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London, England, 1844-06-12 00:00:00

THE QUEEN V. TILE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.

Iri this case a rule had been obtained by Mr. Hill, calling
on the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London to show cause
why a mandamus should not issue, directing and command-
ing them to admit Mr. Ashurst, an attorney of the Lord
Mayor's Court. The application was founded on the 27th
sec. of the Gth and 7th of Victoria, ch. 73, and the question
was, whether the Lord Mayor's Court was one of those con-
templated by that Act?
Lord Ds NMAN said he understood that this was a question
of considerable importance, and it would therefore be better
to order that a return to the mandamus should be made, in
order that the question might be fully discussed and consi-
dered.

BAIL COURT, June 11.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
THE QUEEN V. DITCH AND OTHERS.
Mr. HUDDLESTON in this case applied for a certiorari, to
remove an indictment for conspiracy against an attorney and
two persons named Ditch, from the Central Criminal Court
into the Court of Queen's Bench. The affidavit on which
the application was founded stated that points of law were
likely to arise, upon which it would be necessary to have the
opinion of the Judges of the Court.—Rule granted.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 11.
(Sittings in Banco.)
Their Lordships were occupied this morning in hearing
motions, none of which presented any feature of public in-
terest or importance.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, June 10.
(Before Commissioner Sir C. F. WILLIAMS.)

TIIE ROMFORD DANE.-IN RE THOMAS JOHNSON, THE
ELDER, WILLIAM JOHNSON, AND CHARLES MANN, OF
RUMFORD, IN ESSEX, BANKERS, AND CO• PARTNERS,
DEALERS AND CHAPMEN.

11 fiat was issued against the above parties upon the
Bth inst., at the instance of Emanuel Cooper, William
Curry, Swynfen Jarvis, and Joseph Henry Warter, of
No. 71, Lombard-street, bankers, and co-partners, on
behalf of the " London and County Joint-stock Bank,"
and the adjudication took place this day.
No day has yet been fixed for the choice of assignees,
but Mr. Follett has been appointed official assignee.
We are requested by the solicitor to the fiat, Mr. Wil-
kinson, to state that every opportunity will be afforded
by the representatives of the London and County Bank
of coming to the most satisfactory arrangements with
the creditors of the llomford Bank.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

The RECORDER sat in this Court the whole of the day,
and disposed of a great many cases of felony; but the
following are the only ones deserving publicity :
John Biggins, 25, was charged with stealing a mare,
♦alue 201., the property of George Rough.
It appeared that the prosecutor lives at Wandsworth,
and the mare in question was stolen from the common
near his residence on the night of the 14th May. On the
17th the prisoner appeared with the mare at Shaftes-
bury, upwards of a hundred miles from the place whence
the mare had been stolen, and he there bargained with a
man, named Wright, for the disposal of the mare, and
eventually he agreed to take another horse, a saddle and
bridle, and two sovereigns for her; but Wright, as the
prisoner was an entire stranger to him, refused to
complete the bargain until he introduced him to some
person who knew him. Upon this the prisoner took
Wright to a person who said he knew him, but by a
cliff, rent name to that he had previously given, and the
prisoner was then given into custody. After being in
gaol several days, and no person coming forward to
identify the animal, he was set at liberty, but on the
same day the prosecutor arrived at Shaftesbury and
identified the mare, and the prisoner was pursued and
taken into custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he bought the mare
for nine sovereigns at a fair in the neighbourhood of
Shaftesbury, but he called no witnesses in support of his
statement.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, :and the pri-
soner was sentenced to be transported for ten years.
Charles Edwards, 26, and William Johnson, 31, were
charged with stealing nineteen yards of cloth, value 171.,
the property of Samuel Summers.
The mode in which this robbery was effected was of
a very ingenious character, and our readers will do well
to be upon their guard against such proceedings in fu-
ture. It appeared that the prisoner Edwards, who
represented himself to be a Frenchman, called at the
house of the prosecutor, who is a tailor residing in the
Borough-road, accompanied by another man, and they
both conversed with the prosecutor fur some time rela-
tive to clothes which they represented they wished to
have made. They went away together, and shortly
afterwards Johnson called and gave the servant
a note addressed to the prosecutor, and which she took
up stairs to him. The note was to the following effect:—
" Dear Sir,—Please to call and take the measure of my
eldest son Charles for a suit of clothes;" but there was
no signature to it. The moment the prisoner Johnson
was left alone, he went round the counter, and took up a
piece of cloth and ran off with it, but the manoeuvre was
fortunately observed, and he was pursued for some dis-
tance, an 3 until he jumped into a cab, in which was
quietly seated the other prisoner, Edwards, who was
evidently waiting for his companion, and the piece of
cloth was lying between them. Upon Edward's being
searched, a note in the same hanwriting as that sent to
the prosecutor, was found in his pocket ; the contents
were to the following effect :—" Dear Madam,—Please
to let me know upon what terms you can let your lodg •
ings to a foreigner of distinction." This note had nei-
ther name nor address to it, and was evidently intended
for the purposes of fraud.
The prisoner Edwards, who had all the appearance
and tone of voice of a thorough cockney, asserted that
he was an " unfortunate foreigner," and called upon the
jury to give him the benefit of his ignorance of English
laws, asserting at the same time his entire ignorance of
the crime alleged against him.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The RECORDER said there could be no reasonable
doubt that this was one of those deeply laid plans of
robbery which the public could hardly guard against by
any foresight, and the sentence, therefore was, that they
be severally transported for ten years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

