The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-21 00:00:00

THE POST-OFFICE The fifth report, of which the following is a copy, has just been published : To THE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY. My Lords,—l have the honour to present to your lordships the fifth annual report on the Post-office, being that for the year 1858. Your lordships will observe with satisfaction that while postal facilities have been much increased, and reductions have been made in the rates of post age on letters between the United Kingdom and several foreign countries,there has been an increase in the postafrevenues. . EXTE/hION OF INLAND SERVICE. Last year the number of post-offices in the United Kingdom was increased by 134, making the whole present number 11,235 ; of which 806 are head post offices and 10,429 sub-post-offices. New and more commodious offices have been opened at Cork, Swansea, Colchester, and Ports mouth. The offices at Derby, Dumfries ' Brighton, Leeds, Huddersfield, Nottingham, and Cambridge have been enlarged and improved; and similar altera tions are about to made in the offices at Bath, Rugby, Stafford, and Yarmouth. Speaking ' of the Li verpoo l o ffi ce, at which sundry improvements ha ve b een ma d e , the surveyor of the district says, " Sun-burners have been introduced ; and for a uniform and beautiful light, and excell en t ventilation (the latter being much promoted by the use of the sun-burner), the Liverpool sorting-office stands unequalled." Two branch offices have been established at Bris tol, affording great accommodation to portions of the city, and considerable relief to the chief office. Should further experience confirm the benefit of this arrangement, I shall consider the expediency Inc of adopting it elsewhere. ne important advan tage it affords is the means of providi ng f or a l arge increase of postal b us i ness in any town without the erection of a new chief office. New sites, on whi c h it itintended to build offices, have been obt a i ne d at Edinburgh, Dover; and measures are in D un de e , an d progres s f or p rov iding new or bett er o ffi ces at Canterbury, Lincoln, and Southampton. A site has also been obtained for the erection of a large new o ffi ce at Manchester; but, in deference to the wi s h es o f man the leading i n h a bit a nts, it: has been d e t erm i ned to ascertain whether it is practicable to procure, on such term s as the case will warrant, a site in substituti o n f o r this in another part o f the town, which it ha.s been repre sented would be more convenient to the inhabitants generally. With a view of making i n the large the amount of postal ac commodation o ff ices, money order t owns , b y means o f re ceivingorder offi ces , an d roa d letter boxes, sufficient in a IT ases' and as far as practicable uniformly proportionate to the e x t en t o f population has been made, whindence, a com pl e te revision has resulted in a large exten sion of accommodation, and that without any in crease of exp ense, indeed ' with a p os itive saving, owing to a substitution in many cases of road letter i boxes for receiving ion houses—always an economical exchange. When the arrangements consequent upon this revision shall have been completed (and this has now nearly been done) no house in London, unless in some exceptional ter of a m il e from a will be more than a guar- 1 m a money order office, or more than a fu r l ong f e, where either a rec eiving ffice or a road lett er bux ; and in the neighbourhood of the Royal E xc h an ere the greatest number of let ters is posted, Exchange, maximum distance will be less. The augmentationdohas in the number of road letter boxe s in London posting l e tt ers for asmuch increased the facility of the morning mails ; since it is only from th ese l etter boxes that so early a collec tion as that necessary for this despatch can be made; and the increased facility thus afforded has ren dered it practicble to anticipate by one hour the last eveningc om Tcommence n c collection ea from the receiving offices, and thus in ri• that collection at nine in the even , instead of ten. To , superadd a • far as practicable, the conve nienciet ohfas he a re t o e 's iving,-office to that of a road letter box,in th e ne i ghbo n arranged to supply any shopkeeper ur . h ood of a lette r box, who for the sake of t h e lieity to usual poundage and the increased pub trouble his sh , w i t h 0 ... 1), may be w illi ng to undertake the supply of postage stamps, with print e d posta l Copy, for _ _notices fo r ex hibition, and with a Guide. public reference, of the British Postal T he whole n put up l ast limber of additional road letter boxes gate of I,l6yBear was 463 ; making pres e n t a a„re- The reports revision o previous reports resulted in laroe ' has now been completed, and has in Ireland ; but extensions of these posts, especially _ with ith lapse of time a necessity has arise n for partial kind, on this new revisions, and works of the in smaller prog ses g . scale, will no doubt always be forAt 1,353 places free deliveries were established including York une las t year, and 454 other places, deli ve - w , C arlisle, 11Jyarras extended or otherwise ' improved. for enablingalienlent, • mentioned in the last report, night at all th e Public to post letters during the havi na h ee offices b ere there is night duty, and W a l e : found.i_ workw satisfactorily in England Ireland. ' uas been extended to Scotland and Alth ough it b to difficulties as not yet been practicable, owing London distri ct of var iens kinds, chief Post -office a suitable building to provide in every has b een sue ltle i e. 3'et eve_ district for a permanent An interchange`Pled at ica 7 t with not so furnished a temporary office. between all th e of ba gs is il l istri e t s; ann, now, therefore, made communicatio n formed a chief obi e e t p wee n housen greater rapidity of and house, which postal districts If' -t of the division ,; vill, / ho pe be of London into As regards tne tov qn 1 " - ' b soon fully attained. every case (provided lxntions of the letters posted th ey bear the district initials) box for the sam e at a reeeivins• district(l are at once or road letter district office for selected at the soon be further accelliverY; and t he process will to a minimum the e t• erated ' 8° as t e ti between o_ reduce almost delivery of a letter p d rop e dres t he posting and Much has been nt one in earl . : sea, postal improveme s whi e i 3'ing forward the in progress in the t u 1 have for sonic time been don ; though, owins. c t 'ns them villa Lon much still remains tbo be o vast amount round Lon have been opened, fr om dmle' Nulew sortingnt of detail, offices work with more facilit N Ivnlidich the lett carriers instances the times for 1 " ) . 0t , -. "Pedition e • r • new deliveries,and collectioing h avt ,_ en , in man y collections have been extended, and the intervals between the e . 11. established, London have been made more c de . spatches from That the public have largcly el a ti l , of the increased facility of postal--"eu them • I the London district come( ec 'nnuni ' • )e yes luent on the teation in provements is shown by the gre a • • recent number of district letters. pia increase in the ing the 10 v previous to 1857, when the ' improli mn ~ ears tuts though continuous and important, wer e etfeeted, tively small, the annual rate of incr w 2e compara what less than a million and a halfe.ase was carie , 'while during the last two years the iru•rea .