The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-05 00:00:00

iLau) Elite'licence.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—YESTERDAY.
TROMMT: Us Low, Caliscumm DOM bamammy ors
Wks LestAseircool.
THE LONDON ANT) BLACIVEALL RAILWAY COMPANY C.
TIE REV. Jugs Urns. Muss IY Losuus ; BOW

was the last day on which the certificate could be appeahal
against, until which tinge it mu-t, under the 206th section
of the Bankrupt Law Comolidation Act, remain in the cus-
todv of the officer of the court but probably his Honour
would sea no difficulty in letting the certificate be de-
livered up after office hours on that day, provided no appeal
wa. entered.
Mr. Greco, for the asaignees, was desirous that some ar-
rangement of this kind should be made, as, if Mr. Byrne
could go out with his first-class certificate in his pocket,
it might be very beneficial to the estate. There would not
be another mail until the following month.
Ili, Honour did not think he could interfere to make any
order which would take the ease out of the usual course, and
thereby contravene the act of parliament.
After a conver-ation, it nu. arranged that an office copy
of the certificate should he supplied to Mr. Byrne, the docu-
ment itself to be forwarded out by the next mail.

11131794. ED.
This is an appeal against a deem and onion ohe late
Vice-ChancellorSir J.Wirtrarn. The respondent is, f the late
Vicv-CbaneeflorSlr J.Wigrarn. The iopondtnt in, awl has
been since 1837, rector of the pariob of St. Glove, Hart-
street, in the City of London, and in, 01110111 rector, entitled
to receive all 10111111 of money payable in respect of tithes
sad otha r acclesinatieal dues anon* within the rectory, or
in respect of any compensation for the same. Tithes in the
City of London have, ever rice, the year 141.3, by virtue
of • certain decree then MIMIC, under the powers of an agtof
37th Henry VIII., c. 12, been NM to the rectors and vicars
of the several parishes thew at the rite of 24. 9d. in
pound emthe ereustomed rent of the houses, ahopa, &e.
The boohoo and Blackwell Railway Company, under their
several men Mr making that railway, punhased and took,
for the purposes thereof, in the year. 1839, 1840, and 1811, I,
several houses m Crutthed-f iar., in New-court, in Coo-
per's-row, in Gould-4quart, in Savage-gardens, and Lon-
don-street—all situated within the said rectory or parish,
'the respondent claimed to he entitled to receive perma-
nently from the company payment of 2a. 'ad. in the pound
on the actual annual value of the houses so taken, or on
their value according to the poor-law valuation, or acconl-
inn to the agreed value of them between the occupiers and
the reopondent. The company reniotell that demand, but
were w ailing to pay the same amount that the respondent
received of late, or according to the actual rent of
the houses heron. they were taken down, or where
there war 10/l a find rent according to their value,
as agn cat upon in previous years tai tween the occu-
piers anal the rector. 'the respondent tiled a hill to
coln- hi. demand; the company filed a croon bill
fur alloovery of the said agreement between the respond-
eat anal the tenants of the bowies sod premises. The
Vice-Chancellor, on ties hearing of the re...Am:land that the
respowlent was entitled to Is: paid 2a. 91. in the pound on
the annual rallies of the him..., an ouch values had been
agreed upon between the rector and the occupiers up to
18,0; and h' referred it to the )teeter to 111,111 ire sod report
what Mos, and huilahugs hail been taken by the appel-
lant., and the annual value thereof according to such
last ran manna d agreement, and V. to house, as to which
there W. 1., no 00,11 agreement, the Master was to take the
sum hot collected for tithe, aia representing 2a. 9d. in the
pound on the annual value.
'1 lie appeal was against that deene, and against an order
conlirmitig the )(meter's report made in pursuance of it.
Mr. Wood tool Mr. Higg were heard 14 the appellant;
WWI tb,v lontendt .I that all the rerpon.l.nt wee entitled
to was nlemnity for the bor surtained by the taking of the
11011. • tor the railway, and that the compen.satiou directed
to le ma.l.• to the rettem. of 1/11141101 prrioheal by the com-
pany'. act, 3 Viet., cap. 9-5, irmaarti d indemnity and 110
Mar. .111/' whole of the argument turned on the eonrtrue-
tem the end 82001 sections of that act, mid the said
de. re .4 1315.
Mr. Spi ill (in the absence of hie leader, the Attorney-
GUI/ rat, through indispsition), for the re...pendent, sup-
ported the Vic.-Clianeellut's decree and order, contending
that tb. y wen• svarranUrl by the real construction of the
said eel and by the decree of 1545.
The further hearing (of the Attorney-General) wan ap-
pointed for *matey neat, another appeal having been ap-
point, al for Thursday neat.
Thu it lordships intimated Cott they would bear appeals
two days in each week.
lIMATIII 07r :a DOWN, R BILL.
At three o'clork their lonlahipa oat to hear evidence in
