The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-19 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

CAarles Savage, 17 pleaded guilty to a charge of forging
I an endorsement to a cheque for 44/. Be. M., with intent to
defraud.

Mr. Sleigh was instructed to prosecute on behalf of the
Bankers' Association.

The prisoner was clerk to a firm of solicitors in the City,
and he had been entrusted to post a letter oontaining the
cheque in question to a gentleman at Plymouth. He
I sent the letter but kept beck the cheque, and haring
forged the endorsement of the gentleman to whom it was
made payable, he obtained the money from the bankers
and expended a great portion of it in the purchase of
jewellery and other articles of that description.
The prisoner was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour.
SINGULAR CRAWS OF FILONT.

William Mutant, 48, and (home Cowan Little, 36, two
well-dressed men, the former of whom wan described as a
cloth merchant, and the latter as a salesman, were charged
with stealing a quantity of carpet, the property of the
Midland Railway Company.
Mr. Poland and Mr. Bailey conducted the prosecution ;
Mr. Sleigh defended Eutaw ; and Mr. Collins appeared
for the other prisoner.
The charge against the defendants was preferred under
rather peculiar circumstances. It appeared that on the
2.lrd March, Messrs. Shown and Co., carpet manufacturers
at Huddersfield, consigned a quantity of carpeting to
Messrs. Eastern and Co., of Fell-street, in the City, which
was conveyed to London by the Midland Railway, and sub-
sequently delivered to one of their carmen for delivery.
By some mistake, arising probably from the illegible
manner in which the address was written, the car-
peting appeared to have been delivered at a ware.
house in Phitiplane, where the prisoner Eustace carried
on business, and was assisted by the other prisoner Little ;
and the fact did not seem to be disputed that the property
had been applied by one or other of the prisoners to his
own purposes. An inquiry took place at the Guildhall
police-court into the circumstances, and Little, who had
been summoned before the magistrates to account for
having taken possession of the property, upon that
occasion set up that he was merely the servant of the
other prisoner Eutaw, who, it appeared, was out of the
way and could not be found.' A warrant was obtained for
his apprehension, but he was not discovered until recently,
and the present charge was then preferred against both
prisoners.
At the clam of the came for the prosecution it was con-
tended on behalf of the prisoners that a charge of larceny
could not be sustained upon the facts before the court. It
was argued that no fraud or false pretence of any descrip-
tion bad been practised by the prisoners to obtain posse,
sion of the property and that under those circumstances
the charge could not be supported.
The Recorder, after some technical discuesion had taken
place upon the point, overruled the objection.
The learned counsel for the prisoners consequently ad-
dressed the jury in their behalf, and they contended tb
whatever might be thought of their conduct in disposing
of the property, there was nothing to show that any frau-I
had been practised by either of the prisoners in the first
instance, and that it would be a great act of injustice to
convict them of felony under such circumstances as existed
in the present case.
Witnesses were called for the defendant Enstece, among
whom was Lord John Chichester, who stated that the pri•
soner was an officer in the same regiment with him in the
year 1841, and that at that period he was always considered
a gentleman and a man of honour. He subsequently joined
the Dragoon Guards and served in the Crimea, and
engaged in the memorable Balakiava charge. The pri-
soner appeared to have subsequently engaged in some
trade speculations, which did not seem to have turned out
successful.

The Recorder, in summing up the case to the jury, told
them that as this property had been wrongly delivered I/
the carman by mistake, he was of opinion that it Wu
belonged to the railway company in law, and he directed
them that, if they should be of opinion that the rrt.
or either of them, had fraudulently appropriated it to his
own use, having an opportunity of knowing to whom it
really belonged, they would be guilty of the offence with
which they were
The jury retired to after a long consultation
in the box. About an hour subsequently they returned
into court with a verdict of Guilty against both priAoner4,
whom they recommended to mercy on account of their p
viotis good character, and more especially Little, as harm;
acted under the orders of &Waco,.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said he could n,.t
help observing that in this case the fraud had apparently
not been originally concocted by the defendants. It was
mistake made by others which threw the goods into their
bands. Desiring to give effect to the recommendation of
the jury, the sentence of the court upon Little would he
threecalendar months' imprisonment with bard labour. and
that upon Eustace sic months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

