The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

THE SUN,'
,LONDON, THURSDAY EVEIVSO, t.MAY . 14, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.
MARLBOROITGII-STREET.

EXTENSIVE UTTERING OF FALSE CREQtrES.—
FRAUDS ON WEST-END TRADESMEN.—LIement Tudway,
a tall, respectably-attired man, about 65 years of age, who
refused his address, and was described as of no occupation,
was charged before Mr. Knox, by Sergeant Joy, with ob-
taining a riding whip of the value of £1 155., from Mr. T.
Callow, whip manufacturer, 8, Park-lane, by means of a
false cheque on the bank of Messrs. Child, Temple-bar.
Mr. Parkes, solicitor, defended.

Mr. T. Callow, whipmaker, of 8, Park-lane, deposed that
on the 27th April the prisoner came to his shop and asked to
see some riding whips. He showed the prisoner several,
and he selected one of the value of Ll 155., and then said
that he would pay for it at once if he (Mr. Callow) would
give him change for a cheque. The prisoner then mentioned
the names of one or two of his customers, and believing the
cheque to be genuine, he told the prisoner that if he gave
his name and address he would take the cheque. The pri-
soner then gave him a printed card with the name of
Clement Tudway, - street, Russell-square, upon it, and
having given the prisoner change for the cheque which
was for 4 on Messrs. Child, Temple-bar, and signed
Clement Tudway, he left, taking the whip with him. Sub-
sequently he (Mr. Callow) paid the cheque to a person
named Richard Morgan, who returned it to him as having
been dishonoured by Messrs. Child. On going to the
address on the card the persons there knew nothing of the
prisoner.

Mr. Robert Potter, cashier and clerk at Messrs. Child's
bank, said that no person of the name of Clement Tudway
had funds at the bank.

Mr. Parkes asked the witness if they ever had a customer
of the name, and the witness said they had a customer of
the name of the Rev. Clement Tudway, some years ago,
but his account had been closed.

Sergeant Joy asked for a remand, as there would be other
cases, he believed at least 30, the prisoner having uttered
false cheques in all directions, and all on Messrs. Child's
Bank.

Mi. Knox said he had an objection to the court be:ng
made the means of settling these cases. He would hear
another case if it was ready.

Mr Grandiard, assistant to Messrs. Farmer and Rogers,
shawl warehousemen, Regent-street, said that on the 6th
of May, the prisoner came to the house and selected a
shawl of the value of LiO 10s., and tent ered a cheque on
Messrs. Child's Bank for the amount, which, after some
conversation, he consented to take, and the prisoner left
with the shawl, Before taking the cheque prisoner added
the date.

In answer to Mr. Knox the witness said that it wa' be-
lieving the cheque to be genuine that induced him to
take it.

Sergeant Joy said there was a person from Messrs. Swan
and Edgar's present who could speak to the prisoner at-
tempting to utter a ch, que there yesterday.
Mr. Knox said that any further cases could go to the
sessions.

Sergeant Joy then said that his attention being called to
the prisoner yesterday afternoon by a person in Messrs.
Swan and Edgar's employ, he took him into custody on Mr.
Callow's charge. The prisoner some time after asked him
to go to Mr. Callow and try and settle it for him, but he
told him he could not do so, as there were several other
cases against him.

The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committed
for trial, several tradesmen being in court to prefer charges
against him.

WESTMINSTER.

EXTRAORDINARY DETECTION OF A RAILWAY SER-
VANT.—John Pollock was placed at the bar, charged with
being found in the refreshment rooms of the Victoria
Station, with intent to cemmit a felony.
The prisoner wore the livery of the Crystal Palace Rail-
way.

Mr. Arnold asked what position he held there, and was
told that he was office porter at the railway.
John Parish, 140 8., said—At half-past one this morn-
ing I was on the platform at the end of the lost property
office leading to the refreshment-rooms. I suddenly heard a
noise in the rooms, and Mr. Freeman, who was with me,
went towards the room, when we saw a cat suddenly come
through the fanlight. I told him I was certain there was
something the matter. We sent to Mr. Fisher, the pro-
prietor of the rooms, for the keys, but the prisoner was
discovered before they arrived, and taken into custody He
tried to get out of the window and unfastened it to do so,
and was found on the floor of the room. A railway guard
got in and we brought him out by the window.
Mr. Arnold—How had he got into the room ?

Witness—He had got over the wall at the end of the
hotel, and lifting a cellar flap entered the rooms from be-
neath them.

Mr. Carpenter, superintendent of the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Police, directed the magistrate's attention
to a great number of articles upon the table, and an empty
purse found at the prisoner's lodgings. The purse haft been
left at the railway a few days ago, and then contained gold
and silver.

Parish produced a sewed purse which he said had been
left by a lady at the station, and contained 16s. Alter
apprehending the prisoner he searched his lodgings, and
tht-ro found 19 bottles of wines and spirits, a box of cigars,
a quantity of glass, and other articles of a miscellaneous
character.

