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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN G 1
_OCTOBER 11, )847

gage in a foot-race with the legs tied is not a
more irrational step. Statesmanship in such follies
as these seems utterly lost sight of. One of the chief -
duties of a Government must be admitted to be the
proper regulation of the currency, so as to secure, as
far as possible, an equable and permanent condition.
A comparatively slight fluctuation often leads to pro-.
digious and most calamitous results. For, as the
greater part of the currency is necessarily diffused, in
small quantities, among the millions—the masses—
it follows that a rapid increase, or reduction, in the
quantity of money afloat,—effects an increase, or re-
duction, of perhaps one-fourth or one-third, of the
money employed in mercantile transactions. If an
increase, it leads to ruinous speculations ;—if a dimi-
nution, it brings those speculations to a sudden close
by bankruptcy. The complacency of Sir Charles
Wood, and the confidence of Lord John Russell, is
said to be, as yet, unshaken. Well, there are still
several weeks to pass over, before the return of the
usual period for the meeting of Parliament. We have
considerable doubt whether their self-satisfied tone of
mind will be endurable after Christmas. Nine or ten
weeks more, of the present state of discomfort and
extreme danger, may be more than the patience of
the merchants of London may prove equal to. And
the inconvenience of a want of money will, very soon,
begin to make itself felt, even in Downing-street.
ADVERTISER.—The Quarterly Revenue Tables
are always looked forward to with considerable inte-
rest, as they form, as it were, the pulse of the nation,
whereby its healthy or ailing condition may be
clearly and indisputably judged. Political partisans
may impart varied aspects to the condition of public
affairs, to suit party feelings. But figures it is im-
possible to distort to serve such objects, and conse-
quently they form most valuable materials, where-
from correct and well-grounded opinions may be de-
duced, respecting the position of the country, the
relative prosperity or diminution of the public re-
ceipts, and the entire state of the various branches of
the national revenue. If, however, the quarterly tables
are, ordinarily, expected and inspected with great
interest, it is needless to say how much deeper has
been the anxiety with which the statement of the
revenue for the last three months has been awaited.
Numerous causes have combined, with sad potency,
to extend difficulties, especially among the com-
mercial classes. The depression originating therefrom
necessarily exerts its baneful interest in other and
far more extensive circles. It' was to be expected,
therefore, that the Revenue Tables (which ever sym-
pathise with the aspect and condition of national
affairs) might bear a gloomy appearance, and display
some of the results of the moneyed difficulties of the
time. We regret to state that these anticipations
have been too well realised. The total income for
the quarter ending Oct. 10, has been 12,843,2141.
The income for the corresponding quarter of last
year was 14,350,4441. Thus, the decrease in the last
quarter has been no less than 1,525,8971. Upon the
year ending on Saturday, the decrease, compared with
the year ending Oct. 10, 1846, however, is not more
than 1,042,2681. These results are, certainly, dis-
couraging enough, at first sight ; but it is gratifying
to notice, upon a closer inspection of the tables, that
there are many reasons for the falling off, other than
a regular depreciation in the receipts from the various
sources of the revenue. Thus last year there was a
payment of 968,5031. on acconnt of the " China
money," while there has since been no such addition to
the revenue. Again, the "repayment of advances," in
1846 amounted to 1,172,1411., but in the present
year it has been only 792,4471. In fact, taking alone
the " total ordinary revenue" (which was last year,
48,229,7561., and has, during the corresponding
twelve months, endingithe 10th of this month, been
48,542,5200, there has been an increase of 312,764/.
The falling off in the quarter compared with the
corresponding quarter of 1846, is, however, a de-
cided and gloomy fact. First, there is a decrease in
the Customs of 374,1911. In the Excise, there is a
decrease of 641,9801., the largest deficiency among
the several items. Some 66,4191. less have been
derived from Stamp duties, last quarter, than in the
same quarter of last year ; nearly 53,500/. less from
the Property-tax ; 45,0001. less from Crown lands

