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7 DECEMBER 15, 1849.

percussion cap, said " that was a bad one," and threw
it away. He then got another out of his pocket and
said, " that was a good one, that would do ;" and
going towards the witness, placed the cap on the
nipple of the gun, which he again presented and
snapped at him. One of the witnesses present said
that then he thought the gun was loaded, and it was
taken from him and a constable sent for. On the
arrival of the constable the gun was examined, and
found to be loaded with a charge of shot, which was
drawn, and on a fresh percussion-cap being placed on
the nipple, the charge of powder exploded.
Another witness stated that he overtook the prisoner
on the road, going to the house of the prosecutor's
grandfather, and carrying the gun ; and he then said
he intended to blow his son in-law's brains out, and
then blow his own out.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The Learned COUNSEL for the defence admitted the
common assault, but contended that the prisoner's
conduct and expressions about his son-in-law, and in
placing the percussion cap on the gun, showed more
of anger than of malice, and were merely expressions
of empty bravado, which he would not have used had
hharged.e meant to commit the crime with which he was
c
His LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly
recommended him tq mercy because of the exciting
circumstances in which he was placed.
His LORDSHIP said their recommendation would
be attended to, and he would consider until to-morrow
before passing sentence.
There were no other cases of any interest tried in
either court in the course of the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO US E.
George Trewer was brought before Alderman
CARDEN. He wore a dirty nightcap, and was in
every respect dressed for the character which he has
been playing for many years with extraordinary
success in and round the metropolis.
Mr. F. M. Beresford, of Half-moon-street, Picca-
dilly, said the prisoner, whom he knew to be a pro-
fessional beggar, met him in Bartholomew-lane, and
solicited charity in a most pressing manner. There
was no officer in the neighbourhood at the moment,
or no time would have been lost in introducing the
beggar to the Alderman and Mr. Goodman, the chief
clerk, to both of whom he was well known, and the
witness was satisfied with giving him peremptory
notice to leave the place. The prisoner disappeared
with theatrical promptitude down one of the turnings
until he thought his monitor had departed from the
vicinity of the Stock Exchange. He then emerged
from his place of refuge and resumed his old occupa-
tion with increased assiduity, and it struck Mr Beres-
ford that the hint which had been given him would not
be of any permanent effect upon so hardy a veteran
in the art. Accordingly the gentleman once more
presented himself, and was once more solicited with
great earnestness. An officer having then caught a
glimpse of the fellow, seized him, and kept him in
custody until he was placed opposite to the Alderman
at the bar where he had so often been accused.
Alderman CARDers---Did he carry anything ap•
parently for sale as a blind to his real character ?
Mr. Beresford--He carried a pencil or two. Although
he is so clever as to be, as I understand, the per-
maner t chairman of a begging club, he did not
recognise me, for he, I am sure, hates me if possible
more than I hate him.--(Laughter.) I have reason
to know that although he is here in the genuine
habiliments of beggary, he dresses in the evening in a
respectable suit of black.
Alderman CARDEN—To take the chair at his club,
no doubt. Well, he must sit by deputy for some
time at any rate.—(Laughter.)
City Policeman 470—1 have been trying to catch
him for a length of time, for I have known him to
be the most "out and out" beggar in the whole City,
but the moment he sees one of the police he exhibits
a few pencils.
Several of the officers said, the prisoner had been
convicted of mendicancy at least thirty times, and
that his skill seemed to increase with his captivity.
Mr. Beresford said, that an inexperienced person
would be unable to resist the temptation to give
something to so miserable an object as the prisoner
was capable of making himself appear. He had the
power of drawing a long face that was enough to
break any one's heart.--(Laughter.)
The prisoner said, the public were quite mistaken
about him. He did not know what was meant by
saying that he was chairman of a club, and that he
dressed in black. He supported himself ever since he
