The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1847.

quad's( that the amount might be forwarded. On the same
day Mesas. Motorman sent the halves of a 401. and three
U. notes in a tower, addressed to Mn. Hedlow, Spring Cot-
tage, Keesington. On the 26th of July Messrs. Masterman
received a letter purporting to come from Mrs. Hedlow, ac-
knowledging the receipt of the notes, and on the 27th they
transmitted Gotha same address the Gain helves. It tonna
out that there was no such person or address at Kensing-
ton; but it had been usual with the Post-office
authorities to put letters wrongly addressed to Kensington*
into the hands of the Kensington postman, to be by him
taken round his district, with the view to correct any errors
of the superscriptions, the letter in question was accord-
ingly given to the prisoner, who was one of those who
superintended the delivery at Kenaington. When it was
suspected that foul play was going on, competent persons
were appointed by the Post office to accomplish the det,
bon of the person who had stolen the cheque and forged
the name of the person in whose favour it was drawn.—Mr.
Mullen" said he had reason to believe that he could en a few
days establish four distinct cues against the prisoner.—J.
Walker, a boy between 14 and 15, said that on the 20th of
July be saw the prisoner, whom he did not know, at the
corner of North-street, Westminster. He asked witness
if be would go to the bank and get hint some money,
promising to give him 2a. Witness received the letter, and
took it to the Bank, where they questioned him, and told
him to tell the person nho gave him the letter that he must
go for the money himeelf. Witness came away and met the
prisoner' whom he was to have seen in North-street, in
St. Peers Churchyard, and told him what they had said at
the Bank. Was pos.tive the prisoner was the man.—ln
answer to the Lord Mayor, the ptuoner said he did not then
wish to ask the seinen any questions. He was altogether
ignorant of the charge, and of the last witness.—Mr. W.
Higman, of the issue department of the Bank of England,
said On the 28th of July a 401. note and three IL notes
were brought to him, together with a letter, requesting gold
for them. It was at once believed, front the circumstance

Saugenay, near Quebec, he deserted with six others
It woo also clearly show■ that Do Shiel had imposed
upon Captain Taylor a forged discharge, which parr
ported that he belonged to the barque Washington, of Bos-
ton, and had been lett at Quebec at his own request. —Mr.
Yardley held that the letter of the law bad not been com-
plied with, inasmuch as although in Capt. Muetart's log-
book
seven men were stated to have deserted, on a certain
date the names were not duly entered, and, therefore, though
'the man confessed himself to be a deserter, in point of law
he was sot identified as a deserter. Mier disallowing certain
stuns which the captain proved hai been paid, the magistrate
made au order in favour of the oomplainant for 51. 18s. 6d., and
orate—Capt. Muster% applied for and obtained a warrant
against De Shiel as a deserter, but before it could be made
out the fellow, without waiting for his wages, had ob-
i 'eluded.

of the boy basing been sent by a ;manger upon such an
occasion, that the Bank notes were the produce of a forged
cheque, and they were traced to Idutorman'a banking-
house, where it wu found that the name of the person se
whose favour the cheque was drawn was a forgery. The boy
made meetly the same statement at the Bank he had just
made before the Lord Mayor. No one had 1111C0 called for
the notes or the sovereigns.—The prisoner was remanded.
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BOW-STREET.—Etectet CRAPEL.—The churchwardens
of St. Clement Danes pariah requested Mr. Jardine', inter-
ference in putting a stop to an exhibition of a v^ry offensive
nature carried ou for some time at Loon Chapel. They
stated that the premises under the chapel, in which there
were hundreds of coffins containing heaps of bones, had
lately been thrown open for the inspection of the public, and
crowds of persons hourly congregated to view them. Tickets
could be procured at the house of Mr. Walker, a surgeon, in
Drury-lane, whose door was constantly surrounded by groups
of persona for that purpose.—Mr. Jardine said it was nervily
credible that such a circumstance could have taken place
without creating much alarm, and expressed his anxiety to
check what might very properly be considered • great
nuisance.—The applicants said that on Monday they applied
to be admitted, and bud to wait with a large crowd until the
persona uho had been admitted would depart and make
room for them. A man walked about the vault with a skull
in bin hand, to which he drew the attention of visitors.—
Mr. Jardine having promised to use his exertions in check-
ing the nuisance, the applicants thanked hint and lett the
court.—lnspector Marsh, who was immediately sent for, in-
formed the court that the crowd wu so great every day
since the vaults had been opened, that a constable was placed
outside to keep order; and he was given to understand that
no money was given for the tickets received at Mr. Walker's
house, but each person put down whatever sum he pleased,
it being asked for on leaving the vaults.—Mr. Jardine toad
him to wait on Mr. Walker to Pay that a formal complaint
had been made to him by the pariah authorities, and that he
had no wish to issue a summons upon the matter if it could
be arranged in another way.—Mr. Walker shortly after came
into the court, and the nature of the complaint m ode by the
pariah authorities having been explained to him, he said
that the statements were substantially correct. Ho had
known for a considerable time that the vaults under the
chapel in question were among the greatest abominations in
the metropolis, and in the year 1942 he accompanied deputa-
tions consisting of members of parliament and other in-
fluential persona interested in the question of intra-
mural burials to the place, and the circumstance of their
being refused admission induced him to persevere until he
attained his object. He hoped to see the executive autho-
rities make themselves acquainted with the honors of a sys-
tem tolerated in the very heart of the metropolis, and ►e
could not see what object the churchwardens of the parish
had in trying to prevent the exhibition, his object being to
afford the public a practical proof of an abomination, the
existence of which they' would not credit, unless they saw it.
—Mr. Jardine entertained no doubt that Mr. Walker was
actuated by the most laudable motives, but he had to con-
sider whether what had been represented to him as a nui-
sance was not now becoming of as great magnitude as the
evil. There MSS no doubt in his mind that such an exhibi-
tion would form just grounds for an indictment, and he
thought steps might be taken to limit the number of persons
daily allowed to view the vaults.—Mr. Walker said that the
money received from the persons visiting the place was to be
applied to the decent interment of the bodies. He assured
the court that he should devote his attention to the limiting
the number of persons admitted to the vaults in future.