The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-30 00:00:00

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In this paper of yesterday appeared • report of a charge
"Oast John Lupton, 48, a discharged moldier, for breaking
a street lamp. He pee a very pleusible Maury of his ser-
vices@ in India. Mr. Combs sent ea officer to the Tower and
asmetabed that be had been discharged as stated. when he
recommended him to Maud the court at 12 o'clock parer-
day. Afterwards, it appeared that he went to the Chief
Clerk end begged that he might be sent down to Hull that
day. Mr. Idwin ecooedingly provided him with the means,
sad he left the neighnurizood as quickly as possibls.
Ak soon as Mr. Combs took his mat on the bench, Mr.
Monday, one of the warrant officers from the Monaca-
home, attended from the Lord Mayor to pat hie worship on
his goad respealng this old WMer. Dlr. Goodman, the
Chief Clerk prostyles in the newspapers that be hsd made
en application to be seat to Hull, wee certain that he was
the mane man who had been relieved four times by the
Lord /Up r, on his making a similar statement chord hie
services in India. Mr. Monday said that inquiries were
mats about him at the tiros' mad hie story so far was Sound
to be correct, but there could be no doubt be was • cheat in
other respects. In January last ha was relieved and sad to
Hull. Oa the 18th of the same month be obtained 6s. from
the Lord Mayor, and on the 14th of the present month he
was maimed again and sent to Hull. He appeared, there-

bra, to have taken two pleasure voyages to Hull and back
at the expense of the Minable- house poor-box.
Mr. Comte and that unfortunately he had gone after
vietimiaing their poor-box. There wee no fear of his making
hie appearance in court that morning.
Boon after Mr. Mueday had departed, Captain Ist'ffeil,
Srd Dragoon Guards, waited on Mr. Combo, and said he had
just seen a report of the cue in the paper, and from the
apparently straighthwsrard statement of John Lawton, he
felt greet commiseration for him, end wee willing to assist
him in his diairsas. He woe in India with the 3rd Dragoon
Gosrda, and returned to England in 1858. He did not
exactly know the man, bat he knew that several were dis-
ringed with a deferred pension of 81. a day.
Mr. Combs observed that he hardly understood that the
man said that he had inch a pension.
Captain M'Neil told him that such pensions were fre-
quently granted, and he had no doubt Lawton was entitled
to it. He, however, attended the court, thinking to meet
him, and it his story turned out true, and he bad been de-
serving, he should have assisted in keeping him from want.
Mr. Combs said he had just received a sovereign for him
from Mr. Leo Schuster, the chairman of the Brighton Railway
Company, through seeing the report in the newspaper. He
had gent to:Mr. Schuster, informing him of the cheat, and re-
questing to be allowed to transfer that sum to the poor-box.
Miller, 118 L, an tdioer attached to Lambeth poliowoourt,
here come forward and said he bad been sent by the Hon.
J. C. Norton to state that Lawton was supplied with 10e. by
him on Friday last to enable him to proceed to Hull, He
had made &similar application to Mr. Norton.
In the latter part of the day, leveret gentlemen waited on
Mr. Combs, expecting to see the " old soldier." Finding
they were disappointed, they complained of being cheated by
hint in a similar way.
Mr. Combs informed our reporter that in the course of the
day he had received several route in postage stamp. for Law-
ton from various beeevolent individuals, which would be paid
over to him on his attending end giving a satisfactory ac-
-wont of himself.

TRANSFER Or LICENCES, ST. PANCRAS.—At a spe-
cial samba of her Majess'ajdoices of the peace, held yester-
day, at the Clerk's-office, Gordon-arid—Present, J. P. Pierce
Eaq., in the chair, Thomas Eld Baker, and William Peter
kin, &qrs., the followingtranafers took place :—Victory,
Clarence-road, Benjamin Hooch to Thomas Bteinson Smith;
University Hotel, Oreftoo-street East, Edward Ostig Wal-
ker to Henry Oettorn ; Crimea Tavern, Inkermann-road,
Richard Holding to Thomas Probyn; aeons' Anus,
Suffolk-street, Richard Ryell to Charles Thomas Sutton;
Hops, Stanhope street, Hampstead-rued, to Mrs. Elizabeth
Newhouse, sole executrix of Frederick Newhouse, deceased.
