The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-17 00:00:00

THURSDAY INENING, OCTOBER 17, 1861.

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Wan Enutltgatts.
INSOLVENT EJECTORS COURT.--0(.7.

COSTORIANCII or THI COURT.

The Chief Commissioner having received the authority of
the Lord ChanceUor, tltht the commissimiers of the court
should hear all pending business, sat to-day for bail cam*
and motions. The sittiop of the court are already ap-
moulted up to lisich nest, and must °option* sows time
longer. Tim Easiness is Collmiderable. About
twenty insolvents were on the present occasiou discharged
on sureties.

several of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and also by
a number of persons who hail visited it, and who bad ex-
pressed their opinion that a license for music would be a
great accommodation to the public.
Mr. Knapp said he was instructed to oppose the applica-
tion on behalf of a number of the principal inhabitants of
East Youlney, and the ground of their opposition was that
another licensed house for mimic wu not required. There
was another house, the Bell, which already had a license,
and a similar place of amusement was not at all necessary.
The uuly persona who appeared to support the application
were persons who bad mole down from London, where
there were plenty of places of amusement for them, and a
small number of the inhabitanta, one of whom, as he was
instructed, had signed the petition against granting the
Beene..

Mr. Robinson—He signed your petition first. (Laughter.)
Mr. Kropp—l am instructed the fact is quite the other
way h
uge ned your petition first, and afterwards disco-
vered had done wrong, and so signed the petition
against granting the license. (Renewed laughter.)
The Court, after a aliort deliberation' said they were of
opinion that the applicant had failed to make out a case to
justify them in granting &license, and they therefore re-
fused the application.
John Elliott Hadlaw, aged 52, a careworn dissipated.
looking man, described ea a clerk in holy orders, was brought
up under the Vagrant Act, to be dealt with as an incor-
rigible rogue and vagabond.
Hewitt, one of the officers of the Mendicity Society,
was sworn, and he stated that for 20 years he had known
the defendant to be a man who got his living by begging
letters and impositions of every description upon the chari-
table portion of the community. In June, 18.55, he was
charged with obtaining money by false pretences from the
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, and he had been convicted of bogging
and other offences, and committed to prison a great num-
ber of times ; in fact, he subsisted entirely by defrauding
and imposing upon the public.
The defendant addressed the court at some length, and
said that he attributed his. prearot unfortunate position en-
tirely to the bodily afflictions be had suffered, having been
several times deprived of his eight fora considerable period.
He had been in holy order' for more than 30 years, and had
officiated fur some of his brother clergymen at that town,
and also at Wandsworth. His reason had also, be said,
been dethroned, and be was for • considerable time an in-
mate of lunatic asylum, at Horton.
The Mendicity officer said he believed the defendant had
never been ordained at all, mad that in point of fact he was
by trade a tailor, although the better to enable him to carry
out his (muds upon the public he repre.ented himself tc be
a clergyman. (A laugh.)
The defendant said he had a cousin of the same name as
himself who was a tailor, and this had led to the mistake.
He was ordained in Scotland in 1832, and the chaplain of
Coldbath.fields prison, who was at Cambridge. with him,
could bear testimony to the fact.
The Chairman said there could be no doubt that the de-
fendant had been • on a regular system of imposi-
tion upon the charitably ' portion of the community,
and the Mendicity Society had done a great deal of good by
bringing him to justice. He already appeared to have
undergone a great number of abort per' of imprison-
ment, which did not seem to have had any effect upon him,
and the sentence upon him would now be that ho be impri-
soned and kept to hard . labour for 12 months.
. . _ . .

Mary Matthews, Daniel Murphy, Jane Butler, Harriet
Jana, Sarah SAuttleteort4, Julia Barna, Sarah Phillips,
and Jana Dace pleaded guilty to indictments charging
them with keeping disorderly houses.
Mr. Robinson appeared in support of the prosecution,
which was instituted by the direction of the parish authori-
ties of Lambeth. The defendants were stated by the
police to be the keepers of brothels in St. Audrew's-ter-
race, Granby-street, and other places in the neighbour.
hood of the Waterloo-road, and evidence was given an to
the disorderly and disgraceful proceedings that took place
continually in these houses, and the great annoyance occa-
sioned thereby to the inhabitants.
The Court sentenced Hones, Bhuttleworth, and James to
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for four months ;
Matthews to two months, Murphy, Butler, and Phillips, to
one month, and trove was discharged upon his entering into
a recognisance to be of goad behaviour and not to repeat the
offence. _

The grand jury have returned a true bill against Mr.
Train, the projector of the street tramways and twelve
members of the vestry of Lambeth parish, for a nuisance
by obstructing the Itersington-road and the Westminster-
bridge-road, by placing the tramway upon these road; and
thereby preventing the public from pulsing along them.

