The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-14 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
PRAIA) ON THE S4)I.:TM /LAATERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

J. Smith, residing at Blackheath, appeared before
the Lonl Mayor on a summons taken out by Mr. Strick.
solicitor to the South Eastern Railway Company,
which charged him with riding in a railway vantage
61.44,:ing to the company without having previously paid
hie fare.

Tatnell, • ticket inspector at Cannon-street
itation, deposed that be collected tickets at the harrier from
the pai.,engers by the 8.45 a.m. up-train on February the
11;th. The defendant, whom he knew, presented shelf ticket
is passing numbered 977 which was not available on that
day. lie had had occasion to suspect the defendant, who
sa. a daily passenger, and he had sent to Blackheath the
night before to get the numbers of the tickets issued
there. lie asked defendant to show his other half ticket,
and he produced a Lalf-ticket from Charing-crow to Black-
heath, lated the 15th February. The first half he had
produced was from Blackheath to Cannon-street, and
was dated the 18th of January. He was asked
when he took the ticket, and he replied that morn.
jug, but did not say where. Witness told him
he could not have done that, and he did not
Leleve even that the ticket bad been issued on any day
that week. He inquired the defendant's name and ad.
arras, which lie gave, and then asked him (witness) what
Le was going to do. He made no reply, but went to Black-
heath that day, and found that the first half ticket he hail
pnaluced was issued on the ltith January. He then re-
ported the matter to the secretary.
The Lord Mayor asked the witness what ground he bad
for suspecting the defendant.
The witness replied that the defendant had within the
het two months several times attempted to page the
harrier with an inferior ticket or a ticket without the
date, or without giving up his ticket at all, saying he was
going to the other aide of the station to catch a train for
(haring Cross.
That being the case for the prosecution, Mr. Wontner,
for the defence, said his client was a person of very great
respectability who would scorn to defraud that or any
other company. The truth was he hail cement, to London
that day, and had taken is return ticket at Blackheath ;
hut had unfortunately left it and his gloves in the waiting-
room while he went to regulate his watch at one of
Bennett's clocks in the station. While he was doing so
the train suddenly arrived, and he was obliged to jump into
it without having time to go back to the waiting-room to
get his ticket and gloves.
The Lord Mayor said he could not resist the evidence on
the part of the company, and he fined the defendant the
full penalty of 40s. and coats
The defendant paid the money.

CLERKENWELL
ROBBERY BY A RAILWAY PORTER.

Georpe Weston, aged 21, a porter in the employ of the
Great Northern Railway, was charged with stealing from
the goods station of the Great Northern Railway,York-read,
St. Pancras, 36 pairs of gloves, of the value of 4f. 10m, the
property of his employers.
Mr. Wontner, solicitor, appeared for the prosecution,
and Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, for the defence.
The facts of this case have been already reported, and it
will be remembered that the prisoner was seen to take the
gloves from a box that he had previously broken open.
Mr. Ricketts said the prisoner would plead guilty, and
therefore he hoped the magistrate would deal with the
use at once, and not put the county to the expense of a
prosecution. The prisoner was well connected, this
being his first offence. Even if the magistrate would not
decide the case, the prisoner pleaded guilty, and would
have that plea recorded.
The magistrate said that robberies by railway servant
seemed to be on the increase, and an example should be
made, even if it was only for the sake of showing the others'
in the same employ that they could not commit such acts
with impunity. He then committed the poisoner to the
Middlesex sessions for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
CAUTION TO APPRENTICTS.
Thomas Burton, an apprentice to Messrs. White, to-
bacconists and cigar manufacturers, of 213, High-street,
llhoreditch, was brought before Mr. Newton, on a warrant
panted a considerable time since by Mr. Ellison for having
unlawfully absented himself from his empkiyment and
duties.
Prosecutors said that they felt it an imperative duty to
themselves and the trade generally to prosecute this
young man, for he had previously suffered an imprison.
merit fur a similar offence to them, which it was
manifest, however, did no service. Apprentices
in the cigar trade were taken as nearly as possible
at the mile of 14 years for the full term of 7 Tzrs and it
was an in the present instance, but it was a 'time be-
fore the lads were of any value to the masters, from waste-
ful and destructive habits with the tobacco, which paid
heavy duty; and when at length their services were of
worth it was common for them to play such pranks as the
present. Defendant had an opportunity now of earning
at the trade from 14s. to 16s. per week and why he should
neglect such an opportunity could not be well understood.
Blogg, 234 0, said defendant was employed as an extra
band with an ice cart when be took him onto custody on
the warrant, and on bearing it replied, " Oh, all right."
Mr. Newton—How many apprentices have you, Mr.
White?

