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London, England, 1849-10-11 00:00:00

THITitgDAY Efir.ENING, OCTOBER 11, 1849

abroad which forms not merely the chief but almost the
only food of the fine peasantry on either side cor. the
Pyrenees is producible even in England, at a halfpenny
the pound.
THE LATE MR. GEORGE EDWARD ANsoN.—By
the demise of this lamented gentleman, in the prime of
life, the following lucrative appointments become vacant
about the Court :—Keeper of her Majesty privy purse
(salary 2,0001. per annum) ; treasurer of the house-
hold, and secretary to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert ; treasurer and cofferer to his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, and cumber of the Prince's
Council for thu Duchy of Cornwall. Mr. Anson was
private secrete ry to the late Viscount Melbourne, during
part of the ttJaure of office as Premier of that noble-
man. He wr_;.s of a delicate constitution, and some time
since he was attacked by dangerous illness at Osborne,
which caused medical aid to be immediately summoned
from town.

THE CIEISLESE Jurac.—This extraordinary speci-
men of Oriental ingenuity is, we hear, to be presented to
the citizens of London in a more accessible locality than
it at present occupies. Nothing, perhaps, can speck
more for the interest with which it has been regarded
than the fact that it has been visited by nearly a quarter
of a million of individuals at 131ackwall. Application
has been made to the navigation committee for permis-
sion to moor the junk at Temple-bar Pier, which
situate, we may say, almost in the centre of the metro-
polis ; and it this be granted it will be a great conveni-
ence to the many thousands of our sight-seeing popula-
tion who have a shilling to spend. and will create a little
life in a neighbourhood sufficiently dull iu these times.
It remains, however, to be seen whether the committee
and the water-bailiff a ill encourage the enterprise,
which has, at a vast expense brought over the first ves-
sel of the kind that has ever reached this country from
China. _ _ _

DUTCII CATTLE.—The steam ship Lion, arrived
from Harlingen, has brought 1,500 sheep, being, we
believe, one of the largest, if not actually the very
largest importation of live stock on any single occasion,
besides 143 head of horned cattle, 5 calves, 15 pigs,
2,175 casks of butter, and a quantity of cheese and grain.
The ship Attwood, arrived on the same day from Rot-
terdam, brought 116 head of horned cattle, and 474
sheep, and the ship Magnet, from the same port, 90 head
of horned cattle, and 353 sheep, the whole the produce
of Holland.

BELFAST LOUOII, OCT. B.—Arrd. Lady Culebrooke,
Hamilton, Bombay for the Clyde.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BAIV'KRUPICY, Oct. 10.
(B,fOre Mr. Commissioner EVANS )
HENRY PATERSON'S EANKRUPTCT.

The bankrupt was a horse dealer and the proprietor
of the Hippodrome, Notting-hill, Bayswater. His
debts are said to be about 5,000/., including 1,0781. due
to Messrs. Tat'ersall, 5001. to the Mercers' Company
(for which the company has the security of two other
names), and about 1,0001., as put into the bankrupt's
business by Mr. James, nephew of Mr. James, of the
firm of Howell and James.

This was a meeting for the proof of debts and the
choice of R-trade assignee.
Mr. Pain (of the firm of Pain and Heatherley) ap-
peared on behalf of the creditors, and Mr. Wettou for
Messrs. Tattersall. Mr. Fry also appeared on behalf
of Mr. Delarue, wholesale stationer, and father-in-law
of Mr. James, to watch the proceedings.
Messrs. Tattersall tendered a proof for 1,078/. on a
bill of exchange for 1,0001., with expenses thereon.
An objection having been taken to the proof, Mr.
Richard Tattersall, jun., said the bill was the accept-
ance of the bankrupt, as drawn upon him by his
father, Mr. Paterson, sen., and had been received by
their firm from the latter, in liquidation of a debt.

