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THE grim, _ LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1040.

not produce an accumulation of gases, because the foul
refuse carried away from the three houses he
had already mentioned consisted of sand or earthy
matter which could not by any possibility generate
gas likely to prove destructive to animal life. He,
therefore, attributed the existence of the gases which
had killed these men to the fact that about five feet
above the sewer a layer of gas lime, which had been
used for purifying gas, had been placed over the
sewer, through which the surface rain-water
had penetrated, and produced the hydrogen
gases which prevailed in the sewer. He
concluded his evidence by stating that he had
repeatedly been in metropolitan sewers similarly con-
structed and sealed up from the air like this one, and
containing a much larger amount of refuse, but he
had never experienced gases like that which existed
in this sewer, or that were at all dangerous to life.
The COBONEIL—What lamp did you take with
you on these occasions ? Witness—A Davey lamp.
The CORONER—Why did you take that description
of lamp? Witness—To present explosion. The
common gas some times eseapes into the sewers, and
if we had not the lamp it would explode.
The CORONER—WiII not the other gases produced
by the sewerage deposit ignite too? Witness—No,
it will not.
The CORONER—Ought not some precaution to be
taken to destroy these gases before sewers are entered?
Witness—Precautions are taken for that purpose, but
my experience leads me to believe that there is not
a sewer in London which, without some extraordinary
circumstances, as in this case, to produce it, that
contains gas detrimental to health, or dangerous to
life.
The witness then read the report, which
was submitted yesterday to the Court
of Sewers. It stated that the sewer con-
tained a quantity of sand in earth, matter
covered with a dark green fluid emitting the same
odour that was found to prevail in the lime refuse
with which the sewer was covered.
By the jury—The Warwick-street sewer was
reported to be in a very bad state in 1848, and it was
possible that some of the gases and deposit in
it might have escaped in the Kenilworth sewer. In
his opinion, the sewerage fluids of large towns ought
to be conveyed away in pipes. It, however, could
only be done under a general system, but that system
could easily be carried out. It wobld altogether de-
stroy the bad gases which were so injurious to health
in large towns. The sewerage, immediately that it
was produced in a house, ought to be at once carried
off through the medium of pipes, as he had
already described. He had entertained that notion
about five years, and he had frequently recommended
in public the adoption of invulnerable drains and
pipes in large towns for the purpose of carrying off
the sewage matter produced in every dwelling-house.
The witness was examined by Mr. Hopgood, a
solicitor, en behalf of Mr. Thomas Cubitt,
and admitted that this sewer was well and
efficiently constructed. He believed the fall of the
sewer was into Warwick-street sewer, but he had
some recollection that it was originally intended to
make the fall towards the Thames. The fall was
about 1 in 3,600, almost a dead level. He found none
of the gas refuse in the sewer, but he felt quite cer-
tain that rain water had perforated the sewer. That
belief was not absolutely induced by the similarity
between the smell of the water and that of the gas
lime. He was quite certain that none of the
refuse could be found in the sewer, but
the accumulated matter in the sewer had been a
good deal trampled upon. The lime refuse was
found lying over the spot where the men fell and
died. The sewer had been formed about two years,
but during that time the Commissioners had done
nothing to cleanse it.
By the jury—The flushing system had not been
applied to this locality.
By Mr. T. Cubitt—Thete sewers, if properly
constructed, ought to carry off the refuse, and he
believed they were so in every respect.
Mr. T. Cubitt—And yet it appears 'that there
is a foot of refuse in the sewer, which is a
very considerable accumulation indeed. Now
these sewers are under the superintendence
of the Metropolitan Commissioners, and they ought
to clean them out. Formerly if an accumulation
took place notice was given to the Commission and
they had it carted away, but now the Commission
resort to flushing, and the consequence is
the refuse of one district is carried to another. Now,
if this sewer was properly constructed, ought it not to
have been perfectly dry at the bottom ? W itness—
I think so, but then the sewer is almost on a dead
level.

