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THZ SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1844.

iYeitigo Amara
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—Williams,
Clinch, and Co 10,722
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 42,989
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,041
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—Messrs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and Simpson 9,592
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordffest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven,
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 28,180
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and
Co,.

36,406

Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Boyd
and Co
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson
Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot-
ner and Son

Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons.:
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son
Rye Bank. Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
Co
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Allaway
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
C
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and Co.
Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews-
bury—Adams, Adams, and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and Co
Sittinghourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Valiance and Son

5,662

8,187

4,56

3,230
16,G68
12,765
23,984

3,207

4,059

47,252

4,642

24,528

8,823

38,327

4,027

Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Son
Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wilde and Co.
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury—Brodie and
King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southarnp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co. 21,824
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-
son and Stun
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 26,343
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co 12,153
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and Barne
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,786
Tring Bank and Cheshaaa Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Holston—Vivian and
Co. 14,097

15,467
13,482
3,444
20,724

0,285

5,556
7,891

14,413
11,323

18,107

8,28

--." •
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, 7
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Wells and Co 13,605
Warwick and 'Warwickshire Bank, Warwick-
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 25,175
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox,
Br, thers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield--Latham, Tew, and Co 41,385
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap-
man, and Cu 13,754
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester-Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Baak, Winchester
-Wickham and Co
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth-Elliott and Pearce
Wirkesworth and Asbbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth-Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-
Gurney and Co.
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good-
riche and Holyorike.
Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Lavender,
and Co.
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 81,556
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley
and Turner
Whitby Bank, Whitby-Frankland and Wil-
kinson
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall--CharleaFoater and
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster--
Everett and Co.
Wrexham Bank, Wrexham -.T. and S. Kenrick -
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton--
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth-Sir E. K, Lacon, Bart., and Co 13,041
Yeovil. Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten
York Bank, York-Swann, Clough, and Co 41,842
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley ... 8,767
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 47,486
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union •
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking ,
Company. Chesterfield
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,558
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking. Company,
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,563
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company. Derby 18,786
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington . 24,446
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 136,613
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 18,284
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield.. 35,975
Hull Banking Company, Hull 26,469
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,201
Halifax and lluddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax
Helston Banking Company, Helstoa 1,353
'Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 19,387
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,865
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 47,213
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 50,337
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company,
Leeds 18,490
Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 13,827
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,650
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 30,183
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 73,219
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London
359,235
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 53,521
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 75,496
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverp001......... 53,788
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-

4,742

4,585

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.--The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10iii. per
ounce for standard gold gives an exchange of 25
45 ; and the exchange at Paris on Loudon at short
being 25 57i, it follows that gold is 0.49 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.
By advice, from Harnburgh the price of gold is 434 i
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange. of 13 9:1;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.13 per cent. dearer
in London than in llamburgh.
POST.—A correspondence has taken place between
Mr. Henry Lloyd Morgan and the Commissioners of
Customs, and other public authorities, respecting the
dirties leviable on "unrated goods" imported from foreign
countries, and of which correspondence a copy has been
laid before us, the importer, Mr. Morgan, as well as
others, feeling it a serious grievance that this portion of
the Customs duties should not be more specifically de-
fined, since, under the present mode of collection or
assessment, merchants do not at all know what to be
about. It appears that Mr. Morgan had introduced by
the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, a cask containing forty-six
gallons of cherry juice, upon which he paid the "full
duty" of twenty per cent., valuing it at 81. ss. It was
guaged without loss of time, as the article, being a perish.
able one, required to be, but when application came to be
made by Mr. Morgan for its delivery, to his surprise he
found that it was stopped. A series of petitions, represen-
tations, and references then commenced, as is usually
the case in like circemstances. Mr. Morgan was informed
by the Commissioners of Customs that the commodity ,
had been submitted to Dr. Ure, th• chemist, the result of
which was that he would be required to pay upon it the
wine duty of, we believe, ss. 6d. per gallon. Dr. Ure
perhaps discovered some spirit in the juice, as would
raost likely be the case with any similar importrition,
but Mr. Morgan can hardly consider it possible that he
could call it wine. The cost of it, at Rotterdam or Dus-
seldorff was no more than 71. 165., whereas the wine duty
alone would be from 121 to 131, and the delivery of the
juice, or payment of its first price, is therefore demanded
as a means of adjusting the matter, but the authorities
are uncompromising, and here accordingly it rests, th

