The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-21 00:00:00

EQUITY COURTEL—Jas. 20.
(Won tile Led aissoliko

itist :cabs in.ge • revaisationo:l;4:--ot tok.r I;fry bend t
&hod* relied, ie,proor2/1cular8.
having withdrawn bas the
seeisty, that he wrote to the MOilltart ,b that effect (but it
was stated the latter did not reach him), and a resolution
peened by the board Dot to receive subscriptions from
&Intros as investing members, but as withdrawing members.
Up to July 16, 1862, the date of the award, the defendant
was indebted to the society, and the amount still remained
unpaid. No act had been done, however, by the directors
to forfeit the defendant's shares. A sum of 3,020 f.
rill remained due to the hankers on their advance
land there was no way of prying it off but by the subearip:
Lions due from the 'lioness. The directors, after notice,
to arbitration, and an award was made coder the
proceeded °V., which was in operation before the prong of
the Beneritßuildinghociety Act, directing thepaymentof 48/.
arrears and the expenses, amounting together to 591. 4d,
That award wan served upon the defendant. end a demand
made far payment, but be declined to comply with it. A
summons was then taken out terror the payment,
which came on for hearing before Mr. D'Eyaeourt in
December, 1862. The defendant then objected to the jurr
diction of the magistrate, on the grounds, ant, that it was
not a society within the 6 and 7 Wm. 111., chop. 32; seccodly,
that he had rased to be a member ; thirdly, that the arbi. I
ratios was bed, r it embraced matters not width, the pre. I
visions of the an; and, (earthly, that the magistrate bad
no lariediotron. The magistrate being of opinion that he
had no jurisdiction, (Wird to enforce the award.

--•7
(Before the Aesietea‘ellialt)

111 II PATRICK J0K1.1,0.14-111

Zdwurd Baaunt. 40., dismayed ia Is; calmer as •
gentleman, was indicted or fraudulently obtaining by
false praesoes from Pad Akan the sum of 101., the
moneys of William Cooper, with intent to defraud. There
were other indictment/ against him charging him with
franduleotly obtaining by -false pretences the sums of 25/.
and 29/. ; from John Stephen Veret the sum of 10/. ; sod
from tieorge Chattel the sum of 101., all with intent to
defraud.

_
Itteecey-Geaerailtritinhint----117. J7W:Cititt7 and
Mr. H. B. Miller) said ft was hie duty to apply. to the
court that Mr. Patna Jaime, late an official assignee of
the Court of Bankruptcy, be directed to pay into the chief
reghitrar's account the bakama remaining due from him
to the several estates of which he bad been official wipes
and which had Dot 'beady been duly amounted for by him.
Mr. Johnson had resigned his allot of official manager oa
the ith of June, /862, and a pomace of 8001. a year
was then allowed him ; but at the time his retirement took
place he bad not closed his accounts nor made
up his books. An examination bad been made into
those acoounts, and there appeared to be due to
Yes several bankrupt.' estates which had not been
passed a sum of 14,730/. 19.. 4d., span which Mr. John-
mos claimed 1,0211., so that be was still accountable for over
13.7001. At the time that Mr. Johnson was allowed to
retire ce his pension the chief registrar of the court applied
to him tepees his &connate but thin had not been does.
The Lord Ch....fiar.—W hen the application was Lode to
ins to allow Mr. Johnsoo his pension I understood that he
bad closed bill coconuts, and that they had been duly passed
by the counnissioner. It was on that footing I allowed him
to retire.

