The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-15 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

John Ward was brought up yesterday for final
examination, charged with aiding in obtaining, under
false pretences, from Mr. Currie, of Regent-street,
two acceptances for 6001.

Mr. Hobson, of Lower Grosvenor-place, Pimlico,
said a Mrs. Bayley (with whom Ward lodged) had
dealt with him, and finding some difficulty in getting
his last account, he went. there one day with his
man, and finding Mrs. Bailey was not at home, he
left his man there with instructions not to leave the
house till he had some cash. As soon as he went
down stairs, Mr. Ward felt much aggrieved at the
presence of the-man, and spoke earnestly of pitching
him out of the window. Poor Matthew, being
alarmed, called in the police for his protection ; wit-
ness was fetched, and the business was settled for
the time by Ward's undertaking to give him a bill
on Ferguson (Farquharson), whom he would refer
to at Gerard's-hall, Basing-lane, but he could not
hear of any such person. Ward boasted that his
acceptance was as good as the Bank's.
Mr. Harmer said, it would have been so if Mr.
Currie had fulfilled his engagement.
Sir PETER LAURIE understood Mr. Lyster would
show to-day that the prisoner was not the holder of
the patent for locomotive carriages running in any
part of Scotland.

Mr. Lyster could, and called
Mr. Gurney, a brother of the gentleman who holds
in part the steam coach patent. He said that Ward
was not the patentee, but he was delegated to se!l
the patent, and the Lord of the Isles coach was sold
through him to Mr. Currie, in order to facilitate the
sale of the patent.'
Mr. Harmer thanked Mr. Lyster for calling this
witness, who had proved the prisoner had authority
to do what he had done,—treat for the sale of the
patent.

Mr. Lyster thought his evidence would have had
a different tendency. He put a question to the pri-
soner, but
Mr. Harmer instantly checked him, and asked
how long he had been in the profession ? Mr. Lys-
ter said four years.
Mr. Harmer said, if a clerk who It id been only
three weeks in his office had been guilty of putting
questions to a prisoner, he would have turned him
away.

Sir PETER LAURIE asked if any other person had
a charge to make against the prisoner.
No answer being returned,
Sir PETER had remanded the prisoner in the ex-
pectation that Mr. Currie's was not the only case.
It appeared to be otherwise. As to Mr. Currie 's
charge, he had made up his mind that it was not
one which he could ervertain. A man might go
about telling as many lies as he pleased, and they
would not be so many false pretences, according to
the legal interpretation of the words. The pri-
soner, therefore,i.las discharged. The name of Sir
Charles Forbes had been mentioned, and he had
received a note from Sir Charles on the subject,
declaring all he knew of Farquharson was, that be
came to him to beg assistance on the 24th of
March, and that he gave him 25/. to take him
back to Scotland. Few men were so liberal us Sir
Charles.

BOMSTREET.
A respectably dressedyoung man,who stated that
his name was Nicholas Wood, was brought before
Mr. MINSHULL by inspector Adamson, of the A
division of police, charged with having been con-
ce►ned in a burglary committed at the house of Mr.
George Clarke, a hay-salesman, residing at Pad-
dington, on the 29th of July last.
In May last the shop of Mr. Parry, a tobacconist,
under the Piazzas in Covent-garden, was entered
lay means of a false key by two men, and segars to
the amount of 100/. were stolen and placed in a
hackney-coach, which was in the act of driving off
with the booty when it was stopped by Morgan, a
constable of Covent-garden market, who, finding
the property in the coach, took the driver to the
police-station, and the segars having been subse-
quently identified, the driver was committed to
Newgate for receiving the goods, knowing them to
be stolen. The two men by whom the robbery was
perpetrated managed to effect their escape, but,
about a fortnight ago, one of them, whose name is
Thomas Jephson, was apprehended in Whitehall by
inspector Adamson, on the information► of a porter
in Covent-garden-market, and who saw the prisoner
Another account differs from that of our reporter,
and gives the following as Mr. Gurney's evidence :
Mr. Samuel Gurney, brother of the patentee, appeared,
as summoned by Mr. Currie, and prcduced a letter from
Currie to Mr. Gurney, the patentee, in which Mr. Currie
calls himself the agent to Mr. Ward, in this Scotch steam-
coach concern ; and Mr. S. Gurney stated, that Mr. Ward
was the actual proprietor of the Lord of the Ides, and
that he had actually engaged to pay for it a large sum to
the pat en tee,

some time, and for many hours afterwards appeared
in a stwe of stupor, from the effects of the blow.
The only explanation which the brute gave of his
conduct was, that the woman had spent some of his
money during the last few days, which had put him
out of temper; and as she persisted in speaking to
him while he was talking to another person, he
knocked her down.

The young woman, in a faint tone, said that he
had given her a tremendous beating only the night
before.—He was ordered to find bail.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND; Mr. Edward Wilson,
of Augusta-square, attended yesterday to learn the
decision of a summons which he had obtained against
a hackney-coachman, for having charged more for
the distance he drove him than what he conceived

to be his legal fare. As some difference of opinion
occurred as to the distance, both parties deposited
a sum of money in order to cover the expenses of
measurement.

