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G. Dover, Che?te.nhana, Gloec.e.stershire, huVer, cer-
tificite of the first class—A. Tarrant, High Holborn,
b)okbinder, certificate of the second class—R. Buck,
Church-s!rect, Hackney, builder, certificate of the third
class—F. Bayhham, High street, Houn6low, grocer,
certificate of the toircl class—T. Harris, Hampstead-
road, brewer, certificate of thn third cla9s—W. H. Hill,
Birmingham, silversmith. entifieate of the third class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

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facturers and carriers—T. Evans and A. Long, Aber-
gavenny, shoe manufacturers and curriers—C. L.
Browninglirs_ j. M. Terrington St. Clement,
and Bilston, Staffordshire, iron
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u
Norfolk, and G. W. Mills, Wisbeach, Cam-
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coal merchants and corn dealers—W. Birch and J.
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field, Derbyshire, brewers of ale and porter—T. Smith
and J. Hanson, Longwood, Yorkshire, fancy woollen
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INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
James Denton, Barnsley, bleacher.
Henry Davies, Sheffield, tinplate worker.
George Davies, Sheffield, tinplate worker.
James Wingfield, Sheffield, hosier and milliner.
Thomas Price, Witham, publican:
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
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Inn, Dumbarton.

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Hotel, Dundee.

J. Steel, Edinburgh, drysalter, to meet Aug. 23 and
Sept. 14, at two, within the Star Hotel, Edinburgh.
W. G Smith, Glasgow, broker, to meet Aug. 20 and
Sept. 10, at twelve, within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Richerd Sill surrendered to take his trial upon an
indictment charging him with misdemeanor in having
unlawfully obtained money by false pretences from
Henry Broome.

