The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-28 00:00:00

VBETH.

Mr. Robert Pile, of Treston:cottage, South Lam-
twth, and Frederick James Danger Cape, of the same
residence, young men or respeetnbie m)pearnnee, were
plAced 4t the bar before Mr. Elliott on a charge of
con;dring together to defraud Mr. William Match-
wick- and others at present unknown.
Mr. George Henry Drew, of Parliament-street,
solicitor to the Arts Union, attended for the prose-
cution ; Mr. Dilk, one of the executive committee
for carrying out his Royal Highness Prince Albert's
design for the great exhibition of the works of art and
industry of all nations in 1851, and Mr. Dighy
Wyatt, s,cretary to the committee, were present, us
well as Mr. Dille senior.

Mr. Drew, addressing the magistrate, said the
charge against the prisoners was that of conspiring to
defraud the public by means of a❑ advertisement,
published, he believed, in most of the provincial
newspapers in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and
which he should read from a Plymouth paper then in
his hand. The Learned Gentleman here read the
following advertisement, wtiich was in a conspicuous
part of the paper :

" TUE GREAT EXHIBITION OF WORKS oF ART AND IN

DUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS IN 1851.
" Patron his Royal Highness Prince Albert, President

of the Society of Arts.
" Treston Chambers, South Lambeth,
Loodon, December, 1849.

" The avowed object of this undertaking is to afford
the ingenious and industrious of all nations an opportu-
nity of testing the relative merits of tie r works, and to
offer the community facilities for determining the value
of the productions of every clime. The Committee
have to inform bankers, merchants, traders, and me-
chanics, that the report, as submitted to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, containing the names of pro-
nuoteqs, subscribers, and all those who have already
prolesel an intentio❑ of aiding the execution of tfe
above undertaking, together with a full description of
the number of works of art already sent in, with com-
plete instructions for those who are desirous of co-
operstng with the Committee i❑ carrying out his Royal
Highness's design, is now prepared, and will be sent to
any part of the United Kingdom on receipt of six post,
age stunies.

" FREDERICK DAMER,
" ROBERT WALLINGSBROOK,
" Assistant lion. Secretaries."

This advertisement, it would be shown, was en-
tirely unauthorized by the executive committee or
its secretary. The committee made no such report
as that alluded to, and the object of the parties causing
the insertion or such an advertisement in the public
newspapers was manifestly one of fraud. His Wor-
ship would hear from Mr. Wyatt, the secretary to
the Committee for Promoting the Exhibition of
Works of Art, and Industry of all Nations, that the
advertisement in question had not been inserted by
him or with his sanction, that the prisoners were
not engaged in any way by the committee ; on the
contrary, they were perfect strangers to them, and
hal no authority to insert such an advertisement;
and, therefore, the affair had been concocted for the
purpose of fraud. His Worship would also hear from
the statement of the officers, that they found at the re•
sidence of the prisoners several newspapers from all
parts of the country, and all containing the advertise-
ment. The officers also found some papers, one of
which appeared to be an original manuscript draught
of the advertisement itself, and some parcels of postage
stamps, in sixpenny slips, so that no doubt could
remain that the prisoners were the concoctors of the
fraud.

