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London, England, 1849-12-21 00:00:00

BANKING Dl

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Rest •
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cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of

National Debt, Say-
ings-bank 8, and Di-

vidend accounts).. 9,529,986
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X 38,192,659

Dated the 20th day of Deeenibfi:

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A DRAWN BONNET.—A lady says that the
prettiest drawn bonnet she knows, is the bonnet drawn
after a quarrel, out of your husband.' By-the-by,
talking of drawn bonnets, we believe we are revealing
no particular secret in stating that Shee is the artist
generally who draws them.—Punch's Almanack.

ASSIZE INTbLLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 19.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
Samuel Hanson, aged 17, was charged with a mis-
demeanour at common law, for having, on the Bth
day of September last, unlawfully administered to
Mary Warburton a quantity of Spanish flies, with
intent to injure her, the said Mary Warburton. The
indictment likewise charged the prisoner with a
common assault.

Mr. Overend and Mr. Pierce conducted the prose-
cution ; Mr. Blanchard defended the priAotier.
It appeared that the prisoner resided with his
mother, who keeps cows, about half a mile from the
prosecutrix, who was accustomed to go and vinit the
prisoner's mother. The prisoner had promised the
prosecutrix and some other girls some rum, and on
the Bth of September they asked the prisoner for it,
and he went and fetched a bottle, which he said was
rum. He gave the bottle to the girls, and they took
it home and drank it, the consequence of which was
that they became very drunk. It appeared that the
prisoner had purchased" some Spanish flies at a
chemist's in Huddersfield, saying that he wanted to
make a mixture for killing rats.
It was urged on behalf of the prisoner that the
offence charged was not a misdemeanour at common
law, nor was it an assault.
For the Crown it was contended, first, that it was
an offence at common law to administer anything
deleterious to another, whatever be the motive, and
cited Dixon's case, 3 Maule and Selwyn, p. 10;
" Rex v. Button," 8 C. and P. ; " Regina v. Walken-
den and others," 1 Cox's Criminal Cases; an,l Russell
on Crimes, 674, 752. Secondly, that fraud was
equivalent to force, and that as the prosecutrix would
not have taken the Spanish flies without fraud, it
amounted to an assault.

Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, after consulting Mr. Jus•
tice Cresswell, said that " Rex v. Button" could not
be sustained, and that the charge did not constitute a
misdemeanour at common law, or an assault.
Verdict, " Not Guilty."
Robert Young was charged with the wilful murder
of his brother, George Young, on the 17th of July
last.

Mr. Otta conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Orerend
and Mr. Dearsley defended the prisoner.
It ppeared that the prisoner and the deceased lived
at a farm near Thearn, about five miles from Beverley,
in the East Riding; and on the morning of the day
in question they went out together with some horses
for the purpose of ploughing, the prisoner carrying
an axe and some wedges. Shortly afterwards, when
they were in a clover field, a joiner, named
Macon, who was at work in his shop close by, heard
a groaning in the field, and a voice say, " Lord have
mercy upon me." On going to the place he found
the deceased lying on the ground, with a frightful
wound in the head, and the prisoner standing near
with the horses. The axe was not far from where
the deceased lay, and had blood and hair upon it.
He said to the prisoner, " Robert, what have you
been doing ?" upon which the prisoner only made a
sort of laugh. Assistance was then procured, and the
deceased was carried on a door to his own house. The
prisoner took no notice of what was going on, but
took the horses to the stable, and then took a bill-
hook and went and slashed the hedge. He went into
dinner at one o'clock, and ate a very hearty dinner.
The police having come he was taken into custody,
and when the person in whose custody he was asked
him if he would like to shake hands with his brother,
who was not then dead, the prisoner laughed, and said
" No." He was then taken to the House of Correc-
tion at Beverley, and then he seemed to be under the
impression that he was brought there for not plough-
ing straight.
Several relatives of the prisoner proved that he was
out of his mind seven years ago, after an election at
Beverley, where he was a voter, and
Mr. Anderson, the surgeon to York Castle, stated
that, in his opinion, the prisoner was perfectly insane.
His LORDSHIP asked the jury whether they coulti
convict after that evidence ?

