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London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

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On Monday morning, the 25th of November, 1844,
on opening the door of the strong room at the usual
hour of commencing business, it was discovered that
one of the boxes paced in it on Saturday night, con-
taining all the Bank of England notes in hand at the
close of business, and other valuable securities, had
been removed, together with 1,200/. in gold, con-
tained in the usual canvass bags ; making, in all, up-
wards of 48,000/. in notes and gold, exclusive of bills
of exchange, cheques, &c.
Attention was, of course, in the first place directed
to ascertain by what means the thief or thieves had
obtained access to the strong room. There were no
marks of violence on any of the doors or windows of
the house, and the lock and door of the strong room
were to all appearance the same as usual. It was
evident, therefore, that the lock had been picked either
by false keys, which was almost impossible, or by copies
of the keys used at the bank having by some means
been obtained by the robbers. We believe the last
supposition is now thought to be correct. Suspicion
did not immediately attach to any one; all the
persons engaged in the establishment gave a satisf ac -
tory account of themselves, and accounted for the
manner in which they had respectively been engaged
on the Sunday, the day preceding the discovery of
the robbery. The porter bad also been out all the day
by permission, and had been seen to leave the bank in
the morning at the time he stated. We believe the
partners were quite satisfied with the explanations of
their clerks, and fully exonerated them from any
participation in the robbery. It would, of course, be
out of place for us to state whom they did suspect,
no criminal proceedings having been taken against
any one, from the absence of all means of proving
the crime ; but we feel convinced, from the facts we
know, that the robbery will not ultimately go un-
punished. There is at present a difficulty in obtain-
ing legal proof of the crime, which may hereafter be
supplied.
A reward of 3,0001. was immediately offered by
Messrs. Rogers and Co. for " the apprehension of
the guilty party or parties," and restoration of the
property ; and lists of nearly all the notes were made
out, and distributed throughout the kingdom, and
subsequently all over the world. Mr. Hobler,
the solicitor employed by the Bank, took the most
efficient means of proving, if necessary, the ser-
vice of these lists on the Continent ; and by in-
serting them in this Magazine for some time, he
would have been able to prove their delivery to nearly
every bank in the kingdom, if required. By these
means, the negotiation of the notes was effectually
stopped ; and as all the 1,0001. notes stolen were dated
the 13th of May, 1844, the Bank of England, when
applied to by Mr. Hobler, called in and cancelled all
the outstanding notes of that date, excepting those
stolen, and thus afforded a further means of detection.
Subsequently the Bank of England also allowed
Messrs. Rogers and Cu. the full amount of the notes
on their undertaking to guarantee the Bank against
any claim which might be made upon it, and giving
satisfactory security.
In this state the matter remained until about a
twelvemonth since, when, in consequence of informa-
tion received, it was believed that the stolen property
was secreted in a house at Islington. The grounds
of suspicion did not, however, justify a search-
warrant being issued ; but as other stolen pro-
perty was believed to be secreted there, a warrant was
obtained, and COOL in sovereigns were found
concealed. The money, however, could not be
identified, and no proceedings were, therefore, taken.
The thief or thieves had acted very judiciously at the
time of the robbery, in not taking any of the silver
coin from the strong room. In order to save them-
selves the trouble of opening the bags, to see which
contained gold, they had cut the sides of each bag
with a knife, and so ascertained its contents.
In addition to the notes specified in the lists as
stolen, about 4001. more (chiefly in 51. notes) were
taken ; and as the numbers of some of these were
known, it was hoped that if any of them were nego-
tiated, a clue might be obtained to the guilty
parties. The thieves, however, were evidently masters
of their eralt ; and instead of attempting to pass
the notes, they entered into negotiations ter the re-
turn of the property. Amongst other ingenious
modes of effecting this, one party undertook to find
out by mesmerism where the property was concealed;
but Messrs. Rogers firmly declined to receive back
their property on any terms which should screen the
iruilty party or parties from justice, and hence the
matter has stood over till the present time.
The whole of the notes specified in the lists have
now been recovered, together with the other valuable
documents contained in the stolen box. We are not
aware of the precise manner in which this has been
effected, but we believe it has cost the firm two
thousand six hundred pounds, being the amount of the
reward offered during the present year for the reco-
very of the property ; the original sum of 3,0001.
!laving been reduced by Messrs. Rogers, who intended
to decrease the reward annually.
If the notes had remained unclaimed for five years,
the Bank of England might have declined paying
them, and could have pleaded the Statute of Limita-
tions as a bar to any action for their recovery; but as
the Bank have never refused payment of their notes,
under any circumstances for such a reason, it is not
probable that they would have adopted this course in
the present case. If, therefore, any of the large notes
had been presented for payment by a party who
could have shown the probability of his having taken
them without " gross negligence," he would no doubt
have been paid by the Bank, and Messrs. Rogers and
Co. must have borne the loss. The measures of Mr.
Hobler, the solicitor, were, however, so well con-
trived,
that it was scarcely possible for any of the
larger notes to have been taken in ignorance of the
robbery. As we mentioned at the time, certified co-
pies of the list of notes were served by notaries, or
other official parties, on all the money changers and
bankers on the continent, and the usual channel for
negotiating stolen notes was therefore closed.
We believe we are correct in stating, that the re-
covery of the property is mainly attributable to the
excellent precautions adopted by Mr. Hobler, the
solicitor ot. Messrs. Rogers, whose experience in mat-
ters of this kind enabled him at once to stop all at-
tempts to circulate the notes ; and had there been the
slightest clue to the manner in which the robbery had
been committed, and the place of concealment of the
property, he would no doubt have succeeded in bring-
ing the guilty party or parties to justice.
A knowledge of the facts connected with this great
robbery may he useful to bankers, on the occurrence
of any future case of the kind.—Bankers' Magazine.