William George Hawkins, the master of the Rainbow
steam-packet, plying between London and Hammer-
smith, appeared before the Lord Mayor, to answer the-
complaint of Mr. Edward Bailey, son of Mr. Bailey of
Berners-street, for having " unlawfully, carelessly, and
negligently navigated the vessel in the Thames, so that
it came in collision with a wherry, in which the com-
plainant and his two brothers, and two other young gen-
tleman. ere„ by reason of which they were placed in
great danger, and had nearly lost their lives."
The Justice-room was crowded by very eager people,
several of whom were said to have witnessed the affair
which gave rise to the complaint.
Mr. Hobler having stated the particulars for the com-
plainant, called the witnesses. _ _ _

Mr. Edward Bailey stated that, on Saturday the Ist of
June, he was on the river, with his two brothers and two
friends, in a wherry, about half a mile above Putney-
bridge, at about eight o'clock in the evening. They
were coming down with the tide, in the middle
of the stream, when they met the Rainbow
steamer passing up the river. The steamer gradually
Inclined her nose towards the Middlesex shore,
and witness, who was steering in the wherry, steered
rather more towards the Surrey shore. Presently
the steamer altered her course and went towards the
Surrey shore, and a man in her bows beckoned to him
to steer towards the Middlesex side. Witness obeyed,
and if both had held en the altered course they would

have cleared each other. When, however, they had got
within a very short distance of each other the steamer ,
again altered her course to the Middlesex side, and
struck the boat, which was a strong four-oared cutter,
upon the stern. Just before the boat was struck by the
steamer, Mr. Chapman, one of the gentlemen in the for-
mer, jumped overboard and swam towards the Surrey
shore. The concussion was so great that it threw his
younger brother, the lad behind him, and himself
into the river. When they rose, his younger brother,
(Alfred Bailey) was between him and the boat,
which was broken almost to pieces, and witness pushed
his brother, who was but a bad swimmer, towards the
boat, and he was saved. Witness and Mr. Chapman
thought it would be dangerous to try to get into the
boat which had received so serious an injury, and they
continued to swim about till assistance arrived, and they
were picked up. Two or three boats came to them, but
not one came from the steamer. Two or three steamers
passed them while they were in the water, but not one
of them backed water or rendered any help at all.
Mr. Arthur Bailey, brother of the first witness, stated
that he was in the boat at the time it was run down by
the steamer. Since that time he had seen a man, who
had spoken to, him. The man said he was the brother
of the captain, and that he ought to have been at the
wheel himself, but he had sent a boy who was an ap-
prentice to steer, and the apprentice had sent a stoker
to do that office, and that the stoker not knowing how
to steer let the wheel run through his hands. At first
he said the men did stop the engines, but afterwards he
said it was unfortunately Saturday night, and the call-
boy was mopping the decks, and therefore there was no
one to report the order, and he stated that he hoped
they would not say anything more about it, as it was his
fault.