Complainant—Seven sir, and some of them very rough.
Mr. Newton Ito dcfendanti—Now what do you say to
having left your apprenticeship
Defendant—Nothing, except that I shall shortly be of
left

Mr. White—Fie was bound in 1861.
Defendant—l don't care for that, I havn't got many
months to serve.
Mr. Newton—l suspect that you gave a false age.
Masters are not to be trifled with in this mann, r ; you
will go to prison for 2l days.
Defendant—Very well.
Mr. Newton—And when you come out go back to your
masters', I advise you. I hope this will be a caution to
others.

WESTMINSTER.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A MOTHER
Harr Wilson, a woman of dissipated appearanoe, was
!kne charged with being drunk sad incapable of taking care of
lt.

John Andrews, 65 B, said that at a little after 12 last
night he found the defendant lying on the pavement in
Yorlostreet, Westminster, in a helpless state of drunken-
Ma.. She was incapable of taking care of her infant
chid who was with her at the time, and whose condition
created general commisseration.
Mr. Arnold—Where was the child
Constable--Lying in the middle of the gutter.
Mr. Arnold—What was the age of the child?
Constable—Two and a half years. The poor little thing
was naked to the waist, and the snow was falling very fast
at the tine. She had pulled the child down when she
herself fell.
Mr. Arnold—Where is the child now
Constable—l took it to the workhouse last night, and
they have not brought it here this morning.
Mr. Arnold—This is the most disgraceful case of the
kind I ever heard. What have you to say for yourself,
defendant!

Defendant— I walked a long way and took a little drink,
and it got the better of me. I'm a good mother, your
worehip.
IIr• Arnold—Good mother, indeed. Yon ought to be

REMARKS,

Since yesterday morning atmospherical pressure has decreased
especially on the east and south of England, where the tempera-
ture has Increased. The winds are variable, light, In Scotland ;
easterly, moderate to strong, In England and Ireland : south-
westerly, fresh, on the west of Prance. Yesterday the wind was
strong to a gale, from E. to S.E., in places. Much rain and mew
has fallen on the south of England and Ireland.

A singular incident happened the other night to
Mr. Gibson, a resident at Montmellick (Ireland) while
driving home from Itockforest. He bad arrived sear
Ballydn, the seat of Sir Charles Coote, when his car was
upset by the trunk of a tree placed across the road, and he
was thrown out. Six men at once rushed upon him, but
when they saw who he was they apologised, set the car
straight again, helped him in, and sent him away, if not
rejoicing, very glad to escape soeasily. It is thought they
may have been waiting to intercept the police•patrol.

The fugitive Fenian are ,aid to be dying of cold
and hunger in the Wicklow mountains.

The Londonderry Journal reports a recent agra-
rian outrage in Tyrone—an attempt to assassinate th
Rev. Dr. M`lvor, of Newtownstewart.

The latest triumph of the Atlantic cable is an-
nounced in the New York papers received to-day :—" For
the Ant time in the world the closing commercial intel-
ligence of London and Liverpool has been published in
New York on the same day. The cable despatch which
we herewith publish, giving the closing quotations, could
not have left London before 4 o'clock p.m., and yet was
received in New York at noon of the same day. This
gives a little lees than one hour for transmission between
the two cities. This despatch will probably be published
in the earliest editions of the San Francisco papers, say at
noon."

THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD.—The Lord Chan-
cellor of England has reported, on the petition of John
Henry de L Poer Marquis of Waterford, praying that his
right to vote at the election of peers of Ireland to nit in
the parliament of the United Kingdom might be admitted,
that the right has been established to his satisfaction.—
Dublin Evemiag Mail.
Two MOTHERS CLAIMING ONE CHILD.—At the
Newcastle Police-court, on Monday, Margaret Reynolds, a
middle-aged woman, from Edinburgh, was charged with
having been concerned in stealing a little girl from New-
castle about two years ago. The prosecutrix was a Mrs.
Lanruighan. The defence was that the child was not Mrs.
Lannaghan's, but the prisoner's, and after bearing several
witnesses, the bench decided that the girl must be handed
over to Mrs. Reynolds, who, they were satisfied, was the
mother. On hearing the decision of the Bench, the prose.
cutrix exclaimed, child's mine, and I must get her,"
The Mayor—We shall give the child up to Margaret
Reynolds, and you shall not have the power to get her.
Thomas Lannaghan—Let the case stand over another
week. I want to get some one to lay it rightly before you.
The child is ours. fihe is our girl. If you do not give us
justice, we'll have it in a higher court. Mrs. Liu:mail=
(shouting at the top of her voice, and weeping)—The child
is mine ; yes, it is mine. The excitement in the court
became very great, and it was with some difficulty that
the police could remove Mrs. lAnnsghan and her friends
from the court. A large crowd gathered about them out-
side, and the woman continued to_ give vent to her feelings.
The little girl was given over to .s.gßeYnold.s.—Eastern
Counties Herald. _ _

THE SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN.—In the eastern-
most part of the country, in the State of Blaine, the
question of female suffrage, which has been under debate
in the legislature, and came near being enacted into law,
has been postponed ; but now the mine subject is up for
practical decision in one of our westernmost States—to
wit : Kansas—and it is not unlikely that this will
be the first State of the Union to confer the fran-
chise upon women. A joint resolution has passed
both branches of the legislature, providing that the
proposition to strike the word "male " from that section of
the State Constitution which establishes the qualifica-
tion of electors shall be submitted to the popular
vote. We judge it to be more than likely that the
amendment will be ratified by the people of Kansas.
Nowhere else in the country are the people so progressive
as in Kansas, and their post history has been such as to
make them afraid of nothing. The women of that state,
moreover, are uncommonly well prepared to exercise the
right of voting. Having all of them travelled from regions
more or less distant with their husbands or brothers,
having long been compelled to take a real interest in the
strow_nocf polities of their adopted home, baring unsur-
opportunities for the acquisition of education and
intelligence, they are able to take hold of the questions
of the day, not like girls or novices, or milkmaids, but
with knowledge and self-possession. It is certain that
the experiment of female suffrage could have no more
favourable field, and if the men of Kansas vote for it, we
shall see the beginning of that which will not soon have
an ending.—New York Times.
NEGRO VOTER-S.—Universal suffrage is now a
living, working fact in the District of Columbia. The
coloured man, North or South, has no surer promise, no
stronger guarantee, of his birthright to suffrage than this
at last incontrovertible fact. Coloured men, without any
exception as to clam or kind, did vote yesterday in George-
town for mayor—that, too, peaceably and without hind-
ranoe, and for once with the police on their side. Thom
who meet advertise themselves as " white men," lest we
should insult the black man by mistaking them for some-
thing else, were deep in growling, hard swearing, and bad
blood before the day was over ; but we venture to say
that they have at last accepted the situation., and in time
will come to put a sensible, and, therefore, cheerful face
upon the matter. Whether they will or won't, right and
might just now mean very nearly one and the same in-
evitable thing in the district of Columbia. The radical
candidate fur mayor has been elected by 96 majority.—
Nets York Tribune, Feb 26.