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tracts from the bcoks on that day, as I did not know it
would be required. There can be no difficulty in producing
the books from the Custom-house, if required.
Theodore Foulger, detective, City police force, deposed
that on searching the prisoner's house be found a quantity
of pwers bclongieg to Mr. Whiting.
_Barnard, police-constable 578, deposed that he took the
prisoner into custody, and that on their way to the station-
house the prisoner said, " I have done a very silly thing; I
ought to have known better, as I have read so much about
such things in the newspapers."
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
Received for the poor-box-ss. from " S. W."

GUILDHALL.—A NEW DODGE IN HORSE-DEAL-
ING. Edward Stamford, a middle-aged matt, was
placed at the bar, before Alderman Sir Chapman Marshall,
charged with obtaining £5 under false pretences.
Air. Huggins said—l went to the repository in Barbican
yesterday to buy a horse, and after the sale the prisoner
came up and said he had seen me bidding, but that I had
not bought a horse, and he offered to sell me une. I told
him I had been "sold" several times, and I did not wish to
be " sold" again, upon which he assured me that I should
not be "sold" by him, as I should take the horse home with
me,
in and
Barbican,try it
an
ndyawaythen I liked. I tried the horse lie had to
sell asked him what lie wanted for
it, and he said £9. I said that would settle the matter,
as I had not so much money about me. He said he did not
."Ilyaiveannstaedid my
woul custom,
p him £5 if
as lie knew
ic'hu'enert wlaoninudl);wl gantsivosenaetmiysehtealdestamped receipt, acknowledging that I
was to pay the other £4 on approving of the horse, and if I
did not like it I was to he the loser oflOs. He said he would
give tne a week or a month to try the horse; hut I said a
couple of weeks would be sufficient. I gave him the £5,
and he gave me the receipt, and on getting outside he asked
me to let the horse take home the cart as far as the London-
road, as it would not be out of my way to Rotherhithe. I
accordingly consented, and he drove over to the London-
road, and when he got into his yard I beard him call out to
his man, " What, he will not let the horse go without the
rest of the money ?" The man repled, "No ; master
says he will not let the horse go unless the £4 is paid."
The prisoner then came to me and said, "This is a pretty
business; the horse belongs to this man, although I sold it
to you
have a if l
and you must pay the other £4 now, or you cannot
e horse." I told him he had done wrong in selling
a horse which did not belong to him to return me the £5 I
.
paid him. He said, "It was not very likely he would do
that, as he had spent £3 of the money." I then said I
should seek the advice and assistance of the police, and ulti-
mately I gave him into custody. The horse was never taken
out of the cart in my presence, and I never had possession
of it. When I bought the horse be told me he had so many
that he had not stable room for them, and he would there-
fore sell me that one cheap. I paid him the £5 believing
the horse belonged to him.
Cross-examined—l knew the prisoner very well by sight,
and have beard him called Ted Bailey. The prisoner did
not say lie bad summoned a man named Fletcher for a
horse; neither did he show me the sumtnons until after he
bad the money of me. He did not say lie would not trust
me.
Police-constable 228 M said—l took the prisoner into
custody, and on the way to the station-house he told the
prosecutor that lie should have neither the horse nor the
money. At the station I searched him, and found on him
five sovereigns.

The prisYner said—The prosecutor came first with the
policeman, and then left to get the rest of the money; but
he changed his mind, and came back and gave me into
Custody..

- The prisoner was then remanded, with permission to put
in bail in two sureties in £2O each, and his own recog-
nisance In £4O.

WEST M I NSTER.—TOLLS ON CHELSEA NEW BRIDGE.
—George Ray, a toll collector on Chelsea New Bridge, was
charged with unlawfully exacting toll there.
Mr. Gilham appeared to prosecute the complaint, and
Mr. Davis, from the Board of Works, for the defendant.
Mr. Gilhatn, in opening the case, said that his client was
Mr. Poole, of 87, Westbourne-street, Pimlico, who had a
postchaise, by the direction of the railway authorities of the
West-end or Pimlico terminus, for the convenience of a supe-
rior class of travellers. The Bridge Act specified that all
postchaises should, on their return empty, be free from toll,
notwithstanding which the defendant had, in his capacity cf
collector, exardita the sum of 2d. from Mr. Poole's driver.
It would be said, he had no doubt, by the other side, that
the carriage in question was not a postchaise, for, according
to defendant's expressed definition, it could not be unless
the roan in charge of it wore breeches and top-boots, and
rode the horse. Although Mr. Poole's man did not do this, it
was nevertheless a postchaise, and so considered by the
excise, who took post-horse duty for it.
Joseph Hayden, the driver, having proved that the de-
fendant exacted the toll,
Mr. W. Poole said he had stables close to the Pimlico
station, and paid past-horse duty; he did not take fares
like a cab, and was told by the excise that his was a post-
chaise.