and 164,7841. less from the " Aliseellaneous

sources of revenue. Such are the items in which
there has been a decrease ; and satisfactory reasons
can be given for the same in several instances.
Thus, the entire discontinuance of receipts from corn
duties may account, in great measure, for the loss on
the Customs ; while, as regards, the Excise, the falling
off results principally from the deficiency in malting,
in the use of sugar, and in spirit duties. " There is
a bright side to every cloud," however; and, even
from the last quarter's revenue tables, unpromising
and gloomy as they may appear, there may be
gathered some grounds for satisfaction and hope.
First of all, there is shown a steady and decided in-
crease in the Post-office receipts. We were among
the very earliest to recommend the reduction of the

postage duty ; and we contended that, not only should
that department not be made a source of revenue,
but that the adoption of the reduced system of charge
would not ultimately be so great a loss to the Ex-
chequer as many anticipated. Since the reduction,
the quarterly accounts have exhibited a regular in-
crease in that item. On the quarter there is an in-
crease of 5,0001. ; and on the year, one of no less
than 37,0001. Under the head of " Taxes" there

is a trifling advance on the quarter, compared
with the corresponding period of last year ; and also
in the items of " Imprest and other moneys." Such
are the principal features that distinguish the tabular
statement which appears in this day's Morning Ad•
rertiser. With the exception of the falling off in the
Excise, the other items of decrease are not of any
very serious aspect. The legislative reduction of
duties on imports must have a beneficial effect upon
trade ; and there are no grounds for fearing the good
results of the adoption of those enlightened principles of
' commercial policy which have, of late, added fresh
honour to this great country. The state of national
affairs at present is, undoubtedly, gloomy enough ;
but we trust and hope that the temporary clouds that
now darken the social horizon will pass away, and be
followed by the brightness of renewed prosperity.
The revenue account, even in the existing depression
of affairs, bears by no means the disastrous aspect
which some might have anticipated. That very fact
justifies the expectation, that the immense resources
of this country ; the cool, enlightened course of its
higher productive and trading classes; the measures
of precaution and relief that may be adopted on the
part of its executive authorities—will, in combination,
result in the restoration of affairs to a prosperous
condition, and, consequently, to the material im-
provement of the revenue tables for the approaching
year.

DEPARTURE OF THE QUEEN

DOWAGER FOR MADEIRA.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 10.—Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, their Serene Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, four of their children and
suite, Lord and Lady Howe, the Hon. Miss Sey-
mour, Sir David Defies, Lieutenant Bedford, R.N.,
and one of her Majesty's private chaplains, with their
personal attendants, cooks, dressers, women, and their
servants, amounting to about fifty persons, arrived at
the Clarence-yard at one o'clock yesterday, by special
train on the South-Western Railway, and having
been received, on alighting from the carriage, by
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Rear-Admiral Shireff,
Major- General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, Cap-
tain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Captain Sir
Edward Parry and the officers of the Victualling
establishment, the captains and commanders of the
ships and vessels in the harbour, and a guard of
honour furnished from the 60th Rifles, embarked in
the Fairy and Fire Queen steam yachts, and were
conveyed to Spithead and put on board her
Majesty's ship Howe. The usual salutes
were fired on her Majesty passing out of
harbour, and arriving at Spithead, and every demon-
stration of respect paid to the royal party. Admiral
Sir Charles Ogle and Lords Frederick and Adolphus
Fitzclarence accompanied her Majesty and her guests
were quite settled and prepared to put to sea, but
owing to the time occupied in getting things on
board, and the wind blowing fresh from the south,
with thick weather, it was not deemed prudent to un-
moor and go to sea last night. This morning the
Fire Queen has been out with more luggage and fur-
niture, and everything is on board, but it has been
blowing hard from the south all the forenoon, and the
weather is still thick and foggy, so that it is not ex-
pected, if the Howe does weigh, that she will go
further to-night than St. Helens, and there anchor.
The Scourge steamer is crowded with the spare ser -
vants, horses, &c. The Amphion, Arab, and Nau-
tilus are to accompany the Howe down channel (the
Arab arrived this morning). ' The Vixen is to be de-
tained until Tuesday or Wednesday to take her
Grace the Duchess of Palmella (whose health is very
precarious) and suite, first to Lisbon, and then to
Madeira. Commander Ryder will probably reach
Lisboa before the Howe and Scourge. The Duchess
will remain there for a few days, and then re-embark
in the Vixen to b!..conveyed to Madeira, and after her
Grace has been landed the steamer will proceed, in ,
the further execution of her commander's orders, to
Bermuda, Havannah, and lastl
Mr. Percy Doyle, y to Vera Cruz to land

