The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-13 00:00:00

BANKING DEPAILTMEN T.

£.
Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest .. . • • • • • • • 3,400,715
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) 8,419,045
Other deposits .. 8,614,702
Seven day and other
bills • • • • • 1,012,717

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
I Weight Annuity) .. 13,590,597
Other securities .. 10,825,470
Notes .............. 10,98b,050
Gold and silver coin•• 790,062

£36,200,179

£36,200,179
M. MiIiSITALL, Chief Cashier.
1849.

Dated the 11th day of January,

An elderly woman named Mary Roche was brome,At
dead ,
before the magistrates yesterday' and charg
child ed
for the
by one
of the constables with exposings
purpose of obtaining money. The hild, which appeared
to have been dead for some days, was sent to the bride-
well ; and the prisoner was sent to gaol, where she was
ordered to receive a month's imprisonment with hard
labour.—Cork Examiner.
e
TRE WOOLLEN TRADE OF WAKEFIELD. -W are
glad sdoifstric In the
wool re
glad to say there are
improvement in the
wool and woollen trade of the
warehouses of this town a better price is asked and ob-
tained for all descriptions of
wool.
teat full a halfpenny per pound We are assured
tained. This is in
in the consequen advance has been ob-
buyersg being market. Thecoof a greater number of
appear to be more resolute in growers, however,
than the woolstaplers, Thedemanding an advance
their wool by them during farmers who have held
consequent lowness in the depression of trade, and
2d. per lb. advance; price of wool, now stand out for
but, as is seen above, the staplers
think one halfpenny
quite sufficient. We understand
there is not a single
Wakefield Journal professing woolsorter out of work.—
England and `Vales'
with
, sixteen millions of people,
contain nearly ei • ght millions unable to write their name,
and not less than five
millions unable to read their mother
tongue.

LIVERPOOL CURRENCY REFORM
ASSOCIATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,—l am instructed by the committee of the Liver.
pool Currency Reform Association, to transmit to yott
their reply to your strictures upon their plan, contained
in the articles of the 25th and 30th ult., and to express
their hope that you will insert it in your columns.
They deem themselves fairly entitled to hare an plaining points on which
op-
portunitytheyhave abffeeonrdryedisatphpemrehoenfdeesd.

I remain, bii, your obedient servant,
JAMES HARVEY, ROIL

Brown's Hotel, Clayton-square, Liverpool, Jan. 8.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,—Having on the 25th ult. concluded your stric•
tures on our plan of currency with a " farewell," we in-
ferred that you declined any further discussion on the
subject, and therefore refrained from a reply; but as we
notice in your article of the 30th ult., on Mr. Wright's
evidence, that you make further allusion to the associa-
tion, which we construe into a fresh challenge, we pro-
ceed, without further prelude, to show the weakness of
your logic.
No. 1. " They have made the new discovery, however,
that the debt is capital to the creditor, though a liability
of the State. Very good: but, according to their scheme,
it was the State which was to keep the Bank, and the
creditor who would be its customer."
'We are then agreed that " the liability of the State is
capital to the creditor ;" and, consequently, that it is
upon an asset, and not upon a liability, that the proposed
currency is intended to be founded. This point being
thus placed beyond controversy, we turn to your state-
ment, " that the Bank is to be kept by the State." This
is not correct. The State intervenes merely to legalise
the notes by its stamp, thereby constituting them legal
tender, just as the Mint, by coining the gold, constitutes
bullion into legal tender.
Thus you will perceive that the owner of Consols, and
not the State, will be the creator of the currency, just as,
under the present system, the owner of bullion, by taking
it to the Mint, gets it coined into money.
2. " They say, again, that commodities which, like
the precious metals, find their level by unrestricted cir-
culation in the markets of the world, are therefore the
more subject to fluctuation, and peculiarly unfit to be the
basis of a currency. No set of men were ever more com-
pletely bewildered by their own dulness of perception.
It is the free circulation of the precious metals which,
like the flow of water unconfined by artificial barriers,
produces a uniform level in their value. And it is this
uniformity of value which is the greatest security against
a sudden fall or rise. This is a principle which is true
of all commodities, but especially of the precious metals,
by reason of their great facility of transport."
In this paragraph you fail to distinguish between gold
as a commodity, and gold as a money. To its flowing
everywhere without restriction as a commodity, the
Association cannot possibly object; that is precisely
what they contend for; but you overlook the fact, that
the very principle of the system you uphold is to dam up
gold, and to prevent its free circulation, by fixing a price
upon it in this country„and insisting upon its retention
here at all costs and hazards. And why? Because our
circulating medium consists of this commodity. Hence
a drain of gold, being an abstraction of so much circula-
ting medium—that is, of the very life-blood of our in-
ternal trade—has to be suddenly arrested by the well-
known and cruel operation of the Bill of 1844. Its ex-
port must be stopped, and the convertibility of the bank-
❑ote must be preserved; whereas, were it a mere com-
modity, its export would be attended with the same re-
sults as the export of so much iron, cloth, or calicoes.
The evil of a deficient harvest would be then confined to
its natural consequence—the enhancement of the price
of grain—without involving the ruin of the commercial
fabric, the extinction of credit, and the prostration of
trade.

