The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DIY.)

MA NSION -ROM%
Robert Doris, a hawker of fowl', WIN charged with wil-
fully breaking a window at the White Lion Tavern,
Talbot-court, I tracechitrehetireet.
Mr. Chambers, landlord of the White Lien, deposed that
ea Saturday evening the defendant awl three ether men
west to the bar and called for • (marten% of gin, ether drink-
/hp which they went away, one by one, leaving the deem.
dent there algae. Witness consequently asked biro for the
mosey as the ea had not bees paid for, but the defesdaut
refund to pay, slimed that be had ootordered the ou, and
%Hag a fowl from his basket, saki wasM keep
it till moors be was The defendant thou wait out-
side, ead taldeg seam, few, from his bask* dashed it
through the window, breaking a gas globe. as well as cover-
tiltbar with fragisests of gLo.. The repair of the
hail cast Ils., sad the globe. 3..
The defendant said he bed nothing at an to do with tbo
gin neither ordered it D. of partook of it. and therefore
refined to pay for it ; spoil which the complainant took one
el his fowla, say* be would have a cheap dinner. De-
, frarleat applied te two policemen to take the complaisant
is charge-for Meal* his fowl, but they refund to do so,
sad thee, Wog emits& he certainly did break the window.
Sir M. Codes ordered him to pay 14.. for the &mop
and 4d. for AS Os , se la he imprisoned for 21 days.
ism
Defesdeed paid the tessey, but said he was a very M.
red

HOW-STREET.
IMMO THZ lONS eICIIITART.
a•••• 111, dissipaed-look s(
with dealing •* • mak labtleel oth, wost"Mylissind=
bass. Qs rapid, ei tbs Right Hoe. qtr Ovesisesll Lewin.
Maths Ifisaa, We If le, &pond Um* be was
eek duty as seerving. in Dreiry-Isseorben boo saw the
Moaner into sod eurrounded mein el shalom
Kea was shouting set UM • ps inkia:
bed given bar •
hod shilling end Wing en tbe pub° to see bet rlOted.
Witness iineepused end observed that el* bed • land-
KAM damask table Asa under her arra. He asked
her how she came be it, and es she could
not give him • malisfactory reply, be took her
to the police-natio° as the double change et being drunk
ad'empiric° of felony. On examinisg the cloth, the
earns of Sir George Cornewall Lewisteppearedila
upon it, and on inquiry being made it turned ant
articles had been doles from • laundress, together with
three slip., worth about Y., which the prisoner bed pawned
for Ts. 61., the latter having the owner'suntials, " GAL
'appeased upon them.
Martha Hibbert. of Fulham.bridge-yard, Knightsbridge,
deposed that the clothes produced were in her possession an
Saturday morning. She new them safe in • basket at three
in the morning, and at Gee o'clock she missed deem Some
one had forced away • board from • broken window, and
taken them from the basket.

E N. Livermore, assistant to Mr. Henry Livermore, •
pawnbroker, of 43, Drury.lane, stated that the rsoner
brought the slips and pledged them to him for 7s. e
Mr. Henry obeerve•l that the witness did not take the
name and milieu of the prisoner, which he was bound to do.
Witness said he knew the woman u a customer at the
shop, and did not, therefore, think it necessary to ask her
for frer eddrees.
Mr. Hwy coneidered the witness very blameable in the
matter. F.Wk things were not likely to belong to a woman
teethe prisoner, and therefore he ought to have been
The prisoner was remanded for • week.

ATTKIIPTID SUICIDII BY A FOSTMA.W.
llowssa Mager, doicribed u a letter earner in the Genet's'
Post-of6oe, woe charged with attempting to commit suicide,
by jumping into the New River, at Stoke Newington,
Between 6 mid 7 o'clock ow Saturday erasing the defen•
dant threw himself into the New River; and had it not
been for the presence of mind of a youth of the name of
Honey, who war paring, the defendant must have been
firewood, for whin be was taken out of the water he could
s 4 speak. The defendant, when he recovered, mid he had
boa ndueed to commit thin rash act owing to his ember-
nosed eirennslanne preying on his mind.
The defendant sow mid he was very sorry for what he
bed dose, and would not again repeat the offence.
Orris said if the defendant took away his life he
left hi Will to mien, sad poverty. He would allow the
delendent to oe away with his friends, hoping that be
weld saver attempt again to take away hie life.

WORBHI P-81"REET.
♦ BRAVE ret.Low. _

A miserable • ;Ot4I,.;;;;;;1.6 years of age, was
=before Ir, hitt with attempting to commit
by drowning.
i&irgy Taylor, a shoemaker, living neer the Whitmore.
road, Heston, said—Yesterday evening I was at home,
not very well, and lying on my bed, when
my wife alarmed me by serearning out, " Some
one is drowsing." I rose, ran to the bridge, and
looking over saw a body rise to the surfece; learning that
this ins the weed time it had risen I sprang from the
pannet without removing my clothes, and fortunately
Crthe prisoner by the hair as be was again sinking.
eme difficulty I gut him out and he was taken to
the workhouse.