The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-26 00:00:00

THE HIGH SHERIFF FINED.

The High Sheriff (Mr. A. Arcedeckne) dispensed with
the usual "javelin-men," and substituted the county
police as attendants on the judges and in the court.
The Chief Justice, in charging the grand jury, called
attention to this circumstance. His lordship said—l am
sorry to be obliged to make an observation upon a subject
which gives me great pain. I allude to the manner in
which her Majesty's judges, the representatives of the
Queen, have been received upon this occasion. I have no
grcnnd whatever of complaint against the High Sheriff,
who has supplied adequate and handsome accommoda-
tion for the judges, and who, I believe, from what I hear,
has been desirous of attending them with the retinue
usual on these occasions—the retinue, in fact, which the
law requires. lam told be has been persuaded by an
association which he has joined to take the course which
has been followed on this occasion, and I hone and trn-t
the association will support him as men of honour and
gentlemen i❑ that course. I find there are no javelin-
men or attendants of the sheriff to keep order in the
court and neighboUrhood. The judges of course care not
bow their attendants are dresed, and how few they are,
if there he an adequate number of them to preserve order
in the court, and to keep up the respect which is due to
the administration of justice. In answer to my inquiries,
I am furnished with a paper, which purports to be the
rules of an association to diminish the expenses of gen-
tlemen who are to serve the office of sheriff ; and
amongst others I find this rule, which calls for serious
observation :—" The keeping of order in the courts
of sessions and assizes being essential to the due admi-
nistration of justice, and the proper conduct of county
business, an arrangement may be made by which the
county police may be employed in lieu of javelin4rien,and
be paid by the county for such extra duty." In other
words, the ratepayers of the county of Suffolk are to re-
lieve the gentry of the county from the burden of an
office which it is their duty to serve, the property and
lives of the public are to be deprived of the natural pro-
tectors which the law affords, and those whe arc so in.
clined—knowing that the police are engaged at the as-
sizes, as it may be upon this occasion for a whole week
—may make an inroad into the county, and commit
their depredations without check or control. The this g
cannot bear inquiry or investigation for a single moment;
it is wholly illegal. If it be raid that policeman are here
as witnesses, the answer is that they cannot fill the
double office of witnesses and attendants upon the court;
they cannot be looking after the witnesses and conduct-
ing the public business, and at the same time keep order
in the eourt. The object of the association—l entirely
absolve the sheriff fro:n any participation in it—is to save
the pockets of its members from the expense of javelin
men. It is my duty to take care that that is not done, and
I therefore fine the sheriff 100/., which I trust the com-
mittee of the association who persuaded him not to have
the ordinary attendants will pay for him. (Sensation.)
Lord Henniker—l believe I have your lordship's per-
mission t.) address a few words to you.
The Chief Justice—lt is not usual, I think.
FORGERY.

Joseph, Rector Gaze, 21, a clerk, was charged with felo
Piously forging a certain bill or order for the payment o'

money.

Mr. Cherry appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Bulwer for the defence.
The prosecutors were the firm of Lacon, Youell, and
Co., bankers, Great Yarmouth, and the offence was com-
mitted at Lowestofe, where Mes.rs. Lacon havo a brarrch
under the direction of Mr. W. V. Barnard. One of the
clerks employed in the branch was a young man named
Charles Titlow Barrett, also in custody on another and
similar charge of forgery, and with this parson the pri-
soner was on terms of intimacy. It is the practice of
the bank to keep blank bills signed by one of the part-
ners, and the clerks have authority, in the absence of
the principals, to fill them up. On the 15th Nov. last
two bilfi were missed, and, as Barrett had ceased to at-
tend at the bank, steps were taken for his apprehension
by the police. O❑ the 26th Nov., Cousins, a detective
officer iu the Liverpool police, discovered him at a place
of public resort in that town with the prisoner. Cousins
chewed them with having forged two bills, and having
searched them discovered the bills in the possession of
Barrett. One was filled up in the handwriting of Bar-
rett, and the other in the handwriting of the prisoner,
who stated that if they could have got the bills cashed
in London they would have proceeded to America.
The jury found the prisoner•guilty, but recommended
hint to mercy, considering that he had been to some ex-
tent the dupe of Barrett.

