The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-08 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 8, 1851.

at two—W. Bridges, jun., Whi,tio.ea, Cam4iogeshire,
termer, N,,v. 29 at h one— W 1-19hinson, Tri
pity- square, Tower-hill, corn factor, Nov. 29, at one.
In the Country.
C. Oley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ship and insurance
broker, Dec. 2, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—T. Hurst, Warrington, Lancashire, painter, Dee.
2, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Heywood and
J. Heywood, Liverpool, provision merchants, Dec. 1, at
eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Watson, Skipton,
Yorkshire, linendraper, Dec. 4, at eleven, at the Court,
Leeds—J. Coslett and T. L. Pemberton,'Sedgeley, Staf-
fordshire, cement merchants, Nov. 29, at half-past ten,
at the Court, Birmingham.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

S. C. Beastall, llighstreet, Kensington, linendra-
per, certificate of the first class—S. Dixon, Leeds, dra-
per, certificate of the first class—W. H. Ayles, Rick-
mansworth, Hertfordshire, builder, certificate of the
second class—W. Atley, Hanwell, Middlesex, market
gardener, certificate of the second class—J. F. Freake,
Hampstead-street, Fitzroy-square, licensed victual-
ler, certificate of the third class—J. Belliugall, Ed-
ward-street, Portman-square, pianoforte maker, certifi-
cate of the second class—W. Mather, High-street, Ken-
sington, linendraper, certificate of the third class—C.
Hargreaves, Liverpool, tailor and draper, certificate of
the first class, twenty-one days from Nov. 4—T. S.
Dickinson and R. C. Dickinson, Gresham-street, City,
and Leeds, warehousemen, certificates of the second
class—W. Hodgson, Lancaster, watchmaker, silversmith,
jeweller, and auctioneer, certificate of the second class
—A. Krauss, Manchester, sharebroker, certificate of the
second class—R. Thorpe, Stafford, last manufacturer,
certificate of the third class—H. W. Derry, Wolverhamp-
ton, builder, certificate of the third class—J. Dicken-
son, Walsall, Staffordshire, merchant, certificate of the
first class.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

Thomas Chedham, Wellesbourne Mountford, Warwick.
shire, wheelwright.
Joseph Wharton, Allonby, Cumberland, farmer.
Thomas Goldsmith, Woodbridge, Suffolk, grocer.
Alfred Smith, Woodbridge, Suffolk, baker.
William Scotchmer, Framlingham, Suffolk, boot and
shoe maker.
Albert Tillott, Stowmarket, Suffolk, tailor and draper.
William Henry Collett, Halesworth, Suffolk, grocer.
Emma Spencer, Fornham Saint Genevieve, Suffolk,
dairy woman.
George Kirrage, Bury St. Edmunds, bricklayer and con-
fectioner.
Joseph Bancutt, Northampton, gardener.
Henry Ratcliffe, Newport, Essex, plumber.
William Sivier, Landport, Southampton, tailor.
George Adams, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, boot

maker.
James Chadwick, Warwick, hat and cap maker.
George Checketts, Snitterfield, Warwickshire, farrier.
Abraham Abrahams, Abersychan, Monmouthshire,
beer-house keeper.
Charles James Hanmer, Wyle Gop, Shrewsbury, boot-
maker.
Jamos Johnson, Parker's Flats, Derbyshire, baker.
George Harper, Lilbourn, Northamptonshire, glazier.

been, ynd caleula: -d as it was t:: eo refer lasting benefit
upon► many who woulil doob lens long retain gratetul
recolleteion of the liberality of the contributors. He
had visited the poor men who had been removed to St.
Thomas's Hospital, and could bear testiosony to the care
and attention bestowed upon then by the cifieers of
that great institution, the wants of their distre,sed fa-
milies having been during the time they remained under
hospital treatment adequately supplied. Furniture,
clothing, and the means of earning a livelihood had
been in several of the instances provided. To others
had been rendered pecuniary assistance, which ena-
bled them to obtain medical advice and the benefit of
a temporary residence near the sea, from which they
returned with recruited strength. All who were the
objects of the public benevolence in conse-
quence of the calamitous event had participated in the
benefits of the fund. &nue had returned to their usual
employment, while others who were not yet restored to
health were still in receipt of a weekly allowance from
the amount which had been so generously contributed.
It might not be desirable on the present eccasi,in to
specify the amount expended in each individual case,
but the accounts would be open to the inspection of all
who had aided him in this work of charity, and who
would, he felt assured, be gratified by the manner in
which their benevolent intentions had been carried out.

