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London, England, 1858-11-22 00:00:00

Mr. Gibson—l am here, my lord.
The Recorder—Have you been attending the prisoner?
Mr. Gibson—Yes, my lord.
-Thedtecorder—lais illness real or assumed ?
Mr: Gibson—l have no doubt a great •deal of it is as-

sinned. •
Prisoner—l protest against tho treatment of this person.
He has treated we wrongly. I am afflicted with spitting
blood, and he has been giving me aperient medicine.
Mr. Gibson—Two other medical gentlemen •have seen
tho prisoner, and it is their opinion, as well as that of th
governor of Newgate (Mr. Weatherhead) that the prisoner
is shamming a great deal.
Th

ie prisoner—lt is untrue.
The Recorder—l think the, trial ought to be proceeded
with.
Mr. Robinson, who appeared for the prosecution, then
called the following witnesses.
Mr. Williain Gardener said—l am 11 jeweller ; resided
in Oxford-street. On the 14th of April the prisoner en,-
tered my shop and said he wished to;purehasea good watch,
as it was of great importance that he, being a professor. of
chemistry to the university (pointing in the.direction of the
London University in Gower-street), should possess such
an article. I showed him one, and he said it must be made
to resist 110 degrees of heat. I told him I would make it
to resist 96 degrees, and he then left the shop and kept
calling up to May, when he asked me to let him carry the
watch for a couple of hours, in order to see whether it per-
formed satisfactorily. I let himhave it as he told me hebanked
at " Claude Scott's," and that ho was a professor at the
University. Ho never returned with it. He also had a
chain with the watch. He threw me off my guard by pull-
ing out a cheque-book, and offering to write mo a cheque
for £36, which he said he would give me for a picture
which was hanging up in the shop. I should not have let
him leave the shop with my property, if I had not believed
that ho was the person he represented himself to be.
A clerk in Sir C. Scott's bank proved that the prisoner
had no funds deposited there.

Police-constablo 373 A stated that when lie took the pri-
soner into custody, he said ho had the watch, but he had
sold it.

The jury found the prisener guilty, and
The Rcoorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment

POLICE INTELLIGEYC.E.---(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ATTEMPTING. TO OBTAIN MONEY BY FALSE PRE-
TENCES AT ST. GEORGE'S BARRACKS.--Daniel Speer, a
labouring man, was charged by Horsford, the chief con-
stable of the Mendicity Society, with attempting to obtain
money by false pretences at St. George's Barracks, Char-
ing-cross.
There were several charges against him, but only one
was gone into.
Sergeant John Burnett, of the Ist battalion of the Cold-
stream Guards, said that on Friday night last a letter was
handed to him by a drummer. He read the letter, which
purported to come from a person named Brown, formerly
a corporal in the Bth company, Ist battalion of the Cold-
stream Gaards, stating that he was very ill, having met
with an accident by hot metal, and that he was in great
distress. He went out, saw the prisoner, who said he had
brought the letter, and told him to call again the next
night, while ho then wrote to Browa, and on the prisoner
coming again the next night, according to appointment,
bringing with him another letter purporting to come from
Brown, he put several questions to him, asked him how
Brown was, to which he said " that he was a little better."
While talking to him, Brown arrived in a perfect state of
health.
Wm. Brown, formerly a corporal of the Ist battalion of
Coldtsream Guards, but now a pewterer iu the Blackfriars-
road, and whose appearance was certainly not that of a sick
man, or one in distress, said he knew nothing of the letters
produced. They were not in his handwriting, and he knew
nothing whatever of the prisoner. He had never seen him
before.
Horsford said he had obtained money from the quarter-
' master and the sergeant-major also.
Mr. Beadon said there was no necessity to go into other
cases, and committed the prisoner to three months with
hagl labour.

rTRoNGS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS IN
MEXICO.

The following correspondence has passed between
the Chamber of Commerce and the Earl of Malmes-
bury, Foreign Secretary :
" Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Nov. 13.
" My Lord, In the month of July last, an ur-
gent representation was addressed to your lordship
by this chamber, adverting to sertain grievous out-
rages which had been committed against the per-
sons and property, of British subjects residing in
Mexico, and praying for the interference of her
Majesty's Government in behalf of the sufferers.
Those representations met with immediate atten-
tion at your lordship's hands, and I avail myself of
this opportunity to convey to you the marked
thanks of this chamber for the energetic course
which you then adopted, and which has been at-
tended with the most satisfactory results—com-
plete restitution having since been made to those
persons on whose behalf your lordship's aid was
then specially invoked.
" Unhappily, however, it again becomes my duty
to direct your lordship's attention to the perilous
condition of British interests in that destructive
country, there being no longer any security for
life or property for a single hour, the Republic of
Mexico now, more than ever, having become the
prey of conflicting factions to such an extent that
'anarchy prevails on all sides, and exactions of the
most grievous nature are levied upon British sub-
jects, without even the apparent sanction of any
Government de facto or de jure ; in addition to
which they are exposed to the greatest personal
indignities, being cast into prison, or compelled to
serve in the ranks of any military force which may
happen to be in command at the place of their
abode, until they have complied with the arbitrary
demands made upon them. Several such cases
have been brought to the notice of this chamber,
and, I doubt not that similar details have
already reached your lordship through other chan-
nels. .1 therefore, forbear to enter into the par-
ticulars of them. But I would earnestly entreat, on
behalf of the members of this chamber, who are
deeply interested, as well as for the sake of com-
mon justice, that your lordship will promptly ex-
ercise the influence of her Majesty's Government
in procuring redress and restitution ; and I would
further respectfully suggest that, inasmuch as
in Mexico we are dealing with a lawless people,
where force alone commands respect, the im-
mediate presence of a ship of war at Tampico,
Vera Cruz, and Manzanillo, respectively, would
have the effect of deterring the Mexicans from the
perpetration of such outrages ; while, at the same
time, it would go far to re-assure our fellow-sub-
iects located in that cuontry in the pursuit of their
awful occupations.
i" I have the honour to be, &c.
" EDMUND POTTER, Vice-President.
To the Earl of Malmesbury."

THIS DAI'S SHIPPI2

Foreign-office, Nov. 17, 1858.
" Sir—l am directed by the Earl of Malmes-
bury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
13th inst., calling attention, on behalf of the Man-
chester Chamber of Commerce, to the grievances
inflicted. on British subjects in Mexico, and lam
to state to you in reply, that her Majesty's Go-
vernment have long witnessed with indignation
and regret the violence and extortion of every kind
of which British subjects in Mexico have so much
reason to complain, and which they suffer indis-
criminately at the hands of all parties, whether
acting in behalf of or against the Government
established in the capital.
" Her Majesty's Minister in Mexico is using the
utmost exertions to obtain relief for her Majesty's
subjects, and the attention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment is constantly directed to the same object.
But the state of anarchy and the weakness of the
Government in Mexico render it almost impossible
to obtain redress for wrongs inflicted or to secure
protection against the violence of the contending
parties, the executive being powerless, though wil-
ling to afford it.--I am, sir,
G. IlAmmoND.
" Edmund Potter, Esq., Manchester Chamber
of