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POLICE.

MANSION-BOI'SE. -
Yesterday a young man. named Aglitter, in the service or the
Post-office. was charged with having forged $ bond, taken by the
establishment as a security h.r the correct performance of the duties
of: the office.
I Mr. DOW LING' the solicitor, said the prisoner had been ap-
pointed in 11W, and had given a bond for the payment of all dues.
Lately be was hi arrest., and his bondsmen being applied to, it was I
discovered that the name of one of the securities was written by
I another person, the bondsman not being able to write. This was
• the forgery.
J. Sparks was called to mom the forgery. Ile was intimate with ;
the prisoner, who some time ago asktd 'hint to sign a bond, by
which lie would get a situation in the Post-office: lie consented at
once. The prisoner came with the hood, but he (witness) 'aid he
could not write. Prisoner said it would do quite as well to get
some one to write his name for him. Witness's daughter went out
and got it signed by a neighbour, who said he believed it wietrig not ,
do. Understood perfectly
.well the nature of the bond, *WM
, prisoner, upon getting the signature to It, put into his pocket.
I The witness's daughter and two other persons confirmed the above;
'statement.
M
r.Mourn, who attended for the prisoner, said it was quite
1
absurd spun facts to charge him with having uttered a forged;
I bond, knowing it to be forged. The instrument was not a forgery,
but a valid and recognised instrument, upon which the Postedlice
might recover in an action against the witness, Sparks. The in.
seven were common where persons, who from ignorance or para.
lyels could not write, authorised others to write their name fur I
1 them. Many old deeds weir executed in this way. What other
. means could a man withcut arms adopt ?
I The Loan MAYOR thought the instrument could not be called
a forgery. Ile observed, that the Post-office would, by sending to
the nominated bondsmen in the ease of any person applying fur a
situation, very readily ascertain whether any deception was meal-
tatcd. By such a course the instruments must be duly executed.
The Solicitor to the Post-office said, that such hail been the course
formerly edema!, and he belies el it must be again resorted to. lie i
• preetil that the instrument in this use was not valid.
• A Solicitor who attended on behalf of Sparks was of the MU
opinion.
3lr. flaneten accounted fur the interference of the latter gentle. ,
man, by saying he was desirous of getting rid of the responsibility
for his client lie then called the attention of his Lordship to the
form of the deposition which had been concocted in the office of the
tiolicitur to the Post-office. The deposition ran in terms like these
"Sparks deposes that the signature is not his, and that he cannot
write." Thies was a striking instance of what our Courts of law and
equity ought to be mom deeply impressed with, that a viva mot,
le:animation was the only mode of getting at the full truth in a '
• matt-,of fact, and that the mode of trying vises by &women-
tary evidence sees at all times extremely hazardous, and ought in
'all pnesille cases to be dispensed with.
31r. Dowers° said the document contained [nerdy notes of mi..
donee.
Mr. Ilmtweit said it was drawn up with all the formality of a
deposition,
Mewoe ren and and
aga
ditawnudi:ell the
litl
cute, in order that he may
I have the decision of the City Lair Officers.
An Italian Nobleman, one of the refugees, waited upon the Lord
I Mayor on the part of many of his countrymen, who had tied hither at
, the conclusion of tle late struggle at Naples, and expressed to him
the thanks of those compulsory visitors, for the benevolent part
taken by his Lordship in superintenilieg a plan for their relief. lie
; had but a very limited income, which was sow quite exhausted by
• the aid be had given to his companions in exile. Their number
was about ISO. They were all gentlrnmen of rar.k and talent, who
had lived In the enjoyment of effluence, but in comkquence of their
• endeavours to ameliorate the political condition of their enintrymen,
they were now plunged in the deepen misery. Many who had held
the rank of blegistrates, Advocates, Colonels, Ike. were at this
moment housciess wanderers, and lied been obliged to sleep in the
parks and abroad in the open air. All these gentlemen hail ren-
dered themselves obnoxious by the exercise of their power and abi.
litics in behalf of their country, and most of them were highly edu.
eatol and well unpainted wit.' many languages. They were de.
sirous to subsist upon their own industry in commercial situations,
or as teachers of those aconmplishments.
The Loan MAYOR highly approved of the Intention, and bad
little doubt of its success. To obtain situations for the unfortunate
patriots would certainly be the best mode of,giving them relief.
Our academies offered many facilities. The greatest difficulty was
often found in obtalnieg for youth proper instructors in the living
languages. But when gentleaint of the highest education offered
to undertake the drudgery, the advantages which their services held
out could no: fail of being appreciated.
The Nobleman, who was seconipinied by one or two of the re.
I fugees, then retired, after having again thanked his Lordship.