Barrett Was then placed at the bar and charged with
forging the other bill, and fulonionily embezzling at va-
rious times the sums of 301., 681. 103., and 501., the pro-
perty of W. V. Barnard, his master. To all these
charges he pleaded guilty.
The Chief. Justice sentenced Barrett to six, and Gazs
to four years' penal servitude.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—HEREFORD, March 25.
Crown Court.7---(Refore Mr. Baion Bramwell.)
CHARGE OF FORGERY.
William Mullins, an Irishman, wag charged with
passing forged notes of the Bank of England, and notes
of the Cheltenham and Winchcomb Bank, which has
long been closed.

Mr. Lluddleston prosecuted, on behalf of the Bank of
England ; the prisoner was undefended.
On the sth of February the prisoner went to the shop
of Mr. John Jones, tailor, and purchased a pair of trou-
sers and a waistcoat, which came to 1/. 12s. 6d., and for
Payment of which he tendered a 51. Bank of England
note. He took it upstairs to his son, who pronounced
it to he a forgery, and on his returning it to the prisoner
he offered a note of the Cheltenham and Winchcomb
Bank, which was closed about 30 years ago. 1,,40,:ter,
then left the shop. Having discovered the fraud, wit.
ness took a policeman, and found the prisoner on tho
platform of the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway.
He was about to enter a carriage, when the policeman
arrested him. As they proceeded to the station-house a
man came up and nfftred to'give any sum of money, to
release the prisoner.

Win. Janes, son of the last witness, corroborated :his
evidence.

James Davies, a police=constable, apprehended Coo
prisoner, and found in his possession two Bank of Er g-
land notes, one for 101. and the other for 51., a ,51. Chel-
tenham and Winclicoinb note, and 71. 17s. 80. incash.
Mr. Joseph Pumpstead, inspector of notes for the
Bank of England, proved the notes to be forgeries.
The prisoner's defence was that he took the notes in
the fair, in payment for_ a horse, and, being no scholar,
did not know they were forgeries.
The jury found the prisoner guilty; and.
His Lordship expressed his belief that the, prisoner
was a systematic trader in this most dangerous and
growing offence, and that he had a confederate.—Twenty
years' transportation.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, March 25.
The assize was proceeded vith yesterday and to-day,
but nothing remarkable has yet presented itself at either
of the courts.

The High Sheriff, E. N. Phillip., Esq,, wilt this even•

size.

ing entertain the judges, the grand jury, and the princi-
pal members of the bar to dinner at tke Adelphi Hotel.
The whole of the bar would have been invited, but there
was not sufficient accommodation at the hotel for the
entertainment of all the members of the long robe.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—March 25.

MANSION-HOUSE.—While Sir R. W. Carden was
yesterday acting as a magiltrate in the justice-room, he
received the following communications :

" 48, Margaret-street, Cavendish square,
March 25, 1856.
" Sir,—l take leave to hand for your perusal the in-
closed letter, which has been addressed to me. The in-
formation which it contains seems to me calculated to be
of use in the laudable efforts you are making to abate
the evils of female prostitution in this country.—l have
the honour to be, sir,

