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London, England, 1848-11-03 00:00:00

FRIDAYEVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1818.

FRANCE.

The following appeared in the Moniteur :
" Subsequently to the questions addressed to the
Cabinet, relative to the banquet of Toulouse, two in-
quiries had been ordered, one of an administrative na-
tare, confided to a councillor of the prefecture, and
the other of a judicial character, conducted by a judge
of instruction. 131 witnesses were examined in
the first, and 5. 7in the second. Those inquiries
gave the following results :—The democratic ban-
quet of the 22d September had been originally
organized with a violent and culpable intention,
which appeared to have been modified when the
authorities consented to be present at it. It would be
wrong, moreover, to suppose that the ideas of the
founders were shared by all the guests. In accepting
the invitation made to him, the prefect expected that
his presence would restrain the malcontents and pre-
vent the disorder he apprehended. The decorations
of the enclosure in which the banquet took place
had been greatly exaggerated. The badges of the
stewards were ma de of red worsted; the pillars
were covered with red paper. Some of the
guests wore red dahlias in their hats, but a
greater number wore the tri-coloured cockade, and
all the flags, which surrounded the bust of liberty,
and waved at the extremity of the pillars, bore the
national colours. The two toasts to the National
Assembly and to the Chief of the Executive Power
were interrupted by insulting murmurs and cries,
proceeding from one point of the hall, but which
were immediately repressed. The authorities were
saluted with respect when they retired. They were
absent, when a column of about 1,000 persons, who
had not all participated in the banquet, began to tra-
verse the streets of Toulouse, preceded by the sappers
and drummers of the National Guard. During the to
mult uhus promenade,violent cries directed against a por-
tion of the population of Toulouse were uttered. A few
infamous cries were also heard. It is to be wondered
that no attempt was made by the authorities to arrest
the progress of those manifestations, which terminated
of themselves. It is exceedingly regrettable that the
representatives of the Government should have taken
part in a reunion from which they could not abso-
lutely exclude the spirit of disorder, and thus have
placed themselves in the impossibility of preventing
the tumultuous scenes of the evening. The difference
which subsequently arose between the prefect and the
Council General of Upper Garonne was the conse-
quence of it. The good intentions of the prefect
cannot be questioned ; but it was to be feared that he
could not retain in the department the high influence
and the moral authority of which the Government
stands in more need than ever. Those reasons have
induced the Government to utilize elsewhere the
tried zeal of that functionary and his incontestable
devotedness to the Republic, by removing him to the
prefecture of the Vendee.
The .7lfoniteur publishes the returns of the corn
trade, in the different markets of France,
during the
two first weeks of October, from which it appears
that the hectolitre of wheat sold o n an average at
Toulouse, Gray, Lyons, and Marseilles, for 17f. 7c. ;
at Marans and Bordeaux, 15f. 18c. ; at St. Laurent
and Le Grand Lemps, 16f. 40c. ; at Mulhausen and
Strasburg, 16f. 12c. ; at Bergues, Arras, Roye,
Suissons, Paris, and Rouen, 15f. 99c. ; at Saumur
and Nantes, 14f. 47c ; at Metz, Verdun, and Char-
leville, 13f. 39c.; at St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, and

Hennehon' 15f. 85c.
A popular banquet at 11. 50c. a head, at which AI.
Pierre Leroux presided, took place at Batignolles•
Monceaux, under the walls of Paris, on Tuesday
afternoon. It was attended by at least 1,000 opera-
tives, the greater number of whom reside in the
neighbouring villages. Several of the National Re-
presentatives had been invited, but only two, MM.
Pierre Leroux and Grappo, attended. The assem-
blage separated without the slightest confusion or
disturbance.

