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in his schedule, but none of them appeared in opposition.
It was alleged by the insolvent that the debt with the opposing
creditor was contracted at a time when he (the insolvent) was
under age, and that many of the articles supplied were not actual
necessaries, and that the charge had been much beyond their actual
value.

The Court held that there was no grounds for remanding the
insolvent, and he was consequently ordered to be discharged
forthwith.

ASSIZE: INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, March 9.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
James Lewis, 23, Joseph Double, 32, William Chappell, 22, Sa-
muel Bennett, 21, John Taylor, 25, and William Twaitss, the last
mentioned prisoner being a gamekeeper to Lord William Paget,
were indicted for having feloniously entered the preserves of John
Dickenson, Esq., at Nustley, armed with guns, and in search of
game, and also with violently assaulting John Parker, a gamekeeper,
and other persons.

The Jury found all the prisoneas Guilty, and Mr. Baron Alderson
sentenced Twaites, Chappell, Double, and Lewis to be transported
Cur fifteen years, and Taylor and Bennett were ordered to be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for two years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The LORD MAYOR stated that he felt very great pleasure in pub-
licly-mentioning that he had received the following communica-
tion from some gentlemen at the west end of the town, who had
interested themselves most humanely and actively for the benefit of
the distressed people of Spite Meld, :
" My Lord,—The Secretary and two of the Committee of Trades.
men, at the west end, have exerted themselves to get up a ball, in
aid of the Rinds collecting for the distressed Spitalfields' weavers,
which took place at Willis's Room•, King-street, St. James's, on
Tuesday, the 22d of February, and well knowing the interest your
Lordship has taken in their behalf, have taken the liberty to wait
upon you to solicit your kind advice as to the method it will be
necessary to adopt for the distribution of the proceeds, viz.
163/. Os. 6d..—Awaiting your Lordship's reply, we are, my Lord,
your obedient, humble servants,
" H. P. PORES, 3, Spier-street, Leicester-square.
" EDWARD J. CUTLER, 8, Hanover-street.
" P. FIRMIN, 153, Strand."
The money was forthwith transmitted to the Committee.
Richard Hitchcock, who was last week charged with having de.
frauded Mr. Hinton, formerly of the house of Taylor and Hinton,
Queen.street, Cheapside, of various sums of money, amounting to
upwards of 1,0001., under the pretence of carrying on a suit in
Chancery on behalf of a man who had strong claims to an enor.
-mous_ property, was brought up for final examination,
Mr. Bozon attended as solicitor for the prosecution, and Mr
Pelham appeared for the prisoner.
The prisoner, who is the husband of Mr. Hinton's wife's mother,
applied. as was stated upon the first examination, to the prosecutor
to advance the means of carrying on a suit in Chancery for a man
named Walls, who resided at Ingatestone, he (prisoner) well know-
ing that the business had been long terminated, and the proseutor,
put upon his guard, continued to supply the cash required
by the prisoner, who regularly pocketed it. and made his dupe be-
lieve that the case had been decided in favour of. Wall, to whom
hundreds of thousands was to be handed over, and also was to re-
ward most liberally the kind individual who had supplied him with
the means by which success had been secured:
Sir Chapman Marshall, who presided when the first examina-
tion took place, remanded the prisoner, in order that Mr. Taylor,
of the firm of Shaw and Taylor, solicitors, might be called upon to
attend, to give evidence upon thesubject.
Mr. John Taylor attended accordingly. The witness stated that
the prisoner brought a man, whom he represented to be a Mr.
Wall, to their office in Feachurch.street, and said that Mr. Wall
was entitled to several hundred thousand pounds, and had been ad.
vertised for a few years before in the public papers. The prisoner
then expressed a wish that witness would take the business in
hand. Witness desired to see the advertisement, and after having
seen it, called upon Messrs. Teasdale and Simes, of Fenchurch.
street, solicitors, who had put in the advertisement, and was in.
formed by them that it was all at an end. Witness then returned
to the office, and told Mr. Wall, in the presence of the prisoner,
that he had better go home and till the ground, for there was nn.
thing for him. This occurrence took place, to the best of witness's
recollection, in 1839; but he had taken no memorandum of it
whatever. He was however sure that the prisoner heard him tell
Mr. Wall the result of the inquiry. He never afterwards saw the
prisoner.

