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London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

STAPLETON V. STAPLETON.

The Clerk of Records and Writs had considered that
in all special cases filed under Mr. Turner's Act, the sig-
nature of counsel should be affixed to the engrossment.
In this cas..l the signature had been added to the draught,
as in the case i of bills and answers.

Mr. FLEMING applied for the direction of the Ccurt
that the special case should be filed.

Ilia LORDSHIP consider( d the signature to be sufficient,
and iatircated that the case should be filed.

SECONDARIES' COURT, Jan. 10.
(B Pure Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
OUTLAWRY.—CHAPFERi V. JADIS.

This was au inquiry under a writ of special capias
utlagetum, directed to the Sheriffs of London to inquire
of what goods and chattels, lands and tenements, the de-
fendant Henry Jadis, formerly of Bryanstone-square, in
the county of Middlesex, was possessed within the baili-
wick of the Sheriffs on London, on the 20th of June last.

Mr. Kell appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Adolphus
for the defendant.

Mr. KELL stated the case, and said that the inquiry
was under, proceeding in outlawry, and he should be
able to prove that the defendant, who had formerly been
a clerk under the Board of Control of the East India
Company, was entitled to a pension from the East India
Company of 2501. per annum.
Mr. Edward Jenkins, of the Accountant's office, at
the East India House, said that the name of Henry Jadis
appeared on the pension roll of the East India Com-
pany as a clerk of the Board of Control, and the pen-
sion was granted by virtue of a Queen's warrant. He
did not pay the money, but in the ordinary course sent
the necessary warrant to the treasurer to pay, and had
done so up to Christmas last. He did not know whether
the pension was granted for life or not; but the instruc-
tions he received in cases of pensions were general, and
he should continue to direct the payment until the death
of the person entitled to the pension was reported, or
the instructions were rescinded.

Mr: ADOLPHUS contended that the origintl warrant
and other documents, under which the payments were
made, ought to be produced, and in the next place that
a pension was not goods and chattels, lands or tene-
ments, and was not subject to attachment any more than
the half-pay of an officer could be seized by assignees,
and this latter point was clearly defined by the Insolvent
Act.

The Learned UNDER•SHERIFF took a note of the
objections, but held that the evidence of payments in
the ordinary course was sufficient, and as to the ques-
tion whether the pension could be attached, that must
be settled between the parties. He therefore directed
the jury to find that the defendant was, on the 21st of
June last, and now is entitled to a pension of 2501. per
annum, and the jury returned a verdict to that effect.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 10.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLAN4bUE.)
IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF WILLIAM STRANGE.

The bankrupt, a bookseller, in Paternoster-row, came
up on the question of passing his last examination. His
name acquired considerable notoriety in connexion with
certain proceedings in the Court of Chancery, known as
the etching case. It may be remembered that
Strange having been imprisoned for debt, his wife wrote
to Prince Albert, requestint, a remission of the costs for
the non-payment of which her husband was incarcerated.
His Royal Highness acceded to the prayer of Mrs.
Strange in a generous manner, and has since then acted
towards the bankrupt in a still more munificent spirit,
Prince Albert is a creditor under this estate for 2001.,
law casts, but has, through Colonel Anson, intimated his
intention to forego this claim.
Mr. LINKLATER, on behalf of the bankrupt, asked for
an adjournment, as the balance-sheet was not yet in
readiness. Mr. Strange had made an attempt to arrange
with his creditors, so that the bankruptcy might be an-
nulled, and was successful in every case but one, a rail-
way company, whose claim arose out of unpaid calls o❑
shares, and who refused to enter into the proposed com-
position. _ _

Mr. SHEARD, on the part of the assignees, consented
;(11 the adjournment.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)