On these grounds the Association are strenuously op-
posed to gold as the basis of a currency, being strongly
convinced that its functions as a commodity, and as a
money, are entirely distinct and utterly incompatible.
3. " As regards domestic transactions, the consequence
would be an artificial inflation of prices, and a real de-
preciation of the circulating medium; and, as the French
experiment has fully proved, such depreciation is inevit-
ably progressive, because larger quantities of paper are
continually thrown upon the market, in proportion as
exchangeable value declines."
Now, we invite you to prove logically, by what pro-
cess and under what circumstances " a larger quantity
of paper will be thrown upon the market "—we mean
larger quantity of the circulating medium proposed by
the association—than what will be required by the ne-
cessities of trade. We still contend that paper money,
convertible into value, cannot be depreciated, and, con-
sequently, that this inflation of prices cannot occur.
All change in price must arise either from an altera-
tion in the relation between demand and supply, which
is a natural fluctuation; or from an alteration in the
value of money, which is a legal fraud upon the debtor
or creditor, as the case may be one of appreciation or
depreciation in the measure of value. It is, therefore,
for you to prove by what possibility notes convertible at
all times into the property they represent can be depre-
ciated—how the property itself can be depreciated when
the owner can insist upon his'ewn terms t)efore parting
with it—and why any man should voluntarily exchange
his property for less than its equivalent. It is an axiom
in economics that cannot be contravened, that no man
will voluntarily part with his accumulated labour, pro-
perty, or capital—call it what you please—without re-
ceiving an equivalent; and we cannot conceive why Con-
sols should form an exception, whilst gold, and every
other description of property, are rigidly subject to the
rule. On this important branch of the controversy, a
little perspicuous reasoning would be worth coltunns of
oracular dogmatism.
4. On the subject of the French assignits, you leave
untouched our assertion, which we now reiterate, that
there is no analogy between the proposed paper money
—convertible at all times into value—and the baseless
assignats issued ruthlessly and without limits. There-
fore we deny that the "French experiment" referred to
can be quoted as substantiating your argument.
5. You entirely pervert our meaning as to the transi-
tion proposed by us from gold as a standard property to
Consols. When we state that such proportion of the
standard property, or Consols, as equalled 5 dwts. 8
grains of gold should be taken as 11., we intend to indi•
cate that the change from the present to the proposed
currency should take place at a rate that would not dis-
turb existing prices, and the relations between debtor
and creditor; and every impartial reader would at once
perceive that this was pointing to a value at which to
take our departure from, instead of, as you would hare it
inferred, implying a retention of, the gold basis.

HABEAS CoRPUS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
sflt,—ln consequence of your report from the Ex.
chequer yesterday, which completely calls in question
the truth of my affidavit, it becomes necessary for me to
explain that my affidavit having been sufficient for
issuing the writ of Habeas, and the return being suffi-
cient for remanding me, 1t was then my right to move
thereupon for an attachment against the keeper to com-
pel him to support his return upon oath. Notice of my
intention to do this, if the return was not true, was
given in the usual form with such writs issuing out of the
Crown-office, and the notice appeared annexed to the
return in Court.

