The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

THIS DAY.

A man, who gave his time Joke illsklwk was this morn-
ing brought up to the hlarylebone polies court from the
Atbtnyetreet statiou-house, Regent'epaik, and placed at
the b.r, on the charge of having been concerned, with three
nth. re under reinaud, in the above burglary. The prisoner was
described on the poliee.alteet se u a labourer, and wee so
weak as to be unable to stand while the evidearre
wee being gone into agalest him. Ili. left arm wee in a
cling, and he presented alugether the appearance °foes who
bad been seriously injured. It was stated that the prisoner
had long been en aumiatie of the lan previourly 'itemised
on the above charge, and that he wu takes int., custody at
12 o'clock lest night by Sergeant Bang end Bamford, kl
' division. At the peri.cl of ha being captured he wes sitting
I upon his had, at a 1.3 w 104i/invitees' in Surrey street,
Blarkfri an-roed, and 'woman wee dreesing some wounds upon
different parts of hie person. The cabman now identified
hies most poeitieely as beteg the man whom be drove from
the 'York and Albany, 11... gent's park, to t►e Strand on the
muftis; of the burglary, shortly altar the same was com-
mitted, end the prisoner, who now a :witted his guilt, wee
ordered to be sent to the House of Detention, whence he will
be brought up spin with the other three prisoners on
Monday nest

ANOTHER FIRE AT GRAVESEND.-SUP-
POSED INCENDIAtiIBM.

