The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1861.

ME ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT
PADDINGTON.

I A tall, powerful-looking fellow named Thomas
' Pussy, aged A described as as engine fitter, residing at 15,
Weimer-street, New-rain; George Reeve. 26, of C. Vic.
toria place Bayswater, pastry cook • and Ann Colley, a
puddle agedl woman, residaft at XJ, I.4t;een-street, Edgware.
mad, were charged at the Maryleboue Police Court, the
two male prissier with assaulting • widow Indy, named
Mrs. Sarah Green, residing at No. 5, Fulham-place, Pail.
diogton, and carrying away • quantity of plate, and the
female with being concerned with them in the commission
of the robbery. The court was crowded. In April, 1848,
the prisoner Pussy was appreheodol in the name of
Jones, for • plate robbery to the extent of 3,000 f.
at Lord Foley's, in Grosvenor-square, awl for which at the
sermons be was sentetned to three years' penal servitude.
*ace be has been home be has bees brought to the court
for lead stealing, but acquitted. The prisocer Reeves
ham already Undergoes four years penal servitude in the
name of Alfred Cotton for stealing over 100/. worth of
plate from Cleveland-spuue.
Elisabeth Aiken, the servant to Mrs. Sarah Green, the
old lady who so narrowly maned with her life, detailed
the circumstances of the case as given on former occasions,
land which will be (reels in the recollection of our readers.
She added that on the night of the robbery and, in fact,
while it was consmitted, the woman Colley was in the
kitchen • she had called to see her (witness's) fellow-
servant, the cook, having called to see her about • situa-
tion. She could sot identify the prisoners an being either
of Op men she saw in the Lou,,.

Police-constable Alfred Fudge, 380 A, said—On the night
of the rubbery I wee passing through Howley-place, cloee to
Fulham-place, sod saw three men on the left-hand side of
the way, cooling from the Harrow-road, sal thought I
bony the face of one. I looked the second time. when the
tallest one of the three dropped his head, and walked along
sideways, which caused me to look a third time. I hare
the care of a house in Howley.plaos, and went in and bad
tea, and chaugod my plain clothem for my uniform and went
oat again, and at the foot of the bridge in Harrow road I
saw Pusey and two more men standing. Pussy wail resting
on the bridge. Ocie that had a cap on looked across the
road to me and said something, when Puzey turned and
looked at me, and then turned again to the bridge.
they were the same three men as I saw before. Puzey
wore full whiskers. Reeves also is one of the men.
He had alight whiskers and a moustache. I am quite
sure that three two men are the same that I saw on the
bridge. When I went to Uhurch•street station to go on
duty I heard of the robbery, and spoke about these two
men.

Sergeant Potter, 2 11, said—On the morning alter the
robbery sod assault I went to 5, Fulhamplace, and exa-
mined the house, sod found that the thieves must have
gone direct from the street door to the room where the
robbery was committed. I west in search of the woman
Colley, and found her at 33, Queen-street, Edgware-road.
I told her I was a police-Aber, and asked her if she was at
5, Fulham-place us the night before the rubbery. She at
first said she could not remember, but after some hesitation
said she was there. She said that the lady for whom
she was charing in Eastbourne-terrace applied to her the
previous week to get her a servant, and she went to Mrs.
Green's to see if Lucy was there, when the cook asked her
down stairs. She could not say how lung she stopped. I asked
her whether during the time she was there she did not go
out for au errata'. She at first stoutly denied going out,
but upon being pressed she admitted going out for some
gin. I then told her that I had been to the house of the
lady in Eastbourne-terrace, and that she was full of 'baryon*
and never authorised her to get any. She (Colley) then said,
" Oh, she will say anything." Situ then admitted that she
went to 5, Fultion.place the cent night because she
had heard of a situation in Bureshire, and went to tell the
cook. She did not know whcruabouta in Berkshire the
I situation was. She said she went out for some gin on this
night, about 20 minutes after she got there, and left for
good about half an bout after.
Sophia Jackson said—l am cook to Mrs. Green. I know
tits woman Colley as being nurse to my mistress last winter.
She was in the house on the night of the robbery. _ It was
as wear 9as oould be when she cams. She knocked at the
mil; and I opened the door and asked her down. Askew
was down in the kitchen at the time. I closed the door
after Colley came in, and am certain it was fast, ea I always
try it. Askew went up aud was absent some time, and then
came down to order supper. Myself and Mrs. Colley bad some
gin that evening—half • quarter's, and we had some the pre-
vious evening. Colley proposed that we should have the me.
Askew had none of it. She went out for the gin after Askew
had gone up to her mistress the Mot time. I did not leave
the kitchen when she went out for the gin. She let herself
out, sad took the key to let herself in apin, and when abs
got into the kitchen she said, "Mind, there is your key."
Soon after thu I heard what I thought was the tray thrown
down, sal said whatever is the matter. She (Colley) said,
.. Oh, don't worry yourself." I hastened as quick as I
could into the passage, which, being narrow, we could not
both par together. The street door was wide open, and
Colley said, • Mind, I am innocent ; I know nothing of
this. 7 _

