The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

DItORACEFyL CHARM_

lama Birch, sicel 40, residing at 21, Charles-etnet, St.
JohnNewood, a painter, was placed at the bar for reexami-
nation, charged with ommnitting a rape ow the person of his
nieee, Rebecoo Sarah Carter, twelve yeas of age, living
with her parents at 5, Coilege!lans, Kentish-town, fa Apt
last,

Mr. Henry Allen, the prosecuting officer of the Associate
Institution for Improving and Enforcing the Lows for the
Protection of Women, attended to wntch the case.
From the evidence of the complainant, an intelligent
child, it appeared that some time in tho month of April last
Ate wee sent to the prisoner's house with a manage. He
sent ber sister out for some tobacco, and after she had been
gone a few moments he took hold of her, throw her on the
bed, and then fully orrandtted the offence complained el.
She endeavoured to scream, but he placed his hand over her
mouth. Illte did not tell ber mother of what had occurred,
becalms her father was dangerously ill, and she did not
with to add to his trouble._ _ _

reeerveiiis deforms, and
Mr. T7rwhitt comarifted the prisoner to Newgate for
trial, bat maid be woald wept bail for his appeanuice.
The ball not being forthcoming, the prisoner was
locked up.

A men about 85 years of age appUed to the otegisteste fec
Ids ambiance wader the following circumstances.
Appose Nil this he bed been a convict, and wee now a
Meese am. Be had best bog addicted to crime,
tie illfeb he bed scared the penalties of the law, sad now,
etas seek at large, Oat the most tamest wish to abandon
evkassilliMi Sept ashirst Ilviag, %Mad tot Übe =we

of drag so, end sum thresher, unhappily, left to tall again
1010 alts or starve.
Mr. Payeter—What tattle am you P
I NO
Haveohiainey-trersim
2.lirritsr you sny means of procuring employ-
ment at your trade f
Applicent—No, I have not; and indeed I am unable to
work at it through asthma.
Mr. Payater— By what mama do you then think you
could procure a living I'
Applicant—By selling things in the street or by any
other honest employment that my strength will enable um
to do. _ _

Payater—ls there anything known of this man?
Sergeant Loom, a detective other of the 8 division, said he
knew the men well. His name was Inputs, and he had
been a nutotiona thief, who in 1862 was transported for ten
yam fur felony. He had returned about three weeklan
and Immediately applied to 'meow to know what be
do, and entreatud Min to procure bin alas eniphiyinent. He
believed the applicant wee most sincere in his desk* to

Mr. Paynter was glad to hear it, and gave applicant full
means to Matt sea ..astermonEer.
Applicant was very thankful.
THAMES.
ATTEMPTS AT SEICIDE ay FEMALES.
Sarah hwesdne, a woman of the town, aged 28, and re-
siding at No. 2, tilasehousratreet (or buildings), Itosemery-
lase, Whitschapel, where many robberies and outrage have
been committed, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged
with attempting self-destruction.
It appeared that the prisoner, who had been drinking
freely and quarrelling with mum companions of her own
clean, had, atter making an ineffectual attempt to throw herself
Mon the window of the house where she lived, gone to the
liermitege-lock of the London Dock, in Wapping, and after
getting over the rails on to the quay, where she raved in •
fearful manner, swore she would drown herself, and gave an
hysterical laugh. She advanced to the edge of the quay, and
before Holmes, a poliocounstable, mold seize her, she plumed
Into the water art the deck, which is upwards of twenty feet
,th. The drags and la were immediately pro-
oure sad thrown into the band after the lapse of a few
minutes the prisoner wee taken out of the water in a per-
fectly hisemaible condition, and was recovered by the appli-
cation of friction to the body end stimulants. The primmer
appeared to be in a languid condition, sad to have &uttered
much from her loose talon in the water and the means
adopted to resuscitate her,
flu prisoner made no reply to the charge. She made en
attempt to speak, but we tumble to do so, and it was evident
the wretched creature was suSeting both mentally and
phmioally.
Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner to the House of
Detention fur a week, and said she would be taken care of
in that prison, and the chaplain uould look after her spiritual
welfare, and ho hoped would convince her that she had com-
mitted a rash and waked act.
Jam King, aged 21, a married woman, of No. I, Green-
field-street, Whitec.hapel, was brought before Mr. Yardley,
charged with being drunk and disorderly and causing •
mob to ensemble ill the Canal-road, Mile-cad, by attempting
to throw hermit into the Regent's Canal.
cast
from the evidence of George Gray, • police
No. 332 K, that hie attention woe directed toe dis-
turbance at the side of the canal and found the prisoner there
' In • moat excited stale, and declaring that she would drown
hermit lie removed her and told her te go home, which
, she refused to do, and contused batsman the mob, shout-
; Sag and declaring that her time wee coma, and into the water
she would go. She made several attempts I. throw herself
in the water, end he was compelled to take bar into custody.
, Mr. Yardley said the prisoner densibed herself as • mar-
e riot woman. The number of married Imams brought be-
, fore him daily for drunkenness sad disorderty conduct was
, perfectly shocking. Hs emitented the prisms to seven
, days' inaprieunnient.