The Sun.
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the London and York line? Witness—l cannot say, I be-
lieve they write about it.
Mr. TALBOT—I believe so, too—they keep the steam up
pretty fairly. Is not one of your partners in the bank at
Doncaster in the habit of writing for one of the local papers?
Witness—l believe he does now and then, I can't say po-
sitively.
Mr. TALBOT—No doubt he throws in a spicy leader or so
now and then. Are you not the bankers of the London and
York ? Witness—We have been, but there is no account
now in our hands.—(Laughter.)
The witness was briefly cross-examined by Mr. COCKBURN
on behalf of the Direct Northern scheme.
Another witness was then called ; but, after a few minutes'
examination, the Committee adjourned till Monday.

TRINITY TERM.

of the 29th. Understanding from your letter that the
property was found at Notting Hill in the public road
unconcealed, I do not conceive that the Lady of the
Manor has any claim to it, and therefore, on her part, I
make none, and do not feel it necessary to trouble her
on the subject. I am, your obedient servant,
" BENJAMIN CURAEY."

SITTINGS IN CHANCERY IN THE ENSUING
TERM AT WESTMINSTER-HALL.
(BPfore the Lord Chancellor.)
- - -

Thursday, May 22 —Appeal motions.
Friday, May 23—Petition day.
Saturday, May 24, Monday, 26, Tuesday, 27, and
Wednesday, 28—A p peal s.
Thursday, May 29 —Appeal motions.
Friday, May 30—Petition day, unopposed petitions
only, and appeals.
Saturday, May 31, Monday, June 2, Tuesday, 3, and
Wednesday, 4—Appeals.
Thursday, June s—Appeal motions.
Friday, June 6—Petition day, unopposed petitions
only, and appeals.
Saturday, June 7, Monday, 9, Tuesday, 10, and Wed-
nesday, 11—A p peals.
Thursday, June 12—Appeal motions.
Note.—Such days as his Lordship is occupied in the
House of Lords excepted.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor of England.)
_ _ _ _ _

The LORD MAYOR said that he could not at that mo-
ment make any order. It was quite evident that Gutnm
was not the owner, and it had not been satisfactorily ex-
plained that the property should ` e given up to him.
Perhaps the real owner might yet come forward.
Mr. King submitted that the facts of the advertise-
ments in the Times, and the length of time since the
goods had been found and remained without a claimant,
were unanswerable arguments in favour of the appli-

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
FRIDAY, MAY 16.
The following Bills were read a second time, and committed,
and referred to the Committee of Selection :
Tottenham and Farringdon- street Extension Railway.
Aber,' are Railway.
Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Deviation).

The LORD MAYOR—I shall give you an answer on
Monday. It is quite impossible that without looking
into the case, I can consent to give up the property
stated to have come into the possession of the applicant
in such a manner.

Thursday, May 22—Motions.
Friday, May 23—Petition-day, petitions (the unop-
posed first), short causes, &c.
Saturday, May 24, Monday, May 26, Tuesday, May
27, and Wednesday, May 28—Pleas, demurrers, excep-
tions. causes, and further directions.
Thursday, May 29—Motions.
Friday, May 30—Petition-day ; petitions (unopposed
first), short causes, and causes.
Saturday, May 31, Monday, June 2, Tuesday, June 3,
and Wednesday, June 4—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions,
causes, and further directions.
Thursday. June s—Motions.
Ft iday, June 6—Petition-day ; petitions (unopposed
first), short causes, and causes.
Saturday, June 7, Monday, June 9. and Wednesday,
June 11 Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and
further directions.
Thursday, June 11—Motions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce.)

The following Bills were referred to the Select Committee
on Petitions for Private Bills :
Southampton and Dorchester Railway.
London and Brighton Railway (Wandsworth Branch).

The following Bills were reported, and the report referred
to the Select Committee on Standing Orders :
Chester, Manchester, and Liverpool Junction Railway.
Sunderland, Durham, and Auckland Union Railway.
Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway (No. 2).

