The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-25 00:00:00

rtiE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1844.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
(YISTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
Mr. Goldhate, the cleric of Billingsgate-market having,
at the desire o' the Lord Mayor, attended at the justice-
room, to report as to any regulations which it might be
necessary to make with respect to the boats on the river,
for the protection of the public, especially during Green-
wich Fair, which was to commence on Monday next,
that experienced officer waited upon his Lordship in the
course of the day.
The LORD MAYOR—There have been several appli-
cations made to me within the last few days, requesting
my interference to prevent the embarkation of greater
numbers on board the steam-boats on the Thames than
can be safely accommodated in them, and I am anxious
to hear whether you, Mr. Goldham, have any sugges-
tions to make, by the adoption of which greater security
can be calculated upon for the lives of passengers.
Mr. Goldham said that, in all probability, if his Lord-
ship did not, in some way or other, interpose his autho-
rity, some dreadful accident, compared with which, in
extent, those which had lately occurred would be but
insignificant, would occur on the days of the approach-
ing Greenwich F..ir. Instead of the loss of six or seven
lives, the loss of six hundred or seven hundred might be
deplored, if the steam-boats were allowed to receive
such multitudes. Ile had always fears of some dreadful
accident at this time of the year during such weather,
and more especially as several old tug-boats ventured to
carry hundreds of people. These tug-boats were, many
of them, made of very indifferent materials, and, being
narrow, were extremely liable to turn over if their
engines happened to come in contact with other vessels
in the river. If such a thing were to take place, the
passengers would stick together like a swarm of bees,
and but few of the multitude would, in all probability,
be saved. .
The LORD Mayon said that he should, as far as he
possibly could, prevent any catastrophe such as Mr.
Goldham had described, and seemed to apprehend. The
power of the Court of Aldermen was, he knew, very
limited as regarded the regulation of these boats, and he
really believed that, until the public sympathy was
roused by some awful accident, involving the destruction
of hundreds, no effectual measure would be adopted.
Some representative of the people would then, no doubt,
come forward to deplore the event, and to say that it
was high time to put a stop to the evil. A relative of
his came to London yesterday from Gravesend n:a steam-
vessel, which, in consequence of the gross negligence of
the commander, carried away the paddle-box of another
vessel in passing Blackwell.
Mr. Goldham stated, that if that commander had come
across a crazy old tug steamer, crowded with people, the
consequence might have been dreadful. The crowded
state of the river, arising- from the vast traffic, added
considerably to the danger. He had had a very long
experience of the Thames, and his astonishment v as
how the loss of lire happened to be, comparatively with
the danger, so small.
The LORD MAYOR said, that lie should consult his
brother Magistrates upon the subject of applying to Par-
liament for greater powers then they already possessed
to abate an evil of so formidable a charaettr. But in
order to meet the almost immediate danger, he should
cause placards to be sent to all the wharfs used by steam-
vessels, cautioning those who had authority on board
against the practice of receiving such numbers of pas.
sengers. The distribution of the placards should be
ery general, and he should. in like manner, appeal to
ti e public themselves, and to the Directors of the seve•
rat companies, to aid him on an occasion of such mo-
n.elt. His Lordship then gave several orders to Mr.
Goldam, as to the details of the plan he resolved to
adopt during Greenwich Fair.
CLERKENWELL.
Mr. Mark Noed, a gold cutter, residing at 10, St
John's-square, Clerkenwell, was brought up on an im-
mediate warrant, charged with flogging and otherwise
maltreating Mark Noed, his illegitimate son, a boy aged
about 14 years.
Bingham, the warrant officer, produced the instrument
with which the boy had been flogged, a-clumsy stick
two feet long, with six knotted India rubber cords
fastened to the end of it.
Mr. GREENWOOD directed the boy to remove the dress
from the upper part of his person. The boy did so. and
a spectacle truly shocking was presented to the Court.
The whole of the back, from the neck to the hips, was
literally covered with stripes and coagulated blood.
The whole of the left side was contused, there were two
or three marks of the lash and knots on_ the lower part
of the abdomen. The merles of the knots were perfectly
visible in several other places, and a murmur of horror
and indignation ran through the spectators assembled in
the body of the court.
The boy having been sworn, made the following state-
ment:—l have been living with my father for the last
two years. My mother lives with my grandmother, at
31, Charles-street, Hatton-garden, and supports herself
by needlework. Early on Sunday morning I went out
to walk with Johnny:Newman to Lea-bridge. Newman
left me there, and I went astray, and did not get back
to Hatton-garden until one o'clock. Being afraid to re-
turn home, I went to my mother's in Charles-street, and
remained there until Tuesday evening, when my father
came for me and took me home, at ten o'clock at night.
Ile brought me into the bed-room, and made me strip
off all my clothes, except my trousers. . I did as he di-
rected me. He then took a handkerchief and bound it
round my head, so as to cover my mouth and prevent