Mr. Edward Senor, of No. 22, Essex-street, Strand,
solicitor, stated that he was on board the Rainbow
steamer when the collision took place. The steamer had
put ashore some passengers, and, he believed, the captain,
before it took place. A man on board the steamer made
a motion to the parties in the boat to go to the Surrey
side. They did go towards the Surrey side, and the
steamer dodged them, and then they went towards the
Middlesex side, and the steamer did the same, and the
boat was then struck by the steamer. Witness imme-
diately ran to throw over a rope, and saw three persons
in the water. The steamer, however, went on.
The LORD MAYOR —Did you see any attempt made on
the part of the steamer to render assistance ? No ; but
two or three boats went to their assistance from the
Surrey side.
The LORD MAYOR-`Yell, defendant, what have you
to say in answer to this charge 2 The defendant said
that when a steamer got above Putney-bridge the danger
was considered to be over, and it was accordingly left to
the management of the mate, who was perfectly quali-
fied. Witness was not on board at the time the acci-
dent occurred.

The mate stated, that he could not take upon himself
the management, and be at the wheel at the same time;
he had, therefore, put the fcremast hand on board to
the wheel, and the stoker to help him, and the accident
occurred without any fault upon his side.
The LORD MAYOR said—So the lives of persons are
to be put in imminent peril by your gross neglect of duty.
The captain leaves his mate to do hii business, and the
mate appoints somebody else, and._ three lives have been
placed in jeopardy. This is a most atrocious case—if
a life had been lost these persona most certainly could
be tried for manslaughter and convicted. What are the
feelings of Mr. Bailey, the father of these young gentle-
men, as to the punishment to be awarded. I recommend
that an action be brought immediately against the pro-
prietor of the steamer.

- Mr. Bailey.—I am so grateful for the fortunate escape
of my sons, that I cannot say I have any other feeling ;
but I considered that it was proper, for the sake of the
public, to bring the case before your Lordship, and I
wish to be wholly guided by your judgment.
The defendaut.—Allow me to call a witness to show
that the steamer was not in fault.

Frederick Phelps, Putney waterman, was then called
by the defendant. He stated that he was standing on
the bank of the river, on the Surrey side, and he saw
the steamer and the boat, and just as the steamer got
near the boat, he heard the man on board the steamer
call out. He then saw the steamer strike the boat, and
heard the man on board the steamer cry out, " Stop her,
stop her."
The LORD .M.A.roft.—l don't believe one word you
have uttered.

A person who said he was the superintendent of the
steamer, which was the property of a Mr. Spitler, here
stood forward at the desire of the Lord Mayor.
His LORDSHIP wished to know whether the superin-
tendent meant to sanction the continuance of the de-
fendant and his mate in their situations, after what they
had stated ?

The superintendent s ,id the mate was perfectly well
qualified to take upon himself the command of the
steamer in the absence of the captain, and did not ap-
pear to think that there was any mismanagement at all
on board ; neither did lie, nor the captain, nor the mate,
express any regret at what had occurred.
The LORD MAYOR declared that he could not speak
in terms of condemnation strong enough to express his
feelings upon the occasion. If he were the proprietor,
the defendant and the mate should undergo instant dis-
missal. The dismissal of those persons was certainly
due to the public. Unfortunately, he (the Lord Mayor)
was not empowered by the Act of Parliament to inflict
in this case a higher penalty than 51., and he by all
means advised Mr. Bailey to bring an action for the re-
covery of damages.
Mr. Bailey—As they have expressed no contrition at
all for what has taken place they are fairly open to
the law.

The LORD MAYOR—I by all means recommend it,
and I shall discharge the case in order that legal pro-
ceedings may be adopted.
It was most extraordinary that, although the crowd
in the justice-room expected to have a shower of
apologies and submissions, not one syllable of regret
was uttered by any of those who were interested in the
cause of the steamer.

It was said, in the course of the iuvestigation, that
every nail in the four-oared cutter was started by the
collision.

