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THE SUN, LONDON, MOND( AY PVENING, MARCH 11, 1844.

would disturb it—sedition crushed at home—and 50
or 60 millions of the public debt extinguished, without
one shilling's weight of pressure upon a flourishing
revenue—these are the trophies of 30 months of a
Conservative Administration.

It is, neverthelet ;s, disgraceful to find such a vast
sum of the public) money recklessly spent on super-
annhated allowAnce s ; and we thank Mr. Wallace for
brig the subjet under the notice of the country.
--tiffetnett) Aiwa.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT O +ll CHANCERY, March 9.
'fl Lord Ch9,n4 ellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall, and
heard appeals to• A ay.

13014 ftOil 111 COX.--JUDGMENT.
_
The Long CH kNCELLOR gave Judgment to-day in-this
case, which waF I heard before the Court a short time
since. The par' lies in the case had carried on the busi-
ness of bankers /PA Oxford, and the question in the case
was whether .To' nn Cox, who had been surety for a cer-
tain the firm, was discharged by the events
that su
had taker, lenttalcerl j
ipylace from that responsibility. The Court
below had decided that he was, and from that decision
the p.remit, appeal was brought. His Lordship thought
the rAtigment below correct, and ordered it to be af-
firr.ged with costs.

THE CORPORATION OF GLOUCESTER V. WOOD.
The greater part of the day was occupied with the
arguments in this case, which related to the sufficiency
of the guarantee given by the Corporation to transfer
certain funds to the executors of the late James Wood,
the late eccentric banker of Gloucester.

VICE-CILANCELLOR' S COURT, March 9.
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the
whole of the day with causes of no general interest.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
Morris Humphreys, an old and infirm man, was op-
posed by Mr. T. B. Hughes for the only creditor, Richard
Williams, his son-in-law, a groom, residing in William-
street, Lisson-grove. He was supported by Mr. Wood-
ruffe.

The insolvent appeared nearly childish. He was at-
tended with much solicitude by his daughter, the wife of
the opposing creditor.
Mr. WOODRUFFE informed the Learned Commissioner
that the person who had opposed him had put him into
4prison• all he owed was 101., and he claimed a set-off on
the other side. •

Mr. HUGHES asked a question with the view of show-
ing that the residence had not been mentioned in the
schedule.—The question was repeated to the old man,
who replied that he could not tell, as he had lost his
faculties.

The next cluestion was the amount that he had paid
his attorney in this Court, when the answer was made by
the daughter, that she had paid 61.
Mr. WooDRUFFE—And paid by the wife of the op-
posing creditor!

Mr. HUGHES said he Wished she was called to give
evidence.

Mr. Commissioner Mums decided that she could
neither be examined for or against her husband.
Mr. WOODRUFF obtained, permission to explain the
case. The insolvent's daughter had married a young
gentleman, who was killed three days afterwards, and
his family had made her a provision for life. Unfortu-
nately she had married the opposing creditor, from whom
she separated nine weeks after the marriage ; her hus-
band sold her out of a little shop she had taken, and
had sued to imprisonment the old, man for board and
lodging ; she had promised to allow her father 50/. a
year out of the allowance which was made to her volun-
tarily by the family of her former husband.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS—WeII, Mr. Hughes, I
hope you are satisfied ? Mr. HUGHES—Perfectly, Sir.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS—I hope your client is
here ? Mr. HITCHES—He is, Sir.
The COURT ordered an addition to be made, so that
no claim could be made on the allowance by the
daughter. The poor old man was immediately dis-
charged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
_ MANSION-ROUSE.