After some further evidence,
Mr. Yardley mid—This is a most daring and almat un-
heard of robbery and outrage, and one that is likely to make
everybody feel insecure in their owe homes. The evidence
!against the woman rests on more than mere suspicion. I
should hke to have some corroborative evidence 111 to the
ideality of the male prisoners, andlrrith that view I shall
ally order the remand till Wednesday.

THE FRENCH DEFICIT OF 240,000,000.

(From the Money Market Eerier.)

•
In our imprismion of the 2tith ult. we pointed out
that " the redder extravagance of the French government
would sootier or later bring shoat a minis." It was ob-
served :—" If the French government really wish to avert
• Grids, there is but one measure that will completely and
=Aatoily obviate it, and that is a great reduction in
enormous expenditure, which is slowly but surely
eappiag the foundations of the prosperity of France, and
paving the way for a crash. Ultimately, we Dave but little
doubt, the present difficulties will be patched up by a date
loan ; but palliatives and expedisets will not Last for over,
and it is only by a disarmament that the evil
can be permanently stayed, and real confidence in-
On the 14th instant the Monitreir announces
tbst the deficit has reached the enormous amount of 1,000
milliens of trance—or, say 40,000.000 C sterling. Singularly
sesagh, on this notification being made, the Rentes roes
;per ant I lamed, ear funds rising on an announcement by
14 Gladstone of • &tied of 40,u00,00/.! The naturally
evil effect of the sews on the Bourse was entirely counter-
meted by the appointment of M. Fould as Minister of
liesees, gad by • solemn promise, made in a manifesto
maw the Emperor's own hand, that the system which has
ben narked by such profligate waste shall be abandoned.
The Lamer, m a letter to the Minister of State, acknow-
=the necessity of confining the budget within " in-
limits ;" and says that " the only efficacious means
S. attain this end is to resolutely abandon the faculty which
appertains to me of opening • fresh credit in the absence of

Ve differ somewhat from his Majesty. The froth-credit
system, doubtless, was one of the muse* of the deficit, bat
sot theonly one. It is Dot so much the suppression of ex-
traordinary credits that is weaned, but the suppression of
the past armamenta which render Dior extraordinary
erudite necessary, and which, at the sine time, oblige
neighbouring nations to maintain large forces likewise.
It ie • monstrous fact that France, in time of peace, hes
been reedir on • moderate estimate 80,000,0001. sterling
per arum TM budget of France for the year 1860, r
oiScielly acknowledged, was as follows :
Receipts. Direct tree, 469,636.0148 f. ; stamps,
3158,67T,000f. ; forests sad fisheries, 37,7136,500 f. ; customs
and salt duty, 2211,051,0011'. • indirect taxes, 485,469,060 f. ;
post-office, 57,664,000 f. ; st;sdry revisers, 146,672,856 f. ;
divers productions, 41,619,3731. ; total, 1,825,8.54,379 t, or
78,102,0/of. sterling.
Expenditure.—Public debt, 560,148,876 f. ; &tuitions sad
perms, 41,779, Mgt ; services of the minister, 868,102,356 f.;
expenses of collection of revenge, 189,747,107 f. ;
burgements and restitutions, 1•21,560,24 r • public works,
; total, 1,8'24,957,775L or 72,994,01,0/. Stejgtino
Of course,
this budget showed • surplus. French
always do—on paper. Yet • deficit of 40,000,0 rd. is now
avowed. How did this arise, in the course, probably, of
two or three years? M•inly, as it would appear, bIICSUMIP
the huge item of expenditure, classed as "Services of the
Ministers" was susceptible of indefinite expansion. Each
minister has had bin separate budget. Each has had the
power of obtaining from the Emperor such decrees for fresh
" credits" as he asked for. The whole system is worthy
of Russia, or of Turkey. It is g great merit, truly, for the
Emperor to relinquish his privilege of authorising sup*.
prowl writs ! He doss note's' down the weapon uuta it
is broken.

