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London, England, 1844-08-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
STANDARD.—Lord Brougham presented last night
a petition in the House of Lords from the Earl of Dun-
donald, better known by his gallant exploits as " Lord
Cochrane," claiming for the Noble Earl the priority of
invention of Captain Warner's destructive agent ; or,
at least, claiming to have invented, more than thirty
years ago, some other agent of destruction as ter-
ribly efficacious. Lord Dundonald's gallantry, skill,
and enterprise, as a naval commander, are too fre-
quently recorded in our naval annals to require
any other testimony. The nation owes to him
a deep debt of gratitude for most important
services, and we hope we may now without offence acid
that the nation owes to his Lordship a heavy debt upon
another score—reparation for grievous wrongs. Thirty
years the gallant nobleman was made the victim of as
flagitiously iniquitous a verdict and judgment, as ever
disgraced the administration of justice in any coun-
try. It is difficult to read the trial of his
Lordship, and we have been reading it lately,
in order to refresh our knowledge of the law
of conspiracy, without coming to the conclu-
sion that judge and jury were all mad or drunk
together. It may not be out of place to refer
to this scandalous trial, because younger men
may be at a loss to understand Lord Brougham's allu-
sion to the banishment of the Gallant Earl from the
service of his own enuntry. The story in few words is
this :—A numb's: of persons, one of whom was Lord
Dondonald'e relation, and another his stock-broker,
contrived a fraud to raise the price of the public funds,
by false news (an anticipation of the restoration of the
Sourbons). The case against these persons was proved
clearly enough by an exposure of all their pro-
ceedings, in which it was manifest that Lord Dun-
donald took not the slightest part. It was
proved, however, that he lent a hat to the
principal agent, with whom he had a casual acquaint-
ance ; the hat was a plain round hat, such as gen-
tlemen commonly wore at the time, and still wear,
and the reasonable pretext for borrowing it was that
the borrower had on a showy military head-dress, which
caused him to be stared at in the street, notwithstanding
that his gaudy foreign uniform was otherwise shaded
by a cloak. Upon the strength of this unlucky loan
of a hat was Lord Dundonald dragged into the conspiracy,
deprived of his commission, and driven, from that noble
service, even upon which his achievements had reflected
new glories. But Lord Ellenborough was a c ammercial
man—the jurors were commercial men—and the times
were those in which about threescore men, women,
and children, used to be annually strangled at the
Old Bailey, for, as it was supposed, the be-
nefit of commercial credit. What chance, before such a
judge and such a jury, and in such times, for any one
exposed to the suspicion of being suspected of tampering
with the price of the funds ? So much for Lord Due-
donald. Now as to his invention. Lord Brougham said
in his Noble Friend's praise, that though ill-treated, as
he certainly was, by his own Government and his own
countrymen, Lord Dundonald reserved his secret from
those foreign Governments by which he was employed,
and patriotically resolved that England alone should
have the benefit of its possession. We confess that we
de not understand his Lordship's motive in this
conduct. If the secret is one which can be used without
exposing it to discovery, we do not see why he should
hesitate to give to those Govermeuts that had a just
right to claim all his services, the full benefit of it. It
seems to us that when a man engages in the service of
a foreign State, he becomes, ipso facto, the subject of
that State—a vendre ou a pendre, as the old phrase has
it—and that he has no right to reserve any results
either of his physical or intellectual power, always
supposing that these are not to be directed against
the country to which he naturally owes allegiance.
We must repeat it, therefore, that if Lord
Dundonald's secret is not one liable to expo-
sure in the use of it, his Lordship ought to have
given to the foreign Gov-rn'nents that he served
all the advantage of it. If, howese r, the secret is one
which would be explained in its application, it is plainly
of little value, except for the first blow. It might render
war more destructive for all parties in the long run ;
but the nation first using it coul I have the advantage but
once, as all other nations would forthwith adopt it.
Nay, it might, and if Captain Warner truly describes
his " long range," it would deprive sone nations of ad-
vantages they already possess. Whet, for example,
would be the fate of our naval superiority
were the " leng range" universally adopted? What
could Nelson himself do in conflict (if we may call it so)
with, an enemy six miles off ? We comfort ourJelve
with the reflectem that all these things are " moon-
shine." for the effact of them certainly would be to de-
prive Engin 1 of most of the advantages she owes to the
physical and moral superiority of her people. Bayard
called the use of gunpowder " the grave of valour''—
and of the valour whieh stimulates individual acts of
daring for the sake of indici lual glory it was the tomb.
Another and a more reflecting kind of courage has, how-
ever, succeeded. adapted to the changed st) le of war,
and now the victory is not to the impetuous and au-
dacious, but to the patient and enduring, to the cool,
collected, and determined. It is, however, impossible to
imagine what modification of fortitude could be success-
fully opposed to the invisible shell or the long range ;
the adoption of such instruments would he not merely
the grave of all kinds of valour, it would be the grave
of honour, honesty, and humanity; all war would re-
solve itself into surprise, and ambuscade, and wholesale
massacre; fortunately, we say again, the thing is mere
moonshine.