support of the secuud reading of this bill.
Mr. Talbott appeared at the lair as conned for the pe-
titiuner, wail Innis bin statement, and Irons the testimony of
num rows witnercer es:unified by him, it appeared that
Captain Edmund Heathrow, the petitioner, was a member
of the respectable family of that name in Hampshire; that
its July, 1814, being then a lieutroant in the royal na7,
he was married in the church of St. ilium., in St. JOllO s,
Nowl.umllaad, ise tordirig to the torn. of the ertabliched
church of England, to Misa Lucy Law, daughter of Colonel
Law, an officer in the 'loyal Newfoundland Company, then
resoling in that Wand. Shee wan about the age of 21—he
was about Inyear' older. They residual together in the
island until the mouth of October. 1841, when the peti-
tiuurr obliged his chip (the Eurydice),
on Inc voyage to the Weal Indic., leaving his
wife under the care of her father, with whom
she re Insilli,lll until May, lht', when she proceeded
to England to I • her leu.hand who had then arrived or
war expected at Tortamouth. She• arrived there in the
month of June 1-01111Willg, 111111 from that time until August
in the ,s,10,1• year they lived together in England. In
August Itelei, the petitioner wiled from England hi her
Majesty's ohip (.10111:11110., as Met lieutenant, leaving his
wife in a ronifuirtahle 10/UW: hind for her at Frithum, in
the ,aunty of Southampton. She had one child while she
remained with her father iu Newfoundland, and a retried
horn at ',inborn in April, 1847. 'there was no question
that the petitioner was the father of (moth thew children ;
nor we, thew any suspicion of the lady'. fidelity to him, or
of the propriety ..1 M.,* conduct up to 1840. She paid to and
received seats from her husliand'r relatives all that time.
lo petitioner beet tarn abeent with his ship in the Atlantic
and South Sea. from 1,4111 until the 2lth Nov., 1849, when
be returned and went to reside with hi. wilt: at the house at
Frithain, and there he continued to cohabit with her in total
ignorance. of /111 y 11114.01111101 on hcr part until the 18th of •
May I s'ai. Ile had a few day. before. game to Bath to visit
seine trend+, and on hi. return he was met near his
house by .on Oil his re manta, who told hire Me.. Ill'utheute
bad 114,11 and war then very ill in lied. Ice Matened to the •
house, caul went at once to her beeTrumn, W 11114: lie found
her in Iced, awl, taking her by the lewd, asked many ques-
tion. :about her illness, and 014.1011 W 11l it, :1101 whether she
was then lis thr ; to which she replied that -lie we.; and
just as she spoke the tier..• appeared at the door with a
sew-born child in her 101101. The petitioner looked up,
saw the child, dropped hi+ wife', hand, looked to the
ground uppressal with the painful thought that at em em
trussed lii. mind, and I. ft the room a. weß as he could mod
never alter returned t.. it. Haring gone to his brother's
bowie lie b..il inquirer made about 1111 wife and her rialtos*
fin tin hart three year.. lle knew that wine other than
hannelf 111.1, the lather of 11,1. 1111111, vam was a perfect full
pawn aime child, whereas it was uot quite six
months mum he himself returned to England. Ile disco-
ven+l, from the mire :11.1 other cements of his wife, that
the v triter who woo no doubt the father of this child
was a young gentleman about 24 years of age, a near re
Wive ad the lady. Ile had been mate in the royal stavyi
for several year,. and on returning to England in
November, 1818, he visited Mrrs. Ilcatheote at Friths"
and was on and cif Irma that time till the return of her
bustaalial in NOS% nib-r, ISIS. An keii e. for trim. con. sing
brought by the petition, r against tin. profligate permit,
when he suffered Joalgnaciat to go by default, and upon the
inquiry a+ to damages afterward+ before the sheriff, the jury
awarded 1,00.. g. to rlAtittiti. N.. part of that has been
paid, awl the wretched profligate, the author of this
misery. ha+ leen latch convicted of fraudulently obtaining
money, and centeneed to seven year.' tran+portation. The
testimony ..1 the Lkily'a servant. left 110 1111Ut1t that she and
this persan usal trriturntly to &key in the name bed. The
only doubt upou the whole CA.' wan as to the
of l'apton Ileatherge twin England fur the
there years previous to November, 1819. The .•
bo.ak- and " nisider. ' of the "Constauce,'• were put IA
evidence by a rlerk from the Admiralty, but the entries
were Uot satisfavtory. l'aptain Ileatheote ha, obtained •
divorce a menu et thoro on the same' evidence hi the Com-
m-tory Court of London.
Mr. 'Talbott said he would be able to bring an Officer of
that 'hip to prove the mutter beyond all doubt, and for that
purport. the second reading was adjourned M ThurseLiv
nest. and to the same day was adjourn.' the taking eif
evidence in support ut Mae Lean's divorce hill.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—YESTERDAT.
Nuys& M. Osermeama VANS.
as Tazoo.—Curstr Yaws.

