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7IIIE SUN LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1856.

averted. Some of these branches are as large
as ordinary trees, and as it is still green and
flourishing it spreads a goodly expanse of shade.
A handsome iron railing secures it from wanton
injury ; and an inscription tells us how nothing
is known about it more than you can see—
that it is very old. There was another elm in the
precincts of the town, called " the Liberty Tree,"
on which obnoxious persons, tax-gatherers,
British Ministers, and, notably, Lord Bute, were
wont to be hanged in effigy. When the conflict
grew hot at last the tree disappeared, cut clown by
one of the parties—not necessary here to say
which. The boughs of the tree still extant on the
Common are the home of a colony of squirrels, pro-
tected by the corporation and supported by volun-
tary contributions. They confide in public opinion
and the absence of boys (who are all at school), and
appear to have a tacit understanding with the dogs;
children and nursery-maids they defy. There is a
branch colony of these squirrels in an old burying-
ground near the Common, now full of trees, and
almost abandoned them. The public feed them
through the railings, and they perch on the grave-
stones, and shell their nuts with excessive vivacity
and impudence. It is another very pretty bit of
forest life brought into the city. The residences
skirting the Common are of the superior order, less
florid and palatial than those of the Fifth Avenue
of New York, hut having a quiet air of wealth and
its consequent respectability. Some of the fronts
have a decoration rarely to be seen—a complete
drapry of the Virginian,ereeper which trails over
and hangs down from the balcony of each floor,
like thick curtains. They have now the deep
purple tint of autumn, and are very beautiful.
The creeping plants of the country aro cultivated,
as ornaments in the cities with great success.

West his place would be supplied by coadjutors
already known to the congregation. One, whom he
named would have undertaken the task, " but he
was at present in Kansas, and having directed his
Christian energies into another channel was known
there as General Higginson." After this preface, it
might have been thought that he was about to take
a full plunge into the Kansas difficulties ; but it was
not so, the name was not again mentioned, and he
delivered an admirable. discourse on the text, " Sin
is a calamity to a people." He sketched the dif-
ferent forms of Government that have existed in
the world, to show how all of them may be
abused, even a Democracy, which, when turned
to the exclusive profit of the majority, might
become a " Satanic Democracy." In contrasting
the indifference and carelessness of men as to the
character and fitness of those who govern them,
compared with their anxiety to secure the best pos-
sible mechanical aids in agriculture and manufac-
tures, his illustrations were beautifully picturesque
and appropriate. The rude cultivation of an In-
dian settlement was minutely described, and com-
pared with that of a New England farm. Rachel
weaving Joseph's coat of many colours was con-
trasted with the processes of a modern mid, with
steam and water power, producing garments for
whole nations. In the machinery of Governments
men blindly suffered society to retrograde to the
worst methods, entailing barbarism and ignorance,
while they eagerly sought what was the best for
physical progress. There was an under-current of
allusion throughout the discourse, but it was not
obtrusive, and in the clear and happy touches by
which he brought out a picture of scenes and ob-
jects as illustrations of his theme there was the ease
that only springs from power. Theodore Parker
has the rare faculty of rivetting the attention of his
hearers, without the slightest approach to rant or
rhetorical ornament. If the old lecturers of Bos-
ton had anything of the same ability, it would in a
great measure account for the people resenting
any official curtailment of the length of the dis-
courses ; and it is not improbable that some infu-
sion of politics into them was the true cause of the
official alarm.