The right to apply for such attachment is absolute
under the two Acts of Habeas Corpus, viz.:-31
Charles 11., c. 2, and 56 George 111., c. 100. By the
Lord Chief Baron stopping and preventing me from
moving for the attachment, and, on the contrary, warn-
ing me of a criminal proceeding by the Attorney-Ge-
neral on my affidavit, he reversed the order of prosecu-
tion enacted by the above Acts, and which is the practice
and, of course, my right; for it is my affidavit whichis
to be presumed to be true still (as yet), and not the re-
turn, and lam the prosecutor and not the culprit. It
may hereafter be material, in case this is not inserted, for
me to prove that it was sent.

-- ---
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Queen's Prison, Jan. 12, 1849. WM. COBBETT

THE AUTHORSHIP OF " KING ARTHUR." —The.
long and :disputed question of the authorshipthoef tne
poem of "King Arthur," is now set at rest
_)_
an-
nouncement that it is from the
Lytton.
JAN. I°.'"
HOP INTELLIGIINCB.— WORCESTER,
full prices
There is a good demand for all fine hops,
andare still neg-
• n for that class, but all inferior
are give
Journal.
Pen of Sir 83.' Bulwer
lected.—Berrow's Worcester mr.
Abraham sap-
into the train at
summoned before the
EMPING/L&M.—On Alonclksvf
cote, of South Luffenham, w2getting
magistrates at Empinghl for
the other passengers, on tho
intoxication, and annoying
ile was fined 40s• and
• costs.--
Stamford and riding to tti Retton station in a state of
24th of November last.
'borough has recently caused a
ar Blenheim-park to be killed and
poor of Coombe, Handborough,
number of does
LincolnlheDCuhrkoento'cie
fromm.
he
among
„s around Blenhiem.
and other villages
FLusuzzia . . engst other inventions
" Ashe's self-acting drain and sewer
eted
,r, ge which have lately been brought
distributed
comic
before us, nigh drama
cleanser ;" an arrangement to catch and hold all avail-
vneiltocsituyddinentoly
a'ble waste water until it amounts to about fourteen
srubiail.atrnacpe,s,aannddstehrthewresutghhe
thoeve
the drain.—The Builder.
wgaeltie°rnsWiwthhe
. ,
IMMORTALITY.—Some of the houses in Edinburgh
are eleven storeys high, and in one of these, near that
exquisite green slope from the Castle esplanade, Johnson
visited Boswell ; and here, also, David Hume, the
historian and philosopher, resided for many years, till he removed into the oldest square of the new
town. A recent traveller, toiling up the stairs,
asked an old woman, who was conveying a picher
of water to her aerial domicile in the building, whether
sho could tell him in which storey David Hume lodged?
"Dawvid Hume! Dawvid Hume!" replied the old
woman, "I hae been here this echteen year, and never
mind sic a name. Dawvid Hume is no on this stair."
To which he gently replied, in Toot's phraseology, that
it was " of no consequence," and beat a retreat.—lnver.
ness Courier.

The Milan Gazette of the Sth publishes a notifi-
cation by the Provincial Delegation of Verona, dated
the 28th ult., imposing a tax of two per cent. as a
forced loan upon all capital bearing interest, and ex-
ceeding the sum of 7,000 Austrian livres ; also on
all capital of annual redeemable rentes, not subjected
to any public charge ; and, lastly, on the capital of
all annuities exceeding 2,000 Austrian livres. The
payment of the above tax is in two equal rates, on
the sth of January, and the subsequent sth of
February.
" A DUCK OF A MAN ! "—M. de Lingueville, a
Frenchman, who died lately at the age of 110, had been
n
married ten times, espoused.his last helpmate at 99, and
had a, son at 101.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
RAILWAY ACTS.

