The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

POLICE C 01; 1;:l a.
(THIS DAY.)

CLEIIKENWELL.
E rrIANIANI AND WILFI'L DAFACE.

, a rough, powerfublooking Irishman, was
c• , •re Mr. Barker with being arm anddir-
•
•• wilfully brelking two win,lowso,,llo.
. ,etts, of Frederick-street, Cray'..-inn-ro,ol,
r,..,...•,'

‘:1 t:rown, of the Alhion Tavern, in the York-
% said that about half-pout 4 o'clock on
• . moon th... def. :atilt canto but a his house
tplainant) refused to serve him. :out then
ated a disturbance, far a I.Mt Im was
• and on the second occash.n he pull. •d
I struck it through two windows value
samsbed thetu. He then said he was
.1 would rut the tile through anyone
• 'dm. It was after a struggle tl. st Vie file
frmo him. and be then drew a dinnerdcnife
to stab Pe...ernl people. He had pre-
. !led with some of the customers through
! their beer.
• 7,1 he was rou,;;ltly used and umelt
,h a was the n a,mt be broke the windons.
'2IN., and the amount of the damage, or

MARLIiOHOI%III-STREET.
~N T)IF. rtol.l(l.—A IiEt;GAR.s.
and lir• P. Cr.inpit,le, two rot:‘ •%-i.oking
11 efore Mr. li:nox with he!: lying in a
~er, Crompton being further clint,;,, with
,c-zonetable John Moore. 14;; C.
ge Appletou, C, em id—About o'clock
tttention teat called to the 3:elfish Stoics

ImM-street, Soho, Ly hearing a 17:at
! saw about fifty persons, neney 01 of th•tn
• as beggars, drunk, Ird!uoing. and f. ,ht-
, soon as I entered the honse with a
was a general onslaught on us and
• t I•,wn at us. Finding we could not cope with
,• . •f .ent Un- some of the inhabitant-. and they
-• ••t t Ind we got the persons out. Wilson then re-
sy, mitt I ordered him to he tak. •i into cos.
Wils..n wAs gene to the d-tip• Cr.mpton
' •' - ate of his coe.p.mions and s,:t t., shouting
. .

Were loth the prisoners ',env rned in the
OL he police. and were they both drunk"
• Aplit.fit They were.
• , l'.:C -.1.t 9 o'cloek last night I synnt with
th.• • I:t..t;.!t Stores. and saw a r.nntber of
•'y ;4.r ,n 4. On getting them into the
• t and hallooing, and would not go
, . W t il.on to the station I rvturned and
tau ..t.stotly ; and on the way to the station
and plunging violently, and kicked my
7.•• o under me, and we had great difficulty in getting
t tli.• station, and he nearly tore the nail off ono of
1111 in:•N.
_ _ _

Yeomans, an inhabitant of Cerrard•street,
• hen stnt for by the sergeant, I wrat to
reit b.l, atoms, and them aaw between It) and :A of
tie powoas in London. I persuaded the persons to
lea‘t.. ;LS 1.0011 as they got outside they began quarrel.
LIN :AA shouting at the top of their voica!,. Wdsor.
tar, ',tying that Le had killed many a better man
th h....mud Crompton said that he had paid for a pot of
beer, :,..4 lie was if he would not break every pane of
it the place.
iI r. Knox—llas the attention of the authorities been
earn d. to the house

Appleton—lt has. They had mode the place
nn tie-, lace ye,terday, having got plenty of money,
•uvl got2l-eunk.

16. Ya.Kostans—l am told that they beg all day, and
le:we the money they get with the landlay on their leaving
the lio-i•c to get a bed in the casual wards, and thrt they
ali f r their money the next morning.
Mr. lino.. fined each of the prisoners 40s. or a month for
their el...orderly conduct, and committed Crompton for a
month without a tine for assmilting the constable.

alias Braun, cne of the a.one class as the
other ;prisoners, was charged with behaving in a disorderly
manner and breaking a pane of glue of the value of 405..
the property of Mr. Bentley, of tho Intrepid Fox, War.
dour•street. _ _

The pr;soner went into Mr. Bentley's house, insulted
the et.ct,eners b.seanse they would not gire him becr, sod
on being Put out of the house deliberately smashed a pane
of gime, in the window.
. . .

Mr. Kt.ox committed the prisoner for month without •
fine.

A number of persons were brought before Mr. Knox to-day
charged with being drunk and incapable, and with being
drunk and disorderly • where the charge was only for
drunkenness the offenders were dischar..etl, and in the
other ea.ses Mr. Knox, taking the festive season into con-
sideration, iniposed light fines.

WESTMINSTER.
VIOLENT ASSAI•LT IN A PRISON.

Margaret Grace was charged with assaulting Mrs. Char-
lotte Howe, the chief warder at the Wcatmiuster House of
Correction, Toth'll.fields.
. . . .