An injunction was applied for, but ref wed by the Vice
Chancellor, who directed this action to be brought. An
appeal in Chancery is still pending, and the Vice Chan-
cellor i, desirous to have the opinion of a court of law on
the construction of the agreement. Mr. James then ob-
served that one of the tales had been partially published
in the plaintiff's journal, but was brought to a very sud-
den termination in consequence of the defendant discon-
tinuing writing.
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Lorel Campbell—Before the marriage of the parties ?
Mr. E. James—No, after the marriage; but the author
being in some difficulty as to the disposal of the dramatis
persona, blew them all up in a steamer. (Laughter.)
Mr. Justice Erle—lt seemed that some other person
was employed to finish the tale, but be supplied a rather
inferior article, and the publication, it was said, fell off
in circulation from 30,000 to 40,000 numbers a week.
The Court granted a rule, leaving it to the parties to
suggest the form in which it should be dra-vn up, with
the view of raising the real question in the case.
Towards the conclusion "of the sitting Mrs. Cobbett
applied for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up her hus-
band, who, she said, had been illegally imprisoned while
returning from Winchester, where he bad been to collect
evidence for a new trial in a case against some turnpike
trustees in which he had bee❑ nonsuited.
The same application had been made to Mr. Justice
Crowder at chambers, but dismissed.

money.

The Court promised to look into her affidavits, and the
applicant withdrew.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Sittings in Banco, before Justices Cresswell, Crowder,
and Willis.)
THE LATE CHIEF JUSTICE JERVIS.

Their lordship came into court shortly after 2 o'clock.
Mr. Justice Cresswell at once addressed the senior
member of the bar present in the following terms :
Brother Channell, if any gentleman has a motion to make
that must be made ta-day, we will hear it ; but, in the
absenca of any such necessity, we wish to adjourn the
Court until to-morrow, as a tribute of respect to the me•
mory of our late lamented Chief Justice.

THE COUNTRY ROUND BOSTON,
which was the first peopled by the early settlers,
could not have attracted them by the richness of
the soil—it is by no means a land of fatness, and
far from inviting the plough is most unpropitious
to it. It is well watered, abounding in small lakes
and streams, and well wooded, but cruelly stony.
The subsoil in granite, which crops out in large
masses and strews the fields thickly as boulders, as
in the tracts bordering on the' moors of Devon.
The gatherings from the enclosures more than fur-
nish the fences, the stones have to be dug and turned
out before the soil becomes arable. The work is not
finished yet, and the agriculture to an eye fresh
from the rich pastures and long-tilled corn-bearing
districts of England would look rough and un-
finished. The whole region has been a stubborn
conquest, and only a stubborn race could have
made it. They did the work too, having to fight
the Indians at the same time. No wonder the men
become something stern, hard, and " all grit," a
phrase that must have been suggested by the soil.
Yet the ruggedness of the region is softly clothed,
veiled by a profusion of foliage ; though rocky, it
is not bare. All, to the distant line of hills that
form the horizon, is verdure. It is the first word
that occurs, though at the present season not cor-
rect. The landscape is now rich with the thousand
tints of the Western autumn, at once blending and
contrasting with each other—crimson, by the side
of pale yellow, deepening into gold, changing again
to red, or passing suddenly to purple, as if there
were a sunset beneath the leaves. Only the pines
refuse to yield a single shade of their hue, and
stand strong and dark amid their more tender
brethren ; rude natures that cannot sympathise
with such soft, hectic languor. The beauty of the
American autumnal woods is one of the few things
that have not been over-described and done to
death by poets and painters; but it defies the
pencil, like the ocean or the rainbow ; it awaits,
perhaps, a Turner of the forest. The view from
the Round Tower of the Auburn Cemetely, is now,
and will be, till the first frosts and high winds thin
the foliage, one of exceeding loveliness.

Serjeant Channell said that he thought he ex-
pressed the sense of the bar when he said that they had
hoped that their lordships would adjourn without taking
any business today.
The Court accordingly adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 3.

LA W INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 3.

MANSIONIHOTTSE.—G. Brown, a soldier at pre •
sent on furlough, was brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having robbed Mrs. Maria Lindsay, the
wife of a sailor, in Sun-square, Bishopsgate, of a gold
watch and chain of the value of 8/.

VICE•CHANCELLORS' COURTS.
(Before Vice• Chancellor Kinderaley.)

This being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Vice.
Chancellor sat in one of the old committee rooms at
Westminster.

