The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-01 00:00:00

SPORTING.

WO ad HACNS—Wsamssmir.
HANDICAP Pun of 35 sows. Yin forkega.
Mr. CoppertberalWs lksoarn by Voltigear, 3 yen 74 as
(aiimsbaw) 1
Mr. Ksdler's the GIN 4y, SOWS
Mr Oreen's Voltam 4 TM 761110 01:21IV
Mr. Helloed's f by Loap 01644.-04141111111116 gtbat 71b
) 4
The following also ran : Siargit_ f by Sweet-
meat—Coquette, and Salvers NZ.
Small( sto 2 apt the Gift, 4 IsliqplZltilas, 6to 1
each apt Zingui and Vellum 7to fail Loop Germ
6112 and Babe. Wal keg& Oil seise betimes.
the second and third,. 1134 Lemp IMPS limth, wall
up ; the Sweetmeat ally sdGlaaatneltl
Tan Hoists Rack • bealkap of Sawa each with ID
aided. Two miles. over we agile of Imam (2Z)
Mr lowans Suosphalun 6 yin art 101 b —far. OrWaa • 1
Mr. Jacob% Weterford. 11 yrs, Oat 41b
Mr. Swindell% Pectnlas, 6 yen 114
toxib's Norma 4 yen Wet tib (W. lielinan) 4
The following also ran : Romeo, Mien* Diamaut, Br
tells, Wee Willie, Victor Emmanuel, Cheery Chap, Area-
, nom, Birdivit, Norwell, Irish 'Carpool, f by Collingwood,
Brim, MayMld, and Quota Ikea
Bette; : 5 to 9apt Bei" 5 to 1 wt Wee Willis, 7 to
1 eget Estella, 8 to 1 ark et* Bidbah and Queen of the
Vale, 10 to 1 apt PacWae,l7 to leach apt Irish /peat,
Buchephalus. and Cheery Chap. Was by two levities •
head between the second and third os good fourth.
Tar Ssoirra EILLI.II4O Stamm ei 5 son. each, with 30
added. Optional selliag weights. T.Y.C. A straight half
mile. (11 subs.)
tby Loop Oarou—Yaks, yn pop, lid 71b
Of. Stahryitel"
Mr. costerrthirsiWs pew:. Ws (SOL),
Mr. Gallivers 8100. yrs tIOLI. 6•1 11
The following also ran : Duplicity,
Hind, Ellen, Taunton, mad oby Tempest.
Betting 3to 1 apt Dapirrty, 4 to 1 opt Tinged, 6•• 1
apt Sloth, 7 to 1 each apt Libellous, Yoh Ally sad =la.
Won by half • length • a neck DK a the sescad mid third.
The winner woo Retired by lir7Byrne far 50
Tel Armor ma Blau, • Handicap 01
each, with 40 addsd. The sawed tarsi hit dam Upwards
of half a rails. (36 asha.)
Mr. Neilorens Spieft
iilils hp Passi/Lialiter.ll yes, hi tab
Inc 71b_ ra
Captain Chat Vs Gym Sollab (G
Mr. Theimpeall mints! lam 3 yen Tst 61bOrlw]]
Mr. W. & Cartorlobts Dog icon I pa, list lib J. Daley) 4
The following Algoma i—Elpas, You Stroom, Conqueror,
Prometand
ixe imi Nies Taw, Nies-Dimstable, Wee Polly, Came-
rine, ffisersa
Betting : 7 to {yet Tad al Essex, 5 to 1 each apt Sport-
ing Life and Mims Jill', 9 to 1 apt Sherborue, 10 to 1 apt
any other offered. Won by • sock, • length between the
mooed and third, • good fourth.
Tea WOBcraT4l43lll OIAID Aims
handicap of 20 son. may h ft, and anly 5 airds=l:ll
100 added. Witorre Kira. The amend to am his slake.
About four miles of fair lasting coastry. (14 subs., 3 of
whom doctoral)
Mr. T. 00ibys Jerusalem, Nal, Set lab • • -;0• iiihnenfr
Mr. Iraneli 114 s Tumbler. aged, 71b (Nenniod
Mr. Bboolbrodb Shylock, seed. (Peareey 3
Mr. Lewis% Tartar, aged, 104 Mb (Denakboa 4
The following also mu :—Abd-ol.fladar, Habra, Heads-
or-Tails, and King William.
Belt* : 7 to 4 eigatJerasalem, 3 to 1 apt Abdal-flader,
sto 1 apt Heado-or-Tails, 7 to 1 apt any other. Nom
isekshilz by lengths ; the same between the mood sad
• vary bad forth. The others did mot peas
VW pal
• Vssa Kurnener Eirsamacnnu of 5 sues. each, with
30 added. Two miles. (32 subs.)
Mt. 3 Land's Bed Amer h b), 4lq est 101 b •
No.)
Wr• W1144} rnarawa.ab OleamiLb
Mr. Lewis% Alfred ti. ged 104 iOliter) s
The following abs : Magenta, The Tattler,
Gipsy King, Bed Rim, Lottery, .10, sad ?be e
ars'
perm.
Betting • 7 to 4 amok LeAkerp, 4 to 1 spit Red Rorer, 6 to
1 apt Sunbeam. an by three lengths ; • bad third.

