The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-01 00:00:00

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smuggled goods every day, supposing that, if -e 000
all they would have to pay could nut exceed tludA 00
The Commissioners of Customs, however, harpot
power, by the 6th and 7th of William, t°,o
a penalty of 1001. for every offence of grain
however small the quantity smuggled, as had
lately decided in the Court of Exchequer•
defendant in this case very plainly showed,
being apprehended, that he was one of those who 140
under the mistake of supposing that he would luny
more than 5l to pay. " Oh," said he, " I amun"este
weight." As the old smugglers were making.grelf
tbs
ertions in their trade, it was the determination °. su
Commissioners to go for the full penalty of 1001.1;d;,
cases, however small the quantity smuggled by tbe 1
vidual.
t 101'1
The LORD MAYOR and Alderman T. WOOD Itt
same view of the quest;on which had been takell:to
solicitor to the Customs, and his Lordship struckl opt
into the defendant by telling him that he was fineu,hotiO
and that he must stay in prison until that amount,
be paid. Fd
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It is but fair to mention that the statement w..-eivoibi,
made to the Lord Mayor a few days ago, that 2310
weight of tobacco had been lately smuggled in a,or
cheeses into this country, was not made by Mr._,Pa."„g's
any other person in the employment of her Ok
Customs.

The defendant was committed to prison.
MARYLEBOIVE. montle
Daniel Wright, the young man who had been tt,"
from Friday last, on a charge of having received 30,,101T
the banking-house of Sir Claude Scott and Co., Cn-
square, by means of a forged cheque purportingnor
been drawn on the Bank of England by William G jati.
Esq., of 11, Hyde-park-terrace, in favour of Mr•
mayne, the eminent silk mercer of New Bond-stree
placed at the bar for final examination this day. A igiliCl
The evidence taken on the previous occasion, rtF,
was fully reported in The Sun of May 25, was alien F,
over. A brief recapitulation of the principal facts erat
with the case may be given. The prisoner 011'01
Claude Scott's bank on the'3d May, and presenting Li
for 3901., said that Mr. Redmayne would feel obllg`7,l
were cashed for him. Mr. Taylor, one of the clerks
bank, as Mr. Redmayne had an account there, did 6.6 gA
paid hini in six 50/. notes, four 201., and ten sovereignV
On the succeeding morning a messenger' from thed
England returned the cheque as a forged one; _ dtbs
evening of the same day Mr. Pulsford called, and sti` to tr.,
the handwriting was not hip. Information was given 47
police, and one of the officers in the Detective force titodo
prisoner to Birmingham, and subsequently back tc)b
and at last succeeded in taking him into custody in ,
toria Hotel, near the railway terminus at Eustonlo
where he had lived with a companion (ti female) f°berior;
days. In his possession was 51. 4s. 6d., and in a dospdt
ing to him was a further sum of seventy sovereign Or
handsome gold watch and appendages, besides sever%t
articles of jewellery. There being no evidence agallitP:
female she was discharged on the first examination. 00
stated on that occasion that the prisoner had run UP
the hotel of 361. in the few days he had been there. eflt ,
The evidence taken this day waa of very little In0';,1!'
Mr. Arthur. Maitland, from the Bank of England, 54.000
it was the practice of the Bank, to pay no cheques e%cd
such as were drawn upon the regular printed forms t thc'4
Bank. The cheque in question was not upon one °f
forms, neither was the writing like Mr. Pulsford's. se,
Mr. Pulsford, 11, Hyde-park Terrace, said that the bee
Lure was not his. He did not know anything of the et
The prisoner's father was a clothier in Conduit-streead.,
gent-street, and had supplied witness with clothing•
not know Mr. Redmayne, of Bond-street.
Part
Mr Redmayne said, he knew nothing of any dor'
the case. Oa looing at the cheque, it appeared it's 4
with the name of; his clerk, Mr. Cates, but the wrinurt
widely different, and the name was also differently slt'hero".
the cheque it was written Keats). The prisoner S f3rigOPl
a most respectable man, and one of his sons, the
younger brother, was in his (Mr. Redmayne's) emPetbelgis
Mr. Cates, clerk to last witness, said he knew 11° 0,0
the draft whatever, neither did he know the young
the bar.
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Mr. LONG said he would commit him (the prix"
trial, and asked if he had anything to say in defence" told'
The prisoner, who was bathed in tears, had nothing
~,
and he was removed to the lock-up cell.
Mr. Burgoyne, solicitor to the banking house of Sitosio,,
Scott and Co., attended to prosecute, and another el fat"
gentleman, whose name we could not learn, appenrc
prisoner.