The prosecutrix said—The prisoner lodged with me
about two years ago, and afterwards enlisted in the
army. On Saturday he called to sou me, and was intoxi-
cated. I had in my pocket at the time a gold watch and
chain which my son had given me to take care of.
Whilst the prisoner was in my room I missed the watch
and chain, and accused him of having taken them. He
denied having done so, upon which I sent for a police•
aian.

ROYAL BRITISH BANK -IN THE MATTER OF THE WINDING-
UP ACTS AND OF THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK-AITCHISON

V. LEE.

Mr. Rolt, with whom were also Mr. Giffard and Mr.
J. Brown, moved in this case (which has engaged so
much of the public attention during the vacation), to
dissolve the ex parte injunction which had been granted
by his Honour in chambers, restraining the defendants,
Mr. Charles Lee, Mr. J. T. Burke, and Mr. James
Johnstone, jun., from prosecuting or by any means
acting upon an order of adjudication of bankruptcy,
dated the 10th October last, and from di,turbing Mr.
Harding, who had been appointed official manager, under
the Winding-up Acts, of the Royal British Bank. The
learned counsel said be also appeared to show cause
against an order nisi, which had been made to commit
Mr. Lee and Mr. Johnstone. A third notice• of motion
had been given—that Mr. Robert J. Harding might be
forthwith ordered to pay and deliver, upon oath, to Mr.
Lee, as the official assignee under the bankruptcy of the
Royal British Bank, all monies and securities for money,
property, assets, credits, and effects, books, papers, and
writings, in his hands, bekaging to the bankrupt estate
of the Royal British Bank, or forming part of such
bankrupt estate, and that he might be ordered to with-
draw from the occupation, possession, and receipt of any
part of such estate, and to let the said Charles Lee, as
such official assignee, into the occupation and possession
of such part or parts of the bankrupt estate as was in
the occupation or possession of Mr. Harding or his
agents, and to do all such acts as were necessary for the
purpose of puting or reinstating Mr. Lee, as such official
assignee, in possession, according to his legal rights ;
and that, if necessary, the order made in the above mat-
ters, dated the 24th of Oct., might be discharged. The
learned counsel said the case would divide itself into two
branches. The one of importance to the parties person-
ally—namely, whether there bad been any contempt
committed towards the Court which the parties could not
explain or justify, whatever might be the rights of the
parties; the other, the important general question,
whether in the present case this Court could assume to
itself a jurisdiction to deprive the creditors of the Royal
British Bank of any of their legal remedies whatsoever.
The Vice-Chancellor—Perhaps I may take the oppor-
tunity of saying that the motive which led me to grant
the injunction was simply this—not any intention of
giving a final decision of the very grave question, what
is the most proper and desirable way of winding up
the affairs of this bank, but that matters might remain
in sesta quo until the Court could regularly decide that
question, after the argument had been gone into. It
would be absurd to suppose that in the vacation the
Court could investigate such matters, turning upon the
efect of statutes and decisions. All I thought it right
to do was to make such an order as would merely keep
things in state quo until the sitting of the Court. Of
course that would be pretty obvious.
Mr. Rolt said it was so understood. The legal rights
of creditors under the Bankrupt Acts was reserved to
them, and never could have been intended to be altered
by the Winding-up-Acts, which were passed to remedy
many grievances incident to equitable proceedings in the
dissolution of partnerships in the taking of accounts. The
learned counsel then proceeded to state the history of
the proceedings according to the dates, and had proceeded
to read affidavits to show that there had been no inten-
tion to commit any contempt, or to treat the Court with
disrespect, and that an arrangement or understanding
had been come to between the parties, which had been
departed from, and had led to the motion for the com-
mitment. He was about commencing his argument upon
the 'eneral question of jurisdiction, when
His Honour intimated that it would be better to pro-
ceed with that to-morrow (Tuesday) in order that it
might not be broken in upon.

