The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-12 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

Mr. Veenam Pocock*, the esoretsry to the London Mer-
chant. and Traders' Association, attended before Alderman
Lawrence with a view to expose what be denounced as a
system of fraud which was being carried on to a considerable
extent by a person addreesing from the news-rooms at 66,
Cheeped*, aa, 1 a tobacconist's shop at 191, Horton Oid
Town. Thecircumstanceswhich induced the present ap-
plication were thee. : --An advertisement appeared in the
provincial papers headed "Notice. 679 rich black watered
silk dreams," sod went on to state that " Mr. Thomas

Mason Las offer the above rich drama, contaioing sixteen
yards, for 21.., being me-quarter the original east ; 397 rich
black moire antique dresses at the reduced price of 29a 6d.
per dress, cost nearly seven guineas lately. For proof, mho
an application for patterns, sent free. Address, 191, Higl-
street, Iloston Old Tows, London." In reply to this a gas.
tleruan at Lincoln applied for patterns, which arrived in
due course, with the following lithographed note:
" Leedom, Nov. 16, 1660.

" Madan itteme hare tbi day been mot to you,
bow such good, for price, quality, and richness u sever
before offered. If you feel disposed to purchase do not
delay oriel ins by rcturo of post, as my orders are so very
great. Yost-office orders to be made pa_yable to
"1.01. re respectfully, " MABOI,
" 66, Cheapside, London."
" P.S. (written.) Should you require either of the goods
as hug: enclosed, I should wish you to not delay by ra-
ters of port ordering, as the appliwtious are med."

The patterns incised were of a very superior quelity,
sod apou receiving them the pence be had refined to
wrote up to the addrw given, enclosiog a poet-Ames ceder
lost At tab ia rayless* for a moire antique silk dram; bat,
although sandy three weeks had lease elapsed, he had nal
rewired either the dream or an acknowledgment of the re-
ceipt of the order. Yr. l'ov‘wke orid as soon an he was
commturiceled with ea the subject, he omoood Inquiries to
br oadr, and fatted that a persos maid at time aim ad.
deer fear all letters to Thomas Now" sod that be boil re-
mired re that way as many as NO Was, which showed
that tlo heed was one ~f a &greet and very extensive
character. The oily mems of checking the evil was by
pabliat, through the medium of the prom ; and his object,
to the meant etas, was trot, by a timely cautios toper-
ems in parte of the county), , many would be saved from
being victimised.
All ruse Lynne, said the rep' rtes would DO doubt,
DO usual, give their best attentive to the matter.
W NMTER.

A Leedoms man, of gentlemaely bearing, standing neatly
G fa • high, with black heard and maisolische, who was charged
es sleet. rllepston, labeerer, bee w.. 3 mated to
ter. leveed the avow of Jam Doweett, c eptain Ho-
to,eme nohow's. Esq., Ns* Chapin/to, .n. 11,olima
Hat.huge, Nr , was charged with °Meanie; :fill. by false
fr"e,iree, undci th.• following cinumetaaces :
Ste Jobe Poole aid —I am • idergymam, and reside at 10.
tiouth-creacent, Beilfortlemsars. Oa Vi elaelay week I
sired a rinbinuattatitio from Mr. Malt. the clerical spat,
of Covent poke. respecting • brag in Deeomhire, within
'lt make of Ftetar. Acontlingly I saw Mr. Wait, and wee
Mated by boo to the ireozet under the awe of Major
hspaasi, of 4 t iitortaiwinete, Pinilku. I n tit there
end saw the psieouer„ • ho ID an:MOT to toy .ioe.tions Mid
be bidr imbr0....3 sad art pro.utaLoo to e !trout which
Le hed pereassol bit i.r ell ago fur a relation who
was lately deed. and that he wished to diaper ..1 .t. After
VMS sable ociercreation I asked kin the tame of Outliving,
lost be sessifewal great Intatatius, and sail that it did net
•iietter about that, it was all right aeswim nw that K sea
,t„t.d I fagot b alltllialll U.% I hal *bowed Ida the
„liar Manias to the loaf, adiirsead to me by Mr. !lair,
,sodbe met o I (delis tmbelf to strict acaunity of every
weed contemned is WI NWT. stating tbet the hew( we.
at resat tiara but would ha so in leeway, and
• spressed • Irish to go down to ens it, test •
(odd not get the van., of the living hem him
I ehortlr alienist& left, and sew Ik. mai., the
result of which mei that I returned to the grio,ner. see
sei.i him I wr willing to nekoSiate • ith him for the
bat could Dot do so naives I saw it first. Ms answer was
awe was Do ebjecti.qa to that Mcrae. but he mint have
sonar recartty, a he had beea eat:timely annoyed not beg
enc., a clergyman who was tiegotietuti with him failing to
complete the puteliese at the eleventh h.nr, timothy
dnring base, ea he described it, into • corner. mud putting
his, to great 111,012TIMMUrt, In C 000.110,11110 a this, he rid.
hse solicitor bed einem! hum not to treat with any one with.
ena the payment el a &Pinola as • Iddlastddr/ roddledlis

