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London, England, 1847-09-27 00:00:00

LON DON, MONDAY -E-V-ENI NG, SEPTEMBER 27,

Eastern Counties Railway Company, knew the pri-
soner, and had had opportunities of seeing his hand-
writing. He believed the note, the cheque, and the
endorsement on the back of the fifty pound-note, to
be in the prisoner's handwriting.
Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—The prisoner
and witness were in the same office, in the Eastern
Counties Company's service, for upwards of two
months—the inward department. Witness had no-
thing to do with the prisoner being turned away from
the service of the company. Reported him when he
absented himself for three days. Had broken open
the prisoner's desk, by order of Mr. Moseley, the
manager. Had heard something about a prosecution
for it.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The royal dinner party at Osborne, on Friday, in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his
Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, Sir George Couper, and Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual air-
ings on Saturday, and the royal children walked and
rode out on ponies.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an
airing on Saturday. .

LOrd John Russell arrived at Osborne on Saturday
afternoon, from his residence in Richmond, on a visit
to the Queen. Sir James Clark also arrived on Sa-
turday.
The Marchioness of Douro left Osborne on Satur-
day. The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe arrived on
Friday, and has succeeded the Marchioness of Douro
as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen.
The royal dinner circle on Saturday included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene
Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, his Serene
Highness Prince Lowenstein, Lord John Russell,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Sir James Clark.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine
service yesterday morning, in Whippingham Church.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine
service yesterday morning, in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. T.
Helmore, and the lessons by the Rev. W. Hall. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, who
took his text from St. Mathew, chap. 7, verse 24.
The anthem was " Hosanna" (Gibbons). Mr. Turle
presided at the organ. The Queen Dowager was
attended by the Countess Brownlow and the Earl
Bowe. Among the nobility present were the Earl
and Countess St. Germans, Lords Gosford and
Ebrington.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen,
and their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida, Prince
Gustavus, and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar,
attended Divine service yesterday morning, in the
German Lutheran Church in the Savoy.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
.the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, took a drive in a
carriage on Saturday.
Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister, trans-
acted business at the Foreign-office, on Saturday.
Lord John Russell left his residence at Richmond,
on Saturday, for Osborne, Isle of Wight, on a visit
to the Queen.

Re-examined by Mr. RYLAND—Had no ill will to-
wards the prisoner, and did not break open his desk until
he had twice sent to his house for the key, and he had
refused to send it. Witness had a salary of 851. a
year, he believed the prisoner had 651.
Edward Harrison, a clerk in the luggage department
of the Eastern Counties Railway, saw the prisoner in
August last, after he had left the service of the
Eastern Counties Company. They went and had a
glass of ale together, and after talking some time
with him about the company, he pulled some money,
from 101. to 201., out of his pocket, together with
some jewellery, observing that that was better than
being in the service of the Eastern Counties Railway
Company.
Michael Hadden, a City constable, 274, took the
prisoner into custody at his lodgings, Hoxton New
Town.

Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the jury for the pri-
soner, and called
Mr. George Griffiths, the father of the prisoner,
who had formerly been a jeweller, but had since re-
tired from business, and was now living, upon his
property. He did not believe that the letter, the
cheque, or the endorsement on the 501. note was in
his son's handwriting.
Cross-examined by Mr. RYLAND—The prisoner
had had nothing to do since he left the Eastern
Counties Railway. Witness kept him, although he
did not lodge in his house. The house witness lived
in at Pentonville was his own, and several others in
the neighbourhood.
Ebenezer Griffiths, the brother of the prisoner,
believed that neither of the documents produced was
in his brother's handwriting.
Edward Stevens, had been in the employ of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company. Was there
'during the whole time prisoner was, and had plenty
of opportunities of seeing him write. Re believed
that the documents produced were not in the prisoner's
hand writing.
Cross-examined by Mr. RYLAND—Believed that
the prisoner told him, on theirgoing:on an excursion to
Gravesend, that he had spent 1001. lately. On wit-
ness asking him how he got it, the prisoner said that
he had been left some money by his grandfather or
grandmother. Witness did not know which.
Re-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—Witness had
been living with his mother ever since he left the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, and was in
expectation of getting a situation in the Customs.
Mr. RYLAND having replied on the evidence pro-
duced on behalf of the prisoner,
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.

THE LATE ROBBERY at ROGERS
AND CO.'S., THE BANKERS.
EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF THE

NOTES.

