The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-20 00:00:00

RUNAWAY MATCH.

Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey appeared
for the petitioner; Dr. Middleton for tho respon-
dent ; and Dr. Spinks for the co-respondent.
The petitioner was, in 1838, an engraver's ap-
prentice, and in that year he married, without the
cognisance of his friends, the respondent, who was
the daughter of a publican at Leeds. At first he
resided with his mother-in-law, but in 1842 he came
to London to seek for employment, and in the fol-
lowing year he obtained a situation at Huddersfield
as a bookkeeper. He then reclaimed his wife, but
she refused to return to cohabitation. Afterwards
she formed an adulterous connection with one Bar-
ras, a pawnbroker, with whom she was still living.
Some years ago she made an unsuccessful attempt
to obtain a judicial separation on the ground of
desertion.

The decision was in favour of the petitioner.

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POLICE INTELLIGENC F.—Dlarch 19.

MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday the Lord
Mayor, on taking his seat in court, said,—l may
take this opportunity of baying that I have had a
letter from the Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Mr. Armstrong, stating that the committee there
charged with the distribution of the funds sub-
cribed for the relief of the families of the unfortu-
nate men who perished inthe Hartley Colliery, have
made arrangements for investing a portion of the
money in their hands, and he asks me to send a
a check for that which I hold to the treasurer of the
fund. Some of the money we have received here ha.s
been placed at a banker's call. We have given notice
for its withdrawal. The money will be free on
Saturday, and I have written to the Mayor of New-
castle, stating that I shall on that day send a check
to the treasurer there for the balance, amounting to
£17,885 123. ld., and making, with £2,000 I had
previously forwarded, a sum of £19,885 12s. Id. The
whole amount for which I should have to account
would exceed that sum by £468 4s. 2d.; £432 Bs.
has been paid for advertisements, and £35 16s. 2d.
expended in office work. I desire now to give notice
that on Saturday next the Hartley Colliery account
here will be closed, and that I shall not after that
day zeceive any money in respect of it. If any
should come anonymously I shall pay it over; but
if any is sent with the address of the donor I shall
return it. It may, however, happen that some
small sums may arrive from abroad, as there have
previously, and, if so, I shall, of course forward
them to the proper destination. In addition to the
sums I have mentioned we have received £194 138.5 d.
for the benefit of the sinkers—those brave men who
risked their own lives in the attempt, unfortuately
fruitless, to save the lives of others. Of that sum
we have remitted £194 3s. sd. to the committee at
Newcastle, leaving a balance in hand of 10s., which
shall be sent with the rest of the money on Satur-
day. With regard to the fund for the sufferers by
the sad disaster at Cethin Colliery, we are still re-
ceiving subscriptions ; but I am sorry to say the
money in respect of that calamity, which in its na-
ture was quite as grievous as t'ie other, has not
come in to an amount at all adequate to the neces-
sities of the caes. While in the Hartley case a
much greater sum has been received than was ab-
solutely necessary to meet the emergency, I am
I afraid there will be a sad shortcoming in that of
Cethin, and it is not in our power, nor perhaps in
the power of any one, to divert any of the Hartley
Colliery fund from the humane purpose for which
it was subscribed.
George Frasi, an elderly man, an iron founder,
n Golden-lane, Barbican, was brought before the

Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Carier, in the cus-
tody of Sergeant Huggett, the detective officer,
charged with forgery.
Mr. Joseph Wakefield Terry, manager of the
Unity Bank, in Cannon-street, said the prisoner,
whom he knew, kept an account there, and they
were in the habit of discounting bills for• him. The
prisoner traded under the firm of Gilbert and Frasi,
and witness knew his handwriting. He produced
a bill of exchange, under date of the 25th of Sep-
tember last, for £B2 65., payable four months after
date, drawn in the prisoner's handwriting, in the
name of Gilbert and Frasi, and addressed to Mr.
William Batey, a soda-water manufacturer, Kings-
land-road, by whom it purported to be accepted. It
was also endorsed Gilbert Frasi and George Frasi,
both in the prisoner's handwriting. He believed
the bill was given to him by the prisoner about the
time it bore date. It was discounted and carried
to the prisoner's account, and afterwards presented
and dishonoured.
Mr. William Batey, the alleged acceptor, was
called, and denied that the acceptance was in his
handwriting. He added that he knew the prisoner,
and had dealt with him on one occasion.
The prisoner, after being cautioned, said he
should reserve his defence.
He was committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday Wm. Far-
row, William Grant, James Parsons, John Fellows,
Thomas Henderson, and Susan Gable, all well-
dressed persons, ranging in age from 36 to 22, and
all of whom, but the woman, the police described
as well known thieves, were charged with the fol-
lowing distinct offences.
Stuart and Child, two constables of the G divi-
sion, were on duty in Gray's Inn-road at a quarter
to one in the morning of the 15th ult., when they
saw Farrow, Grant, and Fellows loitering about
Frederick-street and Harrison-street, The door of
a house was found open, and the officers secured Far-
row and another man, the third escaping, and lodged
those two in the station. On examination, how-
ever, the next morning at Cierkenwell Police-court,
the evidence was not considered sufficient against
them, and they were consequently discharged.
I While their capture was going on Ranger, 199 G,
was sent on to protect that beat, and on getting up
to the house of Mr. Samuels, a jeweller and watch-
maker, he noticed a light in the shop and heard a
noise as though jewelry was being moved about.
He called at the door, " Is that you, Mr. Samuels?"
and a voice inside, in a careless, confident tone, re-
plied in the affirmative, and said that all was right.
He therefore moved away for a short time, so as to
watch the house without offence, and the next mo-
ment saw two men, whom he could swear t) be
Grant and Parsons, come out of a mews closely ad-
joining. Being a stranger to that beat, he did not
know of any mews being there, but on seeing the
men come out and make so rapidly off it was im-
possible to catch them, he rang at Mr. Samuels'
bell, and the latter got up and let him in. It was
then found that burglars had planted a ladder
against the party-wall between the mews and Mr.
Samuels's premises, descended by the waterbutt,
forced the yard door, entered the kitchen, and then
nlade their way, into the shop, which they plundered
of eight or ten watches, six dozen of plated and sil-
ver brooches, four dozen of gold pins, and a quan-
tity of gold rings and other articles. It was evi-
dent that the thieves had been stopped in their ope-
rations by the knocking of the officer, and obliged
to leave the greater portion of their intended booty
behind them. Four days after the above robbery
Buckley, a constable of the N division, saw all five
men come out of a house in George-square, Roston,
at 4in the morning. All of them were captured,
and on the road to the station two of them flung
away two crowbars, while a life-destroyer, silent
matches,and a knife adapted to cutting windowpanes
out were found on the others. On going back to two
houses they had been seen near, the two crow-
bars were found to exactly fit indentations in the
door of a pawnbroker, whose premises they had as
evidently been foiled in entering. On searching
the house in George-square, Evans and Maveety,
the detectives, found hetwe ft 30 and 40 keys,
skeletons and others, a centrebit, another crowbar,
and other housebreaking articles, and at the house
of the -female prisoner were discovered three dupli-
cates,claimed as her own, but which
were
found whichto she
be
for as many articles stolen from
Mr. Samuels's, and pledged by her,
Mr. Leigh considered all three charges clearly
established, and committed the whole of the pri-
soners for trial at the next sessions of the Central
Criminal Court,

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The course of exchanges, at New York on London
for bills at 60 days' sight is 1121 to 113 per cent,, and the
premium on gold is about 2 per cent. At these rates there
is a profit on the importation of gold from the United
States,