The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-06 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

At Guildhall, Charles Freeman, aged 24, was brought
by Daniel Forrester before Sir John- Key, charged with
having committed sundry forgeries upon bankers in the
City, by means of forged cheques. Williana Shepherd,
a clerk in the house of Messrs. Childs aril Co., bankers,
Fleet-street, stated that on the 12th of March last, a
cheque was presented to him by some parson for
551. 10e. 2:1. The cheque purported to have been drawn
by R Mrs. Nl•Pherson, who had liberty, through her
:rustees, to draw on the house. The cheque turned cut
to be a forgery. One of the notes paid upon this cheque
had been passed by the prisoner to a hatter in the
Strand. Ihe prisoner was remanded, in order that

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further investigLAions may be made.
On Thursday, George Rittman was brought before Mr.
Long,, at Marylehone, fir final exa,rination, chargod
with having broken into the house of his grandmother,
Nlri. Todd, an infirm old lady residing at Kensall green,
aul stealing various articles ; and also with having, by
means of a forged orr.er in her name obtained money
from Mr. Fenton, a baker, living at the above place. A
few additional facts were now-:elicited, and the prisoner
was committed for trial upon both charges.
James Ward, late a drayman in the employment of
Mesrs. Ediott and Co.. brewers, Pimlico, was brouglit
before Mr.'Henry for final examination at Lambeth-
..treet, on a charge of embezzling the sum of V. 14s. 2d.,
which he had received on account of the firm. A
somewhat important point arises in this matter. It
appeared that the prisoner was acting for another person
who was ill. and who paid him (prisoner) for what he
did. This rendered it doubtful if the prisoner was the
servant of the prosecutors. If not their servant, he could
not be convicted of embezzlement. .• The prisoner, who
when apprehended said he had got d:unk and lost the
money, was fully committed for trial.
At Worship-street, two young men of bad repute,
named Edward Rourke and John Sanders, were charged
with robbing the house of Mr. John Dimmock Aspiand,
an underwriter at Lloyd's, and resident in Grange-road,
DalstoM The prisoners were remanded for the compl.--
tion of the evidence for their committal to Newgate

for trial.
At Greenwich Police•court, a batch of twelve prisoners
was charged with picking pockets at the launch at
Woolwich on Wednesday.. Mr. Jeremysaid he should
commit every one for trial, fur it was ciisgraceful that
the public could go to no place of amusement in the
vicinity of the metropolis without organised gangs of
thieves attending. The prisoners were committed to
Newgate.

C 01711. T -FASHIONABLE.
Letters from his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to her
Majesty, and Mr. G. li. Anson, announcing the safe
arrival of the Prince Consort in Germany, reached the
Castle on Thursday, shortly before one o'clock. The
letters were dispatched to the Queen and Mr. G. E.
Anson, under cover to the Prince's private secretary, by
a special messenger from the.. General Post-office in St.
Martin's-le-Grand
The Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Lady Rcehael
Russell, who arrived in Paris in the preceding week from
the south erFrarice, intend to leave for Campden-hill at
the end of the month.
The Earl of Lons tale and Sir John Beckett, Bart.,
arrived in town by railroad on Thursday morning, from-
Lowther Castle.
Lady Anne Beckett has arrived at Stratford House
from York House, Twickenham, where her Ladyship has
demisebee nstoa3fitnhge
Earlwi with
Baroness Rehausen and Lord Saye and Sele arrived,
on Wednesday, at the York Hotel, Brighton. Lord
of Lonsdale.
Lady Frederick Bentinck since the
Headley is daily expected in Brunswick-square. Baron
de Muncorvo, the Portuguese Ambassador, arrived on
Thursday with his family in Brunswick-terrace. LDrd and
Lady Granville have returned to the Duke of Devon-
shire's mansion in Kemp town.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Lonsdale, Sir J. Beckett,
Sir W. Powlett, the Hon. G. O'Callaghan and suite, on
Wednesday morning left Lowther Castle for London.
t'rom attenaing the funeral of the late lamented Earl Of
Lonsdale, at Lowther. Tile Hon. Colonel Lowther still
remains at Lowther Castle.
Among the late arrivals at Cheltenham were th• Lady
Emily Foley, the lion. Grantley Berkeley, M.P., and the
Hon. and Rev. T. Coventry.

rizz sC2S:G. GANEEMS.
Thursday having been fixed fur the opening excursion
of the members of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, for
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the season, the Commodore (W. Harrison, Esq.), Capt.
Durant, and several of the principal subscribers, assem-
btl at where they dined.
Alethal hftimesTafochurtZveeayprrn,
ee o Greenwich,ded to the river, which pre-
sented a very gay and pleasing appearance from the
fineness of the day and the number of persons who had
assembled to witness the proceedings, in which they ap-
peared to take great interest. The yachts were admirably
titled up. The amusements of the day were brought to
a close about eight o'clock. Yesterday the vessels cruised
in different directions, visiting the.Nore and the Medway.
On Monday last a new regulation came into op-ration
in the long room, Custom-house, of stamping in words
at full length the exact time at which the warrants, or
merchants' entries, leave there for the several docks and
other stations. This is understooa to be in consequeaee
of a recommendation of the Conitnissioners of Revenue
Inquiry, to whom complaints have been made of delay
in the transmission of those documents.
A meeting of the subscribers to the monument of the
late Lord Edward Somerset was held at the Shire Hall,
Gloucester, on Thursday last, when it was resolved to
render the mason work of the monumental column more
ornamental, the sum subscribed admitting of the extra
ostlay.
The fifth lecture of the British and Foreign Institute
was 'iven on Thursday at the Hanover-square Rooms;
to the members of this Society, who appeared to be
deeply interested in Professor Grant's description of the
structure and history of the palygastric animalcules.
The drawings were numerous and good, and the whole
subject was well treated. The number of members
was considerable, including many ladies, and all seemed
highly gratified.

