The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-23 00:00:00

♦ TTa•nrsa of HOT Timm._

Henry Allen: lb, bid Thomas Barle,l2, were charged
with frequenting a place for the purpose of picking
pockets.
Mr. Lewis Lewis appeared for the prisoners.
Sergeant Coathupe, of the detective force, said he was
In Oxfordetreet, and seeing the two prisoners together
and knowing Allen as the companion of thieves he
watched them. He saw Allen send Earle brass the street
and Earle then got by the side of a lady and put his
left hand into her dress pocket; Earle left the
lady and followed Allen. and they walked down the street
till they came to the London Crystal Palace, then each
went into an entrance, Caine out, and joined again. Earle
then walked up to a lady, put his hand into her pocket,
and took something oat, and afterwards he saw them diva•
log rme money. Be then took the prisoners into custody.
Mr. Lewin said be had nothing to nay on behalf of Allen,
but on the part of Earle he behoved that he was the imam.
rnentpf the other prisoner, and had never been charged
before. . _ .

Sergeant Coathupe said there was an cam in attendance
who would state that the prisoners bad been in the habit of
spending their evenings together at the house of a man
near Gidden-lane, St. Lake's, the man having raffle* at his
house, where a number of young thieves were accustomed
to meet, and where they were encouraged.
William Miller, 48 G, said he knew Allen or King as in
the habit of taking Earle out, and as the trainer of boy
thieves. He had viited the house spoken of bythe sergeant
and saw 53 thieves there, some of them mach younger than
Earle, engaged in a raffle, and the keeper of the house had
been summoned foe it. A number of the thieves he had
spoken of were then in court watching the case.
Mr. Knox said that for Earle's own sake he must rescue
him, as it was obvious he was in the hands of a gang of
thieves and ruffians.

Sergeant Coatbupe Paid the mother of Earle was in
wart, sad she stepped forward ; but Miller recognising her
as baying been oosviated for felony, Mr. Knox refused to
boar bee, and
The mother of Allen said she was sot aware of her son
doing such things as be wee charged with.
Mr. Knox remarked that Allen was not only spokes of
as a thief but as s trainer of young thieves. He should
send Allen to prison fur 14 days and three years on the
ship Cornwall, and Earle would be sent to Faith= for
three years.

LAMBETH.
IXTENSWE BORBEIRT.

Hannah Geoghan, a middle-aged married woman was
durged before the Hoo. G. O. Norton with plundering
her employer to a considerable amount.
Mrs.Lonies Turner, • leo ndrese,Loughboroligh -road, Brix-
ton, said that for some time past she had been miming from
time to time various articles given to her to wash by her
customers, and though there could be no doubt the prisoner
was the person who had stolen them, her other servants
were the persons suapeoted as the thieves.
Mr. Norton—What, was the prisoner in your surviee?
Mrs. Turner—She was a folder, sir, and a person in whom
I placed the greatest reliance, she being • married woman
with a respectable man for a husband.
Police-constable 192 P said that after apprehending the
prisoner he found in her poesessitn 10 duplicates for goods
pledged in the name of Bravo, and ell this property was
found to be a part of that stolen from Mrs. Turner.
The property was produced by the pawnbrokers, and
though they could not speck to the prisoner as the person
pawning, they spoke to her as a person who pawned in the
name of " Brawn."
The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded to
another day.

THAMES.
REMOVAL OF CATTLE.
Inspector Honer, of the K division, applied for a sum-
mons against George Wart; a drover, for violating an Order
in Council. The charge against Warts, and by which he
bad incurred a penalty of 204, wee, that be had driven
five cows from without the boundary to within
the boundary of the metropolis, from the county
of Essex, over Bow.brilge, along the High•streo•, Bow,
at fifty-five minutes past 6on the evening of the 17th of
the present month without a license from the Commis-
sioners of the Police of the metropolis.
In answer to a question by the magistrate,
The inspector said this case had nothing to do with the
act of parliament prescribing routes and hours for the
driving of cattle is the streets of the metropolis. The
drover had violated an Order in Council relating to the
ciatt!e plague.
The mazietrsto directed a summons to issue, and the
Order in Council to be produced when the case wee heard.

DEATH or Sea..rEA-Nrr Amps. —The death is an-
notnced of berjeant Herbert Jones, who for many tears
elloYed • good
_practice at the common law bar.
Cirt OF LONDON Ececriotr. —Yesterday the
Shetiffe of London received the Speaker's writ directing
fresh election for the City of London, consequent upon Mr.
,Gevehee having accepted office under the crown, and they
"vo Itted Monday next, at 12 o'clock, for such election in
the Guildhall. Aecordiag to custom, the writ wee officially
reclaimed yesterday morning, both in Guildhall and in
front of the Royal Exchange. There is no opposition to
the re-election of Mr. Goechen.
LIFSBOAT SZRVICE.—WISSOILD, IRILAND, FIB.
21.—A. fishing smack was observed on the Dogger Bank
yesterday with a signal of distress flying half mast high (re.
Porte W. Cogblao, FAq.). The wind was blowing strong at
the time from N. E., and there was a nasty Ns.
The small lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Inati-
ft, Una on this station was launched with all possible
unlatch and proceeded to the vessel. It was found
ce inquiry that the smack. the Lily of Wexford, had rine
ce the sand bank while running for the tar at low water,
!nd that there was already a considerable quantity of water
II her. Alter some difficulty the lifeboat crew, who
exerted themselves most creditably, succeeded in getting
Wm crew of six men of the vessel into the lifeboat, end had
0111 just accomplished the rescue when the smack heeled
over and disappeared !math the waves.