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London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

EVENTIN'G, MA WCII 18, 1857.

Mr. Barnard, at Bidwell, in the parish of Houghton
Regis.
• The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the court
sentenced him to be transported for 20 years.
Thomas Pedder, who yesterday pleaded guilty to
two charges of arson, was called up and received
sentence of 14 years transportation.
The assizes were brought to a close this after-
noon.

NORTHERN CIROLJITT—YoRK, MARCR 17.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)
CONSPIRACY TO FORGE A WILL.
John Oldershaw, Joseph Sills, the elder, Joseph
Sills, the younger, William Wragg, Sarah Rad-
bourne, and Mary Wragg (all of whom were on
bail), were charged with conspiring together to
forge a will, purporting to be the will of one
John Jackson, and with offering and uttering the
said will.
Mr. Price, Mr. Middleton, and Mr. Shepherd
appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Temple, Q. C.,
Mr. Blanshard, and Mr. Dearsley, were counsel
for Oldershaw, Radbourne, and the two Wraggs ;
Sills senior, and Sills junior, were not defended.
Mr. Price stated the case. The deceased John
Jackson was a gentleman of considerable property,
and resided at Stapleford, in Nottinghamshire. He
,was lord of the manor, lived in the manor house,
had extensive landed estates, had a large amount of
personalty, including money in the funds, and in
addition always kepra large quantity of cash by him.
He had the patronage of the perpettial curacy of
Stapleford. He was a man of peculiar and eccen-
tricand lived by himself, and
for
r thwaboaso,r
athbchreaeyeleoarr's previous and up to the
period of his death the prisoner Sarah Radbourne
was his servant of all work. The present prosecu-
tion was instituted by a person named Searson, who
alleged that he was next of kin to the deceased
Mr. Jackson, -who departed this life in January,
1854. At the funeral, Searson, the next of kin,
and other relatives were present, but at the conclu-
sion of the solemn ceremony, as is usual on such
occasions, no mention was made, or hint thrown
out, that the deceased had made a will. The de-
ceased by the will, which he should be able to prove
as a forgery, left the whole of his real estate, in-
terest, securities, bonds, bills, and general effects to
Sarah Radbourne, who was described as his trustee,
and to her heirs for ever, except as to the annual
sum of 201., which was left to the clergyman of the
perpetual curacy of Stapleford for ever. By this
will Sarah Radbourne was appointed sole execu-
trix, and all former wills at any other time were
revoked. It was dated the 24th of Nov., 1853, and
after the usual attestation clause, the names of the
two Sills appeared as the witnesses. In another
part of the will, John Oldershaw, builder, was ap-
pointed trustee under the will. The learned coun-
sel said he should call before the jury a number of
highly respectable witnesses, who would prove that
the will in question was not signed by the decease-I,
the signature "John Jackson" not being in his
handwriting. Re should also show that the de-
ceased never made a will—that nothing could in-
duce him to do so ; and that on the Monday in the
week when he died a person of the name of Fletcher
used every endeavour to persuade Mr. Jackson to
make a will, but in vain. The case for the prosecu-
tion was that this will was made by John Oldershaw
after Mr. Jacksonfi death signed by the two Sills,
who pretended to be the attesting witnesses ; that
Sarah Radbourne well knew that no will had been
made by the deceased, and that she was fully
aware of everything
that took place, and was in
fact privy to a f rged will being prepared in her
favour. With respect to the Wraggs he might re-
mark that some I:ttle time before the death of the
deceased they called upon an iridividual named
Barker, who was a sort of amateur lawyer, and
knew a little about the making and wording of will.,
and asked him to write out a will for Mr. Jackson
Barker did so, and the Wraggs took the copy of
an -h will away with them. The -wording of this
document displayed some legal knowledge, as it was
coue'ied in legal terms. The Wraggs suF sequently
waled upon Barker and asked him to forge the
signature of John Jackson to the will, but he re-
fused to dO so. Upon this Wm. Wragg offere I to
give him 5,0001. to forge the signature, hut he still
declined, and before leaving the liouse Wm. Wragg
undertook to make Barke.'s wife a present of 1, 0001.
if she should succeed in pest Kling her husband to
accede to his application. The learned counsel said
he should not be able to prove this by Barker, for
he was now dead, but that his widow would ape rk
to the facts he had stated. At the funeral of the
deceased, as he had before said, no will was pro-
duced or re rd, and Sarah Radblurne entered into
possession of the property, took charge of every-
thing, received the ren s, and 'rea'ed the whole of
the effecti <4' the deceased as her own. Eventually
the next of kiu, having he Lid certain rumours re-
sp,cting the property of the late Mr. Jackson, con-
side7ed it desirable to assert his rights. lie applied
to administer to the estate and effect; of the de
ceased, as be'ng the next of kin, nothing of the will
having been-heard of up to that time. This was
opposed by Sarah Radbourne, who emit in the will,
p:otesting'that it was the last wilraud testament of
the person whose signature it bore, and that tile
whole of the property bad been left •to her. It
therefore became necessary that the validity of this
will should be proved, and the attesting witnesses
were called upon to :peak to the circurnstan-:e3 con
necte 1 with the testator signing his name. Tde
two Sills were consequently required to give
evict-nee, but not appear ng they were committed
to gaol for c nitempt of court. After remai..in, in
pri-on for some time they were released, and they
then gave evidence in the Ecclesiastical Court, de-
posing that Mr. Jackson. had duly signed the will,
and that they were the attesting witnesses. At the
same time Oldershaw offered himself as a witness,
upon which Sarah Radbourne appeared to be iu
great distress, and expressed herself as exceedingly,
sorry that she had anything to do with the will,
laying the blame upon Oldershaw, as being the
party who had led her into it. This showed com-
plicity on the part of Radbourne with the two Sills
and Oldershaw, the latter of whom, in all proba-
bility, had prevailed upon Radbourne to become
h's tool in the transaction. The two Sills, while in
gaol, said that they had done in respect to this will
what would transport them in order to serve Older-
shaw and Radbourne; that they could tell what
would transport them and the whole party ; that
Jackson never signed the will, and that the whole
affair was a fraud and a swindle: In describing the
pens and ink with which the will was alleged to
have been signed, the two Sills, in their evidence,
differed in many important particulars to Older-
shaw, showing that if these parties had been speak-
ing to the real truth there could have been no such
discrepancy. It was said there was only one ink-
stand in the room where the will was signed, but
the signatures of the two Sills, and that of the de-
ceased, were written in different coloured ink, a
circumstance which could not have occurred with
only a single inkstand. In conclusion the learned
Counsel submitted that the whole of
the prisoners
hid acted in concert with a common design. The
Sills knew full well that they were appending their
names to a forged will, the Wraggs had offered
money for the-obtaining of a forged signature of the
deceased, R idbourne knew that Mr. Jackson never
made a will, yet she c'mnsented to a will being
forged in her favour, and Oldershaw had been the
principal mover in the transaction, having
made the female Radbourne his dupe. From all
thesurrounding circumstances of the case, the learned
counsel said it was clear that the prisoners had con-
spired together in the forging and uttering of the
will in question, and without entering into the
minor details, which would occupy too much time,
he should proceed to call the evidence.
A large number of witnesses were called, showing
that the deceased always refused with great perti
nacity to make a will, that the existeece of any such
document was not known until some time after the
funeral of Mr. Jackson, and the facts in connection
with the part the six prisoners took-in the prepara-
tion and execution of the alleged forged will were
proved in evidence.
The case for the prosecution occupied all day, and
was not concluded when the report was despatched.