Mr. Arnold—Will any of these things be identified ?
Superintendent Carpenter—They will ; and if your wor-
ship will grant a remand we shall be enabled to complete
the case against the prisoner. A great deal of the property
belongs to Mr. Fisher.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

LITERATURE.

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lectures on the History of England. By William
Longman. Lecture V. Longman and Co.

, The first volume of Mr.Langman's History of Eng-
land—he himself still modestly calling it'' Lectures
on the History of England"—is now completed. It.
has grown u 1 slowly and steadily during the last few
years, Lecture after Lecture. Accordingly, in fact,
as these same Lectures have, one after another, been
delivered orally at Chorleywood. Gradually accu-
mulating, as the printed pages have done, in this
way, they have come at last to number up, in
Vol. 1,, a goodly aggregate of 459 altogether.
From the earliest times, from "Before the Romans,'
Mr. Longman's survey of our annals has come down
to nearly the middle of the fourteenth century.
His Fifth Lecture presents to us a succinct epitome,
and a readily appreciable estimate, of the Reign of
King Edward the Second, that reign extending
over an interval of a good score of years—namely,
flerottmer A.D.
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through through h e
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cessore, are several very curious woodcut illustra-
tions, one of these depicting the two-handed sword
at Hawthornden, said to have belonged to King
Robert Bruce, quaint old claymores, and lochabar-
axes, to say nothing of a map of Scotland in the
14th century, and a plan of the ever-memorable battle
of Bannockburn. Hardly ever have we seen a more
clearly arranged, a more searching, or a more ad-
mirably useful Index than the one here copiously
tures.given atitt hies
acleoesme
polfettehis first
synopsis
Om
s'olfuthee oefuutthee Leo
ntsui.
the volume it is appended to—as complete, as In•
dices always should be, if deemed worthy of com-
piling at all. The pleasantest thing to us, however,
in all this last instalment of the First Volume of
these Lectures of Mr. Longman, upon our national
History, is the manly, outspoken, admirably-
well written Preface contained in it. A
Prance we (eke to be at all times a
rather difficult thing to write—judiciously, Mr.
Longman's Preface, however, is really, in some
respects, a kind of model Preface in its way. It
is penned throughout in perfect good taste. It
has a personal interest about it, as all Prefaces
necessarily must have : and yet, in spite of that,
it is not in the least egotistical. It is in no way
deprecatory of honest criticism—on the contrary,
by the tone of it, that criticism it seems earnestly
to court. Its opening words of explanation no
one will read with more interest or more zest,
we should imagine, than that Veteran Author
and Publisher, who has also himself written, upon
a yet larger scale, the records of our native
land, Mt. Charles Knight 1 An interest and a zest
certain to be participated in hardly less, we
should suppose, by another of the people's
publishers further north—author as well
yretphauttatthiuonuguhftfahlasvcinhgolaprewuneedmetahne
awshpoubhliasshert—heb
Vestiges of Creation." Turning here, however,
to the very opening paragraph of Mr. Longman's
Preface, we read :—" I feel that some explanation
is needed of the reasons which have induced me
o step out of my province as a publisher, and en-
croach on the domains of authors; for, indepen-
dently of a natural feeling, akin to jealousy, which
either author or publisher must feel if one or the
other attempt to combine the two vocations, it is
clear that they cannot, as a general principle, be
united with advantage. I trust, however," adds
Mr. Longman with dry humour, " that authors will
forgive me, and not revenge themselves by turning
publishers. There is, nevertheless, some advantage
in a publisher dabbling in literature, for it shows
him the difficu'ties with which an author hes to con-
rend—the labour which is indispensable to produce
a work which may be relied on—and it increases
the sympathy which should, and which in these
days does, exist between author ani publisher."
He then goes on to relate how it chanced that he
found himself, about eight years ago, committed
to the responsibility of lecturing upon The History
of England. The circumstances which caused him,
he says, to undertake the task at all, were solely and
simply attributable to his neighbourly solicitude to
forward the interests Gf a society established no
further back than 1855, for the improvement of
the labouring classes in and around the little village
of Chorleywood, down in Hertfordshire. A year
or two after the establishment of that homely asso
ciation, Mr. Longman appears to have been incited
by the local incumbent, to the Delivery of a course
of Lectures on English History before the
intelligent, though but poorly-educated, agri-
eulturists of the neighbourhood. The Reve
rend Mr. Scrivenor, the clergyman in ques
'ion, to whom this fortunate suggestion (as it
has proved in its results) presented itself, was him-
self induced apparently to throw out the hint by
the success of a lecture delivered in 1857 by Mr•
Longman, before the Chorley wood Association, upon
the subject of Switzerland. "In an easy moment,',
says Mr. Longman in his Preface, "I promised"—
promised, that is, the delivery of the suggested
course of Lectures on the History of England. And
here, in this substantial " Volume One," is proof po-
sitive of the lucky thought of the incumbent of
Charley wood, and of the earnest and conscien-
tious labours of the Author-Publisher, that have
resulted from that lucky thought or suggestion.
Addressing himself originally to plain thinking and
(for the most part even it might be said) unlettered
Englishmen, Mr. Longman has written his book
throughout in clear and simple language. The fact
that he has done so imparts to the work one of its
chiefest charms—namely its exceeding lucidity and
perspicuity both iu style and arrangement.
CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED BUNYAN.

