The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-25 00:00:00

THE WILLS FORGERIES

anger and pride in this short. address.
The Bankers' Circular, therefore, might justly ' se7TaitiieornesiosfbSotirhJAMES GRAHAM, says :
have added the present Sir ROBERT PEEL to his 1
Accustomed.. to see all their opinions adopted b
" presumptuous" trio of surely the most unfortunate majority, the English Ministry cannot yet ran
They look on the vote of the House imposing
believe
as in their
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" money brokers" and " money changers" (Heaven being beaten.
knows !) who ever dealt with the whole scheme of througthfarrir, a momentary act of aberra-
a country's currency. Our Premier, too, was one of steimu'en'c'heicthely cannot
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the economic philosophers of Lord LIVERPOOL'S recourseq to. The question is now to ascertaiwn trialif
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school, which session after session arraigned the will consent to condemn itself—dertoteexlisavibeitutiheessFfeetacle of a
bounty of PROVIDENCE itself, by charging on " re- 13khasetfruyl tergiversation,er whether
it in
will persist in its first-lroevsoeluoftohne
dundant production and excessive harvests," those con- but, whatever may occur,
•
, the vote just given will remain one of the most important of
vulsive and fatal derangements of our domestic pros- , the present session, whether regarded in a political or a
We shall know this in a few days ;
perity, which were solely attributable to their em- ' manufacturing point of view."
pirical, crotchetty, and reckless passion for drugging The following are the remarks of the Consti tutionnel
the country with their own pestilent nostrum. The on the subject :
ppo
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saved.
country, like a stout yeoman-patient, was never "The struggle between agriculture and manufactures has
I fleet, sed the
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better than when the State quacks of the day corn- I been going on for forty years in England. The advantage Sand—crew
has almost, in all cases, remained with property, or the Tory i

MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)
At a quarter before eleven o'clock this morning John For •
rester, the officer, arrived at • the Mansion-house, bringing
with him Lydia Sanders, who stands charged with having
personated Miss Emma Slack, and thereby enabling the
other prisoners to obtain the sum of 2,000/., the property of
the said Emma Slack.

After the night charges were disposed of by Mr. Alderman
Thomas Wood, who sat for the Lord Mayor, the prisoner was
brought in about half-past'one o'clock, when the Lord Mayor
came and took his seat. The prisoner, who is a much better
looking female than her sister, Mrs. Dorey, was dressed in a
check gown, a blue plaid cloak, and black mourning bonnet.
She was accommodated with a seat. Mr. Cotton, the chair-
man of the Bank of England, and several of the Directors,
were present during the inquiry.
Mr. Freshfield, having stated the nature of the charge, said,
that to-day his only object was to give such evidence as
would justify his Lordship to remand her.
The LORD MAYOR having inquired ;if she had any profes-
sional adviser, the prisoner replied in the negative.
Evidenc. was then adduced as to the prisoner going to
Doctors'-commons and the Bank, and representing herself as
Emma Slack.

The prisoner was then remanded until Saturday, when she
will be brought up with the other prisoners, for the purpose
of being committed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

MARYLEBONE—(THIS DAY.)
Wm. Reynolds, a powerful fellow, was charged with an
aggravated assault on Wm. Smith, a private in the 2d batta-
lion of Grenadier Guards.

The complainant said that as he was a married man he had
permission to live out of barracks, and he was, therefore, going
in company with his wife, late on Saturday evening to pur
chase what he required in Portman-market. Prisoner and
and several others were standing at the corner of Church-
street ; and, on passing, he applied the epithet of - soldier
to him (complainant), and another of a similar character to
his wife. He remonstrated on the vile nature of his language,
when the prisoner " butted" him down, and ,while on the
ground he was struck by him and his companions. Two
constables coming up, the prisoner was taken into custody.
The wife gave similar evidence, and the prisoner having no
defence to make, was fined 20s.

