The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-31 00:00:00

TIM POLK'S COURT&

BONCATBEBT.
Mr. Ames Bieck, the secretary of the Bread Baking
Machinery Company (Limited), appeared on behalf of tie
directors to answer ethree summon's", charging them
with infringements of the Companies Act, 26th and Pth
cep. 149. These proceedings Welatbfl.SW Sh9o
assurek,d w•eks back.
Moody, iiirybtti.,
1-#43d the prosecution. and
. Abrams, of Bow-street, :1:1711-dea'
Tho arse anratatdia yea "der the .I.m. tag &a
sections of the set, by 101it11sysil imsital..t ion
was bound "Ye 116 "^7. painted or allied on tiA,,;ar.
side o• teary office or place in which the burin;int of the
company was earned on. There were thir'ess= en
which the name of the company was not. .0 tm.
and a tine of 10s: for each day was :,Afgoted, h beoca
summons, for erninical on whic,;, the site a tbe eo,_
pp, was •OI leg* engraved, was withdrawn. A third
summons set twit( t a copy of the arttetas of essook-
tion had been sold without the %pedal resolution in !sibs
at the time et Its bane. This was admitted, and the
magistrate imposed a fine of U.

A yonvg woman of vbry lady-like appearance applied
to Mr. Salle for hie advice and assistance under the fol-
lowing distressing circumstances :—Applicant said die
bad a lister who was 0 married woman separated from
ter husband ; her sister had been living at 13, Cadogan- •
street Clielies, and on Thursday night she died those,.
owing some money. Applidxt went to the house and
asked for the corpse, and they of
to give it up.unleis
come money was paid. She was willing to bury the body
if it were given to her.
Mr. Selfe said they had no right to detain a dead body,
or a living one either.
Applicant said they told her if 101. was notpaid, the
corpse should not leave the house.
Mr. Selfe asked whether an undertaker had performed
his preliminary functions.
Applicant replied yes, and the corpse was in the coffin.
They refused at first to let the undertaker in. She wished
to bury her sister, and to pay the expenses. She would
have rust what her sister owed, but her position did not
permit of it.
Mr. Self° said if she and the undertaker went to the
house he would send an officer to roe that the body was
given up to her.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. Parrott, landlord of the Duke's Head public house,
Norton Fo!gate, was charged on remand with having
assaulted Mary Anne Walker, known as the female bar-
men.
The notoriety obtained by the complainant bee been
caused by the fact of her having for many years passed
as a man and taken men's situations. At the age of 18
she became clerk in a Manchester warehouse. She next
took a situation as engine-cleaner in the service of the
Great Northern Railway Company. She was afterwards
a cabin-boy in • Boulogne steamer, and subsequently
became steward of the vessel, in which capacity dm re-
mained for two years. She than acted as sbopman in
several houses, till at last she became a barman, and her
sex was accidentally discovered.
The defence to the present charge was that the assault
complained of was of so trivia a character that it did not
come within the set of parliament.
Mr. Ellison war of opinion that the charge was not
substantiated, and there was " no assault in law."
The summons was therefore dismissed.

William Auer, a boy, was charged with throwing
mortar into the eyes of a little child only two years of age,
who had mince died. The prisoner was employed in the
building of a house with other bricklayers, and threw
some mortar from a spade into a garden adjoining, where
it struck the face of the little child, one of whose eyes
wee completely destroyed, and who subsequently died
from the effects of the injury.
The prisoner said it was purely an accident, uhe was
throwing the mortar at a cat on the wall.
Mr. Dayman said if it had been proved that the prisoner
had thrown the mortar at the child he should have com-
mitted Lim, but he did not think there was sufficient
evidence to prove that fact, and he should therefore dis-
charge him.

