The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-06 00:00:00

THE POLICE CO ÜBTS.

314.N810N-ROUSE,

Haar P. WoeiTlToileitorT;;;ij4.lnsei, dein-hey,
lainutorg won chard with wwwthing W. Tumor,
awtealb K.
. . .

It append that far six months past complainant had Use
reeiabeg tom empty house to Church-row, Aldyate, and that
abed • Mertsight ago • vogue, earned Prim, hired the
Iwo" pwles 161. for the fixtures, spots which the meat teid
Tuff to pt out as soon as be amid, bet before this was
ion the agent dieootered that Mee references had hem
Biwa lry the arty Maw the Imo and he Montan ite.
Woad tMtMipssMtjm. Wood ins them-
, date toast pareadea far the hirer, fee width pm.
pees he trestle the bewasse
keempattied by fors men, when
:azthr ea* ens apes Turner, with • view of
Ideated ; bed his shirt was torn from hie

back, be succeeded in keeping poesession, and gave defendants
into custody.
For defendants it was contended that they acted legally in
attempting to get possession, even forcibly, for Mr. Wood's
chent, but
Toe Lord Mayor took a different view of the Qua, and
committed both prisoners for trial to the esseloma, taking
their own reoognivasore for their due appearance.

MARLBOROUGH-STIEBT.

Jouph Bodoekos tzlii who has several times figured
at police court*, was with the following &with on
an elderly lemmas aamed Riohbell :
The prommatrli said alas resided at 4, Charlton street, and
the prisons was a lodger. Oa the previous evening, about 6
o'clock, he burst open hie room door, gave her a violent kick,
struck her, sad said he would murder her husband. The
only came she could media was that she bad given him
soda that morning to leave. She suffered great pain from
W effeota of the kick. -

John Gibbs said he was at the house at the time. Saw the
primmer throw a brickbat at him, and afterwards a knife.
Sergeant Kim, 486, said he wee called to the house by •
female who told him that there wee a man running Aleut
the house with a knife threatening to murder her tether.
Went to the plus and took the prisoner into custody. On
the road to the station he was very violent and kicked him
on the knee cap, and he bad been obliged to go to a surgeon
In consequence.
The primmer maid the complainant's house wee fall of
females who got poems there and robbed them.
Mr. Bead= aid whatever the prosecutriie house might
be, that would not justify him in committing the assault.
Committed for three months.

SO[TTHWARK.

Sarah Cook, a woman lielt7g with 1;:r husband in Willow-
walk, Bermm&say, and William Cook, her eon, was charged
with ste a large quantity of leather, the gayety of
Messrs. Wand G. Almoad, leather-drama, of Beratowlem
James Harvey, keens= is tile proasetlf employ
that about two o'clock in tbe mset. a Si. rood feskally
in their and the adjoining warehouses, is Willow-walk, sear
the railway arches, and a large quantity of Missed bandies
of tote leather were thrown into the street and pomade
*taunt. About sight o'clock witness nailed Wormed=
that some of the lesse had bees taken into the
hones, and obtaining the amiantus of an officer, they
there and found a bundle of half hides and a large mime
hide. He Identified them as his employers' property, being
part of their stook is the warehouse prier to the firs taking
place.
Joseph John Hurst said that ha was at the firs, and he
say the lad take np a ignore hide from the pavement near
the prosecutors' premises, and carry it into his mother's
hours Witmer gave information to the police.
Sergeant Upton, 18 if, said he went to the prisoners'
house, and under the daircsae leading to the cellar he found
the leather preduoed. The female cams in at the time, whoa
be sated her bow it came into her 'on P Bhe told him
abe pet it there to take care of, and intended to send it to the

Thefemale prisoner here denied making such a statement.
She told the officer she did not know the leather was there.
She wee very frightened about the fire.
Sengeant Upton swore positively that she told him she put
it there to take one of.