_
Greet Bntein, vastly richer than France, is oppressed by •
Walks amounting to 70.000,000/. a year. Maginot France
reel under an expenditure rd 80,000,000 W. Timm we raise
the money solely by taxatiomi whereas France nixes to
annual loans, even in time of pence ; hut, in acting thus,
Irene, but burns the midi* at both ends. There is • limit
both to taxation and to loan-raising, and that limit is being
approached : 010,000 men in Mills, sod a fleet u large as
our own, may be compatible with the glory of France but
they memo misery to the population. The future of the
Daises is being eutes up and consumed, and mikes the
Emperor acts upon the reckless maxim —" After me the
Deluge "—his policy is incomprehensible.
We are now asked to believe that all is to be reformed.
, that retrenchment is to be enforced, that the military and
naval armaments are to reduced, and that a real control
over the finances is to be delegated to the legislature. We
shall see. Distrust is the prevalent feeling in the English
renal. We have had plenty of excellent 11111111110Cee we
wills{ deeds. What amount of airmen ty there may he in his
prof/mime time alone can show. Meanwhile, it is some
completion for our financial and commercial community to
know that they may pursue their avocations for scene time
is full security that there will be no sound likely to impale
the rush of investors to take part in the large loan phial' is
doubtless about to be opened. The stuck market. of Europe
rejoice to know that the Emperor is under heavy recomat.
smogs to keep the mem

Tax WEATHER AND THE PARR& —This zooming
the ornamental enter in St. Jsaee'e•park was covered with
kis of oonesderable thickness. I. the tiorpeatia• there
, appears • chance of .peed) sped for the Antos.

tato intellignut.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Nov. 18.

Bittinp in Banco, in Michaelmas Term.--(Before Lord
Chief Justice Cockburn and Mr. Judiens Wight ea and
Blackburn.)
DINTON r. MILLIGAN AND °THU& —PROMILIONT EMIL
In this cue a rule bad been obtained to set aside the
verdict for the plaintiff, and for • new trial, on the ground
of the verdict being against the weight of evidence, that
evidence was improperly rejected, and that it was not left
to the jury, as a matter of fact, whether it was within the
scope of the partnership that a person named Whittaker
should receive the money in question. The plaintiff wee •
gentleman in business in York hire, and he briseeht the
action to recover 1,200/., including principal and interest,
;I°Yrttlaikperor onw. belalfmotie dated
the defe;iidan44,ovii 1860,
ws. V.lligabny,
Forbes, and Co., merchants, at Bradford. Whittaker was
their principal man of litmieese, and the chief question wee
whether he bad authority to receive the money on their
behalf.

Mr. Edward Janice and Mr. lineeell having showed cease
against the rule,
Tbe court, without calling upon Mr. Manisty, Mr. Price,
and Mr. Quoin, who appeared on the other side, said they
were of opinion that the came should go down for triel, and
that the costs should abide the event.
Rule absolute.
ucan. r. HALL.-ALLEORD NEGLIGENCE OF A SURGEON.