RYOISTRAR•OZNIRAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN.

The quarterly return just leaned by authority of
the BAttierartieseral comprises the births and deaths re-
gistered by 2,19 T regioteere in all the districts of Engbind
during the summer quarter that sided es September 30th,
; and the enrerieges is 4451 ebsedwe ise chapels,
about 4,307 registered *sae Oi with
the established church, midaid t registrars'
°Gees, is the quarter that PI 30th, 1860.
The ternpesseers the geellxta
us has bees an-
usually low, the shy p
isthe e
the weather gsnesully the leee s4l
usvertheless the prop's., of the which
returns rowed is satisfactory. The y was much
below the average, the births little dlfired from it; the
marriages were increasing. Sanitary impwerlmis have
gone on. and the general result of the set wither MI been
a bettor supply at meter, the puriflosSes of the sewers, sod
the retardation of putrefaction, as will as el. this spenotie
Ample which peodsos disrrhues. Fruit has hem amps-
rativsly abuniket, and its ocesumptica has also had • mili-
tary effect. Mr. liegh, of Manchester, justly says, " the
dependence of &whom epos a lugli nemperatme seems to
he most marked, for fruit has been unusually pisstiful, and
it has been eases wet freely without ill edema* The ulti-
mate multi of the extraordinary Ma= will be watched
with interact es they are revealed in future returns.

87,161; parse= married ia the time months en 4 is
June Ina ; and the Me of marriage was L 762. exes
the average by .066. T u tarorieges rem from ji!,),100 hi the
sprigs quarter ei 11168 411,63$ is theasereopeading grater
dalthe prem.( year. Prom this feat it mag be inferred the.
ta of tits mirk* classes have hose powiug
enghtsr, and that their reef meditioa hes improved. The
'acreage of marriagss hes hem greatest ia Cheshire sad
Lease!) Leedom, aed peering in the manulacturier
dotriuts ; but as Jeerers is eimermillie in mm 7 shrike
except the &maim IJosatisit

=US.
161,082 children woe born and mitered is the In days
of July, Asps., s d eiplamber. The sienhar Is lass than
the nun ,r in the lest yeah lr esseeis hawk, She snow
ben repstered is the INNlMpladligflliata efise.en of
asy pre vto os year. The hasposse if Who is met consider-
&hie in I..sdon, Loscashirs. Chashifil. dad 1708shirs Ti.
ttleth row the quarter wee 3.250 the sweep of the
esasoa bassi 3.278.

