The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-30 00:00:00

THE CHARGE OF LIBEL AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.

Mr. Poland made an application to the Recorder to allow
he removal of this case by certiorari t,o the Court of Queen's

Bench.

The court granted the application.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST. A TRADESMAN.

A respectably dressed man, named Harris, carrying on
the business of a tailor at Brentford, was charged with
stealing a £5O note, the property of Mr. Abrahams.
The facts of the case were somewhat strange. The pro-
secutor res.ded in the house of the prisoner, and for upwards
of 12 months he had in his possession a £5O note, which
he kept in a pocket-book locked up in a wardrobe. From
time to time trifling articles of wearing apparel were miss-

ing from the place, and eventually, two sovs having been
stolen, ho obtained a patent lock and put it upon the
wardrobe, his £5O being quite safe at this time.
Shortly after he found that the £5O note had been taken
from the pocket-book, the number of the note which had
been entered in the book altered, and a £5 note substituted
in its place, On the £5 note the name of " Coles"

was written, and also the name of W. Jones, Staines,

on the £5O note, both of which, it was believed, were in
the handwriting of the prisoner. /The prisoner had some
time before the prosecutor discovered his loss asked him to
oblige him with a loan, and in a few dais after the prisoner
was known to have paid to Messrs. Bull and Wilson, the
wholesale woollen drapers, a bill of £36.
Witness having deposed to the similarity of the prisoner's

handwriting pith that on the notes, -
Farmer, a detective in the metropolitan police, said he
went into the Bank of England on the Bth of October and
obtained the cancelled £5O note produced. He went to the
prisoner's shop and Mr. Abrams and Mr. Wyburn being
present, he told the prisoner a £5O note had been stolen and
that he had a few questions to put to him to which he
might answer if he thought proper. In answer to the
questions prisoner said he paid Messrs. Bull and Wilson £36
in a£s note, a bill for £6, and the restiin sovereigns. He
denied going to the Bank of England on the.26th of Sep-
tember. When he was asked where he had been on that
day, he said to Hampton, and he had left Waterloo-station
at a quarter past one.
Mr. Davis, a clerk in the Bank of England', said the £5O
note produced was changed on the 26th of September for a
£5 note and 45 sovereigns.
Mr. Bent, superintendent of the Waterloo Station, said
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that there
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quarter 1 train,ctco Hampton. The
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Mr. Ribton having addres
The Recorder summed up the case. y.
their verdict when we went
Tao jury had not returned
to press.

ilaPPING—This Day,
.

LONDON, Nov. 30.—wind this day at noon—South;
moderate breeze, and fine weather.
CARDIFF, Nov. 28.—Whad S.W.—Sailed—Canada, for

Ceylon.
Nov. 28.—Wind E.—Sailed—Yorkshire,
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 27.
from Sydney. Wind W.—Arrived—Pirate,
I
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 29.--
jesty's ship Supply, from Malta.
Wind E.—Arrived—Her Ma-
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
PLYMOUTH,for
GRAVESEND, Monday Mornimr.
Arrived, Nov. 29—'refiner, from Frederickstadt ; Villa-
franca, from New York ; Salatiga, from Rotterdam ;
Vriesland, from \\Tomato; P4ovidenee, from Bruges;
DEAL,
Sappe Visser, flout Woreuni ; Frunkoa, from Uddetvalla ;
Marie, from Ostend; Raleigh, from Cagliari ; Mary
Monday Morning
llannah, from Dantsie; Volocta, from Archangel; Fan-
line, from Gothenburg.
' Arrived, Nov. 30—Amble, from Cronatadt.
Excel, for Brixham. ;
Sailed—Chanticlear, steamer, tor Stettin.
Shakespeare, P Passed—Lightning,
s sed—
lLondon Kallena, from
aPillyfmroomu ft
Shields, for Alexandra; Clyde, screw steamer, from west-
ward, fur London.
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M. Egerton has been appointed to the Embassy
at Berlin, and will be succeeded in the Embassy at Paris by
Yisco4nt Stidley,—Obsrver.