The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

CITY POLICE COMMITTEE.

Mr. Charles Peareon, the City SAcitnr, attended before
Aldeeman Copeland and Sir Henry Muggeridge, in petty
seasione, to obtain their order for melting a number of pauper
lunatics charisable on the City funds, under the following
extraordinary circus:Jetliners.
Mr. Peasson said he appeared before them to ask the court
to maks an order on the fonds of the City for • 'Limber of
pauper lunatics, who had become chargeable to the City of
London I:eion through the unprecedented conduct of the
French authorities. Some of the cases he had investigated,
and found he could not mat ti: em, but there were others
that required investigation and exple.cation from the French
government. Soots time ago the Free, h authorities shipped
over to this country tic less than six glauper lunatics, landed
them at the wharf, and them turned them adrfr. As they
could not be suffered to wander about the stirrer, they were
taken before the Lord Mayor, who wet them to the City of Lon-
don Workhouse, which, not being able to find out their settle-
ment, claimed to place them on the City funds, there being
DO county rate in London. Mr. Bowring, tho clerk to the
overseers of the poor of the City of London Union. had surer-
tainsi that these lunatics were English people wi:o had gone
to Francs very young, end had become lunatic there. Ono
of them had be, n in Francs am long as thirty yeses, and it
was very hard that after having bad all the benefit of the&
labour for that lengthened period, Fronoe should now send
them over here to be chargeable on the county fuude of this
country. lithe bench thought it desirable, he would apply
to the French anthoritie• shout tome of them. There were
many foreign lunatics in our workhouses, and one in parti-
cular who had been attached to the Austrian Embarsy ; and
as he was a young man, he was likely to be chargeable to the
parish for many years. Mr. Peareon wished to know whe-
ther he bed the authority of the bench for applying to the
Austrian and French authorities to see what could be done
with tilt se poor creatures.
Alderman Copeland maid be had, decidedly.
The orders were then made.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Joh., Lockhart Norton woo brought up on remand,
charged with baring forged sad uttered r bill of exchange
purporting to be accepted by Y. W. Flower and Co., 4,
Princes-street, for 6001., with intent to defraud the London
Dimwit Company.
A clerk from the London Discount Company havi:
proved the payment to the prisoner of the sum of 4l t. 19a.
in die:oust of ihs bill, and Mr. P. W. Flower having proved
That the acoeptanes was a forgery,
The ;sienna was Liked what he bad to say to the charge,
when he read in a firm voice from a paper which he held la
his hand se follows

