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duced to under forty-eight days. We regret very,
much to observe, that to correspond with the bi-
monthly mail to be. de'ivereci at and brought from the
Isihmus of Panama, no arrangements have yet been
made for en additional communication with the South
Pacific ports, for which only a monthly mail is to be
made up. Unless a more frequent communication he
speedily opened by the British steamers between
Valparaiso and Panama a line of American packets
will be established, which will absorb a large amount
of the traffic and mail service. As many representa
tions on this subject have been made by the mer-
chants connected with the trade of the west coast of
South America, we trust that no very long time 'will
elapse ere a fortnightly mail to and from the Chilian
and Peruvian ports will be provided.
A semi-monthly communication with California
will now be opened, and mails, passengers, and mer-
chandise can henceforth be transmitted by the West
India steamers on the 2d and 17th of every month.
For San Francisco letters can be sent in about 55
days via Panama, and a like period will be occupied
on the return voyage,.
Pass'ngers for California will have the option of
proceeding by either the Panama or Nicaragua route,
as the packets will regularly ply to Chagres as well
as to Grey Town, the ci-devant San Juan Nicaragua.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)

Henry Page, 36, bricklayer, was indicted for felo-
niously intermarrying with Emma Clarke, otherwise
Smith, his wife being then and now alive.
Mr. Charnock defended.

Mrs. Martha Page, the prisoner's mother, proved his
first marriage on the 6th of April, 1834. at St. John's
the Evangelis.., Waterloo-road, to one Ellen Regan, by
whom he had two children. He lived with her until
about two years ago, when, in consequence oilier dread-
fully dissolute habits, he was compelled to be sepa-
rated from her, and made her an allowance of 6s. per
week.

Evidence was then given to prove that on the 10th cf
February, 1848, some one of the name of Henry Dick-
son was married at All Saints, Poplar, to one Emma►
Smith, but it could not be proved that the pri§oner was
the man or that Emma Clarke, who was then in the
dock behind the prisoner awaiting her trial for having
committed bigamy with him, was the woman referred to
in the register.
The woman Clarke was then brought out of the dock
into the witness-box, and having been sworn, and cau-
tioned not to say anything to criminate herself unless
she pleased, said that she knew the prisoner from his
coming to her husband's house, and that her husband
always enc mraged their acquaintance.
The COMMON-SERGEANT—Did anything ever occur
between you and the prisoner at church? You need
not answer unless you like. Witness—No ; nothing
ever did.

The COMMON-SERGEANT said there was an end of the
case; there was no evidence to prove the prisoner waa
the man married at Poplar Church.
An acquittal was then taken.
Emma Clarke, 30, married, was then indicted for
bigamy with Henry Page, alias Dickson, her husband
being then alive.
It was then proved that she was married in February,
1842, to her husband Clarke, who is now alive, but the
same difficulty arose in proving her to be the party mar-
ried at All Saints, Poplar.
The police-officer said he saw the prisoner at her hus-
band's house on the 17th of June. She was recovering
from an illness. She told him that she was married in
1848, at All Saints, Poplar, to the prisoner Page, she in
the name of Smith and he Dickson; that the only per-
sons present were the clerk and the pew-opener as wit-
nesses to the marriage.
Mr. CHARNOCK having briefly addressed the jury,
dwelt on the fact that the only evidence against her was
the statement made by her when on a bed of sickness
and which she now denied on oath.

The COMMON-SERGEANT having summed up,
The jury acquitted her.
THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GURNEY.)
James Cole, 24, polisher, was indicted for stealing a
watch, valued at 221., from the person of William Perry.
Mr. Parry defended.
The prosecutor, who is well known to the sporting
world as the Tipton Slasher, the pugilist, said that
about half-past four o'clock on Monday morning he was
at the bar of the Red Lion, in the Strand, drinking, and
several more besides the prisoner were near him. Some
one began to spar at him, when a female pressed herself
against him, and almost immediately feeling his watch
snatched from his pocket, as he thought by the prisoner,
he seized him, aed immediately his watch and chain fell
to the ground at his feet.
Mr. GURNEY said it was not sufficiently clear that the
prisoner's was the hand that took it, and directed an
acquittal.
Henry Wright, 20, barman, and Caroline Davis, were
indicted for stealing several sums of money from John
Plowman, the master of Wright.
Mr. Robinson prosecuted.
It appeared that the prosecutor keeps the Three
'Compasses in the Wandsworth-road, and the male pri-
ioner had been a short time in his employment as a
barman, during which period great deficiencies had
been found in his takings. Having set the police on the
watch they found out that the woman, who either was
his wife or lived with him, was in the habit of coming
and putting down a small coin in payment fur something,
and received from the prisoner more change than she
was entitled to; and in the present instance they took
her at the bar of the house, having received 2s. lid. in
change for le.
The jury, thinking the woman had acted under the
guidance of the male prisoner, acquitted her, and he
WAS found Guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' im-
prisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday the young man who described himself on a
former examination as a determined Chartist, was again
placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Sa!onions, for
further examination on the charge of sedition.
Mr. Maule, the solicitor for the Home office, attended
on the part of the Government for the prosecution, and
stated that he appeared by the direction of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, to request the Al-
derman to deal with the case summarily, by binding the
prisoner over to keep the peace towards her Majesty
and all her subjects.
After a recapktulation of the facts already published,
The ALDERMAN said, it is my intention to bind you
over to keep the peace for twelve months, and to order
you to find bail fur your good behaviour during that
time in two sureties of 1001. each, or one of 2001., and
to enter into your own recognisances of 2001., mo►e
to the same effect.