IN TILE BANKRUPTCY OF SAMUEL ALFRED WARNER.
Captain Warner passed his last examination to-day
without opposition. The prominent features of this sin-
gular case have been already before the public. The
Captain is described as a projectile manufacturer, at 27,
Southampton-street, Strand. The balance-sheet, which
extends from January, 1831, to October, 1850, has the
following items:—Unsecured creditors, 3,8971.; secured
ditto, 150/.; creditors holding documents relative to the
Captain's claims on the Portuguese Government, 10,8001.;
surplus, January, 1831, 16,9501.; amount granted by the
English Government towards the expenses of the expe-
riments at Charnock Chase, 1,300/.; gift of his late Ma.
j::,,sty William IV., 1,0001 ; ditto, by the Duke of Bac-
cleueh, 5001.; ditto, by Sir P. Burdett, 700/.; ditto, by
Captain Britten, 1.000/.; ditto, by Captain Collins, 500/.;
liabilities, 1911/. Upon the credit bide of the balance-
sheet are the following items:—By property held by a
creditor, 50/ ' • expenses incurred, by making au experi-
ment, chielly for the satisfaction of the English Govern-
ment, 12.0771.; expenses incurred in the service of the
Portugut se Government, upon which I have a claim for
49,00 e/. and seventeen years' interest, 13,0001.; personal
expenses. 6,6211.; interest, 9431.; losses, 3,995/.; law
costs, 1071.; documents relative to the claims of the
Portuguese Government, 10,8001., held by Earl Talbot,of
Ingestrie, Staffordshire. The sum which Captain Warner
states the British Government promised to him is
200,0001., and an annuity of 3,000/. The expenses are
moderate, the bankrupt having had a family of eleven
children to maintain. Amongst his losses was 951. by
the publication of a pamphlet entitled "Captain War.
ner's Narrative." Alt the other items of any interest
have long since been published in this journal. The
bankrupt, as has been stated, passed, Messrs. Lawrence
and Kendel being solicitors for the respective parties,
and the day fur the certificate meeting having been
named.

(Before Mr. Commissioner PANE).

The only matter of interest on his Honour's list was a
last examination meeting in the matter of Touillon, the
well-known Court milliner. The balance-sheet not being
in readiness, the meeting was adjourned by consent.

INSOLVENT DE.IITORS' COURT, Jan. 10.
The cases disposed of to•day were of little public im-
portance.
Philip Henry Collam, a printer, who was heard a few
days sine.: before Mr. Commissioner Law, appeared to-
day fir judgment, and was remanded for twelve calendar
months from the date of his vesting order for a fraudu-
lent preference in favour of his father-in-law, to the
prejudice of the other creditors.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before the LORD Cxiz BARON and Mr. Justice
TA.LFOEIRD.)
THE CASE OF MRS. SLOANE.-Mr. HIIDDLESTON ap-
plied to the Court to fix the amount of recognizances
that bhould be entered into by Mrs. Sloane in the event
of her being taken into custody.
The CHIEF BARON directed that Mr. Sloane should
enter into an additional recognizance of 5001. for his
wife's appearance, and that two sureties in the sum of
2501. each should also be provided.
Edward Anws, aged 25, was indicted for feloniously
setting fire to a workshop, the property of Thomas Ross,
with intent to injure him.

Mr. Garde and Mr. Noel conducted the prosecution;
Mr. Pulling defended the prisoner.
circuie,taneee of thi
• v?rr folly within the last few deye iu the police re-
pa! le. The prosecutor, Captain Itus-, is a gentlemen
of property, who is carrying on en extensive building
speculation at Clapham, and the prisoner had been
employed as a carpenter upon the works. The fire in
question took place in the evening of the 20th of
December, and it appeared that a workshop contain-
ing a large quantity of valuable building materials was
entirely destroyed, the value of the property being esti-
mated at over 1,0001. It appeared that shortly before
the fire there had been some disagreement between the
prisoner and a person named Wood, who had some con-
trol upon the works, upon the subject of an intimacy
which existed between the prisoner and his sister, and
Wood had threatened to discharge him unless he ful-
filled a promise ho had made to marry her, and it would
seem that this had very much incensed the prisoner. On
the day following the fire a letter was received by the
brother of Captain Ross, which pointed to the prisoner
as being the man who had set fire to the premises, and it
was ratner a singular fact that this le.ttq- turned out to
be written by the prisoner himself, and on the same day
he gave himself into the custody of a police-constable in
the New-road, and admitted to him that he had set fire
to a workshop belonging to the prosecutor, and subse-
quently- made a statement to the same effect to Captain
Ross himself, stating at the same time that his object in
committing the crime was to have revenge upon the
family of the Woods, and that he wished they had all
been burnt in the fire.

