The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-20 00:00:00

cautions, pointing out to seamen the punishment to
which those were liable who should attempt to violate
the law.
The Quarter-Master to the Naval Rendezvous, Tower-
hill, said—On Wednesday last I saw Deane reading one
of the bills exhibited outside the office. It being part
of my duty to obtain seamen for the navy, I asked him
if he wished to join. He answered in the affirmative,
and I asked for his references to character and ability.
He said he had not any, but that he would get some by
the next day. On Thursday I met him in the street,
and he told me he had the necessary papers, and I di-
rected him to be at the office by one o'clock. Shortly
after that hour I went to the office and found Deane
and Wiseman, both of whom offered to me their refer-
ences, which I found not to be made out on the present
form. I asked them where they had obtained them.
The Lord Mayor—What do you mean by the present
forms ? _ . .

Mr. Coleman said it might be necessary to explain to
his lordship, that in consequence of the facilities offered
by the permission given to tradesmen to sell the blank
forms of certificates of characters and discharges, the
Board of Trade had in January last, at the suggestion
of Alderman Sir Robert Carden, before whom similar
cases had been heard, restricted the issue of the present
form, which differed materially from those formerly in
use, and which could only be obtained from the ship-
ping masters by captains on paying off their crews, and
hence the forgery of documents of the kind had been
considerably diminished.
The Quartermaster continued—l told them I did not
like their appearance, for both papers seemed to me to
have been written by the same person, although they
came from different vessels, and purported to be signed
by different individuals. I also told them of the conse-
quences, but they still declared that the documents had
been given to them by their masters, and, in order to be
satisfied that I was not enlisting bad characters in her
Majesty's service, I took them to Mr. Coleman.
Mr. Coleman said the prisoners were brought to my
office by the last witness. Deane said his name was
John Lee. I told him that was different from the name
in the character. I produce the articles of the Garland,
for which he had forged a character, and I find the
name of John Lee in it with a bad character. I know
the prisoner as William Walker Deane, and his register
ticket is now in my possession, and points him out as a
deserter. The name of the master of the Garland is
James Brown, not William Brown, as in the forged do-
cument. Mr. Coleman then produced evidence equally
unquestionable against Wiseman.
The prisoners admitted that all that bad been said
against them was perfectly correct, and said they were
sorry for what they had done.
The Lord Mayor sentenced them to imprisonment,
with hard labour for 14 days.

BOW-STREET.—William Brewer, a young man,
was charged with obtaining several parcels of stationery
from wholesale houses, by false pretences.
John Rider, call-boy at the United University Club,
stated that the prisoner stopped him inWaterloo-place
one afternoon, and offered him a shilling if he would go
and deliver a note for him. Witness consented, and then
accompanied the prisoner to a coffee-house in Chandos-
street, where he wrote something on a slip of paper, and
desired him to take it to Mr. Reynolds, card-maker, in
Vere-street. It seemed to be an order for 50 packets of
cards, and was signed "IlenryJ. M'Clarey." The goods
were delivered to witness, and conveyed by him to the
prisoner ; but owing to the success of previous frauds at
the same house, a policeman was sent to watch the desti-
nation of the parcel, and the prisoner, on receiving it,
was taken into custody.
Mr. M'Clary, stationer, of St. James's-street, in whose
name the goods were ordered, proved that the signature
was a forgery, and the prisoner wholly unknown to
him.

Other similar cases were established, and in the course
of the inquiry the manceuvres employed by the prisoner
to ascertain the names of firms doing business with each
other, also transpired. It appearecltbat about a month
or six weeks ago the prisoner went into the shop of
Messrs. Andrews and Co., of 167, New Bond-street; and
after purchasing a trifling article of stationery, pointed
to some packets of playing cards in the window, and
said, carelessly, to the young man in attendance, "By
the bye, of whom do you get the best sort of cards ? I
am going to start business myself in a small way, and
should be thankful for the information. The assistant
replied that the cards in the window had been supplied
by Messrs. Reynolds, of Vere-street, and he also men-
tioned two or three other firms with whom Messrs.
Andrews had transacted business. A week or two after
this conversation a dozen packets of cards were sent from
Messrs. Reynolds without having been ordered by the
firm, and it then occurred to the assistant that there
might have been some fraudulent attempt by the young
man in question, which had been probably defeated by
the delivery of the goods at their house.
In another case the prisoner had used the name of
Mr. C. F. Seyfang, printer, of Farringdon-street, taking
the name from the name on the door, or from the Direc-
tory ; but it happened that Mr. C. F. Seyfang had been
dead some years, and the signature was never used by
the present firm, who signed themselves " Seyfang
and Co."