The CommisstoNsu—i.Was the bill received by
yourself from Mr. Paterson, senior ? Mr. Tattersall
—No, your Honour.
The COMMISSIONER—Ts the member of your firm
present who did receive it? Mr. Tattersall—No.
The COMMISqONER—Then call the bankrupt.
_ _

The bankrupt was called, and his evidence went to
show that his father called upon him, and told him
that if he would give him his acceptance, Messrs.
Tattersall would cash it for him. He thought it very
kind of Messrs. Tattersall, and gave the acceptance.
About an hour afterwards he received a messsage
from Messrs. Tattersall. Upon waiting on them, he
was informed that his father being largely in their
debt, they could not discount the bill, but would re-
tain it as security for the father's debt. To this pro-
posal he consented.
Mr. WETTON informed the Court that his client
had subsequently obtained judgment against the back.
rupt for Ihe amount now sought to be proved.
The COMMISMONEIt—In what manner was the
judgment obtained ? Mr. Wetton—By default.
The COMMISSIONER—Thin that goes for nothing.
Mr. Jones, a creditor upon a bill of exchange for
7'21., submitted that his honour would not admit the
proof upon such evidence.
Mr. Wetton submitted that the bill having been re•
ceived for a bond fide debt, due to his clients by the
bankrupt's father, and judgment having been obtained
thereupon, the proof must be admitted.
The COMMISSIONER—I. will allow it to be entered
as a claim, and to be the subject of further consider-
ation on a future day. But I will not receive it as a
proof.
Mr. WETTON trusted his Honour would so far al-
low it to be received as to admit his clients to vote in
the choice of assignees.

The COMMISSIONER—I will not.
A somewhat warm discussion then ensued between
the contending parties, in which Mr. Fry, Mr.
\Vetton, and others took part. As far as could be
ascertained, Mr. Fry alleged that the bankrupt had
never mentioned a word to Mr. James that there was
such a claim upon him as this 1,0781., or he Mr.
James, would never have put 1,0001. into the business.
lie further complained that Messrs. Tattersall had
not acted fairly in allowing the bill to remain unpaid
several years, and not proceeding to obtain judgment
until after Mr. James had parted with his money.
The elder Paterson had been many years in Messrs.
Tattersall's employ, and they ought not to have
adopted the course they had.
Mr. WErros, in reply, said, that the debt owing
to Messrs. Tattersall by Paterson, sen., was a bond
fide one, and that they had not taken any earlier pro-
ceedings against the bankrupt from a feeling of re-
luctance to raise obstacles against a young man suc-
ceeding in his business. His clients had not now
made bim a bankrupt, and only sought to prove for
the debt.

Mr. FRY said the fiat was obtained on the bank-
rupt's own petition, and left the court by no means
sati3fied with the explanations that had been given.
Mr. Joseph Smith, farrier, of Notting-hill, was
.hosen as the trade assignee.

to him, with a written request that he would either
say that he was or. was not guilty, and after reading
it over attentively, he said boldly " guilty."
The evidence upon which the indictment was
founded was as follows :—On Saturday, the 30th of
September, the prisoner presented himself at the
Cale de Paris, in the Haymarket, and told the head
waiter, who appeared on this occasion as prosecutor,
that he wanted a dinner and a bed. The waiter,
observing that though somewhat respectably dressed,
he had no luggage, told him that they were nut in the
habit of providing lodgings for gentlemen who brought
no luggage; upon which the prisoner said it was all
right, his portmanteau would arrive next morning,
and he wrote a letter to Mrs. Ridley, Barnes-terrace,
Surrey, requesting her to forward it; but it was
afterwards ascertained that there was no such person
as the address indicated. That day the amount in-
curred by the prisoner was 165.; and his dinner, with
wine, the next day came to 63., the sum mentioned in
the indictment. When the witness presented his bill,
the prisoner said all his friends were out of town, and
as he was short of money he would give him a cheque
for Si.. upon his bankers, and he wr,to as follows,
upon half a sheet of note-paper :
" Pay to Mr. John Esden, or bearer, the sum of
five pounds.
51,

" F. IV. lIIoLLor.
" Messrs. Spooner and Attwood, Gracechurch-
street.'

This was promptly forwarded to the bank, and it
wt►s brought back by the mesi.enger, !narked " No
account." The prisoner was then given into custody.
He was searched by Sergeant Grey, 10 U, but no
money whatever was found upon him.
In answer to the COURT,

The waiter said that he should certainly have given
the prisoner into custody had he not given the cheque,
or paid the bill when it was presented to him. He
should personally be the looser of the amount.
The Learned JUDGLi sentenced the prisoner to
three months' hard labour.

