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gistrar that he died of a paralytic, stroke. I never named
the word " paralytic" to the registrar.
Some other witnesses were eXatnined, without carry-
ing the case further ; and, upon Mr. Alexander's rising
to reply, the foreman said that tTe jury had a strong
opinion on the subject, and that if they were allowed to
confer together for a short time they might probably
save his Lordship some trouble in summing up. After
the lapse of a minute or two,
The Foreman said—We think that the plaintiff has
made out her case, and that the defence has entirely
failed.
A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff, with
5001. damages and interest.
Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY, in answer to an observa-
tion of Mr. Whateley, said,:that he thought that the mere
fact of paralysis being stated to be the cause of death in
the register was a sufficient exculpation of the company
in having instituted these proceedings.—The case lasted
two days.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A young man, named John Tennyson, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged
.with having robbed
Mr. Thomas Dunster. of Gun-street, Spitalfields, of a
pocket handkerchief.
The prosecutor said that as be-was passing through
Petticoat-lane he felt somebody busy about his
pocket, and on suddenly turning round saw his hand-
kerchief in the prisoner's hand. He immediately
collared the thief, but was surrounded by a gang of
fellows, evidently the companions of the man with
whom he was engaged, and if it had not been for the
police, who ran to his assistance, he entertained no
doubt that his life would havebeen endangered, as,
amongst the crowd, he saw several most desperate
vagabonds, and there appeared to be gathered together
about 150 persons.

The prisoner—My Lord, 'the gentleman is all in
a mistake. He happened to fail up against me, and
when I turned about he produced the handkerchief,
and said I had robbed him of it; though I never thought
of such a thing since I was born.
Several of the policemen stated that they had fre-
quently seen the prisoner in the company of thieves ;
and Gooch, the turnkey of the Giltspur-street
Compter, recognised him as a customer.
The LORD MAYOR observed that the prisoner was
just the sort of person who ought to be sent out of
the country.—Committed for trial.
Mr. George Deacon, a person who was said to be
very respectable, was brought before the Lord Mayor
upon the charge of having caused great disturbance
in Mark-lane and its neighbourhood by addressing
the passers-by in the language of Scripture, and dis-
tributing amongst them hand-bills, containing a most
extravagant rhodomontade about his former business
of a farmer and breeder of cows and sheep, and his
present occupation of promoter of the religious ad-
vantages of his fellow-creatures.
The LORD MAYOR asked-ME Deacon whether he
belonged to any business ?—He replied, no. I am
disposed to do nothing but to serve the Lord by "ad-
vancing the interests of his creatures.
The Loan MAYOR—What money have you about
you ? Mr. Deacon—Oh ! I; have as much as I want.
I have twenty sovereigns, at any rate.
The LORD MAYOR--I am told by your uncle that
he has reason to believe that you have a great deal
more.

Mr. Deacon—l have no more than I shall require
to answer my necessities in doing the work to which
the Lord has called me.

. .
The Loan 11.1A.roa—B01.you must know that we
cannot permit such interruptions to business as your
conduct has occasioned.

Mr—Deacon—lf the Lord requires me to do it how
can I, his- humble servant, refuse to obey. Oh, no, no.
-The uncle of the defendant declared that the poor
man was harmless, and disposed to perform generous
actions, and that no doubt he would attend to the
direction of the Lord Mayor.
His LORDSHIP having addressed the defendant in
a very kind and soothing manner, obtained from him
a promise that he would, it' possible, serve the Lord
without preventing his creatures from saving them-
selves.

The defendant, who was supposed to have nearly
1001. about him, then retired in company with his
uncle.

BO TV-STREET.

Charles Lamb Dmvden, lately an actor at Sadler's-
wells Theatre, was brought up, having been reman-
ded, charged with forging and Uttering several bil's
of exchange, purporting to be "drawn on Mr. Thomas
Hagger, and accepted by him:-
The prisoner was the nephew of the person whose
name had been forged. In March last the prisoner
called on Mr. Edward Wells, who keeps an inn near
to Sadler's-wells Theatre, andasked him to cash an
order for 9/. His uncle, he said, allowed him so
much a year, but as hii uncle's pension would not be
due for a few days, he had allowed the prisoner to
draw upon him at a short dtite.: Upon this represent-
ation, the witness cashed the order. When it had
run out he presented it four payment at the address
i mentioned in the order, but t was dishonoured, as no
such person as Thomas Hagger lived there. Upon
this he went to the Surrey Theatre, where the pri-
sOner had been engaged, and there saw him, and told
him that the order had been dhhonoured. Upon this
the prisoner expressed his astonishment, and said he
would take up the order in the course of the day.
He did not do so, and the witness heard nothing of
him until he was taken into custody.
There were several other cases of a precisely simi-
lar nature against the prisoner.'
The old man, the uncle of the prisoner, whose
name he had forged, is upWards of ninety years of
age, tnd is bedridden, having been ill for a consider-
able time. _ .

