The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-29 00:00:00

TSB POLICE COURT&

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Speller end John Clemente were charged by
Daniel Carroll, of 114, Saffromhill, with assaulting him and
=him in greet bodily fear, on Monday afternoon, in
street, Soho.
The complainant, being attracted to the operations of some
workmen clearing out a welk sapped Ste a few minutes at
the aperture when the rieffilesems up and pushed kis.
He remonstrated, and they threw a rape mad Lis neck, end
swore they would put him in the well. He wee very weak
alarmed, and struggled to a:Maas kite uM ; his oak we
much marked, he mid, by the rope they anew mem/ lam.
Mr. Joseph Poole, of 2, Cemalleu Lower- seed,
Islington, confirmed the evidence of the silmew, se to
the great violence used wails lda. Ms new the men
round the neck of the compairat, who sereemed la a
agony of fright. He assisted
foe ts pecestiag
eutr a pelimere. send
the men were given in charge the age.
Cross-esamined by Sailer—The witness sell be MI met
witness the commencement of the sair, nor ham say bad
linage on the part of the compaiessia He repeated that
the conduct of Speller was exemikily tampons.
Policeman 118 C took primmer, tale eustody on the
The ioniplainant exhibited the emit on his netkehnagrh.
was much inflamed.
Some wane...a were celled by the delendado, who said
, the bessuage of thebreostirmteutir useely way aid Wrath, arm,
mad ant he bad it ea elt. limey ad.
aided limy led sem rope round Ike esbisai
eepleismat, and
bead the eawarameassek but did set law by whoa the
reps had boss used, though they email employed doge upon
the spet.
The magistrate remarked that be did not believe their
eleamesat. They could just remember euffiviser, am they con-
sidered, for the defendants, and nothing more. He wits afraid
cheflsad perjured themselves, and ho should diaoard their
to.
The Magistrate said it Ira quite clear that the corn-
=had no badness at the well, and did moos, un-
y, in Mending over the small aperture thereof when
it was so smarmy Metweekman should have as much air as
pesiha If the adadeas ha imply paha him away,
thry woad have dame right ; but to not in the way which
bed las swam to sasH not for a moment be tolerated. To
put lautorkerr in each her, Meat= they were there, was
monstrous. He amid flue Speller 101.; end Clemente,
whose conduct did net apps., to he so bed ea the other, tre.
The magistrate laded the
Rue would seknadedge the
receipt of 21. front "W. J. 8., for William Bray, at this
mourn some time ago in great destitution.

A BLACK CALENDAR OF CRIME.—The calendar of
prisonees foe trial at the Liverpool /Lesiva, as made up to
the 27th inst., is one of the blackest catalogues of crime that
has been issued for some long time. There are 10 amen of
murder in it (to which will hare to be added another, from
Manchester in which three prisoners are for trial); 14 of
stabbing, wounding, de. ; one of shooting, one of attempt to
blow up a looser. five of rape, and five of perjury, blades a
long list of burglaries and other Emma.
11EALTH OY LONDON.—The mortality of the me-
tropolitan districts, exhibits an increase. The dear regis-
tered in London were in two preceding weeks 988 end 1,001;
in the week that ended on Saturday (July 26). they rose to
1,209. The rate of mortality now prevailing is as high as
the average rate, although the period from which the latter
is derived includes the laid week of July in 1849, when epi-
demic cholera had spread to * considerable extent, and was
fetal in 783 our. In the last two weeks the mean tempe-
rature of the air has been 68 deg., and en seven out art the
fourteen days the thermometer has risen above 84 deg. In
London dealer, or the complaint now known as the rum-
mer cholera, in the result ut a high temperature, and as the
heat is greeter than the disease has developed itself
with mere than its usual vigour. The following numbers of
deaths from diarrhoea exhibit it. progress during the present
month : In the week that elided 7 uly 4 they were 66; in the
two following weeks 133 and 150, soil last week 269. Last
year, is em week, the deaths from dlanhcea rose to 253
under a wean temperature of 67 deg., but at a period when
the enamer wee three weeks more in edemas. Ina very
large melecity of the 259 oases young children are the vic-
tims; -occurred In the first year of life, 26 at the age of
one yser and lees than two, 11 at ages varying from two
years to ten, and 16 at the age of 20 and upwards. Besides
tVII sewn are mimed to cholera (comprising death. by
/Mhos, cbokosic diarrhcoo, &c.), and under this
also • large epertion, Si., 23, occurred to children.
jest writ the births of 779 boys and 832 girls, in all 1,831
Mikes, ewe leginieled in London. In the ten correspond-
' lag wear of the years 1847-66 the average number was
1,431).—(Fr0m the return of the Regietrar•Generel.)
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON
RAILWAY.—The report of the directors of this line is just
issued. The accounts of the half-year show a total revenue
from all source.. including the receipts of the Stourbridge
Canal. of 107,3591. 6s. 10d., and a total expenditure of
49,9321. 3e. 11d., leaving a balance of 57,4071. 10. 11d., which
sum, after deduction of 26,8t61. 5.. 4d. for interest on deben-
ture bonds, loans, &e., sad 2,7701. 6e. 9d. interest on deben-
ture stock, enables the directors to propose a dividend of
6 per cent per annum on the first guaranteed stock, amount-
ing to 25,4291. 18e. 83., and of per cent. per annum on the
second guaranteed stock, amounting to 1,2501. This is the
first occasion on whir the net revenue of the company has
allowed of any dividend on the moor guaranteed sharee of
the company. A oompirison with the corresposiabig
year of 1856 exhibits an increase of the gross receipts
amounting to 15,0131. 13s. 11d. in favour of the present
half year. The capital account shows an increase
of 74,393/. 13e. Bd., of which 50,6841. Os. 6d. is for the die-
charge of old liabilities, and the parches, of the Stratford
Canal has been completed by the payment of 14 3811. 4a. 6d.
The possession and management of this is now
in the hands of the company. The directors will continue
tltexlicy of increasing the accommodation at the various
and stations on the line as expeditJoasizzcetlstr=
pe-
cuniary means will allow. The long pending
the Board of Trade as to the use of the hoes at Wolver-
hampton and at Oxford by this company and the Great
Western Company respectively has been brought toe close
by the deaden of the arbitrator' and the accountant. of the
two companies are now engaged to preparing the account. in
acecedases thetterith.