At about two o'clock on Sunday afternoon smoke
was discovered by 'metal persons passim; at the time proceed-
ing from the iron grating over the trout cellar of the house
No. 6, is Harmer. street, Gravesend. So much soopicion
was attached to the origin of this fire, that on the informs.'
tion of the police.superintendont and his officers the borough
magistrates thought it incumbent on them to institute as
inquiry into the matter. Accordingly, yesterday, Mears.
o.kes (chairman). and Spencer, Smith, end 'Lehner, held
au iove.tig.ton, when the fallowing facts were elicited :
Mr. 13. m oat Marden stated, alter the awed caution against
saying anything that miens tend to criminate himself, that
about 7 o'clock on the previous (Sander) morning, he had,
with his wile, entrant, and &gentleman who lodged with him,
got up sad prepared to go by the barn to London, but on ar-
riving at she station they found themselves too late for the
train. They then Mutual to N e. 6, the house he mett.
pied, and prepared to go by the 9 o'clock boat from the
Terrace-pier. Whilot so preparing, he took • candle in
• bedroom candlestick, and went down to the cellar
to get some coals and wood, to have ready to make •
fire when they should return in the evening. While in the
oellar he heard the bell announcing the time of the Lost'.
di putters from the Terrace pier ringing, and hurried op,
leaving the light-d candle he did not know where in the
cella-. Mr. Herders went on to give a statement of all that
he ellegad to have occurred between 7 o'clock and the time
of going by the steamboat on Sunday morales so incoherent
that it was impassible to find out from it anything that
could 81 the time of his end his family's departure from the
house and the origin of the fire.
The f..Uowing evidence was takes by the magistrates after
Mr. Oakes had stated that the user of this fire, from the it
formed .n of the police, was of so suspicious a character
that the bench of magistrates felt It to be their duty to La
v.etigans it in the fullest possible way.
TM first witness called was a porter in the Diamond
Steam-packet Company, who deposed that on Saturday
evening, late, he was called to attend at 5, Harmer-swam,
sod to remove from there three large boxes to the Diamond
packet-office, to be sent up by the first boot the following
morning. He removed them with the assistance of another
port. r, and on the followi- g morning,: at • quarter-oast
8 o'clock, the mon (a tall and thin man, not at all like Mr.
Muden) who delivered the boxes to him at No. 6, came to
the office, and superintended their removal to the tint
about to start for London. He should know the man again if
Le saw him. He went by the boat on board of which the
bosta were put.
Mr. Harden here said that be wee the last person who left
the house on finucisy morning, and that the other man,
whore name, u his lodger, he Dodd not recollect, had left
that morning by the railway.
Mr. Oaks again *stationed Mr. Harden net to say any-
thing that might ceramic himself, as it would be taken down
in evidence against him.
Mr. Maiden proceeded to state, in reply to Mr. 0 ekes,
that be had issued his stock (haberdeshery) for 2601, his
furniture for 2601., and some glass calms in hies for 601.,
on Or about the 6b
on through the medium of Mr. H.
Newman, of Or d, spot for the Phoenix-offioe, and
was also insured, hat to what amount he did not msntioo, in
the Metropolitan Insurance= face. The receipt for the pre-
mium of in ttttt ce in tbe P. mail-office he produced, and
said his wife had it le her picket, and that he had not pre-
y reed any other receipt, or voucher, or document wh
Polies-oonstable Wickham deposed that about two o'clock
I on the afternoon of Sunday, the 27th inst., his attention was
drawn to sin imuirg from the grating above the cellar
window of No. 6, Harmer-street. Finding there was nobody
In the hoses, he called for assistance, sad entered the horse
through a window at the rear opening into the garden.
Finding the smoke proceeding from the basement story he
went down end opened • door which led into enlist/radiate
cellar between the back and front kAtehena, and which
formed also a sort of lumber room. The smoke rushed with
such violence oat of the door that he was toned to go beck,
and he then wan into the back kitcher, found a bucket with
wl'tf into It, returned to the cellar, and poured the water on
where he saw Mae fire. He then had Is istance, and the
flre was put out. The large box now produced by him, and
partially burst, was the 8 st thing be removed out of the
cellar. ;The smaller box he found close by the partition, with
the candlestick In it as it now appeared, and with the re-
mains of burnt wadding extinguished by the water he had
thrown on It. The candleetick was quite hot. (The can-
dlestick, • brain chamber one, was ins,rted into the aide, or
it might be the upper end, of the box, of which two aides or
ends and the stuff oontained in it were burnt or reduced to
tinder and cinder. The candlestick could by no apparent
portibi ity have accidentally got into the position in the box in
which it was found.) Witness west on to state that be found
a qo amity of books and other combustible materials lying on
the floor round and in contact with the box in which the can-
dlestkk and the expired snuff of a candle were found by
him and the other perms who tame to his assistance. In
the bedrooms he rotted the wardrobes—throe in number—
all empty; one bed was tumbled as if slept on, but there
were no bed clothes but an old blanket and counterpane.
Oa a bedstead in another room then was a mattress, but
no loscidinz. In the shop he found nothing hut a few trial's
articles of little value, snob as gloves and some bonnet-frames.
The whole hones seemed to tan been left In a stabs of Ns-
him, and with but little of value la lt. Mr. Merles hid re-
horsed late in the night, but he (witness) had bad as IMF
011111iiistion with him, other than telling tom how the fro
IND mastered. Witness had no doubt that, but MC Ible
*Wile dismtvery of the fire, the home would have bees eM
lessata. There was a quantity of broken timber and ether
Minlbanlide materials behind the partition spinet whisk ffile
bon with the candlestick in it lay. Above the box, on tend
debar, was a quantity of books and paper. Lime MAWR
ems perkily burnt. Sane of the hocks and papers tin
OM VOW partially burnt. The partition Imelf wee bowl
Wastasuly up to the ceiling. It we immediately NOW
lillohort Atkin', foreman of the exposed=
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eorroborated the previous whinged evidosee,::=
mend et the spot, in a few minutes after him.
Mr. Henry Newman was agent to the Phoenix Insurance
Company. The rec. ipt for the poliey of Inlinall6o for 6601.
now produced was given by him to Mr. Mardis on the 6th
lost. The policy paper had not bees Dint to Mm yet, bat
the ?resit,' bound the company to the illanta&Cl. He had
surveyed the furniture insured for 2601. when he gave the
receipt. Could no: soy what stook there was in the shop at
the time. Had not assn either furniture or stook eines the
discovery of the fine the day before. Thought thorn was a
sufficiency of furniture in the house on the day he went to

survey it en giving the reseipt tar the policy to Justify the
amount of Winne*.

Mr. 11erds;:cet bi;lag salted by the beech Ulm bad anythhig
to reply to the very sesions shame now wade Mosinst
deellsed saying myth*, mem at present, farther than that
the wineries tried to masks oat awe spi bim. He ad-
mitted that ke had Istt the lighted mettle In the cellar, but
woo sum that be did not pleat it in the box where it was
found—if it was foiled In It. Hs could not explain bow it
feud its way Mere, sad be could only say he was innocent
of any knowledge of the owe of the Arr.
Mr. Oakes odd, thaihilares. was use that the ungistrates
found themselves sew to investigate strictly, and they
would remand Mr. ea, who was now in custody of
the police, until Wedneday.
The prisoner wee then removed in the enstady of Mr. Su-
perintendent North, to be brought up again on Wednesday.

HOUGH TON MEETING.

[By Zeolite, Tslegrefh.]