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London, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

The prisoner was not able to pay the penalty, and he
was therefore removed in the van.
CLERKEIV WELL.

Placido Cornoti, an Italian, who was described in the
police sheet as a picture-frame maker, of 3, Summer-
street, Clerkenwell, was charged with having violently
assaulted and stabbed at police-constable Ward, N 0.141
G division; and Mary Slater and Mary Collins were
also charged with having assaulted the officer and at-
tempted to rescue the prisoner.
Ward, whose head was bound up and who was much
injured, deposed that yesterday morning, at about two
o'clock, he was on duty in Warner-street, Cold Bath-
fields, Clerkenwell, when his attention was attracted by
a noise, and on proceeding to the spot he found the pri-
soners, who were hooting and disturbing the whole
neighbourhood. He remonstrated with them, and urged
them to go home quietly, when the man turned upon
him and abused him. Witness took him into custody,
on which the female prisoner rushed at him and at-
tempted to rescue the male prisoner. Police-constables
244 and 270 G came to his assistance, and they suc-
ceeded in apprehending the prisoners. The male pri-
soner was exceedingly outrageous, and fought and
kicked at witness and knocked him down. He then took
a knife from his pocket, swore he would rip him open,
and made a stab at witness, but mischief was prevented
in consequeuce of the point of the blade coming in con-
tact with his belt, which was cut.

Constable 244 G confirmed lis evidence. When he
saw the prisoner take the knife from his pocket, deli-
berately open it, and make a stab at Ward, he (witness)
struck him on the arm with his staff, and he dropped
the knife.

270 G gave corroborative testimony.
The prisoners denied the charge. The male prisoner
affected ignorance of the English languor, until the
woman Slater said she had known Mr. Cornoti for the
last four years. She met him on Sunday night, when
he asked her to have something to drink. Mrs. Collins
and herself accompanied him to a public-house, where
they drank together, and they were only anxious to get
him home.

Mr. CoMBE—Did he invite you to drink in the Eng-
lish langueg.- ? Prisoner—Yes, Sir,
Mr. COXBE—Then he understands English? Prisoner
—Oh dear, yes Sir, quite well.—(A laugh.)
Mr. COMBE said it would have no good effect upon
such a fellow as the prisoner to inflict a pecuniary fine.
He would therefore sentence him to one mouth's impri-
sonment, without fine, in the House of Correction. The
women were sentenced to pay a fine of 20s.
Cornoti was taken from the bar and bicked up.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-offie•
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]

When made up in From what PLACES. General Post-office port die-
When
London. patched. due.
America (by Brit. pkt.)Nl May 23 Liverpool..• May 27
America (by U.S. pkt.) N May 27
.• • • Liverpool . May 22
America (by IT S. pkt.) M May 21
.. ,Southampt.
Africa (West coast).- N 14th of the month Plymouth June 3
Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo.,Dover .. May 18
Belgium • . N Daily .. Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. • .. M 9th of the month 'Southampt. June 12
Buenos Ayres M 9th of the month !Southampt. June 14
Califomia(viaChagres)M 17th of month ISouthampt. May 20
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month(Plymouth.. June 3
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Central America .. M2d &
17th of mon.
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Chili .. .. • • . M 17th of the month ISouthampt. May 20
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Hamburgh .. N Tuesday & Friday 'London Tues. Sat.
Rolland .. • • .. 31,Wednes. & Satur. London Men.Thyr
Honduras . N 17th of the month Southampt. May 20
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India (via Marseilles) N, 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover • • Arrived
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) .• M 20th of the month Southampt. May 23
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Marseilles) .. Nlth&24thofmonth Dover • • Arrived
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Madeira .. • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt.
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Peru •
.. • • M;l7th of the month Southampt. May 20
Tuscany* N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. I may 22
West Indies .. M 17th of the month Southezapt•lMay 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Southamet_

of month
Naples* /*T,5tl2 15th 25th ofmo'
Papal States* 151.1115 th 25th of mo
Peninsular.. 7th 17th 27th of mo
Peru .. • • M;l7th of tho month I
Tuscany* .. N sth 15th 25th ofmo
West Indies M 17th of the month
West Indies (except
Havana & Nassau) M 2d of the month ~
* The mails to those countries thus marl
French packet via Marseilles.
CararoxNu..—Mails to and from Californil
are now despatched and due by every Amerii

'Sonthampt. /June
cad (*) are conveyed by

la, via the United State
[can packet.

