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8,653

Average Az out.
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 62,915
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
,
Worcester 6,540
York Union Banking Company, York 68,490
York City and County Banking Company, York 86,199
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, June 26, 1847.

5,590

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, July 3.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Four o'clock. But five Peers were present, in-
cluding the Noble Earl.
The object of the sitting to-day was to pass the
following Bills through Committee:—
THE MILITIA BALLOTS SUSPENSION BILL, and
THE CORN IMPORTATION BILL.
They were accordingly passed through that stage, and
ordered to be reported, the Earl of Shaftesbury acting
both as Chancellor and Chairman of Committees.
Their Lordships immediately after adjourned, the
whole proceedings not having occupied more than three
or four minutes.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
A Court was held for the dispatch of public business.
CORPORATION PROCRASTINATION.
Mr. EDKINS complained that the time of the Court
was generally so much taken up with empty discussions
upon subjects wholly unconnected with the interests of
the citizens of London, that there were upon the paper
of business notices of motion of fifteen or sixteen months
standing. He thought the Lord Mayor was bound, at
all events, to convene Courts for twelve o'clock, accord-
ing to old custom, instead of the later hour at which
they assembled, and was sure that the departure from
the earlier time contributed very much to the injurious
procrastination of public business.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir PETER LAURIE said, there were upon the paper
numerous notices of motion, which the persons who
caused them to be inserted never intended to bring for-
ward.—(Laughter.) He would instance the project of
the railroad to Farringdon-market, which was amongst
the complete impracticabilities, and Mr. Bennoch's
notice for holding the meetings of the Court of Common
Council at House of Commons hours.—(Laughter.)
There were also notices of motion for substantial compli-
ments of plate, and nothing could be more certain than
that the hand of death would be laid upon the indivi-
duals selected for such honour before the motions would
pass. He hoped all the useless and stupid notices would
be at once removed from the paper by those who had
been so injudicious as to place them on the list.—(Hear.)
A report was presented upon the subject of appropri-
ating the site of a house in Newgate street, the rent of
which had fallen in, to the beneficial plan of widening
the street. It recommended such appropriation, and also
the appropriation to the same purpose of other houses
in the naarow part of the street, as the rent of each
should fall in.
The report was agreed to immediately, and amidst
applause, the object being to give greater public accom-
modation in the crowded locality of Newgate-street.
HEALTH OF ToWNS.

