The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

ANGLO-GERMAN NOBILITY.

The Almanack Imperial for this year, published
at Vienna, contains the follo,,ving list of British sub-
jects ennobled in the ancient Germanic or Holy
Roman Empire ,

William fiasil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh ; said to
be descended from a branch of the Imperial House of
Hapsburgh ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
Neither patent nor date extant.

Henri- Benedict Arundel!, Baron Arundell of
Wardour ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
Creation 1601.

Josef, Count de is Feld ; naturalised in England ;
descended from the ancient counts of that name in
Allace, but his ancestor created a Count of the Holy
Roman Empire after tke battle of Zenta, 1697.
George Spencer Churchill, Duke of _Marlborough.
His ancestor created a Prince of the Holy Roman
Empire after the battle of Blenheim, 1708.
Jerome Count de Sails, naturalised in England;
descended from the ancient counts of that name in the
Gritons, but his ancestor created a Count of the Holy
Roman Empire, 1748.

Peter Leopold Louis Cowper, Earl of Cowper. Ills
ancestor created a Count of the Holy Roman Em-
pire, 1758.

Francois Taaffe, Viscount Taaffu ; Chamberlain to
the Emperor ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
Creation 1754.

Horace St. Paul (Barsheltua) ; a Count of the Holy
Roman Empire. Creation, 1786.
Th Arias Froemantle (Bari...heltus).
Baron of Austria, 1809.

Created a

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Connected with the Motrrain tunnel of the Man-
chester Corporation Waterworks, which tunnel is to
be the great conduit for the water through the hill,
several vertical shafts have been sunk, by which the
workmen in different parts of the tunnel descend and
ascend to and from their labour, and up which the
soil excavated is removed. Oae of these shafts,
which has a depth of nearly 200 feet, was the scene of
an unfortunate accident yesterday morning to two of
the inspectors of the tunnel. The inspectors, Messrs.
Johwitolyneux and Robert Taylor, were about to
inspect the progress of the works below, and for that
purpose got into, the tub, which was suspended by a
flat rope and lowered and raised by a
Tsther-engine,
placed near the mouth of the shaft
engineer,
who we understand has only
recently -been em-
pl,yed there, started the engine
tood.escend, called
quick, and
the inspectors, as they began to
out to him to check its scpee:lked It Instead of
tahbaruptly
this with care and caution, he hee
and at once, and Min consequence was
sudden check broke the large cog-wheel, and the drum
the
on which the rope works having no longer any resisting
power, the weight of the two inspectors caused the
tub to descend with great velocity all the way to the
bottom of the shaft—nearly 200 feet. Of course the
concussion, when the tub struck against the bottom,
was most violent, and both the inspectors received
very serious injuries. They were placed in the tub
in a helpless and almost insensible condition, and the
tub was raised by means of a crab and windlass, and
the sufferers at once conveyed to their own homes,
where they were promptly attended by several sur-
geons of the neighbourhood, Messrs. Pomfret, Side-
bottom, and Ferneley. These gentlemen, on exa-
mining into the nature or the injuries inflicted, foand

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that Mr. Molyneux had one leg severely fmetured,
and that his whole frame was also suffering greatly
from the concussion. Mr. Taylor had three of his
ribs fractured, and he was also suffering internally
from the effects of the concussion upon the system.
We are glad to learn, however, that neither of the
sufferers was considered to be in any immediate
danger. The engineer has been apprehended, and
will be detained in custody to await inquiry.—Man-
chests( Guardian.