COMMITTEES ON
TUESDAY, PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS
M 20.
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction Railway
(No. 2)
Newport and Ponty Pool Railway (for additional provision)
Sheffield Waterworks (for additional provision)
Guilford Junction Railway (for additional provision)
Grimsby Docks
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye, and
Ashford Extension)
Harwich Railway
London and Brighton Railway (Wandsworth Branch)
North British Railway (for additional provision)
Preston and Wyre Railway (for additional provision).

Thursday, May 22—Motions and causes.
Friday, May 23—Petition-day; petitions and causes.
Saturday, May 24—Short causes and causes.
Monday, May 26, and Tuesday, May 27—Pleas, de-
murrerc, excepti,,ns, causes, and further directions.
Wednesday, May 28— Bankrupt petitions, and pleas,
demurrers, exceptions, causes, &c
Thursday. May 29—Motions and causes.
Friday, May 30—Petition dAy; petitions and causes.
Saturday, May 31—Short causes and causes.
Monday, June 2, and Tuesday, June 3—Pleas, demur-
rers, exceptions. causes, and further directions.
Wednesday, June 4—Bankrupt petitions and muses.
Thursday, June s—Motions and causes.
Friday, June 6—Petition-day; petiti( ns and causes.
Satuiday, June 7—Short causes and causes.
Monday, June 9, and Tuesday, June 10—Pleas, de-
murrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions.
Wednesday, June 11—Bankrupt petitions, and pleas,
demurrers, exceptions, causes, &c.
Thursday. June 12—Motions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Wigram.)
_ _ _ _ _

COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS APPOINTED BY
THE COMMITTEE OF SELECTION.
FRIDAY. MAY 16.
1. Kidwelly Inclnsure Bill,—Committee postponed from
Monday, 19th, till Wednesday, May 21, at half after two
o'clock.
2. Wolverhampton Waterworks Bill,—Committee post-
poned from Tuesday, May 20, till Monday, June 2, at one
o'clock.
3. Yoker Road Bill,—referred to the Leinster List, and
Sir R. Heron (Peterborough),
Mr. Grogan (Dublin),
Mr. C. Turner (Lincolnshire),
Viscount Newport (North Salop),
Hon. William Dawnay (Rutlandshire).
Three to be the Quorum of Selected Members, and the
Committee to meet on Tuesday, May 20, at one o'clock.
4. Chelsea Improvement Bill,—referred to the Middlesex
List, and
The Hon. Rice Trevor (Carmarthenshire),
Mr. E. Stanley (West Cumberland),
Mr. Farnham (North Leicester),
Mr. Colvile (South Derby),
Mr. Mark Blake ()Jay° County).
Three to be the Quorum of Selected Members, and the
Committee to meet on Wednesday, May2l, at twelve o'clock.
5. Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland,—referred
to the Leinster List, and
Viscount Hoe, ick (Sunderland),
Mr. Mark Phillips (Manchester),
Mr. Pattison (London),
Mr. J. Tollemache (South Chester),
Mr. R. Walker (Bury).
Three to be the Quorum of Selected Members, and the
Committee to meet on Wednesday, May 21, at half after
twelve o'clock.
6. West of London and Westminster Cemetery Bill.—re-
ferred to the Middlesex List, and
Lord C. Fitzroy (Bury St. Edmund's),
Mr. W. Fielden (Blackburn),
Mr. Wilshere (Great Yarmouth),
Hon. G. Fitzwilliam (Peterborough),
Sir G. H. Smyth (Colchester)
Three to he the Quorum of Selected Members, and the
Committee to meet on Wednesday, May 21, at one o'clock.
7. Duddeston and Nechells Improvement (No. 2) Bill,—
referred to the Warwick List, and
Mr. Stansfield (Huddersfield),
Mr. Hodgson Hindu (Newcastle-on-Tyne),
Hon. G. S. Smythe (Canterbury),
Right Hon. li. S. Byng (Chatham),
Hon. T. Vesey (Queen's County).
Three to be the Quorum of Selected Members, and the
Committee to meet on Thursday, May 22, at twelve o'clock.
8. Quiuborowe Borough Bill,—referred to the Kent List,
and