In answer to Mr. Pelham, the witness said that a person, whom
he believed to be Mr. Hinton, called upon him about, as well
as he could remember, twelvemonths ago, and spoke to him on the
subject, and his answer was that he had nothing to do with any
property of the kind described, and that he knew uothing of any
such property. Witness did not hear that Mr. Hinton had ad.
vaneed large sums of money for carrying on equity proceedings.
Mr. Pelham said it appeared from what had been stated in the
course of the examinations which had taken place, that the prose-
cutor had advanced money to the prisoner even after the interview
had taken place with Mr. Taylor.
Mr. .Hinton said there was no foundation for stating anything of
the sort.

• In answer to a question from Mr. Boson,
Mr. Hinton said that he was induced to draw his money from his
bankers, and hand it over to the prisoner, in consequence of that
person's solemn assurances that all was right, and that the immense
property was becoming, and at last did become, the property of Mr.
Wall, He was sorry to say that the prisoner's wife joined in car-
rying on the deception.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
MAKING AWAY WITH • BENEFIT SOCIETY'S FUNDS,-Yesterday,
Robert King, late landlord of the Blue Bell pnbaie-houre in Bell-
court, Long-alley, was re-examined before Mr. Baouotreosr, the
silting Magistrate, upon a charge of making away with upwards of
70/, the monies of a benefit society called " The Independent ;"
which is termed a " Birminghara".Society, the members of which
contribute a certain sum weakly for mutual benefit, and at the end
of each year make an equal distribution of the funds in hand.
The accused had since the first examination been out on bail, his
own recognizance in 2001. and two sureties of 1001. each. Mr
Doane, barrister, was retained for him, and Mr. Hurst, solicitor
conducted the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, himself a member of the society in question (and
of other societies, held at his house), was charged under a clause of
the act 10 Geo. IV., c. 56, which, if an officer or member, or other
person connected with a benefit society, fraudulently get possession
of monies belonging to the society, or having possession of such
monies and unlawfully appropriate them, empower a magistrate
upon proof and conviction, to order him to pay double the amount,
and in default, to commit him to the House of Correction for three
months.
The case in hand had evidently excited intense interest, and in
the course of the discussion various points were raised of the utmost
importance to Benefit Societies generally.
The facts already proved were the foil swing ,
The officers of the society had been in the habit of handing sun-a
of money to the prisoner to be by him conveyed to Messrs, Meux
and Co., the brewers, who paid 5 per cent interest upon monies de
posited in their hands. and the prisoner's signature in the Society's
book was taken as proof of his having so deposited the mo-
nies. Some time since, however, it was discovered that he had
not deposited with the brewers upwards of 79/. intrusted to him
last year for that purpose, although he had so entered it in the
book. When called to account for this by Mr. Clarke, one of the
Trustees, the prisoner told him not to be uneasy about the d---
money, which he promised should be forthcoming at the next
meeting night. The day before that meeting took place, however,
be left the house, and was succeeded in the business by his father-
In.law. Last week he was apprehended in the City, and taken he-
fore the Lord Mayor, who sent him to this Court in custody of a
City policeman. Mr. Clarke, the Trustee and the Secretary, also
proved the receipt of the monies by the prisoner, and his entries in
the books.
Mr. Shurg, Megan. Meux and Co.'s cashier, attended with his
books, and proved that the prisoner had not paid any such sums of
money to their house in 1841, nor any sums in fact since 1839.
• The Learned Counsel for the prisoner pointed out that the
Acta relating to such societies specified the way in which their
monies was to be invested, namely, in " Public Securities," and
not in private hands, and made other provisions which had not
been complied with, and he stated other objections which, how-
ever, were disposed of at a former examination, and the case
, was 'theu, adjourned for further proof of the enrolment of the
society, and production of a certified copy of the rules.
Yesterday Mr. Clarke produced a copy of the rules, the same
which had been returned to the Society after enrolment, with a
certificate written upon it by the Deputy-Clerk of the Peace, au-
thenticating it as a true copy of the rules which had been ap-
proved by the Justices in Session, and placed on the rolls of the
Court.
Mr. Domse observed, that this was a printed copy, and not a
transcript of the original in writing, such as, he condended, the law
required. The 4th section of the Act to which he referred stated in