LARGE SEIZURE OF BASE COIN.
APPREHENSION OF A GANG Or COINEES.—In
consequence of the many complaints from shopkeepers
and others which have of late reached the police, as
to the immense quantity of base coin in circulation
in Manchester, the chief superintendent cf police,
Mr. Beswick, had fur some weeks past been actively
engaged in attempting to detect the whereabouts of a
notorious gang which he had every reason to believe
was located in the town. To insure the detection he
put himself in communication with the superinten-
dent of the London and North-Western Railway
station here, having reason to believe that the spurious
coin in circulation in Manchester (chiefly half crown
and crown-pieces) was forwarded by railway from
head-quarters in London to one or more accomplices
here. Yesterday (Friday) morning, acting on some
intelligence brought to him by three of tis officers
(ll:ptctor Buckley and his assistants), who had been
watching at the London-road Railway station, he went
to an eating-house in Lever-street, and there appre-
hended three prisoners, named Wm. Brown, John
Thompson, and Louisa Thompson. On visiting the
house he found Brown in bed, when he placed him in
charge of an officer, and passing through that room
into an adjoining one he arrested Thompson and his
wife, who sat conversing by the fire. In the lap of the
female he found a base half-crown, and underneath
the bed-clothes, near to where Thompson sat, he
found a lot more, wrapped up in papers containing
20 each, in all what purported to be of the value of
141. 10s. After securing the parties, Mr. Beswick
gave orders to his men to make a thorough search
over the place, when Thompson said it was no use,
they (the police) had got all in the house. The
brown paper in which the base coin had been
wrapped, and which had only come by railway from
London that morning, was found in the room di-
rected to Thompson, in care of the person keeping
the eating-house in Lever-street. The coins, which
are the best of the kind we ever saw, are most admir-
able counterfeits, and would indeed puzzle many to
discover that they are base. They are principally of
the reigns of George 111. and IV., and bear date
1817-19, and George IV., 1826. They are, we be-
lieve, made of zinc and bismuth, which latter metal
makes them ring like genuine coins, and they have
been afterwards coated with silver by the electro-
plating process. As a proof that the spurious coins
are difficult of detection, we may mention that a gen-
tleman whom our reporter met in Mr. Beswick's office
was comparing one of his own genuine half-crown
pieces with a handful of base ones, when the lot got
so mixed together that be could not pick out his own
coin, and was obliged to leave it with Mr. Beswick
until that gentleman had leisure to find it for him.—
Manchester Paper.

DIFFUSION OF DEMOCRACY IN
THE FRENCH PROVINCES.

The Journal des Debats publishes an interesting
letter from a gentleman just returned from a tour in
the French provinces, containing an account of the
rapid spread of democratic and social opinions in those
parts. The writer begins by deploring the folly of
the Conservative or anti-Republican party in wasting
their time and provoking internal dissensions by mi-
serable dynastic disputes and old worn-out contests
of factions. " You forget," he says, " that in order
to have a king you must possess a kingdom, and that
France, before asking herself whether she shall don a
crown or a Phrygian cap, ought, in the first instance,
to assure herself that she has a head on her shoulders."
He goes on to denounce the apparent tranquillity
which France now enjoys as utterly delusive. "We
have not changed ; only let the National Guard have
three months' repose and we shall again hear them
raise the cry of Vice la Reforme r—we shall once
more beho:d them giving 100,000 votes to M. de
Caussidiere." Describing the state ef public opinion
in the provinces, the writer pourtrays a
picture in the highest degree discouraging
to the supporters of " order." "I am only now
translating what I have heard in the heart ef our prc-
vinces, and I can assure you that the inhabitants of
those districts are far more attentive to the progress
of the demoralization of the rural districts than to the
process of fusion on the question of La Plata. It is,
doubtless, a good thing not to be an alarmist, but it
is still a better not to be blind to the truth. Now, it
is certain that the work of destruction has recom-
menced more actively than ever in the bowels of the
earth ; that the same hands are digging the mine
anew under the feet of society, and that the Propa-
gandists, hunted out of the towns, have transferred
their strength to the rural districts. They enter and
infiltrate their doctrines through all their pores; they
sow in every thatched roof, in every truss of hay, in
every sheaf of corr, the invisible seed of their poison ;
they penetrate everywhere with the very instruments
of the Government, with the instructor, the agent,
and the garde-champetre. The Alnzazzach, become a
dictionary of atheism and materialism, is everywhere
replacing the catechism of infancy in the hands of
the peon It is not the small treatises of the Aca-
demy of Moral Sciences that will supplant it ; they are
too well written. The doctors of destruction' go to
work more brutally. They have recognised the
fearful force of the axiom and the amphorism ; they
plant in the mind masses of monstrous proverbs which
we re-echo ourselves in contending against them,
and which, so to speak, carry with them their own
memoria technica." And whence (asks the writer)
are the forces to be derived for the resistance of this
propaganda ? Authority and unity are nowhere to
be found ; the Assembly is split up into sections,
and its power is a nullity. The party of order is
dispirited, and has no heart for the struggle. "Do
you remember," concludes the writer—" Do you re-
member the words of the ancient orator quoted by
Mirabeau, Catiline is at your gates, and yet you de-
liberate 1' Just so; barbarism is at our gates, and
yet we are divided and disputing with each other.
Believe what I say, you must not cease either to
unite, to hold together, or to act. Society has not
changed during the last two years, and it is still the
same mass of combustible material to which a cynical
braggart one day boasted that he could set fire with
a lucifer match !"

