The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

BOWSTREET.

Mr. Dwelly, solicitor to the Board of Excise, attended
to prosecute upon summonses charging amend tobsoootaists
and one publican with infringements of the excise laws.
Henry Gtorpe Robbins, tobacconist, of St. George's-
street, St. George's-in-the-East, was charged with having
in hiarression a quantity of tobacco adulterated with
liquo
Sir Thomas Henry fined the defendant 201.
Bieholas Thompson, another tobacconist in St. George's-
in-the-East, was charged under similar circumstances. He
was defended by Mr. Lewis. In this CYO also a fine of
201. was imposed. •
John B. Leftwich, landlord of the China-hall Tavern, in
the Deptford-road, Rotherhithe, was charged with having
a quantity of caramel in his possession, to be used as a
substitute for malt. An attempt was made to set up a
defence that the jars containing the caramel were left on
the premises by a stranger, and that the defendant knew
nothing of it ; but this broke down, and the defendant
was fined 501.

Eldred Roger Ivry, tobacconist, Upper-street, Islington,
was fined W. for adulterating tobacco with liquorice.
CLERICENWELL.

William Joeathjit badge 17,275,
residing at 15, Henry-street, Pentonville, was charged on
remand with stealing a portmanteau containing • num-
ber of articles of the value of 31., the property of Mrs.
Duckley
On Lord Mayor's-day the complainant about two o'clock
arrived at the Great Northern station, and was driven with
her luggage to Hilldrop-crescent. She there paid the cab-
man, and about three-quarters of an hour after missed her
portmanteau. She and her daughter swore that the lug-
gage was left in the cab, and about three hours after went
to King's-cross and found the defendant on his cab, and
said he was the man that had stolen the luggage, which be
indignantly denied. The next day he was taken into
custody by police-constable Humbleton, 101 Y, who took
the prisoner to the house of the oouiplainant and there
they positively identified the man, but at the court in
the cross-examination they admitted that they could not
tell the colour of the clothes or the hat the prisoner wore,
nor 'maid they say whether the prisoner wore a white or •
black bat.
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I[r. Cooke said the prisoner was discharged, and re-
marked that it was plain that the complainant had made a
mistake.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Mr. John Vrrinckr, described as an oil and eolourman,
residing at 17, Great Garden-street, Whitecluipel, at-
tended in answer to an adjourned summons, which charged
him with having written • series of false, malicious, and de-
famatory libels on and concerning Mr. Thomas Chambers,
M.P., Q.C., and Common Serjeant of the City of London.
The defendant was further charged with having sent two
threatening letters to Mr. Chambers.
Some additional evidence was given, and
Mr. Newton, acceding to an application of the prosecu-
tion remanded the case until Thursday week, and inti-
mated that the prisoner would eventually be committed
for We' L
KARLBOBOUGH-STBEET.
Frederick Hunt, • boy about nine years of age, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following robbery.
John Mullane, of 84, Berwickatteet, Soho, said—The
prisoner is my stepson. Yesterday I cams home unex-
pectedly to dinner, and my wife not having anything
ready gave the prisoner sd.to get me something. I told the
prisoner to be quick, and be ran off and never returned.
Last night about eight I met him, and gave him into
custody. We have forgiven him several times for sobbing
us, and we do not wish to punish him, but to get him into
an industrial school. At first the prisoner sold that he
got the things he was sent for, and that a boy took them
from him, but afterwards he said that he had spent the
money.
Mr. Trywhitt—lf I send him to • school you will have
to pay something.
The proeecutor—l will pay what I can afford. He is •
Roman catholic, and I hope you will send him to • Boman
catholic school.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—l am afraid the school at Walthamstow
is full. There is a good deal of nonsense existing about the
matter, but why should not the boy go to Felthain
Polioe-oonstable Gordon, :13 C—There is • place at Wel-
thanutow for the boy if the father pays ha. a week, but he
cannot do so.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—That is rather high. At Feltham the
amount is Is. or la. Gd., and they do not enforce even that
if there is any inability to pay it. If Walthamstow is •
charity it is • strange sort of one. I will remand the boy
for a week, to see what can be done.
The mother of the boy and also his step-father, both
speaking at once—We would rather have his. home than
he should go to prison.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Then take him home.
The boy was then handed over to the prosecutor.
DIARYLEBONE.
•

John Cor, orstermonger, was charged with causing an
obstruction.
Constable 157 S said be was in the Maldon-road, Kentish-
town, and saw the prisoner with his barrow, the handles
of which extended over the pavement. He bad repeatedly
cautioned him, and on this occaaiou he refused to give his
name and address, and made use of very abusive language.