The father said the boy was only 12 rears of age.
Ir. Ileadon—He shall have out niosith's hard labour and
be whipped.

CLE.R!LE-NWELL.

Mary Marv, •dirty-lookiug woman, about 40 years of
age, was charged before Mr. Barker with begging in Tavi-
etockaquare.
From the evidence of Thomas Turner, a constable of the
Mendicity Society, it appeared that the prisoner was a moat
notorious impostor and beggar. Her general custom is to
borrow a child for the purpose of exciting sympathy. Last
night she bad a child with her, and followed several ladies
and gentlemen, and asked them for charity. stating that she
and her child were starving, nod that she had no money to
purchase food. When the constable took her in custody
she was very violent, and made use of disgusting language.
When the was searched at the station both money and food
were found on her.

The prisoner said she was very sorry, and if she was
allowed to go at large she would at once go to the workhouse.
It was her first offence.

Mr. Barker inquired if anything was known of the pri-
soner, and if her story of its being her first offence was cor-
rect?

Turner said he could not remember all her convictions,
but be could mention some of them. On the 18th of July,
1855, before Mr. Long, at the Marylebone Police-court, she
was charged with begging. (and was then discharged. On
the 14th of August, 1870, before the same magistrate, she
was sent to prison for 21 days. On the 3rd of December, in
the same rear, she was charged before Mr. Broughton, who,
after hearing her pitiable story, and believing it, gave her
6s. to start b in business. She, however, got drunk with
the money, and the seat day had not a penny. On the 14th
of January, 1856, she was sentenced by Mr. Broughton to
10 days' impriaonment. On the 17th of April, 1858, she
was charged before Mr. Long, and discharged. On
the 10th of September, in the same year, she
was sent to prison for one mouth by Mr. Long. The
same magistrate, when sitting at the Marylebone
court on the 21st duly, 18&t, sentenced her to one month's
imprisonment with hard labour ; on the 19th September
het year Mr. Mansfield sentenced her to a month's hard
labour ; and on the 17th of April in this year the same learned
masistrate again sentenced her to a month's imprisonment.
In addition to these convictions, on which occasions the pri-
soner bad been apprehended by officers of the Mendicity
Society, she had been six time, taken into custody by the
police, and convicted twice at Mailhorough-street, 3 times
at Marylebone. and once at Bow-street, at the latter of
which she was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with
hard labour. Many benevolent persons had given her ticket'
fur bread and meat, but these she sold, and when she was
taken to the workhouse she would never stop there.
Mr. Barker said the prisoner was a confirmed vagrant. and
sentenced her to 21 days' hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection.

The prisoner. who behaved in a very impudent manner,
said she would sleep that little dose away and no mistake.
Til A M
Captain William Burwood Baldry, the muter of the
ship chantung, was brought before Mr. Woolrych for the
third time, and for final examination. charged with the
wilful murder of John Riley, an ordinary seaman, on the
high seas, on or about the Elth of September last.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, again defended the accused.
The evidence of James Gilroy, cook, and William Fearon,
steward, given upon former occasions, was read over by Mr.
Bowdler, the second clerk. The two men made some slight
addition to their testimony.
Some further evidence having been given,
Mr. Young said the magistrate had on the ex parte state-
ments of two of the seamen granted a warrant for
the apprehension of Captain Baldry, on a charge of wilful
murder. Supposing the statements of the ',Melees to be
uncontredicted the case amounted to manslaughter only,
arid he urged that if the magistrate was determined to com-
mit it should be for the minor offense, and the prisoner
could then be admitted to bell.

Mr. Worofry nionirriedid not feel justified in altering
the nature of the charge. He should commit the prisoner
for trial for wilful murder, and • jury, acting under the
direction of one of the learned judges, might reduce the
crime to manslaughter.
Mr. Young said the prisoner would reserve has defence.
The prisoner wan then formally committed for trial.
Inspector Alston said that many persons who claimed to
be the relatives of John Riley, the deceased, had been de.
mending his wages and effects, but so one would be paid
until the Board of Trade were satisfied of the relationship.
It was supposed that the deepened's real name was Francis
M`Farlane, • native of Ireland, and that he bad relations
in America.