—.—
Mr. T. Cuisitt—The fact is the commissioners have
neglected to have the sewer cleansed,
Andrew lire, of 24, Bloomsbury-square, k doctor
of medicine, but now chiefly employed as an analy-
tical chemist, was next called in and examined.
He stated that a bottle of the water found
in the sewer had been handed to him by the last
witness, which he now produced, as also a piece of the
gas lime which had been found over the sewer, and
another piece which he had picked up out of the
shelving of the sewer found in the trench
which had been opened in Kenilworth.street. The
earthy matter which he produced was a refuse of
litne of gasworks impregnated with sulphuretteci
hydrogen, certain prussic acid compounds, and
little ammonia of hydro-sulphate, which were all
exceedingly noxious to life, and were liable
to be liberated by the action of the carbonic
acid of the atmosphere to be washed out by the
rains, and to percolate down through the crevices and
joints of the arched roof of the sewer. The water in
the rewer contained the same poisons, and it was
these which had produced the death of the victims.
The inquiry was ultimately adjourned again.

ITALY.

M. Mercier left 'Rome for Naples on the Bth.
The Italia del Popo lo contains a leading article
by Mazzini on the subject of the trial now going
on at Versailles, from which we glean the following
passages :
" This trial will be regarded as an Italian fact, ser-
viceable to our cause through the instrumentality of
those who, by injustice, hatred, and criminal resistance,
threw obstacles in the way of the infallible arrival of a
period when the sister nations will go hand in hand.
These men are our brethren, their hearts throbbed with
enthusiasm when Italy returned to life at Rome, as ours
throbbed with joy when France awoke in 1848. And
now they are accused for the same cause for which we
are proscribed. We do not know whether in France
judges will be found to condemn men who had attempted
to save the victim when the sacrifice was over. But we
know that to justify themselves before impartial France
and Europe, they need only lay one hand on the Consti-
tution and the other on the Papal mote proprio of the
12th of September. The question is decided—' France
shall never employ her forces against the liberty of
any nation.' Rome lived under a republican govern-
ment, issued from an assembly elected by universal
suffrage. The republic has been overthrown by French
arms, in order to substitute—what? A government
issued from the will of the people, once more consulted?
No; a mote proprio of the fallen Pope. And does
his mute proprio at least establish some guaran-
tees, a legal system of any description ? No ; the
part it allows to some persons chosen or approved
by the Pope is merely consultative. The Pope may
effect his will; the Roman people can do nothing. Has
the French Government violated Art. 5 of the Constitu•
tion ? Let the sentence of the judges be what it may,
a Europe will answer—Yes ! the Article has been
uivtolated. We repeat it; the 12th of September has
decided the question. And whatever be the sentence of
the judges, let the accused console themselves; sooner or
later they will leave their prison greeted with the grate.
ful applause of France."
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 13th, the only
Turin paper it seems that appeared on that day, in
consequence of the funeral ceremony of the 12th, has
the following on the subject :—" Yesterday was for
tph ea t
ni tgy foirfr
no
mpr 'Turin,
etshs impression
a d
day,
ain the
y a wh
new ich
heart
of
destiny, leaveeayse every
a per-
manentwoenree:
will commence in our fatherland. The august
remains of him, who was more a father than
a king, whom we saw eight months ago abandon
his palace to fight for the sacred eause of the
nation, were brought into the capital in the midst
of an innumerable multitude. The ashes of that

great Prince will be the palladium of those liber-
ties which he so generously conferred upon his
people." The same journal then, after noticing that
the enthusiasm of the people was by no means
diminished by the rain that began at noon and did
not end till halt- past two, and that every window
in the streets through which the procession passed
had been carefully adorned with black hangings,
promises to give a detailed account of the mournful
pageantry in a future number. It mentions, how-
ever, the inscriptions which adorn a magnificent
pavilion and triumphal arch erected before the gates
of the city. These inscriptions were to the following
purport :
" Alas 1 how didst thou leave us, Albert, to increase

the sorrow of our days of grief, and how dost thou re-
turn! Thou art the sigh, the symbol, and the banner
of Italy, and on thy sacred ashes is written our hope!"
" The star of Italy cannot set. The mind sees, the
heart feels, and the world honours it. Let there be praise
and not tears for Charles Albert!"

"Italy has awarded thee, the vanquished in a most
noble cause, the palm of victory. What can force effect

against noble feelings! King Narles Albert, thine is
the moral triumph!"