BISHOP OF NOTTINGHAM.—It is said that Dr.
Wiseman has received instructions front the Pope to re-
:nodel the ecclesiastical arrangements of his communion
in England. Heretofore, England has been a missionary
station, under the superintendence of vicars-apostolic.
But the present order of things is now to cease, as his
doliness considers that Roman Catholicism has made
iufficient progress to warrant the re-establishment of the
hierarchy, with all its ramifications of ecclesiastical go-
vernment—deans, chapters, archdeacons, ecclesiastical
courts, &c., as it existed in this country prior to the
Reformation, and as it at present exists in Ireland.
l'here will, it is said, be two archbishops for the pro-
vinces
of York and Canterbury, with eight bishops
subordinate. These new bishops will take their title
prom the chief centres of Roman Catholic influence, such
'AS Birmingham, Nottingham, and Liverpool. Dr. Wise-
man, it is said, will succeed, under the new title of the
Bishop of NVestminster, to the administration of the
,ffairs of the London district, in the room of Dr. Grif-
riths, deceased.—Nottingham Review.
REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT.-011 Tuesday last
William Blanshard, Esq., one of the barristers appointed
to revise the list of voters in the election of knights of
the shire for the West 'titling of the county of York,
held a court in the Mansion-house, in this town, for the
purpose of revising the lists for Doncaster and the sur-
rounding parishess. The overseers attended from the
several townships, and brought with them the original
notices of claims and objections, &c. No objections
were
made, and the business was transacted in a very
short space of time. In consequence of the neglee• of
the tate overseer of Melton-on-the-Hill, in not having
Ina
parish,.
jistfattnearmGeas,zettthee. whole of the electors in
EXPLOSION or F
were disfranchised until the next period of
six o'clock, consider:hi
RR "" —Last evening, about
wAlu-a—r-rn.was created in the imme-
diate vicinity of Litti:
of an explosion of
Black friars-road,
in consequence
used in the manufacture of ee of
combustible material,
the premises belonging to Mr. taking place upon
From inquiries made, it appeared that Mr.
pyrotechnist.
Murdy was
ngaged filling some cases with comphsijr.
room on the ground floor, where, from
somoen in the back
cause, the material exploded, setting fire to unexplained
other description of fireworks, which also went off ewrith
a terrific noise, demolishing several panes of glass in
the window, and firing the contents of the room. In an
instant the whole of the parties in the room, consisting
of Mr. Murdy, a boy, and a young child, were encircled
with fire, and, owing to the suffocating nature of the
effluvia emitted from the composition, it was with great
difficulty that the parties could breathe. The three par-
ties were found to be so severely injured that thej were
sent to the hospital.,

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Before Mr. WALESBY and a full Bench of Magistrates.)
Yesterday George Lombardy and David Wheeler
were indicted for having unlawfully assaulted, and
rescued one George Bartlett from the custody of an
officer of the Clerkenwell County Court; and the
man Bartlett was joined with them as a defendant in
the count for the assault.

