The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-02 00:00:00

instructions. I cautioned him against placing them in the
hands of the defendants. I never gave the bills to Mr.
Clarke, the solicitor, who lives at 19, Portsca.place, Hyde-
park, but meetly instructed him to conclude the negotiation
with Scott with regard to them. The money not being
' forthcoming at the time appointed, I called several times
upon Scott, at Garraway's, but could get neither the money
nor the 'Ala hack.
Mr. Fell said—l am a gentleman. lam the drawer of
the bills on Mr. Lamplough. On Saturday last I saw Mr,
Vickers at his office, and told him that I understood he bad
discounted the bills. He said he had, and I asked him who
he discounted them for, and when, at the some time show-
ing him the undertaking I had received from Green.
' After some hesitation he said he had discounted them for
Balton about a fortnight ago. I told him that Scott, to
whom the bills were given by Newton, had absconded, and
that I was robbed of the amount of the bills. I asked him
what consideration he had given Bullen, and he said he had
given value for them. He promised to arrange an appoint.
I ment between Mr. Sullen and myself ; but having some
suspicions about tho matter, I started off to Mr. Bullets's.
I told him who I was, and that I had heard he had ad-
vanced money upon two bills for 2501. each. He denied
having the bills in his possession, or ever having lent a
single shilling on them. Ile said the 5001. bill had been in
his hands. I told him I had just left Mr. Vickers, and
Irelated to him all that Vickers had previously told me
about the bills. When I mentioned Vickers' name, ho
(Bullen) turned deadly pale, and remained silent for several
minutes, after which he refused to answer any more ques-
tions on the subject, telling me that I was quite abroad
upon the matter. I said I would put the affair into the
hands of the police, and then left him.
Cetus-examined by Mr. Cooper.—l live on my pro-
perty, consisting of freehold property and mortgages. I
am the mortgagee and have a claim upon certain estates to
the amount of 30,000/. and upwards. I have lately sold it
all under the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill. Mr.
Brace, of Surrey-street, and Mr. Lister first introduced me
to Mr. Green. I have given bills to other parties, but they
have all been for amounts varying from 1,500/. to 2,0001.
I never drew IL bill for 501. on Mr. Lamplough. I gave
: hall value for the bills in question. That value consists in
• my mere word. I gave him an undertaking to pay them
wh-ti they fell due. Vickers, when seen in his office, ap-
pears a respectable man ; but I have been told a different
I tale since, for I understand that his wine cellars are kept
open by means of my bills. A man of the name of King
told me that Sullen had advanced 2001. on them. King
: said he knew Vickers well, and that he had been concerned
in a similar transaction on a previous occasion. King also
r told me that the bills passed from Scott to Welehman, and
from him to Bullen and Vickers

Mr. Cooper here submitted that the evidence did not
show any concert or agreement to commit a fraud in respect
to these hills. The position of his client, Mr. Vickers, was
of itself sufficient to show that such a charge was altogether
unfounded._

The chief clerk said the bills were accommodation bills,
and the only thing that had come out savouring of conspi-
racy, was the concocting and circulating among the public
such bills, which were of no value. Even if there had been
evidence of a combination amongst the defendants, a jury
would be sure to take into account also the character and
origin of the bills themselves.
Sir Oeorge Carroll said no charge had been made out,
but it appeared that somebody who was not before the
court had obtained value through the defendants fur the
Nil, and had not handed it over. It would be useless to
attempt to carry their case any further, for the bills were
alleged to be valuable securities, and might turn out to be
nothing but accommodation paper, and the person whose
nom- appears as the prosecutor disclaims the prosecution.
Ile therefore emridered that the wisest course to pursue in
this matter would be to disunite the summonses, and leave
the complainants to their own remedy.
Mr. Hassell suggested that detbndants should give up the
bills upon payment of whatever had beta advanced upon
them. _

Mr. Cooper said he, on behalf of defendants, courted the
fullest ins estigation, and he would with pleasure accede to
the offer made b)• th, solicitor for the prosecution.
Mr. Russell asked defendants to name the amount.

Mr. Cooper required him to go to Mr. Vickers's office,
and satisfy himself from that gentleman's books.
Mr. llussell said, if defendants declined to mention the
suns in court, he would perhaps deem it necessary to prefer
an indictment against them elsewhere.
Mr. Cooper said, if Mr. Brawn threatened his clients
with an indictment, they would enforce payment of the
bills when they became due, instead of returning them.
Sir G. Carroll suggested that the most honourable course
for respectable men to adopt, was that of naming the
amount advanced upon them in open court, and then there
could be no mistake about it afterward+.

Mr. Cooper declined to do this, and
Sir G. Carroll advised the parties to withdraw and settle
it among themselves.

WORSHIP-STREET.

Police-constiede OYU iaia Itillington, of the II division,
was charged by order of the police commissioners with the
ftillowing violent and unprovoked assault upon Mr. Samuel
Devine, a trimming manufacturer in Sarah-street, Mile-end.
The facts of the case were very fully detailed in the
Express of the 22nd ult., the complainant having been
charged on the previous day with resisting the police. It
transpired in the course of that inquiry that the policeman,
who was new to the service, had stopped Mr. Devine just
by his own door, and insistedon searching him, and subse-
quently his wife, who was with him, and whom he seised
round the waist for that purpose, only swearing and threat-
ening in answer to the husband's entreaties and semen-
; strances. The policeman attempted to take both into ens-
I tody, and finding some trouble from their amnipts to es-
cape, h.: struck Mr. Devine on the head with his
rattle three heavy blows, causing his face to stream with
blood. Yesterday witnesses were called on both sides with-
out altering the complexion of the case, and at its con-
clusion,
Mr. Hammitt said that, after a mature consideration of
the evidence, he could come to no other conclusion t han
that the defendant had been guilty of a gross violation of
his duty, which in his opinion rendered him wholly Unfit
I to fulfil the situation of a constable, and he had no hesita-
tion therefore in punishing him to the full extent of his
power, by ordering him to be committed for the term of one
month to the MUM of Correction and kept to hard Labour.