Mrs. Strachan, a friend of the prosecutrix, said—l
was present when the watch and chain were missed. The
prisoner was accused by the prosecutrix of having stolen
them, upon which be tried to leave the room, but she
closed the door and prevented him. 11,•; then sat upon
the sofa, and I saw him take the watch and chain from
his pocket, and pass them under the cushion of the sofa.
I saw the chain dangling down, and as soon as the
policeman entered the room I took it and the watch and
gave them to him.
The prisoner, who denied the charge and said he
could furnish evidence of the good character he had
hitherto borne, was remanded.
P As the Lord Mayor was on the point of leaving the
bench, a gentleman stood for Ward and said that he at-
tended in consequence of having had his attention di.
recited to what bad fallen from Mr. O'Connell in the
justice-room on Saturday laet, in reference to the prac-
tice which had existed of late years of parading the
effigy of a Roman catholic bishop about the streets of
London on the sth of November- The gentleman, after
stating that he himself was a protestant, said that Mr.
O'Connell had omitted to mention that the exhibition
complained of had been provoked by the Roman catho-
lies, who in the year 185C1 had parcelled out land into
bishoprics in defiance of the anthority of the Queen and
the legislature.
The Lord Mayor expressed himself in similar terms
to those to which be gave utterance on Saturday last,
and the applicant left the court.

BUNKER'S HILL.

To turn to something having very different asso-
ciations—Bunker's-hill, without some mention of
which no notice of Boston and no election speech
would be complete. On the peninsula of Charles-
town, and in the midst of that suburb, stands the
monument of the action, a remarkable, but not
beautiful object. It is a tall shaft or obelisk of
granite, of the severe simplicity of the milestone
type, as destitute of ornament, and even more barren
of information ; it has neither date, name, nor in-
scription. It is within the space enclosed by the
celebrated redoubt, its four faces parallel to the lines
of the intrcnchment, all traces of which have been
swept away. The hill itself has been reduced in
height, and its sides scarped and terraced for the
streets and houses that close it in. A bank of green
turf is nearly all that remains of the hill, with a few
stone steps leading to the level space around the
monument. But the general rise of the ground
from the water-side can still be perceived, and by
suppressing mentally the houses and trim gardens
which have crept up the lower slope, and restoring
' the swamps and limekilns which at the time of the
battle occupied their site, the character of the
ground can be pretty clearly recalled. The wharves
at which the English troops landed for the attack
are now the navy yard, on which the crest of what
is left of the height looks down. If Primrose-hill,
somewhat flattened, were placed a little behind the
building sheds of Deptford-dockyard, it would look
much as the present Bunker's-hill appears from the
harbour. Across the river channel the trees of the
small burying-ground, iu old Boston, where the
English had placed a battery, can just be perceived
over the tops of the houses. The slight earthwork,
thrown up in four hours, resisted the guns of this
battery and of five ships of war for a whole day, an
early instance of the value of the spade in war,
which has recently been more extensively demon-
strated. The history of the action is too well
known to be repeated. Two attacks by the troops
were repulsed by the Americans with terrible loss;
the third, made where the first should have been,
on the least complete side of tilts redoubt, succeeded,
and the colonists retreated along the neck of the
peninsula to the mainland, leaving to the English j
commanders a victory that was nearly as disastrous
as a defeat. The account of the action, sold on the
spot, is more fairly written than most of such nar-
ratives are, and quotes several of the official
despatches and letters of the period. These
documents are a sarcasm on what is grandly
called the " Muse of History," showing that
by neither party could any clear knowledge of
the incidents be ascertained. Who commanded
on the American side is still disputed. The
English accounts say it was " a farmer in a smock
frock"—it was Colonel Putnam ; but whether he
had the chief coaanaud, or General Prescott, or
General Warren, who was killed in the heal rush
of the troops into the work, is not decided. Wile
conceived the plan of seizing the hill in the night
is not known, nor who authorised it. The "orders"
of the American head-quarters have been searched
in vain for any information.
Notwithstanding the strictness of its founders
there was always a tendency in the good people of
Boston towards the vanities, which some explain
by the fact that from the first the place was wealthy.
Very early in its history godly Dr. Cotton had to
preach agaireitexeesses of apparel, gold lace, girdles,
wide sleeves, and veils. The last enormity was
happily suppressed. The pulpit was always a power
in the place, and at one period so much cultivated
that it became an abuse, and the General Court
denounced the inordinate length of the sermons as
hurtful to health and good morals, and attempted
to shorten them ; the people stoutly resisted the
attempt, and the magistrates were compelled to
abandon it, only stipulating that the discourses
should close at au hour that would allow the people
to get home before dark. All the early disputes
of the settlement were religious. Once a terrible
Antinomian controversy broke out, the people aid-
ing with the covenant of grace, while the General
C )urt declared for the covenant of works, which
perhaps included punctual payment of dues and
taxes, and was therefore unpopular ; some secular
element may be found mingled with all these quar-
rels. Boston was then and long afterwards a great
religious centre, which drew illustrious pilgrims
from the Old World, such as George Fox and
Whitfield. The great names that are drawn from
Europe now belong to a different class—popular
authors, who lecture without official limit, actors,
dancers, and singers. Boston, where every species
of theatrical entertainment was strictly prohibited,
has four theatres, one of them more spacious and
splendid in its fittings than most of those of Europe.
It has also a music-hall, which it boasts exceeds
anything in Now York. Few cities, indeed, have
one of such magnificent proportions. But it is not
devoted exclusively to music; something of the
old taste for lectures is left, and, like Exeter-hall,
it lends itself to theology and politics, or a mixture
of both. The morning after a concert finds a
preacher addressing a large congregation from be-
neath the statue of Beethoven. It i 3 the Rev.