Cross-examined—Had no name or number on his car-
riage ; none was required ; was privileged to run from the
railway; paid duty on the 15th of July to enable him to
keep a postchaise ; there was no difference is appearance
between his and a private carriage; did not ply as a cab
without paying for a cabman's license; did not stand on
the rank for hire like a cab.

By Mr. Paynter—Pays £1 17s. 61. per quarter duty to
the excise ; cabs pay a shilling duty per day.
Mr. T. S. T. Talbot, superintendent of the West-end
Railway, said that, being most anxious to get a superior
class of carriages for West-end travellers, the complainant
was privileged to come there. Such advantages were also
afforded the public at the Crystal Palace, East Croydon,
Brighton, and other places on the line. Complainant's car-
riage did not go on the platform; if wanted, it was at hand.
Witness bad made inquiries of the excise, and found com-
plainant required neither ticket nor plate under the post-
horse regulations. He witnessed a demand made upon
complainant's man for toll at the bridge by a collector, and
then told him to shay,/ his postchaise license ; be did, but the
toll was still exacted, on the ground that it was not a post-
chaise, as there was no man riding on the berse's back. With
an earnest desire to set the matter at rest witness went to the
office of the Board of Works, and there saw two gentlemen,
named Crozier and Lambart, and the result was that the
latter gentleman came to the terminus, had the matter fully
explained to him, and then said he would give orders that
no toll should be taken for complainant's empty carriage
unless notice was given to the contrary, and so it went on
for some time. A Middlesex magistrate had complained of
the toll being taken for his postchaise, and when the toll
collector found out he was a magistrate he gave the money
back.

By Mr. Gilbam—There had been no complaint of this
description at Brighton or elsewhere; there had been no
dispute about such a carriage being a postchaise.
Mr. Paynter said complainant must mind he did not take
up a job as he returned.
Mr. Gilliam observed be did take care, for he would be
liable to a penalty of VO.
Mr. Davis could not see why witness should take so
active a part in the matter.
Mr. Talbot replied that it was his duty and interest to see
that every accommodation was afforded passengers. He
was now making arrangements for omnibuses to run to and
from Paddington, in order to afford West-end residents
every facility of reaching the terminus.
Defendant, in reply to the charge, said that every gentle-
man's servant who went over the bridge in a brougham
might say it was a postchaise, for there was nothing to dis-
tinguish the complainant's carriage. He had had seven
different jobs after IS o'clock over the bridge on Tuesday.
Complainant plied at the station the same as a cab, and the
cabmen complained very much of it. He did not keep his
horse in the stable, but it was always ready.
Mr. Paynter had no doubt cabmen complained because
they paid ls. per day, and complainant only £1 17s. 6d.
per quarter. He did not see complainant was bound to keep
his horse in the stable.