Mr. Ribton and Mr. Montague Williams (ieetructed by
Mr. Edward Lewis) conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Met-
oafs (instructed by Leiria and Lewis) defended the
prbooer.
Mr. Ribtoti, in opening the ease, said the prisoner, Ed-
ward Bathurst, our indicted for uttering a cheque for the
amount of 101., drawn on the firm of Masora. Roberts.
Lubbock, and Co., the bankers, of Lombard-street, and
the prisoner received upon that cheque the sum of 101.
from a Mr. Akers, who was in the employ of a Mr.
=, a tradesman in Orford-street. It was not in-
to allege that this cheque was • forgery, but that
he obtained the amount by false pretenoes, the
prisoner representing that he had an account
with Messrs. Roberta, Lubbock, and Co., and
that they would cash the cheque when it was pre-
meted. Believing these representations to be true,
Mr. Cooper gm him mak for the cheque. The cheque
was afterwards presented to Mama. Roberts, through •
backer, bat there being no funds to meet it it was returned.
The case bed some rather remarkable features connected
with it. The indictment charged the prisoner with ob-
taining money by false pretences, and of that there could
be no doubt ; but he was also charged with obtaining that
money by false pretences with intent to defraud. It ap-
rthat the prisoner had an amount with Roberts,
uireetk, and Co.. which was opened on the 11th of Sep-
, timber, and on the 24th of October the but cheque was
paid, when it was found that the prisooees acmnnt was
madmen by 821. Finding this to be the case Mr. Roberta
wrote to,the prisoner, and when be was called he would
state what the facts in reference to it were. In that tarter
be requested the prisoner not to thew any we cheques upon
them, as they would not be honoured, and it was a morel
disagreeable thing that cheques should come to them
through other Rinker', drawn by persons whose aocounta
were overdrawn. Notwithstanding the prisomr was is
posaeeswe of the knowledge on the 24th of October that the
back would not honour any more of his cheques, his ac-
count being then overdrawn by 82/., he still drew the
cheque which formed the subject of the present Indictment
of obtaining money by false pretences with intent to de-
fraud Mr. Cooper of the amount.
Other evidence having been given,
The Assistant Judge summed up the evidence in a very
careful roanaer.

—The Attorney-General regretted to may that the duty of
the commissioner had been in this respect systematically
neglected for a long time. There were a large number of
bankrupts' estates which bad not been passed, sad though
the amount in each case outstanding was very small
rally about 1001., the entire Sim wee to be socounZry
showed that the official assignee could not for a long time
have complied with the order which required him quar-
terly to return an eccoust.
The Lord Cl ancel:or—Did not Mr. Commissioner Enos
attend to the order! . _