The Learned CouNs€Lfor the prisoner endeavoured to
show that he was a man of weak mind, and that being
actuated by a fear that he should be suspected of
having committed the crime, he had made admissions of
guilt which did not attach to him. He called two
brothers of the prisoner, who stated that they had ob-
served that he was sometimes very melancholy and
desponding, and at others unnaturally choerful, and
they expressed a belief that his mind was not in a sound
state.

Mr. Sewell, the assistant-surgeon of the poi, was
also examined, and in answer to a question put to him
by Mr. Garde, said that he had had frequent oppor-
tunities of observing the prisoner, and he had not the
slightest reason to suppose that his mind was in any way
affected.

Mr. Justice TALFOURD having summed up,
The jury, without hesitating for a moment, returned a
verdict of Guilty, but judgment was respited to give
the Learned Judge an opportunity of considering a
technical point that had been reserved by the prisoner's
counsel, as to whether the building was properly de-
scribed in the indictment.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
James Thomas Newland, 17, labourer, was indicted for
stealing 62 dozen of ladies' collars and other goods,
valued at 6/, tho property of Wellington Williams, his
master, and Henry Hart, 23, labour-r, was indicted for
feloniously receiving the goods, well knowing them to
have been stolen.

Mr. Ballantine prozeeuted, and Mr. Parry defended
Hart.

Newland pleaded " Guilty," and was admitted evi-
dence, and the statement made by him and the other
witnesses did not in any way differ from that given
before the magistrates at Guildhall, and which has ap-
peared at length in our columns within the last few days.
The facts were briefly these:—On the 28th of December
last Henry Webb, 258 City police, having received cer-
tain information, went to the shop of a tobacconist in
St. Martin's-le-Grand, where he found a bag had been
left, and which he learnt would be, called for on the
Monday, and he accordingly went there on the Monday
following, and waited in the back parlour in company
with Wardell, another City officer, and shortly afterwards
Newland, who was porter to the prosecutor, who resides
at 84, Gutter-lane, came and asked for the bundle, and
also for a knife, with which he cut the top from the bag,
and tied it up closer. He then went out, followed
by the officers, and proceeded as far as Bishopsgate by
omnibus, they being in a cab. They then followed him
cloven Artillery-lane and some of the streets in the neigh-
bourhood, where, not being well acquainted with the
locality, they lost sight of him, but as they went along
iw Hart and another man standing waiting about. On
the next day the officers took Newland into custody at
his employer's, and he then made the statement which
implicated Hart, and which was to the effect that Hart
had instigated him to commit the offences he had been
guilty of; that he had been acquainted with him about
tw) months; that he first saw him when be came down
Gutter-lane to buy old clothes. He (Newland) sold
him an old jacket, and Hart asked him if he could not
get him some of the things that his master dealt in, but
that for some time he refused, and it was not until he
had had seven or eight interviews with him that he let
him have anything. He then went on to describe where
he had been in the habit of meeting Hart, which de-
seription in some degree agreed with the place to which
the officers had followed him on the previous day. Just
about that time Hart came into Gutter-lane, when he
was taken in custody and searched, but nothing was
found on him. He had his bag with him, but no money
in his pockets. The only evidence to at all corroborate
Newland was, that on one occasion he had been seen
talking at the door of his master's warehouse with Hart,
but this turned out to be the time when he had sold the
jacket to him.
In cross-examination it appeared that Newland had,
for no purpose, told the officers several untruths, and his
master said he had made several false charges against
persons in the establishment, and was not a man to be
believed on oath.

Webb said that up to this time he found that Hart bore
a good character.

Several witnesses were called who gave him a good
character.