me from screaming. He made me stand up, and beat
me with the cat-o'-nine-tails produced for five minutes.
He then took a jack-towel from a nail and bound it
round my head, fastening it under my chin.
Prisoner—l did so, that he might not alarm a woman
who lodged in the house by his screams.
Mr. GREENWOOD—The wonder is that you did not
suffocate the child ; and if you had, you would have
been probably tried for your life.
The boy, in answer to further interrogatories from the
Magistrate, went on to state :—My father then began to
beat me again. I put my hands behind to ward off the
strokes, but he struck me on the hands and wrists (they
were likewise striped). The handkerchief on my nose
hurt me, and I strove to push it off, and he said he would
break my hands if I did not keep them down—he then
struck me a violent blow on the nose, which bled a
great deal in consequence. My hands were covered
with blood from the stripes. I believe my back bled a
great deal. When he had done beating me he locked
me up in the room, saying, " You shall have nothing
but bread and water for a fortnight." There was no
bed in the room, only a chair, but my body was so sore
that I could not sit down. I felt so much pain that I
could not sleep any all night. On Wednesday
morning he gave me some bread and water. He then
fastened some paper across the lower part of the window
with sealing wax, so that nobody in the street could
see me. He said he was going to the Derby race, and
that if I should touch the paper on the window
he would break my bead. I was locked up all day in the
room alone. At eight o'clock he came home from the
races, and made me brush my trowsers. He gave me
no food, but put me into another room, in which there
was no bed, and he locked me up there all night alone.
He gave me nothing to eat. At eleven o'clock in the
morning he came to me and made me clean his boots. I
was sore all over. He eat a beef-steak in my presence,
but did not give me any thing at all to eat except the
bread and water. In the middle of the day I shot !Lek
the bolt ef the door with a fork, and escaped to the
police station. The police took nce to the Clerkenwell
workhouse, where I slept last night.
Mr. GREENWOOD asked the defendant what reply he
could make to the charge ? Defendant—What he says
is
operfectly true ; but, in my opinion, he deserves all he
Mr. GREENWOOD—I cannot trust my own feelings to
go
say what I think on this matte. I never recollect in all
my experience a case of greater cruelty, except one,
where the victim was starved to death.
The boy further stated that his father had often
beaten him with the cat, which had been made for the
purpose. He had not his clothes off since Monday
night. He still felt great pain.
Dr. Taylor, the parochial physician, deposed that the
boy's back was waled from the shoulders to the bottom
of the back ; his arms and hands were likewise striped.
The flesh was much discoloured in several places from
the injuries inflicted.,
Mr. Wilson, the overseer of Clerkenwell, said he never
was so much shocked as on seeing the condition of the
boy. He felt confident the parish would prosecute in
the case ; but if not, he would certainly prosecute at his
own expense.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial in default
of being able to obtain two sureties in 501. each, to an-
swer for his appearance there.
The boy was removed to the workhouse.
Sarti, the poor Italian boy, whose case was mentioned
in our paper of yesterday, was again brought before the
Magistrate, and Mr. Hicks, the overseer of Islington,
being in attendance, promised to take such steps as
would rescue the boy from his present deplorable con-
dition.
Mr. Wakeling, a solicitor, said that it appeared from
the statement in some of the morning papers that the
Magistrate bad authorised the detention of the boy's
organ by the police. He applied for a summons against
the police for detaining it, on behalf of the owner of the
organ.
Mr. GREENWOOD said he made no such statement. If
the police did not give up the organ to the owner he
would certainly grant the summons.
MARYLEBONE.
FORGERY.—Yesterday afternoon, a young man of
very respectable appearance, who gave his name
Daniel Wright, but refused to state where he resided,
was, together with a showily dressed female, named
Sarah Cox, placed at the bar before the sitting Ma-
gistrate, Mr. C. Long, the former prisoner charged
with having, by means of a forged cheque, uttered by
him, obtained 3901. from, the banking house of Sir
Claude Scott and Co., Cavendish-square, and the latter
on suspicion of being an accessory afr the fact.
the
The prisoners were brought up bte y
Detective Police. officers of
George Taylor, clerk to Sir Claude Scott and Co.,
deposed that on 3d instant, Wright, of whom he had no
previous knowledge, presented to him a cheque for 3901.
purporting to be drawn by William I'ulsford, upon the
Bank of England, and payable to Mr. G. Redmayne,
or bearer, (the cheque was here produced, and handed to
the Magistrate); at the period of his presenting it, ho
said that he had brought it from Mr. Redmayne, who
would be obliged by having it cashed, and witness gave
him six 50/. notes, and four 201 ditto, together with
10 sovereigns ; he signed his name to the said cheque
in acknowledgment of the receipt of the amount, and
then went away.
Mr. LONG—Did he say who he was, or make any
other remark then what you have stated?
in New did not, Sir. Mr. Redmayne, who resides in New
Bond-street, keeps an account with us, and as we are in
the habit of giving cash to him for cheques, I did not
hesitate to do so in the present instance. Te thecqu
bore an indorsement, purporting to be that oh MRed-
e
mayne's clerk, for and on behalf of his employer.
Mr. Claude Edward Scott, one of the partners in the

