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London, England, 1848-09-16 00:00:00

The'ASSISTANT-eTTIDGE said that such proceedings were
disgraceful; he wondered how it was that Mr. Le Bre-
ton allowed his clerks to make such a compromise. If
the parish took up cases on public grounds, why did they
abandon them and defeat the ends of justice, by letting
the parties escape, by paying the costs? As to the other
part of the matter, he had no doubt that warrants were
held back to enable the parties to compromise; but the
Court would nut in any way sanction such a monstrous
system. In future, affidavits of the most stringent na-
ture would b 9, required by the Court, and such MB.
davits should show distinctly that there was no trickery
of any kind attempted. This was the first time this
house had been indicted, and he would order the defend-
ant to be liberated on entering into recognizs,nces to ap-
pear for judgment if called upon, which signified that he
would not be called upon if he refrained from such a
couise of life, and did not open this house or any other
for similar purposes; but if he or any body connected
with thin house opened another, a severe punishment
would follow.

George Maley. John Jones, and Edward Wilkinson,
were indicted under the 6th clause of the Act for the
Prevention of Dog-stealing, better known as Bishop's
Act, from its having been obtained mainly through the
exertions of Mr. Bishop, the gunsmith, in Bond-street,
for a misdemeanour, in having wilfully and corruptly
taken and received the sum of 61, to aid in the restora-
tion of three Cuba bloodhounds, of the value of 3001.,
which had been stolen, being the property of Lord Alex-
ander Russell.

➢ir. BODKIN appeared on behalf of the prosecution,
and applied to have the trial postponed, on the ground
that the principal witness, who was one of the noble pro-
secutor's grooms, was compelled to be in attendance
upon his Lordship in Scotland. _

Mr. Sergeant ADAMS granted the application, and
fixed the case for the October Sessions.
As this was the first prosecution under this clause, a
great number of sporting gentlemen were present who
seemed anxious to hear the details.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Edward Allgood Dickenson, of 27, Denmark. row, Cold
Harbour-lane, Camberwell, was again brought up on
the charge of obtaining a bill of exchange for 3001.,
under false and fraudulent pretences, on the. 18th of Au-
gust last.
The evidence taken on the last occasion went to show
that Mr. Tracy, a lieutenant in the navy, entrusted a
bill for 3001. to a commission agent named Lawless, to
get cashed tor him, and also handed to him 100 shares
in the Callington Mining Company, in Cornwall, as a
collateral security to the individual who advanced the
money. This agent gave it to the prisoner to get cashed,
and he placed it in the hands of a person named Clark.
Mr. Tracy having received a letter from the secretary of
the Mutual Communication Society, thought proper to
stop the payment of the bill, and at once demanded its
restoration. Dickinson gave an order for Clark to de-
liver up the bill ancUshares, but he declined doing so, in
consequence of which the prosecutor gave the prisoner
into custody, and, after a lengthened examination, he
was remanded.
Lieutenant Tracy now said that he was exceedingly
obliged, and,, in fart, much indebted to Alderman Challis
for the attention he had paid to the case, and begged to
say there was no occasion to go farther into the inquiry,
as the bill and shares had been returned to him; but he
thought it right to inform him that the person's name
who refused to give up the bill was not Clark, but
Clarkson; and that he had an office, although the pri-
soner denied that he knew where to find him.
Alderman FAREBROTRZR, who sat with Alderman
Challis, said that he would advise all gentlemen who
wished to raise money, not to have anything to do with
advertising agents, who were not worth one shilling; but
as soon as they obtained a bill appropriated it to their
own purposes, and the owner never received a farthing;
on the contrary, he was the loser. He hoped that next
session of Parliament, as hanging was out of fashion,
they would pass a Bill to transport such persons, and
thus put down a system which was disgraceful to any
country and to the public at large. He also was of
opinion that it would be better for gentlemen to apply
to their bankers or solicitors, instead of employing any
agent.
Lieutenant Tracy said, for the future he should take
the Alderman's advice.