DRY PROCESS OF PREPARING FLAx.—ln the
Scar 1810 a new method cf dressing tint is as patented
by which the woody matt ;r was seperat id from the fibre
without steeping it, by meals t f mechanical arttou,
and then the flax was bleached by simply washing it
in warm water. It would appcar that the colouring
matter is not chemically combined with the fibrous
matter while the plant is vegitating, or ef.,er it is pulled,
but that the chemical combination takes place while the
plane is steeped in water. The object cf this steeping is
to induce a fermentation, which loosens and destroys a
cemeet which bound the fibres c f flex to each ether and
ti the wood. The f_rmeetation weakens considerably
the strength of the flax fibre•, and even destroys many
of their. This dry preparation, therefore, if it be prac-
ticable on a large scale, would be a prodigious improve-
ment. It would render the flax fibres much stronger,
it would increase their quality, and it would save the
expense cf the materials employed in bleaching the
linen. It has been stated that the dry process bas uni-
formly failed of success, when tried in Ireland. If
this account be true, it is extremely difficult
to explain it. About the time when the patent was
taken out the process was performed by workmen,
under the direction of the patentee, at Old Bow, near
Lot.don, with the most complete success, nit merely
upon handfuls of flax, but upon whole fields of it. In-
deml, the whole is so extremely simple, that it is diffi-
cult to explain how it should fail, if properly conducted.
It is, then fore, highly probable that the prejudices cf
the Irish, with which it would have had to contend at
that day, were too powerful for it; but, that as soon as
it shall meet w:th fair play, it will be found just as
practicable, and certainly much cheaper and better,
ttaa the methods at present in use. It is during the
ate e?, thee, that flax acquires its permanent dark
colour; and four processes in bleaching are requisite to
restore it t) its original white colour, or to separate the
colouring matter, which is chemically combined with the
fibre of the flax.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday even-
ing last, a young man employed on the Buckingham-
shire lia.'lway, named Edward Anger, came by his death
in a shocking raanner on the above line. The deceased
incautiously missed his footing and fell under one of the
civriages, to which, in his capacity as guardsman, he
was attached, boys wheels of which passed over his
stomach. He was immediately conveyed off the line in
a perfectly insensible state, and on a medical examina-
tion taking place it was found that he had sustained
severe injuries both externally and internally, the body
presenting a dreadfully mutilated appearance, and not
the least hope was held out of his recovery. The poor
sufferer continued to linger for two hours afterwards,
death terminated his existence. An in-
questwhen happily
was
held on the body the following day before Mr.
J. W. Cowley, one cf the coroners for the county, whey,
af.er hearing the evidence, and no blame appearing to
be attached to any one, the jury returned a verdict cf
" Aceidsetil death." The deceased, who had a wife and
one chile, was much respected on the lino as being a
steady, civil, aid obliging young mar.
The MI; gels of Lansdowne will entertain at
dinner on the 30th inst int, the day before the meeting
of Parliament, at his residence in Berkelej -square, the
s veral members of the House of Lords connected with
thi Governmei.t, and the mover and seconder of the
address in the Upper House. Lord John Russell will
entertain at his official residence in Downing-street, on
the same day, the mover and seconder of the address in
the Commonv, and the several members cf the Lower
Rouse filling offices in his Administration.
ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOClETY.—Admiral
R. Dudley Oliver has increased his annual subscription
to 51.; and Commander Charles Du Cane, a liberal sup-
porter of the institution, has added to its funds a life
sUbicripticin 9f 101,