Mi. Parry and Mr. Metcalf conducted the prose-
cution; Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Doyle were counsel
for the defendant.
The Learned COUNSEL for the prosecution, on open-
ing the case, said it was one of a very remarkable
character, and he therefore bespoke the serious atten-
tion of the jury to the facts he should lay before them
in support of the charge. The defendant was charged
with obtaining money by false pretences, an offence
which under all circumstances was one of a very se-
rious character, but which in the present instance was
rendered still more serious by the fact that the de-
fendant was a person who had occupied a very re-
spectable position in society, who had for some time
been an attorney, and who, therefore, ought not,
under any circumstances, to have been a party to any
violation of the law. He then proceeded to state that
the defendant was charged with having obtained from
Mr. Henry Broome, the prosecutor of the present
indictment, several bills of exchange of a large
amount, and also a considerable amount in cash,
under false pretences, in connexion with a charge of
card cheating at Brighton, the particulars of which
had obtained a good deal of notoriety, and the facts of
which it would be necessary for him briefly to allude.
The Learned Counsel then called the attention of the
jury to the circumstance of the charge against John
Broome, the brother of the prosecutor of the present 1
indictment, and two other persons named Staden and'
James, the latter of whom, it will be remembered, '
were convicted at the recent assizes at Lewes, and
sentenced to two years' bard labour, and said that the
defendant, who had acted as the solicitor for the pro-
secution in the first instance, was now charged with
obtaining bills of exchange and money from the pro-
secutor, under the pretence that he had had an inter-
view with Mr. Walpole, the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, and that he had sufficient influence
with him to prevent his brother from being trans-
ported, and that he could, in fact, relieve him from
any inconvenience in reference to the indictment that
had been preferred against him. He should be able
to prove must clearly that by means of this false re-
presentation the defendant had obtained property to
a considerable amount from the prosecutor; and he
said he must confess he was at a loss to imagine
what line of defence would be taken. An attempt
would probably be made, he said, to attack
the character of the prosecutor, and he was
bound to admit that Henry Broome had been a
prizefighter, and that he had also been connected with
the turf, and it might be urged that he was a man
not very likely to be imposed upon; but the jury
must recollect that he had to deal with an attorney, a
man of experienee, and who, by his position as solici-
tor for the prosecution against his brother, would ne-
cessarily have a great deal of influence over him, and
by whom, therefore, he might more easily have been
deceived. The Learned Counsel next proceeded to
refer to some of the other circumstances of the case,
and the following evidence was then adduced :
Mr. Verret!, clerk to the bench of magistrates at
Brighton, deposed that he acted in that capacity upon
the occasions of the different examinations of Staden,
James, and John Broome, upon the charge of obtain-
ing money and bills of exchange from Mr. Hemp by
means of cheating at cards. The defendant, Mr. Sill,
had attended several examinations in the capacity of
solicitor for the prosecutor, and he did so on the Bth
of March. Upon that occasion he asked for the
sanction of the magistrates to be allowed to with-
draw from the prosecution ; and also that the
recognizances of Mr. Chase, the chief constable of
Brightoe, who had been bound over to prosecute,
should be discharged. The ground he alleged
for desiring to withdraw from the prosecution
was that Mr. Hemp had made an affidavit upon the
subject of his bill of costs in which he made a state-
ment directly in contradiction to the evidence he had
given before the magistrates, and that his evidence
therefore could not be relied upon. The magistrates
retired to consider the application, and upon their re-
turn they told the defendant that as he desired to
withdraw from the case they did not consider him any
longer as the solicitor for the prosecution, and he did
not again appear in the case in that capacity. The
magistrates afterwards instructed witness to carry on
the prosecution, and he did so, and Staden and James
were tried at the last assizes at Lewis and convicted.
John Broome did not surrender to take his trial with
them.
B-oome, the p rosecutor, deposed that he
Henry
formerly kept the Opera Tavern in the Haymarket,
but was at present residing at No. 102, Lisson-grove.
He had been a pugilist, and was known as the cham-
pion of the prize ring, or what remained of it.--(A
laugh.) ale remembered a young gentleman named
at the public-house kept "
Hemp going to lodge
in Air-street, Piccadilly,by his
brother, John Breeniebrother to and
that he went with his Brighton races last
shortly afterwards a charge as
year, and that brother and tw P 3
o erson - Warned
made against his
n M
Staden and Jaws:'g r. 'lamp,
money by foul
and defrauding hina
ofdidnotgo to play
Witness
at cards. W nothing of what occurred
with them.
He knew
wof the charge on th
there. He first heard
nothing of the defendeant2," of
Mr.
August. He knew was made against his
,
Sill, until this charge him was on the evening
and the first time he saw
the 6th of March, when
be
was
him
sent for to an oyster-
and found there. When
shop in the Strand, the
came up to him and
heshook
defendant saw him - had been wanting
id he
hands with him, and said see
they then had several I
him fur some time, and tt na which witness pafclasfr
of grog, the greater
part proposed that theyfor.
After some time the
defendant
house, as he said i
should go together to witness_any people, and theyhe
could not speak before sntua
the Opera Tavern, ac-
cordingly went together 4
o'clock, and they Iv At
this time it was nearly
then said that it ent
into the bar, and the defendant was
against •
he who bad carried on the prosecution
had seen the Secretary of
brother, and that
he
dhe had told him that l
State upon the subject, a_n he
would be transported.'
his brother was convicted
said that it would be impossible
indictment
for him to escape, as he had. and it was impossibleit,
good
for his brother to get through
in fact, the
deal of conversation together;
morning (
conversa-
tion lasted until 5 o'clock
the
nexthad before ' a
laugh.) In addition to what he
just time enoughstated,the
defendant told him that there aarla do it, to
but
he
save his brother, and that he
was could
on'
must have at least 3001. it 5 o'clock
h;s Sunday
morning when the defendant left
thathouse,and he
day to
said he would give him until 2 o'clock
that the defendant
get up the -
mouey. He was awarea e the
had been engaged as the attorney o hisprosecution, statement
coptication
nun
with regard to his having been in
with the Secretary of S defendant
tate. The t came
again to his house about 2 o'clock, and ho then re-
peated whet he heel stated before about the power he
possessed with the Secretary of State, and he also said
that he had got Mr. Chase, the chief officer of
Brighton, substituted ac the prosecutor instead of Mr.

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