maws Or rornhamon.
The excess of births over the deaths in the limner way
17,139; en the natural iiimese at the popolatioo of liar
Said sod Wales was at the rate of 644 daily ; andadd the rest
at tater Few. Seeseasel squally fast the nasal increase
of the Vatted Moeda* oast have bent at the rate of 1,116
daily. The Sams maseds any oa reuse, About
SAM 111141 Mata Itagliall origin sailed has the
poets of Ise UMW f1..4 as whisk them are
vveroment satignitioa agents ; 5,164 to the -United
States, Ski to the North American colonies, 4,111 to the
Australian edoeSe, aid 1,289 to other prim 61,754
emigrants sailed fees theme port', of mhos about 1,433
were of tonics uric*. Half of the Scotch sad rely about
ens-eighth of the gm to the Australian misuse.
rams* M. 114.111111, ASO mammas.
The prices of revisions have been high duriog the
thirteen weeks. rakisg corresponding weeks of 1659 as
the martins paint, the pits of wheat rose 34 pen set.,
beef 7 per cent., suttee per cent., pontos re Seem&
The average precesunt thirteen weds were : , wired,
59a. Id. a quarter ; beef atton rid. a prowl b lbe
carcase in the led Aargau elegipsee Tisk
Regent potatoes, 1.35 e. a ton as sateen& asiteteSonth-
wark. The linos of the low., granter of beet were at..
tionarf (44d.1i and the Oar of the Witte "wham rues
trues aid. to d. • pewit The prime el Ye lame awl
higher gasbags of maim rose id. andid. Or-pseud in
Me twelvemonth. and Mg. retSchkr•l7 sid. rid 74. •
pound dung the thirteen weeks.
The mean temperature of the thirteen weeks at Orem-
Inch was 116.2 deg. • which is Ins by 3.3 deg. !than
the mean temperature of the curnspolidlag seasons
of Se preceding yeas The tempermaree of July,
August, and September were all below the emerge to
nearly an equal extent. There is no other iimasoe
on record of so low a mein tespeiratare of the four
months June, July, August, and Sapierabre_ akbit art
By going back to 1771 Mr. Glaieber, beeneetr, finite
a Wean temperature ct 58.0 deg. The fad et AIM in
the three mouths was 9.6 inches whisk is 4.1 Mehra in
mines of the average. T'hebill of rata has bees 25.1 hmthee
at Gran sich during nine meths, and has at the
several stations from 16.8 lochs at 0011
incase at Lempoter in Cardiganshire. 'The eases of reel
at Greenwich is the nine months is 6.0 lacier Upllll
this .object and others Yr. Glandier is hie nasal&
report gives some interesting details i and
them may he mentioned the time et which 164.4=1
as some fruits rimmed. According to hie Mee
potato diens* u not so Lad in theyth am it iele sank
of Seemed.
i'aupernao is siseliattag ; our an avenge MOM yam Ia Me
receipt of rein/, while the number in the rerrerseadirs
weeks of the previous year was 783,449.
- -

FRAM or TILL rusuoazuzi.--
816,423 distla went regisiend Ls the three =We main

, tis easeepos or km by 17,616 dm
ling Egieilieg Iha-elothe (year 104330)
LA . To
seer/ alt AY*, la the but them woe ealy Ave in the
iiteniiimen. Menthe of tatiettlity wee 17, whims
sw=4:e arm leslD penis,"
iihtlisrielity liservahis LI•• taw kiss
else In the essitsy &Wit it Iby far Chuht in
*elms 4156151 s The orerage number of la the
leetselletelets slides the seirein al 1860-4 was Win;
whisiatie drills Is IMAM: assasse were 46,4011; Is the
illstriata dudes the Mee period' the dr.the were
mei 40,9211. Th. rata of ' mortality is the
ilessilliticis fell has 8115 to 16•49 per 1,000 in the
astley met small tows Minicar haw 17•66 ta IAB7, ere
693 degree to the tows aid 179 ia the eituntey ditieriala
Ws essedingly pailiptag ; end if the nipply.tfLem
labia prove &depots theengh the year, it u sot
Net the remiss w deprive the population o=e
gains. The yep of the banks of the Thames midi:4th';
other eleneky dirthista of the eoubtry woitidl secure the in-
habitant, from the attacks of neuralgia, rheumatism, ague,
and fever, whichaftes follow ratty seasons.
In Larks the mortality was low • the prevailing dis-
eases have bees described to the quarterly summary of the
wee* tablas.
The south-eastern division 144 healthy ; the &Ohs '
ninth below the average in 'lna ty. Three deaths
from diphtheria ware registered atimatbuhead, and Woking
is said to have suffered eusiptiosally bat in Chobham,
Ripley, and Lipton, the Seethe wire much balow the
Immune- Tha.dasthe in St. Peter:B,64.lghton, were 40110.
lOW the average, sad the unusual,' healthy.
The sewers have been Onalial cleaneed by the eon-
Meat nips. In Kant neatly ',rery district was healthy ;
but in iialtford somiatins prevailed • in Barham diphtheria.
Portsmouth, geterally as anheaLthi place, has suffered law
then usual ; 490 peens died in the district. In Scuthamp•
lag tlikneartably has been low ; none of the epidemic
dienisesbas appeared in Winchester.
5.368 deaths were registated in the south midland
counties, end liphooarity the mortality was below. the
average. Is tat of Knabworth, Hertfordshire, with
a population of ,k9wever, 1$ cbildzen diedof diphtheria,
and several are safferieg. faun it now. Small-pm is still
epidemic in Northainptonskire ; Daventry sad Peterborough
are especiaEy mentioned. Smell•por. la +lllO very prevalent
Newmarket.
The eastern counties have bees healthy ; the deaths,
which were 6,163 in the previous suauner quarter, amounted
only to 4,555. Diphtheria mind 7 deaths in the South
Waltham sish-iliesnet of Blowfiskl, but is mentioned is se
other district of Norfolk, Fru, or Suffolk. In Wakes,
Wayland, two Wadies were attacked by typhoid fevers I
brought, the eugilleareimetn, frees London ; otherwtha
district was heathy, The misery arrangements have ,
groat besellno hpipt Row
and there hes been ao
.. . Sell Flil.l a.l I' lb►