Mr. PARRY, for the defence, contended that there was
no corroborative proof to support the allegation of New-
land, who was wholly unworthy of belief.
The COMMON-SERGEANT having summed up,
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict
of Not Guilty.
The prosecutor said that having promised the prisoner
Newland's parents, who are highly respectable, that he
would do all he could for him, he begged to recommend
him to mercy.
The COMMON-SERGEANT said the prisoner's conduct
in making false charges against his fellow-servants was
more disgraceful than the offences he had pleaded
guilty to, but in consideration of his family the sen-
tence would be a comparatively slight one, which was
that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 12
months.

Mr. BALLANTINE said the prosecutor had reason to
believe, and wished it to be publicly stated, that there
was not any foundation for the charges that Newland
had made against several servants in the employment of
Messrs. Welsh and Margetson, and Messrs. Neville.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY.)
Elizabeth Bates, 17, spinster, was indicted for cutting
and wounding Mary Hawkins, with intent, &c.
Mr. Ribton prosecuted.

The charge against the prisoner was, that both she
and the prosecutrix were inmates of Shoreditch work-
house, and, a quarrel ensuing between them, the pri-
soner seized an old dinner knife which had been worn
to a sharp point, and threw it at her with such force,
that at a distance of some feet it struck her and buried
itself in her skull, and remained sticking there until the
nurse took it out. Some one seized the prisoner and
fetched the police, and so violent was her conduct, that
(although a sickly-looking object) she could scarcely
be reatrined from further acts of violence on the prose
cutrix, whom she swore she would murder if she got
bold of her.

The jury found her Guilty.
It was stated that the prisoner was one of the most
turbulent and desperate characters. and, although so
young, had been repeatedly convicted of assault.
The COURT sentenced her to eighteen months' impri-
sonment and hard labour. _

Henry Harwood, 24, turner; a short, square-built,
determuied-looking fellow, was indicted for burglary
in the dwelling-house of Mrs. Ann Sherratt, with intent
to steal.

Mr. Carteen prosecuted, and Mr. Payne defended.
The coachman to the prosecutrix (a widow lady living
at 24, Soho-square) said, that on the night of the 3d
inst. he was awakened by hearing a noise in the middle
drawing-room, where he slept for the security of the
family, which consisted of his mistress and the female
servaats, and, looking up, saw the prisoner. He in-
stantly jumped up and seined him, when a desperate
struggle ensued, the prisoner knock€d down and extin-
guished the light, broke from his grasp, and, throwing
up the window, got on the portico over the door, and
was escapiog, when he (the coachman) recovered
heiamr
s aGuilty
a no.
burglar; but that, ex-
cepting him-
self, rushed to the window, and, raising an alarm, the
police came up and caught the prisoner as he fell.
Sergeant Thompson said the prisoner had been known
t o Thehi m jabout f uwnod y
several summary convictions, he bad, until this
time, managed to escape.
The prisoner said ho had two witnesses outside who
could prove an alibi.

Thompson said the two witnesses he spoke of then at
the door were both convicted thieves.
Mr. GURNEY said the offence the prisoner had been
convicted of was a serious one, and transported him for
seven years.

James Cornish, 23, moulder, James Welch, 21, bed-
stead-maker, and Jane Welch and Elizabeth Lovell, were
indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-houso of John
Pitman, and stealiag a quantity of plate and wearing
apparel, valued at 301.
Mr. Platt prosecuted.

The prosecutor's house, at Hackney, having been
broken into, information was given to the police, and
Sergeant Kelly succeeded in tracing the stolen property
to a room in Bethnal-green, where the msle prisoners
lived with the two women.

The jury acquitted the two women, and the men were
transported for ten years.
Thomas Savage, a repulsive-looking old man, between
sixty and severity years of age, was convicted of a felo-
nious assault upon Susan Brough, a child ten years of
age.

