The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-30 00:00:00

THE BIRMINGHAM BANK FORGERIES.

At the Mansion-house yesterday Mr. Wyatt, the
solicitor who defended the primeness Benjamin Taylor and
Henry Kelly, who are charged with committing a series of
extensive frauds and forgeries upon the Birmingham Bank,
attended before Sir B. W. Carden, the presiding alderman,
to offer two persons as bail for the defendant Benjamin
Taylor.
Mr. C. Lewis attended to ("pow the applioatiee. It
will be remembered that the prisoners were tried at the 'sat
maim of the Central Criminal Court upon several indict.
tweets for forgery, but the Common Berjosat, who presided,
woe of opinion that this particular offence had not been
established. There were several other charges of conspi-
racy spied the defoodasts, and they were pceipooed to the
October sissies, but the Common flarjeant directed that
the defesdants should be admitted to bail upon finding re-
cogoisances to the amount of 260/. Two persons had offered
themselves as bail in the beginning of the week, bat they
were rejected as not being sufficiently responsible.
One of the parsecs who now offered himself as sorely was
the father of the defendant, an aged grey-haired man of
most respectable • He stated, in reply to quer
thous put by Mr. yatt, that he resided at Birsaieglasm,
and had retired from business and lived upon his property.
and be said that he was worth more than the anemat re-
quired as surety, after all his debts had been paid.
Mr. Lewis thou proceeded to put some questions to him.
and is reply be said that his property consisted principally
of a number of the Midland Banking Company's shares,
which were worth 1601. each, and in the whole were of the
value of :i,OOO/. lie sold that he had been surety to the
same bank for his son to the extent of 3,0001., sod be alp-
posed his shares would be liable, but they were still in his
pores/lieu, and he had not mortgaged or iecumbered them
in soy manner.
Mr. Lewis inquired whether he was not aware that the
total amount of his son's liabilities was something like
40,000/. ?
He replied that be was not. He had paid the beak
1,000/. on account of his eon's liabilities to them.
In answer to farther questions the applicant said that
since these transactions he bad let his house and sold part
of his furniture, but be denied that his eon's difficulties had
anything tali° with this proceeding. The poor old gentle-
man burst into tears, and complained of the course of
examination to which he was subjected.
Mr. Lewis said it was painful to him to have to put such
questions, bat he had a duty to perform, and he could not
avoid doing so. The two prisoners under charge were
accused of a very serious offset:a, and had obtained large
sums of mousy by mesas of fraud, sad nothing was more
probable than that, if they were once at large, they would
be heard of again. Under these circumstances
his duty to the public, and as the solicitor for the ormolu-
ties, left him no alternative but to take all the pro hiltless
in his power to prevent any other than responsible sureties
from being accepted.
Mr. Taylor said be considered be wee quite reepoesible for
the sum of 6001., which was the amount of the meognizainoss
required upon the two remaining indictments.
11r. Lewis said that upon his own showing it was not so.
It was elemr that he bad been ruined by his son, and while
be commiserated his position he felt bound to submit that
his bail ought not to be accepted.
Sir R. Carden observed that the circumstances were no-
doubtedly very painful, but upon the facts before him he
felt bound to refuse the bail.
The parties then retired.

OXFORD, SEPT. 28. —DIA= or THE PROFESSOR
Or EXPERIMENTAL PRELOMPHT.—The Rev. Robert Walker,
M.A., of Wadham College, profaner of Experimental Phi-
losophy, expired at his residence, Non-hill, near Oxford,
yesterday, after a long mental illness. The professor was
appointed by the Vice-Chancellor alone until the year 1863,
but is now to be elected by a board, onosisting of the Vice-
Chancellor, the Warden of Wadhain, the &milieu professor
lof Astronomy, the Sedleian professor of Natural Philo-
' sophy, and the Aldrichean professor of Chemistry..
I&X.PLOttION AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL.—Yesterday
&Merano* a serious accident occurred to Robert
WI wing,
a
man employed at the laboratory department of Woolwich
Arsenal, who, it appears, was engaged in preparing percus-
sion caps, when the powerful detonating mixture be was
usieg by some moans exploded with a loud report, and
Irving was much injured about he face, ono of his eyes so
much so that it is feared be will lose the sight. The suf-
ferer is now under medical treatment at the infirmary of
the establishment. A number of boys are employed in the
I Milne factory, aid it is fortunate that the accident was sot
I attended with more serious results.
OOVNIINMENT IMO:Menet AND A NNUTrIZEI. —The
following additioual post-olftees in England will be open
on and after the 2nd of October, for the receipt of
proposals for theinsuratice of lives or the purchase of govern-
ment annuities, under the act 27 sad 28 Yid, esp. 43, and
for the receipt of the premiums becomiog due to the Poet.
master-General, from time to time, under *Detracts for the
insurance of lives or the purchase of government annuities,
and for the payment of soy sums which shall become payable
by the Postmaster-Geoeral under the said contracts ;
Audios (Nantwich), A Isham (Norwich), Basioptoke,
Beaulieu (Southampton), • (Wiaohester), Biehop's
Waltham (Sothamptoo), Bognor, Chatted. March), Chet)-
,n stow' Collingbam (Newark), Cohens (Fareharn), Cowes
(Isle of Wight), Granbrook (Stepleburst), Colchester, Chick
• (Rushee), Droxford (Southampton), Constable. Droitwicb,
i Bosworth, Epworth (Bawtry), Farehant, Fawley (South.
&.lepton), Foisted (Chelmdord), Fleetwood (Preston),
i
Basting% Barest, Myth. (Southampton), Benailwortb,
Littl•biumpton (Aruridel), Mansfield, March, Marshfield
(Chippoolism), Neils, Abbey (Southampton), Newark,
Newhaven (Lewes), Peokridge (Stafford), Ringwood, St.
Leopard's (Hastings), Shirley Common (Sonthemptoo),
Shoreham, Titotifield (Forsham), Wedoa, Wimborne,
I Wiedsor, Yeadoa (Leeds). These offices will be open for
such purposes during the boars appointed for the trawler
Moo of money order business. A band-bill (*delete( the
' principal rules of the Government Insurance and Aantdty-
office, and of the Post-offire Savings Banks, Ito been Frisked
• for gratuitous distribution, aid copies may be obtelsed at
the above-waned offices. The measure wil4 from time to
time, be extended to other past-offices than those sewed
above, sad due metes will be given of such extessioes.
U application be made to any postmaster foe the extension
of the measure to his office, he will at once report the cit.
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