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the defendants stating that they had received such a letter, and
adding that au examination must take place. The metal was
weighed, and the weight of three and a half tons was cornet ; but
there were certain cirt•nnistances which created suspicion. The
relief war examined, and it was then found that instead of the
metal being real bronze* large quantity of iron had been intro-
duced. It was then intimated that the whole lutist be taken to
pieees. One of the defendants (John Moore) upon this asked Mr.
Fitieliam, the party who attended for the Man! of Works, to step
aside, and he then admitted that they had loaded the reliefs, and
put in a quantity of iron, at the same time stating that if they
had not done so they could not have made them at the price.
There were nineteen hundredweights of iron in the three end a
halftone of metal. The defenthuots also admitted that as regarded
the other reliefs they had made up the weight by ingots of cop-
per. The defendants had the weight which was used with the
steelyard made false, made hollow anal of tin, but painted to re-
',regent ruety iron. The whole thing, instead of being a work of
which we might be proud, was thus formed no as rather to dis-
credit than te honour us, anal, as this had been the guilty set of
the defendants, the Government had felt bouutl to institute this
prosecution.
'lhe jury returned a verdict of guilty ; and Lord
Campbell, after commenting on the gravity of the
offence, sentenced the two elder defendants to three
months' imprisonment, letting off the third, the
younger Moore, for one month. In consideration of
their respectable station in life, however, he did not
send them to the House of Correction, but allotted
them the less disgraceful prison of the Bench as their
place of confinement.
A SEREEs of BILL TRANSACTIONS, involving an ag-
gregate amount of 3,171/., besides a sum of 140/. due
on a running account, became the subject of invests-
, gation before the Court of Common Pleas on Tues-
day. The claimant was one Simmons, who had, it
appeared, dealt in horses, jewellery, racing, and other
articles requiring tact and address to render them
profitable. The defendant was a young man of the
name of Parkinson, who only last October came of
age and into possession of about 10,1100/., which he
was rapidly squandering. The two coming together
lied dealt largely, with the result of placing in the
plaintiff's hands the acceptances for payment of
which he now sued, in exchange for fast-trotting
horses, watches, bracelets, necklaces, and other pro-
perty, some of which the defendant had used him-
self, and the rest he had given to lathes of his ac-
quaintance. Very early in the course of the trial
Chief Justice Lord Campbell pronounced his official
wonder " that there could be found two such persons
—one such a fool and the other such a knave." Mr.
Simmons, in his evidence, related the history of the
several bills constituting his claim, stating the nature
of the value received for them, and maintaining the
integrity of the several transactions and the moderate
amount of the profit which they had produced to
himself :
tie became acquainted with the defendant in December, 1852,
by meeting him accidentally at Perry'oe stables, in Itoretentotiger-
lane. On that occasion he sold a horse named Click-up to the
defendant for 4511. They thee went to a public-house and had a
glows of sherry, and witness, in the public-house, sold his watch
from out of his pocket to the defendant for W. Witness hail a
horse called Reliance, and as he was bringing I • lip to town
he maw the defendant, who purehased him for 20111., and also
purchased a chaise. Defendant purchases! the Oneida Clitef of
him for NO gt • 101, and shortly alterwarde killed it la g
legatee a cart. The defendant purchased three brilliant Huge
for 751. On the 11th of Felontary lie purchased two snake die-
m ttttt I hrawelets and two cluster diamond lines for Mil. les.
There were two more rings and a gold watch. Witness had Iwo
horse', which he bought at Tattersall's for 106!. anal 65/. This
was on the 7th of February, anti in the seine month lie "arranged"
to sell them to the defendant for 2t5/. They were very fast
bermes. He sold defendant a bracelet bar 2101., a necklace fur
4501., and four diamond rings for 110/.
Altogether the amount of his claim was :1,:100/., of
which 20/. was for cash. He was very willing to take
hack the jewellery, and to make an allowance for the
horses. He bawl received perhaps 1,000/. of Mr. Par-
kinson. For the defendant pleas of fraud, false
practie,es, de., had been put upon the record, and he
gave in due course his own narrative of the transac-
tions between himself and the plaintiff:—
lie received 0,700/. on coming of age, in October last. When
lie purchased Click-up, doe defendant maid it. was useless to have
a fast horse tiniests lie had also a stop-watch, and he accordingly
Weight the philistine watch fair 15/. Um Subsequently he lett
that watch end abet another at the plaintiffn to be repaired, and
had never area either sinew. The Oneida e'hier, the plaintiff
solid. would go live miles in 121 lunettes. The plaintiff lent him
the Chief, and wittiest,' drove bite taut, hut. mits%er bargained bar
the horse until it was deed, and Own lie bargained whet he was
to pay for it. The defendant was then examined as to the al-
leged false repreeentations in constsinenee of a Well the bills had
been given. As to the !dil bar twit horses, the plaintiff repo,
melded that the home were quite fresh from America, anal gave
them a very high diameter. lie agreed to sell them to witness,
and said that lie would get his money bark by trotting-nuttches.
I hit of every 100/. well the plaintiff was to give witness 201., and
witness was to be at HO P7<III.IISP whatever. As to the lOC/. bill,
that was in part given for a watch. which the plaintiff said alms
worth Ng., but willed' in about a week witness had to take to get
repaired. As to the bills for 3001. anslsoo/.. part of the ceoneitler-
anon was a diamond lotweelet. Plaintiff said be had given 650/.
for it, and witness should have it for 66111. Witneses said it was
too a' erosive, met that he had nobody to give it to, when the
Witness
amid he could give it to Pussy (meaning Miss Graham).
never agreed to buy it, and lie slid not know that Miss
Graham hail it until two er three alma elements. Pert of the
consideration far the slog. bill was a lonss•li, %%Welt I.l,llillitiell
what the plaintiff called sus emerald, snit which he said had been
given by the Queen to Sir Robert Peel. Neither of the two
bonen sold for 1,2601. etatild go eighteen miles em hour nor any-
thing like it.
corroborative evidence was pnshiced as to the value of the
things sold. The bracelet which the plaintiff had charged 1:601.
for Wall said to be worth from 1001, to 120/, ; and the - emerald .•
in the brotwh Was only paste. Am to the horses. it was stated
that both had been bought at their full value at Tattersalfr for
1041/. and WA, although they had been afterwards sold to the de-
fendant for 1,260/.