center 49,376
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 6,678
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 32,333
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford 53,559
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 45,923
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbridgo
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,
Sheffield
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, Sheffield
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
Richmond 48,277
Stockton and Durham County Banking Com-
pany, Stockton
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company,
Shaftesbury
Sheffield and Retford Bank, Sheffield ...
Suffolk Banking Company, Ipswich
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhampton 31,743
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 13,573
Whitehayen Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehayen
Warwick and Leamington Banking Company,
Leamington
West of England and South Wales D.strict
Bank, Bristol.

6,081

• Average Amount.
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 66,2.50
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield 33,025
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester
York Union Banking Company, York 56,975
York City and County Banking Company, York 85,008
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. •
Stamps and Taxes, Dec. 21, 1844.

ISPIAIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROW THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The Irish Roman Catholic Bequests
Act has formed an important epoch in the modern
political annals of Ireland, by the signal defeat which
it has brought upon Mr. O'Connell. We have al-
ready directed attention to this very significant and
encouraging fact. But there is another point of view
in which the same law is of no less—perhaps even of
greater—interest and importance. It is in itself the
establishment of a great revolution. It introduces a
more startling element of change than almost any
other of the numerous organic dislocations which our
day hai seen. Yet there are few similar enactments
which can, in slur opinion, plead so much both of ne-
cessity and justice in their support. It is the legalisa-
tion of principles long contended against, but now, it
may be almost said, already established and conceded ;
but it is yet a legalisation which has been conducted,
as it seems to us, upon sufficiently safe and moderate
grounds. The Roman Catholic Bequests Act; has ef-
fected two separate objects, the proposal of either one
of which would, a few years ago, have most effectually
swamped any measure that was encumbered with it.
This Act has, in the first place, granted to the Irish
Roman Catholic Church that kind and degree of esta-
blishment which is by many writers on this subject
considered to constitute the best and most essential
substance of State recognition ; and, in the second
place, it has pretty nearly repealed, in favour of the
Irish Roman Catholics, the main enactments of the
laws of mortmain. Now, no one can say these are
small things. There mny be differences of opinion
about their right or expediency, but, most un-
doubtedly, they are great concessions. The first
provision to which we have alluded is thus stated by
Dr. Murray in the pastoral address we publiAled
yesterday, and on which we have already commented.
One object of the Act, he says, is "to enable us to
invest property in perpetual security, for the purpose
of procuring glebes for our clergy, and building and
maintaining churches for the due celebration of
Catholic worship;" and the words of the 15th section
of the Act expressly recognise a Roman Catholic bishop
and his successors as a body capable as such of taking
and enjoying a perpetual trust in lands and goods.
Now, this is not indeed a recognition of the Roman
Catholic Church as the national Church of Ireland,
but it is a grant to her of precisely the same privileges
as those upon which the " nationality" of the pre-
sent established churches, both in England and. Ire-
land, was originally founded. It is said, that the ori-
ginal consecration of tithes and other ecclesiastical
endowments throughout Christendom was, for the
most part, the work of individual acts of donation ;
and, whether this view be strictly accurate or not,
there seems at least to be little doubt that it was in
such acts of individual piety and munificence that the
general, the universal, the compulsory, the national
endowment of churches first took its rise. This ele-
ment of endowment first put the present Church of
Ireland,—the church which at the Reformation be-
came " Protestant" against the corruptions of Rome,
in the seat and position which she now occupies;—
this same element has now been conceded to the
Romish Church, which, on account of such
her protestation, then separated from her. The
concession of such a privilege we conceive to be
a matter of mere justice. The existence of the
Romish Church in Ireland is a fact which must be
met and dealt with. Division must of course be
always an evil, and a lamentable one,—and it is the
duty of a Christian statesman to take every possible
means to put an end to, and avoid it; nor would
we in the least countenance the logic or morality of
that careless and mischievous indifferentism, which,
while professing to hold that two antagonist and in-
consistent claims are both equally true, really rejoices
in suggesting the inference that both are equally and
comfortably false. But the claims of the Anglican
and Remish Churches in Ireland are not by any
means (at least the former is not) essentially and
entirely exclusive of the other of them. All that is
