The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-26 00:00:00

!TACTICAL JOKING IS N,TTINI:NAM.

Yristrralay Mr. Jonathan Blurbs, an ettmisive
Bats essmuliscturer Mr. WI. s,or
Ilweews, commission oj.ut. were brought
Yarn the Mayee and • fall bench cd ',vitiates, charged
with siolswthr ammultine Mr. Wia I:enry Brooke, on
Welder, tlu. I th 4.4.4.:r. sins..u. ISUrIOII, our
4 Hi; pasties inwheated Mr. Ih• for the
alhaptashault, suit Mr. Lanky, ...:enter, fur tint
1M sofa talwsrt •tattot tied • ..go he sus lost
▪ Wry oni ‘1.1.• turn 44.,/• uy Ilse ikieudaut Button. who
was is Lie ..111i44W. mid was iiitihal to Mini with 1 • on
Y. 51.0. lle awning:3y alert. with him a Mr.
I. arms denier wire Iwoord it eery. and shortly
stk.; the fisatiut thirieu kit this room. nod wee abiseut a
esasekealds True. While be war Aw.y 1114eivaral :um!
ihwiow • usked roomier Ma t if he couut for
retort au tin seen LLudioLkJ, I, "'mkt he replied
that hr• could am, nor bail be cons h•r that purpose.
flee two . I efe isle at* then commenced si.orrai.; re mid the loom
..t.I they resclosil his chair, awl tonal I. it on to bon. Ile
was lb. 1.1 .1.114.;40ll lOW the hall, suit timber ~aa to the lash.
Ilea. the, ......wcoeci the must revoltitij ludemucies apaiunt
she complain-oh inn .1 them cut the • rows 0141 of ha.
hat. 'burb they then put ou ha. Lead. 14-11.1.1 I.ll.lorrthoht,
tar Let's crown the out —." They ate rwsids pulled
Ms, tohutij ..bout, Mortis" his cloth.. tutu shreds. Burrows
1111,W p. 4 a harness Wackiry; oh tu his. libsehed his isms
SW area poured s queul.ty of treacle upon bun. and nits-
Inutely cover, .1 him over with dom. S•site liquid bed been
reviou•ly t,. row.. into his face, which caused him very
great join, mot fur a Us.., Moiled boa. They afterwards
*sok .lequstos6 liberties with him, tie. revoltiug fur public:a-
lma. Mr. Murrllo come borne %Ink .Irfeuilauts were soh
saultiii.; law. and stissl After a severe
Mruingle, iu wLi.b complaisant smashed s very costly set of
slut..., ;.it ass), hut the injuries be received wet. so
mires that he was conhoral to his boil foe two iu essa•
queue, Tlie bench sequitted Mr. Barton, but thought his
wasoluct highly rirprahehsible. Mr. 'leo ii said it was • awe
fur the sessioris ; but this the roacistrsies torerhided. and
ixd the r etch, incliiihm,; -este, for the *smolt.
and sail cm& for the derange.

A GENTLEMAN PINED suit iu.s.sitio A LADY
IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGIL

V. -torday morning the magistrates at the police
spurt at I:ri-tol, ]lr. 11. Pouie Kieg and Mr. Clanstaidaer
Thonsaa. tap 141 hue of fd. mad costs upon a gentleman
e 4 Latin, Iv klialieg a lady of (*he/lenient', as they were
jeer-m.11u.; i• IShauesster to lkistol, too the Midland
the lady awl gentleman being the sally occupant*
el Yee • 4 tlic cormartsucuts of a bra-clam carriage. The
intimation ti.at a gentleman who had a livery iservatt to
attendance Asa him, and who it was lathered was
se olfiuer in the army, bad been muse:4 all in cue.
kedy to tin Budnituster poltemsistion, and wonkl be
brought b ioni the bench OP the above charge,
stained much interest. sal the court was crowded. Curiosity
Woo the lint lox excited by the statement. which were made
ea pretty reliable authority that the def.:Want had Acted
▪ good mantel stun to compromise the nastier, with a view
to obviate ti.. publication of hie Ilelee, soul that the Lady
herself wish' that her name usigiat uot be slated. The
▪ was all ..1 is the ordinary course ..f the business of the
watart, atop the old. wlant, Frederick Layton, was placed
before the 1. tech to tho custody 14 Myr:emit flondia. The
deferehant %.* well drc,seel, of the sonldie height, moo.,
what slight. mad of gentlemanly sppeasanee. He Sere a
beard and iiioust.sele. The chai4e preferred against
bin, was that he wereulted Liir.dooth Relleeeel
Ilsotiss Oh the a...testy lietweea ;btIICA .ter led Bristol.
Mho wan abut forty years of age, au •l pr. ...testa tuatt.adv
sppearence. She was accommodated with a chair near the
bench, :sal directly opposite the prisoner, agsunit wbuw she
din. led tin • ;mast gleans.
Mr. Prilesux appeared fur the cosuplainant, and Mr.
Clifton fur the clefeadmat.