had lost his situation as clerk to a stockbroker, by
selling trifling matters to the gentlemen of the Stock
Exchange, and he was waiting to speak to Sir Moses
Montefiore, when the complainant gave him into
custody. Anything pro or con. he had never uttered,
but he believed he was born to be eternally incarce-
rated by some villany or other.
Alderman CARDEN—I shall remand you till Mon-
day, in order that the convictions at the instance of
the Mendicity Society may be brought against you,
and then I shall send you to fill the chair in Bride-
well for three months.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday Geerge Clamp, of 4, Flask-row,
Ebury square, Pimlico, was again placed at the bar,
charged with uttering a cheque for 4901. at Messrs.
Child and Co.'s, the bankers well knowing the same
to be a forgery.
A gentleman from the office of Messrs. Pickering
and Co. appeared to conduct the case on behalf of
Messrs Child.
It will be recollected that the prisoner presented a
cheque for the above amount on the 6th inst., pur-
porting to be drawn by a Mr. Temple, solicitor, of
Park-lane, but it was instantly detected to be a
forgery. At the last examination there was some
mystery about the case, for Mr. Temple identified a
cheque for 201. which he had given a few days before,
and repudiated the 4901, although, as the Alderman
said, they were both evidently the handwriting of the
same person, and, what made it Still more strange,
was that those two cheques were not like any of the
other cheques which Mr. Temple used to send to the
bank.
The solicitor for the prosecution said he wished to
cross-examine Mr. Temple respecting those two
cheques.
Mr. Temple, being sworn, said—l am a solicitor
in practice. The 4901. cheque is not in my hand-
writing ; but I believe the 201. one is, as I gave it on
the Ist of December. I have known Mr. Coyle, to
whom I gave it, eight or nine years, and have had
many transactions with him. I believe Coyle holds
a situation as clerk to Sir F. Booth. About a year
before that he was a sort of agent in getting bills
discounted, and he always passed by the name of
Coyle. I can't tell how many transactions I have had
with him, but they have been to the extent of
some thousands of pounds. I always paid him in
cheques made payable to him. These were bills I had
given him cash for; but he never discounted a bill for
me. The cheques produced I believe to be all in my '
handwriting, and were paid to Mr. Coyle. I gave
the 201. cheque to Coyle in exchange for a 501. note,
placing 301. which he owed me to his credit. The
50/. note I paid to Childs and Co., but I cannot tell
the number of it. I seldom write cheques at my own
house, but being written on paper I use confirms me
in the belief that the 201. cheque is mine. In the 201.
cheque which is doubted the word " Child " is
separated both from " Messrs." at the beginning and
" Co." at the end, a fact I do not see in any other
cheque. There is a great similarity in the 201. cheque
and the 4901. cheque.
Alderman Musemove.—l see one cheque here for
201. Gs. has a dot, while the 201. and 4901. cheques
have no dot. You have noticed that ? Mr. Temple
—I have. That is the case.
Alderman MUSGROVE.—WiII you tell me candidly
whether the 201. cheque and the cheque for 4901 are
more alike than the 201. 6s. and the 4901. cheques ?
Mr. Temple—Yes; the two first are most alike.
Alderman MUSGROVE.—Then you perceive that
the 201. cheque and the 20/. 6s. cheque are not alike ?
Mr. Temple—I write different hands at different
times, and my opinion is, that the 4901. cheque is a
copy of the 201. cheque. There are many things
that convince me that the 4901. cheque is not in my
handwriting, for the word " hundred" is not mine,
and I never in my life made such a figure " 4." The
letter " T "is also formed different from What I
write, I don't know Whether Coyle it a director' Cf
the Metropolitan Gas Company,
Alderman MUSUROVE—Do you know any
person named Haywood. Mr. Temple-1 do not.
I was in my dining room when I gave the
cheque. It was then about 12 o'clock. I
agreed to give Coyle 201. back, although he owed
me more, because I thought it better to take
the 30/. he offered me than run any risk of not get-
ting that much. I first became acquainted with Coyle
through having a bill of his. I know his handwriting
and think there is no similarity between it and the
cheque for 4901.
Alderman MUSGROVE—Did you ever authorise
Coyle to write a cheque in your name ? Mr. Tem-
ple—l did not ; nor any other person.
Alderman Mustauov4—Have you any of Mr.
Coyle's writing with you ? Mr. Temple—l have
not.

