The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-11 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Me. Henry Pound, a packing.case maker in Leadenhall.
street, was summoned by Henry William Hill, one of Lie
apprentices, fur refusing to pay him 18s., the amount of
two weeks' wages, due on the 2nd inst. The complainant
stated that Mr. Pound had refused to pay him his wages
because he had refused to do some work for one of the
journeymen. He had told the journeyman when he asked
him to finish off his work that It was not his place as an
apprentice to instruct a journeyman. This made Mr. Pound
v angry, and he ordered him off the premiaes. That was
oril'huraday. He went to the shop on Friday and Satur-
day mornings and offered to work, but Mr. Pound would
not allow hum to do no, and when he went for his wages on
Saturday night he only offered to pay him for three days'
work.

M•. Pound stated that some time back his men had
adopted certain hours for work, and required him to sub-
mit to their terms. He tried the plan, but found it so in.
convenient that ho was obliged to alter it, and thereupon
the whole of the men left his service. He succeeded in
obtaining other men, but the old workmen took every op-
portunity of annoying them, and the apprentices, of whom
he had a considerable number, did all in their power to annoy
them also. The complainant was very active in these pro-
ceedings, and on two occasions he refused to do work that
he was well competent to perform. He admitted that the
complainant came to his shop on the Friday and Saturday
end offered to work, but he refused to let him in, as he
disturbed and annoyed the other men.
The Lord Mayor said lie had nothing to do with the
strike. He thought Mr. Pound wan not justified in re-
fining to pay the apprentice his wages, as ho had offered
to work. . _ _

An °Taer was, therefore, made to that effect.
WORSHIP-STREET.

John Dou, James Malley, and Jeikn green, all powerful
men, were charged with being oonoerned in stealing bread,
the property of the contractors for the supply of the acme
to the Whitechapel Union.
From the evidence of a tradesman named Airseot, living
in the Oil Kent-road, it appeared that on Saturday after-
noon, when the van containing the bread in question drew
up at the workhouse, and the bread was uncovered, a mob
of persons rushed across the road with violent gesticula-
tions and shouts of " Come on, come on ! " climbed on to
the vehicle, and helped themselves to the contents, with
which most of them made off. So sudden was the
audacious act that those who were passing along,
and who, in all probability, would have inter-
fered to prevent it, appeared paralysed. The pri-
soners, however, who were manifestly the ringleaders,
and more daring than the rest, were taken into custody
before they left the spot.
lidwanl Milken, superintendent of labour, confirmed this
testimony. He believed that Dow was in receipt of parish
relief.

In reply to a question from the magistrate, Dow said it
was perfectly, true, but what the authorities gave was in-
sufficient.

Malley and Green declared that they haul applied for
food in vain, and that they were therefore determined to
have it by some other means.
Mr. Newton, in dealing with these men. remarked that
whatever the wants, however great the distress—and this
in the present case he did not believe—acts such as these
could not be tolerated, and must be stopped. Dow would
go to prison, with hard labour, for ten weeks; the others
for eight weeks.