July 20,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



*a4 acquainted vith bins from having resided some time in the 

 neighbourhood of Cookham.. He thus must have travelled by 

 gome late train from London on the ni»cht of the 1st of May to 

 Maidenhead, gone rather more than three miles to Cookham, 

 committed the robbery, and returned to London by a very early 

 train. Mr. Hodson identified the articles. The Jury found the 

 prisoner guilty, and after an impressive address his Lordship 

 sentenced him to transportation for ten years. 



Court or Bankruptcy. — In lie William Bromly/. — The 

 bankrupt in this case had carried on business as a solicitor and 

 money scrivener, in tiray's-inn, and had lately failed for a sum of 

 140,000/. The proceedings at the diilerent hearings have been fully 

 reported in the papers, and Monday was fixed for hearing counsel 

 on behalf of the bankrupt, in explanation and mitigation of the 

 charges made against him. In pursuance of that order, Mr. 

 Sturgeon appeared for the bankrupt, and in a pathetic address to 

 the Court said that his client, the bankrupt (who had been solicitor 

 to Earl Grey), had been unfortunately tempted to enter into various 

 speculations, in the full confidence that he would be enabled to 

 realise a fortune, and in those moments of temptation he had 

 applied money to his own purposes which had been placed in his 

 hands with other intentions. But he had not done so without 

 reasonable expectation of being able to replace the sums so ap- 

 plied, for at this time his professional exertions brought him in an 

 income of between 2000/. and 3000/. per annum, and the rental of 

 various properties which he then held yielded between 5000/. and 

 6000/. a year. The bankrupt had given, when on abed of sick- 

 ness, a warrant of attorney to Captain Blair, and when he found 

 that warrant about to be put in execution, he himself caused this 

 fiat to be issued, in order that his assets might be equally dis- 

 tributed, and that no one creditor should obtain a preference at 

 the expense of the general body. He could assure the Court that 

 the bankrupt's property had cost him upwards of 120,000/., the 

 whole of which will come to the creditors.— Sir C. F. Williams : 1 

 should be very glad if 120,000 half-crowns would come to the 

 creditors.— Mr. Humphreys, who represented the assignees, here 

 said, that there would not be one shilling In the pound.— Sir C. F. 

 William* said: The question is, if I be satisfied with the bank- 

 rupt's balance sheet to such an extent as to enable him to 

 14 pass" upon it, to which I must at once say, after a most careful 

 —and I am sorry to say a most painful investigation of it— I most 

 decidedly give my judgment in the negative. I have paid every 

 attention to the feeling and pathetic address of the learned counsel 

 in favour of the bankrupt, but still I must say that he has not 

 altered or explained any one item in the balance sheet, nor any 

 portion of the gross misconduct of Mr. Bromley : and I might use 

 a much more appropriate and harsher expression than misconduct, 

 if I were not presiding in a court of justice. I do not think the 

 creditors ought to be satisfied with the balance sheet, and in all 

 my experience I never met a case so adverse to a bankrupt as the 

 present. A man might at once, and by some sudden emergency, 

 be plunged into difficulties ; he may feel alarmed at the sudden 

 touch of the sheriffs officer, or a hundred other imaginable cases, 

 and do under such circumstances what his better nature and his 

 more sober senses would afterwards recoil from ; but in this case 

 no such excuse can by any possibility be pleaded. Here is a man 

 of mature age, and of considerable experience, having had besides 

 extraordinary confidence reposed in him. and yet he carries on 

 his frauds (for they are unquestionably frauds) over a period of 

 from ten to thirteen years, and those, teo, to a most blameable, 

 enormous, and unwarrantable extent. Now, let me be allowed to 

 add a word here, that if there be one avocation in society which 

 more than another requires the exercise of honour, integrity, and 

 discretion, it is that of a solicitor. Persons in every class, and for 

 almost every purpose of life, have at some time or other occasion to 

 fiy to the solicitor for advice; but the conduct of the bankrupt 

 has, I am sorry to be compelled to say, shed a blighting influence 



be tian-poited for fifteen years, and 1 hope tnat oth«r Uoy* wil, 

 take notice of it. 



