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The Week.

be remembered that about a year ago some persons were prosecuted at the Central Criminal Court for having in their possession a large quantity of similar notes , and according to ¦ the belief of a gentleman connected with the Russian Consul late , all the notes were printed from the same plate . It appears that the forged notes have been circulated to a large extent iu

Russia . Tlie case was only partially gone into . At the request of tbe counsel for prosecution , the prisoners were remanded . A curious fraud was exposed at the Clerkenwell Police-court on the Sth inst , Two men , named John Adams and Philip Bovell , were charged with conspiring to procure the release of Bovell from prison . On the 15 th December , Adams was sentenced at

the Thames Police-court to fourteen days' imprisonment for some workhouse offence . ' On the same day and afc the same court Bovell was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for a violent assault . On their way to Coldbath-fields Prison the two worthies agreed to exchange names , anel , as they hoped , sentences . Adams had sore legs , and wanted rest and the

medical attendance of the gaol , and therefore agreed to become Bovell for two months on condition that Bovell paid him a shilling . The exchange was made ; Adams became Bovell , and Bovell Adams in the prison . All went well until the 23 rd December , when a letter came for Bovell . Of course , ifc was taken to Adams , and he was questioned about it . Then the

whole plot became known . The prisoners were committed for trial . At the Marlborough-strcet Police-court , on the 7 th inst ., Mr . Bentinck , M . P ., residing in Charles-street , Berkeleysquare , and Mr . P . Doyle , of Half Moon-street , Piccadilly , applied to Mr . Tyrwhitt for summonses against the A ' estry of St . Georges's , Hanover-square , "for the non-removal of snow from certain streets in that parish . " The applicants expatiated on what they declared to be the neglect of the Vestry quoted the

Acts of Parliament on which they grounded their complaints , anel assured the magistrate that their sole object in asking for the summonses was to raise tho question , anel thus have ifc decided who was really responsible for tbe disgraceful state in which the streets of the metropolis had been allowed to remain during tbe last few days . Mr . Tyrwhitt had some doubt as to whether the issue of the summonses against the vestry would have any effect ,

and intimated that he would look into the Acts aud give his answer on a future clay . A coroner ' s jury has passeel a strong censure on Dr . Massingham , one of tbe Bethnal-green parish officers . Ann Terrey , a married woman , expecting her confinement , had get an oreler for the Lying-in Hospital , City-road . On the 2 nd inst . she was seized at home with labour pains , and

a cab was called to take her to the hospital ; but the cabman refused to go unless more money was paid than could be raised . The altercation was scarcely over when a child was born . The sister of the woman got an order for the attendance of Dr . Massingham , anel asked him to visit the deceased . He refused until his usual time for visiting came , and altogether , if the

statements of the witnesses may be believed , he seems to have behaved in a heartless manner . The woman died on the 3 rd inst . at noon . These facts were brought out at an inquest , and the jury declared Dr . Massingham to be unfit for the office he holds . The Lord Mayor has committed for trial the men who are charged with conspiring to defraud the underwriters by

scuttling the ship Severn . AVe have accounts of the ravages of the recent great storm . One of the most painful stories is that of how the John Cray , a Glasgow AVest Indiaman , came to be wrecked . Her captain refused all assistance , and the result was he got the ship ashore in Mount ' s Bay . The rocket apparatus was brought into use , and a line thrown right over the ship . The captain , however , refused to allow his men to avail

themselves of this means of getting ashore . Later , when the lifeboat gallantly got off to to the ship , the captain refused to leave her , and even threatened his crew if they got into the boat . Fifteen of them , however , got on board the boat , which took them safely ashore . The captain , first mate , second mate , and a French sailor who was ill , remained on board . The ship went

to pieces soon afterwards , and they were drowned . A unmeant ! influential deputation from the Evicted Tenant ' s Aid Association waited , on tbe 9 ch instant , upon the Earl of Derby , for the purpose of bringing under the notice ofthe Government the evils and miseries entailed upon the poor of tbe metropolis by overcrowding in their dwellings . The deputation urged that

Parliament should be asked to pass measures compelling railwaycompanies to provide dwellings for the poor evicted by their works ; anel , further , that Mr . Ton-en ' s bill of last session , for the rebuilding of dilapidated houses , and for otherwise providing houses for the poor , thould be passed . The Earl of Derby declared his sympathy with the objects of tbe association , and

asked the assistance of the members of Parliament present in providing a remedy for the existing state of things . —•—Mr . Tyrwhitt , on tlie bfch inst ., gave Messrs . Bentincke , M . P ., and Doyle the benefit of his opinion in reference to the liability of the vestries to answer for not clearing away the snow from the street . The magistrate seems to have been annoyed because Mr . Bentinck brought law-books into court from which to quote on the subject . He begged to assure Mr . Bentinck that

magistrates were barristers with books of their own , and not the mere Dogberries they had been described in a letter to a contemporary of ours . Coming to the question raised , he laid ifc clown that the ratepayers bad no remedy against tbe vestries if the contractors employed by the vestries neglected to remove

