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Saw Mr. Higginson again on the 16th. Witness had
been every day at the counting-house in the interval.
There was a letter there written, but not signed.
Mr. Higginson was not there ; he came after-
wards. Witness saw the letter now produced; it
was given to Mr. Haynes Higginson. Spoke to Mr.
Rabez in October about the cargo of the Vigilant.
Thinks it was after the letter was handed over on the
16th. Witness was entitled to commission on sales made
on account of the house at Rio. Witness first heard of
the Royal Bank being in difficulties on the 18th October.
Knows Mr. Gardner, a merchant in Manchester: The
bill of lading arrived Nov. 12. Tho bills of exchange
about the same time. Sent a person to Cork about the
20th or end of November, to meet the vessel and give
her her destination to Rotterdam. Sent the bill of
lading about the 16th of November. On the 23d of
November sent a notice to the assignees. On the 2d of
December sent a notice to the captain. The bills were
presented and not accepted. Witness accepted one pay-
able to Carruthers and Co. Applied the advance from
Van Casteel and Co. in taking up the bills.
Cross-examined—Witness is not sure whether he saw
Higginson on Saturday, Oct. 16. Saw the document
produced, unsigned at that time. It was on Mr. Parsons'
desk. Did not see any documents but the two. Does
not think any one was present but witness and Parsons.
Got possession of the bills of lading of the Altcto, the
Alice, and the Lancaster on the 23d of October. They
were brought by a clerk of Mr. Higginson. They were
not in an envelope. The Alecto had gone to London.
Sent the Alice to Antwerp. Witness paid no freight to
Mr. Higginson for these ships. Made no provision for
the expenses at Antwerp. Suggested that the vessel
should be bottomried for her expenses. Does not know
whether the assignees ever got possession of the Alice.
Hopes to get credit for the value of the cargo at Ant-
werp. The Lancaster went to Hamburgh. The value
of the four cargoes was about 40,0001. Is not aware
that lie ever mentioned in the Court of Bankruptcy any-
thing about the arrangement of January, 1847, that the
cargoes were to be held to meet the bills The conver-
sation of the 16th_took place after dinner ; it was in the
drawing-room.
Re-examined—The proceeds of the several cargoes
,were applied in payment of the bills. Witness is still a
creditor of Messrs. Barton and Co., to the amount of at
least 16,0001.
The letter from Mr. Higginson of the 4th of June
was then put in, giving an order to Lyons, Schwinde,
and Co., for the coffees in question. Also the letter
placed in the hands of Mr. Haynes Higginson, directing
him to hold the bills of lading of the Vigilant to meet
the bills drawn against the cargo until those bills were
paid.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
John Dixon was brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having stolen a truss of vestings, value
151. 19s. 6d., from one of Chaplin and Horne's vans.
As Thomas King, a porter at the Camden town Sta-
tion, was taking two Trusses on Tuesday morning from
that place to Noble-street, in the city, he had occasion
to stop in Love-lane to deliver some property. While
he was so occupied, he saw the trusses safe, but, on
going into Noble-street, he saw his mate, who attended
to see that all was right, collar the prisoner, who was in
possession of one of the trusses. It appeared that the
prisoner had dexterously whipped the truss off to his
shoulder, walked a few yards by the side of the van, and
then cut down Lillypot-lane. That, upon seeing it was
all up with him, he coolly put down the truss, wiped his
forehead, and said " I'm warm, mate," as if he and his
pursuer belonged to the same house. The truss was in-
voiced to Mr. Nash, of No. 41, Noble-street, and con-
tained fifty-six yards of vestings, composed of woollen
and silk vestings.
The prisoner said that, as he was going along the
street, a man, who appeared to be very tired, threw
down the truss, and begged that he would be good
enough to carry it a little way, which he did, but it was
so heavy that he was obliged to drop it, and the moment
he did so, he felt somebody collar him, but he couldn't
tell why.
at Committed for trial.
John Stevenson was charged with having stolen a
number of books in Birchin-lane.
The prisoner, a man of most wretched appearance,
went up to a board on which books were exposed for
sale, and deliberately swept off as many as seventeen
books, and began to stow them in his pockets. Upon
being taken hold of by a person who witnessed the
robbery, the prisoner coolly handed two of the books to
the shopman, said they were all he had, and requested
to be allowed to depart. Upon being taken into the
shop, however, and finding that the search wouldlbe
strict, he delivered up all the rest of the property, and
then he submitted that as he had made complete restitu-
tion, he ought to be allowed to take his leave.
The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoner what he had to
say to the charge of so wholesale a robbery ? The pri-
soner said he had a wife and children in a state of de-
plorable poverty, and he could not bear to see them in
want.—
Committed for trial.
A young fellow, named John S'mith, was charged with
having stolen a pad of herrings. He was well known
as an idle vagabond about Billingsgate, and the evidence
was as clear as possible against him.
Upon being convicted, the prisoner said to the Lord
Mayor :—" Please you, my Lord, it's enough for you to
reprimand me this time ; I deserve to be reprimanded,
and I am sure that will prevent me from doing anything
of the kind again."
The LORD MAYOR.—Yes; I'll reprimand you with
imprisonment and hard labour for six weeks.
The prisoner--My Lord, a reprimand is better. I beg
your Lordship will be so good as to give me a severe
reprimand; I deserve that.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR.—You shall have a repremand of
the six weeks, hard labour and low diet.—Committed.
Ellen Gorman, a young woman, who appeared at the
bar covered with a black veil and without a bonnet, was
charged with having beaten a policeman.
The defendant it appeared had, at a very late hour,
disturbed the neighbourhood of Creechurchslane, by
coarsely abusing the inmates of a low house there, in
which she complained of having been ill-treated, and
the policeman went up to expostulate with her. The
moment he opened his mouth he received a blow on the