-- -- -- -- . .
The south-wants ellurebt et of a population of ilk*
two millions lost 7,071 ti 7 death ; whereas the deaths i 6
summer quarter ne=l,. Every county, Was,
previous
Devoe, alike enjoyed thii im-
munity. Out of :=lbkin ei abort six thomiin in Wil-
ton only one death awned he 83 dap. Boadi-poi Ins
attacked several eadlamit he flommustart, Marlyn, whirs
vaccination bits been very aanmal,tggianed. In elution,
lioniasstskirs, the reduced toorldity is referred to im-
proved unitary arnuagemesta, better dwellings, more pro-
vided habits, and fuller estpky'sient in the cad mines and
husloandryttan is generally olthilmorl is the neighbourhood.
The deaths in Bath have fallen in three suommeire animer
quarters from 406 to 370 and 2%. Is the Bridport district
the deaths (25) were more numerous than they wars is the
myna. rummer (59) ; and as is evident from a local in-
quiry, the mortality of the town is so high as to admit of a
ridneptTorthsudeinhtVit=sagalmentippear tO ;irohl4l the en-
lightenedosed •
opt
"IU west midland counties generally experience a mor-
tality above the average ; but them are signs of improve.
moot which cannot be entirely accotutted fur by the flooding
of the sewers by the mina The damsel in the mortality.
of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Wart Bromwich, and Hadley,
where the water Ripply was impeded, is enormous ; maul
nearly all of them certain .auntyarrangements have been
introduced. The deaths in Dislikes= and Aston during
the last three summer quarters have been 1,854, 1,815, and
1,344 ; the mortality boa Wks one third part
I 'lt is probable thin the caftan supply of a plies
is bad its mprialifir is fedneed by heavy rains.
The north midland eons • Ins by 1,013 limo in
the not
Larinnanowrater (8,454) foam they lest in the sum-
mer paned*, theria has smor
thaless prevailed in
parts of the inhablkate at which will do
well to study the agoorlenet of Fishlike. There diphtheria
itrha: Pa7str:sallimetlf teiliden, 1 The
odrplusTkssof
, Fmk seentri Isenesst liostriniog water, Ira; in a
and Maki* alkst, without any fall to pis lb away."
was reported to the beard of guardians by the registrar,
' the defects of drakege were remedied, and there has been
no fresh cam darks the last month. The district I.
healthy.
In Bailiff vacchadka is much neglected ; small-pox ham
made its appearance, and basbee* fatal in nine cams.
' Fever has been very fad la Drodield.
1 Is the north esatintlB,9so deaths were mirk
' bored, the k the Fmk* "tparlisr having been
15,800. The /Tisk sf aiding
ape& in liatesabirs,
mil the dirt is that) ad maid m by rail% as it is in
sewers; which may mount far the c that the
reduction of the mortality Is Imo in this county than it is
skowl-ere. The registrars of the West Derby district, a
part of which is is the bond* of Liverpool, call attendee'
'to the dirnialetind Weal mortality. " Sanitary mesionzes,"
ale Of them toys, " mitt the Health Act have greatly ion-
' road this &aid.* Soirlatiam ins been very prevalent
in the Laasestor @radians* ; it was fatal in lb asses, and
Wit use bas far the summer sositary enangsments the
registrar betimes "it wank have bean km times as fatal,
for is an illetadmipswed twenty houses a quarter of a
mile from the town the dimes, was the ammo of S deaths."
The draw in Yorbeitire were 9.800, or less by 1,17 f Masa
the desek in the withear quartile of the pensions =.l
There is no manothus in the high natality of the
or of the Humid districts ; indeed, dank.* prevailed
there, and the deaths were Lail, or 170 more that in the
summer quarter of the previous year. The causes of the
high morality dram the careful Mannan of the intern.
pot autboriths of that important town.
Hull and Sainestes orpiment a grid reduction of rixr.
tinny.
The deaths in the sorthars coeuitim amounted to 5,186
sad were to soma exeunt Wow the avant amber. bar-
Wins and typhus have beta prevalent is Durham and is
Ty nemouth.
The m is Monmouthshire and Waist was bslow -
the average ;5, deaths were registered.
The weather of thin quarter may be looked at as an ex-
porimsat en the health of the people. Employment he.
boos easily obtained by workmen, but the prices of pro-
. vision bars beat /sigh. And this general survey seams to
' establish the fact, that the salubrity of the season is chiefly
' due to two ebronanamoss ; the reduced temperature of
' summor, and the abundant supply of water by rain. The
tow temperature Masted the putrefaction of the town
impurities ; and the water washed them sway ; so both
the form acting in the same direction, gave a peat
result. A careful study of the ecrenmstances of each
locality by whielt the result was predated, eannot fail to
I be IrMusam, and banana the kith of the authorities
is the simple seedkry elements with which ammo works.
If Wolverhampton is, as the registrar conjectures, extra-
ordiairily healthy, " hrmoso the frequent rains have
swilled away the impurities from which in hot summer
weather noxious Akita Mae, thereby preventing the link-
nabs, and diarrhea more especially, caused by such vapour,
in the air, and impurities in the waiter supply," why should
Wolverhampton ever be spin es unhealthy and aa daemons
to its inhabitants es It was before! It is true the town basno
command over the rain ; bat it has unquestionably the
power to wash away the impurities from its cesspools and
tin rimers. Its soginsers con supply the town with sweet
waters in abundance for the use of the inhabitants. If the
Birmingham aid Aston district too loose only 1,244 inhabi-
tants by dank when the town is well washed, why should
lair, ever into sods at the rate of last summer when 1,816
of Ow posids pablisd 1
The sansay in toe simple to obtain immediately all the
Manisa it deserves from the municipal authorities. But
they do better than imitate the great oriental digni-
tary he. leprosy, as our towns are now suffering
from ether orb", although obi was wroth when told
I:iicseat.,
to "wash and be " yet finallyyed the injunction,
and ma hailed.