Mr. Huddleston prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien ap-
peared for the defendants.
It appeared from the statement of the witnesses,
that Bartlett had been summoned to attend at the
Clerkenwell County Court, but had not taken any
notice of the summons. The result was that; judg-
ment was signed against him. He, however, treated
the Court with contempt, whereupon a warrant of
commitment was issued by the Judge. This,warrant
was placed in the hands of the prosecutor for execu-
tion, and he accordingly proceeded to Bartlett's resi-
dence for that purpose, but on his arrival at the pre-
mises be met with an obstruction from Mrs. Bartlett.
The husband, nevertheless, now offered to pay the
debt and costs. The prosecutor informed him, that
as the warrant was issued against him for contempt
of Court, he could not receive the money, but must
take his person. In pursuance of his duty he then
laid hold of the husband, upon which the wife
screamed out loudly for help. This effort of the
female's lungs had the wished-for effect, for, in an in-
stant in rushed the other defendants, Lombardy and
Wheeler, by whom Bartlett's rescue was accomplished.
In his cross-examination the prosecutor stated that
he had had an execution in his possession against Bart-
lett's goods for five months, but that he had been
unable to make the levy in consequence of the house
having been during the whole period in a state of
barricade. He could not effect an entry upon the
premises, although he and others had been on the
watch every day. It had happened, too, that whilst
he and his assistants had been on the watch, Mrs.
Bartlett had upon more than one occasion thrown a
quantity of tainted water over them, whilst at other
times the violent opposition of the lady attracted con-
siderable crowds around the house.
Mr. O'BRIEN, on behalf of the defendants, submit-
ted that under the provisions of the 110th clause of
the New Small Debts Act the prosecutor was com-
mitting an illegal act when he was arresting Bartlett
after that person had tendered him the amount of the
debt and costs. The Learned Judge would find, on
looking at that clause, it ran thus: —" And be it
enacted, that any person imprisoned under this Act
who shall have paid or satisfied the debt or demand,
or the instalments thereof payable, and costs remain-
ing due at the time of the order of imprisonment
being made, together with the costs of obtaining such
order and all subsequent costs, shall be discharged
out of custody upon the certificate of such payment or
satisfaction signed by the clerk of the court, by leave
of the judge of the court in which the order of im-
prisonment was made." It was quite clear, he con-
tended, that the man Bartlett was, under the terms

of this clause, fully justified, seeing that he had made
a tender of the debt and costs, in resisting the arrest.
Mr. HUDDLESTON, on the other hand, argued that
the clause was applicable to warrants for non-pay-
ment, and not to warrants for commitment for con-
tempt. No doubt the payment of debt and costs
would exonerate a defendant from a judgment against
his goods or person, but a warrant for the committal
for contempt, he urged, was quite a distinct proceed-
ing, and could in no way be affected or satisfied by
payment. In fact, a contempt of court could not be
purged by payment, and the officer was, consequently,
incompetent to receive payment upon such terms.
The Learned JUDGE overruled the objection taken
by the Learned Counsel for the defendants.
The jury eventually returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE then sentenced Bartlett, who

had been brought up in custody from the Queen's
Bench prison, to fourteen days' imprisonment in the
House of Correction, and Lombardy and Wheeler to
pay a fine of is each and to be discharged.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday the LORD MAYOR said he considered it
likely to be useful to the public to state that he had
received letters from gentlemen with whom certain
foreign lottery speculators had thought proper to
correspond, with the view of getting up a taste for
that sort of speculation. The process appeared to his
Lordship to be quite sufficient to prevent experienced
people from running any hazard with their super-
fluous cash, but the metropolis swarmed with persons
who seemed to have been born to be preyed upon, as
the occurrences of every hour at police-offices incon-
testably proved ; and through the medium of the
press he thought a charitable hint might produce
much advantage to the most extensive list of the
gullible.
The following letter, containing documents, was
then read by his Lordship, as calculated to explain
the nature of the communications :
" Forfar, Sept. 24, 1847.

