The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-29 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 2S.—lier ligajesty and the
Court are expected to arrive at the Clarence-yard,
Gosport, to-morrow, at two r It., from Basingstoke,
en route to Osborne. A guard of honour of the Royal
Marines will attend to receive her Majesty.
The Brilliant, 22, Captain R B. Watson, C. 8.,
arrived this morning from the Cape of Good Hope,
Belena, and cension ; but her mails havitig
13een brought to England by the Inflexible, she had
ao news; she sailed this evening for Sheerness to be
paid off.
The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert rehoisted the
nsign and pennant yesterday, and is quite ready for
ner Majesty.
The Myrtle steam-tender, Master Commander
Braddan, sailed this afternoon for Plymouth with
supernumeraries.
In Harbour—The Victory, Illustrious, Excellent,
Blenheim, Encounter, Victoria and Albert, Black
Eagle, Fairy, Elfin, Rolla, and Echo.
At Spithead—The Superb and Sutlej Indiaman.
In Dock—The Princess Charlotte, Fox, Actaeon,
Dauntless, Devastation, and Contest.
In the Basin—The Rodney, Sphynx, Polyphemus,
and Sprightly.
In the Steam Basin—The Ajax, Sidon, Basilisk,
l'enelope, Scourge, Blazer, Argent, and Fire Queen
Wind—S.W., light breezes, and fine weather.
CHATHAM, SEPT. 28.—The Calypso, 20 guns, paid
off on the 24th inst., and which has been examined
by the officers of the yard, is pronounced to be the
cleanest ship which has been paid off at this port for
many years.
The Wolverine, 12 guns, which was commissioned
on the 25th by Commander Maxwell Falcon, has com-
menced entering men. Six seamen riggers have vo-
lunteered for her from this yard, and eeveral others
would have done so could they have obtained their
rating as petty officers ; but as that distinction could
not be promised, they declined entering. This ship
is almost completed. She must be taken into dock to
have her bottom cleaned, which is extremely foul. The
two lieutenants, master, surgeon,
.paymaster and
purser, and most of the officers have joined. She is
announced for the coast of Africa.

The Ocean, 80 guns, Captain G. Elliot, stationary
flag-ship at Sheerness.—Mr. Rumfrey, captain'l
clerk, committed suicide on Thursday morning, the
27th, by cutting his throat with a razor, which he
borro wed from one of the ship's crew.
PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING. Her Majesty's
steamer Volcano, from Tangier, arrived here yester-
day, having in tow a brigantine which had lost her
bowsprit and both masts. The brigantine is called
the Eliza, belongs to Newport, and was from London,
in ballast, bound to a port in the Bristol Channel.
When off this • harbour to the westward, yesterday at
noon, wind north- west, weather very thick, she was
hailed by the Volcano and desired to lay too, in
order that the steamer might ascertain how the land
bore. Captain Owen complied immediately with the
request, and while lying too the Volcano fouled the
brigantine and carried away all her spars and rigging.
The Volcano then took the Eliza in tow, and in
consequence of the inter-communication they were,
on arrival here, both placed under quarantine, from
which they were released last night, and are now
gone up Hamoaze.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Alarm will be
paid
wages to-day, and sail to-morrow for the West Indies.
She has for several days been lying in the Sound,
where she was removed at an early period, in order
to lessen communication with the shore, on account
of the prevailing sickness.
Her Majesty's iron steamer Trident is ordered
from the Irish station to this port, to be docked and
ex mined, her bottom being much corroded.
Her Majesty's ship Clarence has been warped
alongside the sheer hulk, when her masts were taken
out, examined, and placed in store.
Her Majesty's ship Hibernia has had her ballast
taken out previous to going into dock.
The artisans of the dockyard will be mustered to-
morrow (Saturday) commencing at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon.

On board her Majesty's steamer llecla, in Hamoaze,
three cases of sickness among her officers have re-
cently occurred. Mr. Webber, the clerk, died of
cholera, at Devonport, on the 13th instant. Mr.
Wilkinson, the surgeon, was taken sick on Tuesday
last, and went ashore to the Royal Naval Hospital,
Stonehouse, where he remains under treatment. Mr.
Dryden, purser, was seized on Friday last, and went
to his residence, Portland•square, Plymouth, where
he was on 'Saturday morning attacked violently with
Asiatic cholera, and is yet but partially recovered. It
is remarkable that all these officers were berthed in
the larboard side of the ship, and that neither of the
officers on the starboard side has been attacked.

