The Express. — 1848-02-09 (London, England)

CLERKENWELL. —Ortimoie on roe Poetess—M.. aisiey was charged with having violently assaulted police- , men Berryman end Diment, and done them were o oonsiderable injury. On Monday evening these policemen n duty en Clerkenwell-green, when they received information that a man was murdering a woman in Peter-street, Saffron-hill. They proceeded thither, and saw a lugs crowd assembled around the Bull's Head public-house, and an elderly woman ose being was there covered with bruises and blood, her n smashed, and she was nearly insensible. She said she had been beaten by her son, who was in the public-house, and she wished to give him into custody. She pointed him out to Berryrnau, when the prisoner made a fresh attack upon her, and swore at her in a horrid m anner, threatening to murder her, which he would have done had it not been for the interference of the officers. He then commenced an attack upon the officers, whom he struck, kicked, and bit. On their arrival in the strut be resisted most desperately, and continued his violence and bit a piece out of Bei moan's hand. He gave a signal by calling out "Tag, when a tremendous bull dog bslouging to the prisoner flew ferociously at the officers, bit them, and tore their clothes, and they were compelled to use their staves against it fa their protection. The prisoner then called out for a knife several times, swearing that he would stab the officers. A mob of nearly 1,000 pereo cans of out " Rescue;" and after considerable difficulty they secured the prisoner in the station-house.—Mary Maissey, the soner's mother, who bare a frightful appearance, tocesium miens:* of the prisoner's unnatural and brutal treatment, said that the prisoner took 5s from bey, and because she asked hint to return it he fell to and beat her terribly.—Mr. Combo sentenced the prisoner to a month's imprisonment, with hard labour, in the House of Correction, without tke alternative of releasing himself by the payment of any fine. don THIS SASITAHT Acr.--riteldANClL—Mr. John Lang, the owner of some houses in Larab'ssquare, Clerkenwellrune which are tenanted by the very lowest order, was ratomoned, under the recent Sanitary Act, for suffering a nuisance. The premises, it appeared. were in a most filthy and unwholesome state, and unfit for human habitstien.—Mr. Bartholomew, solicitor and clerk to the Paving Board of Commissioners of St. James's, Clerkenwell, said that the defendant bad recently purchased the property, and the tenements were inhabited by sweeps and eastermongers, &c , who were all huddled together with their donkeys. and the place was in a horribly nauseous and filthy condition. There were 11 houses in this condition, which had been examined by medical gentlemen, who pronounced them to be dangerous to the health of the public, and calculated to breed fever.—Defendant said he was using every effort to get rid of the filthy permits inhabiting the place, and he was about to pull them down and have them rebuilt. He said it was impossible to keep sweeps clean, and it they would not leave he must apply to the law to eject thetu.-.Mr.Combe made an order for the removal of the nuisance.—Another case of a similar description in the immediate vicinity of the above was brought forward, and a similar order was made.