The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-03-11 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday bail was tendered to Mr. Alderman Ws(Tn soar 00
behalf of Thomas arayshaw, who stands indicted with four
others, late warehousemen in the city, for conspiring to defraud a
Yorkshire clothier of 1,760 yards of woollen cloth.
Mr. Pr TT, a solicitor employed on the part of the prosecution,
started legal objections to the bail being taken.
II An order made by the Court, at the last Old Ridley Sessions.
directed that forty.eight hours' notice of bail should be given to
the 10lififor, and this direction had been complied with ; but
prior to the qualification of the parties named being investigated.
Mr. Putt objected that he had not been paid his costs for attending
and inquiring as to the sufficiency of persons tendered as bail twice
before in this ease.
Mr. BERE!IFORD, the chief clerk. said although it was usual
to allow such costs in the law Courts, he never heard of such a
practice in criminal Mtn.
Mr. PUTT said he did not know why there should be a dif-
fetence—why the prosecutor in a criminal case should not be pro-
tected eqsally with the plaintiff in the superior Courts from being
put to eXPeTh•e.
Mr. lir orsronn said whatever Mr. Putt might think of the
propriety of it. the nraciire was certainly otherwise.
Mr. PUTT then objected that the notice was signed by the so-
licitor for tire trimmer, instead of by the prisoner himself.
Mr. Alderman Warr it stag said he did not pretenti to be able
to decide upon these points of form ; but he thought if the bail
were sufficient, and the forty-eight hours' notice had been duly
given, which was all the order of Court required, he should do
wrong if he were to send the man back to gaol upon these objec-
. .

tions7 fle would however take the opinion of the City Solicitor.
Mr. BERFSFORD asked how payment was to be enforced, if the
Magistrate should make the order for costs ; and whether the Ma-
gistrate could be justified in refusing good bail?
The City Solicitor having arrived, and the objections being re-
peated, hewed the Alderman had no power to order costs. A parry
could not appear by attorney in a criminal court, though he might
in another, and therefore the signature of the prisoner, and not of
his solicitor, seemed necessary to the notice of bail in the present
case ; but the object of a notice was merely to state who were the
parties proposing to become bail, and if that was done fairly, and
the bail was sufficient, ,Mr. Putt would hardly insist on a new
forty-eight hours' notice.
Mr. PUTT waved the point, and the bail were taken—the pri.
soner in 101.11. the sureties in 501. each.
BOW-STREET.
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Yesterday, Charks .5;;;ille; an itinerant dealer in sand, living at
Hounslow, was brougbt before Mr. Mr N S 11U L 1., charged with
uttering four counterfeit sovereigns, with intent to cheat a poor wan
named Hickson.

The prosecutor lives at a village called Hurley, near Maiden-
head, Berkshire. where he had been a small farmer, tett latterly
had been obliged to work as a labourer. Hai in; been out of em•
ployment for tour or five weeks, and his family being distressed, he
resolved to take two pigs, which was all that remained of his live
stock. to Hounslow, for sale. As he was driving them along, near
Maidenhead Thicket, he was overtaken by the prisoner and another
' man in a cart, the former of whom said, " You have a couple of
fine porkers there, what will you have for them ?" The prosecutor
said they were worth 31. or W. but he was distressed, and would
take sornethiog less. The prisoner offered him 31. 10s. but finally
agreed to give 31. lb. arta pwi4.4lns,preggEtor four sovereigns, re-
eeism the differenceof his. The pigs were put into the cart, and
the PioleCUtOr rtturned to his family, but very soon discovered, on
attempting to make purchases, that all the four sovereigns were
bad. He gave information to Mildred,a horse-patrol, whothought
from the description that the prisoner was the chief delinquent,
and he went to his house and apprehind:d him, and was tottunate
enough to find the two " porkers" in his yard. %Viler, asked
where he qui the sovereigns, he said he receivet,, them from his cur-
tourers, to which Alildrell replied that it could hardly be so. as
he chiefly sold halfpenny and pennyworths of Isis commodity ;
the prisoner thin changed his story, and said he had sold a horse
at Smithfield, about six weeks previously, and received those save.
reigns in payment.
He told tire latter story to the Magistrate, who remanded him
until Wednesday next.
After the order given on Thursday for the commitment, till
Monday. of Price, the person charged with burglary in the house
of Mr. Goldsmith, the comb-maker, in King-street, Seven-dials,
Cousens was directed, by Sir H. BIMNIE, to search the prisoner's
house in Crown-court, Pulteney-street. lie did so, and found a
further quantity of Mr. Goldsmith's combs, and a pair of silver
salt-spoons, which the latter identified as being part of the property
stolen from his house.

