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London, England, 1848-09-13 00:00:00

stanced to prefer bills of indictment against: him tilt
the Old Bailey, and send him for trial upon toe
charge of felony, which in his opinion had been
clearly made out.

The prisoner upon that eagerly exclaimed--";Q1:1
you kent commit me fur dem vatch ; it was gif 113
fur de repair !"
Mr. ARNOLD—That is negatived altogether, and
shall commit you for it notwithstanding.
The depositions of the witnesses were therefore
taken by Mr. Hurlstone, the second clerk, and the
prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial.
LAMBETH.
A Rev. Gentleman, the rector of an extensive parish
in Kent, was brought into court, and placed at 141
bar on the charge, as it appeared in the police sheel
of passing a counterfeit halfcrown piece with intent
t 3 defraud Charles Nelson, an omnibus conductor'
No. 2,478.
The complainant, who is conductor of one of
Henry Fisher's Atlas omnibuses, deposed that 5
short time before the prisoner, who was a passage'
in his omnibus, gave him half-a-crown in parneai
for the fare of himself and a lady who accompsoie.,,
him. On looking at the halfcrown he suspected 1"
was bad, and in order to test it he applied both his
nose and teeth, and not detecting its badness at the
moment he gave him ls. 6d. change. After dole;
so, however, he applied his teeth a second time to the
coin, and nearly bent it in two. He then told the
prisoner that it was bad, and requested his Is. 6a
back, and also his fare, but he refused to do either,
and complainant, in consequence, gave him into the
charge of a policeman.
The accused gentleman—whose name, as there Was
not the slightest ground for the charge, it would he
cruel to give—said, that about an hour before be aod
a lady who had accompanied him got into the omor
bus in Oxford-street, and as the vehicle was approsc_io,
ing its destination at the end of York-street, W 6,1::
worth-road, he removed from the further end of to'
vehicle to the door, and taking a halfcrown from his
purse handed it to the conductor to take his fare out
of it, not having the slightest idea at the time thatll
was a bad one. He observed that the conductor
looked very earnestly at the coin, but after doing 5°
he deliberately handed him Is. 6d. change, and it Wag
not until after he had put the ls. 6d. into his purl
and removed to the end of the omnibus, and resucw
his seat near the lady, that anything was said about
the halfcrown. His reason for refusing to give NO
the change was the fear of its being taken as e,,,°
admission of guilt, and he preferred submittricg_n
any inconvenience rather than it should be sup Po-7,
that he had knowingly or intentionally passed a ',iv'
of base coin.

Mr. NORTON observed, that he clearly saw bow the
thing had happened. The halfcrown was so good
imitation of the genuine coin that any person in 68
ordinary way might take it, and, according to tbk,
evidence given by the complainant himself, he 0_1';
mitted it to an additional and somewhat extraordinsUr
test—a test which he (Mr. Norton) never heard O.L_
before—namely, that of smelling it ; and after all tho
he had given change for it. He (Mr. Norton) es
ici
pressed his regret that the Rev. Gentleman 001,4
have been subjected to so unpleasant an ordeal. 1:0
cautioned the complainant against giving parties i°ls
custody on such frivolous grounds, and told him w
duty, in the first place, was to have taken the name
clo
and address of the parties, and if they refused to i
so, or he had reason to suppose that they gave 0
wrong name and address, it would be then quite ti°l
for him to charge them with the offence. da
The complainant said, the gentleman here raf.;f,
to restore the change he had given out of the Wl'
crown as well as to pay his fare.
Mr. NORTON observed, that the reason given by the
reverend gentleman for not returning the chancre /11,.
to him perfectly satisfactory under the circurnstalei
He (Mr. Norton) thought the gentleman had acted
perfectly right in refusing to return the char 0
gel
such an act, as he had himself said, might be taken
an admission of guilt.
A clergymen -here entered the witness-box, 8111
said that from a lengthened knowledge of the accuse'
he believed him to be perfectly incapable of the COnr
mission of an act such as that attributed to him-
Mr. NORTON replied that the testimony Wan qu,lto
unnecessary, as there did not appear to him to be be
shadow of an imputation upon his character.
The reverend gentleman here withdrew from the
bar, and left the court in company wits his friends.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS-
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 12.
STOCK EXCITANGB.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Una'
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 811. Shares, 9% dill
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 2% dis.—London $l3
North- Western, 113% c.—Ditto, New Quarters,
Ditto, 40/. Shares (L. M.), 3 p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
Lincolnshire,
101. Preference, 9%—Midland Stock, 86 e
Ditto, New Halves, 8% dis.—North Staffordshire, 96s- 3d.d
dis.--Scottish Central, 2214—Shrewsbury, Oswestry. 811
Chester, 8% dis.—Ditto, 10/. Preference, 12%—South'
Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 61. 183. 9d.
MANCHESTER, SErr. 12.
STOCK EiCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lance'
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 9 dis.—Leeds, 321. Shares',
10 dis. —South- Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6—Liverpo°:
and Alanchester, 401. Shares, 414 p.--East Lancashire, 0114
1614—Manebester and Birmingham (A. and B.), 'P.'
North Staffordshire, 434 dis.—Eastern Counties,
Shrewsbury and Chester, Preference, 12%.
BIRMINGHAM, Sxrr. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was but little business done
day, and very little variation of prices. The local lines were
those chiefly inquired for, but few sales were effected.
LEEDS, SEPT 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate,
ham, and Boston, 3% dis.—Caledonian, Preference, a d'3%.,„
Great Northern, 10 dis.—Leeds and Thirak, e4M „
—North British, Thirds, 515. 6d. dis.—North Stafforo
shire, 4% dis._. Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, Y. 0"
6 dis.

