The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-05 00:00:00

SPORTING.

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.
Tv ES DAT.

Business was dull iniiieeii;eme this morning, not-
withstanding the entry for the Liverpool Steeple-chase and
Chester Cup, as well as the acceptances for tie Bletrop.th-
tan were on the table. Below we record the only trios-
actions that came under our notice :

LIVERPOOL GRAND STEEPLE CHASE.
15 to 1 Miss Mowbray (taken)
16 to 1 Oscar (taken)
16 to 1 Sir Peter Laurie (taken)
30 to 1 Maurice Daley (tiken)
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
20 to 1 agat Galvanism (t to 25g.)
25 to 1 Hirsota (taken)
25 to 1 Grapeshot (token)
30 to 1 Redmond O'Hanlon (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn (off)
50 to 1 Merry Bird (off)
60 to 1 'nekton (taken)
60 to 1 Confessor (taken)
1000 to 15 Ireland's Eye (taker.)
DERBY.
14 to 1 apt West Australian (t to 7.5/ )
16 to 1 Clues, (taken)
16 to 1 Umbriel (taken)
20 to 1 Sittingbourne (taken).
CHESTER CUP.—(2I6 Su' e.)
ADDITIONAL NOMINATIONS AND CORRECTIONS.—COLI-
terameot, Friar's Hall, Common Sento coot Incense), Bro-
tht r to Grey Tommy, Aaron Smith, H irstea, Trickstress,
Bracy, Madeline,Bit of Blue, Doubt. Auchinleek, Plough-
boy, Montague, Bold Boy, Daeony, Coral, Malice, Ida by
lon (and uot Ida by Don John).

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.—(6O Subs.)
ADDITIONAL ENTRlES.—Maurice D.lry,BOllediCl, Ma-
ley, Rat-trap.

STEAM NAVY OF FRANCE.—We read in the rh./re
de in Loire: For some time past the establishment of lndert
has been manufacturing steam engines for vessels in (tin...-
rent ports. One has been,iteerViss- Lorient for the
Bart, sad one to Cherlupeig.ior tbe.Ths:ecau. At this mo-
ment. also, experiments apa making °wale Montebello. at
Toulon, with an engine of 1,00-hors i power from Indict,
intended as an auxiEory lot 131049Slivoiling ships, to haws
port without the notserisity Ofiseing toned. An engine of
450-horse power is aticitst to Imre ludtets. for the Austerlitz,
at Cherbourg. In west:tuition there it ono of 400-horse
power for the Astite,ski4 to triaildinf at Itoehetort ; one
of 650-horse pow( r Scw Blot, which !thudding at the
same port; and 0ne14400101.4.40.ter fir the
which is building atilklOptrg. tligse-we must add a
machine of 1,200-horse ,"etitigV-Ile. 'Minister of Ma-
rine has just ordered fur the e, which is to be built
at Brest.

a intelligence.

ILtNKRUPTCY.-YI.STEILDAT.

M. CV111Y10....116
IN ice M.V.ltlun.
rtiticate mt.ttog 1¢ the ease of D. Mar-
.

r. nt..Oxfor4-•Fle;t. llie debts were

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need, for the assignees, on lb* ground of
td aceonimodatim. Lill transactions.
in ezaminatica, omitted that he had
seven or eight }tars ago, and that he
to the amount of 7')..q. for Markel's: and
ere now banlsra;.ts. Shortly before his
l paid to hi, 1.r.t.;.,/ 9rl. on account of a
uey lent, for • the brother held no
icedgment. . hr. e months before the
60/. worth of c as to his brother; they
Leh, but the payn.-..0t did no; appsar in
ad been in c at,:ness ;ri ReAentestreet Le-
rd-street ; raid rent for the former,
itter premien. His gross profits during
iich his balance-sluts: extended had been
Lies, 219/.: stimr:es, 1911. ; private ex-
ekeller and lism;oon had put him lute
1-street. They nat. an Eabibitian ma• tle,
nne to chasmic the ahop for them in
ii.krupt hail pn,v...,as:y been in situations
Hitchcock's. The business .as carried
ickellar and Ham's-sin; he then purchasal
kit hinisslf. The stock was worth about
nusd to supp:y has with goods. He also
lolfas blieg and Co., giving a reference
was his troth( r..t-law. Mackellar and
him ou y foe goods. A month before
bad purchased A/. worth of goods from
ith whom be h tat
roe the b =bray, s..benitted that the case
slight insp. ns.. r. on:y. But far the co-
llar and Ilaria :.a, the bankrupt would
into business i.t ad. He bad relied on
acy. His is; end.ture had been nem-
conamenimmtat of the business. The
en paid to the trother without any in-
ing the creators, ;E:4ht be obtained back