Prvieriek Jame*, 2.3, carman, was indicted for atealit,,,
two sold ns, three finger rings, two brooches, and I
writang case.chai
The prisoner was in theemploymentof the South Eastern
Railway Company, and broke open a box in oourse of trie•
sit from Gravesend to Brighton, abstracting therefrom ;0/.
mirth of jewellenr, which be sold for about 71.
He plaided guilty, and was sentenced to 18 monthi im-
prisomment.
Previous tothe rising of the enure Mr. Macrae ?Aar, bar
ristar, made an application with reference to a care—the
Queen v. Brown and others—which had been disposed of A
a previous session. The prisonen, three in nem'
ber, were implicated in a silk robbery in the
City, and there ware three counts for stealing end three
for receiving. The actual thief was put into the witness-
box, and at the close of the cromaxansination of this rut'
ness one of the prironers intimated that the properly
fated to by him was not the same as that specified in the

—Mr. Griffiths—About 23/.
The Assistant-Judge (barinf conferred with the magis-
trates on the bench) rid—'l e think that this is a case
that ought to be inquired into, and we are of opinion that
Mr. Allen, the county solicitor, should be instructed to
nuke all proper ireknities, to see if this v not a case in
which proceedings might be taken against the pawnbroker,
and in that case we shall defer passing sentence on the pri-
soners, as we may have occasion to make use of their
evidence.

flitTprisoners were then removed.
John Ball, 50, a tall, respectable-looking man, was in-
dicted for obtaining, by means of Wee pretences, from
ostave Masu, a gun, value 251., with intent to defraud.
The prisoner seemed to have pursued a determined
nurse of swindling by representing himself as a person of
ugh connections, and thus attempting to get premonition of
minable property. With respect to the charge contained
the indictment, he obtained the gun from Mr. Main,
if Wimpole-street, agent to a Belgian gun-maker, repre-
eating that he was a friend of Lord Vivian. A le:Aer helmet
teLord Stanley is given below :—"Blythe-liall,Oct. 1,1867.
My dear Lord Stanley,—ln your Abyssinian expedition a
man who knows the country, its resources, and where they
are to be found, the people and their ways, Sta., the best
hne of route, and who is thoroughly acclimatised, must be
useful. Such a man is Dr. John Hall, wall known as an
African traveller, and who, I believe, has penetrated fur-
ther into the wilds of Africa than any other man. If
merely as a guide and as a finder of cattle, ho., be would
be invaluable. I think lie should not be passed over,
though be is so retiring that he may overlook himself. He
may be found, by letter, at No. 2, Buckingham-street
West. I have this day a letter from him, in which he
refers to the expedition, but is reticent of himself. Hs is
so truly disinterested in all matters that he will be easily
satisfied. He is not a yaws man, but his constitution is
of steel. In strength, activity, and endurance he excels
all young men who compete with him. If a place can be
found for him I shall be obliged.—l am, my dear Lord
Stanley, faithfully yours, Vivian.-71se Right Hon. Lord
Stanley." To this letter Lord Stanley returned the follow-
ing reply, which was received by Lord Vivian with sago-
nishment :—" Foreign-offiee, Oct. 14, 1867. Dear Lord
Vivian.—l am much indebted to you for the suggestion
contained in your note as to the employment of Mr. Hall,
and will refer it to the India-office, with whom all the pre-
parations fee the expedition rest.—Believe me, faithfully
yours, STARLET. —The Lord Vivian." Letters which the'
prisoner had sent to Mr. Reilly, the gun-maker, Messrs.
Lewis and Allenby, and Mesas. Atkinson, were also read.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to all these charges, and the
Assistant Judge said the prisoner's antecedents must be
inquired into, and for that purpose he should defer passing
sentence until those inquires were made.

Mr. Cooke said that, having heard the whole of the
evidence, he had no doubt that the defendant was first
interfered with, and that to a great extent mitigated what
had been done. The use of an instrument was worse than
fighting. The defendant had said be was first interfered
with, and in the quarrel he took up the poker; but it
could not be allowed that an instrument like • poker
should be used in a quarrel. He then sentenced the
prisoner to two months hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection ; but he might depend upon this, that if he was
brought there again on such a charge he would be com-
mitted for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
William Jesup, 16, costermonger, of 29, Princes-street,
Gibraltar-walk, Bethnal-green, and Richard Broom, Is, a
hawker, living in Bell-alley, Goswell-street, St. Luke's,
were brought up before Mr. Newton on a charge of having
been concerned together in garotting James Pelham, •
warehouseman, of 2, Pelham-street, Spitaifields, and
robbing him of a watch and a small quantity of wearing
apparel tied up in a bundle.
The prosecutor deposed that on Saturday night, about
twelve o'clock, he went up Black Eagle-street, Spital-
fields, and as he stopped for • few ninnies the prisoner
Jessup came up, flung his arms round his neck, and en-
deavoured to throw him to the ground. Both fell after •
short struggle, when Broom came up, and robbed him of
his watch, and also • small handle, containing some wear-
itz.apparers
the prosecutor's hat instead of his own, and leaving
his own in its place.
George Cooper, 121 H, proved that about a quarter-past
' orelve on Sunday morning he was acquainted by the pro-
secutor with what had happened, and finding that the de-
iniption coincided with that of the prisoners, he went
'round into Wheeler-street, where he found them holding
an altercation reepec-ing the division of some money. He
conveyed them to the station-house, where they were iden-
tified by the prosecutor, who also claimed the bat worn
by Broom as his own.
Mr. Newton directed a remand.
SOUTHWARK.