Lild,ll's_ Dog Stealing Commit-

tee has producer a sensible report. Perhaps the
authority of a report of a Select Committee was hardly
wanted to recommend Mr. Lid‘l,ll's proposals for the
protection of poodles. But we quite agree with him that
poodles ought to be better protected, and think the sug-
gestions of the Committee very commendable ; and we
by no means quarrel with the appointment of a Commit-
tee on the subject. The evidence collected by the Com-
mittee on the tricks of dog-qr_salers, and the
statistics of the dog-trade, is an interesting con-
tribution to a " Library of Entertaining Knowledge."
The taking of a reward for re-toring a stolen dog
is at present not penal. Rewards are eagerly given for
the recovery of pet dogs, and dogs are stolen with a
view to the reward. The premises of dealers in dogs are
not at present accessible to the police except aft .r a
search-warrant has been obtained; to obtain which some
reason must be shown for 'believing that the missing dog
is in the particular premises to he searched, and which
can never be obtained without delay. This is a great
help to the dog-stealer, and furnishes a great additional
inducement to the parties robbed to offer high rewards.
The Committee apply themselves, then, to the preven-
tion of rewards, and the increase of control over the
dealers in dogs. They recommend that an Act should
131 passed declaring dogs to be property, and mak-
ing the theft of a dog a misdemeanour; from which it
would follow, under the words of the 58th clause of 7
and 8 Geo. IV., that the taking of a reward for restoring
a stolen dog would be felony—that dealers in dogs
should be required to take out licenses, and
that their premises should be open to inspection of
police-officers—and that parties in possession of stolen
or lost dogs should be made re qnnsible for such
possession, and be obliged to bring forward the
names and places of abode of those parties from whom
the said dog had been obtained, and that these latter
parties shall, in like manner, be held responsible. "It
appears to your Committee that such an obligation, com-
bined with the licensing of the premises of the dealers in
dogs, and the power of inspection given to certain officers
of police, would go far to check, if it would not entirely
put a stop to this pernicious and illegal traffic ; and the
same regulations might be applied to parties bringing
lots of dogs to the quays and wharfs of the different ports
fur exportation to the foreign market."

DETENTION OF DR. WOLFF.—Advices from Con-
stantinople, July 17, say that " a letter had been received
from Dr. Wolff, announcing his detention by the Ameer of
Bokhara, under the following circumstances :—The Bokharee
Envoy, who, it was said, was to have accompanied Dr. Wolff
to England, has been arrested on his road from Persia, at
Meshed, by the Ameer of that place, as a hostage for the
Doctor's safe delivery from the hands of the Ameer of Bok-
hare; and the latter, on hearing of this act, had declared that
the Englishman should not depart until the Bokharee Envoy
had been set at liberty. Such, it is said, arc the main state-
ments in Dr. Wolff's letters, dated Bokhara, May 12 ; further,
that it is probable, since the Ameer of Bokhara did not ap•
pear to be personally hostile to Dr. Wolff, and the Ameer of
Meshed was known to be actuated by friendly motives to-
wards him, we may soon hope to hear of his safe departure
from Bokhara."