him quite unshackled in the performance of his public
duty, and that he should now oppose the Whigs with less
pain ; a promise which we sincerely hope he will Verform.
However, he already gave the hapless Whigs a toretaste
of the results of his emancipation—a kind of earnest, a
something to bind the bargain so discreetly made by the
noble', and most adventurous Marquis, in order to make
good how judicious and safe an advocate, perchance a
leader, the opposition have got in him. Lord B.
said others, as well as himself, had left them ; his
leaving them being all they ever had to charge him
with, and being that to which they never ceased
alluding, and he wished Lord Howden were then pre-
sent, upon which a laugh broke from the Whig ranks.-
But, said Lord 8., it is no such laughing matter ; for,
sincerely, he wished any one of them could make such a
speech as he had been delighted with from Lord How-
den, one of the most brilliant ever delivered in any as-
sembly. " But," added the Noble and Learned Lord,
" I wish him here only to vouch for Lord
Grey's entire appruhation of his conduct in quit-
ting the Whigs—to which Lord Grey added, that had
he been able to attend, he (Earl Grey), the great leader
of the party, would certainly have supported her Ma-
jeity's Ministers." There, gentlemen Whigs—there,
genie Whiglings ! there you have your truly
honourable and your most distinguished leader,
Earl Grey. leaving you as well as Lord Brougham,
Lord Howden, Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, Lord
Chief Baron Abinger. To be sure, you still have
Lcrd Palmerston—he who so very nearly drove Lord
Holland from your ranks, by so very nearly going to
war with France—that very recent Whig, Lord P.,
you have ; as you have other novelties, for instance
Lord Clarendon' a Commissioner of the Customs,
or some such thing, when the Greys were
ministers, and the Broughams Chancellors, and
the Stanlcys and Grahams Secretaries, and Lord
Normanby, who was a West India Governor,
and Spring Rice, now a Lord, who was Secretary of the
Treasury. All these you doubtless will have with you.
But as for Lord Melbourne he is much too high minded
a man to assail with you the domestic comfort of an old
friend and colleague. He will manfully meet Lord
Brougham in fair tight on public grounds, if he happens
to differ with him—no very likely event—but he scorns
to lend himself to such miserable spite as inter-
posing the Whig party in a road question, to vex and
annoy a neighbouring proprietor. We are told by one
who had it from a Peer present, that Lord Melbourne
calmly walked down the House after the Whigling
Lords had vented all their spleen, and he voted with Lord
Brougham, and against the Whigs ! Another praise is
Lord Melbourne's. Never has he taken part with Lord J.
Rassell in attacking the Irish Courts, or defending the con-
victs. He has left Lord J. "alone in his glory." He has
never averred, because he has never believed, that Mr.
O'Connell and the rest had not a fair trial, when all
mankind besides deemed that the law had been strained
in his favour ; nor did he merely sit by when Mr. O'C.
asserted that he had been offered the Chief Baron's
place ; sit by, and never venture to contradict the story
for fear of losing his, and his tail's support—a silence
that really leaves even ourselves under the necessity
of
deciding for Mr. fi'C. in this controversy.

