The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-19 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

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Mr. Aldesinsit Itasebe d to acknowledge the receipt of
IW. host the LeatherselW Company for the poor-box of
this wort, aa acknowledgment being requested in the um-
perm

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Mr. 134adon gam his Worst in aow relative to the
=or pawning el aslant snide, which was looked
to with smith Wm= by this pawubroking trade.
This case mare hunt Ithrth-Colend Great, =amend*
the Tower Hamlets Math, now nu t duty at
Newry, having sent thempeth Delete Mars that the mei-
sinks would take steps le mover kith a pthinbrelser In this
metropolis a Crimson add belingthr tefiemit ffeehry, late
of the 24th Beebread Pest, bet new thilisnith the don-
said regiment el melds. The dad the Ada Nov. 2,1867
sad on send*: fer Mr. Math* the pawahreker he stated
he would akthe by the meghisthe'e til= he
thought hthself sedllsi iblela the math as had
originally pleoW Ike mid with him about bairn months
after bb Wear. her the 441 h (which discharge he
then and le g the militia. It
wes C'almoilllilli mediesinth awl up to November 2,
1867, on width day libalri Newry.
Mr. thedoemew saidi—The thel question is whether • soldier,
on being discharged from the INOTIOS, has acquired an magneli-
Id right to dispose of his medal as any online:y=lr'
If he has, I should be unwilling to convict a
who remind it in pledge after the soldier's dish*, oil
after his joining another regiment, although the wards of
the section would fully justify such a conviction. This gess-
lion then toms on the words of the 22nd section of the Mutiny
Ad, 20 Viet., C. 13, whisk section was first altered b the
ad of 1866, in consequence of the number of medals parted
with in the metropolis, and instead of any new mob= being
added to the Mutiny Act, the words "Medal for geed con-
duct or for distinguished or ether services " wan hillehmad
into the section relating to Queen's stores and netemarles,
which prohibits positively '• the detaining, buying, reesivieg"
from any soldier, deserter, or any other person, under any
pretence whatever, Peccaries, store., &a., under a severe
pmalty. Now, the effect of this clause is not only to pro-
hibit ta detaining or receiving, &a , of stores, &c., from a
soldier or deserter, but from " any other person whatsoever,"
and when it is recollected that many of these medals are never
seen by the soldier, but are given to the widows and mothers
Si memorials of his good conduct, it is not surprimilag that the
legislature should have looked upon thee. =dais in the
nature of a distinguished honour which could net be petted
with, and render them (so to speak) hairlooma. I am, there-
fore, of opinion that pawnbrokers are at all times prohibited
from taking these enedala in pawn. This la the view
else taken by the highest authorities at the War Ofilos, and
although on the present =maim no Information for penalties
will be laid, provided the medal be given up, it is the in-
tention of the authorities of the War Office to seek fur a ors-
viction in all similar cases that may be reported to them.
Mr. Meltatish thanked the magistrate for the trouble he had
taken in the matter, and expressed his willingness to give up
the medal.

CIN-DRINIUNG TO DEATH.—Mr. WLII.I/tat
coroner, bald as maast yesterday on the body of • k
man named Y Fitzgibbon, aged 26 years, whose
resulted from gin drinking in the drag under the following
singular thrumetantes :—On Friday evening lea the de-
ceased, in company with two fellow-labourers was psisg
through Coleman-street, in the City, when a pnmkeca o!
gin that was being lowered hoes • waggon broke away on its
' journey to the teller, and wee stove in against
the kerb
' Acme, and the liquor began to "run like water" down the
gotten. Bach • chance of getting drunk far nothing was
too precious to be lost by a man of the deceased's habits, and
seisms a pint pewter pot from the barrow of an adjacent
.17;ta he cowered down and commented ladling the
ri:rara co
stoma at mixt**. Having
on got what he
could by morons d the pint be went down all fours and
set-to lamb( up the Said hellion. One of his com-
mies viedto dissuade him from taking any more, but with-
out avail. Having had what he wuadered enough, or
rather think until he could take no more, he rose from his
devotions, but in • minute or so became unable to stand.
lie was accordingly placed on the ocetermonger's barrow end
wheeled home to his lodgings at No. 11, Russell-plece,
Oreat Corm-Amt. On bringing • surgeon, which was
done immediately, life was found to be quite extinct. Yr.
gitalee, who attended him, said there was no doubt that an
excesive dos of ardent spirit' had produced death. The
jury returned a verdict to that effect ; the maser remark-
ing that it we. exesedingly to be regretted that any man
would saatice his life so foolishly.
NARROW ESCAPE or STRAW-BOAT PASSENGERS ON
run Ti' AuTs.—An accident, which was near attended
with serious results, happmsd to the Adel steamer, to
the Waterman's Ilteam-packet Company, on Sunday eneting.
Since the launching operatics:. of the Leviathan oommemeed
• large accession to the river bale lam takes place, sad the
Arid left London-bridge with numerous passengers. On
arriving opposite the Leviathan, a simultaneous rush was
made by many on board to the side of the vessel
the nearest sight of the monster ship, the oonAreencimadaoi
which wee that the nerd sided and shipped a great
of wets, which edamd at the cabin windows. T e Ariel
paddled across to the Wetensmes
yeseingFloatingere Pier
i, at Orem -
wi where the gnat et the woo boded,
▪ it again sewed withkik the yeeesegere ler Weehrke. It
had sot, however, got farther down tie river then at Grua-
with Hospital before it was ascertained that the mod had
sustained some damage and was making water eery het ;
upon which the ca in datennineds==scr edam
on the Hatable aide which was The
utmort alarm naturally prevailed mem the pmemgma bat
• number of boats were quickly Milks' awl a bridge
formed, over which they passed, and anooseded is reaching
terra fines without sustaining say ether injury but MOt.
The Ariel remained in her new position until the -tide left ku,
when the crew pumped the water out of her, and yesterday
she was taken to moorings, to undergo • thorough examina-
tion and repair.
CONSPIRACY WITII A WIDOW TO DEFRAUD HER
CHILDAIS.—We find this curios tam in Geilignmosi : " A
man mimed Morel, who died in 1818, left to hie widow far
the burn of their four children, • public-houseand te-
stament atCharms., and another o the Boulevard des
Ammedien, both of wbich did a very prodtahle betimes.
Some rem after the woman conceived • violent pardon for
a yams man naiad Prosier, and offered to rry hint; bat,
es do was moll& es lee, be was not di pose to take bee
eider she mold make greatly to his interest to do ea.
mteesesesenwet_
_assayed the design of depriving her
al theMahLhmfeesM in question, and of trans-
fusing thus to Ida He having consented, thezeurestd
astai a minviire settlement by which they
Thal they adeperal what the law alb the system of
a seperaths et and at the same time
lbw bread • prim* kr propnty,
tarrying on the two
house. The eiwilikne et the pertmesidp were suerbi tltt.-
Pools' maid es*, by metals' ineamumes, maks himself, in
a era lbw% wpm • enslitor the vemem, and that is
what he Afar aim pen be pat ea ad to the pert-
umblp, end be Oro Awl that hie vier we his amber te
'v sweat d 71,1551., and ha took ramonme far snag the
ewe berme in order to pay himself. Bat imbeds? the
&Mom el the wawa brought an action against
_hiss b dos
the Chß Tribunal to have the partnership declared ea awl
void, ea ?etc: that the ciremedwoese weir "Ida
and the ter wbkh ft was kneed were, ererabos to
the aft illegal. The traunal.
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gave • jodgmmt to that set t
fatcan.diser Laid Naive as brimolly et AM.
to carried Who weerete basins be swriodrors."
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