WORSHIP-STREET.
On Monday Mr. John Bayley,
residing in Brunswick-
terrace, Hackney-road, and holding' a situation under
Government, was charged before Mr. Broughton, with
indecently
assaulting
an
his nursemaid, Sarah Amelia
Barber, a girl thirteen years of age.
The complainant,
artless-looking
child, and short
for her age, stated, that she had been seven weeks in the
service of the defendant, who was a married man, with
a wife and three children, as nursemaid, and that on
Saturday evening, about six o'clock, her mistress went
out in company with her sister, leaving her master and
herself at home. Witness was rocking the infant to
sleep in its cot in the drawing-room, where the prisoner
was sitting on the sofa, and, as the child was very frac-
tious,. she asked the prisoner's permission to go down
statirsTfoi her needlework. The prisoner assented, and
she was about doing so, when he got up, and, kneeling
doWn before her, took hold of her hand, and asked her
to let him kiss her. This she allowed the prisoner to
do, and lie then pressed her to sit with him on the sofa.
She refused, and the prisoner pulled her down beside
him, and after retaining her there for some time, made a
solicitation of a very indecent description, which she
indignantly repelled, and got away from him. The in-
fant having now gone to sleep, the prisoner got up, un-
dressed the other two children, four and six years of age,
himself, and put them to bed ; and the witness having
gone down into the kitchen to look after the children's
boots and shoes, was followed there by the prisoner, who.
drawing a chair to the fire-place, asked her to sit near
him; this she refused, and went up stairs for some of the
children's clothing, followed by the prisoner, who pur-
sued her into the kitchen again ; here, after an indeli-
cate action, he forcibly pulled her on to his knee, which
she resented, and after a violent struggle succeeded in
escaping, when she attempted to leave the house, but was
stopped by the prisoner, who promised her a handsome
present if she would engage not to mention the transac-
tion to her mistress. She ultimately got out of the
house, and meeting her mother, who was making pur-
chases
in Shoreditch, acquainted her with the prisoner's
conduct towards her.

The witness was severely cross-examined by Mr.
Ware, who attended for the defence, but without in the
least shaking her testimony.
Henry Barber, the prosecutrix's father, stated, that
when he met the first witness she was in a state of great
excitement. On being made acquainted with the facts,
he immediately went to the house of the prisoner, and
accused him of the offence. The prisoner at once ad-
mitted the justice of the accusation. invited the witness
in, and pro.nised that if this transaction were overlooked,
he would take care that nothing of the kind again
occurred. The witness, however, indignantly left the
house, and meeting a policeman shortly afterwards, re-
lated the facts to hies, and gave the prisoner in charge.
Policeman 340 N deposed to taking the prisoner into
custody. When he told him the charge against him, he
did not deny it, hut expressed his willingness to accom
party him to the station-house.
Mr. Ware said, that the defence he had to make was
a total denial of the charge. He need not point out to
the magistrate how easily accusations of this descrip-
tion could be preferred, and how extremely difficult it
was to rebut them, and, under all the circumstances, he
trusted the magistrate would not consider that sufficient
evidence had been adduced to establish the charge.
The prisoner was a highly respectable man, very much
regarded by all who knew him, and he wholly► denied
that such a transaction I.ad taken place.
Mr. 13itotrowrox said, that the prosecutrix had such
an appearance of artless simplicity, and had given her
evidence in such a straightforward manner, that he could
not see any reason to doubt her story, which, moreover,
was partly confirmed by two other witnesses. He should,
therefore, send the prisoner for trial at the sessions, on
the charge of assaulting with intent, &c. ; but as the
depositions could not then be taken, he must be brought
up again next week for that purpose, and in the mean-
time he would accept bail for his future appearance, him-
self in 1001., and two responsible parties in 50/. each.
The bail was shortly after found, and the prisoner who
was much affected at his situation, was then liberated.

CLE RKEN W EL L.
A very miserable-look;ng lad, who described himself as
a musician, named John Fitzgerald, was charged with wilfully
breaking .a pane of glass in the Robin Hood public-house,
Church-lane, St. Giles's.
It appeared, from the evidence, that the prisoner was, on
the previous evening, engaged in ministering to the musical
taste of a select party, at the Robin Hood public-house • but
the charms of his lyre had not the effect of stiffen-
ing the sordid propensities of his auditors, and the
smallness of the sum they tendered v-as considered
by this son of Orpheus as so utterly unworthy of
his deserts that he left the room in high dudgeon, and in the
excess of his wrath drove his hand through a pane of glass
in the public-house. He was immediately arrested, -but the
unfortunate musician was found to hate mangled his hand
so dreadfully that the landlord, with ktecoming humanity,
declined to press the charge of wilful damage against him.
The poor fellow seemed so woe-be&one when placed in the
dock, with his um ti a sling, and lus face deadly pale, that

every one present felt grateful to the publican fur setting
him at liberty.

MAI?I'LEBONE.

