The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-02 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

:Before Chief Justice Jervis, Mr. Justice Crowder, and
Mr. Justice Willes.)

TELEGRAPH LIABILITY.-WANDREW V. THE LOTHBURY

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

This was an application for a new triAl. The action
was tried at the last Guildhall sittings, and was brought
by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover da-
mages for mis-sending a message. The plaintiff on the
trial was non-suited.

Their lordships took time to consider their judgment.
The Court adjourned at a quarter to 3 o'clock.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

This morning being the first day of term, a special
session of this court was held for the purpose of enabling
the Judges to appoint the days upon which these ses-
sions will commence during the ensuing Mayoralty.
The following are the dates :-1855 : Monday, Nov.
26 ; Dec. 17. 1856: Jan. 7 ; Feb. 4 ; March 3 ; April
7 ; May 12 ; June 16 ; July 7 ; Aug. 18 ; Sept. 15 ;
Oct. 27.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

SOUTHWARK.

CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—Robert Busband,
a tall, rough-looking fellow, who stated himself to be a
porter, was brought before Mr. Combo, charged with
being concerned with another man not in custody charged
with stealing a sovereign, the property of Margaret
Webb, at the London and Brighton Railway Terminus,
London-bridge.

The prosecutor, a servant out of place, stated that
yesterday afternoon she left Kensington by an omnibus
to go to the Brighton railway station. She bad two
boxes with her, containing wearing apparel, and when
the omnibus arrived at the Mansion-house she alighted,
as the vehicle did not go any further. As the conductor
was putting her boxes on the pavement, the prisoner and
another man came up to her and asked her whether she
was going to the railway. She replied that she was go-
ing to Brighton. The prisoner then called the other
man to him, and they said they were porters and would
carry her luggage to the station. She allowed them to
do so, and when they entered the station she pulled her
purse out to pay them, and on taking out a sovereign the
other man said, " Give that to me, I'll go and purchase
your ticket foryou and bring you back the change, when►
you can pay us both." The man then went away, when
the prisoner said, " You have plenty of silver and gold
in your purse, pay me, and let me go." Witness
told him that she wanted the silver, and he must
wait till his companion returned. She remained wait-
ing for some moments, when the prisoner said he would
go and look after the other man. He then went to-
wards the booking-office, and finding neither of them
return she went in search of them, but they could not
be found. One of the railway officials came towards her
at the time, when she told him all that bad occurred,
and in the course of the evening the prisoner was appre-
hended.
Thomas Richards, a detective officer in the employ of
the Brighton Railway Company, said that about two
o'clock yesterday afternoon he saw the female standing
on the platform near her two boxes. He went up to
her and asked her what she wanted, when she told him
she had given a porter a sovereign to go and purchase a
ticket for her i❑ the booking-office, and he had not re-
turned. She then gave him a description of the men
who brought her boxes from the Mansion-house, and he
went there shorly afterwards and saw the prisoner
standing near the omnibuses. He went up to him and
told him he wanted him for being concerned in stealing
a sovereign from a female at the Brighton station. He
at first denied being there, but afterwards he acknow-
letiged being there, and that the other man bad the
lady's sovereign. When he was at the police-station he
offered to pay the female the sovereign back if she did
not appear against him at the police court. Witness
knew the prisoner to be connected with a gang of
loungers who prowled about omnibuses and railway sta-
tions to plunder country people of their luggage
.and
money. Mr. Combe said there was no evidence against
the prisoner, as the prosecuirix admitted she never gave
him the sovereign ; therefore he must be discharged.

OUR PSEUDO CONVERTIBLE CURRENCY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The almost universal belief that England has a
sound gold currency is the treat fallacy of the age.
If you, Mr. Editor, owe your type-founder 100/. he can-
not insist on your paying him in gold, and he must be
satisfied if you tender him Bank of England notes.
If your banker owes you 1,0001. you cannot compel him
to pay you any part of it in gold, and you must be content
if he pays you in Bank of England notes, which are a legal
tender, and, consequently, it is the height of absurdity to
say that the currency of England is gold.
The Bank of England, or as she is commonly called the
Old Lady of Threadneedle-street, is allowed to issue four-
teen millions inbank notes without haying an ounce of gold
or silver in her coffers to give in exchange for the notes.
On the 20th inst. her notes in circulation amounted to
upwards of nine millions more than her stock of gold and
silver : viz.,—
Bank of England notes afloat ......... 220,371,745
Gold and silver in the _Bank ............ 11,230,207

Showing a deficiency of £9,141,538
which she and the Government combined are wholly un-
able to meet if the holders of notes demand payment in
gold, and thence the proof that our hocus-pocus currency
is based upon paper which is inconvertible into gold.
Therefore, it is a perfect delusion for the nation to believe
that the basis of our currency is geld, and the Bank Char-
ter Act, which has been lauded to the skies by namby-
pamby statesmen is not oily a mockery of common sense,
but is fraught with danger to the commerce of the king-
dom, especially during war, and when we have bad har-
vests—periods sufficiently distressing to the people without
the addition of an accursed monetary system as unstable
as the wind or the weathercock Times.
London merchants dare not openly declare themselves
opposed to the Bank Charter, for fear of their bills being
refused discount by the secret conclave sitting in the Bank
parlour. Hence the necessity for Liverpool and our other
great commercial marts to "agitate, agitate, agitate," un-
til Peel's Banking nostrum is expunged from the statute-
book.
One of the most cunning dodges ever perpetrated by the
stock-jobbing Times, or the Directors of the Bank of Eng-
land, has been that of one of their clerks becoming the
writer of the City Article in that immaculate journal
which, of course, undertakes to uphold their mischievous
monopoly for the quid pro quo.
A nod or a wink suffices to show "what's in the wind,"
and wage 0/waggons in the funds, followed by bushel.