Mr. William Matchwick, of 23, Green street,
Golden-square, was then called, and stated that he
was in the employment of the Executive Committee
for Promoting the Exhibition of Works of Art.
On the day before he saw the copy of a printed
advertisement (that now produced), and in conse-
quence enclosed six postage stamps in a letter, which
he directed, agreeably to the advertisement, " to
Messrs. Darner and Wallingsbrook, Treston Cham-
bers, South Lambeth," and posted the letter himself.
Mr. Drew—Did you receive any answer to that
letter? Witness—No, Sir, I did not.
Mr. Drew—Well, go on with your statement.
Witness—Well, Sir, this morning I went with Mr.
Wyatt and the officers to Treston-chambers, the
address in the advertisement, and it was arranged that
the officers should go first, and that Mr. Wyatt and
myself should follow at a given signal. On the signal
fixed on being given, Mr. Wyatt and myself went up
to the place, which is a small cottage, and saw the
place in confusion. The prisoners were the only male
persons there, but they did not, in my presence, say
anything about the advertisement. They arc perfect
strangers to me.
Mr. Matthew Digby Wyatt, secretary to the
executive committee appointed by the Society of Arts
for carrying out the object and design of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, in the great Exhibition of
Works of Art and Industry of all Nations, in 1851,
stated that no report containing a list of the works
of art already sent in had been made to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, as no works of art had been
sent in. Mr. Wyatt di I not know the names of
Frederick Darner or Robert Wallingsbrook. They
are not the assistant-secretaries of the committee.
The committee had no knowledge whatever of the
advertisement that had been read by Mr. Drew, and
alluded to by the last witness. The prisoners were
perfect strangers to him (Mr. Wyatt), and had no
authority whatever from him to insert such an adver-
ti-ement as that which had been put in in evidence.
Mr. John Land, inspector of the detective police,
said that in consequence of information which he
received from Mr. Wyatt, he went on that morning
to a small cottage in South Lambeth, and finding the
door closed he knocked, and it was opened by a
woman. He inquired for Mr. Darner or Mr. Wall-
ingsbrook, and was told that neither was there. On
knocking at the door he saw the prisoner Cape get up
from a seat and run out of the room, and this circum-
stance exciting his suspicions, he entered the cottage
and spoke to the woman, when the prisoner Pile came
out of the back room in his shirt-sleeves, and Sergeant
Whisker brought the other prisoner, Cape, into the
same room. He (Mr. Land) told the prisoners who
he was, and said that from information he had re-
ceived he should take both into custody of a charge of
defrauding several persons. Pile directly said, he
only took the letters in for a person named Miller.
Mr. ELLIOTT--At that time had you said anything
about letters? Mr. Land—No, Sir, I had not. Pile
further said that he had taken in upwards of 90 let-
ters since Monday, and that he gave Miller 12 or 14
on the night before. Witness then observed that there
was a number came that morning by post, and the
prisoner Pile replied that they had, but that they were
for himself, and he had burned as soon as he had read
them. The other prisoner, Cape, was present all this
time. lie (Land) then searched the place, and in a
tin cash-box found four sixpenny parcels of postage
stamps; he also found six other stamps, not in the
box ; on the rnantlepiece a pocket book, which Pile
owned, and on examining it, discovered on the re-
mains of a leaf that had been partly torn a portion of
the advertisement in manuscript. He further found
in the room a piece of paper, on which was written,
in Pile's handwriting— . _

" Dear Green,-1 have 3s. worth of postage
stamps ; will you give me 2s. 6d. for them ?
" Yours, R. PILE."
A great number of provincial papers, all containing
the advertisement, were about the place.
Pile—Not concealed in any way ? Witness—No.

Jonathan Whisker, a sergeant belonging to the
detective police, who accompanied Land, corrobo-
rated a great portion of that officer's testimony. In
addition, he said that on searching the room he found,
under a sofa, a copy of the Wakefield and Weid
Riding Examiner, addressed to " Messrs. Darner
and Wallingsbrook, Treston-chambers, south Lam-
beth," and this paper he found contained the adver-
tisment. He also found 16 copies of different pro-
vincial journals, all containing the advertisement, but
no report, containing the names of promoters, sub
scribers, &c., and a full description of the number of
the works of art already sent in.
The prisoner Cape, in his defence, said that a fort-
night last Saturday a person named Miller called on
him at Pile's cottage, where he lodged, and requested
that some letters that would be addressed to him there
might be taken in for him. He gave his consent to
do so, but the letters began to pour in so fast, and
observing that they were addressed to Messrs. Darner
and Wallingsbrook, and that those names appeared in
the advertisement, he suspected that all was not right,
and suggested to Pile the propriety tof going to the
Society of Arts and mentioning the whole of the
circumstances. Pile and himself had made up their
minds to go to the society on that very morning, but,
bAore staring, the officers unfortunately called.
. The p.- prisoner Pile made a long but somewhat
statement. Miller, he said, was a speculator
in railways, and had been for some years a client to
his father, who, for some years prior to his death,
was a solicitor in Hatton-garden. .

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Both the prisoners were remanded until Wednes-
day next, and Mr. ELLIOTT objected to take bail for
their appearance.

SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN BETHNAL GREEN.—
Yosterd4y the committee formed during the prevalence
of the cholera for raising subscriptions for the relief of
the necessitous sick and those bereaved by the cholera,
in the above populous parish, which contains upwards
of 80,000 souls, almost, wholly consisting of poor per-
sons, mide a report, showing the mode in which they
had expended the sum raised by benevolence, viz.—ln
clothing, 379/. 153. ld.; food, 2381. 10s. 4d.; coals,
medicAl attendance,:ttc., 1791. 103, 10d.; expenses, 20/.
17s. .1.; leaving a balavce for relief during the winter
of 2811. 163. The sum raised was 1,100/. 10s. 4d. The
relief was distributed among 1,690 families, 259 widows,
and 625 orphans.
By a Treasury minute recently issued, Fleetwood
will become, after the 6th of January next, an indepen-
dent port. It belongs at present to the port of Preston.
Liverpool Courier.