The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-01 00:00:00

MAIILLOROVGII-STRE6T.

AeIIACLT OX • POLICX•CONIITAIILS. W. //nrrasorr, with
several aliases, U. Smart, and Mary Clark, three well-
known members • f the swell mob, were charged with
attempting .50 pick the pockets of several gentlemen, and
with assaulting Stringer, 193 C, who stated that last
night he was en duty In Dover-street, Piseadily, when
his attention was celled to the prisoner Lark, who wes
following a gentlemen. Ile kept a close watch upon her i
movements, and saw her elatp the gentleman rousd the
waist and try to pull him down a court. TO, gentleman
shook her off, when she crossed over the road at d j.ined the
two male prisoners. Witn.as then went up to the gentleman
and asked him if he had lost anything, and on he replying
in the negative, h. prove, dad after the prisoners, whom he
overtook near the end of the street walking behind
two gentlemen. The temide:pri-iner went up to one of
them, and entered into con lion with him, while the
two men were busily employed in diving into his pockets.
AVi rem then tried to take tliesn iuto custody, but on cellu-
ing the two men, the woman rashed upon him and endea-
voured to rescue them from custody. Not succeeding in this
at • scratched his fact and bit his hands, in order t imake him
let go his hold. The men also killed hint on his
legs, and threw him down on the ;raw aura. He,
however, managed to retain hie hold of the prisoners
until the two gentlemen procured the assistance of two other
eJnstabler, when, after a desperate reliance, the prisonen
were secured anu conveyed t 3 the station. It the prisoners
were remanded, he bud no doubt that he could produce for-
mer conv.ctions against them, as they wife well known to
the police.
31r. Bingham remanded them until Monday neat.

EXHIBITION OF Bal.—Yesterday, a numerousar.d
influential meeting of the Cite of London committee was
held, at the Mansion house, for the purpose of consider-
ing the nominal n of local commissioners, to act on
behalf of the City. Mr. Alderman Salomon* occupied
the chair, supported by Sir Moses Blontefiere. Mr.
Forster, M.P., Mr. Alderman Musgrove. Mr Sheriff
Nicoll, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. John Wood, Mr. Swab.
I aid, Mr. Gray, Mr. Tits, and about 50 other mem-
bers of the committee. A feeling wan unanimonaly ex-
pressed that as the City had taken too large a dines In
initiating the undertaking, and had expressed so substantial
an interest in it by the proportionate amount of its sub.crip-
floes, the nomitiati of local commissionen to represent the
commercial, artistic, and mit ntitic p eduction likely to be
transmitted through the City committee, should be inch
as to command not only the confidence of the Itcslity,
but that of the whole United Kingdom. Accordingly
thehonorary *tontines were instructed to invite the co-ope-
ration of most of the leading representativee of the tr de of
the City, together with other eminent and scientific men,
many of when have already been associated in committees
by the royal commission itself. Mr. Cole, of the execu-
tive committee, In tenser to inquiries, detailed the
prima state of the undertaking, the numerous applications
for space in the building, which applications had been stet
up from the local committees in the provinces, the last report
of the general subscriptions, amounting to upwards of
59,0001, the expectation t' at the contracts fur the building
would be issued in a few days, and the preparations which
were being made by the working cluees in all parts of the
country to visit the exhibition.
OFFICES IN ItuvritatoN.—We understand that Mr.
Jamie* Cr.:enroll has appointed his marshal to succeed the
late Me R. W. Lloyd as Clerk of Amino for the Chester and
Ncrth Wales Circuit ; the epoointment is vested in the senior
judge who last went the circuit before the vacancy arose.
Mr. Horatio Lloyd (eldest son of cur deceased friend) has
the royeasionary appointment to the of of judge's associate,
which Mr. Rude holds until Mr. Lloyd attains his majority.
—Chester Courant.
FUNERAL OF THE WIDOW OF JEFFREY.—On Wed-
nesday the remain, of Mrs. Jeffrey were Ind in the ll.an
Cemetery, in the tame spot where her illustrams husband
wee interred thus is mitts since. The body was brought
from ilaileyhury Collie, Hertfordshire, the residence of
Yreteeser Empeon, her souls-law, where she had removed
soon after his lordship's death, and taken t i Cub/crook
Castle, whence the funeral Ur* place, followed by a Tse 01
the old and cs ensiled friends of L,rd Jeffrey, including Lord
Cockburn, Lord Murray, the Lord Advocate, Ite.—Cute-
amiss. Mercury.