Thursday. May 22—Motions and causes.
Friday, May 23 Petition day ; pleas, demurrers, ex-
ceptions causes, and further directions.
Saturday, May 24—Short causes, petitions (the unop-
posed first), and causes.
Monday, May 26; Tuesday, May 27 ; and Wednes-
day, May 28—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and
further directions.
Thursday, May 29—Motions and pleas, demurrers,
exceptions, causes. &e.
Friday, May 30—Petition day ; pleas, demurrers, ex-
ceptions, cause., &c.
Saturday. May 31—Short causes, petitions (the unop-
posed first), awl causes.
Monday, June 2 ; Tuesday, June 3 ; and Wednesday,
June 4—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and fur-
ther direction..
Thursday, June s—Motions and ditto.
Friday, June 6—Petition day : pleas, demurrers, ex-
ceptions, causes, and further directions.
Saturday, June 7 —Short causes, petitions (the unop-
posed first), and causes.
Monday, June 9 ; Tuesday, June 10; and Wednesday,
June 11—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and fur-
ther d,r ctions.
Thursday, June 12—Motions and ditto.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Mr. Justice CourstAN
Thomas Wkiffin, a sailor, aged 18, was indicted tor
feloniously personating John Foley, a seaman belonging
to her Majesty's ship Conway, and entith-d to receive a
share in certain prize money, called Chinese Donation
Batta, with intent to defraud the East India Company.
On the 3d of April the prisoner presented himself to
Mr. Smith, of the military department of the East India
Company, and, presenting a certificate purporting to be
signed by the first lieutenant of his ship, said his nan e
was Foley. The money, EL 45., having been previow,ly
paid to the proper party, the prisoner was taken into
custody. He said he had received the certificate from
person in Ratcliffe Highway, whom he had never seen
before.
Mr. DOANE. on behalf of the prisoner, said it was evi-
dent he was the dupe of other persons.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up, and the jury, after
some deliberation, found the prisoner guilty of uttering,
but without a felonious intent to defraud.
The JUDGE said they must either find a verdict of
guilty or not guilty.
The jury then retired, and after an absence of three
hours they were sent for by the judges, when Mr. Justice
Coltman asked if he could render them any assistance.
They rep'ied in the negative. After a further de-
liberation they returned a verdict of guilty, with a strong
recommendation to mercy.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said that, adopting the recom-
mendation of the jury, he should pass upon the pri-
soner the lowest sentence within his power. He
should, however, forward a recommendation to
the Secretary of State for a further miti-
gation. At present the lowest sentence the law enabled
him to pronounce for the offence of which the prisoner
had been convicted was that he be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour in the House of Correction for the space
of two years.
William Thomas Sharp was indicted for secreting.
embezzling, and stealing the sums of 211. 2s. 6d., 131.,
and 8/. 135., which he had received for and on account
of Sir W. Magnay and Co., t ) whom he was clerk and
servant.
The circumstances of this case have already been be-
fore the public.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, and the jury,
after deliberating for ten minutes, delivered a verdict of
Guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transpor-
tation.
Frederick Wm. Zabel, a German, was indicted for the
manslaughter of John Frederick Gobett, one of his
countrymen.
It appeared that on the 6th of May the parties met at
a public-house inWhitechapel, where they had a quarrel ;
they afterwards fought outside, and during a scuff- that
took place between them, the deceased slipped off the
curb-stone ani fell with great violence. Ile sustained
such severe injury thereby as to occasion his death two
days afterwards.
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury on the part of the
prisoner.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The COURT sentenced the prisoner to one month's soli-
tary confinement.
FORGING CHEQUES.—George Matthews, aged eighteen, was
indicted for feloniously forging and uttering five cheques, in
the name of King and Son, of 51. each, with the intention of
defrauding Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph and Co.
Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Payne
for the defendant.
It appeared that Messrs. King and Son, brewers, of Brent-
ford, kept an account at the bank of Messrs. Cocks and Co.
They were in the habit of obtaining cash for small cheques
from Mr. Piper, a publican at Brentford, and that the pri-
soner, who was in their employ as an errand boy, was fre-
quently employed to take them to him. Five cheques
signed " King and Son," but the signatures to which were
forged, were paid to the prisoner in this way, but he could
only swear to the payment of two of them. The cheques
were paid by Mr. Piper to a Mr. Baker, the collecting clerk
to his brewer's, and were presented at the bank, and paid in
the course of business. i here was no evidence to show that
the prisoner forged the cheques, and the question the jury had
to consider was, whether the prisoner, at the time of utter-
ing them, knew them to be counterfeit.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of uttering one cheque
on the 24th of January.
The other charges were not entered into.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in an eloquent and feeling address,
sentenced him to be transported for ten years.