Sarah Barnard, Elizabeth Morgan, Martha Elliott, and
Jane Manners, four girls belonging to the Marylebone work-
house, were brought before 111r.Itawlinson, charged by James
Jones, the master, with disorderly conduct.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Jones and two of the
inmates, that the prisoners were most incorrigible, having
been more than once convicted already fur similar offences.
They were therefore kept apart from the others and locked
up in a different part of the building, communicating with an ,
inclosed yard. After the inmates had retired to rest yester-
day evening, the four girls at the bar lighted a bonfire in the
yard communicating with their rooms. Chairs, stools, and even
portions of their dress being put in requisition for the laud-
able purpose of, as Manners said, "setting the b— place on
fire." Fortunately the " row " was discovered in time, and
the girls were handed over to the tender mercies of the police.
Mr. RAwwcsoN—lt seems to me that there is a reprehen-
sible carelessness somewhere. Surely some precaution might
be adopted to prevent even the possibility of these girls
having the power of setting the house on fire.
Mr. Jones said that the prisoners were subjected to a strict
surveillance, but it was impossible to know what they were
after until the fault had been committed.

The girls said that their bedrooms were locked, and they
were therefore obliged to remain in the yard, but this asser-
tion was disproved by the master. They next stated that
they were angry, because their own " nurse" was taken from
them.

Mr. RAWLINSON—You are no babies, but take care that
you shall be nursed in the House of Correction, where you
will each go fur twenty days.
UN/ON-HALL.

Francis Turnes, a shopboy in the employ of Thomas
Winyat, a boot and shoemaker, was charged with robbing
his employer.
It appeared that the prisoner bad been about three months
in the complainant's employ, and that about a week ago
the daughter of the latter, a little girl between three and
four years of age, seeing the prisoner open the till, mentioned
the c►rcumstance to her father. When he examined the till he
missed a sovereign, but the boy bei❑g questioned on the sub-
ject, denied taking the sovereign with such earnestness, that
no further notice was taken of it. A strict watch
however was kept on the prisoner, and some silver having
been missed from the till, he was again questioned, but he
declared his innocence in the most emphatic manner, and
offered to be searched on the spot to prove his honesty. He
then submitted to an examination, but nothing was found
until his shoes were taken off, allot in them was found the
whole of the money abstracted from his employer's till.
He was committed fur trial.
Sarah Adams was charged with stabbing her husband in
the arm with a knife.

It appeared that, between seven and eight o'clock on the
preceding night, a man named Conney, on passing Smith's-
place, Smith's-street, Camberwell, hearing cries of murder,
proceeded into the house, and saw a woman with a table
knife, in the act of stabbing a man, whom she wounded
in the arm. The witne.=s interfered, and seizing
the knife from her hands, she then flew to the fire-place, and
taking up the poker struck her husband on the head with it ;
this weapon being taken out of her hands, she then grasped a
pair of scissors, and attempted to use them also, but being
overpowered she was then taken into custody. The husband,
who did not attend the examination, was represented as hav-
ing been very seriously injured.
The prisoner, in her defence, said that her husband dragged
her by the hair of the head, and attempted to throw her out
of the window, and that she took up the weapons to defen d
herself.

Mr. TRAIL remanded the prisoner until Friday.
Q UEEN-SQUARE.
_ .

Jeremiah Austin and JVnz. Harley, two fashionably-dressed
young men, residing in Euston-square, were charged with the
following " gentlemanly" conduct in the public streets :
Between twelve and one o'clock this morning, the defend-
ants, who had evidently taken more than a quantum sujicit
of wine, were proceeding along the Brompton-road, from the
neighbourhood of which they had not long emerged, and the
night air acting upon the fermented liquors, which they had
quaffed, and their reason having evaporated, they evinced a
predilection for a "lark," not by wre'ncking knockers from
the doors of the houses which they passed, a mode of amuse-
ment latterly at a lamentable discount, but by unceremoni-
ously bumping up against peaceable and unoffending pedes-
trians, ejecting them from the pavement, and laying them
sprawling in the dusty road ; women, too—perhaps those
frail creatures who crowd the broad pavements of our London
streets at night they, too, were rather roughly dealt
with by these inebriated " gentlemen." The police,
in their laudable anxiety for the public safety, re-
monstrated with the defendants on the impropriety
and indecency of their conduct. What ! a policeman dare
to advise gentlemen, to remonstrate with them, to interfere
with their rational, innocent amusements ! Mr. Austin, cer-
tainly the most violent, and most dissipated, when we con-
sider that it required a whole posse of policemen to take him
to the station-house, struck and kicked the policeman
several times, who, in self-defence drew his staff, and sprang
his rattle for assistance. Blood flowed in copious streams
from the constable's nose ; another policeman was kicked
severely on a dangerous part of his person, from which he
suffered the most acute pain. Mr. Harley was too
inebriated to offer such formidable opposition to the police
authorities, with the exception of a faint attempt to rescue
his friend from the confinement which then awaited him.