• dowed four lectureships with the profits arising from
certain shares in the Oxford Canal Company, and by a
deed of covenant it was provided that after the
expiration of certain interests in the shares be-
longing to Mr. Wykeham, those shares should be
transferred to the corporation of Oxford for the
purposes of the endowment. IA gentleman named Ryder,
who had an interest in these shares, died in 1803. His
daughter and her husband, who had succeeded to his
interest, died recently, and the present Earl of Har-
rowby, upon their deaths, having become the proper per-
son to make the transfer, it had been made by him pur-
suant to the provision of the deed; but the clerk of the
canal company had refused to register it. An applica-
tion on the subject was then made to the Bail Court, and
there being some irregularity in the transfer Mr. Justice
Coleridge had advised that,the shares should be returned
to the Earl of Harrowby, and that he should agai❑
transfer them to the corporation. This had accordingly
been done, but the clerk of the canal company having
again refused to register the transfer, on the ground that
the matter had been asleep so long that it required the
interference of the Court of Chancery, the present ap-
lication had become necessary.
Lord DENMAN—What has been done with the divi-
dends?

Mr. Sergeant MANNING —They have been paid regu.
larly.—Rule granted.

BAIL COURT, Nov. 2.
(Sittings in Banco.)
Mr. Justice Pattison took his seat on the Bench about
a quarter before two e'clock,;when he disposed of several
motions of an ordinary and uninteresting character.
THE QUEEN •. THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Mr. M. D. Hill moved for a rule to show cause why
the rule obtained by the prosecutor in this case on the
11th of May should not be discharged—why the writ of
mandamus issued in pursuance thereof, dated the 12th of
June, should not be quashed—and why all further pro
ceedings thereon should not be stayed.
It appeared that a partnership existed between three
persons of the names of Browne, Ward, and Dunne.
They wore the lessees of certain premises included in
a schedule of an Act of Parliament obtained by the
London and South-Western Railway Company, who
gave them the usual notice requiring possession of such
premises, The partners were at first desirous that the
question should be determined by arbitration, as was au-
thorised by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, and
accordingly served a notice upon the railway company
to appoint an arbitrator without delay. Subsequently
the attorney to two of the partners, Messrs. Browne
and Warde, served the company with the usual notice
requiring them to cause the sheriff to issue his precept
for the summoning of a jury to determine the value of
the property in question. The company having omitted
to comply with this notice, submitted to the writ of man-
damus being made absolute from the b lief that the at-
torney had been instructed by the whole of the partner-
ship. The writ accordingly issued, and the company
would be in contempt this day if they did not make a
return to it, or obtain the rule now sought for. The
facts stated in the affidavit upon which the, present ap-
ph,-..,ation was made, were to the effect that Mr. Dunne,
one of the partners, had been kept in perfect ignorance
of this transaction, and was not a party to the proceed-
ings taken by the other members of the firm; that he
kept a solicitor to transact his own special busine,s; and
that he was always desirous that this matter should be
settled by arbitration. He therefore served a notice
upon the company that he was no consenting party to
any proceeding for the summoning of a jury, as was re-
quired of them by the former no:ice. tinier these cir-
cumstances, the company were prevented from comply-
ing with the writ of mandamus, inasmuch as the jury
would have no power to entertain the question unless
each member of the firm was a consenting party, the
property in question being partnership property.
Application granted.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 2.
ir Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Mr. Baron Park, Mr.
Baron Alderson, and Mr. Baron Rolfe took their seats
upon the bench at quarter to two o'clock.
REEDY V. THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
This action, which was brought to recover compensa-
tion for loss of life occasioned by an accident on the
Leeds and Dewsbury line, was tried before Mr. Justice
Cresswell at the last Yorkshire assizes, and a verdict
found for the plaintiff.
Mr. KNOWLES, with the leave of the Learned Judge
who tried the case, moved for a rule to show cause why
the verdict should not be entered for the defendant, or why
a nonsuit should not be entered, on the grouad that the
company were not the responsible parties for the injury
sustained by the accident.
The COURT granted a rule.
BOOMIET V. PURDAY.
This was an action for an alleged infringement of the
copyright of ten airs in La Sonnambula, which was tried
before the Lord Chief Baron at the last Middlesex Sit-
tings. The plaintiff was the assignee of the composer of
the airs, who was a foreigner. This Court decided lately
in a case of " Chappell v. Purdy," that a foreigner who
publishes a work abroad before he publishes it here can
have no copyright here. One of the airs in question
was published contemporaneously in London and Paris.
The other nine were published in Milan a few hours be-
fore they were published here. The question then was,
could the plaintiff maintain his action in respect of either?
The Lord Chief Baron ruled against the plaintiff at the
trial.