Mr. Tatton Egerton (North Cheshire),
Mr. Tovrneley (Beverley),
Mr. Ferrand (Knaresborough),
Mr. G. P. Shirley (Monaghan county),
Mr. Corbally (Meath county).
Three to be the Quorum of Selected Members, and the
Committee to meet on Thursday, May 22, at half after twelve
o'clock.
9. Hartlepool and Port Bill,—referred to the Durham
List, and
Colonel Rawdon (Armagh),
Mr. Ramsay (ii.dinburghshire),
Mr. A. Hope (Maidstone),
Mr. Thomas Hussey (Lyme Regis),
Mr. Deedes (East Kent).
Three to be the Quorum of Selected Members, and the
Committee to meet on Thursday, May 2, at one o'clock.

RAILWAYS.
Select Committee on Group NN.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone discharged from attend-
ance on the Committee.
The Viscount Castlereagh appointed Chairman.
Mr. Hornby (Blackburn),
selected, and added to the Committee.
Select Committee on Group L.
Mr. Gibson Craig discharged from attendance on the
Committee.
Mr. Beckett Denison (West Riding of York),
selected and appointed Chairman of the Committee.
Select Committee on Group R.
Mr. Beckett Denison discharged from attendance on the
Committee.
Mr. Gibson Craig (Edinburgh),
selected, and appointed chairman of the Committee.
Select Committee on Group FF.
The Right Hon. R. L. Sheil discharged from attendance on
the Committee.
Mr. Collins (Warwick),
selected, and added to the Committee.

The Select Committee on Group AA is appointed to meet
in the week commencing Monday, June 2.
The Order appointing the Select Committee on Group Z
to meet in that week is discharged.
The following is the List from which Members will be se-
lected to serve on those Railway Committees which com-
mence their sittings in the week beginning Monday, June 2 :
Mr. Barclay Mr. Heathcote (Tiverton)
Mr. Beckett Mr. Lambton
Mr. Edward Buller Mr. Edward Heneage

Burroughes
Childers

General Johnson
Lord John Manners

Sir Thomas Esmonde
Mr. W. Evans
Mr. Fellowes

Mr. Philip Mil©s
Mr. William Miles
Mr. Muntz

Niarquis of Granby
Viscount Grims,ton
Sir Stephen Glynne
Mr. Henley

Mr. Newdegate
Sir John Owen
Mr. G. R. Philips
Sir John Trollope

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
London and Croydon (Orpington Branch) Railway,—Com-
mittee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
London and Croydon Railway Enlargement,—Committee
on Biil, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
Lon,ion and Croydon (Chatham to Chilham) Railway,—
Committee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
London and Croydon (Maidstone, Ashford, and Tonbridge)
Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
London and Croydon (Chatham and Gravesend) Railway,
—Committee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
Hull and Selby (Bridlington Branch) Railway,—Further
consideration of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway,—Further con-
sideration of Report, Tuesday, May 20, at twelve.
Blackburn. Darwen, and Bolton Railway,—Further consi-
deration of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway,—Further consi-
ders: ion of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Further
consideration if Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal,—Fur-
ther consideration of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Grand Junction Rallway,—Further consideration of Re-
port, Tuesday, May 2i
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway,— Further
consideration of Tuesday, May 20.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Further consideration of
Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway,—Fur-
ther consideration of Report, Tuesday, Mav 20.
Bedford and London and Birmingham kailway,—Further
consideration of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,—Further consideration
of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Chester and Holyhead Railway,—Further consideration of
Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Berks and Ilants Railway,—Further consideration of Re-
port, Tuesday, May 20.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway,—Further con-
sideration of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Midland Railways (Svston to Peterborough),—Further
consideration of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Manchester and Leeds (Burnley Branch and Oldham and
Heywood Branches Extension) Railway,—Further conside-
ration of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry. and Chester Junction Railway,—
Further consideration of Report, Tuesday, May 20.
Trent Valley Railway,— Further consideration of Report,
Tuesday, May 20.
Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth Railway,—Com-
mittee on petition, for additional provision, postponed from
Monday, May 19, till Tuesday, May 20.
Newport and Pont.y Pool Railway,—Committee on peti-
tion, for additional provision, postponed from Monday, May
19, till Tuesday, May 20.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Deviation),—Se-
cond reading, Tuesday, May 20.
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction Railway
(No. 21,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday,
May 19, till Tuesday, May 20.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

