The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-30 00:00:00

THAMES.

George Tiths, aged 43,actiioldriver, was brought before
Mr. Knox, charged with stealing a carpet-bag, containing
sixteen silver spoons, a muff, a bottle of brandy, some toys,
and other property, value 91., belonging to Mr. John Mar-
shall, of Leeds.

On the morning of Tuesday, the 21st Met., the prosecutor
hired the prisoner at King's-crops to convey him and his
family to a ship bound to New Zealand, in the Shrdwell
basin of the London Dock. The party consisted of the pro-
secutor, three women, six children, and a man who rode on
the top of the cab. There was a good deal of luggage, and
among other tbingaa carpet-bag to which the prosecutor arid
his sister-in-law called the prisoner's very particular at-
tention, and said it contained valuable property.
The prisoner immediately deposited the carpet-bag in the
dickey, under his feet. The party alighted in the London-
dock • the ship in which the prosecutor and his family were
to prOceed to New Zealand was being hauled out of the
basin, and all the preparations for embarkation wereburried.
The cab was just driving away when the prosecutor and his
sister-in-law recollected that the carpet-bag was missing.
and that it bad not been taken out of the dickey. They went
after the cab and could not overtake it. The prosecutor, his
wife and children, went on board the ship destined to convey
them to New Zealand, but were compelled to land again
owing to one of the little ones being attacked
with fever. Mr. Marshall communicated with the
police, and searched for his carpet-bag all over the metro.
polls but could not obtain any tidings of his property.
Yesterday (Wednesday) morning a police constable named
Cook. No. 195 8, went to the prisoner's lodgings, at No. 93,
Snow's-fields, Bermondsey, and put some questions to him.
The prisoner admitted taking a fare as described, from
King's-cross to Shadwellhasin on the 21st. and said he gave
up the carpet-bag along with the rest of the luggage. Mr.
Marshall and his sister-in-law were quite certain the carpet-
bag wax not removed from the cab, and that the prisoner
drove away with it in the dickey.
Mr. Knox said there was a case of iruspicion only against
the prisoner, and permitted Lim to go at huge, upon hie en-
tering into his own reoogniaance to appear next Wednesday.
Graeae Barnett. the proprietor and driver of his own
omnibus, appeared before Mr. Knox charged on a summons
with assaulting George Smootbey, the conductor of an
omnibus belonging to the London General Omnibus Com.
Pag. •
mr. Thomas Beard, solicitor, appeared for the com-
plainant, who had received a severe cut on his face from the
defendant's whip—in fact the thong went round his neck
' and cut his cheek open.
The defendant asked for a postponement of Um ease, to
give him an opportunity of calling witnesses.
Mr. Bunt had no objection if his fee and the expenses of
bia witnesses were paid.
Mr. Knox—That is but reasonable.
The defendant said the summons was not served upon
him until Tuesday afternoon at o'cleek.
Mr. Beard said the summons was taken out on Saturday
morning last.
Mr. Knox asked the cause of the delay in serving the
summons ; when
Taplin. police-constable No. TM, K, one of tho warrant
officers of the court, said he had mislaid the process of the
magistrate.
Mr. Knox—Then as an accident has occurred it would be
unfair to saddle the defendant with the expenses of the day.
It is our 'aches, and the cue must be postponed without
payment of costs.
Mr. Beard—Will son say Saturday for the hearing of the

CWW.
Mr. Knex—Certainly. Seturday next et two o'clock.

THE CITY BANK OF MANCHESTER.

An account has already been published of the
stoppage of the City Batik of Manchester, and of the arrest
of 31r.Jonab Andrew, the manager. The following letter
has since been addressed to the officer who arrested Anthew,
and as it may nerve as lt warning to others who may be in-
clined to borrow from loan societies its publication may be
useful. We omit the name of the writer, though it has been
given to us :
" Blackburn, Oct. 29, 1862.
"Sir,—l see from the Manchester papers that you have
secure Mr. Jonah Andrew as • prisoner. I am sorry to
my that I have been drawn into his net, and how 1 ant to
get clear I know not. I borrowed of Mr. A. as
banker 100/. in 1859. and received for the 100/. short
of 80/. I have paid hack for the loan about 117/.
for the SOL When I had paid beck 1001. 1 stopped
paying, thinking I bad given enough, but Mr.
A. told me that I should have to continue pm :lig
or they would have to distress my boodvmet
and rather than bring my friend it to trouble I began to pay
again, but the City liana stills brings' me in debtor 47/. Is.
7d.,,nfter having paid 1171., besides being obliged,to pay for
insurance 2/. 15s. Bd. per quarter, which I kept up to last
May, when from inability I gave it up. So that in all, for
the' short of 80/. I stall have paid, with the balance
they still charge against me, 177/. 19s. 7d. It is worse than
highway robbery. Such work bath been a very serious thing
for me. Mr. Andrew told me, when I applied for the limn,
it would be (granted) ou very easy terms—but such terms
are the way to ruin a man.-1 ours, &c."
_ .

One of the published accounts of the arrest of Mr. An-
drew stated that it was supposed the frauds would involve
a loss to the proprietors of something like 120,000. Mr.
Steed, solicitor to the investors, has since published a letter
stating that this is a gross exaggemtion, sod that it is be-
lieved the loss will not reach a tenth of that sum. It will
be well for all concerned if Ibis should pro►e to be true,
Lut it mny be mentioned that the statement impugned, how-
ever erroneous, was given to the mem by • pereos on one of
the class committees, connected with the bank, and that
there is reason to believe he was not actuated by any desire
to mislead. Of course till all the affairs of the bank have
been investigated it would be useless to speculate further on
the subject.

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