Several license to deal in game were also granted, and the
justices adjourned to the St. Pancras Vestry, for the pur-
poses of a_petty session.
THE FIRE AND Loss OP LIPS IN FOLEY-STREET,
MARTLISONI.—Yesterday Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner
for West Middlesex, held an inquest at the York Minster
Tarots, Foley-street, Marylebone, on the body of Frances
liamiders. aged 72, who was suffocated at the fire that took
place at No. 31, in the same street, on Tuesday morning
last. The evidence, which was very voluminous, went to
prove that at an early hour in the mooting the premier
were diecovered to be on Ore an the second floor, that the
inmates were aroused as early u possible, when the deceased
and her husband made an attempt to get downstairs. The
latter fortunately 'acceded, but the poor woman was over-
taken by the heated smoke, and was unable to descend. A
duo of theparties made his moms out of the third floor win-
dow, climbed up • water-spout reached the roof, broke
away the tiling, and triad to reach his mother, but find-
ing he could not, be pot off his shirt, which he held
down for his aged parent to lay hold of, so
that he might pull her up, bat the heat was
so great that she was quickly suffocated. The man was
saved by the firemen. and was brought down by Mr. Oiraud,
the engineer, of Wells-street and Metcalf, the sub-engineer,
and taken to the hospital. It was satisfactorily explaMed that
the fire began in the immix:nests occupied by a Mr. end Mrs.
Mason, who, it appears, went to bed leaving a candle burn-
ing, and that it was caused from the want of proper care and
attention in not placing it in a safe position. The jury,
after heating the evidence, returned a verdict that the de-
ceased was suffocated at the the, but how the said ftre oo-
tarred there was not eufileient evidence to prove ; but
site(the jury) thought Mr. and Mrs. Mason had not used
precaution in extinguishing the candle before they went
to bed." The man who wee removed to the hospital, it is
satishdory to state, has quite recovered.
A FORGED DOWRY.—A curious cue of forgery
was brought before the Nottingham borough magistrates
on Monday. A young man named Richard Staples was
charged with haying obtained the sum of M. from another
young man, named James Lamm, with intent to defraud
him. ln January last trade at Nottingham was in a very
depressed state, and work was provide d at the Exchange.
rooms for the female relatives of the men out of employ-
ment. A young women named Chatham was engaged as
overlooker there, and while in that capacity she prevailed
upon a young man named Faster to draw up an I 0 U for
4001, and sign it with the name of a Mr. Wadsworth,
of the firm of Wadsworth and Watson. Two months
afterwards the girl Cheetham married the accused Richard
Staples, having previously shown him the spnriona
document, which she represented as her security for the
sum of 4001. left in the hands of Messrs. Wadsworth and
Watson. Without it Ise would not have married her.
About the middle of last month Staples wanted to obtain
51., and he endeavoured to raise a loan to that amount on
his wife's I 0 U. After oae or two ineffectual attempts
he ailedprev upon the prosecutor to advance him 61., kaviag
the I 0 h him for security. The sum not beteg repaid
at the time stipulated, the pprtocseeecou¢or took the note he held to
WWII. Wadsworth and Watson's, where it was pronounced
to be a forgery, and Staples was given into custody. In
answer to the charge the prisoner said he had not the
slightest idea the document was not genuine until after his
apprehensica, when his wife confessed the manner in which
the had obtained it. The woman—a very oommon-looking
person—oonfirmed her husband's admit nt, stating that be
waractits innocent, and that she had inspated upon him. The
after severely censuring Foster for having drawn up
the I 0 U, remanded the prisoner. On Wednesday, the
charge against him was withdrawn, there being no reason to
doubt that he had lawn eo far imposed on by his wife as to
believe the lOU was a genuine document. It is not in-
tended to take any steps in reference to the forgery, as
that prosecution would Modes the youth Faster, who, how-
ever foolishly he had acted, still had no criminal intention in
what he did. The woman, therefore, who conceived and so
far carried out this singular attempt at trend, will escape
any other punishment than the exposure and the domestic
consequences of having obtained a husband under "false
pretences."
