The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-04 00:00:00

THE • EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1868.

POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

MAN6I( ON-HOUSE.
WILFUL 11.1111t.1 Al .1 FILNI

fiect.
was brought before Alderman Sir Benjamin Phillips, on
the charge of wilfully breaking a square of plate•glass,
value N.

At 6 o'clock this morning the prisoner went into the
Hosea Tavern. High-street, Aldgate, and beiFan sinFing
disgusting songs, the landlord, Mr. Lane, being obliged
to turn her out. At eight o'clock she returned, and
threw a piece of brick through the window, smashing a
large square of plate-glass. She was then given into
custody.
Robert Twose, a City constable, said that he apprehended
the prisoner, and on the way to the station she said she
was a Fenian, and had been concerned is the Clerkenwell
outrage.
Sir Benjamin Phillips Ho the witness)—You need not go
into that ; I suppose she was drunk.
The constable said she was not drunk.

The prisoner denied that she said she was a Fenian, and
asserted that she was drunk, and was not quite sober yet.
Sir Benjamin said she had been guilty of a very
criminal action, as she might have killed somebody inside
the house. He sentenced her to six weeks' imprisonment,
with hard labour.

THE DARING STREET ROBRIIRN.

Thomas Wardrof,f, a well iresseil young man. was
charged on remand with stealing a gold watch and chain,
value 15/.

Shortly after 11 o'clock on the night of Friday last, the
prosecutor, Mr. Henry H. Berens, a director of the Guar-
dian Fire and Life Assurance-office, Lombard-street,
was walking from London-bridge to Cannon-street.
when the prisoner robbed him of his watch
and chain and ran down the steps leading to Thames-
street. The prosecutor followed, crying " Stop thief i"
and the prisoner was captured in Miles's-lane, the watch
and chain being found on the spot where he was appre-
hended.

Whetson,l G, deposed to two previous convictions
against the prisoner, and said he was tried at the last
session of the Central Criminal Court for stealing a watch,
but acquitted.
Prisoner said he had never been in prison before. He
pleaded guilty to the theft.
The Alderman said he would give him another chance,
and sentenced him to six months imprisonment with hard
I 'boar.

WESTMINSTER.
SINGULAR APPLICATION.

A respeetable, quiet-looking young man, entering the
court this morning, and addressing Mr. Arnold, said—l
wish to inform your worship that I have been married
three months.

Mr. Arnold—Well, I hope you are happy.
Applicant—No, air, I am not, and that's the reason I
have come here.

Mr. Arnold—l'm sorry for that.
Applicant—My wife has left me. She has deserted me
and taken all my property away—everything I posses ed.
Can't I make her bring it beck ?
Mr. Arnold—lf you can find it.
Applicant—lf other people have got possession of my
property can't I recover st
Mr. Arnold—Certainly you can.
Applicant—Do you know I don't think she would have
deserted me if she had been left to herself.

Mr. Arnold--Don't you ?
Applicant—No, I don't. I think it was entirely the
influence her friends possessed over her. We seemed to
he very comfortable ourselves at first. You see, they
keep my property.
Mr. Arnold—You can mover that, as I have told you.

Applicant—Hut they keep ray wife; too. How ani I to
recover her!

Mr. Arnold—You must go to another court for that,
and sue her for a restitution of conjugal rights. It is
rather an expensive process.
Applicant—ls it ? I'm very sorry for that. I wish to
ask your worship another question, if you'll be good
enough to answer it. Can't I detain what few things she
has left at my house?
Mr. Arnold—Certainly. Your wife's property is yours
unless vested in trustees, and then when at comes into her
possession it becomes yours.
Applicant—Thank you, sir ; I am sure she would not
have left home bat for her friends.

WORSHIP-STREET.
ROBBFR% AT A RAILWAY STATION..