CIERKEN WELL: dttY
A man named George Welfare, who is emplaYed ict A
Islington toll-bar, and who has been repeatedly e°ll"'
assaults on the police and on civilians at this Co
_tjl,ll
charged with the following conduct :
On the previous night, at eight o'clock, police-0174
Harris being on duty in King-street, was passiffghe(l.
shop, at the dcor of which'the prisoner was standing,, osnr,
prisoner)! exclaimed, " Oh, there goes Kidis
but I'll have a mug at him." Kiddy Harris was "ears k.
of a most diabolical character, who was some Y yost
executed at the Old Bailey for the murder at apit.,;„:l
woman under circumstances of extraordinary col -
repeated this offensive language, and having beeee"
from the beer -shop in consequence, followed Barri:el t''
him by the throat, and thrusting his hand betwitot
leather stock and the skin, pressed his knuckles agAs resero
windpipe. A policeman fortunately came up ee'tesedy
Harris from his grasp. The prisoner, however fas ty,
Harris again, and clung to him with desperate tenee!,o4
kicked him on the leg, and cut, and bruised the com
face.
Police-sergeant North, 14, deposed that. notlthigie 10.
exceed the prisoner's violence at the station-house- eri y
an associate of thieves and the most depraved charct ocil„
Mr. GREENWOOD said it was very disgraceful tha.,"tset:
person should be employed in such a capacity as ass picky,
a public toll-bar, and he was surprised that Mr. --40).tir
could tolerate it. The prisoner had done his best tv,qt
the constable, and he would send him to prison, with°o
for ten days.
A PROFLIGATE WIFE.-Sarah Duck, the wife Of
Duck, a French polisher, residing in Kingsgate-stree,"
born, was charged with assaulting her husband.
It appeared, from the evidence, that the defend.
woman of dissipated habits and unfeeling dispositiee'oeptS
husband, a hard-working man, deposed that she fret tr,
squandered in drink his week's earnings, leaving 13'44
little children in a condition bordering ell,
tion. She has been frequently brought heliri-e a?'„,
Court, and bound over to keep the peace towards were'/'
plainant. On Saturday night last he gave her a 5',1%,c10(
for the housekeeping expenditure fur the week. On :0 Pelt,
last she said she had taken two of her little childree,: 101:
Chapel, but, instead of doing so, spent the evening I';‘,llt 1,4
shop with two low fellows, and returned home a nibc,,Cnce
toxicated, having squandered the whole sovereigllcepee,
fivepence. When her husband wanted to have the
from her to get something for supper, she flew at hii; tt;
tigress, tore his face,. 5
and knocked him down- be cse.roi
seized the poker, which, having been disarmed nt;,s, depn.
hold of the tongs. Of these, too, she was fortunate* I
before she could inflict any serious injury.
committed ot
tt
In default of the payment of fine, she was Conlin'
House of Correction for a month. th°4f
George Rogers was committed for trial for steak es, ill
pounds of tea, value fifteen shillings, and other arts .014
property of Mr. Jenny, a grocer residing in Hatton'
whose service he was engaged. thief",
Thomas Watson, alias John Boyle, a notorious of
charged with stealing a necklace, the property ill
Hone, a poor woman, living in Peter-street, Sal/1'04,1.1;e Poo
The prosecutor was in bed with her children at .11, epbitie
on that morning, when she was aroused hie lei
prisoner having opened a box in the room, froUi
had abstracted the necklace. She screamed, hay note rf
seen him befi)re, upon which he said he had come stoo
house with his brother and a young woman. dos
turned out to be false, and the necklace was foal'
person.—He was fully committed for trial.

