The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

Mr. Alderman flumpbrry,--14tr,—Our clerk has just rated oar at-
trulon to a ca-e in which you were ymterday the reoding movie.
tur*wit n 4 the transaction of Mr. Ereilerkk itildio
I* precirely *traitor in all im details to the aceonnt given by the Times.
It appears be wont in, attracted by the handbill, and on the portrait
b het artehtd 7a. lid. wax demanded. On It* being refu'cd Mr. Rater
placed Mug, If are.inst the door, rolled our clerk a cheat, and salted a
to. nto teb.lo a policeman to take him before the Lord M tear. Three
Patsta, however, did nut avail, and to get out of each cospaay our
c erk gave Fester a tanning without any ton•i“eration p g.—We
Are. 701171,, arc" Eviram and Sow.
Alderman liumphe-y, Mandon-briuoc.
~rutck noire, Airier.
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Fir,—Pennit me to iniorm you that the above individual, whose
woe appear, iu the paper. 01 ye-terdey, t nbenvound • Mott time
heck to prweti,e a pinta ir fraud us myself. Ile then had a room In
lieet.etro t, where I wae induced to Imre a black lima*" for the
...to. a UnAlass a mop, made. Upon looking at the unglue]. 111 r.
Irmo/ mid his charge would be 2s. lid., hats.] of In., ea he Mould
Ilia to execute the copy with benefaction to hiensed, and that It
should be ready la the o wive of the same day, and that the money
mat be paid down. I meordlogly paid the mane), but had to tall
day titer day, sad week after week before I could get the original or
I aboukl not have bucceeded had 1 not taken out a summon,
a it Wm at Gai ch 11. Ills object, I bare an d lubt, was to extort
MOW ficm sae to regain poisamin of the original, winch 1 told him
I wean set admit to If It mat me itit. In the mot of this null.
virtual appearing nano before the City authoritite, I thought it
right to make the above communication.
Careyatreet.
Alderman Ilumphery,
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loam lhawoomp.

The letrd Mayor observed, that notwithstanding the very
extensive circulation of the artistica iroceedings of bar.
Foster by swans of the pubic press, the concourse of stran-
gers latch passed from all quarters through Gracechurch-
street was so great, and the recollection of trtckery of all
kinds was so evanescent amongst the people of London, that
pote.bly victims were constantly made. Hu lordship wished
to know whether the hand-bills referred to in the former
statement were still tanned et the door

Inspector Todhunter, who superintends the district in
which the " studio " of Mr. Foster is situated, said his men
were not idle upon the suoject, and if any die- ption, such u
had been already represented, were au, mpted to be prac-
tised, the offenders should at once be brought in castody be-
fore the Lord Ma) er. He bad reason to know that *system
of extortion was carried oa by a gang who acted entirely upon
the principle described.
Davis, the officer, said that in one ease the portrait of
Lord Cough had been obtained by one of the parties, and,
after a vast deal of trouble, the duplicate of it was rev,-
trued, and it was released by his lordship's eon (who would
not hays lost it for 100 guineas), at a pawnbroker's shop in
011ordestreet, where it had been pawned for 10s. do the
portrait was then recovered, the parties would not take any
more trouble about the fellow. who bad fraudulently ob-
tained it, under pretence of taking an engraving from it.
Alderman Humphery harped that in future there would be
no hesitation upan the part of plundered persons to come
befcre the Lord Mayor.
CHAILOS or SACIIILEOE.—Michas! Bryan, who sou II few
days ago charged upon suspicion of having committed sacri-
lege, was brought up for re-examination. At the first
examination it appeared that one of the City policemen,
observing the prisoner carrying a puking.case along Kina
William-street on Wedseaday last, stopped him, marched
the case, and found in it twenty books, which were found
to correspond with some splendid church services advertised
in the Bow and Cry as having been stolen from a country
church.
Mr. Hope, M.P., *now attended, and deposed that he was
churchwarden of the district in which Christ Chapel, Killen-
den, is situate, and identified a morocco covered Cambridge
bible as one of a number of books which he made a gift to
that chapel. On the night of Christmas Eve the chapel was
broken into and robbed. The thieves got up-stain to the
orgen.lolt, and let themeelveseowa by a rope, sad after hay-
ing taken all the money they could find, they ransacked the
vestry and carried off their booty.
The prisoner declared that he knew nothing about an.
robbery. He only thought to make a sixpence by carrying
the case for a man he met in the street.
The prisoner was again reminded until Thursday next, in
order that further inquiries may be made, and that he may
have an opportunity of bringing forward persons to speak of
him se an honest man.