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mitt in the proceedings of the court, and if Mr. Gale and
Mr. Fort would consent to withdraw their respective mo-
tions, he would do the same, and support Mr. Addison's.
Mr. G. Wood begged to observe, that by the plan of Mr.
Addison, a charge of little less than £30,000 a year would be
incurred.

Mr. Gale said he must decline to withdraw his motion.
Mr. Addison said no doubt the charge of the force at the
number he had proposed, and supposing that each constable
cost the county £6O a year, would amount to £30,000, but
that sum would be raised from an assessment of less than 3d.
in the pound on the assessment of the county property as laid
in 1819, and to obtain the protection which would be secured
from the services of the constabulary force, he thought no
serious objection would be urged by the rate-payers generally.
The Chairman then put the amendment of Mr. Addison,
that 500 constables be-the recommended force, and the show
of hands at once declared the support of the court in its fa-
vour. He, however, next put Mr. Fort's amendment for
400, for which only a few hands were elevated, he therefore
declared the amendment for 500 carried.

SALARY OF CHIEF CONSTABLE.
The Chairman next called attention to the subject respect-
ing the salary to be given to the chief constable.
Rev. W. Thursby begged therefore to move that such
salary be.ZBOO a year, exclusive, of course, of those allow-
ances which such officer would be entitled for extraordinary
expenses.
The motion having been seconded,
Mr. Gale said he could not give his consent to a salary on
the scale like that which they had just heard proposed. He
was quite as anxious as any gentleman could be to have the
situation of chief constable filled by a most efficient officer,
but he had no doubt that such a person might be obtained
for much less than the one named ; and acting under that
conviction he would move that the salary to the chief con-
stable be £5OO a year.
Mr. Dawson concurred in the opinion of Mr. Gale, and he
had great pleasure in seconding the amendment.
Mr. Addison then again suggested the propriety of ap-
pointing two officers who should be next in rank to the chief
constable, but above the superintendents, one of whom
should be stationed at Liverpool and the other at Preston.
And he would beg to propose a motion to that effect.
Mr. Foster would second the motion for the appointment
of two chief assistant superintendents, but as to determining
their location, he thought that-should be settled hereafter.
A discussion then arose on the title to be given to two such
officers, at the close of which,
Mr. Addison moved that two of the constables should be
allowed a salary of £2OO a-year each, their duties to be here-
after defined.

Mr. Foster seconded the motion, and the same, after a d:
vision, was carried.

SALARY- OF SUPERINTENDENTS.
Mr. Addison next moved that to each of the petty sessions
divisions, 15 in all, a superintendent should be appointed,
with a salary of £lOO, which, after a short discussion was
agreed to.

Mr. Addison again rose, and suggested that the body of
constables should consist' of three classes, whose salaries
should respectively be sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen shil-
lings per week, exclusive of clothing, and he concluded, by
proposing a motion to that effect.
Mr. .Dawson seconded.
The Chairman then put the motion, and it was carried
unanimously.

ACT FOR ORDERING PRISONS.
The Chairman said there was another subject on the paper,
viz., to consider the Act of Parliament recently passed for
ordering prisons ; as, however, it was not meant to come
into operation until the Ist of January next, perhaps the sub-
ject might be allowed to stand over until the adjourned ses-
sion, which would be required to be held to make the ap-
pointment of the chief constable of the new force. In the
mean time the magistrates who visited any of the gaols in the
county might obtain as much information as possible, and
communicate it to the general body at the sessions to which
he had alluded. These suggestions of the chairman having
met the concurrence of the court, it was afterwards agreed
that the adjourned annual session, for making the chief con-
stable's appointment, and other matters, should be held on
the 30th instant, of which the Clerk of the Peace was to give
the requisite notice to the magistrates of the county.
The Chairman then left the chair, when a vote of thanks
was passed to him for his excellent conduct, and the court
then separated.—Abridged from the Preston papers.

FORGERY ON THE BANK OF MESSRS
ATTNVOODS AND SPOONER.

