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coffee-house in the Strand. The latter was to the appearance indicated that they had been very grossly
effect that "if A. G. had not already met with an neglected. There were marks of violence on their
engagement, he was to call upon Mr. Sims, at backs and faces, and the lips of the elder child were
Ostnond's coffee-house, and if found to be suitable be cut and swollen. The prisoner was remanded.
would obtain employment." I also found upon him a A poor widow named Mary Sheridan came before
piece of paper containing words to the effect that Mr. Mr. Yardley for the second time to complain of the
Sims had been waiting for him at the coffee-house, conduct of the authorities of the London Hospital,
and requesting that he would meet that gentleman at who had, in opposition to her wishes, and against the
the Duke of York's column. He told me, in answer express desire of her country people and their preju-
to my question from whom he had got the cheque, dices, caused the body of her late husband, Philip
that he bad put an advertisement for a situation on the Sheridan, an Irishman, to be dissected. The man died
12th inst. in the Morning Advertiser, that he had re- in the hospital on Sunday, the 28th ult, and when his
ceived the letter in answer, and had accordingly widow applied for his body for the purpose of "waking"
called at Osmond's coffee-house, and subsequently and burying it, the people in the hospital refused to
met a gentleman who called himself Mr. Sims at the deliver it to her, and one of the medical gentlemen
Duke of York's column, by whom, after some con- asked her if she had any objection to the body being
versation, he was sent to the London and Westminster opened. She expressed the very strongest objections
Bank to get cash for the cheque. In the interim to such a proceeding, and said her husband, previous
between the day he was apprehended and the 23d of to his going into the hospital, said he would not on
December, nothing having been ascertained which any consideration have his body opened.
connected Gerber with Mr. Sims, be was discharged. Mr. YARDLEY asked if the body had been delivered
I have since communicated with the City Police upon to the widow ? Mrs. Sheridan—Yes, and buried
the subject. your worship.
The Louis MAYOR having asked the witness whether Mr. YARDLEY—What do you want me to do ?
be had anything to say of the other prisoners? Mrs. Sheridan—l want redress, your worship, for
Webb continued—l saw the prisoner Kessler at his cutting up my husband's body in the way they bays
house, a coffee-shop or coffee-house in Cranbourne- done. It was against his wishes. Can they do it ?
street, Leicester-square, in the presence of Mr. Selim Mr. YARDLEY—But, my good woman, it is done,
Dean, and asked him hether he did not go to Mr. and you can't remedy it. It is a pity, I think, you
Dean and get a cheque from that gentleman on the did not consent to it; but I don't wish to insult any
12th? He said he did. Mr. Dean then said, in Kess- prejudices you may have on the subject.
ler's presence, that Kessler came into his shop about Mrs. Sheridan—They did it shamefully, your wor-
five in the evening, and asked for the accommodation ship. Can't you punish them for it ?
of a cheque, as it was after post time, for some Ger- Mr. YARDLEY said he had no jurisdiction in the
man notes and French money, which he had got to matter at all. He bad no power to interfere.
send to a person living in a street near the City•road, An Officer—lf she goes to the hospital at one
and that the cheque was accordingly given. I told o'clock to-morrow the committee will hear her.
Kessler it was necessary that he should be particular, Mrs. Sheridan (passionately)—Very well ; there
and produce the letter from the person who had ap- is no justice here at all for a poor woman. She then
plied to him to get the foreign exchanged for Eng- hurriedly left the court with her friends, who were
fish money. He took down a bundle of letters, greatly excited.
looked them over, and said that he had told Mr.
Dean he could not find the letter, that be must
have destroyed it, and that, having received the
money and sent it to the person who had applied
to him, he did not conceive it to be of any import-
ance. I said to him " Try and tax your memory; I
must know where you sent that money to, or
to whom you directed it." He asked what was the
matter ? I told him that the cheque which be had re-
ceived from Mr. Dean on the 12th was not offered for
payment till the 16th, and that the cheque which bad
been forged upon the London and Westminster Bank
was a copy, or nearly so, of the one which had been
received by him from Mr. Selim Dean ; that Mr.
Dean said that such was the case, and was prepared
to swear that it was not his usual practice to form
one of the letters as it was formed in that cheque; that
the formation of the letter in the forgery was precisely
similar to that of the corresponding letter in the cheque
with which Mr. Dean accommodated Kessler ; and
that, in fact, Mr. Dean had not signed in that manner
four times in his life. I then asked him, "No w, do
you remember where you sent the money to ?" He
replied, "I do not. lam very sorry that I destroyed
the letter. I cannot tell whether I sent the cheque to
the City-road, to St. John's-wood, or anywhere else."
I produce the cheque which Mr. Dean gave to Kessler,
and which exactly corresponds with Mr. Dean's de-
scription and with the forged cheque, and I produce
other cheques signed by Mr. Dean according to his
usual practice.
Cross-examined for Kessler by Mr. Wright—