The officer who measured the ground with the
wheel, declared that the distance exceeded, by about
two hundred yards, the distance which Mr. Wilson
conceived he had gone, and consequently the driver
was justified in charging the fare he had taken.
" Well," said Mr. Wilson, " that is very odd;
for before I thought of summoning the driver, I had
the ground measured by a surveyor, and it was con-
siderably under the distance stated by the officer."
" And," said coachee, with a grin, " I had the
ground measured before I came here, and my dis.
tance comes within six yards of the Jfficer's."
Mr. DYER said, he must decide according to the
result obtained by the wheel, and therefore he must
charge Mr. Wilson with the expenses, who must
also compensate the driver for loss of time.
Q UEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday, Mrs. Christina Godfrey, of No. 14,
Seaford-terrace, Blackland's-lane, Chelsea, a lady
who has always been considered in respectable cir-
cumstances, was brought wp in custody, and placed
at the bar before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with steal-
ing one of the patent silver pens, value 3s. 6d.,
from the shop of Mr. Thomas Smith, grocer and
tea-dealer, at No. 43, Sloane-street.

The prisoner, who is about the middle age, and,
as we understood, a widow, was extremely agitated
when placed at the bar.
The complainant stated, that about 12 o'clock
that morning the prisoner came into his shop, and
purchased some coffee. He had a silver pen lying
on the counter, and the prisoner had no sooner left
his shop than he missed the pen ; and being con-
vinced in his own mind, notwiths•anding her re-
spectable appearance, that she had taken it, he fol-
lowed her, and saw her go into a baker's shop and
come out again. He went into the baker's, to ask
him if he knew the lady ; but she was quite a
stranger to him, and he then mentioned what had
occurred, when the baker told him that he had seen
something like a pen outside a parcel which the
lady had put down on the counter while she pur-
chased a few articles. His suspicions were now con-
firmed, and he left the shop and followed the pri-
soner to her own house, at No. 14, Seaford-terrace.
He rapped at the door, and was admitted, when he
accused her of having stolen the silver pen off his
counter, which she solemnly denied. He immedi-
ately went away, got a police constable, and returned
to the house, and gave her in charge. The constable
found the silver pen in her hand.
A police constable, of the B division, stated, that
when he was taken to the house to apprehend the
prisoner, she had the pen in her hand, and told him
that the prosecutor, who had called upon her only a
few minutes before, had left the silver pen upon her
table.

Mrs. Godfrey—That I deny ; I never said any
such thing.

Mr. GREGORIE—Have you any answer to make
to the charge ? Mrs. Godfrey, in reply, was quite
innocent of the charge. She had been to a friend's
house that morning, where there had been a death
in the family, and, out of respect, she had put on a
black crape cloak. She had written several letters

that morning concerning her friend's death, to send
into the country, with one of the common metal
pen's, which she had with her, and which she took
home with her. She certainly went into Mr. Smith's
shop to purchase some coffee, but solemnly denied
having either seen or touched his silver pen. When
he called upon her, and accused her of having stolen
his pen off the counter, she was greatly surprised,
and, knowing herself to be innocent, she positively
denied it, but shortly after he left the house she
found the pen sticking in her black crape cloak,
where it had got entangled. She was quite alarmed
at the circumstance, and called her servant to tell
her that she was going out, when Mr. Smith and
the policeman came in and took her into custody.
She would ask whether it was likely that she should
have the pen in her hand if she bad been guilty of

Mr. Turpin, a respectable farmer, residing at
North Ockendon, in Essex, applied to Mr. WALKER,
for his sanction to have two valuable coach mares
delivered up to him.
It appeared from the statement of Miller, the
chief constable, that on Monday last the applicant
disposed of two handsome carriage mares, belonging
to Mr. Brampton, a Magistrate, near Romford, at
Harlow-bush fair, to a person who represented his
name to be George Griffin, and said he kept a livery.
stable in the Edgeware-road. The animals were at
once delivered to the purchaser, who handed over
eight 101. and two .5/. notes, purporting to be of the
Bank of England. Mr. Taylor, not suspecting for
a moment the genuineness of the notes, put them
into his pocket, but on the next day, on presenting
them at the Romford bank, he discovered, to his
great mortification, that they were all forgeries. He
lost no time in coming up to town, and giving in-
formation of the circumstance to Miller, who set
about making the necessary inquiries, and ultimately
traced the animals to the possession of a merchant in
the city, who said he had purchased them on Tues-
day morning, from a person who was known to him
as a Mr. Jones, but who, from his description, there
is no doubt is the same person who bought them
from Mr. Turpin, and passed the forged notes. The
gentleman, however, on the facts being represented
to him, made no hesitation in returning the pro-
perly, and gave such information as will ultimately
lead to the apprehension of the offender. The for-
geries are not well executed, but still they are such '
as to deceive an ordinary judge. They are all dated
in May and June last. Within the last few days
Miller has received information of three 101. notes,
of precisely a similar description, being taken in the '
way of business.

COMMITTEE ON THE BANK OF ENG-