This was the soliourned la.t examination meeting in the
case of William Trego, the extensive builder, of Coleman-
street. Tim JANOLIIIi• not hating been tiled, a further
adjournment became nrerrsary. The failure is a heavy one,
the bankrupt's liabilities amounting to between 40,0001. and
60,0011. lie had been engaged in several large contracts,
including the new City pnson at liolloway.:the county gaol
at Reading, and other catensive undertakings.
Mr. Shs Mehl, who repreanted the maignees, and Mr.
Walters for the bankrupt, concurred in thinking a further
adjournment of three months IIeCtANITT, account of the
nature of the accounts ; tint the assignees ob-
}feted to the continuance of the bankrupt's allowance, and
urged that the adjournment should be at his own expense.
Mr. Sheffield slat, d that the assets were nearly realised be-
&e• the bankrupt was ready with his accounts; they would
produce about i,:iscif.; while the debts proved amounted to
00,01aff, leasing a deficient,. of upwards of 40,001 H.
Mr. Sheffield trilled attention to the extraordinary in-
crease in the court fess caused by the difference between
she old and new scales. Un the former, the costs in this
ease would have been shout ; now they were upwards
of tiff., or nearly four buns as much. 'f his was so ex-
orbitant, that it mom soon have the effect of preventing
bankruptcies coming here at all.
His Honour said the oats depended on a rule of court,
over which he had no control. The alteration had been
made with a view to relieve the pressure on the smaller
clam of bankrtWeies.
Mr. Alis Meld hoped that his Honour and the other tune-
ints•ioners would take the matter into cousideratien, so
that relief might be given if possible.
His Honour said, that under the old scale, an estate of
Miff would hare paid 30/.. or 13 per cent., while one of
6,0001. would pay no more, or only per cent. That was
a state of things which had continued for years.
Mr. Sheffield said a per tentage charge was certainly the
fainm, if the coma were to come out of the estates; bat
Le has opinion they ought to be defrayed from the consoli-
dated fund.

—Alt, if you could bring that about, that
would uo doubt he • oftat relict to trediton.

Several snub oeilebt were given. The examinatios
was then a4jorrned for three nsoaths, but at the cost of this
estate ; sad the bankrupt's allowance was continued, it
appearing to his Honour that hr was entitled thereto,
being employed in the service of the assignees, and having
sothing fur his own support.
IN II II BYRN?.
In the ease of J. C. Byrne. emignition agent, of Conga!,
whose certaleate was granted as of the tirst class ten days
late. Laklater sp*ed to the inert that the siertilicata
might be delivered up b the slicer of the moan es the
sunrisesYrkley, the 14th inst., as Mr. BPS. bad takes
We prow far Natal by the mad awswaar, whisk would
yaw lipaseak at awe as the followfas day. The Friday

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1851.

His lordship said there was no doubt that the prisoner's t
lite would be spared, though severe punishment would be
inflicted.
MARCH 4.
Raman BA•ox ALDIAIMIN.