Deputy BEDFORD rose to present the petition, which
the lamented Dr. Lynch had expressed so much anxiety
to introduce, from the inhabitants of Farringdon With-
out, praying the Court to set aside a sum of money to
improve the sanatory condition of tho ward, and to adopt
such measures as would improve the habitations of the
labouring classes.
The petition, after alluding to the projected new
street from King William street to King-street, which.
would cost an enormous sum, without producing benefit
at all corresponding, and which had the appearance of a
monstrous job rather than of an useful undertaking
represented that there were undertakings appertaining
to the state of the public health within the City which
more immediately and imperatively demanded the
consideration and interference of the Court than any
plan of street decoration. "It is," said the pen
tion, which enters very fully into the subject, and con-
sists of twenty-six long pages, " notorious, as shoe nin
the evidence given in the Health of Towns Commission
and the Poor-law Commission, in their inquiry into
the sanatory condition of the labouring classes, that the
disease and mortality of the metropolis are frightfully
increased by the absence or such sanatory regulations as
it is clearly within the power of the Corporation to sup-
ply. Your memorialists remind your Honourable Court
that, in the month of March, a resolution was moved in
the Court of Common Council by Dr. Lynch, urging
upon the Corporation the imperative obligation under
which it lay of immediately adopting those sanatory
regulations which the exigencies of the case required
for the purpose of diminishing the disease and mortality
arising out of the absence of such regulations, which re-
solution was supported and illustrated by a speech re
plete with striking and important facts, which created
great interest in the public mind, and obtained a refer-
ence of the said resolution to the improvement commit
tee. Your memorialists cannot avoid expressing their
deep concern at the fact of your having permitted a mat-
ter so important and pressing as this to remain for eight
months without any report having been made upon it,
and without, as your memorialists have reason to believe,
the committee to which was refeired ever having given
to it a moment's consideration, especially after it had
been shown by the evidence of the highest authorities
that of the deaths annually occurring within the metro-
polis between 4,600 and 5,000 occur from diseases pre-
ventible by ordinary precautions, while the disease, de-
bility, and poverty engendered by the absence of them
add greatly to the amount of human suffering, and to the
burden of the poor. rates."
The following are the concluding paragraphs:—
" By the 44th of Edward 111. the butchers of London
were ferbidden to slaughter cattle within the City, and
by the 16th of Richard IL the prohibition was extended
to swine. We tire at a loss to conceive cf any good
reason for now dispensing with a regulation so properly
deemed necessary for the preservation of the public
health in former times. The same may be said of fur-
naces and other sources of atmospheric pollution which
call for the like interference of your Court and the Le-
gislature. By the 35th of Edward 1., the Mayor of
London was commanded to prevent persons from light-
ing furnaces near the Tower of London during the stay
of the Queen and nobles at the Tower, because the air,
as it was alleged, is corrupted and infection promoted by
the insolubility of' the air on account of the said fur-
naces. What was true in the time of Edward the First
is equally true now, and we would respectfully suggest,
that it is scarcely less necessary to free the air from that
infection which is injurious to human life because the
Queen and the nobles may not now happen to stay at
the Tower of London.
" We also venture to suggest, that in addition to all
the other and pressing obligations which rest upon your
Court to promote the sanatory condition of the City
there is one arising out of the fact, that it was the cor-
poration of the City that opposed Sir Christopher
Wren's plan for the rebuilding of London, which was
approved by the King, and which would have
excluded all grave-yards, as well as all dark
narrow alleys without thoroughfares, and courts;
as also all trades that use great fires or yield
noisome smells, and would have secured perfect ven-
tilation and arteries of communication throughout
the City, sufficient even flor its present enormous traffic.
Taking the premises herein set forth into consideration,
and adverting to the serious responsibility which rests
upon the Corporation of the city of London, with its
ample revenues and great powers, we confidently rely
upon your Court to proceed, without loss of time, to the
completion of those sanatory arrangements which you
have so commendably bets an by the making of sewers,
and the cleansing of highways ; and that you will give
to them, moreover, a preference over the widening of
streets merely for the purposes of traffic, which, however
necessary and important, falls far short of those mea-
sures upon which the health, the comforts, and the lives
of so many of the inhabitants of the city of London im-
mediately depend."

Mr. BIICKMASTER also presented a petition from the
inquest jury of St. Andrew's, Holborn, on the danger to
the public health arising from bad sewerage. It stated
that though sewerage was proceeded in, the locality was
in as bad a condition as if there was no sewerage at all,
as the landlords did not choose to go to the expense of
opening drains to make it available, and that the supply
of water was most inadequate ; and it would be desir-
able that the Legislature should make it compulsory upon
landlords to have a due and proper supply furnished to
every house.

It was stated that an effort, which it was expected
would be successful, was to be made in Parliament to
introduce a clause making it compulsory upon landlords
to accomplish what the memorialists recommended.
The reports were referred to the Improvements Com-
mittee.

Mr. WATERLOW brought up the report of the Parlia-
mentary Committee, with the draft of a petition to
Parliament against the interment of the dead in
churches and churchyards ; and also a report recom-
mending the abatement of the nuisance of smoke from
steam-engines, and the draft of a petition on the subject.
Agreed to.

Mr. WIRE broughtNura reportNr.ecommending the ap-
propriation of some City ground at Holloway for the
erection of a prison.—Agreed to.
BRIXTON ALMSHOUSES.
Deputy ALLAN brought up a report recommending
that the Corporation should take the future manage-
ment of the almshouses erected a few years ago st
Brixton under its own management, and to autho-
rise the committee to carry into effect the negotiation
carried on for the transfer of the property, and for their
entire management and control by the Corporation.
Agreed to.
THE CLERK OF THE CITY'S WORKS.

