The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-31 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

1- i the petitioner was • youth of 19. living with
•••13.1". ti anil-maker, at Bridport. The circumstances
. I:daat .Iv. sen. not being very good, he sent his son,
.11.• had been attempting to teach his business, to hie
rin Loudon. The petitioner lodged with his uncle,
nttachment sprang up between Um and his cousin
Ituth Edwards who was two or three and twenty
• no. This liaison ended in seduction • and the
•A•ot Inuring in the family way, was married to the
• r but as he had no means to support a
tn.• couple parted at the church door. Be
•• -I (.1. a .d.lier. and remained in the army for about
.• . tt. r which his father procured his discharge, and
home again. The respondent at first became a
• but after a short time she disappeared, and
v heard of her till eight months ago, when she
.1.". to be living with the co-respondent at Gods'.
I :I:, mother of four children. lie immediately
• ' h.. prevent suit, and the respondents pleaded
Try
•ewes proceeding when our report left.]

coURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
I; fore Mr. Commissioner Hoiroyd.)
IY RE DAMAYSE.
:.rapt was a commission agent, of Park-road,
applied for his discharge from debts of
Anr.t part of which, property valued at 3001. is

,curity:
!.,,lry opposed for the emeignees ; Mr. R. Griffiths

• lekropt, examined, stated that Miss Anne Lang-
,..l% a creditor of his for 37M. Miss Jane
! •1 hail lent him 300/. in and in IS6O
. her a hill of sale. Had given Miss Anne Langford
-4, fur 2211. on his premises in Queen's-buildings,
ptim. She had been in possession since the 3rd of
..•,.t. Ili. petition was filed on the 290th September,
• Le had no anticiration of bankruptcy at the former
• .;•.. Ile was still living on the premises. Miss Lang-
' his wife's sister. She bad converted the premises
tidi shop ; she gave the orders to the tradesmen.
A ti•w days ago he had called on Mr. George Stuard, the
..sager of the London and County Bank. respect-
an advance of 300/. which he bad bad. but
did not represent that the fish and poultry *bop was
'is own. The manager said be suspected that Miss Lang-
was a myth, to which he replied that she did not
(A laugh.)
Au adjournment was ordered for additional accounts.

(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
THE CHARGE OF FOISTING A TINIAN PLACARD.
Michael Gough, alias William Coffee. was this morning
brought before the Lord Mayor for further examination
on the charge of posting a Fenian placard on the Menden-
house.
It was stated that inquiries had been made, and the
mirmner bore • good character. There did not appear to
be any ground for believing that he was in any way con-
nected with Yankeeism.
The prisoner expensed his regret at what had occurred,
and said that it was merely • thoughtless act on his per,
and he promised not to do such • thing again.
The Lord Mayor said he bad received • letter from a
priest belonging to St. George's Cathedral, South
was ark,
informing him that the family of the prisoner very
respectable and industrious. Under all the circumstances,
he said he should fine the defendant 40a. for paling the
placard without permission, and in default a month's
imprisonment.
A. gentleman,who tinted himself to be • Roman catholic
priest, at once stepped forward and volunteered to pay the
fine.
Alderman Rose expressed his surprise
that a person in
the position of a Roman catholic priest should come for-
ward and pay the fine for the prisoner in ench an osten-
tatious manner.
The gentleman said that he did so in order to prevent
the prisoner from being sent to gaol. His parents were
very poor people, and unable to pay the fine.
Tire Lord Mayor said that he also considered it a very
extraordinary proceeding. The prisoner had committed a
very mischievous act, and it was not the only time, for he
was proved to have posted a similar placard on a previous
occasion. All he regretted was that the law did not give
him the power to send the prisoner to gaol without the
option of paying a fine.
The prisoner wee then discharged.
BOW-STREET.
THE SHAN DETECTIVE AT CHARING-CROSS.
Thomas Berri, Pooh was brought up on remand charged
with loitering at Charing-cress railway station for an
unlawful purpose, and also with falsely representing him-
self to be a detective officer of the City police.
Sergeant Holmes, of the City police, corroborated the
evidence of Sergeant Monkton as to the prisoner having
represented himself as a detective at Cannon-street, and
I dated that he had known Inspector Foulger intimately for
yam.
Inspector Foulger stated that the prisoner was wholly
unknown to him.
Sergeant Monkton said he had made Inquiries about
the prisoner, and found that his wife was in service, and
her mistress would not allow him to visit her. The wife
declined to attend at the court, and told witness that she
could say no good of him. There was no reason to sup-
pose that he had committed any thefts at the station.
The prisoner raid Le was sorry he hod one to the sta-
tion, but what he had done he bad done innocently.
Sir Thomas Henry said that could not be so. He must
know that it was not an innocent act to pass himself off as
a detective. If the Commissioners either of the Metropo-
litan or City force had thought proper to prosecute him
for that act, he might be very severely punished. He
must know that he had acted most improperly.
Here the prisoner bunt into tears.
Sir Thomas Henry was glad to see that the prisoner felt
his position and was sorry for his conduct. It was to be
hoped that it would operate as a warning to him not to
pretend that he was a policeman, and not to go to railway
station' when he had no business there. He was mis -
taken if he supposed that any person was en
titled to /0 to a railway station and stop about
there for hoar when having no business there.
It did not now appear that the prisoner had committed
any felony, but there was at first good reason for suspicion,
and the officer did quite right to lock him up. In the
hope that he would behave better in future, he (Sir
Thomas Henry) would consider the week's iiiiirisonment
he had undergone as a sufficient punishment, and allow
him to be discharged.
11ARLDOROUGH-STREWF.
A HAILON CHARGED WITH STABBING.
Frederick Brown, • sailor, residing at 31, Meantertreet,
Grosvenor spline, was charged before Mr. Knox with
maliciously stabbing and wounding Thomas Laity, • boot-
maker, residing at No. 69, Berwick-street, Soho.
The prosecutor said—About half-past 11 last night
I was at Mr. Salmon's, the Queens Arms, at the
corner of Wardour-street. Oxfonl-street, and stepped out
to look for one of the friend' who had been in nay
comd
-
pany. The prisoner, who was rtending outside, followe
me in and said, " Ain't you a sailor 1" I replied. " No, I
am no sailor," and the prisoner then called me very bad
names. I told him not to do so, and he then took out
acme halfpence end asked me to have something to drink.
I said, " Not at your expense," and he then calle
hile
d me a
--, and also the other persons in the place, and w
the landlord was getting ready to put the prisoner out of
the house, I saw the prisoner take a knife from his
trousers pocket and put it into his coat pocket.
I told the landlord to beware as the prisoner had a knife,
and that it was in his pocket. The prisoner then went
over end stood in the middle of Oxford-street with a knife
in his hand. I craned the street with the intention
and
of
speaking to a constable, when the pelsoaer met me
struck me, and I struck him, and we fell, and on getting
up I found that I had been stabbed in the hand. The pri-
soner maned at me spin, and would have struck me again
but I got from him. A constable then came up,and seeing
the knife in the prisoner's hand wrested it from him. the
prisoner cutting his own hand before he would give it up.
My heed was dressed at the station by • surgeon.
Joseph Ilronie, potman at the Queen's Anna, Oxford-
street, said—l saw the prisoner take the knife out of his
trousers pocket, open it, and put it open into his coat
pocket. I afterwards followed the prosecutor out of the
bowie, and sew the prisoner, who was standing with a
knife in his hand, attack the prosecutor, and they fell
together. 1M getting up the prosecutor said that he had
been stabbed, and the prisoner would also limo attacked
me. but I avoided
Mr. Knox- Was the prisoner sober'
Witness—No ; about three-parts drunk.
Edward Shareill. C —This morning, at 20 minutes
past 12, I begird cries of " Police" in Oxfordffneet, and
saw the prisoner with a knife in his band. I wrestled
with him, and we fell, and another constable came up and
took the knife from the prisoner, whose hand was cut in
doing a>. I aftements took the prisoner to the station.
Dr. George Roes, surgeon to the K. division of police,
mid—This morning about half peat 12, I examined the
prosecutor and found that he had been stabbed on the
outside of the left hand. The wound was about half an
, inch in length and penetrated deeply but it did not pass
quite through the hand. I also examined the priaoner
and found that he had some cuts on his band. I saw a
knife and the wound might have been caused by such a
knife.
Mr. Knox—ls there any necessity, Dr. Rees, for my
holding the case over from to-day to see the result of the
wound ?
Mr. Ross—l believe the wound will go on well.
The prisoner said he had been drinking and did not
recollect anything about it.
Mr. Knox—Yon will be committed to the Central
Criminal Court for trial.

