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early effected at about the rates of this day slinnight,
whilst, by submitting to a decline of about 2s. per
quarter, a fair extent of business was done in the best
description of south country and foreign, but middling
qualities were most difficult to move, although offered
at a greater reduction. Flour was much pressed for
sale in the early part of the week, at a decline of 2s.
to 3s. per sack ; but there being very little offering
to-day, rather more firmness was displayed by sellers,
and the comparative scarcity of the article enabled
holders to obtain rather more money than could have
been obtained earlier in the week. Barrels are sale-
able at 265. to 28s. according to quality. In rye
little passing. Grinding barley in fair demand, and
late rates fully sustained ; for malting samples no in-
quiry. Malt continues to evince a drooping ten-
dency,. and the low price at which barley is likely
to set in will doubtless cause holders to manifest some
anxiety to realise their stocks previous to the new
appearing at market. Beans and peas without change.
The show :of oats from the country being moderate,
and principally of the new crop, sales could only be
made by submitting to easier rates, but in the value of
old we have little variation to note.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-lIOUSE.
The LORD Mayors said he had received from a
fellow-citizen a communication upon a subject to
which the public press frequently referred in its
energetic attempts to have a system established for
the improvement of the health of towns, He should
openly read the letter, in accordance with the request
of his correspondent:—
" May it please your Lordship,—l request to call
your attention to a shameful desecration of the last
resting place of the dead, which I have just witnessed
with horror and disgust from the window of my
counting-house, which overlooks the very small
churchyard of St. Ethelburga, in Bishopsgate-street
Within. I saw the men employed in digging a
grave the spot, however, must have been often the
recipient of human remains ; for at least six sculls
and several large and small bones were thrown up
and treated with that apathetic indifference which
familiarity with such employment alone can account
for. The sculls, as thrown up, were knocked to
pieces by the men, and by them were shovelled in
negligently under the mould that had been thrown
up. Whilst this was going on several boys were
occupied in detaching the nails from portions of the
coffins, an occupation which seemed to afford them
much mirth, for they seemed very merry indeed.
During this scene the effluvia from the spot was
offensive in the extreme.
" I beif to apologise for thus intruding on your
Lordship s valuable time, but knowing your Lord-
ship's desire to abate whatever is offensive to the
morals or health of the citizens, over whom you so
worthily preside, must be my excuse for begging that
your Lordship will permit this communication to be
read in open Court. The authorities with whom it
rests to prevent the recurrence of such scenes will be
thereby reminded of their duty in a manner more
effectual than by the mere representation of an indi-
vidual.--I have the honour to be, &c. &c.,
FREDERICK CARSON,
" Firm of Samuel Phillips and Co.,
St. Helen's-place.'
His Lordship said, that amongst the numerous
complaints made to him relative to desecrations of
the description mentioned by Mr. Carson, was one
from Dr. Farquhar, of No. 101, Drury-lane, who
called upon him the other day for the purpose of re-
questing his magisterial attention to the condition of
the burying-ground attached to Elim Chapel, in
Fetter-lane, a place of worship which he believed
belonged to the body of Dissenters called the Pri-
mitive Christians. A carpenter had, the Doctor
said, called upon him, and having mentioned that
he had buried two of his children in that ground,
expressed the greatest apprehension that their bo-
dies would be cut in pieces, and mixed up
with others in compliance with the regulations
which seemed to prevail there. In order to be sure
that there was no exaggeration in the statement,
Dr. Farquhar said that he had visited the burial-
ground himself, and he found that there were actually
on the spot two or three cart-loads of human re-
mains packed up in coffins for carting and removal to
some other place, which it might be, perhaps, con-
sidered necessary, on some future occasion, to dese-
crate in a similar manner. Dr. Farquhar denounced
such treatment of human bodies, which thus appeared
in the various degrees of decomposition, as an out-
rage of the most appalling kind, and stated that the
exposure in the close neighbourhodd was calculated
to engender diseases of fatal character. Now, nothing
could be more congenial to his (the Lord Mayor's)
feelings than the power of applying a remedy to
such an evil ; but he could not act as a magistrate on
this occasion. Dr. Farquhar was then referred to
the ward authorities, but he said that he should leave
his statement to be disposed of as the Chief Magis-
trate might think fit, upon which he (the Lord
Mayor) adopted the present mode of letting those
who had the power of dealing with the question know
what was going forward in the churchyards of the
metropolis.
Thomas ill'Carthy and Mary Doherty were charged
with haviug fraudulently obtained a sovereign from
Mr. Nagle, the owner of a public-house in Tower-
street, St. Martins-lane.
The prosecutor walked into a public-house at six
o'clock one morning to treat some friends, and he saw
the two prisoners and a young man of respectable
appearance, who addressed him by name and claimed
acquaintance with him. While :-they were talking
together, one of the prosecutor's friends told him that
he was conversing with a thief, whereupon the male
prisoner knocked down the man who gave the caution,
and at the same time the person alluded to as the thief
whipped the watch out of Mr. Nagle's fob and de-
camped. On Wednesday the two prisoners called
upon Mr. Nagle and told him that if he was willing
to pay 41. 10s. to a Jew, in Petticoat-lane, he could
get back his watch ; that the female prisoner, who
was the original receiver of the property, had sold it
to " Smouchy," and that they would all go to the
crib to get it back. The prosecutor consented to ac-
company the prisoners to the Jew, but took care to
plant two policemen to watch their movements in the
neighbourhood. The prisoners, after having pointed
out a person in Petticoat-lane as the man who had
present possession of the watch, proposed to the pro-
secutor that he should put a sovereign into their
hands to hand to the Jew as a guarantee that all
was right, and with that sovereign they attempted to
escape.
Committed for trial.
BOW-STREET.
John Robson, alias Thompson, alias Spore, and
many other names, was again placed at the bar,
charged with obtaining charitable contributions by
false pretences.
The particulars of the case appeared in our paper
of Monday last. The officers of the Mendicity So-
ciety now attended, with a large number of letters,
supposed to be written by the prisoner, and sent from
time to time to Lord J. Russell, Lcrd Eldon, Vis-
count Morpeth, the Marchioness of Londonderry,
the Duke of Northumberland, and other noblemen
and gentlemen, from many of whome he had received
donations, at one time or another, during the past 12
months.
It will be remembered that the prisoner was given
into custody by Mr. It. W. Grey, M.P., who, suspecting
his character, had caused the police to be in waiting
to take him into custody, on a second application, at
his house in Belgrave-square, and after receiving five
shillings from the Hon. Gentleman.
It appeared from the letters, all of which wore read
in Court, that the prisoner had assumed different
names, and dated them from different parts of London.
It was amusing to observe the incongruity of these
documents when read one after the other ; for, accord-
ing to them, the prisoner had been confined to his bed
from a succession of broken legs and limbs, which
occurred regularly every other week for a consider-
able length of time past, although dat;ng his applica-
tions for relief from the Commercial-road, from South-
wark, from Fenchurch-street, and other localities,
equally distant from each other.
The prisoner did not deny that he had written
most of the letters produced, but adhered to his state-
ment in the one addressed to Mr. Grey, that he had
suffered severely from the failure of a joint-stock
bank in the north of England.
Mr. JARDINE said he had taken care to have the
whole of the letters produced recorded, in order that,
on a future occasion, if the prisoner should ever be
again detected in this kind of fraud, he might have
the punishment he so well merited. At present his
Worship regretted that, being a first conviction, he
was only enabled to inflict the punishment of three
months' hard labour, to which he then sentenced him.
WESTMINSTER.
James Savage and William Durant, respectively
aged 16, were charged under the following circum-
stances :
Mr. Lazenby, of Little Chelsea, said that on the
previous afternoon he discovered from twelve to
twenty boys in his gardens stealing fruit, and suc-
ceeded in capturing the prisoners. Not only bad the
boys stolen an immense quantity of fruit, but they
had split the trees in several places, and torn up a
great number of artich-lres by the roots.
Complainant produced an exceedingly large apple,
apparently twelve or fourteen inches in circumference,
and said that he had for fourteen. years, paid great
attention to the culture of the tree upon which it
grew. The apple now was not near so large as in all
probability it would have been, and it was a source
of much vexation to find that this tree had been en-
tirely demolished by the boys.
Mr. BRODER'? observed that depredations of this
sort were now carried on to so serious an extent, by
organized gangs, that he should suggest the propriety
of checking the offence by the employment of police-
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The prisoners, who pretended that they went into
the ground to get, their caps, which were thrown
there by some other boys, were committed for two
months each.

WlSBEkelf, SEPT. 4.—We have a very small at-
tendance of growers here to-day. A few samples of
new wheat are offering, and find buyers at last week's
prices. A large supply would have met a good de-
mand on the same terms, and this remark applies to
old as well. New oats fetch 10)1d. a stone for good
mealing quality.
LZEDI, SEPT. 7.—The arrivals of grain are mo-
derate this week. The weather continues fine for
harvest. Wheat finds free sale at fully Friday's
prices; the little new here goes off at extreme rates.
Barley as before. Oats, shelling, and beans, without
variation in price.

WORSREET.
Mr. Charles Clayton HIP-S ,
a fanT
cy-soap manufucturar
and wholesale perfumer in Fell-street, Cheapside,
was brought up in custody of Holland, the warrant
officer, charged with an aravated assault upon
Georgiana Hoskins, a respectable and modest-looking
young woman, sixteen years of age.
The complainant stated, that feeling anxious to pro-
cure some respectable employment, she was recom-
mended to call at a linendraper's in Goswell-street-
road, to which she went on Monday evening ; but on
communicating her errand she was informed by the
owner that there was no vacancy in his establishment.
She accordingly left, but had only gone a short dis •
tance from the door when the defendant, who had been
previously standing at the counter, apparently trans.

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acting business, but who had then taken no notice of
her, suddenly came up, and representing himself as
a commercial traveller for wholesale houses in the
linendrapery business in the City, intimated that he
should have no difficulty in furthering the object she
had in view, as he had been requested by a large house
in Shoreditch to procure for them several respectable
young persons as assistants. After some further con-
versation, in the course of which he referred to seve-
ral respectable firms with which he was connected, she
accompanied him to various shops where he had busi-
ness to transact ; at the conclusion of which he pro
mised to introduce her to a person who would require
her services. The defendant then asked her to ac-
company him to the house of a friend of his in the
neighbourhood, where they would have every facility
to complete the negotiation, and at which he would
furnish her with his address, and conducted her to a
house in what she had since ascertained to be a noto-
rious locality, called the Vinegar-ground. They
were shown into a room, in which she was startled to
find a bed, and the defendant almost immediately
seized her, and, forcing her upon it, proceeded to acts
of violence too gross to be described. She resisted to
the utmost of her power, and screamed loudly for as-
sistance, when he told her that her cries were quite
useless, for that if a policeman came he could readily
escape, while she would be taken to the station. She,
however, continued her screams and struggles, so as
to prevent the completion of the offence, and at length
succeeded in escaping into the street, in a state of ex-
treme terror, followed by the defendant, who made
her promise to wait a few minutes, while he entered a
jeweller's shop ; but the instant he had done so, she
hastened to the house of a female friend in the City-
road, to whom she communicated the particulars of
the outrage to which she had been subjected, and was
protected home to her father, who subsequently went
round to the shops she had indicated, and having there
obtained the defendant's name and address, took out a
warrant for his apprehension.
Mrs. Jane Supple, the lady referred to, corrobo-
rated the latter part of the complainant's statement,
and deposed that upon reaching her house the young
woman was in a state of dreadful excitement, and her
whole appearance denoted the ill-treatment to which
she had been exposed.
Mr. Vann was about to address the Magistrate on
behalf of the defendant, when
Mr. HAMMILL said that after the convincing evi-
dence he had heard, he felt it his duty to remand the
defendant upon the charge, but would, in the mean•
time, accept bail for his future appearance, which
must be defendant himself in 2001., and two respon-
sible sureties in 1001. each, with 24 hours' notice to
inquire into their sufficiency.
SOUTHWARK. _

Edward Price, landlord of the Elephant and Castle
beer-shop in the Kent-road, was charged with as-
saulting Mark Redman, under the following circum-
stances. _ _ . _ .

The complainant, whose eye was blackened and
swollen, stated that some days since he was induced
to purchase a ticket in a sweepstakes for the St. Leger,
held at the Elephant and Castle, in the Kent-road.
He called there a few days ago to know the result of
the draw, and the running horses, at which thile
the defendant was in the bar, of whom he made
the necessary inquiries. He (complainant)
asked him if he was more fortunate in drawing a
good horse this time than he had been on former
occasions, and was answered that the Morse he had
drawn was not amongst the starters, therefore, he
had nothing to expect. Complainant made a remark,
that although he had often expended money in the
purchase of tickets, still he never got anything
by it ; and added, that he thought there was a great
deal of trickery and humbug about those things, and
that he should take care and not throw away his
money again on sweepstakes. The moment he made
those remarks the defendant got into a passion, called
him by an offensive epithet, and when he (complain-
ant) retorted, and said that he did not deserve the
application bestowed upon him any more than the
man who had uttered it, the defendant immediately
struck him a violent blow on the face that made his
nose bleed, and blackened one of his eyes; not con-
tented with this, he seized him by the shoulders, and
was thrusting him out of the house, hut on seeing
that he was bleeding, his assailant ashamed to eject
him into the road in such a condition, permitted him
to remain in the house until it stopped.
The defendant, a very powerful man in comparison
to the complainant, said the latter had exaggerated
the facts—that when he entered the house, on being
apprised that the horse he had drawn was not a
starter, he became extremely abusive, and taunted
the sweepstakes got up at his house as a regular
piece of humbug, and insinuated that he had been
choused out of his money. Such language was im-
proper, and he desired the complainant to quit the
house if he could not behave himself, and he (de-
fendant) admitted that he was about to turn him out
when he lifted up an umbrella, and made a strike at
him with it, and he merely pushed him on one side,
but declared that he did not strike him, or give him
the black eye of which he complained.
The defendant then called two witnesses who were
drinking on the premises at the time to rebut the
complainant's statement as to his having struck him,
but they equivocated so much that the Magistrate re-
marked that he did not place any credence in their
statements, but believed the main facts as described
by the man who had been assaulted.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM then said, that the conduct pur-
sued by the defendant, a strong and powerful man,
in comparison to the complainant, reflected much dis-
grace upon him. He then inflicted a penalty of 40s.
and costs on the defendant, and at the same time
addressing the young man who had been assaulted,
advised him in future to refrain from throwing away
his money in the purchase of tickets on races.

LAMBETH.
Samuel Shepheard, 143 L, was brought before Mr.
Elliott, by order of the Police Commissioners, on a
charge of violation of duty.
Police-sergeant Thomas Veness, 2 L, deposed that
on Monday night the prisoner, after going on duty,
had deserted from his beat, and on the following
morning he, witness, took him in Tooley-street.
Inspector Evans said that on Monday morning the
prisoner, who had been about six months in the force,
had been taken before the Commissioners, in Scot-
land-yard, and fined 2s. for being irregular.
Mr. ELLiorr observed that the prisoner's conduct
on the occasion was very gross. and his having been
fined by the Commissioners on Monday morning, in-
stead of acting as a check or example to him, seemed
to have a contrary effect. The Magistrate sentenced
him to pay a penalty of 405., or, in default of pay-
ment, to be committed to prison for fourteen days.
Charles Gibson Reggers, a journeyman baker, in
the service of Mr. Marshall, of Loughborough-place,
Brixton, was finally examined, and fully committed
for trial on various charges of embezzling the moneys
of his master.

The statement of the prisoner was added to the
depositions, by her own desire, and she signed it.
The prosecutor, in answer to a question put by the
magistrate, said there was not one word of truth in
what the female prisoner had stated.
The prisoners were then committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court.

THAMES.
Two soldiers, named Joseph Stordy, a private in
the Coldstream Guards, and Edward Darby, of the
Grenadier Guards, surrendered before Mr. Yardley,
on a charge of feloniously receiving a gold watch and
appendages, value 30 guineas, the property of Mr.
John Sercombe.
The case has been repeatedly before the magistrate
during the last three weeks, and every exertion has
been made by the police to discover two women of the
town, who first administered a noxious drug to the
prosecutor, and rendered him insensible, and while he
was in that state, plundered him of his watch and
money. The exertions of the police to discover the
women have proved unavailing. The prosecutor, who
has been seriously indisposed since the robbery, could
not attend till to-day, when the prisoners, in pursu-
ance of an order of the magistrate, were surrendered
by the sergeants of their respective regiments.
Mr. Sercombe, a middle-aged gentleman, stated
that on the night of the 19th of August he was re-
turning home, after dining with some friends, when
he met with two women opposite the National Gal-
lery, and went home with them to a court in the
neighbourhood of Tothill-street, Westminster. He
sent for some wine, and drank a few glasses with the
females, and became very unwell. The two girls
then mixed something in a tea-cup, which they
assured him would do him good. He drank it off,
and became insensible immediately. He had no
farther recollection of what passed, and did not re-
cover from his stupor till the following morning,
when he found himself alone in a room. His watch,
and all his money, consisting of fourteen or fifteen
sovereigns, and about 7s. 6d. in silver was gone.
There was an old woman in the house, but he did not
seen any other person. He left the house as soon as
possible, and upon reaching the court he saw two
soldiers, whom he firmly believed left the house next
the one in which he passed the night in the court, and
they ran away on seeing him approach. He gave
immediate information of the robbery to the police.
A gold watch, guard, and chain were produced and
identified by Mr. Sercombe as his property. The
value of the articles was thirty guineas.
In answer to questions by the magistrate, Mr.
Sercombe said he was satisfied a noxious drug was
mixed in the tea-cup. It took immediate effect upon
him.

Mr. 'William Byas, pawnbroker, of No. 147, Rat-
cliff-highway, stated that on the evening of Thurs-
day, the 19th of August, the gold watch and chain
just identified was brought to his shop, and Stordy
asked 50s. upon it. He questioned the prisoner, who
said his name was Hutchins, of St. George's Barracks,
Charing-cross, that the watch was his own property,
that he had had it in his possession 19 years, and that
it had been left him by his father, who was in posses-
sion of it 55 years. Darby said, " You need not be
afraid, Sir, I know the watch and guard-chain to be
my comrade's property, and have seen it in his posses-
sion several years." Witness was not satisfied with
the statements made by the two soldiers, and gave
them into the custody of the police.
Police-sergeant Covey, No. 7 11, stated that when
he took the prisoners into custody, Stordy said the
watch had been in his possession eight years, and that
his father, who lived in Cumberland, had had it 15
years. Witness asked him who could prove that he
had had the watch in his possession so long, and he
referred to the other prisoner, who he said was his
cousin. Darby confirmed all that Stordy said.
Witness told them he was not satisfied, and he should
lock them up on a charge of stealing the watch.
Stordy then said, " tell you the truth—the watch
was given me by two girls, and they are in a public-
house close by." Witness accompanied the prisoner
to a great many public-houses, but he pretended he
could not find the girls, and he locked him up again.
On the following
.morning Stordy said Darby gave
him the watch to pawn before he went to the pawn-
office.
Stordy, on being called on for his defence, said he
was brought into the affair innocently. He knew
nothing of the hocussing and robbery, and had never
seen Mr. Sercombe before. He met two girls at
Pimlico' and they brought him and his comrade down
to Ratcliff-highway, and asked them to pledge the
watch.
Darby made a similar defence. He was fetched
away from his barracks by Stordy. He went out and
saw the two girls, and he accompanied them to Rat-
cliff- high way.
Mr. YARDLEY said a most serious robbery had been
effected, and although the evidence did not go far
enough to implicate the prisoners in stealing the pro-
perty, he should commit them to Newgate for trial,
for feloniously receiving the watch and chain, they
well knowing them to have been stolen.
Hamilton Murray, who is well known in the dis-
trict as a broker, man in possession, and hanger-on at
police courts, and the Whitechapel County Court, was
brought up on remand, charged with fraud.
It appeared in evidence that on the 12th of June
last Mr. Pike, landlord of the Fox and Goose public-

house, in Shakspere's-walk, Shadwell, went to the
Whitechapel County Court, to take out a summons,
and was accosted by the prisoner, who, on learning
his business, said he would do it for him, and repre-
sented himself as the bailiff and officer of the Court.

In adjournment took place to a neighbouring tavern,
where the prisoner repeated, over a pot of ale, that he
was the bailiff and authorised to take out summonses.
lie procured some printed forms which were filled
up with the names of plaintiff and defendant, and
next day Mr. Pike had an interview with the prisoner
at the Fox and Goose, and gave him 7s. 9d. for the
purpose of taking out summonses, that sum being named
by the prisoner as the fees payable when process was
obtained. The prisoner at the same time received a
written authority from Mr. Pike to take out money
already paid into Court by one of the prosecutor's
debtors. The prisoner signed a receipt for the money
paid him by Mr. Pike, but he never took out any
summonses, and Mr. Pike soon ascertained he was an
impostor, and had been convicted of felony.
Mr. Gregory, one of the bailiffs of the Whitechapel
County Court, said the prisoner has no official ap-
pointment whatever, but was a mere hanger-on about
the Court, and printed cautions had been posted
warning suitors against the malpractices of such

persons.
Mr. Pelham made a defence to show Murray only
represented himself as an agent.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
A well-dressed woman, named Mary Boyle, was
charged with unlawfully knocking at the door and
ringing the bell at the house of Mr. Stevens, soap
manufacturer, in Dock-street, Whitechapel, near the
new Mariners' Church.
Mr. Gilbert, nephew of Mr. Stevens, stated that
on Tuesday night the prisoner came to his uncle's
house, in Dock-street, and said she wished to have
an interview with Mr. Stevens. He refused to call
his uncle, and desired the prisoner to quit the house
instantly, which she declined doing, until he threat-
ened to give her into custody, when she left the
place. About five minutes afterwards she returned
to the house again, and rung the bell. She re-
peatedly asked for Mr. Stevens, and he told her he
could not be seen. The prisoner peremptorily refused
to leave until she had seen Mr. Stevens, and he was
compelled to give her into the custody of a police-
constable.
The prisoner, in defence, said she was a deeply-
injured woman. She was formerly servant to Mr.
Stevens, and she lived under his protection for a
series of years, and had borne him seven children,
four of whom were now living. Mr. Stevens sup-
ported her, and behaved very well to her until within
the last two months, when he abandoned her, and
.she was thrown upon the wide world with her four
children without any means of support. Mr. Ste-
vens had repeatedly made the most solemn pledges
that he would always maintain her and her children,
but at the instigation of others he repudiated her.
She merely went to the house on Tuesday night for
the purpose of having an interview with Mr. Stevens,
and he was denied. She knew that Mr. Stevens was
at home when she called, and that Mr. Gilbert denied
him.

Mr. Pelham, who was instructed to plead the cause
of the woman at the bar, said the connexion which
had so long subsisted between her and Mr. Stevens
was well known to Mr. Gilbert, and put some ques-
tions to him.
The witness stoutly denied that he knew anything
whatever of any such connexion as that alluded to.
He also swore that he was not aware that Mr. Stevens
was by repute the father of the prisoner's children.
He knew nothing about it.
Mr. Pelham—Do you mean to swear that, Sir ?
Mr. Gilbert—Yes, I do.
Mr. Pelham then called Mr. John Jackson, a re-
spectable hatter, residing in Stepney, nearly opposite
the Court, who said he knew all the circumstances
of the affair, and the prisoner stated that which was
perfectly true, and Mr. Gilbert was cognizant of all
the facts. He had endeavoured to obtain something
like justice at the hands of Mr. Stevens, and had
communicated, in the most delicate manner, with
some members of his family, to avoid exposure, but
without success. Mr. Stevens was reported to be
worth 30,0001. to 40,0001., and would not support his
children. The prisoner had endured great distress
and anguish of mind for several weeks past, and she
was in possession of fifty pawnbrokers duplicates re-
lating to property she had pawned to maintain herself
and four boys.
Mr. YARDLEY was satisfied that Mr. Gilbert knew
more than he thought proper to divulge. When
people came into a court of justice, they were bound
to tell the whole truth. He then pressed Mr. Gilbert
very closely, and he extracted from him that he was
aware of his uncle's connexion with the prisoner, and