ear which staggered him, and to his astonishment he
found that it came from the young woman, who imme-
diately squared up to him and pitched into him with a
rapidity and force he never saw exceeded by a man.
Alderman GIBBS—And without provocation?
The policeman—l did not give her the slightest. I
merely requested her to go home and she fetched me a
crack in the ear that has made my head ache ever since.
I never in my life had a harder blow from a man.
Alderman GIBBS—What have you to say, young wo-
man ?
The defendant—Oh, then, I don't know why I
whopped the policeman. I'm sorry for it. It's the
fellow I was with before I saw him I ought to have
walloped well.
The policeman said the girl tore her bonnet to pieces
just before she turned ,out to fight him, and he never
beheld anything so violent, man, woman, or child.
Committed to Bridewell.
MARY LEBONE.
Shortly before the closing of the Court, William Bell,
a constable (No. 245) in the service of the Great
Western Railway Company, was brought before Mr.
Broughton, to answer the following charge, preferred
against him by Mr. Burton, one of the superintendents
of the said company's police.
Complainant stated that, a short time ago, defendant
was guilty of neglect, for which he (complainant) had
felt it his duty to take him before the board. At their
meeting yesterday afternoon, Lord Barrington in the
chair, the facts of the case were made known, and a fine
of ss. was inflicted. Defendant, upon hearing the deter-
mination which had been come to, made some very in-
sulting observations to the directors, whom he threatened
to report in another quarter, and declared that he would
not pay the penalty. Complainant, acting upon the di-
rections given, ordered him out of the room, upon which
he (defendant) told him he had made a false charge, and
gave him a violent blow on the head with his fist, at the
same time alleging that he had reported him without
cause upon a former occasion. By order of the Board
he was given into custody, and when handed over to the
care of Sergeant Stambourg, 449, be gave complainant
two more severe blows.
The serjeant alluded to said that defendant told him he
had many times made an oath that he would give com-
plainant a thrashing some time or other, and had also
observed that he would not mind paying his fare to go
down to Bristol and shoot him.
Mr. Collard, the police superintendent at the Padding.
ton station, deposed to having heard defendant say,
while on the way with him in a cab to this Court, he
would serve complainant in the same way again if he
could, although he might get three months for so doing.
Mr. BROUGHTON made some well-timed remarks upon
the flagrant nature of the case, and observed, that if he
could come to the conclusion that the words relating to
the shooting were uttered deliberately and with the in-
tention of carrying the threat into execution, he should
certainly feel himself bound, in addition to inflicting a
fine for the assault proved, to hold the defendant to bail
in a heavy amount as security for the keeping the peace
towards complainant for two years.
The complainant said he had no wish to press the
charge as to the threat to shoot which had been held
out, but he considered himself to have been most shame-
fully ill-used by defendant, whose conduct had been ruf-
fianly in the extreme.
The defendant having denied any intention whatever
in
nf
tthherepaetnennlitnygnofras.h; in default of payment two monthsooting complainant, was convicted
imprisonment in the House of Correction. He was
then removed by Mitchell, the gaoler, and locked up.
Mr. Broughton received from J. Sykes, whose letter
was dated from Brighton, the second half of a lot.
Batik note, for the benefit of the distressed persons
named Parry.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A young man, named William Robinson, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Arnold, on a chare of cutting
and•wouading a man named Osborne Atterbugry, whereby
his life had been seriously endangered.
It appeared from the evidence, that as the
'com-
plainant was passing through Long-alley, Shoreditch,on
of Wednesday
personsWeerdnesda nnight, he observed a
se
creating a disturbance,
ltahregee mob
bing of
disorderly
and actively engaged in demolishing the windows of a
house, which appeared to be the subject of disputed
possession. On expressing hi s disapproval of such law-
less proceedings, the prisoners brother and several other
men immediately set upon him, and he was endeavour-
ing to defend himself as well as he could, when the pri-
soner came behind him with a clasp-knife in his hand,
which he deliberately opened, and plunged it into his
back. He fell to the ground from the force of the blow,
but was raised by some of the bystanders, who conveyed
him to the London Hospital, where he had been confined
ever since.
The complainant's evidence was corroborated by two
witnesses, who positively identified the prisoner as the
person who inflicted the injury.
Mr. Peter Gowland, the house-surgeon of the London
Hospital, deposed that upon examining the com-
plainant he found he had received a dangerous incised
wound, about an inch in length and two inches deep,
which had evidently been inflicted with a knife or other
sharp instrument, and bad it penetrated a little more
forward it must have entered the lungs, and in all proba-
bility proved fatal.
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner posi-
tively denied that he had a knife about him at the time,
or that he assaulted or in any way interfered with the
complainant.
Mr. ARNOLD said that it was a very serious and ag-
gravated case, and ordered the prisoner to bo fully com-
mitted to Newgate for triaL
Mr. Peter Pigee, the owner of extensive household pro-
perty at Hackney,
was summoned at the instance of the
parish authorities for having suffered a nuisance danger-
ous to the public health, to exist upon his premises.
The nuisance complained of consisted of a stagnant
pool in the centre of a cluster of houses, inhabited by
Journeymen weavers, and other occupants in humble cir-
cumstances, belonging to 'the defendant, and the cess-
pools of which, with various other noxious impurities,
were constantly discharged into it, and vitiated the at-
mosphere to such a dangerous extent, that two medical
gentlemen who had been attending numerous ifever cases
in the neighbourhood, deemed it their duty to inspect
the place, and furnish spontaneous certificates for insti-
tuting a prosecution.