SUSPECTILD POISONING AT GLOUCISTES....-A good
deal of excitement has exided at Glogoester during the pest
few days respecting the sudden death of • Greek 1212014
Gicugio Mama, mate sad part owner of the brig Nes An-
(oboe, and also part owner of the ..Solo, both now Iys at
the docks. Deceased waa • floe, handsome man, of 3$ -years,
married, sad • vend' ant of Lemons, and it seems had sever
known • day's illness. Last Wednesday he and the captain
of the Nen Angelica dined together on lentils end cheese,
with as apple for dessert. They came ashore about two
o'clock, Led lost to an inn, where each had a glass of ale ;
they Uwe sepuntaid, and the captain left for Cardiff to
freight the ship. Half an hour afterwards deceased, while
se Aeolus el • shipbroker, cos
of • violent pain
is hie atom& ; • amilical man was seat for, who ordered
him to be put to bed at an adjacent inn. An emetic was
admiuiatered to him, but it produced no effect, and in about
an hour he dial. An %geed was opened, and the above
facts were detailed in erideuce, but the surgeon wan unable
to mooned tee the death, mid the inquiry was therefore
adjourned, to saint of • post-mortem examination being
nada Os the nieresehilligthe jury the medical era
was not examined, cuter uiry wee &pia postponed
till next week, the comer s that he deemed it nacos-
naarryy to have the coatenta of the stomach analysed. It is
usdetsteod that the viscera rite no appearance of
dimes that °Zorn:rt. desire:sad
pthat it le expected
disiCr was
Therm". Y fri‘rdaresl. G•Dh. ante y Freel/tales
&ernst publishes the following telegram :—"Cork, Tues-
day Evenleg.—A telegram just received by the local com-
mittee states that the vessel carrying the brigade sailed from
Bane ttrday, and will arrive here nett Thursday. Lodgings
bate bees &beady secured far theta. They will be kept
hen Wes sr four days, during which they will be suitably
ISM'S HOMODPATEIC COOOA. —ltr delicious
snow irOnnillk 11.01 mad langW"Ann Power. I.
Wo-
awed ha ores so • break/eat berme,. W.
eujvlib, pealed& IL ed. per lb bitbetrifitzrerers.
Jame Neva, Morsawpathle '—(Ad
mammal

