The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market quiet and steady. Sales, about 6,000
bales. Imports, 6,184; previously, 62,024.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
Share Railways
100 Itlantic &St Lawrence all 59 61
Sk SBom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 102 1034 103
Gu. 5 per cent..
20 Do. New ... 8
20 Do. E. . 7/ id I 1)
201 Buffalo and Lam: Huron all Li 63
10 Do. Preference
,00 Buflado,Brant,&Godricl; 100 77 82
6 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 77 81
100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 77 82
st Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(Lin, 100 101 le3 101/
st Cape Town & Dock Seri] 100 98 100
stock itastn. Bengal gu. bp. c 100 105 107
stock East Indian. ga. sp. c. 100 104/ 1054 1044 5/
20 Do. do. G Ext l5 4 a p
20 Do. do. H do. 15 p
stook Grand Trunk of Canada 100 20 21 20/
100 Do. Ist Prl. Bonds all 72 14
100 Do. do. deferred all 61 153
100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 63 65
100 Do. do. deferred all 53 55
100 Do. 3d Pref. stock
100 Do. do. deferred all 40 42
100 Do. 4th Pref. stoc
100 Do. do. deferred all 24 t 6
stook Gt.lndlaPenin.gua.sp.o 100 104 105 1044
20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 4
Do. January, 1862 ..
stook Gt. South.of India(Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 102/ 103/
204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 101 10/
20 Do. New . .. . . 18 10410}a
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 90 112 90/
100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.... all 82 84
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 par 4p
stock Madras. guar., sp. c. 100 102 103
stock Do. 4,1 p. o. Extension 100 96 98
stock Dc. 44 d 0.... .. 100 94 94
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 --
stock ltclb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100
50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59
100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. all
20 Newßrur swick& Cands
Class A and B all 3 5
N.lll.C'da6 pc Ist pf bdb 100 82 .04
stock Sainde (100 102/ 103/
stock Do. Delhi j ' ' 100 101 103
20 Do. do . ' , 2 id p
at Do. Punjaub a, 1 all lu2 11,3
Do. Do. ....... , ,10U—
S`ook Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 000 93 95 ,

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Days

MANSION HOUSE.

CLIRGE OP EMBEZZLING £4,000.—Captain Robert

Boyle Miller, Lane's Hotel, St. Albans-place, Haymarket

was placed before Sir R. W. Carden, charged with em-
bezzling (within the last three months) the sum of £4,000
and upwards, received by him as servant to Richard
Rylands and others, shipowners, Grosvenor Buildings,
Tithebarn-street, Liverpool.
Mr. Maynard, for the prosecution, said the prisoner was
formerly in the employ of Messrs. Rylands and Siddon, of
Liverpool, shipowners, and was captain of the ship
Richard Ryland, which sailed in the month of July
last from Liverpool, to Calcutta, with a cargo of cork.
It would be his duty to sell the freight, receive the
money, disburse the expenses of the ship, and then trans-
mit the proceeds of the voyage to the owners at Liver-
pool. The ship Richard Ryland, of which the prisoner
was master, sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta with a
cargo of e ,rk. The cargo was sold, and the prisoner
received the money at the Mauritius, but the owners
have never received any portion of the £4,060 received
by the prisoner, neither had they since heard anything
of the ship commanded by the prisoner belonging to
Messrs. Ryland, which was of the value of £25,000 He
should merely submit enough evidence to enable the magis-
trate to send the prisoner to Liverpool to meet the charge.
Mr. Maynard then called,
Sergt Spittal, who said—ln consequence of instructions
received from the Liverpool police, I, in company with Pack-
man, took the prisoner into custody, and charged him with
embezzling the sum of £4,000, the property of his employers,
Memo. Ryland, Seddon, and Co., the owners of the ship

. •
Richard Ryland. He said the charge was false. We took
him to the Bow-lane Station, where be was searched by
Sergeant Packman. I told him where he had received
the money, but he said it was untrue. The prisoner this
morning said he was surprised the firm should suppose
that he was guilty of anything wrong—that the bill he got

in the Mauritius for the money deposited in the bank, he
had obtained and changed for safety for his employers. If
he had intended anything wrong he had a great deal
more money in Calcutta; that ho intended to go down to
Liverpool and settle with his employers next Saturday.
Alderman Carden—Any question, Miller, to ask witness ?
Prisoner—Oh no, sir, what he says is perfectly correct.
Sergeant Packman—l was in company with Spittal
when we apprehended the prisoner yeaterday at Lane's
Hotel. When at the station I searched the prisoner. On
his person I found £6 10s 7d, and in his room I found £49
in cash, two £5O Bank of England notes, a deposit note on
the Stockton Bank for £l,lOO, dated May 12, in the name of
Robert Miller. I also found a bank book, showing a credit
for £l,BOO, in the name of Robert Miller.