Midi<ami CiacuiT, Northampton*.— Arsov. — William Gard 

 ner, aged 52, was capitally indicted for havinjj, at the parish of 

 Chacoinbe, in this county, unlawfully, feloniou«lv f and mali- 

 ciously net fire to the dwelling house of William Hollier, in the 

 night-time, there being no less than six persons »t the time 

 asleep therein in their beds. It appeared that the prisoner 

 had been in the service of Mr. Hollier, and on the Sunday pre- 

 ceding Tuesday, the 4th of June, had from some cause or other 

 been dismis>ed. The prisoner had said that it was In cong e 

 qnence of something between the servant man and the servant 

 girl, and also that he had gone *'to murder the servant girl, 

 but the Lord ordered it otherwise." On the Tuesday, the very 

 day of the fire, he had said that he would "do Mr. Hollier 

 some private injury, and the job would be done that night, 

 and then he would make away with himself." On the same 

 day he also went to Mr. Potter, the nephew of the prosecutor, 

 and told him that he bad been dismissed by his uncle, "and 

 would do him aome private injury— something to be talktd 

 about, and he would hear of it before long." This was on the 

 Tuesday, the dav on the night of which the fire happened. 

 The prisoner was' at a public house till between 8 and 9 o'clock 

 at night, and betrged for a halfpenny to buy some ale, and 

 having obtained it, said that it was not for ale he wanted it, but 

 lucifer matches. He was afterwards seen at 9 o'clock, when 

 he said he was going to his home, but he had then passed the 

 tarn to his own home and was on the road to the prosecutor's 

 house. At 10 he was seen within a few yaids of the prose- 

 cutor's, and within a few minutes of this the fire broke out. 

 Search was made for him, and on the following Thursday 

 the police-officer found him. hearing a groaning, in a state of 

 extreme destitution and weakness, in a hovel or cowhouse at 

 some considerable distance from Chacombe. He was weak 

 from loss of blood, and there were two or three severe cuts on 

 his arm. The officer told him that he apprehended him for the fire 

 at Mr. Hollier's, whereupon the prisoner said that he had done 

 no wrong to anybody but himself. On the following day the 

 police officer found in the said hovel two boxes of lucifer 

 matches concealtd, and two or three lucifers were found upon 

 the prisoner. There was much further circumstantial evidence 

 of guilt. His Lordship summed up the case with some minute- 

 ness, observing that one could not but feel some commiseration 

 for the extreme destitution and suffering of the prisoner, by 

 whatever misconduct he might have brought it on himself, but 

 that it could form little or no excuse for crime, and none, at 

 all events, for such an atrocious crime as that wherewith the 

 prisoner stood charged, if the jury should find him guilty of it. 

 The jury, by their foieman, returned a verdict of Guilty, stating 

 that most of them recommended the prisoner to mercy, on 

 account of his distress at the timej but the foreman did not 

 himself see the reason for such recommendation. The prose- 

 cutor also recommended him to mercy $n the same ground. 

 Lord Denman proceeded to pass sentence. The jury and 

 the prosecutor had recommended him to mercy on account of 

 his state of destitution and distress. But the house was that of 

 his former master and mistress, the larter of whom he had him- 

 self admitted to have been his beuefactress. They and all their 

 family were asleep in their beJs. Vet, in deference to the re- 

 commendation to mercy of the Jury and the prosecutor, he 

 should not recommend that his life should be forfeited upon the 

 scaffold, atrocious as was the crime of which he had been found 

 guilty. The legislature had declared that many offences re- 

 cently capital should be so no more ; but this offence, wheie 

 the lives of persons were so endangered, still remained so j and 

 probably, but for the recommendation of the jury and the pro- 



secutor, founded upon his extremestate of destitution, and that , . 



alone, his lite would have been forfeited upon the scaffold. Sen- over his branch of the profession. His'misconduct was not the 



rupt states to have cost 120,000/., has been so s irnnouUiror^ 

 raise money, so divided, and so subdivided, that I do not bin 

 it will yield more than 5000/. to G< 00/., for the whole of the 

 perty, even ta th~ 1 *-~ J -*■*-- 



fear, to their full 



belie* 



perty, even ta the homestead and pigstye, have leen^pledee^ 



value. After some further observations tlwnl 



ationstheconu 

 missioner ordered an adjournment, at the bankrupt's expense f 

 the 2Sth October, wbeu an amended balance-sheet is tn h* V.° r 

 ished. 



ce-sheet is to be fur. 



