The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, April li, 1846

change. They make industrious men idle, and tempt
sober men to drink. They empty the workshops and
fill the public-houses. All the excitement, the alarm,
the noise, the fuss of these things is so much, at the
week's end, out of poor people's pockets. Mr. Charles
Cochrane does not seem to be a man much given to
thought ; but possibly he does possess the faculty, in ,
a latent form, of connecting causes and consequences.
He may, at any rate, assure himself that contemp-
tuous and indignant public reprobation will be the lot
of any man who persist.; in gratifying his own 'vanity
at the expense of the labouring classes, and who ob-
stinately courts notoriety in the character of disturber
of the public streets.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
Emma loans., a well-dressed wcman, who stated
her age to be thirty- one years, was brought before
Alderman Gibbs, in the custody of Daniel Forrester,
the officer, charged with having attempted to utter a
forged note purporting to be of the issue of the Bank
of England for 51.
gentleman attended from the office of Messrs.
Freshtield, solicitors to the Bank of England, for the
prosecution.
William Smith, clerk to Messrs. Ridgway and Co.,
tea-dealers, King W illiam- street, said Between
eleven and twelve o'clock that day, the prisoner came
to the shop for a pound and a half of tea, and ten-
tered the note produced, numbered and dated 30390,
Nov. 16, 46, and signed IV. Paskin. Upon looking
at it I thought it not genuine, and I took it inside
and found the same opinion was formed. It was
then taken to the Bank, where it was pronounced a
forgery.
Mr. Freeman, inspector of the Bank, said he at
once detected the forgery, and went to Messrs. Bldg-
way's shop, where he saw the person seated. Upon
being questioned she said her name was Young, and
that she resided at No. 24, East-lane, Walworth, and
AN as a married woman. She said she did not get the
note from her husband, but from a gentleman, with
whose name or address she was not acquainted. Upon
being told she must be detained, she observed that
such would be a very arbitrary proceeding.
Alderman GIBBS (to the prisoner)—Do you wish
to ask the witness any question ? Prisoner—No. He
will not say that I was not willing to come here ?
Witness—You were not unwilling.
Daniel Forrester said that when he took her into
custody she said a young man had given it to her to
go into the shop and get it changed. The people at
East-lane knew her when witnes3 called upon them
on the subject. She did not reside there it appeared,
but her relations did ; and they stated that her hus-
band was a seafaring man, and she had not lived with
him for some time.
The bank-note was in some respects admirably ex-
ecuted, but it was extremely defective in other points,
which the Bank inspector did not consider it abso-
lute wisdom to specify, inasmuch, as when officials
from the establishment have mentioned on any occa-
sions were errors lay, they were sure, in the next
issue of spurious paper, to find great ingenuity exer-
cised in the correction. In the present case the
figure at the corner of the note was as like as possible
to that in the genuine note.
The prisoner was remanded.
BO W-S 7REET.

A strong-made man, in the service of the Woods
and Forests, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall,
charged with brutally assaulting a little boy, under
eight years of age.
From the tender age of the boy Mr. Hall did not
think it proper to have him sworn or examined.
Inspector bun, of the A division, stated that the
complainant, with another boy, was endeavouring to
press the spring of one of the pumps belonging to the
Woods and Forests, in order to get some water to
water some flowers which they had. The prisoner,
who is in the service of the Woods and Forests, and
has charge of several of the pumps, came up and
struck the boy several times in a violent and brutal
manner on the side and other parts of the body,
knocked him down, kicked him, and injured his
finger, which bled profusely. The prisoner was then
taken into custody. The public had a right to use
the pump, which was placed there for public use.
The prisoner said that he had only struck the boy
on the shoulder with his open hand. He was bound
to protect the property, and the spring of the pump in
question had been broken several times before by boys
who attempted to press the spring.
The inspector stated that the prisoner struck
the boy several times with all his force with his
clenched fist.
A Mr. Eason, who represented himself as the son
of the engineer of the Woods and Forests waterworks,
stepped forward and said that the prisoner had been
three years in the service, and had always acted with
humanity. Although nothing could justify so brutal
an assault, he wished to state that the prisoner had on
two or three occasions taken boys to the station-house
for interfering with the spring, but no punishment
had been inflicted by the magistrate.
Mr. HAIL said that the assault was a most brutal
one, and could not be justified under any circum-
stances. He was sure the 'Woods and Forests would
be the first to reprehend such conduct. The prisoner
might have discharged his duty to his matters by
giving a slight slap to the boy, even supposing him to
be acting improperly. With respect to what had been
said as to boys who had been given into custody before,
and dismi'sed without punishment, the magistrate
had only to administer the law, not to make it; and
if those boys had infringed no law it was not in the
power of the magistrate to punish them. It fre-
quently happened that those who, like the prisoner,
were most apt to break the law, were the first to
complain most loudly that magistrates did not enforce
it. The prisoner was evidently a man of a violent
and brutal temper, and it was necessary that he should
be punished
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fine of 31, or 21 days' imprisonment.
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It appeared and assaulted the police Letcester-
Cochrane, who has acquired some notoriety in conse-
quence of his connexion with the well-known Trafal-
gar-square demonstration, to have a procession of