The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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WRIT OF ERROR.
DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.—In the Court of
Queen's Bench this day the Lord Chief• Justice stated
again at the sitting of their Lordships, that judgment
would not be pronounced in the case of the Queen
versus O'Brien, Meagher, &c., until Tuesday next, in
consequence of the indisposition of Mr. Justice Moore.
An order was made to bring up the prisoners on
that day.
The prisoners Goswatz, English, and others, who
were convicted for illegally drilling and training, will
also be brought up on Tuesday, to assign errors.
MR. DUFFY'S TRIAL.
At the sitting of the Commission Court this day,
the Attorney-General, having stated his objections
to the adoption of any of the courses suggested by
the Bench last day, called on the Judges for final
judgment.
Mr. Butt offered to go to trial if the Attorney-
General would give no evidence, or enter a nolle
prosequi on the bad counts.
The Attornney- General refused to do so, and the
Court appointed Saturday next to hear argument as
to what the proper form of judgment should be.

CHARGE OF UTTERING FORGED

CHEQUES.

Thomas Ford was charged at the Mansion-house yea-
terday with having uttered a forged cheque for 300/.
Mr. Evison, a cashier in Messrs. Smith, Payne, and
Smith's banking-house, stated that, on the sth January,
the cheque for 3001. produced, purporting to be the
cheque of Mr. Blackburn, a customer of the house, was
presented by Thomas Taylor, a porter, for payment.
The porter, upon being questioned, said he had received
the cheque from Mr. Blackburn's clerk. The genuine.
ness of it being doubted, the porter was detained.
T. Taylor, the porter who presented the cheque, said
—I received a letter in answer to an advertisement for
a situation on Wednesday, and went to the Bell and
Crown lon, Holborn, to see Mr. Thompson. the writer
of it, according to the advertisement. The prisoner
came out to me as Mr. Thompson, and said he thought
he knew of a situation that would suit me. This took
place in the passage of the Bell and Crown. He asked
me for a reference as to character, and I gave him
the name and address of Mr. Osborn, my former em-
ployer. He told me he would write to me, and nest day
I received a letter appointing to meet me at the same
place on Friday evening, when the prisoner said he had
spoken to the governors and all was right, and I might
consider myself engaged. He said he would take me
to the establishment, but did not say what it was. He
told me then to make my way to a public-house at the
corner of Mark-lane. Before I left him he asked me
if I had the note he wrote to me on Thursday, as he
wished to write the. address upon it. I handed it to
him, and he put it in his pocket, and, on another piece
of paper, he wrote the address of the house in
Mark-lane, and gave it to me. He met me there, and
I got up and walked with him into Fenchurch-street.
He gave me a 51. note to get changed at Masterman's
bank, which I did, meeting him at the Corn-exchange
Hotel according to appointment. He then told me

he would take me— to his chambers, and I
walked with him to Mincing-lane, when we stopped
at an archway ; he asked me to stop there a minute,
and he went in at the first door on the right, and when
he came out he gave me a cheque on Messrs. Smith,
Payne„and Smith's banking-house for: 3001. Ile told
me to say, if they asked me who sent me, that it was
Mr. Blackburn's clerk. I was to take the money to him
to the coffee-room. At the desire of the clerk at the
bankers', .1 put my name on the cheque, and I identify
it now.

Mr. Bush (for the prosecution)—When you first saw
the prisoner, how was he dressed? Witness—He was
dressed in a dark over-coat, and he had a whitish hand-
kerchief, with blue spots or stripes upon it, round his
neck ; and he had black curly hair, turning in
behind. I think he had whiskers. The pockets of
the coat were outside. The hair was a regular row
round of curls turned in, and appeared to be natural
hair. I saw him four or five times, and he was always
dressed in the same way. Had no doubt at all about
his identity.
Mr. 1). Forrester produced a black wig, curled and
turning in, according to the witness's description, be-
hind, and two handkerchiefs.

Witness—That wig is like the hair which I saw the
prisoner wear. The witness then pointed at one of the
handkerchiefs produced, and said he believed that was
the handkerchief thi• prisoner wore.
Mr. G. Blackburn said—l have kept an account at Messrs
Smith, Payne, and Smith's since 1825. The signature to the
cheque produced is not mine, nor is the filling up of it
mine, nor have I authorised any one to draw or sign it.
(Here two cheques were produced.) These two cheques,
each of which is for 31., I paid to Mr. Halford, of Isling-
ton. One was drawn on the 2d of December, the other
on the Ist of January.
I). Forrester—l searched the prisoner. He gave me
the name of Thomas Ford, Aldenham-street, Somer's-
town. I went there and saw his wife, who said that
Ford was her name. I found in a box the black curled
wig produced. I saw the handkerchief produced
round Mrs. Ford's neck, and I asked her for it, and
she gave it to me without hesitation. This memoran•
dum-book was with, other papers found in the pri-
soner's pocket. Two leaves had been torn, and upon
comparing the torn leaves I find that they exactly dove-
tail with the two pieces of paper which I received from
Taylor, and which that witness stated the prisoner had
given to him, the one containing the address of the
public-house, the other the account of the way in which
the cheque was to be paid. Amongst some duplicates
found was one for a coat, which exactly agrees with the
description given of a coat the prisoner wore when the
witness communicated with him.
The prisoner was then remanded.

EMPLOYMENT 01' THE P00R.,--A meeting was held
yesterday in Willis's Rooms, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the condition of the mechanics and
operatives thrown ont of employment, and of devising
some means of relieving their destitution by providing
employment for them. Mr. F. Smedley, the high
bailiff; presided. He explained the circumstances under
which the meeting had been called, and stated that Lord
Ashley, the Bishop of Norwich, and Lord Dudley Stuart
had been prevented by other engagements from attend-
ing. Mr. C. Lushington, M.P., proposed the first reso-
lution, deploring the extent of destitution, and enforcing
the necessity of measures for its alleviation, by charity
or otherwib.e. Those artizans, he remarked, who were
reduced to penury suffered from the depressing influences
of our enormous and unequal taxation and our excessive
national expenditure. The only measure by which the
evil could be met wculd be some sweeping and general
measure for the relief of the poor, joined to an imme-
diate and extensive reduction in taxation and expendi-
ture. The Rev. S. Jones seconded the resolution. Mr.
A. 11. iloggins did not entirely agree with Mr. Lushing-
ton as to the relief of destitution being dependent upon
financial reform. After some remarks by Mr. A. Camp-
bell and Mr. Kydd, the resolution was carried nem. con.
Mr. C. Cochrane, in proposing onother resolution, ad-
verted to the employment of " street orderlies," and
expressed his conviction that it would be better at once
to attempt to alleviate misery by extending such a sys-
tem than to await the mere doubtful result of an at-
tempt at general reform. A ter a vote of thanks to the
chairman the mooting sepsymted.