inconsistent in the co-existence of the two bodies is
their division and distinctness. .The position and
external facts of the case render it unnecessary, in
the matter of so plain a concession as this, to in-
quire into the theological merits of the con-
troversy. The power of self-endowment is a
right which has been conceded, in some shape or
other, to every Diesenting sect in England. With
what reason then could it be denied to a branch, how-
ever perverted, of the Catholic Church ? The recog-
nition of the Romish bishops is, indeed, another
question. Here, it must be admitted, that further
inquiry becomes necessary. But we confess, for
ourselves, that the result of that inquiry leads us, on
the whole, to approve the recognition. The second
great feature of the Act of Parliament on which we
are commenting is its repeal of the mortmain laws.
Registry of the gift three months before the death of
the donor is all that is necessary under this Act to
constitute a good charitable bequest or devise. In
England it is necessary that twelve months should
intervene between the gift and the death, and the
gift must, moreover, be made, not by will, but by
deed ; and by deed executed and enrolled with
certain prescribed formalities. Now, we confess
ourselves that we are very glad to see the
experiment made as to how far these formalities and
precautions are necessary. We are no advocates for
their hasty and precipitate abolition in England with-
out inquiry or examination. It is only because the
evils which attend on their existence have in many
cases forced themselves upon us, while it has seemed
impossible to test satisfactorily the danger or advan-
tages of their abolition without a trial, that we have
ever urged any modification or experimental altera-
tion in them. But now, it seems, the experiment
will, at all events, be tried ; and that, too, under cir-
cumstances which can hardly fail to be convincing.
If the Roman Catholic testator, holding the doc-
trines of the Roman Catholic Church with respect to
death-bed donations and bequests, can, without
the protection of the mortmain laws, be safe from
fraud or undue influence, much more, one would
think, ought a Protestant to be so. We cannot con-
clude our article better than by quoting the very
strong, and unqualified expression of opinion on this
point which is • contained in Dr. Murray's address,
with respect to the three months' limitation still re-
tained in the Act. The distinction made in favour
of the poor is worthy of all praise. " Having had
occasion to mention the limitation of time within
which bequests of land for charitahle purposes would
be valid, I cannot avoid expressing my deep concern
that such a general limitation should have been
established. Had it been confined, as it was in the
original form of the Bill, to bequests for the'service
of our Church, I would never utter afword of objec-
tion against it, because I do not desire that our
Church should be enriched by the possession'of exten-
sive lands. But when I find it also extended to be-
quests for the poor, I cannot but consider it an undue
interference with the dominion of God over his own
gifts, an attempt to limit the operation of his com-
mand to "give alms;" and an unholy instrument for
disturbing the peace of a penitent soul when about to
render an account of its abused stewardship before
the throne of justice. *'" * I hold it to be
unwise to leave on the statute-book a law which has
the appearance. of contravening the law of God ; and
which, therefore, a virtuous Christian might consider
it a conscientious duty to endeavour to evade."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 24.
IN RE LEWIS JACKSON RANDALL.
This insolvent was opposed by Mr. Cooke, on be-
half of Mr. Riches. Ile was supported by Mr. Wood-
ruffe.
The case was berore the Court on the 19th instant,
when the opposition was raised on the ground that
Mr.. Riches had supplied the insolvent with money to
purchase furniture, which he was to sell, and retain
two-thirds of the profit, repaying to Mr. Riches the
capital andthe remaining one• third of the profit.
The insolvent in July, 1843, claimed the furniture
as his own, and the creditor in consequence brought
an action to recover 1101., but he only obtained a ver-
dict for 50/., at a cost of 931. 19s. law expenses.
The insolvent, in reply, alleged that the furniture
was really his own, and that the only occasion o❑
which he represented it to be Mr. Riches's, was in
consequence of an arrangement to defeat an execution
from the Court of Requests. ills books would show
that the property was his own.
Mr. COOKE then offered to rest his case on the in-
solvent's books, which were in the possession of a❑
attorney, who had a lien on them.
To-day some books were produced, and certain
items in one of them were alleged by the opposing
creditor to have been altered from the original entries.
In one case a sum of 3s. had been altered to 131. 135.;
another sum, originally 35., had become 61. 35.; and
one of 6s. now appeared to be 3/. 6s.
A clerk to insolvent's former attorney deposed to
having seen another book, not now produced.
The insolvent denied ever having had any such
hook, and declared that Mr. Riches was a debtor to
him to the extent of 2001. The items denied by the
opposing creditor were sums paid to him by insolvent,
on account of distresses made for hi►n on account of
Dr. Moseley. Some of the money was paid into Mr.
Riches's bank, to support a floating sum 0f501., which
he was required to keep there. The banker's book
of the creditor was produced, but no entries were
there to be found, corresponding with the insolvent's
statement.