" My Lord,—Knowing the ingenuity of some of
the citizens of London in " raising the wind," and
that too sometimes by not very legal means, I beg
to transmit to your Lordship the enclosed documents
for the sale of an Austrian estate, which have been
transmitted by post to me :
" I do not believe in the existence of any such scheme
for the sale of an estate in Austria by the specified
means, and even if it do exist, the proceedings are
illegal in this country; but, notwithstanding, it is
calculated to induce the adventurious to throw away
their cash, which might be more usefully expended
upon the ordinary necessities of their own families,
and I therefore send the documents to you, in order
that, if your Lordship deem fit, the matter may be
inquired into, or the public warned of the imposition.
" I remain, my Lord, your Lordship's very humble
and obedient servant, " W. SMITH, M.D.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London."
"Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Sept. 1847.
" Sir,— I beg to submit to you a prospectus of the
plan for disposing of a magnificent mansion, a view
of which is enclosed herein.
" You are probably aware that the system of sales
by auction is not in vogue in Germany, and that
when a landowner wishes to dispose of a property,
the usual practice is to adopt a sale by shares.
" These sales can, however, only take place by
permission of the proper authorities, and that permis-
sion is never accorded until after the most careful in-
vestigation on the part of the Government.
" Conceiving it possible that you might feel inclined
to subscribe fur a few shares, I shall keep at your dis-
posal the five numbers and the gratis ticket' marked
on the enclosed certificate, and on receiving your
orders I will immediately send the originals.
"The payment can either be made at once by
Post-office orders, bank notes, or bankers' orders ; or
you may, at your option, remit, after the receipt of
the shares, to a house in London, whose address I will
furnish. Should the numbers marked on the certi-
ficate be already disposed of on receipt of your order,
you will be pleased to leave the choice of others
to me.
" Should you not feel disposed to take a share in
this speculation, may I trouble you to hand the pros-
pectus and enclosures to some of your friends.
"I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
servant," &c.
he prospectus enclosed in the letter states that
three grand prizes are to be drawn :-1. The magni-
ficent freehold property, the estate Langiewnick, in
Austria, forming one of the most valuable properties
in the Austrian empire. 2. A money prize 0f50,000
florins. 3. Various money prizes, of the amounts of
20,000-10,000-5,000-4,000, &c., florins.
The following is a copy of the scrip enclosed to
Mr. Smith :
"A grand sale by shares of the Seignorial Estate,
Langiewnick, in Austria, officially valued at 2,000
florins, takes place at Vienna on Nov. 13, 1847.
" Prices of the shares :
" One ordinary share, 1/. ; one green share, 21.
"By taking five ordinary shares, a green share is
added gratis.
" The following five ordinary shares, Nos. 2,436,
2,458, 2,483, 2,525, 2,556, together with the green
one, No. 804, or others, if these should be disposed
of, will be delivered to the bearer on returning this
scrip, and the amount of Si. before the 12th of No-
vember, 1847, to , banker.
" Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Sept. 1847."
There was also enclosed a plate of the mansion and
estate, which are to fall into the possession of some
very lucky person on the 13th of November next.
The view was captivating enough to induce a person
to risk a pound for such a glorious independence.
A gentleman present observed to his Lordship that
the very liberal manner in which the tickets were
transmitted for the purpose of picking up chance cus-
tomers brought to recollection the course pursued by
the provisional committee in a great number of the
humbug railroad companies. The gentlemen at the
head of the respectable concerns alluded to used to
send letters of allotment to parties who never applied
for shares, and afterwards wrote to them per the legal
gentleman of the establishment, upon the breaking
up, for a per centage to defray the expenses of the
experiments.
The Loan ALI_YOR said, he knew nothing of the
persons who were concerned in getting up the lot-
tery in question, but he knew that it was illegal to
have anything to do with speculations of the kind in
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ifrom hazardous speculation.
William James, a dand• dy-dressed conductor, of
No. 2,373, threepenny omnibus, was summoned be-
fore the Lord Mayor by Mrs. Ann Sell, for the
following misconduct :
Mrs. Sell got into the omnibus in Piccadilly, and
the conductor a
on getting out at the Poultry handed
shilling. He told her that if she wouldo
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would give her the change. She did 40, and he
handed her, not the 9d. she was entitled to, but 2d.,
and proceeded without attending to her eupostulation
about the money he detained until he rer.ched Grace-
church-street. She then touched him with her
parasol, and showed that she was determined not to
be imposed upon, but he insolently refused to do her
justice.

The conductor said, he had givers the person her
full change.
The LORD MAYOR said, he was aware of the prac-
tice of the conductors of some of the threepenny om-
nibuses towards their female passengers especially,
who, if they gave silver, often received not one far-
thing of change, but were suddenly left in the street,
when the hint was given to the coachman. His Lord-
ship thanked the lady for having come forward, and
fined the conductor 20s. and costs.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday James Pummel!, a lad employed as a
Forter at Messrs. Westley and Clarke's, bookbinders,
riar-street, Doctors'-commons, was brought before
Mr. Alderman Farncomb for further examination,
charged with robbing his employers of a considerable
number of books of gold leaf.

At the previous hearn g the policeman, John Coram,
stated that he stopped the prisoner in the street while
engaged in tearing up the paper leaves of the book
from which he had just extracted the leaf gold. He
had eighteen books of gold in his pocket, and at a
coffee-shop which he frequented the officer found five
wrappers bearing the names of the gold beaters, each
of which wrapper had contained 300 leaves of gold.
He had been observed at the coffee shop to be busy in
taking the gold out of the bouks on two or three
occasions.

Fowle, a clerk at the Cross Keys Inn, in Wood-
street, was now called to show that the signature
"A. Paine," in Messrs. Westley's parcel-book, was
not in the handwriting of any person belonging to
that inn, nor had the parcel therein referred to been
booked there.

