The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 10.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
IN RE ALEXANDER CARROLL.
Mr. Coosa applied for payment of 2061. to an
attorney, who had been engaged in realizing the in-
solvent's property for his creditors. Mr. Carroll had
possessed considerable estates in Ireland, which were
mortgaged to some extent, and which only realized
9,0001., in consequence of the great depreciation of
property in Ireland. The attorney had proceeded to
Dublin to sell the property, and now applied to be
paid out of 9101. deposit-money, which had been paid
into Court.
His HONOUR required some further information
before he granted the application.

NISH V. COLES.
This was an application under the Small Debts
Act. The defendant was in attendance, and an at-
torney appeared for the plaintiff.
Mr. Commissioner LAW laid it down in express
terms that both plaintiff and defendant must attend.
He did not make the Act of Parliament, and if any
inconvenience occurred, he could not help it.
The ATTORNEY said he knew all about the case.
Would the Court adjourn the summons ?
His HONOUR could grant no adjournment. If the
defendant had not appeared he should have committed
him ; and as the plaintiff had not appeared the summons
must be dismissed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

.Mary Ann Smith, between 16 and 17 years of age,
was charged before the Lord Mayor with having at-
tempted to pass two counterfeit pieces.
The town is, as appeared from the statement made
by Robinson Webb, of the City police, to the Lord
Mayor, swarming with the most ingeniously made
counterfeit crown and half-crown pieces, and a num-
ber of shopkeepers, who have long been considered
excellent judges, have been, within the last week,
imposed upon by persons employed to make purchases
with them. It is believed at the Mint, that the base
coin which has thus been staking its way has been
electrotyped by some very able hand, and the Lord
Mayor thought it necessary to put the public upon
their guard against such skill, as might be expected
at a time of extraordinary mechanical improvement.
The prisoner went, in the first instance, on the
6th of January, into a public-home in Houndsditch,
and handed a counterfeit crown piece to the proprie-
tor in payment of three-pennyworth of brandy.
The counterfeit was detected, but as the girl did
not appear to be known in the character of a
smasher, or to have any more bad money, she was
allowed to depart. The landlord gave the bad coin
to Webb, who followed the prisoner from professional
instinct, which proved to be correct, for she went
into the shop of a perfumer in the Minories, and,
asking for a pot of bear's grease, tendered another
counterfeit five shilling piece, the counterpart of that
which she had unsuccessfully tried upon the publi-
can. The perfumer had had so many lessons upon
the subject, from people of all kinds (as he said), that
he was obliged to be a judge, and he gave the prisoner
into custody, being determined to prosecute in every
case of the sort.
The prisoner said her poverty had placed her in a
condition wnich prevented her from being very par-
ticular as to the parties from whom she received the
means of support.
The LORD MAYOR said he should rigorously carry
out the law in all cases of the kind. There might
have been ground for the defence if the one instance
had not been followed up by the other.—Committed.
Alexander Ingram was charged with having picked
the pocket of Mrs. Elizabeth Lerman, on Sunday
evening.
Robert Lee, a City policeman, who is employed
frequently in watching the well-dressed thieves who
are in the habit of mixing with the congregation in
the Chapel in Bishopsgate-street, turned several of the
fraternity away from that place of worship on Sunday
evening, soon after which the prisoner was given into
custody for having robbed a lady who had just come
from divine service. It happened that a Mr. Wagstaff
and his wife, as they were walking along in Bishops-
gate-street, at eight o'clock, observed the prisoner
whip the purse out of Mrs. Larman's pocket. Mr.
Wagstaff immeiliately collared the prisoner, who
made a hard shag& to escape, and no doubt lung

THURSDAY

the purse away, for it was not found upon him. The
lady who had been robbed knew nothing of the mat-
ter, so neatly was the business executed, till informed
that she had no purse, which she soon found to be
the case. The purse contained about ten shillings.
As Lee was conducting the prisoner from the station-
house, one of his associates walked up and asked the
prisoner whether he had got the purse ? " No," said
the prisoner, " I rigged that, and no mistake."
The Loan MAYOR—Do you wish to say anything,
prisoner ? The prisoner—Anything ! No, not I.
Committed. _ _