The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-24 00:00:00

AROLO-INDIAN TELEGRAPHY.

John 2'riekey, a sheriffs officer, was brought before
Mr. Benson cUkrged with stealing • silver watch from
Mr. Louis Lazarus, • oorantercdal traveller, of No. 35,
Desepiey-street, fitoey.
Mr. Pelham stated the case for the prosecution. On
Saturday evening Mr. Lawrie answered a knock at his
door, and the prisoner mad* his appears's', and said, " I
am an officer ," but did not my whet officer. The prose.
outor's wife had been recently confined, and he did not
like on • cold and stormy night in March to keep the door
open, or hold it ajar in his hand, so he invited the prisoner
to enter. The prisoner no sooner entered the house than
he thrust his band forward and seised the prosecutor's
watch. The prosecutor immediately called out "Police
Thieves' " and having procured the aid of • police-
constable gave the prisoner into custody. A man was left
in possession of the prosecutor's house.
Mr. Benson—By what authority
Mr. Pelham—The prisoner had • wrik of Seri facies to
seise the prosecutor's goods on • judgment, but that did
not authorise him to take the watch away from the pro-
secutor's person. He might as well have taken the pro-
mtentath Goat and hat away.
The • er said be was not aware he was doing wrong.
He had • writ of L fa., nader which he made the seizure.
He was locked up fear hours before his master, Mr. Levf;
a sheriff's caper, bailed him out.

Hr. Hannon iaid the prisoner was in a very serious
position, and he did not think he had any right whatever
to take a man's watch from his pima wader the warrant.
He would be remanded on his own reeernisanots.

THE FENIAN PILOSICITTIONB AT BOVI-STEZET.—
rFk• following appeared in our third edition of heir=
Peter Norm, alias Mohan, wee brought up on
bee the chief magistrate, Sir T. Henry, at Bowereet
Police Court, yesterday, on the charge e inducingsal.
dims to desert front the Battle sortie, and enlist in the
seelle Fenian army. The prosecution was endued
by Kr. Poled, extruded by the Teem solicitor.
Mt. W. P. Neadonald, heeded by Mr. W., P.
Reber* of Bedllsa4mare, end Memeitseter, defended.
Riese Wearthy, a sane is the Beyal lineneess,
deposed S.
beer, the primer, and de be lut by
him in November, ISM. He wan lahreseed to him by a
masa mined Thompson, who was known by weed aliases.
At the time wines was in the Tine, and the
Penes oath was embelered to him by at a
beeshop in Gesemereet. Mumma inlesilseed the
= a:cow of the premised tonnes et the Fade
The peer amid be had joss ems from
Aisne*, and lad been near getting gab a serape them
He told witness that be aszted=mm tegassi
many men se be could to join the
ether eddies were there. The primmer had him the he
bed resolved inmerlant news hem Ameba, and that
.by
Obrellateerisy er the New Year everythiag would be ripe
ice Ireland. Be also added that ea sedition
had left America for Ireland, and was e
to !n. about three weeks' time. Xaed
tntose

;se raked bytirS gons;ser T 1;7; many sr b
thought be amid persuade to &wet sad go to Ireland ;
sod ass told by Thompson sod ease et the other
aies wisest that =sag woold to slat to Lathes
fee the rapearoad sloths. provided fort their the is the
plan of their 1/201iffi uniform. Wilmer did sot, how-
ever, desert. After some further evidence the primmer was
rauerial for a week

Taw AOCADIOIT TO A BALLET Damots.—The tm-
Walleibmitrosiat ea yi
i wliessttrerday eastik did iesi
irt at DzLe Cormetiment.
illherePOA:

Yesterday, a meeting was held at the Mansion-
house, to consider the question of telegraphic communica-
tion with the East, in reference to • memorial addressed
to Sir Stafford Northoote, and presented by the Lord
Mayor, which memorial had been extensively signed by
the leading homes in the City. There was a very large
attendance of merchants and bankers interested in the
question. The LORD MAYOR occupied the chair. Sir
rederick Halliday, addressing the meeting, referred to
the select committee of the House of Commons, which in
1866 was appointed to inquire into the whole subject, and
upon which both the home and Indian governments were
most efficiently represented, as were also the interests of
commerce and science, in especial relation to telegraphy.
That eommittee, he said, reported that the system was
badly arranged and thoroughly inefficient, and that to •
great extent it was at the mercy in Asia of • eat of iIIOW
=amid unimproveable Arabs, Turks, and bar-
Thet report left nothing to be desired,
disclosing, as it did, the whole matter to the House of
Commons and the country. Two years had since elapsed,
and absolutely nothing had been done. There was the
same delay, uncertainty, and inaoctiracy in the transmis-
sion of measages, of which he related many instances. To
the City of London it was impossible to exaggerate the
enormous importance of a punctual, rapid, and accurate
telegraphic aommualastion with the East. We had now
on our Mods a great expedition to Abyssinia, and we
might hays intelligence from the seat of war in six hours ;
but on Saturday, the latest telegraphic communication,
which was dated the 2nd of March, was twenty days over.
How was the general to communicate with his base of
operations, and what more need be said of the political in.
effidency of the system ! He did not care who effected
this communication so long as it wasdose ; but he am-