Mr. Davis said that the Commissioners of Works as trus-
tees for the public were desirous of doing their duty as far
as they could, and had no right or power to forego tolls
which they thought by law should be taken. He had con-
sulted the officers of inland revenue, and had taken the
opinion of counsel, and was informed complainant was not
entitled to exemption. Complainant had entered himself
with the excise as carrying on his business at 87, West-
bourne-street, Pimlico, and therefore when he went with an
empty carriage from the Middlesex to the Surrey side of the
bridge he could not be " returning home." He (Mr. Davis)
contended that this could not be called a post-horse and
chaise within the meaning of the act ; there was no mark
to distinguish it from a private gentleman's carriage, and
this was nothing mere than competition between him and
the cabmen at the railway for fares. In truth, when he
claimed exemption from toll, be was going to the railway in
quest of a fare.
Mr. Gilliam p -Anted out that he paid his pest-horse duty
in the county of Surrey because his stables were there.
He merely had apartments in Westbourne-street. He
started with jobs from his stables, and returned there empty
and was exempt. The hiring was made with complainant
as job-master. The servant never took any money, save the
post-boy, gratuitously.
Mr. Paynter observed that a return chaise meant coming
back from a job, and unless exempt, how could a post-master
carry on his business? Tee question was whether tine was
a postchalse, for, if so, and entitled to certain privileges,
the complainant was justified in claiming them.
Mr. Gilliam pointed out that there was no probabißy of
the toll collector being imposed upon by his client's carriage
resembling that of a private gentleman's, and by his net
knowing who was exetup*, for the driver, when he claimed
exemption, always produced his post-horse license.
The ewe was adjourned for a few days, for the magis-
trate to sati fy his mind on some points.
ROBBING RAILWAY PARCELS.—WiIIiam Strange, a
carman, 10 years in the employment of the Great Western
Railway Company, was charged with breaking open
package belonging to the Hon. Ashley Ponsonby, and steal-
ing a portion of the contents.
Mr. Joseph Aggerson, inspector of the goods department,
stated the case. About 1 p.m. on Friday last Richard Green-
wood, a corporal of the ht Life Guards, was at a window
of Knightsbridge barracks, when he saw prisoner stop his
cart, undo a package, and take out a couple of brushes,
of er which he drove on: The soldier immediately com-
municated with the Great Western Railway Company, and
upon inquiries they found the package belongfd to the
Hon. Aehley Poasotibv, and was being conveled from his
town house at Rutland-gate, to his seat in Gloucestershire,
where, on ifs arrival, several brushes were tni,sed. Mr..
them there.
Aggerson went to prisoner's lodgings and found two of
Prisoner was remanded.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.—JOhn 0/Ven, en elderly man, was
charged with a brutal assault upon Susan, his daughter, a
woman 25 years of age.
The evidence adduced proved that the defendant, who
was intoxicated, rushed upon his daughter in Rochester-
row on the previous evening arid struck her several blows
with a brass rod, one of which wounded her in the head and
rendered her insensible ; her arm was also much hurt. She
was taken to the hospital, and now refused to press the
charge against he. father.
Defendant said that he went to sleep, during which time
his daughter took 10s. from him. When lie awoke tie asked
her for it, and she only gave him half•a-crown back. lie
thought that an amount of provocation justifying what he
did to her.

Mr. Pavnter observed that his dant:liter did right to take
his money from him durinc, his drunkenness, and oueht to
have beets commended instead' of ill-treated. He would not
part with defendant till she appeared, and should remand
him for a week. He subsequently offered to take bail for
his appearance.

NIARLBOROUGH-STREET.—CURIOUS CAB TICKET
DECEPTION. —A cabdriver named Bates was summoned
by Mr. Cherry, the veterinary turgeon and inspector of
horses to the police.
Mr. Cherry said he was passing along Oxford-street
when the defendant plied him and drove up to the kerb.
He told the defendant he did not call him ; but now he was
there, seeing. that the horse in the cab was lame, he would
ascer►ain what caused the lameness. He asked the defen-
dant for his ticket. The defendant gave him one, which he
saw was not the right number. He told the defendant what
he had discovered. The defendant said he bad wade a mis-

take ; be had been driving for two masters and had oven
the wrong ticket. The defendant then gave him a second
ticket, and he should have gone away with it had he not
discovered, on a slight inspection, that the ticket was so
manufactured as to allow the top number to come off, leav-
ing a difiennt number beneath. The top number was made
of very thin paper, and it was attached so slightly to the
substance of the paper that it would become detached on
the least pressure.
Mr. Beadon asked the defendant to explain the circum-
stances.
The defendant said the ticket was just as he had received
it from his employer.
Mr. Cherry had reason to doubt this. The ticket had
been manufactured for purposes of deception, and it was
important that the public should be placed on their guard,
and the matter further inquired into.
Mr. Beadon said it was a matter of public importance,
certainly, as the public principally depended on the tickets
they received from cabmen in cases of dispute.
The defendant gave such a lame explanation of the affair
that
Mr. Beadon said he would first inflict a fine for plying for
hire ; next, he would detain his badge; and, lastly, remit
his license to Scotland-yard for the commissioners to inquire
into these deceptive tickets.
DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. Catherine
Rich, a very respectably-dressed female, was charged with
the following determined attempt at suicide :
Polieessergeant Gummer, C said he was sent for by
a chemist in Pultney-street, named Green, to take charge
of the prisoner, who had attempted to purchase arsenic for
the purpose of destroying herself. He took the prisoner
to the station-house, and questioned her. The prisoner
told him that she had been deserted by her husband, and
then pleading illness, requested to be shown to a place of
convenience. Her request was complied with, but witness
feeling doubtful about her intentions, looked into the cell
where the prisoner had been introduced, and discovered
that she was black in the face and insensible. The prisoner
had tied a handkerchief round her throat, so as to produce
strangulation, and had she been left alone a few minutes
longer there was no doubt she would have destroyed her life.
The prisoner, whose husband is stated to hold a respect-
able situation in the City, expressed contrition for her con-
duct.
Mr. Beadon said he certainly should not let her go until
further inquiry was made.
Remanded for a week.

