The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-06 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL

LANCAUHEL
THE REVENUE DEFRAUDED OP 7,oool.—The Liver-
pool Chronicle of Saturday says that a mut extensive fraud,
by which it Is feared that 7,0001. will be lost to the revenue,
war discovered on Tuesday last by the officials at the Custom.
hones. It appears that in the year 1848 a number of land.
ing•watters were employed in taking stock in the bonded
warehouses, for the purpose of discovering if thtir contents
weed with the official documents. On going to Ledson's
warehouse, In Heavy-street, it was found that 1,400 bags of
forei coffee, which had been bonded (by a firm now bank-
rupt in 1845, had been removed from the wershovse in
1847, without the duty having been paid. The duty on the
abstracted coffee would reach nearly 7,0001. It is supposed
that the removal must have been effected with the COlllll%.
ance of the customs lockers, and, inconsequence, two of them
are at present suspended. Information of the fraud war im-
mediately sent to London, and a surveyor.general is daily
expected fee the ppunrpose of making a most searching inquiry
into the affair. We are afraid that this is but the nucleus
of dinner transeetioas.

TIII RIVAL RAILWAY LINKS FROM PRESTON TO
LITERVOOL.-81r,—Bins I sent off my report of the pro-
eredmgs of the two rival railway companies (the London and
North-Weston and the Rot Lancashire), who are contend-
ing for the peseenger traffic from Preston to Liverpool, the
tares have been again reduced by both companisa The
resent and farmer prices I give below :
Id Cl.i tad Mlle. 3rd C.
5. d. s. d. s. 4.
Igllamda7
Otrpculothe NorthilaTtnica 16 0 4 0 3
Prenent wises
The North Union Company played the same game they
see now doing with the Preston and Bolton Railway, be-
eases that hiss opened out a shorter route to Muchester ;
I se that it would seem that the amalgam of that Ilne wish to
mnapel the public to•travel by the longed route. There is,
however, not Ouch doubt bat the bulk of the traffic between
Pesetas sad Liverpool will be is the new line eil Ortaskilk,
It sa before stated, 10 mike shorter tams the old mate
byb_e_l n and Parkside.—Z.
Tint Livaaroor. MURDER.—The poor servant girl
rear died yesterday morning.
EXTENSITY ISSIII OF FORGED 51. Nons.—Yestar-
iay, at the Borough Court, Manchester, a young man,
named Wm. Nealea, was brought up for final examination
en a charge of paying forged 61. notes. The prisoner is sus-
peeled of bubo paid a very large number of forged notes,
and no lea than four cases ware established against him
before the magistrates. MN. Elisabeth Chadwick, grocer,
228, Great Anoostastrest. Manchester, proved that on the
15th alt. the prisoner bought 4 lb. of tobacco, and paid s
61. Bank of England note, out of which she gave hint the
change. Mr. Kinsmane, first inspector of the branch Bank
of lingland,idanehester. proved that the note was a forgery.
Mo. lane Tor, who keeps the Angel lon, Stalybridge,
stated that on the 26th September last the prisoner came to
the Angel and stayed during the night. Next morning he ten-
dered a 61 note, purporting to be of the Shr ffield and Rother-
ham Bank, in dhchargo of his bill, and received the balance
in gold and silver. Mr. W. H. hildhurst, booking clerk at
the station of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway in Man-
chester, stated that on the 14th Sept , 1847, the phasic -
came with another man, and took thketa to me at the MAP
tions along the line. The prisoner's companies teadered a
is: note, purporting to be of the Sheffield and Rotherham
Bank, and received change. James Rol.ord, ehopmen to
Mr. *Cireenhalgh, jeweller, St. Mary's gate, Manchester,
aid- that on the 14th September,. 1847, the phi- i
WPM parelased a signet ring, value les., and
paid with a Si. note, purporting to be of the Sheffield and -
Beanbag Bank. Re reeeived 41.40. in change, and stated ....'1". •'an ,
al
that his name was Jones, d that he kept a shop to H lt,,A, '7, ~ Vs.
and he endorsed bia name on the back of it. Mr. Frear; •" ~ t,-. .•.. r
cashier in the Sheffield and Rotherham Bank, proved ~ , ..- ;„
the three note above-mentioned were all forgeries. .. ..
prisoner was committed for trial at the maims. . .
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