(TWOPENCE

Priestier then ran off with his barrow, Wilms followed,
and took him Into custody'.
Mr. dllynoourt asked if there was any standing allowed,
and whethar it was much of a thoroughfare.
Sergeant Dodsworth, 444 A reserve, said there was no
public standing, and all along the Maiden-road was • large
publio thoroughfare. The mischief of this prisoner and
other oostormongers in this road is that they continually
have a number of rough fellows hanging about, who are •
source of annoyance to paseengera Their language is
abominable. The prisoner, when he is not out with his
barrow, is one of the ringleaders. Mr. d'Eynoottrt fined the prisoner 25., or three days, and
said if brought there again he would be more severely
dealt with.
SOUTHWARK.
In the course of the afternoon Kr. Edwards, the Sanitary
Inspector of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, entered
the court to ask his worship to order a large qquantity of
putrid fish to be destroyed on the way fromßillingsgate
Market.

The Inspector said that between I and 2in the after-
noon he saw a poor hard-working man dragging a track
laden with plaice along the Borough-road, from which •
filthy and offensive odour emanated. He stopped the man,
and found the fish on the top pretty good, but all those
below were putrid and in such a state as to be quite unfit
for human food. He accordingly seized them and brought
them for his worship's inspection.
Mr. Partridge at once proceeded to the rear of the court
to inspect them, and on his return to the bench he ex-
pressed his surprise that the inspectors at Billingsgate
allowed such fish to be sold. He at once ordered them to
be destroyed, and he trusted that Mr. Edwards would take
promediup against the salesmen, so that they might be
punished as they richly deserved.
Mr. Edwards informed his worship that on Monday he
seized eighteen hundredweight of putrid fish on the way
from Billingsgate-market to the smoking places in the
vicinity of Kent-street. The fish in those instances were
good at the top of the baskets, but all the remainder were
putrid, and the salesman at Bllllngegato must have been
swats of it. The loss to these poor men was very grout.
Mr. Partridge told him that it was highly necessary
that the salesmen should be punished, and he trusted the
vestry would immediately take proceedings against them.

THAMES.
A poor Asiatic mendicant, with white hair ►nd beard,
old and decrepit, came before Mr. Paget, and patting •
puree containing a considerable sun of money into the
blade of Mr. Livingston, the chief usher, made known,
with great difficulty and in a few words of broken Eng-
lish, that he bad found the parse sad money, and wanted
as owner for it.

In answertciuestions, be said that he picked up the
purse in the City s fortnight age. He believed it was near
the Bank. He had been in this country 15 years. He
lived in Flower and Dean-street, Spitalfields.
Mr. Livingston said the poor Indian was one of name-
roes Lamers who came to this country many years ago at
a time when European Seamen were mem in the Easy
Indies Some of the ahipowners were reluctant to send
the Leman back to the East Indies according to law, and
some of them remained here. The poor fellow in the wit-
ness-box had been In the practice of hawking small
pamphlets and tracts about the streets. His poverty was
great, and his honesty remarkable.
After a long palaver with the poor Indian, who was very
difficult to underatend, and who expressed a wish that the
1 owner of the purse and money should receive it,
Mr. Paget said the Lamar might lease the purse with
I the chief usher, and if the owner MY found the poor men.
tom ought to be liberally rewarded with a portion of the
contents. He begged of the Indian not to describe the
Imamate to any one, and to call again in a week or two.

