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London, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

Mr. Van Bever emphatically repeated that he had
never authorised at any time the pawning of shoes or
boots.
Cross-examination continued—The receipts in the
shop had fallen off very much within the last week or
two. This he attributed to a conspiracy between the
prisoner and his former shopwoman. He had received
information that the prisoner had sent customers to
another shop in the arcade. Had never expressed a
determination to any one to get Miss Cook out of the
arcade. After the prisoner and Miss Cook were in
custody, did not say to his solicitor that he only
wanted to punish Miss Cook, and not to hurt the pri-
soner. What he said was, that from what Dupierre
had told him, Cook had been his ruin. Had never
promised to give 501. if Miss Cook were got out of her
shop. On taking stock had found about 105 pairs of
shoes and boots deficient, but from the quantity in the
hands of the pawnbrokers which he knew to be his pro-
perty, his loss was much larger.
Thomas Wood, shopman to Mr. Wood, pawnbroker,
65, High-street, produced samples of 74 pairs of shoes,
which the prisoner had pledged at the shop since
August. The witness said that the prisoner had been
in the habit of pawning shoes at his employers shop
for some years. He had a list of pledges of this sort
made in 1841 and 1842, at a period when the prisoner
was not in Mr. Van Bever's employ.
A shopman in the employ of Mr. Young, pawn-
broker, Princes-street, sai,, the prisoner had pledged
between thirty and forty p ixs of shoes since August
last. The prisoner had pica-:lged shoes at the shop for
a considerable period.
The prisoner, wren called upon for her defence, in
broken English said she had never known anything
about pawning shoes until sent by Mr. Van Bever.
Mr. Van Bever wanted to get Miss Cook out of her
shop, because since she had opened a shoe shop for
herself, he had not done so much business.
Mr. Lumley, for the prisoner, said he should only
urge the great improbability that the prisoner could
have pawned so large a quantity of shoes, and in her
own name, without the knowledge or consent of Mr.
Van Bever. There was a great deal of animosity on
the part of Mr. Van Bever towards Miss Cook, and
this was the foundation of the present charge. The
pawnbrokers also proved that the prisoner had for
L years been in the habit of pledging shoes with them,
and this afforded strong presumption that the prose-
cutor must have supplied her with shoes, at least
during that period when she was not in his service.
Mr. MALTBY said there was not proof before him
that these shoes were Mr. Van Bever's property.
From the evidence which had been produced, he felt
it to be his duty to send the case to a jury.
The depositions were then ordered to be taken, and
the prisoner to be brought up again the next day in
order to be fully committed.
Mr. Van Bever's solicitor said he now had to make
a charge which, as it had got publicity, he felt it was
due to Mr. Van Bever that it should have investiga-
tion. Mr. Van Bever's shop was set on fire on Mon-
day week, and this act he believed to have been com-
mitted by the prisoner, who was alarmed at the pros-
pect of detection which Mr. Van I3ever's proposal to
take stock held out. The prisoner, however, had as-
serted that she had been told to set the shop on fire
by Mr. Van Bever, and this statement had gone forth
to the public, and had seriously injured Mr. Van
Bever's business.
Mr. MALTBY said he had not heard such a state-
ment made by the prisoner, nor had he seen it in any
of the public journals.
The solicitor said the prisoner, had certainly made
such a statement in open Court, in the hearing of se-
veral of the residents in Burlington-arcade, and he
supposed it was owing to the reports of those parties
that the rumour had gained publicity. Mr. Van
Bever had been greatly prejudiced by the report,
and it was but an act of justice to him to show that
the prisoner's story did not contain a single Nord
of truth.
In the former examination some mention was made
of the interest taken in the proceedir.gs by a Colonel
Loftus. On the authority of a highly-respectable
legal firm in Lincoln's Inn-fields, we have to state
that the individual in question was not Colonel Fer-
rero Loftus.

HAOLVERSMITH.

Henry Jones, John Hill, William Benson, Henry
Key, and James Foreman, labourers, were charged
with causing the dc=atli of a man named George
son, in a fight, which took place on Sunday morning,
near the Basin of the Kensington Canal. The first
was charged as a principal, and the rest as alders and
abettors in acting as second. After the hearing of
the evidence relative to the fight, and the death of the
deceased from the injuries he had received, the priso-
ners were remanded till Thursday.

