The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-02 00:00:00

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innuocent. " Because I have no vete, myra'nily- shall
not have a large loaf." Exquisite logic for labouring
men ! Has Henry Vincent yet to learn, in solitude
and restraint, that the principle of justice is universal ?
That be who knowingly violates it, in one application,
has no real love of it in his heart, however loudly he
may clamour for it in some other application ? We
hope he will learn this truth also ; for we think highly
of his intellect and honesty ; and the more so for
this address, notwithstanding the aberrations which we
have noticed. We repeat our wishes for its wide distri-
bution, and useful influence on the working classes.
(Front the Morning Herald.)
It will be seen from our report of proceedings in the
Court of Chancery that Mr. Baines, the defendant in
a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court for the subtraction of
Church-rates, and whose case was determined against
him in the Court of Queen's Bench last week, in a ze•
turn to a writ of habeas corpus, has applied through
his counsel to the Lord Chancellor for another writ of
habeas corpus, on the ground of the order of the Ec-
clesiastical Court being illegal—the defendant having,
been decreed against in the- Court of Arches in his ab-
sence, he, though cited before it, having declined to ap-
pear. The Lord Chancellor ordered the writ to issue,
fur he had no discretion to do otherwise, inasmuch as a
writ of habeas corpus, as was determined in the great
case of Ashley v. White, is grantable to the subject of
right, or e.r debito juslitiw. Next Tuesday is fixed
upon for the argument, when, no doubt, all the tech-
nical objections taken in the Queen's Bench, and una-
nimously overruled by the Judges there, will be re-
peated in reference to the significaeit and the writ de
conlumace capiendo.

SECOND EDITION.

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS
FUNDS
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red B9i Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 904- Ditto Old Annuities
3 per Cent Red........ 97S Ditto New Annuities... BEli
New 3i per Cent - Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 3pm
New 5 per Cent ... Ditto 500/ 2 pin
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6 pus
Jan. 1860. l2 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...160
Oct. 1859 ... ...... India Stock for Acct ...
Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Opg 9l
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 973 Ditto, New Ditto..... 344-
Brazilian Bonds ... .. -
BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent....
Chilian, 6 per cent - Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... 24L Spanish, 5 per cent 24
Ditto, 1824 26 Ditto, Deferred ...
Danish, 3 per cent..... 77A French,s per cent... —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per ceat. Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29/- French,3 per cent —l. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, '2- per cent slz,
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 985
SHARES.
Birmingham and Des by Railway (100 pd)... 75
Birmingham and Gloucester ItailtNav (90 p) 66
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)
Great Western Railway (65 paid) t.6
Ditto New Shares (40 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) Ba
London and Brighton Railway (40 paid)
London and Blackwall Railway (24 pd) 18;,'
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 168
London and South Western Railway .....
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 1 13-
Manchester and Birmingham Railwas;(4op)
Ditto ditto Extension
North Al:diarist Railway (100 paido 74
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .... .. ... 37
South Eastern and Dover (28 paid)... . ~ 12
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 661

inevitable conviction that in fair and temperate reason-
ing the English Press has won the tiuht, and placed the
French Press, and the policy which that Press cur-
rup'.ly defends, unequivocally in the wrong.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A great crowd of tradespeople attended yesterday,
in consequence of the notice that Sir Peter Laurie in-
tended to preside at the examination of Isaac C/i/t,
alias Isaac Godfrey CIO, alias Isaac Godfrey, who
was charged with 'having committed forgery, and, in
confederacy with a very extensive gang of swindlers,
defrauded tradesmen of their goods. Even the room
adjoining the justice•room, and the hall, were crammed
with people, so that it was difficult to transact the ordi-
nary business of the day.
The LORD MAYOR received the following singular
statement in a letter from the officer of the British
Vice-Consulate at La Rochelle, and considered that it
would be desirable to have it made as public as possible.
" La Rochelle, 24th Nov., 1840.
" British Vice Consulate.

" My Lord Mayor—A very respectable looking young
man called John Irvine (a portrait painter), left this on
Monday last. As far as I could judge from hia manners
he has been accustomed to good society, and is evidently
a finished judge •f painting.
" A few days ago, I was applied to by the master of
the inn at which Mr. Irvine was staying, to use icy
endeavours to niske Mr. Irvine take some food, as it
appeared that for five days, during which he had becu
at the inn, he had not eaten anything but one very
small slice of bread per day. Thinking that poverty
might be the cause of such abstinence, I offered Mr.
Irvine every assistance in my power, and prevailed
upon him, almost by force, to stay a couple of days in
my. family, during which, I am positive that he did not
swallow any thing but one glass of cold water, and ap-
peared to me to be in a state of melancholy, bordering
upon insanity, with a full resolution of starving him-
self to death. I found it impossible to argue with him
on the subject of his melancholy, and he was impene-
trable as to his place of birth and residence of his
friends ; but I have reason to believe he is married,
and has a child about two years old, who, I believe,
resides in London ; and as I think Mr. Irvine's friends
()light to be informed of his situation, I apply to you,
my Lord, to take what measures you may think proper
to discover them, if, upon the slight information I have
bee❑ enabled to give, your Lordship should think it
necessary to take any measures to the above effect.
" I forgot to say that Mr. Irvine constantly refused
any offers of assistance. He is, I believe, a native of
the north of Scotland.

" In writing to your Lordship, I think I have dis-
charged a moral duty ; at any rate, do not think that
the motive which induced me to write need. any ex-
cuse. Mr. Irvine has left this for Nantes but I shall
always be able to knew where he is.
" I remain, my Lord, your most obedient servant.
W. A. MORGAN, Vice-Consul.
" To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London.
" P.S.—Mr. Irvine was possessed of a small round
round cornelian seal mounted in gold, and serving at the
same time as a watch-key, with a painter's pallet en-
graved thereon. I think it was engraved in Latin.
I can furnish no other clue. And he seemed desirous
of destroying every thing that could furnish a clue to his
history. " W. A. MORGAN."
Cliff, with all the aliases, was brought up after Sir
Peter Laurie had disposed of several other cases.
Mr. Hobler, jun., attended for the prisoner.

It will be recollected that Thomas Cornish, alias
Thomas Cornish Broad, was stated at the last exami-
nation by a witness for the prisoner to be the accepor
of the bill, which Chit was charged by Mr. Dinsdale,
saddle and harness-maker, No. 17, Pavement, Fins-
bury-square, with having forged.
Mr. IlobhA-, jun., submitted to the Alderman, that
evidence having been given to show that the bill was not
a forgery, Clift vi as entitled to his discharge, whatever
might be the character of the person who accepted it.
Sir PETER LAURIE-_I have been given to under-
stand that the ramifications of the gang concerned in
the transactions against all these tradesmen, are infinitely
more extensive than they were at all supposed to be,
and I shall not let this man out of my hands without
affording every opportunity possible to break up the
iniquitous confederacy altogether. 1 wish to know
whether Mr. Cornish is here ?
The tradesman said that Cornish, who had fifty
aliases, would nerer attend, except the police should
compel him to make his appearance.
Sir PETER LAURIE—IS Mr. John Smith, who told
us he was a linen•draper in Bishopsgate, and seems
to be mixed up with these gentlemen, present ?
Mr. Dinsdale stated that Mr. Smith was not present.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Have any inquiries been made
about him ?

Mr. Dinsdale stated that he had made inquiries, and
found that Mr. John Smith was a man of moonshine.
A house had been lately taken by seame persons in
Bishopsgate, and two names affixed over the door, but
neither of them was Smith He learned, nowever, that
Mr. John Smith lodged in the house, and was to have
become a partner of the company. but that the neces-
sary quantum of cash was not forthcoming, on which
account the doors were closed ; and that .peculation-
which no doubt was part of the general concern, con-
cluded—thanks to Sr Peter Laurie's most benevolent
investigation.
A tradesman—That Mr. Smith got a watch from
me upon credit, but he has thought proper to give it
up to me when he found that so resolute a course was
pursued at the Mansion-house.
Sir PETER LAURIE—it i 5 most particularly to Mr.
Dinsdale the public are indebted for following up the

business.
Clift—l declare I have been brought innocently into
this difficulty. It is all brought against me for the pur-
pose of getting my house at High Wycombe, where my

property is.
A second tradesman—We have ascertained that
Cornish, the friend of Chft, is Mr. Thomas Broad, and
that he is a Cornish man. He some times goes by the
name of Cornish ; and his schedule in the Fleet men-
tioned the name Thornies Cornish Broad, and sixteen
aliases. He has made his exit from Baker-street, Lloyd's-
square, Pentonsille, where ho was when the last exami-
nation was going on.
Sir P. LAURIE—Can any guess be given as to the
&lumber of which this gang is constituted ?
Mr. Dinsdale believed that it consisted of fifty at any
rate, and they were located in different parts of the
metropolis in companies, and pretending to be earryinir,
on different trades. They were all referees, and the
unexceptionable characters they gave each other, blinded
numbers of experienced as well as inexperienced
tradesmen.
• A tradesman here stepped forward, and said that he
had been referred to Mr. Broad, by a person who ap-
plied for credit, and represented that Mr. Broad was
executor to the will by which he would shortly be in
possession of an estate. Complainant waited upon Mr,
Broad, whom he found to be a very steady comfortable
sort of person, and questioned him on the subject, and
received such an account of the applicant from the exe-
cutor, that the credit was at once given. Not a farthing
was paid by the individual who was to come in for
the property.
Mr. nobler, jun.—But none of these transactions at
all touch my client.
Several of the tradesmen declared that Clift was CO'll-
pletely identified with the whole squad, and that they
had no doubt of being able to establish a clear case
against him. There were abundant materials.
Mr. Abraham Berlyn, ladies' shoe an I fancy slipper
manufacturer, wholesale and retail, of' Church-lane
Whitechapel, stated that he had a serious case against
one of the gang. A gentleamn who called himself Capt.
Elliot, ordered a quantity of goods at his concern ; the
goods were sent home, and directions given to the porter
who took them to the Captain's house, to be sure to
bring back the money. The porter was told at the
front door to take the articles round to the back doer,
and as soon as they should be delivered to return to
the hall door with his bill and receive the amount. He
did as he was ordered, but upon going to the front door
for the cash he found the place fastened. No doubt the
goods were whipped away through the house by the
Captain, who was nowhere to be found.
Sir PETER LAURlE—That's a regular robbery. Let
every effort be made to catch this Captain. He is
connected with the gang.
we shall prove him to be one of the leading men
amongst the body of swindlers.
o
Mr. Dinsdale—Nobt of it. If he is to be found, du
Some of the complainants here stated that so inge-
niously was the business of reference regulated and car-
ried on by the different firms that any one, however
cautious, would be liable to imposition amongst them.
An umbrella manufacturer said that Clift tried it on
with 11:m for a number of umbrellas, for which the pri-
soner wished to pay with a bill, and referred bins to a
person was called a tradesman in Shoreditch, and
another at Loman's Pond, in the Borough. Witness,
however, made it a rule never to take the trouble to go
to a referee, and refused to have any dealings with the
prisoner except for ready money.
Sir PETER Lanus: approved strongly of the caution
exhibited by the umbrella maker, a 5 in cases of this
kind the referees would, of course be prepared to gave
an answer as per agreement. The recommendation of
a principal of himself might as well be taken as the ad-
ditional trouble of applying, to referees.
Another complainant, in the same trade, said that
Clift had tried it on with him for goods, with a 40/.
piece of paper, but it would not do.
A third, in the same trade, said that he had not
been quite so lucky. He had gone to the referees in
Shoreditch, and Loman's Pond in the Borough. He
received a most excellent character of Mr. Clift for
lected.
punctuality and honour, and sent him the goods ho se-

Mr. Hobler, jun.—Still, Sir Peter, you have no evi-
dence upon which to detain my client. Here are dis-
tinct cases of debt, but no felony, forgery, or misde-
meanour.
Sir P. LAURIE—Do you suppose that I should, with
such a history before me, be justified in discharging
this
man ? Mr. Hobler, jun.---I contend tha,t there is 13

ground for further detention, however unprincipled and
unwarrantable have been the dealings.
Sir PETER LAURIE—I am most ;vililrig to take
the responsibility upon myself. I shall not see the
tradesmen of the metropolis plundered by a gang of
villains, without a great effort to destroy the further
success of their machinations. lam not quite sure as
to the exoneration of Clift from the charge of forgery.
Mr. Dinsdale declared that a person had called upon
him from Cornish, and assured him from that indivi-
dual, that he (Cornish) had not accepted the bid which
Clift had given to him.

llcre Mr.ler, jun., who had very narrn•vly
watched all the statements made in evidence, and in
conversation, put the bill in question into the hands of
one of those who complaitwA against the gang and their
operations, and asked bins whether the acceptance was
not in the writing of Cornish ?—He replied in the
affirmative.

Sir PETER LAURIE—Why does not Mr. Cornish
Broad come here ?—( Laughter.) Mr. Nobler—Thete
arc Sheriff's officers waitinv for him, and no doubt he
has no fancy to go to the place to which they would be
likely to introduce him.
A tradesman—l have no doubt I caa establish a
case qainst Chit and Cornish to the amount of 581. of
which they plundered me.

Again Mr. llobler, jun., contended that notwith-
standing all the suspicious circun►stances, and the un-
doubted impropriety of the conduct of his client, there
was no grou-►d for detaining him longer.
Sir P. LAURIE—Let the prisoners be remanded till
Wednesday week ; that will give time for abundant in-
quiry. Let me see some ethers of the gang. If they
think they are severely dealt with let them bring actions
against me. I will never allow such a notorious confe-
deracy to last long, depend upon it.
The tradesmen all appeared extremely grateful to Sir
Peter Laurie for the vigorous manner in which he has
taken up their cause, :um stated that they would most
particularly attend to his instructions.
Since the time of the investigation of the notorious
Coster, who, it will be recollected, was, in the Mayor-
alty of Sir Peter Laurie, committed by that Magistrate,
• there has not been any case which excited more curiosity
or ineignation amongst the tradesmen of tho metropolis,
than this nest of swindlers has excited.