Upon this discovery, Sir R. BUMF o►dered the prisoner to be
brought up again m the evening, which was done, and the addi-
tional evidence having been read over, he was fully committed for
trial.

1;31 ZEZZLEMEXT.—Captain Varlo, of the Royal Alarines,
retationed at Woolwich, applied to the Sitting Magistrate, for his
advice and msistunce under the following circumstances:—
The Captain had for some time put employed ene of the privates
of his regiment as his clerk, who having been entrusted with 2501.
this morning, took the opportunity of decamping with the entire
amount. Some clue of his course of light K.ving been obtained,
he was pursued to Greenwich, where it was ascertained that he had
crossed to the Essex side of the river, about an hour previously.
line, however, all scent of the fugitive was lost, and the applicant
was desirous of ascertaining the most desirable mode of proceeding
with a view or preventing a circulation of the notes of which the
amount erub,zslid was composed, viz. Fifty Bank of England live
pound notes, nolorsed by Messrs. Lubbock and Co.
G. R. 3i1)151117Lf., Esa. immediately took the necessary steps
fur the apprehension of the delinquent and recovery of the property
II .1 TTON GARDEN.

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Bunny Any ix GIiAY'S It/N.—Yesterday .1 niclia KelIN, who
stood charged with committing a robbery in the chambers of Mr.
Illingworth of Gray's Inn, which were bUrglariously entered on
the night of the let inst., when a large quantity of plate, wearing
apparel, tie.. were canted of by the thieves, was brought up for
further examination.

Thee* noted chathe'est, named Evans, Mance, and llockig,
were also put to the bar, on suspicion of being implicated in the
said burglary.
Key, one of the patrol belonging to the Surrey watchhouse, stated
that uo the preceding night he received information that the three
prisoners, who were well known to the police, were then in a house
in Bored-street, St. George's Fields, and that from certain reasons
they were suspected of being implicated in the burglary in Gray's
Inn. Witness, in company with another officer, repaired to the
house, and found the three prisonert. Witness discovered in the
rune a well-constructed dark lanthorn, and a phosphorus-box and
matches, besides some pieces of wax candle ; these were lying on
the sideboard, and on the sofa where they were lounging they found
several skeleton keys, the whole of which, and the three prisoners,
he took into his cus,ody. Witness carried them to Union Hall,
anti by the order of the 31agistrates there he brought them to this
Office for examination.

One strong circumstance against the prisoner Evans is that his
hands are very much cut, and it is supposed that one of the robbers
who entered Mr. Illingworth's chambers had wounded himself, as
a largo quantity of blood was found upon the floor, end in various
other pans of the apartment. Evans accounts for his hands being
in that state from his having fallen on some gravel, %bile in liquor,
by which they erre grazed.
All the prisoners stand remanded for a we•k.
Another into/ motion was given to Read, the hand ofiser, of a
robbery yesterday. in the chambers of a .Ir. Knight. of No. 5, Ve-
rularn-buildings, (fray's Inn, from whence the thieves carried off a
large quantity of plate. A liberal reward has been offered by the
Society of the Inn for the conviction of the offenders.