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the Walsall Bank. The prisoner and Thompson were in the
house, and he paid the £95 to Looney, remaining accountable
to Follows for the £5 retained by Mr. Rotheram. By Mr. Da-
venport.—He had nu-conversation with Looney. , He was per-
fectly sure that the prisoner-was. the man. By Mr. Hall,—He
(witness) did not notice the number, but he requested Rotheram
to .notice it. He said he could not attend to it, as he was busy,
but he requested Rothoratn " to rake the dimensions. of it."
Mr. Rotheram stated, that he was a timber inerch‘int, at Bir-
mingham. On the 9th December he went to Mr. Birch and
asked him to lend him £5 for an hour or two. Mr. Birch. said
he could not, but if he would get change for a £lOO bill he would
be accountable for £5. He undertook to get change. His wife
usually posted up his accounts for him. He took the note home,
and read it to his wife while she made a record of it. He after-
wards compared the memorandum with the bill. Witness pro-
duced the Memorandum and read " No. '2910, £lOO, Batik of
Manchester, dated Ist August, 1835, payable on demand to
Joseph Dennison, Esq., drawn by W. Whittenbury. Received
from Jas. Birch." Witness sent Mrs. Rotheram to the Borough
Bank of Birmingham and told her to pay iii £2O and receive
the balance. She went, and brought hack £SJ, in sixteen £5
notes of the Bank of Walsall. He paid those with'some other
notes, including a Bank of England note for £lO, making the
amount £95, to Mr. Birch.
Mrs. Rotheram stated that sbe received the bill from her
'husband and took it to the." WO-rough Bank, where she paid it,
leaving in the-bank £2O- and receiving sixteen £5 notes of the
Bank of Walsall. She gave the notes to her husband. She
made the memorandum of the note, and compared it with the
note afterwards. _ _

Mr. Goode, of the Borough Bank, stated that he received the
note in question from Mrs. Rot heram. He placed it in the
local drawer, and it was sent to London that night, but not by
him. Mr. Goode examined the note, and identified it. He
could recollect it well, because he had no other note of the
Bank of Monchester at that time.

William Wrighton stated that Mr. Goode gave him the note
from the drawer to copy. The witness read the copy, which
tallied exactly with the bill. He put it amongst the rest of the
notes on the desk and left it for his employer to enclose and
send to London, but he could nut say whether in a parcel or in
a letter.

i 1 r. 'Tomlin proved that he had received from the prosecutor,
in this town, on the Ist December, £3OO in Bank notes of £lOO
each. One was No. 84-16. Bank of England, for £lOO, dated
London, 30th October, 1837; another No. 14,367, Bank of
England, fot £lOO, London, March 2,1; and the third No.
2780, Bank of Manchester, for £lOO, Manchester, August 1,
all 1837.
Mr. Joseph Richards stated, that he kept the Royal EXchange
public-house, in Birmingham. On the 9th of December the
prisoner and Thompson dined at his house. After dinner they
went out. They came back at six o'clock: :.Looney had a horse
with him,.and requested him (witness) to put it up for him in
the stable, which he did. The prisoner owed 'him £1 lls, for a
cask of ale which he had sent to Liverpool. He changed three
£5 notes of the Walsall Bank, and paid him. He (witness)
saw a Bank of England note in the prisoner's hand and a roll
of bills. _ . .

Mr. Dowling produced the note. On the 29th December he
received-,t that note from the Bank of Manchester. Ile made
application for the note, stating the number and date, and found
that they had received it from London. They cancelled the
bill and entrusted it to him.

Mr. Harrison and Mr. Whittenbury were re-called and re-
examined by Mr. Hall, touching the possibility of two notes of
one number being issued on the same day. Both those gentle-
men stated, that it was imposSible.
Bradshaw, an inspector of pollee, stated, that information
having been received that Looney had changed a bill for £lOO
in Birmingham, in the purchase of a horse, he, by direction
from Mr. Dowling and Mr. Whitty. went to inquire into the
circumstances. Having discovered sufficient to throw suspicion
on the prisoner, he proceeded to search him. Bradshaw de-
tailed the circumstances of his pursuit, and stated, that he at
length found him at a tavern called the Brockles Arms, some-
where in the vicinity of Biemingham. It was on Christmas
night when he found the prisoner. He was in the midst of a
convivial company, and was stretched on three or four chairs
near the fire quite at his ease. He told the prisoner that he
"was wanted," and the latter, who perfectly ,understood the
meaning of this significant phrase, sail, " wliat for." Brad-
shaw told hint. The prisoner said he had nothing whatever to
do with the £lOO note. It was• Thompson's. Thompson bought
the horse, and paid him £l5 which he owed him, He brought
him to Liverpool and lodged him in Bridewell. On the follow-
ing Wednesday the prisoner sent for.him, and told him that he
might as well tell the truth. • The note had been given to him
by a person, and Thompson had snatched it'from him. The
witness was examined by Mr. Davenport, as to the reason why
he had not. taken Thompson. Bradshaw said be went in pur-
suit of Thompson, when he accidentally saw him on the road,
about five It ilea from Birmingham. Thompson was on horse-
back, and he (witness) was in a gig. The former galloped off
when he saw him, and he pushed on in pursuit of him. In the
race the gig was overturned, and the fellow got away.
Mr. HALL, after some consultation with Mr. Dowling and
Mr. Shuttleworth, said, be should send off for another witness
from Birmingham, who would furnish another link to the evi-
dence.. The witness would probably arrive on the
.following
day. In the mean time the prisoner was remanded.
M r.•IIA LI, turned to the prosecutor, and, addressing him by
name, said —" You see, sir, the enormous expense to which
your egregious folly has subjected the public purse. You are
aware, sir, 'that I know every circumstance of the case, and I
must tell you that I feel perfectly disgusted with your conduct.
You ought to be perfectly ashamed of showing, your face in
socrety. There is an enormous expense incurred by your con-
duct, and i only wish I had authOrity to make you pay every
shilling."