Mr. Thomas Colbrook Coyle, collector to Messrs.
Grimble, Clarke and Co., distillate, then entered the
witness box; and before being sworn,

Alderman MUSGROVE asked the prisoner, as he had
given a description of the party who gave him the
cheque, whether Mr. Coyle was that individual ?
The prisoner replied that he was not.
Mr. Coyle then said—l am collector to Messrs.
Grimble, Clarke, and Co., the distillers, and have
been there about two years. lam nothing else. I
receive nothing but my salary from Messrs. Grimble
and Co. I was formerly a bill broker, and know
Mr. Temple. On the Ist of December I paid him
301. with a 50/. note,and he gave me the cheque for 201.
I presented it the same day about three o'clock in the
afternoon, and got the money in gold. I received it
from Mr. Temple, and saw him write it; and it was
never out of my possession from the time .1 received it
until I presented it at the bank.
Alderman MUSGROVE—Did you show it to any-
body ? Mr. Coyle—l did not let any one see it.
Alderman MUSGROVE—Do you know the number
of the 501. note you gave to Mr. Temple ? Mr.
Coyle—l do not. I took it from a Mr. Rushton, en
hotelkeeper, the evening before.
Alderman MUSGROVE—Did you ever see the pri-
soner before ? Mr. Coyle—Not that lam aware of.
Mr. Pemberton, of 37, Ebury-place, Pimlico, here
stepped forward, and said the prisoner was formerly
in his service, but in consequence of a quarrel between
him and another servant he discharged them both;
but he must say, in justice to the prisoner, that he
Was a strictly honest man, and when he entered his
service brought a fifteen years' character from a
family in Oxfordshire. He had a very high opinion
of the prisoner, and had trusted him with cheques for
large amounts on Messrs. Hoare, the bankers.
Alderman MUSGROVE—This certainly is a most
important case, and the question with me is had the
prisoner a guilty knowledge of the forgery, for there
is no doubt about the presenting.
Mr. Pemberton—My saddler has informed me that
on the same day the prisoner called and asked him if
he knew of a situation, at the same time mentioning
that he was going on an errand for a gentleman.
Mr. Mortimer said that perhaps it would be as well
to discharge the prisoner, if he would promise to give
every aid in his power to discover the real delinquents.
Alderman MUSGROVE said there was a great deal of
mystery about the transaction from the commence-
ment. He should like to know what amount of assets
there was at the bank to meet the 4901. cheque.
Mr. Mortimer replied that there was only about
half the amount.
Both Mr. Mortimer and Daniel Forrester, the
officer, said, from inquiries made, the prisoner bore
an excellent character in all directions.
Alderman MUSGROVE said, he was much pleased to
hear that he had such an excellent character, and as
there was no evidence to show that he was aware that
it was a forgery, he should discharge him, hoping he
would give every assistance to discover the really
guilty parties.
The prisoner promised to do so, and thus ended this
mysterious case of tbrgery.
BOW-STREET.
Alexander Waddilow, an elderly man, was charged
with forgery and obtaining money under false pre•
tences.

James Nixon, of 10, Albany-street, Regent's-park,
stated that he was a partner in the University Loan
Society, established at 3, Gower.street North. In
the early part of the present year the prisoner called
upon him, and representing himself as a former bor-
rower of the society, stated that he was in want of a
further loan of 51. , The usual printed form was
given to him to fill up, and he paid 2d. for it. He then
wrote upon it the name of his alleged surety, namely
Mr. John Bolton, of 8, Church-row, Camden-town, a
clerk in the house of Messrs. Palmer and Drysalter
in the City. The inquiries made respecting Mr.
Bolton's respectability being satisfactory to the Loan
Society, the 51. was advanced. to the prisoner, who
brought a man to the office to sign the promissory
note, calling him Mr. Bolton, and inducing the so-
ciety to believe that the man and the signature were
both genuine. When the time arrived for the re-
payment or the loan, or a portion of it, it WAS found
necessary to summon Mr. Bolton to the Clerkenwell
Police. court, when it was discovered that a fraud had
been practiced upon the society, and that the sig-
nature purporting to be that of Mr. Bolton was a
forgery.
Mr. J. Bolton stated that he resided at I'lington,
having lately removed from Church-row. He knew
nothing of the transaction in question, and never au-
thorised the use of his name as security for the
prisoner.
The prisoner, who stated that he could explain
everything satisfactorily, was remanded for further
examination.