Though this was the only charge upon which the
prisoner was indicted, and the above all that transpired
in court, there were several persons in attendance pre-
pared to prove other cases of precisely the same kind,
and from letters and information in the hands of
Sergeant Grey, the officer who had charge of the case,
it appears that the prisoner has for some time been
systematically victimizing hotel and tavern keepers
both in London and in the country with a degree of
cunning and audacity worthy of the great Dando
himself, whom he equalled, if not excelled, as a
swindling tactician. July last he patronized the
Warwick Hotel, near -the 'Great Western Railway
terminus at Paddington, with his presence,
but when the bill had reached a guinea,
Mr. Pearson, the landlord, discovered what his cus-
tomer was, and very prudently ejected him from the
house. At Walken s Hotel, in Dean-street, Soho, he
lived in sumptuous style for two n:onths ; and when
the bill was presented to him, he talked in grandilo-
quent terms of his high connexions, and gave a
cheque, like the above, upon Messrs. Spooner and
Co., for the amount. Sergeant Grey produced a
letter which had been received by the proprietor of the
Café de Paris, from the landlord of the Pied Bull at
Streatham' stating that at the latter place the pri-
son, as " Mr. Mitford, 6, Park street, Park-lane,"
had run up a bill which he went away without
paying. Mr. Pawsey, landlord of the Hare and
Hounds, Hampstead, was in attendance at the court,
to show that the prisoner had run up a bill at his
house to the amount of 61., in respect of which he
gave another valueless cheque upon Messrs. Spooner
and Attwood. He practised the same game upon a
tavern-keeper at Shepherd's Bush; and other in-
stances, showing how extensively the prisoner had
pursued this system, could be given. His name also
figured conspicuously in the circular of the Trade
Protection Society.
Mary Merrick, 26 ; Bridget 111‘1Cenzie, 22 ; Cathe-
rine Pratt, 34 ; and Mary Ann Sullivan, 17 ; were in-
dicted for robbing David Durward, a master mariner,
of a gold watch, gold chain, four gold seals, a 51. note,
two sovereigns, and other articles.
Mr. Parry appeared for the prisoner Merrick, and
Mr: Payne defended M'Kenzle. Sullivan pleaded
guilty.
The prosecutor stated that he accompanied the
prisoner Sullivan to a disreputable house in the
vicinity of Rateliff-bighway, kept by the prisoner
Pratt. He was induced to partake of some gin and
beer, and directly afterwards he tell asleep, and when
he regained his consciousness, he found that he had
been robbed of all his money, his watch, with gold
chain and seals attacked, and a portion of his clothing.
The only evidence against the three prisoners, who
pleaded not guilty, was the positive statement of the
prosecutor that they were present in the roam when
he drank the potation, and that when Sullivan said
she took the money at the instigation of Merrick, the
latter said, " Well, you were a fool to be persuaded
to rob the man by me." _ _

The Learned JUDGE withdrew the case from the
jury as regarded Pratt and Nl'Kenaie, but left it for
their decision as regarded Merrick.
The jury returned a verdict of Acquittal.
Sullivan was sentenced to six months' hard labour.

The Learned JUDGE told Pratt that she had ex-
perienced a very narrow escape, for had she been
convicted the sentence upon her would certainly have
been ten years' transportation, for though there was
a want of legal evidence against her, the court was
satisfied that the prosecutor had teen " hocussed" in
her house, and robbed with her knowledge, and she
might tell her associates, and the keepers of houses
like her own, that every person who suffered this
practice of drugging in their house would, if con-
victed in that court, be sent out of the country.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

