The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, 310NDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1862.

DONCASTER SEPTEMBER MEETING.

of
AOOIMTANCIe POI THI 08EAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP
Z nova. crab, 15 ft. sod 5 tally if declared, with 100 added.
St. Lager Course. (74 subs. 40 declared.)
Age UM Ar st lb
Wallsee
Bappres . .. 4 10 Conundrum
Doeloot
Cowley
Pasties Princes. ... 4 7 Pembroke
m by Voltigeur listanella 5 7
1114k•Seas .—. .. ... 5 2 Town ColMielliet
Captain Portibus . . 4 2 Myrtle
Brighton (In. Mb eA) 3 2 Gorse
cm..itieror 4 0 Sweet Hawthorn.... 4 1
The Knave 8 0 Bedouin
Duicibella
Anonym*
Prologue 6 II May Oodles
Moorhen
Bast Langton .. . • 13 Doane Came 3 7
Master George .. . 3 12 Victor X 7
Investment ... 3 10

ACCIPTAINCEM FOR THE CLIIVILAND RiNDICAP Of 20
'ovadeclared.. each, 10 ft, and aonly if declared. Om mile. (60 ma%
26 )
. .

Age at lb Age st lb
King of Diamonds 6 9 7 Town Councillor .... 9 12
thctator
Brilliant 4 8 3 —Clarissa
Doefoot
Exchequer 3 712 Antwerp (dam Um
Captain Fortibes 4 7 7 Ma,
Conqueror 4 7 6 Colossus
Vancouver 4 7 6 Haddingtoa
Nast Lopata
Master George 3 7 6 Diadala
Aca of Clubs 3 7 2 Back Pearl
Bathilde
Sacanella

iLatu inttlltgence.

METRODII.I COUNTY oorßTti.

Sitting days appointed tar lir pima week.
BLOONSIICKT, Pottlaild.rCea.—Tuadq, Rept. 9 ; Wednesday,
10: Tbausday, 11.
OanNyacw—Wednesday. Sept. 10: 12..
WOOLWICH. —Thwsday, ,Sept. 11.
CITT OW LoNDON, Oulldhall-badlngs. Monday, Sept. B
Wednesday, 10 Friday, 12.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION MOUSE.

A gentleman gave the following information in referents.
to a most ingenious system of fraud, which, it is to be feared,
has been but too successful in a great number of instances,
and against which the public will in future do well to be
upon their guard. For a considerable time put advertise-
ments have appeared in several London and provincial
newspapers offering sums of money upon personal security,
at 5 per cent. intereat, upon very advantageous terms. This
advertisement was answered by one of the clients of the ap-
plicant, a farmer in Scotland, and after some oommunkation
had passed between him and the parties referred to in the
advertisement, he answered the following letter, dated
August 21 :
' Dear Sir,—Yesterday, at a meeting of the directors,
your application for an advance of 3001. was agreed to, and
as the loans are payable in full, in aooordance with the usual
custom, I herein enclose one part of order on the Bank of
England for 3004 The interest for the first year will be
151., which please remit in Scotch notes by registered letter,
together with the enclosed note for 3001., duly signed, and
by return of poet I will send a stamp receipt for the in-
terest, also the other part of the order on the Bank of Eng.
land. For greater security I have crossed the order; there-
fore when you have pasted the two parts together, you must
pay it to some banker, who will charge a small commission
for getting the cash for you here. On account of the nume-
rous sums provided for different applicants, I must request
your prompt attention. Meantime I am your obedient
servant, ke."
Enclosed in this letter was the half of a cheque on the Bank
of England for 3001., and also the following document :
" No. 8,001. 300/. " August 22,1862.
" I agree to pay the 'um et three hundred pounds by six
yearly payments of fifty pounds each. I also agree to pay
interest on the same each year in advance, at the rate of U.
per cent. per annum."
Upon the receipt • of these documents the gentleman ap-
plying for the loan wrote to a friend in London requesting
him to procure some information about the parties, and the
result was that the whole proceeding turned out to be
neither more nor less than an ingenious swindle, none of
the parties to the pretended loan being discovered, and
arrangements were merely made to receive the letters that
arrived. The cheque was a genuine form of the Bank of
England, but one of a particular series that were in cir-
culation several yearn ago, and no clue bas been ob-
tained likely to show bow these parties became possessed
of such cheques.
The applicant was informed that as no legal offence had
actually, been oommitted, the criminal law could not be put
in motion, but as the application would, no doubt, be
made public through the usual channels, this would in all
probability have the effect of putting, the public on their
guard against such proceedings in future.