- Mv, TWTFORD remanded the .prisoner until next
Friday, in order that he might attend at the old man's
bedside to take his deposition. 'lt is, however, much
feared that the old man will not survive until the day.
The prisoner was then Corntnitted on the several
charges of forgery, but was ordered to be brought up
again on Friday next. • •
A respeetably-dresfed young man, named James
Hedge, was brought up in custody of the officer of the
Strand union workhouse, charged' with deserting his wife
and family. and leaving them chargeable to the parish.
Mr. Corder attended to prosecute.
The wife of the prisoner,' a very respectable-looking
woman, who had three children with her, stated that her
husband, until lately, kept a lari,e hotel in Exeter, and
also one in Smithfield. He had; however, becoma bank-
rupt, and he was now passing through the Bankruptcy
Court. Ile left her and her children about six weeks
ago, and was at present living With another woman,
somewhere in the neigUourhood. of Drury-lane. • Ile
had refused to render either his childrtm cr herself any
assigtance, and they had Leen compelled to go to the
workhouse.
Mr. TWVFORD asked Mr. Cordey if he had any proof
that the prisoner was able to support his family?
Mr. Corder said he had no direct proof. The' pri-
soner had asked, in the morning, what would be a suf-
ciant sum to allow his wife, and this might be taken as
proof of ability to support his family.
The prisoner said he had nothing in the world. He
was willing to support his family, but he could not do so
until after his final examination at the Bankruptcy Court
on the 11th of next month.

Mr. TWITORD said there was not sufficient proof be-
fore him of the ability of the prisoner to support his
family.
Mr. Corder said the family should be giren up to the
prisoner at the door of the Court, and if he refused to
take them that he apprehended would be a clear case of
desertion.

Mr. TWYFORD said that course could be adopted.
Mr. Corder said that if the prisoner would come into
the workhouse then the whole family could be passed to
their right parish.
The rrisuner said he would not do this.
Mr. TWYFORD suggested that the parish had better
offer the prisoner work to do, and if he refused to do it,
then he (the Magistrate) would convict
Mr. Corder said he would adopt this course.
The prisoner was then discharged.
CLERKEN WELL.

Mary Anne Gray was charged with stealing 2401, the
property of Mr. Eastwood, a 'tnerchant, residing in
Toronto, in Canada.

It appeared that the prosecutor accidentally dropped a
bundle of Bank of England notes, amounting to the
07? • sum, out of his pocket, 'and that there was no
a* temp whatever at concealment on the part of the pri.
BO' ei, who assisted in restoring the money to the owner.
btu was discharged, and , the whole sum returned to
Mr. Eastwood.

_ A great number of little boys have been recently
brought before the Magistrates of this court, and two
this morning, charged with annoying and endangering
the lives of passengers in the new line of street which
has
Oxford-street
n recently formed through St. Giles'', and called
East. They ensesince themselves behind
some of the old ruins, and throw large quantities of sand,
stones, and other missiles on the -passengers • and the
nuisance has increased to suck. an extent' that the
of
respectable housekeepersthe . neighbourhood ha% e
made repeated representations to the police on the
subject.
They were fined in different penalties, from Is. to ss.
MARY LEI3O.IVE.
Edward Gaggs, a middle aged man was placed at the
bar charged with attempting to cut his wife's throat and
with stabbing her in the arm.
Mrs. Gaggs said her husband had been drinking for
nearly a fortnight, and that he was continually in the
habit of threatening her and using her. Yesterday
morning about ten o'clock while she was cooking some
bacon for his breakfast, he took up a knife and made an
attempt to cut her throat; she, however, stepped back a
few paces to avoid the defendant from carrying his threat
into execution, and received the knife in her left wrist.
The poor creature added, that she had been married to
the prisoner for twenty-five years, that she had had
several children by him, four of whom were alive. She
said she obtained a livelihood by washing, and that she
supported her husband, who would not work, and who,
in addition to ill-using her, was in the habit of selling,
whenever be had an opportunity, the clothes which were
sent to her by persons to be washed. She was convinced
that her husband would murder her.
Policeman, 16 S, said he knew the prisoner. lie vl as
a bad character, and had been convicted at Neivgate.

