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of the whole system. He considered that he was most
severely imposed upon, for he had been put to trouble
and expense, and after all disappointed, and when he did
get the parcel the turkeys were spoiled.
The LORD MAYOR said that over the Star coach he,
unfortunately, had no control, or he should be happy to
render a service to Mr. Dashwood in such a case.
Mr. Dashwood called his Lordship's attention to the
improper use made of the respectable names of Messrs.
Chaplin and Horne to give authority to the additional
demand which he had been compelled to comply with,
or part with his parcel.
The LORD MAYOR regretted that the only remedy
for Mr. Dashwood lay in a court of law.
Mr. Dashwood declared that be could bring forward
a dozen gentlemen of Greenwich who had been treated
in exactly a similar manner.
The LORD MAYOR—I am very sorry for it. But
Mr. Hudson, who is now chairman of the Eastern
Counties Railroad, will, I dare say, cast his eye upon
some account of this complaint, and his activity and zea
will not be wanting to abate so disagreeable and inconl
venient an evil.

have private property lent out on mortgage, in Somerset.
Income-tax office proves my income. if referenc4 is
required, apply to A. Aguilar, Esq., 94, Cheapside,
London, or 4, Charlotte-place, Mansion-house, City."
" Jamaica Southern, Eastern, and Northern Railway,
43, Muorgate-street, Dec. 5, 1845.
" Sir,—Understand me that I di3 not want to cheat
you out of 20/. written for, but should the gentleman have
called on me, who is about to become the secretary to
this move, ask me who the clerk was, and I had men-
tioned your name, and then you to have failed incoming,
it would have made me look very foolish. If you come
to town on Wednesday I shall be most happy to see
you ; but you will not till 13th, as the new offices will
not be ready, and it will be a pity to waste the carridge
of coming up twice Do as you please. Send on
Monday, and then say when you will for certain be in
London.

CLE RKEIV WELL.
Mr. George Smith, who described himself as a man

independent property, residing in Victoria-road, Peck,
ham, was charged with having been an accomplice with
a female not in custody, in stealing from the house of
Mr. William James Linton, engraver, residing at 85,
Hatton-garden, several silver spoons, wearing apparel,
and half a dozen of claret and other wines.
Mrs. Doman, the female alluded to in the above charge,
attempted to commit suicide by swallowing poison, from
which she is still ill.
The prosecutor deposed that the prisoner had been for
some time visiting witness's housekeeper, who passed as
the prisoner's wife. She declined to receive his visits
latterly, and said he had beaten her; she seemed at times
in very low spirits. On Christmas-day he left home
for his country house, leaving directions that the prisoner
should not be admitted before his return on Monday ;
he ascertained that the prisoner had been there until that
morning, when he and the woman absconded. The
wine, silver spoons, two cloaks, and other valuable ar-
ticles, were missed immediately after their departure.
The prisoner acknowledged that he had taken the wine.
Thes.
prisoner
Doman. n
ehad
indignantly
been deniedin invited
ted being
to
the
theh
husbandouse by
Mrs.
Mrs. Doman, who he understood was an acquaintance
of Mr. Linton's. He knew her only since April. He
did not go to Mr. Linton's until invited. He then made
a rambling, incoherent statement, to the effect that Mrs.
Doman had left Mr. Linton's house in April last, when
he first met, her. Mr. Linton had sent her money and
a testimonial, but the woman was in distress, and he
(prisoner) gave her all the aid in his power.
Mr. COMBE—What are you ? Prisoner—l have no
profession ; I live on my own fortune.
Mr. COMBE—Where do you live ? Prisoner—l live
in my own house, 5, Victoria-road, Peckham.
Mr. COMBE—What have you to say to the charge ?
Prisoner—l drank some of the wine.
Mr. ComnE—What wine did you drink ? Prisoner
—I drank claret ; Mrs. Doman preferred sherry.
Mr. COMBE—How do you live ? Prisoner— I said
already that I lived on my means, and I say so still I
have been bequeathed a considerable fortune within the
last twelve months. The house is my own. I live rent
free.

Mr. ComnE—You are a very lucky man, when you
can live rent free, and drink other people's claret free
of cost.
Prisoner—l don't think this is a joking matter.
The Clerk—l am sure Mr. Linton thinks with you.
Prisoner—lf you doubt that lam a man of property,
you can see the will at Doctors'-commons.
Mr. COMBE—Is that the best account you can give ?
Prisoner—Yes ; because it is the true account.
Mr. COMBE—Then I must tell you I don't believe a
word of it.