• 't has bail ng i as fop 1 oNs : 1.01. iti• • , 6,2T11,004) In 15.;7 In 18.;s and since the commencement of 1859 the r a t e of increase has been still higher. The augmentation of this class of letters during the last two years has thus afforded an increase of about £48,000 per annum in the gross revenue. I feel pleasure in noticing the extensive com pliance by the public with the wishes of the de partment that the addresses of letters to London or its neighbourhood should include the initials of the postal district in which they are to be delive re d ; and i n it, desire. - in that when, asthe London re ceiving offices, tl • i - "etc arc two separate letter - boxes for diffe re nt in postin,;, ,e_ asses of letters, care should be taken, B s readi Zarop the letters into the right box. despoatoerate public to e _ , 3 of this kind on the part of the sorting, with the department, the letters are much e . and ultimately the delivery of At all the newilpcdited. all the other new sOietriencted district offices, and at been made for proviai n g , °M ees , arrangements have the lett er carr i ers w ith much better accommodation than formerly, and been improved. Y of th e old offices has Some further progress has been ~-;„ ; ing the nomenclature of th e streets i-ra„-- al improv the numbering of houses ; b u t t h e - London and mai n. work has still to be accomplished. During the last year 14 additional to provided day mails to or f rom the r7elltros 'were of one or other of the three parts of the United Kingdom, and some of them with m a il s i n i i ,V, directions ; and arrangements were mad e , w h ich - commenced on the Ist January of the present year, for giving. for the first time, the advantage o f a day mail to several towns in the south-west of England, including Plymouth and Devonport, and for accelerating the existing day mail from London to that district. Supplementary day mails, m r oreover, were esta blished with Birmingham, II olverhampton, Co- ventry, and Epsom. While, however, . I havelad the pleasure of pro viding these additional mails, I .. have a been compelled mail to - with regret to withdraw th e a Ennis killen and some other towns i n th y at part of Ireland, owing to th e unwilling,n ess of the Dundalk and 'Enniskill en Railway Company to co ntinue the ; erviee f or a payment which was the utmos t that the limited amount of correspondence would war rant me in expending. _ By an extension of the parcel post service, and by other arrangements, more frequent postal com munication has also been provided between many provincial towns. More frequent mails are now despatched to the Channel Islands, and some of the deliveries there have been improved. Many of the mails last year, besides those on the Great Western Railway, already referred to, were accelerated; but the most important acceleration for which arrangements were made did not come into operation till the Ist of February in the pre- sent year. The latter measure is the result of a proposal made by the department more than three Years ago to the London and North-Western, the Lancaster and Carlisle, and the Caledonian Railway Com- panies ; the proposal being that, to ensure - a more punctual working of the night mail trains to and from the north, and at the same time to admit of an acceleration of those trains, the passenger and par cel traffic conveyed by them should either altogether cease or be strictly limited. After much negotia tion the three companies assented, in July last, to the limitation ; and at the same time undertook to effect a material acceleration. Apart from the more regular working of the trains (an advantage extending to the whole coun try), a special benefit has accrued to Scotland, par ticularly to Edinburgh and Glasgow, where, since the Ist of February, 1859, the London night mail has arrived in time for the letters to be delivered at eight o'clock the next morning, and where there is a later despatch, by nearly two hours, of the return mail. The benefit, however, is participated in by all towns further northward ; as these towns have now an earlier arrival of the London mail by more than an hour and a half, and a later despatch to an extent varying from an hour and a half to nearly three hours. Much credit is due to Mr. Edward Page, Inspec tor-General of Mails, to the Inspectors of Mails, and to the other officers by whom this important mea sure has been carried into effect, for their great and successful exertions. Unforeseen difficulties arose in completinz the con tract which was long pendin g c , for a great improve ment in the postal service between London and Dublin ; but by much labour and perseverance these difficulties have been removed, and the contract for mally ratified. As time will be required, however, for building the powerful steam-packets necessary for the service, the new arrangements will not com mence till the middle of next year. Applications are frequently made for the esta blishment of an additional post-office, or of an additional mail, or for the acceleration of a mail, which lam unable to comply with. Except in special cases the rule in such matters is not to grant the application unless it appears on inquiry either that the existing amount of correspondence gives a fair claim to the alteration, or that the improve ment will probably lead to such an increase of cor respondence as to make good the additional expense. And this rule seems to me the only one which is just to the public at large; since increased postal accommodation can only be afforded by an expen diture of the public money. It is sometimes urged that the particular corres pondence concerned is of unusual importance, as for instance, that it relates to large commercial trans actions ; but it is obviously impossible for the de partment to investigate such statements, and to judge between the comparative value of different classes of letters. A letter from the smallest village relating to a matter of life or death may be as im portant as one from a large town containing a great me rcantile order; but to provide in either case beyond the expense warranted by the amount of postage would be to tax the country at large for the benefit of the few. By paying the difference, however, between the sum which the department considers itself war ranted in expending, and the actual cost of the ser vice, it is always open to those persons to whom any particular branch of correspondence is importantto obtain the improvement they desire; and as respects additional post-offices, at least, this arrangement is not unfrequently adopted. General contracts, giving the department the use of all the trains, have been made with the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway Compa nies, making the whole number of such contracts now in force 14. The great number of arrangements still necessary for the conveyance of letters to long distances, not withstanding the length of many of the railways for which a single contract suffices, is shown by the fact, that for the transmission of a letter from Land's-end to John o' Groat's—exclusive of engage ments with rural passengers, and of arrangements for the conveyance of mail bags between railway stations and post offices-21 separate contracts are required. Numerous alterations have been made in the con struction and interior fittings of the travelling post offices on the railways, with a view to the greater security from injury of the officers employed. The ventilation, too, of these carriages has been improved. Extended use has been made of the apparatus for exchanging mail bags without stopping the train ; and an improvement of this apparatus, devised by Mr. Pearson Hill, a clerk of the department, by which larger mails than formerly can with safety be exchanged, having proved successful in a trial on the South Eastern Railway, will shortly be brought into use elsewhere. Another useful invention has been made by Mr. Dicker, supervisor of the mail bag apparatus , viz. , a signal lamp affixed to the apparatus standards, for notifying to the guards in the post office car riage the tine setting of the apparatus at the rail way station. The distance over which mails are now conveyed within the United Kingdom by railways, mail coaches, &c., steam packets, boats, and foot messen gers is about 133,000 miles per day, being about 3,000 miles more than at the end of 1857. This in crease is principally in railway conveyance ; but it will be observed that nearly as much duty is still performed by coaches and mail carts as by railways. The total number of letters delivered in the United Kingdom during the past year was 523,000,000, showing an increase of 31 per cent. The proportion to each person was 18. As compared with 1857 the total shows an increase of 19 millions ; and as compared with the year pre vious to the introduction of penny postage (1839) an increase (omitting franks) of 447 millions ; mak ing the present number of letters nearly sevenfold what it was in 1839. During the last five years the rate of increase, as compared in each instance with the number in the preceding year, has been as follows :- 18.54 8 per cent. 1855 ,, 1856 '4 ~ 18.57 5.; ~ 1858 ,, Average nearly Of the whole number of letters last year nearly a quarter were delivered in London and the subur ban district; and, counting those also which were despatched, nearly one-half passed through the London office. The number of letters given