Prisoner—l'll consider about giving bail.
He was then removed from the dock evidently much
disappointed at not being sent fur trial.
The court was very much crowded, and the result
appeared to give general satisfaction to those present
during the examination.

SOUTHWAI?K.
A young man of respectable appearance, who refused
to give his name or address, nas brought before Mr.
A'Beckett for re-examination, upon the charge of ut-
tering a forged cheque for the payment of 2501, with
intent to defraud theoSouthwark branch of the London
and Westminster Bank, Wellington-street, London-
bridge.

The evidence taken upon the former miming tion
which has already appeared, having been read over,
Mr. Mullens, of the firm of Bush and Mullens, for' the
prosecution, addressed the magistrate, and informed hint
that since Monday, the day on which the prisoner was
taken into custody, it has been ascertained that his
name is William Thoms, and that he was formerly a
clerk in the employ of Messrs Gooch and Cousins,
woolstaplers, of London-wall, in the City. It
was also found that he lived with a family
who resided at No. 5, Red Lion-street, Whitechapel,
at which house were discovered several documents of im-
portance in elucidation of the present charge, as well
as of a forgery to the amount of 72/., which he had
committed on the firm in whose employ he had been in
London-wall. This latter circumstance he (Mr. Mul-
lens) mentioned with a view to show that the prisoner
must have been well aware of the consequences of the
act he had so recently committed, that of uttering the
forged cheque for 250/. on the London and Westminster
Bank, purporting to be in the handwriting of Mr. Davis,
the woolstapler, of Bermondsey, who kept an account
with that establishment. He (Mr. Mullens), however,
should not on the present occasion enter into the evi-
dence of the case of forgery alluded to, but should at
a future period be enabled to establish that charge,
as well as that of uttering the forged cheque on the day
in question.
Mr. A'BECKETT, addressing the prisoner, who seemed
much distressed at the situation in which he was
placed, asked him if he had now any objection to disclose
his name after having heard the statement just made by
Mr. Mullens?

The prisoner merely shook his head, but made no
reply.
T. J. Snook was then called into the witness-box and
examined—He stated that he is a clerk in the employ
of Messrs. Gooch and Cousins, woolstaplers, London-
wall; that he knew the prisoner, who was also a clerk
in the same firm, but left his situation about twelve
months ago. A paper was here shown to the witness,
found at the prisoner's residence; it was a written cer-
iffiest() of his character given to him by Messrs. Gooch
and Co. at the period he quitted their employ, and the
handwriting was proved by the witness.
Michael Haydon, of the City police, stated that on
the preceding day he went to the prisoner's residence,
5, White Lion-street, Whitecitapel, and on instituting a
search of the apartments he occupied he found the do-
cument and papers produced, consisting of a cheque bock
and also a pass-book belonging to Messrs. Gooch and
Co., together with a cheque for 1,0001. rhere were also
some papers on ct-hich an imitation of the handwriting
of Mr. Davis appeared; and the witness also discovered
the forged cheque for 250/., which the prisoner presented
for payment at the Lond,,n and Westminster Bank
on Saturday last, but which was rejected by one of the
clerks, who made a memorandum of the cause of his re-
fusal on the face of it. The prisoner, it will be recol-
lected, called again at the bank on Monday and produced
the letter, inclosing another cheque. for 250/., which
having excited the suspicion of Mr. Kingsford, the mana-
ger, led to the prisoner's apprehension.
Mr. ATECKETT asked the prisoner if he wished to put
any question to either of the witnesses, or to make any
statrtaent in reference to the charge, giving him at the
same time the usual caution.

The prisoner, however, still maintained the same
silence he had exhibited on his first being taken into
custody, and only shook his head.

So was committed for trial to the Central Criminal