1 he did not th:cii the goods had been
ors. Deese' with the Intention to defraud
he other credit is. The general features
not be too str:::-.6:y reprAated. The'
an with nothing, Lad had launched into'
e scale of expenditure. The trading had
looking at the amount of profits on the
se expenses had been so excessive that
,nd against thins,. They am ,unted to'
osm profit cf Ile had also begun
11571. It was n) excuse to say that he
7 Mackollai sod Ilampson. In such a
d not act as an indeptndtot trader.
screw, and must accept their 171U.5. Such
was moot it furious to the interests of
aan accept..:l a Lia merely on the faith of
er parties to the hi.l, the very object of
defeated. No system was more strongly
ban that of accoo.m,datiun bills, espe-
; who had nothing made himself liable
. The payineot of 20/. to the brother
from the sm.,::cass of the amount. He
late a fraud ; but he must have known
ht, on the very eve of bankruptcy, to die-
of his property. Another circumstance
ids worth 1301. to Mr Gray, of Shetheld,
»sant. h:.d previously told Gray that
t bankrupt, and only PAL had been paid,
rapt handed over 201. to his brother. To
Wien of such c3nduct by traders, which
r own ruin, he felt bound to mark his
this case. The certifit-ate must be sas-
ses from this time; when grautAl t 3 be
Pain for a month.

DEBTORS' COURT.—YESTERDAT.
a ILL COllll/11M4wU ?nus.
IS OF OtuROE GODDIN.—SLANDIIII.

waseieted with the St. Pancras vestry,sp-
Tedfrom prnon citi.er the act. Be was de-
.ehandler, ui Goo:lie-street. Tottenham-
duds appeared to uppaie the application far
part of Mr. Birchmore, the rehewing:rifll•
a parisn. Mr. C(19111t, aih whom was
anal.

as in custody at the suit of Mr. Bitch-
ily, and costs retovered in an action for
aims ware 6L ss. and the costs exceeded
a bad been maid, sad, after the pay-
a very mull sum was realised for the
was mitered .a a creditor fur 811., for
mt. in the act Lin.

in the action, Birchenore v. Oadden,"
eie on the p..rt of the opposing creditor,
be action explained.
De Phillips observed that the damages
,ear, and toe ii.v.ilvent best been in mo-
d December at the suit of the opposing
the verdict wee taken by consent.
took plum respecting some property
belong to a lady named Warren fur
et wee trustee. A further inquiry was
operty, and the matter was eaphined.
beard in 'apron of the opposition. He
d and eruct stealer bad oven tittered by
nit the opposing creditor, who was the
St. Pager's pariah, which, if it had been
deprived him of his siturt:on. It was
whither the ins trent hail been sue-
ty the imprisonment he had undergone,
vase Mr. Birchmore bad been pat to in
ter.

oded that Mr. Birchnsen hail estimated
lusting to a verdict of Ave guincu. The
a month and two days in prison, and in
u had been broken up.
sr Phillips said he took it for granted
bad uttered the slander, a be consented
inn himself. It was a foolish act to
▪ and he had suffered for it. It was
s of the court to be guided in I..abes like
amount of damages recovered. In this
had suffered oats month and two days'
in his (the commissioner's) opinion that
nement.
▪ discharged.

E CRIMINAL COURT.

COURT.-MTERDAY.

S!POIZ TER Iscoaata.

AZ,•29,pierde7l guilty to a charge
ming intimated a desire to be maple ac-
e circumstances under which the offence

body of the court rushed foram' and
his lordship all about it.
iked her who she was?
ied that she was the prisoner's first wife.
id, as she was the real wife, she could not
r for or against her husband.
that his first wife did not wish to pros
I his woad.