WO RSH IP-STREET. -- ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A
DoxxEy.—Mr. D'Eyncourt was occupied a considerable
time in the inve,tigation of an adjourned summons in
which Edward Dillon, a police sergeant, 17 K, wrs
charged with cruelty to a donkey belonging to a man
named Joseph Parnell, a greengrocer, residing at Old
Ford, who was formerly a policeman in the same division
as the defendant.

The principal officers of the division were present watch-
ing, the case, which appeared to have excited a high degree
of interest.

Parnell, the complainant, deposed, that on the night of
the 26th ult., about 20 minutes before 12, while in his gar-
den, he heard the sound of a heavy blow, and looking over
a fence to a piece of waste ground where his donkey was, he
there saw the defendant strike the animal two other blows
with his truncheon. The defendant, he said, struck the
blows right forward " with all his vengeance," and after-
wards went into a neighbouring public-house. The donkey
ran away at least 150 yards, and witness, when he brought
it back, found the eye much swollen and bleeding, a bit
being knocked off the eyelid as big as a shilling. The de-
fendant, he said, had a little spite against him, but lie did not
know why, and believed it to have been his intention to
kill the animal. It was moonlight at the time, and the
moon shone full on the defendant's face.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you say anything to him at the
time ?
Complainant—l did not speak to him, because I would
not have him say he bad locked me up, as be has said he
would do.
In cross-examination by the defendant's solicitor, the
complainant said it was true that he was formerly in the
police, and dismissed from it upon the defendant's report,
but he had never threatened to do the defendant an injury.
Policeman 460 K lodged in his house, be said, and had since
been reported by the defendant. He admitted, on being
pressed, that he went to the station-house to ask if the
defendant had been near his house that night at the time he
mentioned, because he had heard it said that he was not out
before one o'clock.
Policeman 460 K said he lodged in the complainant's
house, and had returned home about a quarter before 12 on
the night in question, his wife being unwell. He and
Parnell were in the hack garden smoking their pipes, when
lie heard the sound of a blow, and on looking over he saw
that it was one of the police striking the donkey that was
feeding there. He saw two blows struck, and the arm
raised to strike again, when the donkey ran away. He
thought by the appearance and voice of the man that it was
Sergeant Dillon. Parnell said that it was, but he could not
say positively that it really was the sergeant.
In cross-examination, he said he had once been reported
by the defendant, who was a very strict officer. He did not
see any more of the donkey after it ran away, but his wife
afterwards told him that it was cut.

......
Nathaniel Delaforce, foreman of the East London Water-
works, stated that he lived next door to the complainant,
and at 10 minutes or a quarter before 12 that night he was
a few minutes' walk from the place, when he saw the de-
fendant.
Policeman, 59 K, said that, between four and five in the
morning, the complainant spoke to him, and showed him
the donkey, upon which he saw a slight mark like a scratch
such as a nail might have made, but not such a mark as a
truncheon would make. It was quite dry, as if not very
recent ; the skin was not cut off at all, nor did there appear
to have been an 3 blood. He had seen two women, 271 K.
wife and another, drive the donkey towards the back door,
and the complainant told him that he bad had " a row with
his old woman," and went off to bed, and therefore saw
nothing of the matter himself, but that he had two wit—
nesses who did.
The complainant being recalled again swore that be saw
the donkey struck as already described, and knew that it
was Sergeant Dillon, upon whose face the moon shone at
the time. _ _

For the defence 127 K was called, and deposed that, at
a quarter before 12, while on duty near Bow Church, he
saw and spoke to the defendant, Sergeant Dillon, who could
not possibly have been near the complainant's place, which
is a mile and a quarter distant.
Mr. D'Eyncourt, after some indignant comments by the
defendant's solicitor, dismissed the complaint against the
sergeant, with an expression of his opinion that it was un-
founded, and arose out of a vindictive feeling, and, in addi-
tion, he ordered a guinea costs to be paid to the defendant.

