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then sitting on the bench, declared that letter to be
a forgery.
Th following is a copy of the letter :

50, Eaton-square, S.W.

" To the Matron of the Servants" Home.
"Airs. Clark,—Rosina Dyer has lived in my ser-
vice as lady's maid for a short time. During that
period I found her fully competent for the situation,
strictly honest, sober and industrious, also most
obliging (these words were underlined), therefore
if quite convenient, will you kindly provide her a
piece in the Home until she can obtain a situation,
being one worthy of the benefits of the institution ?
—I am, Madam, respectfully yours,
"June 26, 1859." "F. COTTERELL.
Mr. Cotterell said that letter was a forgery, and
the assertions untrue.
The Assistant-Judge said it appeared to him, and
he thought no reasonable person would entertain
any doubt about it, that the prisoner was one of a
mcst dangerous class of persons, against whom the
community mnst be protected. There could be no
doubt that by means of a forged letter she procured
admission to this Home, which was a valuable in-
stitution for honest and well-conducted young
women ; while there she committed a cruel and
heartless robbery upon a poor servant, by taking
out of her box all she possessed, and then went to
this gentleman's house, Mr. Levien's, on pretence
of getting a situation, and there committing this
robbery. For the sake of domestic security, and
the protection of the public, he felt it to be his duty
to pass upon her a sentence calculated to deter others
fi:om following her example—that sentence was
that she be kept in penal servitude for three years:
The prisoner walked from the bar without mak-
ing any remark.
It was suggested by Mr. Taylor that a portion of
the money found should be given to the prosecutrix
in the first case, who was loft penniless by the pri-
soner robbing her.
The Assistant-Judge said the money was clearly
Mr. Levien's.

Mr. Levien said he would give the poor girl £2
of it willingly.
Tho Assistant-Judge and the jury said that was
very kind of him.

The pawnbroker's duplicate of the watch was
ordered to be given to Mr. Levien, and the Assistant
Judge said, perhaps the person of whom it was
bought would not object to return the £5 on the
watch being restored, if it were wished.
The policeman, Edward White, was then re-
called.

The Assistant-Judge said the grand jury had
called the attention of the Court to his conduct in
this case, which they considered to have been most
meritorious and vigilant. In that he entirely con-
curred, and regretted, it was not a case in which he
could order any reward, but he was entitled to the
thanks of the Court for the mannEr in which he
had acted, and he gave them to him.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Nov. 16.

BOW-STREET.—A notorious prostitute named
Martha Brown, was brought before Mr. Jardine on
a charge of robbery and assault.
- The prosecutor, a respectably-dressed man, who
said that his name was John White, and that he
was a builder at Holloway, deposed that he met the
prisoner in Oxford-street, between two and three
o'clock that morning, and accompanied her to a
house of ill-fame in Charles-street, Drury-lane,
where he treated her to some drink. They then
went to a bedroom up-stairs, where they laid down
on the bed. On rising he missed his watch and
chain and all the money he had about him. He
taxed her with robbing him, but said if she would
give him back his watch and chain she might keep
the money. She then "began to bully him," and
endeavou:ed to get away. As he would not let her
leave the room, she took up a poker and beat him
about the head with it till he fell senseless on the
floor. When he recovered he called in a police-
man and gave her iu charge. While he was insen-
sible she had full opportunity to dispose of the pro-
perty.

The constable stated that the prosecutor was
much agitated, and appeared faint from loss of
blood. At first he (the constable) thought he was
the worse for liquor, but he believed that wax not
the case.

Mr. Jardine said that his conduct had been very
foolish. It .was difficult to understand how any
man in his sober senses could trust himself in such
a den in such company. The case must be adjourned
to give the police an opportunity of tracing the
property.

LAMBETIL—TIIE CASE OF ROBBERY AND
DESERTION.—Thomas William Clark, a private
soldier in the 9th Lancers, and also servant to one
of the officers of that regiment, who has been in
custody since Sunday last on a charge of desertion
and stealing £43 belonging to Mr. Ormerod, was
brought before Mr. Elliott for final examination.
Mr. Oliver Ormered deposed that he was a cornet
in the 9th Lancers, at present stationed at Exeter,
that on the morning of the 11th inst. he was on re-
gimental duty, and was informed that the prisoner,
who was servant to a brother officer, was missing
from his quarters. Soon after his (Mr. Ormerod's)
servant came to him and asked him if he had taken
the money out of his desk, and he replied he had not,
and on subsequently examining the desk he dis-
covered that his money, £43 7s. 6d. was gone. The
money consisted of six £5 notes, and gold and
silver.

Mr. Elliott—Was the desk in which the money
was placed locked ?