_
-Oh, no, zny :owl; I want to meow-
ray. I don't want to hurt him. (A

e very roughly told hie wife to hold her
le woad wife, was then questioned by
stated that she wail married to the pri-
dug of last year, but she asserted most
t had never lived together as man and
ommunication had ever taken place be-
kith'ewe appeared to be • very strange
sd of the prisoner whether he desired to
in to the court.

lbe had lived with his first wife fur
sr bad advised him to get into servim as
became acquaint's' with his mcond wife
via*, and be really could not tell bow be
lighter.) He should not have done so,
leeply in love with him." This obi/r-
-am, and the tone in which it was de-
n roar of Laughter in the court. The
his statement by asserting that be bad
my from either of las wives, and that Use
fined no injury whatever by reason of the

I passing sentence, mid that the offanee
raarriap ceremony was always a ♦ery
hetes real personal injury was indicted
e of the mock ceremony, the contt
y ly w.th seek cases. In the
however, it appeared that the
obtained any money or property of
e second wife had stated upon her oath
ileum I the other description of injury
alluded. There was an absence, there-
gravation that frequently aocompanied
?lion, but st,ll it was necessary that the
sera should be made aware that they
th the solemn ceremony of marriage an-
neal with impunity. He then sentenced
aid labour for four months.

oed, who Moo i charged with a similar
e case was reported in the EZINTSJ
N then placed at the bar, and the
tbeerviag that his cam differel en
e that had just been disposed of, and
to him to be of the most aggravated
ed him to be transported for seven

Aonyon, 23, described am a ship-broker,
ladesailanor.

*posing tht case for the prosecution, said
puled to the yrieoner was that of obtain-
midderable amount by false pretences.
41 circumstances au offence of a very
bat which was aggravated in the prima
that the prisoner was alleged to hare
r the rash that VIA goiag on at the pre•
each oar solesias, sad ether distant re•
mirous of bettering their condition, to
ie money they paid for their passage by
an authority to procure berths for them
fact, he did not possess. It appeared
does and Co., of Liverpool, who were
so shipping agents t were acting In that
It to a line of Australian packets
same of the Black Ball hag, and

it would as that in the month of June, the father of
the primes had some communication with that firm
%Imo the subject of an agency in London, but
he was instructed that no arrangement whatever was
tome to. He furnished au office in Riches-court, Lime.
street, when he carried on business as a shipping agent
ander the name of Thompson Brotters, and in consequence
of oil:era and advertisements he issued,a number of persons
appiied to him during the months of August and Septem-
ber last for berths on board a vessel called the South See,
which was to sail from Liverpool for Port Philip about that
time, sr .d he obtained from • great number of them the
amount eftheir passage money, giving a document in the
share of a contract or certificate requiring Messrs. Baines
and Co. to provide them with berths on board the vessel in
question. The poor people accordingly went to Liverpool,
but when they arrived the agency of the prisoner was
altogether repudiated by Mr. Seines, and the result was
that they lost the whole of the money they had paid fur
their passage. Some of the parties who had been
defrauded subsequently applied to the Lord Mayor, who
imme.l.itely instigated au inquiry, and the magistrates
of the City of London, after hearing the evidence, felt it
their tuty to remit the case for inquiry in this court, the
only object they had in view of course being that if
a fraud such as the one suggested had really been com-
mitted, the penes committing it should be punished,
as a means of protecting poor persons like these from being
defrauded in (stare in • similar manner.
The following witnesses were then examined:
John Tuckey deposed that he was it dairyman, and in
August last he disposed of all his property with the inten-
lion to emigrate to Australia ; and in consequence of an
advertisement he saw in the newspapers, he went to the
°thee of the prisoner, in Riches-court, Lime-street. He
saw • clerk ; and oilier some conversation with him, he
paid 151. in two sums, and when he had paid the whole
amount he received a certificate to that effect from the
clerk, authorising him to. have a steerage berth in the
South Sea, a ship that was to sail from Liverpool. He
afterwards received a letter from the office of the prisoner,
which informed him that he must be at Liverpool by the
end of September, and he according.y went there on the
29th, but on presenting his certificate at the office of Mesas.
Betties, who were the agents for the South Sea, they stated
that the prisoner hail no authority to act as he had done,
and he e iuld not obtain abe.th,and was compelled to return
to London. He then called again at the office, and saw the
prisoner, and told him that he had no right to act as the
agent of Messrs. Babies, and demanded his money back,
and the prisoner offered to give him half the passage money
he had paid. This lie refused to accept, and he had never
since got any of his money back.
By Serjeant Wilkins (retained with Mr. Robinson for
the defence)—Messrs. Baines and Co. did not offer to from
the him with a ship. He
the prisoner on account of the delay in the sailing of the
vessel.

