The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

LAMBETH..

A powwows wee intrantord to the notice of Mr. Elliott
by MI. Andrews, an. of the umbers of lb* court, who mid b 3
hod WIMPS Mr for mew plan se most Miloaleona sad hard
leerkk2,
The poor woman mid eh* bad two sou, most trilling and
industrious yetrh., always desirous to work bard to mem
her, end with their earnings end hr own she wen enabled to
get on very wall, but owing to the unfortunate tamost
asnanget the Widows, her boys—quite against their Melia—
were thrown out of mop)°, meet, end unable to get any
&Domino% to that they were all Mooed to want.
Er. Elliott ordand her itantecUma real frosa the poor-boot.

Tionathy Murphy, a laboorw, age 95, was brought bdora
Xt. Ilelfe, on remind, charged with cutting sad wombat(
, Deis Leary.
' The pro ohs, who was is • weakly ocadhion trom loss of

blood, and hes been under medical treatment for tiev,raldaya,
presented himself in the witnw•box with his head bandaged
sad his right arm in a sling. Leary and Murphy are both
Irishmen, and the former lives at No. 2, Holatotes-oourt,
Copenhagen-place, Limebouae, and the other at No. 3, Hob-
sen'ewourt. Both men have the reputation of being
vse7 beltutriouti and very quarrelemne. Leary hes red
Lit, and has been , frequently annoyed by his neighbour
telling him "carrots.' On th ing of Monday, the 22nd
In*, a Mee. Smith, who lives near Hobeon'e•ccurt, maw the
Oncost with a large clamp knits in hie hand, and he &p-
-reached her feriae window, and sharpened the knife upon
the widow ledge. While he was doing so be said,
have my revenge upon Carrots." He returned to hie own
hews, same out again with the knik and waited until he
ay Leary, whom be abused, rd endeavoured to plunge the
bath into his body, ezoleimbg," I'll do for you, you old
—, I will." Leary mimed Ms right arm to parry the blow,
sad the knife °aught his wrist, on which a deep and danger-
ous wound was indicted. The prisoner then knocked down
Leary with hie Bet, and when be got up knocked him down
again. Leary fell upon his head, and was stunned. Hews.
removed to the hooped on a stretcher, and has ever slue
suffered much from the wounds he received, and the less of
blood.

Two witnesses not acquainted with either party confirmed
ties statement of Leary, and • policeman named Tyler, 66
K, who took the prisoner into custody, said there were 'auks
on the window•aiLL of Mrs. Smith's house, and he had no
doubt they were caused by sharpening a knife there.
Mr. Fletcher, solicitor, who defended the prisoner, Ender
roared to make it appear by kis erase-examination of the
witnesses, that no knife was need ; but the witaames were
quite certain the prisoner had a knife is his head when be
strnek at Leary. The only important fact elicited In rose-
examination from Leary was, that he had been conviceed sad
sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for an aggravated ea-
salt upon a woman.
Mr. Fletcher advised the prisoner to reserve hie &Ikea.
Mr. Belle complained that there was no medical seldom
in this ceps, and committed the prisoner for trial fcr unlaw-
fully

11A1121,15W5D11111.
lames Johnson., who was described as a society'. man,
living in Jenning's-bundinge, Kensington, was charged with
assaulting William Cox.
The complainant anted that he lived in Boath-end-row,
KeeeWitoe, and on Tuesday afternoon lut he went into thi
Marquis of Granby public-house in the High-street, where he
saw a sunder of men who were on strike, and were what was
mailed society's men. The defendant was a society's man,
and was amongst them. Directly he saw him he commepeed
palling him by an sorts of names. He went to the back of
the premises, and the defendant followed him and shoved his
fist in his fem. He afterwards asked witness to drink with
him, but he refused, and he then dashed the contents of •
pot of beer in his face.
In answer to questions from the bench,
The oomplanant said that he was not a society's man, and
that he had been at work at Messrs. Trollope's since the
strike. He wan, however, obliged to leave through the
threats of the societys men.
Mr. Parater Inquired of the defendant if he wished to ask
the whew any question.
The defendant then made his statement, which will be
teazel In the evidence of his winnows.

V.dwsrdHicaeCa bricklayer, said he was in the lifervia
of Granby et the time in question, when the complement
entered end endeavented to force himself into their company.
He kept on saying that he had worked for Messrs. Trollope,
and that he was now very sorry he had left. Witness
then seas away to avoid a disturbance.
George Bleekield, another werkmaa, gave aimilar evi-
demos, sad proved that high words passed between them
both.

-11 r. Pa ter thought that the complainant had acted vs,
foolishly in going to the Marquis of Granby, where the
striker people were paid, but still the defendant had ne
right to throw the beer in hie face. He deprecated Galati
like uintimidation against those who those to work
were not members of the assoolatioes; but at the game time,
the oiraplainaat knowing full well that the house was full
of the aocisty's me, he ought to have remained away and
not intdeavoured to provoke them. He should fine the de-
fendant for throwing the beer, bat he should not allow
any costa
Ths sows, won Wanda* paid.