GUILDHALL.
Tub Fat a.—The fineness of the weather on Friday and Satur-
day, tempted many thousands of persons to visit Bartholomew Fair,
but the umneese concourse who repaired thither on Monday night,
wan never exceeded on any former occasion. Still, however,
tolerably good order prevailed, except in the narrow space between
the houses and the toy and gingerbread stalls, where some persons
thought it a good frolic to rush rapidly along, caching the tears of
the females, and threatening destruction to the whole line of
temporary er.:ct..,:ss, and their gaudy or savoury contents. How-
ever, only six or seven of the awes brought before the Sitting Al_
demean, Sir Charles Flower, yesterday, had arisen on the spot.
Among them were two respectable persons, Mr. Faux, a consider-
' able maltster at l'axley, Huntingdonshire, and Mr. Currie, a
hatter, in the Broadway, Blackfraws, who were charged with a
rather maims assault upon George Groom, one of the City officers.
Ile was, It seems, attracted by some females screaming violently.
and observing the defendants, arm-in.arni, increasing the uproar
as much as they could by plunging about, he desired them to desist.
Upon his interfering, however, they behaved still worse, and used
such offensive language, that the officer endeavoured to take them
before the City Marshals, who were in attendance at the Compter,
but in doing so, Currie knocked him down by a violent blow in the
mouth, tore his clothes, and made a desperate resistance. At the
Compeer too, they behaved in a most outrageous manner, accusing
Gronett of obbing Currie of his watch, and a purse whit two
sovereigns in it.
Mr. Cope, the Marshal, however, saw Currie slide the letter on
to a table behind him at the time he was making the accusation,
and the watch was found in his own breeches pocket. The maltster
waned eager to disclaim all participation as to this latter transac-
tion, so that the whole Inert of this superlative piece of impu-
dence. the wickedness of which by tar exceeded its wit, must rest
with his London friend die hatter; and, indeed he Ruined even
yesterday but very little ashamed of it. In the sequel, they were
both ordered to find bail, and a ill, no doubt, be proaccutol at the
expense of the city.
A young fellow named WiL';ain Be-non was also comotitted to
Intl bail. upon the charge of breaking a constable's head with his
own !tall. fur obstructing his entrance to one of the singing moms
of a public boars, which was already aiumned almobt to suffo-
cation.
Tho pick kris were neither very rutucrous nor very daring.
The only fellow that was committed, au • lad of the name of
Bninter, for malt: g a gold shirt-pin from a Mr. Fox, opposite
Itichardson's show. There was but little crowding there at the
tune and the prisoner Icry deliberately drew it out, and handed it
uver'hiai emulda to an accomplice, übo made of

the Euex Arms, Watford, lints, and lie apprehended him at that
house on Monday.
A great deal of the property was produced, and the prisoner was
sworn to as the person who pawned It.
Ile had nothing to say, and was committed for fur•hcr exami-
nation.