Captain William Simpson, the commander of the brig
Colina, the owner of which, Mr. Reed, of Ipswich, was
on Friday charged with having been a party to the wilful
destruction of that vessel, was brought before the Lord
Mayor in the eustody of Daniel Forrester, the officer,
and accused of having combined with W. Reed to sink
the vessel, and thus defraud the Marine Alliance In-
surance Company of the sum of 1,250 L, to which amount
she was insured.
Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, appeared for the prose-
cution, and MrAlumphreys, the solicitor, attended upon
the part of the prisoner.
Mr. Clarkson briefly stated that the vessel had been,
by a contrivance between the owner and the captain,
sunk off the coast of Holland, on her homeward-bound
voyage, in the year 1841, by the captain, who managed
to take what was called a " butt" out of her—that meant
one of the timbers of the vessel. He would show dis-
tinctly, upon fully entering into the case on a future day,
that she had been wilfully lost. His object upon the
present occasion was to produce so much evidence as
would justify the Lord Mayor in remanding the pri-
soner until the day on which it was appointed that the
owner should be brought up. The Learned Counsel then
called the witness who had given evidence on the pre-
ceding day, as to the conversation which had taken place
between the owner and the captain in his presence, and
the fact that Mr. Reed had, subsequently to hearing that
Captain Simpson had declared that the vessel was wil-
fully sunk with the owner's knowledge, removed the
commander of another of his vessels, and appointed
Simpson to that person's situation.
George Gardiner then was sworn, and deposed as fol-
lows:—Up to the time that Mr. Reed was taken into
custody I was in his and his partner's (Mr. Page) ser-
vice. They were the owners of the brig Colina. In
1841 the brig was insured for 1,2504, for twelve months.
She was lost. After her loss I saw the captain with
Mr. Reed, the owner. In the month of June last the
captain told me the particulars of the loss of the Colina,
having frequently hinted at it before, and he said that
the owner would some day or other get into trouble
about it. He said to me that be had left the ship on
his way home somewhere upon the coast, to come home
and tell the owner that the vessel was leaking and
unfit for use. When he told that to Mr. Reed, the obser-
vation Mr. Reed made was, "that he could do nothing
with her then, that he (Capt. Simpson) must go another
voyage with her--a voyage to the north for coals." The
captain objected to the leaky condition in whichthe ship
was, and Mr. Reed then said to him " if she is in that bad
state then go with her, and you must drop her." The
captain told me he said to Mr. Reed that the boat was
not fit for saving the men, and that it was in a very bad
condition, and .31r. Reed said, "you must get another
that will suit you, and charge it to the ship." He said
he went the voyage and took in coals, and when on the
coast of Holland the vessel was wilfully lost. He pointed
out to me the spot in the highway where he agreed
with Mr. Reed to drop or sink the vessel.
Cross-examined by Mr. Humphreys—I have been
these seven years in the service of Mr. Reed, and I am
now in the service of the firm.
Mr. Clarkson submitted that he had proved quite
enough to authorise him in applying for a remand of the
prisoner until the owner should be brought up.
Mr. Humphreys did not oppose the application.
The prisoner was then remanded.
William Henry Albert was brought up for re-examina-
tion, on Saturday' on the charge of having forged the
names of Bolte and Co., merchants, on the back of a
bill of exchange. Some of the particulars of the case
have already appeared.
Mr. Rosing, the agent in France of Messrs. Bolte and
Co., of Bremen, having inclosed four bills of exchange
in a letter (which never arrived as addressed) to that
firm, in a short time those bills made their appearance in
England, when one of them was negotiated with the
forged endorsement of " Bolte and Co." upon it. That
bill was taced to the prisoner.
Mr. Wilkinson, solicitor, of Broad-street, who attended
for the prosecution, said that he had written, since the
prisoner's first examination, to Bremen and to France
for the necessary witnesses, and Mr. Rosing had arrived
from Paris, but, in consequence of the state of the river
from the frost, Mr. Bolte could not reach London con-
veniently for some time. He would, however, prove
the commission of the forgery beyond the shadow of a
doubt.
Mr. Rosing said, I am a native of Bremen, but I have
lived in Paris for the last year and nine months. I well
know the house of Bolte and Co. One of the partners
is a brother-ipt-law of mine. I am the agent of that
house in Paris. On the 11th of November I brought
certain bills of exchange for Messrs. Bolte and Co., and
on the 12th I enclosed them in a letter, which lad

dressed to that firm, and sealed with my seal ; I gave
the letter to my son, a boy nine years old, to take to the
post-office. (Here the bill was produced.) This is one
of the bills which I enclosed in the letter. The indorse-

