The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

Average Amount.
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 71,555
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester. . , ... :3,917
York Union Banking Company, York 69,126
York City and County Banking Company, York 85,581
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrai of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, Sept. 20, 1845.

5,820

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SECONDARIES' COURT, Sept. 24.
There was only one case set down for hearing this day, which
was for goods sold ; the case was undefended.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept.. 24.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EVAN 3.)

The Corm was principally occupied in he•ttin' summonses under
the new Act. In one case a judgment-paper -vas produced ; the
judgment had been entered up for the nominal sum stated in the de-
claration, which was above the actual amount of the debt.
The Learned COMMISSIONER refused to adm t it in evi-
dence, and the summons was therefore dismissed, leaving the plain-
tiff to amend the judgment.
In another case, a defendant did not appear, but had sent a letter
to the plaintiff's solicitor admdting the service of the summons, and
offering to pay the amount by inStalments. The plaintiff pressed for
an immediate order.

The Learned COMMISVONER said that the point was, whether he
was not bound to commit hint for not appearing, and should do so
on an 1 affidavit of debt and service of the summons being put in.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Tuesday George Stratford, a man of respectable appearance and
good address, was brought before the Lord Mayor, upon the charge
of having obtained money and clothes from the Rev. Michas
Gibbs, his Lordship's son, under fraudulent practices. 1
Mr. Sturgeon, the principal clerk to the Mendicity Society, at.
tended to prosecute the prisoner.

The Rev. Mr. Gibbs, Vicar of Christ Church, Newgate street,
stated, that on Saturday the 6th of S.ptember, the prisoner called
upon him, and represen'ed himself to be the Honourable Mr.
Stratford; declared that he was in a condition of extreme
want, in fact, next to starving; that he had called upon the
Lord Mayor, but not finding his Lordship at home, he had come
to v itness in the hope of receiving the assistance which would
enable him to go into the service of a Mr. Edwards, of Houn-
slow, at some powder-mills there, whose only ground of hesita-
tiou about forming an engagement with him was, that he had
not better clothes. Witness gave the prisoner cighteenpence,
and told him at what hour he could see and communicate with the
Lord Mayor. On the same evening the prisoner returned to
witness, stated that he had seen the Lord Mayor, and exhi.
bited a five-shilling-piece, which he said he had received from
his Lordship. Witness then gave him a bundle of clothes, con-
sistinz of coat, waistcoat, and trousers. The prisoner said, upon
receiving the clothes, that he should go at once to Hounslow
to secure the situation, and promised to inform witness or the
Lord Mayor of the result of his application for the appointment.
Some days afterwards the prisoner called at the Mansion-house,
an .t stated to witness that he had obtained the situation, but he
stood in need of six shillings, in order to be enabled to remove his
wife to Hounslow. Witness accordingly lent him six shillings,
which he promised to return at the end of the week ; but the
promise was not performed, neither did he make his appearance,
and it was subsequently ascertained that the statements had no
foundation in fact.

William Horaeford, an officer of the Mendicity Society, stated
that he went to Hounslow, to the powder mills, and found that
there was no Mr. Ed yards there. He then called upon Mr.
Car:is, the proprietor of powder-mills in that plate, to make in-
quiry, and was told that there was no such person there, and that
no such person as Mr. Edwards had been known there for twenty-
seven years.

The Loan MAYOR desired to be informed whether the prisone
was known to the establishment of the Mendicity Society P

Horseford replied that the man had been known to the Mendicity
Salley since about the year 1837 ; and added that a begging peti..
tion had been found upon him, and that witness had known him
as an associate of persons who lived by mere begging, and one of
who.n had been lately tried at the Central Criminal Court.

The LORD MAYOR Now, prisoner, what have you to say in an.
swer to this very serious charge ? The prisoner —My Lord, I am
the son of the Earl of Aldborough, the son and heir of that noble.
man, and I have been deserted by my father. I have a wife and
family to support, and I have made every effort to support them.
I have worked in the docks, and at all sorts of menial employments,
and my father, although in the enjoyment of 16,0001. a year, has
wholly abandoned me. What could I do, my Lord Y lam in a
state of utter destitution.

The LORD MAYOR —What you have stated has nothing to do with
the ch irge against you. The charge against you is, that you ob •
tained alms under fraudulent pretences.

The prisoner—I solemnly declare that I em the legitimate son
of the Earl of Aldborough.
Mr. Sturgeon, the clerk to the Mendicity Society, stated that
there was no truth in the assertion of the prisoner, or as to the
legitimacy of his birth. There might be ground for supposing
that he was the illegimate offspring of the Earl.
The prisoner—I am the son and heir of Lord Aldborough, sod
I have been deserted, together with ray two sisters, by my father,
who is now at Doncaster, and has 16,0001. a year clear property.
The Loan MAYOR—You say nothing in explanation of your
statement about the situation at Hounslow ? Prisoner—l admit I
was wrong there. I was guilty of having misrepresented in that
instance, but I can prove that I have worked at the docks, and
that I have been willing to undergo the greatest drudgery.
The officers of the Mendicity Society assured his Lordship that
the prisoner was an incorrigible beggar, and that he was in the
hahit of persisting, with great apparent candour, in whatever
statement he considered best adapted to his object of working upon
the sympathies of the humane and generous people who abounded,
in Landon. As for the idea of labour, it never entered into the
man's imagination for a moment, but he had a wonderful capabi.
lity of varying the circumstances of his fantastic distresses, and
so far could be called industrious.

The Loan MAYOR—I consider the case a very bad one indeed. You
cane to me, and mentioned, in the most plausible manner, certain
circumstances as having occurred which had never taken place.
I relieved what I considered to be your immediate necessities, and
I told you to let me see you again. I then, at your entreaty, let
you have a sovereign, which you said you would return in a week,
but I told you that the repayment would answer at the end of a
month, when your wages at Hounslow would capacitate you to
make restitution. In everything you have acted the impostor.
I know all about it, and I know with whom you went into a pub.
lic.house when you received the money which the recital of your
pretended misfortunes wrung out of me, so that my experience of
your conduct affords an additional argument in justification of the
decision to which I come upon the evidence before me. We have
here abundance of real objects to exercise our pity upon. I con-
vict you as a rogue and vagabond, and sentence you to hard
labour in Bridewell for three calendar months.

The prisoner—What could I do, my Lord P I acknowledge
that I deceived you ; bat what on earth could I do? I am on.
titled to the rank and fortune of a nobleman, and I am coin.
pletely destitute.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar, In bitter terms
ascribing to his parent's unnatural conduct the whole train of his
calamities.

LORD ELDON'S APERIENT PILLS, for
habitual Costiveness, have been the means of positive
cure to many thousands ; they are peculiarly adapted for persons of
both srxcs who are of sedentary habits ; they are patronised by the
nobility and gentry, and are the mildest and most efficacious medi-
cine extant.

Sold in boxes at Is. IM., 2s. 9d , and 4s. 6d., by Messrs
Barclay and Co., 95, Farringdon-street ; Sutton and Co., 10, Bow
Churchyard ; Newberry, 45, and Edwards, 65, St. Paul's; Sanger:
150, Oxford-street; and by all respectable Druggists and Medicine
Venders in the Kingdom : and wholesale, at 13. Great St. Thomas
Apostle, London.