There were four or five persons at Kessler's house
when I went into it. I cannot say anything in his
favour.
Sarah Dunk, waitress at Oimond's coffee-house, in
the Strand, said—A fortnight ago last Friday a man
came into the coffee-room and ordered a chop. The
prisoner Wagner is the person. He said "If any one
asks for Mr. Sims send him to me." After he finished
his chop, and nobody had called, he told me to bring
him a sheet of paper. He then wrote on a slip of
paper and handed it to me, saying, "If any one in-
quires for Mr. Sims give him that." The paper con-
tains the words, " Mr. Sims has been waiting."
Wagner then went away. About ten minutes after-
wards the prisoner Gerber came in and asked for Mr.
Sims, and I gave him the slip of paper, which he read,
and, thanking me, took it away with him.
Cross-examined by Wagner—Had you any doubt
as to my identity when I first went into the coffee-
room with the officer? Witness—l saw no particu-
lar mark by which I could identify you, any more
than your general person. I did not know you at
first when you were brought in, for your hat was on,
hut when you passed the bar and took off your hat
I recognised you. I was asked by the officer
whether I knew you, and I said I believed you to be
the man.
Wagner—Did you recognise me while I was sit-
ting near the officer till the officer made some remark
to you? Witness—l did not recognise you till the
officer said to me, "Do you know this man?" I
said, "I believe him to be the man." I never asked
you if you had been in the house before, and had
given a card. Mr. Osmond, the proprietor, asked the
question.
Wagner—lf this slip of paper is what you said I
left with you, where is the remainder of the sheet ?
Witness—lt was left in the room.
Gerber (to the witness)—ls this man (pointing
to Wagner) the Mr. Sims who gave you the piece
of paper fur me ? Witness—l believe that person to
be the same.
Gerber—My Lord, this is not the man I saw at
the Duke of York's monument.
Wagner—The prisoner who has just spoken knows
well that I was not the person.
Robert Badcock, City policeman—l have taken
notes of all that occurred to my knowledge, relative
to the prisoners, and have dates of all the transac-
tions. From information which I had received in the
beginning of December, I was employed with Jarvis,
the officer, to watch the movements of Krakauer and
Wagner. Here the witness gave the dates of a num-
ber of occasions upon which he had seen Wagner and
Krakauer together, and excited no small degree of
surprise at the skill and perseverance with which
the pursuit from place to place was conducted.
The witness also stated that he had seen Kessler
frequently go into Wagner's house in Long-acre,
at the side door.
This witness, upon his cross-examination by Mr.
Wright, for Kessler, particularized several occasions
on which he had seen Kessler enter Wagner's house,
and said that the visits were so frequent as to lead to
the inference that Kessler lived in the house. Wit-
ness had reasons for not taking any of the prisoners
into custody while they were meeting.
Inspector Teague (of the City force), who has the
case in hand, requested the Lord Mayor would re-
mand the prisoners for a week, and stated that he bad
reason to believe, from information which he had re-
ceived, that he should be able to connect all the per-
sons at the bar with the forgery of the cheque for 3401.
upon the London and Westminster Bank.
Mr. Tilson, on behalf of the London Jeint- Stock
Bank, said, he had reason to believe that he should be
able to show a connexion between the person now in
prison under the charge of having uttered a forgery
upon that establishment and the prisoners.
Mr. Wright submitted that there was not sufficient
evidence to justify the remand of Kessler, his client,
who was a person of well•known respectability.
The LORD MAYOR said, he considered the case cal-
culated to affect this great commercial community ;
quite enough had been shown to justify a remand of
all the prisoners, and he could not for a moment think
of taking bail to any amount for any one of them.—
The prisoners were then remanded for a week.
GUILDHALL.
Joh* Barker, alias Murphy, was again placed at
the bar before Mr. Alderman Copeland upon the
charge of conspiring with others not in custody in
obtaining goods of Mr. Brock, of Bartlett's-buildings,
to the value of upwards of 3001., by means of frau-
dulent representations.
Mr. Lewis attended for the prosecution, and stated
that, in addition to the charge of conspiracy, he in-
tended to charge the prisoner with forgery, in draw-
ing and uttering two bills of exchange for 1001. and
1501. in the name of John Barker, his real name being
Murphy. A person named Alexander Honeyman
had been summoned, but he had sent a parcel of these
identical goods to his solicitor, placing them at the
prosecutor's service, and declining to attend. His
evidence was, however, material, and he (Mr. Lewis)
therefore applied for a second summons for him.
Mr. Lewis also stated that Mr. Perry, the chief clerk
of the Lambeth Police-court, would attend on a
future day, to prove that the prisoner on his oath a
that court stated his name was John Murphy.—Re
mended.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 3.—Captain Dunlop's company,
7th battalion, were inspected this morning in their
new clothing by Lieutenant-Colonel Thorndike, com-
manding officer of the 7th battalion, the company
being under orders to proceed to Sheerness by steamer
on January 29, to relieve CAptain Nedham's company,
11th battalion, ordered to head-quarters to prepare for
foreign service.

