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.CRAIMON comma. _ .
Yesterdai4C4rt of Common Connell was held at
Goildhall.--After several Petitions had been disposed
of, the Port CoMmittee delivered in a Report on the
Memorial of George Bytigt Escls and pthers,..relative to
the intended formation of Collier Docks on the Isle of
Logsp-aid of their wish to purchase the Canal and
ola: for the purpose of.such Dock*, in which the
Committee stated the arrangements that had been made
with the priijertoricof the'measure in that respect.
The Report 'skeane(' to, and".itic Court resolved to
petition 'Parliament ageing cOctaia- parts of the BM aow
in Parliament for Establishing- those Docks, and oleo
against the Bermondsey. Collier Dock Bill ; and Peti-
tions having been prepared aciOdiagly, were adopted
and referred to the Coal and Corn Committee to prose-
cute as they should be advised.
The Thames Navigation Committee presented a Re.
port, recommending that the Bill for making a.Canal
from the ll:ver Kennet to Join the Basingstoke Canal
should be opposed, as greatly interfesing with the in-
terest of the Thames Navigation, which was agreed to:
The Committee for General Purposes presented a Re;
post, in which they recommended that they might be
empowered to lower the -footraY pavessent of 810 L..-
friars Bridge, at an espease of about 600/. . .
The Court directed the Ripen' s(' lie. on 'the table, till
such time as the Surveyor of the Bridge should certify:
that Mr. M'Adam had completed his contract.
' , The sivre Committee also reported, recommending a
inm of 2001. to be subscribed towards the fund in aid
of the distress at Hanover, which was agreed to.
The Improvement Committee presented a Report on
considering the Petition of the Promoters of rte-pro-
posed opening or communication from Holborn Bridge
to the North Road, and stating that measures were in
contemplation to be adopted for an application to Par-
liament, in the nest Session, for effecting the same.—
The Report MIS agreed to.

FORGER Y.
A forgery to the amount of 360 i. has been within the
last few days ei emitted upon the banking-house of
Barclay and Co. Lombard-street. The money was ob-
tained at ihebanking-hoose, we understand, by the fol.
lost-ing stratagem:--.There is a sort of Office in the;
reigh63tahnird of Staple-inn, in which persons who'
want sitoations as clerks, &c. are in the habit of fixing
notices. A lad, who appears.to be about 15 years of
'4ge, posted/me or those notices, stating his age and
carabilities; aid a person, whose address and (lattice
were very gentlemanly, upon looking i ver the list of
" Wants,' desired to see Or. writer of the notice, inti-
,mating that a lad of this description would supply the
place of one in his service, who was not qualified. The
.stranger,-being informed that the lad would lie-at4lie
;Office at a certain hour, called again,' and was satfsfied
with the young man's account at what he wat'ablel to'
do, walked with him into Staple-inn, and stopped at d'
building upon which was painted the name of ". ftir,.
Pocock," (or some such name), amongst. others; sod-
`denly stopping at the entrance of the chambers, the
stranger said, " Oh, by the—bye, I want to send you into
the City—l am in haste. You know the way to Lora.:
bard-street—go to Barclays bank, and bring me the
am unt of this bill." He then took out of a pocket-
book, on the back of which appeared the • name of Po-
,Cock, a bill for 3601. pyrporting to be drawn upon and
accepted by -Messrs. Clarke, Budden, and Co. tea-
dealers, of Sise-lane, and payable at Messrs. Barclays,
where, it appears,' the alleged acceptors banked. On the
back of the bill, also, was writte I the name of Pocock ;
53 that the lad, although surprised at being intrusted
with so Imp a sum before. his new master knew any
fling about his character, dropped all suspicion of the
transaction, and hurried J' to the City, determined to
prove, by dispatch and'correetness, that he would be
an acquisition. He presented. the bill, which certainly:
, was executed with great skill, at the house, received
the amount, and returned to Staple-inn, a here he found
his nsw , master coming dawn stairs, as if' from his
!chambers, accompanied by.a stranger. Instead, host-
aver, of being introduced to the chamberi for the pur-'
pose of handing over the money to his master, 'that'
Gentleman condescended to take it on the landing-
place, where he received seven SOL notes, and the rest
in small notes and sovereigns, and expressed his satis-
faction at the manner in which his fitstsorder was -eie- 1
'cuted. He then told the lad that he appeared extreMily
capable of doing the business for which it was appointed
he should attend to, but objected to his boots, which,'
,he said, should be immediately substituted by a new
,pair. He concluded his approbation and directionsihy
desiring the young man to go to his house, at Nov So,
Bloomsbury-square, and take tea. It was soon fooled
'that no Mr. Pocock lived at Ida 8, Bloomsbury-square,
anl that the Mr. Pocock of Stuple•inn knew nothing at.
all of the person who bed begs lurking about his
chambers. The poor boy, mete frightened at what he
had unconsciously committed to the injury of the
banking-house than disappointed at time loss of a mas-
ter, immediately ran off to birthigle, a Gentleman who
holds a situation in Broad-street, and stated to him the
wholeof the transaction. His uncle forthwith rept*.
'seated isle facts at the banking-house, where, until he
and his nephew applieel, no suspicion Wasfentertained
-thogedeineness of.the bill, whir* proved a forgery
. every part. The ,SW. noes J
were immediately orT
Acted to be stopped at the Bank;, but it is apple-
beaded, that,t the country banking-houses, which aril
..soivir ti Be so sindieut to get bin of Bank of Bar
land paper, facilistot will be rendered, and the notes
will thus get into Immediate cireolistiota.

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ere n no ,in the reportan aeetn or neat,
convict. •
Another Meeting of the London Trades, which was
attended by •aboot silty Delegates-from the manufa*.
',ring districts, at present in Londonyto attend a Com-
Asee of the Home of Commons was held at the Pea.
cock, Whitecross-street, and a Petition' to Parlianient
unaiiinioutly agitedto, praying that no re-enactments
affecting the Combination Latta may take place.
Monday night; the aviary of N. M. Itorascums,
Esq. at Scansion! Hill, containing an extensive col-
lection of rare and valuable birds, was broken into,
and the robbers carmen' off two golden pheasants, sere
,1 Brasil pheasants, Brasil pigeons, &c.
Wmostraiantoilldnasunast—The recent Act for es-
tablishing an uniformity of Weights aid Measures was
intended an take effect on the Ist of May (tamonow,
though a san44l),lfiditappears that many tradesmen
ere still dabtfel oh the point. It is only now necessary
state, Ihat'the'operation of the Act `was,. by a Bill
11%4 this. Seision, of Parliament, deferred. to' the lit
,Allsory, lON, on
-noMant oldie difficolty of complying
PA* the pow oUthei Original Act so. early as •ttest