THE BOY JONES AGAIN.—Young Jones, the old
visitor of Buckingham Palace, has, to the surprise of the
governor of Newgate, been discovered amongst the pre-
sent inmates of the gaol, to which he was about three
weeks ago introduced, in consequence of an unwelcome
visit which he paid at the house of a gentleman at an
unreasonable hour in the night. The myetery in which
the early circumstances of the life of Jones have been
involved seems to extend itself to his more recent trans-
actions. It was generally supposed that the Govern-
ment had taken care, after his list sadden appearance in
the royal residence, that her Majesty should be secured
from the chance of future intrnsion from him. It was
believed that by this time ho was industriously engaged
in one of our foreign settlements. [low much then must
a policeman, who had had kim in custody several times
for such extraordinary violations of etiquette in her
Majesty's Palace, been astonished at seeing him amongst
the inmates of her Majesty's gaol! It is not more than
three weeks since a young man named John Frost was
committed to goal for robbing the house of Mr. David
Williams Wire; at Lewisham in Kent, of plate,
which was soon afterwards found in the posses-
sion of the accused, who was tried, convicted, and
sentenced to transportation for ten years for having
committed the offence. That John Frost is no other
than the Boy Jones, who hed such a remarkable knack
of evading the vigilance of her Majesty's domestic ser-
vants and the police as to be able to secure a lodging in
any room in the palace to which he might take a fancy.
On Tuesday list it happened that an officer who had
frequently taken the " boy" into custody went into one
of the wards upon some business connected with his du-
ties. The moment his eye fell upon John Frost he said,
" Hallo, how on earth did you come here, young Jones?
You haven't been to see her Majesty again, have you?"
The prisoner, with great presence of mind, denied that
he knew anything of young Jones, or the policeman, or
the Queen, and requested not to be annoyed in his serious
cogitations. It was in vain that the oacer tend several
other policemen of the metropolitan force positively
identified the prisoner as the young chimney-sweeper
who had made his bed under the sofa on which her Ma-
jesty had been sitting. Ile most resolutely declared that
he was a stranger to every individual named, and that
the only person of rank into whose house he had ever
entered was that of the Under-Sheriff of London.
TRADE or NOTTINGHAM.—LACE.—There is not
any change to note in the state of this trade since our
last. Plain goods are in fair demand, and good patterns
in fancy goods made by machinery command a steady
sale, whilst those of an inferior description remain on
hand. Yarns are rather higher, as we told our readers
some time ago they would be. hosiery—ln wrought
cotton there is a slight falling off in the demand ; on
the other hand the cut-up branches were scarcely ever
better. The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt trade is in a
very healthy state, most of the shops being in full work.
The cotton glove trade, owing to the season of the year,
has become rather duller than it was some months since.
The silk glove branch has not visibly amended, many of
the hosiers making spun silk gloves to supersede those
made of thrown silk. The bolabin net trade, now the
orders of the Leipsic fair have been completed, is con•
sidered dull, whether for plain, figured, or black or white
silk laces, but not so as to cause distress.-IVoltingham
Journal.

The appearance of Cheltenham has greatly im-
proved within the last ten days, the influx of company
having been very considerable, and the number of
residents who, within the periol, have also
returned from their summer excursions being
greater than had taken place for some weeks pre-
vious. The continued immunity of the town from
the prevailing epidemic has no doubt operated favour-
ably in causing many families to determine upon
an earlier return home than under other circumstances
might have occurred; and the same cause has also
favoured the arrival of strangers. From these and other
equally significant signs of the times wo are led to anti-
cipato a good autumn season—the precursor of a winter
which shall equal. at least, if it surpasses not, those of
the lint two or three years. It is, however, too early
yet to predict anything with certainty as to what may
be its general character, though there is, even at pre-
s',?nt, every reasonable ground of hope.—Cheltenhamn
Looker on

AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.—On Saturday evening
last, as a lady was walking along High-street, Wisbech,
ahe was followed at a short distance by two or three
sailors, who observed the hustle belonging to the lady
trailing along the ground, and holding only by one
string; one of the sailors took the liberty to put his foot
on the bustle; he then stepped up to the lady, and
politely informed her that she had lost an appendage;
she at once told the g ,od-hearted sailor not to insult her,
saying it did not belong to her, and requested hi:n to go
about his business. Ile in reply sad, " Very well," and
handed the bustle to an old lady close by, who de-
cl.kred the beautiful silk on the article would make her a
splendid bonnet. It is an ill wind that blows no one
good.—Stanzfoz d Mercury.

