The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-25 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

Thomas Jackson, Janes Wells, and Charles Higgins in
the employ of Messrs. Day and Watson, wine merchants,
2, Water-lane, Tower-street, were charged with creating
an obstruction by placing a cask of wine on the foot pave-
ment, and also with resisting the police. The defendants
had rolled the cask out of the warehouse on to the footway,
and were told by the police to take it back again. Ten
minutes afterwards the police, finding it was not done,
asked for the defendants' names, which they refused to
give. The officer then took Jackson into custody, and the
others rescued him. He next took Higgins, and the others
rescued him. The master upon that came forward and
desired the men to give their names.
Fined 3a. each for the obstruction, and 10s. for resisting
the police.
CLERKENWELL.

William Jones, a labourer, was charged with stealing
two and a half pint. of ale a vault at the Midland
Railway goods station, Agar-town, the property of the
Midland Railway Company. On Friday • train arrived
from Burton laden with ale, consigned to Messrs. Base, at
Agar Town. The prisoner was seen by one of the gangers
in a truck, and it was found that two barrels had been
broached, and eleven gallons taken from one and eight
from the other. Some other men were near, and they
were drinking ale out of a pail. The prisoner when he was
taken into custody had a tin bottle in his possession con-
taining two pints and a half of Kowa. Bass's ale. It was
proved that he had borrowed • half-inch augur, and the
holes in the barrels from which the ale had been stolen
were of that size.

Mr. Barker sentenced the prisoner to one month'• hard
labour in the House of Correction.

Emmanuel GillingAaas, a labourer, and George Adams,
* bricklayer, both of Somers-town, were charged with
cruelty to animals, in ill-treating, abusing, and torturing
two dogs. They were found on Tuesday, the 19th inst.,
under one of the arches of the Midland Railway at Agar-
town, setting on two bull dogs to fight. The dogs were
very savage, and bad torn each other in a most frightful
manner, so that the blood was running down their heads.
There were several other men present assisting, but they
escaped.
Fined 30s. each, and 2s costs, or 21 days' imprisonment.
Locked up in default.

WORSHIP-STREET.
John Collins gave himself up to the polite on Friday
afternoon, and was now charged on his own confession
with having stolen 40 gold rings from a jeweller's shop
window, with haring absconded from Mr. Savage's, Old
Kent-road, taking with him 28 pairs of boot uppers in
February last, and with being a deserter from the 2nd
Queen's at Chatham.
Committed for trial.
LAMBETH.

William Murray and William Cooper, two hearty-look-
ing young fellows, inmates of Lambeth workhouse, were
charged with wilfully damaging the roof of the workhouse,
and behaving in a disorderly manner. They had been
sent up to the roof of the house to assist in extinguishing
a tire in one of the chimneys, and they had subsequently
remained on the roof, running and jumping about upon it,
refusing to come down, and inducing others to join them,
and had committed damage to the extent of illl. The
police had to bring them down. They had been three
years in the workhouse.
Sentence, one month's herd labour each.
SOUTHWARK.

William Cusp, who has been liberated with a
ticket of leave, was finally examined, charged with break-
ing and entering the dwelling-house of James Howell, at
Sbepherdeu-walk, City-road, and stealing therefrom linen
and wearing apparel worth upwards of IW. He was seen
by a policeman walking along the Southwark-bridge-road
on the Rth inst. with a large bundle, and on being ques-
tioned as to the contents his answers were not considered
satisfactory, and be was taken to the station. The bundle
was then found to contain the articles above stated, all of
which bad been stolen from Mr. Howell's house. He also
had in his possession keys which were so constructed that
they would open almost any street-door.
Committed for trial.

HEALTH RESTORED ET DU BARRY'S FOOD TO THZ
&exam, nerves, luny, and liver of old and young, curing dys-
pepsia (Indigestion), constipation, diarrbfea, acidity, headache,
neuralgia, hysteria, palpitation, sleeplessness, debility, wasting,
cough, asthma. fevers, consumption, low spirits. 60,000 annual
outs which had resisted all medicines, including that of his
Holiness the Pope.—Tins, at Is. 13d. ; lib., Is. Pd. ; 121 b., 225. ;
241 b., 40e—Do /Wry and Co., 77, Regent-quadrant, London ;
also at 61, Gencechurch-street 4, Cheapskle :66 and 160, Weed-
street ; and allgrouvra and chandirts.--iAdvertlasznent.l