-Mr. Birnie prosecuted.
The prisoner was sentenced to a year's imprisonment
and hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION- HOUSE.
James Bassett, who was a few (Lys ago charged with
baying robbed his employers, Messrs. Savory, of Corn-
hill, of four clocks and a great number of musical boxes,
was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the custody
of Michael Haydon, the officer, for further examination.
Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullein, attended
for the prosecution.
The evidence of William Thompson, a witness who
made a statement at the former examination relative to

the taking stock upon the tNo last occasions, having
been read over by Mr. Goodmau, tho chief clerk,
'lnt; shoulu
what 'winner of clocks ought to bay° been in the shop
of which I had the superintendence en the 11th of De-
cLunber, when the stock was first, taken by him?

Witness—There were 121 en:cred on the llth of De-
cember.
The prisoner—How many clocks did you find there
on the Friday after I was apprehend d?
Witness (upon referring to a paper in his hand) said
—I find thero were 11" clocks on the premises ou that
day; so that there was a deficiency of four clocks.
The prisoner—That is not correct. I declare to God
the clocks were all right on the Friday, with the excep-
tion of one that was stolen off the counter, as I explained.
I wish to have matters correctly stated.
The witnesa—l have stated the fact.
Mr. Wratirall, who is also in the employment of
Messrs. Savory, and in charge of the shop No. 54, Corn-
hill, in which the prisoner had preceded him as super-
intendent, was next called by Mr. Bush, in answer to
whose questions he said—l know Mr. Gayer, of New-
gate-street, as a tradesman. He came to me to Cornhill,
and made a communication to ms about the prisoner. I
have heard, and I believe, that Mr. Gayer is an importer
of foreign clocks, and he is, I believe, in the habit of
doing repirs fur Messrs. Savory; but he is not in the
habit of supplying them with clocks.
The LORD MAYOR—Is Mr. Gayer here? Mr. Gayer
did not answer.
The LORD MAYOR—It is necessary that, as Mr. Gayer
made a communication to ono of the witnesses whose
evidence I have heard, he should attend here to give his
testimony. I must require the attendance of all persons
who can throw any additional light upon this very serious
case.

Mr. Bush said, he had no doubt as to the readiness of
Mr. Gayer to state the amount of his information upon
the subject at the final examination of the prisoner, and
assured the Lord Mayor that duo notice should be sent
to that gentlem In that his evidence would be necessary
to the ends of justice.
Mr. Bush—l shall now call evidence upon the subject
of the pieces of wood which were cut into the form of
boxes, to represent musical boxes.
Rigg, porter to Mr. Viney, trunk-maker, of No. 48,
Cornhill, next door to the principal shop of Messrs.
Savory, said—l have known Mr. Bassett, the
prisoner, since I have been in Mr. Viney's service,
which is about three years and a half, and have occa-
sionally gone upon errands for him. About three weeks
or a month ago, in consequence of a message that was
brought, I went to No. 54, Cornhill, to measure a case,
and I saw the prisoner, who said to me that he wanted a
piece of wood, and that he was not particular as to the
length of it. I asked him whether he wished for a piece
two or three feet in length. Ii said he wanted a piece
of solid wood of a certain width and a certain depth.
To the best of my recollection it was to bo two inches
and three quarters wide and an inch and a quarter deep.
He said he could cut the piece of wood himself, and I was
to bring it in two pieces, as it would be too long in one
piece. There was no particular article to measure with,
only according to what he showed with his hand. The
two pieces of wood were to be sent inside the case, so as
not to be seen. I gave the orders at my employer's.
Three or four days atter I was passing the shop and he
said to me, " What do you think your master charged
me for those pieces of wood ?" I replied that I could not
guess, and he said he charged him eightpence. He did
net deny that he paid the eightpence.
H. W. Mcecham, shopman to Mr.Viney, said—About