SUPERSTITION IN 1649.—There is in the neigh-
borrhood ot flenton and its vicinity a population of
relout 200, in which it is asserted that there are 19
witches; and curious enough it is to hear the different
talcs of the people of the prinks pl ived by this wonder-
ful class of huings. Some of the inhabitants sit up by
night, three or four together, for several nights follow-
ing, using some peculiar charm, instructed, they say, by
the wise man ot the west. There they sit praying to
themselves, they must not hear eich other speak, that
the witch may not any longer have power to scratch
the children, as they do by some invisible means; and
about midnight they person
hear some terrible un-
earthly noises. One person has even attempted suicide
under fear; some, they say, aro hag-ridden; others
dream wonderful dreams, and have cramps, all of which
are attributed to the same cause. One person asserts
that she actually, at night, saw one of those wonderful
beings come into her room three times.-.—.Sherborne
Journal.

LAW IN TELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 28.
(Before Mr. Cainglissioner FoNnwiQuE.)

IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF EDWARD NAIRNE.
The bankrupt Edward Nairne was described on
the fiat as a stockbroker, who carried on business at
No. 2, Warnford•court.
This was the day fixed for the last examination.
Mr. Hilleary, of Fenchurch-street, was solicitor
for the assignees, and Mr. Plews appeared for the
bankrupt.
Mr. HitexaitY wished to call the attention of the
Court to the facts of this most wicked case. The debts
and liabilities were about 35,0001., whilst the assets
were comparatively insignificant. The bankrupt had
not surrendered, but was, he believed, at this moment
enjoying himself at Boulogne on his wife's fortune,
which amounted to 6001. a year. He would mention
a few instances of the bankrupt's conduct. A gen-
tleman whose name it was at this stage of the pro-
ceedings useless to mention had, two months previ-
ously to the issue of the fiat, handed over to Nairne
4,5001. for the purchase of Great Western Railway
shares. The bankrupt duly advised the gentleman
that the shares had been purchased, but it turned out
that not a single pound's worth was bought, and the
money was wholly lost. A second case was where a
clergyman residing in a rural district had forwarded
1,8001., with directions to Nairne how to invest
it. The bankrupt wrote to say that the money had
been invested, and actually paid the dividends from
time to time, but it now appeared there had
been no investment whatever. A third case was
where a retired publican, named Spurgin, had sent
him 1,6001. to be invested in Exchequer-bills. It
seemed that Nairne did make the purchase. Spurgin
having been so advised, wrote to Nairne to say that
his residence was on Hounslow-heath—a lonesome
unprotected place, and that, as he did not wish to keep
such an amount of property there, he would feel ob-
liged by the bankrupt depositing it in the public
chest in the Royal Exchange. In a day or two the
bankrupt wrote to say that he had done so, snd Mr,
Spurgin rested content that his money was safe. It
was now clear that the bankrupt had converted those
public securities into money for his own use, There
was a fourth case still more grievous and distressing
than any. A tradesman, residing in Isling-
ton, had placed in his hands 2,5001.—the hard-
earned savings of years. The money had all
disappeared. The whole of the assets to meet this
heavy amount of debts and liabilities were 1,2001;
4001. of that sum was obtained from the sale of furni-
, tare, and 8001. in this way :—At 11 o'clock in the
day the petitioning creditor came to ask his (Mr.
Hilleary's advice as to what steps he ought to
take for the recovery of his claim. He (Mr.
Hilleary) at once advised the issue of the
before
fiat.
At one o'clock the fiat was issued, and
closing hour at the banks 800/. at Nairne's banker's
was impounded and placed in the hands of the
official assignee. The bankrupt, having duped as
many as he could, and done all the mischief in his
power, set off to 13oulogne, where he had since re-
mained, probably laughing at the credulity of his
creditors, and making merry upon their honest gains.
Was such a person to go unpunished ? Was a petty
larceny to be dealt with according to the rigour of
the law while such transgressors as the bankrupt, by
merely taking a passage in a steam-boat and passing
over to France, might laugh to scorn those whom
they had so grossly defrauded ? But there was
another incident in this case worthy of mention. The
bankrupt had a clerk named Beaton. It appeared
that a few days previously to the issue of the fiat the
bankrupt had transferred 2,000/ to his account at a
different banker's from that at which he (Nairne)
transacted business. Beaton went several times to