YORK, Sir. 11.
STOCK EXCHATME.—The business transacted to-daY °ere,
as follows;—North British, Third;
c.—York, Newcastle
and Berwick (Original Newcastle and Berwick), 26%.
GLASGOW, SEPT. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Edinburgh and IS'ea.,/"
port, 6%—Edinburgh and Perth, 175,—Glasgow,
N
nock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1, 51. 135.—Great
ortbe,-..,,
'
6/. Ils. 6d.—North British, Thirds, Si. 14s.—Scottish
tral, 22. CeY

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Bruised Foot Cured, -
Amputation of the Toes prevented by Holloway's gi;i3-,
ment and Pills.—Mr. Oliver Smith Jenkins, of Falkirk,
when superintending the. erection of a railway bridge
had his toot severely bruised by the falling of a ben 'l'd
) stone. Apprehending that serious consequences wotl
result from it, he consulted some of the most einilleli„t
surgeons in Edinburgh, who informed him that to encs;‘,
a cure two of his toes must be amputated ; refusing
submit to this he returned to Falkirk, and commenced
using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and, miraculous
as it may appear, these invaluable medicines healed hislis
foot, and in three weeks he was enabled to resume
employment.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Profess°r
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
SEIZURE OF ILLICIT SPlRlTS.—Yesterday inornoi
ing Messrs. George Fenn and John Worrall, officers of
Excise, accompanied by Mr. Jenkins, an active officer s,
police, from information they received, proceeded to house in Edward-street, Hoxton Old Town, for the VI,
,
pose of making a seizure on premises in that street. Di r•
Fenn posted himself at the front door, while Mr. 177(41;
rail and Mr. Jenkins kept watch at the back. Afte,o
ri
great deal of obstruction being made, they succeeded '
effecting an entrance, when they discovered several thoir
sand gallons of illicit spirits, 60 over proof, which thel
seized and conveyed to the Excise warehouses, in Broa
street. The spirits were the produce of an illicit still i°
the neighbourhood.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday evening a fatal
tt
accident occurred to Mr. West, jun., son of Mr. des'
brewer, Hackney-road. It appeared that he mounted ,
horse which had thrown him on a previous occasioo
when the horse started off at a terrific speed, and /1t
length both horse and rider fell, when the animal, rolli°;0.
over Mr. West, killed him almost instantaneously. I'
was a fine promising young man.

21.1.1tTlis.
Of
E. D.
• at Muswell-hill, Hornsey, Mrs..-,.
oSftoanddaounghMtaser.sey Rectory, the wife
the
cIO Rnn ett vhh.ee T9B.tthhHubbard,i,nnsstt a t
Morgan, of a daughter. . 1 .
jo. 0
On the 9th inst., at Highbury-p ace, Islington, Mrs. 4
Gosnell, of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Addiscombe-road, Croydon, the ledi
of the Rev. R. Inchbald, of a daughter.
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On the 10th inst., at Woburn-square, the wife of .--
F•
Adams, jun., Esq., of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-Park: gardens, under the influence of chloroform, the wife of f
Edwards, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at Wakefield-park, near Reading, the lady of R. Allfrey, Es
On the 11th inst. q.; of a son.
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, at Upper Montague-street, Rose
square, Ntrs. P. Roberts,
of a son.

MARRIED.
On the Bth inqt., at the chap '
Bell of the British Embassy at
PAris, Richard Bunce, Esq., son of the late Captain Bone
R.N., to Leopoldine Blanche Emily Fauche, second daughte,r
01 Gaspard A. Fauche, Esq., late her Britannic MajelaY6
Consul at Ostend.
On the 9th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Eaton-square'
Captain T. White, 22d Regiment, to Georgiana Isabel;
youngest daughter of the late Colonel Moodie, late 10.0
Regiment.
Vir•
On the 9th inst., at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, A
Dick•Tn, Esq., 17th Foot, to Sarah Alicia, only daughter of
E. Ackland, Esq., R.N.

DIED.
At Forest-hill, Sydenhani, Sir Hugh Evelyn, Bart., aged
80, the lineal descendant of John Evelyn, Esq., of ottoll,
the well-known author of a valuable treatise on the cultiV;
tion of timber in the royal forests, and other works. °I.
Hugh dying without male issue, the title becomes extinct.,
On the 7th inst., at Trigon-terrace, Clapham-road,
Howe, Esq., late clerk of works and professor of practica.
architecture at the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chathaol'
On the 9th inst., at Sandford-house, near Woodstock, 0357,
Ellen, widow of the late A. H. Renton, Esq., M.D., formerly
of Funchal), Madeira.
a
Ou the 9th inst., at Tulse-hill-house, Surrey, Leon°
Marler, youngest son of John Lake, Esq., aged 61.
In Sloane-street, on the 10th inst., Elizabeth Ann, the Wife
of W. Anderson, Esq.
On the 11th inst., at Islington, aged 48, James
eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Walker, C. B. and IC. T•

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