At Boor Street, on Wednesday, George Forbes Atkinson, calling binaself
a Captain, was examined on a charge of forging the acceptance of the Honourable Captain Lauderdale Maule to a bill of exchange for J,0001. It appeared that Captain Maule lu;c1 given his acceptance
for 1,000/. at three months, to Atkinson, to raise money ; but that, on the representation of Atkinson that he could not get it discounted, that bill was torn and burnt. Subsequently Atkinson gave a Mr. Lane an acceptance for 1,000/. at twelve months, with the signature of Captain Maule attached to it. Lane was ordered to produce the ac- ceptance; which he refused to do, offering only a copy ; but on Sir F. Roe insisting on his producing the original bill, be promised to attend with it yesterday; and the prisoner was remanded.
A policeman, on Wednesday afternoon, discovered the trunk of the body of a middle-aged female, in a sack, behind a piece of flag-stone, which was placed against a wall near some unfinished houses in the Edgtvare Road, about a mile and a half from the Cumberland Gate. The limbs appeared to have been sawn off, and the medical men thought that life could not have been extinct more than twenty-four hours. No clue to the name of the murdered person or her assassin has been found.
A fire broke out yesterday evening in St. Peter's Church, Belgrave Square, which burned down the whole building except part of the front entrance and the vestry. The organ was completely destroyed; but the picture, " The Scourging of Christ," which hung over the Communion-table, was saved by the exertions of a Mr. Thurston. It is supposed that the fire was occasioned by a spark from a candle dropping on some shavings in the belfry ; as the man whose business it was to regulate the clock went to the belfry, the floor of which was covered with shavings, a short time before the fire broke out.
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