The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL

Garr* flare-tea, a dog contraotor, was charged with
throwing about two tons of nabs tote the Thanks.
The Modest had contended with the General Steam
Navigate Company t. remora the Shea from their Teasels,
end it wee oberly proved that he had as several occasions
thrown the shoe into the river instead se into the ash. boat.
The delindeat amid that the mates of sash were contienally
&deg Shy to order to save the Is. charged for offirrying the
she away. He saki nese 20 persons who did so.
He was fined 61.

BOW-9TREBT.
AU Elliott Halm, who maid he was 49 ran of op,
lug looked mach olds., was charged with bagging fa Bt.
Natthea-larke.

Nawea (wind by Prayer, one of the HeMs,edldly allows,
&siding in the gnus, with a board before at uhlolt vas
mitten—a•• decayed sebooloster, author et eines works,
mild rushed a Seurat Wan." He wee laws to
the stases., haebt b sward thus to custody ;
SIM kr mousy ken We. egurgeon, on which
ueseeies, bewevir, wee liberated alter a remand.
ThearS=plerled MUMS Maim He add that he
was a el Use Ohm*; but, has*
bees s!Wiest meth le tete a Israel inßailee.go mu for ato d the Elleitelned_ Mall •
metes Heou'lles ;kw the lad el Decayed School-
masters, sod the law, PEA but use reseed on the
Fond that be Was net yet fifty yours old, poison/ under
that ids net beta. sstlUud to the beasilb afforded by thous

Mr. Feet inne odd that sixteen years ago the Omer was
contend by Mr. Hall.
Kr. Hall eouhl not receive any evidence of a former oort-
Tieden unless in the kern prescribed by the act of parliament
--enunely, by the production of a copy of the record of the
conviction.

Kr. P said he had not bad time to obtain it.
Yr. Hall etterved that he had nothing to do with that,
and desired Yr. Ferguson to sit down, as he was not a
lawyer, or he would not talk in that way. A learned judge
had letety commented upon the raking up of • former con-
vktics after • lapse of inlay years, but here was a case
where it was attempted to go bast for • Mill longer period—
Maims yearn. Ht. wonhip sentenced the prisoner to 14
days' irmaimonsoat.
It was intimated that on the expiration c the term of Do-
hs would Do appreimaded obtaining 21.
s=tkag • oietabs applying for ato
in
name, mad, on readying a remittent* per Post-odic* order,
limning the riveters to draw the miry.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
/ohm Brew was charged with obtaining by &Le pm-
Moore IL 2e. &L from Mrs. Ford, of No. 72, Regent-strut.
William Walker, porter to Messrs. Hampton and Co.,
upholatmen and carpet warehousemen, said, on the 29rd cd
Jannszy lest he wee &liming goods to customers, when the
prisoner came up to him and told him he was out of work
and starving, and offered to help him with his work for a
penny. Witness wee just then delivering • roll of carpet
at 72, Regent-sheet, and prisoner stood by end heard all that
paced . He told the prisoner be did not want any help, and
then turning to the person who received the carpet, he said
he would cell for the money on his return. Whin ha did
call he wee told that the young man who was with him had
called immediately after he left the door and had been paid
for the gouda. Yesterday he was drawing a truck with
goods on it, when the prisoner came up to him, repeated the
same tale of want of work and destitution, end offered to
help him to draw the truck for a penny. Witness immeMstely
recognised the prisoner, and gave him into custody.
Mu. Eliza Ford, 72, Regent-street, proved that the pri-
soner was the man who received the money.
As it wu suspeoted there were other cues of the same
sort, the prisoner we. remanded till Wednesday next.

.ACCIABBT ON THI NORTH- TVBSTUN

I.4ILWAL

An accident oecnrred,on Wednesday morning, near
the Kings Langley Statics, on this line of railing, by which
the up and down trap was seriously impeded for several
hours. The works in se for some time put, for
widening the railway, a R a treble line from Camden
to Trieg, are just now Wastes, carried out in the
vicinity of Kings two =See north of which,
end near the residrosgrikr. Irsaperm,an ken girder bridp
ot great megnitudeis being throws wee Mie reiluky. Fairly on
Wednesday raarnfag, ken mite emus &truant maspielard,
ear of the skims mei is the anion, en al this Wigs,
eta asses et add irdaddng lamely U tae,
:71.= beaks in two pliers, and faUlag awes the rail-
way secesioned an impamabb obstrunks to the pinsege
of botk up and do wn tram. Rapplly no tisk wee=
at the Mltasiat, and intalliganne of the eselfkat
bean ant an to Watford by special engine, Mr. Stab.,
superintendent at that station, immediately nuts& ter the
spot with gangs of workmen, and all the animas which
could be.hutily got together. The 9.16 a.m. down snail
wee the first train whose gunge was imps* ern* of
the obstruction. This wee KM followed by are up Irish
mail, and in the course of a short tame the mg sad
delta lines were completely blocked by trains filled
with „sir. In this dilemma Mr. Stubbs, whose pre-
vious ewe well adapted him for the responsible inky,
undertoo the working of the traffic—on thereon& between
the broken bridge and Boumoor, end on the other between the
bridge and the Binge Langley station. The pas-
augers, men bags, end luggage were under his direction
transferred from the up to the down trans, end from the
down to the up trains, sad by working both linos at the mane
tints, the inconvenience and delay caned by the obstraotion
was mach lemened. Mr. X•Connek the locomotive super-
intendent, sad Mr. Baer, the reddest engineer of the rail.
way, arrived at Kings Lesley soon after the oxidant, and
personally superintended the oer* b away of the brava
girder, which we. se kir seremplished is to allow of the
to-
gsler purple at the Was et °Week.