The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-06 00:00:00

BOW-STREET,

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Edward Cockerel:. a young man well known to the police
as a flashy character, and who, under the name of Smith, _nar-
rowly escaped conviction at the Old Bailey Sessions for an of-
fence similar to the one of which he now stands accused, was
yesterday placed at the bar, for attempting to pass a forged Si.
note, purporting to be one of the Bath and Bristol Bank, a firm
not in existence, and payable at the house of Bernard, Savary,
and More, London, bankers, not to be found in the pireczory.
It appeared in evidence, that on Saturday night last the prisoner
went into the shop of Sir. Haskins, a jeweller, in St. Martin's-
'wart, and selected a couple of gold seals, a brooch, & watch• key,
auyounting in the whole to 31. 45., in payment for which he ten-
thred the note in question. -The shop-boy not having sufficient
change, left his customer, and took the note across the way to
Mr. arrison, the snuff-manufacturer, who he requested to
accommodate him with it. Now it so happened that he
could not have applied to a more unlucky person for Mr.
Co:le 'tell's purpose, inasmuch as he (Mr. li.) had himself been
taken in a short time since by a note of an almog Similar des-
cription.. He therefore accompanied the lad bac4c to the shop,
where he found Mr. Cockerell waiting for his change, and
close:y watched, though unknown to him, by the street-keeper,
who had recognised him as an " old acquaintance." Mr. H.
went behind the counter, and assuming for the once the
character of master of the house, put several embarrassing
ques _ions to his ieould-be customer as to his having obtained
possession of the note; the replies to which were so unsatisfac-
tory, that the street-keeper was invited to walk in and to take
Mr. Coekerell into custody. Several other persons were in at-
tendance
with charges of a similar nature against the prisoner;
among the rest a tailor, of the name of Hopkins, residing •
at C telsea, from whom he had ordered a coat, paying a
pound deposit, and getting four sovereigns in change, which
having obtained, it is unnecessary to say- he thought his
old coat would do well enough a-little longer, and of course
never went to look after his new one. It :having been stated
to Sir R. BIIINIE that a respectable engraver in Great Queen-
street had been applied to to engrave a note-plate, from which
he had struck off' 500 impressions, and which circumstances
that had subsequently arisen induced, him to think had been
ordered for fraudulent purposes, an officer was sent off to re-
quest his attendance, in order to • arcertain whether the flash
notes in question was the same. Many other charges are ex-
pected to be gone into against-Cockerel, who was remanded till
Thursday. • _
QUEEN-SQUARE.
BILITTALITY TO A DONKEY.—Yesterday John 'Man, a
costermonger, residing in Old Pye-street, Ntrestminster, was
brought up by Cooper on a warrant, charged with gross cruelty
to ft donkey: _ _

Serjeant John Carter, -belonging to the 3d company of the Ist
Guards, stated that on :Thursday morning last, as he was pro-
ceeding along Old Pye.street, he saw the prisoner take up a
birch broom, and ,strike the animal several times with it ; he
then ran desperately at the aqs. kicked it most inhumanly in the
belly, struck it about the head with his fists, and afterwards
very deliberately took from his pocket a clasp knife, saying,
" Now I'll cut you fur the simples," and cut part of the poor
donkey's ear off, which he threw into the middle of the street.
The prisoner said, that he merely cut a bit of the ass's ear off
because he was troubled with the megrims, which is a very good
thing when an animal is so afflicted.
The Serjeant replied that it was done after he had beat and
kicked it most cagily.
Daniel Macfarlane, a sergeant- in the second company of the
same regiment, fully corroborated the statement of the former
witness, and said that the barbarity was deliberately inflicted
on the animal, tie at the same time using most horrid expres-
sions, " now you'll stand still, won't you ?"
The prisoner, in his defence, called a brother costermonger,
named Reeves, to prove the state of the animal. lie knew the
donkey was subject to the megrims; he saw the prisoner kick
him,•but not to injure the ass, and noticed him to cut a bit from
the donkey's ear.
Prisoner to the Magistrates—Do you wish to see the donkey?
Mr. GREGORIE—No, I hear enough.
Mt. WHITE—Has he got the megrims now?
Prisoner—Oh no, Sir.
lie was then convicted in the penalty of 40s. with 7s. costs.
Mr. GREGORIE told the Sergeants it did them great credit
in bringing the case forward, and he never knew one to be
more clearly out.—They were allowed their expences from the
office.

TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.
Daniel Frederick Matthews, auctioneer, appeared to answer
to the charge of having made an illegal seizure, and forcible

SHOCKING A CCIDENT.— Last night, about ten
o'clock, a shocking accident occurred on the
Kensington road, near the Alagpie.—JAmcs
IVPlNlunnocll, Esq., of Portland-place, was re-
turning home on horseback, when by some acci-
dent the animal took fright and galloped off with
alarming speed ; Mr.lll‘Murdoch, who is a clever
horseman, kept his sear for some time, but at
length the girth of the saddle broke, and The rider
was thrown to the ground with his head down-
wards, and, shocking to relate, besides other
serious injuries, his collar-bone was broken by
the fall.