CLERKENWELL.—THE ORGAN-GRINDING Nur-
hiANCE.-IM PORTANT DECISION.—A short hearty-looking
Italian fellow, an organ-grinder, residing in the neighbour-
hood of Saffron-hill, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
playing an organ to the annoyance of Mr. S. Bishop, a
gentleman and calculator, residing at 14, Malledon-place,
St. Pancras.
The prosecutor stated that last night, about eight o'clock,
he was disturbed, while making some calculations, by the
defendant grinding an organ. Ile went out, and found him
playing in front of No. 5, and upon asking him to go away,
and telling him that if he did not he should give him in
custody, he at once desisted ; but when the ladies at No. 5
told him to go on, and that they would see him paid, he
refused to go away, and was then given into custody. The
clergyman, who also resided in the same house, complained
of the noise and nuisance caused by the organ-grinders.
He was at present engaged in making calculations in con-
nection with the metropolitan sewage question.
Mr. Tyrwhitt inquired if the complainant was a house-
keeper or a lodger.
Mr. Bishop replied that the landlady was a widow.
Mr. Tyrwbitt said that the Police Act, 2d arid 3d Vic.,
cap. 47, sect. 53, which related to street musicians depart-
ing when desired so to do, referred only to householders.
The words were as follows :—" It shall be lawful -for any
housekeeper within the metropolitan police district, per-
sonally, or by his servant, or by any police-constable, to
require any street musician to depart from the neigh-
bourhood of the house of such householder, on account
of the illness of any inmate of such house, or for
other reasonable cause ; and every person NlllO shall
sound or play upon any musical instrument in any
thoroughfare near any house, after being so required to
depart, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than 405."
According to the Act of Parliament, the meaning of the
word " housekeeper" could be nothing more than land-
lord. Dr. Johnson's meaning if the word was, "master of
the family," which he took to mean the landlord of the
house. The defendant was entitled to the benefit of the
landlady not having spoken to him. It happened to be the
law, of which the defendant would have the full benefit,
that the housekeeper, instead of the lodger, must complain;
but he could rest assured that, if the cases were made out,
be would inflict the full penalty of 40s. These organ-
grinders were brought over here by a parcel of hard-
hearted fellows, who drove the poor people out of their
homes, and sold them as sieves to annoy us. The
pedrone who hired these men, and who made a for-
tune out of them, ought to pay the fine. .An-
other curious point in the case was, that the ladies
at No. 5 had asked the man to play his orean. He
has no hesitation in saying that a person who had sickness
in his house, or wanted quietness for the purpose of study,
has a perfect right to object to noises in the neighbourhood,
notwithstanding that other persons might like thee]. That
p Ant would never avail with him, for a foolish or ill-natured
neighbour, just for the purpose of annoyance, would tisk the
organ grinder to step. If they wanted music they had
better fellow it to where it could be played without annoy-
ance. The defendant would new be discharged ; bu( lie had
better be careful how he was broue lit there again ; for on the
next occasion he might be charged by the proper person.
The parties then left the court.

SOUTHWARK—EMBEZZLE ENT BY A CONFIDEN-
TIAL SERVANT.—James Cooke James, a respectable-lo,k-
ine young man, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged
with embezzling various sums of money the property of
Messrs. Cory & Son, extensive coal merchants, of Com-
mercial-road, Lambeth, his employers.
One of the firm attended anti said the prisoner had ben
some years in their employ and in their confidence. On
Thursday morning last the prisoner suddenly absconded,
which caused them to examine the books, and they then
found that he was deficient in several items. It was his
duty to receive money from the customers and account for
it to them. On discovery of the robbery they gave infor-
mation to the police.
Sergeant Broad, 23 L, said from information he re-
ceived, he went to Vauxhall Gardens, and saw the prisoner
dancing along with a female. Witness went up to him and
told him he was charged with robbing his employers, acid
then taok him it4lo custody.
Prisoner denied the charge, stating that the money was
all accounted for.

