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The Conrt-Of Common Council met on Thursday. 'There-was an un- usual attendance, and some excitement, caused by a notice of =Alen from .Alderman"Wire which then dune under deliberation. The Alderman moved an address to the Queen, congratulating her 'Majesty on '" the -glorious Successes of the British army and fleist, in conjunetion•with those ' of her Majesty's faithful allies." The motion was seconded by Mr. Dakin. Mr. Elliott led the 'opposition. It was not a time for congratu- lation, when out of eighty thousand troops sent, to the Crimea thirty • thousand only remain ; the rest having melted away,- not before Russian shot and steel,- but "aristocratic rule, titled insolence, and the exhausted and nervous powers-of that body calling themselves the Government of the country." Encouraged by these symptoms, Mr. Cox ventured to move the " previous cfuestion," arid-found a seconder in Mr. Hawkias. Then arose dire dispitte. Mr. Anderton remarked, that one would sup- pOse,• from the course taken by some members, that they-were-the-allies of Russia; and his only wonder was-that they did not propose an address of congratulation to the Czar. The'-disreffectedVere defeated, on a divi- sion, by 60 toll; and the original motion was-carried with great applause.
"The St. Pitnefts andidarylebone Reformatory for young men is about to be enlarged. At present it contains' thirty-five inmates • the new Ifni/ding to be•added will accommodate one hundred. On Tuesday Lord Robert Grosvenor laid the foundation-stone of the enlarged edifice.
Tuesday had been fixed for an examination of Strahan, Paul, and Bates, in the Bankruptcy Court ; but as the accounts were not complete, and as a criminal charge against the bankrupts has to be decided, the examination was adjourned for two months. More proofs of debts were received • the total is now upwards of 700,000/. ; the estimated assets are about 100,0001., of which 44.000/. is in hand. Mr. Commissioner Evans assented to an al- lowance of 61. a week to Strithan and Bates, but refused any to Paul, as lie had-drawn out money from" the bank jnst' before the failure. 'An interesting question-was raised, but not settled—Were •"•Steahau and Co."" and " Rai- ford and Co." distinct firms? if BO, the creditors of Raiford and Co. would receive a very large dividend, arid the other claimants very little. Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, scouted the idea that any distinction could be drawn-between the whole of the creditors.
-A very enterprising swindler has been committed by the Southwark Ma- gistrate. 'Charles De Fleury, "engineer," a Frenchman, started a "French and English Alliance," ostensibly to collect funds for raising monuments to soldiers who have fallen in the war, 'bid really, it appears, to put money into his own pocket. He wheedled respectable people into allowing' their names to be used,-get handsome chambers, printed circulars, and employed a collector: it does not appear what money he got. But the Frenchman tried another scheme. He pretended that' he was the l'engineer " to "The French and English Canal Conipany,"—a fictitious one, to which De Fleury audaciously attached good names. For this "company" he obtained on credit 70,000 fire-bricks from Mr. Traquair ; then he pledged them for 1251. with an Advance Fund Association. Mr.Traquair discovered that he had been swindled, had the engineer [melted, andlEr. A'Beckett committed him.
"William Worsted" wairtronght before the -Lord Mayor on Saturday charged with uttering a forged check for 1901. • with intent to defraud the Bank of England. The check purported to be drawn by Mr. -William Cot- ton, a Director; it wasa clumsy piece of work, and at oncedetected. Worsted pretended that the check was written by Mr. Cotton .and told -a number of other fideehoods. After saying' his name was-Worsied, at the close of the
first examination he exclainsed---: It 'was-my writing ; name is William Cotton." On Tuesday he was reexamined ; when it appeared that the ac- cused really is 'William Cotton," and that he is of disordered mind. His derangement has caused great distress in his family, which is eupported by Mrs. Cotton'i labour and that of a son. Cotton was remanded for further inquiries. Alfred Jarrett has been committed' from Marlborough' Street Police Office on three charges of passing forged ten-pound notes.
Cortazor and illasip; the' Spaniardswho forged and -uttered circular lettere, -have been committed by Alderman Finnis. About 4000/. of the idunder they forwarded to France has been recovered, and is now in the hands of the Home Secretary.
James Barney., warehouseman, has been committed from Guildhall Police Court for obtaining 3000/. worth of-goods within three months of his bank- - ruptey, with intent to defraud : bail permitted. Messrs. Millington ancillutton, •-Wholesale stationers in Iludge Row, have 'been exposed to a syetematic plunder. Wakeisnd'-Miller, two of their ear- - menisnd lifoss-arid Lewis, the former a singer and the'other a bormaker, have been committed -by Alderman• Carden,forcoMpliolity in the robberies and reception of the stolen, paper.
George Mulley has been committed from Guildhall Police Court on a charge of attempting to murder Ellen Manley, a young woman -who lived withhim.
Ur. Odam, owner of one Of the " BS1le fsle suisanees,'"' has been held to bail-by the Clerkenwell Magistrate to meet-any charge to he preferred against him -on the part of the inhabitants of Islington on account of his particular nuisance-i-patent 'manure works. Mr. Odam says ho intends to remove to Woolwich in six weeks, but wishes to complete certain contracts before he leaves Maiden Lane ; the people of-Islington naturally wish him to " go at once" ; but matters- were not quite ready for adjudication when he appeared `before the Magistrate on Tuesday.
• Omnibus-proprietors have a power et altering' fames very inconveniently to passengers—they can suddenly charge what prices they -please, if they have them notified inside the door of the vehicle. The other- day, Rear-Ad- ' miral,Digby refused to pay sixpence for riding from Tottenham Court Road to the Bank—the almost universal fare being fourpence. But the conductor produced the list of fares to the Lord Mayor ; and the Admiral had to pay the-disperted twopence, with costs. The Lord Mayor agreed with him in -condemning the power possessed by the Owners-of omnibuses.
An accident that might-have been fatal occurred- at the London Bridge 'terminus on Wednesday. In consequence of some points being wrongly placed, a train of empty carriages was driven against a wall; the engine, tender, and a carriage, broke through the-wall, and 'fell into College Street; the driver and fireman leapt off in time, and no one happened to be passing in the street.
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