'OLIVE INTELLIGENCE.—March 17.

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- MANSION-HOUSE —Mr. James Hill and Mr.
• Thomas Brough, coal factors, carrying on business
I at 28, St. Mary-at-hill, appeared before the Lord
Mayor, in answer to a summons which had been
issued at the instance of Messrs. Harrison and Co.,
owners of the Ratcliffe Colliery, near Newcastle-Pon-
Tyne, and which charged them with having, a,
agents of Messrs. Harrison and Co., converted t
their own use two bills of exchange of the re§pec•ive
sums of 1001. 13s. 6d. and 1001., which bad benn
entrusted to them for a specific purpoSe.
Mr. Sleigh appeared in support of the prosecu-
tion ; and. Mr. nobler attended on the part of the
defendants.
Mr. Hobler asked for an adjournment of the
case, on the ground that he hadonly been instructed
iu the matter.
Mr. Sleigh resiste I the application, Paying that
the summons bad Lean issued on the 6th inst , and
that the defendants had therefore had plenty of
time to instruct any professional adviser upon their
behalf. In addition to this witnesses were in at-
tendance
from Newcastle and from several banking
houses. ,

•
The Lord Mayor, after a short discussion said
that under all the circumstance 3 the case must be
at once gone into.

Mr. Sleigh—l have the honour to appear • here,
my Lord Mayor, to prosecute this charge against
the defendants; and it is a charge beyond all doubt
of the very greatest importance whether as regards
them or as regards the mercantile community ge-

nerally. The summons upon which they now
stand before you has been issued under that which
is known as the Bankers' or Factors' Act—an act
which was very much discussed in a late celebrated
case (that of Strahan, Paul, and Bates), and an act
which, amongst 4a4her things, enacts, "That if any
money, or security for the payment of money, shall
be entrusted to any banker, merchant, broker, at-
torney, or other agent, with any direction in writing
to apply such money or any part thereof, or the
proceeds or any part of the proceeds of such se-
curity, for any purpose specified in such .direction,
and he shall in violation of good faith, and contrary
to the purpose so specified, in anywise convert to
his own use or benefit such money, security, or
proceeds, or any part thereof respectively, every
such offender shall be guilty of a naisdemeanour.
That is the 7th and Bth Geo. IV., C. 29, s. 49.
There is a proviso in a subsequent portion of the
statute to which it is not necessary that I should
call your particular attention, except that it is in.-
tended to protect persons who have a proper lien
upon any such security from being criminally pro-
ceeded against. The prosecutors are the owners of
the Ratcliffe Colliery, at Warkworth, near New-
castle-on-Tyne—gentlemen of the highest respecta-
bility, and well-known in that part of the country;
and the defendants have been for some time carry-
ing on business, trading under the firm of James
Hill and Co., as coal factors and agents for colliers
in the north of England, at 28, St. Mary-at-Hill.
The Lord Mayor—The Coal Exchange is at the
corner of St. Mary-at-Hill. Messrs. Hill and Co.,
of the Coal Exchange, are gentlemen of the highest
character and respectability, and it ought to be
made known that the present charge is not against
them.
I Mr. Sleigh continued—lt is perhaps as well that
I should shortly narrate the course of business
adopted as regards the owners of collieries in the
north of England and their agents in London.
Coals are sent to London and consigned to those
persons, whoare either the purchasers or the agent,
selling them on commission for the principals in
the north. An account current is kept between
the parties—a credit and debit in the usual way—
and from time to time the principals in the north
draw upon their agents in London bills of exchange
for proximate amounts. The drafts are accepted
by the agents in London. They are in the usual
way paid at maturity, and go into the account cur-
rent. If they pay more than they owe the balance
goes to their credit ; if they pay les the parties on
the other side are debited. It appearsthat in Feb.
in the present year there became due a draft upon
the defendants, drawn by the prosecutors for 3501.
It was dated Newcastle-on-Tyne, 20th Nov., 1856,
and was at three months. Consequently, in the
ordinary course of business it would arrive at ma-