In reply to the charge the defendant fully admitted the
existence of the nuisance, and said that he had taken
active steps to fill up
the pool, which he expected to ac-
complish in the course of ten days.
Mr. ARNOLD said that he would only consent to the
delay on :the express understanding that the cause of
complaint should be entirely suppressed within the time
stated, and ‘ordered the summons to be suspended for that
purpose.

THAMES.
SINGULAR CASE OF AFFILIATION.—THE TWIN
CHILDREN.—Yesterday, Tobias J'urdona, a dark Portu-
guese Jew, summoned as Tobias Moses, which he said
was his father's name,
appeared before Mr. Ballantine,
to answer a charge of refusing to support two illegiti-
mate children, twins, of which ho was alleged to be the
father.

Mary HenessQy, a
Mr. Pelham appeared for the complainant, and Mr.
Daniells, clerk to Mr. Sidney, solicitor, for the defendant.
young Irishwoman, presented the
twin babes before the Court. They were of very dark
complexion, and bore an extraordinary resemblance to
the defendant.
_ _

. Mr. Pelham at once asked• Mr. Daniells if he meant
to dispute the paternity
; the children wero the image

FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1849.

of the Jew, although the mother was an Irishwoman.
Mr. Daniells was instructed the defendant was not the
father, and the case was proceeded with.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant that
she was in the service of a Mr. and Mrs. Hylbrurn,
Dutch bitter manufacturers, in Church-street, Spital-
fields. The defendant lived in the same house, and was
brother-in-law to her mistress. An intercourse com-
menced about fourteen months ago between her and the
defendant, and the result was the birth of twin boys.
They were born in St. George's workhouse, on Palm
Sunday, and were afterwards baptised in the names of
Tobias Moses and John Moses. She always understood
defendant's name was Tobias Moses. He gave her some
rum, which quite overpowered her, and effected her ruin,
and he was the father of the children. He gave her is.
6d. at a public-house in the Whitechapelroad, and treated
her with somerum, after the birth of the children, and he
subsequently called at her lodgings and gave her another
shilling. He promised to call again, but failed to do so,
and she was now in great distress.
The prisoner underwent a long and searching
cross-examination from Mr. Daniells, and it was
insinuated that an Irishman, named Dan Crawley,
was the father of the children. She admitted
that Dan Crawley was her sweetheart, and
had courted her, but she had not seen him
for some time before she went to her situation, or
since. She also admitted that when her mistress dis-
covered that she was in the family way, she told her the
father was dead ; but she did so at the instigation of the
defendant, who promised to provide for her if she de-
ceived her mistress.

