ceylon, 37a. 66. to 36a ;
town tallow, 61s. net ash ; South American, 611. ; Attars-
lien beef, 48a. 3d. to ed. No Odessa on spot oaring.—
(From the circular of Mews. Smith sad Charles, dated
Monday evening.)

COTTON.—Lrvaawoox, Dtc. B,—Tbe market 6o•da7
has been steady, and the quotations ere the man ea leet
Friday. The Mies amount to 7,000 balm : 1,000 el which
ere tor speculation and export. 1,000 Sant, at qd.
3-18 d.; SOO Egyptian, at Md. to fig.; 80 Penes, at
; 70 Bib* Md. ; 6,560 American, at 6d. to Bd. Total,
7,000 balm,

CATTLE.—Livaiteoor. Dan. 6.—The supply of beef lad
mutton is ler than last Monday ; the &mond very dull,
and prime lower, with the exmption of some grime Wars
end oxen, which made rather more money.

COALS.-Lowooir, Dno. 6.-Batea's West NW* lea.;
Buddies West Hartbry, 16e.; Byms's Babel& West EM.
Lev, 15s. ; Davisoa's West Hawley, 16s. ; Ovey'a
West Hartley, 14a. 64. ; Halwellb Oak 13s. 33.;
Holywall, 16s. 6d. ; Howard's WWI Ilsrth7, 165.;
Lambert's West Hartley, 15e. ; North Piny Hartley, 14e. ;
Misdeed Moor Suess, 114. ; Walker Prism" 13.. M.;
West Hartley, 16e. ; Wylam, 16e. Bd. ; Walls Bad lump
Clom, 16s. 94.; Walls Bad Harmon, 161. 3d. ; Walls Bad
Hal6s. 9d. • Walls End (Worth, 16a, ; Wale Bad
tton, 16a. 3d. ; Walls End Hadley, 15r 6d. ; Well. Bed
Northumberland, 14e. ed. ; Walls End Riddell, 16s. ; Walla
Bad West gay. 13s. ; Beil's Primrose, 13a. 3d. ; Edo
BradMaiatyllisels.R6detton,. ; Wl7allas.
34. E; n4rabßelmonznd
,L.mgoe.t, 16e. ; Wl7allss.;
Well.
Bad Franawellgate, 16e. 63. • War End Harwell, 18s.;
Walls End Heston, 18s.; Willi Bad Hatton Lye.., 165.;
Will. End /Lela«. Grange 17s. 3d. ,• Walls Bad Raman
Helton, 17s. ; Walls End sOnrart's, lea. ; Will. Bad Mita.
oliffe, 16a. 3d. ; Will. Bnd West Lumley, 16e.; Walls Bad
Quaop, 17a. ; Walla End Hartlepool, 18e. ; Walls Bali
Haigh Hall, 16e. 9d. ,• Walls End Bello% 17e. 6d. • Wells
End ; Walls End Harvey, 16s. 3d. ; Wall. Bad
West H 16e. 3d.; Walls End Cowden, 16e.; Walls
End South wham, 18a.; Nison's Merthyr, 21a.; Nixaa's
Darya, 21a.; Powell'. Duffryn Steam, 21a.-Bhlp at
market, 174; sold, 138.