We announced, in our paper of Thursday last, that a for-
gery had been committed on the banking establishment of
Messrs. Attwoods and Spooner, of this town, by the imita-
tion of their £5 notes. Since then it has been discovered
that a considerable number of the forged notes have been
put into circulation in this and some of the adjoining towns,
more particularly in Wolverhampton and the neighbourhood.
' The forgery was ascertained at Messrs. Attwoods and Spoon-
er's establishment in the early part of last week, and they
adopted instant measures for apprising the various banks in
the town and surrounding districts of the circumstance, with
the view of putting the public on their guard, and of detect-
ing the parties engaged in the fraud. These measures have,
we are happy to say, led to the detection of, it is supposed,
the principal in the transactions, a young man of the name
of Horton, an engraver, respectably connected in Birming-
ham. On Thursday last, Horton, accompanied by another
young man, called at the Aston Tavern, and had some bran-
dy, for which they tendered a £5 note. Mr. Craggs, the
landlord, observing that the name was wet, had his attention
directed more closely to it, and immediately suspected it to
be a forgery. He then went out to consult with a neighbour,
leaving Horton and his companion in the house, who, be-
coming alarmed, immediately decamped. Horton, however,
was soon after secured ; but his companion escaped. On
being taken to the public office, and searched, upwards of
£l5, in sovereigns and silver were found in his possession.
The officers having ascertained his residence to be in Barr-
street, Hockley, at once proceeded to his house, which they
searched, and found, by the tools in his possession, that he
was an engraver by trade, but could discover no trace of the
plate from which the notes had been printed, and which is,
in all probability, destroyed. The prisoner was taken before
W. Beale, Esq., at the public office, on Monday (4th inst.),
when the above facts were proved in evidence. It also ap-
peared that on the same day (Thursday week), about one
o'clock, Horton and the man supposed to be his accomplice
called at the house of Mr. Hailstone, victualler at Gravelly-
hill, where they had dinner, in payment for which they ten-
dered one of the forged notes, and received the difference in
change. The parties also succeeded in passing another of
the notes to Mr. Galey, victualler, also of Gravelly-hill,
where they purchased a quart of brandy. Mr. Suckling, so-
licitor, appeared on the part of the bank for the prosecution,
and Mr. Harding, a clerk in the office of Mr. Berwick, for
the prisoner.—Mr. Dallaway, of the establishment of Messrs.
Attwoods and Spooner deposed that the notes produced were
forgeries ; and the prisoner, under the advice of Mr. Hard-
ing, having declined to say anything in explanation of the
manner in which they came into his possession, was commit-
ted to take his trial at the assizes. During the day, several
tradesmen and others from Wolverhampton were in attend-
ance, and from the statements which they made, it is feared
that the prisoner and his companion succeeded in putting
into circulation in that place between thirty and forty notes
in one day. It is understood that the prisoner will be again
brought up to-day or to-morrow (7th or Bth inst.), when
other charges of a similar nature will be preferred against
him.—Birmingham Herald.

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE ON THE NORTH UNION
RAILWAY.

On Friday evening one of the most wicked and malevolent
outrages that a fiend in human form could contemplate, was
committed upon the North Union Railway, between Preston
and Parkside. It appears as the mail train was proceeding
from Preston to join the Grand Junction at Parkside, when
passing under the second bridge from Preston,, some villain
or villains threw a large stone of about 301bs. weight upon
the carriages. It fortunately happened that the huge missile,
instead of alighting at the top of either of the carriages which
were filled with passengers, fell upon the foot-board under
the guard's seat, from whence it rebounded to the carriage in
advance, the end of which it stove -in with great violence.
The guard was not sitting in his place at the time, otherwise
instant death must have been the consequence. The engine
was progressing with great rapidity, so that the engineer
could not stop in time to give a chance, by returning to the
bridge, of capturing the would-be assassins. A crash was
heard when the stone alighted, but some few minutes elapsed
before the cause was known, when it was found jammed in
between the timbers and the carriage, the drapery in the
interior haying prevented it from falling upon the heads of the
passengers. The stone was brought on to Parkside, (at which
place our correspondent inspected it,) and from thence con-
veyed back to Preston, where, exertions will be made to find
out the miscreants. The guards, engineers, and others con-
nected with the North Union line complain (and not without
cause) that there is a great want of police on the line of road,
as at present there is no protection against outrages, which
not only place their lives in jeopardy, but the lives of the
passengers entrusted to their care. It appears that there is
a sad ruffianly set of blackguards residing upon the line be-
tween Parkside and Preston, the beer-houses at which they
congregate lending no small influence to deeds of crime.
The day previous to this occurrence a large block of wood
m ,
termed " a sleeper," was laid across the rails, which must
inevitably have been the means of upsetting the carriages, if
the man on the look-out had not perceived it in time. On
Monday last, between Wigan and Parkside, a large gate was
placed across the rails in the night, but the engine fortunately
cut through the wood without any injury to carriages or pas-
sengers. It is to be hoped that the directors of the railway
will see the necessity of placing a proper watch upon the line,
and if not, that the new constabulary force, which the magis-
trates have agreed to introduce, may be the means of affording
that protection which the public at present want. The North
Union Railway is one which is much patronised by the no-
blemen, gentlemen, and others from the south of England on
their way to Scotland, and it is much to be regretted that the
directors should not consider the interests of the shareholders
by going tb a little more expense in their arrangements. On
the Manchester and Liverpool and. Grand Junction lines,
individuals are not allowed to walk upon the railroad ; but
on this, we understand, no impediment has been thrown to
pedestrians, whether sober or otherwise.— Wigan Gazette.