Arr. BURN brought up the report on the reference to
consider the present salary of the clerk of the City's
works, and recommending the same to be increased to
2,5001. per annum.
The report spoke in terms of the highest appro-
bation of the conduct of Mr. Bunning, the clerk of the
works, and of his high qualifications.
Unanimously agreed to.
It is arranged that the freedom question will be dis-
posed of at the next Court.

The Bishop of Sodor and Man, on Tuesday; the
29th ult., was installed in St. Mary's Chapel, in Castle-
town, inpresence of the clergy and a numerous con-
gregation. His Lordship was afterwards sworn a
mem-
ber of council, and granted commissions or appointments
to the vicar-general, registrars, and surrolates. His
Lordship, the Archdeacon, the clergy, &c., dined with
his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, at the Govern-
ment-house.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
G UI L D HALL.

Messrs. Miall and Coekshaw, the printers of the Non-
conformist newspaper, were summoned before Aldermen
Gibbs and Wilson, for refusing to pay 13s. 4d., their
quota towards a church-rate for the parish of St. Martin,
Ludgate.
Alderman Grins having asked Mr. Miall why he re
fused to pay the money ?
Mr. Miall replied, he had newly come to reside in the
parish.
Alderman GIBBS asked how recently ? Mr. Miall
said about the Ist of April.
The Alderman inquired whether the rate was retro-
spective or prospective ? Mr. Gould, the churchwarden
said it was prospective, being made on the 6th of April
tor a year ending Lady-day, 1848.
Mr. Alderman told Mr. Miall that as the rate
was prospective he was bound to pay it, as he would
have the benefit of it.
Mr. Miall said he should derive no benefit from it.
He did not use the church, nor even know where it stood.
He objected on principle to the payment of church-rates.
There was a law of justice above all human law, that no
one should be compelled to aid the dissemination of what
he believed to be error.
Mr. Aldrman WILSON asked if he was a Quaker?
Mr. Miall said he was not. He was a Dissenter, and,
having a conscientious belief that some of the doctrines of
the Established Church were erroneous, no power on
earth ought to compel him to contribute to the support
of that Church. What would the, as a Christian, say
if he were compelled to assist in the diffusion of the
errors of Mahomedanism? Dissenters felt as much re-
pugnance to aiding the diffusion of the errors of the
Established Church.
Mr. Alderman Wart; said, if the laws of the com-
munity in which be lived required him to contribute
to the support of a religion because it was the faith of
the majority, he should think it his duty to submit to
the law.

