The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-21 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MARYLEBONR.
Two well-known thieves and prostitutes named Elizabeth
Corbett and A nn Brown were charged with being drunk and
disorderly in the " Slips" of Regent's-park, and a notorious
prostitute named Scotty, was charged with being drunk
and incapable in the same locality.
Mr. Mansfield dismissed the charge against Scotty.
From the evidence given by two police-officers it appeared
that on the previous night they were on duty in the
" Slips" of Regent's-park, when they heard loud shout-
ing., screaming., and imprecations which came from a mob
of low prostitutes and young men, who were using most
obscene language and obstructing the passage of respectable
people going by. They maw that the prisoners were the
ringleaders in creating the riot, and noticing that they in
particular obscenely accosted several ladies and gentlemen,
they (the constables) took the two prisoners into custody.
Mr. Mansfield sentenced the two women to seven days'
imprisonment.

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WESTMINSTER
Mr. Thomas Groves, late manager to Warren's Masking
Company, Regent-street, Westminster, and Bucklersbury,
City, was summoned. for falsifying the books of the
pony, e$ and neglecting to make sundry entries in the books.
He was also charged with forgery.
Mr. Miller barrister, prosecuted. Mr. Metcalfe, in-
structed by Mr. Smith, of Denbigh-street, defended,
The case for the prosecution, as stated by Mr. Miller,
was that the defendant, as manager, was bound to put
down all the items of account in the company's books. He
had bought some barrels for the company and been paid
for them, but had aftewards sold them on his own ac-
count and not entered the sale in the books, appropriating
the money. In another case he produced a receipt for cer-
tain goods which he alleged to have bought, but which
receipt was alleged to be a forgery by him.
Mr. Taffs, the secretary, was called to prove this.
In the course of a rigid cross-examination by Mr. Met-
calfe, Mr. Taffs said the business once belonged tithe de-
fendant, and he had turned it over to the com ; he
was to be a director, have 500/. a year, 5,0001. down, and
10,000/. in shares. The capital was 10,000 shares of 10/
each, but of those shares only 171 were sold, and those not
all paid up. The prisoner had not bad his 5,0001., and
only one quarter's salary, although three were due at the
time of dismissal, He could not account for the accuracy
of certain items on the balance-sheet. The board meeting
that voted this prosecution consisted of two directors.
Mr. Selfo said they must be clearly wrong about the
' balance-sheet.
Other facts having been elicited in favour of the de-
fendant,
Mr. Miller stopped the case, and said he deemed it pru-
dent not to proceed further after this evidence, and Mr.
Groves was at once dismissed.

THE WAGES OF DOCK LABOURERS.—Last night,
at the Beaumont Institute, Mile-end-road, a meeting
which was attended by great numbers of dock and wharf
labourers was held in furtherance of an association which
hail recently been formed to secure better wages to this
large class of London workpeople. Mr. John Holms,
merchant, who occupied the chair, told the meeting he did
not think in the present condition of the London dock
companies, which was anything but flourishing, they
would obtain the extra Gd. per day which they sought. It
would only be by co-operation they could eventually secure
it. He therefore advised them to unite together by
becoming members of the association. He likewise
suggested that a system should he organised by which in
every part of the United Kingdom the relations between
supply and demand in the labour market in all other
parts should be known, by which daily bulletins should
be issued showing where work was plentiful but hands
few, and rice vers.?. From such an organisation thee
would in the end obtain more solid and substantial
benefit than through any other means. The meeting so
far approved this suggestion that they embodied it in the
form of a resolution and unanimously adopted it. Captain
Campbell advocated emigration, of young men especially,
as the only cure for the present state of things. Mr.
Richardson, the secretary of the movement, in detailing
its operations, stated that branches were being established
in all the populous districts of London, and great numbers
of members were being enrolled. A petition, he also
stated, was being got up, praying the Lord Mayor to grant
the use of the Guildhall for the holding of a meeting of
merchants to consider the grievances of the dock labourers,
and to see whether they were well founded. At the close
of the proceedings the petition received a considerable
accession of signatures.
THE MURDER IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—Yesterday
morning, Mr. Coroner Swann opened the inquest upon the
body of Mr. Henry Rsynor, who was found murdered on
the Midland Railway, at Carlton, on Saturday night last.
The inquiry took place at Carlton, and great excitement
prevailed in the village, Mrs. Watson having been appre-
hended on the charge of being an accomplice in the mur-
der. Mr. Belk appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Crameh for the prisoners, neither of whom were present.
Several witnesses were examined, but no fresh light was
thrown upon the affair. The evidence of two of the wit-
nesses, which went to show that Watson could not have
committed the murder, was so contradictory that one of
them was ordered to be taken into custody for perjury.
The inquiry was adjourned until Friday.
THE CASE OF SCUTTLING THE SHIP SEVERN.—
At the Mansion-house yesterday Charles William Lee
Webb, Thomas Borwick, and Joseph Mansfield Deen,
alias William Alsopp, were again brought up in custody
of Detective-officer J. Mark Bull before Mr. Alderman
Finnis, on remand, charged with conspiring together with
one Lionel Holdsworth (not in custody) to scuttle the
British ship Severn, with intent to defraud the Liverpool
and Caledonian Marine Insurance Company and other
underwriters. Additional evidence having been given, the
case was adjourned until to-day.
ACCIDENT IN • TCNNEL.—Yesterday an accident
occurred to &luggage train in the Standedge-tunnel, on the
Leeds and Manchester branch of the London and North-
Western Railway Company,which delayed the traffic greatly.
About half-past eleven a luggage train from Stockport to
Leeds was coming through the tunnel, which is three and
a quarter miles long, when the axle of the waggon about
ten from the end broke ; the draw bar came out, the first
part of the train went on, and the latter part blocked up
the tunneL Mr. Dixbury and about 30 men went to the
place from Huddersfield, and snooeeded in removing the
broken waggon and getting the line clear shortly after two
o'clock. Several passenger and luggage trains were delayed
at both ends of the tunnel. The accident happened about
400 yards frem the Marsdon end.
THE GREAT EASTERN TN THE FRENCH SERVICE.

Our Liverpool correspondents write:—" We;have reason to
believe that the directors of the Great Eastern steamship
have chartered her to a French company for 12 months,
with the option of renewal of the charter. She will be
employed in bringing passengers from New York to Brest.
To fit her for this traffic, the Great Eastern will be placed
on a gridiron at Liverpool in January, and thoroughly
overhauled. She will afterwards receive new screw en-
gines, and the cabins and saloons will be magnificently
fitted up for the accommodation of first-class passengers."
THE Wire RESTORED. —The Echo du Nord re-
lates a singular incident which has just occurred at Lille.
A few days back the body of a woman was found in the
cellar of a house in course of building in that town. The
face was much disfigured, but aM. Renewal', whose wife
that he recognised
had just before disappeared. imagining
her by certain marks, claimed the body, sent
round to his friends an announcement of bis bereavement,
and ordered preparations to be made for the funeral ; but
on the evening of the day before that fixed for the inter-
ment Madame Rousseau reappeared. She had simply
quitted her husband after a trifling family quarrel and
lirollione to stay a few days with her friends. The sup-
body of that lady has in the meantime not been
identified : it is supposed to be either a woman who had
fallen into the cellar by accident and been killed, or who
I had been first zonsilend and then deposited than.