A rule for • new trial had been granted in this action,
which was brought by the plaintiff, • labouring man, to
recover compensation in damages against the defendant,
surgeon, for alleged unskilful treatment in setting • limb
which bad bees fractured by an accident. The action was
tried before Mr. Justice Keating at Liverpool, and resulted
in • verdict for the plaintiff--damages, 451. At the end of
his notes the learned judge appended his opinion that,
considering the serious coosequenoes to the defendant, he
thought that the evidence did not warrant the verdict.
Dr. Wheeler now showed cause against the rule.
The Lord Chief Justice—Upon the judge's reppoorrtt,, we are
disposed to nay that the verdict is hardly , but
this is not a case in which there should be • new trial,
except upon the payment of costs.
Dr. 'Ar heeler observed that the consequences were still
more serious to the plaintiff, who was • cripple fur life,
owing to the defendants unskilful treatment.
The Lord Chief Justice—There was conflicting evidence
upon that point, and the action was not brought until four
or Bve years after the accident.
Dr. Wheeler said the delay was fully explained at the
trial. It was not pretended that the jury was not an intel-
ligeat one ; and they were very painstaking in dealing with
the case, having been locked up two or three hours before
they delivered their verdict.
Mr. itaylie followed on the woe side.
The court, without calling upon Yr. Aspinall, who ap-
peared for the defendant, granted • new trial on payment of
costa.
Rule absolute.

honour, saying that he was a gentleman, and could be in-
tirely relied on. lit. Anthony said Mr. Morris could give
Mrs. Cannon credit to the extent of 60!. and charge it to
him. This was on the Bth or 10th July.
Cross-examined—My property consists of money I received
from the Court of Chancery. I pay part of my hotel bill
every week. I have paid about 401, and owe about 2001.
Mr. Barton Woollaston—l live at Shrivenhain, in Berk-
shire, and am assistant to my !Mimi, a physician there.
Dr. Anthony was repeatedly at the hotel, and had break-
fast, luncheon, dinner, and supper with them. He gene-
rally spent the day with Mr. Groves, Mn. Cannon, and my-
self. Dr. Anthony was always ordering things. He was
very food of cherries, sad could eat any quantity of paps..
(Laughter.) Dr. Anthony said,"! have allowed 501. to be
placed down to my credit, and I cannot allow any more ;"
but later in the day he agreed to let the hotel bill go up to
601. I introduced Dr. Anthony to Mrs. Cannon and to the
whole lot of them. Dr. Anthony came to England on the
let April —A.?I Fools-day—(loud laughter)—and I became
acquainted with him on the 7th or Bth. I met him at
Ridley's Hotel, Holborn,
Cross-examined—Dr. Anthony had coon over to England
in search of an English wife ; sad I said Mrs. Cannon had
souse nice young ladies visiting her, and I took him to her
house at his request. She was living at a lodging-house in
Great Ormond-street, and I lived in the same house for
some days. I dined with Mrs. Cannon and the young ladies.
Mn Cannon left there because she could not pay her hill,
and I left because I could not pay it for her. (Laughter.)
Mrs. Cannon was placed in peculiar circumstances, and any
man who bad known her would pay her bill for hsr if he
could. She I. not very young—about 26—and I am 21. I
I went with Mrs. Cannon to the New York Hotel. I intro-
duced Dr. Anthony to the lady he married. Mrs. Cannon's
husband has left her.