in the foregoing statements include colonial and foreign letters deli vered in the United K in' dour, as • well. as inland letters. The great bulk, however, are inland ; the eolonial and foreign forming less•than 1-30th of the whole number delivered: The number of registered letters last year was nearly- 1,300,0000 ; or one registered letter to about 400 ordinary letters. The number of newspapers deliveredin the United Ringdom last year was about the same as in each of the two previous years- - viz., about 71,000,000. The remark still holds good that the proportion of n ewspapers and books sent through the post be tween this country and places abroad is much whole, o f g r eater than th a t o f l e tt ers ; f or while of letters the P or tion, as alre a dy s t a t e d, is less than 1-50th of the newspapers and books it is about 1-16th. As alread explained in a previous report this difference is y probabl - owing, in part, to the means 1 by which large numbers Y of inland newspapers and books are di stributed otherwise than through the post, no t b eing sent here from compared witb_available for newspapers and books abroad, and to the rates of postage on colonial and foreign letters being much higher, inland letters. Great • • newspapers, than is the case with This disparity in the rates of postage gives rise to petty fraud in using foreign and colonial newspapers for letter writing The number of letters returned. to the writew4:l?st year, owing to the failure in the attempts to deliver them, was about 1,700,000, being the same witliin 8,000 as in the previous year. This is equal to about 1 in 300 of the whole number. Owing to the same cause about 570,000 newspa pers also were undelivered, being 1 in 124 of the whole number. There were about 7,250,000 of book packets last Y t .a e r, being h an increase of more than one -fif t h on pr,evious year • still, however, owing to the , great (l ecrease'of newspapers sent by post since the of fr,e 1nt1., . the compulsory stamp, the total weight aboliti on o r The aver n ,, o ago. continues tpolie-eta. us 'i • probably les,s than it was four years • DostageOf an ordinary inland letter b a o i l l i o t IW., and the average postage of a boa:. Excluding. Off ic i al 14 W., Excluding. inland letter c`6 ues to be rather more than a an n on o e u - n tl e i e itd of an ounce and iittil*t.", the average weight of ; that of a colonial letter rather quarter more i th o a f n that of a foreign letter about a quarter of an ' ounce. The average weight of an inland newspaper pass ing through the post office is about 2 ounces; that THE StiN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1859. of a colonial newspaper nearly two ounces ; that of a foreign newspaper rather more than an ounce ; and the average weight of a book packet continues to be about 51 ounces. More than 97 per cent. of the inland letters are now enclosed in envelopes, and nearly 70 per cent. of letters from abroad. THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT RAMSGATE. ADJOURNED INQUEST. The adjourned inquest was held at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Town-hall, before Mr. R. Emmerson, coroner for the district. The inte rest excited by the inquiry continues unabated, and the hall was, if possible, more crowded than a+ the first sitting. The evidence taken at the first inquiry having been read over, the examination of witnesses was proceeded with. Thomas Green, cutler, 30, York-street, Dover, deposed—l have seen the body of the deceased, and identify it as that of a man who came to my shop about three o'clock on Friday, the Bth inst. He was dressed in a brown shooting coat, brown trou sers, and a. large hat with a broad brim. (The clothes of the deceased were produced, and identi fied by the witness.) Deceased asked, in good English, for a chopper, and I sold him the hatchet produced. He asked to have the handle cut short, so that he might pack it in his box. I accordingly cut the piece produced off the handle. He said he wanted to take the hatchet to his own country. He smiled as he went away, and appeared quite sane. William Jordon, waiter at the Elephant and Castle, Margate—About 20 minutes past 11 on Sunday, the 10th, the deceased came to the hotel, and asked for ale. He remained about an hour, and during that time he had two and a half pints of ale, and some eggs and ham. On going out he left the bag produced, which at the time might have weighed 251 b. The weight proceeded from something heavy at the bottom. About a quarter past 2 o'clock the deceased returned to the hotel and had two lemons with cold water. I charged him 2s. 6d., and he gave me also 2s. for myself. He took the silver out of his pocket, and I saw no other money in his possession. He then took the bag under his left arm ' shook hands with me twice, and went away in the direction of the railway. By the Jury—When he squeezed the lemons his left hand was not bandaged. I did not notice whether any of the fingers were wanting. The deceased had a handsome signet ring on the fourth finger of the right hand. John Johns, commissioned boatman, belonging to the Coastguard station, Margate—At a quarter to three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the 10th inst., I saw the deceased at the railway station, Margate, which is close to the Coastguard station. He had with him a carpet-bag and an umbrella. He asked me at what time a train would go to Ramsgate, and I directed him to the clerk, who told him 35 •minutes past four. He then asked what time it was, and on being shown the clock, put his hand into his bosom as though consulting a watch. He then went away in the direction of the Royal crescent, taking the bag and umbrella with him. About a quarter to four I was standing on the sea wall opposite to the station and saw the deceased return from the direction of the Royal-crescent. I did not observe whether he then had his bag with him, but Ido not think he had. At five o'clock on Monday morning I picked up the bagproduced (the one identified as belonging to the deceased) in the water, a little above the Royal-crescent, to wards Westbrook. It was open, quite empty, and the key was in the lock. I have been 16 years in the service, and my experience enables me to say that, from the direction of the wind, the bag could not have been washed by the sea to where I found it. It must have been placed there.. The deceased, when he went in that direction, walked out of my sight. Westbrook is usually frequented by the public, but not on the afternoon in question, which was very wet. When the deceased was at the railway Mr. Aldridge, my chief officer, asked him if he came out of a ship. The deceased answered, No, no ship," in an excited manner, and seemed annoyed by the question. His manner was very strange. William Riddell—l live opposite to the Six Bells, Margate. About half-past 11 o'clock on Monday morning, the 11th inst., I found at a corner of the Royal-crescent wall, Bishopslodge, two linen shirts, two collars, a white cotton pocket handkerc hief, and a clothes brush (produced). The shirt resembles • the shirt now produced (the one found at Rams gate). I found one shirt stuffed in between the stones of the wall, and one covered lightly with sand. The collars and clothes brush were upon the sand. The marks on the collars and shirts appeared to have been picked out, and shreds of red cotton were hanging from the place. The clothes were quite dry, and tied up with worsted. Charlotte Nind—l am married, but separated from my husband, and I live with my mother at 3, Church-street, Margate. About a quarter to 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the 10th instant, the deceased was brought to my mother's house by a man named Samuel Gibbs, who told me a gentle man wanted me. I went into the street and spoke to the gentleman, who didnot answer, but beckoned me to follow him. I went through the churchyard to Mr. Brasier's house. Gibbs took the deceased round the church wall to Mr. Brasier's. I went upstairs with the deceased, and Gibbs remained be low with Mr. and Mrs. Brasier. The deceased stayed with. me about a quarter of an hour, and took off his coat and hat. He wore a watch, which appeared to be gold, by a chain round his neck. He gave me a 2s. piece, ls. and a 6d., which he took out of his trouser's pocket. I saw no money but what he gave me. Deceased smelt of liquor, and I also judged from his manner that he had been drinking. When he came down stairs