Application was made to the Lord Mayor, by a solici-
tor, on behalf of a man named George Gumm, who was
committed from the Mansion-house, in the Mayoralty of
Sir William Magnay, upon the charge of having received
bank notes which were supposed to have been stolen on
board a Boulogne steam-vessel.
The case was a very singular one. Gumm had been
committed to Newgate by Sir Peter Laurie, but was ac-
quitted, no eviden-e having been produced on the trial.
in his lodgings, Daniel Forrester, the officer, found
several watches, seals, chains, and other articles of jewel-
lery, which Gumm, upon being questioned as to the
manner in which he had become possessed of them, stated
that be had found them in a buMdle, on Notting-hill.
From that statement he had not at all deviated, and up-
wards of twelve months having elapsed since the goods
were found without producing a clai:nant, it was argued,
upon the part of Gumm, that he was entitled to them.
Mr. King, solicitor to Gumm, on these grounds, ap-
plied for the restoration of the property, and added that
the circumstance of the finding had been advertised in
the Times newspaper without effect.
The LORD MAYOR—Under what Act of Parliament
does this man apply to have the goods given up to him ?
He is not the owner of the goods by his own acknow-
ledgment.
The Solicitor—He is the finder, and as nobody claims
we are to look upon him as the owner. Mr. King then
produced the following letters in answer to applications
made by him, on the part of Gumm, to the Lords of the
Treasury and the Lady of the Manor of the district of
whizh Notting-hill forms a part :

ELECTRIC CLocas.—The following account of a
clock of this description, constructed by Mr. Alex. Bain
(whose labours in this department of scientific art we have
so often had occasion to notice with commendation), is con-
tained in a letter from Mr. Finlaison, of Loughton Hall :
" Mr. Rain has succeeded to admiration in working electric
clocks by the currents of the eat th. On the 28th of August
he set up a small clock in my drawing-room, the pendulum
of which is in the hall, and both instruments in a voltaic
circuit, as follows :—On the N.B. side of my house two zinc
plates, a foot square, are sunk in a hole, and suspended to a
wire ; this is passed through the house, to the pendulum
first, and then the clock. On the S.E. aide of the house, at
a distance of about forty yards, a hole was dug four feet deep,
and two sacks of common coke bused in it : among the coke
another wire was seemed, and passed in at the drawing.
room window, and joined to the former wire at the clock.
The ball of the pendulum weighs nine pounds, but it was
moved energetically, and has ever since continued to do so
with the self-same energy. The time is to perfection, and
only 7e si
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" 7th May, 1845.
"Sir,—The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury
having had b-Jore them your application in behalf of
Mr. George Gurnm, rc,pecting some property supposed
to have been stolen from a Boulogne steam vessel, I am
commanded to acquaint you that, under the circum-
stances stated, it does not appear to my Lords that the
Crown has any legal claim to the property in question.
—Your obe,iient servant, " C. TREVILLIAN.
" 6, Old Palace-yard."
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, kbeg to so "January 31, 1845.
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TUE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 184%