COURT O,F PASSAGE.
LIABILITY OF SHERIFFS' OFFICERS AND THE SERGEANT AT

MACE
EVJRARD V. ROSCOE

This.was an action brought against Wm. Stanley Roscoe,
the Sergeant at Mace, for an alleged escape and nevject of
duty of one of his officers, in the arresting of James Moore, a
horse-dealer. . • . . .

It was stated by the learned counsel for the plaintiff, that the
constitution of the office of Sergeant at Mace is similar to that
of Sheriff. Two bailiffs are appointed by the former, and their
appointment is similar to that of sheriff's officer,-es they have to
give a bond to the Serjeant at Mace in o similar manner, in
order to indemnify the Serjeant at Mace in case of any loss or
misbehaviour on their parts. The names of these two borough
bailiffs are Henry Hilton and William Kirby, the latter being
in point of fact the real defendant in the action.
It appeared that James Moore, an Irish horse-dealer, was in
the habit of putting up at the-house of Mrs. Mary Bat tley, who
kept a public-house, the sign of the Ship Launch, in Key-street.
Doting the period
.of his stay at this house he was arrested for
the amount of a horse license. He borrowed the money to pay
the debt front Alm Bartley, and thus became indebted to her,
including the amount of board and lodging, £26. 19s. 3J. Mrs.
Bartley died in 1837, and in her hooks the above debt appeared
recorded against Moore. As the executor had applied several
times for payment, without effect, he determined to arrest him.
The plaintiff having received information that Moore was com-
ing to Liverpool with some horses in September last, he went
down to the pier with a friend and met him, when he demanded
the money. As the answer he received was unsatisfactory, a
writ was issued against Moore for the sum. It was given to
Kirby, and he had orders immediately to follow Moore down to
the Mitre Inn, and arrest him, as he was going to leave the
town. Kirby said he would follow as soon as the writ hail been
entered; hut he did not follow ut all but sent his roan, who fail-
ing to find Moore at the Mitre followed to the Black Bull and
through the markets, without better success. At length they
found him at the Black Bull, but he knocked downthe plaintiff,
who attempted to detain tOtn, and ran out of the house followed
by Kirby's man, Dockett. He took. Moore in the Haytnarket,
but he escaped from him. After searching for him till half-past
ten o'clock, Duckett refused to try any further. He took the
writ to Kirby, and told him what had occurred. The latter
abused the Man and pushed hint out of the house.
The learned Assessor in the course of this trial, remarked
that there was no excuse for an officer pleading that he had nut
sufficient hands, as the public were not to lose their chance of
arresting for such frivolous excuses.
The juts' returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages—
£26. 18s. 31 Attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. Pedder.

THE INSTITUTION SOIREE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIPERPOOL ST./IND./IRD.
DEAR Silt,—My sister Emily and I have just returned from
the Institution Soirtl,e, and now that we have -sent away our
maid, and got our house done up, and all things comfortable,
we are determined before we go to bed to give you our own little
account of the proceedings; but you must be sure not to print
any thing we say about ourseles, but just work it alt over
again, as if it was out of your own head, only you cannot be
supposed to Understand these things as well as we do.
Papa promised to take us about a week ago, and Emily and
I were to be dressed alike, that is, not quite exactly, because
dear Emily is a year younger than I am, and is not out yet, but
we both wore pink dresses and our hair was braided alike, but
still there was a difference, and the beauty of it is, that you
could dot find it out. Mademoiselle Athalie declared wo were
"Mises a vavir," and you know her authority cannot be dis-
puted.
It was rather late when we arrived, for Papa got into an ar-
gument about that odious Canadian war, that took all the officers
from the Chester ball, and we had great ,difficulty in getting
into the lecture room, and were quite too late to hear Mr.
Walker's address, which we were very sorry for, for he is a very
nice man, and a good conservative, and had ou -a very • nice
• waistcoat and kid gloves, and looked just as a gentleman ,ought
to do, and so did Mr Brooks Yates, only he' wore au ugly
larOtyn silk cravat with pink stripes, which you may just hint
does not become him.
Next to these gentlemen, the principal persons there appeared
to he two aldermen, who sat beside each other on the steps, and
seemed very affectionate to each other, and I was told their
names were Barclay and Coglan. • Mr. Barclay is not a nice
man at all, and he stared at us with a lorgnette, and I thought