Boulogne, and finally the 2,0001. was disposed of in
mere stock transactions on the Exchange—" differ-
ences" as they were called, for which there was no
consideration, and in which no money passed. Was
not the state of facts to which he had drawn the atten-
don of the Court, and which he was prepared to sub-
stantiate by undoubted evidence, of a most grave and
serious nature, and was such a person to be dealt with
as an unfortunate and honest debtor ? It would be a
disgrace to the law if there were not heavy and signal
punishment for such misdeeds. There was one fact
obvious. The bankrupt was entrusted with the
money of others to deposit in a particular manner.
Ile violated the trust and applied the money to his
own private uses. There was another fact apparent
also. The bankrupt owed between 30,0001. and
40,0001., and at present the assets were only adequate
to the payment of 9d. in the pound. Nairne had set
the law at defiance, for he had not surrendered to his
fiat. Now, the main body of the creditors, whom he
represented, were of opinion that this was a case
which ought to be thoroughly sifted and exposed, and
they were willing to forego their share of the assets
in order to prosecute the bankrupt, and, by punishing
him, deter others from pursuing so unworthy a course.
He agreed with them, and asked his Honour to assist
him to the utmost of his ability in bringing this
offender to justice.
Mr. PLEws said he believed the bankrupt would
surrender.
The COMMISSIONER said it was the best course he
coul I pursue.
Mr. BLAxLAND, a solicitor, called his Honour's
attention to the system which prevailed upon the
Stock Exchange, and hop?d this case, and the publi-
city it acquired, would show the public the necessity
of exacting their accounts from stockbrokers upon the
settling day, instead of allowing them to be " carried
over," ai had been done in this case. had his client,
the person to whom Mr. Hilleary had alluded, in-
sisted upon his scrip of Great Western shares on the
settling day, he would not have been defrauded in the
manner he had been.
A proclamation of outlawry wai made against the
bankrupt, and a day was fixed for the further hearicg
of the case.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and
a Bench of Magistrates.)
Yesterday morning the Court sat at the Guildhall,
Westminster, in pursuance of the provisions of the
Act of Parliament, for the purpose of disposing of
what are denominated " Westminster " cases. Of
these cases, however, there happened to be but one,
and so the Court, in due course, then proceeded to
try the cases from Clerkenwell which were still un-
disposed of.
A. marine store dealer of the name of Browne,
whose shop is in New Montague•stree+, in the
neighbourhood of Whitechapel, was placed at the bar
under the circumstances which are now detailed.
On the previous day Joseph Gage and James Payne
were indicted for having stolen a number of pewter
pots. Gage pleaded Guilty, but Payne said Not
guilty.
The cases of theft were all clearly established
against the prisoners by one of the police force, who
stated that when he had apprehended Payne, a week
subsequently, he found upon him 181 b. weight of
pewter in a melted state. 'I he man accounted for
having such a large quantity of pewter in his posses-
sion by saying that it was the property of his master,
Mr. Browne, of New Montague-street.
The evidence for the prosecution having been
brought to a conclusion,
Mr. PAYNE, on behalf of the prisoner, said that the
jury would find, supposing his instructions to be cor-
rect, that the police had made a mistake as to the man
fur whom he appeared, for he should call several wit-
nesses, all of whom would distinctly state that he was
not near the public-houses from which the pots were
alleged to have been stolen at the time alleged. The
Learned Counsel then called

Browne, who in the outset said that the pewter
which had been found upon Payne, who was in his
employ, was his, and not the man's. He bad sent him
out to sell it, as he wanted to make up a particular
amount of money that evening. lie had known the
man for about eighteen months, and he could give him
the best of characters as respected his honesty.
By the COURT—The shop he kept was that of a
general dealer. He sold all sorts of things. He
dealt in anything, indeed, by the purchase or sale of
which he could gain a profit. He was a bookseller,
and kept a novel library, but he called himself a
general dealer.
The Learned JUDGE—" A marine store-dealer's"
shop, is it not ?
Browne, with some hesitation—Yes; and amongst
the articles he dealt in were old iron, nails, bones, rags,
old lead,-- _ _ _

The Learned JUDGE—And old pewter too, do you
not ?

Browne, with increased hesitation, admitted, that
old pewter was one of the articles in which he usually
dealt, if it came in his way. As to this particular
pewter, he had bought it in the customary way, but
he did not buy it of Payne. Payne had worked for
him something like 18 months, and he was a strictly
hone3t man.

The other witnesses having been examined,
The Learned JUDGE left; the case for the considera-
tion of the jury, who rAurnecl a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE said he had not the least doubt
but that the evidence the witness Browne had given
had been one series of perjury. That witness either
had not known Payne for the time he had stated, or,
if he had, he must have been well aware that he had
been convicted of felony.