The led MUM' worship that he oertainly did carry the
leather in the house to keep it from the thieve'.
Mr. Combs observed that most likely scab wee the CIMIN
therefore he should dbeltarge them, but he cautioned then
not to touch say mere property at a fire.
PAillip Willie. lailflf was next charged with stealing •
quantity of sole leatber, the property of the same firm.
One of the wobble mid that after the fire was extin-
relabel he new the prisoner at the rear of the warehouse
washing several pieces of sole Yoshi" in a ditch. It was
and very dirty, and had been taken from the stock
thrown out of the warehouse.
Mr. Comb(' fined him 40a fix the unlawful possession, or
ow month's imprisonment,

Two bop wood ifdroiTTurtier"--- and 77tomas lieremek,
were &used with stealing a piece of lead piping. value 24.,
boot an unoccupied house in Cat-throat-Luse, Bow, Mid-
dlesex.

lioe-constable named Stock ley, No. 116 K, said he
saw the prisoners in the Beaumont Cemetery that morning,
at 6 o'clock. The younger boy, Hancock, was ooncesling
something under his jacket, and he found it to be a pieced
lead piping. He asked the prisoners where it arcs from, and
the reply was that it came out of an unoocupled hones bleat.
thmat•lane.

Mr. Yardley—A singular name for a public street in this
metropolis.
The mother of Hancock got into the witness-boa, sobbing
loudly, and said hew boy was at home at fire o'clock that
morning, and he had no father. She was out from morning
till night hard at work, and could not look after him.
Mr. Yardley—How old is he ?
The Mother—He is not fifteen yet, about fourteen and
a half. _ _ _

- Mr. Yardley his given hla age is sixteen. It has
now become the precties for boys to state that they are older
than they really as, to escape a long detention in • re-
formatory.
Roche, the gaoler—That ia the case, air. Boy. are advised
to adopt that course by old offenders among the juvenile
population. I have no doubt this boy is connected with •
gang of young thieves.
Mr. Yantis, was glad to see • wholesome fear of the dis-
cipline in boys' prisons and reformatories. Boy. must not
expect to be treated se men. Re should treat Smooch as •
boy of It, and eentemos him to one calendar month's impri-
sonment add hard labour.
The mother of the boy Turner, who said she lived at 1,
Ashley-lace, Ball-lane, Stepney, then got into the wittier-
box, and gave her boy • good character. She said he was at
work in a rope-ground until Wt Saturday.
lir. Yardley—He la 17 year, of age, and ass been lading
on the younger boy, I am afraid.
Mrs. Turner—Ob, no, no, air; b. Is a very honest W.
Mr. Yardley—l shall remand him until Monday next, and
came *dries to be made about him.

