The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-21 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS

WORSHIP-STREET.

Henry Lucien MeTtlerie;ti;tnani; person about Ni
year, of sp, and attired in black answered two com-
plaints made against him by Dr. ilrotherton and Mr. E.
Colder, for having in the month of November last falsely
represented himself to be a legally authorised medical
practitioner.
Mr. Poland, the barrister, instructed by Messes. Wilde
and Barber, supported the complaint; defendant con-
ducted his own case, and pleaded not guilty. The pro-
ceedings were taken under the 21st and 22nd of Victoria,
cap. 90, sec. 40, which imposes a penalty not exceed-
in 201.
The learned eoensel stated that the defendant bad for
some considerable time lived at 33, Pollard's-row, Bethnal-
green, nearly adjoining a public dispensary known as the
Queen Adelaide Dispensary, of which the complainant,
Mr. Colden, was resident medical officer ; that he, defen-
dant, had a brass plate on the street door of his house,
bearing his name and titles of surgeon and accoucheur,
which it had been ascertained he wee not legally qualified
for. The importance of such a matter, more particularly in
a parish like Bothnal-green, where so many of the humbler
classes dwelt, must be apparent to all, and it was on public
grounds that the present proceedings were taken.
Defendant, to save time, would admit that be was not a
member of the College of Surgeons, but he might have
other qualifications. He had been a surgeon for years,
long before the passing of the act in question, u his wife,
at that tune his patieut, could prove, apart from colla-
teral documentary testimony. The fact was that an
animus existed against him.
Mr. Newton said that it was clear defendant was not
registered under the Medical Act, and the terms of the
summons were fully proved. Under the circumstances,
however, a finc of 51. only would be imposed. Defendant
urged that the livelihood of himself, wife, and three
children depended on this decision. The prosecution
allowed time to pay, but insisted on the brass plate coming
down.

Defendant was understood to give notice of appeal.
TFIAMICS.

A youth named Mark Wet. Brown was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with stealing three sovereigns from a
desk in the shop of Mr. Edward Bonner, a butcher, of No.
47, Charlotte-street, New-road, Whitechapel.
Alfred Schrieber, potman at the Queen's Head public.
house, in Charlotte-street, Whitechapel, kept by Mr.
Bonner the elder, said the prisoner called upon him on
Tuesday morning and said, " I want to speak toy 311 ; if you
go down to master's slaughter-house and move the dirt
barrow, there is a hole, and you will find a sovereign 113111
54. Give me the sovereign, and you may have the silver."
He told Mr. Bonner what the prisoner said. The hole
was explored, and in addition to the half-crown a sovereign
and two sixpences were found. In the evening he met the
prisoner by appointment, and was about to band him a
sovereign, when a police-constable, by a preconcerted
signal, made his appearance, and took the prisoner into
custody.
Mr. Paget said the witness Schreiber had acted very
honestly and properly.
The prisoner, in defence, said be did not tell the pot•
man there was a sovereign and sa. in the hole. He did
not know how much silver there was in the hole.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial.

PLYMOCTII, FED. 20.—The ship Murray, from
Sydney, passed up the Channel to-night, and is landine
some passengers here. The amount of gold she brings b
not report