Mr. Serjesnt &Dentine, in opening the defendant's case,
said that Dr. Anthony was a medical officer employed by
the government to accompany ships carrying emigrants and
coolies from one port to another. He was • native of India,
and until the end of March last he had never been in this
country.
lir. Anthony, a gentleman about 28 or 30 years obi, w.oi
then called, and he gave his evidence with a good deal
of volubility and excitement. He said—l knew not
• single soul io England when I came over
here except Dr. Sanger, with whom I came from
Demerara. When I became acquainted with Mr. Wool-
Lace he said, "If you have come to England to gin
married, this lady (Mrs. Cannon) is a highly respectable
lady, and she will get you the beet of the young ladies in
England if you only stick to her." (Laughter.) I took
every Englishman for • respectable man, and I thought
Mrs. Cannon • very respectable lady. I did not call on
Mrs. Quince again, for I could not find her house. At the
latter end of June I met Mr. Woollaston, and be came up
and shook hands, and mid, "Are you dead or living; why
did you not come to the house?" I said I had not been
able to find the house. That same day I went to see Mrs.
Cannon, who jumped up and rid, " Are you married ?" and
on my saying "No," she said, " That is all right, I will get
your' young lady." (Laughter.) In July she introduced
me to Miss Childs. Mm Cannon asked me to lend her 201.
or 401., but I said I oould not, for I had no money. This
was to pay her account. She then said that she would go
to the New York Hotel, for she had been them
with her husband, and Mr. Morris would give her
credit to any amount. She said they would be
glad to see me there. In two or three days
I went to the hotel, and Mrs.Cannori introduced me to Mr.
and Mrs. Groves. They persuaded me to come next day,
showing me all the best feeling they could and warm hos-
pitality. Mrs. Cannon again invited me " very much " to
go, ...a I went. I never promised to pay 501. for Mrs.
Cannon, nor • single pica. When I was at the hotel a
letter was brought to Mrs. Cannon from Mr. Morris, and
she said, " Mr. Morris has insulted me ; le knows my hue.
band is • respectable man, and yet for 51. or 61. he asks I
me to walk out of the hotel ;" and then she showed me •
letter from her husband, saying he would send her money,
and another from an intimate friend, named Fox ; and she
showed me the clothes in which she was going to the Soho
Theatre to act, at a salary of 301. a week. She said,
" Would you kindly speak to Mr. Morris for me r end she
called him into the room. Neither Mr. Groves nor Mr.
Woollaston was present. I said, " What is all this about
that you are worrying this poor woman?' and he said,
"She has left her old lodgings in Ormond-
street in debt, and I have no hopes of getting my money.
She was indebted to me 51. or 61. when living with her hus-
band here, and I cannot keep her." I said, " You know
she has a lawful husband, and he must pay it ;" and I told
him of her husband's letter and Mr. Fox's letter, and said,
" There is no fearabout your money, she will pay you." Mr.
Morris said, "Oh, very well—Yety welL" I was sent for
several times because Mrs. Groves was seriously ill. One
night they sent a menage to say that Mrs. Groves was
dying, and I got up out of my bed, and when I got to the
hotel I found it was a falsehood. Mr. Groves and Mr.
Woollaston said, "We can't live without you, and we did
not know how to get you here except in this way." (Loud
laughter.) That was the only night I slept there, and that
was because they would not let me go. I never ordered
things at the hotel. I would not take anything at first,
but they said I was proud ; and I thought that it
might offend them, not knowing the English custom,
Ailed then I took the things. On the 18th August
Mrs. Cannon took me into her room and said,
" Yon are going to get married ;" and I said, " I
know I am, and you have been writing to my wife."
She and. "If you do not take my &dyke and give Mr.
Morris 501. he will just stop your marriage. He is • Yankee
and • very wicked man, riM he will go to my husband and
tell him I was a kept mistress, and my husband will come
down with • pair of pistols and kill you like a dog."
(Loud laughter.) I said, "My conscience is clear, and it Is
no use to frighten me, you know I have no money, and why
should I give a note of hand for you. You may say what-
ever you like about blowing my braise out, but there is
Enghsh law and justice for me." 1 went to Mr. Morris and
said. "What do you mean by asking me for 501. ? " and he
said "Don't attend to what Mrs. Cannon says." He offered
me a house when I got married, and to let me have money
until I got some from India.
Cross-examined—Mrs. Cannon introduced me to my wife,
who is the daughter of a clergyman in Essex.
Re-examined—l have loet 34)01. or 400'. by being detained
from India. I was married on the 21st August, and the bill
now sued on comes down to the 28th August.
His Lordship directed the jury to consider upon whose
credit the articles enumerated in the plaintiff's bill were
supplied.
The jury, after considering the matter for a few minutes,
found for the defendant.
Upon the verdict being pronounced, the defendant be-
rams so excited that his friends had to take him out of
court, but some brandy and water having been administered
he recovered himself, and went away with his solicitor.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Noy. 18.
(Before Mr. Oommiselooer Calibers.)
IN RE WILLINE.—APPLICATION TO ANNUL.

