At the Mansionhouse, on Tuesday, Mr. Hebeller. the Prussian Consul,
attended by Mr. Holds's appeared with forty.three natives oh' Prussia, to complain of a transaction by which they had been induced to leave Germany for Loudon, and were thence to be shipped as labourers to Demerara. It appeared that Dr. Stricker had made a bar- gain with these men on behalf of Mr. Abraham Reece, of Moor-gate, merchant, to serve him in London for one year ; and had obtained passports for London. On :arriving in this country, however, it ap- peered that their real tletination was Pemerarr; t.'i the Consul refused to give them passports. as they had not leave from the Prussian Government to emigrate. It did not appear why passports to go from England to Demerara were necessary. After a good deal of conversation, the Lord Mayor declined to interfere, except to re- commend that three of the Germans, who objected to go to Demerara, should be sent to their own country ; and Mr. Reece willingly con- sented to pay their expenses back again.
Deputy Pewtress waited upon the Lord Mayor on Thursday, to re- port the results of his exertions to procure temporary relief for desti- tute persons. The Guardians of the London Union and of the Strand Union had readily received and relieved the numerous destitute persons who had been sent to them ; and in other parts of the Metropolis mea- sures were in progress with the same benevolent intention.
Mr. Richards, of' the Peckham Union Workhouse, informed the Lord Mayor, that Peter Jordan, or Norman, whom Mr. Duncan Campbell had found apparently in a destitute state, and had brought to the Mansionhouse, a few days before, was a notorious impostor. De- puty Pewtress strongly disapproved of Mr. Campbell's proposal to re- open the Asylum for the Houseless Poor ; which would be in the teeth of the Poor-law, and bring "incalculable masses" of beggars to the Metropolis.
On Wednesday, J. Galloway, of Hay's Place, Lisson Grove, was brought before Mr. Alderman White, at Guildhall, charged by a younger brother with having committed a forgery. As soon as the charge was stated, an elder brother stepped forward and said that there was no desire to press the charge. Mr. Alderman White—" Are you the prosecutor ?" Brother—" No. your worship ; but my brother, who holds a Government situation, thinks that this may operate upon his brother as a cerition in future, and lie would rather not press the charge any further." Mr. Alderman White then desired that the brother might be called. As lie did not answer, the prisoner was discharged.
At Bow Street, on Wednesday, John Hannon was committed fcs trial on a charge of forging notes of the Toronto Batik.
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