Mr. Logan, the foreman at Messrs. Westley, de-
posed that on the 31st of August he made up a parcel
containing a handsomely bound copy of "The Ode
on the Installation of Prince Albert," and addressed
it to "W. Wordsworth, Esq., Rydal Mount, near
Ambleside, Westmoreland." He then delivered it
to the prisoner, as one of the porters, to carry it to
the Cross Keys, with money to pay the carriage. He
brought the parcel-book back, apparently regularly
signed, and 2s. Bd. marked as paid.
Jane Collier, the prisoner's sweetheart, was then
called as a witness against him.
Mr. Alderman FAaNcoun endeavoured to avoid
placing her in this position, by examining her sister
first, to see if she could prove the prisoner brought
the book to their house in Bethnal-green. She, how-
ever, could only speak of what her sister had told
her.

Jane Collier was therefore sworn. She said she
was nineteen years of age. She shed tears while she
was giving her evidence. She stated that the pri-
soner brought the book to her house on the 21st of
September, and said he was going to take it to a Mr.
Evans, of Chancery-street, Stratford. He said he
would leave it till the next day, but he let it remain
till the 25th, when the policeman came, searched the
place, and found it.
Mr. Logan, the foreman, identified five volumes of
the " Penny Cylopm-lia," as corresponding in the
style of binding and in the number of each volume
with five others which had been stolen from a set of
fourteen, which had been lying in his counting-house
for a considerable time. One of them was the pat-
tern volume, which the rest were to match. They
were kept back to await the reprinting of a sheet
which was imperfect. The gold was kept in wit-
ness's counting-house, and he did not know how the
prisoner could get at it without the help of false
keys. The stock of gold kept was large, as a great
number of hands were constantly using it. He took
care to deliver out no more to any man than would
be wanted for his job, but he did not keep such an
account of his stock that he could miss a dozen
books. The prisoner had no right to take any gold
off the premises.
The prisoner offered no defence, and was committed
for stealing the books and the gold.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday a little girl scarcely nine years of age,
named Charlotte Davidson, was placed at the bar be-
fore Mr. Arnold, charged with the following syste•
matic robbery upon another child of about the same
age, the daughter of a labourer living in Gray's-
buildings, Kingsland.

Elizabeth Jenkinson, the child in question, stated
that having been sent out that morning with her little
brother, three years old, to purchase meat for their
dinner, by her mother, with a handbasket in one
hand, and a half-crown in the other, she had not pro-
ceeded far down the road when the prisoner came up
to her, and asked her if she had any money ? Sbe
replied " Yes," and showed her the half-crown, and
the prisoner, upon looking at it, told her that there
was a tall man lurking about the neighbourhood,
who was constantly robbing little girls like her, and
that he had the day before cut off her (the prisoner's)
pocket, and not only stolen a shilling she had been
sent out with, but also carried her little brother away
from her, and that he had not been seen since. The
prisoner then told her to be very careful of her money,
or she would be sure to have it stolen, and proposed to
wrap it up for her, to which she assented, and the
prisoner having rummaged the basket to see what it
contained, produced a piece of rag, and taking the
half-crown from her, rolled them up together, and
shutting down the lid, placed them, as she thought, in
the bottom of the basket, and hurried away ; but on
reaching the butcher's where she had to purchase the
meat, she found the money had been stolen, and
having burst out crying, pursued in the direction the
prisoner had gone, and having overtaken her gave her
into custody.
When asked by the Magistrate what could have
induced her to act so, the prisoner said, that her elder
brother, a boy of 14, had told .her to take the little
girl's money ; and that, having done so, she went to
the corner of a street where he was waiting for her,
and handed him the half-crown. In answer to fur-
ther questions, she said that her parents resided at
Ball's-pond, Islington, and gave a minute description
of the locality; but on the return of the policeman
who was sent there by the Magistrate to make in-
quiries about her, he informed the bench that,
although he had been very particular in his search,
he had been unable to ascertain anything about her
parents, who did not appear to be known there.
Mr. ARNOLD said, that as it might be attended by
the most serious consequences to send so young a
child to prison, he should allow the case to stand over
for a few days, during which the prisoner must be
taken care of in the workhouse, and in the meantime
one of the warrant-officers must use his best exertions
and endeavour to discover her parents or friends, when
he would determine how to act in the matter.
SOU FH WARK.
Edward Austin was brought before Mr. Cotting-
ham for re-examination, charged with forging and
uttering cheques purporting to be drawn by Mr.
Charles Chester, a solicitor, in Acre-lane, Brixton, on
the Southwark branch of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, in which he keeps an account.
Mr. Mullins, the solicitor to the Bankers' Society
for the Detection and Prosecution of Frauds and
Forgeries, attended. The prisoner was undefended.
Yesterday, when the prisoner was placed at the
bar, Policeman 72 M stated, that since the first ex-
amination he had been making inquiries with regard
to the prisoner, and had ascertained that he had
borrowed several sums of money of different persons,
and deposited forged cheques with them as security
for the repayment of the same. It, however, did not
appear that the prisoner had obtained any money on
them of the bankers, and that, it seemed, his motive
in circulating the cheques was for the purpose of
leaving them in the hands of those from whom he
borrowed money as security for its repayment.
Stephen Long stated that about ten days ago the
prisoner called on him and told him he was going to
dispose of a cottage, for which he was to have 1501.
of Mr. Chester, who was to give him a cheque on his
bankers for the:money. He said that at present he was
in want of,:money and borrowed several small sums of
witness, saying that he should repay him the moment
he obtained the cheque of 1501. from Mr. Chester.
On the last occasion he borrowed of witness he ac-
companied the prisoner to Mr. Chester's house, and
waited outside until he came out, and he then exhi-
bited a letter to witness, which he said had been put
into his hands by one of Mr. Chester's clerks, and
the purport of which was an acknowledgment, on the
part of the writer, that he was indebted to the priso-
ner in the above sum, and that if he called in the
course of a few days he should have a cheque for the
money. This letter, which was produced in court,
was left by the prisoner in the hands of the witness,
who, in a few days afterwards, suspecting that it was
a trick to defraud him of his money, proceeded to Mr.
Chester and showed him the epistle ; and that gentle-
man at once assured him that he was not indebted to
the prisoner a shilling, and that it was a fictitious
letter altogether.