snow or refuse from the streets . Mr . Bentinck said he was glad to hear it , because it would compel the Logislature to deal with the matter . —Mr . James Freeling-AVilkinson , late manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company , was put upon his trial , on the 9 th inst ., afc the Central Criminal Court , ou a charge of appropriating to his own use two cheques for large amounts , the property of the company . The case occupied the whole day , and had not concluded when the court rose . In the second

court , a cooper , named Frederick Bickuell , was charged with arson , and being convicted , was sentenced to penal servitude for ten years . The- Common-Serjeant had before him the men charged with conspiring to defraud hy the mock auction dodge . After the case for the prosecution was closeel , it was contended for the defence that the offence charged did not constitute a conspiracy to defraud in the meaning of the law . The objection

was held to be fatal , anel the prisoners were liberated . I Charles Yarwood , a tailor was summoned before Alderman I AA'iliiam Lawrence charged with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in an affidavit . Tbe defendant , in the course of some business transactions which he had with Messrs . AA'estall and Proctor , woollen-drapers , of Gresham-place , hael occasion to accept of two bills of exchange , one for £ 49 Os . 6 d ., and the

other for £ 110 . AA'hen they became due he could only meet payment in part , which satisfied the Messrs . AVestall anel Proctor . Soon afterwards fche defendant became bankrupt , anel the prosecutors at once set about obtaining judgment on the two bills they held of him . The latter met this step by swearing an affidavit to the effect that he never accepted the said two bills of exchange , or either of them , nor authorised any person on Iris behalf to do so . Alderman Lawrence decided upon committing the accused for trial .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

' ¦ ' » * AH eommunicaHons to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street Strand , London , AA ' . C . J . G . T . —The reports will be regularly inserted if sent to us . They should reach us not later than AA ' ednesday if intended to appear in the Magazine of the same week , as we go to press every Thursday evening , J . B . —Thanks for your report , which , with several others , has reached us too late for insertion iu our present issue . AVARDEN . —The subject of a proposed Masonic Directory was fully ventilated in this MAGAZINE some time since

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1867-01-12, Page 20” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 25 March 2023, masonicperiodicals.org/periodicals/mmr/issues/mmr_12011867/page/20/.
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HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN CORNWALL. Article 1
MONS. VICTOR HUGO'S ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF POOR LITTLE CHILDREN. Article 4
THE NEMESIS: A TALE OF THE DAYS OF TRAJAN. Article 6
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES . Article 9
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 10
MASONIC LIBRARIES. Article 11
MASONIC MEMS. Article 11
METROPOLITAN. Article 12
PROVINCIAL. Article 13
ROYAL ARCH. Article 17
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 17
SCOTLAND. Article 17
IRELAND. Article 17
ISLE OF MAN. Article 18
Obituary. Article 18
THE WEEK. Article 19
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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The Week.

be remembered that about a year ago some persons were prosecuted at the Central Criminal Court for having in their possession a large quantity of similar notes , and according to ¦ the belief of a gentleman connected with the Russian Consul late , all the notes were printed from the same plate . It appears that the forged notes have been circulated to a large extent iu

Russia . Tlie case was only partially gone into . At the request of tbe counsel for prosecution , the prisoners were remanded . A curious fraud was exposed at the Clerkenwell Police-court on the Sth inst , Two men , named John Adams and Philip Bovell , were charged with conspiring to procure the release of Bovell from prison . On the 15 th December , Adams was sentenced at

the Thames Police-court to fourteen days' imprisonment for some workhouse offence . ' On the same day and afc the same court Bovell was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for a violent assault . On their way to Coldbath-fields Prison the two worthies agreed to exchange names , anel , as they hoped , sentences . Adams had sore legs , and wanted rest and the

medical attendance of the gaol , and therefore agreed to become Bovell for two months on condition that Bovell paid him a shilling . The exchange was made ; Adams became Bovell , and Bovell Adams in the prison . All went well until the 23 rd December , when a letter came for Bovell . Of course , ifc was taken to Adams , and he was questioned about it . Then the

whole plot became known . The prisoners were committed for trial . At the Marlborough-strcet Police-court , on the 7 th inst ., Mr . Bentinck , M . P ., residing in Charles-street , Berkeleysquare , and Mr . P . Doyle , of Half Moon-street , Piccadilly , applied to Mr . Tyrwhitt for summonses against the A ' estry of St . Georges's , Hanover-square , "for the non-removal of snow from certain streets in that parish . " The applicants expatiated on what they declared to be the neglect of the Vestry quoted the