UATTO24-0A ADEN.
THE CALLOONUAN CROSS-STIZET—LIAISILITS
To Pool's HATES. question of amaiderable importance, not
only to this Establishment, but to all dissenting Congregations,
was this day argued before fir. Sergeant SELLON. and Mr.
LAING, In consequence of a summons having been obtained by
31r. Hangmen% the vestry clerk fur that part of St. Andrew's,
Holliovn, in which the Calcdonlen Church is situated, eanirg'
upon 31r. Binwiddie, through whose hands the receipts and tepee-
diture of the church pans, to show cause why he should rot pay
a sum of 201. 10s. for seven quarters poor's rate, assessed on that
church.
It was admitted that the pews were let out for money ; but Mr.
Dinwiddie opposed the claim, on the ground that the Church oil
I Scotland (of which the Caledonian Church is • brabch) was not a .
dissenting Protestant Establishment, but, by the union of the two
kirldorns, virtually an integral part of the Church of England, or ;
at any rate li:reed by that event on a footing with the latter as an
Independent Church ; and that, as the sums received front letting
the pews were insufficient to cover the current expenses, it could
not he rated as a place of profit.
dir. Hammond rebutted tho first objection, by arguing that the I
Articles and Acts passed on the union of the two countries, coupled
I with the Toleration Acts, and Acts of Unithrtuity (recognised by
j the Act of Union) prove the Church of Scotland to he essentially
and fundamentally diWercnt from that of England, in its tenets rs
well as discipline. That the stipulation made at that time, that
succeeding Kings of England should take an oath inviolably to
j maintain the Church of Scotland, involves an absurdity, if the two
Churches are the same. That there is no Esiablished Church as
I part of the religion of the State in these realois, except the Church
of England, sail that there can be no such thing as a Church of
' Scotland existing in England, with privileges ansi exemptions
hoot burthens to which other Protestant Establishment*, deriving
profit front their seats, are subject, and that by the Act 52 Oco.
" Zt:o conpvgatisinew assembly for the religious worahip of Prates-'I
NMI (which the Catalonian congregation
shallre) shall be
' allowed, under a penalty of Slin. until the same have been
registered (which the Caledonian Church is not) with the Bishop
of the Diocese, or Clerk of the Peace:" and that as to the question
of profit, the case of Farquharson against the Surrey Chapel, at the
Quarter Sessions for June in 11110 ; and the King v. Agar, in
14 East's Reports, had set that question at rest, wherever the seats
occupied by the congregation are let out for profit, no matter
whether the proprietors be gainers or losers by their speculation.
111 r. Hammond was proceeding to cite other authorities, when
the Magistrates observed, that as they thought there were some
doubts as to their jurisdiction, after the party rated had neglected
in due time to appeal, and as the question was one of much ion.
portanee in its malts, not only to the Caledonian Church, but to
all other places of worship nut Conning part of our own I iturch
Establishment, and sonic of the points were so nice, that they did
not like to decide such a question immediately, it would be bet.
ter for the parish to rate the church again, and for the church to
appeal, and obtain the decision of the Court of King's Bench ; and
' it that Court should decide that the establishment in question was
liable, the Magistrates would, if required, entorce the payment of
what was now due. They, however, recommended Mr. Hinwiddie,
who acceded to thcir recommendation, to call a meeting of the
Elders, and come to an agreement with Sir. II almond, that the
arrears now due should abide the future dettision of the Court ofl
Kingtßench.
r. LAING observed, that the question being really one of mag-
nitude, the Caledimian Church might, perhaps, in the ulterior
proceedings, avail thenisol vet of the assistance uf some gentlemen of
the Sootish Bar.

ASOMILT.—Juba Julian Ilectur Antonio, perhaps once a Black
Priuce of one of the Black countries, but who, like other great men,
had experienced the vicissitudes of fortune, and is now getting a
" beet of de honest livelihood at blacking shoes." in Union-court.
Charles-street, was bretmht up yesterday in the custody of, and
charged by, Mr. Charley Landshaw, a Charley of Saffron-lull. with
having assaulted him at three o'clock in the mon.ing. He inform-
ed the Magistrate he was ordered ta, and in the habit of, calling up
a reputable dealer in " sky-blue" at liall.past two o'clock every
morning (whether he had a drop of blue ruin in return he did not
say), but in doing so it appeared Master John Julius Hector An-
tonia, who was also an early riser, and resident in the same house
with the sky-blue dealer, came out of the door and told Wu to go,
for the woman was gone away. Charley then called him a liar,
and told him to mind his own business. This the aforesaid per-
sonage did not relish, and fell to arms, aril at Charley's throat,
who said he was nearly snußeated by the violence of the sod.
Antonio, after listening with due respect to the charge, now sud-
denly exclaimed, " Yell, I shall spec now you done; yea. I shall
spec (addressing the 3lagistrate), I shall tell your honour I live in
de house he arms and knack for de woman. .111 e say de woman
gone—he say you lie—rue laugh and push him, me thinks It fun.
I: o he say den you rogue, and hit me we der stick, torn me cort
look here! (said he, extending both anus, and showing the Magis.
trate the fragments of an old great coat, in which he was enwrapt,)
look here! he tore me cost, he beat me aid de stick, call me liar,
all, for me tell him de woman's gone; me get tid. a week to ring a
bell in Holborn in de morning; me lire in C3Urt seven year, and
'tee struck for r.uting."
Antonio thus ended his defence, in the course of which a person
present was kind enough to explain to the Magistrate the language
of defendant, a hich was uttered with at rapidity.
The illagistrnte disniissed the charge, eapreseing Ids dibappro.
bation of Landshaw's conduct.
_UNION HALL.

