The Press.
London, England, 1858-09-25 00:00:00

Pro nab Norte.

THE SEPTEMBER SESSION OF TEIE CENTRAL
CRIMINAL COURT was opened on Monday morning.
The first edition of the calendar contained the names
of 111 prisoners. The Recorder, in his charge to
the grand jury, said that although the number of
prisoners was rather larger than usual, most of the
cases were of an ordinary character; hilt it was
worthy of observation that no less than one-fourth of
the whole number referred to charges of uttering
counterfeit coin, and there was no doubt. that this
offence was very much on the increase. In almost
every one of the cases the counterfeit coin had not
been tested until after the utterers had left the shop,
and he could nut help drawing the attention of the
public to the fact that if they tried the counterfeit
coin when it was offered to them and before they
gave the change, the offence would not have been
completed, and the effect would be to check the crime.
A CHARGE of damaging one of the beautiful orange
trees in the Crystal Palace was preferred on Satur-
day, at the Lambeth police-office, against Alfred
Abbott, a well-dressed pertrm, who described himself
as a journeyman carpenter. The prisoner was
stopped when leaving the Crystal Palace on the pre-
ceding evening by Sergeant Carpenter with eight
oranges fresh pulled, and several branches just pulled
from an orange tree, and his account of his possession
of them was that they had been given to him by a
person in the Palace. Mr. Williams, an inspector of
the Palace and grounds, said he had examined the
tree from which both the fruit and broken branches
had been taken, and estimated the damage done to it
at 101. The defence now set up was that the property
in the Palace was left unwatched and unprotected,
and that the 'prisoner, being the worse for liquor at
the time, had been induced to wantonly pluck off the
oranges and branches. Mr. Yardley ordered him to
pay a penalty of N., Or in default one month's im-
prisonment.
MR. HENRY EURIUDGE, of Richmond, assessor
and collector of income and assessed taxes, who was
indicted for having unlawfully obtained sums of
money from various persons in Richmond, with in-
tent to defraud the Commissioners of Inland Reve-
nue, was tried at the Surrey Sessions on Wednes-
day. After a lengthened hearing of evidence, the
jury returned a verdict of acquittal. The prisoner
was detained, however, at the suit of the Crown, and
was taken back to Horsemonger-lane gaol.
AN INQUEST was opened on Wednesday, before
Mr. William Caritar, coroner for East Surrey, at
Camberwell, to ascertain the cause of death of a
man who was found in a field near the New-road,
Rotherhithe, with his throat cur. The inquiry is
adjourned till next week for further evidence and
identification of the body, but it is believed the un-
fortunate man has committed self-destruction. The
bo ly bears a tattooed mark of "T. 8., bo:n May
24, 1802,"
JANE SIMMONS, a servant girl, while in a state of
intoxication in the pit of the Queen's Theatre, on
Tuesday night, threw an apple at Mrs. Cowell, who
was at the moment engaged in the performance of
her part. On the following day the offender was
brcught before Mr. Beadon, at Idarlborough•street,
and sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard
labour.
THE INVESTIOATION respecting the death of
Lavinia Ana Francis, daughter of one of the Step•
ney Union medical officers, which has extended over
five days, is now brought to a close. The father and
step mother of the deceased girl were examined at

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considerable lenvh, when the jury unanimously re-
tm ned a verdict that " The deceased died from the
effects of stryclinia; but how or by whom adminis-
tered there was no evidence to show."

AT THE SURREY SESSIONS, on Tuesday, Hannah
Sheen and George Carver were found guilty of street
robberies, and the Court, in order to put a stop to
this increasing crime, sentenced them each to six
years' penal servitude.
AT THE BANKRUPTCY Cotiar on Thursday the
examination meeting in the case of the London and
Eastern Banking Company was adjourned sine die
in consequence of proceedings iu Chancery for
winding up the concern.
THE SORCERER and commission agent, Wilhelm
Steinthal, was again brought up on Thursday at the
Thames Police.court, to answer the charge of ob•
taining ISt. from a man by fraudulent pretences.
Both parries are natives of Prussia, and said to be
well educated. The dupe was led to believe that by
paying to his agent certain sums of money, in certain
coins, putting these through certain magical
manceuvres, muttering the Lord's Prayer, and per-
forming several other mummeries, a valuable prize in
a German lottery would be secured to him. Mr.
Yardley sentenced the man of magic to six weeks'
bard labour in the House of Correction, where he
has to carry with him the comforting reflection that
anothee prosecution tor a like offerne awaits him at
the expiry of that term.
OTTO F. HOMEYER, a Prussian merchant, was Con-
victed at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday
of forging a bill of landing, by means of which ho
obtained 2,4001., to the loss of Mr. Thiermaiin, of
Newcastle on Tyne. The prisoner, who is thirty
years of age, was sentenced to eight years' penal
servitude.