The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

THIS DAY.

CLERKENW ELL.

CIIARGII or ROBAKILY.—JuIaa Murphy Was
J. Keating, carpenter, with baring r,nh d tnn el
silwr watcn. — .

The presecutor d. posed that he Ind been 'ivies •i.,h the
prisoner for four months, but h. left her It‘t ru,ht
Be afterwards met bar and took her to a patois h
where he treated her, and shortly If er be thud the wren
from his waistcoat pocket.

In answer t, qd.stiots, he .&d he bad not asnt
watch Ile could not arc,unt for the =Miler Ur ~h 0.4
became possessed of it. He was a married man.
was now in court.
lir. Combs said by the prosecutor's own confori 'a tu.im
been living with the i risoter as man and wife, and,
fore, the charge could rot he entertained, Rod to dy.
charged the prioter, who then left the bar, wh.n Ns
policemen who took het into custody asked who he re.
turn the watch to?
Mr. Combs—Return it to the person from whom Tca
took it. _ . .
_ _

—fhe—Ofileer then returned it to the prisoner, who nn her
way from the court, was pursued and aimed by the
tutor's wife.

BOW-STREET.
EXTENNYI ROBARKY OP 130‘404. —J. Tarykr was
_latitined, charged with stealing • large nu—n, ro• !;
the property of Mr. H. J. Boho, bookseller, of r„.'
Covent. garden, and J. Mtllaird, a bookseller ,g
street, was charged with receiving a p•miou of as
!Alta
knowing them to be stolen.
Mr. Clarkson defended Millsird.
Taylor had been In the employ of the pre.reuto, f
' last five years as town traveller. A law d.rs
Bohn suspected f lot of starling snag of his an! t,t,
seeded with a police sergeant to his lcidgin,zs,
found 117 volumes, which Mr. Bohn ideotb d a.
petty. It was then asc-rtained that Millaird had le. mg
some books from the prisoner, and Mr. Bohn 1 1
his shop, where be found a nucuber of Ott. r work, ,hs
also identified as his property. They were tapered an 4,1..
and Millaird admitted caving purchased tnam of the pewee.,
It was proved Mat be had given Taylor 21. for a Imo, , of
books, when their real value was 61.
Witnesses were 'strained, and it sveand thin Ta.,1,,„
had been In the habit of selling valusble work. for t,a,
time past, and that he bad stolen them from the prem,. of
the prosecutor. It was estimated the saline of •Lr
found at Taylor's lodging!, amounted to neatly teit
Mr. Jardine committed Taylor for trlel, and 6.,‘„,.,,a
Millsied, but bound him over in his own TeCOOl.ll..
appear it any charge should be prehrred asaiost h m.

TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRAIION,

Yesterday eventagoa meeting, the first o!
tended aeries, to which the above designation

.....,..
was held at seven o'clock, in the areat room of Ea.., r !is I.
The atteedanoe was scanty, ow,ng, it was E.4<,1 e
chairman and secretary, not to any decline of the
temperance, but to suns mismanaortment or errs 1.. fe
public announcements of the navetirg, which mo.t
people tesuppcse that the priers n into, which
tended to apply to the whole series, referred t,nty t., .

admission.
Ir. SAMUEL HOWLEY, 01 Gloucester, har,eg uteri
the chair,
Mr. ARCHIBALD PRENTICE, a Isseas.,r,
dressed the isseetl..g. Re had a message tr,m

of Manchester to the people here, to any teat :Ley rod
60 places of meeting in Manchester, and that 101
were held there se. ry we. k (Hear, hear.) N rs
in large halls such as this, but small mee.ines, e•
some of them of not more than 101 hereof.. Poe Le:. .a
obscure &leen, but formed of earcrqt sn. ,kern
attentive hearers; and in Manchester 10,000 rec. i oh,/
week some instruction in the pheeipl.s of tensperauc, lie
then spoke of the eff,et of temperance upon cages, end the
turns-out of the working men. lie ertsht dto ,nr,re,s uncut
them the neoessity of having something t, 14:1'isck noon, and
which the intemperate man could not pcss‘ss. The um.
perste man, if ill used, could stand out Inc be ter wag.. If
he was ill :sod, because he had suurAbing to r.l. up su, ern :4
the intemperate man, without money, cllthts, t,r cr,ht,
could not stand his ground without work for a nuns
day, however miserable and ill paid his eonsition.
eribed the wretchedly low wages received by tati-ns u.o

worked for slopeellers, and by the senspitress,,
perils way is whirls so many working into !lulls
wages, and which obliged their wives and daughters to
out and work for whatever pittance they could get. It t
was better economy in spending the wage. of thus
women would be eraplosed where they should be—s•
instead of working for tailors and shirtmsksra. (llru, .it
Although in some extreme 0•1111 it might be imp .win e t.
make laving. out of very small earnings, yet upon thus el Is
a groat amount of mosey pared through the han.ls of soak:
log men which would be a resource in times of ditli.elty
low wages. The annum' revenue of the cmintry t nor: the
expenditure was about 50,000,0001., but the am.uot
notified in drink was 60,000,0001., of which it
30,000,0001. was spent by the working daises. Thins
could not be much saving if they spent that. Why, tht
sum of 30,000,0001. would rook se • million of irith :1
frit/chisel every year, sad in 6 years they would date tat-
verse! suffrage. (Hear, hear.) lie should like to ore tr.
totaliam spreading among other clarets es well at woi..ct
people. There were poets, authors, and artists, for extra,
many of whom said and depicted fine things about driik
an excitement. There was George Morlaed, the paint"u
man who drank hard, and his example wee toll mei oy
others of inferior genius, who drank hard, and thought t
could paint like tdorland. Then there was Burns the', r:
who was not temperate. Etch of these roes, he ar.tw,
would have been a better painter and a better poet Lid a
been a sober men. lie then p inted to the splendour of the
dram shops, and to the attractions that some of the nit k:cc
houses offered, u music and dancing, and said he sat heiri:
enough to be glad of this feature, because it shared t•
the love of drinking alone was not enough to till t•
nelson, but that other inducements must be bold
The counteracting principle wet to let the p
have the music without the drink. (Cheery 411114tlitlitt
Some maid it wee cowardly to take a sledge. 11,10 !,,*
many ordinsry actions of life were
.pledges ! CutOka..,/ a:
elections pledged themselves to ortneiples according o, thus
temper of the constituencies. The tailor who promos.' VI
send home a coat U. Saturday night, gee* a pledge.

