The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-18 00:00:00

MB POLICE COURT&

SOUTHWARK.

.disde lowa, • lit abouttun years of ego, ma
chaired with amnia de Etlme and kirks from the Asp et
Mr. Carer l lk•einesi; and Dialed Clieseas, •
middle-egad boob, was tamed with receiving the ems,
knowing than ee he seeks.
Segment Soak/ M, aid be received lakemation that a
little girt had beat sea to into Mr. (WNW'S shop and
ran off with some knives sad He ectiordingly mode
Inquiries, and found the primate, who acknowledged
having stolen the knives sad sad laving sold them to
the ether prisoner. He then look bath into emtady.
Mr. Calvet identified the Was end &eke a his property,
sad added that they wen elehaea Monday easing.
Sergeant Smith hwa soli that Jose, albeit& as young,
was the companion of a gag of juvadle thieves who infested
the streets in the vicinity of this court, and the elder pri-
soner was ono of those who received the property they pur-
loined.

Mr. Combs said he bad no doubt such was the awe, and
he should sentence soh of them to two months bard labour
in the House of Correction. He warned Coleman that if she
came before him charged with a similar offence, he should
send her to the erelose, when no doubt site would be trans-
ported.

ATTEMPT TO POISON A YOUNG LADT.--Ah the
Leeds court-house yesterday morning before Dr. Chadwick
and J. Eltershaw, Esq., Jan. Sash Aran Hartley, aged
fourteen, was charged by Senyant Haigh, with administer-
iag anemic to Mies Elizabeth Woodcock, on Tuesday last,
with latent to pasta her. The taker said he was not at
passel papered to go into tie ors, but from what was
stated, it appeared that Miss Woodcock is the niece of the
Rea Robert Jackson, Weslayaa rainiater, Brunswick-
street, nod melded with her ails. The almoner also lived
with Mr. Jackson as a domes* sereunt, sad In consequence
of misconduct on her part, Mime Woodcock threatened to
communicate with her mother, with a view to her punish-
ment. The rank waa, that as Tuesday morning, the pri-
inner mixed some sneak with the tea which Alba Wood-
cock bad for breakfast, and the batter wee immediately taken
ill. There being a perceptible peculiarity of taste lathe we,
suspicion eras excited, and Mr. Clayton, maggoty was sent
for. Hs discovered that poison had been adminiared, and
applied the necessary remedial manna They were @a-
;rabut Miss Woodcock has since been confined to her
in the absence of the Ray. Mr. Jabots, the family
took no steps beyond dismissing the girl, but yesterday Mr.
Clayton gave information of the circumstances at the Bridge-
street patios station, and subsequently the prisoner was taken
into custody by Sergeant Haigh, at her home In Regent-
street, Leyland.. The officer applied for a remand until
Saturday, which wee granted. The prisoner, who te an in-
teresting? sharp looking girl, does not, we aline, deny the
fact of mixing sneak with the tee, but says as had no
intention to poison Miss Woodcock. It is mpaoeed that she
got the arsenic from some in the bow, w been pur-
abased for poisoning vermin.
MURDER BT AN ESCAPED MANIAC.—A shocking
murder was perpetrated on Tuesday rowing at Brabourne,
near the Eastern Counties Railway Station. A young Xi
named Jane Butler, who was staying with her ...
sister' Mrs. Burge, of Cluishunt, was returning with the
latter from the station, about halfgit eight in the evening.
At the outakirle of the village met • man carrying •
thick stick, with which he made a b ow at Mrs. Burge, who
avoided it and ran into the middle of the road. He then
struck Mies Butler three or four violent blows on the lead.
tracking her down and calming such injuries that as died
Malaga' night. The man was apprehended directly east-
wards. He bed escaped from Herta Lunatic
He was examined before the magistrates at Ware ceAs4.2
needay sad is sow fa Hertford gaol.
DEATHS DT LIGHTNING IN Yoaxerrea.--Asotbea
of the remarkable series el thaderetorms which have oc-

;an ofla this locaiiiiiniisiever Leeds on ihrlaseray—aight
about half-past 7 o'clock. Cheat darkness attended the
storm, which we regret was is one instance fatal In its affects.
Ins field fa Poatefract-ime, near Neville-kill Colliery, •
man named Jolts Gelder (a bricklayer, but formerly arilm
r at the Beak) was cutting a sod for • bird. Whir
brathe cage ia one band and the balk la the other, be
wee streak by the she ll° Said end died shortly afterwards.
Os the sans day a girl was killed by lightning ass, Pante-
fract.—lesis )(ovary.
MUTH OF ORNIAAL SIR Taos. HAWIII,
—The ookmeley of the eth Dragoon Guards has become
vast by rho death of General Sir Themes Hawker. whir
died on the 13th MM., at Clifton, in the 8:6E08 his 911 -
Tautrllsat germ' entered the army , 1795, sad
la Ned/ liehind sad In the PsaieeiY. Ils was
prsseat la rammed el the 20th Light Dreyer la every
sinks la which the BMW troops were engige 41 on the
odors coast of flpsia la 1811 and 1813. The deceased
genera rho served ca the Met fa India; latimly, as
gement' in the Madre,. preekleney—namely, hum 17211%
1826, sad again from 1830 le 1836. Oa hie retain from the
Rest Indies the followin66 ret be was made • knight com-
mander of the Royal bUrsrwfn Orilla* Order. The
gallant ofll,:er's commltelos Uwe dare MI follows . —forsly t,
Niali
;12, 1796; trouvter. t,iir ;1;11,1798 ;
1808; wheel. Jane 4, 1814; neilot-general, Nov. 27766 ;
fteuteesat-genmal, June W. 1838: end gratemi. June id,
1834. He had been wisest of the 6th Dragoon G nerds since
Jess, 1839.
UNIFRRSIFT a coarociatioa
held at Oxford yesterday amain the Rev. Feederkk Tem-
ple, of Build Collsesthe new head MAW of Rugby
&kool, received die of doctor d divinity. The next
degree day is Friday, 150 Cat.