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London, England, 1850-01-28 00:00:00

(famed under circumstances more likely to contribute
t(t bringing forth a good working plan than those
um der which the others came before their notice.
Cl ,ptain Vetch had had the opportunity of acquiring
th-ose facts which were necessary, according to his
(Li[r. B,enders) ideas, to render any design effective
and operative. His opinion ww, that the skeleton
and groundwork could be worked out and presented
as a complete whole, so as to effect the very impor-
tant o bject of draining the Southwark side of the
river ; and he thought Mr. Foster (the chief engi-
neer) would find the details efficient in the working.
He did not think it desirable to say that this plan,
so far as he had yet seen it, was the plan to be acted
upon, but he was quite certain that it contained
the phsn that should be carried out in a greater
degree than any he had yet seen. His opinion
was that they should find many of the suggestions
offered by the gentlemen who sent in plans valuable
adjuncts to this scheme or that. The difficulty he
felt was that they could not appropriate any one of
these plans so as to be enabled to convince the gentle-
men that justice had been done to them as designers ;
and if they compounded the plans, he feared that from
the number of parties by whom claims would be made,
they would not be able to satisfy their expectation in
awarding them honour or remuneration. He hoped
the authors of those ideas would be announced, and,
as far as the Commissiion could, remunerated. One
word as to the general principles. He had no doubt
that when practical engineers were put upon the
board something practical was intended should be
done. He believed something practical wculd be
done from the present time, and he thought that
whilst acting so they would have the public with
them. For his own part, he felt he could go with
that opinion as to avoiding drainage into the
Thames, as far as it could be avoided, in reference
to obvious and practical conclusions; he did not go
one jot further. Therefore, whilst he went to
the full extent of desiring to purge the Thames
from the sewage of London, he must be certain that
when the plan was carried out that result would be
obtained. He believed that the plan they had to-day
before them would go a great way in furthering that
object. It would, at all events, be a step in the right
direction. Though he was anxious to go to work as
quickly as might be, he hoped they would not begin
until the plan was so completely arranged that they
would have no occasion for modifying it, because, if
this were the case, they would have to incur a mighty
expense, and what was intended as a reformation
would but increase the previous evil.
Captain DAWSON merely wished to confirm the
statement of the chairman, that the plan for the
drainage of Surrey and Kent had been under the
consideration of the Ordnance Survey Committee,
before the advertisements inviting the public to send
in plans for the drainage of the metropolis had been
published.
The motion was then carried unanimously, and the
Court adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Michael Samuel was brought before Alderman
Humphery, by Robinson Webb, the officer, charged
with having obtained, upon false pretences, some gold
sweepings, the refuse of the materials used in manu-
facturing certain ornamental articles.
Mr. Holland, who described himself as the only
spangle manufacturer in the metropolis, stated that,
on the 12th of January the prisoner obtained from
him a sample of the gold refuse, and next day applied
to him for a quantity, stating that it could be disposed
of, as a gentleman who had examined the sample had
approved it, and spoken of it as a vendible commodity.
Witness accordingly gave to the prisoner a quantity
agreed upon, and told him to do the best he could
with it, but not, on any account, to take less than 40s.
an ounce for it, and arranged with him that he should
have 103. for bis day's work, independently of the
profit which might accrue beyond the 21. per ounce.
It was in vain that the witness waited for the return
of the article, or the payment of the amount for which
it was to have been sold. The prisoner produced
neither the one nor the other, and threw ridicule
upon the application to him for the dust or its value.
Alderman HUMPHERY—How do you get this dust?
Complainant—l am allowed by my employer to take
the sweepings of the place in which I work, and I
collect the residue of the spangles and sell them for
my own benefit.
The prisoner said—l was standing outside of a
public-house, and Mr. Holland, who knew nothing
at all about me, nor, thank God, I about him, came
out of the house to me upon the recommendation of
the landlord, who said I was an honest man. Very
well, he put into my hands some scrapings of metal,
and told me to go and get a customer so I went to a
jeweller, who is here now, and showed it to him,
and he said to me " Which way are you going ?",
" Over the bridge" says I. " Oh, that's all right,"
says he. " When you get half way over, just throw
all this rubbish over into the river."—(Laughter.)