The g.entleman who attended for the firm, stated such was
not the case, and requested his worship to remand the pri-
soner, in order to have the books further inspected.
Mr. Cumbe said it was a case that required further inves-
tigation ; under these circumstances, he should remand the
prisoner till Monday next.

TAMBETIL H
—APPREENSION OF A BUROLAR.—Geo
Seth
Morris, a veung man, was charged before Mr. Elliott
by Sergeant Coppin, a detective officer of the P
with having been found in Albany-road, Camberwell, in the
emt piny of ;mother man named Edward Phillips, who has
been convicted on the charge, on suspicion of being there,
for the purpose of committing a burglary.
Coppin stated that, on the 7th of June, he wee in the
Albany-road with a gentleman when he saw the prisoner
gain,gain,along the road with a man whose name is Edward
Phillips. Another man came up at the time, and they all
went away: Witness followed them some distance when he
saw that he was observed by the prisoner, who ran away and
got off. He seized hold of Phillips, who c:-as taken to time
station-house. He was there searched, and upon him were
found 13 skeleton keys and a chisel. He (Phillips) was
tried and
,convicted, and was sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment. He was now in prison. He (the officer)
had aot seen the prisoner till that day, when he saw him at
this court. He informed the prisoner that he
the COM.
was. going to
being
tyke him into custody in consequence of 111

party of Phillip. He (prisoner) said that be knew nothing
at all. about Phillips.
Mr. Elliott—ls Ihe prisoner known ?
Coppin Yes, sir. He is the constant associate of
thieves, hon,ebreakers, and the worst of characters. I be-
lieve'be has been tried.
Toe prismer stated that the officer had seen him re-
neatediy since Phillips was taken into custody. He has
hi?.en seen constantly by him at the Elephant and Castle,
where he is repeatedly.
The officer said that he wanted the prisoner h: fore Phillips
was tried, as be wished to produce him at the trial. He
has never seen the prisoner since Phillips's conviction till
that day.
Remanded.

Eleanor Cobnan, a good-looking yeung woman, and
respectably dressed, who was described as a tirestnaker,
living in Tiverwa -street, Newington-causeway, was brought
up in the cus!oly of Sergeant Coppin, from Winchester
Gaol, charged under the following circumstances :
Mr. Solomons attended for the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that about the beginning
of last month, between seven and ten o'clock at night, the
house of Mr. Marshall, of Grosvenor-park, Camberwell,
was broken open, when: a quantity of wearing apparel and
other articles were stolen. Oa the sth of July last, as Mrs.
Marshall was passing the shop of Mr. Jolland, dyer, New-
ington•causeway, she saw a silk dress, which she identified
as belonging to her, and to be part of the property stolen
on the night in question. S e gave information to Coppin,
who sooa ascertained that it had been left there by a woman
named Conden, in whose house the prisoner lodged. Ile
went there, and from the description given of the person
who had given the article to the woman Conden to leave at
the dyer's to be cleaned, he suspected that it was the prisoner,
who was then in Winchester Gaol.

The prisoner's landlady stateistimt the prisoner had occu-
pied an apartment in her house about three months, and
that she was a dressmaker.

In answer to Mr. Solowons, she stated that about eight
weeks ago she left the dress-at a dyer's to be cleaned. The
prisoner had worn it three or four times in the daytime.
Coppin said that he took the prisoner into custody that
(yesterday) morning, about seven o'clock, as she was leav-
ing Winchester Gaol. He had searched the prisoner's
lodgings, and found there a large roll of cloth, a gold
watch and chain, five gold rings, and twe shawls.
Mr. Elliott—What was she in prison for ?
Officer—l believe on a charge of being in the company of
another female when a lady's pocket was picked. She says
she was not guilty.

Mr. she say anything to the charge?
Officer—Yes, sir; she said that she bought the dress in
Petticoat-lane, and that she could account fir everything
I took away. I also found four pawnbroker's tickets, one
for a geld watch, pledged for 10s., and one for a gold
&c. ,
Mr. So!mons said lie could not see how the prisoner
could be connected with the burglary. She could account
for the possession of every article found by the officer, and
was desirous of giving him every information.
The prisoner was remanded.