THE POLICE COURT&

M
_ MANSION-11013SE.
Mr. Jailth Mathlaid, the pgoprietor of a coffee-hoose in
Ware Mn Milanese Hale to
esmajihheiregte4mesenentiosse, tooth* the Melones °lithe Ober-
tenth Hat Oenthwary, against hith for hoeing thriberfully re.
sad
la Wowing to them, namely
a . sad alao true having connected a pipe to the pipe
w ch supplied ;re to hii premises, without thew consent,
whereby he had incurred a penalty of 10/. in one cam, and
51. in the other.
Mr. Humphreys. of
acted for the firm of Humphreys, Soa, and
Nu.,
Mothao, appeared in
the su
defendant. pport of the complaint ; thr. Lewis,
W
Mr. Humphreys, in opening the caw, explained to the
annithe mein of the offense imported to the defendant as
Worthed ta the and sW that the company had
felt it their duty to take present proosedMg. Wow=
they believed he had wilfully mode the alteration com-
plained of in order to defraud them of the &meant to which
they were entitled for the gas 'untied by than. He
then sided the fasts of the any sea mid be believed
as IWlWolla Witold be made on the part of the defendant to
tuMa es aft thither to the complaint that be was merely
With expiehment, and that be had no intention to
Tuber, it appeared to him, was a per
amuse, es he bad no right to make such an ii-
Wen except with the sameties and knowledge of the cum-
, lames. Ronetaus of * lippectors belonging to the oom-
cizukiteseed co the 1111 of October he went to the
ler the , repose of marking the quasi-
! lthy at gm that h—srelieth aosomed is the pnicedingquarter,
and he marked the Wen theordiagly. The meter was in
the maim, into which it was nethonsy to descend through a
trap door. He went again to the Woodant's home on, the
22nd of October, and proceeded at once to the cellar with-
out giving any notice to the defendant He thee found
that the pipe consisted with the meter bad been
rewind, dieconnected, so that no pa pissed through
the meter, and a pipe bethoging to the defendant
had been connected to the pipe thiamin(
the company, from which • supply of fp• to
tally badepieulant of the meter odd hthe lama oh-
tithed. While be was in the wilier tie defendant cisme
m, and asked him if the matter could not be settled. and he
told him it could not, and that he should be bound to re-
port to ther=
to the ilia-livery he had made. The de-
fendant say nothing about is, and mid be
would his any sentof money be liked to ask if he
would soy ovAblag about the matter, but he told him that
be most do Medway.
Is aresethouthatith by Mr. Lewis the witness said that
tbuirAfgerid the pipe were the property of the aim-
; pimp. set nalmill aunpald fee the meter. H• said he wee
Wit swath that the ditheedeat had been a customer of the
.erilarpharthealeemeireraeroukl admit the defendant had
been a wathwe el tie an peat many yssrs.
' Mr. Leah thee ail the court on behalf of the
nod be sit that although be might lath acted
impaadeaiTp. is wariSkg with the pipe, thill he bad no
intinakee to demi the ethopsey, aild. oossoVontkl, wet
, not to be the. pthent 003110012.- The
was, he esalditedileVimit due anxious to obtain a larger
supply of to an oven nide Weald only heat hapiefectly,
and pipe was applied MO saferimeat. and, M it had
adios would thee lima immediately to the
company. He then produced the pipe that had bees Iced,
and he tended it to the alderman, in order that be might
em
elt it, and see that no gas had ever passed through
and he sold he should prove that in point of fact it had
= bora fixed up that very wen* that the discovery
Rotee'llowimi, a gee litter, the Dasmined as a witness
' on behalf of the ilefent, and be stated that he put the
pipe up for the purpose of tryisi whether more heat weld
be applied to the oven that method by the dirfandanS and
that be did the job ou the males morning the inspector came
and discovered it. This witness, however, admitted, in
mower to questions that were put to him by Mr. Hum-
tele/that he knew be ought not to have interfered with
0;e belonging to the company and their meter without
! th# 'l,,Wa• _ . ._ .