Browne said he had never heard of the conviction
before.

The,Learned JUDGE told Browne he did not believe
him. He was not quite certain but that he ought to
cause him to be prosecuted for perjury. He had not
the slightest doubt that the man Payne had been
in this man's service by selling to him, for trifling
sums, old pewter and any other articles he might
have possessed himself of. These marine store-
shops were great encouragers of thieving, for without
their existence such men as the prisoner, as well as
many others, would have no means of disposing of the
things they might steal. He should give directions
that this sihop which Browne kept, should be closely

watched by the police. He should now cause him to i
be kept in custody until the morni eg, and in the mean-
time he 'would conAder what course should be taken
in reference to the perju:y which he had without
doubt committed.
Browne was accordingly locked up for the night,
land this morning, upon his being brought up,
The Learned JUDGE addressing him said, it was
impossible to doubt but that all the time he was
giving his evidence on the previous day, he was fully
aware that he was committing gross perjury, neither
did he himself entertain the slightest doubt that his
" marine-store-shop " was a place where stolen arti-
ticks were received and purchased. For the present,
Browne might go about his business, but he must
carry with him this intimation—that for the future
his shop as well as his own proceedings would be
closely watched by the police. Fle had now known
what the confinement in a prison for a night was. Let
that be a warning to him.
The jury, as has been stated, found Payne Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE said he should postpone the
pacing sentence upon the prisoners in order that some
further inquiries might be made about them. With
regard to Payne, it was a singular fact that he was dis-
charged from prison just 19 months ago, whilst all
the witnesses who had been called to speak in his be-
half had stated that they bad known him about 18
months.
The sentence upon Payne and Gage was then post-
poned.

POLICE INTEf.LIGENCE.
MANS/ON-Ho S
David M. Intyre and Matthew Right (the first a
fighting man, the second the keeper of a coffee-house
in Blackfriars-road) were charged before the Lord
Mayor under the following circumstances :
Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Wontner appeared for the
prisoners.
A gentleman of the name of Watson said, on the
28th of August, at half-past ten o'clock at night, as I
was walking along Oxford-street, a woman addressed
me and asked me to treat her. I declined to do so.
It began to rain a little, and I took shelter in a shop
doorway in Princes-street. The woman followed and
spoke to me again, and a man came from the
opposite side of the way as if he were coming into
the shop door. I said to her, " Here is a man wants
to come in." lie came up, and she gave him some-
thieg, and he immediately said, " I want to go to St.
George's-road, Westminster." I told him he was to
go through Regent-street, towards Westminster, and
the moment he was gone I missed from my trowsers
pockets nine sovereigns wrapped up ia a 201. note.
The woman disappeared when the man went. The
note now produced, of which I knew the number, is
that which I lost. Neither of the prisoners is the
man who came up.
Mr. C. R. Tatham, clerk in the accountants'
office of the Bank of England, produced a banknote
for 20/., numbered 30,731, and dAted 9th of April,
1849, and said it had been paid into the bank on
the 17th of September, through Messrs. Rubart's
house.
George Russell (34), of the city police, said, in
consequence of information which I received from
Mr. Watson, I went to the house of Kight, the
British Coffee House, in Blackfriara-road. I told
him a stolen 201 note had been traced to his possession,
which he had paid to a Mr. Tulloch, of 171, Shore-
ditch, grocer, on the 14th of September. He said he
had done so, and I told him he need not answer any
questions, but that I was a police officer, and would
ask him where he got it from ? He said he
had it from a person named David M'lntyre,
a fighting man; that he had let M'lntyre
have 2/. on the note, and that there was 45. besides.
I asked him how he gave M'lntyre the 2/. He said,
that 30s. was a bet upon a fight, and 103. was for
attending at a police court to bail his wife out; 2s. 61.
he had lent him the night before, and is. 6d. for re-
freshments, and that he owed Mlntyre 16s. on ac-
count of the change of the note; that M'lntyre went
with him to his grocer's to get the note changed, but
stopped outside, where he was seen and spoken to by
the grocer's porter; that M'lntyre stopped at a beer-
shop in the road, opposite the Eastern Counties Rail-
way ; that the name of Watson" was on the note,
and that M'lntyre had written some name on the left
side of it; but that at first he was going to write
underneath the name of Watson, but left off writing
there and commenced writing at the left hand side of
that name; and this morning Hugget, the officer, and
I went again, and Kight took us to M'lntyre and
pointed him out as the man who had given him the
note. M'lntyre denied all knowledge of the note,
and we took them both into custody. Kight said he
had given the money he had received from Mr. Tulloch
to M'lntyre.
• Mr. Wontner—Have you found in the course of
your investigation into this matter that what Kight
toll you was correct? Witness—Yes.
Mr. J. R. Bushby, clerk to Messrs. Jones Loyd
and Co., bankers, produced a 51. note of the Banbury
Bank, which had been paid in by Messrs. Robarts
and Co., at the counter, on the 2Gth of September.
"Tulloch, Shoreditch," was written nFon it, and
under that was the name of "David M'lntyre, Sep-
tember 14, 1849."
Russell said, that another of the notes paid away
by Mr. Tulloch, in change for the 201., was traced
from banking-house to banking house, till it was at
last traced to Tattersall's.
Mr. William Tulloch, of 171, Shoreditch, grocer,
said, on the 14th of September Kight called and paid
me an account of 3/. 2s. with a 201. note. This is the
note, and this is my writing upon it. I gave him two
6/. Bank of England notes, and a Banbury Bank note
for 51. I made Kight put his name to it, and I paid
it into the London and Westminster Bank.
Mr. Wontner—Do you not know that Mr. Kight
is a very respectable man ? Witness-1 have no
reason to think otherwise. He has always settled his
accounts with me punctually.
The LORD MAYOR remanded the case till Friday.
His Lordship accepted bail for Kight, himself in a
surety fur 1001, and two sureties for 501. each, but
refused to take bail to any amount for M'lntyre.