GUILDHALL.
EXTENSIVE FRAUDS. Barney Barrie*, a general
dealer, living at No. 6, Broad-street, St. Giles's, William
Siopson, alias Butcher, Timothy Long, and a lad named
Thomas Russell, the latter of whom was in custody of a
Windsor police-constable, were charged before Mr.
Alderman T. Wood with having carried on an extensive
system of robbery in the houses of Messrs. Morrison and
Co., Leaf and Co., and others in the City.
Mr. Humphries, the solicitor, appeared to prosecute ;
and Mr. Robinson and Mr. Wontner attended for the
prisoners.
From a quantity of evidence adduced it appears that a
week or so since the above-named firms discovered that
they had been defrauded to the extent of nearly 100/. by
forged orders, purporting to be signed by certain trades-
men at the west end of the town, who dealt with them,
and who, for convenience sake, were in the habit
of forwarding orders for goods. The orders were in-
variably presented by the lad Rus=ell, and on the fraud
being detected, a full description was given of him.
On Tuesday he was taken into custody at Slough, for
attempting to pass bad money, and having about two
pounds' worth of counterfeit. coin in his possession ;
when he informed the constable. who had him in charge,
of the many transactions he had been implicated in, and
at the same time gave him a kind of statement so as to
instruct him in finding the prisoners, the parties who
had instigated him in committing the robberies. Ac-
cordingly the constables, in company with the lad and
two of the City policemen, went into a public-house in
St. Giles's, and on entering they saw Simpson and
Long. Russell exclaimed, " Ah ! Butcher, how
are you ?" who was about to shake hands with him.
but withdrew it on perceiving a police-constable behind
him. They were then apprehended on the charge of
having uttered the forged orders; and the prisoner Bar-
nett was subsequently taken into custody at his resi-
dence for receiving the property gained by the orders,
well knowing it to be stolen.
Mr. HUMPHRIES begged for a remand, as the police
considered that they could bring several charges—very
serious ones too—against the three first-named prisoners.
He believed that the system of robbery now brought to
light had been carried on to much extent.
Mr Alderman T. Wood said he was almost of the
same opinion; and remanded the prisoners until Thurs
day, at the same time refusing bail.
BOW-STREET.
Charles Clifford, described on the police-sheet, as an
attorney, residing at No. 30. Duk -street, St. James's,
was placed at the bar,charged with indecently assaulting
Sarah Price, aged ten years, with intent to commit a
rape upon her.
Constable Gibson, 175 A, stated that he was passing
through Northumberland -street, on his way to Scotland-
yard, about half past two in the morning, when he oh.
served the prisoner and the prosecutrix, and he consi-
dered it his duty to take them to the station-house.
The child, being questioned by the magistrate. pre-
vious to the depositions being taken in the usual form,
said she had no father alive, and si,e was lodging with a
Mrs. Bishop, in Orchard-street. Westminster. She was
sitting at the step or a door, with Charing. cross, 'th two
bunches of flowers in her
hand fr.r sale, when the pri-
soner passed, and induced her to aecorn ',any him to a
bye-place, where he committed the off. rice. She gave
no alarm.
Mr. M'Cann the surgeon considered the child was
under twelve years of age, and that there were no marks
of any abuse.
Mrs. Bishop said that the prosecutrix came up from
Liverpool about three weeks back with her mother.
who got her living by selling small articles in the streets,
and had not since returned. She knew hf r since she
was fifteen months old, !but could not exactly say what
her age might be.
The prisoner, being called upon for his defence, said
he was returning home when he met the chill, who
offered to sell him flowers, which he refused, and having
made improper overtures to him, :he unfortunately ac-
cepted of them, in consequence of the quantity he had
drank.
-Mr. TWYFORD said if he had evidence that could be
depended on that the child was under the age of ten
years, he would commit the prisoner on the capital
charge ; but as the surgeon and the woman, to a certain
extent, had shown she was under twelve years, it reduced
the offence to a misdemeanour, for which the prisoner
should be committed for trial.
The prisoner said he was in practice. but not a man of
fortune, and, consequently, could not procure heavy bail.
Mr. TWI FORD ordered him to put in bail, himselt in
2001. and two sureties in 100/. each, with forty-eight hours'
notice, to answer the charge at the sessions, and the
child to be taken to the workhouse.
CLERKEN WELL.
Mary Wilson, an old woman, was put at the bar before
Mr. Greenwood. charged with uttering counterfeit
money to Mrs. Fitchett, wife of Jacob Fitchett, pro-
prietor of the George public-house, in the New North-
road, Islington.
Mr. Powell, the solicitor for the Mint, attended to
prosecute.
Mrs. Fitchett stated that on Tuesday night the pri-
soner came to her husband's house and asked for half a
pint of beer, in payment of which,. she tendered a bad
sixpence ; witness at the i,nstsahnet deeatecvetedherthefivfe'rpaetnide
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utashnpaye te t
again in a few days and make a second
uttering. This step she had taken by advice, having
been told that it was necessary to prove two utterings to
ensure a punishment. After the departure of the pri-
soner witness marked the sixpence with the date of the
month, and carefully put it away. As witness antici-
pated, the prisoner paid her another visit, and for two-
pennyworth of gin gave a bad shilling, and witness gave
her full change.
Mr. Powell remarked that there was such a difficulty
in prosecutions of this sort, that he hoped similar strata
gems would be resorted to.
The prisoner was committed to Nowgate. She said it
was of no use contradicting the evidence.
WANDS WORTH.
THE ADVANTAGE OF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS..