SUN, LONDON,

ALARMING MUTINY BY THE
PRISONERS IN APPLEBY GAOL. _

John Jackson, John Hart, end John Wall, Under
sentence of transportation, and John Wilson and
Riasrd Morgan, under sentence of imprisonment,
five most desperate and ruffianly characters, were
confined in the same ward of Appleby Gaol.
They had been punished more than once for
insubordination, and on Wednesday, after they had
taken their dinner in the day-room, they commenced
throwing and kicking about the tin basins in which
their soup had been supplied, and otherwise manifest-
ing a riotous intention. Mr. Thwaites, the governor,
remonstrated with them, and threatened solitary
confinement. Wilson set him at defiance, and
threw one of the tin basins at the iron bars which
separated the governor from them. Mr. Thwaites
thereupon insisted on his coming out to be locked
up. This he pertinaciously refused to do, and the
others (excepting Morgan, who took no part in the
revolt) used the most abusive and threatening lan-
guage to the officers, especially the governor, whom they
swore they would kill if he came near them.
While Mr. Thwaites left the gaol to obtain addi-
tional aid, four of the mutineers armed themselves
with the fire shovel, three heavy broom-sticks, the
hand!e of a hand corn-mill, and three heavy nut-
screws and some iron washers which they screwed
off the mill. On the return of the governor with
Mr. Bird, the superintendent of police, and other
assistants, they threatened to murder the first that
entered. The narrowness of the door into the ward
will only admit of one person passing through at a
time, and the floor of the ward being a little higher
than the floor of the passage where the constables
stood, and the approach to which is by two steps, the
prisoners possessed considerable advantages, and
great difficulty was experienced in effecting
an entrance. Mr. W. Raine first made an attempt,
armed with a constable's staff, but was repelled ;
and having retreated a short distance, Wall threw
at him one of the nutscrews, weighing a pound,
which struck him on the left ear, inflicting a serious
wound on the head. This was followed up by the
other nutscrew and the washers, one of which struck the
turnkey on the back of his head. Additional assistance
was now procured ; the door was forced open, and
a terrific conflict took place. The prisoners fought
desperately, and with an evident intent of fulfill-
ing their previous threats ; but being outnumbered,
they were soon subdued. The constables had to
apply their staffs to the best advantage they could, both
offensively and defensively ; and the resistance they
met with aroused their ire to such a degree that the
prisoners had to call out to the gaoler (whose life
they had just before threatened), to protect them
from the unnecessary blows that were being
inflicted. Mr. Heelis, the under-sheriff, reached
the gaol soon after the mutiny was quelled, and
gave directions for the insurgents to be put in
heavy irons, as the only effectual means of prevent •
ing another revolt. Indeed it would be unsafe to
give them even the liberty of the yard, considering
their malicious intentions towards the officers, parti-
cularly towards Mr. Thwaites, whom Jackson swears
he will murder before he leaves the prison, if an oppor-
tunity offers.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING.
Su O'CLOCK.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
20 to 1 agst Testator—taken
25 t) I ag:t Borneo
40 to 1 aget Damask
40 to 1 agst Glutton—taken
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
15 to 1 agst Rat-trap]
15 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne
15 to 1 agst Sir John
25 to 1 agst The Oaks
30 to 1 agst Farnham
30 to 1 Igst Rory be aisy
50 to 1 agst Grand Lumiere
50 to 1 agst Mulligan
CHESTER CUP.
35 to 1 agst Peep• o'-Day Boy
40 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn
• 50 to 1 agst Glauca
50 to 1 agst John Cosser
50 to 1 agst Clarissa
66 to 1 agst Horn of Chase
66 to 1 agst The Baroness (Irish)
66 to 1 agst Harriott

DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum
17 to 1 agst Voltigeur
17 to 1 agst the Nigger
20 to 1 agst Clincher
25 to 1 agst Mildew
30 to 1 agst William the Conqueror
66.t0 1 agst Yew Tree

APPOINTMENTS.— The Queen has presented the
Rev. W. J. Poole to the living of Aberffraw, Anglesea.
Lieutenant• Colonel George Brodie Fraser, commanding
the Royal Artillery at St. Helena, is appointed a member
of the council of that island. James lM•Nab (receiver-
general), W. Stairs, and Jonathan M'Cuddy, Esqs., are
nominated members of the legislative council of Nova
Scotia. Benjamin Simpson Houghton, Thomas Budelle,
and Alcide Cayron, qn., are appointed members of
council at the Mauritius.