Alderman WILSON subsequently presided during an
examination which, on account of the notoriety ot the
prisoner, excited a great deal of interest, The person
charged was—
Robert Coningirood, alias the Rev. Dr. Bloomfield, for-
merly Curate of Albury, alias the Rev. J. Kendal,
A. 8., alias the Rev. J. Kenny, Lecturer on Natural Phi-
losophy. The Rev. prisoner was stated by a gentleman
who attended from the Metropolitan Association for the
Protection of Trade to be in the lucrative enjoyment ot
a great many other names, and to have appeared in
some places as a surgeon, and in others as a school
master, a surveyor, and an attorney, and to have com-
mitted frauds in all these and other characters.

Joseph H. Burley, constable of Sheerness, said—l
took the prisoner into custody at Sheerness on a charge
of receiving some goods which had come into his pos-
session dishonestly. I took him before a magistrate
there, by whom the charge was partly investigated, and
I produce the examination of the witnesses then taken,
and I was bound over to attend at the Mansion-house.

The following is the sub3tance of the examination
taken at Sheerness before the Rey. Mr. Poore:—

Mr. W. B. Kilpin, of 24, Friday-street, Cheapside,
trunk and portmanteau manufacturer—On Monday, the
13th or 20th of October, I received by post a letter pur
porting to come from Mr. Collingwood, of 1, Chapel-
street, Blue-town, Sheerness, solicitor, enclosing an
order for a portmanteau, a railway rug, and a carpet-
bag, and by the same night's post I sent a letter, ad-
dressed as his letter was, containing the prices of the
portmanteaus, and asking him what size he required.
By the next post I received a letter, addressed from the
same place, stating the price. I did not execute the order
for the portmanteau immediately, and i❑ the meantime I
received other letters urging me to forward it. I sent a
bag and rug on the 25th of October, and I received a let-
ter acknowledging their receipt, but complaining that the
bag was not large enough, and requesting that one a size
larger might be sent, and at the same time pressing that
the portmanteau might be sent. On Thursday last I
sent on the portmanteau, addressed as the letters re-
quested. On the previous night I sent an invoice of the
whole of the goods, addressed, " Mr. Coiling wood,
Chapel-street, Blue-town, Sheerness." The invoice and
envelope produced by the constable are those I sent, and
the goods produced are also those I sent. The fact cf
his calling himself a solicitor had some considerable in-
fluence on me in executing the order. I believe that he
is not a solicitor.

Burley, the constable—ln consequence of information
I received, I told Hogpen, of Sheerness, to watch a par-
cel at the toll-gate on the pier. About two hours after-
wards a young man, named James Martin Bradley,
came and fetched it away. Ilogpen and I saw Bradley
and Collingwood talking together at the back gate of the
Royal George, at the back of which Bradley says he is
the manager of a concert. About half an hour after-
wards I searched the room, and found the portmanteau,
the cover, and the carpet-bag I produce under the stage
among a quantity of rubbish. Bradley came in soon
afterwards and I asked him whether he knew what the
parcel contained. He said he did not, and that
his father asked him to go with him and fetch it
from the steamboat. I did not know at the time who his
father was. He told me ho did not know where his
father lived. He has since acknowledged that the pri-
soner Collingwood was his f4ther. I told him I should
take him into custody on suspicion of stealing the arti-
cles. He said he was innocent, and knew nothing
about it, and that it was his father. I asked him why
his name was different from his father's? He replied, that
his father's name was Bradley, and wby he had altered
it was his business. I then went to the prisoner's lodg-
ing, and was told by a woman, who called herself Col-
lingwood's wife, that he had been gone out a few
minutes. I went up-stairs, and found him behind the
door. I took a letter from him which contained the in-
voice of the goods specified. He had passed in Sheer-
ness for about three weeks as a solicitor.

James Martin Bradley, comedian—On or about seven
or eight days ago I pawned a carpet-bag and wrapper at
Asher Jacobs's, a pawnbroker at Sheerness, for 63., in
the name of " James Collins," by direction of my father,
James Bradley, who was yesterday ordered, in the
name of Robert Collingwood, to be conveyed to London
on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretences. I
was not aware of my father going by the name of Col-
lingwood until about seven weeks ago, when I received
from him at Chatham a post-office order, and he desired
me to use the name of Collingwood, from May's-pond,
in the Borough, should any questions be asked when I
applied at the post-office for the amount of the order.
In answer to questions from Alderman WiLsoN, James
Martin Bradley said, I believe the writing in the letters
produced to be my father's. My father is not a solicitor,
that I know of. lie was a dyer and a schoolmaster. I
have known him to go by several names.
Alderman WILSON—Have you known him go by the
name of Sinclair. Witness—Yes.

