The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-14 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, April 13.

(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assidant-Judge.)
The court sat yesterday at Westminster, and proceeded
with appeals. Three parish cases, and the following,
were diAposed of.

ANAISE MARCAND V. A CONVICTION BY MR. EINGHA3f.

Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Le Breton appeared for the
appellant; Mr. Orridge, in support of the conviction, by
direction of the court.

The appellant having surrendered,
Mr. Orridge said the conviction was for indecent be-
haviour in a public thoroughfare, she being a common
prostitute. The appellant, a Free oh woman, was one of
the class of prostitutes infesting Regent-street ,nd its
neighbourho)d, and it appeared that on the 81:11 of
January, at five in the afternoon, she was seen b., police-
constable 299 A, walking up and down, holding up her
petticoats at an extravagant he,ght, so as to attract
the attention of gentlemen passing by. The constable
took her into custody for indecent c,nduct. and on the
following tnorning she was taken before Mr. Bingham,
who, considering the case fully proved, committed her
for seven days under the Vagrant Act. She bad been
locked up with other women during the night, and was
removed afterher case bad been heard to a cell in which
there wer,e other women of the same class, and in half-
an-h ur afterwards she told the gaoler that she could
not have been guilty of the offence she was charged with
a 4 she had drawers on. This was told to the magistrate,
who would not, however, alter his decision, as the appel-
lant had had an opportunity of procuring that article of
dress from one of the other females in the cell, and did
not make that.answer to the charge at first. She was a
known prostitute, and had been io custody for miscon•
duct before.

The policeman repeated the evidence he gave before
the magistrate, but would not undertake to swear that
the subsequent assertion of the appellant was untrue.
The Aasietant-Judge, after the case was concluded,
said, without deciding that the policeman said anything
incorrectly or untrue, the court could not in the faoe of
additional facts, which were not before the magistrate,
confirm the conviction It muAt, therefore, be quashed.
Mr. Inspector Webb was attending to watch the case
on behalf of the police.

ORIGIN OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND
AND OF BANKNOTES.

(From the British Quarterly Review for April.)
"The Bank of England was virtually established by an Act
(5 and 6 William and Mary c. 20) for granting several rates
and duties on tonnage of ships, Scc ,' on which rates and
duties persons whom their Majesties were empowered to
incorporate under the na ue of the governors and company of
the Bank of England' were to advance 1,200,001/. The
charter,' says Macpherson,' Iwas little more than a piece of
form, all the essential powers and privileges granted to the
bank being included in the Act of Parliament.' Baron Macau-
lay, confirming this fact, says, Somers gladly put the great
seal to a charter framed in conformity with the terms pre-
scribed by Parliament,' `The Tonnage Bank,' as the plan was
called, excited, he tells us, a furious paper war, but the
plan amended received the sanction of the commissioners
more easily than might have been expected.' In truth, the
Parliament was under duress. Money must be had, and
could in no other way he had so easily.' For the 1,200,0001.
the moderate interest' of 8 per ce, t. was given. The bill
granting supplies to the Crown' could not be discussed rally
nor altered in the HOllB3 of Lords, which, says tho historian,
' was most unfair ' The Bank, therefore, bought its charter
by a loan, when the State was in distress for funds, and it
was fastened on the nation by one house of Parliament in a
money bill. From the first it was bound up with taxation
and the State ; and, true to its origin, it has ever since been
more the servant of the State thau the friend of commerce.
"At the commencement it was not uniformly successful,
and it had to raise money at times by issuing sealed notes,
and several other devices. ' The corporation,' says Baron
Macaulay, was to have no exclusive privilege, and was to be
restricted from trading in anything but bills of exchange
bullion, and forfeited pledges. Having no exclusive privilege,
it soon had rivals. A very notorious incorporation of the
period, called The Mine Adventure Company,' having issued
cash, notes, dm, the Parliament, by an act for continuing
several duties on coffee,' and for securing the credit of the
Bank of England' (Anne 6, c. 22), prohibiting any partner-
ship exceeding the number of six persons in England from
borrowing. or takinr. up money on bills payable on demand in
any time less than six m •nths from the borrowing thereof.'
This Act secured to the Bank of England the exclusive pri-
vilege of so borrowing as against all other incorporations, and
seems to have been the first important restriction imposed by
Parliament on credit currency. From the title, it is evident
that the Act was dictated by the supposed common interest
cf the Bank—to which it gave a monopoly—and the Govern-
ment, without any consideration of its future effects. It was
one of the first awl chiefest legislative links in the connection
then inseparably established between credit currency and
banking, and preserved iu all our subsequent legislation. It
was the life germ of all our Bank Acts."

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consideration and excellent treatment he has met with
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