" D. W. MARKS,
" The Chief Minister of the West London
Synagogue of British Jews.
"To Sir R. W. Carden, Alderman, &c.
" My dear Mr. Marks,—With reference to the con-
versation I bad with you on the subject of inveigling
English girls to Hamburg, I have now to inform you that,
from what has come under my own observation both in
Hamburg and other parts of Germany, as well as in
Liverpool, there is no doubt that there is a large and
regular traffic carried on between this country and Ger-
many in exporting English girls and importing Germans.
One of the parties most actively engaged in this Infamous
traffic is a woman residing in Liverpool, where she keeps
a notorious house of ill-fame. She is called —, but I
believe that her real name is —, and it is a well.
known fact that she makes several journeys to Hamburg
in the course of a year, taking with her English girls,
and bringing back Germans, generally speaking, of ten-
der years—say 15 to 16, and I have heard that on some
occasions she has had children as young as 15. There
can be no doubt that this is known to the police ; but
I do not think that they have any means of stopping
it, or interfering. From Hamburg, after the girls
have been there a year or two, they are seat to Ber-
lin and other cities in Germany ; so there must be a
regular correspondence and connexion with the keepers
of these houses in the principal cities, all of whom, I need
hardly say, are under the control and surveillance of the
police. I have heard some very bad accounts, when in
Germany ; and, although there will be a considerable ex-
aggeration in many of them, there is no doubt that there
is too much truth. In no city in the werld, I believe, is
prostitution carried on to such an immense extent, and
in so open a manner, as in Hamburg, in proportion toits
That, of course, is a subject with which no inter-
cerence could take place, but I do think that if our vice-
consul there really exerted himself, he might do a good
deal towards checking, or in a great degree stopping,
this trade. I may also observe that the principal place
where this traffic is carried on is. Hull, from which Man-
chester and Liverpool are both supplied.
" Yeu are at liberty to make any use you please of
this communication, as I should be very happy to be of
any assistance in putting a stop to this system. At the
same time you will also see that I do not wish to have
my name nor any name ih this made public, as it might
defeat this object.—Yours very faithfully."'
The following was received, amongst other communi-
cations, by Sir R. W. Carden within the last few days :
" 14, Gilsten-road, West Broinpton.

"Sir R. W. Carden.—Your Worship,—lilaving no-
ticed your kind interference in the case of the daughter
of Thomas Evans, of John-street, Parker-row, Berniond
sey, who was entrapped by a Jewess procurers, and sent
to Hamburg, I beg to ask for your advice in a similar
case. My daughter. Zelplia Barge, was sent by Miss
Warr, 10,, Blandford-street, Portman•square, with a
parcel to the Foreign-office, Downing-street, and left
the • parcel there at 12 at noon on Thursday, ith
of February, and on Monday, 11th of February, I
advertised her in the Times (hut by an error in the print
her name was spelt Telpha (Barge), and had hand-bills
printed and circulated in London, and also gave notice
to the Westrnimster•and Marylebone Police Courts, but
have heard nothing of her. Her age was 15 years, a
steady, serious girl. Any assistance will receive the
gratitude of her disconsolate parents and friends.—Your
most obedient servant, "JOHN BARGE."

A young man, who refused to make known his name,
was charged with Iniving indecently as.aulted two little
girls, n Monday afternoon, in one of the recesses on
London-bridge. Ho offered the policeman who appre-
hended him 10/. to allow him to go away. Ile denied
the truth of the accusation, but, after a short examina-
tion of the witnesses, Sir R. VT. Carden said he was per-
fectly satisfied with their statements, and sentenced the
prisoner to pay a fine of 101., which was at once paid.

BOW-STREET.—Mr Henry was occupied for nearly
two hours in investigating the case of an alleged lunatic
--the Rev. James Chas. Ward, brought before him on
a warrant granted at the instance of the Commissioners
of Police, in consequence of certain letters stated to have
teen addressed by the reverend defendant to Sir George
Grey, to Lord Palmerston, and to her Majesty the
Queen.
The case wa3 conducted by Mr. Greenwood, Solicitor
to- the treasury, and a gentleman from the office of Mr.
Baxter attended to watch the case on the part of the
friends of Mr. Ward.

Mr. Greenwood having recited the section (68) of the
act 16 and 17 Viet., c. 97, under which the proceedings
were instituted, said that Mr. Ward bad lately been
writing letters to the 'Secretary of State complaining
that sufficient notice bad not been taken of certain
grievances which be believed himself to labour under,
and also to Lord Palmerston, complaining of a system
of persecution to which he had been subjected for more
than six yens. It appeared that on the 7th of Septem-
ber Mr. Ward attended divine service at the church at
Eastror, where a Mr. Pullen is the officiating clergy.'
man. In one of the letters produced, he described what
occurred between himself and Mr. Pullen on that occa-
sion, taking such a vest degree of pains that he accom-
panied his description with a map, or plan, of the
church. Since that period, he bad been under a belief
that Mr. Pullen had imputed to him that he had per-
sonated a Col. Douglas, or a Col. Stuart. It would be
shown that all these notions were purely and entirely
delusions in his mind, and the letters would be placed
before the magistrate to enable him to judge, taking
them in connexion with other proofs, whether Mr. Ward
was not in an unsettled state of mind. On one occasion
he had been brought before the magistrates for threaten-
ing Mr. Pullen, and ho had since written to Sir George
Grey complaining of being kept i❑ confinement in con-
sequence of having been held to bail on that charge. He
had also thought proper to address a letter to her Ma-
jesty, which was divided into twenty-ona heads, and
contained a very minute map of the village of En,stnor.
Since this last letter, his movements had been watched,
and he had been seen going abut delivering letters at
the houses of the Earl of Derby and the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the contents of vyhich were not at present
known.

