The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-05 00:00:00

7HE POLICE COMM.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Spiridioni bevy, an Italian, upwards of 80 years of age,
who for a lung time 141,t has been in tbe habit of voting
warehouses in the my uncfer pretence of purchasing articles,
but with the real object ofatealing whatever came in Iris way,
was brought before the Lord Mayor upon remand, charged
with having stolen two robes of Bilk, of the value of 81., from
the of Mom& Candy and Co., foreign merehanca,
in tlinapetro-t.
At the former examinallon Mr. Lacy clerk to the rose-
clams, said that on the Slat ulr. the prisonerl entered their
warehouse and asked to look at some It dr saw He turned
Ms heed for a moment to speck to the buyer of the rota-
blisluuent, and found this' in the meantime the prisoner had
taken the two robes of elk and partially concealed them
under his great coat, the ends of them wicking out under
his chin. The prisoner wan then Buten into custody.
Mr. J. Vaale, the prom... Maim buyer, said he raw the pet-
' loner lathe ant of putting the robes upon the pile from which
he had removed them, atter Mr. Laoy had 0a14.d witnewee
attention to the fact of the prisoner having stolen them.
Prinoncr7l..only iwiked at them; I did not .teal them.

The Lord Mayor—Mr. Lsey .11W you w.th them under
your mat, and he (a y d *covers d she robtery by the ends
of them *dotting out ; and eh a you noticed that no observed
them, you took them treat undonoalh your mat.
Mr. Goodman (OW clerk)-11ow many dines has the I A-
goner been tried P

J. Inert, aa~WDle 440—He has been tried Ia Liverpod, I
believe, _but lam not in a condition to prove it. He Wes
tried In Landon some time ago for stabbing • girl, and he
was then santsnord to 18 mouths' imprisonment. We have
long anagrated him of robbing wholerale booms in the oily.
The Lord Mayor—Have you soy former conviction spinet
him far slssltsg.
Legg—No.
The prisoner, who denied having stolen the goody, was
fully committed fee trial on this charge.
He was then charged rite having stolen a time of poplin
from the premises of Memo. Parry, warehousemen, Lud-
pie-hill.
Mr. T, Parry raid—Within the last three months the
prisoner has called at our house several times, and we have
=-tKnhim for some time. Ile generally came about
piet
8 or 9 o'clock in the morning, when few persons
were shoat. He was in the habit of castling Dia left arm in
a ding. (lie had his left arm In a sling when he vieited
Mare. Cand)'s cerabliehment, although there was nothing
whatever the matter with it.) linniedia•cly after he had left
on one occasion I missed a piece of poplin etmiler In size and
colour to that produced by the (Meer. lie mods • purchase
on one occasion, but we never sold him the piece of poplin,
thl gum mark on which corresponds with the 'iv) of our
tickets.

Prisoner—Why, I taught it of him and paid for it about
• month lip.
Legg. the officer, rOl that from inktemation ho reeeired he
went wish anut her c.m,ratle to the shop of Mr. Setenberg,
106, St. George'r-gr. rt Ettst, and received tie ptcoe of pop-
lin produced, and • large quantity of handk-ndrefr. He
salted for a reamed, f e the purport, of procuring tae attend-
ance of Mr. Sartenlierg.
The Lord Mayor—Priarnre you will stand committed for
trial on the Bret ensile; and on the accord you will be re-
manded and brought up again rn Mondry next.
Priesner—My Lord, I want my umbrella, it was left at
the kenos-boos,.

