The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Lee, a solicitor, of Regent-square, Gray's-inn-road of
the sum of 701. It will be necessary to mention that on
the former occasion, the evidence went to show that, in
1846, Mr. Lee called at the office of Mr. G. Lewis, of
Barnard's-inn, and there met the prisoners and Mr. John
Mynd Cooke, a solicitor, practising in the same office.
Mr. Cooke, who had since turned theatrical manager
in the provinces, represented to Mr. Lee that a
client of his, of the name of Francis Gibbons, was
desirous of selling a judgment obtained against
Lord George Loftus for 5531. 35., prior to his
lordship's insolvency ; but, as he (Mr. Cooke)
was about to file a bill in Chancery against the present
Marquis of Ely, and the trustees of the late marquis to
recover the sum of of 10,000/., due to Lord George Lof-
tus, the younger son, under the marriage contract be-
tween the late marquis and his marchioness, in which the
late marquis covenanted that he would insure his life for
10,000/. in favour of each of his children, but, having
omitted to fulfil that part of the contract, Lord George
Loftus was seeking to recover that sum from the estate,
and, if he succeeded, value would accrue to the judgment
in question, and there would then be a handsome divi-
dend for the whole of the creditors. Upon this statement
and the urgent persuasion of King, Mr. Lee agreed to
purchase the assignment of the judgment debt, and accor-
dingly, at different periods within a few months, in the
year 1846, he paid the amount of 601. to Mr. John Mynd
Cooke and the prisoner King, who on both occasions prac-
tised under the names of both Lewis and Cooke. But within
the last few months circumstances came to the know-
ledge of Mr. Lee that led him to suspect the assignment
deed was a forgery, and that there was no " Francis
Gibbons," and subsequent inquiries confirmed his suspi-
cions, and he at once gave the prisoners into custody on
the above charges, when they were remanded till to-day,
and a summons having been served on a carver and
gilder of the name of John Hildebrand, requiring him to
attend, Mr. Lewis then stated that he was in a position
to prove that that person. (Hildebrand) was the party
who actually forged the signature of " Francis Gibbons,"
and it was therefore his intention not to take his evi-
dence as a witness, but to place him in the dock and
charge him with the other prisoners.
John Hildebrand was then given into custody, and
placed at the bar on the charge of forgery, and the fol-
lowing additional evidence was called :

Thcimas Walibanks said—l reside at 32, Hatfield-
street, and am the secretary to the Cabriolet Company.
In the year 1846 I was ostensibly clerk to Mr. G. Lewis,
of Barnard's-inn.

Sir P. Laurie—Tell me what you mean by " ostensi.
bly" clerk.

Witness—l was clerk in reality to Mr. King, the pri-
soner, who was clerk, and practised in the name of Mr.
Lewis. I have seen Hildebrand at Mr. Lewis's-office. I
did not see the assignment deed executed. The call-book
is principally in my handwrittng, and the entries on the
17th and 19th of August, 1846, were written by me.
' The name of "Francis Gibbons," entered as having called
on those days, was written by me at King's request.
Hildebrand was at the office on that day, but I
never saw a Mr. Gibbons there. I always supposed
Hildebrand was Gibbons. I believe I was at the office
on the 22d of August, the date of the assignment. The
prisoners were there. I recollect Hildebrand coming
out and saying he had signed a deed in the name of
" Francis Gibbons," and he hoped it was all right. He
asked me if it was, and I told him I knew nothing of the
matter. The deed is in Wyatt's handwriting ; but I be-
lieve he left the room before it was executed. I know
Hildebrand's handwriting, and believe the signature of
" Francis Gibbons," attached to the assignment," to be
his writing. Mr. Lewis then offered to put the deed in
as evidence, but Mr. Wood objected to its admission
until it was duly proved.
Sir Peter Laurie said he did not care about the deed
being proved ; he should have it read.
Witness (cross-examined)--I have gone by the name
of Thomas William Charnock ; but that is twenty or
thirty years ago, and I have changed my name for pri-
vate reasons.
Wm. Jackson said —I am clerk to the prosecutor.
This morning I made inquiry from one end of Piccadilly
to the other, to ascertain if Mr. Francis Gibbons had
lived there in 1846, but without success ; no such per-
son was known there at that time.
Mr. Lee stated he had also inquired with the same
result, the deed of assignment having described " Francis
Gibbons," as " of Piccadilly, gent."
The prisoners were then committed for trial at the
next sessions of the Central Criminal Court.