The Pilgrim's Progress. Illustrated by H. C.
Selous and M. P. Priolo. No. 1. Cassell, Pettsr,
and Galpin.

y It gives pro-
et raised in
Another monument to the fame of John Bunyan,
them ies eT ionf kbeere
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mis
ne
gr e
pbeerghuanp
st ot
hbee
noblestsetup
his honour. It is nothing less than the issue, in
penny weekly numbers, of a wonderful illustrated
edition of his masterpiece. A wonderful illustrated
edition, we repeat, deliberately and advisedly, For
the etabellishments comprised in each penny nom_
ber aro drawn and engraved with a grace
and a delicacy that really demand the appli-
cation to the serial (ot which they are
but the accessories) of that otherwise extravagant
adjective. Speaking of the leaerpress, Lord
Macaulay has said, in one of his most celebrated
cr.ticisms, "This is the highest miracle of genius,
that the imaginations of one mind should become
the personal recollections of another ; and this
miracle the Tinker has wrought. There is no
ascent, no declivity, no resting place, no turnstile,
with which we are not perfectly acquainted." Are
not these high words of praise __
words pronounced
by the greatest literary critic of modern times—
justified to the full? Leh one can answer, from
his own personal remembrance. And here, in
this penny initial number of the new
popular edition of the most famous prose
allegory in our language (as Spencer's "Fair
Queen" ii the most renowned in our poetic
literature) here, once more we begin with Christian,
pack on back and staff in hand, the immemorial
Pilgrimage. Above the initial letter, on page one,
over against Chapter the First "The Den and the
Dreamer"—lles half recumbent his wallet slung
by his side, his elbows resting on the book—The
Book—his nunds d--his eyes lookini_
up to the
starry crown of glory promised to him in the skies
_ow p,,grirn, Christian ! A little further on
•• Evangelist Directs Christian to the Wicket
Ortte"—that being the subject of the first half page
illustration. The first full-page engraving is
exactly opposite, representing "Christian setting
out from the City of Destruction"—running ! away
from taunts and jeers ! away from entreaties and
supplications ! It we could but obliterate here and
there trom the wondrous allegory a word or
two of fiercest bigotry and most narrow-minded
intolerance, words blurted out it the fervour of
his Puritanical zeal by the otherwise all-but in-
spired Tinker-Allegorist, we should exult, without
one qualm, over this further Popularisation of his
marvellous:y impressive narrative. Aa it is—being
a Puritan—the Tinker speaks
the Truth but frag-
mentarily. But, such as it is, he cries it aloud with a
strange enthralling eloquence, that, ever since the
allegory of toe "Pilgrim's Progress" was written,

has fixed the attention anti fired the imagination of
generation after generation. With this one, but im-
portant reservation of approval we have spoken of,
attaching simply to the original text, we cannot but
admire the enterprise of the well known publishing
house to which the English public are indebted for
the issue of this singularly cheap and surprisingly
beautiful edition of the Tinker's Dream of the Path
leading up from Earth to Heaven.

STANFORD'S MAP OF THE KINGDOM OF

POLAND.

An admirably distinct and peculiarly well-timed
" Map of the Kingdom of Pol ind"—as it was ! and
as it may yet be again !—has jam° nnw been issut
from the press by Mr. Stanford. of Charing-cross
It will be heartily welcomed by € very earnest stu-
dent of contemporary European History into whos.
hands it may fall. For it shows more clearly than
almost any atlas map of the country here delineated,
not only its past and present extent, but the succt s-
sive Seizures of its Territory, by Ru,sia, Austria, and
Prussia. Seizures made, some of them, further
back than the first of the three infamous partition,
—1772 being the date of the First Partition-1793
the date of the Second Partition-1795 of the alit d
and final Partition. The anticipative cessions of
Polish territory being made—one of them as far
back as 1660, namely, that of Esthonia to
Sweden. Another, a larger one, in 1667, to Russia.
A third, in 1721, again to Russia, the latter
cession ibeing that of the little northern State of
Livonia. And so bit by bit, within a period of
considerably less than two centuries, has Sarmatia
been stealthily at first (in 1660) flagrantly, brutally,
and insolently at last (in 1795) been disintegrated,
and its bloodstained soil divided among its robber
neighbours. Every murdered Pole buried away
under it, however, by Russia, Austria, or Prussia is
proving now to have been but as dragon's tooth
sown in its soil. One ready ever to leap up
afterwards at the first opportunity, an armed
patriot, eager to fight or die in vindcation
once more of his country's independence! Looking
at this excellent map of Poland, as it was and as it
yet may be again, we can hardly doubt but that it
will be so, that it must he so in the end—Poland
being at heart manifestly resolved to struggle to
the last gasp for its independence, and Europe, the
whole of Europe, saving only the three robber
nations who have shared its spoils amongst them,
sympathising earnestly in that sublime deter-
mination.