The Court, thinking that the question, whether the
lapse of a few hours between the publication at Milan
and the publication in London brought the case strictly
within the principle of their recent decision, was one
worthy of consideration, granted a rule nisi.

ARCHES' COURT, Nov. 2.
(Before Sir 11. JENNER FusT.)
This being the first day of term, the civilians and
proctors, with the Court, according to usual custom,
heard prayers before the opening of the Court.

SIMMONS U. SIM3IONS.
This was an appeal from the Consistory C curt.
Dr. Lushington, in the Easter Term, 1547, gave an
elaborate judgment, and decided that neither cruelty nor
adultery had been legally proved; that therefore the wire
must return to cohabit with her husband, and that each
party must pay their own costs.
The wife now appealed to this Court against the judg-
ment of the Consistory Court.
Dr. ADDAMS was heard at great length in favour of
the husband, contending that neither cruelty nor adultery
had been committed.

Dr. PHILLIMORE addressed the Court in reply, in be-
half of Mrs. Simmons. He contended on this, as on the
former occasion, that adultery had been proved against
the husband, and that the wile was, therefore, entitled to
the relief she sought for at the hands of the Court.
The case was adjourned to a future day. Dr. Bayford
remains to be heard.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL. _ _ _

Yesterday Prince Christophe and his companion
Mare-a-Seymour, were again brought up on the charge
V obtaining apartments and refreshments under false
pretences.
The prisoner Christophe was a short since sentenced
to two months impisonment for a similar offerice,but
at the expiration of that time he commenced his tricks
again, and on Sunday last hired apartments at the
George and Vulture, in George-yard, Lombard-street,
where he and his friend Seymour, with the wife and
child of the first prisoner, ran up a bill in the course of
a very short time, to the amount of 44 odd. From some
information Mr. Whitmarsh (the landlord of the George
and Vulture Tavern) received, he made a few inquiries
which induced him to present his bill for payment, and
the money not being forthcoming, he gave both of them
in custody.
The case was adjourned to give an opportun'ty to
others who might have been victimised to come forward
and prefer their charges.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked if there were any other
cases ? Mr. Whitmarsh said that since the last exami.
nation he had made inquiries, and there were other par.
ties present who had been taken in after the same fashion,
Mr. Henry Needham, of the Saracen's Head, Snow-
hill, said, about the latter end of last August the pri-
soner came to the Saracen's Head and represented him-
self as being Prince Henry Christophe, brother to the
King of Hayti, and that his luggage was to follow. He
and his wife and child remained three or four days,
and ran up a bill to the amount of 41. odd. At
the time he asserted that he had plenty of money in the
funds, which he expected to receive, and would then
pay, but his statement turned out to be entirely false.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked:Mr. Whitmarsh what had
become of the wife of Henry Christophe? Mr. Whit-
marsh replied, that after he gave her husband into cus-
tody, she left his house, but that he had seen her outside
the court.

Sir PETER LAURIE ordered her to bo brought in,
upon which Henry Christophe pretended to bo in great
trouble, and tried very hard to shed a few tears. On his
wife (a good-looking black woman) entering the court,
he at once addressed her in French, telling her ske did
not know the English language.
Sir PETER LAURIE (to the prisoner)—Do you under..
stand the English language?—Christophe (with great
vehemence)—No, no! I do not.—(Great laughter).
Sir PETER LAURIE —Can the wife speak English?
Mr. Whitmarsh—They all can, as well as you or I, Sir
Peter.