The baiirrTaptwliscioac
The adjudiustion took place in the early part of Luit month,
• few days before the new act came into operation. A
petition has since been presented, asking that the bank-
ruptcy might be annulled, on the ground that the bankrupt
was not a trader within the meaning of the Bankruptcy
Consolidation Act.

Mr. A. Turner appeared in support of the petition.
The petitioners were Messrs. Clown and Flowerdow, auc-
tioneers, of Norwich, creditors of the bankrupt. The bank-
rupt, petitioning creditor, and assignee, of the bankrupt,
all consented to the proceedings being annulled ; and notice
of the application had been served on every creditor.
Mr. Heed, who represented the aseignere, consented to
the bankruptcy being annulled.
His Honour said it would have been a more easy course
for the creditors to have signed a consent to the supersedes'.
Instead of that a petition had been presented by a creditor
who had not proved, and notice had been given to the other
creditor".

Mr. Turner said the assignees bad been advised that the
petition ought to he presented by a creditor who had not
proved under the bankruptcy. He cited some came in sup-
port of this view.
His Honour said that a very important principle was in-
volved in admitting a creditor who hod not proved to come
before the court by petition, and ask fur .1 bankruptcy to be
'mulled. He should take time to look through the &Marks,
and consider his decision.

IN RI OARON.-REMOVAL OP TRADE AMNION'S.

The bankrupt was a coal merchant, of Culney-hatch
station.

Yr. J. Taylor now applied for an order to remove the
trade assignee and proceed to a new choice. The grouud of
the application was that the aasignee had absconded.
Hit Honour made the order as a matter of course, but re-
f used an applicution to allow the oost■ of the assignee up to
the time of his absconding.

THE YILVZATUN CAlli AT THE COURT OF SEE-
WOE, Enumunon.—This came was again called on Saturday,
when, afar hearing parties on some points of detail. Lord
Ardniillea read the draft of an interlocutor which he in-
tended to pronounce in the case. It was to the following
effect :—' The Lord Ordinary prorogates the time for
Major Yelverton, the defender in the declarator of marri-
age, concluding and reporting his proof till 15th December
next ; of new allows proof to the said defender, and to the
pursuer of the said decimator a conjunct probation ; and
in respect of the provisions of the Conjugal Rights Scot-
land Act, appoints the said proof to be led before the Lord
Ordinary, to commence et one o'clock on the 4th December,
and to continue thereafter on each lawful sederunt day till
completed, on or before said 15th December : and in re-
spect of the circumstances appearing from the reports of the
proof at Dublin and Newry, and that both the pursuer and
defender now desire the attendance of both parties for idee-
tifimition by the witnesses, ordains bot:. parties to the coo-
junct action to attend moll be present personally at all the
diets of proof ; grants diligence to each party to enforce
such attendance ; reserves all questions of expenses, in con-
sequence of the non-attendance of pieties at Dublin and
Newry, or of the adjournment of proof ; and reserves con.
sideration of all the appeals excepting in so far as disposed
of by this interlocutor.
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The November adjourned semiona commenced yesterday
morning at the court-house on Clerkenwell-green, before Mr.
Bodkin (assistent-udge), Mr. Payne (deputy), Mr. Pownall
(chairman of the bench), and the following magistrates :
Mr. H. H. Harwood, Mr. H. White, Mr. W. Williams,
Mr. Sambrook., Sir George Hodgkinaon, Sir James Tyler,
Mr. Woolsey, Mr. Rankine, Mr. Warner, Mr. Faulooner,
Dr. &terns., Mr. Goodbart, Mr. Kepp, Mr. Wadeson,
Mr. Therby, and Mr. Parhury. The calendar contains the
names of 60 prisoners, of whom 49 are charged with felony,
and 11 with misdemeanour.