The prisoner said, he was not in the habit of dis-
counting bills, and that he had taken every precaution
he thought necessary.
Both Aldermen FAnEnnoniEn and CHALLIS thought
the less he said about the transaction the better, and he
was discharged.
James Watkins, residing at No. 2, Maidenhead-court,
St. Thomas Apostle, was placed at the bar charged with
assaulting his wife.
Ann Watkins, the wife, said that for a long time sbe
had been subjected to great ill-treatment from her hus-
band, by his only allowing her three parts of a half-
quartern loaf for herself and four children, with 41bs. of
patatoes, and occasionally a little tea, to last them the
whole day. He never allowed them any meat, and be-
cause she applied to the parish for relief, to save her-
self and children from starving, her husband beat her
and knocked her about most cruelly.
Alderman FAREIROTHER—And did he give you that
black eye and face that you have ? The wife—He
did.

The prisoner, throughout the evidence, bad a con-
tinual grin on his face, and at some parts of it began
laughing, when
Alderman TAREBROTHER said he would find it no
laughing matter, for he intended to see what was the
severest punishment he could inflict upon him. He
wished to know what his wages were.
The wife replied, a guinea per week.
The prisoner said that when his wife had his money
she paid no one, and ran in debt everywhere.
The wife denied this, and it was evident, from her
wretched appearance, that she had for a long time been
ill-treated.

Alderman FAREBROTHER said it appeared to him that
he was one of those profligate men who married a
woman, got tired of her, starved her, and ill-treated her
into the bargain, and therefore he should remand him
for the purpose of seeing how far the law could punish
him for his cruel behaviour towards his wife, whom he
had sworn to love and cherish.
He was then removed from the bar.
CLERKEIV WELL .
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Michael Mahoney, a labouring iman, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged by Mary Mahoney,
his wife, with having stabbed with intent to murder her.
The prosecutrix, whose head and arm were cut and
wounded, deposed that she lived with the prisoner in
Bell's-court, Gray's Inn-lane. On Thursday afternoon
she left home with her sister, and on their return they
had a quarrel, when the prisoner seized a clog, with
which he commenced beating them about the heads, &c.
in an unmerciful manner, and wounded them ; they de-
fended themselves as well as they were able, and endea-
voured to escape from the room, but the prisoner
snatched up a pair of fire-tongs, and after belabouring
them violently with them, seized an oyster knife, and
making a stab at the prosecutrix, inflicted a severe wound
on her wrist. She bled profusely, and was taken to
hospital, where her wounds were dressed.
Ellen Keefe, the sister, corroborated this evidence.
An officer of the G division heard the cries of" Mur-
der," and took the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner denied the charge, saying that the pro-
secutrix cut herself with some glass, having broken a
window.

Mr. TYRWHITT, under the oil
he prisoner.

1, remanded

SOUTHWARK.
Richard Letchford, a policeman of the M or South-
wark division, was placed at the bar before liir.Cotting-
ham on the following charge:—
Alaria Eaton. a young woman of 18,- stated that she
came up from Mailing, in Kent, on the preceding day,
and that on her road, about 11 o'clock at night, she met
the prisoner, and, being a stranger, and seeing he Was ft
policeman from his dress, inquired the way to London-
bridge. He asked her where she came from? and when
she told him, he said that he would show her a house
where she could stay all night. He then led ber from
the main road into a garden, saying, that that was the
nearest way, and when they had got some distance he
began to pull her about, when she rebuked him, and said
she would rather walk the road all night than that he
should act in that manner towards her. He, however,
threw her on the ground, and forced her to submit to his
violence, and when she screamed out he plaeed his band
over her mouth. The complainant here described the
particulars of the outrage, by which it appeared that a
capital offence hsd been perpetrated. She went on to re-
late that he afterwards gave her a shilling, which she ac-
cepted, having no other money; and on leaving her he
desired her to tell any policeman she met that he was
not the person who ill-used her. The prisoner then
walked off, and she proceeded back to the road which she
had previously left, and another policeman stopped her
and inquired if she was the woman whose screams for
help
had n
he had heard
a beenh
shortw ittime
her?e a
before,s and askedfidrst
i a
po-
licemandenied
but afterwards told the truth as to what had happened,
when she was taken to the station house, and pointed
out the prisoner as the man by whom she had been vio-
lated.