The Lord Mayor—You won't want your umbrella, you
will be where the rain won't affect you.
The prisoner wn then ranorct tardi laughter, lot which
be himself joined as he left the dock.
William Jones and Robert Hill, who had been remsniled,
charged with having stolen bagatelle balls train patine-
houses, were again brought up.
There were nearly twenty charges agairett them, and it
appeared that during the last three ebonite, tin y bad been
pouticularly active in their operation., and that they had been
impartial in the distribution of their favo irs among the
licensed vietaalbre of the metropilis. In add ton to the
robber:ea committed by them within the city owl, they h.d
not f wgotten Camberwell, Bemiondtey, lalmstori, ant Pad-
dington. Thil Isere ill the habit at ,nt ring a public-
house and salting fur the bagatelarown, where, It other
players were present, they made op a party, not unfeoquently
including the latidtord himself. They, if possible, outstayed
the rest, and took the opportunity of ilippang out unitises cad •
and carniseg the balls with thin). They Minoru ly entered
a loom, and, If followed thereto by the waiter, they teat hies
for soma refrodiment, and as wen es his back was turned
they bolted off with the balls.
Jones, in reply to each charge, realty denied all knowledge
of it until the care was reached when he and Hill carti.d off
the belle from a public-house on one day end bed the impu-
dence to return there tho next, whin t • admitted that he
certainly did go then with his companion t. have same beer
wad play a gams at bagatelle, but be denied all knowledge of
the bah. Hill, who erred much amuse Iby Jonm'e a•ser.
lions of innocence, also deck:, d that be knew nothing what-
ever of the culotte charges made again., him.
The prisot ere were commired to the Central Criminal
Court for *tint on wean distinct charges.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Henry lay was . hargod before Mr. liammill assault-
ing his wife.
The complidmin., whose petered appearance clearly
denoted anxiety and privation, woe ovvompured by a pretty
IlUle girl and an elderly respectoblo woman. the gave the
followng evidence:—My husband, the prisoner, Is • chair
carver, and we lies in Chathem.gard TIE, Hostoo. I bring
him here upon a warrant for ass oil g use on the 2nd inst.
About twelve o'clock is the d.y he came hove intoxiciee
and add I had mien a elidliag out of his pocket. I denied
It, and observed that I had not etch • ehilliog
for a long t me. Ho belated that I had got it, and
be then smock as. on the back of the head with his est, and
repeatedly be the Sooe lie also Paved Dee as to tail bed, and

punched we in the back asvend times. After that he broke
op a drawer, and hit me with a pail= of it on the shoulder.
I am still enteritis great Wit from the attack, put;eularly
in the shoulder: My thild, who is six years old, was prefent
at the tim!._ . . .

By the Mogetratc—l have been married aev.n year.. He
W 1,2001. with me. A month after our weddino he com-
menced ill-using me. At one time he kept tune men at
work, but is new a journeyman. He can eun from 303. to
350. a week, yet has pledged everything. He says that he
will stem me out, sod cells me a walking templed% On
the evening of the let inst. he took my only blanket sway.
Witness. produced seventy duplicates relating to property
of every discription, from jewellery to bed and body linen,
all pledged ►y him.
The mother of the ill-used woman was questioned by the
worthy magistrate, and stated thafprisomr had often beaten
her daughter, who, although she had twice furnished their
house, was each time deprived of it; and the wife here ob-
served, that although she had been itdviiel to punish her
husband, she always refused, believing that time would im-
prove him.
Prisoner—l was aggravated to do ea I did, for I really had
loet • shilling, but tell you what—l'll allow her eight
shillinp a wtek—well, say ten shillings ; but then it must
be when I am at work.

Wifo-1 cannot take hla word, air—impontble.
Mr. Hammitt took not the *lightest name of the proffered
teams but sent the offeult r to the House of Correction for
six months with hard labour, at the same time directing
that 21. should bo given to the wife.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
' •

