The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-07 00:00:00

POLICIS COURTS.-(17118 DAY')

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
♦ NICE AWAIT.
Mtn Potent, kitchen-maid at the Vienna restaurant
and beerhouse, No. le, Oxford-street, was charged be-
fore Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following outrageous con-
duct :

Mr. Wilhelm Weir, proprietor of the Vienna restau-
rant (through Mr. Albert, the interpreter), said
that on returning home last night about 8 o'clock,
having left the prisoner, who was his kitchen-maid,
to take cars of the house, with orders not to let any one
in—he found that she had some persons in and had given
them beer. Seeing that the prisoner was drunk he
remonstrated with her, upon which she took up a
chair and tried to strike ev one near her,
but, failing in doing so, she smuhed 18 glasses, of
the value of 18a, which were on the counter. A
great crowd collezted round the house, and on a con-
stable coming up to ascertain the cause he gave the pri-
soner into curtody. That morning a large jug full of
beer was found in the prisoner's room, but he (Mr.
Weiss) had ascertained that it was not with beer that the
prisoner had got intoxicated, but with port wine which she
had helped herself to.
The prisoner asked Mr. Weir whether he had not
pulled her out of the kitchen by the hair.
Mr. Weiss said he never touched the prisoner at all.
Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the prisoner to pay the amount
of damage and a fine of Ws., or lie be imprisoned for
throe weeks.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.-(THIN DAV)
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GLASGOW AND ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES.

12 o'Cwm.

Moncreilf (L) 2064
lionlon

STRANGE OCCURRENCE NEAR

PAISONB TO WN.

Tho Earl of Rosen, accompanied by his brothers
and some friends, were (says the RemayA Guardian) re-
turning along the Banaghar roe": from shooting, on
Saturday evening, and within a mile of the Castle they
were met by some constabulary of the /Wash station,
who peremptorily ordered the young noblemen to halt,
one of the policemen giving proof that the com-
mand was no joke by deltherately loading his
rifle, sad making the most convincing gestures.
His lordship and party had the preeslivo Of
mind to forego a long parleying, simply contenting them-
selves by stating who they were. But the policemen
would listen to no statement or explanation, and his lord-
-"p Ili! his party had no altfrnative but to save them-
selves from the uocugnity of the handcuffs, or, probably, •
personal encounter, by going with the policemen into
town, where the tables were soon turned, and the sub-
inspector, on heanng the strange narrative, forthwith Lad
the whole of his lordship's late escort taken into custody.
The constabulary escapade is to form the subject of an
investigation.

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SWINDLING EXTILIORDIN4I7 AT CADDIFf.

A workman of the name of Ashton has just suc-
ceeded in carrying out an extraordinary swindle at Cardiff.
He profaned to have been left a large property at Hull,
and-Tooting, near London, and produced fetters, apparently
written by a London solicitor, giving particulars of the
estates, and the announcement of his good luck was dis-
seminated far and wide by the public press. The prospect
of unbounded wealth brought him a host of friends, all
only too anxious to sexist him in any way they could, and
as it was um:weary that he should obtain " temporary "
assistance before taking possession of the property, he
found no difficulty in obtaining loans to a considerable
amount. From one be obtained goods and money to the
tune of MI. ; from another, 1001. ; a third, Oa ; and,
altogether, it is estimated that he managed to comfort
himself with goods and money to the extent of 1,0001.
Being of a religious turn of mind he engaged to buy a large
music-hall for a chapel, ordered a coetly communion ser-
vice. and his generosity was the theme of more than one
discourse in the pulpit. He engaged several friends to
be the stewards of his estates, and these favoured indivi-
duals, together with several others, actually accompanied
him to Hull. The moining after their arrival Ashton
could not be found. Then the extraordinary swindle wai
discovered, and the clever Aahton has not since been heard
of, it being believed that he has sailed for Amorics.

According to the Times Mr. O'Hagan ha; been
appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and the " correct
list" of the Norm* Post appoint; Lord Kimberley as the
head of the Poor-law Board and Sir G. Grey, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster.

THE CASE OF MADAME RACI I EL.—The Attorney-
General, on Saturda , granted hie flat for the writ of
errorin theme of h Rachel. The application was
made some time back, and a caveat entered on the part of
the prosecution. Mr. H. F. Gibbon appeared in support
of the application, and Mr. Poland and Mr. Montagu
Williams opposed the issuing of the fiat. The points relied
on in support of the writ of error mainly consisted of ob-
jections to the jurisdiction of the court by which the
prisoner was tried, and to the competency of Mr. Corn-
mummer Kerr to sit as a judge at the Central Criminal
Court since the reconstruction of the City of London
Court. The case will come on for argument before the
Court of Queen's Bench in the course of next term.
At Alfreton, on Friday, eight persons wore
committed for trial at the next Derbyshire quarter me-
lons, on the charge of rioting at Clay Cross on the 20th of
November last, which was the polling day for East
Derbyshire.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT PADDINGTON STATION.—
An inquest has been held on the body of William Fox,
aged 19, who was crushed between the buffers of two
trucks at the Paddington station of the Great Western
Railway. The deceased was assisting to make up a train
of trucks ; screams were heard, and caName venous going
to the spot
_they my the demised lying on Ms back. He
said, " Lord have mercy on me! thave been buffed.' "
lie else mid that as he was climbing up a buffer ou a
truck the impetus from other trucks behind came, and
be slipped off. A verdict of accidental death was re-
turned.
WRECK OP AN ENOLISH HTEAMER.—ALGIBEe,
Dtc. 4.—The Cowries do Mostaienstm of the 3rd inst.
gives an account of the wreck of the English steamer
Hotspur at the mouth of the Mehl. It says tint no
lives were lost, and that there is reason to believe that
the steamer itself will be mved.

ROYAL Irani HOSPITAL, 011AY'S-INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital, daring
the week ending December 0, 1068, was !Mk of which
881 were now earns.