The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

Extensive Banking Embezzlements at Hull

On Thursday the Hull Borough Sessions were opened
before Mr. Recorder 'Warren. The calendar contained 36
cases, being a large increase over that of several years past.
Amongst the earliest cases disposed of was that of John
Henry North, 42 years of age, late assistant cashier at the
offices of the Hull Banking Company, who was charged
with stealing £3,163 15s. 3d., the property of his employers.
Mr. Gresham appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Thomp-
son for the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner had been
in the employ of the Hull Banking Company for a period
of 20 years, first as a ledger clerk, and for the last 14 years
as assistant cashier. Prior to that time he had been em-
ployed in the banking•house of Messrs, Smith Brothers and
Co. The treasurer had an excellent character, and was
trusted by his employers without the slightest suspicion,
but it appears that during a series of years he has been in
the habit of abstracting sums of from £2O to £5O at diffe-
rent times, unil a discovery took place, when he acknow-
ledged that he had abstracted altogether the sum of £3,163
15s. 3d, The mode by which this series of embezzlements
was effected was as follows :—The bank being one of
issue its notes were liable to be cut and damaged in the
course of business. As these cut and damaged notes
came into the bank it was necessary that they should
be repaired before they were re-issued. The notes re-
mained in the cashier's hands until they underwent the
necessary repairs, so that each cashier had often in his pos-
session a number of notes, amounting to several hundred
pounds. The notes were put into a parcel and taken into the
cashier's account when his cash was balanced, as damaged
notes amounting to such a sum. When, therefore, the pri-
soner from time to time abstracted the money, he added the
amount abstracted to the sum represented by the parcel of
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, him to five years' penal servitude.—

Every exertion is now being used to hasten the
completion of the mahogany diagonal-built paddle-
wheel Admiralty despatch steamer Salamis, 4,
building at Chatham in readiness'for her launching,
which is fixed to take place on the 19th of May.
Her principal dimensions are,—lecgth between per-
pendiculars, 220 feet; breadth, 28 feet 2 inches;
depth of hold, 14 feet 6 inches; burden, 835 tons;
horse-power, 250. The next ship to be built on the
Salamis' slip has not been named, but, as the fol—
lowing vessels have been ordered to be constructed
at Chatham dockyard, it is probable that one of the
number will be laid down on the vacant slip—viz
the Pitt, 91 guns ; the Boadicea, 51; the Pomona'
51; the Ganymede, 28; the Falmouth, 22; the
Tees, 19 ; the Diligence, 17 ; and the Albatross, 4.
The Admiralty have entered into a contract with
the firm of Messrs. Cambpell and 'Johnston for the
erection of a new caisson at the entrance to the
second dock at Chatham, in which the iron frigate
Achilles is under construction. The cost of the new
caisson is estimated at £3,500. Directions have
likewise been received at Chatham for the erection
of a new boiler-house at the Achilles' workshop for
the reception of the new machinery which is
ordered to be purchased and erected during the
present year Among the sums voted for the ex-
penses at Chatham dockyard during the current
year is one of £16,480 for wages for 480 additional
hired mechanics and artisans to complete the work
already in progress at that establishment.

Au official notice has been received at Chatham
dockyard that the boilers for the iron frigate Achilles,
50, have been completed by Messrs. Penn and Sons,
at their works, Deptford, and that they are ready
for shipment. Owing to every foot in Chatham
dockyard being now filled, and there being no un-
occupied shed at that establishment sufficiently
capacious to receive the large boilers for the Achilles,
it is probable that they will be landed at Sheerness
dockyard, and placed in store until they are ready
to be shipped on board the iron frigate.
Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham
for the merchant schooner Southland Head, which
came into collision in the Thames, with her Ma-
jesty's paddlewheel steamer Medusa, Master Com-
mander J. Loane, and received some injuries, to have
her defects made good at Sheerness.
The Jaseur, 5, 80-horse power, attached to the
first-class steam reserve at Chatham, is ordered to be
brought for immediate commission, with a comple-
ment of 65 officers and men. She is intended for
service on the West Coast of Africa. The Jaseur
has been taken into dock to undergo the customary
overhaul.

The Pandora, 4, screw, Commander Buxton, sailed
from Spithead on Thursday evening, taking mails
for Sierra Leone.

The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Commander Henry
Phelps to the Victory ; Commander W. H. Anderson
to the Foxhound, vice Commander the Hon. A. C.
Hobart, promoted; Commander Charles T. Curme
to the Hannibal; Lieut. Albert L. Nugent, fag lieut.
to Rear-Admiral Austin, Admiral Superintendent of
Malta Dockyard ; Sub-Lieut. C. W. Beaumont to the
Magicienne; Wm. C. P. Grant, paymaster, to be
secretary to Rear-Admiral Austin ; James J. Rutter,
paymaster, to the Ajax ; John G. Clarke, acting
assist.-surg., to the Valorous ; John Robarts (a),
acting chief engineer, to the Indus, for the Orontes ;
be
; George W. Jones
L.
Thomas Parker, engineer, J. D. Lamont and F. E.
Shean, assist.-engineers, to the Jaseur ; Andrew
Watt, of the Hastings, for the Ghroimpeprso;
nJ,oolain,
thCe.
Williams, of the Black Prince, Robert
of the Asia, lent to the Warrior
Thomson, of the Spider, George Thompson,
Fisgard, Thomas Hall, of the Leven, and Frederick
Wheeler, of the Rattlesnake, promoted to engineer;
Simeon Lawton, of the Sparrow, John Pearce, of the
Malacca, David P. Steddy, of the Immortalite, Na-
thaniel Farrant, of the Wrangler, and G. H. Lox-
dale, of the Topaze, promoted to be acting engineers.