The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-23 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

NELANCIIOLT DATI..N ER.M DRINK.
Ann Ntrman, a respectable-looking WOlll3ll, was placed
at the bar, on remand, before Alderman SAloaems, charged
with annoying her husband in his busineq.
Mr. Lewis, senior,of Ely-place, who app • .1, •1 for the hus-
band, stated that some days ago the prisoner WA% SIIIIIIIIOIIOI
for annoying his client in his bus' nets, and was, remanded
in custody until to-day. Mr. Newman was a mo 4 re-
spectable man, and had been in one situation over 4.lvears.
For some years past the prisoner had been in the habit of
getting drunk, anti be had been obliged to separate front
her. He allowed her a maintenance, but as v.10:1 as she
got her money she would spend it in drink. and thin take
a cab to his place of business to get more tel create a
disturbance there if he did not comply with her demand+.
Three times she had been confined for three months each,
failing to find bail to keep the peace ; but, as soon
as she came out of prison she resorted to the sante
practices again. The prisoner went on in such an
extraordinary manner that Alderman Esilotoons believed
she was insane, and remanded her to have the
opinion of the surgeon of the gaol of Newgate as to
the state of her mind. Mr. (lilmon to-day sent
certitit ate to the effect that she was not in-
sane, but that her mind and all her faculties were
greatly impaired by habitual intemperance, and he
suggested her being Owed in some institution where she
could not get drink.
The prisoner expressed her willingness to go to any in-
stitution. nowise was accordingly adjourned again to
enable her husband to find a place for her.
Emended for a week.

M. \ Lvi,Er.()NE.
• s:-. i-r iiEsi•EcTAltti:
painter. residing at 12, Warren/street,
,wit. was summonisl la-fore Mr. d'Eyncourt, to
C' lowin, ilisgraceful conduct.
sn ding. 3 respectably-dressed young
,-...:l she with her parents. Her father way*
t sla• was a bonnet-shape maker. She was
cork laytweeti S and at night, ;mil
I, vise was looking in a shop window,
•• a hint cute rip and stared rudely in her face.
and he lonowed her and made use of
• language. Complainant aski 1 her if lie
;Ice, and he said, You pretty You
. . .:tret.•• S:n•re,lueaed him to leave her.
ii t.t. noel coutin ,aeol his disgusting lan-
o;•ti lid Ott said she hod forgotten all at.out
she mid she could not unilerstanil
, • ,-r ‘l,l -lie know such a place. It; said.
• 1 , you left titre shillings in my debt." Of this
•. all knowledge, when defendant, making use of a
. -.• s tit she knew i'irencesterplace. Site shal-
-1 . to take her there and they went to No -Ch when
I. aiol seeing the ',milady, she askisl hyr
.
w her I•ornplainatith The landlady said she
her before in her life. Defendant
ao.iy than, hot she held on to his arm. Ile
$, ,l,s, did not pay the three shillings for rent in• would
held up his fist. Some gentlemen hml
i'lrenee,ter-place, and defendant was given in
I t Lyn to the station-house. The inspector
v. / the ciao co. hut advised a summons and molt, an
v• : • eif defendant gat e his right name and address.
ei. r sant lie could only admit his error. Ile never
a‘„ p .rsons more alike in his life. Ile denied threat-
v;.;:..: io strike her.
pialtaint stateil that he said if she did nut pay
wo•ilil take it out of her.
said Le had a entail house in Clrirence-gardens,
2,1.1 t.yalc the couiplainaut as having been one of the
ten iytY.
i:yncourt said it was monstrous that anyone
i .issailea in this way. Ile mast impose the full
I,t „1 and 235. costs, or one month's hard labour.
pale'.

GREENWICH.
TIIK ,I:AL AND IN KU:I'ER.