Mr. Alderman Hale sail it appeared to him that the act
of parliament had clearly been infringed, and that he was
bound to convict the defendant. The act of parliament was
imperative, and whatever object might be in view, a person
could not interfere with the apparatus of the gas company
without their knowledge and ermeent.
Mr. Humphreys intimated that he would be 'Waled with
the inflictiow of one peak only.
Mr. Alderman Hale then ordered the defendant to pay a
ire of 51.. and 23a mete.
The fine and sorts were paid.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Elizabeth Willis, a young woman, was charged with
attempting to pick the pockets of about 80 ladies in Oxfoed-
street.

Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that on the previous afternoon
he saw the prisoner in Oxford.street, between Berwick.
street sad Wardour-street, walkir cited to a lady, with her
band dews by the side of the lad s dries. Suspecting bet,
he watched her, and saw her wad nptohlontanarl'airixdeil
shop in Charles-street, where, having watched fora shove
time, he saw her put her left hand into the pocket of a lady
who had at the time a child in her arms. He spoke to the
lady, but finding she had lost nothing kept his eye en the
prisoner, and saw her walk to Flints', the silk mercies, near
Wells-street, where, having looked about as if looking far
somebody, she placed herself between two ladles and pet be,
left hand into one of their pockets. He than maw her try at
least 50 other pockets, being perseveringly engaged lavaboes
an hour. He then crowed over the road, saw her try the
; pocket of a lady named Blackburn, residing at Camberwell,
I who lost nothing, sad afterwards that of a lady oi
.00lonr,
I but in consequence of Sur idler net 'peeking Sigh& he
could not ascertain whether she had lost scything. He the
took the prisoner into custody, telling her he wee an °Mow,
' and what he charged her with. She said it was a mistake,
but on the way to the station said, " Yon had better have
waited till you had a ease, and had me to rights. You met
have wanted a case very bed/ She first gave her address
I in Oxford-street, but afterwards refused it.
James Stephens. 112 C, haying proved seeing the pri-
*epee on Wednesday afternoon last attempt to pick several
ladle? pockets outside Yawn. warehouse,
Mr. Thurhitt said he bed no doubt about the ease, and
committed the prisoner fee three months with hard labour.
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MkAwl r....nberr and :loiti two rough-looking
fellows, drovers, the former wearing the badge 572, the
latter having neither badge nor license, were each charged
by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals with the following groom cruelty to a calf.
Mr. Love, from the office of the Royal Society, attended
to support the charge.
Rutherford, a constable belonging to the Royal Society,
stated that the previous night he was on duty in the York-'
road, King's-cross, when he saw the prisoners driving a
number of calves which were about five or six weeks old.
One of the calves separated itself from the rest, when the
prisoner Flinn went after it, and struck it with all his might
across the head with a thick heavy cudgeL He then toot
hold of It by the tail, and gave it another violent blow ammo
the side of ite head, which felled it. The tilt got up, and
aAiggsred away from the prisoner, when he followed it, aid
again beat it in a most brutal manner about Its legs. lie
(the officer) took Flinn into custody, and then Lambert I
struck the same calf across the Ma, which almost brought
it to the pound, and he continued to beat other calves in a
mast violent minter, telling him (the officer) that he would
show him how to knock a calf about, and defied him to in.
terfere. Witness added that he had never seen Bitch
brutality exercised toward, an animal during his experience
in the society.
Mr. Love said he was not aware that the prisoners had
ever been convicted before, but they bad both been cautioned.
The prisoners, in defence, said they did not strike the
calves to hurt them.
Mr. Barker after commenting upon the conduct of the
prisoners, which he characterised as both wicked and die-
graoeful, sentenced Flina to pay a fine of 10s., or 14 days'
hard labour, ant Lambert would go to prison for 14 days,
with hard labour, without the option of paying a fine.
The prisoners were both locked up.
Thcl444 Hall, a carman, in the employ of Evan Morgan,
oowkeeper, of Drununoad-cresesint, was next charged with
gross &ashy to shone.
The ease was proved by bonds, one of the society's
officers, who said the hone was only fit for the knacker's.
Mr. Harker mid that the prisoner and his master ought
to be ashamed of themselvos for working a horse in such
a state, lad he directed the society's officer to take the poor
animal immediately to the bores slaughterer's, and get it
put out of its misery. The prisoner was then discharged.