Mr. Linton said, he owed his life to Hrs. Doman, who
came from the Fever Institution to nurse him.
Prisoner—l wish to put a few questioLs to you, Mr.
Linton.

Mr. COMBE—I will remand you ; for I think you are
one of those persons who live upon women or whoever
else you can. So you can reserve your questions for the
next occasion.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
This Court, at which the business of the Westminster
division has been transacted frem time immemorial, was
yesterday finally closed at five in the evening. The
business had been so judiciously arranged that nothing
but the night charges, which were few and of a very trt
vial character, occupied the attention of the Court ; and
Dlr. Taylor, the clerk, and the officers of the establish-
ment were busily engaged during the day, and up to a
late hour last night, in removing the books, papers, and
other official documents, to the new Court in Vincent-
square, which will be opened this day, under the title of
the " Westminster Police-court." The police-station of
the B division in the New-way, Tothill street, was also
abandoned at twelve at night ; the inspector on duty pro-
ceeding at that hour to the new office erected in Roches-
ter-row, on the west side of the police-court. It may be
as well to state that the Magistrate's entrance to the
latter is in Vincent-square, but that intended for the
public is in Rochester-row.
MAIILBOROUGH-STREET.
Emanuel Young, butler, in the service of Mr. Latham,
23, Norfolk-street, Park-lane, was summoned before Mr.
Hardwick for assaulting Maria Young, his wife.
The complainant, a young woman of very genteel ap-
pearance,
with one of her eyes badly discoloured, said
she went on Saturday last to Norfolk-street to ask her
husband a question respecting their little girl, when, as
soon as the hall door was opened, her husband struck
her a violent blow on the face and blackened her eye.
Her husband then seized her and threw her down the
steps into the street, falling on her with the force he
used. Complainant was picked up almost in a state of
insensibility by a match-woman, and conveyed home in
a cab.

Hurnplirtls was fined 505., and the dealer and his wife
held to bail.

Falconer now repeated his evidence, and said he had
been unable to trace the owner of the lead.
After further proceedings,
Mr. BRODERIP said the Act of Parliament was specially
directed against those receptacles called "marine store
shops," and it was impossible for any one with their eyes
open to walk along the streets and not observe what was
going on in them. The marine store dealers, as they
called therm:elves, bou:ht of anybody and anything. lie
fined the defendant John Saunders 5i for unlawful pos
session of the lead.

The complainant's landlady proved that the com-
plainant was very much injured by the treatment she
hallfreceived.

Mr. Robinson, who appeared for the complainan•, in
stating the case, hoped the Magistrate would not inflict
any fine, but send the defendant at once to prison, if the
gross case of cruelty was established.
The deiendant said his wife had been separated from
him for some 3 ears, and had been more than once for
bidden to call on him at his master's house She came
on Saturday last, and he ordered her out of the house.
She would not go readily, and he opened the door and
pushed her out. In the struggle she struck her face
against the knocker, and caused the bruise which her
face now exhibited. 'I he complainant began to knock
and ring, and defendant was obliged to use more force
and as he was stronger than h7s wife, he compelled her
to let go the door post, and in so doing both f 11 down
the steps, and by so doing stood a chance of breakir g
their necks.

The complainant told the Magistrate that when her
first r usband saw her he gave her a blow, and said, "
you, Ilwish I:could end you altogether." Complainant had
not received a farthing from her husband for several
years past towards her upport.
The defendant called two witnesses, but they did not
disprove the assault.

Mr. HARDWICK said he wanted no further evidence
of the violence used by the defendant than the defend-
ant's own account of the transaction. Nothing could
have been more unmanly and brutal than the defendant's
conduct. It might have been indiscreet on the part of
the wife to go in person to make inquiries about the
child, but this indiscretion was no justificatio❑ for the
husband to use the shameful violence he had exercised.
The law did not permit him to add imprisonment, other•
wise in addition to the 5L penalty which he should in-
flict, he should certainly have sent the defendant for
two months to the House of Correction.
Mr. Latham (the defendant's master) said it was by
his desire that the wife was prohibited from calling at
his house. He should pay the Si. penalty for his
servant. '

The defendant said his wife Lad left him of her own
accord, and led an immoral life.
Mr. Latham was proceeding to defend the conduct of
his servant, when
Mr. HARDWICK put an end t 3 further discussion, by
tFliing Mr. Latham, that, es F. man, it was quite impos
sible t suppose he could justify the use of brutal vio-
lence towards a woman, and that woman the assaulter's
wife.