Re-examined—Morn. Baines said that the prisoner was
no agent their's, and had nothing more to do with the
South Sea than any other broker, but that if he had sent
down the passage money he had taken from the different
parties they would have all been piovided with berths.
Charles Howse, another witness, gave evidence to a simi-
lar effect. He had paid the prisoner 221. 10s.
Three other persons who had paid lot. each, were also
examined, and in another case it appeared that43l. 16s. had
been paid.
Gowen Blamer deposed that he was formerly clerk to the
prisoner, and be remembered Tuckey and the other persons
who had been summoned as witnesses applying fur passages
to Au-tralia, and he received the money and gave them the
certificates and contract papers by the authority of the pri-
mmer. Every thing was done in what he considered to
be the ordinary course of business. The firm was carried
on in the name of Thompson, Bruthen, but he never saw
any brother of the prisoner. An inquiry took place at the
Mansion-house, and witness was at first charged with
haling participated in the alleged fraud, but he was di.-
charged upon it appearing that he was meiely clerk to the
prisoner. After this inquiry the prisoner went away, and
was la ludic; daring October and November, but witness
UM to see ham occasionally by appointment, nd upon one
amiss he told kin that warrants had been issued against
Ma be Nina= bo the Beath Sea tonmetions, and the pri-
, /ease said he *pod he tbW lso aWe to settle it. A mea-
-1 bee of lettere Woe aeon to **witness, which he identified
as having pasted between the prisoner and the firm of
Baines and Co. at Liverpool.
In answer to gam** pet by Serjeaut Wilkins, the wit-
ness said that the told him upon one esessioe that
his brutner bed He also said that he searoabered a
gentleman email Wauestreeht, who was memoseted with
the b0i1...1121m and Co., semi* to the prisoner's ease
in July of Aeries. reed he knew that the primer pa
bias so meek is So or six handred pounds oa essease 4
pomp mosey, for a ship tint Dad been pre 41*
polished called the El Donde. There were meet
**to by posseagen of UWE Mimi daub* pleintee the
ship sot sadiag, and the primmer_ paid a eambaseMlo teenbe illskatiee messy, sea his Gob were is
rebind very . Me she emit that et=
paid a hogs sum of reawey te belie • peat awry al ibe
cases, after the istivisy at the Maesits_ _ . There em
a great deal or esompondease between Mews. Baines awl
Co. and the phew, and wisps*. essweies were a*
tinselly maga,. When the prissiest was net at the ass
witness used to epee the lv tune of Mess. Baba, end
acted apon them as the agent of that Ana. The phew
had paid Pew soma thousands effendi sines he bed buss
is badness fur passage money, am Me authority was tease
repudiated until the inquiry toeh piece at the Mendip
Muse. The prisms' paßished aieutheneets late awe-
papers, and circulated placards and ends, Mg Yen VlM-
trocht took some of them with him to Liverpool. Bin be-
lieved he had seen Mr. Baines himself ones at the ease,
but was not quite sure.
A number of letters were plain by lir. Bodkin in behalf
of the prosecution, aid upon the request of Serjeant Wil-
k:us some others fete also produced, the whole of which
were read. They. went to show thetas,* had been exam-
sive communications betweeli the prisoner and Messrs.

