The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-10 00:00:00

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XANBION-EOIIBE.

Tkortieswas elhrotia:riotikattor..pmelowir drunk modt ?ll=
at Ilos-
Zwal ring
l Railway station7"enohurch•erest.
It was shows he mitres* that on the perk= evening the
primeter was observed cps the platform of the railway Ma-
dan in a state of theehmesse, sad in the sot of ammaiting
his wile The oaken of the company requested him to be
quiet, but as, issued of cemplyiag with so ressoseMe a mo-
ist, ha abused everybody, and sealed a great disturbance,
were oompsilled to Pun him out of tbe stalks into
way-phone Time he maenad to create • disturiaser,
and after a lit& while was taken into custody, and conveyed
to the statics-lease. where he areaulted Me *fakers, and
Woks the door, doing damage to the amount dile.
The primmer &dad that be had smanlted his wits, end
The Lord Mayor Graved the wilk who was in court, to
steed torweed.
A little oiderly woman thereupon slipped into the witness-
bet, holdings benedbarahlef close to Ism MR eye and We-
ise leer bee se much as possible out of the Imel Megar's
elittetid
Mare—Well, Mrs. Walls, to your husband .
you P
Wille—No, lailesdrim dide't. Hokum. better. (Laughem.)

Lord Mayor—Then how did your eye get blackened
Wife--Oh. that's nothing (holding her hankerchief tightly
before it). It's all an accident.
Lord Ulmer—He struck you by accident I suppose ?
Wife—No; he didn't strike me at all. I knocked it against
the bedpost. Maws of laughter.)
Lord Mayer—That must have been • very carious bed-
post. Just tura your hoe this way and let me gee your eye
Wise—hy, yea sees, my lord, Ise got cold in my eyes,
aad if I turns 'era to you I can't abear the light. (Loud
laughter.)
Lord Maya—Ah, I suppose so; the cold him blackened
your left eye, but it is quite clear to me that your husband
did it, though you ere determined to screen him.
An officer said the woman admitted at first, she being
herself half drunk, as well as her husband, that he had struck
her over the eye, end several of the railway porters saw it
done. The p isoar had been to draw 11. lie., his monthly
they had both been drinking.
Vsall. Valk, however, still resolutely asserted that ha had
sever laid • dager an her. He wee a brict of a husband,"
sad that he had 'brick of • wile.
The Lord Mayor ordered the primmer to pay be. for the
damage he had dons, and 6s. for being drunk.
WORSHIP-BTHAET.
Thomas Baron Georg* °wry, James Wed*, Williams
Baker, and Theism. Talmell, were charged before Mr.
D'Eynconzt with being concerned in stealing eras hundred
weight of fat the property of Mr. Stephen Camden, from his
premises in the Hackney-road.
Early on the morning of the let of June, F
878 H, while on duty in Thomsen-sorest, Whitechapel,
two men carrying a sack, which they dropped an seeing
him, and ran away, followed by a third person. For
raptured two out of the three, namely,Bscon and Carry—the
orb for the time effecting his escape ;on the day following
Tatnell was charged by the same °Moor with complicity in
the robbery, Foreman swearing that he wee the man who
assisted Bacon to carry the sack while Curry kept a look out,
and Webb end Baker were now accused of being concerned
in the same robbery.
After • great deal of evidence implicating the prisoners,
and the prosecutor identifying the fat in the sack se having
been stolen from his premises by very dazing means, the
thieves having to scale a high wall with their booty,
Mr. Thomas Beard, for the Prisoner Tatnell, cautioned the
officer Foreman se to hie positively swearing to that prisoner.
Nothing, however, could shake the constable's belief, although
Mr. Beard called several witnesses who 'poke of Tatneil's
character In terms seldom heard in a court of justice. It
aspeared that he is in the service of Mr. Bond, gunmaker, of
Cornhill, the foreman of which establishment said it was
quite Impossible that the young man could be guilty of the
act imputed to him. In every respect his character was un-
blemished.