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name of George Lees, in the emloy
merchant, of Scotland-yard, was pwrohceene daici Davis,w ihe coal-
waggon ;
waggon and team down Tube-hill,
suddenly commenced kicking and plunging terriLraaillry.e The man ran to the fore horse, when the whole took fright, and Lees was thrown down, and the wheels of the
vehicle passed over his body, crushing his legs at flat as
a deal board. A party rushed forward and pulled the
unfortunate man away, and he was forthwith removed to
St. Thomas's Hospital, when the surgeons found that the
bones of the poor fellow's right leg were literally ground
to powder. A consultation was held last night at the
hospital, and it was decided that the only hope of saving
the man's life was to amputate the leg.

THE CAUSES OF OUR TRADE
EMB 411,13,ASSMEN TS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.
Sir,—While the daily disasters among commercial
houses of the highest standing sufficiently attest the
severity of the present crisis, and the ruinous depre-
ciation in the market value of almost every article
of commercial property, threatens a still greater
aggravation of our present difficulties, it is alarming
to hear the Finance Minister of the country talk of
theW things in a tone of self-complacent confidence,
as if there were really nothing unusual or distressing
in the state of affairs. It is much to be lamented
that such an error should exist in such a quarter. I
think, however, that your columns will be more
profitably occupied with an inquiry into the causes
of the fearful embarrassments of trade which justly
fill us with consternation, than with a controversy
as to a matter of fact which is so palpable. The
causes assigned are various, viz. the Banking
Bill of '44, the railroad expenditure, and the dis-
proportion between imports and exports under free
trade.
The Bill of '44 involves questions so recondite,
that we find the highest authorities differing in
opinion respecting it ; and it would be presumption
to dogmatise upon a measure relating to the theory
of money upon which such men as Lord Ashburton
and Mr. Jones Loyd are opposed. The Bill having
been in operation since 1844, we are justified in pass-
ing by the discussion of abstract principles in order
to test it by its effects. The author of the
measure recommended it to Parliament as an
effectual check upon excessive speculation, and a
safeguard against the recurrency of monetary
crises. Has it accomplished these objects ? The
almost unprecedented embarrassments under which
every branch of business is now labouring sufficiently
proves that the Bill is powerless for the objects con-
templated by its author. It is asserted, no doubt by
its advocates, that but for this Bill commercial dis-
tress would have been even greater than it now is.
This, however, is altogether a gratuitous assumption.
It cannot be denied that, both in intensity and dura-
tion, our present difficulties have perhaps never been
exceeded ; and if the Bill has proved impotent for
good, are we sure that it has been equal so for evil ?
May it not be charged with protracting the monetary
pressure by paralysing the elasticity of credit ? As
an unbiassed observer of events, pretending to nothing
deeper than a common-sense view of the question, I
have felt considerable distrust of the Procrustean
scale of issues which prescribes one unvarying mea-
sure under every possible contingency which the exi-
gencies of trade may create.
The amount of the circulating medium, I presume,
ought to bear a certain relative proportion to the
traffic of which it is the agent. Let us try the Bill in
question by this rule. Supposing that fourteen mil-
lions, or any given amount of bank-notes, be the sum
required for carrying on conveniently the ordinary
traffic of the country, and that there supervene upon
this ordinary trade a new branch of business, re-
quiring a considerable amount of money to fulfil the
negotiations connected with it, it seems obvious that
the amount of circulation limited to our mercantile
wants antecedently to the new demand for money,
cannot perform this double duty without incon-
venience and peril. In this sense, and in this
sense only, can it be said that railroads are concerned
in the present pressure. Then what is the remedy
that reason and common sense would suggest ?
Surely, to relax your restrictions so as to admit an
expansion of the currency commensurate with your
extended business. But by your law, not the wants
of commerce, but the amount of gold, must regulate
the circulation. Is gold the only token of wealth ?
Are not land, and houses, and mines—aye, and pro-
ductive railroads, too, capital ? Then, why, are these
not available as securities for circulation ? Have we
not the evidence of experience in favour of a currency
founded upon other security than gold ? Has not
the country passed triumphantly through much
greater drains upon its monetary resources in former
periods of our history, than those now created by
railroad expenditure ? Was the commerce of Eng-
land ever more prosperous than during some periods
of the war, when our war expenditure exceeded the
demands of railroads, great part of which, too, let it
be remembered, was spent in foreign countries ?
I by no means wish to defend the selfish cupidity
which has dictated a large portion of railroad under-
takings, many of which have been prosecuted with a
reckless disregard of the public convenience, and not
a few with an inadequate consideration for the inte-
rests of shareholders. But to the Government and
the Legislature belong the reproach of having incon-
siderately and blindly sanctioned this wasteful and
unproductive squandering of capital. But let us not
undervalue the immense benefit of railroad enter-
prise. Independently of the prospective national
advantages resulting from increased facilities of inter-
communication and transport, can any man doubt
that the vast sums paid to labourers out of railroad
funds enabled the poor to pass through the last trying
winter with comparative ease, with so little pressure
upon the resources of the rich ?
It may serve the purpose of argument among those
who, having committed themselves to unsound opi.
nions in favour of a rigorously restricted currency,
have not the magnanimity to acknowledge their error,
to attempt to throw the blame of our present difficul-
ties upon railroads ; and, with this view, a phrase
has been imported into the discussion, and paraded
with all the authority of an unanswerable argument,
which is, in reality, but a cloak for a fallacy. The
phrase I allude to is, " the conversion of floating capi-
tal into fixed capital ;" as if the money employed upon
railroads was absolutely withdrawn from circulation.
I confess I can see no difference in this respect be-
tween money paid in wages on railroads, and that
which is spent on agriculture and handicrafts. In all
these cases the money is thrown back into circulation
within four-and-twenty hours, through the medium
of grocers, bakers, and beersellers, and even that
portion of these funds which is paid to capitalists
for land, iron, timber, &c., is immediately handed
over to bankers, where it becomes instantly available
for other purposes. Froni all this :it appears clear
that commercial distress has not been occasioned
by railroad expenditure, and arises not from a mis-
appropriation of of the national resources, but from the
insufficiency of a restricted currency. Is it not a fact
that many of the failures which have lately astounded
the public have fallen upon houses in high credit
and in whom the commercial world had the fulles