THAMES.—MURDEROUS ASSAILT.—Henry Barrett,
a dark and dirty-looking fellow, was brought before Mr.
Selfe, charged with committing a violent assault on
Catherine Sullivan.

The complainant, a dissipated-looking woman, said she
had been cohabiting with the prisoner for three years, and
he had frequently beaten and kicked her. He was once
committed for four months by one of the magistrates of
Worship-street for " jobbing" a pipe into her eye, the sight
of which was nearly lust. On the previous night she had just
brought home food for her two childreL, when the prisoner
came home drunk, and heat and kicked her. He threw her
down, and endeavoured to strangle her. He hit her about
the head and face, and she was covered with blood when the
police came in and interfered. She really believed the pri-
soner would murder her if he was not restrained, but she
did not wish to punish him.
Mr. Selfe—l won't consult your wishes
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The prisoner in defence said- that he and his "wife" were
both drunk on Tuesday, and that they always fought when
they were in that state. His " wife" had sent him to the
hospital several times, and some time since she broke his
arm. He came out f the hospital only a few weeks ago.
Mr. Selfe read a certificate put in by the prisoner, and
said he had not been treated for a broken arm.

Sharper, police-constable 450 K, said he found the woman
Sullivan weltering in her blood. She had been terribly
punished. The man was drunk, the woman was sober.
Mr. Selfe said a more wretched and unhappy couple had
never come before him. He sentenced the prisoner to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.— George Abbott, a man
about 31 years of age, a shipkeeper, was brought up on
remand, before Mr. Selfe, charged with burglariously break-
ing into and entering the Folly House, a well-known
tavern at Milani', Poplar, and stealing therefrom IGO in
money belonging to George Blamire, the landlord.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, conducted the prosecution;
Mr. Beard, solicitor, defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that on the night of Tues-
day, the 3d instant, the house was secured, and the bar par-
lour and cupboards were fastened up in the usual manner,
and particular attention was paid to the bolts of the cellar
flap which opens outwards. The flap was bolted,
and appeared to be quite &cure. At about half-past
eleven o'clock or a quarter before twelve o'clock,
the inmates retired to rest. On the following
morning at six o'clock, when the potman went
down stairs, he discovered that the house had been entered in
the course of the night. The bar and bar parlour were in a
state of great confusion, and various things were strewn
about the floor. The potman immediately alarmed his
master and Mr. Blamire's mother, when they ascertained that
an entrance had been effected by forcing up with some in-
strument one of the boards of the cellar flap, which was in a
defective state, and unfastening the bolts. The thief or
thieves had then easily descendeu into the cellar, and walked
up stairs into the bar. A cupboard in the bar parlour had
been forced open, and an old box containing X6O in gold,
three £5 notes, and a cheque for L 9 10s. removed.
The box was broken open and all the gold abstracted. A
soldier's pouch containing the notes and cheque had been
carefully examined, " fumbled up " again and thrown upon
the floor; indeed, the burglars were particularly cautious
in not taking away anything that might lead to detection.
Half a box of cigars, some brandy, and other articles were
missed. The prisoner bad been for some time employed as
ship keeper of an old and disused steam-vessel called the
Diamond, lying in the river off' the Folly House. The pri-
soner was a frequenter of the house almost daily for several
months, occasionally seating himself for hours in front of
the bar, and was acquainted with all the internal
arrangements of the Blamire family. The prisoner
was in the house on the evening of the 2d inst., and
left rather earlier than usual. On the morning of the
3d, after the burglary and robbery had been discovered,
Inspector Thomas, of the Thames police, was called in,
arid he immediately suspected the prisoner'. Two house-
breaking implements had been left by the burglars in the
bar parlour of the Folly House. They were delivered to the
inspector, who went on board the Diamond and saw
the prisoner and his wife. The inspector produced
the implements, and said to the prisoner " Do you know
these tools ?" The prisoner's wife immediately replied
"Yes, I do; my husband has had them in his possession a
long while. The prisoner raised his hands, and said to his
wife, " There—l told you," and stopped. Inspector
Thomas asked the prisoner what time he was on shore on
the night of the 2d, and his answer was that he was not on
shore after nine o'clock in the evening. Mrs. Emily Hebden,
the wife of a lighterman, and residing next door to the
Folly House, saw the prisoner on the Folly Wall at half-
past 11 or a quarter before 12 o'clock on the night of the
2d. The prisoner was accompanied by his wife and
two men, and they all got into a boat, and proc,eded
towards the Diamond steamer, moored in the stream.
On a Sunday morning in June, Mr. Blamire and a friend
were in the cellar upon business, and the prisoner, taking
advantage of the flap being open, jumped into the cellar,
and Mr. Blamire was compelled to give him a glass of spirits
before lie would leave it. None of the money had been
recovered.