CURIOUS FACTS REGARDING
FILTRATION.
(From the Chester Chronicle.)
We believe that to our noble neighbour, the Mar-
quis of Westminster, is indirectly owing the existence
of the system of filtering large bodies of water, which
our neighbours, the manufacturers of Lancashire, are
adopting. The Noble Marquis gave notice, about
four years ago, that he should revive the Committee
for inquiring into the supply of water for London.
This notice was seen in St. Petersburgh by a young
engineer, born in Tartary, of English parents, who
having been deeply injured by the corrupt and arbi-
trary conduct of the Russian Government, panted to
get away to the land of his ancestors. His father and
brother had built the greater part of the Russian
navy, and the latter had been ennobled by the Em-
peror Alexander for his great services. A new
reign, that of the present Emperor, produced
men " who knew not Joseph" or his family. The
author of the modern system of filtration, the late
W. H. Stuckey, civil engineer, invented it in Russia,
and offered a plan for providing St. Petersburgh with
pure water. The Governor, Count Essen, highly ap-
proved of this plan and granted his permission. A
large building was erected and pipes laid down. A
contract was entered into which it was thought by a
relation of one of the Ministers would be very profit-
able. As everything goes by favour or bribery in
Russia, there was little difficulty in obtaining an
order to supersede the original contractor; poor
Stuckey was commanded to take down the building
which he had erected. Stuckey refused until a reason
could be assigned—" you have no right to ask imper-
tinent questions but to obey" was the reply, and the
order was repeated with threats—he still refused;
200 men of the Fire Brigade were then directed to
take the building down by force in the dead of the
night. The next morning not a stone was standing.
The foundation of the disease of which Stuckey died
was the result. He recovered—came to England—
offered his invention to Parliament—exhibited his
filter at work—Lord Brougham saw it in opera-
tion, and spoke of it twice in the House of Peers,
strongly counselling the Government to adopt it for
the benefit of the nation at large. Lord Radnor
did the same, and presented Stuckey's petition
to the Lords. Sir P. Trench and Mr. Mackin-
non presented similar petitions to the House of
Commons. All was of no avail. The invention
was merely for the public good, and did not con-
tribute to any party object, for which cause it was
clearly unreasonable to expect that public money
should be expended upon it. Poor Stuckey, after
dancing attendance for a whole session, found the only
result to be, attempts to discover his secret. Con-
trary to his intention, he was obliged to take out a
patent. Fortified with a letter of recommendation
from Lord Brougham to the celebrated Arago, he also
obtained a patent in France, and another in Holland.
All these were matters of difficulty, but they were ac-
complished. This year the Emperor of Russia ar-
rived, and the Marquis of Northampton, as President
of the Royal Society, called upon the English nation
to treat the Autocrat with kindness on the ground of
the encouragement given by the Russian Govern-
ment to Englishmen of science. Poor Stuckey
had petitioned that very Government seventeen
times for redress, and could not even get an
answer. He was much excited his father-in-
law, Mr. Northhouse, (he having married in
Eagland) addressed a large body in London, stating
the foregoing circumstances, which appeared in
a popular London newspaper of the ensuing Sunday,
on which day the Emperor suddenly and unexpec-
tedly left our shores. Intensity of feeling had how-
ever secured its victim—Stuckey died at the early
age of 35, just in time to behold the voluntary appli-
cation of his system of filtration by several of the
leading manufacturers of Lancashire to their works,
and also by the engineer of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests in making the fountain in Tra-
falgar-square, and the Aid-de-Camp of King Louis
Phillippe and hts partners, to the fountains of Paris.
Such is the fate of genius ! Such is the simple nar-
rative of one of the most useful discoveries of modern
times! Well might Moore say,—
In the land of the north there are insects that prey
On the brain of the Elk, till its very last sigh ;
Oh ! genius, thy patrons more cruel than they,
First feed on thy brains and then leave thee to die !

EXEMPTION OF FARMING STOCK FROM AUCTION
DUTY.—Many questions having arisen as to the extent
of this exemption, we have made inquiry, and the result
is that it does not apply to cider, butter, cheese, flour,
&c. ; neither does it extend to all property which may
belong to a farmer, but only to such things as belong to,
and are used on, the land. Green-houses, hot-houses,
nurserymen's stock, &c., are not considered to come
within the exemption.-- Wiltshire Independent.
The arrangements for carrying out the Act of Par-
liament constituting Manchester a port for warehousing
goods, &c., under the Board of Customs, are now com-
pleted. The establishment is to consist of a collector,
comptroller, six clerks, and two landing waiters. Mr.
Powell, at present comptroller of Newcastle, has been
appointed collector ; and Mr. Shelley, comptroller of ac-
counts ,at Liverpool, the comptroller. The principal
officers will take their seats on the Bth of October, for
the purpose of arranging the routine" the clerks, &c.,
will join on the 10th, and public business will pomcnence
oa the 11th.