BIRTHS.— On the 9th inst., at Hadley, Middlesex, the ladv 

 of the Rev. J. E. Kkmpe, M.A., of a son— 11th inst., at Eign- 

 brook, Hereford, Mrs. E. Whitk, of a son— nth inst'., in Cum- 

 berland-terrace, Regents Park, the ladyofJ.T.E. Hamilton 

 Esq., of a daughter— 12th inst., at 29, Grosvenor-square the 

 Countess ok Home, of a daughter— lath inst., at Wimbledon 

 the lady of Major Ompha.vt, of a daughter. # 



DEATHS. -On the 30th of April last, at Prince's Isl and, of 

 yellow fever, T. J. Fkad, Esq., commander or the snip Glouces- 

 ter, youngest son of Lieutenant-Colontl Fead, C.B., late of the 

 Grenadier Guards, aged 25— 4th inst., on board the Great Liv©^ 

 pool steam-ship, on his voyage from Alexandria, W. JamksV^ 

 Esq., of the Hon. East India Company's Medical Establish-^^ 

 ment, son of the late W*. K.James, Esq., of Aldborough, aged 

 24— 5th inst., at Assembly-place, Mile-end, Mr. W. Maltby, 

 aged 64 — loth inst , at Shelton Rectory, Norfolk, the residence 

 ot his youngest son, the Rev. S. Curtkis, LL.D., formerly of 



Queen's College, in the University of Cambridge, aged 77 10th 



in-t., at the Rectory, Appleton, Berks, the Rev. J. W. Hoskivs, 

 D.D., Prebendary of Wells Cathedral, above 40 years rector of 

 Appleton, and formerly Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford, 

 aged 84. 





tence of death would be recorded, but that sentence would pro- 

 bably be not carried into effect; but he would be sent for the re- 

 mainder of his wretched existence to a penal colony, where he 

 would throughout the remainder of his days suffer infinitely 

 more than he had or could have done in this country ; and he 

 hoped that due care would be taken, that if he had, or should 

 have, such a design as that of destroying his own life, he would 

 be so guarded as to prevent him from the execution of such 

 purpose, for it was fitting that be should live as a melancholy 



example. 



Oxford Circuit, Oxford.— Richard Elliott was indicted for 

 stealing a banker's parcel, containing 1500 sovereigns, from the 

 Defiance coach, on the 18th March last. The particulars of this 

 case were fully stated in this Paper at the time. The evidence 

 on the trial was merely a repetition of that given before the 

 Oxford magistrates, proving that the prisoner and another man 

 joined the coach in London, prisoner sitting behind and the 

 other on the box. Prisoner got down at Benson, where several 

 persons deposed to having seen a man looking into the fore 

 boot, and holding a blue bag in his hand, such as that which 

 contained the box of sovereigns. Some ot the witnesses posi- 

 tively stated that prisoner was the man who opened the boot, 

 while others described a person corresponding to the appear- 

 ance of his companion who sat on the box, and who went on to 

 Oxford and then disappeared. Prisoner is a tobacconist in 

 Bell- street, Paddington. The Jury after some deliberation re- 

 turned a verdict of acquittal. — Abingdon. — The Queen v. Joshua 

 Ware. — The prisoner, a young man of 19 years of age, of re- 

 spectable appearance, was indicted for having, on the 1st May 

 last, burglariously entered the dwelling-house of the Rev. G. H. 

 Hodson, at Cookham, Berks, and stolen therein some plate and 

 other articles. It appeared that on the night of the 1st May 

 prosecutor's housekeeper, being the latest up of any of the 

 family, ascertained, before retiring to rest, that the doors and 

 windows, and especially the casement and external shutters, 

 through which the entry was made, were properly fastened. 