In answer to the Magistrate's questions the corn
plainant said, that her parents were poor people in Kent,
and that she came up to town to try and get some em-
ployment. She admitted that she took the money from
the prisoner after he had ill used her, and promised not
to say anything about it to another policeman.
Sergeant Clerk, 8 M, stated that about eleven o'clock
t'se preceding night be missed the prisoner off his beat in
the Kent-road, near the canal-bridge, and while he
was looking for him he heard the cries of a woman
proceed from a place (pilled Mercer's-gardens, near
Gully-quay. He listened for a while, and again heard
a shriekt_and he then went towards the-- spot,- and
met the young girl coming from that direction. He
stopped her, asd asked her if it was she who had
screamed out ? Sho at first hesitated, and -when he
desired her to tell the truth she informed him of the
outrage that had been perpetrated on her, and said it
was done by a policeman. lie then made her accom-
pany him to point, out the offender, whom she said she
should know again, and he took her to two policemen
on the adjoining beats, and when she saw them she said
that they were not the men. The prisoner was still
missing from his beat, and the sergeant found that a
short time ago he had gone off duty, leaving word that
he was ill, and had gone to bed at the station-house. The
complainant was then taken to the station-house, and
minuteswhen
h e g
optredvoiwo nos ly
stairs
tt
oh the pri,
ownaesr,
called,
be-
fore the inspector (Frond) the complainant identified him
who
u hart
a andfew
as the man by whom she had been assaulted.
The prisoner said, the complainant was mistaken in
his identity, and that he never saw her until he was
called out of bed at the station house. He accounted for
going off duty the night beforefrom sudden indisposition.
-The Magistrate eulogised the conduct of the sergeant
for acting with vigour in the business, and ordered that
the depositions should be taken, and the prisoner corn= ,
witted for trial.

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LAMBETH.

Mary Ann West was finally examined before the Hon.
G. C. Norton, On a charge or having caused the death
of her mother, Elizabeth Shields, by personal violence.
The brief facts of the case are these :—The deceased
occupied an apartment in the New Cut, Lambeth, for
three weeks preceding the quarrel which led to her death,
and, during that time, she was scarcely sober for one
hour. Some of the witnesses said she got drunk as often
as three or four times a day on rum, and, as soon as she
had slept away the effects of one debauch, she commenced
another. On Wednesday, the 30th of last month, the
deceased and the prisoner had a violent quarrel, the
former having accused the latter of having robbed her of
101., and, when the landlady came down stairs, she found
their hands tangled in each other's hair, and the de-
ceased, in falling, drew the prisoner on the top of her.
The mother was found to have received a severe wound
on the back part of the head. Her face was much con-
tused, and both her eyes blackened. The police were
called in, and the prisoner given into custody by the de-
ceased. On the following day the parties appeared at
this court, when the prisoner was ordered to find bail to
keep the peace towards her mother. The mother, how-
ever never recovered from the injuries she received, and
died on the morning of Thursday week.
The following is the medical evidence in the case :
Mr. Michael Keating O'Sheai surgeon, in Mount street,
deposed that on the 4th inst. he was called in to see the
deceased, and found her face and right temple bruised.
Erysipelas had commenced then, and it continued until
the 7th inst., when she died. He made a post mortem ex-
amination next day, and found marks on the eyes and
right temple, corresponding with the external bruises he
had before spoken of. He also found a triangular wound
on the back part of the head. communicating with a
cavity under the scalp, caused by a blow. There were
traces of effusion of serum under the scalp, which might
have been the result of erysipelas. The witness was of
opinion, from the examinations before and after death,
that the deceased was a person of drunken habits, but he
thought'the immediate cause of death was the violence
she received She was suffering from delirium tremens
when witness was first called in, and that might have
caused her death, for her frame exhibited the appearance
of a person of drunken habits. He thought her death
was accelerated by the violence she received; but he
was firmly of opinion that death would have ensued
from the amount of violence received if the deceased
had been in a healthy state. The wound on the back of
the head he thought more likely to have been inflicted
with a brick' than by a fall on the step which had been
shown to him. The appearance at the back of the head
might be accounted for first by a blow from a brick, and
subsequently by a fall on the step. He considered that
there was not a sufficient amount of delirium tremens to
cause death alone separated from any other cause.
Martha Foster, a little girl of nine years of age, de-
posed that on the evening of the 30th ult. she saw the
prisoner throw ball a brick at the back part of deceased's
bead immediately before the quarrel before spoken of;
and, _ _