MARY LEBO.NE.
William Wooding, living in Little Marylebone-street,
was charged with having suffered to go at large, un-
muzzled, a ferocious dog, for which offence, under the
Police Act, he had rendered himself amenable to a
penalty of 40s.
Alfred Henry Purday, 5, Bowling-street, near this
Court, deposed that on Monday morning last, between
10 and 11 o'clock, as he was passing by the house of de-
fendant, a dog belonging to the latter suddenly ran up to
him and bit him on the leg. He repaired to a surgeon,
by whom the part injured was immediately cauterised.
He had not teased the dog in any way whatever.
A penalty of 40s. was inflicted.
Stlnhope Aimfield, a cabman, was charged with having
brutally assaulted Susan, his wife.
It appeared that complainant (who gave her evidence
with very great reluctance) was met by the prisoner on
the previous night, and that be beat her with such se-
verity that the stick which he used for the purpose was
broken in two.
Mr. Frankling, the chief usher, said that complainant's
arm was dreadfully swollen and bruised, and on the poor
woman turning up the sleeve of her gown, the fact was
fully apparent. Prisoner was fined 31. or six weeks' imprisonment.

LAMBETH.
examined on a
way projector and who has been before
of 451. in
Jacobs
charge of deifrauding Mr. Charles
for 50/,
cash and a bill, his
acceptance, at three months,.
Benjamin rown, who has described himself as a rail-
was again placed at
the bar before Mr. Henry.
Mr. Games attended for the prosecution,
Humphreys appeared on behalf of the prisoner.
The prosecutor, after the Qvidence which had been
given by him on the former examination had been real
over, produced the following letters which he had re-
ceived from the prisoner, during the negotiation for the
situation: and Mr.

" 43, Moorgate-street, Dec. 4, 1845.
" Sir,—lf you have business to settle, say on
the 12th
or 13th, you will be in London, and if you have no friends
here I will see what can be done for you.
" Sir, I am yours obediently,
" To Mr. Jacobs." "B. BROWN.
In the above the following was inclosed :
" Jamaica Southern and Northern Railway,
" 43, Moorgate-street,
" London, December 5, 1845.
" Sir,—Since you applied I have been offered 150, but
200 would make me forfeit my word: therefore, to
make the matter safe, send up by return of post a 201
order, and on the 13th, m hen you enter the office arrange.
ment, as proposed, for 301. and a bill. This may be
shown to any of your advisers, but not to our firm, as
it is a private and honourable transaction between us. I

UN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1846.

Mr. BRODERIP —You paid into his hands the whiffle of
your «•agar, I suppose ? Willia,r,s—Yes, sir, every far-
thing, and he advanced me a shilling or two as I re-
quired it, and supplied me with the clothes I now
have on.

Ryan, in defence, said he was licensed by the Board
cf Trade under the new Act, that the proceeding arose
out of a. conspiracy on the part of the Jews and crimps
in his neighbourhood, who were no longer able to supply
seamen for merchant ships, and defraud them with im-
punity. He then declared that he had only received a
sovereign of Williams.
The seaman was recalled, and swore positively to the
payment of 17/. 1 ls. to Ryan and his wife.
Ryan said he would admit his wife received sixteen
sovereigns, but he only received one.
Mr. BRODDRIP could plainly see what sort of a person
the defendant was, and asked what magistrate signed his
certificate before he obtained his liceLse from the Board
of Trade ? The defendant replied, bat he received a
certificate of good character from Mr. Stutfield, a county
magistrate, and proceeded to state that his bill amounted
to 17/. ss. 4d., and that only ss. Bd. was due to the man.
Mr. BaODERIP asked the defendant for his account,
which he put in, and said that on the 24th June, 1844,
the complainant, who had walked all the way from Ply-
mouth, came to him quite destitute, and he boarded and
lodged him until the 2d of September following. He
clothed him, gave him an outfit, and procured a ship for
him. During that time he never had a farthing from the
seaman. He charged him for eleven weeks' board and
lodging, in 1844, which amounted to 81. 16s.

Williams said he was employed as a runner and touter
during the eleven weeks, and that when he obtained a
ship, Ryan did supply him with his old sea clothes, for
which he gave him his advance note.
Mr. BRODERIP at once said he should strike out the
8L 16s. for eleven week,' board and lodging. It was clear
that 'Williams was acting as servant to Ryan ; and if he
had not, he could not take cognizance of a by-gone
transaction.