The policeman stated that the prisoner ran up a
score at a public-house kept by a Mr. Clarke, and as
security for the debt he entrusted him w ith two
cheques, purporting to be drawn by Mr. Chester on
the London and Westminster Bank. Mr. Clarke,
however, it was found, had since destroyed the cheques
on being made acquainted that they were forged
ones.

Mr. COTTINGHAht inquired what number of these
forged cheques was supposed to be circulated amongst
the public ?—The policeman said, that there was no
doubt a great number was deposited by the prisoner
in the hands of those of whom he borrowed money as
security, and that that seemed to be the only use he
made of them, as it did not appear he had presented
any of them at the banking-house.
Mr. COTTINGLIAIt (to the prisoner)—Why did you
obtain this witness's money by such means ? The
letter now produced is also a forgery, it appears.

Prisoner—l know it was wrong ; the fact is, I have
been unfortunate and lost a great deal of property one
way or another. I have been starving of late, and
reduced to the greatest distress. When I gave the
cheques I intended to have paid;the persons from whom
I borrowed money when I got it, and to have taken
the cheques back; but I never supposed that they
would have presented them at the bank. I could not
be so foolish as to believe the bank would cash such
paper.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that, however groat his
distress might have been, he was not justified in adopt-
ing such a course, and that he should have no hesita-
tion in sending him for trial if the Society of Bankers
consented to prosecute.
Mr. Mullins said, that since the first examination
of the prisoner it was ascertained that he had not
presented any of the cheques for payment, and that the
Bankers' Society, therefore, did not feel called upon to
prosecute for the forgery, for, in point of fact, no
money had been raised from them upon the documents.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said, that it would be a pity if a
prosecution was not instituted against an offender like
the prisoner, and that it was out of the power of the
poor man Sullivan to bear the expenses of such a pro-
ceeding.
Mr. Mullins said, that the bankers were anxious
that tradesmen should be more circumspect than they
were in taking cheques, and that their object was to
induce them to be cautious from whom they received
such documents. It did not appear, however, that the
prisoner belonged to the class of persons who were in
the habit of forging on the bankers of the metropolis,
but that he drew these fictitious cheques with the view
of depositing them as security in the hands of those
from whom he borrowed small sums of money. Mr.
Mullins then inquired if the prisoner could not be
punished as a common cheat?
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that the prisoner was in-
dictable for forgery as well as for obtaining money
under false pretences. With regard to the former
offence, however, he was inclined to believe that the
prisoner had written out the cheques, not with the
intention of uttering them and obtaining money at
the bankers', but merely with the view of depositing
them in other hands as security, in order to raise
money when he fell into distress. At all events,
there were clear cases of misdemeanour against him,
and as the bankers were not desirous of proceeding
against him, he thought it would be the most
judicious plan to send him for trial for the latter
offence. As, however, it was absolutely necessary to
ascertain the full extent to which the prisoner had
carried on these transactions, he should remand him
1 for another week, in order to bring forward all the
evidence that could be procured bearing on both
charges.

