The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Jam.% Sutton was brought before the Lord Mayor for
Anal examination, on • chugs of haring in his possession
four flee pound country bank notes, forming part of •
number of other country 1/044111, chequer, bills of exchange,
&c., to the amount of 1,3611., contained in a letter winch
was stolen on its transit from Louth to London.

Mr. William Peacock, of the solicitors' department, Post.
*Moe, attended to support the prosecution ; and Mr.
Wontner appeared for the defence.
The circumstances of the case were these:—lt appeared
that on the 27th of February last a letter containing
1,3611. Os. 641. in countrryy notes and other paper mosey
was sent from the Lincolnshire and Lindsey Banking Cam-
C:nnZen,in Lmat
Loalhon, tawhilciliemlerntte. r,rthce:v7eevte.r, Gamte, e
abliledCAia
destination. On Sstunlay last the prisoner went to the
office of Mr. Deutz, foreign banker and money changer,
and tendered four country notes fur 51. each, ask-
ing to have them discounted. Mr. Dents, however,
suspecting from his hurried manner that there was
something wrong, referred to a list which he bad, and
found the notes were mentioned there, upon which he sent
privately for • policeman, and gave the prisoner into
custody.
The prisoner stated that if the robbery had taken place
within the last thirteen week. he could account for his
time, otherwise he could not, NA he had been a political
prisoner in France, and on the Bth of May the police autho-
rities in France gave him five sovereigns and his jewellery.
The jewellery be sold in Paris, and with the money he
bought the notes in question of • money changer ; hut he
could not tell the name of the money changer, nor the
street in which be lived. He wanted English honk notes or
gold, bet was told that they were just as good.
Mr. Peacock now called the 'clerk of the Lin-
colnshire and Lindaey Bank, who deposed to haring
on the 27th February inclosed 1,961/. Os. 6d. in notes and
cheques, in a letter which he sealed and sent to Mews.
Prescott, Grote, and Cu., and who said that no acknow-
ledgment had been received for the money.
Mr. Hill, clerk to Messrs. Prescott and Co., mid that he
received all remittance letters, and no such letter came to
him on the 28th Feb., or at any time since.
Mr. Peacock mid that wan his ewe, and
Mr. Weather. in a rather long speech, said that he
thought the case was about the weakest that waa ever
brought against any person. He said that the prisoner had
given • full and elaborate account 44 himself, stating that
he bad been • political prisoner in France, and that he
bought the notes of a money changer in Paris.
The Lord Mayor said the prisoner must satisfy him why
be did not give the name of the party of whom he bought
the notes.
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11r. Wontner said that could hardly be done, because, as
his lordship knew, the money changers in Paris were so
numerous ■nd so close together, that unless one took
particular notice lie would hardly recollect the name or
place.
The Lord Mayor maid bis defence might be true, but there
was one broad fact against him, that was the possession of
the notes. His defence, if not true, was a very ingenious
one. He then asked if any of the attain present knew any
thing of the prisoner, and
Michael Haydon said that he knew the prisoner very well
as a thief, and bad known hiss for the last fifteen years.
The prisoner was then ocammisted for trial.

FAZZHOLD LAND IN SURREY AND MIDDLINKL.—
The Putney Manor estate was offered for allotment at the
office of the Conservative Land Society yesterday. This
building property adjoins the mansion and estate of Rae-
hiunpton-park, East Surrey, formerly the vest of the Earl
of Beesborough. The land now on sale, with frontages to
Roehampton and Ponsonhy-road, is divided into 30 lots;
one of which, designed for an inn, was selected with a very
early tight of choice. On the same occasion the sale of 111
building plots at Kentish-town was commenced. The land
is:situated on qslope gradually riaindfrom themorth.weetern
suburb towards Highgate, commanding extensive views. A
costly system of drainage has been made under the superin-
tendence of the Board of Works.
Iit,ICIDIt or A CLZROYMAN.—Yesterday after-
noon Mr. Humphreys held an inquest at the Rochester
Castle Tavern, Stoke Newington, on the body of Mr.
Francis Bayley Shackall, 'red 26 years, who committed
suicide noder very disMesdng circumstances. Mts. Sarah
Brizey Ehosley, of No. 11, Sandford-place, Stoke Newing-
ton, said the deceased was on a visit at witness's house.
He came from Orford on Monday week. He was a clerk
in holy orders, nod had a curacy at Winchester. The de-
ceased had been very low sad melancholy, but he was not
watched or put under any restraint. Witome could not
account for his condition of mind. On Monday night,
shortly after 10 o'clock. the deceased asked for • light and
went to bed. About helf-past 3 o'clock in the morning
witness wan alarmed by a noise in his room, when she called
her son, who went to the room and discovered him lying
on the floor by the side of the bed in his night-dress. There
was • wash-band basin on the ground nearly half filled with
blood, and a razor by his side. A surgeon was sent for,
but the deceased was quite dead. The jury returned a ver-
dict of " Temporag insanity."
THZ GIIZAT Fiat AT GLARIN.—A letter from
Berne, of the 11th, mays •—"I have today to inform you of
a terrible disaster. T 6 little town of Glaris, chief place of
the canton of that name. has been nearly burnt down. The
I fire commenced yesterday evening at 10 o'clock, and I am I
not sure that it is completely extinguished yet. At non it
was announced that 220 houses, about half the town, were
destroyed ; at 3 o'clock the fire was still more violent, and
the engines continued to arrive from Zurich. At the time
the fire commenced& terrible ' fohn' was blowing. The fohn
is nothing else than the formidable sirocco' which after
traversing the Mediterranean blows against the Alps, and
sometimes occasions great &wage. The hot breath of this
wind melts the snow and cause, frightful avalanches. From
the mountains it comes down into the rallies, where its
approach is the signal for all fires to be put out. At Glaris
a badly extanrushed fire let some sparks escape, sad these
coming in contact with some combustible material, were the
the cause of the conflagration. The fire, once kindled, was '
so intensified and extended by the action ofe the fohn, as to
render all aid vain. Unfortunately the telegraph office wn
one of the first buildings destroyed, so that it was impaled.
ble to make use of it for the purpose of obtaining assistance.
I cannot give you • stronger ides of the intensity of the are
than by repeating what has been announced by the tele-
gnipb,viz., that two engines were burnt where they stood." '

_
A LINRION TO CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENTR.—The
(Gregeriao)llaster just past witnessed the exercise of a per-
missies to the Greek clergy on the part of the Porte which
has not, we believe, been granted since the conquest of Con-
stantinople. Leave to parade the limit in public procession
has loos been enjoyed and practised by resident Roman ca-
tholic*, but Sunday last was the first occasion on which a
similar privilege was extended to the Greeks since the days
of Mahomet 11. (hi that day, accordingly, a procession of
the clergy of the latter communion passed, with the Host
exalted high at their heed, through the main streets of Pere.
On arriving opposite the chief polioe.station at Gelata-fisrah
the party baited whilst the bishop delivered aloud a short
prayer for the wellbeing of the Sultan, which was lustily
responded to by the amens! of the attendant crowd. The
histeeical novelty of the incident makes it worth recording.
—Lerner Herald.

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