TRIAL Or ANN rm.t. TOR POISONING DER CHILDREN.
A court intensely crowded evidenced the anxious ex-
citement of the public on this occasion. A pause ensued !
after the clerk of the arraigns had pronounced the name of
the prisoner, and she was at length supported into court,
looking as if she could scarcely live to pass through the
awful ordeal of the day. A chair was ordered, iutu which !
she immediately fell ; water was placed beside her, and the I
matron of the prison remained supporting her. Iler coun-
tenance, though common-place, had in it nothing repulsive I
or ferocious.
Mr. Serjeaat Miller at some length detailed the circum-
stances of the case against the prisoner, and called
Ann Cox, who deposed that sheiis the wife of John Cox, and
has known the prisoner ten years. She lived iu Paulerspury
in July last, and had five children. Remembered the
death of both children. Wu in the cottage of the prisoner
the day before the death of Frederick. Next morning
returned between ten and eleven and the child was dead.
The body of the child was examined after the inquest.
When witness was going up to the jury, prisoner said, " Be
careful and mind what you say." I said, 44 Isbell answer
them when they speak to me.' The prisoner said after-
wards, when witness came from the inquest, "If I had
known what I know now, nobody should have got
.me to
go to Mr. Leper's, or if I had known who was going to
be here. I wish I had never had him."
John Parsons is a member of the College of Surgeons.
Was assistant to Mr. Cotter, a surges,n, at Towcester. On
Saturday, the 13th of July, was called in to attend the de-
ceased, Frederick Pell. Witness drove up immediately,
and was struck with the appearance of the child. It was
ins state of collapse--sneope coming on rapidly7pulse and

. . . . .
heart's action feeble, and every symptom of the effects of
mineral poion. Witness ordered sugar and water, as great
a quantity to be continually administered as the child could
take. Ordered a warm bath. Told the prisoner to send
her husband immediately for some medicine. She said her
husband was particularly tired, and she would come her-
self. Witness told her she ought to remain at home. They
told me the child had vomited, and I II ishcd it to he kept.
The prisoner said the child had been sick in the barn, and
also in the room above ; it had passed through the boards,
and she had mopped it up. She came down for the medi-
cine that night. She asked me what I thought was the
matter with the child. I told her that I felt convinced that

Mr. Ambrose Moore, a director of the London Joint
Stock Bank, said—l have been informed, and I believe it,
that the bill is a forgery. I was with the officer when the
prisoner was taken into custody. I told him the amount of
the bill and gave him the particulars, and I mentioned that
it had been paid into the London Joint Stuck Bank iu
' London. I asked him whether lie had any explanation to
Five respecting it, and he informed me that he was endeavour-
ing to make an arrangement by which it would be with-
! drawn. I then said it would he my duty to give him into
custody upon the charge of uttering the bill, knowing it
to be forged, but he made no reply.
iMr. Tilson having requested that the Lord Mayor would
remand the prisoner for seine days, in order that the neces-
sary witnesses, who were at a distance, might be brought
forward,ll
Ills Lordship said—Prisoner, I find that you are here
without professional assistance, and I consider it necessary
to caution you against saying anything under the present
circumstances of the chance against you. If you are deal-
roue to state any reasons against the application fiir a re-
mand of the case, I am bound to hear you, and at the
same time I inform you that what you may say will be
taken down in writing, and may be used against you.
You will take into consideration that this application is
only for a remand of the east against you.
The Prisoner—My Lord, I have made statements both
written and verbal, that the coming danger would be
thrown from me, who sin not the delinquent, hut it would
be found that it was done only to gain time. The whole is
Ia tissue of cunning temptation and treachery, and it is
beyond toy power, and I believe that of any other person,
to bring it home to the proper person or persons. I there-
fore choose, abroad and openly, to admit the fact, and plead
guilty to the charge.
The prisoner was then remanded for a week.
/leaky, the coffee-shop owner in Thomas-street, who
some days ago charged a man with having robbed him of
97 or 98 sovereigns and several took was brought op on a
warrant issued against him by a magistrate of Manchester
fur having deserted his wife.
The Manchester constable who executed the warrant said
he had been looking after the defendant for some time, and
was indebted to the London newspapers for the informa-
tion by which he was directed to the person hr wanted.
The Lord Mayor—Why this is the mail upon whose evi-
dence I committed a prisoner a few days ago.
The constable said that such was the fact, and he had
taken the defendant into custody after the trial of that
prisoner.
The defendant—My lord, I hope you'll understand that
I am not taken up on any criminal charge.
The Lord Mayor—Oh dear, no. 'Tis only fur deserting
your wife. (Laughter.)
The defendant—lt is for Ifi/. which I owe to the parish
offieers,.and which I hare no notion of refusing to pay.