BURCLART AND 110211E31Y,;iTiitITMOW, ix EssEx.—
Yesterday a man, who gave his name Thomas Jones, was brought I
before H. J. CHAD& axes, ES4i. charged with having been concerned
in a bur lacy and robbery, at Donmow, in Essex.
Miss .15111 (laptop, of tireat Dunmow, stated, that on the night
of the !fah of &lay her house was entered by robbers, by means of
a ladder plated at her bed-room window. robbers had entered
the mom when she was asleep. The moment she heard them, she
got out of b •el and ran down stairs; but she was followed, and
brought by one of the men, who held a thick stick over her
head, and swore that she was a dead woman if she made the least
noise. They then demanded the key of her drawers, which she
gave up to them, end they proceeded to open them, and took from
thence about thirty sovereigns, a quantity of silver spoons. and a
number of shillings and sixpences; together with the purse now
produced, which, at the time of the rubbery, contained some ail.
rer pence. Al ill!' Clayton added, that two men, named Burrell, had
since been convicted for the offence.
John Wallis, a carpenter, residing at Little Euston, in Essex,
stated, that or Sunday evening, the ICJI of Slay, he saw the pri.
loner along with two men, named Burrell, et Churcherd, within a
short distance of (lisp Clayton's house. One of the Iturrells,
whom he had known previously, spoke to witness. lle was pu.
shire he had seen the prisoner with them.
James Jarvis, of I funinow, stated, that he saw the prisoner in
company with the men who have been convicted, about eight
o'clock on the night Miss (Upton was robbed. Witness observed
them go off in the direction of the prosecutor's house.
John Doyle, a touter or servant to Mr. Bonfield, proprietor of!
the htnrford coach, stated, that on the day after the robbery he!
was with the Storford coach, when the prissier hailed them, and
gut up near Hatfield Heath, and proceeded with the coach as far',
as Stratford. He then descended from the coach, and paid the
coachman his fare. amounting to three shillings, in bright new
shillings. The prisoner also gave the coachman a bright silver
sixpence over the tare for himself. The witness added, that when
the prisoner was settling the fare, he pulled a great many sovereigns
out of his pocket, intermixed with silver shillings and sixpences,
all of which appeared to be new.
Alin Clayton here stated, that among the property stolen from
her were a number of bright new shillings and sixpences.
The coachman of the Storford coach being absent, the Magistrate
observed, that it would be necessary, for the completion of the case,
to have Isis evidence. The above witnesses were then bound ever,
to appear against the prisoner, and the coachman's depositions were
ordered to be taken.

