The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-05 00:00:00

7HE POLICE COUB7B.

THAKEB.

Frederick Rowley, 16, was charged with picking pockets.
The prisoner est ups dismal howling on being pat Into the
dock, and continued whining and pretending to my during
the investigation of his case, but not a tear was abed. He
was seen by • police-constable attempting to pick the pocket.
of several gentlemen. At length he was caught In flagrant°
delicto taking a silk handkerchief from a gestieraan's pocket.
He was proved to have been several times in custody, and
twice summarily °metered. He wee once in custody with
three others for stealing a large quantity of boots trom •
house in Cable-street, Wellcloes-square, and west admitted as
evidence for the crown. The jury did not believe the pri-
soner, and his confederate. were acquitted. The primmer
was subsequently tried at the sessions for robbing • sailor,
end owing to the absence of the prosecutor was acquitted.
Kelly, a polioe-constable, 100 H, said the prisoner had
been a thief and the associate of thieves, for the teat four
yews.
The father of the prisoner, a cigar maker, said his son was
bleghie.
.l'ardley said he would prevent the boy preying upon
the public any longer, and would send him to a reformatory
ship.
The prisoner here reared loudly, and said, " Pray don't,
pro don't, sir I I'll be • good boy. I won't prig any more."
Mr. Yardley—Yon have said that before. Your father
cannot reclaim you. You are a very dangerous person, and
the Stare must take charge of you. I sentence you to be im-
prisoned and kept to hard labour for one month, and after-
wards to be detained in • reformatory ship for four years, and
your father to pay 24. per week towards your maintenance for
the first two year..
The district of this court was in • state, of commotion en
Tuesday night, owing to the riotous and violent conduct of
many discharged soldiers. 413 of whom were landed from a
ship which arrived from Bombay that day. Several of the
offenders were brought up in custody before Mr. Yardley,
yesterday, charged with araaults, wilful damage, and being
drunk and riotous. P. Concoran was fined 31. for a maw
and dastardly assault on Mr. Smith, landlord of the Bleat
Horse publiohouse, Tower-hill. John Ferguson was charged
with rushing into the Thistle beer-shop, Hermitage-etreet,
Wapping, abusing the landlady, Mrs. Brown, and breaking
sundry glasses, in doing which one of his lingers was nearly
divided. He was fined 10a. Other discharged soldiers charged
with being drunk and incapable were set at liberty.
Mr. Yardley said that when discharged soldiers were let
locos upon the town they became • terror to everybody.

THE STIPENDIARY MAGISTRACY OF LIVERPOOL.—
The appointment of a successor to Mr. I. 8. Minefield (who
is now presiding at Worship-street mum) will onme befnre
the Liverpool Town Council at a special meeting on Monday
week.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.— On Tuesday morning
it transpired that Mr. °Macros, of Market Harborongli, had
committed suicide under the following distressing dream-
Maness :—Mr. Oldacres went to that town, some few years
since, from Leicester, where he bad gained the respect of •
large circle of friends. He took the superintendence of the
carpet manufacture of Mr. Fauntleroy. On hie bankruptcy,
eons few months since, the manafeetory was carried on by
• camping, of which Mr. Oldaeres was the managing director.
For some days putt ha had shown. symptoms of uneasiness,
but nothing to lead his friends to the conclusion that he was
mentally affected. Early on Tuesday morning, however, he
gat out of bed, complaining of his head. His wife did not
pay much attention to it, but soon afterwards heard him open
the street-door, and immediately called to her niece, who,
attired in her nightdress, with a blanket thrown over her,
fuller ed in all Lute, and caught sight of her uncle, running
up the Leicester.thed. Her cries for help brought revere]
pigeons to the scene, and they immediately wet t in enuenit,
and came within a few yards of him ; he, however, bounded
over • gate, and jumped into a pond called the " Polly," at a
spot where it is 14 feet deep. Their attempts to rescue him
were unsuccessful, as when the body was recovered, life wee
quite *niece
A GOOD LANDLORD.—The actions Of a good and
excellent landlord should be recorded. Captain Power Later,
D.L., of Loagorchard, who has within the last few years
made • large addition to his extensive property in Tippwary,
by the purchase of Barnaliabeen from the Earl of C'arrick,
gave Immo to all his teethes for 999 years, at Griffith's
valuation, even to the smallest holder. He distributes quan-
tities of clothes, not only to his own labourers but to the
labourers who reside in Templetuohy. Mrs. Power Lair,
than whom thereto not a more amiable bitty, is mastoid also
is the exercise of benevolence. Captain P. Woe's genero-
sity to the pariah priest of his parish deserves notice. He
gave him at Christmas 151., and at Easter 101., each year;
and in every other respect MN conduct M such as to afford a
bright Christian sample to his neighbourhood-11month
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INTELLECTUAL ENJOYMENTS ATTAINABLE IN A
CITI.—Thu town 11060= cannot possess • garden in •
great city ; be has notional' to cultivate except a few strag-
gling geraniums, or sooty auricular, and, perchance, spot of
etonscrop. True: bat he has the library, the cheap concert,
and the lecture room ; be has the opinion of the wisest and
best men the world has ever produced in the great republic
of books; he can visit the museums and picture galleries on
holidays; the Crystal Palace. the Z Alegtcal Gardena, the
Polytechnic Institution, the Museum of Practical Geology
are within his reach. Certainly the ocessions on which hi
can visit these places are sot so numerous as we could
with, but we have known many working men who
have attended all three institutions again and again.
The money wasted in various ways by the work-
ing clams would place all theta things within
their grasp. We have known working 011.11 attend the lec-
tors. of Jermyn-street and the Oteeham College, visit all the
picture galleries, and ere the beauties of en in every availthle
place, and yet be in a better social position than their fellow-
workmen who equandere all his hard-earned money in a be-
sotting and brutal manner. We have seen workMg men
with libraries which would not diagrams the home of a mer-
chant, and yet they fulfilled all their relations to society in
a manner creditable to themselves and those around them.
The country workman is denied benefit, which the town
mechatic powesere—and rice terse. The one revels in the
wealth of native, the other of art. There is • balance struck
by Providence betwixt the two.—(Dwells Family raper.
AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Another Arc-
tic expedition is preparing to start next timing. Dr. I. 1.
Haves, the surgeon of the Kane expedition, will be st the
heed of it, sad it will be entirely sustained by the ecientillo
associations of the United States, who/ have entered into it
with great interest. The leading °Meat will be to complete the
explorations commenced by Dr. Kane, and sells the ques-
tion of the open Polar Sea std the other sreientiffc problems
ooneected with it. The French Geographical Society, and
other emitting varieties, have expressed a wish to contribute
to the funds for this expedition, but there is a very just ang
bitten to male it exclusively American. The amount re-
quired ie only 30,009 dollars. Ae there in no reason for fol-
lowing the course of former explorstiolts again, Dr. Hayes
proposes to push rapidly up the Kennedy channel, end directly
at towards the pole with as little delay as pomible.—Gmadisis
News.

THE OUTWARD EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAIM,
—The atom ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, left Southampton
yesterday wl,ll 'be dams malls, 951 boxes of specie of the
value of 276,4941., and 135 eemengere, among whom were
Major Goners! Armstrong, Colonels Herr e mad Wheatley,
Captain. Smith. Sautrey, Dawson, loom, Moe_ , sad Ca.
Majon Fan., Barrows, and Amory sad Llnatastant-
Colonel Marra.

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