It appears from a return just issued of Railway Acts
passed in the session of 1844, 1845, 1846, and 1847, that
the sums authorised to be raised by capital and loan in
1844 amounted to 17,870,3011. for the construction of
822 miles of .railway; in the session of 1845 to
60,824,048 A for 2,694 miles of railway; in the session of
1846, to 132,096,2241. for 4,593 miles of railway, and
in 1847. to 40,397,3951. for 1,353 miles of railway;
making a total of 251,188,0681., and of 9,463 miles of
railway. On the 31st of March, 1848, it states that
1,761 miles of the latter were open for traffic, leaving
7,702 miles to be completed.
The capital called up for railway purposes from the
commencement of 1844 to the 31st of March, 1848
amounted to 101,286,3091., of which the sum of
90,600,319/. was paid by shareholders, leaving
10,686,0101. due, and 98,281,6241. to be called up. The
companies borrowed during that period 26,933,865/., re-
serving power to borrow 42,387,2881. more; so that the
actual amount received on calls and loans in the course
of four years and three months for the construction of
railways amounted to 117,534,1841., being an average of
27,655,0001. per annum.
The amount received on railway calls prior to the year
1844 was 41,310,0491.. leaving 601,966/. in arrear, and
the amount borrowed 6,910,3221., making the total
amount received up to that period 48,290,3711., and the
grand total up to the 31st of March, 1848, 165,754,5551

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN

RAILWAY.

It affords us much satisfaction to be able to state that
Mr. Creed, who filled for upwards of ten years, with
such high credit to himself and with such great advan-
tage to the shareholders, the secretaryship of the Lon-
don and Birmingham and the London and North-
Western Companies, has been elected to a seat in the
direction of the latter company, and that he will be to-
day officially appointed thereto, in the room of Mr. Ben-
bow, M.P., who has resigned. We trust that Mr. Creed,
whose knowledge of railway management is not snr-
passed by that of any railway man of the day, will take
an active part in the superintendence of the affairs of
the company, and that the appointment has not
been made merely for the purpose of satisfying the
complaints which have recently been made of the
non-fulfilment of the promise made by M. Glyn at the
last half-yearly meeting of the proprietors—viz., that
though he (Mr. Creed) quitted his post as secretary, he
would, as a director, continue to watch over the in-
terests of the company, to promote whose prosperity
he had so long and so ably exerted himself. We are
quite pware that the promises of Mr. Glyn, that Mr.
Creed should be elected to the board, was conditional
on the resignation of any member; but when we recol-
lect how many of the five-and-forty directors there are
who may be truly called " sleeping partners" of the
company, we must express our disappointment at the
great delay which has taken place in what we deem to
be the necessary election of Mr. Creed to the London
and North-Western board.—Herald.

Cape of Good Hope papers, of the 15th of No-
vember, report affairs to be progressing satisfactorily
since the late attempt at rebellion, but there is much
reason to believe that the dissatisfaction of the emigrant
farmers across the frontier is not by any means appeased,
nor their passions subdued. They complain of a want
of care, interest, and attention on the part of the British
Government towards them ; but are well-disposed, not-
withstanding long neglect, to aid Sir Harry Smith in
his efforts for colonial reform, and the progressive wel-
fare and prosperity of the Cape. tranquillity prevailed
on the eastern frontier, and the war tribute levied by the
Governor bad been paid with alacrity, amounting to
about 6,0001. Order was becoming gradually restored
across the Orange River. From Kafirland the accounts
are good. As association for introducing the cultivation
of the cotton plant into Albany and Katirland had been
formed at Graham's Town, and a committee appointed
to carry out that object.
BUTCHERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—Thursday
evening a meeting of this institution was held at the
Freemasons' Tavern, Great Qi.wen•strcet, for the pur-
pose of receiving the annual report and appointing
officers for the ensuing year. Mr. J. Sharpe (who was
re-elected president) took the chair. The minutes of the
previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the
secretary proceeded to read the report, from which it
appeared that the income of the past year, including
subscriptions, donations, &c., amounted to 2,8001., the
expenses to 2,3001., leaving a balance of 5001. in favour
of the society, besides a stock fund amounting to 10,0001.
in the Three per Cent. Consols. It was also stated that
10 persons had been elected last year as fit recipients for
the bounty of this charity, Making a total of 141 ad-
mitted since its formation in 1836. Several members
then addressed the meeting, pointing out the many
claims which the society had to public support. The
usual officers were then elected; and a vote of thanks
having been passed to the chairman, the meeting sepa•
rated.