IlinurtsiAN MINING COMPANY.—Yesterday the
half-yearly meeting of this Company took place at the
office in Austin- friars, J. H. Britishaw, Esq., in the chair.
From the report it appeared that several new works had been
undertaken, and the seam of coal continued good. The sales,
in spite of the competition, had exceeded those of the pre-
vious six months by about 2,700 tons, the sales for the half
year being 9,037 tons, which produced the sum of 2,635/.,
and a more extensive sale was only wanting to yield a divi-
dend. The trial for the vein of copper at Alfacore had been
discontinued, after an outlay of 1501. After the reading and
adoption of the report, a vote of thanks was passed to the Di-
rectors of the Company.
DOCKYARD.—On the 30th ult. the Earl
of Dundonald paid an official visit to this dockyard, when
the steam-vessel Janus, of 4 guns, which was built in this
yard on a peculiar construction, designed by the gallant
ofhcer, was put out of dock for the purpose of testing her
boilers in his presence. The Janus was taken into dock again
on Thursday, the Ist inst. The Trafalgar, 120 guns, fitting
as an advance ship, is nearly completed ; and the new stern,
which has been put on the plan of Mr. Fincham, master-
builder, is now finished and painted, and has a very noble
appearance.' This vessel is reckoned to be the finest ship in
the service. She goes out of dock on Saturday. Captain
llrandreth, of the Engineers, and director of works at
this yard, arrived on Vednesday, the 31st ult., and inspected
the erection of the new buildings now being
raised in the dif-
ferent parts of the yard, and left here on the Ist inst. for the
purpose of inspecting the works at Sheerness Dockyard.
SIIETLAND.—On Friday, the 19th ult., Mr. Ed-
ward Standen, of Oxford, and of the Shetland warehouse,
Jermyn-street, London, and Mr. Robert Turnbull, son of the
respected minister of Tingwall parish, Shetland, left Scallo-
way for Raewick, a distance of ten miles, in a sailing boat
belonging to the latter. They were accompanied by two
Shetland boatmen. When within two or three miles of their
destination, the boat, from press of canvass, and perhaps
front some mismanagement, tilled with water, and having
a quantity of ballast on board she quickly sunk. Mr.
Turnbull and the two men, unable to swim, remained
by the boat, and all three went down with her.
Mr. Standen was left alone upon the water, swimming
with difficulty, having on an extra coat and heavy boots.
His situation appeared a hopeless one, but providentially a
Spanish vessel, the Flora, of B ilboa, Capt.Ybinaga, was
within sight and to the windward. The captain saw the ac-
cident, bore down to the spot, and by promptitude and good
management reached Mr. Standen in about a quarter of an
hour, only just in time to save him being exhausted. Every
kindness and attention was shown on board to recover him,
and he was landed at Scalloway. This accident shows how
necessary it is that along our coasts and islands a more ge-
neral attention should be paid to the noble art of swimming.
Scarcely a Shetlander can swim, and yet his whole life is
spent on the water!