,h r:q(7;o::;:h:'; a youth, giving his place of abode at
tttttt lodging-house, was charged before Mr. Train
• obtaining a bag containing wearing aoparel. value
u•, ler false pretences, the property of William Wull.
Ciehard Mallett, manager at a lodging-house, at Dept-
( .:•i, priohiceil a note purpoi ting to be written and signed
Ii o, proseeutor.and which was presented by the privoner,
• , :bin.; the property named in the charge to be delivered
ta ti.. huarer.
'f::• prosecutor, a seafaring roan, said he was travel-
En; tie• country with a turf:inning steal, and
lancing met with :in accident in the Ohl
X.edao.bl, the prisoner awl his father were recommended
to and he eng:igeil their services. After sleeping at a
lislgin.i-Louse :it Deptford, where ho left his clothes, ho
want to Ramsgate, and on returning he found that his
chitin., hail been obtained by the prisoner on the order
pr.-elite:l to the last witness.
Mr. Trail! (to the prosecutor)—What are you ?
I'ro.rcuter—A traveller with the performing seal—a
It..nstr,r of the deep. (Laughter.)
Mr. Traill—Then you are the keeper of the seal?
Proseelitor -•Partly so, your worship, although the seal
ha- kept un•. (Renewed laughter.)
Mr. Traill—A performing seal. I suppose it is a human
being who is the real performing seal?
Prosecutor—\o, your worship, a real monster from the
ocean, (Laughter.)
Mr. Traill—And of what does its performances consist!
Prosecutor—At a given sound it will get out of the
water, ascend a platform, sound the tambourine, and play
the trianglo. (loud laughter).
Mr. Traill—My advice to you is, to keep to your sea-
faring life, and not to travel the country with any such
exhibition.

The prisoner in answer to the magiatrate, maid he was
sent by his (ether with the note and obt ,ined the pro-
secutor's hag, which he gate to his father of whose where-
abouts Ire was not now awire.

Mr. Traill remanded the prisoner.

SHOCKING OUTH.4GE IN THE BLACK COUNTRY,

At Westbromwielt, on Saturday, a man named
Thomas Robson was charged with attempting to destroy his
wife and two daughters. Robson and his wife and two
daujiters slept in one room, in which there were two beds.
On Sunday night week they had all retired to rest about
half-past 9 o'clock with the exception of the father,
who 41141 not come home until midnight. Having been
nerved with some nipper by his wife, who got out of bed
for the purpose, he again left the house, and did not
return till abont 2 o'clock on Monday morning. Ho
then called out to have ',OM° more supper, but no one
answering him, he lighted a candle, went up-stairs into
the bedroom, and set tire to the counterpane of the bed
on which his wife was lying. The poor woman suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the blaze, but a wend and
third time did the ruffian set fire to it, and as often did
she inauage to put it out, the third time extinguishing
the candle also. WLilst the fellow was re-lighting the candle
else sprang out of bed,and hastily drawing her dress over her
bead was endeavouring to run out, hut her husband caught
bold of her, and applying the candle to her dress endea-
voured to set it on fire. She succeeded, however, in dis-
engaging herself from his grasp, and at once rushed off
for assistance. Robson then turned to the bed on which
his two daughters were, and art tire to the counterpane.
One of the girls at once jumped out of bed, and pro-
ceeded to deem herself, and as her sister did not offer to
get up, she said to her, " Clara, will you lie there and he
burned to death ?" to which the father replied, " oh,
never mind, my wench ; keep your place—you will die
happy." At that moment a young man, named David
Cutter. a lodger, who 'dent in on .41inining mum, alarmed
by the shrieks of the girls, rushed into the apartment
and extinguished the blazing ermuterpene. Robson then
fetched a quantity of strawwhich he spread out underneath
one of the beds, and before setting fire to it be brought
a hair oil bottle and a turpentine bottle, but finding they
were both empty he threw them away with an oath. He
then lighted the straw, which speedily blazed up and
ignited the bed and the hedding. Another ledger,
named Scotthorn, then came to the assistance of the two
girls, and after a struggle with Robson, who threatened to
'mock hiabraina nut if he did not mind his own business,
Seottliorn succeeded in extinguishing the fire, which Rob-
son re-kindled half a dozen times before the arrival of a
policeman. When a constable came, Robson armed him-
self with a poker, and advanced to meet him, but the
ruffian was ultimately overpowered, and taken into cus-
tody. The prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes

Fr.tkFi'L SrENF. AT NOTTINTOIIAM STATION.
A frightful accident occurred at the Midland Station. Not-
tin;hani, on Saturday evening. Shortly before six o'clock
the station was very full of people, as is generally the case
On market days. The market train for Coalnor Park and
Alfretnn was due for starting at six o'clock, and s good
many people were hurrying over the crossing to the plat-
form on the other side. This was about ten minutes to nix
o'clock, and at that ti.-ic the engine for conveying the .ii; n 1
trairou lai.cliester ~lowly up from the engine-house
to take is place. The " crossing roan " warned several
persons of its approach, and had caught one woman in his
sins. A few seconds after, however, a drunken mn,
accompanied by a woman, came across a little further
down the line, and in spite of the warnings of the
" crossing man "am! bystanders, would make the attempt
to run across the rails in the front of the movingengine. The
woman was li tentl:y cut to pieces by the engine, presenting a
shocking spectacle. Her remains were conveyed to the
Wellington Hotel to await an inquest. The woman's
name is S..raft Kendll, and she is the wife of a labourer
living at Ripley, Derbyshire. Her husband, though in-
toxicated, sal,/ the danger she was in, and endeavoured to
save her be pulling her shawl, but she rushed excitedly on
and left the shawl in her husband's grasp.
Ex f•rx-41,4 (2.t tt Ism in:E.—Before the select
committee on Mr. ):warths oxford and Cambridge Ciii•
versities (till, the master of St. John's, Cambridge, said
be could nee no reason why persons should not be ad-
pitted thee,bers of the university without being inettile•rs
of colleges !the object of the bill). They had some very
poor students at St..lohn's, who live "at an astonishingly
small cost,- the lodgin.; costing them is. or Ss. a-week,
and the ti-cesnary hall charge being Is. 6d. a-day. A
poor person who crowns as iliac might get though
for sor a, year. Asked by Mr. Beresforsl-Yaps if
be thought the average run of well-disposed ;co ing
Inca lived too luxuriously and expensively, Dr. Bate.
son ren!ied, " I have not a doubt about it."
Every siege, of imverty arrives at Cambridge. "I am
frore ntly appl.l to," said 1)r. Bateson, "by persons to
Ten ler them assistance, and I know that some conic :.m,-
Lady without any means at all; but then they have
talents and aismirements which justify them in doing so."
There were objections to living in lodgings, but " they
heed not he prestos)." lie slid not think, however, that
eta.lents n.ne.:ltt to live ill lodgings for the sake of a mare
discipline. The attendance at religious see-
he should be, in the new changes, very much
d“lor.sed to leave to the student's own conscience.
" J nail the witness, " it is s-ery objectionable to
direct that a person shall go to the college chapel who .I,,es
not belong to the communion of the church of England,
or differs from it in any essential particular." A few Jews
i 4.1 gone to Catiihridge, and sometimes they had been
Telt, ~.cd from chapel attendance, and sometimes not. Mr.
J. L. Hammond, bursar of Trinity, was in favour of the
LW. lie would have also every college emolument
thrown open -every nizarship, every scholarship, and
Crory fellowship—if possible, to all the mem-
bt,, of the university. The average annual cost
to a parent for a pensioner at Trinity Mr. Hammond
The Bev. H. Latham, of Trinity-hall, said
to always mimed to the ps rents the standard of expense
at ,ulle,Te as between ISO/. and 20(1/., which in :lusles
everything excepting maintenance during the long vacs-
too. Speaking upon the lodging question, he said much
!Upended upon the nature of the attendance at the lode-
" For instance." added Mr. Latham, " I should
object to anybody lodging at a milliner's, or being waited
upon by very young or attractive personages."