CLERKENWELL.—An abandoned woman, named
Harris, was charged with most inhuman and unprovoked
cruelty to a very small-sized spaniel dog.
It appeared, from the evidence of an officer of the E
division, and another . witness, that at midnight they
heard on a sudden, near Mableton-place, New-road,
the piteous cries of a dog, and on looking about they saw
the prisoner jumping upon and kicking a little spaniel.
They hastened towards her, and seized her as soon as
possible, and asked the reason of her brutality, when she
replied, that the animal being her own, she could do as
she liked with it, and dared them to interfere in the
matter. As, however, she was drunk, and the poor dog
was bleeding and writhing in agony, they took her into
custody.

The dog was produced in court, and, notwithstanding
it had been bathed with warm water, and had other
necessary and useful remedies applied, its head was
dreadfully disfigured, and its extremities seemed so
paralysed that it could not walk.
The prisoner said in her defence that she had been
drinking, and had no recollection of ill-using the animal.
Mr. Tyrwhitt indignantly observed that he had heard
of many brutal acts in that court by females, but the
one before him was the most revolting of all. Any
expression of his abhorence to such cruelty would fall
as pearl before swine to such a monster as the accused,
whom he sentenced to a fine of 31., or two months' hard I
labour.

The prisoner seemed surprised at the judgment she so
richly deserved.

MEXICAN DEBT.

. .
The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have issued
their report preparatory to the general meeting to be
held at the London Tavern, on Wednesday next, the
26th inst., which contains- a clear exposition of all mat-
ters connected with the foreign debt of Mexico. It is
divided into three sections :-1. The arrears on the
old bonds ; 2. The current interest on the new bonds ;
and 3. Various other matters of a mixed nature. With
regard to the arrears of interest, it appears that out of
the $2,500,000 assigned to the foreign creditors out of
the American indemnity money, there has been paid to
the bondholders 514,3371. 17s 6d, leaving an amount of
13,1071. to be still called for, against which Messrs.
Baring Brothers hold a balance of 16,848/. The account
will be closed in August next. The financial agent has
in addition paid 2 per cent. to the certificate holders.
The general result as respects the arrears is .this :—that
the committee, after distributing 71. 3s. per 1001. stock
—settling all claims on them—and providing for all ex-
penses to the Ist September next, will still have at their
disposal for distribution among the certificate holders
—An eventual balance at Messrs. Baring Brothers
and Co., of 3,7411. 13s. sd. ; a balance at the Bank
of England of 8,7541. 4s. ; $70,000 expected by
next packet from Mr. Escandon, say 14,000/. ; to-
gether, 26,4951. 17s. sd. ; or about ss. 2d. per 1001. ;
and that the claims which they are still prosecuting on
the Mexican Government, and on Messrs. Manning and
Mackintosh, amount to about $900,000 or 355. per
1001. more, which must, however, be considered very
doubtful. As regards the current interest on the new
bonds, it seems that the speedy payment of the two
overdue half yearly, dividends of July 1, 1852, and the
Ist inst., depends on the success of the application which
the Mexican Government has made to Congress for an aid
9f $1,300,000, but that the best measures practicable have
been taken for the future due collection, safety, and regu-
lar remittance of the revenue of the bondholders. In spite
of continual and urgent applications for accounts, none
have been received as yet which would enable the com-
mittee to say what the produce of the revenues of the
bondholders has actually amounted to either in 1851 or
in 1852, or how much of the produce of last year is now
available for the payment of the two overdue dividends.
The only amounts at present realised are in this country,
in the hands of Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co., $112,538
75c. ; in Mexico, principally in the ports of the Pacific,
about $79,300 ; together $191,438 75c. There is, be-
sides, in the hands of the agents, a certain amount of duty
bills which will become due in time for the next July
dividend, to which they properly belong. So far as, in
the absence of proper accounts, it is possible to form an
estimate of the produce of the revenues assigned to the
foreign debt, for the lost two years, it appears that those
revenues, even at present, produce sufficient to pay a
dividend of about 2 per cent. per annum, and that
the whole annual deficiency to make up 3 per cent. is
only $600,000. The aid of $1,300,000, for which the
Minister of Finance has now applied, is in fact the
amount of this deficiency for the last two years.
Under the third section of the report the committee
mention that the fact of the Deferred Bonds having
been shut out from conversion of 1846, forms one of the
grievances on which they memorialised the Foreign-
office on the 9th August last, and have since taken
measures to obtain, if possible, redress for this class of
bondholderi without any further delay. With respect
to the prospect of the bondholders obtaining a free grant
of public land in Senora as some acknowledgment of the
great and repeated sacrifices to which the foreign credi-
tors have submitted in the several regulations of the
tBatlyeonTiderretPolYb:
debt, the committee are unable to give by any means a
he sfact
tvheerycdhoaunbctfe
uol.f obtaining the grant