Mr. COOKS urged that this case was one of the
greatest fraud. The insolvent had alleged that the
verdict against him had been obtained by means of
perjury, and had dealt out insinuations on all sides.
The books produced to-day evinced a greater amount
of crime than had been originally charged to him.
Altogether it was one of the grossest cases of fraud
and falsification•of books that had lately come before
the Court. The suppression of another book was
sworn to by two parties, and, therefore, on both
grounds he (Mr. Cooke) prayed a severe remand.
Mr. WoonaurrE having addressed the Court for
the insolvent,
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said he did not feel him-
self justified in remanding the insolvent for a breach
of trust, but during his long experience in this Court
he had never known a more premeditated concealment
of books. There was also clear proof of falsification,
one of the greatest offences mentioned in the Act of
Parliament. The insolvent has endeavoured to sup-
port his false allegations to the very last. The judg•
ment of the Court was, that he be remanded for 14
calendar months from the date of his vesting order.

. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOTV-STREET.
Tuesday Robert Hobson, the post-office keeper of
Walthatristow, who was brought up on WednesdLy
for embezzling Is. 10d., the postage of a letter ad-
dressed to Calcutta, was again placed at the bar to
answer further charges of detaining newspapers.
Mr. Peacock attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
J. C. Everts, a barrister, conducted the defence.
Peake, the constable, having produced several num-
bers of the Times, of recent dates, which he had found
with •other newspapers in the prisoner's house when
searching it, under the direction of Mr. W. R. Scul-
thorpe, on Tuesday week,
Mr. R. Lloyd Pinching, a surgeon, residing in
Walthamsrow, identified five copies of the Times,
dated October 29, November 4, November 5, De-
cember 3, and December 12, the direction on each of
which was in his own handwriting. They were ad-
dressed to his sister, to Dr. Ross, and other parties
resident in Ireland, to whom he was in the habit of
sending his papers. Some of them had been posted
by himself, but a lad in his service generally took
them to the post-office, at the prisoner's shop. To
the best of his (witness's) belief, the papers produced
were directed and sent at different periods.
William East, a servant to Mr. Pinching, deposed
to having posted the Time. newspaper, by his master's
directions, at the prisoner's shop. He had generally,
put them in the letter-box, but had, on some occa-
sions, a few months back, taken them into the shop
when they had been too bulky to go through the aper-
ture outside. They were always, at those times, de-
livered to the prisoner, or one of his sons or daughters.
Mr. Pinching stated that the address on each paper
was written upon the margin instead of an envelope,
for which a piece of string was substituted.
The constable said, that when the prisoner was re-
quested to account for the possession of the papers, he
replied, that he had lately purchased a quantity of
waste paper, and supposed they must have come
with it.
Another case of a similar nature was proved by the
evidence of a young woman named Eliza Antony, a
servant at Walthamstow, who identified a paper which
she had directed to a sister in Monmouthshire, and
the envelope of which was found in the prisoner's
bed-room.
Mr. JARDINE, after hearing the prisoner's counsel,
determined on committing him for trial, both for the
embezzlement and the misdemeanour.
Mr. J. C. Evans hoped that bail would be taken,
in consideration of the respectability of the prisoner,
whose wife and large family were dependent on his
exertions in business. The Rev. J. Freeman, of NVal-
thamstow, with other parties of equal respectability,
.would, he said, be his sureties to any reasonable
extent.