METROPOLITAN POLlCE.—Yesterday a deputation,
consisting of the Has.Hoiney, Berkeley, M.P., Patrickaßrieg
Y.P., Mr. Calculi, M.P. (county ekes), Sir lir/my Awn*
Mr.
Mr. W. Adams Smith, and other gentlemen. waited upon
the Home Secretary, for the purpose of melting some repre-
sentations with respect to the conduct and powers of the Ito-
tropolitan Police. Mr. Adam. Smith represented at semi
length the arbitrary and unconstitutional power oommitiell
to that body, and the difficulty under which the patine
I laboured In obtaining redress for any abuse of that power,
commencing with the original incarceration of the seemed at
the station-house, following him through the police-oaks
under the conviction of the magistrate, down to the hoer
when an illegal and arbitrary sentence by the above-wined
official can only be quashed (if quashed ad ell) at ea ex-
pense of some 2W. or 301.. plainly *bowleg that In nine cases
out of tea such cost is equivalent to • denial of justice alto-
gether. Afterrile observations from Mr. Berkeley and Mr.
O'Brien, Kr. Walpole stated that he was always SMIIOOB to
remedy any specific grievance, and recommended the gentle-
men to send in a statement of the evils complained of and
the remedies proposed.
MURDIIE OF Two CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER
AT Ciavenox.—On Wednesday morning the quiet little
waterlog plus of Clevedos, on the Bristol Cherusel, was
painfully excited by the Intelligence that the bodies of two
children had been washed ashore by the tide. The bodies
were those of a little girl, between two and three, and a boy
about a year older. It was moos ancertained that they were
the children of a woman named Williams, the wife of •
painter living at Upper Easton, • suburb of Bristol. The
woman had fume to Clevedon by the 3 o'clock train the day
before, and bad deliberately walked into the sea with the
children and drowned them. This she stated at the police
station at Flex Houma, where she went to give herself up.
The mom of the shocking ad is not yet known.
THE LATE FICAROUS O'CONNOR'S LAND SCHEME.
—The numbers of the above company held a meeting in
Nottingham on Wednesday evening last. Mr. Deem oc-
cupied the chair. Mr. Councillor Sweet said that in conse-
quence of the late protest that bad been entered is the Court
of Chancery aminst the sale of the property of the company
for 19,30 W. the Master, Mr. Richard*, had adjourned the
further hearing of the case until the 7th of November next.
He then moved the following resolution That In the
opinion of this meeting, ft Is theilutp el the sieleshaidem ef
the National Land Company who have proved their claims
to immedieraly arrange was to protect their popery being
squandered away in law engines*. For that purpose they
hereby resolve that substaiptioes be made to defend them-
selves, and all upon their
obj
fellow-aberehelders throughout
the country to an is the shove ect." Curled with •
few disenationits. Mr. Jacob Dostook was appointed trea-
surer. The lets sommlttee wen is wend to act. A vote
of thanks te the abeintma teeelnted the preoseding•
TUE Lresaroot. Dom.—Mr. T. Bold, of the
Mersey Deck Board, hee been appointed by the Mersey Con-
=7Omnumbetoneve es their. - nominee member, In the
ISr. Mackay, who hse resigned. Mr. T. Bold yes-
terday redeemed his elfin es an elective member of the board,
and the euseney for OMNI will be Oiled on Thursday week.
The prowl mode of levying dock floes at Limped, and
the whole 'abject of areeneemest of the dock quays in ede-
ma te geode deposited thereon, is shortly to come before •
epeeiel esmarAttee with • view to the adoption of certain im-
portant haprenunente recomemeaded last year by a timber
of semelonte and impartere, who gave evidence on the 'ob-
ject Were the esemedtien A splendid new dock which bee
just bum compithed at the north end of Liverpool, and le in-
tended Melly fee timber, ems yesterday christened by the
Mersey D mk Board the Canada dock.
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the

a wthly assesel swaths( bald yesterday at the society's
onset, le Hanover- squire—Jobs amid, Bq., F.R.8., Vier
sekt, ia the chair—his Bzwillassy Admiral Comae
Plasm, Mies Atkiesoa, Rey. 0. W. Breekawidge, sal
Mean. 8. Wore sad W. D. Speer, were shots& Fellows et
lb* misty ; sad the Berl at Hopetela, the Lard Melbas,
Row sad BAT. F. Canon, sad Meme. C. Radii, C. D.
Riddell, Tiles Salt, A. Salvia, j Bawl, Bios, W. Mattes,
C. Chapala, H. awesome, C. W. K. Bayley,
J. Beware, H. IL Abbott, J. Greary, W. P. Were, M.
Gesielle, sad lira. Vie were prepseed se ceadidates
for the Ihliewallp. wed Vika die HUMS sad Dr.
estslisA both et larks, se Formica ambers. Assam
the lissa to the Illowerie the most hemathey acetifies
are the mpg lean phseesals, et width a wry reasider-
able amber have ban bobbed. These Idris we et five
Miteithe Mari, the Cheer, tie Pantie lielsare, the
Kalesgs, sad the limit-briati Laker. All
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=of to NUM. of the misty ie esplesaltsr, whit
le their bsia sociheeted is this ortaetry.