On Saturday, considerable excitement prevailed
throughout the City, in consequence of a rumour
which was generally circulated that the whole of the
notes which had been stolen from the Messrs. Rogers,
Towgood, and ad by the latter firm been paid
into the Bank of Co.,England, the amount being upwards
of 40,0001.
The robbery alluded to, it will be recollected, took
place in November, 1844, and cash to the amount of
nearly 2,6001. was stolen, in addition to the notes, the
numbers of some of the latter not being known.
The particulars, as described in the vast number of
handbills which have been from time to time cir-
culated, offering a reward of 3,0001. must be fresh in
the recollection of the public. Since the period of the
robbery, Isaacs, and several others of the City detec-
tive force, have been actively engaged in endeavour-
ing to trace the property and the perpetrators of the
robbery, but without effect, for although some of
the suspected parties, or (it may be said) the known
participators have been long under surveillance, and
hare been most closely watched, yet nothing oc-
curred to warrant their apprehension. It was, how-
ever, expected, on one occasion, that the officers had
ascertained where the booty was concealed, when
Isaacs and his colleagues discovered, at the house of
a party in the Lower-road, Islington, no less than
600 sovereigns hidden under a bed. The notes, how-
ever, were not to be found, and the gold, of course,
could not be identified.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
RODDING LODGINGS.—William' Robinson, a well-
dressed man, aged 22, was convicted of stealing two
sheets and a coverlet, the property of Robert Cavis,
and another person, who keeps a lodging-house for
the poorer class of people in Glasshouse-yard.
It appeared that the prisoner became an inmate,
and availed himself of his position to purloin the
articles referred to.

The RECORDER said the offence of which the pri-
soner had been convicted was of a serious character,
inasmuch as he had purloined the property of poor
people who let out lodgings, and whose effects were
more exposed to depredation than that of others.
The offence was one, too, greatly on the increase, and
it was necessary that those who committed such
offences should, for the sake of example, be severely
punished. The sentence of the Court was, that he be
transported for seven years; and he hoped the sen-
tence would be carried out to its full extent. The
Learned Judge advised the prosecutor to have bills
printed and affixed in his house, stating that the pri-
soner bad been so sentenced, as a warning to others.
Thomas Williams pleaded guilty to purloining
several sums, during the last ten months, amounting
in the aggregate to upwards of 251., the property of
his employer,' Mr. Twitty, a cheesemonger, and was
sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

The guilty parties, it would seem, have been wait-
ing all this time, expecting that a larger reward
would be offered, one of the parties actually telling
one of the officers that he knew they were in it, and
they could wait for three years, or until they could
get 5,0001. Ultimately, all the notes of which the
numbers were known were returned, the thieves
keeping the other notes, and all the cash. How the
whole has been delivered up has not transpired, but
to inquiries at the banking house in Clement's lane,
the answer was, that the notes had been returned, and
paid into the Bank of England. A great deal of mys-
tery still envelopes the transaction.

Mary Jones alias Garden, a young female, pleaded
guilty to stealing a gown, after two previous convic-
tions for the commission of petty larceny.
The RECORDER told the prisoner that she had ren-
dered herself liable to be transported for life ; he
would, however, give her another trial, and sentenced
her to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour.
William Webb, a young man, wearing the garb of
a soldier, was convicted of embezzling three small
sums of money, which he had received in his capacity
as errand lad to Mr. Judd, a cheesemonger, carrying
on business at Kentish-town.
It appeared that the prisoner received 7s. a week
and his board and lodging. He absconded in July,
and was arrested after he had enlisted in the 22d
regiment, in which he was serving at Chatham.
Whilst coming by the boat he surrendered himself,
and said he supposed he should be transported for
the job.
From inquiries it appeared that most regiments
take men back after conviction. _ _ _