to go out, Gibbs asked him for something to drink. Deceased at first said he had no small change, but afterwards pulled out six pence, and asked Gibbs if it was enough. Gibbs said " Yes," and he gave it him and went away. I was in Gibbs's company for half an hour or more after deceased left. Gibbs had been drinking. The deceased's left hand was bandaged. Charlotte Maxted, servant to the Rev. W. Myers, of Hereson, deposed that she was walking on the East Parade in company with a young man named George Jackson, on Sunday evening the 10th inst., about 8 o'clock. It was bright moonlight. She saw the deceased walking slowly with his arms folded and his hat over his eyes, in the direction of Augusta-stairs. Other persons were walking there (the place is a public promenade), but not near the deceased. The Witness Riddell was here recalled, and stated that, near to the clothes he had previously described, he found a piece of the upper part of a shirt, which was marked with blood about the space of a hand's breadth. There was no hole in the piece, but the armholes appeared to have been cut away: He picked up the piece, but left it where he found it. The Coroner expressed his opinion, from the man ner in which this witness gave his evidence, that little reliance could be placed upon it. William Danton Sandwell, 81, King-street, Rams ate cr hairdresser--On Saturday, the 9 th inst., about „, , a quarter past 12, the deceased caine to n; V shop and asked me to cut his hair and to ;have off his beard and moustache. I dick so, and I shaved him and cut his hair a second time. His beard was of many months' growth, and the shaving made t consider able change in his appearance. He paid me with either two shillings, or a 2s. piece. He spoke in broken English. • Thomas Wilkinson, a boatman, corroborated the evidence given by the Coastguard man - Callaghan as to the finding of the body. He went down to the beach about half-past five o'clock on Monday morning, the 11th inst., and walked along close to the cliff looking for shells until he found the body. At the time lie saw it Callaghan was coming to wards him, and they met over the body. Witness had not seen the body previously to this time. Superintendent Erick, Ramsgate police, produced a piece of paper with German words written upon it, which he found in the Pier-store near the body of the deceased, about eight o'clock on Monday morning, the 11th. The paper was wet, folded up, and appeared to have been worn in the pocket. Maurice Lebatt—l live at Ramsgate. The writ ing on the paper produced is German. The words are :—" Dear Mother,—Here are five dollars . — little ; but from a good heart.—HENRY MATTE MG." The .writing is that of an uneducated man, badly written and badly spelt. One expression is peculiar, and might have been written by a Dutchman. • S tendent•Pritchard,Royal Harbour Police, produced ;the clothing of the deceased, and also a solid piece Of chalk cut from a rock situated about 500 feet nearer the sea than the spot where the body was found, and almost in a direct line. There were upon it four distinct marks of a hatchet. (The hatchet of deceased was fitted into the cuts in court and found to correspond exactly.) The cuts were all in the same direction. The pieces of hand and yards from the rock towards the sea. The fingers wero found about 12 yards and the hatchet about `2 4 0 rock would have been uncovered by the tide at about half-ebb. Eugene Callaghan, the Coastguard-man, examined on the fornicer oc,2a.sion was recalled, and stated that he believed the body could not have been wa shed from the rock to the place where it was found by the tide. The bedy was lying straight along the beach, east and west, the right hand close to the side, and the left arm turned up. Witness was on duty, principally at Dumpton-gap, on Monday morning, and it could not have been brought there while he was there. There was also a coastguard- man,at the Ramsgate station, and the body might perhaps have been brought that way. . Salley, boatman, •was recalled, and said he knew the effect of the tide flowing on the Rams gate sands, and believed that had the body fallen on the rock alluded to it would have been washed by the waves under the cliff to the place where the body was found. The pieces of fingers were found about 80 or 90 yards from the body. Mr. Curling, surgeon, recalled, said that the in juries of the hand had not the appearance of been given in self-defence. If the blows had been given by a third party he must have stood in the same position towards the hand as the deceased himself. If the injuries were given on the shore the tide might have removed all trace of blood. There was no sign of thq deceased having been engaged in any struggle. From the retraction of the tendons in their sheath the witness believed the hand was taken off during life. Verdict.—" That the deceased diedfrom a wound in the left breast, beiween the evening of the 10th and morning of the 11th, but by whom inflicted there is not sufficient evidence to show." TEE FORGERY AND COINING GANG. -EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE. William Wagner, alias Curtis, ticket-of-leave man ; Frederick Humphreys, Red Lion-square, jeweller ; William Wynne Bramwell, furniture dealer, of Meard's-court, Soho ; and Andrew Foster, were again brought before Mr. Beadon, at Marlborough-street Police-court, yesterday, on the charge of being equally implicated in the putting forth and uttering for cash a certain forged cheque on the Union Branch Bank, Argyle-place, for £265, and Humphreys with having in his possession a large quantity of counterfeit coin, of various de nominations, and the implements and means for manufacturing the same. Mr. Mullens, solicitor for the Society of Bankers, as before, attended to prosecute ; and Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, for the defence of Wagner and Humphreys. The evidence of the four previous examinations has been before the public. Mrs. Hammond, Constitution-place, Gray's Inn road, wife of a beer-shop keeper.—l recollect the witness Walker, and another with him, at our house in March last. I was asked for paper and ink by one of tbim, and supplied them. Something was written in my presence by the absent person. This witness was not cross-examined. This - was the case for the prosecution against Humphreys and Foster, and a fresh charge was gone into against :Wagner and Bramwell. Mr. Mullens then . charged these prisoners with uttering a forged cheque on Messrs. Drummond, purporting to be signed by Mr. Edward Kneller Smart, and, in support of the same, called James Drummond Sanderson, cashier to Messrs. Drummond, of Charing-cross, bankers—Mr. Ed ward Kneller Smart keeps an account at our house. On the 21st of January last the cheque for £270 was presented by the prisoner Bramwell. I. saw it was not Mr. Smart's writing, and told prisoner it was a forgery. He produced an envelope in which he said he had received the cheque from a gentleman, who had called about a house he had to let the day before, directed in the name of Bram well. I went to Scotland-yard, and brought back Sergeant Smith and another, and one of these went away with Bramwell. Mc. Edward Kneller Smart, bullion dealer, Princes-street, Leicester-square—l keep an account at Drummond's bank. The cheque for £270 pro duced, does not bear my signature, and was wholly unauthorised by me. I purchased a 1,000 franc note on the 13th of September last, and gave a cheque for £4O. I received 12s. 6d. in cash to make up the amount of the cheque, which was asked particularly for. William Whitehead Chandler, a prisoner from Newgate. I was convicted at last sessions of several charges of forgery, on my own confession. I know the prisoner Wagner, and became acquainted with him in about May, 1857—it might have been April. I know a man named Horton Bateman. They oc cupied a house in York-building, Adelphi, for some time, wYe'i. Wagner rented. " Bateman and Co., Law, Parliamentary, and General Stationers," was painted on the blinds. I was clerk to them from September, 1858, till the day I was apprehended, on the Ist February last. There was only a trifling business in the stationery line. In November I saw the cheque (produced) on Messrs. Drummond for £440, purporting to be signed by George Wilton Chambers. I saw it in York-buildings. I had pre viously seen a similar cheque for the like amount: This was brought by a man named Kirk, and I knew it to be a forgery. It was