THE ROUPELL FORGERIES.

Within the last few lays a notification has been
made to Mr. ivory, the clerk and principal legal officer of
the Central Criminal Court, by the solicitor to the Trea-
sury, that it is the intention of the government to take up
the prosecution against Mr. Ronpell, and copies of the depo-
sitions taken by the magistrates at Guildford against the
prisoner have been furnished to the Home-office. It is
understood that two bills of indictment will be preferred,
one charting the offence of forging the signature of the
deceased Mr. Roupell to the deed of gift of the Kingston
estate, which was the subject of the action of ejectment
tried at the Guildford amine, and the other charging the
same offence with reference to the supposed lost will of the
deceased under which the prisoner came into the posses-
sion of the property. As the law at present @tends
the offence involves the punishment of penal servitude for
life or not less than four years, or imprisonment with bard
labour, accompanied, if the court shall think fit, with
solitary confinement for any term not exceeding four years.
Since Mr. Roupell has been confined in Horsemonger-lane
, Gaol he has not exhibited the slightest depression of
spirits. Like all other prisoners before trial he is per-
mitted to provide provisions for himself, of course
under certain restrictions, and he eats and drinks
heartily, and does not seem at all affected by his position.
He has not been visited by any of his relatives, neither has
he received, or made, any communications to them. He
has been visited by an attorney, with whom be has had se-
i vowel long consultations, the nature of which is, of course,
strictly private. It is generally believed, however, that he
will plead guilty, as he is (ally aware that it is only by
persisting in his admission of
forgery, and being convicted
the penalty for that crime, that be can hope sad suffering
to succeed in his object of causing the restitution of the
property to the heir-at-law. Under ordinary circumstances
I.coupell would be removed during the ensuing week
from his present place of imprisonment to Newgate
with the rest of the prisoners charged with the commission
of offences in the county of Surrey, but as he is in the
custody of the sheriff of that county under a detainer for
debt, it will be necessary, before he can be removed, that •
writ of habeas corpus should be applied for. The detainer
is for the sum of 600 f., and sat the suit of • lady whose
name it is needless to mention. In all probability the bills
against the prisoner will be sent before the grand jury on
the first or second day of the smiles, which will comments
on the 22nd instant, and if true bills should be returned
by the grand jury, a writ of babe's corpus will then be ob-
taioed, and he will be brought up for trial.
The public are aware that at present the only evidence in
support of the charges of forgery consists in the proof that
while under 'examination upon the trial at Guildford. Mr.
Roupell admitted that he had forged the name of his
father to the deed of gilt and the pretended will, but in ad-
dition to this a great deal of evidence will be laid before
the grand jury for the purpose of showing that those signa-
tures were, in point of fact, forgeries, and the admission
made by Mr. Roupell himself that they were so will be
given as confirmatory testimony, although some technical
difficulties may arise that will render this statement brad-
miuible.

Since the termination of the case at Guildford, it appear'
that the advisers of the heir-at-law, Richard Roswell, have
not adopted any active proceedings against other parties
who bad purchased portions of the property from the
prisoner, and it is said that no further steps
will be taken until the charges of forgery shall
have been disposed of. It would seem from in-
quiries that have since been made that in every
case the different estates disposed of were absolutely alien-
ated by sale, and in almost every instance the purchasers
appeared to have been satisfied with the title of William
RoupelL In some of them, however, it appeared that the
solicitors for the purchasers took the precaution of requiring
that Mrs. Reopen, the mother of the prisoner, should be a
party to the conveyance of the property, and that she
should also guarantee the title, and in all those came, if
the heir-at-law should recover possession, there will be a
personal remedy against her. Some of the parties who have
purchased portions of the property are placed in a very pain-
ful and unpleasant position in consequence of the discove-
ries that have taken place. In one instance where a
• sum of 12,0001., that had been left by a professional
gentleman, and which was the proceeds of a long course of
' honourable exertion, for the benefit of his family, the
parties are now unable to obtain any rents, and are, of
course, liable to be called upon at any moment to defend an
action of ejectment. In several other cases, alio, where the
London, Ciitham, and Dover Railway Company had made
agreements to purchase the property, they required for their
extension through the parish of Christ Church, they have
refused to complete until they can obtain • more secure
title than the one that could, under existing circumstances,
be ranted by the present holders of the property, so that
the greatest possible doubt and uncertainty exists in refer-
ence to the question among all the parties who are involved
in this most extraordinary affair.

THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND
RAILWAY.

LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.

The directors half-yearly report has just been I i
issued. The receipts exceeded those of the corresponding ,
period of 1861 by 16,7671. 16e. Id. The expenses were
7,280/. 13s. 4d. lass thee the seine period of 1861. The net
profit of the six meths was 24,2801. Oa. dd. The improved
receipts are in some measure attributed to the increase of
traffic in the mouths of May sod June, occasioned by the
International Exhibition. and might therefore be thane- I
terised as exceptional and as no evidence of substantial ha-
provement. But the operations of the months of Jae/eery,
February, March, and April, which were unaffected by the
Exhibition, yielded a result superior to that of the corre-
sponding month, of 1861 by 13,6681. Os. 5d., thus indicating
a permanent improvement of considerable extent. The
Exhibition traffic naturally tended to an increase of the
expenses, whereas on the contrary the figures above given
exhibit a very sensible reduction, notwithatanding the in-
creased receipt and more extensive servioerendered. During
the half-year the number of pariengers carried was
20,532,871 ; number of miles ran, 5,951,014 ; average earn- '
ings per mile, Is. Ojd. ; average fare per reasoner,
3/d. The number of horses forming the stock of
the company on the .10th of June was 6,866.1
The number of omnibuses being worked in the metropolis
by the company on 30th June was 645. By way of expen- ,
meet, a "Parcels Expreas" was established on let J•nuary
last, for conveyance of small parcels by the omnibuses of the
company, and their collection and delivery by agent&
throngbout the metropolis ; the receipts and expenses of •
the service have been kept entirely distinct from the
girienl business of the company, so that the result of the
experiment might be more readily ascertsioed. There has
been uo primary lass by the introduction of this business. '
The directors believe that the service is capable of advan-
tageous development, and they purpose, after the close of
the Exhibition, to give it their snore particular attention. ,
A large sum was paid during the half-year for compensation I
for injuries to passengers ; of this item the sum of 1,1471.
13e. Bd. was paid for the damages and coats in the action of
"Collins v. the Company," which arose out of • colli-
sion between one of the company's omnibuses and •
tramway car on the late Marble Arch street railway. The
The contracts for the privilege of placing advertisements in
the omnibuses of the company expired on 30th June. The
directors invited new tenders for the privilege, but noes
which they could consistently accept were received. An
agreement was therefore entered into with Mr. Smith, of
the firm of Smith, Holmes and Co., the advertising agents,
under which the business is now carried on. The proceed-
ings before the arbitrator in the snit of the We
Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company against the
company closed on 30th August, and the arbi-
trator has promised to deliver his award on 25th October.
Messrs. Greenwood and Turner, of Manchester, having
brought to London twenty large three-horse omnibuses of
excellent character, with the requisite number of horses,
harness, and other material, for the purpose of carrying
passengers to and from the Exhibition, and being unwilling to
incur the expense of removing them again to Manchester after
its close, offered the stock to the company at • reasonable
price. The directors, seeing that if left in other bands
the stock was likely to form the nucleus of an opposition,
considered it expedient to accept the offer, and they
effected the purchase, and took possession of the property
on the 30th August. They intend to continue
the omnibuses on the route to the Exhibition until

its cinee,---rnd then to employ them, as they
do those of a similar character which the company
have had in use for some years pest, on roads where the
traffic is best suited to omnibuses of their description. The
outlay made for this purchase only temporarily affects the
finances of the company, inasmuch as after the cessation of
the extraordinary Exhibition service the stock will be ap-
plied to the ordinary use of the company. in lieu of new pur-
chases being made for maintaining the effective condition of
the rolling stock. The revenue from the Exhibition traffic
has fully realised expectations, and the directors anticipate
the satisfaction of placing before the shareholders in March
next al report and statement of mount which will con-
vince them that, whatever may have been the past diffi-
culties of the undertaking, it has at length reached a solid
commercial basis, with every prospect of future prosperity.