The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-21

sor psmed Bsddoms who Is charged with having con-
mittsd several forgeries In this town. The srcum-
stances OF the have already appeared In the Man.
chester papers. Bsddome Is person moving in = re
spectacle sphere, has lstteriy gone under the
sumed names Of De zburst, Bell, aud Lee For some
time back 1t has been the practice Of Irish aud other
emigrants 10 the United states to remit suuas OF ~
to th'ir relatives in Ireland I'D Liverac 81, which
Ia done by sending orders or draft hare hv
emigration agenf having corrs. IS ia New York
who re nit orders TO thai effect About two months
back numosr Of such orders were forwarded by the
packet ship Roecius, in which vessel Beddome was
passenger Several of the orders were subsequently,
missing, and it was supposed they must have hse ab
stracted from the mail bag by Bsddoms, as he pre-
sented two Of them for payment in this town,
and received the money The orders made psya-
BILE only to certain persons, whose names men,
toned, and the delinquent must lave forged the
names Of such parties before hs presented them for
payment This 1t Is supposed he has carried to a
considerable extent. On the discovery of the fraud,
officer MT. early Thursday, from Liverpool
to Manchester In search of Bsddome, taking With him
person who, it was expected would be- abe TO iisn-
ty him. After obtaining the assistance OF OF the
Manchester police. they proceeded to he Spread
Eagle in Hanging dit CHI where they the individual
suspected to be Beddome but the person who TO
have ide ntiAed him unable do with certainty,
AM he was, consequently not apprehe aided Bsddome
followed through several streets In but
ums tey disappeared, and further traces could at
that time DO discovered At the Spread Eagle he passed
under the name Of MIR J. s. Bell" On Inquiry
it was ascert aimed that Beddome residing In
Sandy lane, Bowden, under the assumed name of
8 Dewhurst," and the officer from Liverpool having
returned for fresh Instructions, proceeded again To
Mau sster Saturday with the OF person who
| had paid money orders to The delinqueat and
| could identify him Accordingly on Saturday after
noon they proceeded to Bowden but found that Bed
dome had fed. The house searched, and teveral
orders similar to those alluded to, found, ao
stick OF peculiar make identified as having been
possession of the who drew the money orders
at Liverpool All trace OF the fugitive again lost
| until Sunday night when it ascsrtsined tn a
person Answering his de scrpton had gone TO Stock
| port thence to Wmslow. where he stayed all night
afterwards to the railway station where he took
his fare for London, and proceeded by tie train
| Monday morning An cficer was des patched from
Manches in pursuit but he could not be- traced be-
yond Wimslow. His strange ner, and the desire
he evnced to conceal himself from public gaze at
tractsd the attention of several persons where he
stopped Who had Suspicion that all was ot right 1t
is suspected there is another charge against Beddome
! On Wednesday last, young man named NJ 'Cormack,
| wan brought up at the Borough curt, Manchester,
charged with being concerned in forging cheQue for
1881 lbs the bank Of Sir Benjamin Hey wood and
Co., purportins to be signed by Du Fay aud Co. The
prisoner said he received the cbeque from Mr. Lee at
the Palatine Hotel, whom he waited in to
advert ement OF his for assistant book. keeper.
and further inquiries left little doabt that the
describing himself Lee the identical Bedd ONE,
Of whom she police bad beer in such active pursuit 1t
isknown that Beddone recently returned from Ameri-
and lattery appeared to be in possession OF large
amount of ready cash which he expended libersy for
various purposes Beddome formerly tachios
but had shaved them off and this having mserie y
altered his appearance, is supposed to have been the
to identify Handicapped Paper.
INrANrIcIDE IN CHINA.It appears from the evidence
Of Mr. Smith, an American missionary, that the prac-
tice infanticie in China spoken Of by travel
lers really exists This cruel custom obtains, no
ever, among the poorer classes only, and the victims
exclusively girls. In place called Kean Yngch DO
in the province VI Fokien five days from Canton there
said to be less than six hundred nti-
cdes per month The reason why this barbarous prac
tice does not exist in Canton lie, that this city
tains foundlng where at least 900 fem lie
infants Of the poorer Glasses received annually.
MIR. Smith found in the neghborhood Of Annoy, that
out OF Xix girls there generally sacrificed some
times four, occasionally ve the number indeed vary
ing with the poverty of the parents The child Is
morally killed mme dately after birth, either by pung
ing it into water or by srangliDg it, or closing its
mouth and nostrils with wet rag placing little
rice in its mouth If in a family boys and girls are
born alternately, this Is as good sign nd
from being approved by the whole Community 1t is
to be hoped that long this practice will
have been stigmatised by public opinion to be
altogether abandoned Mr.. Smith does not say how
the authorities view these proceedings.
CuBAAN CoAL.-Acoounts from Antwerp ntion
the receipt of i'm portaat from Cubs respecting
the introduction Of coal into that island The go.
the import of that article into the country 1t
determined that coal shall be exempt from all rates
and charges of every nature Vessels Of all foreign
nations carrying coal, win be charged only four
per ton for tonnage dues. besides dues levied by
the captain Of the port. The Belgian consul oa
in tran shifting copy of this decree takes occasion
to point out the advantage to be derived by Belgian
VESSELS going there to freight with sugar load with
dues by vessels convey ing this produce to be the
rate of one piastre for IL ton The consumption Of
coal in the Inland during 1847 405 600 ons but
owing to the increase of steam navigation and
machinery upon railroads aud sugar establsm ats,
there will necessarily be largely Increased demand
The price of coal during the present year
~ piastres per ton or without the tonnage dues p-
a,t;es.