the ehikl had had poison of same description. She said "if
one was poisoned both were poisoned." I then asked her
where the child had been—had it been out with her in
the woods? She said it had only been playing
with the rest of the children. Sent such medicine as
he thought needed, and desired to IN informed next
morning of the child's state. About half-past 7 next
morning the husband came, and witness gave hint a blister.
Saw the child on the Sunday evening ; it was dead, and
witness told them there must be an inquest. The post
marten examination took place on the 16th ; found in the
stomach a da k-brown or stone-coloured fluid which seemed
to have some small green particles floating about it. Turn-
ing the stomach inside out, he discovered a lemon-coloured
spot in it ; there were yellow spots about the rectum. Took
the stomach and contents and sealed it up. The child died of
inflammation produced by irritant poison. Subsequently
Mr. Greville and himself tested the contents by Marshal
and Gye ; they found sufficient arsenic to cause death. Ilas
no doubt whatever that the child died in consequence of
having swallowed arsenic,
Mr. Greville, of Northampton—is a chemist, principally
engaged in making chemical analyses. Remembers Mr.
!'arsons called with a stomach. Witness examined the
stomach with Mr. Parsons. Found no green NA-ge-
tables, as he suspected. On examining the coat of the
stomach, perceived a well-defined yellow green denoting
arsenical poison ; submitted it to Marshal's test, and ob-
tained immediately a number of metallic spots. Found ar-
senic indicating sufficient quantity to cause death.
Elim Edwards—Lives with her father at Toweester.
Remembers the Monday on which the prisoner's child
Frederick died. Witness was alone with the prisoner
who is in custody at the Toweester Police Station. Witness
was attending on the prisoner. Ann Pell s lid that her
mother was with her when the child died. She (the
mother) said she would go back to London again. She (Ann
Pell) said they would be very likely to persevere in it, and
she said she did not mind how they persevered, for she was
not afraid they could find what was bought; she hoped they
would take up the other child sad open that ; if one child
was poisoned the other was.
Bole, an inspector of police, had the prisoner in his
custody on the '2oth of July. After the examination, as
witness was taking her to prison, she said to her husband,
" My Freddy, my Freddy, my poor Freddy !" a number
of times; " I have dandled you about the streety of Bury—
that I should be brought to gaol accused of poi-ouing you."
Iler husband turned round and told her to he quiet. The
prisoner responded, " Ah, never mind ; say nothing, and
they can't hurt us."
Martha Bicknell saw the prisoner on the Thursday before
the child's death on the Sunday. She said sh- had seen
some bloom in the garden, and did not like it. She thought
it a sign of sickness or death. Witness said, " You've had
both." She said, " I have ; I lost my Sarah Ann, bless
her!" She seemed very sorrowful. The tears were in her
eyes when she spoke of it. She had always been a kind
and careful mother. At this time the father was in full
work. The prisoner's mother ;ived in London. She came
from town the night the child died.
Hannah Twining is the wife of a chemist at Winslow.
Retnembera a female coming to her husband's shop about
six weeks before the 10th August. It was after 5 o'clock,
before the gas was lighted. She was alone. She asked for
a pennyworth of arsenic to kill rats and mice. Witness
said it was unusual to give it to a stranger, and went out to
speak to her husband. When she returned she told the
female they had no arsenic. She went away directly. Be-
lieves the female was Ann Pell (and being desired to point
her out in court she did so). It was very like her. Has
seen her sister. Both Ann Pell and her sister had been
brought before her to enable her to distinguish them.
JOllll l'hillips, a hawker, at Green's Norton, knows the
prisoner, and has done so 16 or 17 years. Was examined
before the magistrates. Remembers meeting the prisoner
la the Buckingham and Toweester road. 11er sister was
with her. Itmight he two months or ten weeks pensions to
the examination in August. Asknd her if she had been to
Buckingham? She said she hail been a little further.
Winslow is seven miles from Buckingham. It was getting
dark when he was there.
Mr. Mark Caulcott, a druggist at Stoney Stratford—lle-
"ambers a woman coming to his shop about the end of June
about 20r3 in the afternoon. She was alone. She asked
for arsenic, which she said she wanted to poison rats or
sake. Asked whence she came ? Understood her to say
Paulerspury or Whittlehury. Asked why she did not go to
Toweester, nearer home She said she had been buying
other things at Stoney Stratford, and wished to take the
arsenic home with her, she was so troubled with rata and
vermin. Believes the prisoner to be the woman, but ia not
positive.
This closed the ease for the prosecution.
Mr. O'Brien then at great length, and very impressively,
addressed the jury on the prisoner's behalf.
The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.
The prisoner was then arraigned on a second indictment,
charging her with the murder of Sarah Ann another
of her children, on which
. . .