--Mr. Beard said independent of this he could prove an
alibi.

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Mr. D Eyncourt, however, ordered all the prisoners for
trial.

THAMES.
Charles Jones, a well-known and dexterous thief, was
charged with steeling a silver watch, value 41, from the
=a of Antonio Cordons, an Italian seaman, whose eel-
wee delivered through an interpreter.
The prosecutor stated that _ yesterday Oberman he was
looking the performance of Pmsch and Judy in Neptune-
street, Welhloite-equare, and at that part of the performance
where Shalaballa and Punch were fighting, he wss
heartily, when he felt • tug at his watch, and semi=
with it in his hand. He instantly seized the , who
threw the watch upon the ground. A man pickd it up, and
the prisoner snatched it from him and ran away. He
followed the prisoner and never bat eight of him until he was
stopped
a Noble a seaman, stated that be picked up watch
from the ground in front of the Punch-and-Judy show at
which he was looking. The prisoner had his foot partly
over the watch. The prisoner snatched the watch from him
and ran away.
John Manning, • pollee-constable, 60 A, saw the rinser
ranning at full speed, and many persons running alter him
calling out, "Stop thief." He seized the prisoner and de-
tamed him The prisoner said a man behind gave him the
watch.

Former convictions against the prisoner were proved. He
ems a notorious thief.

Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for trial.

Mr. Woolrych, the clerk ofthe Metropolitan Board of
Works, accompanied by several gentlemen, applied to Mr.
Ingham for an allowance to • poor-rate assessed upon the
perish of Chiswick by order of the Metropolitan Board, in
default of the oversews of the pariah. Mr. Woolrych stated
that in 1866 the board issued • precept upon the overseers of
Chiswick to raise the sum of 9311. lia, being part of a debt
due to the late Commissioners of Sewer.. The overseers bad
refused to obey the precept, end the Metropolitan Boatel now
proceeded as the law allowed to make a rate considered as a
poor-rate, and to seed down their own collector to receive
the money.
Mr. Ingham said this was the lint cue of the kind that
had been brought under his main, and therefore he wished
to know under what clause of the act the board proceeded.
Mr. Warder* said similar rates bad been made in St.
George'. Hanover-square, and also in Lambeth, end the
magistrates had allowed them. The clauses under which
they acted were, first the 168th, the 161st, and the 181st.
Mr. Ingham asked if Chiswick was not included in the
area of the Metropolitan Board.
Mr. Woolrych said it was not, but was incladed in the
area of the late Commiadoners of Sewers. The act gave the
board power to recover from the outlying parishes all the
debts due to the late commissioners.
Mr. limb= said, in the 181st *action be saw that the
board had power to require of the overseen in the outl3 ing
parishes to pay, bat it gave then no power to enforce it.
Mr. Woolrych admitted that the clams was not carefully
drawn, but argued at some length that his worship should
take into consideration the joint effect of the three claims.
Mr. Ingham said then was omeiderable force in the ergo-
meats of Mr. Woolrycla, but at the same time he entombed
a doubt whether he had any power to proceed in this way.
Under the 161st section, the 'board bad power to apply for •
mandamus In the Court of Queen's Bench, for the overseen
to be compelled to collect the rate. It was an extremely im-
portant cue, and he thought the board should go to the
court.

Mr.
Woolrych said they would vary likely be too late this
term, and it was doubtful whether they would be able to ob-
tain the mandamus for some months. It was • very impor-
tant matter to the subsequent ratepayers, as they would have
to pay the money Instead of those who lived in the parish
when the rate was assessed. His worship would remember
that those objections would be raised upon an appeal against
the rate.

tll. Ingham, after considering the question, thought he
might allow the rate, from the fact that all he bad to do st
the present time vas to see that the rate was duly made by
en authorised body. The other points could be raised upon
H
brag applied for.
His worship socordrgly allowed the rate, by attaching his
hind end seal to the rata book.