SUMMER ASSIZES.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Guildford, Aug. 3.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
George Hart, 17; and David Chilton, 17, were in-
dicted, under the statute, for unlawfully setting fire
to certain growing heath and furze, the property of
Robert Munro.
Mr. Locke appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Charnock defended the prisoner.
Mr. LOCKE, in addressing the jury, explained that
the present indictment was framed under a statute
which made it felony for any person to wilfully set fire
to any growing crop .of corn, heath, or furze, and
subjected them to be transported for seven years, or
for such term of imprisonment as the Court might
direct. The Learned Counsel then went on to say
that the prosecutor was a gentleman residing at
Godalming, and he possessed a good deal of property
in that neighbourhood. On the day mentioned in the
indictment the prisoners were observed by a woman
to go up to the furze, and with a lucifer match set
fire to it in several places. They ran off, but were
pursued, and taken into custody, and on their being
searched, a pistol and a quantity of gunpowder were
found in the possession of them, and upon the other
no less than twenty-two boxes of lucifer matches.
The above facts were clearly proved in evidence,
and the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced the prisoner to be
transported for seven years.
Jane Filor, aged thirty, was indicted for the mur-
der of her new-born male child.

Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
had been cook in the service of a gentleman at Guild-
ford. On the 28th May she appeered to be very ill,
and at night one of the servants observed her to go
down to the water-closet, and she followed her, and,
according to her statement, shortly afterwards heard
the cry of a child. An alarm was given, and the
body of a child was taken out of the closet, and the
surgeon who was called in to examine it, expressed
his opinion, from certain circumstances, that the infant
had been born alive. There was, however, no posi-
tive evidence as to this fact, except the testimony of
the servant, who stated that she heard the child cry;
but upon cross-examination she admitted that she
might have been mistaken.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of concealing
the birth of the child, and she was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment.
John Smith, 17, was indicted for a misdemeanour.
It appeared from the evidence of a police-constable
named Timsley, that, about one o'clock in the day on
the 26th July, he saw the prisoner bathing in the
Surrey Canal, and he came out of the water quite
naked, and just as a train was passing along the rail-
way he turned towards it, and behaved in a very
indecent manner

The jury found the defendant guilty, and
Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced him to be imprisoned
for four months, at the same time remarking, that if
the defendant had; been convicted summarily by the
magistrate, he might have been sentenced to hard
labour ; but in the present form of proceeding by in-
dictment, he had no power to affix hard labour to the
sentence. _ _

His Lordship got through all the criminal business
by twelve o'clock, and he then proceeded to dispose
of some common jury causes, and he will sit again
on Monday (this day) for that purpose.

. .
The business on the Civil side hitherto has not con-
tained any feature of public interest.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, Aug. 1.
CROWN COURT---(Before Mr. Justice Wit.taAns.)
Henry Powing, aged 18, was indicted for maliciously set-
ting fire to four feet of "growing furze," with intent to in-
jure the Rev. W. Barker.
Mr. EvAss conducted the case for the prosecution, and
from his statement, corroborated by the evidence of witnesses,
it appears that the rev. prosecutor, who is the rector of Ship-
dam, was walking through his farm, with his bailiff, on the
2fith of May last, and just as they turned into an occupation
road, which was divided from the fields by a bank and line
furze hedge, they espied some smoke rising from the left-
hand bank. Almost at the same moment they saw the
prisoner quitting the place whence the smoke was rising, and
came towards them at a smart pace. When the parties
met, the bailiff seized the lad, and, turning him round, asked
him if he saw that smoke? " Smoke !" said he, No, I see
none." Notwithstanding this denial the boy was taken into
custody by the bailiff; while Mr. Barker put out the fire with
his " umperellar." As soon as a policeman could be foun
the lad was searched, and 18 lucifer-matches discovered in
the lining of his waistcoat. When this fact turned up. the
prisoner began to cry, and said that he " had not done it for
the nonce ;" but he afterwards said, when before the Magis -
trate, that he had struck a light as he walked along the
hedge, and thrown three lucifers into the furze, adding that
he meant to have done the same all the way along home.
The jury having found a verdict of Guilty, sentence was
deferred.

Mary Anne Fury was charged with setting fire to an
out-house in the occupation of John Cook, on the 17th of
July last.