Mr. Jaanirrn said he could not make any distinc-
tion in the case, and must therefore refuse the appli-
cation, so far as it related to the embezzlement.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar.
The second half of t‘ E. C.'s" donation of a 51. note
has duly reached the office.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Tuesday Janie: Green, a well-dressed middle-
aged man, of most determined aspect, and Ann Green,
his daughter, a little girl eleven years of age, were
charged before Mr. Bingham with having been found
engaged in the manufacture of a large quantity of
spurious money; and also with having committed a
murderous assault upon two of the officers of the G
division of police.
It-appeared from the evidence of Sergeant Bran-
nan, who was in such a state of suffering as to be
scarely.capable of giving his evidence, that having re-
ceived information the prisoner was closely connected
with an extensive gang of coiners who had recently
put into circulation a large amount of spurious
money, he proceeded, between nine and ten o'clock
on the previous evening, accompanied by Cole, a
constable of the same division, to the house of the
prisoner in Bath-court, City-road. On knocking, the
door was opened by the younger prisoner, who, the
instant she saw the officers, called loudly to her
father ; on which the male prisoner suddenly made
his appearance at the top of a flight of stairs commu-
nicating with a room into which the street-door
opened. Witness rushed up the stairs in the hope of
seizing the man, and had reached within three steps
of the landing, when the prisoner exclaimed, " You've
not got me yet, Brannan, you b - thief," ar.d,
springing at him, struck him such a violent blow in
the chest with his feet, that he was instantly hurled
from the top of the stairs to the room below, where
his spine came in contact with the edge of a chair,
and the prisoner, who was unable to check his own
impetus, fell with his whole weight upon the lower
part of the officer's body. Cole then seised the pri-
soner, and a severe struggle ensued between them,
in the course of which the witness, who had partially
recovered from the shock of his fall, saw the younger
prisoner in the act of concealing something In
her
bosom; this he forced from her and found it to be a parcel
containing 22 counterfeit half- crowns, finished for cir-
,culation. Thegirl, a determined little viren, then broke