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING.
Six o'CLocx.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
10 to 1 agst Rathmines
10 to 1 agst Ribaldry
10 to 1 agst Raby
12 to 1 agst Woolwich
16 to 1 agat Collingwood
17 to 1 agat Rienzi,
15 to 1 agst Vanguard—taken
50 to 1 agst Jock-o'-Sot
30,t0 1 agst Minimum
15 to 1 agat Glauca
25 to 1 agat Over-fork-over
50 to 1 agst Legerdemain

CRITERION STARES.
2 to 1 agst the Nigger
DERBY.
15 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel—taken
18 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum
25 to 1 agst Sweetheark
40 to 1 apt Penang—taken

MR. PIPS HIS DIARY.
(From Punch.)
Tnuasi)A.T, OCT. 11, 1849.—T0 the Docks to
meet Mr. Soker, and go over the Wine Vaults with
a Tasting Order, and taste the Wine there before it
had undergone any Roguery for the Market. Found
there Soker, and Mr. Wagstaffe, and Swilby, and
Swype, and 5 or 6 more, and with them Mr. Good-
fellowe, who had gotten Soker the Order. First to
the Quay, heaped with Barrels of Wine, close as
Pebbles on a Beach, and one huge Barrel, they did
tell me, holding 625 Gallons, and I wondering how it
could have been hoisted ashore, Mr. Wagstaffe did
say, by an Adjutant, or Gigantic Crane. Then,
through all Manner of Casks and Tubs, and Bales of
Merchandise, to St. Katherine's Dock, and down to
the Vault, where a Cooper forthwith did wait on us
with a Couple of Glasses, and gave each Man a Ist
Stick with a Lamp at the farther End, to see our
Way, and we looked like Goblins with Torches in a
Pantomime. The Vault almost quite dark, only
lighted by Sconces from the Roof, and the farthest
Sconce looking Half-a-Mile off, and all this Space full
of Barrels of Wine ! The Roof supported by Rows
of Columns; and the Vault altogether like the Crypt
of a Cathedral, but 30 times as big, and more than 20
sweeter; the Air smelling Of Wine very strong,
which alone did make me feel giddy. Strange
to see the Mildew hanging in all sorts of Forms
from the Roof, which many do mistake for
Cobwebs,l but some call Fungus, and Dr. Lim-
beck, the Chymist, do tell me is mostly Nitrate
of Lime. The Cooper did lead us to the Wine we
were to taste, and pretty to see him tap the barrel by
boring a Hole in it with a Gimlet. We did drink, all
round, a good Ale glass each of excellent Sherry, all
except Mr. Goodfellowe ; and I did wonder to see him
taste the Wine and call it, rare good Stuff, and yet
spit it out, but found by and by that he was wise.
Next, to the London Dock; and Mr. Goodfellowe
did give us Biscuit, and recommend us to eat, and I
did take his advice, and glad I did. Here, more
curiosities in Mildew, hanging from the roof : and
one a festoon as big as the great Sausage in the Pork-
shop at the corner of Bow-street. A good story from
the Cooper, of a Visiter that would needs take a
Specimen of the Mildew away, and put it in his Hat,
and with the Moisture of his Head, it melted and
blackened his Face, and served him right, that—like
more than enough Sight-seers—could not keep his
Hands from Picking. To several Vaults, and tasted
Wine in each; all very vast, but the East Vault the
biggest, and do contain more thousand Pipes, and
cover more Acres than I doubt, by Reason of the
Wine I drunk, I can remember. After tasting so
much, our Party very jolly and noisy, and did begin
to dance and sing, and flourish their Lamps like
Playhouse Devils ; and methought I did see the
Meaning of the Notice outside, that Ladies could not
be admitted after one o'clock. Coming into the open
Air, our Company could scarcely stand; and Mr.
Goodfellowe did see them into two Cabs, and I home
on foot—l fear not very straight—and my Wife
wondering at the Redness of my Nose. Good Lack,
to see the Quantity of Goods and Wine in the
Docks; and to think what a great and mighty Na-
tion we are, and what Oceans of Liquor we do swill
and guzzle!

DEATH or MR. THEOBILD.—This gentleman died
on Monday last at his residence in Bedford-lane, Stock-
well, after an illness of about ten days. There are few
connected with the English turf to whom the person and
character of Mr. Theobald are unknown. His love of
English sports, and particularly horseracing, his desire
to improve the breed of the English racehorse, and his
remarkable appearance, have always distinguished him
among modern English sportsmen. Though not so active
in the betting-ring of late, Mr. Theobali has always
evinced the greatest anxiety to improve the breed of
racehorses, and, with that object, he has been the owner
of several of the best sires in Europe. Camel was his
property for many years, and the progeny of that horse
are considered the purest blood in England. He was also
the owner of Baron, Muley Moloch, and several other
horses distinguished for their performances. In his
establishment, as well as by his personal appearance, Mr.
Theobald kept up good old English habits, and he was,
without exception, as kind a master as ever existed.
On each Christmas day it was his invariable custom to
let his servants invite as many friends as they thought
proper, whom he would entertain with the best fare that
his tradesmen and his wine and ale cellars could supply.
llis loss will be keenly felt by the p ;or of the neigh-
bourhood, to whom he was always kind and bountiful.
The deceased had attained his 85th year, and has left a
large family of children and grandchildren to inherit his
immense wealth, amounting, it is said, to upwards of
500,0001. sterling.