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Saturday
information was given to Mr. Cartar, the coroner for
Surrey, of the following dangerous accident which bad
happened on the river. and terminated fatally:—lt seemed
that two men, named Holmes and King, were rowing in
the lower part of the river, when the scull of one broke,
and King received a severe blow on the chest, either from
the arm of the scull or from Holmes falling back on him,
which it was could not be ascertained. King was taken
home, when peritonitis came on, and caused his death,
the surgeon having no doubt the blovy was the primary
cause of it, thus showing by what simple means are the
vital functions destroyed.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 24.--The trans-
actions of the week have been small, but this arises
chiefly from the limited supply at market, as the demand
continues good. Rum has become very dull, and prices
have a downward tendency.—Bristol Mercury.
CHRISTCHURCH.—COMMITTAL 01' A BANK MA-
NAGER ON A CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—There has
been much excitement in this place for some days past,
in consequence of various rumours affecting the cha-
racter of the manager of the branch of the Wilts and
Dorset Banking Company in this town. All doubts as
to the truth of these rumours have now been dissipated
by the full committal of Mr. Edward Owen Bishop, the
gentleman in question, to take his trial at the next
quarter sessions on a charge of embezzlement. Private
examinations took place before the magistrates oil Mon.
day and Wednesday last, when, it is understood, several
clear cases were proved against him by the officers and
customers of the bank. Bail to a heavy amount was
demanded, in default of which he was on Thursday
morning conveyed to Winchester. The investigations
were said to have been long and painful ones, and the
magistrates, after a lengthened and patient hearing, de-
cidided on fully committing him on all the charges.—
Hants Independent.
The whole of the cargo of Wheat (700 quarters
ex " Johanne," Hanschild, master, from Galatz), offered
by public auction by Mr. H. Roper, at Cowes, on the
23d instant, was bought in, the highest price offered
for any of the lots being 41s. per quarter.
DEATH OF MADAME ALDERTAZZI.—This favourite
and kind-hearted vocalist died on Saturday morning, at
her residence in St. John's Wood, aged 33. Her health,
which had been declining for a long time, ended in a
rapid consumption. Albertazzi made a most successful
dead at her Majesty's Theatre, in Cenerektola, April
19th. 1837. After that she sang at the Ancient and
Philharmonic Concerts, and, in 1840, she appeared at
Drury-lane, in the opera of La Garza Ladra, and was
eminently successful. She was also engaged at the
Princess's Theatre, but her voice was then failing fast.
Her maiden name was Howson, and her father was a
music-master. She was married to Albertazzi when not
sixteen years of age.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH, LEITH,
AND GRANTON RAILWAY.—A melancholy and fatal
occurrence took place on the Edinburgh, Leith, and
Granton Railway, on Friday, about noon, within a hun-
dred yards of Leith Docks. A servant of the company,
of the name of Peter Marr, in charge of the goods
train. anxious to ascertain if the switches were in their
proper places, rushed forward for that purpose, but, un-
happily, he was caught by the break of one of the
trucks, and whirled round like a cylinder, and in five or
ten minutes ceased to breathe. The deceased was about
thirty years of age, and has left a widow and two infants
to lament his loss. The event has cast a gloom over the
minds of the other labourers, by whom deceased was
greatly respected.
PORTSMOUTH, FORMA, AND GOSPORT HOSPITAL.
—His Royal Highness Prince Albert, at the special re-
quest of the gentlemen forming the committee of ma-
nagement for building, by voluntary subscriptions. an
hospital at Landport, to be called the Portsmouth,
Portsea, and Gosport Hospital, has graciously consented
to perform the ceremony of laying the first stone. The
time fixed for the performance of this ceremony is four
o'clock this (Monday) afternoon, when the Prince will
come up from Osborne House and land at the dock-
yard, proceeding to Landport in the commander in
chief's carriage. Prince Albert has also graciously
consented, at the same time, to receive an address from
the Mayor and members of the corporation.
THE " REPORTED MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF
WELLINGTON WITH MISS BURDETT CouTTs."—We
think it right to state that the " correspondent" who
last week favoured the Observer with the statement
under the above head (and which, we see, is going the
round of the provincial press) is one of those inventive
gentlemen called " reporters for the public press.'
d lined
received a manifold copy of this " report,
to use it. How the " preliminary arrangements of
a tts ecof the
marriage" could come to the knowledge of
cor-
respondent may perhaps form
paragraph in the columns of our somewhat b
suject of another
credulous
contemporary.—John Bull.
for the late bountiful
A General Thanksgiving
harvest will be ordered by the Queen in Council, at
Osborne, on Tuesday next, when the form will be pro-
claimed and the day fixed, after consultation with the
heads of the Church. So much has been urged as to
the propriety of selecting Sunday for the solemnity,
instead of appropriating a week day. as formerly, that
her Majesty
will comply with the wishes so expressed.
Either the 10th or the 17th of October will most likely
be the Sunday decided on.—Observer.
SOUTHAMPTON.—The Madrid steam-ship, under
the command of Captain Joy, arrived at Southampton
early on Sunday morning, foul the Peninsula, with
inails in charge of Lieutenant Inglis, Admiralty agent.
The latest dates she brings are—Gibraltar, Sept. 16th;
Cadiz, 17th ' • Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto, 21st; Vigo, 22d.
The Madrid brings nearly thirty passengers, and a large
cargo, consisting of grapes, lemons, &c., and twelve
packages of specie. Stations of her Majesty's ships :
At Gibraltar, the Virago steamer; Lisbon—the whole
of the experimental fleet, which returned to that port
from a cruise nn the 19th.

