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London, England, 1850-05-10 00:00:00

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Mr. lIAMILTO.N: slid that a strong feeling prevailed
in Ireland that justice was not done to the medical pro-
fession in that country with respect to these appoint-
ments. _

Major BLACKAL•L thought that such an excuse as
that the motion via' an invidious one ought not to ba
admitted. _

After a few words from Sir G. GREY,
Mr. GROGAN said he should withdraw the motion,
but he assured the Right Hon. Baronet that in making
it he had not the slightest intention of conveying any
imputation on the way in which the Right Lion. Baronet
had bestowed his patronage.
The motion was then withdrawn.
On the motion of Mr. W. PATTEN,
Sir. J. Yarde Buller was discharged from further at-
tendance on the Committee on official salaries, and Mr.
Hoary Drummond substituted.
The House thea adjourned at One o'clock.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
TRIAL OF ALEXANDER MOIR FOR MURDER.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter,
committed under aggravated circumstances.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON said that he felt it his duty to
pass upon him a sentence next in severity to capital
punishment, which was that he be transported beyond
the seas fmr the term of his natural life.
The prisoners Laurio, Gordon, and Faderman were
next placed at the bar to receive judgment.
His LORDSHIP, addressing them, said that as they had
by the course they had thought fit to take admitted the
facts alleged against them, and put themselves upon the
law, which had been decided against them, it now de-
volved upon the Court to pass sentence. He had looked
at the el, positions to ascertain the nature of the charge
against them, and also to see if they had lost any advan-
tage by the course they had taken, and that the evidence
most clearly proved them to have been guilty of attempt-
ing a very large fraud, one to the amount of 60,0001. or
70,0001., upon a foreign state. The sentence, therefore,
upon them was, that they be severally transported be-
yond the seas for the term of 10 years.

NEW COURT.
TRIAL OF JOSEPH KEENE FOR MALICIOUSLY CUTTING

TRESS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
On the prisoner's house being searched a hatchet was
discovered, with which it was supposed he mutilated the
trees.
Mr. CARTER addressed the jury for the prisoner, con-
tending that there was no evidence upon which the jury
could convict him.
A witness gave the prisoner an excellent character.
The RECORDER summed up at some length.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and
The RECORDER, after consulting with the judges, sen-
tenced him to seven years' transportation as a caution to
others not to commit such a grave offence.
The trial lasted nearly four hours.
DINHARGE OF THE GRAND JURY.
The grand jury having terminated their labours, were
discharged from further attendance by the Recorder,
with the thanks of the county for their exertions.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
JIANSION-HOUSE.
SERIOUS COMMERCIAL FRAUD.—On Thursday, the
2d inst., Mr. Anthony Meyer was brought up in cus-
tody of Daniel
.Forrester, the officer, upon the charge
of having in his possession six gold watches, upon
which were forged marks of the Goldsmiths' Hall.
Upon that occasion the Lord Mayor accepted bail for
the appearance of the prisoner yesterday, when the
case came on. Mr. Prideaux appeared on behalf of
the Goldsmiths' Company, and Mr. Mount, of East
Cheap, for the defendant.
The following is a brief statement of the circum-
stances :—Certain watches had been stopped at the
Custom-house by Mr. Scanlan, the chief searcher of
the Customs, in consequence of some official irregu-
larities. Mr. Scanlan being desirous to ascertain the
value of the watches, in order that when they should
be offered fur sale a fair price might be put upon
them, took them to a highly respectable firm in Corn-
hill, with a request that an examination and estimate
might be made. It was found, upon a strict inspection
of the articles by the experienced eye of the authority
to which they were referred, that there was good rea-
son to doubt the authenticity of the Hall mark, which,
however, exhibited evidences of considerable skill.
They were then taken to Goldsmiths' Hall, where Mr.
Haigh, the weigher of the company, immediately
pronounced the marks to be forgeries. An investiga-
tion was thereupon made by the searcher of the Cus-
toms, in conjunction with Mr. Hough, and these
gentlemen called upon Mr. Meyer, the defendant, who
had, they learned, been making inquiries respecting
the watches, under the supposition that they were
merely stopped for some irregularity connected with
the Custom-house. The defendant at once admitted
that he had consigned these watches to Messrs.
Zeisz, of Hamburgh, and accounted for the posses-
sion of them by stating that they bad been purchased
by one of the partners of that firm of a tradesman at
Coventry; that he had been supplied with the cases
in which the watches had been deposited, and that
they had been forwarded by the partner to him, with
directions to take the necessary steps to pass them at
the Custom-house for exportation. The result of
the investigation was the discovery of the nefarious
system of sending over German watches of
small value, with the forged marks of the
Goldsmiths' Company, and names of celebrated
London chronometer makers upon them, to this
country, in order to be shipped for South America,
where they were sold at four times their intrinsic
value, in consequence of the reputation of the English
manufacture. The watches having been thus traced
to the defendant, he was, in consequence of the very
stringent clauses in the statute tor preventing for-
geries of Hall marks, given into custody, the Act of
Parliament requiring that, in cases where possession
could be traced to any person, that person should
purge himself of the guilty knowledge, otherwise the
guilty knowledge would be implied.
Yesterday Mr. Meyer, who had been bailed upon
the first examination, attended with Mr. Mount, his
solicitor; and Mr. Prideaux appeared on behalf of
the Goldsmiths' Company.
Mr. Prideaux—ln consequence of what had pre-
viously transpired it was thought that Mr. Meyer
was concerned in the fraud as to the forgery of the
Company's Hall mark ; but it was most satisfactory
to be able to state, from information which had been
since received upon the subject, that Mr. Meyer had
no knowledge whatever of the felony. It was necessary
to make such statement, for the purpose of relieving
the minds of parties connected with the defendant.
Mr. Prideaux withdrew the charge, and Mr. Meyer
was liberated.