turity on 23d Feb., 1857. A few days before this
draft became duo Mr. Harrison ha" spened to be in
London, and bad an interview with one of the de-
fendants, and in consequence of what then took
place he on his return to Newcastle remitted to the
defendants two bills of exchange—one upon Messrs.
Coutts and Co., for 1001. 13s. 6d., and another upon
the Bank of England for 1001.—which were
to be appropriated towards a purpose men-
tioned in a letter which will hereafter be' put
in evidence, but in violation of good faith they
cash?d the bills, they paid the money into their
bankers, and drew cheques in favour of various
people for the amount. The consequence was that
when the bill for 3501. became due there were "no
effects." Under all the circumstances it will be for
the Court to say whether the defendants have not
been guilty of a misappropriation of securities en-
trusted to them for a particular purpose.
Mr. John Harrison, one of the prosecutors, was
then sworn, and said—The defendants carry on
business at 20, _St. Mary-at-hill, as agents and coal-
factors, and have been in the habit of acting as our
agents for the last 21 or 3 years. Our course of
business was for our firm to draw on the defendants
bills of exchange for amounts representing the value
of coals sent to London. Sometimes the drafts
would be under and sometimes they would exce d
the amount of coals sent. In Nov. last we drew a
bill of exchange upon the defendants for 3501.,
which became due on the 23d Feb. It was accepted
by the defendants, and was payable at Messrs.
Glyn's. Upon the 20th Feb. I remitted to the de-
fendants two bills of exchange, one for 1001. 13s. 6d.
on Messrs. Coutts and Co., the other for 1001. on
the Bank of England. Those three bills are now
before me. The bills for 100/ 138. 6i. and 1001.
were remitted to the defendants in a letter which I
wrote them. (The letter was read.) On the 25th
Feb. the bill for 350/. was returned to as disho-
noured, and we had to pay the amount. A few days
ago I attended a meeting of the d-fendauts' creditora
at which they were present. A day or two before the
meeting I saw both of them at their office, when some
Conversation took Place between us. I told them that
the bill for 3501., to pay which I bad sent them
2001. odd, had been return,- d to me, and that by
not paying it they had misappropriated my money.
I told them they would be obliged t) pay me the
2001. odd back again, or I must have them brought
up before the Lord Mayor. The defendant Brouvh
said he would. consult his s elicitor upon the subject.
The defendants both loft, and, upon their return,
Brough said that his solicitor had advised them to
pay the money back by all means. This was said
;11 Hill's presence. Brough afterwards gave me an
order upon hi's solicitor for the amount, but I d d
not got paid. At the meeting of creditors the ba-
bitties of the defendants were stated to be some.
thing like 1,7001., and the assets, which consisted
of book debts, about 3001. The indorsement on
the tills for 1001. and 1001. 13s. 6d., is in the hand-
writing of Brough.
Mr. Hobler having stated that he was not in a
situation to cross-examine the witnesses at present,
the further bearing of the charge was adjourned till
Thurgday next, the defendants entering into their
own recognisauces in 2501. each to appear on that
day.
John Ware and Anne Ware were charged with
having fought together in Threadneedle-street, in
a state of drunkenness.
A policeman said—l heard a desperate row in the
street, and saw the defendants, who are man and
wife, struggling together, the woman having one
arm round the man's neck, and punching him in
the face with the other hand. When I went up to
part them the woman turned upon we in a furious
manner and tore my coat, and they were then taken
to the station-house.
Alderman Hale—What account can you give of
yourselves 7
The man—l am very sorry for it. lam a tailor,
but I was never in such a place as this before.
Alderman—And what has your wife tasay ? She
appears to have been the worse of the two ?
The policernan—Sho was, by a great deal: When
she set her husband's nose bleeding she seemed dis-
posed to do the same forme.
The woman--I can only say we are very sorry
for it. We were in the station-house all night.
Alderman Hale—Well, I see that.the woman was
more culpable than the man, and I-discharge him ;
but I fine her ss. for being drunk, and ls. for tear,
ing the policeman's coat.

