The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-14 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL

BeiVanist Bray, residing at 12, Bear-lane, Blackfriars.
road, was placed at the bar charged with defacing the walls
of one of the corporation buildings by pasting bills upon
them.

James Relf, 487, proved that he saw the prisoner stick-
ing bills against the walls of a structure in Playhouse-yard
belonging to the corporation of London. He took him
into custody and took from hima number of bills.
A gentleman appeared for the prisoner and said that ho
had acted under witness's instructions. The prisoner's
master was ill, and witness was managing the business
for him. He did not think the prisoner was to blame.
The magistrates held a different opinion, and fined him
20s. or three days. They also begged to inform the
manager that he was himself liable to a penalty of Ma.
for giving such instructions, and ordered a summons to be
issued against him for the offence. The summons was
accordingly made out and served on him before he left the
court.
The fine was paid.

COMPENSATION FOR RaILwAY INJURIES.—Tho
case of " Beal r. the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway Company " came before the Secondaries' Court
yesterday on a writ of inquiry
i to assess the amount of da-
mages due to the plaintiff for injuries which she sustained
while travelling on the defendants' railway. Mr. Pearce
appeased for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Bailey for the com-
pany. The plaintiff, Mrs. Beal, a dressmaker in Pimlico,
had been on a visit to a friend at Brighton, and on the
Bth of last October she left by the IL3O a.m. train in a
third class carriage to return to Victoria station. Near
the Clayton tunnel she observed some ppeett• oscillating
motion in the • e, and on app • Red-hill there
was such a violent a of the carriage that she was
thrown to one side of the compartment. She was much
hurt, and her baby, a boy 13 months old, which was at
the breast at the time, was so much injured that it died.
the same night. The plaintiff was then put in a first class
carriage and sent on to Victoria station. It was
stated that this violent shaking of the carriage
arose from the negligence of the company in not
having the carriage properly and securely coupled.
Medical testimony having been given as to the injury
which the plaintiff had sustained, and that she had re-
ceived & serious shock to the system, Mr. Begley addressed
the jury for the company, and remarked that very mode-
rate damages would meet the justice of the case. The
learned Secondary (Mr. Potter) having summed up, and
remarked that the plaintiff could not recover for the loss
of the infant, the jury awarded 1001. In a similar case
against the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company it was agreed to take a verdict for 1001.
APPREHENDED STRIKE OF SOUTH YORKSHIRE
MlNERS.—Strikes and disputes in the South Yorkshire
coal trade are unfortunately of frequent occurrence.
I Within the past few months the miners in the employ of
the Messrs. Charlesworth, of the Higham Collieries, num-
bering between 200 and 300, joined the Miners' Associa-
tion, and soon after it was discovered that they were
labouring under a number of grievances, especially one
known in the trade as " hurrying rise." At nearly all the
collieries in the district the getters are allowed Is. per
score for every extra 25 yards they have to bring their
coals to the bottom of the shaft. The reasonableness of
this arrangement will be at once apparent when it is con-
sidered that in some pits a portion of the miners have to
send their coals several hundred yards to the bottom of the
shaft, while others may have but a very short distance to
go. T' his of course, hhasa very material effect upon the
earnings of the getters, as those who work in dis-
tant parts of the mine are unable to compete with
or make anything like the wages of the men in enact
favoured positions. At the Higham Collieries the men
have never had the " hurrying rise " allowed, which is the
cause of the present dispute ; and they now ask the pro-
prietors to plue them on the same footing as at the other
collieries in the South Yorkshire district. The question
had been agitated for several weeks past, and the men
have had interviews with the managers and proprietors,
but without being able to come to a satisfactory
meat. The executive of the Miners' Association have
endeavoured to obtain an interview with the proprietors,
but without anoom, the latter, as in the case of the
Wombwell Main divide, declining to accept the inter-
ference of a third party. The men themselves have been
most anxious to set the pits down, but the executive have
opposed such a course until all other means of arriving at
• satisfactory arrangement bad been exhausted. On Mon-
day afternoon • meeting of the committee of the associa-
tion was held at the offices in Barnsley, and again in the
evening at Higham, to determine the future course of the
workmen, when it was resolved to make another attempt.
to obtain as interview with the proprietors of the collene•
before resorting to the alternative of a strike.—Lavls
Mercury. _ _

An ()Id beggarwoman in Liverpool, named Mary
Fox, who wart said to be over eighty years of age, was
found dead in a miserable lodging at Liverpool on Tuesday.
The poor creature was nearly paralysed by the late severe
frost, and could not get out, and at a coroner's inquest
yesterday it was said that she had nothing to eat between
Friday last and Tuesday, the day she died. A verdict of
" Died from starvation " was returned by the jury.
DU BAILEY'S DELICIOUS BIYALENTA MUMMA
FOOD curet dyipepda, Indigeittoo, cough, asthma, oinsiottron,
debility, constipation, diarrhces, palpitation, narrow. ona,
liver, and stomach complaints. Cure No. 03,41&—" Rome, July
21,18136.—The health of the holy Pubes is excellent, imperially
since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself
entirely to Du Barry's Ireoi, and his holiness cannot praise
this excellent toed too bighly."—Garettedn Do Barry and
Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Loudon, W. In tins, at Is. lid.;
lib.. 11. ed. inta, M. SOM. 406.—lAdvartiasinent.1