John Desmond, of 48, Long- alley, was brought for
final examination before Mr. Alderman Carden,
charged with stabbing a City constable.
From the evidence taken on the former occasion
it appeared that while William Smith, 244, was
passing Sharp's-alley, in West•street, the prisoner
came and flourished a most formidable stick with a
knob in the shape of a life-preserver over him, and at
last made a blow at his head, which the officer
avoided. Smith offered to take no notice of the
affair if he would go away quietly, which he refused
to do, and struck the constable, who took him into
custody, when a desperate struggle ensued, during
which the officer was pelted with stones by a crowd
of 150 to 200 persons, who had assembled. The
prisoner was so violent that eventually it required
five officers to convey him to the station, when it was
discovered that Smith had been stabbed under the
left ear nearly touching the carotid artery, also in
the breast, between the first and second ribs on the
left side, and also on the left knee. Although the
officer did not see a knife with the prisoner, one
witness swore that he saw him flourishing it during
the struggle, and that he caught his arm and jerked
it out of his hand. Another witness also deposed
to seeing the prisoner with a clasp knife, and a third
proved picking the knife up, which fell at his feet
when jerked out of his hand. They all identified
the knife, and further stated that the large blade was
open.
Mr. Charles Borlaise Childs, surgeon to the police
force, deposed to the nature of the wound•, which
had they been a little deeper would have proved fatal.
The knife produced was such a one as would have
inflicted the wounds.
Smith called the attention of Alderman Carden to
the knife, which had some plaster on it, and the pri-
soner was a mason. The prisoner denied it was his
knife, or that he ever had one.
Alderman CARDEM commended the forbearing con-
duct of the officer, and fully committed the prisoner
for trial, and the depositions being made out, he was
conveyed to Newgate.
CLERKEN WELL.

Thomas Ili'Donald, a respectable-looking young
man, was finally examined before Mr. Combe, charged
by Mr. William Ledger Broxholme, chemist and
druggist, of Holloway-road, with stealing five shil-
lings' worth of' lozenges, and a quantity of drugs, &c
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor
that he advertised in the Times newspaper for an
assistant, which was replied to by the prisoner, whom
he took into his employ as an "improver," condi
tionally that he was to be with him six months, and at
the expiration of that term he was to receive 201.
per year for his services. The prisoner bad been in
his situation seven weeks. Witness had occasion to
go to the north of England on business, where he was
detained for three days. His confidence in the pri-
soner having been shaken in consequence of his
having told him a wilful lie, prior to his leaving
London, he marked some lozenge bottles with
ink, in order to ascertain on his return the
quantity which were missing, and from ten
of the bottles be missed 41bs. of lozenges.
He had given the prisoner notice to quit. ()a Tues-
day night last the prisoner, in company of another
man, both being intoxicated, came to his (witness's)
house for the purpose of annoying him, when he
(prisoner) said that he imputed to him a charge of
robbery, and he would make him prove it. Witness
put him out of his shop. He gave information to the
police, and the prisoner was apprehended in bed, at
the house of Dr. Browne, of Hampstead.
John rmstrong, 164 S, proved having taken the
prisoner into custody at Dr. Browne's house. lle
was in bed at the time. He told the prisoner that he
wanted him on a charge of stealing lozenges, drugs,
and chemicals, from Mr. Broxhohne. Ile denied the
charge. The prisoner told witness where he kept his
box, and handed him the key of it. The servant
handed a bundle to witness, which contained an
empty stopper bottle with Mr. Broxholme name
upon it, a tooth-brush, a preparation of ether,apleceef
of German soap wrapped up• in paper, a piece
Windsor soap, some matches in paper, four ounces of
castor oil, and other trifling articles. He took the
prisoner to the station-house, where he was locked up.
Witness produced the whole of the articles.

Mr. Broxholme identified them, and added that he
could positively identify the paper in which the sow
was wrapped. It was of a peculiar manufacture, and
was made exclusively for him.
Mr. Read—lndeed ! Is there any peculiar mask
upon" it by which you can so positively identify it ?
Witness—The manufacturer makes it only for me,
according to my order.
Mr. Comss—They may have made it for others for
aught you know. Witness (pedantically)—True.
Mr. Mallet, the clerk —None of the lozenges were
found ? The witness answered in the negative.
Mr. Read closely questioned the witness, who hesi-
tated, contradicted himself, and answered in a most
peculiar manner.