Joint Pry, a heariy7lc;olcing man, with his right arm in
• sling, and who pretended to have lost his tongue by
falling off a scaffold, was placed at the bar Ic3fme Mr.
Barthian, charged with begging in the Waterloo-road, and
imposing on the public by exhibiting • piece of sheepskin
in • bottle of water, setting forth that it was his tongue.
It appeared from the evidence of Police-constable 94 L,
that on Saturday afternoon be saw the prisoner standing
on the edge of the pavement in the Waterloo-road, near
the railway terminus, with • board in his right hand, on
which was fixed a painted bill, setting forth " that the
bearer was • bricklayer, and that he fell from • scaffold,
bit his tongue clean off, and broke his arm, and calling on
his brother workmen to assist him." He lied also • bottle
containing • piece .of sheepskin in imitation of • tongue, in
some water, hanging in front of him, setting forth that it
was the tongue he had bitten off in the fall from the
scaffold. Knowing him to be an impostor, and seeing him
receive money from several persons, he took him into cus-
tody. On searching him he found 3s. 9d. in coppers on
him. Witness here produced the bottle containing the
sham tongue for his worship's inspection, and its appear-
ance caused much laughter.
Mr. Burcham asked if the prisoner was known.
The constable replied that he was • notorious impostor,
and had carried on this imposition for years. lie believed
he had been convicted in this court.
Mr. Hawkinson, the office-keeper of this court, recog-
nised him as having been convicted by the late Mr. Coombe
for begging. He was dressed almost similarly, and had •
printed bill in front of him and the sham tongue in the
bottle.

—Mr. Bonham observed that the prisoner was one of the
most impudent begging impostors he had seen for some
time. He sent him to the 'House of Correction at Wands-
worth for one month with hard labour, and ordered his
conviction to be returned to the sesslona.

OTTOMAN RAILWAY.

After the close of our yesterday's report,
Mr. IMLAY strongly condemned the conduct of a small
section of the shareholders who, in the name of an &semis-
thin, bad opposed the board. This being the largest
meeting of shareholders which they had had, he
upon them to pass the following resolution ' That this
meeting hereby records its unqualified disapproval of the
course pursued by the so-called Shareholders' Protection
Society,' especially in memorialising the Ottoman govern-
ment, and earnestly deprecates any further action what-
ever on their part."
Colonel HOLLAND seconded the resolution, which was
passed unanimously.
The business of the special adjourned meeting was then
announced, and Mr. Lewis and his friends, who had been
waiting in the lobby, re-entered the room. -
The CHAIRMAN proposed the adoption of the directors'
report, which has already been published. The discre-
pancies referred to at a previous portion of the meeting had
engaged the atiention'of the board. They wrote to Tur-
key for explanations, and the various documents received
in reply were referred to the finance committee, who had
reported as follows :—" The committee have carefully
examined all the documents received from Mr. Charlton
on the subject of the difference between the amount of the
weekly traffic returnasent home by him andtbe total shown
in his half-yearly revenue account to 30th June last, and
they find the question in no way affects she results shown
in the accounts, which have been duly audited by the Ot-
toman government commicsioners, andare perfectly correct;
that the difference Wu arisen entirely from deductions
made on the settlement of accounts for charges of agency
commission, camel hire compensation for losses, , not
up the regular traffic 'of the line, but upon the traffic of
the outlying districts of Bainau, 'Foch, Odenusk, Sokia,
sad Rea, places distant from the line, at several of which
places agencies had been etiablithed to obtain the traffic,
which agencies had recently been put cm commission as a
preferable mode of payment, and that while the weekly
returns included the entire earnings, these allowances
up the exceptional traffic are deducted in tbe half-yoar's
account. Mr. Charlton has sent over full details of all
the items composing the difference."
Mr. DITAUX seconded the adoption of the report.
Mr. Lewis moved, as an amendment, the adjournment of
the meeting for a month.
Great uproar followed, and the amendment was seconded,
being
aendd declared by Mr. Lewis to be carried. Opinions
divided upon that point, however, a poll was do-
man , the reel question at issue being as far as could be
I made out from the uproar, not the desirableness of adjourn-
mg, but the adoption or rejection of the report.
BOW-STREET. The poll was commenced amidst a strong denunciation
Martha Danes was brought up OD remand, charged with , of the accounts by Mr. Billings, and kept open until four
tiding and abetting a man, not in custody, in committing echo*, when the result was stated to be as follows, vis.
a rape aim ber cousin, Lucy Strutt, a servant girl. I For Mr. Lewis' amendment on the accounts, 2,426 shares
The Prosecution was conducted by Mr. Sheen, of the and 218 votes ; against it, 940 shares and 95 votes ; ahoy/-
firm of Shun and Rome, Bedford-row, solicitors to the fags majority against the directors of 1,488 shires and
Society for the Protection of Young Women. 1K votes.

