Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

THE CUSTOMS' FRAUDS IN BELFAST.

A. Belfast correspondent of Saunders's News Letter
writes as follows. The letter is dated Thursday night :
There Is nolager any doubt entertained that John Junes Moore,
the plocipal in the largo rabberie,, of tea and the frani Oa the
Customs in Belfast, has succeeded in effectiog his escape to Amerta,
by the steamer As'a. Ile managed 'matters mo,t adroitly. Oa the
Thursday, while the Custorn.aiLers were sa.reLing his bonded
stores and loosing the chests, of which s sue 780 turned out to ba
containing instead of tea, turf, bricks, and straw, he was
seen on 'Change, chatting unconcernedly, and throwing suspicion oL
its guard. Ire did not leave Belfast by the Liverpool beat that
evening, nor did he leave Belfast by the early express trait for;
Dublin, bat he took a car, drove to Lisburn, where he entered one of
the up-trains to Dublin, and it was from your city that ha crosied the
Channel. A gentleman from Stockport met him oa board, after the
steamer left Kinlstown and there con d be no doubt about the idcati-.
ficatien. Moore was jest in time in Liy,rpeol to proeee Iby the Asia;
and Bete:, the private de:eetivo officer, wto was formerly conneetcd
with the Liverpool police establishment, &Iry a person every way ans.
werivg his Ce:cription goirt; 0.1 board the Asia and paying for a
second-class passage with 201. no`e. At this time a t.legraplfc
despatch reapeetins M.:ore was in the hands of the Liverpool police,
but it now appears it had not been anted upon. A deteave ()Tarr
was despatche I to Liverpool from Belfast cn Friday night by the
Semaphore steamer, but he arrived jtast in time to be too. late, as the
Semaphore and Asia passed each o her at the Sloyne. Immediately
on his landing on the q9ays, hearing that the de inquent had succeed-
ed in getting off, he te!egraphed to Belfast, and a steamer, with an
Admiralty flag and officer on be:2rd, armed with a warrant for Moore's
arrest, left Belfast, in the expeo:aton of intercepting :ha Asia in
the North Channs',,on her outward passage. They were disappoin-
ted ; the Asia had taken the southern route, The streamer which put
out from Queenstown to interee, t her and arrest the delinquent was
not more successful, for, the precaution of providing an Admiralty
fig Lot having, been taken, the commander of Vie- Asia woull not stop
for the signal, and More is now laughing at his dopes in some corner
of the Great Republic, and ripecafating a, to the best way of employ-
ing his I /gotten gain. His clerk, Harbison, is stl.l in eu•tody, not
!wrong succeeded in getting ball; ar,d tla other alleged 7.articep:
cri finis,, Hen'ey, is at large, his fiends hating promptly coma for-
ward to give the necessary bail, Both are bound, as stated in
previous communications, to appear at the assizes for trial. I may add
that large quanti ies of Moors's teas are unpaid for, to the I (anion
and Liv.rpool houses ; that he received a good deal of cash in town
from parties to whom he .sold chests at a lonolp i e, representing them
as "duty paid;" and that, so plausible was his manner of proceeding,
he succeeded in taking in some of the most eminent houses in town.
The extent of the fraud on the Customs is under 5,0101., and oa private
parties it will rea.h 10,0001.

At LEWIS & OIPANY'S, it,melaglt-street,
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Agea of Six to Timmy Years.

The suicide of Major Warburton, M.P., for Harwich, is
announced. He shot himself on Friday morning.
MILIT CRY SQUABBLES AC FRANKFORT.—ACJO UlltS from
Frankfort, of the 20 h ins`., state that on the previous day
a serious cerEct took place between soldiers of the federf.l
garrison and men of Austrian and Bavarian regiments.
The affray commenced at the Pfaelazeihof ball-rooms and
was coltinutd in the public state'. Swords and bayone's
were brought freely into use, and a great number of the
soldiers were wounded on both sides. The commandant
of the garrison has adopted the most rigorous wemures to
prevent a recurrence of such scenes.

CLOTIIING MADE WI ►H GREAT TASTE AT LEWIS ad
COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.