The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-30 00:00:00

THAMES.

FORGERY AND EMBEZZLEKENT•—CharIes Wren, late
town traveller to the firm of Moss, Levy, and Co., exten-
sive looking-glass manufacturers, upholsterers, and furni
ture-dealers, 45, Leman-street, Whitechapel, was brought
before Mr. Partridge, charged with embezzling goods, the
property of his employers, to the amount of £230, and also
with fraud, forgery, and larceny.
Mr. L. Lewis, solicitor, Ely-place, conducted the prose-
cution; Mr. Josiah Merriman, of Bouverie-street, defended
the prisoner.

The case was a very complicated one, and was explained
by Mr. L. Lewis. The prisoner had been in the service of
the prosecutors 12 months at a salary of 255. per week and
2i per cent. commission on all goods sold. The prisoner
went out with a van-load of goods daily, and he was bound
to enter in a book every sale effected by him, and the names
of the purchasers. He entered the names of Edwards of
Hammersmith and Ward of Forest-hill, and he gave his
employers bills drawn by the firm and purporting to be
accepted by Edwards for £2l and by Ward for £25 in pay-
ment of the goods which he purported to have sold. The
bills when they had arrived at maturity were dishonoured.
It turned out there were no such persons as Edwards and
Ward, but that the prisoner had opened a shop at Forest-
hill, and'put the name of Ward over it, and to this place he
removed goods of his employers, which he said he had sold.
Ho finally absconded, and was captured at Norwich yester-
day by Dunaway, a detective officer, No. 11 H. A great
many looking-glasses and toilet-glasses belonging to Moss,
Levy, and Co., were found in a house in Norwich. They
had all been covered by acceptances of Edwards and Ward
to the draft of the prosecutors. The bills were in the
handwriting of the prosecutors clerk, Mr. Glover, but all
the acceptances were in the primer's handwriting.
Mr. Hyam Levy, one of the prosecutors, produced a num-
ber of fictitious bills issued by th) prisoner, and purporting
to be signed by Edwards and -Ward. They had all been
dishonoured.

After a long investigation the pisoner was remanded for
a week.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

Australia and New Zealand, via Soithampton.....April 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pao, et April 6.
Ditto, by British packet Mar. —.
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Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 23.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 4.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton , .... Mar. 29.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., April 4
Ditto, via Marseilles •.. . -„...Mar. 29.
India (13..mbay), via Southampton.., Mar. 29.
Ditto, via Marseilles .. Mar, —.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil a+,....
Newfoundland ' April 12.
Portugal
tish packet • ...Mar. 29
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Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
cll4m"erica, by Bri-

tc.n
Ditto, via C.,rk
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Loadonderry..Mar. 31.
West Ccast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe. April 12.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico • Mar. 31.
Bahamas, via New York. April 6.
Bermuda, ditto • April 12.
Cuba and Mexico

ROYALTIES ON MINES.—A return issued from the
Office of Woods and Forests shows that the revenue of the
Crown as royalty on the produce of mines and quarries
amounted, in the financial year 1862-63, to £16,453 for
England, £6,529 for Wales, £32 for Scotland, and £lO for
Ireland. The sum of £9,770 was received as royalty on
coal got in England, £3,364 on iron, £2,820 on stone.
Wales presents the novel item of £2,005 for royalty on
gold and silver.