The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

COMMITTAL OF A SHAM NOBLEMAN FOR
FORGERY AND FRAUD.

On Thursday, Henry Philip Arthy waf
Bingham, at Marlborough street Police
final examination, charged with obta
tradesmen, a quantity of valuable pro!

it before M

carrying out his swindling
Lord John Hay, the Hon. H. I
Sir John Burgoyne. Of course

least related to either of the above gentle❑
that he is the son of a clergyman in K
alleges, in the expectation of any proper
of. He was formerly a dresser in the 111
and served some time in the Crime
home, he has been

ving upon his

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The only

additional evidence to that which has already appeared in our
columns was that of Mr. Martin, of the firm of Stone and
Martin, bankers, Lombard street, who proved that, although
the prisouer's name was entered in their books, he bad no
account whatever with them. It was also proved that the
prisoner was no relation to Sir John Burgoyne, nor was he the
son of the Earl of Kinnoul, as he fraudulently represented.
attendance, and abneden prpoldedugceedd at;
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5 prisoner,
n eequantity
pawnbrokersa
an at
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by John Murphy, of the 19th
nwgpeertroeplOtirhntyer articles was the ring, fouud
questionp r
timeo promise, i s e ,
afterwards. andformpledgede rly
belonged
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prisoner
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under the pretence of getting him a situation with some
Rupeagnimtehnet finefldFnonft,lnwkbeirembanbne
branch of his " noble family." The prisoner forgot his
procured from the poor fellow
of his, who was killed4o
Captain
pretendedmere
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.n
ieetrt ttityhoef a
frtthel nreg
Hussars, a relative
Sthitfthe
battle of Inkerman. The depositions were then taken, and
the prisoner fully committed for trial on two charges of forgery
and one of fraud. After the prisoner was removed from the
bar, Murphy, the soldier, asked Mr. Bingham whether he
could not have his ring given up to him ? Mr. Bingham said
no doubt the pawnbroker would, under t.ll circumstances,
gladly give it up to him. The prisoner was then removed to
Newgate in the van.

ifle in a very short

THE SEVEN PRINCES OF WALLACHIA.—There are no
less than seven pretenders to the hereditary dignity of Hos-
podar of Wallachia. These are, Prince Alexander Ghika -
John Ghika, Governor of Samos ; Demetrius Ghika, head
of the police; Constantine Cantaouzeno' President of the
Council ; George Bibesco, formerly hospodar; John Elbow),
who resides actually at ,Bucharest; and Barbon Stirbey,
the last hospodar.

THE NEW ARCTIC EXPLORING Someatz.—There was an
open discussion at the Russell Institution on Wednesday
night of the question whether another expedition should be
fitted out to search for further relics of Sir John Franklin's
exploring party. It was the opinion of the Arctic voyagers
present—Dr. King, Lieutenant Pim, and others—that, by
extending the search for a comparatively short distance
beyond the point where traces of Franklin's party were
found by Dr Rae, decisive evidence might be obtained to
set at rest all doubt of their fate.

MELANCHOLY CATASTROIHET—OIIe of the most melan.
choly catastrophes that has occurred for a long time in the
neighbourhood took place on Wednesday, tt
cember, at Broseley, in Shropshire. Fou
boys, James Pope, aged 16, John Taylor
14, and Charles Simmonds, 13, having

of De-

dinner, to their work, arranged themselv
mouth to make the descent of a shaft ben

, after
e pit's

feet deep. No sooner was the platform withdrawnand for the
living load to descend than the machinery gave way, and
the poor lads were precipitated from the top to the bottom
After some time a workman went down. On his reaching the
bottom of the shaft he proceeded to disentangle free. the
chain the first boy that met his view, which wast.l".
whom he found alive, and struggling to free himself. He
file
was no sooner freed than he stood
11 and
dwwas drawn up,
yards. Having been fixed to the
chainp-th'se month with a
and was received by the men the
theyi
shout of astonishment and delightat
looked upon his
altisthem . The next haul
living countenance staring
ywildni;est, also alive • , the other
brought up Simmonde,
the
°entretehed the poor little living
two were quite dead. s'
carried them home, a very short distance
boys on straw and
eot them lived till half past six that
from the pit, and
otherotnill between one and two the nest morn-
ing,evening, the died. It will be long ere this sad event is
when. theyth parish.
forgotten in