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Gibral .............. . so
Leghorn ............... 05
Genoa ......... ......... • ":„,
Milan .................. • 4/
Venice .................. 59
Naples .... .............. 11/
Palermo, per oz. ....
Lisbon .................. "of
Oporto ................. 0
Rio Janeiro ............
Bahia ................. .•
Buenos Ayres ..........
NewYork,2ldys sigh i .1,
Philadelphia .......... v 9
mucus OF uutTo43 I, 5
Foreign Gold, bast 3 1/ 0,
Portugal Geld Co"w o 0 9:
New Doubloolls•••••
New Dollars ......... „ 4
Silver in Bars ......
1.
$1,:0

COURSE OF EXCHA]
Amsterdam CF. 12 .6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6%
Antwerp 25 90
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14
Alton l3 14%
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine

Petersburgh, 3Us 364
Berlin 7

Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 953
rieste, ditto
Madrid 37

Cadiz
Bilbao i 36
Barcelona 36

Seville —

THE ALLEGED MURDER AND ROBBEIa e't-tberO
cunr.—On Thursday Mr. Baker and a jury sat !,,°'-e's'ool
time at the Town of Whitby public-house, WaPPl'7)oloe
determine the cause of death of Luke Williams. ,vs
witness was examined on Thursday, a charity schoolnbeihos
Lane, who stated that on the afternoon of Sunday' be ifij
inst., hearing a disturbance in Brunswick-plecetA"sli,
there, and saw the windows of Nicholson's house b'"•yo,'ted
looking through he observed the prisoner Horsted_.,""Orotlf
old man, who was lying on the floor. He also sa' i0".0 cr
jump on the lower part of the old man's stomach, s°fe,ll v;110'
that his heels slipped off the body, and he nearliwo 00,
wards. There were present a short man andLo' ael:'osl
but they did not interfere in any way. The ,
being the whole of the evidence, read over the ne,frosT3iter
the four previous inquiries, and pointed out Wbati SO° lid
murder and manslaughter. The jury then retire 0100
an absence of four hours and a half, returned t° 'ace be
room, saying that they wished the inquiry to beuicl ficii
adjourned, in order to see whether evidence 04.,, del
found to implicate some of the other parties till
Horsted. The inquiry was accordingly adjourn°
day next.

itect°
IRTHS.
On the 28th ult., the lady of the Rev. John 11ter. f the
of St. Olave, in Hart-street, Mark-lane, of a dtoloy °
On the 28th ult., at Charterhouse-square, t"
Rev. William Goode, of a daughter. ociisly''
On the 29th ult., at Wimpole-street, Cave eti3j
the lady of William Tillotson, Esq., of a son.
Ile, WO'
On the 29th ult., the lady of Colonel Gaseo,
Guards, of a son. ROY of
On the 30th ult., at Bryaneton-aquare, the
`iggins, of a daughter.

MARRIED. re, bi of
This morning, at St. George's, Hanover-sclui- pil•tys,
Rev. W. H. Dickinson, Richard Kyrke rensori,
Oswestry, to Clara Maria, only daughter of J°4l3 IL4ti
Esq., Dinham House, Ludl w frig "to
Th:s morning, at St Panocra; Church, Mr. Georaiicite,,
Spencer, of Blenheim-terrace, Kingsland-road, sff OOP'
Emma, the eldest daughter of Mr. Francis Barlow,
eo f
_de
G
street, Edgeware-road.
On the 28th ult., at St. Saviour's Church, Jerses,laughtc
Balaton, Esq., of Poole, Dorset, to Eleanor gArAp.
of the late Edmund Locker, Esq., of Plymouth,

o'
DIED. f the
On the 2Gth ult., at Ingfield, near Settle, IN.LarY,
theSwale, aged 25: VT el
On the 28th ult., at Stamford, William Stevensoll, co oli
On the 28th ult., at Holybourne, Alton, Lieutentlilt"
10'
Thomas Frederick, aged 80. 'IVO
On the 29th ult. in Berkeley-square, Thotnas -
Esq., of Fixby Hall, Yorkshire. _,„,. ]!s~ ,feett
On the 29th ult., at Tottenham, Thomas Pon,'' '-'
sv•
On the 29th ult., Mrs. J. A. Pigott, itil°
MPcklenl
. inrgb-square. ,reci C
On tllo.29tti ult., in Vincent..- M^ ' 'arc` 'll
•
....itiare, ...If, t
late W. Tarts, Esq.,
„ aged 82
Hexthcote•

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