The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-01 00:00:00

MONET ORDERS.--GENERAL POST-OFFICE, January.
—The remitter of a money order will not be required in
future to state his occupation, nor the payee to furnish
any information on that point. Advicss are, henceforth,
to be stamped with the dated stamp of the paying office,
instead of being signed as at present.
DEPOSITORS IN SAVINGS-BANKS.—A return, obtained
on the motion of Mr. 11. A. Bruce, M.P., and published
on Tuesday, gives the following as the number of men
in the various parts of the United Kingdom who have
had sums of 50/. and upwards invested on their account
in savings banks during the whole period of three years
ending the 20th of November, 1853—viz., in England,
43,694 ; in Wales, 1,027 ; in Scotland, 1,485 ; and in
Ireland, 2,l47—making a grand total of 43,353 for the
whole of the United Kingdom.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A LIVERPOOL COMMISSION
AGENT.—At the Liverpool Police-court on Tuesday,
before Mr. Mansfield, Mr. Robert Morris, commission
agent, of North John-street, in that town, was charged
with having embezzled various amounts of money which
he had received on account of Messrs. C. M. and W.
Putt, of Southwark-bridge-road, London. A gentleman
from the house of Messrs. Sturmer, solicitors, Welling-
ton-street, Borough, London, appeared to prefer the
complaint. Mr. John Tyson, Mr. Peter Rassford, and
Mr. William Titterington, all of Liverpool, deposed
to having paid to the prisoner various amounts on ac-
count of Messrs. Pott and Co. ; and Mr. George Henry
Pitcher, in the employ of Messrs. Pott and Co., proved
that the amounts so paid had been remitted in the usual
course. Mr. Chilton, attorney for the prisoner, sub-
mitted that his client did not come under tho denomina-
tion of a servant or agent to render him accountable at
law; and, further, that the charge did not amount to
embezzlement, inasmuch as the prisoner had regularly
rendered an account, which would appear from his own
books. Mr. Mansfield said that as the law now stood
there was a prima fade case established, although it
might be that the prisoner was a man of integrity, and
had not acted dishonestly, but under the circumstances
he bad no alternative but to remand him. He should,
however, admit him to bail, himself in 4001. and two
sureties of 5001. each. The bail was procured.
AN ESCAPE FROM CAFTURB.—The following is an,
extract frost a letter received by Mrs. 5--, in this
town, from her husband in the Crimea :—" I cannot re-
frain letting you know the narrow escape I had the other
night of being taken prisoner by the Cossacks, as I was
returning from Balaklava with about 101, worth of
goods for the officers of the company. But, dear Bally,
a good stout heart foiled them for this time. I must
thank God for his protection, and for endowing me with
such presence of mind. Balaklava is about seven or
sight miles from Sebastopol, and as I was coming about
half-way, being mounted oa our captain's pony, with
six haversacks full of tea, sugar, wine, and several other
little articles, I had my fusil slung across my back, as
every man must be armed here, even if he only wanted
to go to the rear. So I was coming along, thinking of—
but you need not ask me *bat, as you might know it
was about yourself and Nell, and poor little Jack—a
horseman rides up to me and lays hold of my fusil by
the butt, and very quietly was going to take it off my
shoulder, when I asked him in plain English what he
was going to do, but the divil a word could I understand
from him but prisonere bon Cosea wake, 'as he pronounced
it. I thought at first ho was a Frenchman, until he
mentioned Sebastopol, but it was time I looked out fur
myself, se as I was handing him my musket with as
good a grace as possible, as he thought, the foolish fel-
low forgot that I bad a bayonet at my other side, so as
I handed him the fusil with the one hand, I gave him
the bayonet with the other, but most unexpectedly
though, for I drove it to the socket into the beastly
fellow's belly, and very quickly upset hitll and rode assay
horse, which eased my own poor beast. All that I was
sorry for was that I left him my bayonet. Eastern
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