Mr. Greenwood then called, for the purpose of prov-
ing the handwriting, Mrs. Jane lanes, loking-house
keeper, 19, Coekspur-street; whD, however, declined to
swear positively to the writing.
Mr. Henry observed that it was not necessary, She
need only speak to her belief.

In answer to questions from Mr. Ward she said she
had never seen him write so as t 3 be able to judge of his
writing, and that to that moment she did not know his
name, except from what she had heard in court.
Sergeant Hodges, of the detective force, deposed that
be saw Mr. Ward write a note that morning. From
What he saw then he believed all the documents pro-
duced to be in Mr. Ward's handwriting.
Mr. Ward contended that this was not sufficient to
justify the admission of the documents in evidence. After
arguing the point for some time with considerable in-
genuity he insisted on recalling Hodges, who then added
that he only saw the defendant write three or four line a
of a note, and that be relied mainly on his recollection
of the first two words, " My lord."
Mr. Henry thought this hardly satisfactory. The
officer had net a sufficient opportunity of forming a
judgment.

Mr. Greenwood suggested that his worship should
examine Mr. Ward.

Mr. Ward, with much warmth, objected, on the
ground that nothing was preyed. There was no suffi-
cient ground far asking him to explain anything.
Mr. Yardley, clerk to the police commissioners, by
whom the information had been signed on which the war-
rant was founded, gave an account of a conversation ►be-
_tween the defendant,. Sir Richard Mayne, and himself,
in which Mr. Ward's manner, taken in connexion with
the correspondence and other circumstances, impressed
him with the belief that he was of unsettled mind.
He was cross-examined at great length by Mr. Ward,
and was still under examination, when
Mr. Green wood applied for an adjournment. It was
already long past the usual hour of the court's sitting,
and the proceedings bid fair to be interminable. Ile
had believed that Mrs. Lines would be prepared to prove
the defendant's handwriting, and, in fact, that it would
not be disputed.

Mr. Ward—Surely you can't ask me to admit it?
Mr. Greenwood said Mr. Ward had not denied it that
morning. if the case were adjourned he would have no
difficulty in proving it.
M. Ward at first strenuously objected ; but on being
informed that he would be under no restriction in the
meanwhile, at once consented. He would give his
parole to appear on condition that be was not to be an-
noyed by constables watching him in the interval.
It was ultimately agreed that the warrant should re-
main in the hands of the officer, Mr. Ward undertaking
to appear that day week.

• WESTMINSTER. —Mr. Charles White, a young man
of gentlemanly exterior, described as a gentleman, was
charged with being drunk and violently assaulting Mr.
Herbert, the proprietor of the King's Arms Hotel,
Palace-yard„
Complainant stated that the defendant came into his
hotel at a quarter to ten the previous night, drunk and
riotous. Complainant desired him to go away, but he
refuses, and flourished a thick stick over• the complain-
ant's head. Mrs. Herbert, seeing her husband in immi•
'lent danger, interfered, And took the stick from de-
fendant and endeavoured to get him out of the house,
when defendant struck witness a violent blow on the
left side of the bead, and in a scuffle they both fell.
Complainant knew nothing of the defendant but that his
father bad been staying some time at the hotel, and was
subjected to great annoyance from his son.
Defendant said he had no answer to make to the
charge, but was sorry anything unpleasant bad occurred.
.Mr. Arnold fined him 31. or one month for the assault,
anti required him to find bail for the next six months.
lie was locked up.