Sir PETER LAURIE (to the male prisoner)—so, you
want your wife not to speak the truth? Christophe—
No, no.—(Laughter).
Sir PETER LAURlE—Before proceeding further, he
should like to know from the wife how long it was since
they put up at an hotel in Jermyn-street, at the West-
end?—The wife, in very fair English, said they put up
at many hotels, but did not keep their names.
Sir PETER LAURIE—I dare say not. It would not be
convenient.

William Tracey, from the Hotel of Strangers, in
Sherrard-street, said the prisoner came to him on the
21st of October, and remained with him until the 26th.
Christophe said he had just come from the St. Katha-
rine's Docks, and that Ins luggage was on board the
ship, which could not then get in ; and also added that
he was a prince, and had plenty of money in the bank,
the whole of which story turned out to be a fabrication.
The prisoner Seymour was often there with him.
Sir P. LA.IIRIE—What bill did they run up at your
place ? Witness—To the amount of 41. 103. The other
prisoner, Seymour, wanted to take apartments, hut he
-v,•iss
ofreused unlesshe paid daily. An offer was made to
s,nd porter for his luggage, but he made various ex-
cuses, and at last he and his vvife and child were turned
out.

Sir P. LAURIE here asked another question of the
wife, when the prisoner Christophe vehemently said to
h- er innee goyouod English, " Hold your tongue—they will
nt."
George R9.!W,r11, waiter at Gerard's ILII, deposed to
the prisoner hiring the ',est bed and
sitting rooms
in the house, and saying that his luggage was at the

Custom-house. They remained a few days, and ran up
a bill to the extent of between 61. and 74
Sir PETER LAURIE—How did they live? Witness—
On the best of everything. The wine and all they called
for was of first-rate quality. On one occasion. they
brought another gentleman and his lady, when their
chief drink was wine, and after dinner they enjoyed
themselves with a first-rate dessert.
Christophe—Ah, I recollect. We did not have the best
wine.

The 'Wife—We only called for the best ale, not for
wine.

Sir PETER LAURIE—Are there any more unfortunate
innkeepers who have been swindled? Mr. Whitnaarsh
said he believed not, although he had been round to many.
Sir PETER LAURIE—I. suppose they are ashamed to
come forward? Mr. Whitmarsh thought it most pro-
bable, as they had been so completely done.
Sir PETER LAURIE observed that he was much as-
tonished that so many persons should suffer themselves
to be so imposed upon.
The Wife—We do not wish to stay in this country,
only it is the money that detains us. Seymour is our
,countryman, and only arrived about three weeks ago.
Sir PETE' LAURIE—WeII, we will settle that ques-
tion, fur here is a gentleman who will give some infor-
mation so as to place the public on its guard against
your systematic impositions.
Mr. James Dingwell Fordyce, of the firm of Reid,
Irving, and Co., said that he knew nothing of the pri-
soner beyond what he intended stating, which was, that
about twenty-five years ago, Christophe, King of Hayti,
entered into a correspondence with one of their houses,
and invested a large sum of money. He died a few
years after, and his widow and her two daughters came
came to England, and the former having taken out let-
ters of administration in due fbrm, the money was paid
to her. Shortly after the prisoner Christophe called at
the bank, when he was informed of what had been done,
whereupon he became most abusive, and was eventually,
turned out of the bank. He still continued his annoy-
ance, and at last threatened to shoot Sir John Reid,
when he was given into custody; but that gentleman did
not appear against him, and he was discharged. A few
months after he was sent for by Alderman Gibbs, in
consequence of more complaints, when ho showed him
the letters of administration, and explained to him that
he had no claim.
The Chief Clerk said he perfectly recollected the cir-
cumstance of the widow of the King of Hayti coming
here to take out letters of administration, as she and her
daughters were introduced to him by Mr. Allen, the phi-
lanthropist, and it was by his advice she pursui d the
course she did, and the money was paid to her in his
presence. Since the prisoner was remanded, a gentle •
man, who held for many years an official situation in
Hayti, had called and obtained an order for seeing him
at the Compter. After conversing with him that gen-
tleman returned and informed him (the Chief Clerk)
that the King of Hayti never had a. brother, and that
the prisoner himself had never been at Hayti. The fact
was that the King had two sons, one whom was killed
in battle, and the other died of fever.
The wife here said that there wero papers at a solici-
tor', which would put all to rights.
Mr. Whitmarsh said he had been to the party, who
admitted having some papers, but was most anxious that
they should be out of his possession, in consequence of
the annoyance he was subjected to by the numerous n -
ference to his offices.

