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Do 3 per Cent., 1859
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Do. Account 331
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Dutch 21 per Cont. Ex. 12 Guil„ 561
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CLOSING PRICES.

Consuls, Money 94
Do. Account, Oct. 6

POLICE INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

BO W. STREET.

EXTRAORDINAIVI CHARGE AGAINST A GENTLE-
MAN.-Mr. Francis John Rogers Sheridan, lately
holding a commission in the army, appeared in dis-
charge of his recognizances charged with obtaining
money by false pretences.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Montagu Wil-
liams appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. G.
Lewis, jun., defended.
It appeared that in the early part of the month of
January in the present year an application was
was made to Williamson, the prosecutor, a person
in the habit of advancing money upon mortgage,
&c., for a loan of £250, to be advanced to the de-
fendant upon two bills of £l5O and £lOO respec-
tively, drawn upon him by Mr. Rogers, a soli-
citor. Mr. Williamson required further security,
and was informed that Mr. Sheridan would at the
death of his father become entitled to the estate of
Frampton Court, Dorset, the property of his father,
Mr. R. B. Sheridan, M.l'. for Dorchester. The de-
fendant was required to make a statutory declara-
tion. He accordingly declared before Mr. Smith, a
solicitor and a commissioner for administering oaths
is London, residing at Harcourt-buildings, Temple,
that he was heir to the estate of Frampton
Court, and that his elder brother (Mr. R. B. Sheri-
dan, jun.) had no interest in that property; and it
was now contended that the defendant was not
heir, his brother being at that time alive, and also
that it was possible that the brother, who was a
married man, might have issue, in which case the
defendant would not be the heir. In the course of
the examination it came out that interest at the
rate of 60 per cent. was charged on the loan, and
that of the £l5O a portion was to be in money,
and a portion to the amount of £5O to be in wine,
which last was never supplied. It• appeared also
that the money was paid over to the solicitor,
Rogers, and it did not appear that more
than £B3 ever reached the defendant. It
was admitted that after the issue of the warrant an
attempt was made to compromise the case. For
the defendant it was contended that the declara-
tion was substantially and virtually true, as it be-
came literally true in a month by the death of
his elder brother. His father, Mr. It. B.
Sheridan, M.P., stated that four years ago he
informed the defendant that he should be his heir
conditionally on his good conduct, and he had since
led the defendant to believe that be adhered to that
intention. His elder son, defendant's brother,
had no interest in the property at the time
the declaration was made, as he had sold
his life interest, which the father had bought, nor
could Mr. R. B. Sheridan, jun., have been supposed
to have issue, as he had been for several years
separated from his wife, she living in London, and
he in Italy. It appeared also that before the appli-
cation for the summons or warrant at the court a
similar application had been made at Guildhall
and refused.

A great deal of vituperation, and wholly irrele-
vant matter, was imported into the case.
Mr. Lewis, jun., contended that the declaration
was morally true, and certainly not intentionally
false, and stigmatised the prosecution as an attempt
to extort money from the defendant's family, who
indignantly, refused to consent to any attempt to
compromise.

Mr. Flowers thought there was a prima facie case
to go before a jury, but he certainly should not,
after what he had heard from Mr. Le ffis, and which
made a great impression on him, hold Mr. Sheridan
to bail. He should only require him to enter into
his own recognizances to appear to take his trial.

The defendant then left the court surrounded by
his friends.

THAMES.

Tun ROBBERIES IN TIIE DOCKS.—James Ward,
a carman, aged 29 years, of No. 22, Coventry-
street, Bethnal-green, was brought before Mr.
Paget charged with stealing 71bs. of tea, the pro-
perty of the East and 'West India Dock Company,
from their premises in Poplar.
Many convictions of carmen, labourers, and
others for stealing tea, sugar, indigo, and other
articles in the London, St. Catherine, Regent's
Canal, West India, East India, and the new Mills
wall Docks have taken place, and the evil has some-
what abated. The vigilance of the effective police
maintained by the dock companies has been
sorely tried, for thieves are in the practice of bring-
ing out tea, sugar, and other articles, necessarily
exposed on the quays, sheds, and warehouses, in
their carts and waggons under other goods, or
ecrete their plunder in their shoes, pockets, and
inside their clothes. The prisoner Ward adopted a
novel expedient. He was driving a van containing
four hogsheads of sugar, drawn by two horses,
and carried a large bag openly in his hand.
Ile was stopped by William Simmons, an
officer of the West India Dock, just as
he reached the gate, and he was asked what
there was in the bag, " only my horses' provender,"
was the reply, shaking some chaff and horse beans
out of the bag. The officer took the bag from the
prisoner, opened it, and found in it, besides horse
provender, a smaller bag containing 71bs of tea,
quite clean and fresh. The prisoner said he
picked up the tea among some timber. The clean-
ness of the tea disproved this assertion. It had
evidently been abstracted from some chest on one
of the quays, or from a tea heap in a warehouse.
The prisoner asked for mercy on account of his
wife and family.
Mr. Paget convicted the prisoner with having un-
lawful possession of the tea, and sentenced him to
two months' imprisonment and hard labour.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert
was yesterday placed in dock at Portsmouth for the
purpose of being surveyed, and her defects reported
upon by the shipwright department of the yard.
Her Majesty's paddle yacht Elfin was at the same
time taken into the steam basin for a refit and re-
pairs to hull and machinery.