Mr. Serjeent Hayes, with whom was Mr. Nome Lloyd,
appeared for the moony. He said this was • vary haportant
cpiestimvit,whether they had acted right in &tog what Emmy
others had done before them, purchased freehold land for the
purpose of dividing and allottiog amongst the membma. The
object was very good, because it enabled persons to °Wei'
land at • moderate pries instead of borne to pay Lip sums
for small plots of land, besides giving them comity votes.
An impulse had bees given to the establishment of freehold
societies is consequence of the Court of Common PLY
having bold, in regard to the splitting up of freeholds, that
it was not only lawful bat a meretorious sat, b permitting
the many to became freeholders iostsad of
The defendant contended that the society had no right to
deal in land according to its amititutim, and he appeased to
have come to the conclusion that the society, having in his
opinion acted illegally, had thereby dissolved itself • but
the Lamed counsel argued that, admitting the society bad
acted Wks vireo, it did sot awe its statism If the
diluters bad improperly applied the funds they =Wit be
=apiast and made personally liable, bat as de.
old not do so, h having commuted in sham
had dim, sad taken an allotment of the land. A
point was takes, that the defendant had withdraws from the
and that he was not mumble mow thine
shorty
The defendant said he bad forfeited
shares ; but the society contended he could sat do so by
merely withholding his pimento. The peres of land
was IMMO the scope of the Building Societies Act. there
was no doubt, and had so been decided is Chansery, sod
Tided Pratt refused to register this 1100/84 'Mil the
rake relating thereto were expunged, bat it was optional
with the members after earelowat to take the mosey for
building or a pies) of laud. There was a differesce between
the two objects, but bin they were oombioed.
The Lad Chief Justice said the society was formed an •
freehold land society, end was registered as • Mild*
society. As the latter they were entitled ho ream sets-
maiptions, god if they had improperly applied the funds of
the society in acquiring land it did not the lees mike it •
benefit building society. A member feeling Idnisalf ag-
grieved under such circumstances had his redress.
Mr. Serjesnt Hayes then referred to the second point,
and said that by the rules • member could me withdraw.
The Lord Chief Justice said that appeared to be so.
Mr. M. Smith, WI., with whom was Mr. Day, argued
that the magiellate bad acted right in deciding that be had
so jurisdiction. It was an attempt to use the pewees of
the FnendV Societies Act in a case where it did not apply,
viz., to a freehold land society. The Fri•l4ll, Building
Societies Act only empowered the receipt of subscriptions
for the erection or purchase of one or more dwelling Moses,
M., and the mortgaging of the property to than natil ties
amount of the shares and the interest thereon were
Mr. Justice Blackburn said this society appeased to have
been formed as the North London Freehold &misty, bet
ri the North London Benefit Building .
rare as
Smith said the defendant had no land allotted to
and he had only awned an agreement to take land. The
society had borrowed over 4,00 W., aid this was as improper
attempt to get motley from him to relieve the society from
its liability. This was • registarieg as use society sad as
attempt to carry it out as another by private arrangement.
The learned counsel cootesded that is fact the &louden%
had withdrawn from the society. It was true he did sot
tender the amount of smears due, but be gave mike of his
withdrawal, which clearlp showed he no longer wished to re-
mains megiber. Ratios in 185$, that member, who
had not aopepted allotments, or in whose favour nose had
been made, were so longer investing members, showed him
to be no longer a member but a purchaser.
The Lard Chief Justin said he was of opinion that the
rule most be made absolute, because he thought the mires.
trete ander the eireunniseess ought to have enforced the
payment of money found to be due under the award. Tbs
society was registered under the Friendly Building Societies
Act, and arcoecling to the rules of the society metals sub-
scriptions and ham due from and payable by the defeedaat
had not been paid. Two answers were gives to it, the main
one being that the society was dissolved, which was a
question foreign to that the magistrate had to *Mortals. It
was said that the society having been properly registered as
a Middle( society, the members had amongst themselves
changed the purposes for which it was registered, and
bad conversed it into a freehold land society. If
they had dope so it would be • clear Mew- ,
Oration of the funds, but that was for 1 court of equity to
inquire into sad decide. A society did sot owe to mid
became it did something which the act did not criaposme it
to do, because it might be prevented by the taterferease of
any member, sad so hag as it was in existence the mesa-
hen most be bound by its rules. The whole question was
whether the society was is existence, and that being so the
magistrate had no jurisclictioe to see bow the funds were
raised and how they were to be applied, that bong •matter
for • court of equity to inquire into. He did not think that
the Mange of purpose of the funds put an end to the so-
ciety, or that the defendant had ceased to become • mem-
ber. The judgment of the court was therefore is favour of
the society, and the rule would be made absolute for en-
forties the award.
The other learned judges concurred.
Judgment ter the .atiff.

The iitor;;:deMeal —lf he had done so, my lord, I fear
that the Mate of facts which it ia ray duty to lay before you
coeld not have arisen.
The Lord Chancellor—This is the result of that want of
a superintauding jotlxthrirhich too to drams to have in-
troduced into the wo • of the bankruptcy law.
The AtionaerGeoe The matter to cot mended by
the amount which Mr. Jammu himself gime of it. In a
Utter which he has written to Ma. Miaow, the chief re-
girittsz, be taste, that some put of the deficiency, to the
exteat of 2,500 f, was owing to the default of his
clerk, Thommoo, who had a/acceded ; bet ad-
mits his own deficiency to be about 4,500/. Mr.
Johnson has also Med an affidavit is which he states
that he was an official amigos@ from Mil aatil
1862, and was attached to the court of Mr. Commis-
sioner Evans; that during his term of *Mee he had the
management of 2,261 bankruptcy estates, many of which
bad not been audited at the time of ha neignation, but
that in all came in which hie aocennts had been audited be
had paid into the Bank of Eagiand the sums of money
which appeared die on the audits ; that duties the early
period of his office he wee In the habit of appointing a
alai,' for the audit whomever he had any funds in
hand, but in ooesequence of a mprintend from the oem-
rnimioner oa one occasion he had thenceforward refrained