tainly did represent a body of gentlemen who were able
and willing to do this great work in the only way in which
it could be done. What they wanted to see was one line
under one control, and that British control, and free from
end to end of all political, or Asiatic, or European complica-
tions. If the government did not assist in making that
communication, what he said was that they would not
mar it, and he trusted that conference would result in
bringing shout a better system instead of that of which
they were heartily ashamed. Mr. Crawford, ILP., who bad
bean the chairman of the select committee, said any system
of telegraphic communication between this country and
India Elrough the continent would be eventfully unsound,
dependent as we were on the good will of foreign countries
at the present time, and circumstances might arise that
mig
ht absolutely cut urn off from all communication with
We had the sea nearly the whole way from this to
India, and we could be independent of almost every other
nation, with the single exception of.the 120 miles between
Alexandria and Som. Again, we had the sea from Saes to
Bombay. Hs believed there MIA no one who bad any woe
-
ties] knowledge of the subject who could not state with the
utmost confidence that the laying of a line from Falmonth,or
wherever it might start from, by way of Egypt, would be
perfectly facile; and we might always rely oa it, except
on the assumption of an interruption of oar communica-
tions with the Viceroy. He thought we ware entitled to
go to the government and say they were bound to assist
us by participation in the risks in snob an enterprise, of
anal! •t&,l that might happen to render the line valueless,
if should be at may time in the possession d any
f power. Mr. John Ponder, sing for the Man-
skeeter Cimmber of Commerce, promised their 00-operip
lion ; and that of the Manchester commercial community,
in carrying out a thoroughly effective line of communi-
cation ; and on the motion of Mr. John Peel, 21. P., a
standing committeefof 12 gentkenso was appointed, mem-
bers of parliament and others representing various Eastern
interests, for the purpose of collecting and supplying such
further information as may be necessary or available on
the subject, and damaging and carrying into effect such
action as may be deemed advieable for the purpose of
bringing the subject bolero the government and the House
of Commons. The meeting concluded with an unanimous
vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor.

M. JUSTICH MELLON. ON WORKHOOSZ Hig-
Lissome:yr.—Mr. Justiee Haler, in 'barging the grand
jury at the Liverpool daises yeeteeday, mode same very
ear ant obeervetions
been oaaldedtroolstive todrthys': death of
nurese Wigan workhouse. His lordship said that he
had read the depositions with very groat pain, for he found
freer them that the prisoner charged with tea he. was
ea
imbecile, perfectly unfit and inoseeptent is have any -
ffi&g to do with children. One wilaem deposed that she
hod frequently done the du%sw whisk devalved spec the
imbecile woman, because mho I hermanly unit to
hove the care aan infant child.oggiseind to Mir
Catt;at the Wipn woricheeme that the
nere, and the blind ereons insompetast foe
Hanl—were put to tender and difficult &Oen
e d not help thinking that it women' sad thisg
that the lives of the infants in the infant ward at Wipe
were entrusted, as it appeared to him, to poems utterly
salt and incapable, sbnply beam° they oeeld &wimp
no other duty—not bemuse they were wholly unit for
that particular duty, bat beeeum they meld do nothing
else. Hs did hope that the publicity given to this are
would eaU some attention to the reeatat of the
Wipa workhoupe, because it was ism that these
Prin the workhouses scald have same Mt=
Lioinforte which were obtained by end which
&I raga people in independent ahrounisteaces. Yet be.
canes they were children of the poor they were set to be
landed over to pawns who were wholly unit and ham-
potent for the numsganad of them.
THE BESPIETED MOND= OP • BOY EY am
Fsrans.—The &dimmed inquest on the body of John '
Thomas Waimea aged sine years, who met his death by
drowning in the tiont'e•eanal„ was reamed yesterday in
the Essex-reed. prisasert mother was examined, end
said that her husband (primate's father) was a bundle.
After mime oeuvermitios as to the neomeity at having the
phew prouttoyandbei:grefernilize, toho the foaf t
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