The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-03 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
NWOV3 CUARG E.

Mr. Danid de la Cherois Gourley, GO years of age, a
physician, residing at No. 8, Henry-street, Edinburgh,
was placed at the bar (under a warrant granted
by Alderman Abbise on Monday last) by Sergeant
Haggett, a detective police-constable, by whom the
prisoner was brought to town this morning at
fire o'clock, The charge was that he, being a trustee to
certain property—that is to say, the snm of
2,4901.45. 5d., for the benefice( I lenryWadham and others—
did, with intent to defraud the said Henry Wadhatn
and Eliasbeth, his wife, formerly Elizabeth Beaumont,
daughter of Hannah Beaumont, deceased, and others, un-
lawfully appropriate the same to and for his own pur-
poses.

The prisoner underwent a preliminary examination, and
at its conclusion was remanded, the Lord Mayor requiring
him to find bail for his re-appearance on a future day,
himself in 2,C:1., and two sureties is 1,0301. each.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
♦ RAD CAA&

Mary Awls Goodehild, of 5, little Crowo-arart, Soho,
was charged before Mr. Tviwhitt,oo • warrant, as follows :
Jesse Goodchild, the husband of the defendant, keeping
a broker's shop, as above, said that his wife for some time
past bad given way to most dissipated habits. A few days
ago she, after threatening she would cut his
throat, seized • knife and swore she would
run it into his bowels. She had twice before stabbed
him with a knife and once cut his head open with • hammer.
He was in a good business, lint she was in the habit of
coming into the shop and taking out thirty and selling them
for drink.

The warrant officer who took the defendant into cuetody
said he found her lying on the bed helplessly drunk with a
bottle containing spirits in her pocket.
The husband said it was a dreadful thing for hie little
family to have such a mother.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the best thing was to have ker away
from them, and with that stew he should order her to find
two respectable housekeepers to be sureties for her good be-
haviour for six months.

The required sureties not being forthcoming, the defend.
ant was locked up.

We are authorised to state with reference to
the notice which appeared on the 17th July
that in consequence of the number of applica-
tions which have already been received at the
War-office for permission for volunteer corps to
attend the review by her Majesty at Edinburgh, on
the 7th instant, and the limited space of ground
available, no further applicttions can be enter-
tained.

ORE HUNDRED AND POl7l YEARN OLD. Wm.
all, the centenarian, of Brown's Hospital, Stamford,
entered upon his 104th year on Wednesday last. His health
is good, and he is tolerably active ; he is en early riser,
and yesterday morning partook of breakfaat prepared by
himself, at half-past C. Another inmate has reached the
advanced age of W.—Storefurd Mercury.
TEE Fazacons IN THE HOUMItt or PARLIAMENT.
—lt is now three years since we first pointed attention
to the dissolution of the frescoes in the so-called
Poet.' Hall ; and since then we have from time to
time noted their progressive decay. Some of the
artists lay whom these works were executed have been
unwilling to admit that their works were destructible
by damp; they cannot, however, now tilt eon.
fess that not only are some entirely destroyed, but
that all are partially injured, anal their total destruc-
tion is only a question of time. The progress of the
decay is more rapid and patent after the dreary winter and
the hitherto le-t summer from which we have been suffer-
ing ; and if there be any who yet doubt that chimp is the
cause of the ruin, they have but to examine for themselves
and be convinced.—Are -.Marna for August.
" Faar" GIRLit—To be " fast " ie a modern
privilege. It aims at combining the lea intellectual pur-
suits of wan with the less desirable attributes of woman.
A fast girl can ride Winn country, smoke, shoot, play bil-
liards, bet, and talk about dogs and horses in a truly edify-
ing manner. She uses slang terms freely, and is defiant in
manner. She wears shorter and more vivid petticoats,
smaller hats, brighter feathers, boots with higher heels
and more plentifully decorated with little brass rings, than
those of her slower cotempornries, and piques herself on
"reeling anything." Surely the possession of all these
advautages, combined with many feminine qualities and
generally with Rood nature, ought to compensate to us for
any want ef delicacy, refinement, gentleness, humility, or
similar trifiea The highest praise which a icon in those
days bestows on his partner at • ball is that ate is " cap: '.al
fun and s stunner to go," and he valises with her very per-
severingly in consequeure ; but somehow his attentions ton
often en there, and he is apt to marry a less funny indi-
vidual. Indeed cases have occurred where a man's former
partnere have been very much puzzled to ascertain " what
he could see in that stupid little woman he ha. married."
Perhaps (were their reasoning powers stronger) it might
occur to the questiouers that he had married bar because
she was a woman, anal not a bad imitation of his younger
brother—Preare's Illeffrazine for August.
Pietro Bocoomini, a Roman tragic actor who
formed part of the Ristori company, has just died at Am-
sterdam at the age of 39. In 1849, he received two stabs
with a poignant a little below the heart, and at his cries the
murderer ran away, exclaiming, "Hy God I I have mis-
taken nay man." Borcomini never completely recovered
from the effects of Lis wounds, the author of which could
never be found.

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