WORSHIP-STREET

Yesterday Thomas Bagley, a tall, respectably-
dressed man, about thirty years of ag., describing
himself upon the police-sheet as a merchant of St.
Thomas Apost!.e, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Arnold, charged with feloniously and maliciously
cutting and wounding a young woman named
Sarah Cox, with intent to do her some grievous
bodily harm.
The prosecutrix, who appeared to have been cruelly
maltreated, and, notwithstanding a week had elapsed
since the commission of the outrage, still laboured
under such debility that considerable difficulty was
experienced in preventing her fainting whilst her
depositions were being taken by the chief clerk, said
am a milliner and dressmaker, residing at 31,
Buttisland-street, lioxton, and was returning home
at two o'clock on the morning of the 7th inst. from
Clapham, where I had been to visit a friend, when,
whilst passing the end of the East-road, City-road,
I was followed by the prisoner, who engaged me
in conversation. and insisted upon seeing me
home. I consented to his so doing, and on
reaching my house he expressed a wish to s'op
there all night, and offered me money to permit
him, but I objected and insisted upon his leaving,
when he positively refused to do so, and after staying
nearly an hour in my apartments I told him deci-
sively if he would not go I must procure the assistance
of other persons to compel him. I left the room for
a few minutes, and on returning he placed his back
against the door to prevent my getting out, but a
scuffle ensued between us and lat length succeeded
in getting the door open. He must then have taken
the poker from the fireplace of the first floor room,
and carried it down stairs with him, as on my
following him into the passage to let him out he
raised the latch, and advancing towards me as I
was standing at the foot of the stairs with a candle
in my hand, commenced a violent attack up m me with
it, striking me several blows in rapid succession
upon my head, shoulders, and arms. With one of
the blows upon my head the poker was broken from
the force of it clear in two, about the middle, and, in
addition to a severe wound upon the right side of
my head, my shoulder was very much bruised, and
my arm also, the last injuries being sustained whilst
holding my arm to ward off the blows of the poker
from my head. I was very much terrified and hurt,
but by some means I contrived to stagger to.the
street door and got it open, and the instant I had
done so I fell, from loss of blood. The prisoner then,
whilst I was lying in the passage, struck me again
with one of the broken parts of the poker, and I called
" Police" and " Murder" as loudly as I could, when
I just saw a constable turn the corner of the street;
but that is all I can remember, and I then became
perfectly insensible. Upon sufficiently recovering
from the effects of the ill-usage I had sustained to en-
able me to do so, I went with the officer to prefer the
charge against the prisoner, and upon reaching the
police station a surgeon was sent for, who dressed my
wounds, and 1 have been under his care ever since.
The prosecutrix was subjected to a close cross-
examination by Mr. Wontner, who attended for the
defence, with a view to establish the fact that the
witness was intoxicated, had attempted to deprive the
prisoner of a valuable watch, and that the ill-treatment
to which she had been subjected had resulted from a
reasonable apprehension the prisoner entertained of
violence being offered to himself by some man whose
name the young woman had mentioned. The prose-
cutrix, however, declared that this was entirely false,
as no man whatever resided in the house, and that the
person for whose assistance she had called was only
the woman servant, and so far from her being intoxi-
cated, she was never so in her life, but was perfectly
sober, as was also the prisoner himself. It the pri-
soner had a watch about him at the time, she was
unconscious of it, as he had not displayed it
to her, not had she seen any indications of one being
in his poss6Atif!.
M'CArthy, a constable of the N division, stated,
that upon hearing loud cries of " Murder in Buttiss
land-street, he hastened to the house 31, from which
they proceeded, and upon getting up to the door saw
the prisoner run "out of the house and hurry away.
He pursued and overtook him, and on asking him
what he had been doing he replied that he had only
been having a bit of a row with a prostitute. He,
however, insisted upon the prisoner going hack with
him, and on entering the house he found the young
woman lying on her side in the passage in a large pool
of blood, grasping one-half of a broken poker, which
she appeared to have instinctively caught hold of, and
bleeding profusely from a serious wound in the head,
in addition to which there were numerous contusions

upon her arms, seemingly inflicted by the same
weapon, and those injuries, upon recovering con-

seiou- sness, she stated had been caused by the prisoner,
who had broken the poker by one of his blows upon
her head. The prisoner heard this observation: And