The Assistant...fudge delivered the charge to the grand
jury.
loamA Hartley, 28, cabinet maker, was indicted for
dealing a cue of books, value 311., the property of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, from one of their vans,
12 months since.

Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted (instructed by Mr. Ashley) for the
company ; Mr. Hibton defended the prisoner.
The case was proved by a female who had known the
prisoner, and saw bim take the case, and gave information.
The court ordered her a reward of 11. The prisoner was
convicted, and sentenced to 12 months' bard labour.
John Braley, 29, a soldier, was indicted for assaulting and
beating James Merrick, a rarder of the House of De-
tention.

The prisoner was oonfined in that prison on a charge of
desertion, and on the officer, Merrick, going to his cell in
the ordinary course of his duty the prisoner attacked him
in a most atrocious manner, and cut and bruised his face
with a cell-pot, and without provocation.
He was convicted and sentenced to two years' bard
labour.

SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
Jan &hart. 42, a prisoner convicted at the but sessions
of larceny in a dwelluuphouse, was brought up for judg-
ment.

The prisoner bad been sentenced to four months, nine
months, and four years. The learned judge sentenced him
now to two years' hard labour. Am soon as the sentence
was pusod the prisoner took from his pocket an iron hook
used in the picking of oakum, and threw it with all his might
at the judge. It just missed the head of Mr. Hodgkinson,
the clerk, and made an indentation under the edge of his
lordship's desk of about an eighth of an inch in depth.
It was ordered that an inquiry should be made as to how
a prisoner was trought into court with such an article in
his possession, and that a bill should be preferred before
the grand jury against hint for an assault. The ball haring
been presented was returned as a true one, and the prisoner
will therefore be tried an that charge.

THE POLICE COURTS.
_ MANSION-H 017813.

William Johnson and Joseph- Beane, two lighteemen,
were brought before the Lord Mayor charged with stealing
two pigs of lead, value 3!., the property of Messrs. Phillips,
of Rood-lane, from a beige called the Star, lying off the
Custom-house Quay.
It appeared from the evidence that two lads in the em-
ployment of Mama Phillips were in a small boat in com-
pany with • man, when one of them, named Burke, on
getting near the barge Star, saw a boat alongside her, and
the prisoner Beane leaning over the gunwale of the barge,
io the act of handicg • pig of lead down to the prisoner
Johnson, who was in the boat. The lad jumped on
the barge and called out to his companions to stop the boat,
and the other lad caught bold of • piece of rope which was
attached to the boat which the prisoners were in, and the
man rowed them to the shore. On the way the pr;eoner
Bean* was distinctly seen by both the lads to throw the
pig, of lead into the river. on arriving ut the Quay Mr.
Bathe, Mears. foreman, came up, and was told of
the circumstance, and be then got into the prisoners' boat
and rowed them to the Thames Police Station, where he gave
them into custody.
The prisoners both denied having the lead, and Johnson
said they were rowing along with • fare when the lads ran
foul of their boat, upon which a regular rqw ensued, and be
was baling the water out of the boat, and that was what the
wigwam thought wee the lead being thrown overboard.
The prisoner Beane was a well-known thief, having been
previously convicted at the Old Bailey for is similar offence.
Both prisoners were committed for trial.
Our reporter stake in explanation in reference to a case
that appeared in some of the morning papers yesterday, in
which the Lord Mayor gave a decision upon • summons for
a reward to the Fire Brigade for attending at a fire in •
chimney in Gulick-hill, that the matter was three weeks
old, and that the summons was finally disposed of eve dare
before. The question was net of the slightest importance,
the only point involved being whether the chimney from
which the sparks were supposed to have issued belonged to
• dwelling-house or • miurafactory, twenty similar cases
being disposed of daily at every one of the metropolitan
police-courts

BOW-STREET.
Thomas Thompson, whose case was alluded to in our
police report yesterday, and who had been in custody since
5 o'clock on itiaturday evening upon a charge of stealing •
brilliant necklace from the shop of Mr. Atteuborough, in
the Strand, was placed at the her at 4 o'clock. He is a
man of about 32 or 33 years of age, well dressed, and of
good.appesranom He wore his moustache and part of his
but no whiskers.
. . . .