M. Ormerod—lt was, sir, but the keys were left
by mistake on the table.
Mr. Elliott—Have you got the numbers of the
notes ?

Mr. Ormerod—No, sir. I tried to get them at
the Provincial Bank at Exeter, where I received
them, but they told me they never kept the num-
bers of notes paid away.
Steer, 31 L, the officer who apprehended the pri-
soner, here informed the magistrate that on search-
ing him he found on his person .E 3-1 13s. 2-id., and
of this amount there. were six bank notes of £5
each, and these he (the prisoner) acknowledged to
belong to Cornet Ormerod, and the same he had
taken from that gentleman's room.
Mr. -Elliott decided on sending the prisoner to
Exeter, to be dealt with there as the officers of the
regiment might decide on, and he was removed from
the court for that purpose.

SOUTHWARK.—A DISNONEST AND WICKED
MOTllElL—Catharine Bray, an old woman, was
brought before Mr. Combo for final examination,
charged with stealing two sovereigns, the property
of Mary Andrews.
The proiecutrix, a coal dealer in Mitre-street,
Broadwall, said that one of the prisoner's daughters
married her son, and the two latter lived in her
house. Another younger daughter also came there,
and last week the prisoner was attending the elder
in her confinement. On Tuesday evening, the Bth,
she had £lB. 10s. in gold in a tin box locked in the
drawers in the sitting-room, and the prisoner came
in rather the Worse for liquor, and sat down with
her. About ha►f an hour afterwards witness had oc-
casion to leate the house for 20 minutes, and on her
return she saw her quit the room with the younger
daughter. As soon. as they were gone witness dis-
covered that the drawers were opened, and that a
padlock had been broken off the tin box, and two
sovereigns abstracted. She instantly suspected
the girl, and. sent for her with the view of
giving her into custody for the robbery ; but
having some compaSsion on her youth, she declined
doing so. However, from what afterwards tran-
spired, she gave the prisoner into custody.
Catherine Bray, the younger daughter, was
called and sworn, when she said that, on the even-

ing in question, hearing that her mother was tipsy
in Mrs. Andrews's parlour, she thought it best to
• get her upstairs to her sister's room. She accord-
ingly persuaded her to accompany her, and when
they got upstairs she found her mother hal two
sovereigns in her pocket. Witness told her that
she could not have come honestly by them, and she
hoped she had not been robbing Mrs. Andrews,
when the latter called her down and charged her
with the theft. She denied it, and eventually told
about the two sovereigns she had seen in her
mother's possession. A police-constable was then
sent for, and her mother was given into custody.
Witness here cried bitterly and said that she urged
her mother to confess having stolen the money and
to restore it to Mrs. Andrews. She, however,
denied- having taken it, thereby making the sus-
picion still rest upon her.
Police-constable 54 L, an old and efficient officer
said he took the prisoner to the station-house, when
she was searched, but nothing was found on' her,
but singular to say, when he was passing along
Webber-street some time afterwards, he picked up
a small roll of paper, in which was two sovereigns.
He had passed that spot in taking the prisoner to
the station-house, and she must have dropped them.
Mr. Combo thought it very singular that they
had not been picked up before in such a public
thoroughfare. He then asked the prisoner whether
she would be tried by him or go to the sessions.
The prisoner preferred bci: g tried by his worship,
and pleaded guilty to the charge.
Mr. Combe told her that she was a wicked old
woman by committing a theft at her friend's house,
and allowing suspicion to attach to her young and
innocent daughter, who was consequently com-
pelled to bear witness against her to prove her
innocence. He sentenced her to three months'
hard labour in Wandsworth House of Correction.

WESTMINSTER.— DISTRESSING CASE. A
middle-aged woman, of superior deportment and

address, whose attenuated form and features but
too plainly indicated severe privation, brought a
letter to the magistrate from Mr. Neath, a City
missionary, recommending her as a deserving object
for pecuniary assistance.
Applicant, who gave her name and address,
Hannah Maria Connor, 95, Little CadoganTlace,
Chelsea, said that she, her husband, and three young
children were at present in the deepest distress.
She and her husband were both natives of Bath,
which they had left 12 years ago, and her husband
had maintained his family scantily, but honestly,
from the small stipend he received as clerk and
messenger in different situations. His means of
living, however, were very precarious, as he was
very often out of employment, his engagements un-
fortunately being with new companies, which, after
vuy brief existences, were heard no more of. He
had had but a few days employment during the last
three months, and was now, with his family, re-
duced to the owest depth of poverty. She produced
credentials to the magistrate, showing the high
character her husband bore.

