The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCR.

THIS DAY.

QUEEN'S BENCH.
Tma Qum! e. Melton.
The JO/meat of the mart hat br,• pronoune, don WO.
limn O. Mahon, for illegally matching in the sale of as
Mike in the Ordnance to John Pains% and he has been sta-
tioned to 12 menthe imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

sow-firsEET.
Ar Ittconamimm Yourro Tritair.—A boy, named
Gooch, aged 10 years, whom head scarcely reached the oldie
of the dock, and who has repeatedly been in custody, was
charged with stealiag 6s from the till of Mr. Itichard Boyle,
of the Red Lion public-house, Houghton-street, Clare-
market.

The prosecutor stated that yesterday afternoon he was in
his bar-parlour, when he saw the head of the erisoner behind
the bar, and within a few paces of the till. Before witness
could open the door the prisoner crawled round, end imme-
diately ran out into the street. Witness followed him, and,
after a short run, succeeded in catching him. Witness
opened the prisoner's right hand and found four shillings ;
and his attention was afterwards attaeted by a t ntleman
who said the prisoner bad dropped 2s. Witness picked the
money up, and took the prisoner back to his house, where he
gave him into custody. Witness examined t►e till, and found
the diet? gone.
Sergeant May, of the F division, said he knew the boy
perfectly well. He was a notorious young till-thief, and he
bad been repeatedly imprisoacd for a similar offence.
Mr. Boyle wised the magistrate to deal summarily with
the case ; bat Mr. Hall said it was impossible he could do so.
A short imprisonment and a flo.eing had no effect on bim.
He should commit the boy for trial.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.
Ax B . Iva Boor.—C. Parska was charged with
stealing a boot, value Ll.
Mr. J. Hollis, license victualler, 39, Union-street, stated
that a club of boot and shoe makers woe held at his house, '
and ones in the year the members exhibited to the trade pris,
specimens of their workmanship. List night the prison►
and two other men came in and requested to be allowed
to see the prize boots. Believing them to be in
the trade, he desired his waiter to show them
up into the club-room, warns the boats were exhibited.
The waiter left the room to attend upon witness, and during
his absenee the prisoner and his companions came down
stairs and left the house. A few minutes after they had left,
he had occasion to go into the club-room, when he mimed
one of the prize boots, and a shoe, worth together shout 81
He gave intormation to the police, who succeeded in taking
the prisons r into custody in about an hour after the robbery
had been discovered.

The masher, who domed the charge, was remanded for a
week.

DARING ROBIIIIIT.—J. Bassett was charged with steal-
ing fifty five yards of cotton print, value 11. 6s , tae property
of Mr. James Sider, linen-draper, 7, Leicester-square.
M. Neibut stated that on the previous alters on he was in
his muter's shop, when he saw the prisoaer snatch a pier•
of print from a pile &me by the door. Witness ran after him,
calling out "Stop thief," and the prisoner threw away
the print. On turninr into the Haymarket, he ran into the
arms of a constable wh had heard the al trek, and who
detained him till witness arrived, when he was cones yed to
the ',Minn.

Poliee-eonatable A 323 sated that the prisoner was an
associate of thieves, and had been cohricted al times.
Committed for trial.

NEW ZEALAND.

[Prom the Wetli.gtos Irideproicklot of Ilept.2l, 149.:

Wes Asia addreis our fellow countrymen in Eng-
land. We again invite their attention to the great struggle
which the colonists of New Zealand are making to defeat the
machinations of S:r George Grey and his attempts to debar
them from the privileges of self-government.
It is now little more than a year dine. Sir George, after
having previously professed his conviction of our fitness for
self government, awl repeatedly pledgei himself to intro.
duce it forthwith, threw off the mask, and exhibited himself
in his true chafe :ter of the opposer of free institutions. This
first occurred when the deputations of two public meetiges
waited upon him at Wellington, to urge upon him to delay
no longer the boon which the home government had so long
promised. In December he offered us his nominee
council, which was indignantly scouted by nine-
tenths of the colonists —by all, is fact, except
the officials, and some ten or • dozen others
who perhaps hoped to be suoh, or who found food for their
vanity in accepting the proffered lest of • nominee. We
cannot too often repeat that the whole population, with the
above iinconsiderable and easily accountable exception, is
unanimous heart and hand in favour of self government.
We rest our statement on the evidence of the petition to
parliament, which here was signed by 780 male adults in •
population of 4.500 souls—the jury list, which ought to con-
'Ma all the male adults except lawyers and medical men,
enumerating only about 810. At Nelson it was signed by
500, out of a population of leas than 3,000. Probably no
petition in the history of political agitation wee ever signed
byes lame a majority of the population whence it emanated.
Bat the colonists have not contented themselves with this
one act. Our own columns, which may justly claim to re
present the opinions of the 788 petitioners here—that is, of
nine tenths of the male adults, will afford evidence of the
in crest which hes been taken in the great question at
stake ; and we can eat ly say that had priftt by the sale of
our paper been our object, we could not have taken • side
which would have enabled us to attain that end more sue.
crssfully than the ride we have taken on the subject of self-
government. We have always professed to be the organ of
the colonists, and our own subscription list prone that the
course we have pursued on the question of self•government
meets the carob.' approbation of the great bulk of them
Then the Settlers' Constitutional Association has watched
every movement, and exposed every sleight of hand ma.
neene of Sir George, detecting with a keen eye the thimble
under which the pea was, and not deceived when the pea, by
Sir George's legerdemain, was altogether abstracted. Tne
able series of resolutions passed by that association, and
printed in our paper of the 29th August, forms a most com-
plete refutation of Sir George's fallacies; and having been
moved and seconded by the chief representatives of all the
istiemte of the colony, may be relied upon ea • true expo.
went of public opinion. If it were worth while, we pledge
ourselves to the feet that every one of the 780 and 600 Wel-
lit.gton and Nelson signatures which were attached to the
petition, would be attached to those resolutions. Nay, pro-
beb!y more would sign them; foe of the very small number
of individuals who honestly sided with Sir George Grey's
nominee scheme at the date of the petition, several of the
most respectable have avowed their conviction of their error;
the exhibition of the nominees during the last session having
been sufficient to convince even the most bigoted.
The resolutions to which we refer have been forwardeeby
the Mariner to all the leading English newspapers, London
and provincial, all the principal magazines and reviews, to
the principal London clubs, including various naval and
militory ones, to the reading rooms and exchanges of all the
great towns in England, Ireland, and Scotland, to her
Majesty's ministers and numerous members of both houses
of parliament, and to the Court of Directors of the New
Zealand Company. Allowing for poet-office accidents,
numerous copies will be circulated in the most influential
quarters, and we think they cannot but effect good for the
colony. We only regret that Sir George Grey's • dodge"
in torwardi g the despatches to which they reply so far
back as November and February last, and not publish-
ing them in the colony till July, has enabled him
to steal a march upon us. Surely in a matter ea deeply
affecting our interests, be was bound to have laid before the
public his dispatches to the home government at an earlier
date

Bat the feature of Sir George's conduct to which we most
invite the attention of our English readers is the suppression
of his recommendation on the subject et the Civil List,
which he studiously concealed from his nominees, while pro-
fessing to give them a fell and candid account of his recom-
mendations to the home authorities, on the subject of the
future government of the colony. Will not our
fellow-
e;untrymen agree with us, that one who could practise
such deceit, and on so importaet a point, is unworthy to re-
present the British go erument, especially when the reins
are committed to hie unchecked control ? The other dis-
creditable circumstance of the miostatentent of the number
of nominees also mentioned is the resalntlons, will not be
passed over unnoticed.

IMPORTATION OP COTTON PROM FRANCE. A
vowel recently arrivvd at tue port of Liverpool from Cha-
rente, has brought 2,564 bales of cotton from that French
port, forming the entire cargo. This may be specially
noticed as an indent* of the privileges &ranted by the re-
peal of the navigation laws, being made available for the
introduction from Europe of the production of another
quarter of the globe
Naw YORK, JAN. B.—The projectors of an electric
telegraph communication between this city and the Isle of
=will bring their plan before congress at its present
. They propose to lay down a substantial insulated
wire of 36 fibres' coated one half-ineh with gutta perch*,
sad to guarantee its ar.‘rklng with perfect integrity for tea
years. They offer to complete it in 20 months from the date
of ermetract, They
a sum not to exceed 3,000,000 dole.
PROSPERITY AT MONTROSL—Our port is steadily
hsweasiag is importance ; and while Glasgow ea& beset of
an increased reveuue of 30,0001., as compered with last
year, we can refer to • proportionally mash greater rise of
the revenue here, being no ion than 20001. over 18112; Gad
as this Increase oscura is the articles of tea, wise, and
%Zell it shows that our population We now with
eg food, soraethiatoonslz: what asay he 'termed
the hoodoo of life.—.ll