The answer to inquirigs in Portman-square on Thurs-
day was, that Mr. Hall had passed a better night, and
the symptoms were more favourable.
VICTORIA PARK.—OnSaturday the tenants of
Bonner's Hall, which building will be taken down for the
entrance, to the new
park, received notice from the authori-
ties of Guy's Hospital, to whom this property belonged, that
they had, by the purchase of the houses, become the tenants
of the Crown. Bonner's Hall, which was but one wing of the
mansion of Bishop Bonner. is divided into about eight very
tenantable houses, some of which have cellars, which, from
their form and construction, were supposed to have been the
prison cells of the Protestant martyrs of the time of Mary,
and considerable interest is attached to the demolition of a
fabric formerly belonging to one of the most violent in those
times of fierce persecutors. Considerable interest is attached
in the neighbourhood to the progress of the Park, and an eli-
gible piece of ground in the neighbourhood of Old Ford has
Race-
course, where races are to take place, for the first time, on
been dignitiedwith the title of the Royal Victoria Park
Easter Tuesday, the competitors to be restricted to residents
in the Tower Hamlets.

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MEETING or GOLDSMITHS, SILVERSMITHS, AND
JE7ELLERS.—A numerous meeting of goldsmiths, silver-
smiths, and jewellers was held-tin Thursday evening, to take
into consideration a Bill now before Parliament to amend the
laws in Orce for preventing frauds and abuses in the Marking
of, gold ano -silver wares in England. Mr. Taylor was called
to the chair. - It appeared that the clauses to which the
meeting objected arc the 12th and 13th. These give power,
upon oath of reasonable or probable cause Of suspicion, to
enter and search the premises of all persons manufacturing or
trading in gold or silver wares, for forged marks and dies, as
well as searching for, seizing, breaking up, and selling'any
wares thatought to be marked, and of applying the proceeds.
to the general expenses of the assay offices making such
seizures. This power of seizing such wares as ought to be.
marked, would, it was declared, be most injurious and vexa-
tious to the various trades mentioned, and would 'jeopardise
three-fourths of the articles now. manufactured. Resolutions
in which the injurious tendency of the clauses in`questionwas
strongly declared, as well as a moticirisfer the appointment of
a committee for the purpose of bringing the matter before the
President of the Board of Trade, were unanimously carried,
and a vote of thanks having been given to the chairman the
meeting separated.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen. his Majesty the
King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal suite I
and the household, attended Divine service this morn-
ing in the private chapel of the Castle. Archdeacon
Wilberforce preached the sermon, and the HOD. and
Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay assisted at the service.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, attended by
her suite, went this forenoon to the Catholic chapel on
Clewer-green' to attend Divine service.
The Royal Family have been taken to-day for their
usual airings in the park.
The two Queens took an airing in the Great Park
this afternoon, their Majesties occupying an open
carriage. The Ladies in \Veiling (the Countess of
Dunmore and Baroness d'Hoogvorst) following in
another carriage, and Major-General Wemyss,
Equerry in Waiting, being in attendance on horse-
back.

Majetty the King of the Belgians role out on
horseback this aft:•rnoon, attended by one of the
gentlemen of his suite.

Yesterday, being Goal Friday, Divine service was
performed in the forenoon in thz ChapA Royal St.
James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr.
Vivian, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the
Communion service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
sermon wa3 preached by the Dean of Westminster.
The anthem, "He was despised," was sung by Mr.
Hawkins. The Marchioness a "Westmeath, Lords
Cathcart, Tyrconnell, Vivian, IVharneliffe, Ha-
warden, and Ernest Bruce, and Ladies ‘Vharnclitre
and Vivian, were among the nobility present.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

HONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday had a
tolerably steady appearance. Sales 4,000 bales, including
1,000 on speculation, an,l prices ware firm.—A very
large business was done in Railway Shares, and higher
prices were, in several instances, obtained. Birmingham
and Gloucester, 97; Eastern Counties, 11-i; Great Wes-
tern Half, 701; Caledonian, 61; North British, 34; Mid- '
land Counties, 91; Brighton, 441; Birmingham, 23!;;
South Western, 821; Manchester and Birmingham, 49.-I;
Paris and Lyons, 3/. Is.; South Eastern, 361; Paris and
Orleans, 36f. .
This being Good Friday all places of public resort for
business are closed. The attendance of merchants and
others in the City were confined to those who had com-
munications to reply to.
The state of the revenue has not caused much remark
in the City among mercantile men who were compelled
to be in town this morning.
There were Port Philip papers to the 13th of October
received at the North and South American Coffee
House this morning. Not much news of interest is
contained in them. The Banks had lowered their rates
of interest. Most strenuous exertions were making to
ship_ tf cured provisions for the British markets.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 4.—We have
had more disposition to buy stock, and the market generally
assumes a firmer appearance. Bolton and Preston, 30i ;
Barnsley Junction, 21 and 21. Bs. 9d.; Caledonian, 61;
Eastern Counties, 1 l ; Ditto Registered, 13a 131.95; Lan-
caster and Preston, 384 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 49
and 49k ; Manchester and, Leeds, 1121; Norwich and Bran-
don, 71; Manchester and Sheffield, 70i; Ditto Quarters,
81. Is. 3d. ; Strasburg and Bale, 12k ; York and North Mid-
land, 124; Leeds and Bradford, 221.