Sir PETER LAURIE said that, as that was the case,
he should remand the prisoners for the production of
those d.)curnents, as they might throw :some light on
the matter.
Christophe—Ah! the_papers—they will show who
I am.

Sir PETER LAURIE—You do not understand I see,

(Much laughter, in which both prisoners joined.)
Sir PETER LAURIE to ChriStophe—There is no doubt
you are a very designing man, and this system of
swindling must be put a stop to. I hope that the publi-
city of this case will also make innkeepers more cautious
as to whom they take in, particularly after the exposure
of to-day.—Remanded accordingly.

BOW-STREET,
EXTZNSIVIII ROBBERY OF PlCTURES.—Yesterday
Susan Cook, a servant, was placed at the bar for final
examination, charged with stealing about 150 pictures,
the property of Mr. Richard Gale, picture-dealer, 47,
High Holborn, her master, and Momas Miers, a Ger-
man Jew, with receiving, them, well knowing them to
have been stolen.

A man named Joseph Roland, carrying on business
as a picture-dealer in St. Mary-axe, who attended to
produce a portion of the property, and to give evidence,
was also placed at the bar, charged with having pur-
chased pictures from the male prisoner for much less
than their value.
It appeared ;from the evidence, which occupied the
court a considerable time, that the prisoner Miers con-
tracted an acquaintance with the female prisoner when
she was only a short time in the prosecutor's service, and
was frequently observed by the neighbours loitering
about the door, and leaving the house before the shop
was open for business in the morning. The prosecutor
kept a picture gallery on his second floor, to which there
was an entrance from the rear of the house, to which
cook had always access, from which he had no reason
to suspect any property had been removed, until he saw
two pictures exhibited at the door of a cigar shop for
sale, which induced him to inquire how they had been
obtained ; and having ascertained that they had been
purchased from Mien at a fair price, the stock was
looked over, and the remainder of the property was
missed. Information was immediately given to the po-
lice, and on the prosecutor accompanying the officer to
the shop in St. Mary-axe, a vast quantity of pictures
were discovered, respecting which the prisoner Roland
gave a very equivocating account, declining to
give the name of the person from whom he
had obtained them, and pretending that he did
not know his address, although he had dealt with
him several times. The prosecutor informed him that
a great number of pictures in his possession had been
stolen from him, and gave him notice that he would he
required to give evidence, there being persons in custody
for the robbery; and on a subsequent visit he paid, the
greater number of pictures had been stripped of the
frames, at the same time he admitted that he had pur-
chased 50 pictures at various times from Miers, (only 22
being produced), which was very different from the au.
count he gave on the first occasion.
Mr. HENRY having ascertained that other Portions of
the property had been disposed of in other parts of t!,e
town and at Birmingham, upon the appli:aition of the
prosecutor, consented t) remand the prisoners, and to
hold the prisoner Roland to bail, himself in the sum of
80/., and two sureties in 401. each, to answer the charge
at a future clay.