Alderman Carden—Did he say whose money it was ?
Witness—He said it was his own. On his way to the
Mansion-house he said, "I cannot think how they think I
intend to do wrong, because if I had wished todo so I could
have done so when I was in the East Indies, and had plenty
of money. I intended to go to Liverpool on Saturday, but
I've been fool enough to stop in London a few days. He
said nothing about where be received the money.
Mr Walter Partridge, of the firm of Fletcher, Parr, and
Co., Leadenhall•street, said they were agents to Ryland and
Seddon, of Liverpool, They own a ship called the Richard
Ryland. The duty of the prisoner would be to disburse
the debts incurred by the ship, and transmit the balance to
Liverpool. The owners ought to have received intelli.
gence from Calcutta relative to the money three months
ago. The ship sailed in July last. We charge the priso-
ner with having embezzled the £4,000.

Alderman Carden—You ought to have written to your
owners long before this.
Prisoner—l wrote them four or five letters.
Witness—Nothing has ever been received.

George Peacock—l went with the prisoner to a bill bro-
ker. I saw a bill for £4,000 produced for Captain Miller's
endorsement. The bill was endorsed. Captain Miller told
me the monoy was to be handed over in hard cash for ship-
ment to Bombay.

Alderman Carden said he did not think it very possible
that the prisoner could require bullion for the purpose of
taking it to the owners. He should order the prisoner to be
taken to Liverpool to be dealt with there. He thought the
City police deserved great credit for getting hold of the
prisoner before he could leave London.

The prisoner will be formally brought up again to-mor-
row, but it will be merely for the signing of the depositions.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

FORGERY BY A CLERK OP THE LIBRARY COMPANY.-.--
Joseph Bingham, a young man, clerk, in the employ of the
Library Company, Pall-mall, was charged before Mr Knox
with forging and uttering an order for the payment of the
sum of £37 15s 4d.

Mr Thomas James, jun., clerk at Messrs Ransom's Bank,
1, Pall-mall East, said that on the sth of April last the
prisoner presented the cheque produced and asked him to
cash it. He did so, the Library Company having an account
at the bank. The amount of the cheque was £37 153 4d.

Mr Henry Fowler, secretary of the Library Company,
said the cheque was not endorsed by him as it purported to
to be. All cheques were endorsed by him; no other person
connected with the company had any business to do so.

In answer to Mr Knox, Mr Fowler said the prisoner had
been in the employ of the company nearly a year.
Sergeant C. Robinson, of the detective department, Scot-
land Yard, proved taking the prisoner into custody at New-
town, Merionethshire, and said that on showing prisoner the
cheque he admitted writing the whole of it himself, stating
that he was very sorry, but that he had been drinking at
the time.

Mr Knox said the writing on the cheque did not look
lik that of a man who bad bean drinking.
The prisoner, who had no questions to ask, was committed
to the Central Criminal Court for trial.
THE ENCOURAGERS OF DISHONESTY AMONGST SER-
VANTS.—Mr Knox received the following letter this morn-
ing .

"May 18.—Sir,—May I ask you to lend your aid in sup-
pressing another evil which is very prevalent at the West-
end of London at this season, and is also disseminated by
means of handbills dropped into areas of an evening. As the
system alluded to is profitable to the servants of families,
it is not likely that it will be made public as the other
has been [handbills dropped down areas respecting
an astrology imposture] through the magnanimity of " a
servant." I refer to the bills which state that the "best
price" is given for every conceivable article of transfer in
the household, from glass, china, broken silver, down to
bones, fat, rags, &c. There is no address on these hand-
bills, but an intimation is given that a call will be made in
the morning for anything that may be got ready. The
police might do much to check the system, if
they had instructions from their superiors to
direct their attention to it, and the press—always
ready to expose abuses of the kind—may be of great service
in opening the eyes of the heads of households to the
existence of these practices.—l am, Sir, yours. &c.,

"Poo Borro PUBLICO."
Another letter has been received from a person complain-
ing of the hand-bill nuisance, and requesting that the
scamp whose name it bears may be exposed. The hand-
bill is headed "Your Destiny, Matrimony Made Easy: or,
How to Win a Lover," and the fellow who issued it calls
himself a "qualified professor of astrology," and seems to
be in great want of postage stamps,