Williams then put in his account, in which he had made
himself a debtor to Ryan for two weeks board and lodg-
ing, at the rate of 145. per week.

'Ryan claimed 16s. per week, and as that sum was
stated upon his card, it was allowed.

The sum of 30s. was charged fora blue top-coat, of
very coarse texture, and it was declared by Mr. Hart, a
slop-seller, who was in Court, to be worth 20s. only, and
the magistrate would allow no more.
Ryan charged the seamen 31. for cash delivered at dif-
ferent times.

Williams declared he had only received IL is. 6d.
Mr. 13RODERIP said that 3L was put down in a lump;
he could not allow that. It was the old trick, that was
the way seamen were duped by the old crimps, and the
licensed agents, it appeared, were playing the same
game.

The defendant's wife said the various sums were in-
serted in a book which she had left at home, and Mr.
Broderip ordered Douglas, an officer of the Court, to
accompany her to her house, and fetch the book.
After an absence of a minute Douglas returned, and
said the woman would not go one way or the other.
She said she had no account.
Mr. BRODERIP carefully went through the accounts,
and said he believed no more than 21s. 6d. had been ad-
vanced to the seamen. He found that 11/ was due to
the complainant, and he made an order that that sum
should be restored to him by Ryan. He should also
inflict a fine of 20s. on the defendant fur unlawfully de-
taining the sailor's money. In default of payment of
the money and fine, the defendant would be imprisoned
for one month in the House of Correction.
John Saunders, a porter in the employ of Messrs.
Hoare, the brewers, and Mary Ann Saunders, his wife,
appeared on their recognizances, before Mr. Broderip,
to answer a charge of being in unlawful possession of
116 lbs. of sheet lead, suspected to have been stolen.
It appeared, from the evidence of Inspector Falconer.
of the Thames Police, that on the evening of the 23d
ult., he wont to a marine-store shop kept by the defen.
dants in Old Gravel lane, Wapping. He was induced
to visit the place in consequence of information that two
houses in the neighbourhood had been recently stripped
of the lead. After some considerable time, and with
much difficulty, he got into the house. The female de-
fendant was in the back part of the shop, and the in-
spector informed her that lead had been stolen, and
asked if she had bought any that d.y. She at first said
she had bought some on the previous day, on which
Falconer commenced searching the place. She then
pointed to a bin full of rags, and beneath them the in-
spector found 116 lbs. of sheet lead. It appeared to
have gcne round the skylight of a house, or had
been taken from the gable end of some build-
ing. He asked the woman how she became pos-
sessed of the lead, and she said she bought it
from time to time of a carpenter-looking man. He
asked her to let him look at her book, and she said
she kept none. Falconer seized the lead, and soon
afterwards the male prisoner came home. On the
inspector asking him how he accounted for the lead being
on his premises, he said he knew nothing of it, and was
very seldom at home. While Falconer and hit men
were in the marine store shop, a notorious thief, named
Humphreys, camp there with a piece of sheet lead.
which was concealed in his side-pocket. He attempted
to make his escape when he saw the officers, but was
pursued and detained.

Mr. Thomas Holbrook, of the " Black Boy," had no
doubt the piece of sheet lead taken from the thief was
stolen from his house. He missed such a piece from the
copper in his back kitchen; but he would not undertake
to swear to it.

much more, thanks be to God our health is as usual I
have got a very comfortable master, he is a member
of the Babtist connexion we attend the Chapel with
him, give our love to all If anybody ask you where I
live tell them close to Gibralter as there is a hill close
to us called Gibralter and that wont be a lie Remember
us to all inquiring friends I know that James is in the
habit of going to Old (Bieks in Swan-street) and I can
prove that he was one of the worst Enemies we had for
what she told Sarahs sister you would not credit and
that is where a certain vagabond got most of his in-
formation from, but enough of that, they have got to
answer for themselves before a higher tribunal than any
earthly one. I must conclude with one line to you all
and believe me to remain your affectionate son and
daughter, S and S. Y—.
" Address as Usual.

" P.S. I wish you all a happy Christmas and a prosper-
ous new year if the Lord See so fit as to spare us if not
may we be found prepared for a place above. When
you write send the name of the new Mayor, write soon
and let me beg of you not to make yourselves uncom-
fatable and prepare your mind for anything that may be
Said for you may depend upon it there will be many re-
ports raised until the truth come out."
Yarharn conducted himself before the magistrates with
the utmost composure. His personal appearance re-
mains about the same as when he appeared in Court at
the time of the trial. The public will be admitted to
hear the next proceedings.