The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after re-
maining in consultation for about an hour returned into
wart with a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Montague Williams wished to state to the court that
it war believed that the ' r bad been convicted of a
similar offence in AnatcWa, which be should be able to
prove if theorists's°, was postponed till next session.
The Assistant Judge said he would certainly defer pass-
ing emiteece, because he was anxious to know something of
the prisoner's antemdenta, and whether his statement of
having come from led,. was true or not.
There were about a dosea tradesmen in attendance, who
were ready to sprig as to the way in which they had been
swindled by the prieoner.
Borne of the antecedents of the prisoner transpired in
court, and from the statement which had been given by
himself when he was before Mr. Commissioner Heynokls
as an insolvent debtor, in 18M, he was as her
Malady's Vice-Consul for Denmark, at Cop sa; he
wee afterwards Vice-Consul for Jamaica, and after that,
Vice-Conml for Hayti, being stationed at Caps Rutin ;
and was afterwards resident at Irving House, New York.
He west to Australia, where he was convicted of obtaining
mewl under false pretence., in a similar manner to the
present case. and sentenced by the Supreme Clout of
Adelaide to three years' imprisonment, there having been
two previous convictions against him of two years each.

from taking any arm to procure the audit of any of the
estates until he was &Med to do so by the court ; that at
the time his minatioa was accepted he was entitled to
commission on about6o,oool., which hard from time MMus
paid into the Bank of England in respect of the undivided meta
at the unaudited estates, white would meet any deficiency ;
that during an Moms in 1856 his clerk, Henry Thompson,
absconded with monies belonging to different bankrupts*
estates, which he had applied to his own ; that the Ent
intimation he had of the application wu by • Dorm of wo-
rm served on him, in reply to which he wrote the letter to
Mr. Miller, which was intended to he • thosph, said
the Attorney-General, it was not marked so— end that the
deficiency of 4,5001. amnia admitted was in the gross re-
ceipts, without taking into account the sums doe to him on
the unaudited estates ; and that he was now 74 yam d age.
Mr. Bacon (with him Mr. Tripp) maid until the mounts
were taken it would be obvioos that no faiths: order could
be made. The Muria, to the affklavit filed in support of
this motion showed that there were 619 accounts as yir
unaudited ,- the larger amount due to any net was M.,
and the debts paid were for sums of 5/., 101., and 2W. All
of them required explanatioa, and the only this/ whisk
could be dime was to mania the amount of deficsency, if
say existed. To affect this properly the accounts must be
audited is bankruptcy. To order this to be done was
within his lordship's joriadietra, and to any order of that
mature he (Mr. Bacon) was prepared to bow ; but at present
his lordship could sot go farther.
The Attoesey-Oneral—Perhaps, then, your lordship will
mks an ceder referring this matter to one of the cm-
pardons's, or to all of them, to take the mounts in a
peeper manner, and that Mr. Johnsen be ordered to pay all
the balsams due from him to the several estates, and he
take amount of what is due to him, end to pay 90 per cent.
u intension all mere dm to each estates improperly re-
tailed by hiss ; sad until such payments be mad., thatthe
payment of the annuity of 8001. allowed to Mr. Johann,
and which was under his lordship's control. be stayed.
The Lord Chancellor—The commissioner is deed under
whom Mr. Johnson used to net. I mar then salsot some cm-
miaroner to carry out this order. I shall select Mr. Com-
missioner Holroyd ; and in doing so desire to have it pub-
licly mentioned that 1 am under • great public obbgaisma
to that learned immeissicser for the solicitude and care
which he has manifested to carry out the Bankruptcy Act of
1861. The order I stall make ie without prejudice to an
a ti
question respecting 11r. Johnson's liability. I now ,
of what ism ofeased—a delinquency is admitted, which to
be divided between the eminiasioner and the official
amines ; that delimumey was a disregard of the order of
the court, which provided for • rapid discharge of as rand
duty. I regret to my that, day by day. I discover some-
thing which fills me with pain as to the manner in
which the bankruptcy law is administered. It
was hut the other day I dimmed an estate of
one million was without proper proton:am, *wise to •
Simi ass disregard of the orlon I shell not mum that the
present is a case a grave didisqueocy, for that is to be the,
subject of inquiry ; but I must say that whenever such
seam occur I will exercise my jurisdiction to the utmost
extremit. te reach in the met stringent meaner every dis-
regard of the orders which I may discover. The official
shall learn that the words "under pain of disaairel" on
the orders are not mere words of course. I shall cam •
rigid investigation to take pleas to see whether the ceders
an attended to or not. An order in this case will be served
on Mr. Johnson's sureties, with liberty to Maul at their
pleasure opus the taking a the mounts. The annuity
Ishall In the meantime be suspended.