ROW.STREET.
HOT:WERT aT A SECVANT.—Wrn. 11.:If1011. a young man, in
the dress of • postilion, was brought brtore Sir It. lota en: on
Monday night, charged by a gentian= of the name of Gordon,
retidirg in Ely-place, llolhorn.hill, with rubbing him, at various
woes, of a large quantity of 'date.
It appeared in evidence that about eighteen months since Mr.
Ourdon being In want of a trusty confidential servant, made in-
quit its among his friends, and the prisoner was very atrongly re-
commended to him notice by an eminent silversmith, who said he
lead so high an opinion of hoot that he would trust him with un.
told gold. Mr. Gordan, upon this recosnmerdation,khdly took the
prisoner into his service, treatzd him with great kindness, and re.
genial him as an acquisition, and the prisoner contrived to preserve
the good opinion of his master, until one (for trim) unlucky day in
April last, alien, by an odd circumstance. his depredations, which
he had been eirryieg on front the first week of entering the service
of Mr. Gienion, were discovered. On the day in question Sir 1.
Gordon, the brother of the prosecutor, dined with the latter, and
among other things a fruit pudding was served up, en article of
Mod which Mr. Gordon seldom or never partook of, but
upon that occasion he resolved to try a bit. The prisoner,
who was then in waiting. placed a tia.spnon with his plate,
upon which Mr. Gordon observed, " William, how is this? Are
there no dessert spoons in the house ?" William replied not, bandits.
appeared, and in a few minutes returned, almost breathless, and
plaa a dessert spoon before his master, who happeniztr to look at
it rather closely, found that it was not one of his own, but was
marked with the letter " T." Still looking at the spoon, heetaid,
" Why , William, this is not one of my spoons." Nu answer was
returned, and looking up, Mr. Cordon found that William had kit
the mom. The bell was rung, but William was not to be found,
asid Mr. Gordon never saw him again until he was in custody at
this office. Upon an inspection of his plate closet, Mr. Gordon
found that nearly the whole of Ins service was gone. Inquiries
were made by the pollee, and a erresus system of depredation was
viscose-red. The prisoner Lad been in the habit of taking his Inas.
ter's. plate in parcels to the ptsrnbrolers. and when one particular
portion of it Ts% wanted for immediate use, he would =lie another
of:sheet equal yrJur,so as to redeem the first and keep up 11;s credit
with his niastev. Ile spent the money which he raised upon i.e
plate pretty mpidly, and at length the stock of his master being
nearly esivausted, he was in the habit of going to the houses of I CAUT!rON 70 NOTIIIRS AND NUASES.—A few nights
Mr. Gonlon's acquaintances, and borrowing plate, a hut he f ago the followitig 'hotting and singular circumstance occurred in
pledged to redeem so touch of his laastaata as was wanted rue fetter-lane:—John Flaherty, a skindressee in Ylough.court,
Instant use. When, on the day of detection, Mr. Gordon licked I Fetter.lane, end :his wefe, retired to rest at the meal hour with
tier a dessert spoon, there was not one in the house, and the etisn. their too children—the youngest only two months old. About
nor welit to Dr. Tweedie's house close by, and borrowed one. The twelve o'elreek at night they were awoke by the screams of the
hop at which he was tnuall in the habit of pledging that your.:;,st infant ; the mother got up. and procured a light, when
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Melteeves, on Snow-line who seeing him come au repeatedly with'. to her horror and astonishment she discovered that the left temple
plate, asked hint some questions, and be said that his roaster WAS a of the infant had been lacerated by rats in a shocking manner, and
dashing and cinavagant young man, who, having spent his min tine body covered with blood. Mrs. Flaherty carnal the child in.
fortune, was allowed 61. a week by his brother to sub‘i-t upon. stoney to Mr. Coombe, surgeon, of Fetter-lane, who dressed the
That, however, was not suflicient to wilily his wants; and hivieg wonails ; end on the following morning At took it to St. Barth°.
a service of plate, he was determined to raise money upon it as lemetv's llosietal, where the wounds were again dressed, and
11 mg as it would hat. One Saturday night the pri-.ones erne to I proper piastres spoiled. The infant, we are glad to say, is doing
M. Reeves 's shop with a quantity of plate. and, with " his leas. well, but it is the opinion of the inedired gentlemen alto saw the
tees anuplicuonta," begged to'have in lieu of it a handsome wat-h patient thaeliwl the vermin inflicted die wounds higher up on the
and eppendeges ; " for." said he " my Mager la going into the head the chile'. could rot have survived the injury.
country to narrow, to see an old aunt of his from whom he lied lieseceilae, a mats: melancholy occurrence took place in
eat expectations, and haying been obliged to part with his watch, liirk.street, Callon. A child lielongrog ei a respectable ratidenter
beseems one to take with him; for it would he devilish awkward to unfununately drank a quantity of what is generally called " fly
heasked what o'clock it waleand nothave a watch to pill nut." Mr. water." which had been purchased front a well-known character
Reeves, however, declined to let him have a watch, and II: received who daily perambelatre the streets crying it. A surgeon was im.
money insteal. Within the last two or three days, J. J. S ,niesNately i tiled, who mud every meats to counteract the effects
one ef the principal eflicers of this establishment, obtained infor. jof the poison, but without aro. Tie child aspired about ID
11/31/V3 thee the prisons/ 'as serving in the caiarAty of pestelion at o'clock last night.

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Ever since the above robbery and conviction of the Burrell*, the,
prisoner ham eluded detection. Ills apprehension, however, has
bon accomplished, In mime emetics of a ring which was pledged by
him at Alr. lierkham's. itt Illackliriara-road, a short time ago. It
was ascertained that this ring had been stolen, and a woman with
whom the prisoner was connected, was apprehended on suspicion,
when the purse now identified b'y Miss (laptop, was found in her
possession. tanbacquentty she save information against her para-
mour, alto was apyrehtualed by Gill, an officer cf the Establish.
rue,:t, at a village in Surrey, and thus brought to justice.
Juaph put, the nun who was remanded about a fortnight azo,
on two separate charges of robbery and bigamy, was then put to
the bar. _

Mr. Pm.. of Bern:ion,l,7, by whom the prisoner was charged
IND suspicion of having roLned him er a bombe- of sovereigns,
!octal, that he would aWtoi.'on his charge against Pitts, as the charge
of bigamy would, in all probability, answer the ends of justice.
The prisoner's second wi • was then sworn, when she proved her
marriage with the prisoner on the 21 of January last, at Greenwich.
A Mr. Webb, from Bimaingissim, one of the witnesses to the
prisoners marriage with his that wife, was then sw.rrn, and be
proved that lie was present at tie marriAge ceremony between Jo.
seph Pitt hod Ann Richards, at Bin:thigh:tin, on the 7th of March,
Ilia 1. The prisoner's brat wife did not appear, but the Illagistree
said chat it was of no consequence, as Lie e‘ider•Ce was complete.
The prisoner was then fully committed.