! liquid suffering daily deterioration. The duty was paid 1 from his grasp and hastened up stairs, followed by the
on the 20th of September ; an answer to a letter on the witness, who found her engaged in picking up a great
subject of the s*wpage, addressed to the Board of
Trade, is dated November 22 ; an answer to a me- number of base coins which were strewn about the
' table. While the witness was securing this spurious
=Hal on the same topic, addressed to the Lords
money
of the Treasury, is dated December 17 ; and the the male prisoner, followed by Cole, burst
question asked is, whether, to say nothing of the uncer- into the room, and seizing a large glass bottle filled
tain system of levying duties in these cases, there might with vitriol, dashed it at the officers, and a large
not be more dispatch with perishable goods, the prin. quantity of the burning liquid was in consequence
ciple involved being the same, be the value ten pounds flung over their hands, faces, and the upper parts of
or ten thousand ? It is stated by Mr. Morgan that the their persons. While the officers were in this con-
importation was made on the faith of the general order dition, the male prisoner pulled from under his apron
of February 4, 1843, respecting vegetable juice, which a bag filled with counterfeit coin and handed it to
seems to apply to this particular article, as it is declared I the girl, desiring her to get rid of it; but the witness
to be pure cherry juice, as entered, and nothing more. Brannan succeeded in getting it from her and secur-
Hence, while there is apparently a firm determination
in e the other false coin on the table, the whole tope-
not to surrender the property, on the one hand, there is
h.,-
an equal determination not to pay a wine duty upon Ler amounting to more thana hundred shilling and
it on the other, and it remains to be seen how the half-crown pieces. The witness and Cole then
affair will end. Certain it is that the commercial searched the room, which was fitted up like a regular
body would be glad to have the customs rating of' workshop, with work-bench and every description of
goods carried to the utmost practicable limit, and, tools, among which were two very curiously menu-
to show the expediency of such a course it is that • factured implements, consisting each of a bright
Mr. Morgan has, as he affirms, been pressed double metal plate, 6 inches by 3, and furnished with
by several merchants to give all the importance and screws and nuts, for the purpose of securing the coin
publicity in his power to the hardships to which, in in- tightly during the application to it of plating-liquids
stances of the nature of this, they are subject in common, and acids, several bottles of which were found in the
the example being admirably suited to the illustration of
they inconvenience under which they labour. apartment. The prisoner, it appeared never cast the
The endless correspondence to which the detention of coins himself, but received them in a roughly menu-
merchandise invariably leads, should cause the officers of factured state from other members of the gang, by
the Customs to pause much before they proceed to the mea- whom he was employed in finishing them and render-
sure ; but then, unfortunately, such a practice is sane. ing them complete for circulation. Brannan said,
tioned, and even encouraged, by the higher officers of that during his struggle with the prisoner, the inju-
the Crown, in the disposition shown to reward their often ries he had received were of such
a._ eerious nature,
miscalled " vigilance' by a mulct of e fee" or " satisfac that he was apprehensive he should feel the effects of
tion," than which a more objectionable system cannot them as long as he lived.
exist, since. at the best, it is but bribing a public servant Cole, the other officer, whose hands and wrists ap-
to dolicp thaturse duty effectively for which he is paid out of the peered severely scorched and swollen, corroborated the
pub.
sergeant's evidence, and stated, that while he was en-
gaged in the struggle with the prisoner, the latter set
a bull-dog upon him, which bit and clung to him
with such pertinacity, that he had the greatest diffi-
culty in beating it off. Both the officers described
the resistance offered by the male prisoner as being
the most desperate they ever encountered, and said
that he was most actively aided in it by his daughter,
who exhibited a degree of violence scarcely credible
for a child of such tender years.
The male prisoner, in defence, declared that the
whole of the articles found by the police had been left
at his house only an hour previously by a man who
had promised to call for them a short time afterwards.
and that he was wholly innocent of any guilty use of
'hem.

Sergeant Brannan intimated to the magistrate that
he was satisfied, from the information he had re-
ceived, the prisoner had been carrying on this system
of fraud for a long time past, and that about a year
ago the prisoner's youngest child, a little girl about
two years old, had Inst its life in consequence of
drinking some of the burning liquids used by the pri-
soner in the process of manufacturing the base coin,
the prisoner at the coroner's inquest accounting for
the little creature's death by a statement precisely si.
milar to that he now made.
Mr. BINGHAM expressed great regret at the inju-
juries the officers had sustained, and ordered both
prisoners to be remanded for a week, that the solicitor
to the Mint might attend and prosecute the case
against them.