The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-09 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Edward Wood and J;;WSTifdrion,stokers in the employ
of the South Eastern Railway Company, were summoned
before Mr. Woolrych by Mary Ann Grant, the wife of an
engineer in the service of the Bombay and Baroda Rail-
way Company, charged with throwing her into two horse-
troughs in front of public-houses in the Old Kent-road,
thereby endangering her life.
The prosecutrix, a middle-aged female, said ber hus-
band had been formerly an engine-driver in the South
Eastern Railway Company's service, but was at the pre-
sent time in India. She knew the defendants and nearly
all the drivers and @token employed by the South Eastern.
On the night of the 10th of January she had been dress-
making in Cromwell-street, Old Kent-road, and left there
about 10 o'clock, and on her way home entered the Bruns-
wick tavern, where she had some rum and water. After
that she went into the Castle tavern, where she saw the
defendants, who told her that her husband allowed
her too much money. She told them to mind
their own business, when a kind of a row took place,
and she was forced out of the house. The defend-
ants then seized hold of her bodily and threw her, with
her face downwards, into the hone trough. It froze very
hard at the time, and as soon as she got out she looked for
a constable, but not finding one she returned to the tavern,
where the landlady gave her some brandy. She was after-
wards placed in another trough.
A stoker in the South Easiern Railway Company's em-
ploy said that the complainant was very dnink and
quarrelsome. He saw her turned out of the house and
thrown into the horse trough. lie never attempted to
interfere or pull her out, u he considered she deserved it.
The defendants did not throw her in.

Mr. Woo'rich Raked him if he did not in it ruffianly
eonduct for strong men to throw a weak woman into a
horse trough on such a bitter cold night.
Witness replied that he did not, as she deserved it.
(Sensation.)
Mr. Woolrych told him that if such was his opinion he
was a ruffianly fellow, and be should not put much con-
fidence in his statement. . . .

Further evidence having been given with the view of
showing that the offence had not been committed by the
defendants,
Mr. Woolrych observed that whosoever treated the
complainant in such a shameful manner were most con.
temptible ruffians. He should therefore adjourn the case
for a week, to enable her to produce further evidence,
if possible.

THE MANSION-HOURS MIT*OPOLITAN DIRTRESS
Pour.—The committee held a meeting yesterday at the
Mansion-house under the presidency of the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Ball, the cashier, read a statement of the condition
of the funds, from which it appeared that the amount
received at the Mansion-house up to yesterday amounted
to 8,0141. 3s. 11d., and that grants had been made to dif-
ferent districts in the metropolis out of that sum amount-
ing to 6,5531., leaving a balance of 1,359/. 3s. 11d. To this
sum, however, had to be added the sum of 3,8181. 78.6 d.
in the hands of the different bankers, which left a deposit,
he believed, to the credit of the committee of 5,1871.
lls. sd. The total amount received from the public in
aid of the object of the committee was 11,8421. 11s. :d.,
but the public appear to be relaxing in their liberality,
evidently considering that, to a great extent, by the alte-
ration in the weather and other causes, the pressing
necessity has passed away, and that things ought to he left
to resume their ordinary course, and this would appear to
be the feeling of a goal many members of the committee.
Deputations attended from seven districts of the metro-
polis only, to apply for assistance from the fund. Those
were Whitechapel, Camden-town, St. George's-in-the-
East, St. Dunstan's, Stepney, St. Peter's, Stepney, Lam-
beth, and Shoreditch. Several grants were made.
BURIED ALlVE.—Yesterday a shocking occur-
rence took place in the northern, or South Hackney,
enclosure of Victoria-park, by which two men lost their
lives. They were engaged with two others in laying adrain-
pipe to communicate between a house in the course of
construction and the sewer, and when at work in a tunnel
theT had made under the pathway, the earth fell in and
buried them. Two of the men were got out speedily, and
were alive, but the other two were not extricated for
several hours, and life was then extinct.

A CLERICAL PROTEST AOAIN-8; " PICKWICK."
—A novel interruption to a " Penny Reading " enter-
tainment occurred the other evening at Farndon, a village
in Cheshire. One of the readers, a Mr. Phillips, commenced
• passage from " Pickwick," when, without any explana-
tion or warning whatever, the incumbent of the parish,
who was present, peremptorily ordered the reader to stop ;
and, strange to say, the reader obeyed, and retired. The
explanation which may be inferred from the exercise of
priestly authority is, that Mr. Johnstone, the clergyman,
did not consider " Pickwick " an improving book.
Oswestry Adrertiser.