The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

MAELBOBOUOII-BTREE T.
A BOLD Disarms —7. it 46 was charged with having
stolen • pair of trowsers, value 81, the property of Mr. W.
8, sly, clothier, Totte•hata-co•rt read.
G. Baker, • 'horizon is the employ of the prascater,
deposed that, last night, • wean entered the shop,
at,c2 told hiss that a boy bad stole• • pair of interiors trona
the door. Witness ran onl, and saw the perleasese running
with the troweere proe.nord multr his asst. After • 'hasp

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The prisoner. in dit.ace, said the weather was sold; he
was in rags, and. mitts a comfortable pair of trowsen hang-
ing at prosecutor's door, he thon.ht he might as well take
th, m.
He was committed for trial.

EOU HW ARK.
HOUSZBILEMLISC7.-J. Lambe:owns was charged with
breaking Into a dwellintbouse in Harrow.streat, and steal-
ing a copper boiler.
Police-constable 100 W uid that last evening he saw the
prisoner and another man loitering about some empty houses
is Hatrometreet. He watched, and mw them try several
doors, but, peruiving that witness was looking after there,
they ran down a court. About five minutes afterwards he
passed one of the hours in Harrow-street, when we heard •
cracking noise, which induced him to go to the rear. V. hen
he got there hi found to his surprise that the door was open
and on entering he encountered the prisoner, who swore that
unless be let him go he would murder him. He, however,
mixed hold of him, and pulled him out of the house. whek
another constable came up and secured him. Witness
searched him, and found a bunch of akeletem key.
on him, and close by where he first encountered
him he found a copper baler, plated is a basket,
r ady to be removed. Witness and his brother eon-
stab.e atterwuda searched the prisoner's lo,±git gs. and dis-
covered • splendid roulette table, balls, dice, and all the int-
pluneetts used in a gambling house.
Mr. A'Beckett asked who the gambling apparatus be.
longed to ?
Toe prisoner replied, himself and • man named Hill, bat
they had not been used for some time.
Committed for trial.

RAILWAY AL/DIT.—At a meeting of the delegates
of the leading railway boards, held ttit moroing, at the
Ara Rotel, Bridge street, Westminster, the Earl of
Loose/ale fa the chair, it was determined to ab ir don the bill
arbkh had been prepared, in eoneequenee of the want of
assataity on the subject amongst the shasehohlers.

SIIIPWRECK.-A Meet exciting scene occurred at
Whitby on Monday. The brig Yin., of Bristol, laden with
outs, sprung a leek when off Whitby, and, either through
igno•anee of the time of high-water or a want oi ltstmledge
alba port he was shout to enter, the master attempted to
telt- she harbour about 1 o'clock, p.sa., the tide then bring
very lite • past the ebb, and the vessel, as a matter of course,
struck upon the bar. The erew. exorpt the muter, were
loaned in a pilot boat, but the master, Captain John
Honey, who, we undentsad, re part owner, refused to leave
the ve.kl. As the tide rose the wind, which was blowing
strong from the south-east, increased to a complete gale,
and the ma ran very heavy, which soon stove
is sae tide of the vessel, and ciassissted her. The
muter mid stuck to the vessel, and the storm ism:aged,
the waves breaking ever her most furiously. The
pleas ewer., now crowded with anxious eye ctmois, expecting
every meanest to see the wreck of the vessel dashed to
piee.s. During this rriud the had been manned
iced sent to toe v.mel three times, and end. aeon's made to
persuade the captain, if he valued his life, to leave the wreck
bit in vain ; he expect/6rd his determination to "stick to her
es long as • timber remained." But the breakers become so
fessially heavy, that woes for the (earth time the boat went
to his rescue (about 6, p.m.), be was glad to avail Maim& of
the assistance, sad after fur or five ansuce;eafal attempts to
OW the wreck, the captain was go: into the boa: in
as exhausted and almost lifeless state. On reaching the
shore smother unexpected peril awaited him. The cr wd
was so anxious to get a sight co • man who &veered to vilue
ife so little, that it was with the greatest difficulty he e old
be got to a house of retort- without injury, several parlous
.vine been thrown down in the crowd and trampled on.
Whilst this scene was enacting, moth. r of a more amuslag
character was being performed up the harbour. The sea
having washed out the greater part of the cargo (oat.) it
drifted up the harbour with the tide, and the mem, wee
aterAlly covered, and hundreds of beats were to be sees well
manned and the Crews set,velv engaged skimming the water
with baskets an i other articles that would hold the grain
and let off the water, and many a treat is in store
for the swine of the prof fishermen. It is said the
marl is uninsured ; and :foe reason assigned for the
insane conduct of the mater is, that he, bi ing the principal
owner, had got a cr.rchet in his head the tif he left the
wreck it would be claimed as a dentist. On Saturday there
was a heavy storm along the coast, when three vessels came
on tne sands here, but were got off ass's. One of tip m was
on fire. and sustained considerable damage. On Sunday,
the brig Two Sisters, of this port, belonging to Messrs. Break
and White, drifted on the West Sands, aced has cot yet been
got .g. The scene on Tuesday morning, at low-water, was
changed to one sot unlike that of the " California gold dig-
gins." The best oats having sunk to the bottom, crowds of
men, women, sad children were industriously employed up
to the waist is water drugging the river fer the grain. 'toe
principal part of the wreck has been got ashore.

