The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-14 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIB DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
CHARGER OP PETTY THEFT AGAINST A GENTLENAL
Edward Hamilton Finney, jun., aged 18, described al
gentleman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Vaegkae,
charged with stealing • silver dessert spoon from
the
Albion Hotel, Russell-street, Covent-garden, end • Wed
cane from Mr. Wallace's stick and umbrella shop in thf
Strand.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Messrs. Sutcliffe and Summed,
appeared for the defence.
John Jellyman, the head waiter, stated that about 5
o'clock on Saturday evening the prisoner and his fathom,
Major Finney, dined together at the hotel. There wen
three silver spoons on the table in the hot where they sit
The prisoner had entered first alone, and was afterwards
joined by. his father. While he was sdone the sexed
waiter mused one of the spoons, and called ir1121061
attention to its loss.
Joseph Hanscombe, the anderwaiter, stated that he se
the prisoner enter the room and seat himself in the lag.
Before he was joined by his father, witness inland 015
spoon, and mentioned it to the head waiter.
Police-constable Lynch, 100 F, stated that 'boat 5
o'clock on Saturday he went in private clothes to the Albion
Hotel, and from information received from the waiters iM
watched the prisoner. After dining the prisoner Viet
with his father to the smoking-room upstairs, where thsl
remained about half-an-hour. They went down Bride',
streetinto the Strand. Witness followed them, accomillom_
byConstable DowdelL They went into a cigar-shop, WDI",
they remained half-an-hour. Afterwards they walked is
Drury-court, where they separated, the father turn•
ing up Drury-lane, and the prisoner going into the
billidd.room, where he remained about 20 minetea
After that he proceeded to Mr. Wallace's 446
Witness saw him go in but did not see him come out. The
next he saw of him was in a cab with Dowdell, opposite
Exeter-hall. Mr. Wallace had come out of the shop ana
claimed a dick which he said the prisoner had not paid for*
The prisoner had no stick when lie entered the shop bet
only an umbrella.
Dowdell corroborated the hist witness's evidence,
said that the prisoner came out of the stick shop wir
both umbrella and stick in him hand. He hailed a 114°,
and was just getting into it, when Mr. Wallace coet
out of the shop after him and charged bun
dealing the stick. Witness took him into custody;
At the station house the prisoner was requested to
out the contents of his pockets, when he produced the
following articles :—Two purses containing 2/. ls. 6d. and
2!. lls. respectively, 3a. 11. in loose cash ; diver tooth
pick and case, ivory handled knife, railway kg/
and case, fusee box, tobacco pouch, 19 kg"
two pairs of gloves, one pomade bottle sad dot
three small bottles of went, one pot of cold creams, cos
pot of extract of meat, one tin case, one packet of Obsw°'
two packets of tooth powder, one packet of dye, fourtese
small combs, one small ivory-hanslied knife, three new
pairs of gloves, one silk hair net in box, one ivory him.
men, three glove patterns. Witness, feeling his Pc'ekit,
said, " Yon have got something else here," and took the
silver spoon from Ms pocket.
Jellyman identified the spoon as his master's ProPorti*

It mie marked " Albion Hotel, Russell-street, Covent-
.. ,^ and was worth ISs.
•-xr. Wallace said the prisoner entered his shop, and said
be mutes a !nick like one he had en* about
Witness showed Wird num
J7ifda, He said that he wanted t
it fberor
bilis, and that it must have • pa/tinder sort
f finds, which was kept by Sangster, but of
whiff witness had no knowledge. At this point a
moor came in and the prisoner left the shop, saying
awl,/ would call again. As he went out witness noticed
this M had a stick which he had not brought in with him,
sad fir which he certainly had not ' paid. Witness fol-
boil him to the cab, and said That stick belongs
tom
sleigh—Yon don't mean to charge this young
.Zientan with taking the stick with a felonious intent ?
Wallace had no desire to press the charge.
ut Sleigh did not mean that. He was not appealing to
mom but wished to ask whether Mr. Wallace really
twist it was a case in which he would charge the Men-
age with stealing.
Vaughan said it was not a cane which he could
ail,/ to be withdrawn.
xf, Sleigh should not have thought of making such
iiefition. He could not shut his eyes to the fact that
Qom was one which he should assume that the magis-
v+w would send to be adjudicated upon elsewhere.
mto the stick, however, he should not think
tys matter worthy of comment, had it stood alone. This
vi not the place to discus the matter and
isiect setting forth what was uppermost In his mind, he
wsdd only say that the prisoner, who bore an irreproach-
am character, declared that he was innocent of the offence
Illreto him.
Vaughan remanded him, taking his father's and Mr.
simmer's bail for 2501. each.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
kg= CHARGED WISH snsupta WATCH .

