The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-23 00:00:00

STOLEN BANK .NOTES.

An action of considerable importance was tried in the
Court of Queen's Bench yesterday. The question in-
volved was the right of money-changers to take Bank of
England notes in disregard of notices that they had been
stolen. The action was brought by Messrs. Adam Spiel-
mann awl Co., of London, as correspondents of Messrs.
Meyer Spielmann and Co., of Paris, to recover the
amount of two Bank of England notes for 500/. each,
which had formed portions of notes for the value in all
of 3,0001. stolen from Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and
Co., of Liverpool. The notes were stolen in Novem-
ber, 1852, and it was proved that notices of robbery
were delivered at the places of business of both
firm,. One of the notes was alleged to have been
received by Meyer Spielmann and Co , in Paris,
from a person giving the name of G. F. Howard, and
the other from A. Monteaux, a money-changer in Paris,
which note also had the name of G. F. Howard upon it.
Both notes were remitted by Messrs. Meyer, Spielmanu,
and Co. to Messrs. Adam Spielmann and Co., and re-
ceived by them in London on the 27th of June last.
On behalf of the plaintiff it was contended that the
notes having been taken in the ordinary course of
business he was entitled to recover upon them.
Lord Campbell left to the jury the question whether
Meyer Spielmann took the notes bona fide and for
value ; whether Adam Spielmann received them bona
fide as a remittauce ; and whether the notices were
left at the places of business of both parties. The
jury found that Meyer Spielmann and Ce. did not take
the notes bona fide for value; that Adam Spielmann
and Co. did take them bona fide as a remittance ; and
that the notices were duly received. Upon this finding
Lora Campbell airecten a verawa, a be cuLvacti /Ur cue
Bank of England. It is hoped that this decision will
have the effect of preventing the practice, which has
become too common, of taking stolen notes, which
cannot be passed in England, to the chief cities of
Europe, and there obtaining the amount through money.
changers, who afterwards claim the ,value from
the Bank, on the ground that the notes have been
taken in due course of business, although, in
fact, no sufficient inquiry has been made as to the bona
fides of the transaction, or the respectability of the
party presenting then.

" ALL'S WELL."—AN INCIDENT IN THE CRIMEA.—
From a letter just received is town, we learn that while
Private Duncan Allan, an Aberdonian, belonging to the
grenadier company, 79th Highlanders, was lately on
sentry at one of the outposts near Balaklava, three Rus-
sians, disguised as Frenchmen, attempted to surprise
hint. Discovering the deception, be instantly shot the
first who approached, bayoneted the second, knocked
down the third with the butt-end of his musket, and then
proceeded coolly on his " lonely round," singing cheerily
" All's well."—lberdeen Herald.

ALARMING ACCIDENTS ON TEE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—
Yesterday morning, the "Newspaper train," due from
Euston-square station at '6.15 a.m., whilst skunting
at Rugby, preparatory to its departure for the north,
was run into by an empty engine, very severely
shaking one passenger, who was compelled to stay at
Rugby. The train proceeded after half an hour's de-
lay ; but when running through the cutting north of
Wigston station, near Leicester, the front van ran off
the line, taking with it the two following carriages.
After running on the ballast for some hundreds of
yards, the van jumped on the road again. The strain
on the couplings being then too great, they snapped,
and the two carriages ran into the embankment, at the
same time breaking a telegraph post. The ballast was
so bard that the carriages scarcely left any trace of their
baying been on it. In this affair many passengers re-
ceived contusions, but, fortunntely, none of a dangeroui
nature. Assistance was immediately sent front Leicei-
ter, and after a short delay, the) train proceeded to
Derby, at which station ib arrived upwards of an hour
late. On the same day the tires of the leading wheels
of the engine taking the 8 a.m. train from Derby to
Birmingham flew off, thereby stopping the traffic until
assistance from Birmingham could be obtained,.