exact terms that previously to enrolment, a transcript fairly
written on paper or parchment, signed by three members of the
society, and countersigned by the Secretary, should he taken to the
barrister.at-law, appointed for that purpose, who, after finding them
unobjectionable in law, should give his certificate to that effect, the
rates to be then forwarded to the Clerk of the Peace, and npon
approval by the Justices, to be put in the rolls of the Court, and;the
Clerk of the Peace was then required to write his certificate upon
a duplicate copy provided by, and to be returned to, the society.
By a subsequent section, it was enacted that a transcript, a true
copy, examined with the above, and proved to be a true copy.
sheet, be received as evidence in any case. He submitted that a
manuscript was what was required, and not a printed copy.
Mr. Hunt contended that a transcript did not necessarily mean
a manuscript, and that the copy produced was sufficient evidence.
The copy had originally been sent, as repuired by Mr. Tidd Pritt.
the barrister, who gave his certificate, and atterwatds tiled by the
Clerk of the Peace, upon approval by the Justices„ and here was
produced the copy which had been retureed to the Society from
the Session, with the written certificates of the Deputy-clerk of
the Peace. An adverse decision in this case was to place no less
than 600 societies in jeopardy, for their proceedings were the same.
Mr. BROUGHTON, finding the matter to be of such serious im.
portance, adjourned the case for a week, and the defendant was ad.
milted to bail as before.
The Solicitor informed the Magistrate that if the prisoner should
be discharged from this, he should next week have to prefer a fresh
charge against him, of making away with a still larger amount of
money belonging to another Society that had been held at his house.
BOW-STREET.
A good-looking girl, about twenty years of age, very meanly
clad, who gave the name of Ann Tod, was placed at the bar Wader
the following rather singular circumstances :
A Gentleman, whose name was not mentioned, but who stated
that he was a Corn.chandler, residing at No. 13, Drury.latie, said
that yesterday morning about seven o'clock, his servant informed bins
that there was a woman up-stairs in one of his rooms; he
immediately ;Proceeded up-stairs to the second floor front room,
where he saw the prisoner lying under the sofa. He asked her how
she came there, and she replied that she did not know, but that
she got in on Tuesday night. There were a good many valuable things
about the room, but he did not observe that any of them had been
touched or moved out of their places. It was very likely that she
might have get in on Tuesday, as the same dour which leads into the
shop communicates with the dwelling-house; but witness does not
think that she could have got out again the next morning without
having been seen.
The girl, in her defence, stated that she lived at Grove-place,
Mile-end, and that she was very sorry to have been found in such
a predicament, but having been out with two or three people, she
had partaken rather too freely, and had indulged in " pota.
dens pottle deep," which took a strange effect upon her,
and caused her to feel so stupid and drowsy that
she did not know but that she wag at home; she knew she lived up
two pair of stairs; up two pair of stairs, therefore, she went, and
not knowing the difference between the snugly furnished apart.
ments (gibe worthy corn-chandler and her own no doubt miserable
habitation in Grove.place, Mile-end.road, she ensconced herself
under the sofa, and there, undisturbed by the cares of this
sublunary world, unconscious alike to joy and sorrow, she laid her
down and resigned herself into the arms of Murphy. These, the
girl stated, were the facts of the case. She had no intention what.
ever—oh dear not the slightest in the world ; how could she?—
of meddling with the prosecutor's property; and if the Magistrate
would only forgive her this once, she would warrant that such
another mistake should never occur again.
Mr. JARDINE remarked that her tale appeared very improbable,
though it might be true. The fact, moreover, of there being cots.
siderable property in the room, and none of it having been touched,
was strongly in her favour, and as the was not known to any of the
police, he should discharge her this time; but he reminded her, that
if ever she were brought tip again, charged with any similar offence,
this would be remembered against her, and she might depend upon
it that she would not escape so easily.
MA RLB OR 0 GH- STREET.
Mr. Magisttate, on taking his seat on
the benchHlß yesterday,cllt,th e
mentionedpresin that ho had just received by
post four communications from benevolent persons, who, however,
ldg
did not attach their names, each inclosing a sovereign for the as.
• sistance of Mr. Annesley. The amount of subscriptions received
I at this office is now 271. 10,5