banking firm, stated, that on the morning of the 4th in-
stant, the cheque produced to the Court was brought to
him by a clerk belonging to the Bank of England, who
pronounced it to be a forgery, and on the same afternoon
Mr. Pulsford called upon him, and upon examining the
cheque, he said that the signature bearing his name was
not his; information of the transaction was then given to '
the police.
Jonathan Whicker (Detective) stated, that he had been
employed in the case, and among places which he had
gone to in pursuit of "Wright was Birmingham, where,
upon his arrival he ascertained that he (Wright) had
been in that town, but that he quitted it about ten days
ago, for London. On the same morning (yesterday)
witness, accompanied by Inspector Haines and Thomson
of the Detective, repaired to the Victoria Hotel, near the
terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, Eus-
ton-square, and in one of the parlours of that establish-
ment he found the prisoners sitting together at breakfast.
Mr. LONG—What took place when you entered the
roam? Witness—l asked him what his name was, and
he said it was Day. I had told him who I was, and as I
had before satisfied myself with regard to purchases
made by him, with some of the notes received from Sir
Claude Scott's, I asked him if he knew where he got the
501 note from, with which he purchased a gold
watch at Whistler's in the Strand; to this he
made no reply. I told him he must consider himself in
my custody on suspicion of uttering a forged cheque on
the 3d inst., at Sir Claude Scott and Co's.; he said it was
a bad job, but he must put up with the consequences ;
and he asked ree several times if I thought he would be
transported. I searched him, and found in his pocket
51.45. 6d., and in a writing-case belonging to him, 70
sovereigns, as also a valuable gold watch and chain,
and other articles of jewellery ; on the female were three
gold rings, and she had a great deal of new and fashion-
able wearing apparel.
The watch, money, and the rest of the property dis-
covered was here produced by the witness.
Mr. LONG —Do you recollect anything more that took
place between either of the prisoners and you ? Wit-
ness—Wright said he was in difficulty, and that it was
through women that he had been led into it.
Witness produced another cheque for a large amount
which he found on the prisoner, who had attempted to
tear it up ; it was of a similar character to that by which
Sir Claude Scott and Co. were defrauded.
Inspector Haines said that during the short stay of
the prisoners at the Victoria Hotel, a bill had been run
up there to the amount of 36/.
The witness Whicker further stated that the male pri-
soner had, as he had every reason to believe, not given
his real name, and that his parents were highly respec-
table people, living in Conduit-street, Hanover-square.
Mr. LONG (to Wright)—l shall be obliged to re-
mand you upon this charge, do you wish to say
anything or not ? Wright—l can say nothing in
denial of what has been stated against me by the wit-
nesses ; but this young woman is quite innocent. She
knew nothing about what I had done until this morning,
when the officers took the into custody,
The female prisoner, who also asserted her innocence,
was discharged ; and Wright was, in order to afford
time for the attendance of a clerk from the Bank of Eng-
land, and other persons to whom he (Wright) had
passed some of the notes, in payment for jewellery, &c.,
remanded till Friday next.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM Tllll MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The weekly return of the Bank of England to
be made under the new system will, it is supposed, be on the
principle set forth in the forms which we give below, though
of the actual form itself nothing is known at present. To
understand the figures it is necessary to bear in mind the
return of the Bank of England published on the 26th ult.,
as the forms are made on the assumption that the sums
there set down as denoting an average denote a fact. This
return was as follows
LIABILITIES.

ASSETS.

£ £
Circulation
Deposits

£35,042',000 £38,165,000
Supposing the Bank to appropriate from its bullion
1,015,000/. to the banking department for immediate use,
leaving 15,000,000/. in the issuing department as a basis for
circulation, the total circulation will be 29,000,0000L—that
is to say, the 15,000,0001. and the 14,000,0001. allowed to be
issued en securities. The return shows 21327,0001. which is
the amount held by the public, and therefore the remaining
7,573,000/. lies in the Bank in the shape of notes in deposit,
and balances the account of the issue department. The new
return for this department would therefore be as follows :
LIABILITIES. I ASSETS.

Notes with the On security .. 14,000,000
public ..... 21,427,000 Bullion ...... 15,000,000
Notes in the Bank 7,573,000

£29,000,000

£29,000,000 I
Turning now to the banking department, we find that
under the head of assets there must be securities to the
value of 8,150,0001., that being the difference between the
.2,130,0001. shown in the return, and the 14,000,000/. re-f
served by the issuing department; notes to the value o
7,573,000/., as shown by the issue account; and coin, as-
sumed to be 1,015,0001. The liabilities show the single item
of deposits, taken from the April return, with the " rest" as
a balance. We now have the banking return complete as
follows :

LIABILITIES.