ROYAL COLLEGE or SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary, examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the College at the
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 16th inst.:--
Messrs. William Tait Carr, Aberdeen; Frederic James
Caldecott, l'orking, Surrey; John Wilde, Islington;
William Warwick, Belfast r Henry Simpson, Cheater;
Henry Power, London ; Ebenezer Moore, Islington ; Edwin
Wilson, Hyde, Cheshire; Richard Wellinga, Ravenstone,
Leicestershire; Albert William Hanford, Nottingham;
Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Deanery, Westminster; Ed-
ward George Wake, Hull; Henry Cornelius Thomas, Vaux-
hall-road; John Fountain, Cowley, Middlesex; and Alfred
Carpenter, Rothwell, Northampton. Admitted on the 16th
inst : Messrs. Thomas White, Chester ; Edward Long,
Dublin ; Frederick William Waders, Chesterton, Hunting-
donshire ; George Brennan, Cork ; Nevill Jackson, Stam-
ford, Lincolnshire ; Edward Rails, Tunbridge, Rent ;
Thomas Britton, York; John Davis, Sunderland ; Jacobus
Silverman, Middlesex place, Paddington ; and Lancelot
Armstrong, Camberwell.
ment of curates
SEQUESTERED BENEFICES.—A Bill has been
brought into Parliament to amend the law relating to the
return. wh-
ate3q:_estration of benefices for debt. If a benefice is segues-
tn
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that several
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before the end of the summer I shall be again in Eng-
land. And you may be sure I hall not be sorry when
I can exclaim with truth. "Jucundiacti labor es."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
A gentleman applied for a summons against an omni-
bus conductor for deceiving him with respect to the route
of his carriage.
The trick was one of a more than ordinarily disgrace.
ful character, the gentleman, who is evidently a stranger
in London, having been taken a considerable distance in
the omnibus in a direction diametrically opposite to his
destination. The applicant hailed the omnibus in St.
Paul's Churchyard, and inquired whether it went to the
Colosseum, and upon the conductor informing him that
he could put him down very near it the gentleman got
in, and after riding some distance was set down at Chel-
sea Church, near Battersea-bridge, the conductor point-
ing to a turning and telling him to go up there. The
gentleman did so, but after proceeding some distance,
ascertained upon inquiry at a tradesman's shop that a
gross deceit had been practised upon him, as he was at
least three miles from the Colosseum. Having subse-
quently ascertained the conductor's number, he applied
to the Lord Mayor, who referred him to this court.
The clerk was about to take the gentleman's instruc-
tions for a summons in the usual way, but it having been
previously held by Mr. Burrell that where the traveller
is "deceived" at the time of getting into the carriage,
and "undeceived" when he alights and discovers the
disgraceful trick that has been practised upon him, he
should apply for his remedy where he was imposed upon,
he considered it his duty to call the gentleman's atten-
tion to the circumstance of the false representation
having been made in St. Paul's-churchyard, which, ac-
cording to the above view, would be the place where the
offence was committed, when Mr. Burrell expressed his
opinion that, although the charge might be viewed as a
continuing offence within his jurisdiction, the case was
one especially within the Lord Mayor's district, and re-
ferred him back to his Lordship.
The gentleman, who was actuated only by a desire to
protect the public, expressed, as may naturally be sup-
posed, his concern at discovering there was so much dif-
ficulty in the matter.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Thomas Bates, a powerful blackguard-looking fellow,
was brought up before Mr. Hamwill, charged with being
concerned with several men not in custody in the follow-
ing brutal attack upon Mr. Josiah Mason, a tradesman
in Goswell-street.
The complainant, accompanied by a friend, entered a
public-house in the Kingsland-road to procure some re-
freshment, after a walk, on the preceding evening, and
there saw the prisoner and four or five other men drink-
ing at the bar. Two young women also entered a few
minutes afterwards, one of whom was showing her foot,
which had been injured, to the other, when the pd.-
sonar's wife interfered with them and made use of some
filthy expression, and upon the young woman expressing
her resentment, she struck her such a violent blow in
the face that her eye became swollen and black. The
complainant reproved the prisoner's wife for such an un-
provoked and cruel attack, and was immediately set upon
by the prisoner and his companions with such ferocity
that the landlord was obliged to interfere for his protec-
tion, and the whole gang were ejected from the house.
There they made such a disturbance and uttered such
vindictive threats, that the complainant, his friend, and
the two young women were afraid for a long time to leave
the house, and were at length let secretly out at the pri-
vate door; but they had no sooner got into the street
than they were discovered by the prisoner and the other
men, the former of whom rushed upon the prosecutor and
struck him down by a violent blow in the face, while
his wife and the four other men beat and kicked him
about the head and body as he lay upon the pavement
in such a brutal and savage manner that, as one of the
witnesses expressed it, "he was completely covered
with blood, and appeared to be perfectly emaciated."
The screams of the women, and cries for the police from
several of the neighbours, ultimately brought up several
constables, who rescued the prosecutor from further in-
jury and took the prisoner into custody, but his com-
panions effected their escape.
When called upon for his defence the prisoner said
that he had been struck first by the complainant a blow
on the mouth which knocked out one of his teeth, but
he acknowledged that he had no witnesses to corrobo-
rate his statement; and this being positively contradicted
by the complainant and another witness, who declared
that if he had sustained such an injury he must have re-
ceived it in the course of his being ejected from the
house by the landlord and his assistants to protect the
plaintiff from his violence,
Mr. Hastsma., after commenting severely upon the
prisoner's outrageous and wanton conduct; ultimately
consented, at the instance of the Complainant, to adju-
dicate upon the case summarily, and sentenced the pri-
soner to pay the extreme penalty of 51., or, in default,
to be committed to the House of Correction for two
months.