The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

TER POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL.

41.fraLdlint sad George l'oe7d—wera charged with malty
to a cat.. . . _

The prisoners, with a lumber of others with dogs, were
worrying a eat trim arch to arch of the new street leading
from lesningheanlnn to Cleriteswell , after which Allen
omen Os ad and Uhl It op by the tail for the deg* to
maw it. owl • larwe ohm dog belonging to sad the
=yet.
hit ast mem e law, and the wen* ot both
moho Alla die ththe ma, upon which Jut winner
Pend bee up a brick and beat the cat to death. They the
waded Irk doge eel er swey.
The Weems eel they were look* for !snood had no
Me thet • est •les is try ofthe arches, They dmied having
eitiwV Mei doe cot.
its sliest sed wen' other penman said it wee •
lenses pee** swag al the penmen' description,
Weft thisy in mot vies ffewisy afternoons for the pow-
mtimerying ellrey cat they might find, and they
brought a ad wish there for the purpose.
it ...range Carroll enengly condemned the inhuman prac-
tise, and lewd the *We 40a. each, or one month'. lin.
pensmennt.
igasis ?mist, s

in the employ of Mr.

Whitswick, -ea-irifinj..oa bagmen at 98, Farrinith;l=
of under the name Irish Ides Company, was
with assaulting Ann Dono:ral.
Mr. Buchanan, of

appeared for the dr

The romp lainast stated ebe had been about nine months in
Mr. Whiteerickle service, and about three week,. ego she was
discharged at a moment's notice, but as her nester went
home without paying her wage. she neolved to sleep be the
house thei night, but after she bad retired to bed the de-
fendant one up to her room, broke open the door, sad street
bra violent blow in the eye. She screamed "Murder,"
sad two prairie shortly after came up, but they mid they
oral set Interfere, as she had not been paid bee wenn, and
after they left two other policemen came, and ens of them
knockeller down and knelt upon her chest while they tied
her heads.
Mr. Haire said the complainant had admitted she had a
Ivied =mew, end Mr. IVhitswick found it nett=
boa ammquence of information he bed,
Mad* to boa amiset la the house on one occults. At the
mos Oleos be gave the defendant inntructions not be kit the
reenek be the house on the night be quention,
=demerit/ bur hoes at an early hour in the evades. She,
however, returned,_ and on gaining admionern she hurried up
to bed, sail whoa the defendent ascertained abe wee in the
hones be vest v. sad desired her to leave, but she postlimly
refused, whinnies be broke open the door in the preen.
of another yea* men and wee tmtnediataly *NOW by the
complainant, who larbd everything. moveab* to the room at
his head, and when the police came in she was so violent that
they were obliged to hold bee to prevent her injuring hermit.
Policeman 378 said he heard cries al murder, andon going
up stabs he found the floor strewed with fragment& of
ceeckeryware, and sentrated with water. The complainant
was undreamt!, and exceedingly violent, but non• of the
IU-Waage she denribed took place, except such restraint as
was nemmary to prevent her doing herself mischief. She
made a great noise and continued railing out " murder" ell
the time the police were there. She was, in fact, what la
termed screaming drunk, and her violent conduct sanded
a crowd of about 200 persons round the home.
Sir 0. Carroll said it appeared the complainant had mise
conducted herself, but sa rim had held a respontable situa-
tion for nine months, It would have been better to have
allowed her to remain till the morning—as he did not
approve the COUTOe adopted in breaking into a room when a
female wan tindroseed and in bed, end he did not think the
defendant wan quite juatided in doing so. However, the
complainant had not adhered to the truth with regard to
the tumult, and he therefore dismissed the summons, and
granted a certificate to the defendant to stay any further
proceedings in the matter.
CLERKEN WELL.

For some weeks past the time of the court his been occu-
pied by the hearing of eummorueet taken out by the police,
more especially of the N division, against the venders of fruit
and other commodities in the public streets. To @seethe time
of the worthy magistrate, seven or eight summoners hem
been heard at a time, and in most caw the defendants have
pleaded guilty, alleging that they had no other way of getting
en honest livelihood. None have been spared, those who
hem stood at one place for the lut 15 or 20 years without
complaint, together with those who have for the first time
been out, all have been mminroned. Whole families hare
been brought forward, and in one cue the father, mother,
and three children appeared and were fined. The defence
generally set up is the same, via., that they have no other
way of getting an honest livelihood—that if they go
into the streets to beg, they are locked up ; that if
they go out to thieve they are treated in the lams
manner. and they then mak, "What are they to do,"
sad "whether it would not be better if the police had not
something else to do than to humbug them about." In many
mesa, it would appear that when the parties have applied
to the perish for relief, the authorities have told them that
eleziwarat.roing end hearty, and well able to earn their own
h sod, after giving them some temporary assistance,
have them with money for the pupate of enabling
than to ba7 • little stock to sell in the streete, and thus to
keep them from swelling the pariah rates. The police need
formerly to leek up those only who were standing with their
buses or barrow on the footpaths or public crossings,
which, compelling the pedestrian to walk in the mud, was of
course a nuance; but in most of the cues now heard It
mold appear that the bums en In the Ads ol this pan-