The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—At a meeting on
Thursday of the committee of investigation into the
financial position of the North British Railway Company,
it was agreed—in compliance with a request of the di-
rectors to that effect—that a certificate should be admitted
and published from the accountants appointed to ex-
amine the affairs of the company, exonerating the di-
rectors from any imputation of having borrowed on deben-
tures, or debenture stocks, to a larger amount than by the
various empowering acts the company is allowed to borrow.
THE ATLANTIC CABLES.—The following letter
has been received by the Atlantic Telegraph Company
from Mr. Latimer Clarke :—" Valentia, Sept. 12, 18
My dear sir,—Yon have doubtless received through Mr.
lll'Curley the certificate of the completion of the cable of
18415. I have since been engaged in repeating all the tests
of both cables at greater leisure ; the results are moat
satisfactory, and bear ample testimony to the great care
and skill which must have been bestowed upon them at
every yard and in every stage of their manufacture. The
insulation of the 1865 cable is even better than that of the
1866, but this is doubtless attributable to having been
longer submerged —time having the well-known effect of
improving the quality of gutty percha. The cable of 1866
has, however, also so greatly improved since it was
submerged in July last, that it is doubtful which
will ultimately prove the better. The perfection of the
insulation of these lines is very gratifying, and must
certainly appear surprising to any who are not aware of
the great advances which have of late years been made in
every branch of telegraphy. If either of the cables, for
example, be disconnected from the earth, and charged
with electricity, it requires more than an hour for the half
of the charge to escape through the insulating covering to
the earth. With a single galvanic cell, composed of a few
drops of acid in a silver thimble and a fragment of zinc
weighing a grain or two, conversation may readily, though
slowly, be carried on either through one of the cables or
through the two formed together at Newfoundland so as to
form a loop, and, although in the latter case the spark,
twice traversing the breadth of the Atlantic, his to pass
through 3,700 miles of cable, its effects at the distant end
are visible on the galvanometer in a little more than a
second after contact is made with the battery. The
deflections are not of a dubious character, but
full and strong, the spot of light traversing
freely through a space of twelve or eighteen inches on
the scale, and it is manifest that • battery very many
times smaller would suffice to produce similar effects.
The length of the 1865 cable is 1,826.48 nautical miles,
being 38 miles longer than that first completed, but there
is no apparent difference in their speed of working. The
clerks are rapidly gaining experience and confidence in
working, and have in some short and exceptional trials
attained a speed of even 17 or 18 words per minute. Judg-
ing from the experience afforded by other cables, and from
all that is known of the character of the bottom of the
Atlantic, there appears every reason to expect that these
cables will maintain their electrioal perfection through a
long series of years.—l am, dear sir, yours faithfully,
(Sed) LATIMER CLARIE.—To George Simard, Esq.,
Atlantic Telegraph Company, London."

MAITIMOH-HOUSIL •
John lignry Pi rep, a respectable young man, was
brought before Alderman Bailey, who presided in the
absence of the Lord Mayor, upon a charge of having felo-
niou.sly uttered a forged order for the delivery of a quan-
tity of silk with intent to cheat Messrs. Starrett and Co.,
warehousemen of Bread-street, Cheapoide ,• and Georg
Brottn, who hid been in the first ink/once taken into cus-
tody for the same offence, but which was subsequently
overturned, was entirely innocent, and who had conse-
quently been discharged upon entering into a recognisance
to appear and give eildenoe against the real criminal, also
attended in discharge of that recognisance, but was, of
course, not placed at the bar.
Kr. Lewis, sen., appeared for the prisoner Perry.
The case crested some interest on account of the air-
camirtances connected with it, and the fact that Brown,
who was taken into custody for presenting the forged
order, turned out to have been a completely innocent dupe
in the transaction. He told such a sniaeorward and ap-
parently truthful story, however, with regard to the air-
curnatancei under which the forged document came into
his posseagion ; and as it appeared, also, that he was a re-
spectable man, and bore a very good character, that the
presiding alderman, before whom the matter was investi-
gated in the first instance, would not send him to priaon,
but allowed him to p at large upon bail, and he undertook
to use all the exertions in his power to discover the man
who had given him the forged order, and the result was
that, through his instrumentality, the prisoner was taken
into custody, and the charge fully established against him.