UNION HALL._(THIS DAY.)
Sophia Mills, a young woman, in the service of Captain
Hamilton, of the East India Company's service, residing at
Nunhead, was charged before Mr. with being con-
cerned in a burglary and robbery at her master's house.
The Captain stated that on Monday night his house
was broken into, the thieves having effected an entrance
by cutting two circular pieces of wood out of the back door
with a centre-bit. They then entered the rooms down stairs,
hundred cigars. The rob-
beryfrom which they succeeded in taking a gold watch, a mu-
sicaluntilo the following morning,
questioned and
prevaricated so much that her master considered it neces-
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sary to give her into custody. In the course of the inquiries
made respecting the prisoner, it was found that she had
given a fictitious character in obtaining the situation, and
that on the night of the robbery she left the back kitchen
window unfastened in such a way that would have rendered
it an easy task for thieves to get into the house. Other cir-
cumstances M:vas remanded.talle eS of suspicion being excited against the prisoner,
she

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
James Trigg, alias " the Paddington Dustman," well known
to the police for many years past, was charged with.robbing
a young man named Thomas Bain, living at No. 13, Tower-
street, Westminster-road, of 3101. in Bank of England notes,
and twenty-seven sovereigns, under the following circum-
stances :
On Saturday last, the prosecutor, having the money in
question, which had been left to him by a relative, in his
possession, went into a public-house in the neighbourhood of
Seven-dials, and while drinking there, fell in company with
the prisoner. They- continued drinking together for several
hours, and at length they adjourned to another public house.
the George, in Great Chapel-street, Soho, where they had
more drink, and eventually the prisoner became overpowered
by the liquor he had swallowed, and fell asleep. On awak-
ing, he discovered that he was minus his notes and gold ; the
former were in a tin case, which was also taken with them.
He immediately gave information to the police, who, from
the prisoner being so well known, succeeded in tracing him
out and taking him into custody, between ten and eleven
o'clock on Saturday night, in Little Harcourt-street, Mary-
lebone. In the meantime the tin case, containing the whole of
the stolen notes, was found, thrown down the area of the house
of Mr. Richardson of No. 78, Newman-street, Oxford-street;

it was picked up by one of the female servants who imme-
diately gave it to her master. It is supposed that the pri-
soner (who is a very illiterate man) being drunk at the time
did not discover that the case contained Bank notes, but
supposing them only to be papers threw them away to pre-
vent-their being found on him.
The prisoner was remanded for the attendance of some
witnesses.

Only a few shillings was found on the prisoner when ap-
prehended, but he had purchased several articles of wearing
apparel which he had on.

QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.)
Joseph Magee, a bricklayer, and George Stafford, a sawyer,
two young men, were charged before Mr. Bond, the former
with fighting and creating a disturbance at Knightsbridge,
and the latter with throwing stones and mnd at the police,
and otherwise obstructing them in the execution of their duty.
John Jones, 37 B, said that between twelve and one o'clock
on Sunday morning, he saw Magee fighting with another
man, not in custody, in the High-road, Knightsbridge, and
surrounded by a mob of two hundred persons, a great
number of whom were shouting and making considerable
disturbance. lie tried to take Magee into custody, but,
on attempting to do so, several .persons attacked him,
and prevented him from doini§o. He sprang his rattle,
and obtained the assistance of four other constables, who as-
sisted him in taking Magee into custody, who tore the coat
of one of the officers, and was exceedingly violent in his be-
haviour. On their progress to the station-house the mob
attacked the police, who were compelled to draw their staves
in self-defence. Two of the police had their hats cat through
by the missiles thrown at them. Stafford, with other per-
sons, who escaped, threw stones and mud at the constables.
Other policemen, who were called to Jones's assistance,
corroborated his statement.
In reply to the charge, Magee said he saw a mob opposite
the Marquis of Granby, Knightsbridge; he ran into the road
to see what was the matter, and had only been there a few
minutes when the policeman came up and said that he was
one of the men who had been fighting, and took him into cus-
tody. Magee complained that the police tore the clothes off
his back, and that he lost six shillings.
Mr. BOND said that complaints were frequently made to
him by persons brought before him, that their clothes were
torn by the police, but that was no reason why a milder
punishment should be inflicted upon them. If persons, by
their own misconduct, rendered it necessary that the police
should interfere to prevent them from doing themselves or
other persons injury—and their conduct was so violent as to
compel the police to use force—they (the police) were not to
blame, but rather the parties themselves, who were the sole
cause of any injuries which they might receive whilst in
their custody.

Stafford said he was merely amusing himself by throwing
pieces of mud at the police. The pieces were so small that
he was sure'no injury could result from them.
They were fined 30s. each, or in default of payment, twenty-
one days' imprisonment.

24.—A schooner, from Scotland to Swine-
Magnet, upset this morning on Whitson