:4ASSION-110ITSE.---irthur
,er the following circumstances :- Whelby was charged
,Jr.ohn
Gibbons, W. Gibbons, of the house of Watson,
-, 3, and said--The prisoner was in our
em-
rinent •as an entry-clerk. His duty wary to come and
up all the letters to be sent by post at 5 o'clock. In
sequence of the extraordinary disappearance of pst-
:tamps, I made an arrangement with one of our ks, ind I marked 240 postage stamps, and put them-
„ hbx. He had 90 letters to put into the post, and
!Ind-that there was a deficiency of 40 stamps. I
1 s6veral of the marked stamps about him. Re
upon
0. apprehended, that he hoped I would
beine,
vo him.'
lc prisoner was remanded.

Mr. tklexander Smith, a lodging-house keeper, ap-
pcared before the Lord Mayor for the purpose of corn-
piaiuing on the part of three ICaffirs, who had been em-
pto:rred in Cremorne Gardens, and other places of amuse-
io,•nt iz the metropolis, as exhibitionists, against the
geritle;An who brought them over to this country, as a
violat“ of his contract with them.
"Nrr. Ainith said the Africans had been engaged to come
to
at a bullock a month for twelve months by a
gogtthloaii, who regularly entered into an agreement to
Pay that money to them, and to return them to Africa
,tt„rxrat
time
ion of that term. He at theisame tit
11)13101
it t that a violent assault had been committed
t-
hat
743'aof ono of the Africans, and he stated many
rdstanc,,g, which, placed together, induced his
Say that he considered the subject ought to
gated in the strictest manner upon a future oc-

pan examination *poll the subject in a

v days,

GUILDHALL.— TV. H. King,
c'f 'Winchester-
, 7,lce. Ppntonville, and
.T. Wyatt,. of 83', Rang-str'eet,
Winchester-
..n) described in the police-sheet aa attorne s'
Arks, Were placed at the bar for final examination Yon
he charge of forgery and conspiracy to clefraaem.r.

D ROBBERY AND ATTEMPThEDI
evinanoste
AY.—Throughout the
.• ceding day the magistrates
investigating one of th
time, extraordi
robbery, that een recor
MURDER.—HULL, SATUR-
lonfhuymesatneradnayd, aantd
ththe the pre
police have been engaged
murder, coupled coupled with
was returning
Mrs. Duffill, anappe
extraordinary attempts to
has ever been
on Tuesday evening l
wife, of Beverley,
last train. All
' • the
otitolnlisa
returnin,g from '
passengers
excepting one man, who sat in
did. After the train bad been
some persons near the line heard female'sam
some one a thief, and these were innkeeper'sa appears tha t
tofewvin.
minutes
ynuttleise
fni voice calling
cries of
got out at Cottingham,
tihne same carriage as she
help and murder, all proceeding from the same b
They followed as fast as they could, and ae
saw something thrown from the train,
ing the spot found the lady in question lying by cries
the side
and fanciedu the
eyonthreach-
of the rail, quite insensible. She was taken to a
close by, and the next day, it being found who she was, re-
moved home, where she lies without any hopes of re-
covery, being suffering from concussion of the brain.
Although she had a large sum when she left home, not
a penny was left in her possession when picked up.
Upon the train slackening at Beverley the fellow jumped
out and made off, nothing being then known at the sta-
tion of the matter. A milkman of . Beverley has been
taken on suspicion, and held to bail.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEN ING, JANUARY 24, 1853.

tendant of the dockyard during the week, in the absence of
Commodore Henry Eden on leave.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
The following General Order has just been promul•
gated

"Deputy Adjutant-General's Office,
Woolwich, Jan. 20, 1853.
"His lordship the Master-General has been pleased to
appoint Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart, C. 8., to be his
secretary.

H. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General."

LONDON AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY.

