The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-19 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINING GOODS IN THE NAME OF
SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE.—George Hine, a tall young
man, of fashionable exterior, was placed at the bar, charged
with fraudulently obtaining five pairs of boots.
Mr. Riohard Manning, of 1, Ebury-street, boot and shoe
maker, said—Prisoner lodged with me from the beginning
of last August to the 23d of September, and afterwards. On
that day he gave me a bill for £33, which he owed me, and that
bill was subsequently dishonoured. On the same day he
told me he had obtained an engagement to go with Sir
Moses Montefiore as companion to him to Nice, and was
to receive £2OO for the journey. He said he wanted boots
to appear in his situation becomingly ; and, as he should
have to appear in the society of gentlemen, he wanted two
pair of dress boots, two pair of stout walking boots, and a
pair of medium. These amounted to £5 145., and the last
part of them were supplied to him on the 26th of Septem-
ber. I found the statement prisoner had made to me was
false,

Mr. Arnold—Have you seen Sir Moses Montefiore ?
Prosecutor—l saw him on the 19th of December at his
house of business in the City, and I then found that there
was no truth in the prisoner's statement ; the prisoner is
unknown to Sir Moses Montefiore, except by hearsay ; he
knows his father to be a very respectable man. Prisoner
has since been in the Bankruptcy Court, and is now a
bankrupt.
Prisoner—l had the boots he speaks of before the 23d,
and he took the bill I gave him, of which he has spoken, in
full discharge of all liabilities, and I can prove it.
Mr. Arnold (to prosecutor)—Did he have the five pair of
boots, or any of them, before the representation you say he
made on the 23d.
Prosecutor—He did not.
Mr. Arnold—Would you have supplied him with the
five pairs of boots but for the representations made by him
that he had obtained the appointment of companion to Sir
Moses Montefiore ?

Prosecutor—Certainly not.
Psisoner was remanded for a week,
Mr. Arnold said he would take bail for him.

COLONIAL DISPROPORTION OF SEXES.—A West
India paper records an atrocious murder in Deme-
rara last month. A Coolie labourer, advanced in years, had
brought up from her infancy a girl, who being now 16, had
recently lived with him as his wife. The man being ex-
cited by the apprehension that she was about to leave him
to live with a young man, hacked her to death. The jour-
nal calls attention to the frequent murders of women, as a
consequence of the disproportion of the sexes in which the
immigrants have been introduced. That disproportion, it
is admitted, is not attended with the same result among
the Chinese immigrants, but then it is stated that they
have imported a fearful amount of vice of the most brutish
and degrading type.

Napoleon lll.'s Government has had the good
sense to complete the trst system of defence in Paris.
It has pushed the Rue de Rivoli up to the Rue St. Antoine.
It has snapped the opaque compact quarters of Saint Denis
and Saint Martin ; it has cut this quarter-general of insur-
rection into five or six pieces that could be attacked or turned
with cavalry or artillery ; it has disengaged the Hotel de
Ville and has covered it with a barrack which commands at
the same time the quay and the Rue de Rivoli; it has
raised at the extremity of the centre halles a blockhouse
in stone, which commands the point of Saint Eustache
it has constructed at the entrance of the Faubourg of the
Temple the monumental barrack of Prince Eugene ; lastly,
it hss finished the place d'artnes of the Louvre and the
Carrousel. The position could not now be carried without
cannon. This is a weapon which revolt does not find at
the gunmaker's. This is the reason why Paris here teen de-
molished. The object is to make an intrenched Camp of
Paris and a quadrilateral of the Louvre; with that and the
Imperial Guard for garrison, the principle of authority may
go to sleep. The honest population will not see again men
in aprons with a pot of paste in their hands gravely placard-
ing the streets with the announcement of a new Govern-
ment.—lickton's 21rovogo ?
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