The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1867.

THE ALLEGED FORGERIES TO THE EXTENT
OF 120,0001.

SIANSION.HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)

The further examination of Edward Devillers,
the Frenchman charged with forging and 'uttering bills of
r•ebange to the amount of 1%1,0001., with intent to de-
fraud the Leeds Banking Company, came on to-day
before the Lord Mayor, pursuant to adjournment from
Monday last.
Mr. Poland, instructed by Messrs. Freshfield, again ap.
poured for the prosecution ; and Mr. Sleigh, instructed by
Messrs. Parker, Lee, and Haddock, again attended for the
prisoner. The court,aa at the last examination, was densely
crowded.
Mr. Poland stated that there was a witness from the
country desirous of returning home, and to enable her to
do so he proposed to take her evidence first, though it was
somewhat out of order.

Elizabeth Want was then sworn, and being examined by
Mr. Poland, proved that she now lived at Portsmouth,
but from June, 1844, to July, 1865, she filled the situa•
tion of cook at York House, West Cowes, which was
then occupied and furnished by the prisoner. She
knew two gentlemen named FAlgeley and Watts, who were
constant visitors to,the prisoner. Edgcley came almost every
Saturday and remained till the Sunday evening. While
there Edgeley was in the habit of looking over the trades-
men's bills before be went away. Afterwards she went
to live as cook at the prisoner's residence, Barbara House,
Bromley, when Fslgeley was in the same way a constant
visitor.

Mr. Ernest Bertram, examined by Mr. Poland, proved
that he had been a clerk in the service of Thomas lidgeley
and Co., at No. 1, Sermon-lane, St. Paul's-churchyard,
from January, 1863, to July, 1865. He had been in the
habit of procuring by directions, sometimes of Edgeley,
sometimes of Watts, and sometimes by the witness Mr.
Grant, the printed foreign bill forms which he
(witness) bad been in the habit of filling up.
The bills purported to be drawn by the May-
dampeck Forest Company. The witness examined the
packets of the bills produced, which he identified. The
amounts for which he filled up the hills were supplied to
him by the witness Grant. After they were filled up the
bills were given to Mr. Edgeley, who used to enclose
them in envelopes and forward them to the manager of
the Leeds Banking Company. Witness first saw the
prisoner in May, 1865, at West Cowes, in the Isle of
Wight. on his invitation. This was a visit of pleasure and
not of business. On several occasions he am Edgeley sign
the prisoner's name to those bills, and at the same time he
stated that Mr. Devillers had given him authority to s4n
his name. The endorsements on the bill in the name of Seale
and Co. were in Seale's handwriting ; those in the name of
K H. Watts and Co. were in Edgeley's handwriting, with a
few exceptions, when they were endorsed by Watts him-
self. The bill dated May 24, 1864, for 1,1201. 10s. (the one
especially under consideration) was endorsed by Watts, for
the firm of E. H. Watts and Co. The name of K Dewiness,
as drawn, he believed to be in Grunt's handwriting, in
imitation of the prisoner's signature. WatirMs could not
say whether there was really such a company as the May-
dampeck Forest Company. The business in Sermon-lane was
in part attended to by Mr. Watts, and the business of E.
H. Watts and Co. at Leeds was managed by a young man,
Henry Bryson, who, he understood, had since gone to New
York.

The examination of the witnesses for the prosecution
will occupy the entire sitting of the court, and there is no
doubt there will be a further remand of the prisoner.

EGYPTIAN COMMERCIAL AND TRADING
COMPANY (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY.)

The adjourned general meeting of proprietors
was held this afternoon at the London Tavern ; Mr.
STEWART in the chair.

The report and balance-sheet, which were issued some
days ago, having been taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN in moving the adoption of the report,
stated the outstanding liabilities of the company, which
amounted to 190,0001., were practically non-existent. in-
asmuch as they had ample resources in hand
in the shape of merchandise and Egyptian go-
vernment bonds. Since the last meeting the di-
rectors had given every effect to the policy imposed
upon them, namely, that of restricting and curtailing in
every possible way the company's operations, closing all
the agencies, and effecting a favourable settlement of the
numerous claims. They believed that a quiet and steady
prosecution of their claims without proclaiming their
future intentions was the beat way to obtain the res-
titution and recovery of as much of the capital as they
could lay hold of.
Mr. BORK HEIM expressed himselfagainst a forcible wind-
ing up. Ile thought that no business ought to be done,
and that the assets should be realised in Egypt, and sent
home to London. _

(The meeting was proceeding when our report left.)