Sir. Palmer appeared for the prosecutor ; and Mr. Power
defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor is the uncle of the prisoner, a middle-aged
woman, and they occupy cottages which are under one roof.
Some short time ago a quarrel arose between the relatives as
to the right to the use of a pigsty ard cow-shed, which was
attached to their common residences, and matters grew to
such a pitch that the lady began one day to pelt the aged
man, for such he was, with stones, which she accompanied
with a threat to "cut out his old eyes." Upon this he ap-
pealed to the law, and the lady was taken up, and sum-
marily dealt with before a justice fur the assault. Finding
that she had got the worst of that job, the prisoner sulkily
said she did not care for the pigsty, for she would very soon
burn or pull it down, and then nobody should have it. This
was on the 9th of the month, and, sure enough, on the morn-
ing of the 17th the out-house was discovered to be in flames.
On inquiry, it was ascertained that the building in question,
being all safe at five o'clock, when the prosecutor tended his
cow and pigs, they were found to be on fire at six o'clock,
within a very few minutes after the prisoner was seen to go
there. This fact depended on the testimony of the prisoner's
little grandson, an intelligent boy of ten years, who was
subjected to a close cross-examination on behalf of the pri-
soner, the result of which was that he had not told his
" grand'ther" what he saw till he was told the prisoner was
suspected.
Another witness, a policeman, proved that he went to
take the prisoner on this charge, she immediately asserted
that she had not been out of her house all that day, and was
only just up.
Mr. POWER having addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner in an animated speech,
Mr. Justice WILLIA-sts left it to them to say whether they
were satisfied beyond all doubt that the prisoner had set fire
to the building in question.

The jury having deliberated together for some little time,
returned a verdict of Guilty.
George Gaskin, aged 18, was indicted for maliciously set-
ting fire to a barn and other buildings, the property of his
Grace the Duke of Norfolk; the second count laid the pro-
perty to be in Christian Betts, his tenant.
Mr. Prendergast appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J.
H. Mills fur the prisoner.
It appears that the family of the prosecutor consisted on
the 3d of May last of Miss Betts, two maids, and two men,
named Carman and Gaskin (the prisoner), the latter being
his second team man. Attached to the farm is a large bul-
lock-shed, surrounded on all sides by a six feet fence, save
whero access was permitted through a gate from the horse-
yard, which was itself accessible from the back doors of the
dwelling-house. On the night in question Miss Betts, who
had been out "a teeing" with a neighbour, returned home
at eight o'clock, at which time all was safe, and the two men
and women servants were at supper in the kitchen. About
a quarter to nine the prisoner went out for the avowed
object of dressing the shoulders of a sick horse in the yard,
and while absent his fellow-servants combined to shut him
out. The result of this was, that he came into the kitchen
through the "pump back-house door." Just at this period
of time the prosecutor, who was going to bed, discovered that
there was a fire on his premises, and, rushing down stairs,
heard some one pass by him round the corner of the house,
which was in the direct course from the horse-yard to the
" pump back-house yard." The person of this man was not
recognised by the prosecutor, who, passing on, discovered that
the bullock-shed was in flames. Under these circumstances
suspicion fell on the prisoner, the rather that he had recently
been reprimanded by his master for some misconduct touch-
ing the management of his horses, though, at the time
nothing was thought of it. After the fire, however, it ap-
peared that the boy had taken the rebuke very much to
heart, and had expressed an intention of running away.
When the prisoner was taken upon this charge, he said lie
had gone to the yard to dress one of his horses, but it was
shown to-day that he had performed that operation long be-
fore in the same afternoon. 'When the premises were turned
up the morning after the fire, a box of lucifer matches was
found under the ruins of the shed, while it appeared that the
prisoner was in possession of those dangerous inventions both
before and after the fire.