GUILDHALL. —James ,Henry Wright, a boot and
shoemaker, was charged at the instance of the overseers
of the precinct of Whitefriars, with having committed
wilful and cor:upt perjury.
The prisoner had Leen a pauper in the City of London
Union For many years, and a source of much trouble
and expense, he having been several times put in the
way of earning his own living, and baying as often re-
turned to the union. On the 19th of Sept., IE4O, the
prisoner was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Lambeth,
with whom he lived about 15 or 16 months, and then
absconded. The City of London Union, on Saturday
last, brought the prisoner before Sir R. W. Carden and
Alderman Lawrence, for the purpose of passing him to
the Lambeth Union, but he, preferring the City of
London Union, denied that ho belonged to the Lambeth
parish. By act of Parliament it requires a residence of
40 days in a parish by an apprentice under an indenture
to omistitute a settlement, and the prisoner, being aware
of that fact, deliberetely swore that he only lived with
his master :three weeks when he absconded. He was
cautioned, and every opportunity given to him to with-
draw that statement, but he would not. He was con-
fronted with his master, his master's son, and his mas-
ter's father, and recognised them all, and they identified
him, but he still persisted in the same statement, and
solemnly swore that be had absconded after he had been
with his master three weeks.
It was clearly proved that be had lived with his
master 15 or 16 months, and be was accordingly com-
mitted for trial.