Daiwa e enhieet of sisinpinniennoneen
appeared pos to Mt the
no deal* time if the prams mew he
ad
hoes paid die palm weold re la peovid for
them. end thee no dillissityha would h d aveberths arisen as de
to the
enemy sir the Omer.
Mr. Baines was thee examined. He &gond this be
was a shipbreiser and owner, and carried on Wien at
Liverpool end his dna were vents at that pint be the
vessel culled the South &a, and Messrs. 3s NW Co., of
Greet St. Heim's, were the regularly appoineed agents in
London. Ia Jane last year the father of the peisouer same
to his office, and made some inquiries rola*" es the Bleak
Ball hoe of packets, and in August whom made to
arrangement with the prisoner for him to ammo pensonms
by the South Bea sad other meets. The anangement was
to the effect, that witness was to receive a certain sum for
each steerage at other peseriager, and the prisoner was to
make as marl more as he could ; but he had no authority
to give any order for the massagers to embark until he
banded over the passage money. He remembered the
people coming down to Liverpool to go by the South &a,
and he refused to receive them, because the prisoner had
neither sent their names or description, or their passage.
money. There was plenty of room for them in the vessel
at the time if then conditions had been fulfilled.

By Mr. Serjeant was con-
nected with their firm, and it was very likely that the
prisoner paid him in August Ave or six hundred pounds on
their amount. It was very poeible that the prisoner during
the last year had paid them money to the amount of three
thousand pounds for passengers he had engaged to go by
their ships.
The Recorder hen Interposed, and said that, although
there WAS DO doubt that this was a very proper, important,
and valuable investigation, yet he put it to the learned
counsel for the prosecution whether, after the evidence of
the two lust witnesses, ha thought it likely that the jury
would convict the prisoner upon the indictment now before
the court. The question was not whether the prisoner had
improperly taken the money and afterwards recklessly "'p-
lied it to his own purposes, but whether he had got
glen of the money by making a false representation that
tish;
had authority to engage berths on board the limed in
question.
Mr. Bodkin said it appeared to him that it was a ques-
tion for the jury whether the prisoner must not have been
aware that he did not possess the authority which he pre-
tended to exercise, of giving an absolute authority to em-
bark to the persons who paid him the money.
The Recorder said he thought that, although the prisoner
might have acted fraudulently and Improperly, yet, after
the evidence that had heen given, he considered that the
jar, would hardly come to the opinion that he did not
fancy be had authority to act as agent for Messrs. Baines.
There was plenty of room on board the vessel at the time
the people went to Liverpool, and if the prisoaer had trans-
mitted the amount of their passage money berths would
have been provided for them.
The jury said they were of opinion that the primer con-
sidered he was acting under some sort of authority front
Mr. Baines.

Mr. Bodkin said that after the intimation that had been
gives by the jury, and appearing only as he did for a public
body upon public grounds, and with no other object than
to vindicate the law, he felt that he ought to withdraw frees
offering any further evidence. The inquiry that had talus*
place, however, would doubtless be useful to emigrants as a
warning to be cautious who they dealt with.
Srrjeant Wilkins said he was requested to state on behalf
of the prisoner that if it bad not been for the public
inquiry that took place, he should have been able to meet all
his engagements. When he heard, however, that warrants
had been issued against him, he became frightened, and
this, coupled with the large sums he had previously paid to
the passengers as detention money, destroyed his prospects
altogether, and prevented him from fulfilling his intention.
The Recorder said he did not think this way any seems,.
PerYouy yhould not enter into such transactions unless they
were possessed of sufficient means to carry them out in •
respectable and honourable manner.
The jury then returned a verdict of ..Voi Guilty, and the
prisoner was discharged from custody.

NEW COURT-.-YESTERDAT.
BLOIS TIM COMO:. BWUNT.

The principal portion of the day the court was occupied
in disposing of the Mint cases, which were wholly devoid
of public interest.
Chas. Mitchell, 25, labourer, was indicted for highway
robbery on Thomas Bennett, and stealing from him one
half-crown.