Th.. complainaat deposal—l am the wife .4 Henry Den.
tenon Martin, of Chelteabarn, mid was travelling inn.
that place to Bristol. yemerday, by the e sprees taus. De-
/rodent entered the compartment of the carriage le ',lath
I was seated abase at i r. the journey we
talked, ea fs.oplo geworally na the tram. Ile Lad the
inspertturnmee to him me. lie put ha suru around us) seek
sal kissed me Mem, and on lily arrival at Bristol, f gave
hue us eliar4e.
Mr. Clifton, in defence, said he did not gainsay what
took ph..e ; but defendant one Lame them full of coatri-
hoe. He was deeply 1.477 for what had occurred. Hr wee
isialealwad excited at the time the affair took piers ; but
busedateiy he diecomeral that the, lady wari really out-
/aged. he was most anxious to appease her mew and to offer
pey earl of apology. However, perhaps uu apology to the
biy wia stakeout, mid hr had come helm- them, and they
mesa deal with the cam. He had offered to pay tire
rzrto the Made a the iattrmary, mid Mr. Prideaues
cosiag there.
The compLitesat. however. foe the extreme
punishment the magistrates power to amities., and timy
ansediagly fined the dolman* M. penalty and ants.
The mosey was mial.

THE arciorr APITIJATION CABS A? SLOUCH.

Lt BUCYJS. /Faint's.
This morning the wigged nitee methane in petty
amearme at Me hooked Billet, Lumley, preaseded to best
the warmat greeted at ti!ough Tvissay mobs( Mr
Klizabetli I:evoking:got:ea, fur wilfrd aid emsviit PerlulY
at the tisaneg of is sesame. sgaisist Mr. William litawsue
Turner, a oiliettoe, far as order of uninatioe. The amm-
o... Lee he.,e4 meetly been fully before the public reca-
ptulata•• Incomes ueneeessry. We may, however, state
that 041 Tueislay often...co Use warrant, which hail bees
pMeed is the braids ul Superintendeet Weary. of the county
police,au duly eseeuted, awl Mule Stokes conveyed to the
=stenos at Mk-ugh, where she remained for some
rail she wee hailed out by Mr. J. Sham Begp
sea Mr. %%rules, her &homy.
Mr. Dooming Bruce appeared for the complaioant, Mr.
W. R. Tomer ; Mr. Voule. morsel:and the defendant.
Mr. Dram haring ol.eoed the case.
Mr. Vents, said before it was prueerlal with he thought it
eight to my a few words wliirb might put an end to the
matter. Oa the part of MiAs stokes, lie was iustructed to
my that she had hem thoroughly misled, awl was satisfied
that Mr. Tamer was not the geutlettiau she had ioet oo the
day i ritiestioo, sad to express her sincere regret that is
asemplesee of the letter she had received trona
Mr. Madigan as imiressiog had heeu formed ow
her Mail that he wee toe father of her child.
With regard to the statement she had made as to her not
bowleg previously had a child, it was a matter of counts of
lac« re regret that she had not admitted the fut. but it wee
ems doubtless with a view to shelter herself from the op-
probsum of the world, believing• as she doubtless did, that
es admitting as with the gentleman to whom she
had been formerly engaged, she Wag not 'mood to state the
heaths to which that istonney had gone, or to publish her
shame to tbe world, where tlie fact did not affect the goes-
ties then at gime. He (Mr. Voules) therefore hoped that
Mr. Turner would he satisfied with the public statement
that Miss Stokes had been mistakes, mid that the opinion
ezpreuol Lis the bench at the termioation of the ingutry on
the nth of ietntier world he sufficient, and that Mr. Turner
was without the -lightest steels upon his character.
The 111.7,1s,rulea eaprvase.l an .4.1111011 that it ..af purely a
Rio dime I. a lie, Tomas'. legal advisers as 4. the coots, he
eMaW Akio, rod alter some ronealtitiou. Mr. horse
derided that he would call Mr. Tuner in support of the
we nest.