He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

111ARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERY BY A FOOTMAN.—
Henry Pavior, a respectable looking young man, was
placed before imr. Hardwick, charged with stealing a
quantity of silver plate, consisting of coffee-pots, tea-
pots, candlesticks, epergnes, and other articles, of the
value of 2001., the property of William Burns, Esq.,
No. 6, Stratton--street, Piccadilly.
It appeared that the prisoner had been a footman in
the service of the prosecutor. On the 11 th instant
the prosecutor, who had been on a tour, returned to
his residence rather unexpectedly, at an early hour
of the morning. Feeling in want of some
refreshment he desired the butler to get him
some breakfast. On the latter person going
to the plate cupboard to get the necessary
articles for the breakfast table, he discovered that the
tea and coffee pots had been taken out of their covers,
and wooden dummies" substituted in their places.
He became alarmed, and immediately informed Mr.
Burns, who desired him to proceed to -Vine-street
station, and request a constable to come in and inves-

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deceive any one not aware of the circumstances.
Suspicion of the robbery naturally fell upon the
footman who had the cleaning of the plate, and on
the police-officers inquiring for him it was found that
he had taken the opportunity of making off. Ser-
geant Gray_ was sent in pursuit and traced the pri-
soner to Wooton, Woodstock, from thence back to
London, on to Upminster in Essex, where he lost all
clue of him. Re then heard that the prisoner was
secreted in London, and after a deal of trouble suc-
ceeded in getting a clue that the prisoner was to be
found located in a house in Litchfield-street, Soho.
He watched this house closely for a considerable
length of time until Saturday night, when his
perseverance was rewarded by seeing the pri-
soner come out and look stealthily about him when
he pounced upon him and took him into custody. On
being told the nature of the charge against him, the
prisoner expressed his sorrow and admitted that he
had pledged all the articles missing, and delivered
into his (Gray's) hands a number of duplicates re-
lating to the stolen property, which was pledged for
various amounts, at Dobrees, Flemings, Rochford's,
remand was granted, would come forward and ulen-
Stevens's, and several other pawnbrokers, who,. if a
tify the prisoner.
At the request of Sergeant Gray, Mr. Hardwick
remanded the prisoner till Friday.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROU OUP. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
SEPTEMBER 25.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
Sept. 17. Witch cutter, Henry Oglander, Esq., from
Hyde, and came into harbour to lay up; Aurora cutter,
Le Merchant Thomas, Esq., from the eastward.
23. Merlin schooner, Viscount Milton, from the coast
of Scotland, and cme
into
. harbour to be hauled up on
Mr. Ratray's patent slip.
SAILING S.
Sept. 18. Xarifa schooner, Earl of Wilton, for Ports-
mouth and Plymouth, left for the season.
20. Camilla schooner, Thomas Halifax, jun., Esq.,
t,
harbour,
Esq.,
for
Southampton, t o lays up
24. Wyvern schooner, Duke of Marlborough, for Ply-
mouth ; Flirt schooner, Sir B. R. Graham, -Bart., came
into harbour, to be hauled up on Mr. Joseph White's
slip, to be lengthened by the bow.
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YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schooners—Ariel, Merlin, Maud, Magic, Coral Queen,
Cutters—Ganymede, Noran, Turquoise, Aurora.
Yawls—Flower of Yarrow, Susan.

SEPTEMBER 26.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
and suite, attended Divine Service at Whippingham
church this morning. The church was crowded, and
many could not obtain admittance, but remained outside
during the service. The attendance was clearly not to
be attributed to any religious feeling. Our earthly
Queen was far more attractive to the visitors to the
church from Newport and Cowes than our heavenly
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