The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-10 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

William Hayden was brought up yesterday for final examin-
ation before Mr. Alderman Brown, charged with forging a
check on Messrs. Praed, the bankers, for :OW.
Mr. Flower conducted the prosecution, and called
Mr. Davis, a newspaper vender in Bfoad-street, St. Giles's,
who stated that the prisoner had lived in his service about four
years and a half, boarding and lodging M the house, and receiv-
ing ss. per•week. On the 15th of June he gave the prisoner
his banking-book to carry to Messrs. Praed, in order that it
Might be made up, and by referring to -this the prisoner ac-
quired the knowledge that there was a considerable balance
in his favour. The prisoner delivered the book correctly, and
on the following day (Sunday) he went out to see his friends.
He did not return at night as usual, but this circumstance ex-
cited no suspicion. Being still absent on Wednesday morning,
witness became alarmed, and sent to the banker's for his book,
when he discovered that the prisoner had forged a cheek for
.C3OO, which had been cashed on the Monday. It purported to
be drawn in favour of W. Parker, and was' dated the 15th of
June. The blank had been extracted from witness's check-
book, but he did not know what opportunity the prisoner had
seized to cut it out. Ile was positive it was written by the
prisoner.
Mr. Alderman Brown asked if the imitation was good.
Mr. Davis said it was. Indeed, if the imitation of his signa-
ture had not been very, close, the bankers would have detected
the forgery. Some weeks etre:wards he received intelligence
that the prisoner had been apprehended at Cork, where he bad
assumed the name of Smith.

Mr. Mill, who attended for the prisoner, asked if' Mr. Davis
had not authorised the prisoner to draw a check?
Mr. Davis replied "Never."
Mr. 'iomalin, from Messrs. Praed's, proved the payment of
the check on the 17th. He could not iuentify the pristine' as
the party who presented it.
Mr. ,'lower pressed the magistrate to remand the prisoner
again tor a iveek, by which time he expected to hear .of the ap-
prehension of the utterer of the check, who was known.
Mr. Hill, on the other hand, prayed that the prisoner (who
made no defence) might be now disposed of.
Mr. Alderman Brown said if the
.prisoner objected to be
remanded, he was bound to take notice of it. •As the charge
had been completely made out, there was in fact no ground for
postponing the commitment. Nothing justified remanding a
prisoner but the prospect of aiding the ends of justice; but
here there was a possibility of defeating the ends of justice,
supposing a witness to die.
.ihe prisoner was accordingly committed for trial.

RIGHTS OF .PROPERTY.
We copy the following letter from Felix Farley's
Bridol Journal :

7 mu. 29 day, 1833.
"Respected Friend,--The following extracts are from a His-
tory of the 'fimes of the Great Rebellion, which, as thou well
knowest, ended in beheading the monarch, and overturning the
English Constitution in Church and State. The Jamaica
planters, whose petition to be heard by counsel at the bar of the
house was recently so contumeliously rejected, may perceive
how in a reformed and a rebellious Pat liament the rights of pro-
perty are equally set at nought. Those who have been sur-
prised and disgusted with the infirmity of purpose, and base
servility of the reformed House of Commons, in its repeal and
headlong revival of the Malt Tax, will find a happy pl-ecetient
of like vacillation in its rebellious predecessor of Mil .1 am
thine' respected friend, A QUAKER (for my property).
"'1 he llouse of Commons having now entered upon the de-
bate of taking away the whole government ecclesiastical by
bishops, Deans, and Chapters, together with all their revenues,
several members of the house being friends to the hierarchy,
moved that no man's freehold might be taken away in parliament
without hearing them first speak for themselves; whereupon the
whole committee imposed the task upon Dr. llacket, and or-
dered that he should meet them on the morrow morning, pre-
pared to speak as the advocate of the Church of England, in
the behalf of Deans and Chapters." '
{Here follows the speech,
"In the afternoon it was put to the question, and carried by
many votes, that their revenues should nut be taken away; yet
not long after, in THE SAME SESSION, after a most UNPAHLIA-
MENTARY MANNER, they put it to a semol tote, ndltoat a
second hearing, voted the contras y. And 'MOW all

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