Mr. Tonle, was then sworn, seal said that he koew
nrithinz whatever of Mum stokes ; that he was not in Wind-
sor on the day referred to, and that tiro statement IFldek
bail been mile with tr,;ard to him was utterly false.
l'ordirmotory evidence as to toe presence of Mr. Turner
I London to the day when, as alleged by Mu* Stokes, the
iorimacy took pLice Laving Leen giveo,
The botch after some deliberation. that upon
theimpition of identity Mies Stokes might reasonably Lave
bees m.iitaken, and therefor, no pniceeding. could In taketi
easiest her ou that groaned; but with regard to the fact of
her having sworn oh* bad so: b.l anottikr child, there was
motaoy evillcuce before them t., that any other child
lhad been Lora l r her. It would tbert-fore rest with Mr.
Turner's legal advisers what ammo they would adopt in the
matter ; but in the sbacuce of eviilenee on that point they
tad not bet themselves justified in sending her fir trial.
liuriuir the delivery of the magisterial ilecisbin the de.
faidarit was io a state of great eiteitvintnt, soil was ulti-
mately retnotod Irmo the room in a lit of hysterics.

Ina YELVERT.Or MARRIACE CASE. —At the
Judge's Chambers, seeterday, before Mr. Bares Martin, en
apple-stem was mole by Mr. l'Atrick Adam, on the part of
fas Ifs. W. C. elTeriota, Mari In the Royal Artillery,
for au order under the statute 22 Vie., cap. I.'o, to compel
the sneakers of several witnesses at the hastiest Hotel,
Manehester, before John ray, Lei , commissioner from the
Court of *sates in Southall, appointed to enmities wit.
nesse ou the part of the Hon. !laps V elvertou, in the suit
instituted ta the enorts seothual for a Jwolintion of /di
marriage with Maria Theorem Loei•worth, lot. been
for some tine past Isztht befoie the puldie in a rOniinvOl,
Manner in the kith hieutela courts of Law. t The order
was greeted.

A txti:ini AANACTi Thal A PILT.A4 HER IT A POWCZ
Lea auto* AT lATIIIIPOO4.-08 Thursday the Liverpool
Ceouty Coon eregletedes were occupied Bre hums is trying
en maim brought by ILL dompli Ducker*, a brewed
pre.dier. who la dee • provinces dealer. residing at Leath,
against Importer The Blair, of the Liverpool police
tam,, for MW.. as errapeassition fur injuries eastward at his
leads. In Liverpool a law exists prohibitiug street preach-
ing slur it is dark. owing to the frejuent ilieturbames which
bike place at melt ptboriiip ; the complainant, however.
is oppoeitioe to this law preacLed after hours on the 27th
el July Imit, and used language cakulated to excite the
Crte• la ceemerposam of a complaiot which was amde
it-he defeedsat proceeded to where the plaintiff was
presching, awl ordered him to go away, using, as it was
Angel. a good deal of violence in wrier to expedite him
mieveruente. It was also alleged that the plaintiff suffered
van ....rely at the time from injuries received by being
luieJ is the hack ley the delesdant's stick. and that be
Irrnl a{ At the present time repined his proper health.
FM the del ewe it war proved that the inspector bed meted
Aid .de is the execution of his duty, and had used au an-
meemiry force The Weimar( was aoesuited with power of
nerds the seeeatioa the suite to Ire dated is lbe
as alMwil Wag made is dee fora

I'OLIGE INTELLOENCE.