lIITEDER AND SUICIDE AT ROCTIESTER.—On
Saturday evening • woman named Phillips, the wife of a
mechanic employed in Chatham Dockyard, residing in
Iforden-street, Troy-town, Rochester, -killed her infant
child by cutting its throat with a razor, after which she
killed herself with the same weapon. The unfortunate
woman had been for scene time past in a very desponding
state, and had given indications of aberration of intellect.
CAUTION TO CHEM OF GUNPOWDER.—Mr. John
Curt* of Chelsea-cottages, Surbiton, had • wasp's nest in
his garden, and in order to destroy it filled a piece of
lead-piping with gunpowder. He put one end of the
piping in the hole of the nest, and applied a fusee-match
to the other end, the consequence being that the powder
exploded upwards and blew off his hand. Morbleation
supervened, and then death. An inquest will be held
to-day.
LIFE iw LrrEltrOOL.—At Liverpool Dolioe
Court on Saturday, • woman of the name of Catherine
Stokes was charged with assaulting a young man named
Francis Smith, and biting off one of his fingers. The com-
plainant's sister keeps • public-house, where the prisoner
was acting in • disorderly manner, and he was about to
turn her out when she flew at him, tore his arms with her
teeth, and completely bit off one of the fingers of his right
hand. The man not appearing for the purpose of pressing
the charge, the woman was remanded. A lad named
William Taylor, whose head scarcely reached the top of
the dock, was then charged with dangerously assaulting a
woman named Bridget Roger.. He was quarrelling with
another lad in the street, and threw a piece of a broken
jug at him. The missile went wide of the boy, but struck
the woman in the face, knocking out one of her eyes. She
is at present in • dangerous state. The prisoner was
remanded.
FRAUDULENT SITOPKERFERS.—At the recent
Surrey Special Sessions fifty tiadespeoplo were convicted
for illegally possessing false scales and deficient weights
and measures. One cheese monger, who had been fined
51. and 21. respectively on previous occasions, wee once
more made to pay the maximum penalty. A cat's-meat
dealer was fined ; and one vindictive retailer (a woman)
had threatened to " knife " the officer who gave evi-
dence against her. The usual excuses were made. On the
black list were fourteen publicans and beersellers, seven
coal dealers, eight chandlers and corn chandlers, three
cheesemaagere, one ironmonger, six marine atom dealers,
one pork butcher, three butchers, two greengrooers, one
leather seller, three bakers, and one tripeman. The gross
fines amounted to 651.
" BLOCKING " OF LIVERPOOL BT TILE SHOE-
nuos.—The straw which has prevailed for
many months amongst the shoemakers of Liverpool has
been practically dosed by the refusal of the union to
grant any more sums for the support of the men. though
they have agreed to advance funds to enable the men s
wives and families to leave the town and join their hus-
bands in cases where the latter have securedwork in other
towns. A "block" of the town has now been determined
upon, i.e., society men are not allowed to work for the
principal shopkeeper* until the latter agree to
the terms imposed by the union. This they are
not likely to do, as, in consequence of the ad-
vertisemente they have issued in various
of the country, they have now secured about 200 reliable
men wbi are not members of the society, And whom they
do not feel justified in turning adrift to suit the capricious
demands of the union. There is a scarcity at present of
female labour, bvt the masters believe that this will in
time also be obtained by publishing the wants of the trade
in other places. It is a somewhat curious fact that the
masters, from so large a number of men having left Liver-
pool, have been compelled to get portions of their work
done by private arrangement in the various outlying
town. The very men who struck in Liverpool have often
been doing the work of their old Liverpool maxters un-
conseimuly. and at lower wages than the masters them-
selves would willingly have paid in Liverpool had they
remained there.
FITTING OUT OF THE GREAT EASTERN.—In a
few weeks the Great Eastern will leave the Mersey on
another cable-laying expedition, having been chartered to
the new Franco-American Telegraph Company. The big
ship, which Ls now lying in the Mersey, is undergoing a
complete overhaul, and: preparations are being made on
board for the construction of the cable tanks. To-day,
and up to Thursday next, the Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Company (Limited) will receive tenders for
the supply of 5,000 tons of beet South Wales steam coal,
to be dehverod and trimmed in the bunkers of the Groat
Eastern. The ship will, as a mutter course, be com-
manded by Sir James Anderson.
THE Loss or THE CR SAOROWNIE.--In eonnec-
tiou with the wreck of the Craigrownie, which was lost
during the late storm off Liverpool. Captain M'Nutt
states the bee of the ship was caused by the vessel miss-
ing stays. The anchors wore all ready for letting go,
with range on each chain, hut being so dose on shore
there was no chance of "letting go." Red the ship
been brought side to side with the sea on the rocks.
all on board must have perished, as there was such
a heavy sea on from the north-west at the time the vessel
struck. Three lives were lost.
SEIEWEEcE.--11. telepirn has been received at
West Hartlepool, announcing the wreck of the schooner
Ellen IFliglefeld. of Whitby, which trades from West
Hartlepool, at Dieppe. She was in command of Captain
Bore, and daring the gale of Wednesday went inhere
near Meir, Dieppe, and whilst in her perilous situation the
mate, name Porritt, belonging to Shields, and the cabin
boy were washed overboard and drowned. The ship
became a total wreck. She is the property of Mrs. Bores,
of Whitby.
RIP tstmen.—Hossra. Randolph, Elder, and
Co. have just %tumefied from their shipbuilding yard, at
Govan, the Guinevere, a composite ship of LOTS tens,
builders' measurement, of the following dimensions :
Length over all, 217 feet ; breadth, 34 feet ; :depth
(moulded), 21 feet. She is intended for the China trade,
and, among other improvsments, is fitt vi with Skinner's
vertical steering gear, which appears to he coming into
general application.
Dusrflus and Co., Belfast, are the largest
h01d.," of Whisky is the world. Their Old Dish Whisky is ream.
....444,4 by the medical profeesion in preference to Ynnieh Brandy.
Popplied in reeks and ewes for bumf use or exportation. Quoit.
tin= a, applination to Messrs. Dunatlie 11111 a Co.; Hearst; or 4
Btaxtbnilnaadinr. holed, Ulidens