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immediately called out " Murder !" but was so terrified
at the violent conduct of the prisoner, that I ran away,
and saw nothing of what after.wards took place.
Thomas Harris, a Journeyman shoemaker, said—l was
passing through Commercial-street at the time in ques-
tion, when I saw a crowd of persons surrounding the
pric.mer, who was brandishing a knife over his head and
threatening to stab any one who ventured to come near
him. Almost immediately afterwards the policeman
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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH—MONDAY.
This being the first day of the sittings after the long
vacation, there was the usual bustle and excitement in
Westminster Hall and its neighbourhood, the crowds of
visitors being greatly augmented by the fineness of the
weather. In this court there was a large attendance of
the bar and a numerous body of the public, including
many ladies.
The learned judges—Lord Chief Justice Campbell,
and Justices Coleridge, Wightrnan, and Erie—entered
the court about two o'clock, and immediately proceeded
to hear motions.
STEPHENSON AND WIFE V. PALMER.—PERJURY.
In this action, which was for a malicious prosecution,
tried before Lord Campbell at the sittings after last, Tri-
nity term, at Westminster, and a verdict found for the
plaintiffs, with 101. damages, an application had been
made and granted to stay execution, on the payment of
40/. into court.
Mr. Elwin James now moved for a rule to show cause
why the 401. should not be pail out of court, and a new
trial sad. The defendant was an old and deaf lady,
who formerly lodged in the house of the plaintiff, at
Kensington. Some time alter leaving she accidentally
discovered that they were in possession of a portion of
her property, viz., various pieces of old china and a pair
of curtains, which had been abstracted from a package
that she had deposited in one of the rooms occupied by
her, and rented of the plaintiffs. She then gave Mrs.
Stephenson into custody, but after several examinations
and adjournments the case was dismissed, and the plain-
tiffs thereupon instituted an action against the defendant
to recover damages for false imprisonment. At the trial
in this court Mrs. Stephenson positively swore that the
curtains belonged to her, and gave a circumstantial as
•ount, which was corroborated by other witnesses, of
the way in which they had come into her hands ; but the
defendant and her daughter were equally positive in their
statement, and deposed, with every appearance of truth,
that these articles had been in their possession for many
years. A verdict, however, was obtained for the plain-
tiff ; but Mrs. Palmer subsequently prosecuted the fe-
male plaintiff for perjury, and she was found guuty and
sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
Rule nisi granted.
THE QUEEN V. VESTRY Gs' ST. PANORAS—ELECTION OF

house;
Police-constable Floyd, H 114, stated that on reach-
ing the spot, he found the officer Warner attempting to
grapple with the prisoner, bat he was evidently in a state
of
extreme exhaustion, and exclaimed, Q°Oh, what shall
I do, the viliian has stabbed me, and my boot is full
of blood." Witness immediately seized hold of the
prisoner, who commenced a violent resistance, and
ebbed " at him several times with ,the handle of a
knife, the blade of which had been broken off; but
he was ultimately overpowered and taken into custody.
Mr. Robert Debenham, house surgeon of the Lon-'
don Hospital, stated that both of the prosecutors were
very Seriously injured. Hopes were entertained of the
dan
poligerousceman's
condition. recovery, but Monies was in a highly ,
The
interpret per, was remanded risoner, who denied the charge, through an
John Ward, a ropemaker, of herculean build, was
charged before Mr. D'Eyncaurt with violently assault-
ing police-officer Tolman, 371 N.
The constable stated that on Sunday, during divine
service in the morning, he saw the defendant lying
in High-street, Heaton, cursing and swearing at the
top of his voice. On desiring him to desist and leave
the spot, defendant rose from the pavement as though
with the Intention of obeying, but suddenly turned
and sprang upon him, first dealine• three snecessive
blows with his fists on the head, which knocked him
down, and then kicking him on the knee severely.
Finally he threw himself upon him, and, endeavour-
ing to bite a piece from his arm, actually took a
piece of the thick overcoat out with his teeth. He
was sober.
The prisoner said he had taken a little drop to
drink, and at such times was subject to fits. He re-
membered nothing of it.
Another officer proved that defendant had been
some time back charged, with his brother, at this
court, with a similar assault on the police, and was
then punished.
Mr. D'Eyncourt observered that the police would
be protected by him in the execution of their duty,
and fined the defendant 20e , or 21 days' imprison-
meat, together with the costs of damage to the coat.

