The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-04 00:00:00

Witness—Yes, my lord, after I got the right side
of him, and shoved him into tho tap •room. He then
begged of me to give him his umbrella, which he
had left at the bar. I refused to do this. He next
asked for his spruce and water. While I was get-
ting this I noticed him stoop by the coal-shoot.
After I returned from the station-house, I was in-
duced to say to a seaman, " I wonder whether he
planted anything when he stooped by the coal-
shoot ?" The seaman then put his hand down and
picked up the eight counterfeit half-crowns pro-
duced, wrapped in paper.
R. Bryant deposed to his having found the eight
counterfeit half-crowns by the side of the coal-shoot.
Constable 518 said that he found upon the pri-
soner 12s. 41d. in good money, a locket, chain,
ring, banker's pass-book, and several blank cheques.
Foulger, another constable, said that the pri-
soner, who gave a false address, had just been re-
leased from four years' penal servitude.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
The Lord Mayor, after sentencing several thieves
to various periods of imprisonment, said—ln nearly
every case of picking pockets that comes before me
the property is proved to have been abstracted from
the outside pocket. I would therefore recommend
the public for the future to order their tailors to
make pockets inside their coats instead of outside.
Matthew Broadhurst was charged before the Lord
Mayor with being a deserter from the Royal Artil-
lery.
G. Stevens, bombardier at Woolwich barracks,
said—The defendant came to me on Tower Hill, on
Wednesday, and I was about to apprehend him,
when the sergeant came up and took him into cus-
tody on the charge of being a deserter.
Cross-examined by the defendant—l knew you
were a deserter. We had two pints of ale together.
You did not give yourself up as a deserter to me,
otherwise I should have given you into custody.
Defendant—He has been with me on the recruit-
ing service, and he knew me to be a deserter, and
having been in his company half an hour, it was
tantamount to giving myself up.
The Lord Mayor—You did not surrender your-
self. You did not state so to the bombardier. You
were given into custody by a recruiting sergeant.
The defendant was remanded in order that the
authorities at the Home-office might be communi-
cated with.

GUILDHALL.--John Cartwright, a draper, 6,
Bousfield-terrace, Holloway-road, was charged with
unlawfully conspiring, with others, to cheat and
defraud. He was also charged with obtaining £2OO
worth of goods of Messrs. Castle and Co., of Love-
lane, under false pretences.
Mr. Albert Turner, of the firm of Messrs. Sole
and Turner, of Aldermanbury, appeared for the
prosecution ; and .Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place,
attended on behalf of the prisoner.
The evidence in this case went to show that in
August last the prisoner called upon Messrs.
Castle and Co., and after representing that he
had a capital of £6OO, besides fixtures and furni-
ture to the value of £l3O, referred them to Mr.
Cooper, of 9, Albert-square, Commercial4oad
East, who, he said, was the executor of his
father's will, under which he derived his capital.
of £6OO. Mr. Cooper was accordingly communi-
cated with and confirmed the prisoner's statement,
at the same time stating that the property had
realised more than was expected, and that the pri-
soner would have over £7OO as his share. The
prisoner had previously said that his father's name
was Charles Cartwright, that he was a watchmaker
at Cheltenham, and that he died in 1848. Upon
these representations the prosecutors supplied the
prisoner with goods to the, amout of £2OO, but the
prisoner's orders poured in so thick upon them that
they thought it advisable to obtain Cooper's gua-
rantee, which he had offered them when first ap-
plied "to, and a guarantee for £2OO was accordingly
given by Cooper ; but shortly afterwards both the
prisoner and Cooper vanished from their respective
residences. Although the prisoner had been found,
no trace of the goods had yet been discovered.
These facts being in evidence, witnesses were called,
who stated that no such person as Charles Cart-
wright had resided at Cheltenham for many years
prior to 1848.
The delivery of the goods having been proved,
and the identification of the prisoner established, he
was fully committed for. trial on both charges.
The prisoner was then charged with obtaining
£2O worth of goods of Mr. Stone, a brace and button
manufacturer, of 126, Wood-street, under precisely
similar circumstances ; but as the prisoner had not
entered into the same minute details in the repre-
sentations he made, the evidence failed to negative
them in the most material points, and the charge
was therefore not proceeded with.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF YESTERDAY.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. John
Caird, M.A., to be one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordi-
nary in Scotland, in the room of Dr. James Paul, de-
ceased.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Balbino
Cortes as Consul at Singapore for her Majesty tho Queen
of Spain.
REPRESENTATION OF BRECKNOCK.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has given notice
that, owing to the death of Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart., late
M.P. for the county of Brecknock, a new writ will be issued
for the election of a new member, at the end of 14 days
from yesterday.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Maje Sty's Minister at Madrid, re-
porting that the Spanish Government has issued instruc-
tions to the Commander of the Fort of Tarifa, to require all
vessels to hoist their national flag, or to show proper signal
lights, on passing within range of that fort.
BOARD OF TRADE, 'WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, enclos-
ing copies of notifications issued by the Board of Health of
that capital, declaring the port of Maranham to be free from
infection, and announcing that the Board of Health at
Naples has revoked the quarantine regulations established
for vessels arriving from Portugal and the Azores.
BOARD OF TRADE, 'WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
The Right Honourable the. Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Tunis,
enclosing a notification of the Bey of that Regency removing
the prohibition on the exportation of grain ; also announc-
ing that the prohibition on the exportation of cattle has
been removed, and a duty of 12s. per head imposed
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and. Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign. Affairs, -fron}
her Majesty's Ambassador at. Paris, a ;copy of a .14'reuvh