Jolc. Immo,. private of the lit Life decade, and *he
bore a good-conduct badge, was charg.d with wanking
Caroline Coyle, a married woman, residing at 10, St. Mary's-
plane, Notting-hi 1.
Freon the evidence of the female it appeared that about 1
o'clock that meriting ohs woo going along Part-lane towards
her home. having been mopping with a friend who wee ill
in Lower Slosne-street, and while walking tad the soldier
said "Mazy." She turned round and told him he woe mis-
taken, whoa he struck her a sev..ro Vow acrcs. the back
with a cans, pulled her down by the hair of her head, and
while on the ground, and notwithstanding she cried "pollee"
very loudly, pulled her clothes over her head and, with kis
open bend, atiuek bar several blows about her person, and she
believed if • c satiable had not come she would hays been
killed. She believed him to have been di ickint.
Rolfe, 146 C, said, bootleg mks of "polite," he went to
the spot, and aaw the woman holding the soldier by the lege,
sad the broken stick lying by her side. Thy soldier told hoe
the woman wee pitting on some steps. and he told her she
had better go home, and directly after she Raised his (togas
with her teeth and eet to calling pollee.
Another constable acid that, ca te'ling the women she
would be examined by a inedcal man, the mid Rho could not
say he struck her with the stick. He had seen her sitting on
&doorstep, when she acid her brad ached.
The female denied she had eat on the doorsteps.
Ia answer to Dlr. Bingham, the accused a dd that what the
proem-wax stated was not true. He had never struck a woman
to his life. lie merely acid, " Mary, why don't you go
home?' when she seized him, and all he did was to try to
get rid of her.
The troop corporal-major !mein, given the Warmer a good
, chanter for 16 years. Mr. Bingham said the female having
contradicted herself with regard to the blow with the stick,
and the prison-r beefing a very good charact,r, and se the
woman had gone a mile out of her way is going home, he
ohould discharge him.
LAMBETH. _

A reepeeteble tradesman, meting in Regent-street, at-
tended at the court with the girl Jane Newell and her
mother. Re said that a somber of he customers had int,
rated themeelves is their behalf, and had p'aced a sum of
money in his hanls for their relief. On hie raging on them
he found them in a state of the greatest di.tiers. lie also
learnt that several p mons had bean writing lettere to the
girl offering her money, end at the some time making dn.
honourable proposals. Mae tette: s tto gal had not replied
to, and he had arranged with her that they should bo all for !
warded to him. He sow bald in hie hand a bundle of more '
than twenty, who h he handed to the nagistra e for his
Among these was the following le, tee front Mrs.
ielrlres,lhe woman at whose house Jane Newell had spent
part of her time after leaving her home :
"Kb. Newell—After the ruin you have brought upset me
by the Ur you told, I am obliged to remove in a few days
to Belgreve-square, at great expense*' and you will ,I hope, to
eave another pollee cam, tauntmy uiothes by the bearer, or
send them by your maul., the po: r woman you have no
much degraded. "Mite. Enna.
6, Somemt-terrace, Bt. George's-mad, PiniPeo."
Mr. Norton—Belgreveaquare, indeed,—why she will ben
neighbour of mine. (Laughter.)
Waghoru, one of the summoning officers of the cunt hire
stated, that from inquiries he had made be had a-e-rtained
that since the iavesttgation the young woman had eondue ed
Ilene! with propriety. From the number of gentlemen call-
ing et the hsuar, some of them in their earnsgee, the girl
end her mother had been obliged ,o leave.
Mr. Norton—That looks like • step in the reformatory
direction. _ _ _ _

The applicant stated he had offered to bind the girl to a
respectable business, and she had expressed her deeue to get
her living respectably.
Mr. Norton consented that 51. out of 71. at his disposal
should be left with the applrant and paid to Jens Nelsen
weekly. He observed that one good result of this sue war,
that a mare liberal scale of remuneration for persons of the
elms to which this young woman belonged had been
adopted at some theatres. The miserable pittance given to
them young people was not enough to support them, and
they were driven to fell by the temptations held out to
this. He felt, however, bound to say, that there was one
ezeallset exception to the reprohmaiblepractice in the lemon
of Mr. C. Kean.
Te:splicent obeerved that there was another evil m-
at the theatres, and that was admitting persons
tie scenes. Here the matter dropped.

LONDON AND SOU7N WESTERN RAILWAY.