Mr. Paynter inquired whether they had received
any parish relief.
The poor woman replied in the negative.
Mr. Paynter observed that cases of general dis-
tress, as hers evidently was, were not ordinarily
relieved from the poor-box, but were referred to
the parish officers. As she had, however, been
highly recommended by a gentleman acquainted
with her case, ho would give her 7s.
Applicant expressed her thanks to the magis-
trate for his kindness.

HAMMERSMITH.—MATRIMONIAL RETELA-
TIONS.—Thomas Denman, aged 60, who was de-
scribed as a hawker of stationery, was brought be-
fore Mr. Ingham on a warrant, charged with run-
ning away from his wife, Elizabeth, and leaving her
chargeable to the parish of Kensington.
The case was a singular one. Mr. Madden, the
relieving officer, said the wife had been in the work-
house several times, and on the last occasion from
the 29th of August down to the present time,
whereby the parish had incurred an expense of £5.
The son, a young man about 33 years of age,
was called to prove that he had never known his
father contribute anything towards the support of
his mother.

The prisoner here said that his son had only
known him within the last few years, and then
only by being pointed out to him.
The son further said that his father was now
living with another woman, and ho had heard of
his burying a former female with whom he had
cohabited.

Mr. Madden said the prisoner had been living
with several females since he left his wife.
The prisoner stoutly denied that he ever left his
wife. He asserted that she left him in the year
1527.

The wife, an elderly woman, whose face was
much disfigured from an accident to her nose, said
she was married to the prisoner in 1824, and he
had not lived with her for 33 years. He went
with another woman at the time she was pregnant
with her son, and he had not lived with her since.
In answer to questions she admitted that she had
never made any application to him for assistance.
Whenever she met hun he always avoided her.
The prisoner declared that his wife left hitn as be
had described, and he made arrangements, in 1829,
for her to return, but she did not. This waS the
third time she had left him, and if her prospects in
life were blighted it was not his fault. Whenever
he met her she would tell him that she did not
want anything of him, only for him to say that she
was his wife.

Acres, the warrant-officer, said he took the pri-
soner into custody, at No. 15, Victoria-street, Pad-
dington, on Tuesday morning, where he found him
living with a woman. She was out at the time, but
he saw that they had a very nice home.
The prisoner said he had no means of his own ;
he was dependent entirely upon his friends. He
then accused his wife of having cohabited with an
old man.

This the wife stoutly denied.
Mr. Ingham asked him if he had any witnesses.
The prisoner said he could produce one. He had
not had sufficient time, as ho had been taken off
so suddenly.
Mr. Ingham said he would remand him for a
week, to give him an opportunity to produce his
witnesses.

_HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The deaths registered in London, which were
1,182 in the week that ended Nov. 5, were 1,051 in
the week that ended last Saturday. In the 10
years 1849-58 the average number of deaths in the
weeks corresponding with last week was 1,068 ; but
as the deaths now returned occurred in an increased
population, they should be compared with the aver-
age raised in proportion to the increase, namely,
with 1,174. Last week was therefore so far favour-
able to health that the deaths in it were less by 123
than the number which would have occurred if the
average rate of mortality for the early part of No-
vember had prevailed.

The deaths from bronchitis continue to increase;
in the three weeks they were 58, 90, and 102 ;
those from pneumonia had risen to 73 in the pre-
vious week, but they declined to 60 last week.
Whooping-cough has also declined to 14. Thero
were 21 from small-pox. Scarlatina maintains a
high mortality, and is now the most fatal in
the zymotic class ; 98 deaths are referred to it,
and eight to diphtheria. Scarlatina was fatal in
11 cases in Pancras and in 14 in Islington. Two
,children died of suppressed scarlatina and mumps,
at 2, Ship-street, St. George-in-the• East; Two in-
fants died by murder or manslaughter, 3 were suf-
focated in bed, 2 died from being neglected at birth.
Four persons hanged themselves, among whom was
a boy only 14 years of age.
Of bricklayers 1 did in the week, of bricklayers'
wives 1, of bricklayers' children 5; of carpenters 8
died in the week, of carpenters' wives 4, of carpen-
ters' children 7 ; of painters 8 died,. of painters'
wives 7, of painters' children 9 ; of plasterers' chil-
dren 1 died.
Last week the births of 918 boys and 930 girls,
in all 1,848 children, were registered in London.
In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1849-
58, the average number was 1,592.