.
a month ago I had a communication with the prisoner
about a piece of wood, and I took to No. 54 two pieces
which were ordered by the porter. The prisoner said
they were too rough and not exactly the size. He
wished to be particular, and was anxious that they
should be of the exact size he pointed out and
smooth. He wished them to bo two inches and three-
eighths, by an inch and a quarter. We had a measure
across the counter. Ile wanted them, he said, for a
particular purpose, therefore they must be very exact.
I then asked him what length the pieces must be ? He
said he vsaa not so particular as to that—from two feet
nine to three feet, in two pieces. It was my duty to
ask Mr. Viney what should be charged for the wood,
and he said eightpence ; and I accordingly sent in
that charge.
Mr. Bush (handing the witness one of the pieces of
wood which had been substituted for the musical boxes)
—ls that like the wood you supplied ? Witness—This
is nearly about the size. It is the exact width, and it
has been cut by somebody with a very fine saw.
The LORD M*YOR—Prisoner, have you any ques-
tions to ask the witness who has just given evidence ?
The prisoner—Not any, my Lord.
All the witnesses whose evidence had been concluded
were then bound over to appear at the Central Criminal
Court, and

The LORD MAYOR said to Bassatt—lt will be my
duty to commit 3ou for trial, but I shall remand you
until this day week in order to give time for preparing
the depositions, and to add the testimony of Mr. Gsyer,
who will have notice to appear on the day of committal.
The prisoner was then taken from the bar.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday 'William Daniels, a respectably-dressed
young man, described as a civil engineer, was brought
up before Sir P. Laurie for further examination, charged
with defrauding Mr. Fuller, mining sharebrolier, of No.
48, Threadneedle-street, of the sum of 501., by means
of forgeries committed on the Wheal Mary Anne Mining
Company, at Liskeard, in Cornwall.

Fuller—On the- 18th of December I received a
letter from the prisoner, signed " W. D. Boase," inform-
ing me that he had some mining shares to dispose of,
and would take 501. per share for them. I wrote to tell him
I would accept them at that price. I received in answer
another letter directing me to sell them for 501. per share,
and more if I could get it for him. He sent me a blank
transfer, which I filled up and got signed by Mr. E.
Jones, who purchased the share for 50/. 1 then for-
warded the transfer and its duplicate, or counterpart, to
the prisoner at the Old Bell Hotel, in Holborn. I after-
wards sent my boy to the Old Bell Hotel with 501., and
he brought back she transfer and a receipt for the money,
signed by the prisoner in the name of W. B. Boase. The
purser of the mine Wheal Mary Anne is Mr. Climo.
William Bunyer, landlord of the Old Bell, in Hol-
born—l knew prisoner from his frequently calling at
my house lately. When he first came he asked me how
I was, and said he was a fried of Mr. Ashfield, of Bris-
tol, and was at my house with that gentleman during
the railway mania. He did not give me his name then.
Ido not remember prisoner ever coming to my house
with Mr. Ashfield. I know Mr. Ashfield very well.
When prisoner came again he told me to take in all let-
ters addressed to " W. D. Bosse," and intimated that
such was his name. He never came under the name of
Daniels at any time. I received 50/. from Mr. Fuller's
boy for the prisoner, and my daughter wrote a receipt in
my presence. I handed that money over to the prisoner,
and he gave me the, receipt produced. I saw him write
it. It is signed " William D. Boase."
A waiter from the Old Bell corroborated the statement
of the last witness as regarded the name prisoner gave;
Charles Gimtee, in the employ of Mr. Fuller, said,—
I went to the Old Bell Hotel, in Holborn, and paid Mr.
Bunyer SOL for the prisoner. He gave me the transfer
and a receipt, which I handed over to my master. I did
not open the papers to see what they were, but returned
them to Mr. Fuller, folded up as I received them.
William David Boase—l am a solicitor living at Lis-
keard, in Cornwall. The letters and papers produced
are very like my handwriting I never wrote them,
neither did I authorise any one to write them for me. I
know the prisoner, and am acquainted with his hand-
writing. .1 believe the letters produced are written by
him. He was a surveyor when ho was in Cornwall, and
sometimes he did a little business as a mining share-
broker. The signature on the transfer purporting to bo
mine is not in my handwriting, nor has it been attached
to the transfer by any one with my sanction. I believe
it is the handwriting of the prisoner somewhat disguised.
I have never seen Mr. Fuller until to-day, and have not
had any shares in the Wheal Mary Anne Mine for the
last two years. I received the transfer from Mr. Clime,
who is the purser of the mine, about two days ago, at
Liskeard.
William Bunyer recalled—l received the transfer and
its counterpart from the prisoner, and I saw him sign
,both papers with the name of W. D. Bosse.
Daniel May, a detective officer, said there were two
other cases against the prisoner of attempting to obtuin
two several sums of 501. each, in both of which he failed.
There was also another case, where he succeeded in ob-
taining ssoS by similar means precisely, but the gentle-
man most concerned was now in Cornwall, and would
rather abandon the prosecution than be at the loss of
time and expense of coming up to town and neglecting
his occupation—that of surveying the mines in Cornwall.
Sir. ea LAMM said the case was quite clear, but as
there were several other witnesses, whose evidence
would be essential at the Old Bailey, and who were not
now present, he would remand the case till next week,
and in order not to put those persona who had come
from the country to more inconvenience than was abso-
lutely necessary, he would take the case again at an
early day of the week.
The prisoner was then remanded.
William Piper was brought up again, charged with
having obtained a quantity of scented soap, value 51. 165.,
the property of Messrs. Price and Co., of Lombard-
street, under false pretenees.