The farmers in Devonshire are complaining of
the increa'e of the ringdove or wood pigeon. These birds
visit that county now in large docks. They feed on
beech nuts, acorns, turnip, and swede greens, rang
clover". cabbage plants, tares, peas, ke. When feeding
they have moots who give notice of danger. They breed
often during the year. They commence cooing in March.
Many of their early laid eggs are devoured by jays. They
build their nests curelemly and their young often fall out
of them.
A Madrid letter in the Curerrier de Bayonne
says :—" The Trogressista party is making great efforts to
induce Marshal Espartcro, wbo is in retirement at Lo-
grono, to resume his place in the Senate. The circum-
stance which healed to this attempt is the publication by
the illustrious statesman and soldier of a letter, in which
he calls upon the members of the Liberal Union, the Pre-
gressistas, and the party of advance, to labour without
coalescing for the triumph of liberal principles." Marshal
Espartero is in his 76th year.
A Id Atli) CASZ.—A " Sheriffs Officer" writes to
the Hull News :—" I beg to lay brfore 7otir readers a ease
nearly approaching that of the girl Goggle be severity. A
poor sad aged man named Nelson. some time ago was
standing in the Driffield Market-place selling ooefec-
timely, and after a herd day's work was counting his
email earnings, when a man who had been 'retelling him
suddenly matched the money out of his head and ran
away. Ile was caught by the polio" and afterwards com-
mitted to the East Riding Sessions, and Neilson was bound
over in 201. reoognimace for himself, and 201. for the ap-
pearanos of his daughter (who witnessed the th eft,
read orand is
a mince), at the sessions. Nelson being wallet to
write, relied on the polies to inform him when he would
have to appear at ties esesione—whieh Nelson the pollee)
failed to do, and the aonsequeoris was that did not
appear against the thief, who was set at liberty, and
Nelson is now lying in the gaol of this bort; non-
payment of the 401. for not appearing in of his
own and daughter's recognisance' ; and thus the secret
is made to salter and the guilty mops. The miaow sad
sheriff of Hull kindly interested themselves in his behalf,
and I am informed that the 'Treasury have lamed an order
for his release after two months' imprisonment, which will
expire on the 11th of February next. This is a very had
mos, and one that I think some of your readers would
amid, as his wife has suffered mash privation through
herhanband's ineerseation, and is at present in great
poverty, es their silly mesas of
sad
sabsidenos
markets consisted in
making small cakes and vending
them at
fain."