METROPOLITAN WATERS IN OCT., 1859.
The following table of analyses of the waters
used in London has been prepared from his ex-
periments by Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson,
F.R.S., of St. Thomas's Hospital. For the sake
of comparison the composition of one of the un-
wholesome shallow wells of the metropolis is added,
and likewise that of the Clyde, the old supply to
Glasgow, and that of Loch Katrine, the new water
supply to that city. Although the Clyde was
only half as impure as the Thames the inhabitants
have cheerfully submitted to the expense of
obtaining their water from a distant and pure
source, rather than use the water of the river close
at hand, contaminated as it is with the sewage of
the upper districts :

Total impurity Organicim
per gallon. purity.
grs. or deg. gre. or deg.
0.0 0.0

Distilled Water
Loch Katrine water new supply
to Glasgow
Clyde, Old supply to Glasgow 9.5?
Well, Church-street, Camberwell 112.56
TIIAMES COMPANIES.
Chelsea 11.56
Southwiik • 17.20
GramLJuuction 174J6
WestAnddlesex 17.52
Lambeth
OTHER. COMPANIES.
New River
East London
Kent • • 23.32 2•04
The table is read thus—Loch Ratline water contains in the
gallon 214 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of
which '8 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal oriel n.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.022 in.
The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on the
last four days. The readings rose from 29.22 in. on
Sunday to 30.56 in. on Friday, being the lowest and
highest in the week. The mean temperature of the
air in the week was 43.7 deg., which is less by 0.9
deg. than the average of the same week in 43 years
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The mean daily
temperature was below the average on the last four
days. On Sunday its excess above the average was
8.7 deg. ; on Thursday its depression was 7.3 deg.
The highest point attained by the thermometer in
the shade was 60.4 deg. on Sunday ; its lowest
point was 29 deg., or 3 deg. below the freezing
point of water on Thursday. The range in the week
was therefore 31.4 deg. The mean daily range was
13 deg.; the range on Wednesday was only 8.7
deg. The difference between the mean dew-point
temperature and air temperature was 6.6 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 78. The
mean temperature of the water of the Thames was
48.8 deg., which is 5.1 deg. above that of the air.
On Thursday the thermometer on the grass fell to
20 deg. At the beginning of the week the wind
blew from the south-west, afterwards from the
north, and on the last two days from the south-
east. Rain fell to the amount of 0.52 in., nearly .
all of which fell on Sunday. Sunday was
stormy ; the wind blew with an average velocity of
27 miles an hour, and with an average pressure of
61b. on the square foot, and at night there was
thunder and lightning. Fog prevailed on the morn-
ings of Thursday and Friday. On the former day
the temperature of the Thames was about 3 deg.
above the highest temperature of the air, and 10
deg. above the lowest.

0.8
1.08
13.44

2.08
1'64
016
I'2o
110

TEE MERROPOLITAN GAS QUESTION.

Formal notice has been given of an application to
Parliament during the next session for an act for
regulating the supply of gas withia the limits of
the metropolis. The bill will contain provisions
for regulating the quality and illuminating power.:
the mode in which, the pressure under which, anu,
the price at which the gas shall be supplied, and
the
a°
terms and conditions of the supply. For reg."'
lating the voluntary and compulsory supply of g
and meters, and the amount and payment and re-
covery of gas rents and meter rents. For regula-
ting the districts of the gas companies, and the
limits within which the gas shall be supplinq• For
regulating the laying, repairing, and altering
Forf
gas pipes and works connected therewith.
regulating the accounts of gas companies, and pr°:.
vidi▪
ng for the inspection, audit, and publication of
their accounts. For regulating the capital and bo. r"
rowing powers of gas companies, and for limiting
thei▪ r profits and dividends and rates of dividends
and rates of interest, and for altering and reducing
their respective rates, rents, and charges, and to
create exemptions from the payment of such rate%
rents, and charges. For regulating the powers
•
gas companies with respect to contracts. For regli
lati▪
ng the powers of gas companies with respect to
the transfer of their works, property, and Powers
to each other. For conferring powers for regula-
ting and controlling and contracting with gas corn
panics on the Home-office, the Board of Trade, the
Metropolitan Board of Works, the City of Louder!,
vestiges, district Boards of Works, and other public
and local authorities. For conferring on the Me-
tropolitan Board of Works, the City of London!
vestries, district Boards of Works, and other 1c?,.1
authorities, and on the metropolitan gas compsole.:
powers. for making structural arrangements for facl_
!dating the laying, inspecting, repairing, and
mg of gas pipes, meters, lamps, and other apparatus,
and for lessening the inconveniences resulting from
the breaking up of the public streets, and Powell;
for making and carrying into effect contracts for
th
purpose. Power will also bo sought to enable tht
Metropolitan Board of Works, the corporation 01,
the City of London, vestries, district Boar 01.
Works, and other local bodies and persons, to et
tract with the owners of any gas or other Nor.;
for a supply of gas, or other luminating power, ill
the public and other lamps, and to triable sue,o
alter
bodies and persons, either jointly or separately, to
purchase and acquire works and conveniences 10;
such purposes, and to enter into contracts and
agreements in relation thereto, and to enable thou
to levy rates and borrow money for such purPooe•