confidence—a confidence which an examination into
the affairs of these houses has shown to be well-
founded, exhibiting an excess of assets over liabili-
ties. Such failures could not, of course, have hap-
pened under an ordinary facility of money accommo-
dation, and are, of themselves, an unanswerable
proof of the unsoundness and danger of our
present system of currency. Many of the failures,
no doubt, are to be ascribed to the enormous
and unforeseen depreciation in the price of cer-
tain commodities occasioned by free trade. This
is especially conspicuous in the sugar trade, the
price of that article having fallen at a rate that must
defeat the most prudent calculations of importers,
since the passing of the unjust law sanctioning the
indiscriminate importation of slave production. This
is a case, to be sure, which stands alone. There is
no parallel to it in the history of British legislation ;
no other example in which a large amount of
British capital has been so palpably annihilated by
Act of Parliament. No word less forcible than an•
nibilation can describe the complete ruin which the
late Act is rapidly working in all the sugar colonies.
The effect of free trade upon these interests, aggra-
vated by an unequal contest between slave and free
labourproduce, having proved so much more destructive
to their interests than was anticipated even by the advo-
cates of the measure, Government, we may fairly pre-
sume, will take steps to avert the ruin which so immi-
nently threatens them. This, however, will, I pre
sume, be postponed till the meeting of Parliament.
More prompt and vigorous measures, however, are
called for to stay the plague which now rages with
such awful effects upon the commerce of the
country. Every man, whatever be his opinions
upon the currency question, feels that it is the im-