,BOW-STREET.--A young man, named Robert
Goodacre, formerly in the service of Mr. H. R.
Abrahams, surveyor, of Howard-street, Strand, was
charged with uttering several forged cheques at
Messrs. Drummond's bank, in Charing-cross. •
The prisoner, who made no defence, was com-
mitted for trial.

WESTINSTER— Rev. Mr. Borrode,
incumbentM of St. Mary's,T he
Toth!11-fields, waitedail on
the magistrate with reference to the young woman
who appeared at this court on Monday, complain-
ing that Mr. Borrodaile had refused to christen
her. Mr. Borrodaile stated that the girl had ben
in his national school, from which she was expelled
for ill-conduct. Some months ago 'she called on
h.m, and requested him to christen her, as she
wanted a certificate of baptism before she einigra.ted.
He told her that she would req&ra previous in-
struction and preparation, and offered to commu-
nicate with the clergyman of her parish. Tothis she
would not consent. On Monday morning she called
him with the same request, and was met by the
same offer, upon which s
•he appealed to the inn-
gistrate.

SOUTHWARK. —Caroline Grays arid Mary Ann
Scofield, two young females fashionably attired,
were brought up in custody charged with stealing
a purse containing two sovereigns, two half-sove-
reigns, five shillings, and ninepence, and two gold
rings, from the person of Eliza- Ann Ford. Both
prisoners are natives of Lancashire, and evidently
connected with a gang of swell thieves infeiting the
crowded threrouglifares of the metropolis.
The prosecutrix, a young lady residing at the
Hoy Inn, C eek-roa,l, Deptford, said that on the
previous afternoon, shortly after four o'clock, she
was poking in at a milliner's window in Newing-
ton-causeway. She had at that time her purse
and money safe in h. r dress pocket. While stand-
ing there a number of females surrounded her and
pushed rudely against her. A little girl came up
to her and told her one of the females had taken
someth;ng out of her pocket, Bdnd on feeling she
rni-sed her puree. The prisoners where just be-
hind her, and Grays was pointed out by the girl as
the person who had robbed her. Witness imme-
diately accused both of them, when Grays dropped
the purse, and they both ran away. Her purse
was picked up by a man and handed to her, when
she found the contents'eafe.
Thomas Shin, engineer, of Deptford, said he was
walking along rewnigton-causcway on the previous
afternoon, when ho saw the prisoners follow seve-
ral ladies, lift up their dresses and try their
pocke s. There ware about a dozen other females