Acts of Parliament on which they grounded their complaints , anel assured the magistrate that their sole object in asking for the summonses was to raise tho question , anel thus have ifc decided who was really responsible for tbe disgraceful state in which the streets of the metropolis had been allowed to remain during tbe last few days . Mr . Tyrwhitt had some doubt as to whether the issue of the summonses against the vestry would have any effect ,

and intimated that he would look into the Acts aud give his answer on a future clay . A coroner ' s jury has passeel a strong censure on Dr . Massingham , one of tbe Bethnal-green parish officers . Ann Terrey , a married woman , expecting her confinement , had get an oreler for the Lying-in Hospital , City-road . On the 2 nd inst . she was seized at home with labour pains , and

a cab was called to take her to the hospital ; but the cabman refused to go unless more money was paid than could be raised . The altercation was scarcely over when a child was born . The sister of the woman got an order for the attendance of Dr . Massingham , anel asked him to visit the deceased . He refused until his usual time for visiting came , and altogether , if the

statements of the witnesses may be believed , he seems to have behaved in a heartless manner . The woman died on the 3 rd inst . at noon . These facts were brought out at an inquest , and the jury declared Dr . Massingham to be unfit for the office he holds . The Lord Mayor has committed for trial the men who are charged with conspiring to defraud the underwriters by

scuttling the ship Severn . AVe have accounts of the ravages of the recent great storm . One of the most painful stories is that of how the John Cray , a Glasgow AVest Indiaman , came to be wrecked . Her captain refused all assistance , and the result was he got the ship ashore in Mount ' s Bay . The rocket apparatus was brought into use , and a line thrown right over the ship . The captain , however , refused to allow his men to avail

themselves of this means of getting ashore . Later , when the lifeboat gallantly got off to to the ship , the captain refused to leave her , and even threatened his crew if they got into the boat . Fifteen of them , however , got on board the boat , which took them safely ashore . The captain , first mate , second mate , and a French sailor who was ill , remained on board . The ship went

to pieces soon afterwards , and they were drowned . A unmeant ! influential deputation from the Evicted Tenant ' s Aid Association waited , on tbe 9 ch instant , upon the Earl of Derby , for the purpose of bringing under the notice ofthe Government the evils and miseries entailed upon the poor of tbe metropolis by overcrowding in their dwellings . The deputation urged that

Parliament should be asked to pass measures compelling railwaycompanies to provide dwellings for the poor evicted by their works ; anel , further , that Mr . Ton-en ' s bill of last session , for the rebuilding of dilapidated houses , and for otherwise providing houses for the poor , thould be passed . The Earl of Derby declared his sympathy with the objects of tbe association , and

asked the assistance of the members of Parliament present in providing a remedy for the existing state of things . —•—Mr . Tyrwhitt , on tlie bfch inst ., gave Messrs . Bentincke , M . P ., and Doyle the benefit of his opinion in reference to the liability of the vestries to answer for not clearing away the snow from the street . The magistrate seems to have been annoyed because Mr . Bentinck brought law-books into court from which to quote on the subject . He begged to assure Mr . Bentinck that

magistrates were barristers with books of their own , and not the mere Dogberries they had been described in a letter to a contemporary of ours . Coming to the question raised , he laid ifc clown that the ratepayers bad no remedy against tbe vestries if the contractors employed by the vestries neglected to remove

snow or refuse from the streets . Mr . Bentinck said he was glad to hear it , because it would compel the Logislature to deal with the matter . —Mr . James Freeling-AVilkinson , late manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company , was put upon his trial , on the 9 th inst ., afc the Central Criminal Court , ou a charge of appropriating to his own use two cheques for large amounts , the property of the company . The case occupied the whole day , and had not concluded when the court rose . In the second

court , a cooper , named Frederick Bickuell , was charged with arson , and being convicted , was sentenced to penal servitude for ten years . The- Common-Serjeant had before him the men charged with conspiring to defraud hy the mock auction dodge . After the case for the prosecution was closeel , it was contended for the defence that the offence charged did not constitute a conspiracy to defraud in the meaning of the law . The objection

was held to be fatal , anel the prisoners were liberated . I Charles Yarwood , a tailor was summoned before Alderman I AA'iliiam Lawrence charged with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in an affidavit . Tbe defendant , in the course of some business transactions which he had with Messrs . AA'estall and Proctor , woollen-drapers , of Gresham-place , hael occasion to accept of two bills of exchange , one for £ 49 Os . 6 d ., and the

other for £ 110 . AA'hen they became due he could only meet payment in part , which satisfied the Messrs . AVestall anel Proctor . Soon afterwards fche defendant became bankrupt , anel the prosecutors at once set about obtaining judgment on the two bills they held of him . The latter met this step by swearing an affidavit to the effect that he never accepted the said two bills of exchange , or either of them , nor authorised any person on Iris behalf to do so . Alderman Lawrence decided upon committing the accused for trial .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

' ¦ ' » * AH eommunicaHons to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street Strand , London , AA ' . C . J . G . T . —The reports will be regularly inserted if sent to us . They should reach us not later than AA ' ednesday if intended to appear in the Magazine of the same week , as we go to press every Thursday evening , J . B . —Thanks for your report , which , with several others , has reached us too late for insertion iu our present issue . AVARDEN . —The subject of a proposed Masonic Directory was fully ventilated in this MAGAZINE some time since

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