perative duty of the Government to make an attempt
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to revive prostrate credit. The present distress,
although perhaps hardly ever before equalled in mag-
nitude, is not without past examples. Let us profit
by the lessons of experience, and adopt measures
similar to those which in former cases of the like have

proved effectual for reviving confidence and restoring
the prosperity of trade. In the :cases alluded to the
Bank was authorised to make an extraordinary issue

of notes, and forthwith the money panic and its awful
effects disappeared. Lord John Russell has credit
for vigour and moral courage. Let him prove a just
claim to these attributes .by daring to depart from a
pedantic deference to rules, which, under ordinary

circumstances, he may consider sound and wholesome,
if; by so doing, he may avert the impending calami-
ties of an extraordinary crisis. He is under an awful
responsibility, and I believe he is too honest and too
humane to sit unmoved and witness the frightful dis-
asters which are absolutely crushing the trade of the
country in deference to a theoretical dogma.
Your most obedient servant,
R. IL

THE MAIL STEAMER WASHINGTON.-Thil Ame-
rican steamer, which is one of a new line of communica-

tion with America, running from New York to South-
ampton and Bremen and back, arrived at Cowes on
Saturday morning last from New York, after rather a
severe voyage. The passengers on board, before leaving
her, paid a very high compliment to the officers, and
extolled the manner in which all their comforts had
been attended to during the voyage. They likewise
expressed their admiration of the vessel and her
performances throughout the run." The Washington,
since her recent alterations at New York, appears to
have improved both in speed and ease in sailing.
BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, OCT. B.—The market is
very dull, and participates in the depression prevailing in
other descriptions of produce,--Bi rstol Mercury,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

The LORD MAYOR said he had received some more
correspondence since he had called the attention of
the public to the persevering conduct of Joseph Ady,
which correspondence needed no comment from him.
The correspondence consisted of letters from Mr. I'.
B. de Blaquiere, of Kingston, Canada, enclosing
Joseph Ady's letters to him and his wife, which were
of the usual character; also a letter from Sir W.
Miller, Bart., dated from Cheltenham, enclosing Ady's
letter to him. There was also a letter from Joseph
Ady to Mr. Nobler, the late chief clerk at the Man-
sion-house, which was found amongst that gentle-
man's papers after his decease, which bore the date
of October 8, 1828. As these letters, with the ex-
ception of the addresses, are merely duplicates of
those already published, we omit their insertion.
GUILDHALL.
James Styles, a marine store dealer, at No. 8,
Milton-street, Cripplegate, was summoned before
Aldermen Musgrove and Farebrother, to answer an
information, filed at the instance of the Commis-
sioners of Excise, for having in his possession 131 b.
of tealeaves, which had been used, and were in course
of being fabricated and manufactured in imitation of
tea. A second count charged that he had 131 b of
the leaves of divers trees, shrubs, and plants other
than tea, which had been fabricated in imitation
of tea.
The Solicitor to the Excise conducted the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Skinner defended the accused, who
pleaded " Not Guilty.
James Jordan, an officer of Customs, stated, that on
the 29th of June he went to the defendant's house,
and, on entering the shop, he found a woman, who
' stated that she was the defendant's wife. He went at
once into the back room, and found a pan containing
a quantity of used tea leaves. They were being dried
before the fire. Under the bedstead he found a deal
box, containing a quantity of leaves. In a copper
saucepan he found a further quantity of leaves under-
going a saturation in gum, to give them a fine crisp
appearance. In the same room he found some madder,
stone-blue, and French chalk. He then went into
another room, where he found some tea, the fabrica-
tion of which had been completed. It was id paper
bags and canisters. He also found here two wire
sieves, which appeared to have been used for sifting
tea, as particles were still sticking in various places.
Three of the bags and one canister contained green
tea, and one canister contained black and green mixed.
While he was there, the defendant came home, and
witness pointed to the leaves in course of manufac-
ture, and asked him what he was doing there ? He
replied, that he was trying experiments. Witness
told him he knew he was in the habit of supplying
grocers with that trash. To this he replied, he knew
who must have given witness the information, and if
he was summoned for it he should " split." He
seised the goods, ani delivered them to Mr. Hoare,
the superintendent. The paper bags of tea were not
tied down, so that whoever had them would see the
contents.
Cross-examined—Everything was open. Nothing
was secreted. Defendant did not say that the things
had been left there by somebody else, or that they
belonged to somebody else.
James Lewis and John Brown, officers, who ac-
companied the last witness, corroborated his evi-
dence.