" all go ods could be paid for by weekly instalments of
9.5." J. received a litter from the prisoner between
the and 16th of September, 1846, containing t.en
order .for certain goods to the amount of 91. 2-!. That
desezipt ion of goods I had not a sufficient quantity
and only sent part, after which another letter arrived
saying t. hat if I had not sent all off, Messrs. Lloyd,
Wood, an d Co.'s cart would be in town on the Mon-
day, and would call for the rest. They were after-
wards fc rm? arded to the direction given in Tottenham-
court-road; and since then I have seen nothing of
the prison er until yesterday at the Insolvent Debtors'
Court.
Alderma n Gauns—Was there credit given ? Mr.
Lee—Yes ; the bill was to be settled at the expiration
of two montlim
Alderman Glans—Where is the false pretence ?
Mr. Warr:lnd—He obtained the goods under the
representation that his name was Wood, of the firm
of Lloyd, Wood, and Co., whereas his real name is
(la an took ;
and that he carried on business at North-
church, Berkhatnp stead, which is not the case, for he,
in his schedule and when before the Commissioner at
the Insolvent Court', made no mention of Mr. Lee's
debt, or that he ever lived at Northchurch, thus so
far establishing a case against him.
Alderman Glans--Show that there was no such
firm at Northchurcili

Air. Lee—After rending some letters down, and
having them returned by post, marked that no such
parties ns Lloyd, Wood. and Co., could be found, I
and my foreman went down and ascertained for a cer-
tainty that no such firm ever existed there. And on
making inquiries at the railway station we were told
that seven sacks of flour came by rail directed to
the same film, but the owner fortunately seized
them before arriving at their destination and cat red
them off.
Mr. Spiller cross-examined Mr. Lee, but did not
elicit anything favourable for his client.
Alderman GIBBS—I should like proof that the
lettekqe from Northchurch, I3erkhampstead, are in the
prisoner's handwriting.
Mr. `Y errand said that could be easily proved, and
called

Lewis Levi, the foreman to Mr. Lee, who, after
examing them, swore they were in the prisoner's
handwriting, and also corroborated his employer's
evidence respecting making inquiries at nearly all the
houses in Northchurch, and being unable to find that
such a firm ever existed.

Cross-examined—l don't know such a place as
Whitchurch.

Mr. Lee—There is no such place.
Prisoner—There is, of a quarter of a mile. It is a
village, and joins Berkhampstead.
Mr. kVarrand—There is no such place.
Alderman GIBBS—But your letters are dated from
Northchurch.

Prisoner—l don't recollect which place it is. It's
all a mistake.—(Laughter.) There is no post office
there at Northchurch.—(Much laughter.)
Chief Clerk—Then you know Northchurch well ?
The prisoner made no reply.

Mr. Warrand asked for a remand, and said, that
when full publicity was given to the case of such a
man as the prisoner there was no doubt that other
cases would be brought against him.
Alderman GIBBS remanded him until Wednesday
neat.