The prisoner had obtained a considerable amount of
property by the above frauds before he was detected.
Mr. Henry committed him for trial.

WORSHIP STREET.—The Rev. Thomas Rousel,
incumbent of St. Peter's, Stepney, waited upon the ma-
gistrate, to complain of a nuisance, calculated to injure
the health of his flock. A. large quantity of manure and
other offensive matter had been suffered to accumulate
underneath several of the arches of the Eastern Counties
Railway, at Stepney, and poisoned the atmosphere. In
the course of his visitations about the locality, which
was densely populated, grievous complaints were con-
stantly addressed to him as to the deleterious effects of
the nuisance complained of upon the health of themselves
and families, many of whom were at present suffering
under aggravated attacks of diarrhoea, typhus fever,
and other dangerous maladies. After hearing their
representations, he felt it his duty to transmit an urgent
statement of the facts to the railway authorities, in
which he implored them to take the necessary steps for
the suppression of the nuisance, but they had not even
the common courtesy to notice his communication.
Mr. Hammill said that the public were greatly in-
debted to the reverend gentleman for taking up the
matter, but it would be necessary in the first instance to
place himself in communication with the district sur-
veyor, whose duty it was to furnish hun with every as-
sistance in the prosecution of his laudable object.
Mr. Rousel—l have already spoken upon the subject
to Mr. Shaughnessy, the surveyor, who accompanied
me this morning to inspect the place, and appeared per-
fectly appalled at the enormity of the nuisance, but ex-
pressed his opinion that a renewed application to the
railway authorities was not likely to lead to any satis-
factory result, as he had complained to them more than
once in similar cases without the slightest effect.
Mr. Hammill said that he should direct one of the
officers of the court to proceed forthwith to the railway
station with an intimation to the officials that he ex-
pected them to adopt the necessary means for the total
suppression of the nuisance without further delay.

WESTMINSTER.—Mr. Wright, a corn merchant
in Millbank-row, and one of the sanitary committee of
the parish, applied to Mr. Arnold to complain that some
men belonging to the Commissioners of Sewers were at
that moment engaged in emptying a cesspool common
to several of the inhabitants in York-buildings, Grub-
street, Westminster, down one of the old sewers which
they were unable to flush. He had previously been to
the Commissioners of Sewers' office, and had received an
assurance from a person high in authority there that
cesspools should only be emptied into flush sewers, where
it could be washed down ; in violation of which assur-
ance the proceeding of which he complained was going
on. He had spoken to the men engaged in the opera-
tion, and they refused to desist. He wished the magis-
trate to send some of his officers to put a stop to it ; it
was in the heart of a densely-populated neighbourhood,
and it was impossible to say what mischief might result
front the proceeding.
Mr. Arnold expressed his willingness to do anything
in his power, but said he must look to the act of Parlia-
ment first, to see what power he had.
Applicant said he had felt it his duty to solicit the
magistrate's interference for the poor people of the locality
in which this was going on, because they were not in a
condition to help themselves'. If this was being done in
Belgravia or any other fashionable place, it would soon
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Mimmediately directed Wood, the inspector
of nuisances of the district, to pay prompt attention to i
the matter ; and f any offence against the words of the
statute were committed, to take proceedings against the
parties offending.

SOUTFIWARK.—Mr. Nugent, a gentleman residing
at No. 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, was summoned before
Mr. A'Beckett, to show cause why he refused to pay
the sum of is. to Thomas Nicholls, cab-driver, No. 3,219.
The cabman said that on the 13th inst. the defendant
engaged him on the rank near Suffolk-street to drive
him to the London-bridge terminus. He proceeded the
nearest way, and because he did not happen to get there
in time for the train, defendant paid him a shilling less
than his legal fare. .

The defendant said he did not dispute the fare, but he
considered that the cabman had not driven him the most
straightforward and usual way. Instead of driving
along the Waterloo-road, the New-cut, Union-street, to
the London-bridge terminus, he went down Stamford-
street, across the Blackfriars-road, Holland-street, and
through the Borough-market. There was a stoppage
near the latter place, and the result of which was that
he was tou late far the train by five minutes. Had he
gone the usual way he would have been in time, and he
should not have disputed the fare.
The cabman said he went the shortest way, and as the
gentleman did not signify which way he was to go, he
was entitled to the shilling.
Mr. A'Beckett said the cabman was always bound to
go the shortest way, unless otherwise directed.
Mr. Nugent said he thought the other way was the
nearest,,,va and that they went a circuitous route. He
was right, as
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