The Attorney-Ueneral, on behalf of the plaintiff,

SATURDAY,

urged to the jury that at all events his client was en-
titled to " something." The verdict was, however,
returned for the defendant, to the great satisfaction
of that part of the public which happened to be pre-
sent, and whose tokens of approval somewhat exceeded
the hounds generally prescribed within the precincts
of a judicial tribunal.

A Mrt.Loooosy., managing a brick and tile
manufactory at Bristol, brought an action last week
against the celebrated analytical chemist, Mr. Hera-
path, for kissing plaintiffs wife against her consent.
Mr. Wildgoose and the family had some property to
dispose of, which Mr. Herapath undertook to sell.
On the 6th of December last Mrs. Wildgoose called
upon Mr. Herapath, at his office in Clare-street, a
conversation took place, and the lady was about to
retire, when Mr. Herapath laid hold of her by both
shoulders and kissed her. Mrs. Wildgoose became
immediately very indignant at his conduct, and said,
" Sir, this is very improper ; I am a respectable mar-
ried woman," upon which Mr. Herapath said some-
thing to this effect, " Pooh ! pooh ! you must not
consider yourself as a married woman at all ; you are
a mere girl; come, shake hands and give it me back
again." A verdict for plaintiff; damages 51., was
returned.

THE EXTENSIVE Fust7ns committed or attempted
on certain bankers by altering the inscriptions of a
letter of credit, obtained from Messrs. Shearman, of
New York, were investigated on Thursday at the
Central Criminal Court, on the trial of Gabriel Sans
Garrett. The details have already been published in
the police reports. In the indictment the prisoner
was charged with a felonious attempt to obtain 500!.
from the Union Bank. His previous successful
frauds to a large amount on several foreign banks
could not be brought under the cognisance of the
English tribunal. An objection was urged in his
behalf that the locus of the offence was in a foreign
country, but Baron Parke overruled it, and a verdict
was returned. Sentence is deferred until the judges
have decided on the technical plea.