Alderman HUMPUERY—Let me know the exact
directions he gave to you about the gold dust? The
prisoner—He said to me "Its no use your taking it
for sale to any one in London. They won't have it.
Go you off to 'Woolwich or thereabouts, and try and
barter it for a watch at some watchmaker's. Do the
best you can, that's all." What could I do with it
when it was not worth a farthing ?
The complainant—lt was well worth 40s. an ounce,
and I have been paid much more than that for the
residue by
_first-rate houses.
Alderman HUMPHERT—Why then did you not
go yourself and dispose of it, instead of sending a
poor man of whom you knew nothing upon such an
errand ? The complainant—Toe fact is, I get much
more by employing men like him to sell the article
than by selling it myself.—(Laughter.)
Aldermen HumenEar —Aye, you think people
will not buy from you because they happen to know
you.
The prisoner —He is in the Brumagem line,
your Worship, and I know one person who has lest
201. by him and his gold dust. I was never com-
fortable until I throwed the whole of the precious stuff
over the middle arch.—(Laughter.)
Alderman HUMPHERY (to the officer)—Webb, do
you know anything of this matter ? Webl- —No-
thing, Sir, except that the complainant is called
amongst the people about Houndsditch the " Gold-
dust duffer," and that he is in the habit of employing
persons in this way to get rid of the scrapings. I saw
him upon one occasion drop some of his gold dust in
the dirt of Houndsditch ; and he left in the mud as
much as (if it were of the value he says) must have been
worth a considerable sum. Nobody thought it worth
while, however, to pick up any of it when it was
known that the " duffer" had dropped it.—(Laughter.)
Alderman HUMPHERY —Well, Mr. Holland, I don't
think this case tells very well for you. At all events,
I can do nothing in it. If the gold dust was worth
anything, you have made the prisoner, by your act,
your debtor for it ; and if you thought it worth any-
thing, you would not have selected a poor fellow like
this, who is quite a stranger to you, to be your agent.
The complainant—l do assure your Worship, that
what I did I did out of charity to him, to give him
something to do.—(Great laughter.)
Mr. Holland departed, but not until several trades-
men in the gold and silver line bore testimony to his
" duffing" propensities.
BO tV-STREET.
William Harris, a lad, " who got his living in the
streets," was charged with stealing half-a-sovereign
from a public-house by the following contrivance :
The prisoner possessed himself of two sticks, re-
sembling a fishing-rod when jointed, and went into
the Unicorn, in Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, late
on Friday night. Watching his opportunity, and
availing himself of the temporary absence of the bar-
man, he united the rods, and placing a piece of tin
covered with tar in a slit at the point of the stick,
proceeded to fish up some money which had been
placed upon the mantel-piece by the landlord. He
had succeeded in netting half-a-sovereign, but while
conveying half-a-crown to his pouch the coin fell upon
the floor behind the counter, aroused the barman, and
led to the prisoner's detection.
The landlord, Mr. Dennison, stated that he had
left 61. on the mantel-piece, and the missing half-
sovereign was found upon the prisoner, who
te admitted
his offence and requested the forgiveness of h
pro-
secutor.
Mr. HENRY committed him for trial.
WESTMINSTER.
Charles Watson and John Carroll, who had been
remanded from the previous day, were finally exa-
mined, charged with obtaining charitable contribu-
tions under false pretences.
Mr. BURRILL said he could entertain no doubt that
they had obtained a charitable contribution under false
pretences. Looking at the evidence before him he
should commit the prisoners for three months each to
hard labour in the House of Correction.

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HOUSEBREAKING.—EarIy on Saturday morning
the premises of Mr. F.Reeve Jones, a solicitor, residing at
Woodfield terrace, Harrow-road, near the Paddington
workhouse, were broken int ), and various articles, con-
sisting of plate, wearing apparel, Sce., stolen therefrom.
A servant, who slept in a room just above where the
entrance was effected, heard a noise in the lower part of
the house, but attributing it to the wind, which was very
high at the time, accompanied by rain, she took no fur-
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