Theodore Parker, one of the leaders or chief cham-
pions of the Abolitionists. They are not yet a
distinct political party, but their influence is doing
much to excite the present resistance to the further

extension of slavery. Even that degree of resist-
ance is denounced as treason by the South, and the
language has no terms bitter enough to express its
detestation of the party generally and Tueodore
Parker particularly. It might be supposed he was
a wild fanatic preaching fire and blood. In reality
he is a calm and measured preacher, clear and
logical in his arguments, with nothing in the least
exaggerated in manner or language. Ile may be
more impassioned on the political platform, but a 2 a
preacher he is vary temperate, and not of the fervid
school of oratory at all. On the occasion I refer to
he indeed announced that as he was about to travel
for a week or two through some of the States of the j

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WESTMINSTER.—EIiza Owen, alias Smith, alias
Brown, a 'parried woman, and a well known utter r of
bade coin, and Thomas Keene, were charged with know-
ingly uttering counterfeit half-crowns.
A clerk from the Treasury-office attended to prosecute,
and
n Mr. M. Downey was engaged for the prisoner
Owe.

detective officer of the A division, No. 279, stated
that on. Thuradgy afternoon he was at the Antelope,
Eaton-terrace, when the female prisoner came in and
asked fur half a quartern of gin. lie saw her gibe
Keene a half-crown piece. Keene went away with it
and soon aftbr returned. They had some conversation
together, when they loft the house. ' Witdeen followed,

and saw the female hand a purse to her companion.
-Witness then went into a stationer's shop, next door to
the Antelope, and ascertained that the male prisoner
had passed a half-crown, which, upon examining, he
found was a counterfei,. W.. nese left, and soon after
the female prisoner went there. When she Game out,
having unsuccessfully tried to pass a bad half-crown, she
waves her hand to Keene, who, upon seeing her, walked
fast away. Witness ran after him, and seized him. On
his pursuit of Keene he saw a police constable, and told
him to take Owen into custody. As they were going to
the station-house, the male prisoner flung away a purse.
He (witness) picked it up, and found that it contained
three base half-crowns and one counterfeit crown piece.
The officer added that the prisoner Keene had in his pos-
session a pocket handkerchief in which were tied up vari-
ous articles, among which were a mutton chop, some
small pieces of meat, and two spoons. He added that
he thought they had been bought with spurious money.
There was 14s. id. good money on Keene, and 183. 7d.
on 0 wen.

Mr. Paynter—lt was clear that they had good money
to pay for the articles they received without passing bad

Keene said he would reserve his defence, and Owen
said she never had the purge.
risoners were committed for trial, but admitted to
bail.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Robert TV:jalt was
brought before Mr.Beadon for final examination, charged
with forging two cheques for 2501. and 9/. 16x., in the
names of his employers, Messrs. Wilkinson, Heywoods,
and Co., Battle-bringe, and thereby defrauding the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square.
He was committed for trial on both charges.

LAMBETH.—George Cronk, 17 years of age, was
charged with disturbing a Baptist congregation.
Bolton, one of the elders belonging to Salem
Chapel, Park-street, Brixton hill, deposed that the chapel
being under repair, the service was carried on at the
school-rooms in Brixton, and for some Sundays past the
congregation bad been subjected to great annoyance by
boys. On the night of Sunday week a member of the
congregation, on going out to ascertain the cause of the
noises made at the door, received a severe blow from a
brickbat. On the evening before, during the progress
of the service, a loud noise was heard at the door, which
very much alarmed the congregation and interrupted the
service. The prisoner was taken into custody as one of
the persons causing the interruption. The object In
bringing the youth before his worship was not to punish
him, but to put a stop to the annoyance.
Police-constable Drew said that on the evening before,
while on duty at the school-rooms during the service, he
saw the prisoner and three other youths walk stealthily
towards the door, enter the schoolroom, and immediately
after Le heard several loud cries of "Bravo, bravo." He
ran towards the door and caught the prisoner as he was
rushing out. His companions got away.
The prisoner, who received a good character, expressed
his sorrow for his conduct.