Mr. Alderman Gmßs explained to him where the
church stood, and said if be did not use it that was his
own fault. As magistrates, they could take no cogni-
zance of his objections to the doctrines of the Es-
tablished Church. They were to administer the law as
they found it, and, as Mr. Miall did not object to
the rate as not being made according to law, they must
enforce payment.
They ordered the amount to be paid.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Charles Pollard, described in the police-sheet as a
gentleman, of No. 10, Essex-street, Strand, was brought
up on Saturday at this Court, before Mr. Hardwick, on
a charge of having, by fraudulent pretences, obtamea two
bills of 1,0001. each from Prince Napoleon Louis Bona-
parte, of King-street, St. James's.
Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullens, attended
for the Prince; and Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Gates appeared
for the accused.
Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte was sworn.—l live
at No. 3, King-street, St. James's-square. In the be-
ginning of the month of June I expected remittances
from my Florentine agent exceeding 3,0001. I received
a letter from nay agent stating that the money could not
be sent before August. On receipt of this letter I in-
structed Mr. Orsi, my private secretary, on the busi-
ness. This was in the beginning of the month of June.
A few days afterwards I received by post, or by some
other means, a letter. at my house in King-street. On
Friday, the 11th of June, the prisoner presented himself
to me as Mr. Pollard, the person who had sent the letter.
The prisoner said he had some bill stamps in his pocket,
and all he required me to do was to sign the bills in
blank. I said I was not in such a hurry ;my only
object in wanting accommodation was, that I was
unwilling to force a sale of my French railway shares.
The prisoner offered to let me have 3,0001. or
4,000 L or even 5,000/. I asked the prisoner if he wished
for security, and he replied it was not necessary ; I had
only to sign the bills, and then give the five per cent. in-
terest. I told the prisoner I eas uncertain whether I
would accept any bills. I said I would consider the and would give him an answer on the follow-
ing Monday morning. I asked the prisoner how he
came to know that I wanted accommodation. He said,
" When anybody wants money they come to us," adding
that they had lately made large leans to persons who
wanted temporary aid. Ile said also he was trying to
find a loan for 40,000/. for a gentleman whom I knew. I
sin sure that at the'tirst interview the prisoner produced
blank stamps, and asked me only to write my name on
them. I excused myself from doing, so. I asked the
prisoner for his address, and he told me it was at No. 10,
Essex street, Strand. The prisoner then went away. I
directed a certain person to make inquiries abeut the
prisoner. On the Monday following the prisoner came
to me in King-street, at 12 o'clock, according to appoint-
ment. The prisoner commenced the conversation by
speaking of tt.e difficulty of finding money in the market
on account of wile:. he called the "monetary crisis." I
told him it he had any objection to go on with the busi-
ness, it would not matter, as I had no particular neces
shy for accommodation. The prisoner said he was will-
ing to make the same engagement which he had offered
before, and then produced two bill stamps filled up.
I took a copy of the bills. There was no name at the
foot of the bills. The prisoner requested me to write
the word " accepted," and to put my name across the
bills. I did Po; and I left the bills on my table. At
this time there was no name written at the bottom of
the bills. The prisoner afterwards put his name to
the bills, and said to me, " Now, yon see, if you don't
pay, lam responsible," The prisoner asked me how I
wished to be paid; I said 8001. in cash, and the balance
in a cheque on his banker. The prisoner said the rate
of interest was to be 5 per cent. The bills were drawn
at two months, and the prisoner told me if I did not
choose to pay he would be willing to renew the bills after
that time. The prisoner said he would pay me the
money the day afterwards at twelve o'clock. The pri-
soner came the next day and told me he could not give
me the money then, because in the present state of the
market he would lose 200/. by the affair. The prisoner
went away, promising to bring the money the next day,
or certainly the day after. I asked him to write down
that promise on. paper. The prisoner copied a form
which I gave him, and he signed the paper now pro-
sorry to disappoint me. In the form which
duced. The prisoner, on going away, remarked that
he was very
I wrote for the prisoner to copy I used the word
" cheques" instead of " bills." The prisoner, though
I told him to correct any bad English, made an
exact copy of the paper I gave. him. I did not see
the prisoner on \Vednesday, and the following Friday I
wrote to him, but did not keep a copy of the letter. On
Saturday I went to Essex-street, but I was told that the
prisoner was out, though at first the servant who opened
the door said Mr. Pollard was at home. A lady came
down, who said she wan Mrs. Pollard. I had some con-
versation with her, and then 1 went away. I received a
latter from Birmingham by post. I immediately caused
active inquiries to be made after the bills, and I caused
advertisements to be put in the public papers. I wrote
an answer to the letter I received from Birmingham.
Cross-examined-7J had never before accepted a bill,
and was not acquainted with the distinction between a
bill and a cheque. I had never before hail occasion to raise
money. I gavo instructions to Mr. Sams, the bookseller,
to inquire into the character of the prisoner. Mr. Pol-
lard's name had never been mentioned to me before I
received the first note. I do not know a Mrs. James, and
no one has any bill or promissory note of' mine that I
on a charge of fraudulently obtaining
am aware of. I gaveinstructions for the apprehension
two it)he billspriosf xoneerChange-