THE MURDER, AT TEDBUBN ST. MARY, NEAR
EXETER.—The name of a man in custody on a charge
of having been concerned in the murder of Mrs. Grace
Holman, at the above village, is Henry Woods; he was
a labourer, and lately resided at Moreton, a hamlet about
twelve miles from Exeter, and six from the scene of the
murder. His apprehension was effected in consequence
of some mysterious expression, in reference to the
awful tragedy, which fell from him a few days since.
His confession, as already stated, implicates two other
parties, the one a labourer, named James Landvick, and
the other a man who has since enlisted into the 85th
regiment. Woods states that they all entered the
house by means of a fir pole, reared against the win-
dows of the deceased's bed-room, after having made
several ineffectual attempts to gain admission by other
means; that, as soon as they entered, the deceased
jumped up in bed and began to cry out, when the soldier
threw himself upon her, and throttled her. Woods says
he called out, "Don't murder her," on which the soldier
replied, "If you don't hold your tongue, I'll murder
you." Woods adds, that the old woman died very hard,
and struggled much, the horrid deed being at length ac-
complished by piling the beading and a large box upon
her, and pressing them down until life was extinct.
Woods has conducted the officer to a spot where he says
the silver spoons were buried, but the mould had been
upturned, and the spoil had vanished, if it had ever been
there. The principal, who, at the time of the murder
was a shoemaker, living at Crediton, afterwards enlisted
in the 85th regiment, and was attested at the Exeter
Guildhall. He has since been appreheuded, and arrived
in that city on Tuesday last.
PRICE or WHISKY.—The Cork distillers reduced
the price of this article 3d. per gallon on Friday last.
The present price is 6s. per gallon, 25 over proof.—Cork
Examiner.

SAINT CLEMENT DANES.—Thursday a meeting
was held in the vestry-room of the above parish, for the
purpose of auditing the churchwardens' accounts, to
make a rate for the necessary relief of the poor for the
fourth quarter, and to consider the suggestion contained
in the report of the committee, dated the 13th of No-
vember last, of suitably conveying to Mr. Steele the
thanks of the vestry upon his resignation of the office of
vestry-clerk. The chair was taken by Mr. J. P. Jaquet.
After the minutes of the previous vestry had been read,
the accounts were inspected and proved satisfactory.
Mr. Jaquet then informed the meeting that a sum of
2,1501. was required to be made up for the relief of
the poor, and to be provided by means of a rate. Mr.
Boobyer moved a resolution to the effect that the rate
levied should be 103., which, together with the rental
of King's College Hospital, would make up the re-
quired sum. Mr. Chapman seconded this resolution, and
it was unanimously carried. After some argirnent it
was definitively determined that the style of the vote of
thanks and the manner of conveying it to Mr. Steele,
should be left to the decision of a committee composed of
the following gentlemen:—Mr. Raimondi, Mr. Boobyer,
Mr. Score, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Stokes. Mr. Peters and
Mr. Howard were then nominated as overseers for the
upper Liberty, and Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Knight for the
lower. A requisition was given in to the chairman, de-
siring him to summon a meeting as speedily as conve-
nient, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
present movement for the construction of fresh prisons
or houses of correction. After some remarks relative to
the situation (which was said to be as favourable as
could be expected under the circumstances) of the chil-
dren at the Tooting Pauper Establishment, a vote of
thanks was passed to the chairman, for his kindaess on
the occasion, and the meeting separated.
ROTAL FREEAIASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CHlL-
DREN.—Thursday a Quarterly General Court of this
Institution was held in the Court-house of this establish-
ment, Westminster Bridge-road. The chair having
been taken by one of the Governors, the secretary read
the usual quarterly report, from which it appears that
there are at present four vacancies in the school, and
that at the next election six children will be nominated,
the four successful candidates being admitted as inmates
of the institution on the receivirg day, appointed after
the election. This noble charity was founded in 1788 by
the Chevalier Bartholomew liaspini, and since that
period no less than 592 children have been admitted,
brought up, and educated in it. The school was origi-
nally built at an expense of 3,0001., to contain 62 chil-
dren of Freemasons who have become reduced in cir-
cumstances, but now, owing to the patronage and con-
tributions of the royal family, nobility, and gentry, the
governors are enabled to accommodate a larger number.
Many of the recipients of the bounty of this institution
have been apprenticed to various trades by the funds of
the charity. The usual quarterly business having been
gone through, and a vote of thanks passed to the chair-
man, the meeting terminated.
Tula IRON TRADE, BIRMINGHAM, T
—HURSDAT.
One of the most numerous and highly influential meet-
ings of the iron and coal masters of this district, which
has been held for a long time past, took place to-day at
the Town Hall, in this borough. The meeting was not
only numerous and respectable, but highly gratifying in
its results. The utmost firmness prevailed, and the ac-
counts given by all parties of the improved condition of
the trade were exceedingly gratifying. It was reported
that many excellent orders had arrived by the last two
packets from America, and these, coupled with the fact,
that our home stocks have become nearly exhausted, led
to a determination not to seek orders at present prices.
The engagements entered into during the past quarter
will occupy the furnaces two months, and the masters
are not disposed to accept of fresh orders unless at an
advance. It is now well known that the present rates,
61. 10s. for bar, and 3/. 19s. for pig iron, are not remu-
nerative, and nothing but necessity, caused by the recent
destructive competition of the Welch and Scotch markets,
could have led to such low prices. We have, however,
reached the lowest point, and the prospects for the new
year are cheering.
A letter from Parma, dated the 30th of December,
states that a law was issued there on the 28th, imposing
a forced loan of 752,000 f. in State Bonds, payable in
three instalments, viz., kith of January, 15th of February,
and 15th of March. This measure had occasioned uni-
versal discontent.