PaITeSIAN IRVINGITES —The sect of the Irvingitea
his acquired such a rapid increase of numbers of late in
Berlin that the attention of the church authorities is
beginning now to be directed to the subject. The number
of the memliers is given at one hundred, and the aug-
mentation to the previous insignificant amount has been
migned to a visit from the two so-caled apostles, Bar-
clay and Carlyle, both Scotchmen. A Ur. Smith, from
England, has had the dignity of prophet conferred upon
him, and an "angel" has been elected from the three
Presbyters.
To encourage talent is to create it.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 17.

(More Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)
IN TIIE BANKRUPTCY OF BOWERS AND BOWERS.-
DECISIONS UNDER TIIE NEW BILL.

The bankrupts, John Bowers, Joseph Bowers, and
Sarah Anne Bowers, were provision merchants at
Worcester. This was the last examination meeting.
A separate fiat was issued against John Bowers, which
was opened in the district court at Birmingham. The
reason why the joint fiat was sent to London is, that
the Lord Chancellor so directed it upon its being re-
presented that the majority of the trade creditors
reside in London.
Mr. Lawrance appeared for the country creditors,
Mr. Linklater appeared for the bankrupts.
The debts and liabilities are said to amount to up-
wards of 3,000/., whilst the assets are comparatively
trifling.
The bankrupt John Bowers was examined at con-
siderable length, and from his statement it appeared
that the firm was for many months previously to the
issue of the fiat in embarrassed circumstances, and
that several of their bills were dishonoured, that the
whole of the stock-in-trade was swept away under an
execution by a relative, that the inventory was in
course of preparation before the execution was levied,
and that the fiat was issued by the solicitor of the
bankrupts.
It further appeared that a separate fiat had been
issued against John Bowers, who is there described
as having carried on the business of wine-merchant.
Upon this fact a point was raised, viz., whether the
new Act conferred power upon the Senior Com-
missioner to direct the removal of that fiat from
Birmingham to London, so that it may be here
worked out.

It was stated by a Birmingham solicitor that a
petition had been presented to the Vice-Chancellor,
praying his Honour to order removal of the joint
fiat from London to-Birmingham, so that it might be
there proceeded upon in conjunction with the separate
fiat.

Mr. LINILLXTER and Mr. LAWRILNCE were both of
opinion that the Senior Commissioner (Evans) pos-
sessed power under the new Bill to direct the removal
of the fiats as he thought proper.
The COMXISSIONER was of the same opinion, and
so decided.

It was also decide I thst the Senior Commissioner
had power to impound the proceedings under a sepa-
rate fiat.

Mr. LAWRANCII remarked that the words in the
former statute, " that this Act be construed beneficially
to creditors," were omitted in the present one.
Nothing could be more slovenly or bungling than
the construction of many of the provisions.
The Comaussiossa said that it was scarcely to be
wondered at that the Act was in many places found
obscure and impracticable, for after it went into the
Commons, where it was so materially altered, not one
of those whose duty it was to administer the law of
bankruptcy was consulted respecting it.
Another point was raised concerning the ability of
the Court to receive affidavits of the debt without the
personal attendance of the creditor. The words in the
old statute, providing that creditors might prove in
remote places by making affidavits before competent
persons and transmitting such affidavits to London,
were omitted in the new one.