George Brown, the person who bad had so narrow an
escape from being convicted of the charge of forgery for
which he might have been sentenced to a long period of
penal servitude, having been formally discharged from
custody, was now examined as a witness for the pro-
secution against the other prisoner. It appeared from
the statement made by him that be was en-
gagedin taking care of chambers in Gray's-inn-lane,
and was occasionally employed as a porter ; and on the
21st of September, the day the forged order was pre-
sented, he was sent for to the Talbot tavern, in the
Gray's-inn-road, and the waiter told him that a
gentleman had been inquiring for some respectable
person, in whom he could place confidence, to go out with
him for a few hours and assist him in his business, which
he said was that of a commercial traveller. He shortly
afterwards was intronduoed to the prisoner, who said he
should want him for about three hours, and he would
have to fetch some light parcels. He then walked with
him into the City, where he gave him the order upon
Messrs. Starrett and Co. for the silk, and he was to bring
it to him when he received it at the General Poet-office in
St. Martin's-le-Grand. When the genuineness of the order
was suspected, and the porter to Messrs. ficarrett and
Co. was sent with him to find the man who bad
given it to him, the prisoner was nowhere to
be seen, and he was himself consequently given
into custody. After he was allowed to be out on bail
he said that he had been engaged almost night and day
in searching for the prisoner, and he went in company
with the officer to all parts of the City and metropolis, but
he was not successful in discovering him, until last Fri-
day, when from information he received, he had reason to
believe that the prisoner was employed in taking charge
of the house, No. 13, George-street, Mansion-house, and
he at once communicated the fact to the officer.
Alderman Begley asked the witness under what circum-
stances the prisoner was given into custody.?
He replied that he watched late at night, and early
in the morning in the neighbourhood of George-street, and
on the morning he had mentioned, he happened to go into
the Bay Tree Tavern for a glass of ale, and saw the
prisoner standing at the bar with a number of other per-
sons, and he immediately recognised him, and pointed him
out to Raven, the officer, as the man who bad given him
the forged order. As the prisoner was leaving the Bay
Tree, witness went up to him and asked him to pay him
the 3s. 6d. which he was to have bad for the job when he
' was employed by him, and the prisoner appeared to re-
I cognise him, but denied that he was entitled to the money.
lie afterwards denied all knowledge of him, but witness
r was quite sure that he was the man who gave him the
order.
Mr. Lewis did not put any questions to the witness in
cross-examination, and the evidence given by him was
' fully confirmed by that of the waiter at the Talbot, who
swore positively to the prisoner being the man who em-
ployed Brown, under the circumstances he had stated, on
, the day in question.
I Mr. Lewis stated that he should reserve his defence, and
11 the prisoner was fully committed for trial, an application
for bail being peremptorily refused.
GUILDHALL.
The parties to the summons in the case of " Mann v.
Edmonds and Remnant," which had been adjourned for a
month to enable the parties to come to terms, now
appeared before the court again.
Mr. George Lewis, jun., of Ely-.place, appeared for the
complainant ; and Mr. Wontner, jun., for the defendant'.
Mr. Lewis said the complainant was an apprentice to the
defendants, and had served three years and a half of his
time. He had been a quick lad at his business, and had
learned that branch of the business called "blocking," and
had been promoted to the higher branch of " finishing,"
which holm! been learning fut about ohm manilla. t3MLICT
cause of quarrel, however, arose between them, and Mr.
Remnant sent him to what was called "hollow cutting ;"
that was cutting strips of paper with a ploughing machine
for the hollow parts of the backs of cases for
books. It was work usually given to errand boys,
or to the youngest apprentice, and yet the defendant had
not only taken the complainant, who was anxious to learn
his business, from the finishing department, to put him to
work which required no skill to execute, and could be
learned in five minutes, but he bad told him that he
would keep him at it for two years. The effect of that
would be, that he would lose all the knowledge of his
business that be had at present gained, and when out of
his time would not know his trade. This would be a per-
manent injury to the lad, and he called on the magistrate
to interfere, and compel the master to do his duty by his
apprentice, according to the terms of the indenture. At
the last .hearing of the summons it was adjourned by
Alderman Abbiss for a month, to give the master an op-
portunity of replacing the boy in the department he had
been taken from, but during the whole of the time that
had elapsed Mr. Remnant had kept the complainant at
I the " hollow cutting."