COURT OF DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL
CAUSES.—Jem. 20.

(Man the limits of the Rolla)
ZTILR V. DLILMESTRIL —TIM SADLZIR FRAUDS.

(Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Justice Koski*. sad Mr.
Berea Chanaell.)
TZAYNAMr. TRATMAN.—APPTAL.
-

The Master of the Bella fisally disposed of this important
ere this wrung, having directed it to be pet into terrier's
piper to be
delivered in RAW
Saturday last to with referees to the judgment he
.
This morniag his Hoocur observed that his judgment might
perhaps mislead the parties as to the grounds on which hie de-
cides was hued. He referred* the legal estate being assumed
to he vested in Sadleir by the rulers from the plaintiff on
October 6, 1856, whereas the fact was that it was ontetsed-
lag in a prior ineumbranceir. This amtuarioa had reference
to the defendant's cementite that the receipt of the per-
cher moor by the beak pieced them in the position they
woad have held if they had got in the legal estate, whoa
it was urged the ordinary rule se to a purse useumbraiser
who had got in such estate would apply. His Rower
said he had proceeded thereupon to oraider what would
have resulted even If the heal estate had bra named,
and to show that the principle of the decision he the Lords
' went on the ironed that the deed of October 6 woo alto-
' thee void, and without refiner to the accident of he
erveyieg the legal estate or otherwise. The far that that
deed only released an equity made the ammo* spirt
the hulk still stroppy when coupled with the cireomstouece
that 26,100 f., after keowledp of this prior iscumbranco,
sad before the equity. had been released. His Hrourcon-
onded by Day iog that the principle of Its decieir wee that the
Basking Company leek the property as a trait for sale, that
:tr., to the sale the phintiff was the prior *cum-
, that the bank was only enabled to near the
monies derived from the sale by mesas of the deed of 6th
Oct.. 1835, from which they could derive no benefit, and
that in this state of circumstances the manes is their Made
were subject to the same equities as the estate itself was
while they had pommies of it, and that is addition to this,
• under the construction of the deed of Sept. 7, 1856, the
trust in favour of the beak did not arise uatil the prior *-
cumbrance in favour of the plaintiff bad been discharged.
i Mr. W. K. James, Q. 0., lir. Selwyn, Q.C., Mr. IL Ste-
t re; and Mr. E. Beaks, appeared in the cam

Aft er our report left yesterday,
Mr. Baron Channel' (without calling on Hr. 1311Taby
Hill, who appeared for the reepondeet) gave judgment
against the appeal. Km Yoakum' had, is • certain mem
been placed upon her trial ; and the question sow was
whether. having been acquitted, she ought to he sedated
is seders° the ordeal • second time, and the
point was sot whether, if he (the lamed judge)
bad bees en the jury, be should himself ham coma to the
earns coschuioa, but whether their verdict was so
that this mart ought to overrule the finding of the
to which the legislature had committed such suits. It ape
to him that the story of the principal wither was
ritself somewhat improbable, and her esodsot had sot
altogether been such as might have been expiated from her
if the facts bad been as she had deposed. As to the
doctrine contended for by the appellant on the ease be bad
quoted, be (the learned judge) entirely dissented from it ;
and when the circumstances of that case were properly con.
!Adored it would be found to be inapplicable. As to the
desertion, even supposing that the =hog of air C. Crsrwll
bad been Meowed—which be was far from vying was the
case—he did sot think it would be any ground for- grouting
• sew trial ; nor did he believe that the jury could ham
been isfleaoced is their finding upon the first arse by say
misdirection apes the woad.
Justice Keatiog coseurring.
The appeal was diming&
SCOTT b. SCOTT.—LPTILL.
—•••- - -