LAMBETH.—Angelina Lee, one of the regular gipsy
tribe, was charged with obtaining from Miss Selina
Wells, cif No, 6, S. George's-place, Brixton•road, by

means of fortune telling by cards, ninepence in money, a
flalnel petticoat, two gowns, a muff, a pair of stockings,
and a quantity of bread, cheese, and cold meat, the pro-
perty of Mr. James Wells, her father.
Police-constable Standish, 200 P, deposed that on the
preceding afternoon he saw the prisoner in the Brix ton-
road with a basket and a bundle, and knowing her to be
a gipsy fortune-teller and suspected person, be stopped
her, and asked what she bad got in the bundle ? She
replied that she was in the habit of gathering things and
selling them for•her living, and the things in her posses-
sion were those she had been gathering that day. He
told her that this would not do for him, and insisted on
seeing the contents of the bundle, when she reluctantly
permitted .him to do so, and offered to show him
where she got them. He (Standish) accordingly went
with the prisoner to the house of Mr. Wells, and
there ascertained from Miss Wells and her servant, both
of whom were present, that she received the things for
telling their fortunes. On searching the prisoner's bas-
ket, he found a pack of cards which had seen much ser-
vice, and which were evidently used for fortune telling.
In the basket were a-few stay laces which the prisoner
carried about as a blind.

Miss Selina Wells, a well-dressed young woman, said
—Seeing this woman and another (I believe her mother)
pass the house yesterday afternoon, I called her in to tell
my fortune.
Mr. Elliott—Had you known her before ?

Miss Wells—No, sir. When she came into the par-
lour, I asked her if she told fortunes, and she replied she
did. I asked her what she would charge for telling mine,
and she replied, "A shilling." I told her I should give
sixpence, and she said this would do with a few halfpence
in addition, and I gave her ninepence. She asked me
if I had not something else to present her with, and I
gave her one of the dresses. She still asked me.if I had
not something else, and I gave her the silk apron. She
next asked me whether I could not give her a shirt for
her husband, and I told her I could not ; but I gave her
the flannel petticoat, the muff, and the other things.
Mr. Elliott—Were these things asked for by the pri-
soner after she had told you your fortune, or before she
had done so ?

Miss Wells—lt was about the middle of it. She first
shuffled the cards and desired me to cut them into three
parts, which I did. She then told me something about
a dark gentleman, at the same time turning out the ace
of spades—(laughter)—and, according as she kept telling
my fortune, she continued to ask me for the different
things I gave her.
Mr.
Elliott—What are your friends ?
_ .

Miss Wells—My father is a clergyman, sir.
Mr. Elliott—A dissenting clergyman, I suppose. It's
a pity you were not brought up better, and taught to
avoid such practices as these. -

Miss Weil—The fact was that I did not give it a thought.
Mary Alice Darcy, an Irish girl, said that at the de-
sire of her young mistress she went into the street and
brought in the prisoner. After corroborating the testi-
mony of Miss Wells, the witness said that the prisoner
told her fortune as well as that of her mistress, anfshe
gave her one of the dresses found on her.
Standish, the constable, here said that frauds to a con-
siderable extent were daily practised by persons like the
prisoner in the neigbourhood of Brixton, and it was by
no means uncommon with those persons so cheated out
of wearing apparel and other property in that way to
report the things as having been stolen ,from the house
or premises, and the police were censured. The state of
the cards found on the prisoner would show that they
were kept in pretty good practice.
In reply to the charge the prisoner said the things' had
been given to her, and she bad taken nothing against
the lady's will.
Mr. Eiliott remarked that but.for the fact of her hav-
ing been called in he should have imposed the highest
amount of punishment that it was in his power to in-
flict. Her offence was one which he should always
punish with the utmost severity, and he should commit
her for one month to the House of Correction, with hard
labour.

SOUTHWARK.—Yesterday Mr. Combs was occu-
pied for a long time in investigating charges against
several individuals, for throwing stones at and assault-
ing the police in the Old Kent-road.