Captain Riddell's company, 6th battalion, have also
been inspected in their new clothing, and are under
orders to proceed to Dover by railway on January 22,
to relieve Major Tulloch's company 11th battalion,
ordered to return to head quarters preparatory to
their embarkation for foreign service.

Captain Gambier's company, Bth battalion, have
been placed under orders to proceed by railway to
Portsmouth on Ja❑uary 15, to relieve Captain Cheet-
ham's company, 11th battalion, ordered to return to
Woolwich to prepare for foreign service.
A memorandum, dated December 30, 1851, was
sent from the Adjutant General's-office to the offices
of officers commanding battalions and corps, request-
ing them to furnish by an early hour on December 31,
a return, prepared with the greatest accuracy, of the
distribution and strength of the Royal Artillery at
present in the United Kingdom.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

-—— -
The following is the official statement of the quantiti
corn, &c., received in the port of London from the poi
Essex, from the 27th Dec., 1851, to the 3d Jan., l
both inclusive :

1 i
0 i P a

Colchester
Harwich
Leigh
Maldon

CHELMSFORD, JAN. 2.—Prices to-day were as follow:
Wheat, white, 4 s to 46s ; red, 35s to 395; barley, 25s to 28s ;
chevalier 28s to 325; grinding 22s to 268; malt 53. to bss;
chevalier 54, to 56. ; oats 18s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 274
to 30$; white, 28s to 308; boiling, 29s to 325; dun, new, 26s
to 28s ; beans, tick, 268 to 29s ; harrow ticks, 27s to 30s;
mazagan, 24s to 275.
COLCHESTER, JAN. 3.—Wheat, white 42s to 46. ; red 36.
to 40s ; oats, 18s to 21s; beans, mazagan 26. to 28s; middle
and small 26s to 30$ ; peas, white 30s to 321, grey, new 28s to
30s ; barley, 26s to 328 per qr.
KIRICALDT, JAN. 3.—The following are the quotations
for grain :
Wheat.
First 428 Od
Second 398 6d
Third 33s Od

Barley.
26s Ed
248 Od
21s 6d

Oat&
20s 6d
19a 6d
16s 6d
5 imperial,
ie followin,

Beans.
-3 Od
—s Od

Peas.
—...c Od
—a Od
--6 Od
00a Cd.
prices of

—s Od

. - -
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs
HADDINGTON, JAN. 2.—Thi
grain at our market to-dap:—
Wheat.

8s Od to
are the

First
Second 36s 3d
Third ......
Total quantity of Wheat i
Do. Barley
Do. Oats
Do. Beans

Barley.
268 3d
24s 4d

Oats.
21s Od
19s bd

Beans.
31e Od
28± 8d

21$ ()d

18s Od

261 • 61

market . 642 qrs.: 612 sold
do. 422 qrs., 416 sold
do. 463 qrs., 443 sold
do. 82 qrs., 75 sold

COAL MAR li ET. —YESTXRDAY.
Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market :
Allerdean Hartley: ... 133 Od Braddyll
date's West Hartley.. 13s 6d rietton
Burnhope l4s Od Haswell... l7s 6d
Carr's Hartley .....
Holywell
Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s Od Richmund l6s 3d
New Tanfield
North Percy Hartley.. 13s 6d Scarborough l6s Od
Redheugh Main ...... 12s 6d Stewart's ... ... ....
k anfield Moor ......... 14s Od Shotton (unscreened) 14s Od
Canfield Moor Butes... 13s 9d Bowdon Close ..... .... 13s 9d
Walker's Primrose ... 12s 9d Hunwick
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. Whitworth . l4s Od
Clarke ..... . .... • ... 13. gd South Durham lss 3d
Clennel ... ........... ... 13s 6d Tees
Gosforth ..... . ........ 15s 3d,Cowpen Hartley
Harton
Hebburn ....... .... ••• 14s 9dlNixon's Merthyr and
Heaton
Lawson lss Od,Sidney's Hartle- . 14, 'd

y 6n
Eden Main ...... 166 6dl Whitworth Coke 205 Od
Ships at market, 152 ...... Sold, 92.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL,
STOCK EXCILANGL—There has been a tolerable amount of
business done 'o-day, but prices were generally firm.
The only transaction reported was—Bristol and Exeter, 83 .
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as fol-
low:—Caledonian, 16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 61%—
Ditto, Fifths, 7314 dis.—London and North-Western, New
Quarters 3% p. Midland, 58—South-Eastern and Dover,
21A—York and North Midland, 2234. _