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1%;;;;;;;Tole, watchmaker, formerly living at No. 3,
North-row, St. George's, but latterly at 15, Singet'es3,lnot
nebula, wee charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with a
vetch and chain of the value of 71., the property of J
Sark, coachman, living in Ham-yard, Bt. George's.
The prosecutor said that about two months ago he took
his watch and Albert chain to the prisoner's house, No. 3,
North-row, the former to be repaired, and the latter to
hoe something added to it. He called upon
Ms prisoner several times, but each time was
pat off by some excuse, and on telling the
prisoner about a fortnight ago that he was deter-
mined to be put off no longer, and to have his watch
sod chain done or undone, he then said that he had
pledged the articles.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the prosecutor whether the prisoner
vss a watchmaker.
The prosecutor sail he reeresented himself to be one.
The prisoner said he was in want at the time, being out
el employ, and that induced him to part with the pro-
Pet,'
Inspector Bowles asked for a remand, as there would be
other cases against the prisoner ; no fewer than fourteen
doiestes, all relating to watches, no doubt left with him
m repair, were found in his possession.
Tyrwhitt granted the application.

WORSHIP-STREET.
SUNDAY DRIVING IN TAR LEA-BRIDGR-ROAD.,

Mira nay, aoarman IfenS-rs. Abbott
ant Co., Holborn, was charged with furiously driving a
tom drawing a cart in the Lea-bridge-road.
?dice-constable Armstrong, 454 N, said—At half-past
5 o'elock yesterday afternoon I was on duty near the Lea
bridge for the express purpose of watching persons offend-
ing in this way. I could see a long way down the
ned, and observed defendant, another man, and
a woman in a light cart. Defendant was galloping
the horse from side to side of the road, to the imminent
dsager of other vehicles and pedestrians. I dash dat the
rents of the animal, and fortunately caught them. Tree
sudden stoppage flung defendant off his seat, backwards.
So drunk was he, indeed, he did not see me lay hold of
the horse's head. The other man was also drunk, and
lasing forward, with his head on his arms and knees.
He remarked, " all right ; we have not run over any-
one, have we"' I was obliged to let down the tail-board
of the cart to get all three out.
NlO6 corroborated this statement, and in reply,
Defendant said with extreme volubility, " I sou not
drank. I bad not anything in my lips the whole day but
tee. I never raised the whip. I was not galloping. I
was sober and steady, and so were all those with me.
Ellison—Have you any witnesses to this?

Fefendsnt—Certaiilly,
John Griffiths called—l am a carman. I was in the
art, we had not galloped. We were sober and quiet.
r. Ellison—How then do you account for defendant
being here on this charge ?
Witness—l can't account for it.

Mr. Ellison—Had you taken anything to drink?
Witness—Oh, yes ; a quartem of gin and a pot of beer?
Mr. Ellison—Did defendant have any?
Witness—He had his share, of course.
Mr. Ellison—He says that he did not take anything but
timid' the day.
Not any reply was made to this by either men ; and
Mr. Ellison inflicted a fine of 40s. or an imprisonment
of 2l days in default.
Looked up.

THAMES.
DETERMINED MENDICANTS.

Several Irish beggars, artistically attired for the purpose
of soliciting alms and exciting the sympathy of the bene- '
volent, were brought before Mr. Paget, charged with men-
dicancy yesterday in front of the Roman catholic chapel
in the Commercial-road. The first charge was against
Samuel Twobig, a tall, blind Irishman, from whose person
there was a very unpleasant odour, and who was exceed-
MO dirty, and Jekanna Tread his child, aged seven.
Police-constable Rugby, No. 140 K, said as people were
coming out of the Roman catholic chapel yesterday morn-
ing at U o'clock the prisoners were outside soliciting alma.
Remy money given to them. The elder prisoner had his
hand before him, and a printed card, in which was inscribed
in large letters, " Kind feeling for this poor man, who is
bind through an accident." Be found 2s. 11 id. on the
blind man. The prisoners were before Mr. Partridge last
week for a similar offence, and the scene of their opera-
tions was Old Gravel-lane, St. George's-in-the-East. The
magistrate then threatened to send the man to prison and
the girl to an industrial school if brought before him again.
/fr. Paget having received an assurance that the Roman
catholic clergy did all in their power to discourage mendi-
cancy, discharged the prisoners, and said it would be very
painful for him to commit them to prison if they persisted
is the offence.

