The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS

MANSION-HOD EL

Nary .4e Amy, Alm illegaiers, a girl of IS years of
owe, who had Ma needed Me the charge of ale rang
Ilka. Mehl nes sod capstere' ends worth Z. 6d., from
IMO ha the omen 0 nee in Mitre-court,
Chsenide.wes_cep he leseght belie the Lewd Mayor and
Mr. Hale, be petty enneem.
At the le serene the yak the charge had
been peed spinet Me, confused her nd begged bard
le be sneered le go home, ded it_ her drat acme
This siourtien, however, ens ..eled try ponce constable
Wine Mere, Mw dle, who Mated that hellsed known the
priseser for a hag the end tie she one the meant see
eine of juvenile Naves, a ember of whom wen waiting
elide the mete learn the result of the charge. The girl
mid she was the daughter of Roma esthetic parents ; that
far a long time pest she had been ant rut to beg, and to take
M her parents whatever money she reeved.
The Lord Mayor, ending that the girl hellbent brought up
be the Hone catholic kith, directed Mr. Geodes, the
cannel/irk, to communicate with the sot Betties of the Ca-
ke& Reformatory School at Ileaucbanip Lodge, Hammer.
oritla, and a gentleman from that institution was present
dee( the proceedings et the Mansion-Hoeus yesterday
M ,
Duel ayhem,- the father of the girl, who had be▪
d witha emend ememe, after having refused to attend
M De era called Lets the witness-bur; and In reply to
theme , mid he one a Roman =end wished
, Ids go hito stem
The gel (arYleg bleterly)±ol=r, prey,may dolt
iirs44.4 mile tins; pray don' pray doe%
The Lead Mayorl ndersea you are in the
habit at entinglettere hr le ken I' s
Msgsberts—No, Ido sot, • I work hard for my
4. I have this year been bayesiking, harvesting, and
Lona Mayor—l have been making inquiries about
mid led thet you lee been in the Dublin police.
Mega tee
The lord Meyer—Ten bee also been in the Zen P
Inspers—Yes.
The Lad Meyor—Two years ago you were be the OW-
pow police ?
Magebern—Tee, and I work at the done scene now.
I bare two boys and four girls, the eldest Mohan fell.
A policeman named McKeeole said be bed known
been, his wile, end children, for ten yam. They UZI%
battgLord Mayor—Magabers, your wile, I am told, re-
fusee to come hers. became you have given her a black eye.
Magebern—l did not do it ; she fell spinet the window-
shutter.
The Lad Mayor (addreming the girl), mid—Yon
may think the senesce I em about to pan upon
citufeverry sevens one ; but I am convinced you will
know I tun doing se act of the greatest peels
kindness to a little gel in your unfortunate position. lam
about to remove you from the custody of very bad parents
who have had It in their power properly to provide for you
end Ming you up, and who have not only neStalgto do
so, bet have actually lived upon your mom= in and
ening. You winnow be need from the vice and
wretchedness, and undergo a training which will make you
a tend member of society. Parente are, wham, not aware
that they are liable for the maintenance of tier children
daring the time they are keened in a reformatory establish-
ment, and may be iropriscold for non-payment. I sin deter-
mined to free the City of the large number of destitute chil-
dren who are in the habit of collecting principally in the
vicinity of the Royal Exchange. I hope the sentence I sin
about to pars will Lave the effect of lessening the number of
elite children who are mot Into the Meseta to beg,
end whose peens speed in idler and prodigacytho money
they see fortunate enough to obtain. The Shoe-Black Society
hie now become, as it we, a axed trade, and I hops that the
Ante o: the street mesa society will be equally SUCCOOF
fal. All the pence given to these lads are apno-
prided towards their maintenance and inenn. ;
ea d as soon as the public are aware of this
fist I am nue they will generously aid these poor boys ae
he m they one. Mary Ann Mmebem, it is the Opinion of
my brother magistrate sod rayef that you should be eon-
aimed for 14 days in the House of Correction at Holloway,
sad that at the expiration of that time you should be sent to
the Catholic Reformatory School at Hammerenith for three