RETIRING ALLOWANCES.
A resolution of the general committee was con-
firmed, to the effect that persons receiving retiring
allowances shall be bound to hold at the service of
the commission the information acquired by them
during their tenure of office, their pensions being re-
garded as general retainers in the service of the corn-
mission. The allowance recommended by the com-
mittee to be made to Mr. J. Beck, and Mr. J. W.
Unwin, late surveyor, and clerk to the Tower Ham-
lets' Commission, was sanctioned.
TRIAL WORKS COMMITTER.
The CHAIRMAN said that the report of the late
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Trial 'Works Committee had not yet been received in
its final shape, nor circulated amongst the commis-
sioners. Such being the state of the case, it was with
considerable surprise that he had observed in a late
number of the Mechanics' Magazine a letter which
was headed " Experiments on the Discharge of Water
from Pipes made under the sanction of the Metropo-
litan Commissioners of Sewers," and which ended
with " I am, sir, yours, kc., J. L. Hale." Mr. Hale,
as the commissioners were aware, was an officer
appointed by the Court to assist in carrying on the
investigations which bad been instituted by the
commission, and it appeared to him to be a gross
breach of confidence on the part of their officers to
take upon himself to lay before the public the substance
of a report which was not his property, and which
had not been submitted to the commissioner..--(Hear,
hear.) If Mr. Hale had been present, he (the
chairman) would have said more on the subject,
but he thought that the conduct of tint officer
required their very serious notice.—(Hear.) It was
obvious that the publication of such incomplete in-
formation must be ,embarrassing to the Court, and
that it tended no less to the embarrassment of the
public than of the Court, as statements were thereby
given out on authority, which had not yet been
tested, and which had not received the sanction of
the commissioners.—(Hear, hear.) That breach of
confidence, on the part of their officers, led him (the
chairman) to say something with regard to other
disclosures. He alluded to a paper drawn up by Sir
John Burgoyne, which appeared in a morning journal
of the 12th inst., and was entitled " Subjects that
tray be worthy of attention in considering plans or
systems for the general Sewerage of the Metropolis."
This was a paper of an essentially confidential nature,
which had been drawn up for the sole consideration
of the members of the commission, none of whom,
not even Sir J. Burgoyne himself, had determined
on the correctness of the views contained in it. The
only object of the paper had been to raise certain
subjects for discussion, and Sir J. Burgoyne had not
intended to do more than to take them into his own
consideration and discuss them with his colleagues.—
(Hear, hear.) It was evident that if disclosures of
this kind continued to take place the business of the
commission must be very much impeded. On subjects
of so doubtful a nature as those on which they were
engaged, gentlemen should not be considered as
having pledged themselves to particular views, but
as open to receive every argument that might be laid
before them ; but really if every note written by a
commissioner to his colleagues were to be given to
the world, they would be supposed to be compromised
to certain opinions, and it would be impossible for
the very important object of the commission to be
attained.—(Hear, hear.) In making these observa-
tions he wished it to be understood that he did not
allude to the gentlemen of the press, who had without
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doubt obtained these documents by honourable means,
but he thought they had also great reason to complain
of some person or other for a breach of good faith;
and for the sake of the ratepayers and the public, as
much as tor their own, he trusted that the commis-
sioners would not have to complain of a similar occur-
rence in future. —(Hear, hear.)
Sir JOHN BURGOYNE fully concurred in what had
fallen from the Noble Chairman. With regard to the
paper drawn up by him, no great harm had been done
by the publication of it; but still it was incorrect in
principle to publish that document in an unauthorised
manner, and might have subjected him to animadver-
sion and remark. The paper merely contained his
first impressions on the subject, which might have
been afterwards abandoned; but it had been treated
as if it were the expression of his mature and fully
formed opinions. He had no reason to complain of
the editor of the paper in which it had been inserted,
nor of the manner in which he had treated it, though
he (Sir John Burgoyne) had not seen anything to
induce him to alter the opinions he entertained before.
The Noble Lord had stated the matter as regarded
Mr. Hale with perfect justice; the papers which had
been published by that gentleman did not belong to
him, but were the property of the commissioners. It
was not an unfrequent case for officers of public
bodies to ask permission to use in their own name
papers which belonged to their employers, but to
make use of them in the first instance without the
permission of those whose property they were, as in
the present case., was a strange and most irregular
proceeding (1/ear, hear.)
The Court then adjourned to this da