Mr. Young asked for another remand, and said he should
have additional evidence to produce at the next examination.
Mr. Beard contended there was no evidence against the
prisoner, who was a very respectable and honest man, and
that he ought to be discharged.
Mr. Selfe observed that it was impossible to shut out from
the case what the prisoner's wife said when the officer pro-
duced the housebreaking implements. The evidence was
slight, but .he could not discharge the prisoner, whom he
should remand on bail until next Wednesday.
Bail was put in by the prisoner's brother.
ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE UPON AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN.
—James Chem. Henry Fraser, a black seaman, was brought
oefore Mr. Selfe, upon a warrant, in the custody of Foay,
a police officer, No. 7 }I, charged with being concerned,
with five other men of colour, in assaulting and wounding
Capt. Samuel Annis, the master of the American ship
Satellite.

Mr. Fletcher, solicitor, of Arbour-square, S'epney, said
that the defendant was late able seaman and boatswain of
the Satellite, on a voyage from America to Calcutta and
London. Oa the 3i st of last month the complainant appeared
in that court on nine summonses taken out by the defendant
and eight other coloured mariners for wages earned at sea.
He (Mr. Fletcher) took an objection in linzine that the ship
Satellite sailed under American calours, that the captain was
an American, and that the magistrate had no jurisdiction in
the case. His objection was allowed by Mr. Yardley, and all
the summonses were dismissed. The captain was leaving the
court, and was proceeding towards his (Mr. Fletcher's)
office, when the men of colour, who were very much
irritated, commenced abusing the captain, pushed him into
the middle of the road, and committed a most atrocious
and cowardly attack upon him. The defendant Fraser first
knocked him down, and then kicked him; and as fast as he
got up was knocked down again and kicked about the head
and face, and wou!ti have been certainly murdered but for
the prompt aid of the police and officers of the court, who
instantly arrested three of the assailants. The captain
r,turned into court with the blood streaming from his
wound', and very much injured, and lie was spitting blood
for several hours afterwards. Two of the offenders were
fined each ; and the third, who could not be identified, was
discharged, and warrants were granted for the apprehension
Fraser and others, who escaped. He trusted that under the
-triumstances, and as the captain, a stranger, was grossly
assaulted while leaving an English court of justice, the
same penalty would be inflicted on the defendant as was
inflicted on his confederates, and that as he had used the
most diabolical threats towards the captain, he would be
bound over to keep the peace. The ship was seized on a
bottomry bond on her arrival here, but all the men except
Fraser and another, who was out of the way, keel been
since paid. The outrage and threats were proved by nume-
rous witnesses.
The defendant said he had left the court before the affray
commenced.
Mr. Selfe said there was an overwhelming array of evi-
dence against the prisoner, who was concerned in a gross
outrage. He fined him or two months' imprison-
ment, and further ordered that he should find sureties to
keep the peace towards Capt. Annis and all her Majesty's
subjects for three months.

• CRYSTAL PALACE.—As part or a system for en-
abling the public to judge of the excellences of the various
military bands of the country, the band of the 47th Regi-
ment (now quartered at Aldershot) will visit the Crystal
Palace to-morrow (Friday), performing in the palace and
grounds a selection of popular music. The 47th acquired
I much distinction from its service in the Crimea, where its
band was held in high repute. In common with other real-
tnents of the line, the uniform of the musicians is whi.e,
and most of them are decorated with the war medal.
SERIOUS RIOTS IN IRELAND.—We learn from a
contemporary that seriousriots have broken out in Kilkenny.
Infuriated mots are traversing the country, smashing agri-
cultural machines, and assaulting their owners. The magis-
trates held a meeting at Stoneyford, and resolved to petition
Government for additional police and military.
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