Mi.' Charles Lewis, assistant to Mr. Attenborough, de-
posed,thst on Thursday afternoon the prisoner, accompanied
by another man, entered the shop and asked to look at some
jewellery, saying that be wanted to make a present to his
niece. After looking at a variety of articles he selected •
brilliant necklet, the prise of which was 72guiness. After
that be masked to look at some silver tea kettles, and selected
• small one, which be said he liked. After some consulta-
tion with his friend, he said he should not decide at once,
but would call again on Saturday. On Saturday he
called spin, accompanied by his friend, and said
he had made up hie mind to have the necklet,
which was the prettiest thing be had ever seen.
Witness got it out, and the prisoner said he would pay for it
at once, putting his hand in his pocket. He then pooped,
and asked to look at tho teakettle spin. Witness produced
it, and he said it was not the same kettle, it was larger than
the one he had seen on Thursday. Witness assured him it
was the same. He asked how much it held, and witness re-
plied about 3 pinta, be could not say precisely, as he had not
tried it. The prisoner asked him to get some water to try
it, which be did, and found that it contained 3 pints. The
prisoner said it was too large, hut he would consider about
that and the necklet and call again. He and his friend then
left hastily, and witness immediately missed the necklet.
He pursued the prisoner, overtook him in Hungertord
blarkot, and gave him into custody.
He was remanded for further examination on this and
other charges.
WORSHIP...STREET.

Edward Johnson, a tall, respectably-dresoed man, of 15,
wee charged before Mr. Leigh with the following extra-
ordinary cooduct.
Smith, a constable of the K division, stated that the de-
feculent was a member of the Tower Hamlets Rides, and a
violent man, who had occasioned him a good deal of trouble
land apprehension. A short time since he found hen io the
street in a state of intoxication, and behaving iu so very dis-
orderly a manner that, lest he should make use of his
bayonet upon sumo one, he availed himself of so oppor-
tunity to get it away from him, and, after some persuasion,
succeeded in getting him home. There he become so out-
rageous that his wife and daughter had to make their
nowe from the house, and remained out of doors all night.
On Sunday night he had to pass the prisoner's house,
which was on his beat, and on reaching it found
the prisoner, who was on this occasion per-
fectly sober, standing just inside his own doorway,
but with his bayouet in his hand, which he flourished
about on catching sight of him, and wanted him to
enter the house for some purpose the prisoner did
not explain, but witness declined to do so, and was passing
on when the prisoner rushed upstairs, and shouted out
from one of the upper windows, " Now, you shiny-hatted
—, I will give you something." Witness, to hie conster-
nation, saw the muzslo of a ride projecting over the sill,
and directed in a line with his head. Witness became very
much alarmed, sodas prisoner's conduct was not only dau-
gerous to himself but other people, be sought the assistance
of another constable, and after a good deal of trouble suc-
ceeded in securing and lodging him in the station.
A second officer, 287 K, was also examined, and gave pre.
clods, the ammo version of the latter part of the ',hoopoes
conduct.

In answer to tho charge the prisoner said that he was, in
fact, intoxicated at the time, or he should certainly not have
been guilty of the behaviour with which be was charged.
He had bad some friends at his house, and his wife having
very much annoyed him by her contrary disposition, •
quarrel ensued between himself and his guests, for • quiet
settlement of which besought the intervention of the police,
but the constable, as it was • private house, declined to in-
terfere, which if he had done, nu such conduct would have
been displayed. He would acknowledge to having the
bayonet in his hand, and also to pointing the rifle out of the
window, but be did so out of pure thoughtlessness, and
without the intention of injuring any one.
Yr. Leigh said that although no violence had been ac-
tually committed, the police, while in the execution of their
duty, must be protected from such unseemly and threaten-
ing conduct, and he should therefore order the prisoner to
fled two responsible sureties in Y. each, and enter into hie
own recognisance. in 40f. for his peaceable behaviour for the
next six months, or be committed in default, and, as the
prisoner could not procure the required bail, he was taken
away in the van.

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