Naval and Military intelligenle.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
n-Chief has signified to Major-General Breton,
commanding the South-West District, at Ports-
mouth, his intention of inspecting, one day this
week, on Southsea-common, the troops quartered
in Portsmouth Garrison who are under orders to
embark for China. Preparations are being made
to give eclat to the first official visit of the gallant
Duke to Portsmouth.
The Shannon, 51, Captain Peel, C. 8., V. C., &c.,
got away from Spithead under steam yesterday
morning, at a quarter before eight, for China, with
munitions of war, reinforcements of men, &c. When
a mile to the eastward of the Nab she made sail and
shaped her course down Channel under topsails,
jib, and foretopmast staysail, with a strong easterly
breeze. She was shortly out of sight.
The sailing sloop Electra, 14, Commander Mor-
ris, received counter orders on Monday evening to
those she had previously received to go into Ports-
mouth harbour to be paid off. She accordingly
discharged her freight, 14,176 ounces of gold, into
the steam tend& Sprightly to be landed, and then
sailed for Chatham to be paid off. She had on
board Mr. Williams (chief mate), Mr. Whiteman,
(second mate), and six hands, part of the crew of
the ship Lord George Boutin ck, of Liverpool, which
foundered in a heavy gale on the 22d of November
last off the Falkland Islands. The boat and those
in her got adrift from the ship, and having lip oars
could not regain the ship, and were compelled to
leave Captain Lind4ay, the steward, and two sea-
men on the wreck, the ship at the time lying on
her beam ends, in a heavy sea. For six days and
nights they drifted on the sea with no provisions or
water. On the morning of the seventh day the
men in the boat proposed to draw lots to sacrifice
one to save the others, but was fortunately pre-
vented carrying this horrible alternative into effect
by a sail heaving iu sight at 8.30 a.m., which proved
to be the brig Cuba, of London, Capt. Gray, whotook
the starving seamen on board, clothed, and otherwise
treated them with the greatest kindness, and pro-
ceeded with them to the Falklands,; six of the crew
there shipped in other vessels, the other six and
Messrs. Williams and Whitehead came to England
in the Electra, with the news of the catastrophe.
The Secretary of State for War has issued direc-
tions that the office of Paymaster of the British
depots and detachments s ationed at Chatham shall
be abolished after the Ist of April next, and the
staff kept up for that purpose discontinued. It. is
also ordered that, with the view of lessening the
great expenses now incurred in keeping up that de-
partment of the service, the whole of the troops on
the British establishment attached to the Provi-
sional Battalion shall be handed over to Captain J.
H. Matthews, Paymaster of the Invalid Depot at
Chatham.
Ths Loris of the Admiralty have sanctioned a
change of divisions between Captai)i W. R. Max-
well, of the Chatham division of Royal Marines,
and Captain P. M.
_C. Croker, of the Plymouth
division.
In consequence of the fatal accident which oc-
curred off Chatham dockyard on Saturday last by
the capsizing of the cutter from the Fantome, 12,
during a squall, when two seamen, name Thomp-
sett and Minton, were drowned, au order has been
issued that for the future no boats will be allowed
to use their sails when engaged in passing to and
fro between the vessels and the dockyard.
The officers belonging to the depots now stationed
at Chatham aro required to go through a course of
instruction in the use of the Enfield rifle, under
W. Nott, before proceeding to join the service com-
.panie4 (,f their corps in India and China.
The four c inapanie3 of Royal Artillery at Wool-
wich, under orders for China, have been reinforced
by a transfer of the required number of men
from the other battalions to fill up the vacancies.
The companies are now full strength, and the
whole of the men, having gone through medical at-
testation and been pronounced efficient for service,
are awaiting orders for embarkation. The other
six companies of artillery at Woolwich, under
orde-rs for Nova Scotia, Canada, Uad the Mauritius,
are likewise ready for departure.
The third of the new class of gunboats, the Leven
(two of which, the Algerine and the Lee, are ie a
forward state for service), arrived at Woolwich
yesterday morning from Northfleet. The fourth, to
be called the Slaney, will be launched and for-
warded to Woolwich for fitment to-day.
The paddlewheelstearn storeship Rhadamanthus,
Master Commander Browne, returned to Woolwich
yesterday morning from Portsmouth. She was ad-
mitted into basin, and is ordered to commence em-
barking steam machinery and boilers for the
western yard..
The paddlewheel steamer Spitfire, in ba:in
,at
Woolwich, after a thorough readjustment of ma-
chinery and sundry repairs, is now ready for re-
commission.

