The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENC7.',

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BOW-STREE

sc , AEET.—Shortly after the disposal of the
night charges, Major Beresford, M.P., accompanied by
his solicitor's clerk, Lord Wynford, and Mr. George
Whately, of Birmingham, attended before Mr. Jardine
to give the requisite sureties for the appearance of the
late Secretary at War, to answer the charge of having
conspired, with others, to secure the election of a mem-
ber for Derby by unconstitutional means. A true hill
upon the indictment in question was returned by the
grand jury at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday ;
but, on the application of Mr. Bodkin, the trial was
postponed to the next session, his lordship requiring the
defendants to enter into the usual recognisances, &c.
Lord Wynford stepped forward as one of the gallant
major's sureties, and, as the usher was about to ad-
minister the oath, observed, " I believe that, being a
peer of the realm, my honour will be sufficient. At
least I can assert that privilege, although, of course, I
have no objection to be sworn."
Mr. Jardine rather thought that, in all criminal pro-
ceedings, the oath must be administered in the ordinary
manner.

Lord Wynford—l am quite willing to take the oath,
although I think you will find I am exempt.
His lordship was then sworn to give truthful anwers
to the formal lquestions put to him, and his bail was
accepted. The other surety, Mr. George Whately. of
Birmingham, was also sworn ; upon which Mr. Jardine
ordered the defendant, the Right Hon. William Beres-
ford, of Hampton Court, to enter into his own recog-
nisances in 801., in addition to the sureties of 401. each,
to answer the various charges set forth in the. indict-
ment.

MARYLEBONE. —Amelia Hilliard, a lady like well-
dressed woman, described as a dress-maker, residing at
2, Great Quebec-street, was charged at the Marylebone-
court, with stealing a bottle of brandy, the property of
Mr. Smith, proprietor of the Lincoln Hotel, South-
street, Manchester-square. The prisoner, who was
evidently impressed with a sense of her degraded posi-
tion, wept bitterly.
The prisoner on the previous afternoon went in to the
bar of the Lincoln Hotel, and was seen deliberately to
take from one of the shelves a bottle of brandy. The
barman, on being informed of what had happened, ran
after the accused and overtook her in Manchester-street,
and charged her with the robbery. She took the brandy
from under her shawl, alleging at the time she intended
to have gone back and paid for it. He called a police.
man, and gave her into custody, and on her way to the
station-house she offered the policeman 10s. to let her

The prisoner, in defence, said she did not know what
she was doing at the time, and she had been subjected
to a lightness in her head since her last confinement.
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Cozlimitted for trial.

LAMBETH. —J oseph. Rottenstein, who described him-
self as a Hungarian, and an officer in the late war in
his country, under M. Kossuth, was placed at the bar
for further examination.

Mr. William Pearce, the barrister, of Inner Temple-
lane, attended on behalf of the accused.
The prisoner stood charged with two distinct offences,
the one with forgery, in altering a pawnbroker's ticket
for the purpose of entrapping into an offence, and pro-
secuting a countryman of his, whose papers he had made
available to his purposes, and the other with obtaining
several sums of money from the benevolent by false pre-
tences. Amongst the many devices resorted to by the
prisoner for imposing on his dupes was the dodge of en-
closing to them a certificate purporting to be in the
handwriting of M. Kossuth, and to which his signature
was attached, representing Lieutenant Rottenstein as a
brave soldier, who had fought for his country, had been
severely wounded in defence of her liberty, and was
worthy the sympathy► of the benevolent. At the second
examination of the prisoner, Mr. Kidd, the private se-
cretary of Lord Dudley Stuart, informed Mr. Norton,
that the certificate was the genuine certificate of M.
Kossuth, and that the prisoner was the person to whom
it referred, as several distinguished officers in the late Hun-
garian army had spoken of him in the highest terms, and
represented him as a man of extraordinary courage and
bravery. From some circumstances which had subse-
quently transpired, there was some reason to doubt the
genuineness of the certificate, aed a summons was issued
for the personal attendance of M. Kossuth to speak to
the document, and to identify the prisoner if he could.
Wood, 24 E, who has the case in hand, said he saw
M. Kossuth, and served the summons on him in per-
son, for his attendance on that day, when that gentle-
man said he should consult some of his friends as to
whether he really was bound to appear as a witness or
not, and gave him a note for his worship. Wood added,
that M. Kossuth had told him he should not be able to
identify the person to whom he might have given the
certificate, thought it might have been genuine.
Mr. Norton remarked, that it was rather extraordi-
nary that M. Kossuth should have given a certificate of
such character as that produced without knowing the
party perfectly, and being able to speak to his identity.
In the note he had received from M. Kossuth, that gen-
tleman did not refuse to attend, but stated that that day
was not convenient to him.

Mr. Norton, after a somewhat lengthened investiga-
tion, again remanded the prisoner, and directed that a
second summons should be served on M. Kossuth for
his attendance.