The COMMIS3IONER decided that the power still
remained, although not so distinctly expressed. The
words of the 164th section were that every creditor
of the bankrupt may prove his debt by his own oath.
Another most important question raised was whe-
ther the penal enactments referring to divers offences
specified under section 256 had a prospective or re-
trospective operation.
The COMMISSIONER was of opinion that the most
equitable construction would be to give them only a
prospective operation.
In this view Mr. LOWRANCE and Mr. LINICLATER
concurred.
The meeting was adjourned, the balance-sheet not
yet being filed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
John Wads, of 66, Old Bailey, was charged before
Sir Chapman Marshall with obtaining goods, to the
amount of between 151. and 161., under false pre-
tences.
It being intimated that there were other cases
against him
Sir C. 14ausuau. remanded him for a week.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A wel.dressed man, who gave the name of William
Jameson, druggist, but who refused his address, was
brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having
uttered a forged cheque at the Union Bank of Lon-
don, Argyll-place, Regent-street.
Ar. Reynolds, one of the cashiers, said the prisoner
came to the counter about two o'clock in the after-
noon, and presented a cheque for 451. 45., which pur-
ported to have been drawn by Mr. W. H. Accret, a
customer. As soon as witness looked at the cheque
he was satisfied it was a forgery, and, without saying
anything to the prisoner, he went into the private
office, and acquainted Mr. Clack, the manager, with
his suspicions. The prisoner was sent for into the
private room, and questioned, and ultimately given
into the charge of a police-constable. The prisoner
told witness that he had obtained the cheque from
Dakin's, of St. Paul's-churchyard.
Police-constable Godfrey, C 147, said he went to
the banking-house and received charge of the pri-
soner. The prisoner in his presence said he had
not stated the truth when he said he had
brought the cheque from Dukin's. He had received
the cheque from a person in Golden-square, whose
name he did not know, and whom he could not find,
as he had only met the person once or twice before.
-The prisoner added that he believed the cheque was a
forgery when he presented it.
Mr. BINGHAM asked the prisoner if he wished to
make any further statement ?—The prisoner merely
replied that he acknowledged he was guilty of utter-
ing the cheque.
Mr. Reynolds, in reply to a question, said he had
no doubt whatever of the cheque being a forgery.
Mr. Accret was at present in Hampshire, and there
had not been sufficient time to communicate with
him. _ _

The prisoner was remanded till Monday next.
Catherine Keim was charged by the authorities of
St. James's with having committed wilful perjury.
The defendant had sworn that she was the aunt of
three children,
who were
, thereupon removed from the
parish of St.
Martin s-in-the-fields to St. James's.
The removal took place in August, 1848, and the
children had been chargeable to St. James's work-
house from that time. It had recently been ascer-
tained that the prisoner was the mother, and not the
aunt of the children.
The deposition of the prisoner, in the name of
the
etptmreaef Guttman,
ofas thethe
perjury completed.
aunt of the children, was put in, and
The defence
poor
object in taking a false oath was to procure support
for them.
The prisoner was athtehe woman
children, wa
ands that her only that she was
too
fully committed to take her trial,
to in of the

a coat with her to take care of. He called for it two
(Flys af,erwards. Hanbury brought a basket with
him, with a carpenter's saw in it. The prisoner
Barton was dressed in a light blouse. They some-
times brought a bag.
Richard Leland, of 8, Bridgwater-street, Somers-
town, optician, said he knew blth prisoners, but
Barton more intimately than Hanbury. Had seen
them at a public-house kept by Mr. Jackson, of
Somers-town. Witness recollected that the day after
the report of the robberies on the Great Western
Railway Company he saw the prisoner Barton at Mr.
Jackson's, and heard him say repeatedly they had got
the parcels safe enough, and that Mr. Collard, the
superintendent, had offered him money for the restora-
tion of the parcels, which he refused, as it was not
enough for him. He also said that Mr. Dawson had
offered him money for them, but he refused him, say-
ing there was 30s. due on the last account between
him and Dawson. He said he had told Messrs.
Chaplin and Home if they hurt his boy he would
hurt them. These expressions, witness said, were
uttered at various times.

At this period of the examination one of Barton's
sons, about fourteen or fifteen years of age, entered
the court with a basket containing some refreshments
for his father, when the boy took his position behind
the dock. Barton, who is a tall, powerful-looking
man, stooped over the bar, and spoke to the boy, when
Sergeant Smith listened to their discourse.
Barton, evidently amazed, and with violence, said,
" Ycur Worship, I was speaking to my boy and in-
quiring after my wife, when that dog p )ked his nose
in and interfered with us." lie looked revengefully
at Smith, and commenced munching a large piece of
bread and butter.