William Johnson' 25, was charged with stealing a watch
from the person of William Redgrave at the Shoreditch
terminus of the Great Eastern Railway.
The prosecutor, a gentleman's servant, was at the ticket
barrier, where there was a great crowd. While there he
observed the prisoner force his way close to his (witness's)
side, and he missed his watch, valued at I; guineas.
Seeing a hand scrosehis waistcoat he seized the prisoner,
who, throwing up his arms, waved them in the air. Wit.
nese called for the police, and the prisoner was taken into
custody.
Corroborative evidence was given, and the prisoner was
remanded.

DEPRIVATION OF A CLERGYMAN FOR
IMMORALITY.

COrRT OF ARCHICS.—(Teti Der.)
(Before the Right Hos. Sir R. Phillimore.)

THE IIISH(•P OP NoRSICH V. THE REV. R. WILSON PEARSE.

Judgment was given in this ease to-day. The defendant,
the Rev. Robert Wilson Pearse, rector of Gaywood, Lynn,
was articled against by the Bishop of Norwich forcemmitting
three indecent assaults, at different periods, on three
young men named Amia, Monument, and Eglinton. The
defendant denied the allegations, and tendered himself as
a witness, the learned judge admitting his testimony.
The Dean of Arches proceeded to analyse the evi-
dence given on both aides, and also the denial of the
defendant. His lordship felt bound to state that he
believed the charges had been established, and that
the question was the punishment to be inflicted. Deeply
regretting es he did to do so, he was bound from such
habitual practice to pronounce the severest sentence in
his power, and that was one of deprivation of his office.
The defendant was ordered to be deprived of his status
as a clergyman of the church of England. He was also
condemned in costs.

Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram were for the Bishop
of Norwich ; Mr. Serjeant Etallantine, Dr. Spinks, Q.C.,
and Dr. Middleton were for the defendant.

THE. ABYSSINIAN TELEGRAM.—A singular error
occurred in the copy of the telegram sent to the papers
from the Foreign-office last night. In describing the
flood in the &woo de6le the number of natives drowned
was said to be " six hundred." We are happy to learn
from an amended copy that it should have been " six"
only.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE EARL AND COUNTEss
or Drsuonr..—On Tuesday night an accident, which
might have had more serious consequences, happened to
the Earl and Countess of Dunmcre. It appears that,
returning from dining with the Earl and Countess Cadogan,
a cab ran into the brougham, breaking the shafts and
sending the horsed at a furious gallop down Grosvenor-
place, on the foot pavement. The carriage came into
collision with a lamp-post, and threw the footman and
coachman, the legs of the latter getting entangled in one
of the wheels. The horses fell and the brougham was
smashed, but. fortunately, neither the earl nor countess
were injured in the least. The coachman was conveyed
to the hospital, and will, it is supposed, recover. The
footman's injuries were slight.
HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE THROAT.—In
order to facilitate the employment of the newly-Invented
laryngoscope among the sick poor the Dispensary for Dis-
eases of the Throat was established in 1543 in King-
street, Regent-street, and its great utility soon became so
evident that increased subscriptions flowed in,
until the committee were enabled to take larger
premises, and to make provision for a certain
number of in-patients. The dispensary consequently
grew into a hospital, and was removed to Golden-
square. The necessity for an institution of this kind is
amply shown by the returns of the Registrar-General,
from which it appears that in 1866 no fewer than 24,C00
deaths occurred from croup, diphtheria, and other throat
diseases. Now, when it is considered that these figures in-
clude fatal oases only, some idea may be formed of the
amount of the suffertogniiimiloong the destitute poor from this
ohm of diseases, the past year 2,53 were 2 cases
treated in the hospital, w • upwards of 20,000 visits were
made by patients, who on each occasion received advice
and medicine. The sixth annual dinner in support of the
institution was held last evening, at the Freemasons'
Tavern. The Duke of Grafton, president of the hospital,
took the chair, and after the customary loyal and consti-
tutional toasts had been duly honoured, made an appeal
on behalf of the institution, resulting in a subscription.
list amounting to 9801.