A solicit'or appeared from the visiting justices to prose.
ow.

Min. Howe said on the 14th of November she passed into
No. :t prison, C section, to see the work taken by warder
Lambert, . od the prisoner passed into the room to the
oakum mile. She was suffering • term of two years'
imprisonment. When she got to the scale she had
not picked her two days' oakum, and the warder
at the rrale asked her if she was excused. She
said no, she had been "slated" for the doctor.
She turned round to the warder and directed her to put
the prisoner down as "no work until inquire;" prisoner
was then told to stand by tho scale, she did so for a
minute and then suddenly picking up • 21b. weight, threw
it with all her might at witness, stnking her on the arm ;
she picked up a 11b. weight and also threw it, but witness
ducked her head, and it passed over Ler head.
By Mr. Arnold—Could not suggest any motive for it,
except that prisoner bad been reported before by another
warder for having forbidden things without permission.
Her character was bad during the whole time.
Mr. Arnold inquired why the prisoner ha not been
brought up before.
Mr. We'ley, the solicitor, said the visiting justices con-
sidered the matter on the 10th and thought it too serious
for any punishment they could inflict, and ordered her to
be brou.,„ht up at the carnation of her term.
Dlr. Arnold said it was just • case that came under
Jervis' Act, where the prisoner should have been brought
up at once, end at the expiration of the term inflicted for
the offence sent back to finish the original term. He
found that when the prisoner was sentenced to two years,
she had ibsulted awitness In court,and was ordered to find
bail for these months ; prisoner seemed to he • person of
ungovernable temper, and it was necessary to repress exhi-
bitions of this sort in • prison where the utmost dis-
cipline shanld be kept. He sentenced the prisoner to three
months' hard labour.
WANDSWORTH.
SCANDA4OCS THREATS. _

llamas Smith, a young man who had the appearance of
a navvy. was charged with begging and using threatening
language.
• Samuel M'Gill, in service at the Rifleman, Battersea-
fields, raid that on Tuesday night the prisoner en-
tered his master's parlour and begged of the customers
to help him on the road. Witness told him
that begging was not allowed there, and desired
him to leave. He replied that if he was not allowed
to beg he would fire up the house. When he got to the
bar door he said he bad done it before and would do it again.
Knowing that the gasworks in the neighbourhood were being
watched he called the attention of one of the workmen who
was in tit., house to the threat the prisoner had used. He
followed the prisoner,and when he heard him whistle to
the police he ran away. Witness pursued him, when he
sou tripped up by some person, and he fell. He, however,
taw the prisoner running towards the shore, which was
afterwarl 4 searched, and he was found lying behind some
timber.

The prisoner, who frequently interrupted the witness,
denied u,inl the words. What he said was that he had
fed a hou ,ry man and would do it again.
Witner•,—He said he would fire the house up.
John 1! odett said be was employed at the London Gas
Works, it.e Elms. He was in the house, and on the last
witness c tiling his attention to the threat, the prisoner
replied " Yea, we have fired you once tend we'll do it
again !" Witness remarked that it was strong language to
use, and having heard the rumours that it was intended to
blow up the gas works he thought it was time to take
.P'- -

Ingham—Quite right.
Police-, anstable Syred said he waa on special duty
at the works. On Tuesday evening the minister, who
lives near the gas works, informed him that be
had heard it was intended to blow up the works. He
took the prisoner into eustod7, when be said he Lad
nothing upon him. On searching him he found 2s. 9r1.,
part of a cotta--'e loaf, and some cheese. The prisoner was
very viol, it, and tried to incite persons to rescue him from
coatody.
The prisoner, in a crying voice, said be had never spent
inch a Christroas before. He was a stranger and had
been on the road for three weeks. He lied been employed
me. the p works, and he merely went into the public.
ho
Mr. Ingham remanded the prisoner for inquiry.

TEP.^'FIC Ott EXPLOSION.--Last night about
10 &doel there was a tremendous explosion of gnu in the
dwelling.house of Mr. Samuel French, No. 46. Exmouth-
street, late Hohnes-street, pnwy. There was en
swipe of gas in tbe back our Ind Mr. French
went into the apartment with a iiishted candle. A
loud re, ert followed, the front oor was blown
off the binges into the street, nearly every pane of glass
in the aandows smashed, a panel of the shutter covering
the front window shattered, out.' the back of the house
blown out. Mr. French, who is upwards of 60 years of
u6e, was seriously injured by the explosion, and his face
and head were scorched. Great fears ire entertained' that
the calamity will prove fatal. He has been in the service
of Giesler and Co., the wine merchants, in Fenchurch.
street, for 35 years.
MiTkOPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE-
"WARE, ('ITT.—The aggregate number of patients relieved
&nag the week ending Dec. 21 was—Medical, 826 ; mfr.
164 823; total, 1,419 ; al which 651 were new cam.