TRALIAN BLACKS.

ELOPEMENT AND RODDEAT.—Robot Lane, a man abom
35 years of age, dressed as a soafering man, and Amelia
Spencer, a young woman ofconsiderable personal attrtc
tions, were placed in the dock before Mr. Clive, charge d
with stealing the sum of 37/ Is. 6d., the property of the
father of the female prisoner. The apprehension of the
prisoners may be attributabl • solely to the electric tele-
graph on the South Western Railway being brought into
application, as the guilty parties had left Gosport some
time when information of the robbery was brought to
the station.
Mr. Dalby, the superintendent of the South Western
Railway Police, stated that on Friday afternoon, about
three o'clock, he received information from the telegraph
office at Nine Elms, that a robbery had been committed
at West End, South Stoneham, near Southampton, and
that the accused parties were in the train that left Gos-
port at half-past twelve o'clock. A personal description
of the parties accompanied the communication. Witness
procured the assistance of Sergeant Emmerson, 16 V,
and when the train arrived at half-past three o'clock.
the prisoners were taxed with stealing the sum of 371.
odd, and taken into custody. They seemed thunder-
struck at finding that the robbery was already known in
London, and that their 'arrival had been anticipated.
Sergeant Eromerson stated that upon searching the
male prisoner at the station-house, he found two purses
on him, one containing 311 in gold, and the other 7s.
Superintendent Dalby said the young woman admitted
at the station that she had taken the money —th.it she
!net the prisoner at Bishopstoke ; went from there to
Gosport, and from thence to London, and that on the
road she gave the male prisoner the whole of the money.
A letter was found upon her person from the male pri-
soner, asking her to elope with him, and stating that he
had got a house ready for her. It appeared from what
had since transpired, that this man was married and had
a numerous young family-
A respectably dressed, middle-aged woman was then
called forward. She was absorbed in grief, and for
some time was incapable of speaking. After a short
delay she said that her name was Caroline Spencer ;
that she was the wife of James Spencer, a carman,
living at West End, South Stoneham, near Southampton,
and the female prisoner was her daughter. The male
prisoner was to have married her daughter, who left
her place on Monday last for that purpose ; but her
late master, Dr. Buller, having a:certained that the pri-
soner Lane was a married man, communicated that fact
to witness and her husband, and consequently Lane was
forbid the house. Her tlau,hter was present when Dr.
Buller made the announcement, and must have heard
it. Witness intended to have sent her to London on
Friday morning, that she might be out of the prisoner's
way. The prisoner must have got scent of this arrange-
ment and turned it to his own advantage. Her daughter
left home for the train at a quarter to ten o'clock, and
at ten minutes past she discovere4 that a little box
containing 371 is. 6d. had been stolen out of
a large chest. She proceeded to the nearest s'a-
don, Bishopstoke. and there found that her daughter
had gone to Gosport. To this place she proceeded as
quickly as
her daughter and the man Lane had started for London
possible. and when she arrived learnt that
together. Having given the necessary information she
remained at the station, and in three hours learned that
the prisoners had been apprehended in London.
Sergeant Emmerson said, that the little box alluded
to was found ti,on the female prisoner.
Mr. `LIVE asked the prisoner Lane if he wished to
enter into any defence at that time—if he did so, he
would hear him.
. The prisoner said he knew nothing about the money ;
he left Bishopstoke on the preceding morning for Gos-
port, with the intention of proceed :11g to Chatham.
When he got to Gosport he net Miss Spcncer, who
few shillings left,
said she was going to London, and he agreed to go with
her. She paid the fares, and had, as he thought, only a
miles of London, she gave him 311 in gold, stating that
but when they had got within a few
it was money she, had drawn from the savings bank.
The female prisoner here exclaimed, " That is not
true, Robert ; I told you, at Gosport, I lad Wien it