SINGULAR CASE.

At Worship-strcet Police-office, on Thursday, a well-
dressed young woman, named Jane West, in the
service of Messrs. Atkins and Co., milliners and
bonnet-manufacturers, in High-street, Shored tch,
and who is the daughter of a gentleman holding a
situation in one of the Government departments, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged,
under the following extraordinary circumstances,
with robbing children of money and other property
in the public streets :
Towards dusk on the evening of the 3d inst., as an
elderly gentleman, named Spencer, was proceeding
through the Kingsland-road, he was suddenly stopped
by a genteel little girl, between twelve and thirteen
years of age, named Isabella Lloyd, the daughter of
a builder, in Acton-street, close by, who anxiously
pointed out the prisoner, a short distance in advance
of them, and entreated him to give her into custody,
as she had robbed her of tea and a quantity of other
grocery articles about a fortnight before. He did
not like to assume such a responsibility at the
instance of a child, but followed the prisoner
until they met Sergeant Godfrey of the N divi-
sion, to whom he communicated the circum-
stances of the alleged robbery, and who instantly
crossed over to the prisoner and accused her of
it. The prisoner expressed the greatest astonishment,
denied she had ever seen the little girl before, and,
protesting her innocence, refused to move until her
employer, Mrs. Atkins, had been apprised of her
situation. The sergeant warned the child to be
cautious, but she persisted in her identification of
the prisoner, and as her father, upon calling upon
him, also preferred the charge, the accused was
taken to the station-house. Before reaching there,
however, a second little girl, Isabella Denvil, eleven
years old, and daughter of the actor of that name,
came up, and the instant she caught sight of the
prisoner exclaimed, " Oh, dear, policeman, that's the
woman who robbed me of my 4s. 10d. ;" and upon
inquiry it appeared from the statement of both the
children that they had been sent to the shop of a
teadealer named Dickinson, at Kingsland, for grocery,
and that while the one was going for the goods and
the other returning with them, they were met by the
prisoner, who in each instance carried a bonnet-
box, and who cajoled them out of their goods and
money upon the pretence of sending them to the
house of a Mrs. Smith for a 51. note and package of
baby linen, promising to wait at Mr. Dickinson's
until they returned. The result was, that after hunt-
ing about till they were tired for the houses, 174,
King-street, and 142, Mansfield-street, neither of
which streets had such a number of houses, the little
girls returned without discovering them, and found
that the prisoner had in the meantime absconded. On
reaching the station-house, Mrs. Atkins attended there,
and expressing her conviction of the prisoner's
innocence, and that she must have been mistaken,
from personal similarity, for some one else, offered to
have the prisoner's boxes searched, which was done,
but no money was found there, and no more finery or
clothing than such a person as the prisoner might
reasonably possess.
The children were severely questioned by Mr.
Vann, who appeared for the defence, but without
shaking their testimony in the least—they each swore
positively to the prisoner, and the mothers of the
children deposed to their daughters coming home
crying convulsively after being robbed, and giving a
description of the thief, which exactly tallied with
the prisoner's personal appearance.
This was the substance of two of the cases, but in
the mean time a third charge turned up, and in this
case it appeared that a child named Jane Dunt,
daughter of a coachman in :Cross-street, Finsbury,
while passing Messrs. Cater and Woods, at the end
of Chiswell-street, at twelve o'clock in the day, about
a month before, was robbed, under similar pretences,
of half-a crown and a farthing, by a woman, again
with a bonnet-box, who, finding that she could not