The prisoner said he did not intend to hurt the Ho-

man ; the knife accidentally fell out of his band, and
cut her arm.
The woman said he was in the habit of throwing
knives and forks at her whilst cooking his meals.
He was fined el., or two months' imprisonment.
•GLULDHALL.
On Thursday the master of the East London Union es-
tablishment attended to explain why he refused to admit
two destitute persons, who were taken to the union as
casuals for temporary shelter and support by the police.
Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB asked the master why he
refused admission to these two poor persons ? The
rr aster said that their casual wards were full. The re-
lieving officer had sent in 49 casuals, and the wards
scarcely afforded them standing room, much less sleep.
ing room. He never refused admission while there was
room.

Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB asked if before he turned
them away he gave them some food, and the means of
procuring shelter somewhere ? The master replied they
never did that.

Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB—The poor creatures must
not be allowed to sink, and he referred to the correspon-
dence between the Commissioners of Police and the
Poor-law Commissioners, dated September, 1837. If
they could not accommodate fifty paupers, the guardians
had better attend to the evil at once. If they had not
made proper accommodation before they had better do
it now. Winter was approaching and would bring an
increase in the number of applicants, and in the neces-
sity of proper relief.
The Alderman sent one of the casuals, a sailor, shiver-
ing with fever, to the hospital, and the master of the
workhouse took charge of the other pauper.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Thursday, a very pretty young woman, about 24 years
of age, named Elizabeth Wilcocks, was placed at the bar,
before Mr. Bingham, charged by Mr. .Dossett, the
relieving officer of the Hackney Union, with concealing
the birth of her male child.
The prisoner, who was exceedingly pale and exhausted,
and allowed to be seated during the inquiry, was, for a
considerable period, in the service of Mrs. Mary Anne,
Walters, a lady residing in the Paragon, Hackney, as
cook. On the morning of the 19th ult., entertaining a
suspicion as to the,pregnancy of the prisoner, the lady
sent for her into the drawing-room, and accused her of
it; the prisoner hesitated, made no reply, and burst into
tears. She was told to quit the house the next night,
but in consequence of a communication being shortly
after made by one of the servants, named Emma Free-
man, to Mrs. Walters, that the prisoner had just left the
water-closet in a greatly altered condition, her mistress
placed herself in the hall, from which she observed the
prisoner standing at the sink in the scullery in a dread-
ful state of debility, and having, on again speaking to
her, received a very faint and confirmatory answer
from the prisoner, Mrs. Walters sent for the
medical at tendant..—arthe family, Mr. Harris,
who found the prisoner seated in a chair in her
bed room. He questioned her thee or four times, hut
the prisoner was silent, and from a cursory examination
of her person, being satisfied that there were strong
grounds for suspicion, he communicated with Mr. Dos-
sett, who placed her in a coach, and had her removed to
the lying-in ward of the workhouse, where she was at-
tended by a nurse, and again subjected to a more rigid
examination by Mr. Harris and the medical officer of the
union. The fact of her recent delivery was now beyond
doubt, and Mr. Dossett, accompanied by Mr. Harris and
a labouring man named William Rose, went to Mrs.
Walters's house to examine the servants' water-closet in
the rear of it. Mr. Dossett procured a light, which he
fastened to a cord, and lowered to the soil, on disturbing
which with a pole he discovered a large linen bundle
beneath the surface, and on turning this bundle over
two or three times a portion of the cloth gave way, and
the face of a child appeared. A ladder was now sent
for and Rose directed to descend and bring the body up,
which he did. It was that of a fine, full-grown male
child, and was wrapped in two pieces of old linen, which
were tied round and fastened with a long piece of quill-
ing net. The child, on which there were not the slight-
est marks of violence, was then washed and carried to
the workhouse, from which the prisoner herself had been
too ill to be removed in custody until yesterday.
Many affecting incidents as regarded the prisoner
came out in the course of the examination, and it was
proved that several articles of baby linen, in a state of
preparation, on searching her boxes, were found in them;
and that, in addition to these, a bundle of the same little
articles was forwarded to the residence of Mrs. Walters
by some friend of the prisoner for her use directly after
the unhappy girl had been removed to the workhouse.
The prisoner, in a scarcely audible voice, said that she
greatly regretted what had occurred; she was taken bad
in the kitchen, where the child would have been born, but
her mistress having directed her to leave it, she was com-
pelled to go to the water-closet, and the birth there took
place involuntarily.
The depositions of the witnesses were then taken, and
the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial.
An old man, named John Bates, full sixty years of
age, carrying on the business of a poulterer in Caroline-
place, West Hackne3s, was charged with an assault, with
intent, &c., upon his daughter-in-law, Jane Jackson, a
girl between twelve and thirteen years of age.
The evidence, which was of a disgusting description,
and wholly unfit for publication, displayed a shameful
degree of turpitude on the part of the prisoner, who
merely offered a general denial of the allegations against
him, and was fully committed to Newgate for trial.