The Lord Mayor—Well. I have no jurisdiction in the
ease. I deliver you into the hands of the constable, who
will introtluee you to the parish authorities, who will no
doubt give you an opportunity of seeing your wife again.

From the LONDON GAZETTE.-Tuesday, March 4.
BANKRUPTS.
Joni. Baawasearr, Nottierhans, butchtr, to surrender March 21 and
April 11, at It, at Nottingham Court. Sol, Rowley, Nottingham;
off. aria., Bittlestnn, Nwtingham.
flinty Manchester, liar dea'er, March 21 and April 10. at
12, at Manchester Court. sol., Dearden, Manchester; off. aseiii.,
Mackencie, Manchester.
Trost. Desalt% Lowestoft, Suffolk, builder, March 19 and April 15,
at 11, at Itasingha 1-street. rids, overton and /login's, till Jewry,
and Sew, Lowestoft; off. swig., Edward., Sambroukamurt.
El/WARD Ea maws, Woburn Sand., Ituckingharn.hire, innkeeper,
March 14 at 124. and April 11 at 12, at BaKingnall.street. Bub.,
Barron and Clarke, Ilmomstrury-square. and Grrcur, Awned",
Itedirwilithise; off. twig.. Penned, Guildhallettambers.
TnowsaGairrrrionD rriaston, Staffordshire. stonemason, March Viand
Ant 16, at 12, at Birmingham Court. Ma., Duignam and Hera
man% Walsall, and Sod% Birmingham; off. twig., Yarpy, Bir-
mingham.
Jana" LOSILDAGAN, Canalitiol;e-ttrrace, Islington, corn dealer, March
19 and April 11, a: 12. at Basmithalriereet. Sol., Butler, Jun.,
Tooleymreet, Southwark; off. want., finnan, Birchin.lane.
Rtnotios Motuaorts, Minortee, City, shoe manufacturer, March II
at 2, and April IS at 12, at Basmahaltstreet. SoL, Letts, tartlet's-
Mitchum% Holborn; off. arson.. Edwards, Sambrook-court.
WILLIAM l'utuar% Waraltk, builder, Mulch 17 at 11, and April 14
at 12, at Birmingham Court. Sohn, Taylor, Great James-street,
and Motterara and Co., Birmingham ; oft. trig., Christie, Bir-
mongham.
Jona Mums, Victoria-greet, Islington, builder, March Il at 11, and
Ap-il II at I, at itasinghallortreeL Solo., Tucker and sta avenonn,
sunalanabers Threadruedleadrcet ; tft. O.OIK, Sunsirld, Basing-
Joao Summand ITIMAC Scam, Birkenhead, Che hire, carpet dealers,
March 13 and April PS, at, 11, at Liverpool Court. Off. twig., Bird,
LlverpoOL
Wicusa TAYLOS, Creek-road, Deptford, shipwright, March 19 and
April if., at 11, at Maim. hdl-st. wt. Sol.. htmiland,
street Fleet-stmt: off. assig • Jokution, ILI-0401111-141(YL
HTPAT Bowanno Tuourstra, Long-acre, India rubber bath mama-
Nearer, Marcia In nil April 15, at I, at lasinghall.sireet. sots.,
Priebard and Collette. Linteabi-inu-SeMs ; cff. +mtg., Grum, At.
Murch-lars.
Enwia Mane, Mieldetoo, Oloutedershire, cattle dealer. March 18
and April IS, at 13, at Bristui Court. Packwood, Cheltenham;
off. assist., Miller, ISTDIOL
Wuxisx WILLVAL C. etched-frlars, C9ty, merchant, March 15 and
April 14, at I, at Itasnthall-treer. • 501.., Marten anal Co., Com-
mercial sale-rooms, City; tlff. wail., Nicholson, Bilaraighall...trad.
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDEND.%
Shuman Dena% Times-wharf, Middlesex, coal merchant-2nd di..
of N. 661., March IS and two subsequent Mondays, at Carman's,
Birchin-lane.
CIIARLIS GARLICK, CIIITIOT4IOIIIII4IIIIatt, City, Manchester WU!.
bows man-tar dia....2 is 31d.., any Werintmlay, at Whitmore's%
Basaigh,ll..trert.