" Newt', June 11, 1859.
"My Lord,—Not being repreernted a belie floe, way I
be allowed to make a few remarks in my own awe?
(The Lord Mayor assented.) I am deeply sensible, my
lord, of the situation in which I stand. I am per.
fectly aware of the reproach which I have brought
upon myself and my relatives. It grieve. me to think
that some of those who were my warm, at friends and &up-
trtaend when good opinion I to much desired, should
veitt suffer inconvenience, sad be subjected to • loss—
though it may be only temporarily—on my account. And,
above all, it la to me • matter of the deepest regret and °m-
ention that, kitowieg and acknowledging my duty to God and
man, I should yet, to the dark day of temptation, bare de-
parted from the path of rectitude. If trying to stand on my
own strength, and falling before a mighty adversary, and if
being left to take my owe perverse way for a time, till I bad
myself forged the chains that bind me; if pride of increasing
position and growing respectability was conjoined with a de-
sirs rather to gain the favour of man than that of God, or at
least to preserve that favour by sinful usesne—if all thee
things, viewed In the light of revelation, end I. the
shadow of the event 1 se now passing through,
are calculated to read • great lesson to those
Christians who think to serve both God and Mammon,
and who, according to the Writ of the times, value
• man. not according to what he is, but rather sec .rring to
what he Romans of this world's goods ; and further, may
hare the effect of revealing simple naked truth to my own
mind in • new and reexported aspect—then the terrible lemon
lam learntig will not be altogether Lorna of result. I bare
not the elightet desire, my lord, to exams myself or exte-
nuate my tank, but I crave leave to offer one or two npla-
' neon, obeervatieee. Newly three months ego I was placed
is such • ;Keith* that • suspension of payment was inevit-
able ifs sum, eternity required, failed to be forthcoming. I
raw that if my credit suffered, matey of my bums friends
would at the same time lose money by their connexion with
me. The thoughts of each • thing were too painful to con-
template, and in an evil hour I was tempted t avoid the
threatening danger by taking another cows.. Looking for-
ward, I saw that in a few months I should be able, from the
produce of my extensive forests in Norway, and other sources,
not now available owing to there occurrent:tie—to meet all
necessary payments. The difficulty seemed to be how to
tide over the interval. I took the Snit and fatal step under
the belief that I was choosing the last of two evil., and that
I should spec duly extricate myself from • false position. To
my mind, strongly toured an it was at the time, it seemed
as if I were only bonoweng the use of the names of ethers
for • limited teriod. and that, as the bills would certainly be
token up by myself before maturity, even the discounters in-
rurre4 no risk whwever. The probability detection be-
fore the bills mattered seemed small, and having once, under
greet premiere, pissed the Itubicoe, I was inevitably cote-
mived to a coarse that required to be gone thmerb,
however groat the risks to be encountered. Hoeing
inftthpd the laws et my country to prevent •
smell evil, and that good might come—having done
what I know to be very wrong, and fully deserving
of the severest punishment that can be inflicted
epos me—l am ready and willing to submit to any amount of
suffering, in mind and body, that being the only atonement I
can make for the post. I have little more than • word to
add. If seunmaey proceedings had not been taken against
me, no one Ist•I ling paper bearing my signature would have
lost • single shilling. As it is, the whole of my tuner ured
creditors—those having forged bills as well as others—ought
at an 'telly date, even under as asfavoaroble realisation of
the seq., to obtain 106 is the 11. • and if the principal
Notwegion property is rightly disposed of, or is kept for 18
meths, and is properly managed, while the other assets are
well looked after abm, Ifs. to 20s. will be obtained within an
early period, and ultimately, I believe, the liabilities will be
covered In full. I have now only to submit myself to the
disposal of the court.
Load Mayor—Do you wish this psper to be sent into
the court

Prirouer—lf you plass*, my lord.
Lcod Mayor—lt ts my parniul duty to mud you M the
Central Criminal Court for trial.
The prlsentr woo then removed.
GREENWICH.

Mr. Charles Abbott Gayle°, of Lewisham, appeared to
summon°. wk.n out by direction of the Lawhharn District
Board of Works, under the 7th and 28th sec. ions of the Nui-
sances Removal Act, charring hint under the 7th section
with canting a cuinnee by the hurting of clay for the
making id- brirkr, ant under the 28th section with carrying
on the 00.10etis to the lejoey of the ;cache health.
Mr. Edward. appetitet is support of the summonses, and
Mr. Sadgreva fer tha defeedant.
From the evidence offered in support of the existence of
a entente it appeared that on a piece of ground occupie I by
the dd. ndent a brick (Atom we. continuously burning; and
the same bring w,thin 260 fret of the nude rent and 120
Get from dwelling-heusaa, vesions complaints had boon made
by the re-ideate of the nuisance experienced, and which had
led to the present proceeding/.
Mr. Sedet owe denied that aoy nu.aanee existed, and wished
to ►now the innocent the complaining partite.
Mr. Edwards ohjected to making the names public, but
handed in the complaint made to the Dietrict Board, with the
pates' eignatures, for his worship'. inspection.
Mr. Traill atld there was an exception made in the act to
persica* carrying an their trade or bushing, and wane it
mull be shown that accumulations had teen kept longer than
wee 'Keeney fir the carrying oe of the trade, eo se to prove
a gannet', the suenseas mast be discuesed.
Mr. Edwards said he was sot prepared with such evidence,
apes which
Mr. Traill dienilsred the coroolooo.
The second sommese wee then about being proceeded with
ander the 28th wool], t herniae the defendant with osnying
his biplane ia a 'uvula isjuriouip to the public health.