ment " Bolte and Co." is a forgery. There is no such
house in Paris as Bolte and Co., I am quite sure, and
there is no clerk in the house of Bolte and Co., of Bremen,
authorised to endorse bills.
Cross-examined by Mr. Chapman for the prisoner—
Went to the President of the Tribunal of Commerce,
and learned from him, that there was no such house in
Paris as that of Bolte and Co. Ido not know the writ-
ing of the principal clerk of the house of Bolte and Co.,
at Bremen. I saw Messrs. Bolte and Co., in February,
and they told me they never authorised any person to
endorse bills in their names. I do not know a man named
Fredericks, but I should wish to meet him.
The LORD MAYOR—After you purchased the bills,
you sent them by post to Bremen. Did you hear after-
wards from Bremen anything about them ? Witness—
They wrote to me that the bills had not arrived.
Mr. Wilkinson here produced another of the bills
which had been enclosed in the same letter, and directed
to Messrs. Bolte and Co., and he said it was in his power
to produce a third, and that they were all traceable to
the prisoner.
Mr. Rosing (looking at the bill)—This is another of
the bills which I sent to Messrs. Bolte and Co. It is for
878 marts banco 7 shillings, and the endorsement ap-
pears to be from Bolte and Co. to W. H. Albert. The

endorsement is a forger;:-
Mr. F. D. Bruin, clerk to Mr. Konigswater, of Cop-
thall-court, said he knew Albert by sight. Albert called
upon him at Copthall-court, and brought with him this
bill Itnd we bought it of him, partly in cash and partly
in a bill on Paris. Ile had offered us one for 1,616
mares banco 2 shillings, on Ifamburgh. We refused to
take it, as we did not know him. We got it back from
Jiamburgh under protest, for it was not accepted, as the
signature of Bolte and Co. was forged. We gave it to
an attorney, and the prisoner got it from him.
Ferdinand Rosin. son of the first witness, said that
he put the letter addressed by his father to Bolte and
Co., Bremen, into the post-office.
The LORD MAYOR, after a very minute investigation,
said that all he considered necessary to warrant him in
committing the prisoner for trial was the evidence of
some one of the partners of the house of Bolte and Co..—
The prisoner was then remanded.
CITY POLICE COMMITTEE.
On Saturday, in the course of the hearing of a sum-
mons laid against a young gentleman for an alleged fu-
rious riding down Skinner-street, Snow-hill, Sir Peter

' Laurie stated to Mr. Lambert Jones, the Common Conn-
cilman; who was present, that he was astonished at the
rapid stride wood-pavement was gaining in the metro-
polis, particularly after what had been publicly stated as
to its dangerous qualities. There was scarcely a day
elapsed but what some disaster took place on that laid
down in the City between Aidgate and Temple-bar. At
kis (Sir Peter Laurie's) request the City police during
the month of February last noted the whole of the acci-
dents that happened by horses slipping down on the
1,200 yards of wood pavement laid down in the City,
and.also those that took place on the Macadamised roads,
'The Commissioner (Mr. D. W. Harvey) had forwarded
him the result, which proved that the number of acci-
dents on wood pavement were nearly five times those on
the Macadamised pavement, the former amounting du-
ring the time specified to 295, and the latter 51, making
a total of 348. The report did not mention the number
of horses that had been killed, or the extent of loss of
human life, but he knew of several instances.

Mr Lambert Jones questioned the truth of the worthy
Alderman's assertion of any persons having lost their
lives. Had such have been the case he must have heard
of the casualties.

Sir PETER LAURIE was confident, and mentioned se-
veral instances. He advised Mr. Lambert Jones to get
rid of his shares, if he had any, for he could assure him
they were of no good.
Mr. Lambert Jones said Sir Peter should have all he
possessed for five shillings.—(Laughter.)
Sir PETER LAURIE declined to have anything to do
with them. He then gave directions to the inspector on
duty in the Court to request the police to make another
month's note of the accidents that occurred on the wood
pavement, but cautioned him of the men being bribed to
make false returns. He, however, would be upsides with
them.