MANCHESTER, JAN. 5.
STOCK EXCIIANOL—The share market was rather de-
pressed to-dav, and prices had a downward tendency. The
transactions were as follow :—Blackburn (No. 1), b—Cale.
donian, 16,43—Ditto, Preference, 7%—Great Northern, 18%
—Midland, andsB—South-Easternitto,
FiDithos, 14
ver,2l24iB.—Lanca-
shire and Yorkshuirt 6iuktliNu RAm,
JAN.
s.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened heavily
this morning, and throughout the day there was a limited
amount of business transacted. Owing to circumstances not
easily or satisfactorily explained, the tendency was not fa-
vourable. The traffic returns last published are, under cir-
cumstances, considered good, and tho settlement for a time of
the late commotion in Paris led parties to expect a different
result. Local stocks are chiefly in request, but there is little
doing in them. The quotations this evening were in the
main the srme as the closing prices in the London Share
Mapket.

PoST• OFFICE NOTICE. -- MONEY :ORDERS.
Athenry, county Galway, Ireland, having been constituted
a post town, the office there will be opened for the issue and
payment of money orders on and after the 6th Januar
instant.

THE LAST MAN.—The solitary survivor of the
wreck of the Royal George is now living at St. George's,
Gloucestershire. His name is Abel Hibbs, aged 91. Until
lately he was a hale old man, but is now bedridden, and hit
only support is from the pour-rate.
[ADvEnTrs'atENT.] Holloway's Ointment and
Pills.---An Extraordinary Cure of a Bad Foot.--Mr. Henry
Kennewell, son of the late much respected surveyor of the South.
ampton District of St. Pancras, London, states in a letter to
graced, his mother from Burra Burra, Port Adelaide, that on his jour-
ney to those mines from Adelaide,
and,la in doing o
e, hewascsom,
hpeell et
to walk
for an
d
afterwards the want of a conveyn
afterwards poisoned his foot, which became so bad that he was
under a surgeon's care for more than four months without ob-
taining any relief; he was then induced to try Holloway's Oint-
ment and Pills, which, in three weeks, completely cured his
foot, and he was enabled to commence work without incon-
venience.---Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's
Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

BIRTHS.
OF A 80 N.
On the 3d inst., at Londonderry, Bedale, the lady of W
N. Russell, Esq., Commander R. N.
On the sth inst., in Welbeek-street, Cavendish-square,
Madame Bari holeyns de Fosselaert.
On the sth inst., in -New-street, Spring-gardens, the wife
of J. Bonham Carter, Esq., M.P.

CLERIEN WELL.
Mrs. Flanagan, the wife of Henry Martin Flanagan,
who was charged with obtaining 11. 3s. 6d.ruendeesretnatlesde
pretences from a Mrs. White, to whom
hbearr represented
at-
that he was a clerk to Mr. Horry, the
tended before Mr. Tyrwhitt, who heard the case and
committed the prisoner to Newga
perpetrated self-
destruction tefortrial,to state
that her unfortunate husbansd hadhead
down in a pail of
destruction by keeping his
water, and to request tbatas
apprehended
trifling
surn of
mightmoney
e
found upon him when he was
handed over her,drtistroes.
sas she and her family were in
the
Mr. TyawIIITT Could not matte any order upon
the
Ssubject, but the p
oor woman was referred to
and we understand that the
m
to her in the course of the
Mora.
ey ewrgaesandet
up

OF A DAUGHTER.
On the 4th inst., at Fitzroy-park, Highgate, the wife of
William Gladstone, Esq.
On the 3d inst., at Abbey-road, Regent's-park, the lady o f
Wilmot Buxton, Esq.

day.
She is a respectable and evidently an educated
woman, and bears a good character. She was much
affected, and considerable sympathy was manifested
towards her.

?'HA ME S.
Mary Allman, an Irish woman, the wife of a dock-
labourer, aged '29, of No. 5, Hairbrain-Court, Rose-
mary-lane, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged
with cruelty to her stepchildren, Ann Allman, aged
10 yea a, Ind Nuria Ann Allow) aged 8 Yearh