. Richard Caster and Edmund Smith were committed by the
Lord Mayor, on Saturday, to Newgate, on a charge of forgery. Two men, named Joseph and Thomas Walker, who stated 'themselves to have been old accomplices in Coster's swindling transactions, appeared to • - give evidence against him, and swore positively to his handwriting ha a letter signed " W. Jackson," which contained three forged notes, sent in payment for goods to a Mr. Clarke of Honitan. Coster, as usual, was collected and impudent : he said he could produce a thousand wit- nesses who would swear that the signature " W. Jackson " was not in
- his handwriting. The Lord Mayor said, that be had no doubt he could procure•them, and he. should give him the opportunity by committing him for trial.
Henry Byers, a noted swindler, whom the 'Police have beets in search of for more than three years, has been committed for forging checks, and obtaining goods and money on false pretences, from several bankers and tradesmen. A clerk from the house of Jones, Lloyd, and Com- pany said,' that no fewer than seventy forged checks uttered by Byers had been presented to them for payment at different times. Mr. Fer- nier, a hop-merchant in the Borough, and Mr. Place the tailor of Charing Cross, are among the persons whom he has defrauded. On Tuesday evening, Francis Dillon, the Irishman who interrupted Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons on Monday night, was ex- amined at the Queen Square Office. It appeared he had been an officer of the Irish Excise. He still laboured under the delusion that Earl Grey wanted to poison him, and his insanity was quite apparent. He said that he interrupted Sir Robert Feel, in order to complain to him of Earl Grey's conduct. Mr. White ordered him to be removed to the Workhouse of St. Margaret's, with directions that he should be taken care of.
Hannah Fuller, Charles Fuller her husband, and Penelope May, the latter prisoner's mother, were charged on Wednesday, at the Marlborough Street Office, with having stolen large quantities of miscellaneous pro- perty belonging '-to Lady Frances Wedderburne and Mr. M'Donald, landlord of the house occupied by her Ladyship, in Chesterfield Street, Mayfair. Mrs. May having been admitted as evidence against her son and his wife was removed from the bar; and deposed to having received at various tithes, from her son, articles of property consisting of cut- glass, bookS, &c., which she bad pledged in the name of Forbes. Her son and his wife accounted to her for the possession of the articles by stating that they had been given to the wife by her mistress. It ap- peared that Hannah Fuller was housemaid to her Ladyship, and the prisoner's husband sometimes slept in the house. Both prisoners were committed.
:The stable of a public-house called the Two Bells, opposite White-. chapel Church, was set on fire on Thursday morning between ten and eleven o'clock. The landlord of the public-house complained to the Magistrates at Lambeth Street Office, that the fire was communicated to the rack and manger of his stable by the furnace of Mr. Banks, a sugar-refiner, who had built a large chimney in the party-wall between their premises. 'He Wished to know how he should prevent a repetition of the accident. The reply was, that he must proceed against Mr. Banks by civil action, or indictment for a nuisance. The fire was soon put out, and no material damage done, though there was some risk of
• .the fire reaching a quantity of strong spirits which. were stored very near the stable.
Mr. Maudslay, the engineer, was thrown out of 'his gig onWednes- day afternoon, while 'driving along the road to Woolwich. He was pitched upon the pavement with so • much violence that his skull was fractured, and his right shoulder dislocated. His horse had taken•fright at some brewers' drays, and becoming unmanageable, had struck the gig against a poSt. There is very little chalice of Mr.Maudslay's sur- viving for many days.
An inquest was, held on Tueschar evening, at the Wellington Ina, University Street, on the body of Mary Latten, the wife of a police- man, who was killed by taking some prussic acid which had been sent to her from the shop of Mr. H. Clapham, 29, Francis Street, instead of some medicine which had been regularly prescribed for her. It ap- peared that John Merrell; the shopman of Mr. Clapham, who is about eighteen years of 'age, was the person who had sent. the prussic acid.
• He was Very ignorant of the properties of drugs ; although he had been recommended as qualified to make up prescriptions, by his former master, Mr. William Broughton, surgeon, of Leather Lane, who had given him a good character to his present employer, Mr. Clapham. The Jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter " against him : and re- probated both his masters, for their want of caution in employing so inexperienced a lad to make up medicines.
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