The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-12 00:00:00

THAMES.

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Mary Ann Wat and • foreign seaman, named Constan-
tine Vanilla, wen charged with committing a murderous
assault upon Mary Ana Eamsden, in the Crown and Anchor,
St. George's-in-the•Esat.
The complainant is a prostitute, and so is the female
prisoner, and the mole prisoner was an associate of the two
females. A quarrel ensued between the latter, when
Vanillas rushed between them, and according to the evi-
dence of several witnesses, the man must have struck com-
plainant on the head with a key and inflicted • set ious injury.
Each person's face exhibited unmistakeable scratches and
other acts of violence, and it seemed that both the females
were equally to blame. The prisoner West was discharged,
but the seaman was fined 50s. or a month's imprisonment
with hard labour.

Tmenelhog*--;te the name of John Smith, was charged
with stealing from the Prince of Wales,North-street, a quan-
tity of pieces of cloth, the property of Mr. James Flower,
the landlord.

The prisoner pleaded distress as an excuse, and the magi'.
trate fined him se. for the unlawful possession, or seven
days imprisonment with bard labour.
Catherine O'Brien was charged by Aline Harris, of 4,
East Smithfield, with wanton destruction of property, by
throwing an apple through the window of a cigar shop she
kept, whilst in a state of drunkenness.
The police said the prisoner was the complete terror of
the neighbourhood.
The prisoner was fined 55., or seven days' imprisonment.
An ill-looking fellow, named George Wells, was charged
by Mr. William Healey, a hairdresser, of No. 20i, Field-
gateetreet, with having, on the 7th of June last, during the
temporary absence of his master, stolen the whole of his
stock of mama, scissors, towels, and a quantity of tobacco
(the prosecutor being also a tobacconist). He came to the
prosecutor's shop on Tuesday evening last, sod offered to
work out the amount of the property he bad stolen. This
offer was refused, and he was given into custody.
Mr. Alfred Tresdeo, another hairdresser, also proved that
the prisoner had stolen, while in his employment, a coat
and waistcoat belonging to him.
The prisoner denied the charge, and he was fully com-
mitted for trial.

THE HURLER IN NEWTON-STREET, HOLBORN.

At the close of the examination of the prisoner
Cogan at Bow-greet yesterday, Mr. Lewis said the pri-
soner would reserve his defence for the trial.

Mr. Henry then committed him on the charge of wilful
murder.

As the prisoner was leaving the court to enter the van he
took off his hat and waved it to the crowd outside in a
manner wholly inconsistent with his quiet demeanour
in court.

THE RED•HILL PHILANTHROPIC
REFORMATORY.

There is one festivity during the year held at
Red-hill Reformatory, in which all the inmates are
partakers and that is the Harveet.honie. Yesterday,
the harvest of the present year having been suc-
cessfully ired in, this event came off and at-
tracted a number of visitors, subscribers to the
institution, a the resident gentry and clergy of the neigh-
bourhood. There were the usual rural spurts of jumping in
sacks, foot racing, hurdle racing, pole climbing, he., and
money prizes, varying from half-a crown down to Gime-
pence—large sums in the eyes of these boys, and which
were contested for as streuuoualy and determinedly as
though each penny had been • sovereign— were
awarded to the successful competitors. The band of
the establishment, composed entirely of the inmates, played
during the afternoon, and in the evening • supper of more
than ordinary luxuriousness, consisting of roast beef, fruit
pie, and beer, which is only seen or tested here on this
anniversary—water, tea, and milk being the ordinary beve-
rages—was served in the dining-hall, to which the appetites
of the lads did full justice. There was plenty of singing,
a psalm and • grace were chanted, and 00020 appropriate
ballad music was given with creditable effect. At this
festivity Mr. W. Gladstone, one of the most liberal con-
tributor to the charity, and who, at his sole cost, has built
one of the homes or houses, presided, and was supported by
Mr. Moron, the Rev. Charles Walters, the chaplain, and
several members of the committee. In the course of his
address after supper, and previous to distributing the prizes
for good conduct during the past year, the chairman ex-
pressed his high gratification at the sight that he had that
day witnessed, and at the general report which hail been
made of the good conduct of the boys. He thought that all
who had had an opportunity of being present, end
of hearing from their excellent secretary or chaplain the state
of the school must admit that the Redhill Philanthropical
Farm School had beau productive of great good. (Hear,
hear.) He felt convinced that the boys he then new before
him, who bad been rescued from • life of vice and misery,
would not prove themselves unworthy of the care that hail
been bestowed upon theta ; and that when, in after life,
they were in a prosperous* condition, supporting themselves
by their own honest labour, they would offer up many a
prayer for the success of this institution. (Cheers.) He
could not but allude to the gratifying fact el the success
which this institution bad experienced in sending out
children as emigrants, sad to the very satisfactory
letter which had been sent home by the boys, as
evidence of continued good conduct. During the
past thirteen years no less than 1,400 boy. had
passed through that institution, and the course of
more than half of them had been traced by the
society as being most satisfactory. He trusted that all
those boys who were present would ever beer in mind that
by continuing in a course of good conduct they would most
materially help an saeociatiou which bad done so much for
them. It mulls well-ascertained fact, which he could assert
without fear of contradiction, that no lees than 85 per cent.
of the buys who hail been tulinitted to that school had
turned out well; and he thought that fact alone, irrespec-
tive of the gratification of any benevolent feelings, ought to
enlist the sympaty of the public on behalf of the institution.
(Cheers.) It was true that the strictest discipline was pre-
'send ; and it was necessary that it should be so. But at
the same time nothing like the rigour was dis—
played in that institution that was necessarily car-
end out in the prisons to which boys who com-
mitted crimes were usually consigned. Hitherto the
institution had been most successful, and he sincerely
trusted that its prosperity would continue. (Cheers.) He
wished particularly to impress upon thou youths who
emigrated the necessity of writing home to the chaplain,
bemuse nothing tended more to give an impetus to the godd
conduct of the buys 10 the school than to hear of the suc-
cess of their fellows who had left. (Cheers.)
Mr. Moue( then proceeded to distribute the prizes, and
the company afterwards separated highly gratified with the
proceedings of the day.