John Hall, of the Excise, produced samples of the
various packages seized.
Mr. Phillips, the chymist to the Board of Excise,
said he had analyzed the different sorts found at these
premises. The greater portion were altogether spu-
rious. The mixed tea was composed of genuine
green and black which had been used, dried, and
curled, slightly coloured, and coated with thin gum-
water to give it a crisp and somewhat shiny appear-
ance. Another sample was the renovated exhausted
black by itself. Another was a specimen of green
made up of mixed black and green genuine tea,
which had been used and remanufactured for the use
of the grocer by the help of a little chrome yellow
and Dutch pink, the surface being afterwards coated
gum-water, to prevent the colour from being too
easily rubbed off; the portions of colouring matters
produced consisted of stone blue, Prussian blue,
French chalk, Dutch pink, and chrome yellow.
Mr. Skinner, for the defendant, urged that the
chain of evidence did not show the samples analyzed
were taken from the stock brought away from the
shop, and that for aught that appeared the defendant
was an honest, respectable tradesman.
The solicitor said the fines incurred amounted to a
very large sum, but he did not wish to press with
severity. He would be content to take a conviction
of having possession of 81b. of imitation tea, being the
portion completely manufactured for use. The penalty
was 51. for every pound.
Mr. Alderman Musgrove and Mr. Alderman Fare-
brother consulted for a few minutes, and then
Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE said they had no doubt
the defendant had been guilty of the offence charged.
It was an offence of great magnitude, that required
them to inflict the full penalty, because it was a
fraud which fell heavily on the poor. They gave 58.
a pound for the trash which the defendant prepared
by wholesale for them, and the toil and sometimes
difficulty with which that money was obtained by the
humble classes must not be forgotten. They con-
victed him of knowingly having the tea in his pos-
session, but postponed for a week adjudging the
penalty.
A young woman, named Mary Davis, was charged
with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, value 51., at
the shop of Mr. Inglis, a biscuit baker on the north
side of St. Paul's-churchyard.
She had not asked for relief at the shop or received
any provocation, but being in distress, and finding all
the parish authorities unwilling to give her protec-
tion, she broke the window to enforce her claim to
food and shelter.
Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE told her the object of
enforcing her wants would have been equally attained
by breaking a pane worth one shilling, and it was
cruel to inflict such a loss on a tradesman who con-
tributed his fair proportion to the relief of the poor.
He committed: her for fourteen days on low diet,
and then to find securities to be of good behaviour
for two months.
She received the sentence with apathy.
BOW-STREET.
On Saturday a man named Richard Gregory, a
salesman at Mr. Alderman Copeland's, was charged
with stealing two shillings from a desk in the count-
ing-home, Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Mr. Powell, the cashier, proved having for several
weeks missed small sums of money. He marked three
shillings, and placed them in a bowl in his desk,
which he locked, leaving the key in it. On Friday
morning he discovered that they had been stolen, and
having communicated with the superintendent, the
prisoner was searched, and two shillings of the marked
money found on him.
Mr. Gibbon, the superintendent, said the prisoner
received 265. a week, and on telling him he suspected
him of theft, he denied the accusation, and handed
witness one of the shillings produced, and another
was found upon him, also marked. The prisoner
was suspected because he had been in the habit of
borrowing money from the workmen, which he never
repaid, and on accounting for this by saying he owed
71. before entering Mr. Copeland's employ, that gen-
tleman gave directions that that sum should be lent
to him. He could not be in distress, as he had only
received his wages on Friday evening.
The prisoner, who made no defence, was committed
for trial.
Stephen Stere, a waiter at the Golden Cross, was
charged with stealing 12s. 6d. from a drawer in the
hotel, the property of Mr. Gardiner.
It seemed that the head waiter had missed several
sums, and in consequence marked 3/. 10s. and placed
it in the drawer in question, which he locked. In
the course of the afternoon he opened the drawer,
which was still locked, and found that 12s. 6d. had
been abstracted. A policeman was sent for, who found
10s. 6d. of the marked money on the prisoner.
The prisoner declated he had received the money
in the course of busibess, and was committed to the
Middlesex Sessions to take his trial. .
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
On Saturday Sarah Kemp was brought before Mr.
Hardwick for final examination, charged with having
stolen 6/. in silver money from her master, William
Bennett, potato salesman, 14, Newport-street, Soho.
It appeared that the prosecutor, on Saturday night,
took his cash-box into his bedroom, and there left it
with about 501. in silver in it. The money was right
on Sunday morning. On Monday the prosecutor's
wife, on going into the prisoner's bedroom, noticed
that her box was open, and that it was apparently
filled with new clothes, silk stockings, and other
articles, evidently of recent purchase. She was
tempted to look further into her box, and, she then
found about 51. in silver, which she immediately sus-
pected had been stolen from her husband. In the
evening she communicated her suspicions to- her
husband, and be at once proceeded to count over the
contents of his cashbox, when he discovered that about
61. had been stolen. The prosecutor instantly went
to the prisoner, and taxed her with having robbed
him. The prisoner admitted that she had robbed the
prosecutor. She said that she had taken the keys of
the cashbox from his pocket, and had thus possessed
herself of the money, which she had partly spent in
new clothes and finery.
The prosecutor mentioned to the Court that he be-
lieved the prisoner had been in the habit of robbing
him from time to time.