The steam storeship Hesper, in Woolwich basin,
is ordered to be fitted with Griffith's patent screw-
propeller, which possesses the advantage of enabling
its angle to be altered at sea, so as to place the
blades in line with the keel when under sail, wi,h-
out the necessity of unshipping the screw. To
give her as much advantage as possible of canvass
she is ordered to be rigged barque fashion. She is
intended to convey the guns and war stores belong-
ing to the gun-boats under orders for China.
Some plates of newly-discovered metal resem-
bling ordinary steel, and denominated by the paten-
tee homogeneous metal, have been introduced at
Woolwich dockyard, under the sanction of the
Lords of the Admiralty,. and are ordered to be put
through the usual test for proving the strength of
metal, and to verify is competency for the pur-
po4) of making ships' boilers. This' metal has the
advantage over malleable iron of being considerably
lighter, and much more durable.
Mr. R. H. Pearson, of Inar Majesty' ship Pem-
broke, has been appointed First Assistrnt-Engineer
to her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, at Hull, vice
Mr. Matthews, who exchanges.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :--Lieutenant J. W. Arm.-
strong, to the Cormorant ; Spencer Chapman,
naval cadet, to the Furious; Johu M. Jiockley,
mister in command, to the Volcano ; and
Pierce Mansfield, acting assistant-surgeon, to the
Waterloo".

ROYAL PANOPTICON.

On Monday a meeting of the shareholders in this
company was held at the London Tavern, for the
purpose of taking measures for the protection of
their interests as against the mortgagees of the Pro-
perty, who are desirous of disposing of the whole
of it by auction. The chair was taken by Dr.
Martyn.
The SECRETARY then read a report prepared by
Mr. Clarke, the promoter of the institution, from
which it appeared that receipts for rents and admis-
s:ons from the 18th of March (tbe day the institu-
tion was opened) to the 30th of June, 1854,
amounted to 3,917/. 15s. 5d., which was so satis-
factory to the council that they declared a dividend
at the rate of 4 per cent. upon the paid-up capital.
In June, 1855, however, there was on the profit
and loss account a balance of 2,055/. 19s. 3 ; the
receipts for the entire year having been only 8,548/.
2s. 7d. This state of things led to the final close ,of
the institution on the 31st of July, 1856. The
next mouth a special meeting was held, when the
council informed the proprietary that 25,0001. was
necessary to liquidate outstan ling liabilities, and
to leave a-balance of 3,0001. in hand to carry on the
institution. Failing in raisin; this sum the ac--
counts stood—liabilities, 117,7031., the assets con
tiding of the building land and irs. contents valued
at 30,000/., showing a loss of 87,703/. The mort-
gagees were proceeding to sell off the whole concern
when they were, at the suit of Mr. Clarke, re-
strained by an injunction from the Court of Chan-
cery, Vice-Chancellor Kindersley holding that a
power to a trustee to mortgage CH not give him
the power to sell ; and, a fortiori, did not give
him authority to give another the power to sell.
That injunction was afterwards removed, on the
ground that, as Mr. Clarke had been a party to the
mortgage he was not competent to. seek relief from
his own act. It was, however, still open to any
shareholder not a member of the council to apply
for its renewal.

After a long discussion, it was then resolved that
the sale of the institution by the mortgages would
be illegal ; that it was desirable to resuscitate the
icstitution under the Limited Liability Act ; and
a committee was appointed to carry out the views
of the meeting.

with them acting in concert. Witue3s followed
them and saw Grays lift Miss Ford's dress, while
the other covered-her with her muff, and as soon as
they were detected they ran .off. Grays was taken
on the spot, and witness followed the other to a
house in the London-road, where she was secured.
He was positive they were both connected with the
robbery.

Henry Lowden, painter, of Deptford, said he saw
Grays drop the purse, which he, picked up and
handed to the prosecutrix.
Police-constable 123 P said he pursued Scofield
into a house up a court, in the Loudon-road, and,
after a desperate resistance, in which she scratched
his face and injured him very much, he succeeded
in taking her into custody. She was searched 'at
the station-house, and on her was found 2/. Is.
11d. in gold and silver.
The prisoners, who asked for the assistance of an
attorney to defend them, were remanded until
Thursday. They declared that they were strangers
to each other.