Mr. Read here said that the prisoner was highly
respectable, and incapable of robbery. He had Dr.
Browne, &c., to identify some of the articie which
the prosecutor had sworn to, and urged that he should
be dismissed, and not degraded by bang sent for trial.
lie questioned Mr. Broxhol►ne as to whether it was
usual for the prisoner to mike entries of the sale of
lozenges in fis books, or whether his wife was allowed
to sell them during his übse►ice in the country.
Witness replied that his wife never served, and that
there were no entries of their sale by the prisoner
during his absecce.
The prisoner was remanded from Monday until
yesterday, for the production of the book, when he
was admitttd to bail for his appearance.
Mr. Real assured the bench that he could satisfac-
torily prove how the prisoner became possessed of the
articles.

At this examination the prosecutor came to the
court accompanied by Mr. Humphries, the solicitor,
to conduct the prosecution ; end, after further evi-
dence was gone into and the book examined,
Mr. Read called upon Mr. Combe to discharge the
prisoner or hear his evidence, to prove how the pri-
soner came honestly by the property.
Mr. COMM said he must send the case before a
jury. By calling on him to discharge the prisoner he
was asking him to discredit everything the prosecutor
had awed.

Mr. Humphries inquired the value of the whole
of the property ? Yi w‘eutor—A sovereign. lie
then said—Haita-sovereign; then—A pound more
or less.

Mr. Read said that the prosecutor bad the hardi-
hood to swear to everything produced—even to a
piece of paper, a small bottle, and an old tooth-brush.
Dr. Brown and his son %sere present to give evi-
dence on the prisoner's behalf, and he bonjured the
bench not to brand his character by sending him to
trial.

Mr. COMBS—You want to make me judge and
jury in the case. It is contrary to all practice to do
what you ask me.
Mr. Humphries—lf you heard the evidence it would
only entitle you, if it created a favourable impression,
to admit him to bail.

Mr. CoMaE—I have ao hesitation in saying at
once that I will take bail for hii appearance at the

sessions.
The prisoner's defence was then reserved, and he
was fully committed for trial ; he was, however, or-
dered to find bail, himself in 1001. and two house-
keepers in 50/. each, for his appearance at the
sessions.

The required bail was produced, and the prisoner
left the court with Dr. Browne and his friends.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Catherine Keirnes, otherwise Catherine Lake, was
brought before Mr. Bingham, charged at the instance
of the authorities of St. James's parish with wilful
and corrupt perjury.
Mr. Dore, the relieving overseer, stated that about
a year ago the prisoner made oath before two justices
of the peace, then sitting at the board room of St.
Martin's workhouse, that she was the aunt of three
children at that time chargeable to St. Martin's
parish. The effect of this oath was to cause them to
be removed to their alleged birth settlement in St.
James's. The children had been maintained in the
workhouse ever since; but as it had recently come to
the knowledge of the board of guardians that the
prisoner was the mother and not the aunt of the chil-
dren, it had been determined upon to take proceed-
ings against her.
In defence, the priSoner admitted she was the
mother of the children, but she was too poor to sup-
port them, and that was her excuse for having taken
a false oath.

Mr. Dore said he should be prepared with legal
proof of perjury in a few days, and the prisoner Wad
accordingly remanded until Friday next.

711 AMES.

Charles Jones, a labourer, was finally examined,
charged with stealing 2 cwt. of white lead and 13
brass screws, the property of his employer, Mr. Bar-
ber, whartinger, of Tower-stairs ; and Jacob Vanden-
burg, with receiving the same knowing them to have
been stolen.

Mr. Hobler was for the prosecution, and Mr.
Ballantine, barrister, with Mr. Pelham, fur the
defence.

The charge against Vandenburg excited consider-
able surprise, he being known, as was observed by
the magistrate, to have frequently given information
which led to the detection of several robberies. The
facts are briefly these :—The white lead and screws
were sate on Friday the 21st ult.; and were missed on
the following day. They were sub•equently traced
to Vandenburg's shop, who said they were left there
by the prisoner, with within he affected to treat for
the purchase, his real object being to keep possession
of the property, until he could give intormation to
Sergeant Kelly, 2 H, with whom he acted in con-
junction respecting such matters on previous occa-
sions. When Vandenburg's house was searched,
some gas fittings and other articles were found, which
a Mr. Loyd, of Gray's Inn road recognised as similar
to some he had lost upwards of a year ago.
Mr. Hobler said he could not proceed with that
charge, as the person supposed to have stolen the
property had absconded.
Jones admitted the charge, and accused Vanden-
burg of being a habitual purchaser of stolen goods,
who, when it suited his purpose turned round on and
victimised his instrument.