Sir P• LArmw. committed the prisoner for trial; but,
as time will 1)43 required to prepare the depositions, re-
manded him fill Mondayhim for that purpose.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
The Rev. Jacob Knight was brought before Mr.
Broughton, charged with having been found lying in
Oxendon--Ireet the previous night drunk and incapable
of taking care of himself.
The police proved, that about twelve o'clock the pre-
vious night the Rev. Gentleman was lying on the broad
of his back on the pavement in Oxendon-street, so drunk
as to be quite incapable of walking. He was conveyed
to the station house, and placed in one of the lock-up
cells. In a short time he became perfectly outrageous.
He called for Inspector Whall by name, and when
the inspector came he demanded to be released.
On receiving a refusal he began to kick at the door
with such pertinacity and vigour as to split two of
the pannels. This violent conduct ho continued for
more than two hours, and it was found at last necessary,
in order to drown the noise, to remove him into one of
the lower cells. The upper cell-door was quite sound
when the Rev. Gentleman was first placed in the cell.
The damage done was to the extent of 125., besides an
indentation of the iron into the wood in consequence of
the great violence used.
The defendant said he did not make any noise after
he was placed in the second cell. In fact, he wa; quite
unconscious of having aced in the way described. He
had dined with a friend, and had taken some wine, but
in moderation as to quantity, being in a sickly state of
health. In some conditions of bad health even a single
glass would be found too much. Ho could assure the
magistrate that it was quite an accident which had oc-
curred. Ile felt exceedingly the disgraceful position in
which he was placed.

Mr. BROUGHTON asked him if he was a clergyman 0
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fendant tatd, not at present. He hat! formerly t,flieiattd
in a parish near lialdock, in Hertfordshire, but had
recently been on the continent. He again begged to
say it was an accident that had overcome him, and he
was truly ashamed of what had occurred.
Mr. 1/ItoucitToN remarked the defendant might well
be ashamed of himse:f. Here was a clergyman found at
midnight stretched on his back on the pavement, in st
state of such beastly intoxication as would have dis-
graced the lowest of the low. To the honour and credit
of the Established Church, he was inclined to think
there was not another such example, certainly not m5Ol
such as the case before him presented. Ho considered it
not at all unlikely if the case became known to the de-
fendant's Bishop that he would be deprived of his gown-
How could it be expected that a man who got drunk and
was found lying about the streets of London could teach
and instruct others properly in their religious and moral
duties ? For the damage done the defendant was
ordered to pay 125., or three weeks' imprisonment.
WE STMINS7'ER.
Captain James Nestor, an ()Meer of the army on half-
pay, about sixty years of age, whose appearance and
manners were very singular, was charged with stealing
a watch of trifling value, the property of a very respect-
able-looking widow named June Evans, who procures
subsistence by going out (haring and keeping alodging'
house in Hendon-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road.
Ht, was remanded till Wednesday.