get the money from the child by any other means,
forced it out of her hand and ran off with it. Little
Dunt hurried home crying to her mother, and she
fetched her husband, who, 20 minutes after, stopped the
prisoner (a fourth time with a bonnet box), upon Fins-
bury-pavement, from the description the child had given
of the thief, and she being also positively identified
by the little girl, was taken in custody to Feather-
stone-street station. There she was searched ; but
though a farthing was certainly found upon her, no
half-crown was ' • and under these circumstances, and
as the prisoner declared her respectability and pro•
tested her innocence, the charge was foregone and she
was liberated. This fact the prisoner did not at all
conceal, but on reaching her employer's told Mrs.
Atkins the full particulars, and she and the prisoner's
father were so anxious to have her character cleared
from such an imputation, that they voluntarily took
her back to the station the next day, to see if any-
thing could be preferred against her.
In consequence of the other cases this charge was
renewed, and little Dunt again swore positively to the
prisoner as the woman who had robbed her, and her
mother also gave the clescflption her child had given
her of the woman, which likewise tallied with that of
the prisoner."
Mrs. Atkins, who evidently felt warmly in the
prisoner's behalf, stepped forward, and, expressing her
earnest conviction of the prisoner's innocence, stated
that she had received an excellent character with her
when she entered her service ; that she had been with
her a considerable period, during the whole of which
she had conducted herself with the greatest integrity
and propriety ; that she had left her repeatedly in sole
charge of her property without missing anything ;
and that she was not only in the habit of intrusting
her with considerable sums to receive and pay away,
but that the amount of these disbursements through
the prisoner's hands had considerably exceeded 1001.
n the course of one month alone.
Mr. Vann addressed the magistrate on behalf of the
accused, urging the probability of the children being
all mistaken, and stating that be had several persons
in attendance who could not only speak in the highest
terms of the prisoner's previous conduct, but some of
whom could absolutely prove an alibi for her on two
of the occasions spoken to. He hoped the magistrate,
in a case of some doubt, if it was his intention to send
it before a jury, would accept bail for his client's
future appearance, which would be put in to any
amount.

Mr. Hamadll, however, said that in a case of such
positive identification he did not feel justified in taking
hail, and as it was his intention to send the prisoner
for trial, he thought it would be most advisable for
the Learned Gentleman to reserve the conflicting
evidence he was in possession of for that occasion,
where it would be much more effective, if available.

The depositions were therefore taken, and the pri-
soner, who was tenderly embraced by her mistress
when she left the bar, was fully committed for trial
upon all three charges.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Two men, named Henry Albert and Henry Howard,
were brought before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of
having plundered the warehouse of Messrs. Wood and
Co.. warehousemen in Watling• street, of carpeting.
The case exhibited one of the numerous instances in
which the extensive houses in the city have been recently
plundered through the instrumentality of servants. The
prisoner Albert had been in the employment of the pro-
secutors, and it was stated that within but a very few
weeks robberies had been effected in the establishment
to the amount of upwards of 5001.
Mr. Hobler conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Wontner the defence.
The Lord Mayor was occupied for a considerable time
in hearing the very complicated evidence, and the pri-
soners were ordered to be brought up on Monday in
order to be committed for trial.

