At Bow Street, on Saturday, George Forbes Atkinson was com-
mitted for trial, on the charge of forging the acceptance of Captain Lauderdale Maule to 3 bill for 10001. He was tried yesterday, in the Central Criminal Court, and convicted; the Judge remarking, that he sever saw a clearer case.
Josefina Carillo d' Alborroz, a Spanish lady, resident-in London, complained, about a fortnight ago, to Lord John Russell, of an out- rage by some persons pretending to be her countrymen. Lord John directed the Bow Street Magistrates to make inquiries into the affair, and Sir Frederick Roe has done all he could to get at the bottom of it. The lady pretended that she was inveigled into a house in Broad Street Buildings, in the City, and introduced, blindfolded, to a solemn tri- bunal, consisting of a president and eleven other persons, seated at a table on which were twelve shaded lamps, in a small room hung with black cloth. Each person had a Spanish copy of the Four Evangelists, and there was an ivory crucifix on the table. The mock President threatened the lady with dire vengeance on herself and kindred, if she did not desist from interfering to prevent Don Carlos from effecting a loan in London. After trying to frighten her into swearing that she and her friends in Spain would desist from all attempts to thwart Don Carlos, they bandaged her eyes again, led her several times round the room, and then pushed her out of the house. The men spoke Spanish badly, like foreigners. The lady has since seen one of them in Regent Street : she followed him into a shop, and watched him, but be escaped from her. She could recognize them all, she says. A female servant attended her to the house, in a cabriolet, but was not :itiated. This girl and her sister, who were both under the protec- tion of the Senora, could not be found when required to give evidence; and it is supposed that, with the connivance of their mother, they have been somewhere secreted. The Senora pointed out the house in Broad Street Buildings, in which, as she said, the mummery took place, but could not recognize the room. The owner of the house and his clerks denied positively that any such affair could have been carried on in their premises. They stated that another house in the same street had recently been fitted up by some Spaniards ; but it does not appear that the premises alluded to have been Inspected. [We have heard that the whole of this story is a fabrication, to serve the purpose of some parties in Spain.]
No clue has been obtained towards discovering the perpetrators of the supposed murder of the woman, whose mutilated corpse was found in the sack in the Edgeware Road.
It is stated that St. Peter's Church, Belgrave Square, which was almost totally burnt down last week, was insured for 6,0001.
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