N. Mullins intimated that he should take special
care to be present on the prisoner's trial, and should
lend his aid in forwarding the proceedings the magis
trates might think necessary to adopt against the
accused.

the 10th of October the receipts were such as to
leave a ;balance of 1151. 103., after defraying the
expenses, but looking to the general statement
he thought the profession might, as the insolvent had
designated it, be termed one of mere lottery. There
was, however, a course open to all persons who found
themselves in difficulties of such a nature, and that
was to come at the earliest possible moment to that
court, and seek protection not only for their own per-
sons ,but for their creditors. And whether or not that
property which had cost 8001. would have realised
more than 1401., he could not lose sight of the fact of
the two former insolvencies. He would not question
the view of the decisions and orders made in these
cases, but as the bankrupt had on former occasions
failed to meet demands amounting to nearly 10,0001.,
he should have exercised due caution when he was
again engaged in his profession, and that due caution
had not been exercised. He should therefore feel
himself bound, in accordance with the Act of Parlia-
ment, to decline naming a day for the final order.—
Mercury.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF

FRIDAY.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the
28th day of September, 1847, present the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by
her Majesty in Council, that the Right lion. the Lord
High Chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom
called Great Britain do issue writs for further pro.
roguing the Parliament, from Tuesday, the 12th day of
October next, to Thursday, the 11th day of November
next.

At the Court at Osborne louse, Isle of Wight, the
28th day of September, 1847, present the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered
by her Alajeaty in Council, that his Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a Form of
Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the
late abundant harvest ; and that such Form of Prayer
and Thanksgiving be used in all churckes and chapels in
England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-on-
Tweed, on Sunday, the 17th day of October next. And
it ►s hereby further ordered, that her Majesty's printer do
forthwith print a competent number of copies of the said
form of prayer and thanksgiving, in order that the same
may be forthwith sent round and read in the several
churches and chapels of England and Wales, and of the
town of Berwick on-Tweed.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the
28th day of September, 1847, present the Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day
ordered by her Majesty in Council, that all ministers
and preachers, as well of the Established Church in
that part of Great Britain called Scotland as of the
Episcopal Communion, protected and allowed by an
Act passed in the tenth year of the reign of her late
Majesty Queen Anne, cap. 7, do, at some time during
the exercise of Divine Service in their churches, con-
gregations, or assemblies, on Sunday, the 17th day of
October next (or so soon as the ministers of such
churches, congregations, or assemblies respectively shall
be enabled so to do), put up prayers and thanksgivings
to Almighty God fur the late abundant harvest.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the
28 h day of Sept., 1847, present the Queen's Most Ex-
eeiient Majesty in Council, her Majesty was this day
pleased, upon the representation of the R:ght Hon. the
Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, to
appoint Henry George Bowyer, Esq., and Thomas
Browne Browne, Esq., to be two of her Majesty's In-
spectors of Schools.
DOWNING-STREET, OCTOBER 1, 1847

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Fitz-
gerald, Esq., Commander in the Royal Navy, to be
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the ter-
ritory of Western Australia and its dependencies.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Richard
Graves Mac Donnell, Esq., to be Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's settlements
in the Gambia and their dependencies..
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Richard
More O'Ferrall, Esq. to be Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over the island of Malta and its de-
pendencies.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint
Henry D. Warden, Esq. Captain in the Corps of Cape
Mounted Riflemen, to be British Resident among ttie
Tribes on the north-eastern frontier of the settlement
of the Cape of Good Hope.
WAR OFFICE, OCT. 1.
lit Dragoon Guards—Hugh Hamilton, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Wallace, appointed to the 26th
Foot, Oct. 1.
2d Dragoons—Surgeon Robert Dunkin Smyth, from
87th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice John Winterscale, who
retires upon half-pay, Oct. 1.
7th Light Dragoons—Second Lieutenant William
Percival Heathcote, trotn the Rifle Brigade, to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Bond, who retires, Oct. 1.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant and
Adjutant Francis Haygarth to have the rank of Lieute-
nant and Captain, Sept. 30; Captain the Honourable
Richard Charteris, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain, vice Rushbrooke, who exchanges,
Oct. 1.
7th Regiment of Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant John
Hogan to be Quartermaster, vice John Ledsam, who re-

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tires on half-pay, Oct. 1.
10th Foot—Lieut.-General Sir Thomas M'Mahon,
Bart. and K.C.B. from the 94th Foot, to be Colonel, vice
General Sir John Lambert, G.C.8., deceased, Sept. 28.
17th Foot—Captain William Reader, from 3d West
India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Prendergast, who
exchanges, Oct. 1.
20th Foot—William Henry M'Neill, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Ilebdin, who retires ; Staff
Surgeon of the Second Class Isidore Anthony Blake,
M. 13., to be Surgeon, vice Fishbourne, who exchanges,
Oct. 1.