Verdict—Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity.
William CartivriA,rht, John Glas•sop, Daniel Wilkins,
Thomas I?atcliffe,George Pickering, Cornelius
John Cundy,and William Windle, ere charged under
the 3d Geo. IV., c. 95, s. 3, with having at Sheffield,
on the 11th July, molested Joseph Snape and Wil
liam Snape in their trade and business, and forcing
them to contribute to a trades' union.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Johnstone conducted the
prosecution ; Mr. Heaton defended the prisoners.
It appeared that, on the 11th of July, there existed
a trades' union at Sheffield, called " The Table-blade
Grinders' Union," a meeting of which union had been
advertised to take place at two o'clock. On the
morning of that day the prisoners at the bar went to
several of the wheels in Sheffield, for the purpose of
forcing the workmen to contribute their arrears and
subscriptions, and to make them attend the meeting.
The prisoners Wilkins, Glossop, and ltAteliffe, went
early to the 'Washington wheel, where they obtAinrd
money from some of the workmen. About 11 o'clock
all the prisoners, with others, went to the Bee-hive
wheel, where they asked a man named Mills to leave
off work and attend the meeting; he refused, saying
that he had two dozen blades to grind, but they threw
his bands off, which prevented the machinery from
turning the stones. At twelve o'clock all the pri-
soners, with forty or fifty other men, armed with
sticks, went to the liorobin's wheel, at Red Bill,
where the two Snapes worked. They were told they
must attend the meeting, and were threatened if they
did not attend. They again said they would not
attend ; and after the prisoners and the rest had gone
away the Snapes collected some of their friends to
protect them. At half-past two some of the prisoners
and a large party of men again went to Horobitt's
wheel, and again demanded that the two Snapes should
leave off work. Joseph Snape said that he wanted to
go on, and that he would not go with them. They
then stopped his work, by taking off his band, which
a lad put on again. The prisoner Cundy then took
off the band again, and struck Joseph Snape a violent
blow on the mouth, which made it bleed, and knocked
him down amongst the machinery, but fortunately,
in falling, he broke the band, so that the machinery
stopped. Other men came into the wheel, and then
went away. The object of the outrage was to compel
those who had ceased to subscribe to the union to do
so, and likewise to force others to contribute and
become subscribers.

It appearing that the union had been dissolved, his
LORDSHIP, at the close of the examination of the
third witness, said that he thought the prosecutor
should forgive the injury to his person, that the pri-
soners should plead guilty, and acknowledge that they
had broken the law, and should enter into their own
recognisances to come up and receive the judgment of
the Court when called upon, and to be of good beha-
viour in the meantime.

The prisoners having done so were discharged.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
Hairy Emrich was charged with having, at Hull,
on the 3d of May last, uttered a forged bill of tx-
change for 121., well knowing it to be a forgery.
Mr. Archbold prosecuted ; the prisoner had no
counsel.

The prisoner, it appeared, was a plumber and
glazier, living at hull, and in April last he bought a
quantity of lead from Mr. Turpin, of Hull, the
price of which was 181. 13s. Gd. The prisoner paid
101. on account, and agreed to pay the balance in
a month. Failing in that, Mr. Turpin applied to
him for payment, and was told that if he would
receive in payment a bill of exchange for
121., drawn on "John Anderson, of Kirton,
near Brigg, plumber and glacier," the prosecutor
could pay the balance. Mr. Turpin having
made inquiries of a referee in hull, named by the
Prisoner, took the bill in payment, giving 31. Gd.
in change. 'When the bill arrived at maturity it was
dishonoured, and it was then di*coyered that there