Among the schemes recently proposed for accommo.
dating London with railways is one by Mr. P. M. Par-
sons, C.E., under the above title. He proposes to con-
struct a main line of railway from Brentford to the
Blackwall Railway, near the Fenchurch-street station.
It is to commence by a junction with the London and
South-Western Railway at Brentford, passing in an
easterly direction near Turuham-green and Chiswick, and
so on to Hammersmith and the West London Railway
(which will connect the proposed line with the Great
Western and London and North-Western Railways),
along the south side of Kensington-road to Brompton,
and the lower part of Chelsea and Pimlico ; crossing the
Vauxhall-bridge road, it is to pass close to the new
Bridewell and across Victoria-street, through a low
part of Westminster ; thence, crossing the south end of
Great George-street, King-street, and Parliament-street
to the bank of the Thames between the Board of
Control and Richmond-terrace. From this point
he proposes to continue the main line along the
river on a viaduct and an embankment, by an easy
curve passing close against the inside of the first
pier of Hungerford-bridge and under the first arch
of Waterloo-bridge, enclosing the space intended for
a grand central station, comprised in the bend of the
river between its north bank and the pier of Hunger-
ford-bridge. The line then rises to a high level and
passes over the foot of Blackfriars and Southwark-
bridges, crosses Kin.. William-street, Fish-street-hill,
Pudding-lane, BotolA-lane, St. Mary-at-hill, Great
Tower-street, Mincing-lane, and Mark-lane, and forms
a junction with the Blackwell and West India Dock
Junction Railways, communicating by them with the
Eastern Counties and Great Northern Railways. He
also proposes to make a branch from the main line be-
low Southwark-bridge to the South-Eastern, North
Kent, and Greenwich Railways, by means of a skew-
bridge across the river, which would certainly be no
ornament to it, and a viaduct passing round Alderman
Humphrey's warehouse, St. Saviour's Church, and
across the Borough and St. Thomas's-street to the
Brighton, South-Eastern, and other railways near Lon-
don-bridge. The portion of the main line between
Westminster and the city would be constructed with
four lines of rails—two for the short or local traffic, and
two for the traffic from the existing railways. In the
construction of the viaducts on land he proposes to build
the piers with openings in the centre, about a third
of the total width of the viaduct, arched over at right
angles to the main arches, so as to form with them
a series of groined arches, in the spaces on each side
between the piers, admitting of handsome shops beinc,
built, the fronts inwards, and in a line with the inside
face of the piers, and forming with them arcades under
the line of railway, and direct communication between
leading streets and thoroughfares, as well as from them
to the stations on the line. The viaduct for carrying the
line along the bank of the river would be formed by iron
girders, supported on iron columns placed at distances of
about 150 feet apart. The columns would rest on piers
formed by sinking iron cylinders, and filling them with
concrete brickwork, and masonry, standing slightly
above high-water Mark. The principal wharfs on the
banks of the river are comprised between a point about
midway between Waterloo and Blackfriars'-bridges and
Allhallows:lane, along which the line is to be carried at
an elevation varying from eighty-five feet to fifty feet
above the level of high water leaving ample romi.
for barges or any masted vessels' that could pass under
the bridges, to be brought under the viaduct alongside
the wharfs. The intended skew-bridge across the river
for connecting the line with the Brighton and South-
Eastern Railways, as well as the proposed branch
across the river to the South-Western at Batter-
sea, to be constructed on the same principle as th•
viaduct, but in spans of not less than 250 feet. On
part of the scheme is the formation of a central station
near Charing-cross for the accommodation of passengers
to and from all the metropolitan railways. The total
area of the station would be about 18 acres, exclusive of
about 44 acres of the enclosed space on the river before
referred to, intended for a floating basin to accommodate
the wharfs between the Adelphi and Waterloo-bridge,
and the traffic of the proposed railway. The principal
facade of the central station would be in Great Scotland-
yard,,,,in the rear of Northumberland-house. The front-
age would be about 800 feet, with numerous entrances
and exits, with separate entrances and platforms for the
various railways. The estimated cost of the station is
245,3001., and the return, at Id. per passenger for the
use of it, 7 per cent, on the outlay. Mr. Parsons esti-
mates the total cost of the proposed main line
and branches at 2,809,5111., the gross revenue
at 451,2561., and the net revenue, after de-
ducting 40 per cent. for working expenses, 270,753/., or
9.63 per cent. per annum. The estimate for the pur-
chase of land, construction of works, &c., for the portion
of the line from Brentford to King William-street, City,
amounts to 1,769, 797/. ; the grosfrevenue to 305,8711.;
and the net revenue, 183,5251., Or 10.38 per cent. per
annum on the outlay. The extension thence to the
13Iackwall Railway is estimated to cost 538,0541.; the
gross revenue, 48,6671.; and the net revenue, 29,200/.,
or 5.42 per cent. Thl cost of the branch to the Brigh-
ton and South-Eastern ail ways is estimated at 267,848/.;
the gross revenue at 38,473/.; .and the net revenue,
23,0841., or 8.62 per cent. per annum. The cost of the
branch to the South-Western Railway, at Battersea, is
estimated at 160,8541.; the gross revenue at 25,4691.;
and the met revenue at 15,2811., or 9.5 per cent. per
annum. The cost of the branch to the West London,
or Punch's Railway, is stated at 74,9571.; the gross
revenue at 32,7741.; the net revenue, 19,6641., or 26.2
per cent. per annum.