MARYLEBONE.
ARTFUL AND EXTENSIVE SYSTE)I OF ROBBERY AT
TM HOUSES OF MEDICAL GENTLEXEN.—CAUTION TO
SEnTeeiTs.—Yesterday a well-dressecl young man, who
gave his name Charles Copeland, was placer at the bar
before Mr. Long, charged with having stolen serious
articles of plate, the property of Dr. Henry Savage, 34,
Dorset-place, Dorset square.
Sarah Ruth, tho servant, deposed that on the same
morreng, between seven and eight o'clock, the prisoner
came t9t'te house and inquired for Dr. Savage. She
asked him the nature of his business, telling him
at the
same time that her master was in bed, upon which he
said that he was desirous of ascertaining it the doctor
attended a Judy named Jackson, in Portman-street, and-
that if he did so, she (Mrs. Jackson) was anxious to; seo
him as early as possible. Witness went up stairs,
leaving him sitting upon a form in the hall, and on
her returning through the dining-room to speak to
him, agreeably to the directions of her master, wh, felt satisfied that there was something wrong, she
missed from the table therein four silver spoons and
a pair of silver sugar-tongs. Upon seeing the pri-
soner, who had removed from the form to the hall door,
she immediately locked the same, taking out the key,
and told him he had something in his pocket which
he had stolen, when he at length produced the spoons
and tongs, saying that ho was a very unfortunate man.
Dr. Savage speedily came down stairs, and having sent
for a policeman, the prisoner was conveyed to the station-
house.
1 Sanders, 221 D, brought forward the articles of plate,
and they were identified as belonging to the prosecutor.
The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say,
admitted having had the plate in his possession, but
denied that he intended to take it away.
Inspector Porter said that a great number of rob-
beries of a similar nature, effected at the dwellings of
medical gentlemen, had recently been reported at the
stations of the Metropolitan Police, and he was of
opinion that if a little tune were allowed,. he should be
able to get up other cases against the prisoner.
The prisoner was committed on Dr. Savage's charge
for trial, but will be brought up again on Thursday.. next.
MARLBOROUGH-STREE F.
Seserneous CHEQUES.— William Woodward. Miller, of
St. Albans,. was brought up for final examination, charged
with defrauding various tradesmen and publicans by
means of spurious cheques.
John Howard, collector to Mr. Robert Dixon, of Pro-
vidence-wharf Belvidere-road, said the prisoner called
at the counting-house on the 11th of October, and said
he was well acquainted with Mr. Dixon. He said he
wanted change for a cheque of 41., and witness, be-
lieving his story from his respectable appearance, gave
hire 41, and received a cheque which he ascertained
subsequently was spurious.
A clerk from the London and Westminster Bank, on
which the cheque was drawn, proved that the prisoner
never had any account at the bank.
The prisoner declined to make any defence.
Mary Ann Phillips, baker, 12, Archway-place, Hol-
loway, said she cashed a 5/. cheque for the prisoner on
the 22d of Jaly. The cheque was spurious.
William Chaplin, licensed victualler, Wells-street,
Oxford-street, said, on the 21st of October the prisoner
came to his bar, and said he had been requested by Mrs.
Harrison, a neighbour, to ask him to cash a small
cheque. The prisoner said his name was Woodward,. a
miller, at St. Alban's, and he added that Mr. Harrison
had been working at the mill for some days. The pri-
soner further observed, that he had given more for a
horse than he expected, and that this had obliged him to
get the small cheque cashed. The prisoner pulled out a
cheque on the London and Westminster Bank, and gave
it to witness, with the remark that it was all right, and
he could refer for his respectability to Mr. Pitt, of Great
Portland-street, who was his uncle. Witness gave the
prisoner 4/., and on presenting the cheque the next day
he found it was spurious. He met the prisoner soon
afterwards in Villiers-street, and gave him into custody.
The prisoner made no defence, awl was committed I
fully on all the charges.
WORSHIP-STREET.
ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A PORTUGUESE BARONESS.--
An elderly lady, named Mary Carlota Alves Cabral, who
was stated to be a Portuguese baroness, and Maria Rosa,
her servant, were placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold,
charged on suspicion of having stolen a gold watch and
appendages, a silver watch, and a variety of other pro.
perty, belouging to Mrs. Hester Pitman, the proprietress
of a boarding establishment for distinguished foreiguers,
in Filiibtu7-04Pitre,