TALLOW. MONDAY EveNneu.—Although amounts
came to hand last week by telegram of an interruption of
the navigation between Petersburg and Cronstadt, it is
not thought that any of the goods shipped off will be
detained. The total of tallow shipped off is 90,127 against
87,336 last year ; of these, including the tallow still unap-
propriated, London figures for 60,000, against 68,000 last
year—and there has already arrived at this port 32,000
this year against 41,000 last year. Our market has been
steady to-day. Spot, all the year, has maintained the
advance of the latter part of last week, but for more dis-
tant periods 3d. less has been ac.oepted. The market,
closes :—Spot, 435. to 434. 3d. • January to March,
43e. 6d. to 4.14. 9d.; March, 445. rather buyers. Of
town tallow there is a good supply ; the quotation is
425. 6d. net cash. No Odessa offering. So, American is
scarce at 45.. lst pipes. Australian sheep. 455. to 445.
tine and middling ; beef, 425. 6dL to 435. 6d. good to
fine. Coooanut oil quiet. Cochin, 565. to 575. • Ceylon,
514. to 525. ; Sydney. 48s. to 495. 6d. good to fine ; 47a.
to 46e. inferior kinds. Palm oil 40s. fine Lagoa.—(From
the Circular of Messrs. Smith and Charles.)

COTTON.—UTZRPOOL, Nov. 18.—Rather more
inquiry at Saturday's prices. Estimated sales to-day,
10,000 bales, including 1,000 speculation and export. 3,000
American, lad. ; 400 Pernam, Ac., 80. to 90. ;
400 Maranham, Bd. to 9d. ; 500 Musk) and Bahia, 7d.
to 80.; 200 Rio, Bid. ; 400 Baptism, 7id. to 121 d. ; 10
Smyrna, 64d. ; 4,940 Surat, 4 . to 7ad. ; Madras, 6d. ;
Bengal, Scinde, As., 40. to 5 ; 150 Peru, Bd. to 81d.
Fair Dhollerah, ; fair Oomrawuttee, 61d. ; fair
Broach, 61d. ; fair Bengal, sgd. ; fair Egyptian, ; fair
Pernam, Bid.; middling Bowsda, 85d. ; middling Orleans,
81d.

WOOL AND WORSTED.—BRADFORD, Nov. 18.—The
wool market remains in the same position u last week.
The market is quite dull and inanimate. The wiles made
are quite of an exceptional character. The quantity of
wool sold is very small. Prices are slightly in favour of the
buyer. The same quietness pervades the wonted yarn de-
partment. The inquiry for shipping has not increased, and
the home demand, though not quite so bad OA it was, is
only for small lots. Prices are unchanged. Since Thurs-
day a little more business has been done in pieces, but the
orders placed are only small, end generally for prompt de-
livery. Prices remain as hithato.

CATTLE.—LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18.—The supply of stock
was less than on the previous Monday. Beet dull, and
prices lower. Sheep in fair demand at better prices. Bed.
40. to tif d. per lb. ; mutton, sd. to 7d.

COALS.--Ixemon, Nov. 18. —Haetinp Hartley, 18..
6d. ; Holywell Main, 18a. 9d. ; North Patton Gm, 12s. 9d. ;
Wylam, 18s. 6d. ; Eden Main, 19s. 6d. Walls End Has-
well, 225. ; Walls End Hatton, 225. ; Walla End New Bel-
mont, 19a. 6d. ; Walla End Hartlepool, 20s. 9d. ; Walls
End lCelloe, 19.. 9d. ; Walls End East Hartlepool, 21.. 3d. ;
Walls End South Hartlepool, 19e. 9d. ; Walls End Toes,
212. 6d. ; Braneepeth Qnnal, 18s. 6d.--Ships at market,
54 ; sold, 44.