The prisoner made no defence, and was fully com-
mitted.

George Bridger was charged with having illegally
driven a cab as "buck" to the lawful driver, by which
he had incurred a penalty of 51. The case was brought
forward by Mr. Yeoman, an extensive cab proprietor,
who, it appeared, has determined, if possible, to put
down the illegal practice of " bucking."
A solicitor who attended for the complainant stated
that the evils arising to the public and to cab proprie-

tors from the proceedings of men of the description of
the prisoner were greater than could be conceived.
The " bucks" were pf..rsons of the lowest class, who
hung about the different cab-stands for the purpose
of taking the licensed driver's place, and by this
means of taking every opportunity to commit depre-
dations and to break the law by furious driving, ex-
tortionate charges, and foul language, and often, in
addition, injured both horse and cab. The " buck "
was also the principal agent in the removal of stolen
property. The cab proprietors were, however, de-
termined to suppress the system of employing "bucks,"
and they hoped to have the assistance of magistrates
in effecting this object.
The defendant pleaded guilty, and only said that
a gentleman had asked him to take him to a place
where he wanted to go, and he had complied.
?dr. HARDWICK replied that this was no excuse.
Under the same pretext the defendant would no
doubt have taken a thief in the cab with stolen goods
in his possession.

The penalty of 31., or one month's imprisonment,
was then inflicted, with an intimation that if the
offence was repeated the highest penalty would be
imposed.

TVORSHIP• STREET.
On Saturday a middle-aged woman, named Eliza-
beth Collinson, was charged before Mr. Hammill with
having stolen 200 sovereigns and a quantity of house-
hold furniture, and other articles, from the residence
of Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, and aged widow, recently
deceased.

Edward Smith, the deceased's son, stated that his
late mother was a person of very eccentric and penu-
rious habits, and, although he always suspected that
she had amassed a considerable sum of money, he was
unable to obtain any definite knowledge of the fact
until he was on the point of starting into the country
in search of agricultural employment in the early
part of last month, when his mother who was in very ill
health at the time, produced a large bag, and counted
out 200 sovereigns, which she assure him would
come into his possession, with the rest of her effects,
after her decease. The prisoner, who had been en-
gaged to attend upon his mother during her illness,
was present on the occasion, and saw her replace the
money in the bag, which she afterwards deposited in
a cupboard, and told him that he would find it there
in case anything should happen to her during his
absence. He received no further intelligence of his
mother until he returned to London about ten days
since, when on calling at her house he was shocked
to learn that she had been dead and buried upwards
of a fortnight, and that the funeral expenses had
been defrayed by the parish. On instituting inquiries
respecting the disposal of her property, he was in-
formed by some of the neighbours that the breath had
scarcely left her body when the prisoner completely
stripped the place, and sold everything off to different
lodging-house keepers in Whitechapel. He imme-
diately gave information to the police, who succeeded
in tracing part of the property, and took the prisoner
into custody, but no clue to the missing money had
since been discovered. Several bulky packages, con-
taining bedding and other articles, were produced by
two lodging-house keepers, named Smith and APDo-
nald, to whom they had been sold by the prisoner,
who told them that the relieving officer of White-
chapel bad authorised her to appropriate them by
way of compensation for her services to the dying
woman.