The first case taken was against a tall, powerful-look•
ing young man, who stated himself to be a labourer out
of employ.

White, police-constable 134 M, said he was on duty
in the Old Kent-road about 6 the previous evening, as
the people were going to Greenwich fair. The road was
much crowded, and a riot took place among a number of
young thieves and others. A drunken roan was passing
him at the time, and as witness was advising him to get
out of the crowd the prisoner came up and kicked wit-
ness severely on the lower part of the abdomen and on
the thighs. Although in great pain witness seized hold
of the prisoner, and alter a struggle succeeded in taking
him into custody.
Mr. Combe said the assault was of so serious a nature
that he should remand prisoner until Friday.
The next case was against Thomas Hill.

Sergeant Inge, M division, said he saw the prisoner
attempt to rescue the other man from White's custody.
He went up to prevent his accomplishing his object,
when the prisoner kicked him in the leg.
Mr. Combe fined him 20s. for the assault, and in de-
fault of payment committed Lim for 14 days.
Henry Brown was nest charged with throwing stones
at the police and injuring a csnstable's head while in the
act of dispersing the mob.
Taylor, 320 P, said he saw a lad named Mayes throw-
ing a stone, and while taking him into custody he re-
ceived a cut on the head from a stone.

Sergeant Inge said that he was on the spot with seve-
ral other constables, when ho saw the prisoner pick
up a large stone and throw it at Taylor's head.
The prisoner denied throwing a stone, and complained
of being struck on the side of the head by last witness's
truncheon. He called a man and his wife and a young
woman to support his assertions, hut they so contradicted
themselves that Mr. Combo could not believe a word
they uttered.

Inspector Branford said be bad two charges of felony
to prefer against Blown, but the witnesses were not in
attendance.

Mr. Combe said that the police must be protected
against such violent characters, therefore he should com-
mit the prisoner to the ll,,use of Correction for 14 days,
and at the expiration of the, time the charges of felony
could be entered into.

HAM NIERSMITH.—Two well dressed youths, who
gave the names of 41frcd Jones and John Jones, of
Surrey-street, Brighton, and a young man who gave the
name of George Williams, living in the Hackney-road,
were charged with being concerned in stea'ing a purse
from the pocket of a la ly named Louisa Sarah Hulbert,
of the Villa, Notting•hill-square.
The prosecutrix deposed that on the previous after-
noon she called at the shop of Mr. Herbert, a confc-
tioner, in High-street, Kensington. While there she
saw the elder prisoner ',eking through the window.
Almost immediately afterwards he came in. The two
boys followed, and pushed very roughly against her,
John Jones more so than his companion. She went out
of the shop, and got into a cab, which was waiting for
her, and on reaching Kensington turnpike-gate she felt
for her purse to pay the toll. She instantly missed it,
and exclaimed to a female friend who was riding with
her, that she had been 'robbed by the boys in Herbert's
shop. She desired the cabman to drive her back to the
confectioner's, and on reaching there she found that the
prisoners had left. Witness went to the police station
and gave a description e,f the prisoners, and was • told
that she was to give the prisoners into custody if she
saw them. Witness again got into the cab, and on reach-
ing Rutland-gate, near Knightsbridge, she saw the pri
soners walking together. ' She immediately got out of
the cab, and called " Stop thieves." She ran and took
hold of the collar of the prison©r Jahn, who she felt con-
♦inced had stolen her purse, and the other boy then ran
away. Ty the assistance of a gentleman and another
man the whole of the prisoners were secured.
Samuel Cooper, coachman, in the service of Lord E.
Howard, stated that he wasncoming out of Rutland-gate
at the time when the lady collared the prisoner John.
Witness followed after the other boy, and caught him in
the mews. The plisoner immediately said "it Was not
him who had struck the boy on the head," and begged
of witness to let him g►o. The prisoner afterwards said
it was not him who had broken the window. Witness
handed him over to a constable. As he (prisoner) turned
round he Caught a glimpse of a sovereign in his band.
Mr. Beadon asked if the prisoners were known
The Sergeant answered that he did not know them,
but he believed that if they were remanded they would
be identified.
The prisoners were then remanded.