The proaecutor, a wine cooper, dated that on the morn-
, inn of the 29th of last month be was coming along St.
Giles r, near the church, when he saw the prisoner and
two other men standing by the railings. lie mowed iato
the road to:avoid them, when prisoner came up and struck
him a violent blow on the heed, seised him by the throat,
and tried to strangle him ; the other men then Tilled his
pockets and broke his watch.guard ; but, an alarm being
given by, a lady who was with him, he dragged prosecutor
down and then ran away. Shortly afterwards the plies

brought prisoner beck, and he identified him, as also did
the young lady who was with him.
Payne, a police constable, said that hearing the cry he
ten down Denmark-street, that being pointed out to him
as the way prisoner had gone, and turning up a court came
upon the prisoner who was out of breath.
The jury found the priioner
The Cuiamon Serjeaut asked if he was known.
The police said he had been in pr;son for assaults.
Prisoner—Only for eight days ; that was when I was one
of the City Militia.
The Common Serjeant said his offence was one of a very
bad character, and sentenced him to seven years transporta-
tion.

Prisoner—Can't you make it ten ?
Common Serjeant—Ten if you like.

MIDDLESEX SESSlONS.—Yraniumi.
BOO= Ma. taiumor ADAM. Aswan= AMOR.

John Hooper, 22, and Jane l'reseote, 23, were indicted—
' the former for stealing a quantity of silk, silk handker-
chiefs, and other articles, value 121., the property of Ed-
ward Lloyd, his master ; and the latter for feloniously
receiving the same.—Hooper pleaded guilty.
Frum the evidence given it appeared that the prisoner
Hooper was an assistant in the employ of the prosecutor, •
linendraper, 74, High-street, Shoreditch, who, from sus-
picion of Hooper's honesty, communicated with the police,
and in consequence • watoh was kept upon him, and on
the evening of the 7th of December he was followed by the
prosecutor and a constable of the name of Evans to No. 22,
genet-plue, Houton, where he lived with the other
prisoner, his sister. The male prisoner was searched, and
on him they found two lengths of silk, twenty.nine silk
handkerchiefs, and ten pieces of ribbon, and he was taken
into custody. Shortly afterwards the female prisoner en.
tered, and the constable told her he must search the room.
This was done, and in a box, which was locked, and which
she gave him the key to open, was found some property,
comprising silk, velvet, handkerchiefs, and ribbon, which
the prosecutor identified as his. The constable then
took her into custody ; but before he removed
her from the room she went to a washhand
stand, and washed her hands. After they were locked up
at the police station, the °Meer went back and examined the
washhand basis and in it he found a duplicate relating to
some velvet, which she had pawned at Mr. Stoker's, Eut-
road, Houton, and which the prosecutor believed to be his
property. In a carpet bag belonging to the male primmer
was found the sum of 7L los. in gold.
Mr. Sleigh said the male prisoner had pleaded guilty to
the charge against him under his advice, but he hoped he
should be able to satisfy the minds of the jurors that the
ease, as regarded the female prisoner, was very different.
She was, as he was instructed, a respectable married
I woman, sister to the other prisoner, and that accounted for
the circumstance of their living in the same house, and
the defence which he believed be should substantiate was
this:—lt was true that the property in question belonged to
the prosecutor, and that it was found in her box, and in her
room, but she bad no guilty knowledge of its havii.g been
stolen. She had believed, from the representations of her
brother, that the property was his, and that be had come
by it honestly. To corroborate this he should examine the
male prisoner, who had pleaded guilty, as a witness upon
oath, and he would tell them (the jury) that the defence
set up for his sister was a true one, and he would entirely
exonerate ber from the charge of having feloniously re-
ceived the property.
The Assistant-Judge wished t• know it the course the
learned counsel proposed to take had ever been permitted ?
Mr. Sleigh submitted that as the prisoner Hooper was no
longer a party interested in the issue, having pleaded
guilty under a recent statute, he was competent to give
evidence.

ilitTliSaistaat-ludge asked if such a course had ever been
allowed ?

Mr. Sleigh said it had.
Mr. Byerley Thomson observed that he had seen this
course pertained by Mr. Justice Creswell.
The Asistant•Judge expressed himself perfectly satisfied
after that intimatica.

The prosecutor asked the Assistant-Judge to refer to the
' deposition of Harriet Hayward, the female searcher at the
polies•station.
The Assistant-Judge did so, and afterwards called
Harriett Hayward, who stated that on the evening when
the prisoners were brought in custody to the suttee, she
searched the female and lound upon her some pawnbrokers'
duplicates, which she begged her to make away with, and
said that her brother had robbed his muter of the thins
and she pawned them. She thought the prisoner used the
word " rob," and not " taken."