Ellen Hennessey, an elderly Irishwoman, no relation
to the complainant, gave corroborative evidence as to the
receipt of the money, which she saw the Jew give to
the complainant, and also saw him kiss one of the chil-
dren.

Mr. Daniells contended the corroborative proof was
not sufficient, and that the money was given to the com-
plainant from motives of charity.
Mr. Pelham, in reply, said the complainant had stood
the test of a severe cross-examination, and the best cor-
roboration was the dark complexion of the children, and
their extraordinary resemblance to the Portuguese Jew.
The complainant raised the infants above her head at
the desire of Mr. Pelham, who appealed to the whole
court whether they were not like the father in com-
plexion and features.
Mr. Daniells said the babes were very dark; but the
complexion of one was much lighter than the other.
Mr. Pelham—Do you mean to say ,there are two
fathers to the twins?—(Laughter.)
Mr. Daniells—l don't know that.—(Much laughter.)
Mr. Pelham would appeal to the magistrate as to the
physiognomy of the children; but
Mr. BALLANTINE said he was no judge of physiog-
nomy, and must decline doing so. He would only judge
of the evidence, and he was of opinion the young woman's
evidence had been confirmed in some material particu-
lars, and that Pardona was the father of the twins. He
should make two orders, one for the support of Tobias
Moses, at the rate of 2s. per week, and a second order
for the like amount as regarded John Moses; in all 4s.
per week, and the costs.

