Mr. Beresford Hope is prosecuting Mr. Train in the Marylebone
police court for having broken up the Ilibridge.road—in other 'words, with the assent of the commissioners of the said road, for having laid down a street railway thereon. Mr. Yardley gives judg- ment next week.
The Metropolitan Board of Works has been summoned for using a furnace at Deptford which does not consume its own smoke.
Two men, Debock and Barker by name, have been charged before the Derby magistrates with stealing ten bales of silk, value 10001., the property of Baron Rothschild ; and one Joon Newton, an extensive manufacturer, is accused of receiving the same knowing them to have been stolen. Two men who are said to have sold the silk to Newton have absconded. Mr. Newton's counsel declares himself able to prove his client's innocence. He bought the silk, but gave, it is alleged, a full price for it. The head constable said that there were persons implicated in the robbery who are in a large way of business as silk dealers, and who have absconded. The pro- perty was stolen from St. Katharine's Docks, and the accused were all remanded until Tuesday, when they will be brought up before the Thames Police magistrate.
Holland, a letter carrier, is in prison on a charge of robbing the BAsious Tract Society. Holland possessed himself of a cheque for 590/., sent to the society from Edinburgh, and forged an endorse -meat. He cashed the cheque at Messrs. Glynn's, and went thence to the Bank of England to get gold for some of the notes, but alarmed at a slight degree of hesitation on the part of a clerk, he ran off, leaving three notes on the counter. This clerk, Mr. Dean, furnished a description of Holland, but that did not lead to his capture. Flush of money, he ordered some jewellery, in Tottenham-court-road, and suspected here, the shopman, Perry, gave information to the police before he delivered the goods ordered. When he called with them, Holland offered a 50/. note in payment, and Perry offered to get it changed. Holland allowed him to take it, and Perry at once went to the Bank of England. The result was that Holland was arrested at Kentish-town, and has been remanded.
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