Mr. MILES, having addressed the jury for the prisoner,
The jury, at the close of his Lordship's summing up, found
a verdict of Not Guilty.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Leicester, Aug. 2.
(Before Lord Chief-Justice DENMAN.)
Jana Cobley, aged 49, was charged with stealing, on the
13th of March last, from out of a letter, a Post-office order
for 4/., and also with putting off a forged receipt for the same.
Mr. Sergeant Clarke and Mr. Waddington were the coun-
sel engaged on the part of the Crown. The prisoner was
without the assistance of counsel.

The evidence adduced went to show that in the latter part
of February, or tke beginning of March, the prisoner called
at Belvoir Castle with letters for the Duke of Rutland, Lord
Charles Manners, and the steward, a person named Fletcher.
To the latter person he stated that a Mr. Ward was secretary
to a Society for the Protection of British Industry. The
letters were begging that money might
i betransmitted to the
Society in question, and were proved to be in the handwriting
of the prisoner, though signed " Robert W ard." Fletcher
proved that he sent by the Duke of Rutland's postmaster the
sum of 41. to Grantham. for the purpose of a post-office order
being obtained and sent to Leicester in aid of the fends of the
Society for the Protection of British Industry ; the letter in
which it was contained being directed to Mr. R. Ward, se-
cretary to that Society. The prisoner called at the Leicester
post-office, and inquired whether there was a letter for Mr.
Robert Ward, of Hampden-street. He was answered there
was not, but that there was one for Mr. Ward, secretary to
the Society for the Protection of British Industry. The pri-
soner thereupon said that was the letter he meant; that be
and Ward were well acquainted ; that, in fact, Ward had
married his (Cobley's) sister. The letter containing the
order was then given up.
Robert Ward, who is a laceman, proved that he once lived
in Hampden-street, but now lives in Belgrave-street ; that he
never was secretary to the Society referred to ; or, indeed,
had he ever heard of such an one being in existence. He
further deposed to being a married man, but that he had not
married a sister of Cobley's, nor was he, in fact, an acquaint-
ance or connexion of his.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—Stu ford, Aug 1..
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ACHERLEY.)
John Wardle, aged twenty-six, was indicted for wound-
ing. Edward Palmer Ryan, on the 15th August, 1842, at the
parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, with intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm.
This was a remnant of the many cases tried in this county
during the last two years, arising out of the lamentable riots
which occurred in the Potteries, m the autumn of 1842. It

appeared that the prisoner was one of the mob taking part in
the riots, and the prosecutor, who is a constable, was, present,
endeavouring to restore order, when Wardle approached him
and cried out, " Here's a spy." He then struck him a violent
blow on the back part of the head with what appeared to be
a constable's staff, and the prosecutor fell. His head was cut,
and he was ill fur several days, from the effects of the wound.
The prisoner was not apprehended until April last, when he
was found working at Mr. Wood's pottery, at Burslem, four
miles from Stoke-upon Trent.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to be im-
prisoned eighteen months. There was another indictment
against him for riot, but it was not proceeded with.
William Dexter, thirty-nine, pleaded guilty to having mar-
ried Mary Caufield, at Stoke• upon-Trent, on the 18th July,
1843, his former wife Sarah, to whom he was married at Ruge-
ley, in 1823, being still alive.
The prisoner had nine children by his wife, whom he left
under the impression that he was going to look for work, but
instead of doing so married again, and his family, whom he
left at Walsall, became chargeable to the parish, and were
received into the union workhouse. _ _

The prisoner said his wife would not go to him, and he
could get no employment.
The JUDGE—That's a curious reason for marrying another
woman, and having two wives to keep instead of one.—
(Laughter.)
He was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour.

The case of Beard, for wilful murder, is fixed for to-mor-
row morning.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Chief Justice TINDAL )

HILTON V. EARL GRANVILLE.