Alderman WILSON—By the nama of Watson? Wit
ness—Yes.

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Alderman WlLsoN—By that of flurephery? Witness
—Yes.
Alderman WILSON--By that of Kendall? Witness
—No.
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Alderman WILSON—By the name of Bloomfield?
Witness—Yes.
The property produced was then identified.
The representative of the Metropolitan Association
for the Protection of Trade said that, if the prisoner was
remanded, vast numbers of victims would attend to
charge him with plunder. It was well known that he
had adopted the names of highly respectable clergymen
for the purpose of carrying on the war among the
tradesmen of the metropolis, and the association had
been the means of apprehending him at last.
Alderman WILSON said the evidence was quite suffi
cient to justify the prisoner's committal for trial, and if
it should be considered necessary to proceed with other
cases at the Old Bailey against him, the association
might bring forward the witnesses there.
The prisoner, upon being asked whether he wished to
say anything, replied, "I decline to say anything."
Committed for trial.
• MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Henry Martin was brought up for final examination,
charged with having induced Charles White, page to
Mr. Algernon West, 44, Curzon-street, to rub his master,
and was fully committed.
LAMBETH.
Yesterday, John Mason, alias the Rev. William John
Butler, alias the Rev. Charles W imam Talbot, alias Blind
Johny, Jane Farrer, and Elizabeth Thomas, were placed
at the bar for further exainivation, before the Hon. G.
C. Norton, the two former on a charge of obtaining, by
false pretences, from the Countess Dowager of Shaftes-
bury, 51.; from his Grace the Duke of Portland, 5/.;
from Lidy Henley, 21., and the latter with getting, by
the same means, from Mr. Davis, coal-merchant, of the
Palace-wharf, Lambeth, 51., by the same ingenious
means. Captain Wood, the secretary, and Mr. Fergu-
son, the clerk to the Mendicity Society, attended to pro-
secute, and Mr. Wontner and Mr. Salomons appeared
for Mason and Farrer.
It will be recollected, from the former examinations
of the witnesses against Mason and Farrer, that a letter,
purporting to have been written by the Rev. William John
Butler, and dated from Priory Lodge, Southampton, and
setting forth the distressed situation of the widow and
family of Mr. Mason, late a surgeon of that place, had
been forwarded to the Coanteas Dowager of Shaftesbury,
to her residence at Richmond, and that lady. believing
the letter to be genuine, with her accustomed benevo-
lence, ordered her servant to procure a post-office order
for 51., and forwarded it to the Rev. Mr. Butler, Priory
Lodge, Southampton. Before its arrival at Southamp-
ton.that place however, a polite note, signed William J h
Ileare"stwinags
that
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be forwarded to the Cheltenham Caffee-hwhartiteprla ouse, West-
had been forwarded as requested. Soon after the post-
minster-road, London, and that letter, as well as others,
master also received a letter, purporting to have been
written by the same person, requesting thatth_e ac-
companying post-office order might_ be changed
for one
made payable at the post-office,
Mount -place, Lambeth,
and the writer's request in this particular was also com-
plied with. From information forwarded by the police
at Southampton to the officers of the Mendicity Society
on the subject, an officer was in attendance at the post-
office, when Mason presented the order for payment,
and took him into custody. Previously to his being ap-
prehended the prisoner represented himself to be the
Rev. Mr.:Butler, and the order itself was signed " William
John Butler." There was also evidence in this case, as
well as a second, in which a post-office order from Lady
Staffordshire, and which found its way
Lawley, and forwarded in the first instance to Grove-
hbaocukselo town,Walsall,
against the female prisoner, Ferrer, and
it was shown that they were old and convicted offenders.
The third prisoner, Thomas, as she now called herself,
was only apprehended yesterday, when she came to a
neighbouring public-house to learn the fate of her com-
panions, and the evieenee against her, as well as that
now adduced against the other female prisoner, discloses
a new and successful method by which the benevolent
are defrauded.

Mr. Henry P. Davis, coal-merchant, and proprietor of
the Pslace•wharf, Lambeth, deposed that in the month
of July last, the prisoner Thomas called on him at his
counting-house, and requested his advice respecting a
few acres of land that had been left to her by an uncle,
and which were situated in the,city of Bath. lie asked
her how she, a stranger, should come to him on such a
business, and told her an attorney was the proper person
to consult. She replied that, as the property was small
and her Income very limited just then, she could ill
afford to pay a lawyer's fee, and as she had heard that
he (Mr. Davis) was kind enough to assist persons in the
neighbourhood with his advice, she had taken the liberty
of troubling him. Believing her statement, and her
plausible manner throwing him quits off his guard, he
asked her what she wanted him to do. She replied that►