COMMUNICATION. BETWEEN GUARDS AND
ENGINE-DRIVERS.

The directors of the London and North-Western
Railway have, during the last few days been engaged in
discussing among other subjects, that of communica-
tion between guards and engine-drivers, with a view to
the prevention of accidents if possible in future. This
discussion has arisen in consequence of the melancholy
event which has recently taken place at Oxford. Amongst
the plans proposed are three from Mr. Varley, of Shef-
field, namely, one for communicating intelligence be-
tween the guard and engine-driver of railway trains ;
another for an improvement on the skids of the ordinary
brakes now in use, acting instantaneously on the four
wheels of the brake van, and a new and powerful body
brake, acting either at the centre or at the end of the
brake van or carriage. With respect to the communica-
tion between guard and engine-driver, the plan con-
sists of a small but strong flat chain connected
with an apparatus at the corner of the brake
van, through which it descends and passes into
an iron tube or groove attached to the underneath
part of the carriage. At each end of the tube are
affixed two small perpendicular and one horizontal roller,
against which the chain plays freely when in motion.
This chain proceeds through the whole extent of the
carriages in the train, and is finally attached to a
whistle fixed in the boiler of the engine; on which it acts
powerfully and instantaneously when pulled by the
guard. The use
of the rollers is of the utmost service
when a long .train is rounding a corner, as, from the
freedom of action which is thereby given to the chain
when put in motion, no snore force is required by the
guard than when used under ordinary circumstances.
Any number of carriages may be attached to a train on
arriving at 0. station without in the least disturbing the
arrangement of the connecting chain. In the event of
the couplings breaking and dividing the train, the very
accident acts upon the communication chain, which
blows the whistle, and thereby conveys to the engine
driver the fact that something wrong has happened. The
second part of. the invention accomplishes in one turn
that which, ir! the present brakes, requires ten
turns, and will,
therefor, stop a train in one-
tenth of the resen time, and it acts on the four
.wheels of
it the. brake van. The third, or " body
break," as. . !s denominated, consists of a sledge," hay-
ingjour divisions on each ride of the vehicle, covering
in length six feet of the metals on both sides of the line,
Theng its bearings on the &our corners of the carriage.
governors regulate the Motion of the apparatus, so
as to prevent the possibility of the carriage wheels, under
any circumstances, being lifted off the metals. It is
worked by the guard turning a screw at the top of the
break, which instantly brings down the sledge on the
metals, and thereby produces a great resisting and equal-
ising power on each side of the rails, and acting forcibly,
without in the least nipping or laying hold of the metals,
sliding on the line for a short distance, but so as not
momentarily to stop the train. The sledge may be made
of iron, wood, and other substances. In consequence of
the number of other lines running into the North- West-
ern line proper, the directors of the London and North-
Western Company have resolved to communicate with
all other railway companies running on their line, to
ascertain how far they may be disposed to concur in any
plans for effecting the object intended.

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—An
accident attended with a good deal of damage occurred
on this line a day or two since. It appears that the
luggage train on the day in question arrived safely as
far as Bath, which place it left for Bristol about eleven
o'clock. Shortly after the train passed Prix-ash-bridge,
and at about two miles distance from the Keynsham
station, the axle of one of the trucks broke, and several
of the carrians were thrown off the rails. As soon as
the engine-driver discovered what had happened, he did
his utmost to stop_the train, but before its impetus could
be overcome some of the carriages ploughed up the line
for the distance of nearly half-a-mile, the sleepers were
cut asunder, and a good deal of other damage was done.
Five or six other carriages, laden with heavy blocks of
stone, grain, and other goods, broke loose from their
couplings, were thrown down the embankment, and
deeply embedded in the soil of the field below. The
engine was dispatched to Bristol with intelligence of the
disaster, and due preparations were taken to prevent
danger to any of the passenger trains. A large body of
workmen were sent to the spot, and they at once set to
work in clearing the line, which was not accomplished till
nearly three o'clock in the afternoon. Yesterday the
trucks which were hurled over the embankment were
also remoVed. We should state that fortunately no
person in the train was injured. The van in which the
guard rode did not get off the rails.