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133LCIAN Hors.—The steam-ship Albatross, which
usually vales to and from Hamburgh, when the trade
,Aith the nauseate States is open, has arrived fr,,m
Antwerp at the pert of Hull, having on board twenty-
five bales of hops, as a portion of her cargo, the produce
of Belgium.
BRITISH BENEFICENT INSTITUTION.—CharIes
Dixon, Esq., has recant'y presehttd 501. to this
valuable charity ; Lord Feversham 21/.; Lord De
Mauloy 211.; arid Montsgue Chambers, Esq., 211.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEYS BENCH, Jan. 12.

(Sittings in Ulric°, before Justices PATTBSON, COLE-
RIDGF, and WIGIITMA.bI.)
GADSBY V. ESTALL.

Two actions in this case, which was criminal con-
versation with the wife of the plaintiff, have been
tried, and in each the jury returned a verdict for the
defendant. A rule nisi was again obtained for a
third trial, on the ground of the verdict being against
evidence, and more particularly es there had been
conflicting testimony with regard to the handwriting
of the defendant to a certain letter which he was al-
leged to have written to the plaintiff's wife, in which
he addressed her as " My dear Madam," and directed
her to burn the letter, as he did not know whether it
might not fall into her husband's hand., and con-
cluded, " Yours, affectionately." The first trial was
before Mr. Justice Wightman, who was not dissatis-
fied with the verdict for the defendant; the second
trial was before Lord Denman, who was dissatisfied
with the verdict. The plaintiff had made an affidavit
stating his belief that the letter was in the handwrit-
ing of the defendant, but the defendant had not made
any affidavit denying that fact.
Mr. Sergeant SUEE showed cause against the rule,
urging that the plaintiff had had ample time and op-
portunity afforded him for making out a complete
case, and that it was ruinous to the defendant to send
the case down again, when he had succeeded in two
actions.

Mr. HAWKINS supported the rule for a new trial,
but was stopped by the Court.

Mr. Justice PATTESON said there were some very
peculiar circumstances in this case with regard to the
letter ; not that he would for a moment have it sup-
posed that he should say there ought to be a verdict
for the plaintiff; but there were peculiar circum-
stances as to whether the letter was in the handwrit-
ing of the defendant that induced him to consider
there ought to be another trial. There was no rule
that two verdicts given the same way should prevent
a third trial. He quite agreed with the observations
of the late Chief Justice Tindal, who bad stated that
the general rule was that a verdict once found should
stand ; the setting it aside was the exception, and
ought to be an exception of rare occurrence. It had
been said that to send a case down again was to
invade the province of the jury; but he did not see
how the importance of a jury could be impaired by a
solemn investigation of the matter. He (Mr. Justice
Patteson) adopted all that language, and he trusted
that upon the third trial the jurors would exercise
their judgment as if the case had been sent before
them for the first time. The circumstances were so
peculiar that the Court could not do otherwise than
submit them to a third jury, upon payment of costs
by the plaintiff.
Mr. Justice COLBAIDGE and Mr. Justice WIGHT-
MAN, in concurring with Mr. Justice Patteson, stated
that the peculiar circumstances of the case alone in
duced them to send the matter down again.
Rule absolute.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
THE TRIAL OF LOUIS JOEL, FOR FORGERY.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
. Mr. CHAMBERS then addressed the jury for the
defence, in a speech of great power and eloquence.
The principal points he relied upon were, that whereas
the prisoner had all along assertei the genuineness of
the bill, and had made two affidavits to that effect ;
every one of the witnesses who were called to prove
the contrary had a strong bias, and were deeply inte-
rested in pwring that it was a false instrument, and
thereby getting rid of the liability in connexion with
it, and he urged that this consideration became the
more important fur the consideration of the jury when
they recollected that independent witnesses from
Messrs. Cox and Co. from Messrs. Arnut and Co.,
and from Messrs. Bouverie and Co., might have
been called to express their opinion whether
or not the acceptance to the bill was in
the handymiting of the prosecgtor. None of