At the opening of the Court this morning the hearing of
this cause was resumed by Sir Thomas Wilde addressing the
jury for the defendant, but, contrary to general expectation,
he called no witnesses. At the conclusion of the Learned
Sergeant's speech the Chief Justice summed up, and the jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff' upon all the issues, thus
arresting the work of spoliation and destruction to the pro-
perty of the cottagers. It is said that, unless some arrange-
ment is entered into, there will be at least fifty actions of a
similar kind, now that the Court has decided against the pre-
scriptive right and custom relied on by the noble defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
(SATURDAY.)
A young man named Angystus Halifax was
brought before Sir John Key, in the custody of John
Forrester, the officer, charged with having forged a
cheque for 651. upon the banking house of Glyn and
Co. Mr. Bush, the Solicitor to the Committee of
Bankers for protection against forgeries and frauds,
attended for the prosecution.
Mr. Robert E. Griffith stated that he was cashier
in the banking-house of Sir Richard Carr Glyn and
Co., of :aombard-street. On the 25th of July he re-
ceived at the counter the cheque produced for 651.,
but he did not know from whom. The person who
presented it was a young man, and witness paid it in
four 101. Bank of England notes, numbered from
56,319 to 56,322, dated the 4th of June, and twenty-
five sovereigns, and entered it in the books.
Mr. Edward Western, solicitor of No. 7, Great
James-street, Bedford-row, stated that he banked at
Sir R. C. Glyn and Co's. house. The account was
kept in the name of James and Edward Western, but
each of them signed his separate name only. The
signature was not in the witness's handwriting. The
prisoner had been known to him for some years,
having been a clerk in his office, and he knew the
prisoner's handwriting, and believed the date of the
cheque and the figures to be his writing, as well as the
words, but the latter were disguised. lie produced
his cheque-book, which formerly had the numbers
B 1,198, 1,199, 1,200 in it, but they had been
taken out without his knowledge.
The prisoner (to Mr. Western)—ls the writing in
the body of the cheque at all like my ordinary writing?
Mr. Western—Some of it is.
The prisoner—Produce some of my ordinary
writing that it may be compared with the cheque.
Mr. Bush said the prisoner should have a full op-
portunity of showing his innocence if he had nothing
to do with the forgery.
The prisoner—The writing is not at all like mine.
If my writing is produced the difference will at once
be seen.
John Forrester stated that he apprehended the pri-
soner at half-past ten o'clock that morning in Lon-
don-street, Cadogan-place. The prisoner said he had
a lodging at No. 53, Southampton-street, Pentonville,
and witness went thither and searched the prisoner's
apartment, and found fifty sovereigns in a box. On
the prisoner's person witness found 71. 14s. 4d. in gold
and silver.
Mr. Western said he could on a future day Too•
duce fuller evidence as to the prisoner's handwriting
and other facts.
The prisoner declared that there was no founda-
tion whatever for the charge of forgery. The writing
in the cheque was totally different from his, and he
knew nothing at all about it. lie was then remanded.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. John Bowden, a surgeon employed in mid-
wifery cases in the Aldersgate district of the East
London Union, was brought up in custody, charged
with indecently assaulting a patient, a young Irish-
woman, far advanced in pregnancy with her first
child.
Mr. Bayliss the clerk of the Board of Guardians,
and Mr. Postan, the vestry clerk of Aldersgate, at-
tended the examination.
Eliza Driscoll, who appeared to be about 30 years
of age, stated that, having obtained a letter from the
parochial authority, she went to the prisoner's sur-
gery in Aldersgate-street, on the 20th ult., to com-
plain of indisposition. He gave her some medicine,
and told her to come again, and she accordingly paid
her second visit on the following Wednesday. He
then attempted to put his hand under her clothes,
but she would not allow it. She told her husband,
who said she ought to have submitted, for examina-
tion would better enable him to prescribe for her,
and there was nothing to fear from a respectable me-
dical gentleman. At her next visit for medicine the
prisoner attempted twice to kiss her, but she would
not suffer it,and again told her her husband. Her husband
said he did not think the gentleman meant any harm,
he only wanted to seem kind and gain her confidence,
that she might not be alarmed when he attended her