Mr. Sleigh objected to the reception of this evidence,
after the cue for the prosecution had been brought to •
close and he had addressed the jury for the defeuce.
The Assistant Judge said it must be received, and called
I * pawnbroker, who produced some of the articles to which
the tickets found by the searcher referred.
Mr. Sleigh said he should now decline to call the male
prisoner as a winter, but should leave the cue in the hands
of the jury. without further observation.
The Assistant Judge
,said he thought the learned counsel
bad exercised a very wise and sound discretion in not call-
ing the male prisoner as a witness after the evidence that
had been given, and then proceeded to sum up the evidence
against the female.
The jury at ones found her Guilty.
' There was a second indictment of a similar nature, charg-
ing the male prisoner with stealing some linendrarry
goods from Mrs. Lent, at Woolwich, with whom he livid
previous to his pies to Mr. Lloyd's, and the female with
receiving the property, knowing it to be stolen.
They beth pleaded guilty.
The Assistant Judge sentenced Hooper to eighteen and
Prescott to nine months' hard labour.

THE POLICE COURT&
GUILDHALL.

J. Blosabors, a fair;Sl, whiwasrem ended from Mon-
day on the charge et uttering a forged cheque for IW.,
drawn in the same ef By. Stoat* and Co.; on the Royal
British Bank, end mirk payable to a Mr. Robinson, with
intent to defraud Messrs. Benson, of Ludgate-hid, was
finally examined.
Mr. Hy. Stem* furniture warehouseman, of 78 and 79,
Westasinater-beidge-road, said he kept no account with the
Ral British Beek. The prisoner was a stranger to him,
sad no part of the cheque produced was in his (Mr.
Stoats's) handwriting. The signature was not his, neither
had it been written by his authority.
The cashier from the Lambeth Branch of the Royal
British Bank, stated that the cheque produced had been
issued in a book from the hank in question, and from the
number on the cheque he was enabled to state that the book
from which it had been abstracted was given to "Thos.
Oreathead & Co., of Mount-street, Lambeth," who hathin
account at the Ro., British Bank. The cheque wan pre-
sented by Meson. Bftson's assistant on Monday morning,
when the books were searched, and it was ascertained that
Mr. Stoats had no account at the bank.
Francis Millard, Messrs. Benson's assistant, said that Mr
Oresthead told the manager of the bank in his presence
that toe cheque was torn out of his book on the morning
of Saturday last.
The officer produced a betting-book found on the pri-
soner containing the counterfoil of the forged cheque and
a variety of memorandums, showing that the prisoner had
been engaged in bettin, and other gambling transactions
connected with hone-racing to a great extent.
It was urged by Mr. Wood, who appeared for the defence,
that the prisoner wee& man of independent property and
his friends highly respectable, and he therefore hoped that
the worthy adermas would adult him to bail.
Alderman limpliary esiesseei lb surprise at such an
application, the ease being on. of fragery, and then com-
mitted the prisoner for trial, refusing bail for his appear-
ance at the Old Bailey Sessions.

BOW-STREET.
A well-dressed young man, named Damien Fromottl, de-
scribed u a French exile, residing with his wife in lodg-
ings, in Guildford street But, was °barged with having in-
decently exposed himself, on Saturday afternoon lest, to
a lady and several children, in the Mall of St. James's-
park.
The cue, although very clearly proved by the testimony
of a respectable tradesman's wife, who reluctantly attended
to prosecute, sad partly confirmed by a little girl and •
policeman on duty near the spot, occupied nearly the whole
of the morning, owing to the anxiety of the magistrate (Mr.
Henry) to hear all the prisoner's friends, who were able to
speak to his character and habits.
The prisoner addressed the court at great length, and
with considerable force, in the French language. He stated
that he was merely obeying a call of nature, and probably
forgot that more privacy was necessary in England than in
France.

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Mr. Henry remarked that tlie same excuse was always
set up in such cues, and, as to character, it bad been his
misfortune to see similar charges preferred against many
men, and some clergymen even of good moral repute, whom
no one could have supposed capable of such indecency.
His worship committed him to prison for two months.