from my father, and you said, well, we had better go to
London."
The motlut here said she did not wish to hurt her
daughter.
Mr. CuvE observed that the case must go for trial ;
and the only question for his consideration was, whether
the prigoners should be sent down into Hampshire for
examination, or be committed flow that Court.
Mr. CLIVE consulted with Mr. Fletcher, the chief
clerk, and ultimately decided that the prisoners must be
r..moved into Hampshire.
The prisoners, who did not exhibit the least uneasi-
ness at the unpleasant situation in which they were
placed, were then given into the custody of Superin-
tendent Dalby and Sergeant Emmerson.

CURIOUS-IDEAS OF THE AUS-

Their legends and traditions I have received with some
caution, knowing well in what kind of soil they have
grown : often planted there by romancing shepherds,
and afterwards adopted by the dark people as their own.
The idea. generally entertained by the blacks that they
at their decease go to Van Diernen's Land and come
back white fellows originated no doubt in this
way. Buckley,* on his first appearance amongst
them, the first European they had seen, was
received as the re appearance of a native just
dead, whom, in every respect, except colour, he closely
resembled ; was fully believed to be the very man ;
was adopted by the dead man's friends and tribe, and
called by his name. No doubt but the similarity, for-
tunately for Buckley, saved his life. Afterwards, when
settlers streamed over from Van Diemen's Land, and the
natives beard it mentioned almost only as the place
whence the white people came, and, probably, seeing
many others in person or feature resembling their dead
relatives that they should have such an idea is nothing
singular or wonderful. Much more singular and curious
ideas they have. Straw4e, indeed, is their notion of death,
or rather that, with the constant and palpable decay of the
human frame before their eye', they have no belief in death
from natural causes. All deaths they consider to be the
result of accident, malice, or magic. When a death oc-
curs, they decide that the deceased person's kidney-fat
has been stolen away in sleep by some enemy, aided
by magic. The body is tied up immediately in a lump,
tightly drawn together, body and limbs, by strips of bark
or cords, and he and ev ry kind of property belonging
to him scrupulously and superstitiously, war imple-
ments, his wailer wallert, or opossum rug, guns, if he
has any, even double-barrelled ones, although ever
so highly valued, are broken ; and these, with the
white and black money, in spite of itching hands
longing to take it, everything:, in fact, goes with
him into his grave religiously. Gravely, also, is it
whispered into the ear of the dead man that he may
Jest satisfied in his grave, that his black friends will,
without fail, avenge his death. And in consul ration
of this arrangement, he is requested to refrain from
terrifying his old friends and tribe ; that he must not
haunt them with alien voices, or the footmarks of
strange feet about their encampments. The mourners
wear their white paint mourning, never washing them-
selves, even if months should elapse before they
have performed their vow ta the deceased. When
they have, tasted the enemy's kidney-fat the mourn-
ing ceases. This is a miserable superstition, and
causes a great deal of bloodshed. To discover in what
direction the enemy of the dead is to be found they take
an insect and obs..rye in what direction it crawls, and
that is an infallible indication. In that quarter they eo.
no matter how far. The first native brossing their path
is the murderer of the dead, and, in his turn,
becomes the murdered. One death, even a natu-
ral death, thus becomes, through ignorance and
supentitious custom, the cause of many unnatural
deaths. Another of their inhuman and inhos-
pitable superstitions is that regarding strangers. How
different from the Jewish or Christian code, by which
strangers are privileged and sacred people, •` Thiel
shalt in nowise hurt the stranger in thy gate." Imme-
diately that a strange native is found by any tribe in
their neighbour all the people are in a state of tumult,
yelling, and getting ready their weapons of war for his
instant destruction ; f.r their belief is the!, if they do
not kill him. they will themselves generally and most
fatally be visited with dysentery.—Howitts Impressions
of Ansi, alia Fe/ix.