these witnesses, however, had been examined, and f
not only were they not brought forward, but Mr.
Netherclifa a gentleman of great experience in such I
matters, to whom the bill had been shown, and who
they had heard was in attendance the whole of the
nrevious day, had also been left nut of the case, and
oe urged upon the jury that the inevitable conclusion
which must be come to upon these facts was, th it
these witnesses, if they had been summoned, would
have given evidence in favour of the genuineness of
the bill, and he said that the jury had been right to
assume that such was the case. He contended that
the account of the transaction given by the prisoner
was a most reasonable one, and bore the stamp of
truth. What was the position of the parties at the
time this bill was said to have been given, in
July, or thereabouts, of 1847 ? It was perfectly
clear that at that time the prosecutor owed Mr.
Joel a large sum of money, and that the latter
became aware that he was under age, and also
that he was about to leave the army, and to go
away from Dublin, and what was more natural under
these circurnsainces than that he should endeavour to
obtain something in the shape of a collateral security
for his deb'. It appeared that he had
threatened to take proceedings against the
prosecutor, to have him held to bail upon an
affidavit that he was about to leave the country,
and he asked the jury whether it was likely
that Joel should have forborne such proceedings if
the prosecutor had not satisfied him in some way or
other ; and most likely, by giving him this blank
acceptance, to be filled up after he came of age, and
which Joel, being ignorant of the law, might have
considered to be a valid instrument. With regard to
the delay that had taken place in proceeding against
the prosecutor upon this acceptance, he said it ap-
peared to him that the statement of the prisoner that
the prosecutor had evaded the service of process had
been substantially established ; for, according to the
prosecutor's own showing, he had gone to Spain, to
Essex, to Windsor, and other places, and that he had no
settled residence where he could be found, and this part
of the case for the prosecution he considered had been
most satisfactorily answered. The Learned Counsel
then made some severe comments upon the conduct
of the prosecutor in purchasing articles of jewellery
from the prisoner and other persons, and breaking
them up immediately and selling them ; and he said
that such conduct was not only disgraceful in a gen-
tleman and an officer, holding-her Majesty's commis •
sion, but that in an ordinary case, if such facts were laid
before a jury in support of a charge of felony in rob-
bing the tradesmen of such articles, he was of opinion
it would go very far indeed to induce them to return
a verdict of guilty. He said that the prisoner had
also, in his opinion, been treated most harshly by the
prosecutor, by his not allowing him all this time to
receive any portion of the large sum of money which
he admitted he had received from him, and there
could be very little doubt that this had been
the ruin of the prisoner, and that it had
driven him to bankruptcy. As to that
part of the case in which it was proved
against the prisoner that in the account he had ren-
dered to Mr. Pullman no mention was made of the
bills of exchange, the jury would recollect that at the
time the account was rendered, such an instrument, in
the shape of a bill, was not in existence, and that the
blank acceptance was a confidential proceeding be-
tween the prosecutor and the prisoner, and the under-
standing was that the bill should not be filled up
until the former came of age,
and that it was only
to be used as a collateral security, in the event of the
other bills and debts not being paid. The Learned
Counsel then commented upon the circumstances
connected with the action against the prosecutor upon
this bill, and said that the jury would not forget that
when the prosecutor's guardian first saw the bill, he
said the acceptance waa very much like the hand-
writing of his ward, and after this, Mr. Campbell, of
course, had no alternative but to go on with the action,
and he urged upon the jury that the object of this
indictment was to get rid of that action, and also at
the same time prevent the prisoner from obtaining
any portion of the just debt that was due to him. The
Learned Counsel having commented at very great
length upon these and the other points in the case
which he considered were favourable to the prisoner,
concluded by stating, that although the prosecutor
had sworn positively to the contrary, the prisoner
now, as he had always done, persisted in asserting
that the acceptance was his genuine signature, and
without reference to the result, or to any effect it might
have upon the position or character of the prosecutor,
he submitted, that from the facts in the case, the
prisoner was proved to be speaking the truth, and he
called upon the jury to say so by their verdict.
Mr. Justice TALFOURD than summed up the case
with very great care and impartiality, particularly
bringing to the attention of the jury the whole of the
circumstances that were relied upon as being indica-
tive of the innocence of the prisoner.
The jury, after deliberating a quarter of an hour in
the box, expressed a wish to retire, and they accord-
ingly did so at eight o'clock. They were more than
an hour and a half in deliberation, when they returned
into court and gave their verdict finding the prisoner
Guilty of uttering the instrument in question, know-
ing it to be forged.
The prismer, when the verdict was pronounced,
begged to be allowed to say a few words.—" In the
first place, he tendered his thanks to his attorney and
to Mr. Chambers, for the able manner in which they
had defended him, but he said at the same time he was
of opinion, that if the witnesses whom he had subpce-
naed had been examined, his innocence would have
been established. He then stated, that as he hoped to
stand before a higher tribunal than that bef ge which
he was now placed, the acceptance to the bill was
written by the prosecutor."
Mr. Justice TALFOURD then addressed the prisoner,
and said that, after a most patient and careful in-
quiry,
which had occupied two days, the jury had
found him guilty of uttering this instrument, know-
ing it to be forged ; and, now that the verdict was
returned, he had no hesitation in saying that he con-
curred in that verdice. Everything that ingenuity
and eloquence could effect he had had the advantage,
of ; and he (the Learned Judge) certainly did not
omit to call to the attention of the jury every cir-
cumstance that was relied upon as being in his favour ;
guilty, and,
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verdict, and that. the evidence and demeanour of the
coupled with the other. circumstances of the case. He
then prosecutor
sentenced
years.
The trial of Edward Nairne, the stock-broker,
was postponed to the next session and the Court
then adjourned to Monday, Feb. 4.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIOIV-HO US 8.
Michael Bryan, who was a few days ago charged
upon suspicion of having committed sacrilege, was
brought up for re-examination.
At the first examination it appeared in evidence
that one of the City policemen, observing the pri-
soner carrying a packing-case along King William-
street, on Wednesday last, stopped him, searched the
case, and found in it twenty books, which were found
to correspond with some splendid church services
advertised in the Hue and Cry as having been stolen
from a country church.
Mr. Hope, M P., now attended, and deposed that
he was churchwarden of the district church in which
Christ Chapel Killenden, is situate, and identified a
morocco-covered Cambridge Bible as one of a number
of books which he made a gift of to that chapel. On
the night of Christmas eve the chapel was broken
into and robbed. The thieves got upstairs to the
organ-loft, and let themselves down by a rope, and.
after having taken all the money they could find, they
ransacked the vestry and carried off tfie booty.
The prisoner declared that he knew nothing about
any robbery. He only thought to make a sixpence
by carrying the case for a man he met in the street.
The prisoner was again remanded until Thursday
next, in order that further inquiries might be made,
and that he may have an opportunity of bringing
forward persons to speak of him as an honest man.
GUILDHALL.
Francis Godfrey, of Angel-alley, Bishopsgate-
street, was charged with stealing a bale of good!,,
value 281. _ . _