The defendants severally cross-examined the witnesses
without shaking their testimony as to the violence of their
conduct; and in their defence complained of the violence of
the police, Harley asserting that the police would say any-
thing, and that he took the arm of one of the policemen,
and walked to the station-house without the slightest re-
luctance. Both the defendants, who appeared to be well-
educated young men, said it was the first time they had ever
been in " durance vile," and seemed ashamed of the position
in which they stood. . _ _

Mr. BOND severely reprimanded the young men for their
misconduct. Respectable persons were not to be annoyed
whilst passing along the streets. He should fine Harley 205.,
or, in default, commit bins for fourteen days. The case was
of A different nature against Austin, who not only assaulted
the policeman when spoken to, but after he was taken into
custody. With respect to the alleged violence of the police,
many persons complained when brought before him that
their clothes had been torn by the rough manner with which
they had been handled by the police; but they (the police)
had no object in ill-treating persons whom they took into
custody, and whenever they used violence, it merely showed
that the parties were violent themselves. He (Austin) must
pay a fine of 31., or be committed for one month.
We believe the fines were ultimately paid.

CHIEF JUSTICE TINDAL.—The Lord Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas completed his fifteenth year of judicial
office yesterday, and is:consequently entitled to claim a full re-
tiring pension; but this learned and excellent judge has no
idea at present of resigning the office he has so long orna-
mented.

A plan is in agitation for sending to the Australian
colonies one entire regiment, annually. We shall hail the
adoption of such a measure with feelings of lively satisfaction,
for it will put an end to the demoralising effects produced by
a corps being divided into fragments for a continuous period
of three years, one part being at Chatham' another at the
antipodes, and others at sea on their outward voyage. The
proposed arrangement would also lead to another beneficial
result; it would enable the Commander-in-Chief to relieve
one regiment per year in India, independently of extra re-
liefs, and thus shorten the long and arduous tour of duty of
the corps serving in that country.—United Set rice Gazette.
A ROYAL PRESENT.—Amongst the many fine
cattle shipped per the steamer for London, on Wednesday
last, an ox of the Anp-u., sshire breed attracted general admi-
ration, on account of its beautiful symmetry and great size
and weight. Its weight was computed, by competent judges,
to be little short of 150 stones Dutch. We understand that
this splendid animal goes as a present to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.—Dundee Advertiser. _ -

_ -
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.-011 Friday the Mayor
of Limerick was entering the Exchange to preside at a meet-
ing which he called, in compliance with a requisition to ad-
dress Mr. O'Connell in his captivity, when he was suddenly
taken ill, and died almost immediately. Death was caused
by the rupture of a blood-vessel.
On Wednesday last, clothes, apparently those of a
gentleman, were found on the beach, near Knightstone,
Weston-super-Mare. In one of the pockets was an order-
book and card-case with cards, bearing the following ad-
dress :—" J. Brokenshir, wine and spirit merchant, 63,
Broad-street, Bloomsbury." It is supposed the owner of the
clothes was drowned whilst bathing.—Keene's Bath Journal.
THE BANKER'S PARCEL ROBBERY.—James
Richards, the person charged with having passed certain
notes, forming part of the property which had been contained
in a stolen banker's parcel, was, on Friday, finally examined
and committed for trial at Luton, Beds. Mr. Robinson, who
attended for him, tried to induce the magistrates to accept
bail, but they refused.
DETERMINED SUICIDE FROM FEAR OF WANT.—
Monday afternoon, Mr. Wakley. M.P., held an inquest at
the Royal Standard, Sale-street, Paddington, on the body of
Joseph Paice, a butler, out of place. From the evidence it
appeared that the deceased had been in a very melancholy
mood in consequence of being out of a situation for the last nine
months. He lately threatened, on several occasions, to de-
stroy himself, to avoid distress. On Friday evening, he re-
turned to his lodgings, 25, Sale-street, in a very exeited
state, flung a chair at his landlady, and exhibited other
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dict, " That the deceased destroyed himself, but whether he
was insane or not there was no evidence to prove."
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