The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-22 00:00:00

and chain, a gold ring, and other articles of jewel-
lery. The prisoners gave addresses which I found
to be correct, and from the inquiries I have made, I
have every reason to believe that they have only
recently arrived in this country from America.
The officer added that he had no doubt if the pri-
soners were remanded he should be able, on a
future day, to produce evidence in support of all
the charges he had made against them.
The Lord Mayor, addressing the prisoners, said
he proposed, upon the evidence at present before
him, to remand them to a future day, and he
inquired whether they had anything to urge why
this course should not be taken.
The prisoners, who did not attempt to give any
explanation, and who merely said they wished for
an adjournment, in order that they might obtain
professional assistance, were accordingly remanded.
A purse, containing money, which had been
found in au omnibus, was transmitted to the Lord
Mayor, with a request by the finder that the
amount contained in it should be placed in the
poor-box, if no owner c ime forward to make out a
good claim to if.

CLERKENWELL..---ASSAULT ON A BARMAN
AND A CONSTABLE,—A rough savage-looking
fellow, who gave the name of Michael Sullivan, a
labourer, residing at 4, Gordon-lane, St. Luke's,
was charged before Mr. Barker with being drunk,
disorderly, and assaulting William Purser, under-
barman at Mr. H. Holland's, the Old Ivy public-
house, 166, Goswell-street, St. Luke's ; and further
with assaulting police-constable Wm. Blatchford,
68 G, in the execution of his duty.
The prisoner entered the house the worse for
liquor, but was not served. He went into the tap-
room,and annoyed the customers. The barmanasked
him to leave the house, but he refused, and struck
the barman a severe blow, and the prisoner's wife
threw a pot at him and hurt him a great deal.
When the constable arrived the prisoner said he
should not take him, and kicked him twice on the
legs, and also struck him on the chest. It was with
great difficulty that he could be got to the station,
on the way to which he was very violent.
The prisoner said that the potman struck him
with a pot on tho head, and that was the reason
why he did not leave the house.
Mr. Barker (to the potman)—Did you strike the
prisoner with a pot ?
Witness—Decidedly not. All that I did was to
ask him to leave the house, and he then struck me
without any provocation.
The landlord said ho did not wish to hurt the
prisoner. All he wanted was to conduct his busi-
ness respectably, and for the prisoner to keep away
from his house. _ _ _

Mr. Barker fined the defendant 205., or in default
21 days' imprisonment in the House of Correction
with hard labour.

The prisoner was locked up in default.
CONFESSION OF THE MURDER OF 'A WIFE.—
John Lyall, a compositor, was charged under the
following circumstances :
Police-sergeant Gleeson, 16 E, said that last
night, between the hours of eleven and twelve, the
prisoner, who was the worse for liquor, came to the
Hunter-street police-station, and said he wished to
give himself up on the charge of murdering his wife
about a year and eight months back, at Canongate,
Edinburgh. He also said that he had murdered his
wife in a fit of jealousy, and that they would find
her body buried under the bottom stairs. The
prisoner was charged with being drunk and inca-
pable, as his story was something similar to that
told by a man believed to be the prisoner, at other
police-courts, and supposed to be false.
Mr. Barker said he could only deal with the
charge before him, viz., that of the prisoner being
drunk and incapable, and upon that the prisoner
would be discharged. With regard to the confes-
sion of the murder, the police could do as they
pleased.

2111? FORGERY ON TILE RUSSIAN

BANK.

William Muller, a German, was placed at the bar
yesterday, before the Lord Mayor, to undergo a
further examination upon a charge of being con-
cerned with Reichberg,Rosenberg, and three others,
in engraving and manufacturing certain plates for
the iurpese of forging rouble notes on the Imperial
Beall; of Russia.
It will be remembered that Reichberg and Rosen-
berg, with three others, were committed from this
court, and tried at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to
penal servitude for engraving certain plates, form-
ing parts of Russian rouble notes, for the purpose
of carrying on a most gigantic forgery upon the
Imperial Bank of Russia.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Peachy, of the
firm of Oliverson, Lavey, and Peachy, again ap-
peared to prosecute on the part of the Russian Go-
vernment. The prisoner had no solicitor.
Mr. Sleigh said that on the last caudnination the
prisoner had, when asked what the parcel con-
tained which was found upon him, said he knew
nothing at all about it; but he was then in a posi-
tion to prove he did know what it contained, as,
having lost the ticket which was given him at the
rail way station, when he left the parcel he said he
it contained engravings and plates; and he should
likewise prove by the landlady at the house in Mid-
dleton-street, where Reichberg had the press taken
by the prisoner, that he was acting in concert with
the others. The prisoner sent an impression of a
seal to the station-master, stating that the seal on
the parcel corresponded with it, and that seal was
taken from the one which was found at his lodgings
by Scott.
The Lord Mayor asked Mr. Sleigh if he was
going to call an expert to prove that, as, although
looking at the impressions in an ordinary may, he
should say they were taken from that seal, still he
himself would not like to swear it was so.

Mr. Sleigh said he intended to do so on a future
day, but he was not prepared then. He likewise
stated that another parcel had been found at the
railway station at Woolwich, which was left there
on the Ist January last, but there was no direct
evidence as to who left it, but it contained en-
graved plates similar to those found on the prisoner ;
and upon a future occasion he should be prepared
to prove by the engravers that they were part of
what had been done by them.
George Scott, a detective officer, was then re-
called, and stated that on. Wednesday, the 14th inst.,
he went with Sergeant Brett to the Woolwich
Arsenal Railway Station, and the station-master
gave him a parcel, which he produced. It was
addressed to " Mr. W. Wilkinson ; to be left till
called for." He opened it in the presence of the
station-master, and found it to contain engraved
zinc and brass plates and a quantity of type figures.
Sergeant Brett said on examining the book which
he found on the prisoner he found the number
4,827 written in pencil, and on the next page was
the name of Mr. Berni. The number 4,827 was the
number of the ticket which was said to have been
, lost. He also found a letter addressed to Mr. Leach,
of the Baker and Basket publichouse, in Worship-
street, asking him to allow a parcel to be left there,
addressed to Mr. Berni, and not to allow any one
to receive it unless he produced a seal similar to
one which was on the paper. That seal also cor-
responded with the one found at the prisoner's
lodgings.
Mr. Coyle, head clerk at the railway station,
London-bridge, said that on the 7th inst., the par-
cel which was produced by Scott, addressed to Mr.
Berni, was left at the cloak-room, and there was an
entry in the book of a ticket. No. 4,297, bolng given
for a parcel on that day. On the 9th inst. the
prisoner went to the cloak-room, and spoke to
him about the parcel. He said he had left
a parcel on the 7th, and had lost the ticket that
had been given to him, but he could give a descrip-
tion of it, at the same time taking a pocket-book
(the same produced by Sergeant Brett), and showing
him the number, 4,827, and the name William
Berni. He told the prisoner it was necessary to
know the contents of the parcel, as he could not
give up any parcel from a description of its exterior
marks, and asked him what it contained, and he
said it contained plates and engravings, and that
ho was an engraver. He then told the prisoner
that the parcel would be required to be opened to
see if its contents agreed with his description ;
upon which he said he would not take it then, but
would call again in the evening. He did not call
in the evening, however, but on the following Mon-
day, the 12th, he called, and said he had come for
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delivered by him to the prisoner on the 12th of
May- He had previously received a letter, signed
M. Berni, which he produced, which contained a
fac simile of the seals on the parcel, and he wrote
to Mr. Berni, stating that his description was
satisfactory, and that he could have the
by signing a receipt. For every parcel that was
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