 Before six in the morning, some neighbours observing the 

 shutters open, and the pane of the casement broken, gave the 

 alarm to the housekeeper, who, on rising, discovered that a 

 robbery had been committed, and took steps to inform the 

 police of it. Sexton, a constable of Maidenhead, went to the 

 bouse and examined the shutters. He proved that the mode in 

 which the entry had been effected was by turning round, from 

 the outside, an iron pin, which secured the shutter by passing 

 through it and the casement, and causing a piece of iron, or key, 

 which kept that pin from being taken out by running through 

 a slip which was made at the end inside the house to fall out, 

 and by theu withdrawing the pin. The shutter, as soon as the 

 pin was out, could easily be opened, and by breaking the pane 

 of glass a person could put in his hand and undo the fastening 

 ot the casement. On the same morning the prisoner offered to 

 pawn a silver chalice at the shop of Mr. Viton, pawnbroker, in 

 High Holborn. Mr. Viton inquired his name and residence, 

 to both of which queries false answers were given. The pri- 

 soner, on being asked from whom he had obtained the chalice, 

 replied that Mr. Atkins, his uncle, who was cook at Eton 

 College, had given it to him. While the prisoner was at the 

 pawnbroker s shop, a policeman who daily took there the lUt 

 of stolen property, entered it, and after some time took the pri- 

 soner to Bow-street where an examination took place, which 

 terminated by his being remanded for a few days Notice of 

 kis apprehension was given, and Sexton, the constable, having 

 gone to Bow street, had the prisoner given into hii custody to 

 bring to the county goal. While Sexton and the prisoner were 

 waiting for a train at the Paddington terminus, in the course 

 erf conversation between them on the subject of the robbery, 

 but the particulars of which the constable could not call to 

 mind, the prisoner said— M They will transport ms. Well, one 

 country is the same to me as another." Prisoner was taken 

 before the county magistrates and fully committed. A singular 

 fact is, that prisoner was seen on the 1st May, on the night of 

 which the robbery was committed, at about five p.m., on the 



result of a moment, but extended ever, and was the deliberate 

 result of many, many years. There are as many and as upright 

 men solicitors as in any other profession, and hence they must feel 

 the more, inasmuch as for the future their character for integrity 

 may be assailed, if unfortunately it be not destroyed. I do not find 

 upon the face of the balance sheet here, that the bankrupt had one 

 shilling of capital at the time when it commences, about one year 

 ago; but I do find the startling admission that the debts amount 

 to 141,522/., out of which there are creditors without any security 

 to the amount of 86,791/., and creditors holding security only in 

 the sum of 455/. 15s. Now this must appear to the creditors, and 

 to all the world, to be a frightful state of things, and it is also 

 quite clear that Mr. Bromley had engaged in such extraordinary 

 courses of business as to leave him now indebted in the enormous 

 sum of 86,791/. If, in addition to this, it be true that he derived 

 an income from his profession of 3000/. a year, I fear it will be 

 found that his improvident outlay, and misappropriation of his 

 creditors' money, will amount to no less than 15,000/. a-year. True, 

 it is also said upon this balance sheet, that his property amounts 

 to 120,517/. 7s. ; but I verily believe that, out of this apparently 

 enormous sum, not fiOOO/. will be # realised for the creditors. The 

 slightest glance at the bankrupt's misappropriations, not only as 

 exhibited on the face of the balance-sheet, but as admitted upon 

 the bankrupt's own evidence upon oath, will more than confirm 

 the few observations which I have already felt it my duty to make 

 upon this extraordinary case. Here 1 find an alleged mortgage by 

 Chuleb to Mr. Wilkinson, who was Mr. Bromley's friend and bene- 

 factor; and how has he repaid it? Why, by pretending that it 

 was advanced to a Mr. Throughton (3500/.); and what was really 

 done with it? It was placed to Bromley's own account ; and to 

 make the transaction the more culpable, it was entered in Through- 

 ton's name, and the interest credited to him, as if it were a bond 

 fide matter. Nor was this all, for the deed was sent to Dr. Lush- 

 ington— the pretended deed— for no deed was ever really executed; 

 and the whole turned out to be a decided fabrication. The bank- 

 rupt's is not a case to excite pity or compassion. Look again at 

 his conduct to Archdeacon Brymer. That most respectable gen- 

 tleman may not possibly suffer to the amount of ruin which has 

 fallen upon others, because of his having a private fortune ; but 

 how can I recur to that of a poor woman, who was not only de- 

 prived of a competent means of support for life, but was obliged to 

 resort to the parish for a loaf; and the very mention of whose 

 case the other day produced a shriek of horror in a crowded court ? 

