The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-26 00:00:00

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P,ATTERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING.
Six o'cLocK.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst Chieftain
12 to 1 agst La Gazza Ladra
12 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray
20 to 1 agst Sir John
25 to 1 agst Bedford (6 yrs old)
30 to 1 agst Bedford (5 ,yrs)

LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP.
2 to 1 agst Surprise
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
12 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg
15 to 1 agst Backbiter
25 to 1 agst Haresfoot
Very little doing.

[ADVERTISE MEN T.]-WHO'S TO WIN THE DERBY?
—This question will be satisfactorily Answered on the let of
march, by THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH, in a pamphlet which,
besides the opinions of all the Newspaper Prophets and Advertising
Tips, will also contain the List of Probable Starters, and the Jockies
engaged to ride. It will also reveal the mysteries of the Sporting
Press in connexion with the Turf, and prove to demonstration that
the Public are scandalously robbed by the Blatherumskate Tips.
Price Is., post Is. 4d.--Vickers, Holywell-street, Strand ; and all
News Agents.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
THE TRIAL OP ARNOLD GERBER, WILLIAM WAGNER,

AND PHILIP KESSLER.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Soloman Kralecour, examined by Mr. Huddlestone,
said he had known Wagner for twelve or fifteen months.
Had been in the habit of meeting him at Kessler's and
at Leicester-place, Leicester-square. He told witness
he could put him in the way of making money if he
would procure the signatures of people. For a time he
did not bring any, but afterwards he did give him some
signatures. To his knowledge he was not aware he had
made use of them. Wagner said he would receive a
cheque for Kessler, and get 3501. for it at the London
and Westminster Bask, under the name of Selin, Dean,
and Company. He added that 101. per cent, would be
deducted for getting the blank cheque, and
the remainder would be divided in four equal
parts—one for the informant, one for Wagner,
another for witness, and the other for the man
who got the money. Witness was to engage a man to
get the money, and to make a bargain with him as to
his share. It was arranged that this person should put
an advertisement in the newspaper, and that witness
should instruct him to call at a certain place and ask
for Mr. Simms. He had known Gerber for several
years, and after this conversation with Wagner he
visited him, and asked him if ho would like to go for
the money. He a' first raised objections, but afterwards
when he told him that he was instructed to say
that the matter was so arranged, that if anything should
happen to him he would bescleared from suspicion, he
consented to go to the bank. Witness informed Wagner
of his assent, but said he was very poor and had no re-
spectable clothes to wear. He requested witness to lend
Gerber a coat, and gave him 17s. or 18s. to enable him
to take his troweers and waistcoat out of pledge.
Wagner on that occasion showed witness a cheque
for 81. 7e. on the London and Westminster Bank,
which witness got cashed several days afterwards;
subsequently witness wrote out an advertisement for a
light porter or messenger, and requested Gerber to in-
sert it in the Morning Advertiser. He gave him 2s. 6d.
or 3s. for that purpose. He also lent him a coat and
purchased for him a hat. Gerber was to meet him op-
posite Osmond's Coffee-house on a Friday. Wagner, a
short time previously on that day, went to the coffee-
house, and left the note for A. G., signed in the name
of Simms. Gerber met witness as appointed, and
they went into a public-house and had some
bread and cheese and ale, and on that occa-
sion he made Gerber call at Osmond's and get
the Elute. On the Saturday following Wagner gave wit-
ness the cheque, and some bags, telling him to place
them in Gerner's hands, and ask him to get tho money
in ten twenties, and the rest in gold. Part of the notes
were to be taken afterwards to the Bank of England, to
be changed, and the rest to a money-changer's
in the Haymarket, where foreign money was to
be got for them. If questioned at the bank,
Gerber was to say he received the cheque
from a man with dark whiskers, but he was to describe
some mark on his face which would prevent any such
party being found. Wagner and witness followed Ger-
ber to the bank; they waited outside until they saw a
policeman go in, and then they left. Gerber did not
know Wagner until he saw him at the Mansion-
house. When in prison witness asked Kessler why
he had done it in such a foolish way, and
he replied, that if ho had known it would
have come to that he would not have prepared the
cheque at all.
In cross-examination, he said he had been ten or
twelve years in this country. Previously he had been
a clerk. He had carried on the business of a cloth-
dealer abroad. His father failed in consequence of un-
fortunate speculations in wool; and not being able to
keep him, ho had to suppsrt himself. He was about
twenty-three when he came to England. Between
twenty-one and twenty-three he was a soldier
in his own country. He set up the business
of a small jeweller in London. He had never
been in trouble before. By appearing in the wit•
ness-box as a witness he expected to go home to his
family again. He had neither been insolvent nor bank-
rupt. Ile had never been in trouble, but had been
',close a police maaistrete for a statement made in
joking to his friends. He bad said he recieved some
money from a person who committed a robbery, but
that was untrue. The Lord Mayor said it was
a very foolish joke, but dismissed him imme-
diately. To the best of his recollection he had
not been before any other magistrate. He was a native
of Prussia, and resided in Berlin. He had never been
in the hands of the Berlin police. He was once charged
with winning 61. at cards, but the inspector would not
take the case. Ho had been in the habit of playing lately.
The policemen who bad watched the movements of
the prisoners for some weeks previous to the attempted
utterance, in consequence of the suspicion they
.enter-
tained, were then called on to connect the one with the
other.—(The trial was proceeding when our report left.)

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Charles Nash, 26, agent, was indicted far feloniously
forging a transfer in the stock of the Waterford, Wex-
ford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Company, with in-
tent to defraud Peter Hanstock.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner declared his entire innocence.
The sentence was postponed, in consequence of a
point of law arising in the case, which would have to be
determined by the Court of Appeal.

FRANCE,
Thep ostal conventions between France and the
Netherlands and France and the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg, concluded on the Ist and 28th Novem-
ber last, and ratified on the 18th January, are pro-
mulgated in the Moniteur. The Moniteur also pro-
mulgates an additional convention to the treaty of
commerce and navigation between France and the
Two Sicilies. This convention was signed so far back
as 12th May, 1847, and is in the name of the King
of the French. It is accompanied by a declaration of
the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Naples, from
which it appears that the delay in promulgating it
was caused by the French Government being anxious
especiall for those em lo ed
to obtain some concessions for French steam-vessels,
y
the Post-office ser-
Tice in the Mediterranean, which concessions have
been granted by the Neapolitan Government. The
treaty is to Come into operation from 15th March.