Monsieur J. Orsi examined—Resided at 18, Stock-
bridge-terrace, Pimlicc. Was private secretary to
Prince Napoleon. In the early part of June had received
instructions from the Prince respecting a loan of 2,000/
Had never applied to the prisoner on the subject.
Ile was quite a stranger, and had never authorised
him to call on the Prince. First heard of Pollard
on the Saturday, when lie accompanied the Prince
to Essex-street. Saw the servant girl at the house, and
can confirm all the Prince has stated. Had since been
to Essex-street, and had seen Mrs. Lee, the landlady,
and also Mrs. Pollard. Called again on Sunday. and
saw Mrs. Lee again. Did not see Pollard at all. Went
afterwards to Mr. Symons's house, No. 16, London-street,
but did not see the prisoner.
Cross-examined—Did not know how Pollard came to
hear that the Prince wanted accommodation. Had only
applied to Mr. Arnold, of Sackville.street, on the
subject.
Mr. J. Arnold, of 37, Sackville-street, examined—
Had an application for a loan of 2,000/. for Prince Na-
poleon made to him. The money would have been ad-
vanced almost immediately. 5001. or 1,600/ would have
been advanced at any moment. Had a knowledge of the
prisoner, and had not instructed him to apply to the
Prince to make the loan. About a week ago the prisoner
was pointed out to him at the late Crockford's Club, in
St. James's-street.
Cross-examined—Some gentlemen have more difficulty
in raising loans than others. Had mentioned the fact of
the Prince wanting a loan to three persons only.
Ann M'Lellan examined—Was servant am No. 10,
Essex-street. Recollected the Prince calling to see Mr.
Pollard last Saturday week. Mr. Pollard was then in
the house. The prisoner occupied the front parlour.
Any one in the parlour can see all persons who come to
the door. Monsieur Orsi called on Sunday. Mr. Pol-
lard was in the house at the time. Mr. Pollard was also
in the house on Monday and Tuesday following. The
prisoner had lodged about three months in Essex-street.
He had always been at home with the exception of three
days last week.
Mr. Bush here said he was prepared with other testi-
mony to show that the prisoner was in actual possession
of the bills very lately, but he wanted the evidence of
certain witnesses to complete his case, and he should,
therefore, apply for a remand-
The evidence he should
produce would show that the prisoner had avowed his
felonious intention, and that he had boasted to others
that he bad " got hold of a very good thing." As far
as the evidence now went, be contended that a felonious
intent had been proved against the prisoner.
Mr. Hawkins wished to know what charge he was to
address himself to.

Mr. Bush said the case was one of felony; but, at all
events, the larceny was established.
Mr. Hawkins denied that this was proved. Admitting
all to be true that had been given in evidence, there was
no case whatever against the prisoner. The stamps were
the prisoner's own property, and the fact of the Prince
having signed his name on them did not make them the
property of the Prince. He contended that the whole
case had failed.

Mr. Bush insisted that the Prince had a property in
the bills. The bills were not the property of the pri-
soner. When laid on the table with the signature ofthe
Prince, they were the property of the Prince, and,
though the prisoner afterwards put his name to them,
and took them away, still he maintained the Prince con-
tinued to have a property in the bills, and could main•
tain an action of trover for their recovery. But, in ad-
dition to this there was a palpable fraud and misrepre-
sentation. which the prisoner had no right to escape
from.

Ur. HARDwIcx said ho was inclined to think there

was a sufficient property in the bills on the part of the
Prince. After the Prince had signed the bills be was
incl.ned to think the Prince acquired a property in the
bills, for he could hare taken them up, and refused to
part with them.

Mr. Hawkins said the bills were laid on the table for
the purpose of having the prisoner's name affixed to
them, and then for the prisoner to carry them away.
All that Mr. Pollard took away was the Prince's name,
and that, he apprehended, did not constitute a case of
larceny.

Mr.-Bush said the point raised about the stamps was
illw-cry. If allowed to prevail it would invalidate half
the mercantile transactions of the kingdom.
Mr. HARDWICK said he had overruled the first objec-
tion., The next point was whether a constructive
fly had been proved. It appeared that the prisoner
had stat'd he was ready to pay over the money in
cheques and notes. He took away the bills, and nothing
more was heard of him or the bills.

Mr. Hass kips said, if the prisoner had intended to act
dishonestly he would not have called on the Prince to
say he was unable to procure discount for the bills.
There was no evidence to show that the prisoner had
any felonious intention when he took away the bills.
Mr. liaaowrcK said there was not much in the point
that the prisoner had called on the Prince ; that might
have been done only for a blind. The question was,
what, under all circumstances, were the prisoner's inter'.
tions. Constructive larceny was difficult to prove, be-
cause it was impossible to dive into a man's mind to see
what his thoughts were at the time. The question was
always left to a jury, whether a person taking away bills
intended to steel them at the time. This was the ques-
tion he should certainly feel it to be his duty to submit
to a jury in the present case.
Bail was applied for and refused. Tuesday next was
fixed for re-examination.