MORE POISONINGS BY ARSENIC.
THORPE, ESSEX, Atm. 30.—A horrible system of
poisoning in this part of the county, termed the Ten-
dring Hundred, was the subject of a lengthened inves-
tigation yesterday at the Tendring village school-room,
before Mr. W. Codd, the coroner for North Essex, and
a jury.
The parish of Wix, where the woman Mary May re-
sided, who was executed at Chelmsford Gaol a few
weeks since for poisoning her brother for burial fess, is
in this district, and since the wretched creature's death
the police authorities have received such information as
to leave little doubt that similar atrocious acts have been
committed in the surrounding villages, viz., Bradfield,
Ramsey, Dovercourt, and Tendring ; husbands being in
every case the victims.
The wife of the deceased Thomas Ham, now Mrs.
Southgate, who two or three months after his death
was married to a farmer of that 'tame, was brought into
the inquest room by the Governor of Colchester gaol, in
whose custody she has been for several days past. She
was very respectably attired, rather good looking, and
during the investigation frequently exchanged smiles
with her husband. The deceased was 28 years of age
at the time of his death; she appears to be much younger.
Mary Simons, widow, of Tendring, the first witness
called, said the deceased was a blacksmith, living at Ten-
dring, and he died on the 27th of April, 1847, and was
buried in Tendring churchyard on the following Sunday.
The body which had been taken up she knew to be his.
She assisted in laying him out, and she observed blood
to issue from his mouth. Mrs. Ham, the prisoner, said
he had ruptured a blood-vessel; he was ruptured, and
was a sickly man.
Phoebe Read said, I lived in the service of the de-
ceased for two years and a half. His health was good up
to within two months of his death, when he ceased work-
ing as a blacksmith in consequence of ill health. On
the Sunday before his death he complained of pains in
his body and sickness. He had eaten no dinner, but
about nine o'clock he had had some tea and
toast. He did not leave his bed that morning.
In the course of the morning he had a glass of
wine, and about half an hour afterwards the retching
increased. About half-past twelve o'clock Mrs. Ham
made him some gruel, and gave it to me to take up
to him. She made it in a saucepan with some " grits,"
and put ginger, sugar, and gin in it. While it was
boiling I was away for about twenty minutes, and on
coming back he had poured it into a basin. I took
it up to him, but he said be was so sick he could not
take it. Between one and two o'clock he had a glass of
brandy in consequence of being so sick. He was not
sick before he had the gruel. On the following morning
(Monday) he was very sick, and complained of a burn-
ing in his throat. He asked me to go to Mr. Manthorpe,
the surgeon, as he felt a great deal worse. Mrs. Ham
told him she was going to Thorpe, and she would call
upon him. I, therefore, did not go. Mrs. Ham re-
turned about one o'clock, and she stated that Mr. Man-
thorpe would come as soon as he could. He not having
come by four o'clock deceased asked me to go for him.
I went, and Mr. Manthorpe expressed some surprise
about his state, as Mrs. Ham had informed him in the
morning that he was better. He came directly to him.
Deceased's sickness continued, and about five o'clock he
called me and desired me to go again for the doctor. I
did so, and on returning saw Mrs. Ham crying. She
said, " Phcabe, you won't have to go for the doctor any
more, for your master is dead." She added, that he died
about five minutes after I left.
By the CORONER—Mrs. Ham slept with me nearly
every night, as she said she could not bear him. Three
or four hours after he had expired she said, " Well,
poor fellow, he's gone, and I'm glad of it, for we never
lived happy together. I never liked him, and I wish
he'd died before." Two or three days before deceased
was buried she remarked, " Now I shall have that
young man that I love." What he threw up was of a
yellow and greenish colour, streaked with blood.
The CORONER—Do you know whether there was any
arsenic in the house at the period of his death ?
Witness—There was ,sir ; and.,Mrs. Ham thought of
getting more to kill the rats and mice in the house.
About a week before he: died she told me never to say
anything: about their fighting and, quarrelling, and she
would behave well to me.
The CORONER—Are you awsre of Mrs. Ham ever
absenting herself from borne?
Witness—Frequently while the deceased was living,
sometimes as long as a fortnight at a time. On one oc-
casion he asked her why she left her home? and she said,
" I called to see my Johnny, and had a cup of tea with
him." She meant John Southgate, her present husband.
Before and after the deceased was unwell I have heard
her say to him, " I like Johnny's little finger better
than the whole of your body." On another occasion
she remarked "that she would marry Johnny as soon
as possible after her husband's death, the next
day if she could." He replied, " I don't
think you will have the chance." She said, "Oh, I
am sure to have him." He said, " You must stop,
Madam, and get rid of me first." She said, " I can
have him, and will have him ; and so if you don't die
soon I'll kill you."—(Sensation.) I have heard her say
that she would poiien him. May, who was executed at
Chelmsford two or three weeks ago, sometimes visited
the prisoner. On the day after the deceased was buried,
wMir.
ths helrf.aylncatmhee ctoourMsers,
o fllcaomnsersha,t)iuosne I ahnedarddiAnierds.,
May remark to the prisoner, " Well, it's a good job
Tommy is dead." Mrs. Ham replied, " Yes, it is a good
job, for he was a nasty little blackguard, and there was
no going near him."
Mr. D. L. Manthorpe. surgeon, said, he first at-
tended the deceased in March, 1847, for an affection
of the digestive organs. On the evening of the 26th
of April he was sent for to see him, and found
him in a state of great exhaustion. He complained
of his throat and a difficulty in swallowing. Did not
remember his complaining of sickness. Supposed
he had ruptured a bloodvessel. Was sent for to see him
the next morning, when he found him dead. Since the
body had been exhumed had made a post mortem exami-
nation. Found the viscera less decomposed than could
hails been expected. On the right side found an inguinal
hernia, containing the omentum only.
Mr. Alfred Swaine Taylor, Professor of Chemistry at
Guy's Hospital, was then sworn and examined. ire
detected the presence of arsenic with particles of glass
and sand, a somewhat unusual circumstance. From
the stomach and contents he collected 15 grains of
arsenic, which was quite enough to poison five full
grown persons. He had no doubt that the deceased died
from the effects of arsenic.
Mrs. Mary Hans, the mother of the deceased, said,
she saw her son on the Sunday previous to his death.
He complained of great sickness and retched a great
deal. She asked his wife to let her know how he was
on the
lived mis
erably tllowing
ogether.morning. She did not do so. They
heard didn't
prisoner
threaten would k i
shhi me .
Jane Harvey had beard Mrs. Ham say if her husband
Charlotte Elvish, a married woman, spoke of having
Mr.
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would poison her hus-
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CoronerthaMt
The proceedings were then adjourned.
has displayed much tact and zeal in the case, as also in
cases of' poisoning., which, in order that the ends of
to
suspectedwt hls eo
justice may not be defeated, we decline publishing for
the present. We may state that the particulars, if true,
develop a most, diabolical system. The disinterment of
the bodies will no doubt be immediately ordered.
The woman Southgate was conveyed back to Col-
chester Gaol to await the close of the coroner's inquiry.

The Observer was the Sunday journal alluded to
by Mr. Disraeli, on Wednesday, in the House of Cora-
Mons.

Mr. John Thornton, Deputy. Chairman of the Stamps
and Taxes, had an interview yesterday with the Chan-
cellor of the &chequer'