Alderman Lusk said Alderman Abbiss, like a disin-
terested magistrate, did not like to see a difference be-
tween master and apprentice, and he adjourned the gam-
mons to give the defendant an opportunity of taking the
complainant away from the " hollow cutting."
Mr. Remnant said he had promised to do so.
Alderman Lusk said that promises were like pie-crust,
made to be broken. The defendant must not talk to him
in that way, when be had had a month to do it, and had
not done it. The boy had been in his apprenticeship three
years, and he was now sent back to the very pnmitive
work. It could not be expected that a boy who could write
well would like to be put back into straight strokes.
The defendant said he had taught him blocking, and he
could get a good living at it now.
Alderman Lusk said that was the very thing the boy
complained of—that having advanced so far in his business,
he was put back to the primitive portion of it.
The defendant said he would put him to the " cloth
forwarding."
The complainant said that was the lowest branch of the
business, and ho was far advanced beyond that.
Alderman Lusk said the defendant was entirely in the
wrong. He would be sorry to inflict a fine on the de-
fendant, and he therefore urged him to do his duty under
the indenture to the complainant.
The defendant did not seem disposed to take the advice
of the worthy alderman, but after being remonstrated
I with by Mr. Wontner, he promised to reinstate him in the
finishing department.
The summons was then adjourned sine die, and the de-
fendant was ordered to pay 1/. Is. coats.
CLERICENWELL.
Mr. George Singer, of 2, Albion-terrace, Albion-road,
Stoke Newington, and Mr. James Alexander Carron, of
the Summer-house, Church-street, Stoke Newington, again
appeared before Mr. Barker to answer the following com-
plaint that had been preferred against them by the Rev.
Thomas Jackson, the rector of St. Mary, Stoke Newington :
—" For that you were, on the 23rd ult., in the parish
church of and in the parish of Stoke Newington, unlaw-
fully guilty of riotous, violent, and indecent behaviour,
contrary to the statutet" Cc. The defendants were further
complained of for having, on the 23rd ult., at the same
hour and place, unlawfully assaulted and beaten Mr.
Frederick Smee, of the chief accountant's office, Bank
of England, and Mr. Charles Jennings.
The case appeared to excite a great deal of interest, and
the court was crowded to excess with respectably dressed
persons.
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Sleigh (instructed by
Messrs. Symes, Sandilauds, and Co., of Fenchurch-street),
attended to rapport the complaint, and Mr. Serjeant
Tindal Atkinson and Mr. Poland, instructed by Messrs.
Stubbard'snd Beck, of 2 East India-avenue, Leadenhall-
street, attended on behalf of the defendants.
The facts of the previous hearing of this case were fully
reported on Monday last, and it will be remembered that
pending the further hearing of this case Mr. Barker sug-
gested that the organ should be kept locked, a suggestion
which was agreed to by both parties, and fully carried out.
On the case being called on to-day a long dis-
cussion between all the learned gentlemen engaged in the
case took place.
Mr. Barker said he thought the dispute had better be
referred to the Bishop of London. He declined to adjudi-
cate at all in the matter.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Sleigh said the rector would still
go on with the services as he had done before the case amt'
before his worship. It was only out of deference to the
wishes of the magistrate that the organ was not played last
Sunday.
Mr. Barker said he hoped that there would be no further
disturbances, and there the matter ended.
LAMBETH. - -

A gentleman connected with the lunatic asylum of Dr.
Paul, at Peckham, attended before Mr. Elliott, and made
a statement respecting the man Grace, for that appears to
be his name, who complained of being illegally locked up
in the asylum.
The statement of the gentleman did not differ with that
made by Grace. The reason he assigned for Grace not
being discharged was their waiting for an order from the