This was originally a suit for the restitution of eenjusal
right. consmemed by Captain Scott. and his wife had re-
spooded by charging him with cruelty sad praylug for a
judicial separation cos that ground. The case wan the last
heard before Sir C. Croswell, and it was very fully re-
ported at the time of the trill. The jury having food for
the husband, Mn. Seat moved for a rule nisi ler a sew
trial, sad her application was refused.
The Queen's Advocate (with him Dr. lininki) now 119.
pealed against the decision of Sir James Wilds, contending
that the verdict was spied the seldom», sad also MU**
jury (a special ace) had sot properly understood the kw
respecting cruelty as kid down by Sir C. Cillitlrla The
learned advocate timed that the case had shows the extreme
danger that bad ernes from leaving legal question to a
jury instead of coefining their verdicts to mere matters of
fact. He maintaised that the jury had bens seals to
undentaad the diets tostaised is the cases of " Home v.
Evans." sad " Oliver Y. Oliver," which had been reed to
than by the judge. He also argued that a leas amount of
woof was required to answer • cue of restitution of cos-
jogai right. than to estelthsh a judicial sepansim.
The wart took limbs cossider its desisms.

COURT OF Q171Z1411 BENCH.—STAN. 20.
Sittings in Bran —fader* Lord Chief Justin Cockles=
and Justices (hereon, Blackbeern, and Mellor.)
11C011118 I. D'ETSCOURT.
I Thin was an important queens niter the Friendly Building
Societies Act. The nominal defendant is Mr. D'Eyneolut,
the police magistrate, but the real defendant is • person
named Layton, • member of the North London Benefit
Budding Society, and the can corn before the court on
the question whether Mr. lYEyoeourt bad jurisdiction in
the cue and power to adores so award made under the
10th Geo. IN ~ which wu is operation before the 6 sad 7
William IV., chap. 32, which province was incorporated in
the latter act It appeared that in May, 1852, • *amber of
formed themselves inn • society swim the 6 and 7
WiTirm IV., and at the first meeting it was stated the
object of the society was to enable those who might become
members to pronto a vote for the enmity by obtaining an
allotment of a piece of Ind. The defeating was sot pro.~
net at that reining, but be took shares is the usenet). The
rules were prepared, certified, and registered. The doles-
daat Layton made payments up to October, 1854, and bad
imam in mean to the society to the extent of 8/. odd.
The society purchased a freehold estate at Enfield for
42001. in 1853, pay* for it partly by money
sebseribed by ~mbar, and partly by mosey
borrowed from the basket; mid the estate lees divided into
alblesoata amongst rook memben as desired I. have the
main and many were accordingly conveyed to them. Oa
Illerele 25,18710, Layne noun on of the anent of the
said lead. and on that day be piped and delivered to the
board of direnton • assawraedeus whereby heagreed to take
two allotmesta ; sad is answer to whether be would sow
pine at nos as cooties* to pay the subsceinine, he wrote
—wesidy seatires as liesal. To show tin the de.
fining *unman a wages the ease doled Nei es lbw

New POLICIIDSAGINTRATE.—MF. COMA, who has
sat far 12 years as the book as • notropeliten ssaedshired,
having bees sheeted to the coMoo of Cap Bemis ,
the fleeretary of State lise, we understood, 'printed Mr.
James Vaughan. of the Ozfard Circuit, to surceed Mr.
Carrie at the Bow-street polies-rot. Mr. Vaekbol las
had antenaive ea b ceunieal bards= MU us
circuit aed at the Btat<sd sosioes. He wee also steeled to
set es chief of eoesnissioss appointed to inquire into woa
rapt rodeo elsolioes at Gloucester at Benda-
pea
s-Tweal.
OUTWARD ANTRICAN AND AFRICAN MAUR—.
Ifeetesday the Inman draw Edinburgh was deepaidied
from the Mend for New Yes It with the Veiled lido
male, about 20 obis pasessesre, and •
tleadey seat the Atriess Royal Mail Moue Ship Oceepsay's
dunes Anomie. will be despatched fret Limpet, whak
soli do Madeira, Teseriffe, sad the Weal Cod of Africa.
Loden will be rewind at the Poot-eMee until 8 o'clock
gamsas, sad basks Lashes at OK es tie WARE deo Ismail