 Again, the bankrupt alleged that he lent Mr. Ker 3000/., when 

 the fact was that that respectable gentleman had never borrowed 

 a single shilling. Again, I find that the mortgage to Cooke was 

 released for 4000/. upon his paying it in. It was afterwards 

 alleged that that sum had been lent to Bernal ; but what was the 

 result? Why, that it all went into the hands of Mr. Bromley him- 

 self. The executors in the case of Mr. Wilkinson never thought 

 human nature could be so base as to imagine such gross miscon- 

 duct, and the whole of these moneys had been swamped by the 

 bankrupt. But why multiply cases where there is nothing 

 to extenuate such gross misconduct, and nothing to relieve so 

 many suffering creditors? However, these extraordinary transac- 

 tions should act as valuable admonitions to society in general not 

 to trust themselves or their property to the management of any 

 man's hands without seeing that they were properly secured. 

 There never was worse conduct than that of the bankrupt in rela- 

 tion to Mr. Wilkinson. The deeds for 9000/. were deposited in a 

 tin box at Messrs. Child's, and within three months after his 

 death he got them back, used them to his own purpose, and never 

 returned them. The recital of these things creates horror. If the 

 learned counsel had even proved that in these transactions the 

 bankrupt had done any act of generosity or munificence, it would 

 have had nothing to do with this case, where families have been 

 brought from comparative affluence to dependence, and from 

 enough to a loaf. Compassion was claimed for the bankrupt upon 

 the ground of the extent of his speculations. Now, my answer is, 

 that before he indulged in this lust for speculation, he should have 

 looked into his banker's book, and not have dipped his hands into 

 the pockets of his Iriends, his benefactors, and his clients. In this 



IMPORTANT.— One of the most respectable Jbirms 

 in Paris is desirous of obtaining an active and intelligeat 

 Agent in every trading town of Great Britain (London excepted), 

 for the management of a Business of Infallible Benefit, propor- 

 tionate to the diligence with which it is conducted. The habits 

 of a Merchant are not indispensable, nor is any advance of 

 funds required, but merely the qualifications of Diligence and 

 Integrity.— Direct, post paid, to Z. B., Mr. DBA COW 'ft, 3, Wal- 

 brook. All applications must be accompanied with a reference 

 to respectable parties, and an answer will be sent to the appli- 

 cations as soon as possible. 



A YOUTH of good Education, and of respectable 

 parents, wanted as an Apprentice in a Nursery and Seed 

 Establishment in the vicinity of London, where a general 

 stock is kept, particularly in the Plant department. A con- 

 siderable premium will be expected. — Direct to Messrs. Wrench, 

 Seedsmen, London-bridge, stating: aare.&c. 



^ — T 1— ^ ^ - — - - — " a - a — *- 



A VACANCY occurs in a first-rate Nursery and Seed 

 Establishment, near London, for a highly respectable 

 Youth as an Apprentice. A Premium required. — Direct 

 to Hortus, at the Office of this Paper, 5, Charles-street, Covent 

 Garden, London. 



VI7ANTED a GAME-KEEPER.— A Single Man 



V» who has had long experience in Rearing ami Breeding 

 Pheasants, &c. He ,will be required to fill up his time by as- 

 sisting in the Gaiden, or as a jobbing: Carpenter. Full parti- 

 culars of former places, age, and lowest wages required (no 

 other will be noticed;.— Direct to A. B., at Mr. Manicorn, 

 B^ker. South Molton-st.. Oxford st. 