The additional evidence against Vandenburg was
that of Benjamin Aslin, 90, Rosemary-lane, who
deposed that on the morning of the 22d ult. Vanden-
burg asked him what he paid for white lead per cwt.,
saying he was going to send a few pounds to his
brother. Witness said, "If you send at all, you had
better send a quarter cwt. in a cask."
Mr. Ballantine, before calling witnesses for the
defence, wished it to be understood that Vandenburg
carried on business in a large way as a marine-store-
dealer, a lawful calling, which it was almost impos-
sible to carry on without occasionally getting stolen
property. It was well known that in courts of law
nine-tenths of the cases of theft were proved by
pawnbrokers who had received the property. Why
should not marine store-dealers, who were similarly
exposed, be treated in a similar manner? Vandenburg
had often before taken in stolen property, and then
gave information which led to the furtherance of
justice, as it would be shown he had endeavoured to
do in this case also.
Mr. Nobler—Since the case was last here it has
been ascertained that no entry of the white lead was
to be found in Vandenburg's books.
Mr. YARDLEY-Of course not ; as Vandenburg
had not made the purchase, the time for such an entry
was not ripe.

Fur the 'defence Alexander Verver said he was with
Vandenburg on the 22d ult., when Jones was in the
shop with the whitelead and screws. After he left,
Vandenburg sent witness to Leman-street station-
house for Sergeant Kelly, but, as he was proceeding
there he met another sergeant, who told him Kelly
was not torbe found at the station-house just then.
Sergeant Wakefield, 5 11, met a person whom he
believed to be the last witness, but could not swear to
him, proceeding towards Leman-street on Saturday
fortnight, about three o'clock. That person asked
whether Sergeant Kelly was at the station-house, to
which he replied, he did not know, but it could be
ascertained there. He then asked what would be the
most likely time to see him, and witness replied, in
the evening.
Mr. YARDLEY, in committing the prisoners for trial,
observed that the strongest point against Vandenburg
was, the conversation he bad had with the witness
Aslin, respecting the price and disposal of white heed
on the day of the robbery.
The depositions were then read at length, but
Vandenburg was admitted to bail, himself in 801., and
two sureties in 401. each.
WESTMINSTER.

Two stable•helpers, named Mason and .Rosatrider,
were charged with cruelty to a horse.
Barkley, 131 B, proved that on the preceding even-
ing he saw the defendants leading a horse through
Tothill-street into the Broad Sanctuary, Westmin-
ster.He had one of his fore legs tied up, so that he
remained
hopped upon the other three, upon which he
standing for twenty minutes, until he
wa was placed
The
laed by
the side of another in a pimlieo
omnibus.
novelty of the horse having one
ground, foot so strapped up
that he could not place it o
his way along upon the other th
er gd, and working
othree, attracted a vast
number of persons, who followed it into
the Broad-
way. When the horse was put to, his foot was let
down, and he appeared to draw with the other horse
in the omnibus extremely well. He appeared in
excellent condition, and when in the omnibus quite
up to his work. The explanation of this odd affair
was, that the horse, although valuable and serviceable,
is extremely vicious, and in consequence of its kicking
propensities, it was tOund necessary, in taking it some
distance from the stable to the omnibus, owing to
the carriage-way being under repair at the place
where they ordinarily change horses, to deprive it of
the use of one of its legs to prevent its doing any mis-
chief to the others until put to, when no fault could
possibly be found with it, as it then became extremely
quiet.

Mr. BRODERIP considered that as the evidence
clearly proved that there was nothing cruel in the
manner in which the horse's foot wm tied up, the

charge could not be sustained ; but said that this sort
of thing could not be permitted in the streets, and if
it were repeated he should find some method of deal.
ink; with the offenders.
Defendants were discharged.