The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-06 00:00:00

THE POLICE COUB7S.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Awn loran wee charged with forgery . It appeared
Hist the planer had presseted a °bequest the Bank of Eng-
land for 120f.1 purporting to be drawn by H. Bateman, and
payable to thirty-seven or buster. The clerk of the bank
enepecting It to be • forgery, communicated with the prim-
algal of the once, and • detective wee called in, who asked
him how he bad obtained the cheque. He said a gentleman
gave it him to get changed, end be was to meet him outside
and give him the money. The gentleman's name was Morris,
and he had seen him before about three years ago. Upon
going to the appointed plan no snob gentleman was to be
found, and upon the prisoner being afterwards searched,
several cancelled cheques, signed by Mr. Bateman, were found
concealed about hie person, and alto an order for detaining
a cheque book from the bank.
Mr. Bateman gave evidence as to the signature of the
cheque being AI forgery. He could not tell how the prisoner
bad become pommelled of the cancelled cheques, unless they
were accidentally thrown in amongst a quantity of mate paper,
which he bad sold some time before. _ _

The prisoner bad been for about .ix mouths employe! as
porter It Mr. &Agit* Norton Folgate.
This evidence having teen given, the prisoner was re-
manded.

BOW-STREET.

Sarah Turner, an elderly woman, was charged with having
in her poweesion a pair at loaded pistols, supposed to have
been stabs. _ _

Ann (bodge, who keens, a miscellaneous shop in Stanhope-
Arent, Clare-market, said prisoner came to her chop on the
previous day, and offered a pair of pistols for sale, saying
they belonged to her husband. Having suspicion, she told
prisoner to cell main at five o'clock, and she then went
away, leaving the pistols. In the interval she took one of
the pistols upstairs to show to a male lodger, and having no
idea that they were boded, snapped the trigger. To aebr
astonishment the pistol went off ; the ball passed through the
centre of a handsome mahogany table, which was starred and
shattered, and, penetrating the floor, 'Aged in the ceiling
below. (The ballet was produced, whirls was much flat-
tened) Startled at the, witness ron down stain to me what
bed become of the other pistol, which she had left on the
table within reach of her little boy. To her honor she die-
severed that young gentleman busily engaged in stirring the
fire with the pistol for a poker. She matched it from him,
and finding it also loaded, drew the charge. When
tolled at five o'clock, she gm* her into custody. Creel
remarked that it wee • mercy she had not shot tho primmer
dead, for she triad to snap the pistols, but could not draw the
trigger, ber fingers being weak from an injury.
Prisoner said she received the pistols from a strange men
in the arrest, who asked her to me them for him.
She was remanded.

EACAPI OP TWO CONVICT/ FROM A RAILWAY
Taatir.—On Saturday, attached to the mail train lesving
Roadie. at 7.10 a.m., was a carriage containing a number of
convicts, two of whom it appears were determined upou
making their escape, which they effectually aooompliahed
between' Maidenhead and Slough, while the train wee at fell
speed. By some means they °tenured, unnoticed by the
officers in charge, to remove their irons, and simultathously
both sprang from the minium Upon the arrival of the
train at Slough, the wheels and *ides of the carriage were
examined, to ascertain whether the men had sustained any
injury by falling under the train, but *tier a minute exami-
nation not the slightest trace of blood could be found; it
was then presumed they had escaped unhurt. Information
was at once given to the police antborille*, and telegraph
meeseges forwarded to the different county constabulary
stations. A strict smirch was made throuthout the neigh-
bourhood of Maidenhead, Slough. Twyford, and Reading,
but not the slightest else to their whereabouts has at present
boss ansrealsid.

Tau AIR lOU LOR AT LITEEPOOL.—The
mystery enveloping this murder still oftener unsolved, but
from some inquiries mode in the neighbourhood whore the
decreed had been drinking the eight preceding the murder,
there is memos to reopen" that his setae was 13tunail de
Bloch, and that he had some Mende la London. A publican
residing In Regent-road, Liverpool, states that the evening
berme the murder the deceased wrote two lettere, both
directed to London, and isit the public-house, tasting that be
should post them in the moralag, as it was too late then, it
befits near twelve dank.
CHURCH RATES LAW AMENDMENT BILL.—The
following are the chief provisions of the bill brought I. by
Mr. Hubbard and Lied Hobert Cecil :-1. Every
rateable to a cher& rite, and 'ambrosia( to • form orr orsort7
ship other then the worship of the cher& of England, may
(If he desire to do so) &dm ae exemptioa from the payment
of such rate in maw hereinafter provided (a @Nodule being
provided for it). 2. Every each person who shall deliver to
one of the churchwardens of the pars& wherein the property
In respect of which he is rateable dull be situate, SIMS days
before any vestry or rosseleg to be held be the purpose of
making a church rate, of which vestry or menthe( foe, tees
days' notice shall be glviso, a notice, signed by him, In the
form contained In the schedule to this sot scarred, shall be
exempted from the payment of such rata ; and such notice
shall be deemed conclusive evidence of such person beteg
entitled to the exemption provided by this act: provided
always that such exemptioa shell not apply to any person
exmohdeg the office of churcharardae. 3. Every person who
shall give such notice shall be disqualified from attending any
vestry meeting, or any adjournment thereof, held for the
making of or applying such oburoh rata; and every such
reeky or =sodas for the purpose of neliag a church rats
shell be designated • church vestry meeting, and it shall not
le competent for such useetleg 'o tamed any other Maims,.
DISTRUCTION or MSS.—A correspondent of
NON and Qwerixt writes :—" The bump of dierernativeuese
done real) nom to have acquired I. sac memo whet the
Walsh Nbepbd called • stropping orroanilatioll ; sad you
ham done good smoke ha the mum of biomes" sad eerie-
eleetioal biography by giving publicity to the remorseless
combustion of three large &este of menosoripte (how inte-
resting, host invaluable, we may well suppose) of the mks.
bested Dr. Slakes, sometime Dean of Worcester. Allow
me to plea on roomed, in N. and Q.,' another very sad
ors of destrnetkm--that of the Aloisl corr. apindrnes of
the Hilitary Chat attached to the Duke of Wel—
line= dicing his Peninsular campaign,. A writer
now living, who served in that department under
the Duke Is Spa* Portugal, sad the tomtit of
Frame, bend the design, some twelve years since,
of Indian, • .1,12ara1•3 History of the Peninsu-
lar War.' No matter bow be would have accom-
plished hie tea, trail or ill ; the oabject itself was at any rate
mem interest rag, abnadant in cartons facts, and rich in les-
sons of monetary !admonition, hems which, the next time
we mush ourselves to aostbsentsi omapsigelag, we shall
have to lean over eels, sad perhaps again forget. Hiving
farmed his Ow the Wending author naturally mooed kb
thearlds re the valuable store of facer, dame, mime toed, sad
partioelms, pmserved. se Ite interred, la the eforesdil ace-
rrepeotience. Alas! seenenew emsagmmonle led bees made
in a public odes ; sod to his emestseastics be was imilenned
Mat. M the aconsamayier ProaPt• Of coining colt, NM earn°
1100•600111 bed been desaleyed
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