The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

MANSION-HOUSE.

Thomas William Hones and Ambrose Cambianca, two
gentlemenly young men, were again brought up on remand
under a warrant, in the custody of Sergeant Russell, a dense.
tire police-officer, and underwent another exami-
nation on a charge of conspiring to defraud Mr. Ladislaa
Kin, of 93, Watling-street, silk-merchant, of silk to the
value of 1501. and upwards, by false pretences. The inquiry
was still pending. when our report left ; but it win under.
stood that the prisoners, at its conclusion, would be again
remanded.

GREENWICH.
MYSTEWATIC ROBBERY BY A RAILWAY OFFICIAL.

Charles Langrialge, aged 20, of 2, St. James's-plaw,
Donatt's-road, New-cross, an office porter, in the employ of
the London and Brighton Railway Company, was placed in
the dock before Mr. Maude, charged with stealing seven
passengers' tickets, value 10a. 6d., the property of the
com.
Mr. Inyspector Carpenter said the prisoner had been far
eight months employed as office porter at the New-cross
station of the Brighton Railway, and for some weeks past
a number of tickets had been missed at different
times by the booking-clerk from the tubes in his
office. Suspicion attached itself to the Frio
eoner, who was narrowly watched. On Sunday, the
22nd instant, three tickets for Brighton were missed, and
these tickets were severally collected from the prisoner's
father, mother, and brother, who told witness the prisoner
bad given the tickets to them. On the Tuesday following
maven other tickets, from New-croon to the Crystal Palace,
were found to have been taken not from the tube, but from
• drawer in which the tickets were keptin bundles. A watch
had been kept in the collection of these, which were of con.
secutive numbers and without dates, and last evening two
of them (produced) were collected from females on the
Crystal Palace train arriving at the New-cross station.
Witness subsequently went to the prisoner and accused him
of having stolen seven tickets from the booking-elerksa' office,
when he said he knew nothing about them. 11e was then given
into custody, and on witness proceeding to the prisoner's
lodging and searching the place, he found in a card.
ease one of the other seven stolen tickets, and on
the mantelshelf a second of the tickets. On being searched
at the station, a half ticket, also without date,
was found in the prisoner's pocket. There had also been
three ticket. stolen on Saturday last. Uterine of which wee
3a. 6d. each, and one of which had been susee collected. lie
had therefore to ask that the prisoner might be remanded,
when ',Ramses would be forthcoming to complete the case.
Mr. Maude asked the prisoner if he had anything to say
why he should not be remasded?
The prisoner—No, your worship ; it was temptation
which led me to do it, and had always before borne •
good character.
inspector Carpenter remarked that part of the prisoner's
duty was to collect tickets, which he Wilt to the booking.
cleric's office to sort. and had thus taken the opportunity of
getting possession of the tickets from a drawer which was
kept in a cupboard.
Mr. Maude said, in committing the robbery, the prisoner
was robbing his fellow-servant, who was reopens:hie to the
company for all the tickets received by him.
The prisoner was then remanded for a week, an atelier".
tinn to admit him to bail being refused.

DREADED!, ACCIDENT AT GRIMSBY.—Lose OF Two
Lrvms at Flan.- On Thursday afternoon a dreadful acci•
dent occurred here, causing universal consternation.
About hail-part four o'clock two vans, similar to
those used by itinerant showmen, arrived in Grimsby,
end took up their quarters on the Freeport wharf. When
the two men belonging to the vans were returning front
taking their horses to a stable, the first sight that met their
view wee one of the caravans enveloped in flames, sur-
rounded by excited persons, who had been attracted to the
spot by a loud report that had taken place previous to the
breaking out of the fire. Every effort was used to break
open the doomed van, and at length, by throwing it over, it
was accomplished. Some hopes had been previously enter.
Mimed that two women, the wives:of the owners of the vent,
who were known to be within, might still be re-cued, bee
that hope met with a speedy and complete extinction, upon
the blackened and charred bodies of the two sufferers hems
extricated from the burning van. The sight was meat
horrible, one spectator averring that upon water beiog thrown
upon one of the bodies, bo observed a movement of the
nostrils and lips, from the act of respiration. Amidst an
immense number of spectators the bodies were carried on
boards to the Cemetery dead-house, and an inquest held the
following day, when a verdict in accordance with the above
evidence was returned. It appears that the fire originated
in the ignition of a quantity of naphtha. of which there wen
a largo supply in the van, and which was the cause of the
loud report. It is supposed that the two poor women were
asleep at the moment, and doubtless they would never be
conscious of their awful fate. No one seems to have
imagined that the women were in the van until the return
of their husbands ; but had the fact been known, it is pro•
bable that from the time of the explosion of the naphtha all
human assistance would have been utterly in vain.—
Lirinoln Time/.

THE SUNDAY.—Several years since, on a
Sunday in July, I went to afternoon service at a certain
church by the sea-shore. The incumbent of that church
was a young clergyman of no ordinary talent ; he is a dm.
tawishell professor now. It was a day of drenching rain
sad howling hurricane; the sky was black, as in mid-
winter; the waves were breaking angry and loud upon the
rocks hard by. The weather the previous week had been
beautiful ; the weather became beautiful again the next
morning. There came just the one gloomy and stormy
summer day. The young parson could not foresee the
weather. What more fitting subject for a July Sunday
than the teachings of the beautiful season wineli was passing
over? So the text was, "Thou haet made summer. " It
was a sermon on summer, and its monk and spiritual
lessons. How inconsistent the sermon seemod with every.
thing around! The outward circumstances reduced it to an
absurdity. The congregation was diminished to a sixth of
its usual number ; the atmosphere was charged with •
muggy vapour from sloppy garments and dripping umbrellas;
and as the preacher spoke, describing vividly (though with
the chastened taste of the scholar) blue skies. green leaves,
and gentle breezes, ever and anon the storm outside drove
the rain in heavy plashes upon the windows, and, looking
through them, you could see the black sky and the fast.
' drifting clouds. I thought to myself, as the preacher
went on under the croft influence of thesA surroundings,
now I am sure you are in email things an unlucky man. No
doubt the like happens to you frequently. You are the
kind of man to whom the Tibia fail to come on the morn.
ing you specially wish to see it. Year horse falls lame on
the morning when you have a long drive before you. Your
man-servant catches a sore throat, and is unable to go out,
just when the visitor comes to whom you wi-b to show the
neighbouring country. I felt for the preacher. I wan
younger then, but I had seen enough to make me think
how Mr. Snarling of the next parish (a very dull 'wencher,
with no power of description) would chuckle over the tale
of the summer Fannon on the stormy day. That youthful
preacher (not Mr. Snarling) bad been but a few menthe in
the church, and he probably bad not another semen* to give
in the unexpected circumstance*: he must preach what he
had prepared. He had fallen into error. I formed a rear.
lotion never to do the like. I was looking forward then
with great enthusiasm to the work of nay sacred pnifessicer
—with enthusiasm which has only grown deeper and warmer
through the experience of more than nine years. I neolved
that if ever I thought of preaching a sninrsor sermon, I
would take care to have an alternative one ready fur that
day in case of unfavourable weather. —Fruars 11°ga:int
for August.