THE, ,Nap4,,,,,m1,yD S. 14Strtid 864? -
. as a ellsostre_ asetla the salaams w t appeared to a sovereign. He did not
jim"7-171211Z-alagralger —.426trjzook a it, however, and asked the farmer whether
) .
s it was a good one, and he said of mune it was ;
be, however, went to the landlord, and be immediately told
wee not a 'overage at all, and told hia to rue Mbar
the nee, who had in the meantime loft the hones.
Iresseater followed, and overtook the prisoner,
Ng is* him back to the public-house, and a police-
d,* hoeing been sent for, he was taken into muileedy.
Iffelkftig was found upon him ; but after he had left the
hears with the officer the servant found a bag confabbing two
leak cheques end an imitatioa isoversign. The dooms
woman Mr. Lyons, clothier, Aldgste, to fit the Warm with
a coat on the payment of lls. The bag wee famedemy
mar the spot where the prisoner was sta. g after be was
taken back, and which the prosecutor identified as the same
bag which he bad seen in the prisoner's possession.
The prisoner's defence was that ha had lost money as
well as the prosecutor, and thought the coins in the other
sae's possession were sovereigns.
Mr. Alderman Fannie, however, said there *paid be so
doubt that the prisoner was is the house for an unlawful
purpose. and committed him for one month as a rogue sad
vagabond.
Henry Whife was brought up on remand charged with
robbery with assault.
The prisoner, it will be remembered, was committed for
trial on a charge of robbing a female of her muse, containing
145., in Cloak-lane, and assaulting her. A constable of the
N division was present, and said the prisoner corresponded
with the desaiptioo given of a man who robbed a female
at Homey, and he was again remanded until last Saturday,
whoa Mite Sheppard, a lady residing at Homey, said the'
prisoner was the man who assaulted and robbed her of her
Zcontaining 10a, in the Shakespeare-road, on the even-
ea l' Thursday, the 7th instant.
Another witness who saw the occurrence said the pri-
sow was like the mac who committed the assault,
The priboner, however, denied being the man, and asked
for a remand, that he might have an opportunity of proving
he was elsewhere.
Yesterday he called *evertl witnesses, eft of whom ap-
pisorod to be respactable, who stated that they saw the
prisoner in the William the Fourth public-house from 4
o'clock until 12 at night on the 7th January.
Mr. Goodman subjected the witnesses to a severe cross-
examination, but could not shake their testimony, and Mr.
Alderman Finnic said, as there seemed to be some doubt as
to the prisoner's identity in that can, he would be dis-
charged on that, but would still stand committed on the
first charge. -

Henry William Scott, aged whodmoribsd himself as
a light porter, residing at o. 2, Young's-buildings, Ham-
mitt, Aldersgate, was chuffed with stealing one gold
brooch, me gold ring, a watch, and other property, be-
longing to Mn. Sarah Walters, of No. 8, Church-road West,
Kinaland.
The complainant stated that the prisoner bad been in
her employ about three mouths, and just before Christmas
she missed several articles. About a fortnight Mace the
prisoner Mopped away from his work, and accounted for
doing so by stating that his brother bad dropped dead in
the struts. Last week he again stopped aw•ay, and then
said that his mother had died suddenly. Not believing
the story! she made incubi's, and ascertained that the
prisoner's statement was untrue. She then suspected the
prisoner and accused him of the robberies, on which be
said he stolen the ring just before Christmas and had
pawned it. He then produced the duplicate, and raked to
be forgiven. He denim' that he had stolen any of the other
PBarker—Do you expect that the prisoner has robbed
you to any extent!
The complainant said that the prisoner had amen to all
parts of the warehouse, but at present she could cot say
to what extent she bad been robbed, u her husband had not
had time to go over the stock.
A police -constable preyed taking the prisoner into cus-
tody, and in addition to the duplicate Mania' to the pro-
secutor's ring he found on him several other articles belong-
ing to the prosecutor.
The prisoner said he was sorry. It was his tint edema,
and as for the watch and the other property he was inno-
cent, and did not know anything of them.
Mr. Barker remanded the prisoner for a week, and directed
the police to make inquiries at the different pawnbrokers
for the missing watch and other property.