and he should require me to deposit 300!. with Itha as part
payment of the living, mid sign a contract far the melons.
Al the same time he produced the copy of a contract ender
which he said he had originally pule-tweed the living, five
or six yews sgo, and in general conversation be told me
that he had lived next door to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, at Shirley, that he was on most intimate terms with
him, and had heard from his grace that a certain ecclesias-
tical eat for the purchase of livings, before the house lad
SON6OII, had been ?mead, and at the same time be told me
that he was negotiating with a nobleman for the ode of 50
acres of land, for which this nobleman bad offered him
3001. en sae, but his eolicatoe bad advised him not to
101 l lac than 100 acme. These two lag circumstances have
nothing to do with this charge, but they tended to throw
me off my guard, inasmuch as I was led to Name prisoner
to be a man of considerable sulaince. and one with wham
I maid safely treat. At length he said, " What do y=
to icing this contract" I replied I certainly
set min say contract without first submitting it to a bar-
rister era solicitor, and he then said, " Take this to any
barrister or solicitor you please, and you will find it quite
eared ; I pledge myself mast solemnly to its
Take it, sad let me see you stain." Having taken
sentmet away, and communicated again with Mr.
Main, I again saw the prisoner on Friday even-
ing, Wain he told mo the name of the living
wee flpireytes, near Okehampton, 20 miles from Exeter.
I my primer again on the following Monday, and told hire
' I had seem a barrister who was of opinion that if everything
contained in the contract were true I could go on with the
negotiation, and prisoner having repeated his mouranos that
everything in the contract was true, I told him if the eta-
tract was properly drawn up I would siv it. He then
sat as agreement (produced), signed by him's% and after-
wards by one, in whtcn we each speed, the one to buy, the
other to sell, the living, and on the following Ba
day I gam bit a cheque for 300/. on the Loa
don and Comely Bank. He then told me I should
be rare of a Deventhire welcome, and referred
me to the Rev. W. Blake Doveton, intwd
me by Wee. TM mass afternoon I went to Spreytosti
bobs bud din nsiosnes of Mr. bonitos, mat in my card
and tbs latter, bug bed not wailed keg when I saw Mr.
wits, said, " Who are
ylrei"!?"1. expimainliuglx= =DP said, " Them is
mess mistake been. I don't know you • I know nothing el
Major Chests hi a Mil stranger to me. lam the
immtheat eny father lift me the living in hi will,
and I bars tboaght of selling it." I that I was
in a very awkward poetic', but we discovered that we had
been years ago friends; and after taking tea with Mr.
Doveton be sent me to the railway station in his carriege,
sod I travelled all night, in order to get back my money.
Next day I went to the bank, found my claque had been
Bashed, and that every word the prisoner had said wee
untrue.

Crowe:mined by Mr. Lewis. jun., for the accused—
Primmer eadoned the agreement, " Paid to me a deposit of
3001., be." When he came to my home last night I refused
to bow any explanation of his meept. I could not believe
him, and told him I would not, es I was perfectly assured of
the respectability of Mr. Dovetail. He did not tell me he
had 3001 of my money stall at his house. He did not tell
me he had a contract with Mr. Domton to sell him the
living'

Mr. Lewis mid he could ustue his worship that his client
was wrongly charged. He had a number of letters from
Mr. Denton addressed to Major Chapman, signed " Tome
faithfully," in which riegotiatioas were going on for this
very living. Mr. Lewis then produced the letters, and maid
his alert also held a contract for the purchase of the
Wog.
Mr. Finneis Henry Nair, 22, Henriettaetreet, Covent-
noise, clerical agent, maid prisoner called upon him a fort-
night ago, and said be had an adroweon and next presenta-
tion of a living to salt, as the incumbent was going to be
preferred to • higher benefice; the commuted tithes were
worth 1101., the glebe land 1251., and there was • home,
Va, stables, conservatory, kc., worth owhinly sot leis
40/. per annum. Wixom told him the living wee
worth 2,500/. sod Ito maid as he was premed for time be
wanld chinos; of it at • cheap nits, for 2,4001. Witness
altanneds informed Mr. Poole of what he had heard. Pri-
mmer declined to give him the name of the living. but such
a thing wee sot nonsual.
In aver-examination Mr. Mair mid he believed the
lotion produced to be in the handwriting of Mr. Donk..
Mr. Doveton answered an advertisement of a living winless
had inserted is the Time., and if it was really Mr. Donna
who bad thee written be would swear the letters were
written by hist
Mr. Lewis them mid they had also letters from a Rev.
Mr. Barrows (explained by prosec for to be the Vidlr of
Bakewell, wise nailed himself • clerical agent) with respect
to this liviag, and also from Mr. Doveton's solicitor.
Mr. Payatar mid this was cestainly a very strange affair.
It was the mart angular thing he had beard of, and they
must certainly have Mr. Doveton to explain it if he could.
Mr. Poole amend the magistrate that Mr. Dcreeton's cha-
racter was above suspicion ; and as for the prisoner, he had
a number of aliases, and was advertised in &alga' Gazette,
where was so faithful a likes'sr of him as could not fail to
strike as one in an instant.
Defendent—l am not the mac. It ma in &abbe s Gazette
I had been committing depredationin le, a place I
was never in in my life.
Mr. Pools—lt was only last night your wife told me you
bad lately come from Barnstaple.
Mr. Psynter was of opinion that the circumstance of the
primer's saying be bought the living five years ago was
very mach against him.
Mr. Lewis said his client denied that be had mid any such
thing, or that be had pretended an intimacy with the arch-
bishop.
Mr. Malt mid the prisoner would not have been charged
bed he placed the NM in the heeds of an *goat. -He
asked him to do so on the previous night until the matter
watt cleared up, but he refused, at first denied he had any
of the mousy left, but at length said he might have 1001.
in the hems, and it now turned out there was 2061.
Brooker, 127 B, who has the case, said Mn.s Chapman
gave him 2205 which she said belonged to Mr. Poole. She
also gave him the papers produced, and among them one
addressed to Rosins Dorsett, from the ship Mutine, in
which John Dowsett, ship's cook, agreed to send her half
his pay, and Mrs. Chapman told him that was her property,
and referred to primmer.
Mi. Lewis said this was all a mistake.