The prisoner now repeated the same statement be-
fore the magistrate, but her assertion was distinctly
negatived by Mr. Hughes, the reliving officer, who
stated that he merely placed the property under her
care until the son or other legal representative of the
deceased should appear to claim it.
Mr. HAMMILL ordered the depositions to be at
once taken, and the prisoner was fully committed for
trial.

CLERKENWELL.
On Saturday Police-constable No. 103 E was
brought before the Magistrate, by order of the Com-
missioners of Police, charged with assaulting a young
man named Lucay.
The complainant said that on Tuesday night last
he went to the Princess's Theatre, and when on his
way home, near King's• cross, he was stopped by a
stranger, who asked him the way to St. Pancras
New Church. He directed him, and had not parted
with him a moment, when he was collared by No.
36 of the E division. He asked, " What have I
done ?" and before a reply was given the defendant
ran over and beat him most unmercifully over his
back and shoulders with his truncheon, remarking at
the time, " Take that, you -." He was after-
wards taken to the station-house, and charged with
knocking at doors and ringing bells, an accusation ut-
terly groundless, and the inspector, on hearing the com-
plain t and his explanation, liberated him, and advised
him to apply there again in the day time for redress.
On the follovving morning the defendant called him
from his bed, and asked his pardon, begging that he
would not appear against him, as he had a large
family, and they would be ruined. Witness, having
a family, could not help feeling for the defendant,
and, after advising him to be more cautious for the
future, he extended his hand and forgiveness. The
affair had reached the ears of the Commissioners of
Police, and he was now reluctantly in attendance at
their instance.

Sergeant Dyer, 2 E, said that the case was reported
to him, and he considered it too gross to be passed
over, and he laid the facts before the Commissioners,
who had ordered a public investigation.

A gentleman, named Williams, living at the Hope
public-house, in Gray's Inn-lane, corroborated the
complainant in every respect.
The officer, 36 E, was then sworn, and deposed to
the same facts.

Mr. TYRWHITT-Why did you take him into cus-
tody ? Witness—l mistook him for another man
who had been hooting, ringing bells, and knocking
at doors.

Mr. TTRWHITT asked the defendant what he had
:o say ? _

Defendant—l certainly did strike the man, and am
very sorry

ThWHITT remarked that it was a very proper
case to be publicly dealt with ; and, as it was neces-
sary the police should know the use of the truncheons
intrusted to them, he should fine the defendant 103.
He knew that his dismissal from the force would
follow that conviction, Or the penalty would have
been 101.

sel into the belief that he was a police-officer. The
prisoner was apprehended by Inspector Everest at a
public-house called the King's Head, in Tooley-
street, on Friday night. He denied all knowledge of
the robbery, and said he had heard that some one had
been to his mother's house, and kicked up a row about
the affair. He was distinctly identified by Haylett as
one of the men who got into Hiplcins's boat just before
the robbery was committed.
The prisoner, in defence, said that he met with
some friends on Friday morning, and they were
afterwards joined by a sailor, who said he was
anxious to get across the water. He (the prisoner)
was also anxious to reach the Middlesex shore, and
they hired a boat at Pickle-herring-stairs, and crossed
the river.

Mr. YARDLEY said he should remand the prisoner
for a week, and the police would be enabled to give a
very good account of hi 3 companions when he was
brought up again.

On its being represented to the Magistrate that
Mr. M'Gowen would leave that clay with his vessel,
and not return for a fortnight, Mr. YARDLEY ordered
his deposition to be taken, and bound him over to
appear at the next sessions of the Central Criminal
Court.