warehouse of Mr. M'Gregor, 43, Noble-street, and
It appeared from the evidence of the witnesses that
some bales of goods were left in the passage of the
that Mr. M'Gregor happening to come out of the
warehouse at the time the alarm-bell rang, he saw
the prisoner drop one of them, while another man,
who was in his company, succeeded in making his
escape. The proof against the prisoner was that he
was distinctly seen with the bale on his shoulders,
which he threw down on being discovered by Mr.
M'Gregor, and tried to make his escape.
Sir JAMES DUKE committed him for trial.
CLERKEN WELL.
Mr. _Henry Price, landlord of the African King
public-house, in Wilstead-street, Somers Town, was
summoned before Mr. Tyr whitt, charged with the
following offence :
Mr. Child, solicitor, appeared for the defence.
Police-sergeant Webb, No. 16 of the S
said that at a quarter to one last Sunday afternoon he
saw the cif fendant open his house for the sale of his
exeise'ble goods, and inunedliaely several customers
entered and were served by three or four persons
behind the bar. He spoke to Mr. Price, who excused
himself, remarking that he believed it had gone one
o'clock, at the same time pointing to his dials and
also his watch, all of which exhibited that it was
past that hour.
Mr. Moulds, the clerk, asked the witness how he
was able to swear that the time was four minutes
to one ? He said he was governed by the clock of
St. Pancras Old Church.
Mr. Mould said it was notorious the clocks of that
prish were generally "agreeing to differ," mid ought
not to be depended on, especially en oath.