Tim Simmers' Fran.—The committee of gen-
tlemen who have the management of what is termed the
Sheriffs' Fund held a meeting yesterday in the Lord
Mayor's parlour, at the Central Criminal Court, for the
purpose of presenting a report to the newly-appointed
sheriffs for the ensuing year, Alderman Stone and Mr.
M'Arthur, who are the presidents of the fund by virtue of
their office. This fund was inaugurated in the year 1808,
by the then sheriffs, Aldermen Christopher Smith and Sir
Richard Phillips, and the objects for which it was insti-
tuted, and which have ever since been carried out, are the
temporary relief of the distressed families of prisoners, to
afford temporary provision for parsons who, on being dis-
charged from prison, have no means of present subsistence;
to purchase tools and implements for prisoners upon their
discharge, to enable them to obtain a living ; and the pe-
musty aid of other objects of distrees who come under
the official cognisance of the sheriffs. During the past
)ear
no fewer than 482 cases of the character above re-
ferredto have derived assistance from the Sheriffs' Fund,
and it is a most satisfactory fact that in almost every in-
stance the assistance that has been rendered has produced
good results, and a large amount of misery, and probably
crime, has been averted by the timely and diacrinunate aid
afforded by this fund. The fact ought not to be omitted
that the Rev. Mr. F. K Jones, the ordinary of Nevrgate,
and the ordinary of the City Prison at Holloway, render
most valuable assistance to the committee by the pains
they take in investigating the cases of the unhappy persons
who come under their charge, and in recommending those
who are really worthy of assistance. The report was
adopted.
UNITED KINGDOM BAND OP HOPE UNION.—The
annual soiree in connection with this institution was held
last night at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street,
Linonldieinn.fields, and was very numerously attended,
the company including representatives from the United
Kingdom Alliance and the Na.ional Temperance League.
Mr. Samuel Morley, president of the union, who occupied
the chair, pronounced drunkenness to be the greatest
social evil of the day, and be was glad to find all sections
of the temperance movement uniting their efforts to enlist
little children in the cause ,• care, however, should be taken
that none were enrolled without the sanction of
their parents or natural guardians. IVhatever
might have been thought in other respects,
in the matter of Bands of Hope there was, and could be,
no antagonism between the two great temperance societies
of the land. For his own part he was a willing supporter
of both, convinced that the evil they were fighting with
was not to be overcome by moral agency alone. At the
MOO time he was not yet prepared to go the length of
the Permissive Bill ' • but the principle of restricting the
'sale of intoxicating drinks being already admitted by the
legislature, it ought to be pushed to the utmost limit,
short of infringing upon the rights and liberties of
our neighbours. Further addresses were subsequently
given by the Rev. G. W. McCrea, the Rev. J. Fleming,
Mr. Stephen Shirley, Mr. William West, and other Advo-
cates of the cause, and the proceedings were diversified
by the performances of the Korth London Total Abstinence
Society', glee party, who, under the direction of Mr.
Albert Austen, sang a selection of pieces to a pianoforte
accompaniment.
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THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—It appears from the
return issued by authority of the Re&trar-general that
in the week that ended on Saturday, November 16, 4,240
births and 3,03'J deaths were registered in Leedon and in
twelve other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living.
The annual rate of mortality last week was' 5 per 1,000
in London, 24 in Edinburgh, and 23 in Dublin; 24 in
Bristol, 24 iu Birmingham, 32 in Liverpool, 11 in Man-
i cheater, 27 in Salford. 28 in Sheffield, 24 in Leeds, 28 in
I Hull, 26 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 24 in Glasgow.
The rate in Vienna was 22 per 1,000 daring the week end-
inn the 9th inst.. when the mean temperature was 211 deg.
Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 20. The deaths registered last
week showed an increase in nearly all the English
towns, due, as in London, to the greater fatality
of diSIMMI of the respiratory organs. In London
the births of 1,075 boys and 1,004 girls, in all
2,079 children, were registered in the week. In the
corresponding weeks of ten years 1857-66 the average
number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,073.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1'457. It was the forty-sixth week of the year ; and the
'average number of deaths for that week is, with a coerce-
tion for increase of population, 1,55.5. The deaths in the
present return are less by 98 than the estimated number.
The mortality in the !metropolis exhibits an increase on
the numbers recorded in 13 preceding weeks. The increase
is to a great extent attributable to the prevalence of bron-
chial and other affections of the respiratory organ., canoed
by a low temperature, and the contamination of the atmos-
phere by smoke and other noxious matters. Phtliisis
proved fatal to 114 persons ; 19'2 deaths occurred from
bronchitis, and 124 from pneumonia. The deaths from
symotic diseases were '444. the number in the preceding
week being 2.14. 17 deaths from small-pox, 37 from scar-
latina, 32 from whooping'cough, 36 from typhus, 17 from
diarrhoea, and 57 from measles were recorded last
week. 11 fatal cues of measles occurred in the
west, 16 in the north, 10 in the central,
9in the east, and 11 in the south districts. A youth,
aged 17 years, who resided at 8, Broadway, Ludgate-
hill, died on 14th November in the London Fever Hos-
pital, Islington, of "cholera (26 hours)." A musician,
aged 30 years, died on 6th November in Lambeth work-
house of "choleraic diarrhan." The deaths of 7 persons
who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were
registered last week. One hundred and fifty-three deaths
from injuries caused by horses or vehicles in the streets
have been recorded during the present year. The medial
officer of health for the district of Fulham states, in re-
ference to the death* (returned in the preceding week) of
two children into cholera at 4, Bridge-street, Hannner-
smith, that " the house in which the deaths took place is
situate immediately on the verge of ' the creek,' a meet
offensive inlet of the Thames. A young. person living in
Bridge-street was simultaneously sufferieg from cholera
symptoms, but recovered ; she bad di unk the water of the
creek. The metropolitan and local bosnls are completieg
some extensive sewerage works for the diversion of the
sewage from the creek and river at this point."