RS-APPEARANCE OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN
Scortsan.—The cattle plague bas re-appeared in Scotland
on the farm of Lanerigg, in Berwickshire, not very far
from Kelao, and at no ereat distance from the (Edam where,
at the end of August, 1865, it first appeared in Scotland.
Several animals among a herd of about thirty young short-
horns—purchased a week or two ego, it is said, from an
English dealer—were on Thursday observed to show symp-
toms of weaimees and illness, and examination that day
and next by skilled veterinary surgeons made it clear that
the cattle were affected with rinderpest. At lend on. of
the animals has since died, and the others have been
" isolated from the rest of the stock," a =issue la the
sufficiency of which, to prevent the further spread of the
disease, hope is reposed.
THE Horses or PARLIAMENT.—Since the proro-
gation of parliament the " bar" of the House of Lords has
beelibrought forward Wee'. This will be of advantage to
parties engaged in appalls pore their lordships, as not
only will it afford additional space below the bar, but
annul whilst speaking being so math nearer their lord-
ships than formerly, it is anticipated that their lordship.'
observations will be heard distinctly at the bar both by
counsel and agents, which hitherto they have not always
been. In addition to this, it will afford more room during
debates for members of the House of Commons who Trial%
to be present below the bar, as well as when the "Com-
mons' are summoned to the bar. Nothing further has been
done to the interior of either of the houses of parliament,
I except the ordinary sessionaleleaning.
THE Murree's FLSHZEII3.—Very large quan-
tities of herrings have been caught off the eastern coot
during the last few day.. In the course of the week ending
on Saturday it was adculated that 2,500 lasts (33,000,000
fish) were landed at Great Yarmouth. The quality of the
fish landed has been pretty good; the general price rosined
has been from 61. to 101. per last. The catches mad* by
the Lowestoft bone have also been very laxly..
kirrsoroLrrAN has HOSPITAL,
eiguses, Crrr.—The aggregate number of patients relieved
during the weak ending Nov. 16 was—Medical. 898 ;
real, 619 ; total. 1,517 ; of which 704 were new want.
BREANFART.—EFFB'B Cocoa.—The veryagreable
character of this preparation has rendered It • emend roadie
Id=air and sustaining, with a refined and Savour
WOK. sustain diode of Veration this cocoa
is used as their habitual beverage for by thousands
who'never before used cocoa. ' Cocoa stands very seta blew
tun onese or tea," Dr. lisasell says, " and contains every %type-
&en% necessary to the powik and stastanattee al the bed,. LI
is made simply by poawfuE boiling wags se oink on the
Me as sold. Vb., and Farhat& This Oast% ie.=
Iprepared by Jos Epps and Co., the II wawa,
ern established in this conerzY. le very masa bra
aremearipstble Coess.—(Adrertiennentj

T A MPLOUG WS PYRETIC SAIXI4:
A. 4 lkelsolv• ; very Important. Rare and valuable are Its
ereltcube Moos, sick, or nervous beadatha, In owlet.
rarn, or otia blood Taboos. Drs. Johnson and
NM*, Is Daub Weaves, that for thew It la • speclflo—"no
other mid b• igissu."-Bcdd by adds sad %be maker, WI.
ILC.

At the Auction Mart, on Thursday next.
MR. SAFFELL bap to announce that the
FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES advertised
for SALE by AUCTION, at the Auction Mart, on THURSDAY,
November 21, at I precisely, will be offered In the following
order
_ .

I. NOTTLYO-1111.1. —Three capital, long Lesarbold. 10 roomed
Besidenms. Union-street, St. James-square, Neal:l94lA let
at £4O par annum each In three lots.
2. a* 23. M N, fierte—Nine Preehokl. brlek.ballt Cottages,
la the pleasant village of Welwyn, 22 miles from London. pro.
clueing tll per annum, and giving votes for the county ; In five
lota. . .

I. WALTIIAMSTIVA'.—VaInabIe small Estate of Freehold
Bonding lead, at Hale-end Walthantstow ; in oat lot.
Part Scalars. with conditions of sale, may be had of Mears.
Lucas and iihowler, solicitors, I, Trinity-place, Charlng-cross ; at
the Hart and at the Auctioneer's omens, SS, Abchurch-lane,
Lousbard-street, EC.