MAW(' :Inl'SE

......
1:.“4... were brought before
LL. Led ]layer en remand, charged with stealing a chest of
tea from oft a eau behrugiug to the Midland Railway
Mr lhiclasnao attewl.d to cocoluct the prosecution on
lo .1f ..1 tl. Mid:1101 I ',III. ItIV ; Mr. May-
sari, 11,411 Mr. Baud's sdlioe, attended on behalf of the pia-
, ;..r t. !..1. 4.• feuded.
tie- es-cuing of Thursday, the 16th instant, at about
six 0*(4°,1 io the evening, poltee-coustable Kerwood, 1914
11, was in the Misories, when he saw the two prisoners fol.
I. ans; tae v..n Is:hinging to the Midland !leanly Cohni-
reu.n. lie w
gruiviinp aihnirtab'e afarchrst of tea off London-wall,
Slat was alsout to walk away with it when he went '
up to hon. and was about to take him into custody. when
I.e threw the chest of tea at him, and caused him
to Ldl down. Both the prisoners got away ; Nicholls, how-
ever, was apprehended on Sedurday monolog, when he was
loniuglot hef.-n• the Lord Mayor, and remanded until vaster-
day. Un 31mislay Walden was apprehended, and when be was
teak«u to the statiou he was ....blresaial by the nanie of Walden,
and he said his nano, al. not Walden, but Hewer. He was
then charged with being concerned with Nicholls in stealing
the tea. and lie at tird denial it, butt afterwards said that he
was with the other man on Thursday evening, but he was
not aware he was going to steal the tea. He was remanded,
to be brought up with the other prisoner.
Wm. Hall. the driver of the van, said he was taking some
tea from the Minories to King's .crow, on Thursday, the 16th,
sod the chest produced was ono of a number which he him-
self put out., the van. The goods were not unloaded until
the Seat day, when there was a chest missing.
Both prisouers, it appeared, were well known to the
prolhe, owl Nicholls had been before convicted.
The Lord Mayor committed both the prisoners for trial.
James Corer alo r was brought up on a charge of stealing
a gold watch, aid port of an Albert chain, value about Wt.,
from the person of Mr. MacArthur.
The prosecutor was walking along Cheapeide when the
prisouer went up to him, aod asked him some question. At
the name time he made a snatch at Lis watch-chain, broke
it, dragged the watch out of his pocket, and ran off, leaving
• part of the chain in the buttou-Lole of the prceecutor s
waistcoat. The prosecutor !wised an alarm, and the pri-
soner was followed by Inspector Alston, of the Thames
µAke, who happened to be oar the spot at the time. The
prisoner all the time he was rouniug was calling out stop
thief. lie was, however, overtaken by Inapector Alston,
who stopped lon, :ind found the watch and the portieu of
the chain epos him. He then said that the watch was
peeled to him by the party who stole it, and he was running
to give it back to the prooecutor.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
James Green was brought up charged with attempting to
break into the vestry-room of St. Mary's Church, Venues
stmt.

Polsee.entistable Cishy, 47, was in Thames-street on
Thursday night when he was told by another officer that
there was some one in We ehurchyanl. He ticimrdiogly
got over the wall into the yard, when he heard
someone cry, " Stop thief ! there's a man got over the wall."
Kering the other officer go in pursuit, he wait
into Ho, dead-house, where he new the prisoner lying
on the floor. lie asked him what be did there, and
he heel he w.iuted to ease himself. The officer
then eLJinined the window of the vestry-room, and found a
equate of glass Lel Le en removed, awl another bad been
brakes. A square of glee. in the window at the beck of
the church bad also bees broken, lie rho female pair of
boots outside the door of the dead-house, which were sup-
posed to belong to the man wh . hail got away.
It &mewed that a small table knife which wan kept iu
the wiai.,M had tern taken away, and on a previous °cea-
ses a qiunitity of lead hail Leen removed.
The prisoner was sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment.