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THREE LIVES LOST BY THE BREAKING
OF 'ICE.—A melancholy accident happened at Graham-
stone, Falkirk, on Friday, on one of the Carron dams.
A number of children were sliding, when the ice gave
way, and two of them were drowned. Some say a third
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to relate, the son sunk and was drowned.—Scottish
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The prisoner, in a firm voice, said, 46 My
Lord, I plead Guilty."
Mr. Baron PARKE then directed the Clerk of
the Arraigns to call the prisoner up for judgment.
Mr. Clarke—" Edward Beaumont Smith, you
stand convicted, upon your own confession, of
forgery. Have you anything to say why the
Court should not give you judgment according
to law V'
The prisoner then read the following address
in a low tone of voice, and apparently under
feelings of great agony :
" I pray your Lordship's indulgence while I
offer a few words to your consideration before
you discharge the duty which my conduct has
imposed upon you, that of passing sentence upon
me. I would have received that sentence in re-
spectful silence, and have thereby shortened the
period of my painful exposure as a public crimi-
nal at this bar, and would have returned in peni-
tence to my cell, did I not feel it that I
owe it to public justice, to the innocent
persons whom my conduct may have placed
in circumstances of suspicion, and also to
myself, to say a few words. The crime I have
committed is great. Ido not attempt to excuse,
or to extenuate it; but it will not be forgotten
that I have submitted myself to meet and exclu-
sively to bear all the consequences of that crime,
and I have not sought to screen myself by the
addition of duplicity or meanness, and I respect-
fully implore the Court not to think that I do
not feel all the weight and enormity of
the offence itself; because I humbly call its
attention to circumstances which are calculated
to show.that I have not become altogether de-
based in my feelings and principles. Pecuniary
difficulty, arising from misplaced confidence,
and unconnected with discredit, and of Nery
limited extent, not exceeding a few hundred
pounds, although beyond my means to.meet,
first exposed me to the suggestions of those
who tempted. me to obtain a temporary re-
lief by the fraudulent fabrication of Exche-
quer bills, to be pledged for a short time,
and then to be redeemed and cancelled for
ever. I yielded to the temptation, but without
obtaiaing the promised relief, and once com-
mitted, I became in the power of the tempter,
and my retreat has been prevented. Allured
and beguiled by a plausibility, power, and talent
which I could not resist, I became entangled be-
yond escape, and while Exchequer bills were
obtained from me to an enormous extent, I never
derived benefit even to the small extent neces-
sary to relieve me from my comparatively trifling
embarrassments, and I am at this moment in
debt for money actually borrowed from sources
unconnected with Exchequer bills to pay off
my original incumbrances. A sordid or avarici-
ous motive has never influenced me, and I have
wio
lave
used nlay
been sacrificed to the objects of others. What-
ever
thesehaveExchequer bills, no
been carried on by
those speculations
profit, or even account either of moneys raised,
or spectulations entered into, or of the losses or
gains which have resulted, have ever reached
me, and' never was intended to do so. Year
after year bills have been wrung from me, uncle
pretence of redeeming and cancelling those out-
standing, in order to prevent discovery, and
afterwards, by the repeated misapplication of
them, the necessity was created for more to ac-
complish the original purpose; and thus the fright-
ful issue which has taken place was occasioned.
If those yet unstained by guilt could appreciate
the horrors which attend a course of crime, no
sentence of the law would be
.necessary to warn
and deter them from entering upon it. I am
born of a family upon which disgrace never
lighted till now; educated in principles of inte-
grity and honour, I have lived respected, and, I
believe, esteemed ; and I have enjoyed the con-
fidence of many highly honourable persons. I
am now, by my own confession, a guilty crimi-
nal, exposed and trembling at the bar of justice,
and shrinking with agony from the gaze of my
former friends. If any there are who are dis-
posed to think my principles and education
aggravate my crime, let them forbear their cen-
sure till they have also estimated by how much
their deepen my condition, and aggravate my.
punishment. I have lived for years in. the cer-
tain anticipation of this dreadful hour, andknow-
ing that it was certain to come, except, overborne
by my own feelings, I should escape it by a still
greater crime or by flight, uncertain how soon the
period of detection would occur, every day, and
almost every hour, has awakened some alarm lest
it should have arrived, and that my character,
station, and comfort were destroyed for ever. My
Lord, during the time that has past I have had the
guilty means and strong temptation to use Exche-
quer bills, to raise sufficient money to enable me to
fly, and thereby escape my present disgrace.
But however the word honour may be supposed
to be prostituted by my using it, I yet declare
that I havebeen restrained froutflying, or raising
money for such a purpose, because I knew
that in my absence suspicion would arise that
others had been either negligently or crimi-
nally instrumental in the commission of the
fraud, and that public alarm would be the
consequence to a greater extent than the evil
justified. During the long period of my distress,
therefore, although I was overcome, and induced to
continue the commission of my offences to avoid
meeting immediate disgrace, and forbore.to make
a full disclosure of my previous conduct, which
I had often desired to do; I yet always resolved
that whenever the time of discovery should come
that I would remain and instantly avow myself
as the solely guilty official person, and make the
best reparation in my power, by preventing un-
necessary alarm and agitation to the public,
and that I would bear, with whatever pain
and remorse, the whole consequence of my
guilt, and not permit the innocent and
honourable persons in office, whether higla
or low, to be exposed to unjust suspicion.
However guilty, therefore, I yet ami voluntarily
a prisoner, and destitute of means, having acted
influencege oneLlfecehlai4ra'g much more con-
cter than -are the
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tt,hireit
hmy

Mr. Baron PARKE said—" The course you
have pursued on this occasion, in publicly
acknowledging yourself guilty of the hei-
nous offences imputed to you, and which
I learn, from the depositions and from
yourself; have been carried on for a long series of
years back, leaves to me only the duty of an-
nouncing to you the punishment which the law
assigns to your offence. It is a painful duty to
me, but it would have been a much more painful
one had I to pronounce that punishment which
was assigned to it a few years ago; because I
should have had to announce to you, notwith-
standing all that you have said in the way of
palliation, that your life must be forfeited to
the law, and that you should perish by an
ignominious death on the scaffold. The huma-
nity of the law now prevents that, and leaves
you time for repentance. But notwithstanding
what you have said, and the contrition you have
expressed, you must have been aware of the tre-
mendous consequences of the crime of which
you have acknowledged yourself guilty, and
which it is now my duty to pronounce upon you.
That to me is a painful duty to discharge, be-
cause I am sorry to pronounce it upon a person
who has filled a situation of trust and confi-
dence, who has walked in the station of a
gentleman, and who belongs to a family
of the highest honour and respectability,
and whose name is illustrious in the naval an-
nals of this country. It is painful for me to
pronounce the sentence of the law upon you ;
but, looking at the consequences of your crime
and the deep injury it has inflicted upon so-
ciety, I can do no less than to pass upon
you the severest sentence which the law allows
the Court to pronounce, namely, that of trans-
portation for life. You have done yourself no
discredit by the course you have pursued—you
have done yourself no harm; and I trust
that those who may hear the statement
that has fallen from your lips to-day, may take
warning, and see what fatal consequences are
the result of a single deviation from the princi-
ples of honour and integrity. It is im-
possible not to feel for you as a man ; but
as a magistrate it is my duty to censure in the
strongest language I can the wicked crime you
have committed, which has entailed ruin upon
hundreds of individuals, and loss to many of
their whole fortune, all in consequence
of the want of principle you have shown. Under
these circumstances, I should be wanting in my
duty if I held out to you the least hope that the
severest sentence of the law will not be carried
into effect—a sentence which, as you yourself
have said, consigns you to punishment for life
bereft of all that renders life desirable. By law,
for the rest of your existence, you will be a slave
in a foreign laud, and condemned to hard labour.
The sentence of the Court upon you, Edward
Beaumont Smith, is, that for this offence you be
transported beyond the seas for the term of your
natural life."

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iss,aodner here fell back into the arms of
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FORGING CHEQUES.— William Gregory Bigg and
Ralph Payboddy were charged with foroin, and uttering
a cheque for 2001., with intent to defraud Sir John Paul
and Co. There was another count, charging the intent
to be to defraud Mr. R. Williams.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Chambers conducted the case for
the prosecution, and called the following witnesses :
Mr. Charles Ward—l am clerk in the banking-
house of Sir John Paul, Snow, and Co. On the
9th of. October last, the cheque produced (for 2001.) was
presented for payment by the prisoner Bigg. While
the clerks were getting the notes 1 took the cheque into
Sir John Paul's room. I returned; and desired the pri-
soner to go into Sir John's room. Shortly afterwards I
saw the prisoner running to the door, and heard Sir
John call out "Stop him." The prisoner was stopped,
taken back to Sir John Paul's room, and a constable was
sent for. The cheque produced for 100/., dated
the 7th of August, 1841, was paid by me. This cheque, as
well as the other purports to be signed by Mr. Williams.
(The witness then, from the books of the bank, read a
description of the notes given in change for the cheques
of the 7th August.) I also cashed a cheque dated 17th
September, .purporting to be signed by Mr. Williams.
(Witness described the notes given in change.) I have
no recollection of the persen of the man to whom I paid
either of those cheques.
Sir John Dean Paul, who gave his evidence from the
Bench, remembered receiving a communication from
last witness, relative to a 2001. cheque. Bigg came into
his own room, and witness said to him you are
my prisoner for forgery. Bigg said he was innocent,
and expressed his wonder at witness daring to accuse
him. Witness said he should send for Mr. Wil-
liams, who would prove that it was a forgery. Bigg
replied " You need not do that, Mr. Williams is out of
town." Witness said, " If so, how came he to sign the
cheque to- day. You convict yourself." Bigg attempted
to run away, but was stopped and given into custody.
Mr. R. V. W. Williams had an accouNt at the bank.
Mr. Robert V. W. Williams—l am an attorney. My.
offices are in the Temple. The prisoners were in
my employment as writing clerks for about a
year and a half. Paybody had 18s. a week, and Bigg
15s a week. I drew cheques on Snow's Bank from a
cheque-book, which I kept in a drawer of my desk in
my office locked up. I noticed that the cheque-book
had become unsown. Payboddy quitted in May, and
Bigg in March of the present year. The signatures to
the three cheques produced are all forgeries. It is a good
imitation of my signature.
Thomas Whitehead, policeman, took Biggs into cus-
tody on the 9th of October. In searching him a ten
pound note was found on him.—(The note was pro-
duced, and was one of those described by the clerk.)
Four blank cheques of a similar sort were also found upon
Bigg.
George Weston, policeman, was on duty at the sta-
tion-house when Bigg was brought there. Bigg said to
Mr. Williams's clerk that Payboddy was at the bottom of
it all, and that they would find him down by the church,
dressed in a butcher's dress. "Witness went to St. Cle-
ment's Church, about 30 yards from the bank, but did
not find anybody there. Witness went to Gooch-street,
Tottenham Court-road, and found him standing outside
a butcher's shop, which was his own. He took him into
custody. Witness told him what for. He said "I know
all about it." Witness then told him he must go with him.
On 'the way to the station-house, witnesss said, " I
expected to find you down by the church."
prisoner said,, " Who told you I was there ?
To tell you the truth, I was there." Bigg called on me
this afternoon, and asked me to go for a walk with him
I went as far as the church, and waited outside, while
Bigg went into the 'bank. I always considered Bigg to
be a man of property." Witness understood him to say
that a woman, who was talking to him when he was taken
into custody, had told him all about it. . ••
; i 13y the COURT—Payboddy was first of all allowed to

The Grand Jury were dismissed on Friday night. No
bill had been presented to them against Ernest Rapallo.
CHARGE OF ARSON.—A fair-haired, interesting-look-
ing child, apparently net more than twelve years of age,
named Eiizabeth Cope, was placed at the bar, charged
with wilfully setting fire to a dwelling-house in the pa-
rish of Chelsea.

It appeared that the prisoner had for some years been
an inmate of the Hans Town Charity School, in the pa-
rish of Chelsea, and that a short time since one of the
beds at that establishment had been set fire to, but the
flames had been extinguished before they had communi-
cated to the room, and that no part of the house itself
had ever been actnally on fire.
Mr. CLARKSON for the prisoner took an objection, that
as the charge was for setting fire to the dwelling-house,
and as it was proved by the prosecution that the house
was never actually on fire, the case must fall to the ground.
Mr. Baron PARKE thought the objection good, and
directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner.
Mr. CLARKSON said the reason given by the child for
doing as she had done was, that she had been at the
school a long time, and wished to get away. The ladies
of the establishment were, he understood, extremely de-
sirous that the child should not be exposed to temptation
through want of proper care being taken of her, and he
had to state that her uncle, the brother of her deceased
father, was in Court, and was anxious to have the child
delivered up to him, and he would take every care of her.
Mr. Baron PARKE directed she should be placed under
the care of her uncle, and she was delivered up to him
accordingly.
Before the case of Smith was proceeded with on
Saturday, Mr. Clarkson made an application on behalf
of a man named Croft, charged with rape, and who had
only been committed on Friday, that his trial might be
postponed to next Session. It was sworn that there were
material witnesses to be subpoenaed, whose names and
addresses had yet to be learned, and whose attendance
this Session, therefore, could not be obtained. The
Court granted the application.
• • .A'E W COURT.

William Smith, 21, a painter, and Mary Davis, 22,
were indicted for feloniously stealing six curtains, two
candlesticks, two sheets, and other. articles, of the value
of 71., the property of Mary Ann Lewis, in her dwell-
ing-house.
The facts of this case have recently been before the
public, when it was heard at Marlborough-street police.
The robbery was alleged to have been committed •in a
brothel kept by the prosecutrix.
Mr. Do.orE defended the prisoners, who were 'indicted
upon two several charges of felony.
The Jury found both prisoners Guilty.
The indictment then charged the male prisoner that
he, in the month of January, 1837, was convicted of the
crime of clipping and coining, who was then sentenced to
seven years' transportation. This sentence was com-
muted to a term of imprisonment.—Sentence Deferred.
This trial occupied the whole of the morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.

Captain Rose, a military gentlemen, appeared to corn-
plain of a grievance for which he had in vain sought
redress. He engaged a passage for himself and his
family list June, in the North Star steamer, from Lon-
don to Invergordon (about thirty miles north of Inver-
ness), for which he was compelled to pay the fares upon
engaging the berths. On their way down the person
who had charge of her, contrived to run her on a rock
off the small fishing village of Johnshaven, in Forfarshire.
There,was a fog at the time, but little, if any, wind.
The fog, however, was not so dense but that the appli-
cant could distinguish the houses on shore, though it
was night. The first land they should have made was
Peterhead, so that they could not have been less than
thirty miles out of their course. The passengers and
goods were landed, the latter in a very damaged state,
and most of applicant's clothes were completely de-
stroyed by the salt water. From Johnshaven a por-
tion of the passengers were conveyed in a steam tug to
Aberdeen, where they were left to shift for themselves.
Upon applying to the agent at Aberdeen, and request-
ing to be forwarded to his destination, applicant was
treated with the greatest incivility, and could obtain no
redress. He was compelled to remain two nights at the
Aberdeen Hotel with his family, as the coaches were full
out and inside for two days, and he had then to pay for
the journey thence to Invergordon, a distance of about
140 miles. -On his return to London last week, he took
the receipt for the money he had paid to the office at
which he had paid it in the Strand, requesting that it
might be given back to him, as the contract had not been
performed ; but he was referred by the parties there to
Yr. Edward Wright, the agent of lore's wharf, who re-
ferred him again terMessrs. Duffus and Co., the proprie-
tors of the vessel in Aberdeen. He considered it to be
useless for him to apply in that quarter, as he was refused
there on his personal application in June. He, therefore,
considered it to be his duty to make the matter public
through the Lord Mayor. He perceived that the vessel
was advertised to commence running between London and
Inverness the first week in March, and he suggested that
passengers should refuse any payment whatever until
landed at their destinations. No explanation had been
given by the proprietors of the disaster which had oc-
curred.
The LORD MAYOR said he had no doubt that publicity
would be given to the coniplaint, and in all probability
the Directors would come forward upon the occasion.
His Lordship also intimated to Captain Rose that he
could obtain a remedy in a Court of Law.
BOW-STREET.

Louisa Stanfield was charged with stealing a quantity
of plate, the property of.J. M'Donald, Esq., a barrister,
resudir°-, in Garden-court, Temple, under the following
circumstances :
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner was his laun-
dress, and that in July last he went out of town, leaving
her in charge of his chambers; he returned to town about
three weeks since, and, while at dinner, he observed that
there was not so much plate on the table as usual. This
excited his suspicion, and induced him to examine his
plate chest, the key of which had been in the prisoner's
possession during his absence from town, and on doing
so he found it was nearly empty. In answer to inquiries
he made of the prisoner, she replied that she had taken it
home to clean, but would bring it back again on the fel-
lowing day. On Wednesday he again examined the plate
chest, when every thing appeared to be all right, with this
exception, that he missed two or three silver forks, and
which the prisoner said she had left at home, but would go
and fetch them. Before she went out for that purpose she
requested that witness would advance her 5/. on account of
her wages, but which, however, he refused to do. She
then went away, but shortly afterwards returned with
two of the forks, and on re-counting the articles of plate
witness found that only one fork was missing, but beforete
he closed the chest he was induced todexamincone of h
forks, and on doing so found that it was made of imita.
other articles
tion silver. This led him to examine the
in the chest, when he found that all hissiler forks,
metal. The
spoons, &c., had been changed into Britannia
prisoner subsequently confessed _ teoh wouldim
gett h a
it sheall back had
-pawned the plate, and said that h
again if witness would let her
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broker s duplicates for the plate. Witness had missed
a variety of other articles from his chambers, of the value
altogether of 601.
The 10
remanded until Wednesday.
John- Sritsalfiecrldwpa s her husband, was shortly afterwards
placed at the bar, on suspicion of having been concerned
in the robbery. He had access to prosecutor's chambers,
being employed there to clean his shoes, and from
infor-
mation witness had received, lie expected to bring im-
portant evidence against him on a future day. The pri•
soner was remanded.