by and by. On Wednesday last the prisoner came
up to their lodgings at No. 1, Lauderdale-buildings,
Aldersgate-street, and asked her husband to mend his
coat. Her husband took it into the next room to re-
pair, and while he was absent the doctor asked an in-
decent question which she did not understand, till she
repeated it to her husband. He told her to call atthe
surgery next day. On that occasion he pushed against
her several times, and expressed surprise that a little
woman should have become so large. He pulled open
her shawl and kissed her neck, and asked when she
was alone. She said she generally worked in a room
by herself.
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER asked why she told
him when she would be found alone ? She replied,
he put the question and she answered it according to
the truth, that she worked alone in the evening. He
said he would come and see her in the evening.
He came at seven o'clock on Friday evening. He
asked if she was better. She told him she had
a pain in the back. He put his hand under her
clothes. lie told her to sit down on the edge of the
chair, and he knelt down and partly undressed him-
self. When he exposed himself she called him a
villian, and gave him three blows in the face. The
noise brought in her husband and another man, who
were at work in the adjoining room. They saw what
state the doctor was in.
The prisoner, who is a staid looking man, of 45
years of age, declined cross-examining the witness.
Jeremiah Driscoll, the husband, stated that he
heard his wife call out, and found Mr. Bowden endea-
vouring to button up his trousers.
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER asked, if he knocked
the prisoner down or thrashed him well ? The hus-
band said, no.
The Alderman observed, it was a great pity he
had not done so on the instant.
The husband said he was afraid it might cause the
death of his wife if he began to fight.
Michael Murray, a tailor, confirmed the husband's
statement, as to their findir.g the prisoner trying to
button up his trousers.
The policeman, George Russell, said the prisoner
admittel to him that he had been talking foolishly to
the woman.
The prisoner said he did not suppose she would re-
peat to her husband any trifling expression he might
let fall; but much of the latter part of her statement
was untrue. If a button had slipped out of a button-
hole, that was merely an accident.
Mr. Alderman HUNTER, after conferring with Mr.
Alderman Farebrother and Mr. Alderman Challis,
said he had the power to impose a fine for the assault,
but he thought the ends of justice would be better
served, and the public would be better protected, by
requiring the defendant to find bail, himself in 801.,
and two sureties in 401. each, to answer the charge at
the sessions.
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER said he concurred in
this decision. The rich could protect themselves ;
but the poor must be fully protected by the law.
The prisoner not being prepared with the required
bail, was committed to prison.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Messrs. Wessell and Stapleton, music publishers, of
Frith-street, Soho, were summoned before Mr. Hard-
wick, under the Copyright Act, at the instance of Sir
Henry Ellis, principal librarian of the British Mu-
seum, for having neglected to supply.certain copies of
their publications for the use of the British Museum.
In the Copyright Act there is a clause which obliges
publishers to supply, gratuitously, copies of works they
may publish to certain publii institutions, amongst
which is the British Museum. Any party failing to
send these publications regularly is liable to a fine of
51., to be recovered on application to a magistrate.
Mr. Payne attended for the plaintiff.
It was alleged that copies of certain musical pub-
lications—the " Turnarin Quadrilles," and other
works—had not been sent to the British Museum.
Mr. Stapleton, who attended for the firm, put an
end to the necessity for proof of the non-delivery of
the publications, by at once admitting the fact, and
declaring that the circumstance had occurred from no
desire to dispute the right of the trustees of the Bri-
tish Museum to the gratuitous copies of works, but
from inadvertence.

Mr. Payne said it was important to let publishers
know that it was the determination of the trustees of
the Museum to press for the highest penalty against
those publishers who neglected to comply with the
provisions of the Copyright Act ; but in the present
case, as the defendants had pleaded that the omission
was accidental, he should, on behalf of the trustees,
request the magistrate to mitigate the fine.
Mr. HARDWICK inflicted the reduced penalty of 7s.
which was immediately paid.