TARRING AND FEATHERING A "FREE LOTER."—
A man named Robert Coons, married, and respectably con-
sented, and obtained a very unenviable notoriety last sprang
by mining away with another man's wife, was tarred and
feathered at Crawfordsville last night. It scams that the
gay Lethal') has been in correspondence for some months
past with a respectable young lady of that town, and bad
proposed au elopement, to which sheconrented. By arrange-
ment the deluded girl was to go to Ladoga, on the pretence
of visiting some relatives, and he was to follow the sent day,
and joining there, leave tootler on the tint train for the
south. Accordingly, en Monday she went down to Ladoga,
and was followed yesterday morning by the pay deosiver.
la the meantime the people of Crawfordsville had got wind
of the affair—an informal stestlag of fifty or more citizens
was held, sod a committee of five resolute min appointed
with instructions to proceed at once to Ladoga, and
take Cocas in custody. The committee left on the
evening train, and arriving at Ladoga, captured and
brought him back on the 10 o'clock train last night.
They were met at the depilt by a large crowd of citizros,
and the guilty wretch was smarted to the Court-house,
which had been lighted up for the occasion. Judge Lynch
organised his court, and Mr. Cocas was put upon his trial.
Eighteen love lettere, over his signature, and addressed to
the young lady whom be had sought to vintimise, were
produced and read to the multitude. No other edemas was
needed, sad after a few speeches had been made by prowl-
nest dams, the lights were suddenly sztinguiehed—Coons
caught and (imp d to the court-house yard—every stitch
of clothing tot n from his back—a bucket of warm tar poured
over his heed and a beg of feathers artistically applied. A
more hideous looking object, says our informant, rennet be
Imagined. He was coated from head to heels. Tho com-
mittee took him in charge and escorted him to the outskirts
of the town, where they humanely provided him with •
suit of clothing, and by a vigorous application of soft seep
and lard, removed the tar sad feathers. He was plead
aboard the train for this city to-day, and leaves by the
Valley-rod to-night for California.—Lefayrifs Cberier,
Indian, July 7.
Tits BORDER RAILWAYS.—There is every likeli-
hood (save the Scottntam) of another keen contest for the
commaad.of the proposed railway communication betweea
&wick and Carlisle. A conference was held at the Dake of
Bucclench's London reddens) about two days ago, at which
representatives of the North British, Caledonia), and Border
Counties Reilway Companies were veleta. The proposition
of Sir James Graham, when examined before the Lords'
Committer, that the Caledonian should make the line from
their present main line to Langhelm and the Scotch
border, to be there met by the North British Udder:tale
line, both earth.. having free running powers rver the whole,"
was considered, bet thou h there did at one tiros exist a hope
of compromise, the ooabrmco broke up without Oinking
any such satisfactory result Though no °Mal samensio
Inept has been made, It is believed that the Doke of Bets
clench has since once more given his adherence to the Cm-
' lisle, Langholm, and Hetrick scheme, so that a fresh pros-
peace may soot be expected. On the other hand, Mr.
'Hodgson, the chairman of the North British Company, has
declared to stand determinedly by the Liddasdale route, and
in this he is supported by the Border Counties Company
and Sir James Graham. The new campaign may be said to
have begun, for Mr. Bedpan had • mestiog with the mem-
bers of the Hetrick diaries committee for the pronotkin of
the Liddiesdals line • few days ego, at which sal the
men pissed trebled their pubscriptiom of last year, *Mt
trinthelaberihnlebinofft ftheorußlaawrireickanshawarlaoldntersas wasor there
e previetts
year's scheme; and dace that meerom numbers of those
who signed the former mistreat hays dm moved to treble
their interest in the new undertaking.
The tube, which will contain the land telegraphic
wire to be laid down from the west coast of Jersey to St.
Helier's in that island, in connexion with the submarine
cable between Englsed and the Channel Islands, have ar-
rived in Jersey, and' the digging of the Matches in which
the tubes Sr. to be laid has commenced. The land telegraphic
wires which is to traverse Alderney in connexion with the
same cable, has also arrived at that island.