ASSETS.

Deposits ... ..... 13,615,000
Rest

Securities
Notes .••

8,150,000
7,573,000
1,015,000

1 Coin

£16,738,000

If it be intended to introduce
the account, 14,553,0001. must
lities, and a similar amount of
the balance of " rest" will reir

1 6 , 7 3 8 ,000
e the proprietors' capital into
added to the side of liabi-
securities to the assets, so that
'lain precisely the same.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF CHANCERY, May 24.
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in his Court at Westminster
to-day, and took cause and lunatic petitions, none of which
possessed the slightest public interest.
IN RE BARIATINSRI.
Sir C. WETHERELL opened this case. It was a question
respecting the appointment of committees to the person of
the Princess Bariatinski. The Princess was the niece of
Lord Sherborne, and the persons who were proposed as com-
mittees by those for whom he appeared, were Lord and Lady
Sherborne, and his sister, the Hon. Margaret Dalton, the
natural relations of the lunatic. On the other side two per-
sons were proposed not inferior in station or credit. The
lunatic had been under the care of a Miss Chalmers, for the
last five years, and the question was, whether this lady,
who had been appointed to her office by Lord Sherborne and
Miss Dalton, had treated her kindly during that period. It
was alleged by the half-brother of the Princess, who resided
in Russia, that she had not been treated kindly. That i% as
the issue to be tried before his Lordship. The Learned
Coimsel then' referred to the affidavits bearing on this point,
in which it was stated that the house where the lunatic was
confined was not suitable, and that there had been a general
want of care and attention.
Mr. WALPOLE followed on the same side.
(The case was proceeding when we went to press.)

VICE-CLIANCELLOR'S COURT May 24.
Vice-Chancellors Sir J. K. L. Bruce and Sir James Wigram
did not sit to-day, in consequence, as it was understood, of
the Westminster Sessions-house, which they have occupied
from the commencement of the term, being engaged for the
regular business of the Court.
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole
morning with hearing short causes, the circumstances of
which were only interesting to the parties concerned.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 24.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court were engaged this day in bearing an argument
against a rule for a new trial, obtained by Mr. Sergeant
kyles, in the case of Burgess v. Boetefeur. There was not
the slightest interest in the case.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 24.
(Sittings in Banco.) t

LEES V. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE CALDER AND lIEBBLE

NAVIGATION.

In this case a rule nisi had been obtained by Mr. Martin,
to set aside the verdict had for the plaintiff, and enter the
same for the defendant, or to have a new trial.
Mr. Knowles (with whom were Mr. Crompton and Mr.
Addison) now appeared to show cause against the rule. The
case had been tried at the York assizes before Mr. Justice
Coltman, and the question at issue was whether the eon-
- veyance by the plaintiffs of a certain piece of land to the defen-
dants, through which there was a watercourse,had destroyed
the plaintiff's right to the benefit of that watercourse. The jury
bad been of opinion the plaintiff had not by the conveyance
deed parted with his right to the watercourse, and had given
a verdict accordingly for the plaintiff, and this verdict it was
which the conditional rule sought to set aside.
Mr. Watson and Mr. Cowley were with Mr. Martin, in
support of the rule.
The arguments in this case concluded at a late hour of the
• day, and the Court decided that the verdict should be entered
for the defendants, and therefore the conditional rule must
be made absolute.

Immediately after the Derby • was run for on
'Wednesday, a fashionably-dressed gentleman, who was
riding a spirited horse. turned to leave the course, and in
doing so his horse came in contact with a cart, and imme-
dintely took fright and ran away. The gentleman kept his
seat for a few minutes, but at length was thrown with ter-
rible violence. He was taken up in an apparently life-
less state, and conveyed towards the town, where medical
assistance could be procured. The general impression at the
time was that he was killed, as his head came first on to the
ground, and he gave no sign of animation while he was
being carried off, bleeding profusely at the mouth and nos-
trils. The horse continued its course at a frightful rate
through the town, where it ran against a cart, and cut its
chest and thighs dreadfully, so as to be unable to proceed any
further. The name of the gentleman was unknown.
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