WANTED, a person who thoroughly understands the 

 propagation and cultivation of hardy trees and shrubs, 

 to proceed to America to take charge of that department in a 

 large Nnrsery Establishment, near New York. Some acquaint- 

 ance with the culture of greenhouse plants is also required, but 

 a knowledge of the former branch is particularly wished. Ap- 

 plicants can forward immediately to George Charlwood, Covent 

 Garden, their address, with the necessary references as to 

 qualifications. None but those of steady and industrious habits 

 need apply. 



WANT PLACES.— All Letters to be post-paid. 



AS GARDENER, where one or more are kept.— A 

 Married Man, aged 50, without family, whose abilities 

 and character will bear the strictest investigation from the Gen- 

 tleman he has lived with upwards of 20 years ; no objection to 

 look after land if required.— Direct to A.B., at Mr. G. Range- 

 cr oft'-, Sheet-street, Windsor. 



A S GARDENER, or GARDENER and BAILIFF. 



aJLL —A Married Man aged 38, without incumbrance, who per- 

 fectly understands Horticulture in all its branches ; every satis- 

 faction can be given as to his abilities, and 9 years character, 

 from the lady he has left.— Direct to J. B., Mr. Fuller, Nursery- 

 man, Chertsey, Surre y. , 



S GARDENER, or GARDENER and BAILIFF. 



—A Single Man, aged 35 years, who perfectly understands 

 his profession in all its various branches, also the Norfolk and 

 Essex mode of Farming, with a good knowledge of Stock ; can 

 be highly recommended by the gentleman with whom he Uvea 

 seven years, and has no objection to live in the house or out. 

 — Direct to W. W.. at Mr. Batten's, Brook-street, Upper Clapton . 



AS GARDENER, and to take charge ot a Worse and 

 Chaise.-A Respectable Young Man who can milk a ' uow 

 and make himself generally useful; can have an unexception^ 

 able character from the situation he is about to le*™;-^™ * 

 to A. B.. Mr. Brown's, 5, Albert-place ^Wandsworth, burrey^ 



A S GARDENER.— A Married Man, who perfectly 



t\. understands his profession in every department, a™ can 

 have nearly three years character from the situation he is ; apoui 

 to leave. His Wife has no objection to take charge of Dairy or 

 Poultry .-Direct to G. C, Post-office, H arrovv. 



A" S GARDENER.— A respectable Youug Man, 23 

 years of age, who perfectly understands ^^^^e ha s 

 have a good two years' character from the gentleman he n 

 just left. A single-handed place.-Direct A. B., «« e °* *" 

 Austin, Gardener, Beddington-nark, near Croydon, So rrey. 



A S GARDENER.-A married Man, aged 40, .who 



A perfectly understands his profession. H.s wife co«Idtt« 

 charge of Pouhy, the Dairy, and Bake.-Direct to Mr. Elmi, 

 Sutton Place, Ripley. . - WvM.eTfflL 



"A~SGARDENER,orGARDENER and FORbSTEK, 



A with the Management of a small Farm, rf require* A 

 8 ingle middle-aged Man, a native ° f , S ™'l an ^ 

 the most unexceptionable and ;» tl8fa *°5* ^ 

 fessional ability and propriety o ! moral co ^ s f ^ m 80 rou ch 

 situation, where he lived near y 20 yean • ^ a B"J5j e faro ily. 

 an object as a comfortable situation in a J^P ect * u T and 

 All letters directed to W. R.. care of Messrs. » URS Uy 

 M'Mullkn, Seedsmen, Leadenhall- street, will be promy 



attended to. 



To board in or out of the houw, 



joad near Gravesend, by a woman named Sarah Towers, who case, to the sorrowr of the creditors, the property which the bank- 



a sin 

 all its bra 

 from the pi 

 Paragon Nursery. Brixton hill, Surre y 



" TO GUANO MERCHANTS, &c. 



A YOUNG MAN, of business h-b.ta, w^hw for an 



A engagement, either on Commission , or otherw *e ^ 



extensive connexion among Nurserymen. H or i post- 



«pectable reference will be given.-Dircct to j. 









office, Paddington 



