The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-19 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens very quiet, at about f below Fri
day's rate. Sales, probably 5,000 bales.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—T his day.

IBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.'

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 18.—Jeltina, from Petersburg; Silver
Star, from Demerara; Auliore, from Philadelphia; Lotus,
front Shediac ; Kensington, from Akyab ; Trident, from
Nicholaff ; Alberta, from Mazagan ; Taunton Packet, from
Dalmatia ; F. Nordpol, from Gefle ; Familiar, from Sunda-
well.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed.—Trent, from London, for Trinidad; City of
Bangor, from Bassein, for London.
Anchored—Truant, from London, for Berbice ; Isabella
Blyth, from London, for Mauritius; Telegraph, from the
Black Sea, for Antwerp.

THE ADVERTISING MONEY LENDER.—Mr. Tighe,
a retired draper, residing at Brixton, made a state-
ment at the Worship-street Court, on Monday, to the effect
that his brother, a chemist in Gloucestershire, saw an ad-
vertisement in a Bristol paper in the beginning of Septem-
ber, in which a London capitalist offered to advance sums
of money up to £5OO, at short notice, at 7 per cent. interest
and personal security. The strictest privacy was guaran-
teed, and unusual advantages were offered, and no expense
whatever was to be incurred if the advance should be re-
fused. His brother applied for au advance of £2O. In
answer to his application, he received a lithographed letter
from Cirencester-place, London, on the llth of September,
with " Register 490, folio 76," on it, as though an extensiv.
business was carried on, which promised early attention to
the subject, and said that one of the lender's agents was in
that neighbourhood on other business, and that ho had
telegraphed to him to make inquiries, though he would not
call on the borrower personally, on pain of dismissal, if he
did. On the 12th his brother received a second letter, also
lithographed, stating that a satisfactory report of the bor-
rower had been made by the agent, and that the money
would be advanced in two £lO Bank of England notes, on
the borrower returning a promissory note enclosed, together
with a Post-office order for £22s. interest, and made payal ble
at the Bunhill Row Money-order office. This letter was
dated from Wilson-street, Finsbury-square, to which the
writer said all letters were to be addressed to him on
and after that date, as his promises in Cirencester-
place were required for the Metropolitan Extension Rail-
way.p The two guineas and promissory note for £2O,
signed, were sent as directed, but no answer was re-
turned; and on the 19th his brother wrote again, re-
questing the two £lO notes and an acknowledp;ment of
his letter, which had not been returned by the post.
No notice was taken of this, and, as his brother could
hear nothing further of his note, money, or the lender, he
had written to the applicant to make inquiries for him.
lie accordingly called at the house indicated in Wilson-
street, and was told that, though the persons living
there had consented to receive letters for the advertiser,
they knew nothing further than that a man called
there for letters occasionally. They had not seen him
for several days. Neither he nor his brother had the
slightest expectations of recovering the two guineas, which
were no doubt thoroughly lost, but the promissory note
for £2O was a more serious matter, as it might be nego-
tiated, although no value whatever had been received for
it. The house in Cirencester-place was a bookshop, where
it appeared letters had been left for a man, who had fetched
them away; but they had not seen him for a fortnight.—
Mr'. O. Nash, solicitor, said he had a case precisely like this
a fortnight ago, where a client of his had been sued, on a
bill obtained in this way, in the Court of Queen's Bench.
He had obtained leave froth the judge to appear, on the
ground that no consideration had been had for it, the writ
having been issued under the Bills of Exchange Act, and
the consequence wan that he had heard nothing more of it
since.