THAMES.
Mary Ann Pether was brought before Mr. Ballantine,
charged with stealing a necklace from a dying woman
in the London Hospital, under circumstances of great
atrocity.
On Friday night Mr. Thomas Blyth, a shoemaker,
carrying on business in Combie's-row, Commercial-road
East, Mrs. Blyth, his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Owen, of Cock-
hill, Ratcliffe, and their daughter, were returning home
from Fairlop fair in a chaise cart, drawn by one horse,
belonging to Mr. Blyth, when, in endeavouring to pass
a waggon, the wheel of the chaise cart came in contact
with a kerbstone, and was overturned. All the party
were thrown out, and all were seriously injured.
Shutters were procured, and the sufferers were carried
off to the London Hospital, when it appeared
that Mrs. Blyth, whose legs had been crushed by the
waggon, was fast sinking, and as she was laid in a bed
the prisoner, who, by some means, had obtained admis-
sion with the police and others, was hanging about ber
neck, and appeared very officious. The nurses asked
her whether she knew the patient, and she said she was
her friend and neighbour. Mrs. Blyth soon afterwards
expired, and the prisoner quitted the ward, but not before
she had clasped the lifeless corpse of the patient, and
pretended great sympathy for her dreadful fate. The
suspicions of the nurses were somewhat raised by the
conduct of the prisoner, and they directed a policeman tb
watch her. The policeman then asked the nurses if they
had missed anything, and they discovered that a coral
necklace had been taken off the neck of the deceased,
and the prisoner was accused of the theft. She was
searched, but nothing was found upon her. The police-
man, however, in escorting her down stairs, heard the
necklace drop upon a rug, and immediately took the
prisoner off to the station-house. The nurses said the
ecklace was dragged from the deceased's neck with so
much force that some of her hair was attached to it.
The prisoner in her defence impudently endeavoured
to insinuate that the necklace had been stolen by the
policeman, who must afterwards have dropped it on the
rug.
____

Sir. Thomas Blyth, who was in a state of great suffer.
ing, identified the necklace, which he said was worth 31.
and said his wife had it on when she was thrown out 01
the chaise.

Mr. BALLANTINE said he bad no doubt the prisoner
had stolen the necklace. It was a most shocking case,
a❑d he should commit her for trial.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen and their daughter are in a pre-
carious state. Mrs. Owen's leg was fractured, and has
been amputated. Mr. Owen sustained a fracture of the
thigh bone, and had two ribs broken. His daughter,
who is also in the hospital, sustained so much injury
that she is not expected to survive.

GREENWICH.
George Forster, a market gardener at Chislehurst,
Kent, appeared to a summons at the instance of Mr.
John Dickenson, the landlord of the Earl Rodney public-
house, Deptford green, for an improper assault on his
deughter, Jane Dickenson, 14 years of age, under the
following aggravated circumstances:—

It appeared that on the evening of-Tuesday, the 22d
ult., the defendant called at Mr. Dickenson's house on
his way home with his van, for the purpose of taking
Miss Dickenson Kith him to Chislehurst to visit her
mother, who was staying there for the benefit of her
health. She left with him in the van about half past
eight o'clock in the evening, and before she had got far
on the road he kissed her against her will, and made her
promise she would not tell her father. He afterwards
spoke in improper language to her, and when they
reached the White Horse Inn, near Chislehurst, he
stopped the van, and wanted her to have first some
whisky or rum, and then some ale, but she declined
taking any. When on Chislehurst•common, about halt
a mile from the White Horse, he took liberties with her,
and used expressions which the witness objected to
repeat. Her clothes were torn in struggling to keep
him away.

Mr. Dickenson said he had been acquainted with the
defendant's family, which made the case worse.
Mr. TRAILL fined the defendant, who said the whole
statement was a fabrication, in the full penalty of 51.,
which ho paid.