given to Wagner. Several copies were made by myself and Bateman in Wagner's presence. I made the forged cheque now in question. I know a man named Jones, who used to come continually from October last. Bate man and Wagner made an application to Jones to find a man to cash the cheque, and he found one accordingly—a young man named Glendinning, and an arrangement was made in the presence of Wagner that Jones should advertise, and I wrote an answer to meet me at the Sabloniere, Leicester square, and I met him, walked some 200 yards with him, and gave him a cheque in a pocket book. Bateman and Wagner were watching my proceed ings. I told him to go to Drummond's and present it, and I returned to York-buildings. Jones brought the £440 in bank notes within half an hour. I went out to meet Wagner and Bateman, who had missed Jones, but did not succeed, and returned and found them at the office, and we all went into the City together and the notes were changed ; one for £4O, by Bateman, at Vaughan's, bullion dealer, and I took one to Knightsbridge for £lOO and got Scotch notes for it. When all were changed Wagner gave Jones 110 sovereigns to be divided between him and Glendinning. I had 170 and Wagner and Bateman the rest. The cheque brought by Kirk was returned, with the mark " No effects" upon it. I had an uncle in Poland-street, 'Mr. George Whitehead!' and he banked at the Union Branch, Argyle-place, and the prisoners had from me the information of the balance he had in his pass-book. Glendinning was sent for it, and Wagner received and brought it to York-buildings, and the next day I saw the cheque now produced for £259, dated Ist December, 1858, on the Union Bank. Glendinning was to present the same, and Bateman to be at the bank with a cheque of his own for £5, he keeping an account of his own there. Soon after Bateman came to York-buildings with the news that Glendinning was in custody, and Wagner came in shortly afterwards. Mr. White head's pass-book which up to then had been in the back-office, was thrown behind the fire, and we all entered into a subscription for Glendinning's de fence. A brief was prepared at York-buildings, and a woman was to be employed to convey the money and the brief to the attorney employed, and I afterwards heard that this had been done. I recollect a proposition was made - for. a loan by a person named Croker, and Dr. Jones was to be security to Bateman and Co. Dr. Jones wrote, and his signature was copied to the cheque produced but Ido not recollect by whom. I think by a French man. I changed the notes obtained for the- cheque, which was for £250, in the. City, at Massy's, and gave the notes to Wagner, receiving £4O for my share. Humphreys was engaged in this transaction, and the rest of the monerwa:divided between them. The cheque for 1'375, produced, on the City branch of the Union Bank I know to be a forgery. The 42300 note produced is part of the proceeds -of that forgery. 1 know it by own handwriting on it. 1 saw - Bateman go into the bank for the cash, Wag ner and I remaining outside. Bateman, on coming out, gave me some Bank of England notes, which I changed at Spielman's, Lombard-street, for French money, part paper and part gold ; one of these notes was for 1,000 francs, and Bateman, I believe, changed it for English money at Smart's, who gave the £4O cheque produced, and he gave that cheque to Wag ner, Bateman having in our presence made ,a copy of it. ' it was made upon tracing paper. 'Shortly afterward a blank form of cheque for the - forgery was brought to York-buildings by Humphreys. It had no stamp upon it at the time. A die was made at York-buildings by. us all in plaster of paris and afterwards in metal, and that was used for stamping the cheque in question. It then represented a cheque for £270, purporting to have the signature " Edward Kneller Smart," and an arrangement was then made with Jones, who said he knew a person named Bramwell, who was in charge of an empty house, and he would present it, and to protect him, a letter should be written to him from some one in the name of. Wilson, about taking the house. The letters produced were those written for the purpose. (Put in and read). The first, dated Jan. 9th, 1859, and the second, Jan. 20th, professing to enclose a cheque for £270, and saying the writer (Wilson) would call for the balance over £2O, for the fixtures of the house, which had been asked for. There was, however, no cheque sent. I posted one of these let ters, I believe the last, and Jones the followingmorn • ing met Wagner near the Nelson Column, where -13ramwellwasto pass, in order that Wagner might see him. I afterwards returned to York•buildincr b s, and Wagner and Bateman came in about 12 o'clock, and Jones followed, and -sz.id an officer had. been seen to go to Bramwell's hodse with hint from the bank. A doubt was raised, and Wagner said Jones and Bramwell were conspiring to rob him of his regu lars, andthe would go and see for himself, and Jones agreeing", he went with Wagner to reconnoitre the house, and on his return he said he had seen a strange man smoking a pipe at the window. Cross-examined—Many robberies I have perhaps been concerned In, and with Wagner's suggestion, hay been robbing the bankers as much as I could. T have not been yet sentenced, though con victed. I make this known because I think it for the best. Ido expect a mitigation of punishment, but cannot say what will be done in my case. William Glendinning---I am under sentence in Coldbath-fields Prison. Was convicted in January ast, at the Central Criminal Court for uttering a forged cheque for £259. I know a man named Jones, and in November last he introduced me to another man, named Chandler, who gave me a cheque on Drnmmond's for £440. Thai was at the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester•square, !or rather in Green-street. After we came out I presented it for payment and received four £lOO notes and four £lO notes, which I gave to Jones, and on the Ist Dec. I went to the Union Bank for Mr. George Whit head's pass-book and received it, giving it to Jones. I went to Poland-street on the morning I was taken into custody with Jones. and Wagner gave me the cheque produced. I have identified him. Cross-examined—Chandler was not present when the cheque was given me in roland-street. I swear Wagner is the man. I do not expect any remission of my sentence for the information I have afforded to the present prosecution. Julia Johnson—l am wife of Frederick Johnson, carpenter, 13, Middlesex-street, Somers-town. I know William Glendinning, the last witness. After he was in prison a person called on me, and in consequence of what then passed T went to the corner of King William-street, Strand, and there met the same person and another—the prisoner Wagner. He said, "If I provide you with money, will you undertake to provide Glendinning with food in the House of Detention durin 0. all the time he is there ?" and I said I would ; and e 'l was to meet • him at the dancing rooms, St. Martin's-lane, the ensuing night. I went, and saw Wagner, and he invited me into the refreshment room, where he gave me three sovereigns, and he asked me to meet him at the back of the Post. office on the Monday night following ; and I went and met him. He gave me a paper and told me to take it to Mr. Sleigh, the barrister, Middle Temple, and see if he would undertake the defence ; but he would not ; and I was then sent to Mr. Ribton, who did undertake it for the £3. I afterwards followed Wagner to York buildings, Adelphi. I have been to the House of Detention and pointed out Wagner to the officers. Cross•examined—l do not know any Jones con nected with this case, I know many Jones's, but never passed as the wife of one. Ido know the man who first called on me. He asked me to go and see a person. I have known Glendinning at a friend's, but decline to give that friend's name. I went to see Glendinning because he was in trouble, and might come to see you also, if you were in any little trouble. The cross-examination of this witness continued at some length, but her testimony was in no way shaken, and her answers to questions caused con siderable merriment from the peculiar and facetious way in which they were given. Henry Smith, sergeant of the detective depart ment, received the letters produced at the bank in presence of Bramwell, and went with another officer to that prisoner's house, where he• stayed all day. While there two or three persons came to look at the house, which was an empty one. Some part of the time he smoked a pipe at the window. This witness corroborated the statement of the witness Chandler. The depositions of the witnesses having been read over by Mr. Leadley, the chief clerk, and the pri soners having in form been fully committed for trial on all the charges, Mr. Beadon said he would now take the oppor tunity of thanking publicly Mr. Mullens for the excellent way in which he had conducted this long, important, and complicated case ; also the lfficers, one and all, who had been concerned in bringing it to light ; and the press for the wise discretion which had been shown in keeping back the early examinations from being made public, by which judicious course alone the subsequent apprehension of three prisoners had taken place. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-Axil 20. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. ;Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Baron Polloa Barons Martin, Bramwell, and Channel.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. BARRY. This was an action by the Crown, to recover of the defendant certain penalties under the Paper Duties Act, but in reality to obtain the judgment of the court on what constitutes paper, and what parchment, so as to assess the duty. The defendant, who is an extensive paper manufacturer, also manufacturers, under a patent, an article made from the refuse of skins, &c., resembling and used as parchment, and also applicable to other purposes. The Crown contended that it, was liable to the higher duty charged upon paper, from the material being reduced to pulp, and the defendant the lesser duty charged upon parchment, it being made from animal matter. The case was argued last term, the court taking time to consider their judgment. The Lord Chief Baron delivered judgment to day. It was in favour of the Crown, that the article in question was liable to the paper duty. THE DISSOLUTION AND COUNSEL. The Attorney-General said he had to apply to their lordships, with the consent of the learned counsel engaged on the other side, that several cases in which he was engaged should be allowed to stand over until next term, alleging as a reason that probably for the next few weeks counsel would necessarily be absent from town. The Lord Chief Baron remarked that a general election at this period of the year was an unusual circumstance. It usually took place during the Long Vacation, and he had no doubt the Court would readily afford every facility to learned coun sel engaged in elections. Mr. Baron Martin said the elections would be over before the end of Term. The Attorney-General said they would, but it would only leave them two or three days. Mr. Baron Martin—The last day of Term is the 12th of May. The Attorney-General said he was afraid that many of them would be engaged until the 9th or 10th of May. Mr. Baron Martin said that might be so in Ire land, but not in England. The Attorney-General said it was a long time since his lordship was engaged in electioneering matters. (Laughter.) There was first the procla mation, then the nomination, and next the polling. The Lord Chief Baron—And then the long speeches. (Laughter.) Mr. Baron Martin And after that a fight. (Bencwed laughter.) The Court•granted the application. ROLLS' COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) BRADBURY V. DICKENS-IN RE " TUE HOUSEHOLD WORDS." Mr. Jessel moved for leave to serve the defendant in this case with notice of motion for to-morrow to advance the suit, upon the "ground that the time for the defendant to file affidavits had expired yesterday, and that all reasonable despatch was necessary in a case of this kind, where the means of dealing with the copyright of such a work as The Household Words, and its real value to the proprietors, depended so much upon the proceed ings in regard to it not being delayed. His Tfonour—Has the defendant filed any affi- Mr. Jessel—No, sir. 11is llonour-i-You mav hike an order for the service as prayed, on the understanding that the defendant is not to be prejudiced thereby, if he can show any cause why such short service should be injurious to him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 20. GUILDHALL—Mr. Francis Ing grocer and tea dealer, of 9, High Holborn, appeared on a summons before Alderman Phillips, to answer the charge that he, " the said Francis Ingham, being a person against whom a petition for adjudication of bankruptcy had been filed, and who had thereupon been adjudged a bankrupt, did on the lbth of Novomber last, in contemplation of bankruptcy. unlawfully make divers false and fraudulent entries in a certain book of account, called a cash-book, with intent to defraud his creditors." Mr. Eagleton appeared for the prosecution, on behalf of the assignees, and Mr. Dorien, barrister, conducted the defence. Thomas Collins, clerk to Mr. Hamber, one of the messengers of the Court of Bankruptcy, said—l produce the proceedings in bankruptcy against Francis Ingham, containing the p etition and the adjudication of bankruptcy of the 19th November, 1853. The bankrupt s urrendered on the same day. I also - produce his examination, taken on oath before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, on the 3d of February last. Mr. Eagleton th en read the following portion of the bankrupt's examination, as material evidence in support of the present charge :—" I kept my own accounts entirely. My business was perhaps chiefly a cash business. I put down what I received and p a id each' day in a book. That w ac as e fi bx first entered I •toefnteeah ld som etim2s on a paper and put in a a en tered at night the receipts and payments day. I counted the money from the till eac h n i ght to show the receipts ; Immediately I made a pay ment I entered it in a cash-book. (Book produced.) I put down each payment as I made it in th a t b oo k, and at the end of . each day I counted the money from the• till, and wrot e it side of that book. Ttakings he lwn on the other nothing more than call receipts are the money counted from the till each day. If I received any money for a debt con tracted on credit, I wrote that down in the book. I cannot say I did so always. That book repre sents all I took and all I paid. That is not the first cash-book I handed to the official assignee. (Another book produced.) The book now produced is the one I first produced to him. lam sorry for it. That book is all in my own handwriting. I made up that book the night before my bankruptcy: It was after I had determined tqbecome bankrupt. I was bankrupt on my own declaration of in solvency. The book was made up after I had signed a declaration of insolvency. The figures there as receipts are less than the sums entered as receipts in the cash-book. I felt myself in confu sion, and felt much anxiety at not being able to account for a large deficiency. I thought It (the book) would enable me to do so. It was written in an hour or two. I had the real book before me, and copied it, making the alterations ih the re ceipts. It was entirely, my own idea. When I first went to the official assignee's office, I was told it could not be a true book, as it appeared to have been written all at one time. rsaid in answer to that. that each page was written at one time." Mr. Edward Hart, an accountant, said—l was in the office of the official assignee (Mr. Nicholson) in this case in November last. The messenger brought to the office the book produced, numbered 4,535 (the fictitious book referred to in the above exa mination). That was about the 20th or 21st of November, and the bankrupt called on the 22d. I asked him what books he kept in connexion with the business, and he said he kept a day-book, a ledger, no cash-book, but only a book of receipts and payments which had never been added up. He further said that the fictitious book had been written by him day by day, and that the entries were not made all at one time. He said he bought the book at a secondhand book-stall in Holborn when he first commenced business. About two or three days after, his accountant sent for me, and I Ireceived the correct cash-book produced. Cross-examined—l should think it was within three or four days after I saw the bankrupt that I received the second cash-book. It might have been on the following morning, but I am not prepared to say positively either way. Mr. Eagleton said that was the case for the pro secution. Alderman Phillips said the