WEATHER REPORT.-(THD3 DAY.)

Wr.DicluiDAT, MAY 114 II A.N.

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Anlreetan 60.111 44 XXX 3 4 X c -
Greencastle 30.03 46 B.L 1 4 L so -
Valentla '39.64 IS XXX 1 6 IX ro Illi
Caps Clear 19.87 49 %X 4 6 XX b 0.10
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romance.- 29.84 47 LN.L 3 7 K.K.K. ro 0.60
Brett 11.7162 LN.L 1 5 ILL o -
Laciest ass 50 N.L. C It W. ee 9.16
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ilmouth 29.83 48 X 31 7 X co 18.66
Wo7lnoath 39 se 4a LN.L 4 S x&x 0 -
Portamoutb 15.88 48 N.&4 4 E. 0 -
London 13.81 44 Z. N.& 4 0 L o -
Yarmouth 19.04 45 X 8 8 1.8. X a-I
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The of the atmosphere still Increases this mornhig,
and e By so in the south•west Temperature has changed but
tittle. Winds are north-easterly, ueept In west of Ireland.
where they are southeasterly. The weather Is overcast, and
rein has fallen In the south-west.

Mrs. Green, the hat revolutionary pensioner in
the United States, has just died at the age of 100 years.
She was the widow of a soldier of the War of American
Independence. Six children, 46 grandchildren, 141 great-
grandchildren, and 13 grent-grest•grandchildren survive
her.

BILLINGSGATE-MARK WT. —Yesterday, at a meeting
of the City magistrates held at the Guildhall, including
the Lord Mayor, a report was brought up from the General
Purposes Committee of the Court of Aldermen by Mr.
Alderman Rose, with suggestions for facilitating the traffic
in connexion with Billingsgate-market, which has long
been in an unsatisfactory state from over-crowding, and
had at length become intolerably vexatious to all persons
concerned in taking fish to and from the market. The
report presented by Mr. Alderman Rose, stated that they
had been attended by the memorialists, and also by
Colonel Fraser, the Commissioner of City Police, with
the latter of whom they had conferred as to the practi-
cability of carrying out certain suggestions for facilitating
the traffic, without interfering with other branches of
trade conducted in the neighbourhood of Billingsgate.
The result was that yesterday, on the recommendation
of the committee and of the City Commissioner of
Police, the Court of Aldermen adopted a regulation for
the future management of the market traffic, to the effect
that vans arriving at Billingsgate before half-past 7 in the
morning will not be permitted to remain in the street
after 14 o'clock, but at that hour, whether they be un-
loaded or not, they will be removed by the police ; and
that vans with fish arriving after 8, and between that hour
and 9, shall be allowed half an hour for unloading, at the
expiration of which they will likewise be removed by the
police, notice in each case being first given to the con-
signee of the fish. The court also passed some subsidiary
regulations with the same view, and empowered the City
Commissioner of Police to carry hem into practical effect.
It was stated incidentally by Alderman Rose that much of
the present confusion and delay in the approaches to the
market was attributable to the practice of keergriblck
the inferior kinds of fish on their arrival at Bi te
in order to enhance the price of the better sorts, espe-
cially was it attributable to the practice adopted of late
years by fish salesmen in the market of selling their fish by
sample, and thus, instead of emptying the vans of the fish
consigned to them, converting them for hours into depots
for the sale of it.

THE W A RRI OR. --The Warrior, armoured-iron
frigate, 6,109 tons, 1,250.h0r5e power, is ordered by the
Controller of the Navy to be completed at Portsmouth dock-
yardr and made ready to receive her crew on oem-
miss' ton by the 17th Inst. This frigate has now been so
long in hand by the shipwright department of the yard
that it was reasonably expected she would be ready to
receive her mew and hoist her commission pennant on
any day after the 9th ult., the date fixed upon origin-
ally for the completion of her refit. She has been so
trilled with, however, from some cause or other, that
now her services are required a considerable amount
of work remains yet unfinished. The result is that while
the controller himself must be somewhat astonished at
such a state of things, his subordinates at Portsmouth are
equally astonished at being called upon to finish work at a
short notice which they have been treating as likely to
last for a considerable time. All the available resources
of the shipwright department of the yard are now placed
upon the frigate to complete her with all haste, but it will
be almost impossible to do this by the 17th inst. The
present system of supervision of work of this kind in her
Majesty's yards is, to say the least, moat inadequate.—
Times.