The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-02 00:00:00

FORGERY.

Edward Burt was indicted for forging and uttering a
cheque on the Bank of England for the sum of £2O, with
intent to defraud the governor and company of the Bank of
England.
The prisoner, it appeared, was casually employed by Mr.
Percival, a horse dealer, in the neighbourhood of Eaton-
square, who kept an account at the Bank of England, and
his cheque book in his desk in the office adjoining the
yard. The prisoner, as also other persons employed about
the 3 ard, had access to the premises; and in the early part
of Oct. the prosecutor was absent for several days at a fair,
and on his return found that some person had torn a
cheque out of his book, which it was afterwards ascer-
tained had been filled up for a sum of £2O and purporting
to be signed by the prosecutor, and presented, it was be-
lieved, by the prisoner, who received three £5 notes, one
of which was numbered 57,281. The prisoner, who was
in rather poor cireumstances, was suddenly found very flush
of money. He made a statement to the foreman of Mr.
Sewell, a veterinary surgeon, that he had been to the bank to
get a cheque cashed, and he was also traced to have given a
£5 note, No. 57,281, to his landlady in payment of a debt.
On her sending the note to be changed, it was returned
to her to put her name upon it, and at her request
the prisoner wrote her name on the note in question, which
was produced and identified.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty of uttering the
cheque, km.wing it to be forged.
The learned Judge sentenced him to three years' penal
servitude.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
CHARGE OF CUTTING AND WOUNDING.
Bridget Ford was indicted for cutting and wounding
a woman named Ford.
The evidence showed that there had been a quarrel be-
tween a number of women in the neighbourhood of the
Thames Police-court, and that the prisoner, it was said,
wilfully cut the prosecutor violently on the head with a
glass bottle.
The jury returned a verdict of acquittal.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

Henry Kelly, George Davis,' and Edward Sweeny were
indicted for a robbery with violence on Jeremiah Pendi-
gast, and stealing from him a snuff-box and a pocket-
book.
The jury found all those prisoners guilty.
A number of police-constables proved four convictions
against each of them.
The learned Judge sentenced Davis to 10 years, Sweeny
to 7 years, and Kelly to 8 years' penal servitude.

BURGLARY.
Joseph Jennings was found guilty of a burglary in
the dwelling house of Mary Price, and stealing there-
from three pieces of merino, three pictures, and other
articles.
The Court sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude.

FOURTH COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
SENDING} DISEASED MEAT TO MARKET.

Alexander Stuart, pig jobber, Cupar Angus, Perthshire,
was indicted for sending to London two fore quarters of
beef in a state unfit for human food.

From the evidence it appeared that a farmer near the
residence of the prisoner had two cows suffering from pneu-
monia to a very severe extent. The cows were sold to the
prisoner fox £3, and he forthwith slaughtered them, and
sent them up to Mr. Lee, of Newgato Market, for disposal.
When the stuff arrived, Mr. Lee at once called the atten-
tion of the authorities to the subject, and the present pro-
ceeding was the result.
From questions put to one of the witnesses, it appeared
'that the most serious consequences would result from such
stuff being sold to the p0...r as food.
The jury found him guilty, and the judge sentenced him
to 12 months' imprisonment and a fine of V.O, and to be
detained in prison till the fine is paid.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

A small supply of home-grown wheat was received
fresh up to this morning's market. Both for red and white
qualities the trade ruled firm, and Monday's advance in the
quotations was well supported.
The market was but moderately supplied with foreign
wheat. The amount of business transacted was by no means
extensive ; nevertheless, prices ruled very firm.
Floating cargoes of wheat and other grain supported
Monday's improvement in their value.
The supply of barley was somewhat extensive. Good
and fine malting parcels were firm in price ; otherwise, the
barley trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms.
In malt a very moderate business was transacted, at late
rates.

The demand for oats was by no means active. Prices,
however, were well supported. The show of samples was
moderately good.

Beans and peas ruled firm, at quite Monday's currency.
Most kinds of flour changed hands to a fair average ex-
tent, at fully Monday's prices.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat
Irish.. ..... 508
Foreign...... 4,860 2,010 16,850 600 sks,
4,260 brio:.
Barley.l,o3o Malt.t4o Oats Flout.
F1R:711216

WHITECHAPEL.
The trade generally rules firm, at the annexed prices :
—Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; veal,
3s 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Sibs by the
carcase.

BOROUGH HOP.
We have to report a steady demand for hope, and fine
samples command rather more money.

THE HEALTH OF THE DUKE OF ATHOLL.—We
(Edinburgh Courant) regret to state that the latest ac-
counts from Blair Athol represent the strength of his Grace
the Duke of Atholl as declining very fast, and that his posi
tion is considered very critical.

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL .—Yesterday a meeting
of the governors of this Hospital was held at the
London ,bridge Hotel. The minutes of the previous meeting
having been read and confirmed, Sir John Musgrove, the
president, stated that in 1852 he had taken the chair at a
meeting for the establishment of what was properly called a
Samaritan Fund, the object of which was to assist poor pa •
tients on leaving the hospital with temporary means until
they entirely recovered their health, or were able to resume
their usual occupations. A sum of nearly £2,000 was then
raised and invested, but the funds afterwards were greatly
diminishedi and at that juncture Mr. Tite had come forward
and presented the treasurer with the sum of £5OO, paid to
reofevrerd e spi of
him by the South-Eastern Railway Company under the
award of the umpire, as compensation for his services in the
sale of the hospital to them. This munificent donation
was referred to in
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liberality. The motion was seconded-by the treasurer, and
carried unanimously. Mr. The said the destruction of the
hospital on its late site had become inevitable, owing to the
imperative demands for railway accommodation, and that
among the many charges to which he had been exposed for
the part he had taken none were more rife or more unjust
than the imputations of mercenary motives. These he
hoped he had disproved by the gift to the Samaritan Fund
to which the president had alluded. He also took the op-
portunity of stating that on taxation all the law costs and
expenses of counsel, surveyors, &e., had been defrayed by
the railway company, except a few items not amounting
altogether to more than £4311, which was all the expense
that had fallen on the funds of the hospital in this long
litigation and arbitration. The solicitor reported that the
cowmen seals of the corporation and of the Metropolitan
Board of Works had been affixed to the agreement for the
purchase and sale of the land at Stangate as the future site
of the hospital, and after the election of a junior assistant
surgeon the court adjourned.
A RAILWAY ENGINE-DRIVER AND FIREMAN
FINED FOB. BEING BRUNEI.—At the City Court, at Oxford,
on Tuesday, a man named Tuttley, an engine-driver, and
Williams, a fireman, bath in the employ of the Great Wes-
tern Railway Company, were each fined 105 and 5s for
being drunk and incapable of duty. Tuttley denied that he
was intoxicated, and attributed his incapacity to exposure
to the night air, and being drenched with water at the Ox-
ford station. through the mismanagement of the man who
supplied the engine with water. Williams attributed his
incapacity to being overworked and having to work 11 hours
a day; he stated that last week he was worked to such an
extent that he had only 17 hours' rest the whole week,