Mr. Elliott remarked that the offence charged was one
of a very serious and mischievous description. The pri-
soner must find two bail in 101. each, or one in 201., to
be of good behaviour for one month.

dlkcirle: Wheeler, a countryman, was charged before
Mr. Elliott with travelling in a second-class carriage on
the South-Western Railway from Basingstoke to Lon-
don without having previously paid his fare.
Inspector Bent informed the magistrate that on the
preceding eveniisg the prisoner was found in a second
class carriage, without a ticket, and when questioned on
the sulject he said that his mother had purchased a
ticket for him on his startingfrom Basingstoke and given
it to the guard. This was found to be untrue, and when
asked what had been paid for the ticket, he replied 4s
6d. This was equally untrue, as the fare from Basing.
stoke by a second class carriage was 6s 10d.
When milted what he had to say to the charge, the
prisoner began to cry, and said that his fatherand mother
had given him a " larruping" on the night before, and he
was determined to leave them and come to London.

The magistrate ordered him to pay the 6s icd fare, or
in default to be imprisoned for ten days.

TIIAMES.—Three Danish seamen, named Thomas
Rurgison, Sargison, his brother, and Jacob
Se/tester, who were very thinly clad, and had disposed of
their jackets to procure food, came before Mr. Selfe for
relief under the following circumstances :
The seamen stated that they were natives of the island
of Santa Cruz, and a few months since joined the Ame-
rican ship Rhoderick Dhu, Captain Briant, master, at
Santa Cruz, She was bound to Copenhagen with a
cargo of rum and sugar. The ship encountered rough
weather in the British channel, and got on shore at a
place called Alsebar (so the sailors called it). Assistance
was procured. The ship was released and towed into
Portsmouth by two steamers. The Roderick Dhu
reached Portsmouth on Wednesday, and the captain
dismissed them immediately afterwards, and gave them
4 doll. 50e. each, and told them to do the best they
could for themselves. They walked up from Ports-
mouth and reached London on Saturday. They went to
the Danish Consul, who said he could do nothing for
them, because they had entered the service of a foreign
power. They were cold and hungry, and had been
walking about the streets for the last three nights, and
endeavouring in the day time to get a ship, in which
they were unsuccessful.
Mr2Selfe said it was a very distressing case, and the
publication of it in the newspapers would do more good
than he could effect. He asked if there was not some
institution for the relief of distressed seamen of all na-
tions in the port of London.
Mr. Livingston, the chief usher, said he had no doubt
the seamen would be received into the Destitute Sailors'
Asylum, in Well-street, Wellelose-square, it they were
really destitute,

Mr. Selfe said he had no doubt of the poor fellows
being really destitute arid fit objects for the asylum. He
directed Howland, 89 H, an officer attached to the court,
to accompany the three foreigners to the asylum, and
request the superintendent to admit them.

The seamen, who can all talk tolerably good English,
;banked the magistrate and left with the officer.

110 P DUTIES.

An account of the duty on hops of the growth of the
year 1856, distinguishing the districts, and the old from
the new duty

- Districts. Duty.
Barnstaple £23 6 31
Canterbury
Cornwall 0 14 0
2
Coventry
84115 571
Essex
0 9 3
Gloucester
8 6 5
Grantham
17,371 11
Hants...
5,472 15 3;
Hereford .......
Isle of Wight 11,434 16 5
Lincoln
Lynn
3 19 31
16 17 21
49 3 31
192,884 15 4
629 8 5i
NottinghamlCsßithteoeacitffi.
dihtrbieebrgdtmiedrPgte"
2,744 14 11
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussi-x
Taunton
5 17 111
Wales Middle ... 14 3 71
Ware 3l 191
Worcester

£487,380 0 51

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Old duty at id, 12 20ths
per lb. ............ £266,899 16 84
New duty at id. 8 20t.h. 197,273 15 D 4
Additiotiad duty of 5 per
cent. peract3Vie,c.lB 23,206 7 114

• £487,380 0 54
L. lnland Revenue Office, 3d Nov., S LY
1856. NE, As. Clk.

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