21st Foot—Paymaster Richard Butler Low, from 53d
Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Erskine, who exchanges,
Oct. 1.
26th Foot—Brevet Major Ferdinand Whittingham to
be Major, by purchase, vice Davenport, who retires ;
Lieutenant Albany French Wallace to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Whittingham ; Ensign Christopher Ed-
ward Blackett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wal-
lace ; Cornet William Edward Wallace, from Ist Dra-
goon Guards, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Blackett,
Oct. 1.
33d Foot—Major-General Henry D'Oyly to be Colo-
nel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating,
K.C.8., deceased, Sept. 28.
40th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Mahony Hickson,
from the Ceylon Rifle R-giment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Payne, who exchanges, Oct. 1.
53d Foot—Paymaster George Pott Erskine, from 21st
Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Low, who exchanges, Oct. 1.
64th Foot—Quartermaster James Howes to be Pay
master, vice Ralston, appointed to the 4th Dragoon
Guards; Lieutenant John Sears, from half pay of the
39th Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Howes, appointed
Paymaster, Oct. 1.
81st Foot—Assistant Surgeon Charles Frederick Ste-
phenson' M.D., from 9th Foot, to be Assistant Surgeon,
vice Schooles, promoted on the Staff, Oct. 1.
87th Foot—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class William
Leslie Langley, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Smyth, ap-
pointed to the 2d Dragoons, Oct. 1.
89th Foot—Lieutenant William Augustus Gaussen
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stanley, who retires ;
Ensign Charles Henry Elphinstone H )Iloway to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gaussen ; William Drum-
mond, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vlce Holloway,
Oct. 1.
91st Foot—Acting Sergeant-Major James Paterson
to be Quartermaster, Oct. 1.
94th Foot—Major-General Sir William Warre, C. 8.,
to he Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas
M‘Mahon, Bart., and K.C.8., appointed to the 10th Foot,
Sept. 28.

Rifle Brigade—Brevet Major Lieutenant and Captain
,Robert Frederick Browr.low Rushbrooke, from the
Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Captain, vice Charteris,
who exchanges ; Adam Steuart, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Heathcote, appointed to
the 7th Light Dragoons, Oct. 1.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign and Quartermaster
Edward Kirby, from the 58th Foot, to-be Ensign, vice
Patterson, promoted; George Ross Caldwell, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kirby, who retires, Oct. 1;
Charles John Patterson, Gent., to bo Ensign, vice De
Blaquiere, w ho retires, Oct. 2.
3d West India Regiment—Capt. Thomas Prendergast,
from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Reader, who ex-
changes, Oct. 1.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Richard Sowden
Payne, from 40th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hickson,
who exchanges, Oct. 1.
HOSPITAL ST/al.—Surgeon Thor. Moore Fishbourne,
M.D., from 20th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the SeJond
Class, vice Blake, who exchanges; Assistant Surgeon
Henry James Schooles, bI.D., from 81st Foot, to be
Staff Surgeon of Second Class, vice Langley, appointed
to the 87th Foot, Oct. 1.
Commission t y the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeotuanry Ca-
valry—The Hon. Henry Dugdale Curzon to be Cornet,
Sept. 18.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Francis Buchanan Hoare, printer and publisher, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields.

BANKRUPTS.
Joseph Robinson, builder, Maldon-road, Middlesex,
to surrender October 11, at half-past one, and November
15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand,
official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Goddard and
Eyre, Wood-street, Cheapside.
William Byres, woollen warehouseman, High-street,
Shoreditch, October 12, at half-past eleven, and Novem-
ber 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Tur-
quand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Linkla-
ters, Leadenhall-street, ; Walker, Canterbury.
John Fielding Isherwood, painter and plumber, Clap-
ham-road, October 12, at half-past eleven, and Novem-
ber 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankrupty. Johnson,
official assignee, Bavinghall-street ; Dawes, Serjeant's-
inn, Fleet-street.
Richard Thomas Tubbs, silk agent, Aldermanbury,
Oct. 12, at one, and Nov. 11, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings ; Hutson, Upper Clifton-street, Finsbury.
Charles Skinner Coe, shoemaker, Oxford-street, Oct.
12, at half-past twelve, and Nov. 18, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings; Billing, Ring-street, Cheapside.
John Newton, ship builder, Stockton, Durham, Oct.
8, at half-past one, and Nov. 16, at twelve, at the New-
caitle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official as-
signee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Waron, Stockton-on-
Tees ; Harle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
George Young, grocer, Bristol, Oct. 15 and Nov. 12,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official
assignee, Bristol; Sabine, Bristol.
Thomas Bevan, corn dealer, Brecon, Oct. 14 and Nov.
11, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee Bristol; Brittan and Sons, Bristol;
white, Eyre, 6/14 White, Bedf9rd-row, L9nd9a.