In the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, John Hannen was
found guilty of forgeries on the Toronto Bank.
At the Mansionhouse, on Saturday, Edward Stockham, Overseer of the parish of Allhallows-on-the-Wall, appeared to answer a charge of disobeying the Lord Mayor's order to give temporary relief to Mary Dobbs. The Vestry Clerk of the parish sustained the Overseer in his refusal ; on the ground that the woman was not a pauper, but a vagrant. The Marshahuan said, the woman was not settled in the parish of Allhallows ; but was in a state of destitution, having wandered about the streets for a fortnight, during which time she had not once lain down in a bed. The Vestry Clerk still maintained that the woman was a vagrant ; and that Stockham was not legally the Overseer, his appoint- ment not having been duly confirmed by two Magistrates. Both ob- jections were overruled by the Lord Mayor and Alderman Copeland, who was also on the bench ; and the full penalty of 5/. was ordered to be paid by Stoekham. The Vestry Clerk said, Stoekham should not pay—he was not the Overseer ainder the Act. The Lord Mayor said, he would send a warrant of distress for the penalty into Stockham's premises on the Monday following. The Vestry Clerk threatened to
make the Lord Mayor personally responsible for the proceeding. The Lord Mayor had no objection to the responsibility ; and he would direct the City Solicitor to see whether the Vestry Clerk could not be pro- ceeded against for encouraging Stockham to disobey the order. On Monday, notwithstanding all this bluster, the penalty was quietly paid by the Overseer. This is the first penalty intlieted under the act for the offence mentioned.
On Wednesday, David Maenin, charged with forging and embezzling the Mexican Bonds, after another long investigation and production of additional evidence against him, was again remanded, till Thursday next.
A Coroner's inquest was held at Old BrentfOrd on Tuesday, on the corpse of William Poole aged seventy, who on the previous Thursday
was knocked down by a Poole, in Wehaise, and died in consequence. The chaise was driven at a furious rate by John William Greenshields, tailor, of New Bond Street ; his apprentice, William Beckford, accom- panying him. The principal witness said- " Between seven and eight o'clock on Thursday night last, I was standing opposite the Stationhouse III the town, when 1 saw a one-horse chaise coming in the direction towards London. There were two persons in it, driving at a hard gallop, about sixteen miles an hour. The horse did not appear to have run away, but was going at the driver's will. 1 saw the deceased leave the path- way near the Cannon public-house, and cross the road; in doing which, he was knocked down by the horse. Several persons who bail seen his danger bad called out to the men in the chai,e, hut they continued their pace. The near wheel of the chaise went over the deceasea. After the accident happened, I and others called out to the parties to stop; but the driver whipped los horse, and went on at a still more'fitriums rate."
Greenshields said, that his horse ran away with him, and he did not whip the animal. The Jury, after smile consideration, returned a ver- dict of " Manslaughter " against Greenshields.
In the month of August last, the body of a man named Budd was found in a field near Mitcham Common, under suspicious circumstances. The deceased had no hat or coat on, his pm:kets were turned inside out, and the glass of a watch was limed broken to pieces in his fob. There were also appearances of blood and wounds on the head, and also bruises on the' told arms. The hotly, ln»vever, beim, in a very ad- vanced stage of decomposition, the surgeon who called in was un- able to ascertain with any certainty whether the appearances dztserilsod were really the effects of injuries received previous to the death of the deceased, or whether they were the result of decomposition, A coro-
ner's Jury accordingly returned a verdict or Noiorai Last
Friday, a labourer, named Page, discovered in the esio:r-Ited at Camber- well, where a portion of the mutilatud remains of G...evintet.e.s victim . were found, by this very Page, a coat and hat, witich have I call identified as those worn by Rudsi at the time of his disappearance. An investi-
gation is now in progress, which it is thought will tend to throw sonic light on this mysterious affair.
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