A man named Enever was afterwards brought up on
suspicion of having been concerned in a robbery upon
the same firm, and after a long examination was set at
liberty upon his own recognizance in 401. to appear to
answer the charge. It was quite evident, from the state-
ments made in the course of the investigation, that
several of the large establishments in the city have
been regularly beset by multitude of thieves and re-
ceivers.

The LORD MAYOR requested that the liberal dona-
tion of 201. to the poor-box might be acknowledged
in the press, together with his warm thanks to "T.
and S."

GUILDHALL.
Mr. Hooper, the chemist and druggist residing by Lon-
don-bridge, appeared before Sir G. Carroll under the
following circumstances:—
_ _

On Monday last Mr. M'Dougal, surgeon, made an ap-
plication to the sitting Alderman for his advice, and
stated, that having a patient from the country placed
under his care, he, in the course of his professional at-
tendance, considered it necessary to give a double dose
of medicine of a sedative character, the prescription
of which he wrote, directing that it should be taken at
bed-time. It was sent to Mr. Hooper's, and one of the
assistants, instead of using camphorated water and hen-
bane, made the mixture up of henbane, opium, and
spirits, and had it been taken his patient would have
been killed; but the most fortunate circumstance was,
that the assistant made a further mistake by writing on
the bottle the word " Mixture" instead of " The
draught to be taken at bed-time," in consequence of
which it was not taken. On calling twice he could not
see Mr. Hooper, and the assistant treated the affair with
great levity, saying that it was " only a mistake."
The Alderman granted a summons for ignorance or
wilful negligence in allowing the prescription to be
ina.de up.

Mr. . 40. T. ire attended, and said that Mr. Hooper, who a
was then presents
Iti)peared, not to defend the sum-
mons, but to clear
the case had been given to Mr.
tis own character. An explana-
tion of the facts of n
M‘Dougal, and he was
application had appeared
perfectly satisfied ; but,
as a report of the
in the newspapers, it was
aven. Mr. Hooper's
necessary that an ex-
planation should be as publiclytt
mode of conducting business was
athat if
.he.should
not happen to be at home to make upprescription, his
assistants were not to do so, but to segeisj
to
a neigh-
bouring chemist. In this instance, one of them had de-
parted from that rule, and it was with deep regret that
Mr. Hooper was obliged to say so. However, he n
taken precautions that, for the future, such a mistake
should not occur again. With respect to Mr. M`Dougal

having called twice, and been told that Mr. Hooper was
not within, that gentleman was perfectly ignor Ant of the
wnole affair until he received the summons, and he had
every reason to believe that on each occasion the as-
sistant had denied him for the purpose of screening him-
self. Under all the circumstances, he (Mr. Wire)
thought there was no occasion to trouble the alderman
with going into evidence which might eventually turn
out to be not within his power of deciding.
Sir G. CARROLL asked if the complainant was satis-
fied after hearing Mr. Wire's explanation?
Mr. M'Dougal said ho was. His only object in sum-
moning Mr. Hooper was to further the object which
the medical profession generally were exerting them-
selves for, and compel chemists and druggists to
undergo an examination, and also that their assistants
should pass through the same ordeal. It was true that
a Pharmaceutical Soeiety existed which had a great
number of members; but the fault was, that they had no
Act of Parliament, and therefore examinations were not
compulsory. On the last occasion he made a slight error
in stating that the bottle was a two-ounce one, whereas it
would only contain an ounce and a-half, and therefore
there could be but an ounce of paregoric.
Sir G. CARROLL—WouId that quantity have had the
same effect? Mr. M'Dougal—The effect would have
been the same, but I am now perfectly satisfied with the
explanation given.
The Chief Clerk intimated to the Alderman that the
assistant was already dismissed from Mr. Hooper's
service.
Sir G. CARROLL said that the public were much in-
debted to Mr. M'Dougal for calling the magistrate's
attention to so serious a subject, where the lives of so
many were at the mercy of such persons. Mr. Hooper,
he thought, had given a very satisfactory explanation
through his legal adviser, and therefore the summons was
dismissed.