WALII.O HALL, Khlgton, Herefordshire, miter-2nd div. of
any Tnurnlay, at Outstare, Birmingham.
11. e. plant, Ingrarn.wart., lenchurch•street, City, anal Dar*.
ton, Durham, anchor manufacturer-Ist div. of :a., March 1.0 mad
two subsequent Mulattos, at Canaan's, Birchin-laue.
JOKY Law., Liverpool, trierebant -art div. of 3,d., any Wednesday,
at Whitmore's, lia,ingholl-etraeL
11l VILA:NOS -Marc:. 27. 11. T. Baines, Camden-road, Camden
New-town, Snendrancr -March 26. J. Fawcett, King.hon-rapon-llull,
timber merchant-March 27. John khaki, Norton tit.. Phillip, So.
mersetahare, miller-March 17. C. 0. Jones, Oztord-street, awed •
lictualler -Match 25. J. Kryke, Glamord, Llenbighabire, 11111 C burner
-March 25. C. R. Pottinger, Ilard•ick place, Cemrweelal.road
East, wine merchant -Marc.. 20. E. Trent, eherborne, Do...rotate,
land Yeovil, somerietshire, drai er.
•.311RT1IICATES to as granted, wiles* came be shown to the contrary,
on the day of wimeting.
March 23. 11. T. Baines, Camden-raid, Camden New-town, limn-
draper -March 25. J. Iluain, Liverpool, arationer -Marcia 26. W.
Ceue.ll% Wofrerhanapton, Staffordshire, coach builder March 27. W.
C. Cranweli, Ely, Cambridgeshire, potato merchant-March 27. J.
Mirth, Leeds, liiiendraper-March 26. J. B. Patin anal 0. A.
realer rstone.budding., Holborn, sword cutlers-March 23.2. Smith,
Ke Olu Kent-road. cheesemonater.
PALTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-C. F. Ash, A. J. Swift, and
.'s., roper llunsmadreirt, CLy, Iron merchants, se far as trout,. A.
a. Sara-W. Bird and J. laird, Denmark-street, Pertonville,
drapers-0. Batter% It. I laments, and 0. Moroi, M. John's wharf,
Westminster, and St. Bank:b.-wharf, Whitefriars, coal merchants, re
fare regards U. Morton-W. Clegg and J. 11. Clegg, Manchester,
grown -H. Cruelty and S. Cal.vorthy, jun., Etner.osalreet,
Southwark, engineets--M.IL Dick.on and N. Overbury, Frederick's.
place, Old Jewry, City, *Marini a -14. Ellitoft and W. LLeer, Whitby,
Yin kahlre, Nip owners-P. S. Gerard and J. Whaley, Ince, within
Mackerbeld, Lancashire, reel miners-James Humphries., 0. H.
Humphries, sad John Humphries, .I:lnner-greet, City, and Kidder-
minster, Worcestershire, carpet manufacturer% on tar as regards O.
H. ilomphrt, -W. Patison and A. sem% Edinburgh, drapers -G.
?DU on anal W. Pearson-, Liverpool. wine and sport 11TDITT11-3. U.
Saunders and J. S °ander., Plymouth, hemp reercraint.- P. Seville
and E. Seattle, Leeds, cotton spinners-J. Sharkirton, jun., and J.
Atkinson, Hotbed, Yorkshire, clan manufacturers -M. Pharpley
and A. Burrows, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk manufacturers-T.
Stabler and G. Paton. Ilanchcater, tallow chandlers-John White-
head, Jorhua Whitehead. and It. Cottoa, Et/althorn, Lancashire,
machine Bulkefa so far as regards Joshua Whitehead.
SOLITCII SEGUE-TRATIONS.
JAWU CLILATID, Glasgow, Iron Louder, Starch 10 and 31, at Own.
rte's /loyal Hotel, Glasgow.
Donau, 51ACKK111111, Ilelmadale, Sutherlandabire, fish curer, March
3 and 29, at Guam's Inn, Daruoch.
UMW Maariss, Edinburgh, bout keeper, March 12 and April 2, at
the Argyll Inn, Lotimilphead.
FAIT= STINDY, Glasgow, ropemaker, Marcia 8 and 29, at 51.14ech.
nit's, Glasgow.