The following is from the half-yearly report of
the directors, to be submitted to • meeting of the p•o•
print e. on the 10th inst. :
"The half yearly accounts to December 31, 1865. showed
that the net terrace for the half-year, atter delousing in-
ured on loans, and all other preferential charger amounts
to 202,4801. 7s. 2d.; add surpins at Jun., 1858% 4,8631.
18s. Bd.; haves tot.' beim* avaltbl4 for dividerd at this
time. 207,3341. Os. 10d. Flom th s Man the dirert r, pmporo
that a dividend shall be declare I for the half-)car, payable; a
the 21st of February, at the r.te of 61. lbs. ter rout. per
annum. amtiontmg on 7,197,11 W. of cop tal feed-up to
208,9381. fel. BJ., Lawler: to he varried forward to the current
half-year, 3951. 14s. 2d. The intro as in the groin TC1,111.1,
fur the lam holf•year, over the c rreet ending peritd to De-
cember Sint, 1847, is 22.8024., of whisk 16,9681. is feint ;a--
severs and mail., 6.3231. Irmo ports and utereliandise, but
the.e is a decrease of 4741. from rents sad sunds ice.

-'TiefraiieTeturna,... tie conspired with the former half
year, showed the follosiag juntas': Miles rue, 82,480;
pearangers, 16,9531.; goal., 6,3231.; to'al receipt., 22,8021.;
working ez!eloor, 6,0871 ; telat on, 9411.; net revenue,
15,7741. It k ratlef.etery to know that ink improvement is
not produrei by any estracudicaly cave. but to a giadoll
of the trothc speed over the whole syrem of the
company's linen. The trAffill returns since the commence-
ment of the year 1839 al. show au Weft tee in the receipts.
" The board think that the time has now arrived for calling
the attenton of the proprietors to the subject of the remu-
neration of the director.. in August, 1846, the salary of
the board was increased from 1,0001. to 2,0001. per annum,
this capital animist of the company was then 2,636,5831., it is
no• 7.197,5331. The green receipt. of the year were
11(4,3651, they are tow 862,616/. The mites of railway
'penmen 105, there are cow 287, wilt 120 more mile. in
prospect. The quaificetion of directs:. has been, since 1848,
raised trans • bolding of 1,000/. to. paid up, to a h Ming of
3,0001. paid up, and Is hays hem holleo for tr.lve mouths.
Four of the air vol.. rain by retrior, viz., Charles Cast's.
men, E. q , Captain Cheeks Eduard Mangler, M.P., Charles
Smith Mortimer, Esq., and Wi:lun Philp Snell, Eaq., who
have sari given notice of thole infection to offer them.elves
for rs-eketiun. Thome' Cow, Esq., en* of the auditors,
retires by rolation, and offers himself Inc

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT MILLWALL. Yesterday
morning, Leto rot the home of lour and live o'cloi k, a worst
dentiuctive tire broke out r n the extensive promisee of
Mourn Henry Potter, Buit, and Co , tar tetineni. Millwelt.
The discovery was made by the Thames polii r, who
intly raised an atann, when ne mergers were drepatiled
for the eng'nee of the London Brigade, whi h shortly
airired. They were sot t w welt in en admireb!e colonel.
under tbe dit crib n of Mr. Breiiwood, but the Dames spnad
with amazing rapidity, and die premises wire ne.rly burnt
to the itmund. The cameo is unknown. The primisee are
said to bo uniasurei. _ . .

FATAL ACCIDENT.—AII accident, we regret to
say attended with fatal consequencee, ocean% d to Tburaday,
is tOttilittoil with the oponoag of parliament. A lady named
Margaret lima., who reeldod at Klngsland-green, was stand-
leg ow the COMIC of Parliament-street and litidgmstreet,
to wittier the procession, where the crowd was very den.e
when suddenly a rush took plww, and she was forced to the
ground. and when @aerie tied ebe wee in an ineeneible condi-
tioa. She was taken without delay to Westminster licepital,
sad attended by the hoer surgeon, who tronounad life to
be extinct.
DESTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY STATION DY FIRE.
—Oa Sunday invaistr, about 'keen o'sloek, the good. :esti=
at Keith, ua tto Onset North of Sentland Ra.lway, IMP &is-
coverri to be on tire, at 111 I store asehtteace could he rendered
the whole bendiest mat burned to the er nod. A large
quantity of go•wle, includina two terrain of naphtha, r also
the arrant hooka, were & strayed. Various rumours ate
&need carting theories of the Ms.—Banbury Guardian.
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thoteutd exteowlow. of eaUtorle front hobble cured without
by be 141.'3 Dein:lora MALT. Ita.ioarao ItirataiTa
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