was no such person as John Anderson, of Kirton, near
Brigg, and that moreover the signature was in the
prisoner's handwriting.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, told the jury that
to sign the name of a nonexisting person to a bill
of exchange was a forgery ; and that if the prisoner
uttered such a biU, knowing that the signature was
not that of the person whose signature it purported
to be, he committed the felony with which he was
charged. .
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
He was then tried on another charge of uttering a
forged bill of exchange, drawn on his father in law,
who lives at Selby, and also found Guilty.
His LORDSHIP sentenced him to be imprisoned one
month on the first charge, and to be transported seven
years on the second.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
MABYLEB ON E.
Charlotte Taylor, csek to Mr. John Churchill a
medical publieKr, residing at No. 1, St, Petersburg •
place,Bs s water, and John Taylor, her son, a boy about
tourteen years of age, were brought before the sitting
magistrate, Mr. Lung, charged under the following
circumstances :
Police.sergeant 27 D deposed that on the preceding
evening, as he was on duty near Mr. Churchill's
dwelling, he met the boy carrying on his shoulders a
heavy bundle, and on stopping him and asking what
it contained, he replied, "only some dirty clothes
and broken victuals." Witness examined it, and
found therein two half quartern loaves, some cooked
and uncooked mutton, and some bacon, butter, can •
dies, and other articles. lie repaired to the prose-
cutor's house, which was pointed out to him by the
boy, whom he took with him, and on ringing the
bell the female prisoner opened the door to him ; he
questioned her as to whether she had given the
property to the boy, when she replied that she had
not, but she supposed he must have got it at a house
lower down. Witness was then taking the b.,y to the
station, when the female ran after him and said, " The
boy is my own child, I gave him the victuals to carry
home, and I hope you will overlook it, as he has no
father." Both the prisoners were then conveyed to
the station-house and locked up.
The female prisoner, in answer to the charge, said,
that she bought the bread herself, and that the drip-
ping was one of her perquisites.
Mr. Churchill had no doubt whatever as to the
whole of the articles produced being his. The wages
of his cook were 161. per year, and there could there-
fore be no excuse on the score of poverty fur robbing
him. He, however, did not wish to press severely
against her, and he should prefer the case being dealt
with summarily to its going before a jury.
Mr. LONG told him that in such a matter he could
not comply with his request. He should discharge
the boy, but the mother must be committed for trial.
She was then locked up.
SO tl7'B WARK.
Thomas Chaffey and Thomas Seaman, two well-
dressed young men, were yesterday, at Southwark
Police-court, brought before Mr. Seeker, charged
with stealing 201. from the person of James Ilsley,
landlord of the Boise and Crown, Drury-lane.
The complainant stated that on thepreceding night
he went into the Strand Hotel and Tavern, near
Catherine-street, and while standing at the bar the
two prisoners walked into the house, and after some
little time they entered into conversation. At length
complainant mentioned that he wanted to go over the
water, and he called a cab, and as the prisoners said
they were going in the same direction he invited them
into the vehicle, and when they got to the Surrey
Coffee house, in Blackfriars-road, they all alighted
and went into the house and partook of some coffee.
As he had no small change about him, he took from
his pocket a 10/. and 51. Bank of England notes, in
which were wrapped up four sovereigns and two half-
sovereigns, 'and opening the notes in order to get
change of one of the half-sovereigns to pay for the
refreshment, Chaffey snatched the whole of the money
out of his hands. Ile (complainant) immediately
started up and demanded the restitution of his notes
and gold, and was in the act of seizing Chafley when
the latter passed the money into the hands of his
fellow prisoner, at the same time insisting that he
(complainant) had lent it to him, and that he should
repay him on another occasion. Complainant, know-
ing the falsehood of the prisoner's assertion, again
demanded the return of his money, but was only
laughed at, and as the prisoners were about to quit
the room, he called a policeman and gave them into
custody, Chaffey for robbing him of 201., and his
associate for receiving the money, knowing it to have
been stolen. The complainant added that he was
present when the prisoners were searched, upon which
occasion Chaffey returned him the 51. note, and the
remainder of the 201, together with other moneys,
was found in the other prisoner's possession.
In reply to Mr. Seeker, complainant said that he
was perfectly sober at the time ; that he had pre-
viously seen Chaffey on two or three occasions at his
house in Drury-lane. When he (complainant) de-
manded his money after it was snatched out of his
hands in the way described, Ch3ffey began to abuse
him, using the most scurrilous language. Chaffey
had no claim whatever upon him, for he was a person
that he knew very little about; and that he would
not lend him a shilling, much less 20/.
Policeman Romayne, 33 L, stated that about a
quarter beiire ten o'clock on the preceding night,
while on du'y in Blackfriars-road, he was informed
that a man had been robbed of a considerable sum of
money in the Surrey Coffee house. Ile immediately
proceeded there, and found the complainant and the
two prisoners in one of the boxes, w hen the complain.
ant charged the two latter with plundering him of
201., and described at the same time the circumstances
under which he had been deprived of his money. The
policeman insisted on searching the prisoners, and in
Seaman's pockets he found thirteen sovereigns, a ten
pound note, together with live half. sovereigns, all of
which money he said belonged to himself. While he
(policeman) was searching Seaman, lie observed
Chaffey h.nd over a five-pound note to complainant,
saying, " Here it is back, but you know that you lent
me the money." The other made answer and said,
" You know it to be a falsehood ; you snatched all my
money, and passed most part of it to your companion."
The policeman aided that he subsequently took the
prisoners in custody to the station house.
Chaffey, who exhibited much impatience during
the statement of the case, now begged that he might
be permitted to give his version of the sffair. lie
then proceeded to describe that be had met his fellow-
prisoner, for the first time in his life, on the previous
night, at a public house near Drury lane, and that
their acquaintance arose from the circumstance of the
young man accidentally upsetting a glass of wine on
the counter. That they left the house together, and
went to Mr. Short's in the Strand, where they met with
the compl-ainant, with whom they had something to
drink, and who afterwards invited them to take a seat
in a cab over the water. That they pulled up at the
Surrey Coffee-house, and while sitting there he bor-
rowed 10/. of the complainant, and commenced tossing
for money with his fellow-prisoner, and the complain-
ant joined in the play. Seaman, however, was the
winner of a large sum of money from his antagonists,
and complainant vexed at the circumstance, iinrne
diately accused both of them with robbery, when the
stakes that were laid were taken off the table.
Complainant—l deny the truth of the assertion
that I lent you a farthing, for the fact is, I would not
trust you with a hint of porter.
Chaffey continued—lt is useless for :Mr. Ilsley to
say that I am almost a stranger to him, when he
knows the fact to be otherwise, and that we have been
long and intimate acquaintances. Why, it was only
last Tuesday we were at the docks, and afterwards
went to dine together. The prisoner then asked the
policeman if he did not say, when accused of the rob-
bery in the coffee-house, that the complainant had lent
him the money.
The policeman replied in the affirmative, but added
that the complainant denied the assertion, and insisted
that he had been robbed of hi. money.
Mr. SECKER asked the complainant if any betting
or tossing was going forward in the coffee-house ?
The complainant admitted that there was between
the prisoners, but that it was all "shem," arid that
he did not join in it, and he reiterated that he r%..s
plundered of the money precisely in the way he
described.
Mr. SECKER observed, that he should call upon the
prisoners to enter into sureties of 201. each, to appear
at that. Court on the 24 of January, and that the com-
plainant, if he wished it, 'eight have an opportunity
of in
pdicting them at the Sessions.
Ihe policeman was then directed to restore the
whole of the money claimed by the complainant, rind
the remainder to he given up to the prisoners.