The witness continued —Two young men
were with the prisoners in the parlour at
the time. Hanbury was reading the news •
paper, and Barton was sitting between the two
young men, and some of their conversation was in
whispers. Barton said he had been at a certain place
at six o'clock in the morning, before the public-
houses were open, but it was too early for the job
to be done that morning, and it must be put off. He
said while he was talking up came the van with the
parcels. Their conversation was generally about
parcels.
Mr. Humphries said that these conversations re •
ferred to their watching the van's arrival at Brown-
low-street, Holborn, where Messrs. Chaplin and
Horne's porter left with the parcels to deliver at
various places.
Mr. Joseph Collard, superintendent to the Great
Western Railway Company, having been sworn,
Mr. Humphries inquired of him whether he had
seen or had any intercourse with the prisoner Barton
its reference to the present charge until he was taken
into custody ? Mr. Collard—l never had any com-
munication with the prisoner until I took him into
custody on the present charge.
Mr. Humphries—Did you ever offer the prisoner
any money for the recovery of the stolen parcels ?
Mr. Collard—l had no oppportunity of offering him
any money, and of course I did not.
Mr. Humphries—l believe you were present when
the prisoner Hanbury's room was searched ?
Witness replied in the affirmative. On the 10th of
October he went, in company of Sergeant Smith, to
Hanbury's lodgings, in Hart-street, Covent-garden,
where he saw Smith take the letter stamp (now pro-
duced) from a writing-desk in the room. At the
station •house a receipt (produced) was taken from
the prisoner's person ; a seal was also found. On
Tuesday witness and Smith examined a large quan-
tity of papers which they found in the desk before
mentioned, when witness discovered the piece of
sealing wax was joined, and which he now produced ;
also a bill of exchange, purporting to have been drawn
by Edward Barton on W. B. Popham, of Lincoln's
Inn-fields. Witness heard the prisoner called
Edward Barton, and believed that to be his real
Christian name. Witness also feu* new spectacle-
case in the desk. containing the half of a Si. Bank of
England note, No. 83,582, and dated April 18, 1842.
Hanbury's lodging and the nine parcels were in a
most filthy condition.
Samuel Walker, lodge keeper at Lincoln's Inn.gate,
knew the prisoner Barton. On the morning of the
27th of September, between eight and nine o'clock,
he saw the prisoner walking backwards and forwards
near the old gate in Chancery-lane. He seemed hur-
ried, and had on a white blouse. It was about 400
yards from the Hand-in- Hand public• house. He saw
him on two other mornings in the same week in
Chancery-lane, with the brown coat he now wore and
a white blouse underneath it ; he was going towards
Carey-street.
Prisoner—Then you could see through my great
coat. You must have good eyesight.—(A. laugh.)
The prisoner saw witness watching him, when he
put his thumb to his nose, as much as to say " Take
a sight."
Richard Leland recalled—The prisoner Barton,
when at the house of Mr. Jackson, pulled out several
61. notes and two sovereigns and a half, and said he
had put the " drawers" on one of the parcels. On
being asked what he meant by the drawors," h.
replied, " drawing on account."
Mr. Humphries said that this completed the case,
and there was sufficient to commit the prisoners for
trial as accessories before the fact, as having received
the property knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Pelham said he would reserve the prisoners'
defence for their trial. .

Vv
Mr. TYRWHITY then fully committed both prisoners
to Newgate for trial, and the whole of the witnesses
were bound over to prosecute.
Mr. Humphries said, with respect to the parcels
which hal been restored to Messrs. Chaplin and
Horne, he would suggest that their contents should
be allowed to be delivered over to the consignees, and
the wrappers to be produced for the purpose of iden-
tity at the trial, as the property might be of import-
ance to the parties concerned with them.
Mr. TYRWHITT acceded to this.
Barton, who treated the matter with indifference
and bravado, requested an interview with his wife
and son, which was granted, but in the presence of
the officers. _ .

The prisoners were conveyed to Newgate in the
police van in the course of the day.
Immediately after the committal of the prisoners,
Mr. Brenchley, the managing clerk to Messrs. Chap •
lin and Horne at the Paddington station of the Great
Western Railway, and. Mr. Collard, police•officer of
that establishment, went off in a cab for the purpose
of delivering the parcels to the respective consignees,
and to ascertain that the contents were correct.

statement at Worship-street, when be charged the
young woman with robbing him. He then ittld that
he put the two good soveregns into his shoes, and
left the two counterfeit coins in his pocket. Finding
that the girl had taken them from his pocket he gave
her in charge. This story caused some laughter at
Worship-street owing to the manner in which he de-
scribed the concealment of the money, and when the
girl was remanded the prisoner said he was going to
sea on the following day, and the counterfeit coins
were ordered to be delivered up to him. This state-
ment of the sergeant entirely set aside the prisoner's
defence, and the cunning negro was fully committed
for trial.