Sarah Cross, another witness, swore to having seen
the prisoner strike the deceased repeatedly in the
passage.
The prisoner, who- offered nothing in defence; was
fully committed to Newgate 'to- take ber trial at the
ensutng' sessions on a charge of manslaughter.
THAMES.
James Furlong, a well-known and desperate thief, was
brought up on remand charged with being concerned
with a woman named Julia Lenuard, who was com-
mitted for trial on Saturday last, in committing a daring
highway robbery on Mr. W. Ebblewhite.
The prisoner said he was quite innocent of any parti-
cipation in the highway robbery, and never saw Mr.
Ebblewhite.- -

Mr. BALLANTINE said, he should send the prisoner
before a jury, and committed him for trial as an accessory
after the fact. - '

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 15, 1848.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Colonel Henry Somerset, of the
Corps of Cape Mounted Riflemen, Lieutenant-Colonel
Abraham Josias Cloete, Deputy-Quartermaster-General
to the Forces at the Cape, and Lieutenant-Colonel
George Henry Mackinnon, Unattached, to be Ordinary
Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or
Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 15.
BREVET.—To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army—
Major Henry Knight Storks, half-pay Unattached ;
Major Thomas Charlton Smith, half-pay Unattached ;
Major William Sutton, Cape Mounted Riflemen; Major
Sir Harry Darell, Bart., 7th Dragoon Guards; Major
George Thomas Couolly Napier, Cape Mountd Rifle-
men, Sept. 15.
To be Majors in the Army—Captain George An-
thony Darnford, 27th Foot; Captain William Glendon-
wyn Scott, 91st Foot; Captain John Walpole, Royal
Engineers; Captain Charles Herrick Burnaby, Royal
Artillery ; Captain Thomas Donovan, Cape Mounted
Riflemen ' • Captain. Charles Seagram, 45th Foot;
Captain St. John Thomas Browne, Royal Artil-
lery ; Captain Charles Assheton FitzHardinge Berke-
ley, Scots Fusiler Guards; Captain William Hogge,
7th-Dragoon Guards; Captain Charles Lennox Brown-
low Maitland, Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot
Guards; Captain Charles Colville Young, Royal Artil-
lery; Captain John Jarvis Bisset, Cape Mounted Rifle-
men, Sept. 15.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Elginshire.
Henry Joseph Brodie Dunn, Esq., to Deputy-Lieute-
nant ; Alexander Penrose Gordon Cumming, jun.,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; James Duff, Esq.,
M.P., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; William J. Taylor,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Alexander Forteatb,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Robert Grant, Esq.., to
be Deputy-Lieutenant; Major Peter Grant Peterkin, to
be Deputy-Lieutenant; Patrick Seller, Esq., to be De-
puty-Lieutenant, Aug. 26.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenaut-Colonel
Richard Thomas Gilpin to be Colonel, vice Sir John
Osborn, Bart., deceased, Sept. 11; Major William Bar-
tholomew Higgins to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Gilpin,
promote'', Sept. 12.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northumber-
land. . .
Northumberland and Newcastle Yeomanry Cavalry—
Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., to be Major, vice
Brandling, deceased; Isaac Thomas Cookson, Esq., to
be Captain, vice Ridley, promoted; Henry Hollis Brad-
ford Atkinson, Gent.. to be Lieutenant, vice Cookson,
promoted; William Loch Anderson, Gent., to be Cor-
net, vice Anderson.
BANKRUPTS.
George Frederick Widnall, stationer, Edgeware-road,
to surrender Sept. 20, at half past two, and Oct. 27, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee; Greatorex, Upper Norton-street, Portland-
place.
Charles Abbott, market gardener, Lower Edmonton,
Middlesex, Sept. 27, at half-past eleven, and Oct. 24,
at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard street ; Archer,
Harpur-street, Red Lion-square.
Henry Carey Brown, builder, Southampton, Sept. 29,
at eleven, and Oct. 24, at half past two, at
;the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's -
place, Old Jewry; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-
street, Cheapside.
Phillip Coxford, timber merchant, Mary-place, Bert--
fned-road,. Middlesex, Sept. 26,
.at half-past two, and
OF
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry;
Aiii;:onh rd
son
24,
3 a
nS9' Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn.
trot halfngi past one, at
'deartn, brewer, Walsall, Staffordshire;
Sept. 26 and Oct. 26, at half-past 'ten, at the Birming-
Vulpy, official assignee, Binning-
David Gibson Cumtv draper; -Merthyr Tydfil, Sept.
hhaamm.;Di .fstaTriictota C, oti
mrrtmi. .
ugham
29. and Oct. 27, at, eleven, at- the Bristol District Court.
Mlofficial assignee, Bristol; Steetton, Southampton-
buildings, London; London; Pbillpotts, Cardiff.
Michael Wilson, grocer, Leeds, Sept. 28, and Oct. 23,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official
assignee, Leeds • Sudlow and Co., Bedford-row, London;
Shackleton, Leeds.
John Jackson, builder, Lackenby, Yorkshire, Sept.
26 and Oct. 24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assignee; Leeds ; Titson and Co., Cole-
mate-street ; Allison, Darlington ; Blackburn, Leeds.
John Hartman, boot and shoe manufacturer, Liver-
pool; Sept. 29, and Oct. 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ;
Kennedy, Chancery-lane ; Henry, Liverpool. -
William Peak, draper, Liverpool, Sept. 29, and Oct. 20,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official
assignee, Liverpool ; Reed and Co., Friday-street, Lon-
don ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester.
Jonathan Robinson Ashworth, fustian manufacturer,
Manchester, Sept 28, and Oct. 26, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court. 'Hobson, official assignee Man-
chester ; Newman, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; Willoughby
Manchester.