In answer to qaudios from Mr. Poynter,
Primer said he had been a major in the army, bad kneed
two years in the Lith Light Dragoons four years ago, pre
vices to that he bad serval four years in the 53rd Foot,
Kr. Lewis said if his client were a swindler he would not
have remained in this house.

Mr. Poole rid he did not expect him beck so mon.
Mr. Poynter observed it wan • most singular affair, and
looked very much as though Mr. Damien had greenly im.
=upon Mr. Poole. Mx. Doveton mud be brraoougght to
, and he should remand the accused for a week, and
take two sureties in 501. for hisappearanos.
William Smith, Sidney Mason, Jones Hall, and
Niched irarath, four privates of the Colibitream Guards,
were finally ex:imin,A, charged with being concerned
with • number of other soldiers in a serious riot at Knights-
bridge.
The particulars of the previous examination have been
fully detailed, in addition to which other evidence of a cor-
roborative character was yesterday added.
The bet witness called, Alexander Reacher, corporal of
the ha Life Guards, in the course of his evidence de-
scribed the riot as the greatest disturbance he had ever
sew at Knightsbe. He was on duty at the barrack-
pte when first upon by tho police to interfere, and
took two or three men rich him, when, in consequence of
the Heim' nature of the disturbance, and number of persons
engaged in it, he found it noceassry to mend to the barracks
for more men.

The Major•Conimending the Ist Battalion of Coldetreama
asked the magistrate'. permission to put a few question@ to
the witness, which was granted. In reply, the corporal
said that no men under his charge drew a sword, but swords
might have been drawn without his order. By the great
Feature of the crowd he was borne away from his men.
lie had drawn hie own sword when seriously threatened,
but dad not see any others drawn. None of his men had
anne with them. The confusion was so peat that he could
not tell how many of the C01144.'188 had their belts off, or
how many there were engaged In the affray.
Inspector Firman, of the B Division, eald there were
several swords drawn, which could be proved.
Mr. Hannan, proprietor al the Arms Tavern,
Knightsbridge, after confirm/8g the testimony of other
witnesses et general terms, mid le maw several of the Life
Guards corning through the crowd with swords drawn.
Dr. Pence, of 10, Regent-street, Westminster, having
proved that Polieu-constehle Bloomfield had sustained
serious injury,
The Major put some questions to Bloomfield, who de.
dared be saw several swords drawn.
The Major observed that it was a very unusual thing for
men to go out on au occasion like this armed, and it was
a military offence to draw a sword without the order of the
officer in command. He had been induced to put some
questions M commquence of what he bad heard from the
corporal. It bad been said that there had been a great
many swords drawn and a great many belt, used, and there
seemed much dinrepsucy in the evidence in this respect,
and it was worthy of remark that there were no complaints
of civilians being hurt. Ho did not wish for a moment to
attempt to palliate the offence which had been committed,
and begged to aseure the magistrate that the military autho-
rities had given the police every facility to recognise and
bring the offenders to justice.
Mr. Pay oter was sure that the major was entitled to
credit for the best of motime—so person would think of
upholding styli conduct a. had led to the present inquiry.
In the opening it the ease it looked like a common assault
upon the °Astable, but when it 110011M0 fully developed it
was truly a serious riot, f.,r which he must send the accused
before a fury. He much regretted to have to mod soldiers
for trial, and more especially soldiers of a regiment second
to none in the service. He hoped that the public would not
think bemuse this had chanced to happen, that the 1110 D
were guilty of general misconduct : it would be unjust that
any hods of men should be prejudiced by the conduct of a
few, end he Impel it would be the lad time that such a
complaint agaiest t-e military would be brought before him.
The accused were then committed foe tried.