ESCAPE OF A PARTE CHARGED WITH MURDER.-
Through *gel ingenuity (says the Glasgow &trunks Poet)
the policeman named Cameron, of the Glasgow establish-
ment, who was yesterday charged wilt murder before the
Oiseg we Circuit Court, has bees enabled to defeat the ends
of 'Reties, and this forenoon was liberated trom gaol, and his
escaped. In ewe of any misapprehension in the public mind
is to facts, we are enabled to explain the following as the stances of the ewe : " The prisoner ran his Linen atter his
committal for trial, which letters were served upon the Lard
Advocate upon the Sad Oet. By the act 1701 a diet for trial
must be filed within 60 days after the data of intimation. In
this ewe, it seems there had been eabsequent Intimetion
to thy !Ural, which was unnecemery, he net being the proper
party to prosecute for the murder, and the crown lawyers,
by mistake, bad taken that date to compute their 60 days
from, and the indictment was, therefore, served beyond the
specified 60 days, sowing from the time that the Lord
Advocate was served. At the diet yesterday the objection
that there wee no proper lertiee of the indictment, and,
emwqaently, no lawful diet of trial, wee made by prisoner's
foetus', and therefore liberation was demanded; but the ease
wee cootinued. A formal application, ia terms of the act 1701,
was then made yesterday by Mr. etrathern, writer, agent
for the prisoner, sad is terms of the same statute, within 24
hours the judge is bound to give a deliverance, either refas-
ten liberation or granting it In the interim an expose was
sent to Edinbargh at might to base criminal kitten raised,
the usual rem is with eases, to enable service before the
twenty-four Doers should elapse, but it was only at midnight
that the litters arrived, addressed to the sheriff's clerk, so
that the letters were not served. The result has been that
at a quarter before eleven o'clock this 10r011001k, and just
as the twenty-four hour. were expiring, as order for libe-
ration wee written upon the prisoner's petition, and he
was instantly set at liberty, and before the letters were
served as got oat of gaol, and he has not sines been appre-
hended."

MURDER lit DEVONSIIIRE.—A mad affair has W-
ear:ad at Buckland, which hue created a great sensation in
the neighbourhood. About four menthe ago &farmer named
Bird, being in wait of a se resat, applied to the union, and
took therefrom the daughter of a man named Parsons, who
was transported sows years sine* from this place. She was
well recommended by the governor. Oa Saturday the girl
died, and an inquest wee held on her Is dy, the result of
which proves that her death was the result of ill-treatment.
• verdict of " WLfal !larder" was returned against the
tarsier and hie wife, end they have been committed to the
mental gaol to await their trial at the awls s. The
treatment of the deceased, as deposed to by the
various witnesses. was brutal in the extreme,
and the description of her body, u given by the
surgeon, Kr. Gunner, and others, horrified the assembly in
the court. It is sulkiest to Bay that her body was a mass of
wounds, bruises, ahem ski, and cuts front whips, stick', etc. ;
and the deceased was reduced to this frightful cooditien by
the prisoners. Their eond set excited the cheeped iodina-
tion, and it was with difficulty that the perpetrators of this
crime were kept by the police-officers from the lunch of the
infuriated mob on their being conveyed from the court to
the prialn. So much ezeitement has not been witnessed in
this places since the unfortunate omnibus accident three years
ego. On the :nothing of their departure for Exeter, the
bridge, which they had to ones, we. threngcd by hundreds
of people ; bat the authorities judiciously ordered a au at
the gaol door, la which the prisoners went conveyed two
miles out of town, to await the arrival of the Basher mail.
No doubt, if this step had not been taken, the priamen
would haw bees toga to plasm,—Dotos CArtneide.