The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-24 00:00:00

LO. DON POLICE REPORT.

MANSION HOUSE.
On Friday last a man of respectable appearance, named Har-
vey, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having
forged a bill of exchange for £3OO. In the course of the inves-
tigation it was proved that a forgery of a bill for £264 18s. had
also been committed.
Mr. Hobler, jun., attended for the prisoner. A solicitor also
appeared for the prosecution.
Mr. Jonathan Chalk stated that he was a bill-discounter, at
Na 16, Change-alley, and in partnership with Mr. Under-
wood. The prisoner was in the wine-trade, and brought to the
house a bill drawn by him upon Mr. Samuel Arboine, of Mark-
lane, purporting to be accepted by Mr. Arboine, for £:300, in
July last. The date of the bill was the Ist of June, 18.33, and
it would be due on the 4th of October. Witness advanced £250
upon the bill. The prisoner on Thursday morning called at the
counting-house and expressed a wish to withdraw the £3OO bill,
offering, at the same time, another bill purporting to be drawn
upon himself by Mr. Arboine for the sum of £264 18s. Sus-
picion was excited by this circumstance, and it was confirmed
by Mr. Arboine's clerk, who denied that the writing was his
employer's. The prisoner had left the bill at the office of the
prosecutor.
Mr. Hobler, jun., requested that his Lordship would remand
the case for a few days, in order to enable the prisoner to make
his defence.
The Lord Mayor.—Prisoner, are you prepared to give an
account of this bill?
Mr. Hobler, jun.—He does not at present wish to say any
thing about it.
The Lord Mayor.—No, I don't think he does. He under-
stands your nod, and he won't say a word, you may depend
upon it.
Mr. Hobler.—He is not obliged to say a word upon the sub-
ject. I hope your Lordship will remand him.
The Lord Mayor.—l'll hear' the evidence of Mr. Arboine
first.
Mr. Samuel Arboine, of No. 21, Mark-lane, wine and spirit
broker, deposed that the acceptance to the £3OO bill was not
his. There was no other Samuel Arboine in Mark-lane, and
witness had never authorized anybody to accept for him. Wit-
, ness also deposed that the writing on the bill for £264 18s. was
was not his.
The prisoner was then remanded.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A question upon the law of affiliation has been decided by
Mr. Chambers at this office, which it is important parish-officers
should be informed of, as the reverse of the decision has hitherto
been held to be, and acted upon, as the law in such cases.
The overseers of St. Giles's brought a person before Mr.
Chambers on Wednesday, for having neglected to pay up the
arrears of £29 which the parish had paid for the maintenance
of an illegitimate child affiliated upon him.
The defence was, that in October last the defendant had taken
the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act, and this, it was con-

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tended, relieved him from the claim of the parish.
The overseers, on the other hand, asserted that the Insolvent
Act could not be pleaded as a bar to the prosecution of their
demand, and Mr. Chambers inclined to that opinion until be
perused a portion of the act, which, after enumerating the lia-
bilities a person became freed from on frrocuringg. his discharge
under the act, expressly included those liabilities incurred in all
civil and ecclesiastical courts.
Mr. Chambers, after considering the tenour of this clause,
said he was of opinion that the Insolvent Act relieved the de-
fendant of just so much of the arrears claimed by the parish as
. was due at the time of obtaining his discharge, but as arrears
had accumulated since that time, he considered that the de-
fendant was clearly liable to the parish for them, and for all
arrears which might accumulate in future. This would reduce
the amount of the claims of the parish to somewhere about £9,
which, if not paid, he should order the committal of the de•
fendant. _ _ . .

The parties retired after this; but the decision of Mr. Cham-
bers having been reported to the vestry clerk of the parish, that
gentleman came to the office for the purpose of showing cause
why the judgment should be reversed. The argument was,
however, directed to stand over until the next sitting day of
Mr. Chambers.