(Saturday).
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a fright-
character occurred n Wednesday to three men, named
John Ready, aged twenty-six, Abraham Scholes, aged
thirty-four, and James, aged twenty-nine, labourers, in
the service of Mr. Myers, an extensive builder, who
had got the contract to erect a new church in Lark-hall•
lane, ChpLam. It appears that the three men were
engaged on a scaffold nearly fifty feet high, when some
portion of the woodwork gave way, precipitating the
whole of them to the ground with fearlul violence. As-
sistance was speedily rendered, and two were found to
be most shockingly injured, their bodies being much
lacerated ; they had also sustained fractured ribs, and
one a scald would, and other external violence. A cab
was procured, and two were conveyed to the nearest
surgeon, and afterwards to Guy's Hospital. The other
man was subsequently placed on a stretcher, and taken
to the same institution, where they had every attention
from the house surgeon, and the three are going on as
favourably as can be expected.
SALE OF I IV IFE.—One of these no less rare than
disgusting exhibitions took place in the tnarket-place of
Goole on Wednesday, the Sth instant. A person named
Ashton, a wavrman, residing at Thorne, has for some
time past been suffering severely from an affection in the
knee joint, and has recently been an in-patient of the
Hull General Infirmary. During his stay in the infir-
mary it would appear that his wife, who is a buxom
young -woman, formed an acquaintance with a paramour,
and eloped with him, taking with her a great part of the
husband's effects. On Ashton's arrival at home he dis-
covered the frailty of his fair:one, and very soon after-
wards he ascertained their hiding place, when matters
were tasked ever, and a sale agreed upon. Accordingly,
on the day in question Ashton led his wife into the
market-place with a halter round her waist, and there
made, her mount a chair for public exhibition, and the

" lot" was put up by an itinerant auctioneer, the first
bid being 3d.; an old maul who was present afterwards
bid Is. for the lot, at which price she stood for some
time ; a little spirited competition then took place, and
the woman was eventually knocked down to her par-
amour for ss. 9d., when, snapping her fingers in her hus-
band's face, she exclaimed, " There, good-for-nought,
that's more than you would fetch," and departed, appa-
rently in high glee with her new lord and master, the
husband as they were passing him, holding out hie
hand to her, and saying,
Give us a wag of your hand,
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old lase, afore we part."—Doncaster Chronicle.
SEIZURE OF SPIRITS BY THE COAST GUARD AT
DovEn.—At about a quarter•past seven A al. on Wed-
ne'd3Y, the 12. h Deceiniter, an attempt to land 35
casks of spirits was made near Shakpere's
but the crew of the smuggling-bout observing
the vigilant watch kept by the coast-guard,
under the command of Lieutenant Pearson, U.N., of
the Townsend station, the tubs were thrown over-
board and floated ; it no doubt being intended to
take them up in the course of the day under the
cover of fishing. The guard, however, observed the
casks, and succeeded in seizing them and depo-
siting them in safety in the Dover Custom-house. The
smugglers here are aware of the vigilant watch kept
by Lieutenant Pearson and his crew, and aro very
careful how they make an attempt upon his station. The
twelve years' experience which this able officer has had
upon this part of the coast gives them but little chance
o' effecting a run.
It is almost an incredible fact, that as many as
38,000 illegitimate children are born annually in this
country, being one-seventh per cent. of all the births
which take place during that limo throughout England
told Wales.