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William Flint, builder, Manchester, Sept. 28, and Oct.
20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson,
official assignee, Manchester; Abbott, Lincoln's Inn-
fields; E. and R. W. Bennett, Manchester.
James Bell, ship broker, South Shields, Sept. 27, at
half-past ten,. and Oct. 19, at half past twelve, at the
Newcastle-upon-Type District Court. Baker, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Plumptre, Temple, Lon-
don; Cram, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
DIVIDENDS.

In the Country.
J. Mann, Warwick, grocer, Oct. 10,nt half-Oast ten,
at the Court Birmingham—S. L. Trotman, Liverpool,
merchant, Oct. 6, at eleven, at the Court Liverpool—W.
D. Hay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, baker, Oat 10, at half-
past eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—T.
Tyson, Whitehaven, builder, Oct. 10, at hall past one, at
the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Butnby, Manches-
ter. cattle dealer, Oct. 10, at- twelve,' at the Court Man-
chester.
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PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
T. M`Tear, W. Hadfield, and E. Thompson, Liverpool,
merchants and shipowners, 71d., on Wednesday, Oct.
18, or any subsequent Wednesday, between the hours of
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. 1410igEth, Liverpool.
C. Williams, Liverpool, flour dealer and licensed vic-
tualler, Is. 3d., on Wednesday Oct. 18, or any sub,e-
quent Wednesday, between the hours of eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
T. Crowther, LiverpJal, Wine merchant and ships'
stores dealer, 35. 10d.,- on Wednesday, Oct. 18, or any
subsequent Wednesday, betweftn the hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Morgan.-Liverpool.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, lissinghall-street.
J. 11. Toovey, Fashion-street, Dock-head, Bermond.
Bey, licensed victualler, Oct. 9, at half-pait eleven.

R. Yarnell, ln the, Country.
florist, Oct. 12, at eleven at the Court, BristolW.
Turnbull, Newport, Monmouthshire, gardener, nnd
Nejvcastleltipon.Tyne; victualler and tavern
'keeper, Oct. 6, at half.past tleVen, at the Court, New-
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