The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-05 00:00:00

A COUPLE OF IMPOSTORS.

lhomas Binds, a loan of consumptive appearance, and
Thomas Harrison, a stout, healthy-looking fellow, both
of whom are known to the mendicity officers as begging-
letter impostors, were placed at the bar before Mr. Hard•
wick, charged R ith having obtained from Colonel the
Hon. James Lindsay, M.P. for Wigan, 47, Upper
Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, a sovereign, by false
and fraudulent pretences. _ _

Colonel Lindsay deposed that about half-past six yes-
terday evening his servant came upstairs and informed
him that a man named Harrison, from Wigan, wanted
to see him. Witness went down into the hall, where he

saw the two prisoners, and asked them into the dining-
room, and there the prisoner Harrison, who acted as
spokesman, stated that he came up with the other pri-
soner, whom he said was Thomas Binns, the son of a
shoemaker, residing at Wigan, who had been sent up by
Dr. Stewart, of Wigan, to the Consumption Hospital at
Brompton. Harrison further stated that Binns was
usable to become a patient at the hospital, and
that he was at present receiving medical atten-
dance as an out patient, and that he (Harrison)
then asked him (Colonel Lindsay) to obtain
from Mrs. Hugh Lindsay an order for Binns to become
an in-patient. Witness said he would do so. Harrison
then said Binns had exhausted all his money, and was
in great poverty in con,equence of having been so long
an out-patient. As he appeared to.witness to be in a
very bad state, coughing very violently, he gave him a
sovereign. Harrison then said he himself had no money
to get back to Wigan, and asked witness to lend him
some. Witness told him he never lent money, and
would give no more. Harrison described himself as a
butcher, residing in Millgate, and seemed perfectly ac-
quainted with Wigan.

Webb, one of the constables belonging to the Men-
dicity Society, stated that, about half-past five yester-
day afternoon, he saw the prisoners in Pall-Mall, and,
knowing them to be begging-letter impostors, he fol-
lowed them through several streets till they came to
Upper Brook-street, and saw them go to Colonel Lind-
say's, where they went in. Witness subsequently spoke
to the servant, who let him into the passage, and just
as the prisoners were leaving Colonel Lindsay he (Webb)
took them into custody. On searching them, he found
a sovereign oa Binn,, and on Harrison a Court-guide
and Parliamentary Directory.

Mr. Ferguson said there were several other cases
against the prisoners, and therefore wished to have them
remanded.

The prisoners were then remanded for a week.

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CORN EXCHANGE.

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF 11R1TISLI CORN
For the week ended April 5, 1855, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales
per Imperial Quer ter.
WHEAT. BARLEY. t OATS. I RYE. BEANS. t PEAS.
63s 7d 30s 51 .1 25s 61 ; 38s 101 j 40s 51 j 38s 7d
TIIII SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE.
WHEAT. BARLEY". OATS. RYE. BEANS. PEAS.
67s 111 1 30s 71 7 25s 31. 39a 9d 41s Id 393 Id
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.
Wheat, 100,301; Barley, 53,974 ; Oats, 19,606 ; Rye, 277 ; Beans,
4,709; Peas, 866 quarters.