A MISCALCULATION —On Tuesday a young man,
named Richardson, who had been pitying his address, s
to the daughter of Mrs. Brunston, of the Bow Bridge
Inn, Leicester, shot himself. Deceased, who was
house painter, became acquainted with the young WOlll4ll
this autumn. A few we, ks since, whilst at a g
ntle-
man's house, he stole a small picture, au i though, when
first taxed wiri the mutt, he treated the charge wt, h the
air of injured inuuccnce, he ultitnatvl coniessed and
gave it The charge t pre,sed, but he i,,,t
his situation, and wus sent out of the toast back to his
friends. A silent time since 11,- I.).;ek to Lewes,.
ter and attempted to renew the acquaintance with the
young woman. Not theetieg with the encouragement
he wished, he appanietly resolved to shoot hiin,elt ;
though, iron the mode in which his dout:lv, brewed
waistc...at was arranged. and from a ses,if being
found folded up as a sort of pad, and the pistcl being
very small, and loaded wi.h shot inateanl o a tAilict, it
is probable he intended to do himself only so much harm
as might lava induced Mrs. BC4llStort to ,ake him into
her house out of compasAon. Miseiculating
twice at which he should fire, the whole of the ch ,ere
small shot entered so close together as to pt mince the
effect of a bullet. An inquest was t Cid en Friday Lifo.r-
neon. Deceased read once been placed ni a !ohmic asy-
lum. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."—Lincolnshire
Mercury.