Catherine Murphy, fat and dirty, with old and ragged
Cakes on her person, Mary Murphy, her daughter, aged
and Patrick Murphy, a. well-fed child, which the
soma carried in her arms, were charged with begging in
fast of the Roman catholic chapel yesterday afternoon.
brepence was found on the woman. She said she had
tree children, and had no other resource bus to beg.
Mr. Paget said the woman must not exhibit herself and
dildren to solicit alms. He asked her to which parish she
biloaged, and she replied to Whitechapol. She was dis-
card, with her children, on her promise not to beg
spit, and to apply to the Whitechapel board of guardians
ix relief.

PRESENTATION TO THE REV. DR. VAUGHAN.

(THIS DAY.)

This morning a very large meeting of gentle-
men connected with the various religious denominations
took place at Radley's Hotel, Blackfrtars, for the purpose
presenting to the Rev, Dr. Robert Vaughan a testi-
aonial on his retirement from the British Quarterly Retitle.
Mr. SAYCLI. Mongv presided and was supported by
Mr. Edward Baines, M.P., Mr. Barnes, M.P., Mr. G.
Iceman, M.P., Mr. W. M. Torrens, M.Y., Mr. E. Miall,
Mr. C. Mudie, Mr. Spicer, the Rev. Drs. Tidman, Brown,
MI Rayleigh, and Revs. Newman Hall, Kelly, Binney,
March, Parsons, H. Harrison, Waveney, Allen, J. G.
Call, Stoughton, &c. Having partaken of breakfast,
which was served in the large hall of the hotel,
The CRAIMIAN opened the proceedings by stating that
vhen Dr. Vaughan determined on retiring from
'he editorship of the Review, it was thought that
those who had profited by it should have some means
denied to them of expressing their affectionate regard
;or him, and the result was that he held in his hand a
cheque for 3,000(., which the contributors were anxious to
Place unreservedly at Dr. Vaughan's disposal. (Loud
cheers.)
The Rec. T. TSINNEY said that when the Review was esta-
blished be had some hesitation about it, thinking that
Dr. Vaughan had enough to do as a professor in the theo-
logical college, but he had been thoroughlyruccessful in all
hu ork.

The Rev,
JAMES PARSONS, of York, referred to Dr.
;Visa's " Life of Wickliffe," and other works, as having
hem especially valuable in maintaining the great principles
of the denomination, and generally the principles of civil
tad religious liberty.
.3(r. ltirvEs, M.P., alsolspoke of the doctor's exer-
boss in the canoe of civil and religions liberty, and of the
root and varied field over which his work had extended.
The meeting was addressed in the same vein by the Rev.
a3' Kelly, of Liverpool,Mr. Leeman, M.P., the Rev. Dr.
draan Mr. Barnes, M.P., Dr. Rayleigh, Mr. A. B.
the
trvan, of the Temple, Mr. Torren.s, M.P. (Finsbury),
Rev. Newman Hall, LLD., Mr. Mudie, the Rev. J.
B„,toighton and other gentlemen. After which the
tot(rman presented the cheque to Dr. Vaughan, who was
".),o
reett, with rapturous and long-continued applause.
hnowledging the gift, he said he had never stood in a
mnilar position towards his friends, and was deeply im-
Fraud with their kindness. In early life he became •
"firctational minister, with • full knowledge that it was
." the way to wealth, nor to the establishment of the
("then class of reputations. It was so then and it was
80' to some extent, now. He went through • history of his
professional life, and assured his friends that in his con-
cud of the review he had always been actuated by the
Puma motives.
the
Several additio
brokenal subscriptions were banded in before
awning np.

41 Moscow, one Countess Potocks, a Polish lady
0f4.4k, Wealth, and beauty, has been arrested for having
Prolieted some time ago that the life of the Emperor would
be ettempted on the 16th of April. The lady had hardly
bees committed to prison when she went mad.