bankrupt was charged with making a false book to defraud his creditors, and it was therefore important to show what dividend had been declared, or in what manner his creditors had suffered by the fraudulent book. Mr. Eagleton said the estate had not yet been realised, and there was consequently no dividend at present. It was impossible to ascertain the exact state of the bankrupt's balance-sheet, as there was a sum of money coming to his wife, which would probably give rise to some litigation as to whether the creditors could avail themselves of it for the estate. Alderman Phillips said the bankrupt was charged with fraud, and it was his duty to ascertain in what manner the fictitious book had been the means of defrauding his creditors. Mr. Hart said the balance-sheet had been pre pared entirely :from the correct cash-book, and that the fictitious book had not been acted upon at all. Mr. Eagleton said this prosecution was insti tuted by Mr. Commissioner Goulburn's direction, under the 252 d section of the Bankruptcy Consoli dation Act, which enacted that any falsification of a bankrupt's accounts, with intent to defraud his creditors, was a misdemeanour punishable in the usual way, and the fraudulent intention of the bankrupt was quite apparent in placing the ficti tious book produced before the assignees as a true statement of his affairs. Mr. Johnson, solicitor to one of the trade assig nees, here explained that the Commissioner had ordered this prosecution, but that there was a difference of opinion among the assignees ; and Mr. King, feeling that the Commissioner was not justified in making such an order, now wished to withdraw from the prosecution. The bankrupt commenced business in 1857 with bor rowed capital, advanced by his brothers, who were the principal sufferers by the bankruptcy. The second book produced had been used in making up the balance-sheet, and the bankrupt had, in fact, passed upon it, notwithstanding the most virulent opposition at every stage in the proceedings. The bankrupt did not make out a false book, but on the following morning he took the correct book, ad mitted the error he had committed, and not one of his creditors had been damnified by the book first produced. Alderman Phillips said the question was not what was actually done with the book, but for what pur pose it was put forward. He had listened very attentively to the evidence, and there were points in it he should like to give a more serious considera tion to . at the same time he would remind Mr. John son that he thought Mr. Commissioner Goulbuin had exercised a very wise and sound discretion in sending the case to this court. The bankrupt was then remanded on bail. MA RYLEB ONE.—CONVEYING SPIRITS INTO A WORKHOUSE.—EIIen Cayley, was charged with having unlawfully conveyed spirits into Marylebone Workhouse. Mrs. Richardson, the matron, deposed that on Wednesday afternoon the prisoner came to the house to visit a patient in the infirmary. Witness, as is usual in such cases, searched her, and found in the lining of her petticoat a bottle containing about half a pint of gin ; she was then given into the custody.of Police-constable 46 D. Mr. Broughton (to the prisoner)—What is your answer to this ? Prisoner—l own that I took the gin in, but was not aware that I was doing wrong. Mr. Broughton—You are liable to a penalty of £lO for this offence. You cannot pay that, can you ? Prisoner—Oh no, your worship, nor so many shillings, and if you punish me I must serve my time in prison. Mr. Race, one of the officers at the workhouse, said that the practice had been carried on to a considerable extent, and the medical gentlemen's efforts to restore health to their patients had in many instances been frustrated through spirits being clandestinely introduced into the establish ment. __ _ _ - _ _ Mr. Broughton said he hoped that what had taken place would be a warning to prisoner, and inflicted upon her a fine of as., in default of pay ment seven days in the House of Correction. BIGAMY.—Mary Ann Frankhata was brought up on remand, charged with having intermarried with George Pamphilon, her former husband, Walter Frankham, being at the time now living. Proof of the two marriages was brought forward, and the prisoner was sent for trial. LAMBETH.---JEALOUSY AND SERIOUS As • SAULT.—William Moore, a waiter out of employ ment, appeared before Mr. Elliott, to answer to a very serious charge of assault on the person, and breaking the leg of Mr. John Turner, a gentleman, residing at Westow-hill, Norwood. • Mr. Turner, who entered the court on crutches, and who was accommodated with a chair in front of the solicitors' table, deposed that on the night of the 22d of February last he came from the London bridge Station by the half-past twelve train, and got out at the Anerley Station. The defendant, whom he met there, and whom he knew from his having been a waiter at. a public-house, and his also visiting a. servant of his, offered to see him home, and caught him by the arm, but on reaching the bridge he got away from him, and told him he did not require his assistance. The defendant still persiSted in giving his assistance, and again caught his arm, and going along he (Mr. Turner) spoke about his two servant girls ; said that it would be a good thing if they were out of the neighbour hood, and told the defendant lie was a great fool for having an y thin g to do with e ither of them, as they had a cou p le / of ca p tai ns who called on them, and with whom they walked out. On saying this , t he defendant gave him a violent u blow on the eye, which knocked him down, getting up, he found the defendant in in neckcloth a fight, upon in n onat titude.vs Ile rushed in on him to prevent his striking - again, and caught him by h hieli the defendant kicked him violently and broke his leg. His groans brought t wo policerAen to the spot, and he begged of them to procure a fly to take him home, as his leg Was broken. The defendant procured a bath chair, assisted in taking. , him home, and on seeing Mrs. Turner, he told her he (witness) pt young with the - wo man he was paying his addresses to, esses to, and that this led to the quarrel in wl • r.eh he got his leg broken. Mrs. Turner felt indignant at this insinuation , and ordered th e defendant out of the house, and for six weeks and three days he (Mr. Turner) had been confined to his bed. In ,cross-examination,the prisoner admitt ed th a t lie was not sober on the night in question, but de nied th a t h e h a d sa id h e slept with the young wanian the defendant was courting. lie had, how ever, spoken disparagingly of the young woman and her fellow-servant, but denied having caught hold of the defendant by the neckcloth before he had been knocked down. The defence set up by Mr. Neale was, that the • complainant. had been intoxicated at the time, and, according to the testimony of one of the constables, had challenged the defendant to fight.• and while being assisted along, Mr. Turner had not onl y passed reflections on he young woman Moore was courting, but said he had slept with her. Annoyed at such statements, the defendant ventured to re monstrate, upon which the complainant caught him by the throat, which led to a struggle and a fall, and in the latter Mr. Turner unfortu nately got his leg broken. Mr. Turner here said his medical man could prove the injury was done by a kick and not by a Mr. Elliott said that k the case was of too serious a character for him to deal with, and he should send it before a jury; but as it would be necessary to have the opinion of the surgeon who had at tended the complainant, he should remand the de fendant for his attendance. WORSHIP-STREET. RUFFIANISM. - Wm. Frost, 25, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with violently assaulting Ellen Crawley. Mrs. Mary Miller, landlady of the Woodman, in Hoxton, said—Yesterday afternoon two young women came from the street to my - bar, but before they could call for any refreshment the prisoner rushed in and struck one of them with his fists in the face. I told him he was a brute, and desired him to desist, but he grossly abused me, and again struck the poor girl repeatedly. I then sent for the police, but he conti nue d beating her, and she fell. I observed blood on her face. Before the police came they had all left. I was alone in the I bar. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Was there no man present ? Witness—Men were looking in at the door, but did not interfere. I think they do not deserve the name, as they stood by quietly. Mr. D'Eyncourt—And I regret that some spirit was not manifested against such brutality. Hopper, 358 N—As I was hastening to the house I met this man (prisoner), and some persons fol lowing called out, " That is the brute." I stopped him, and he observed, " It's all right." I took him back, and a girl, whom I reco , mised as a prostitute, charged him with assaulting her. She said to him, " I have thieved and been on the streets for you long enough, and will do so no m pre." He instantly struck her down with his fist before I could inter fere, and became very violent. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Where is that woman ? Hopper—She promised to be here, Sir ; but I believe she is not. Prisoner—She sent me word that she would not come against me. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Then she will be summoned, and in the event of that process being ineffectual, a warrant will bring her here. In the meantime you will be kept safe. At this intimation the prisoner looked very blank, and was removed to the cells, and subsequently the constable brought in a young woman, whose face exhibited marks of severe and recent ill-usage. She stated her name to be Ellen Crawley, and that she had cohabited with the prisoner for some months up to the last nine months, but refused to give any evidence against him with respect to this assault. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Very well. Now, prisoner, what are you, and how do you reply to the testi mony given against you ? Prisoner—l am working for my father, who is a lamplighter. I merely shoved this girl against the counter. I did not strike her, but I was very much in liquor. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What your motive was for committing the assault I know not—not anything can be stronger than the evidence of the landlady with respect to it, independent of which, you repeated the ill-usage while in custody of the con stable. If your cowardly conduct was induced by drunkenness you must take the consequences, for it is not any excuse. I hoped and believed that this species of ruffianism was fast decreasing, and ear nestly hope that it is so. You will go for four months to the House of Correction, with hard abour, and I must observe that great credit at :aches to the landlady for bringing you to justice. COUNTRY' MARKETS. NEWARK At to-day's market there WE which sold at is to 2s per qr Other articles unchanged. White wheat, new, 43s to 50s Barley, grinding .. 26s to 304 Red do. 3Bs to 42s Oats, old, . 28s to 323 Old white 44s to 50s New do 2Gs to 303 Red do. 383 to 44s Beaus.. 4OB to 463 Barley, malting—. 36s to 42s Peas ......... —s to —3 :—Arnm 20. as a moderate show of wheat► more money than last week• NEWCASTLE—APRIL 19. A tolerable supply of wheat, but there was a dull feeling in the trade, and all good qualities realised the rates of last week. There was not much doing in oats, barley, and beans, and prices were without change. Flour held for higher rates ; business better. Peas moved off slowlYl without any change in value. Foreign wheat in better de mand at full prices. HULL—APRIL 19. At to-day's market there was a fair supply of Engliol l wheat, which was in good condition, with a sl ow inquit7. B, is to 2s per qr over the rates of last week. Barley is bra"' for malting sorts, and grinding moves off at full prices . Beans is dearer, and scarce. Peas a trifle b e tt er , but nu' quotably higher. Oats steady, at fully late rates. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr 4os Od to 49s 1 :21 Old red ,/ New white .. „ New red .... , :1 425 30 s Od od to o 4 48 38 5 uti. uu_ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 50s Od to 53s i; Dutch, and Belg i Belgian, and d dF r r e ench 45530 Odo Od to 445680 ‘O4 Baltic St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 38s Od to 39s ill Barley.... English malting 33s Od to 37s °I Grinding 2Bs Od to 30s 0 4 ; Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 29s Od to 31$ Oa to 28s Oa Grinding 26s Od to 2 8 s Od_ , Oats English, old to to la nd FrieslandArc ha pall to Osllid Swedish and Danish . 44s Od to 46s Od nge l and and Dutchß ig a , . p . e . r . .... .. 0 0 s s u l d d Beans ....English, old, per qr New pige0n............... New tick. ........... Foreign breakers 38s Od to 49s Od grinding Peascl_. Tares ....Winter E g yptian 30s Od to 32s Od I n di an Corn 5 Li ns eed, feeding os Od to 55 8 O d crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 5 0- to £9 10 0 Foreign . , . 512 6to 5 15 u Rape cakes Bones MARKET HARBOROUGH—Aram 20. There was a small show of wheat yesterday, which sold at the prices of last week—from 38s to 42s , barley firint at 36s to 41s per qr.; oats, 26s to 348 per 24 stone ; bean* 38s to 42s per 38 stone. MELTON MOWBRAY—Arnth 19. At this day's market the show of wheat was moderate, and the trade ruled good at is to 2s per qr higher. Other descriptions of grain unaltered. Wheat 38s to 44s I Oats.. 2Bs to 3 64 White do ....... .. 38 s to 44s Beans 3Bs to 42 4 Barley .. 36s to 40s I Beans, new —s to ---0 COAL MARKET—Arum 20. • The trade was more active to-day at former rates. The market will be closed to-morrow. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.) s. d. Wylam 14 0 Howard's West Hart -1 l5 6 ley Walker Primrose 11 0 Tanfield Moor 11 0 Tanfield Moor Butes ll 0 Holywell 13 6 WallslEnd. s. ( 1 4 Hartlepool 17 '4 Eden Main • • • • ******* **** 15 „•-' South Hartl e p oo l 15 6 Kelloe • ***** 16 Heugh * ** 1 5 i; Trimdon Tho * rn * ** ** ***. • • • 1 3 South Durham * * • .1° -4 Stewart's **** • • * * : * 17 0 Keiper Grange.. ......17 Hetion ****** 15 0 Nixon's merthyr ..... 2 1 0 Powell' s Duffryii Stettin 21 0 - Walls End. Haswell l7 6 Lambton. 17 6 Riddell l4 6 Braddyll's Helton l6 0 Ships at market, 71—Sold, 62• allskin diseases, ------ rADvERTBEMENT.I---Hollow y' Pills and Ointment: — For • " are a soverei . aSSeS • .gn remedy. While the Ointment la . _ through the pores of the skin, as water saturates the soil, however ianvesterate, t.hese medicines as salt penetrates meat, the Pills act upon the blood, which they correct and purify. The whole physical machinery is thus • rendered healthy, regular, and vigorous. The cure thus effected is not partial and temporary, the 'disease la entirely and for ever driven from the system, and the patient need not be apprehensive of its return. As these medicines have no violent action, they do not necessitate any inter' ruption of ordinary avoca ti on s. They are composed. of rst i balsams, and may safely b e g iven to delicate females an" young children. BIRTIS. AnyE.—On the 19 th inst., at Merly Hd use , Dorset, t he wife of Willett L. Adye, Esq., of a son. CIIAPLIN.—On the 18th inst., at Maida-hill, the wife O f F. W. Chaplin, Esq., of a son. LINDSAY. —On the 15th inst., at the Mansion House, Br e " con, the Hon. Mrs. H. Gore Lindsay, of a son. MITCHELL. —On the 13th inst., at Plyniouth, the vale Of B re vet-Colonel J. Mitchell, R.M.L.1., of a son. TALIACARNE.—On the 19th inst., in Great Cumberland' street, the Marques° Tailaearne, of a son. WYLLIE.—On the 17th inst., R et Ellerslie, North Devon, the wif* of Lieut.-Colonel R. Wyllie, °` 3 daughter. MARRIAGES BOLTON—COFFIN.—On the 16th inst., at Broad Water Church, Worthing , Major William John Bolton , 11-A , to Henrietta Juliet youngest daughter of Robert Cann Esq., of that place. WALTON— WELCIL—On the 19th inst., at Christchurch, Rants, Joseph, only surviving son of Joseph Esq., Down's-park-road, Lower Clapton, to Elizabe.th, eldest daughter of James Kemp Welch, Esq,, o f Christ' church, Hants. Walton, DEATHS. BALTYWIN.—On the 14th inst., at Paris, Charles Bitr r i Baldwin, Esq., aged 69. BRYAN.—On the 17th inst. at at Bath; the Rev. Cll5 10 Bryan, rector of Woolastone,. Gloucestershire, aged 7 4 . , • Cuoss.—On the . 19th inst., George Cross, of Courlalla Lodge, Wandsworth-road. DANIEL—On the 19th inst., at 36, Clarg,es-street, Mayfair/ Henry Daniel, Esq., aged 75. b- FITZGERALD.—On the 18th iust., at hi s residence, ‘-,-u chambers, 15, Regent .street, Colonel Charles Fitzgerpiut C. 8., aged 74. MArri,Artn.—On the Bth inst., at Balp,Teggan House,ltrig tonshire, Patrick Maitland, Esq., of Freugh. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Procinct of the Savoy, in the county of Niddlosex ; Thurssday, April 2141859. Pram of tb ber And hie Lon, C' giiisi I. l'. JOU It w; Lc