Mr. Scrjeant Miller declined offering any evidence, and
the prisoner was Acquitted.
The prisoner, who in the course of tha trial had appeared
to gather some fortitude, received the verdict apparently
without emotion, although when she leg the dock she
appeared from weakuesi scarcely able to walk.

THE POLICE CO URTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Jai. Lucas Ilorrocks was brought before the Lord Mayor
in the custody of Funnel!, the officer, charged with nosing
uttered a forged bill of exchange for 4301. 9s. 7d., with in-
tent to defraud the London Joint Stuck Bank.
Mr. Tilson, the solicitor to the London Joint Stock Bank,
said he attended fur the purpose of preferring a charge of
forgery against the prisoner, who carried on business as a
merchant at Manchester, in conjunction with another per-
son. The forged instrument purported to be drawn by a
firm at Hamburg and accepted by a firm at Dundee, and
the bankers in London had received a letter from the sup-
posed drawers and acceptors, to the effect that the signa-
, tures purporting to be their writing were not genuine.
The prisoner, it appeared, had opened an account at the
London Joint Stock Bank with 500/. in cash and two bills
of exchange; one of which was the bill in question.
Soon after the account was opened he requested that bill
to be discounted, and subsequently, when inquiry was in-
stituted, the letters denying the authenticity of the signa-
tures, were received. It was necessary, under the circum-
stances of the case, to bring forward as a witness the pri-
soner's partner, whom there was every reason to believe to
be an innocent parte, and no doubt the guilty knowledge
would be aetisfactorily fixed upon the prisoner, upon the
appearance of witnesses, who were at present at a distance
from London. The only explanation which could be got
from the prisoner, when asked to account for the transac-
tion, was that the bill would be withdrawn or provided for.
Mr. Gustavus Koeler--I am a merchant in Eastcheap. I
know the prisoner. Shortly before the 28th of December 1
agreed to join in partnership with him. He was to find
capital for the present ; and on the '2Bth of December
, he and I went to the London Joint Stock Bank in Princes-
, street to open a banking account. The prisoner gave me a
sum of money to pay in, and also two bills of exchange, one
of which is that produced for 430/. 9s. 74., purporting to be
drawn at Hamburg by Messrs. \Veber and Schoer upon
Messrs. Mackenzie, Ramsay. and Co.' Dundee, and pur-
porting to be indorsed by Weber and &hoer. The next
endorsement is that of our firm. I endorsed it at the bank
in the presence of the prisoner. The prisoner said it was
likely there would be more of these hills, and wished the
bankers to make inquiry as to the drawers and acceptors,
because they were likely to have several. The prisoner has
a partner of the name of Selmer at Manchester, and he told
me that Mr. Scheer, of the firm of Weber and Schoer, wee
a relation of his partner Mr. Scheer, and that he had re-
ceived some bills from his partner, Mr. Schoer, who resides
on the continent, and that this bill was one of them.
Mr. John Butterfield, clerk in the London Joint Stock
Bank, said—On Friday, the 14th of February, he came to
the bank and said he wished a bill to be discounted of about
the amount of 400/., which had been paid in short. He
brought the pus-book of Gustavus Keeler and Co. with
him, and showed me the name in the book. That wu how
I knew to what account I referred. I found we had such
• bill, and told him to have it in the usual way, and call
at three o'clock for an answer. The bill produced was the
' bill referred to.