tary officers pledged themselves to (luau and cowry,
and in the church not one pledge only, taut r.l: bony
of them were taken. (Hear, hear.) Prioclps were
pledgee. There was a high duty upon all NuAtu,. T,er
should consider themselves ILI Milleiolls6 I fur the dinar.
nation of Ereat tryth and right principles. It had he, u rveg
alleged against teetotallers that they set up .taint Cori ti•
anity, but he asked, had Chririsnity a better chance to a
drunken than a sorter nation ? (Cheers.)

The CHAIRMAN said that at a ',neer temperance
meeting Mr. George Creiksltank wu in the chair, and relied
upon Samuel Bewley; and now Smart Bthley was in the
chair, and called upon Mr. George Cruikshank. (Lauchter
Mr. GEORGE. CRUIKSHANK said the subjett h.IS
had bean given to him to speak upon was the pub it psi.,
a subject so worthy that he could h .ve wish. I it to the
hands of some one else. The only re.i.on he hart un r
it was that from early life be had b en a,s ILio.d with ;re.
' rary men, of whom a great many had been coaneetrd
the public press, and or all these ha was able to soers
both as regarded their private life and their puhlm ts;. h...
He had limeys gonad them extremely liberal and k 14
all who came within their circle, mid he hub lum
self expeeiemeed it. Having alluded in deprecatrry term
to an article its the Times newspaper on the late taitgas.os
meeting at Drury-lane Theatre, Mr. Cruikslim k out—
Let those who require artificial restrictions the then
and profit by them: those who do without are col
chargeable with setting a bad exempla because OM
morality is a principle instead ef • force." That en ill
the anhatanc• of the article • and was there in it ore err
must against total abstinence.? (Hear, hear) lire, Ulm
was a writer in the Times, one of the most p• issrtul ergrsel
in England, who sat down to write sissies: the ',stem, std
had not adduced one argument *plait the cause. That, thin
was one of their great triumphs. He deemed the erti:le
to
be the greatest tissue of nommen, that had ever apperm'A
the Times newspaper. The writer called him a vivistenc.
He did not wish to employ any ability he might Loa In
that line against the writer, although all he heal's. , EA
all he could do, was to launch pimpernel abuse 'Pin,' W.
and his friend.. The editor of the Times anew the 1.0 al
was about to state. He (Mr. 0.) had hewn sequin:id sill
• person nested with that paper, who had a hr Usti
ability that would have distinguished him in the Hoer but
from his habits he became • more potehoure °each, nA
there were other cases of • similar kind. He know teal
instances of men connected with the press who We-
, dieted that way. lie knew of aMe of one man
who, alter a convivial meeting in tee /reams. n!*l
tempted suicide the following morning. ll'
tell them of two clergymen, one the father or a hilor
l.
and who was men intoxicated, but by
drinking redueed himself to such a state that his WIPP
deprived him of his gown, and he too attempted to email
®taco
suicide. The other was the case of a clerman who n"
translated to a living is the weet, but was agotive of tte
north, and had been accustomed to drink whi.ky. Wntl_
two young farmers went to him to psi their tithe,. ar.
brought out the whisky bottle to treat them 13 •inif
custom/id to this liquor, they got drunk. One sou oeuil
tumbling Leto the water on his way home, and the ethanol
so intoxicated that he could not go home at all—(•
and his widowed mother, who went to the perennsP„',„„
found him &tisk and lying on the floor. Wou,'
writer in the Times say that this was morality and TO'."'
(Hest, hear.) The only differenoe in the ease of thstl4o:,
mas and the farmer was, that the one could drink a twit 7
whisky end the other only half a bottle. Sat the t
roc
lees owed a debt of gratitude to ell those osOrri *ln'h
reported their ly; bet the Times bid oil,
it. All they wantedwas fair play; and if the them to"'
plai,he wall eatisfied. (Hear, hat)
The CHAIRMAN said be eassidered the 'dials
Tinton • great triumph for the teetotallers, for it no
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Eea
dictation of the power and troth of their eels,•;
Inch a paper es the Timm made so weak an attack up:11,
Dr. BURNS then addressed the meeting at ouneid 7;4
length In advocacy of the principle of teetotalism. On r.r.°200,
physiological, chemical, moral, philosophical,
and held up interoperanos as the great root 0
which unit be eradiftted before secondary evils Own
remedied. ggiles
Mr. THOMAS ALLEN SMITH also spoke is acej
strain for some time, and the ammeter, having 211
the additional subseitiptioce, ier.
The CHAIRMAN said that it was now lialf.psete _
was no good policy to begin a speech, and tine'ro
wet, wee thinly attended owing to the
s..th
pried of admission. He should, therefor*, reserve lu
ft 'Botha mossion.—The meeting then separated.
odr:res.!
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