mom
Imatodiately the sentence was posommed the chi, who
throughout the proceeding. mewed overwhelmed with grid,
and earnestly implored her father Molds be hams with him,
All are her knees, and firmly vsepft the rails in front
of the dock, ehrisked and salteseld moot Moistly. She was
meld out of court in a fainting Oats. A mere painful wens
hes seldom been witnessed in a wort eljertiew
Wagebees, molly—You hare dose the very beet thing you
mold, my lord.
The Lord litheycw—Tf yes had set bees a weethisse, idle
billow, there would hew bees so tweed ey he my seeding
her toilet. Inetitntkm. I have no dead Mildest abs leaves
it she will be able to get into respettelde genie% and be
omfurtably situated.
BOW-STREET,
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The snanneweee sgZet ti; six booksellers in Holywellr
dreg, oa whose presoisse salaam of obscene hooka prints,
*o., were made on Friday of lest weak, baring been made
returnable at three o'clook yesterday, the polios attended at
that hour and produced the property seized.
Ides. Bodkin again appeared. for the Home-once; Mr.
Orridge attended aa counsel for one of the defendants; end
lir. Lewis, jou., as solicitor for another.
/fog Merit, of 14, Bolywell-street, was loot called. She
at woos came forward and expressed great anxiety to contra-
dict a etatement made at the lest examination that she was
the same moon who on the ocaraion of the former admire
wrote a penitential letter to the Home-oftlos, promising not to
Wird again. She also alleged that more of the books now
seised had been returned me unobjectionable on the former
ocowiloa.
lespector Lester said this was not the cue. At the former
risen the hooka, be., were all of an objecticalble character,
sad nose were retained.
la this case one book and a few prints wore returned. The
remainder were aniseed to be Mahood foes seven day., when
they will be destroyed, dew la the awe at aa appeal, or of
say farther preceedlnge to the pert dGOVIMMOOR
A person who represented bl lo be a solicitor's clerk
smeared for the next dellindeat, Ideasord Morrie, of 15,
Wych.strat, bat se be produced ao wines authority from
the whereat In wham name he attended, lir. Jeedine refused
to hew him.
Defending did wet =raw to his name.
NZ=ctuna in frames, sod one book, were ordered to be
ilweral emplm d a book, which the Holywell-
street nudely have litherte Wined themselves quite safe in
seals& were ocademasti, sad ardwed to be detained, as in
the former we.
In the seat case the perms emmaresed was Thomas
Blarkell, of 16, Holll-serest, la mimes stead
old man lamed who stated that be wie"Cas
owner
and weepier of the hawse. It order to attend be had been
brined ap on a habeas from the Coldhatielledda prison,
where be la at pawn usisegelag a waless of two years'
t foe soling einem publications. He attempted
M prowediap kat the Mikis slinging that

the seizure was illegal, and when overruled on this point de ►
-
mandiog to go over the works seriatim. After much time
had been wasted in listening to his somewhat violent de-
clamation,
Mr. Jardine disposed of the Mee by condemning two large
parcels of books, dr., end ordering a composure!, reall
quantity to be returned.
Mr. Lewis appeared for the next defendant, William
Wynn, and contended that a certain book, of which fourteen
copies had been aired, was a medical work end not cameos.
Jardine was of a contrary opinion. The tide pegs
alcre.was enough to condemn the ,
A quantity of books, psmphlets, &c., were condemned,
end a roan portion of books, dm., with some stereotype
plass of " Fees Boot of Martyrs," were returned.
Mr. °ridge appeared for the next defendant, Richarl
Wiwi, who, he observed, was not an habitual dealer in these
worwhich had been suffered to creep in among his stock
by inadvertence.
Mr. Judd* add these observations were no answer
to the charge, but might poedbly be taken into
aroma bas.aitthorities in omeig the propriety of in-
ngs.
Vas ease onlproceedi
y a small quantity of books was con-
demned, sad the remainder returned.
Is the next cuss, the meson summoned was Joke Pans-
AAA bed Near again appeared, and stated that the me-
mins Wise his. Be took the same course as in the know
ore, insisting apes each of the condemned books bang
sham to him, end samba the megietrate to point out the ob-
jectionable poetizer, wired of mare his worship retort to
do. As, however, be foiled to show cause against the de-
struction of the copies, the calm was made out as in the
other mass.

Edwin Ward Jackson, of 14:Nit.m-hill-gerdens, Bays-
water, sae charged with a lih4 on Mr. Benjamin Coleman,
a merchant in the Poultry.
Mr. Arnold mut of opinion that so jury would oome to the
conclusion that the defendant wee the writer of the libellous
letter, and dismissed the cam.
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(harp Dolby, • young fellow who had teen formerly in
the employment of MOON. 0. Mr!, sad Bona, the extensive
oontractors in the Beividere.road, as ajonnisposa,
was charged with aspen pours el whom
Mhod Miss out of their molar employment, to go to work
at Aldershot; whore Mr. layers had Wand into a contract,
and was about to =smite some entendre buildings for the
goverment. Fran some of the men so hired he had °beaked
samay, and from op • width, sad antertained all of them to
a wateisatial &mar at the expmas of a beershop-keeper, to
whom he rsgemnaMd that lb. Mitre bad directed him (the
temsr) to artier it, and that be would pay all the enemas
entermen discovered what too late that they bad been
hapossd on; that the prisoner bad no authority
whatever to amp any me—k fa no additional min
were required at orshott , and the sonar was given Into
custody on • eharp of obtaining a watch and some matey
from ow of the vi tlms.

Mr. Norton characterised the ecednet of the prisoner as
mot homilies and cruel, sad observed that some days be-
fore ma applicatlon had been made to him by • poor man, a
etoareawyer, who, while in full and luesetive employment in
Nottingham, had received • letter stating that if he and his
fellow workmen tame to town they couldrtLecure immediate
employment at Mr. Myer es at a smelt tete of wages
Wee they had been in the habit of ring; the mum-
games was that they gave up their excellent employment at
Nottingham and came up to tows, end on applying at Mr.
Myen's they, to their greet rnrblosnoe, discerned that the
Inter was a cruel hoax. The handwriting of the
resembledeswell as he mild recollect it that on the =lc:
had just mentioned, and under the circumstance* he should
remand the prisoner to Thursday next.
The prieoner, who denied being the miter of the letter,
was soondingly remiusded to Thursday next.