The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-01 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Very small supplies of hops are on offer, and the trade
rules firm at fully previous rates. A few parcels of new
produce have come to band, in which sales have been
effected at from £6 lOs to £9 lOs per cwt. Tho accounts
from the plantations are on the whole favourable, and pick-
ing will be general nest week. In Bavaria, considerable
progress has been made in securing the crop.
Weald of Facts, 1861 l5OB to 170 s „
Growth of 1859
„ 1860
Old olds

FORE!GN Hops.—The imports of foreign hops into
London last week were 30 bales from Ostend and 361 bales
from Hambargh.

BORCYCGII AND SPITALFIELDS.

Fair average supplies of home-grown potatoes have been
received at these markets since our last report. Some por-
tion of the arrival, however, has been of unsatisfactory
quality. Good and fine samples hare changed hands stea-
dily, at full quotations; otherwise the trade has ruled in-
active, on rather easier terms :

York Regents .
Do. Shays ..... to 90s „
Do. Rocks ..... 70s to 99s „

WOOL.

Since we last wrote, increased animation has been ob-
served in the biddings for colonial wool, at the public sales
now in progress. The fineness of the weather, the rise in
cotton, cotton goods as well as flax articles, including the
cheapness of money, have encouraged buyers from our own
manufacturing districts to purchase more freely, and in
senao instances a slight advance has taken place in prim.

FORGERY BY A CLERGYMAN.

N OTTINGHAM, SATURDAY.
A painful sensation was created in the town to-
day in consequence of another forgery (similar to
those which were so rife in the town two years ago)
having come to light in which a clergyman belong-
ing to the Established Church is implicated.
This afternoon the Rev. Thos. Cartwright, curate
of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham, was brought
before the Mayor and the local ben 3h of magistrates,
at the police-court, charged with uttering a forged
bill of exchange, on the 4th ult., with intent to
defraud.

Mr. Arthur Wells prosecuted, and Mr. Maples
defended the prisoner.
Mr. Henry Hudson, bill-discounter, Nottingham,
deposed that on the 4th August last the prisoner
called at his office, and asked him to discount a
bill of exchange. The bill now produ3ed was the
same, and was as follows :
" £2O. Nottingham, July 31st, 1862.

" Iwo months after date pay to my order the sum of
twenty pounds, value received.
" To Mr. Peter Drummond, Stirling.
" THOMAS CARTWRIGHT."
" Accepted, payable at the bank of Messrs. Robarts and
Co., London. " PETER DRUMMOND."
Endorsed, " Thomas Cartwright," and "Henry
Hudson."

Prisoner told witness that Mr. Peter Drummond
was the proprietor of a periodical called the British
Messenger, and the money was for literary services.
He had at the time a copy of the periodical, which
he showed to witness in corroboration of his state-
ment. When the prisoner produced a bill witness
observed that it was endorsed on the wrong corner,
and at his direction it was endorsed in the proper
place. From information he had received he believed
the bill to be a forgery.
Mr. Superintendent Raynor said that yester-
day evening, about six o'clock, he went to the pri-
soner's house with a warrant for his apprehension.
The prisoner asked what it was for, and witness
said it was for uttering a forged bill of ex-
change. Prisoner asked to look at the bill, but wit-
ness refused, stating that he would read it over to
him. Prisoner then asked who was preferring the
charge, and witness said he did not know. He than
took him into custody •
Mr. Wells, on behalf of the prosecution, asked
for a remand for a week in order to produce Mr.
Drummond; this the bench granted.
The prisoner appeared very dejected, holding his
handkerchief before his face to hide it as much as
possible from the gaze of the spectators.
The prisoner was ordained by the Bishop of Lin-
coln on Trinity Sunday lent, being licensed to the
curacy of St. Mary's, Nottingham. A year previous
to his ordination he conducted divine service in a
populous part of the town in connection with the
Church of England, as a probation previous to his
being ordained. Immediately preceding this he was
superintendent minister for the Nottingham district
of the New Connection Methodists, but seceded
from that body in order to enter the Established
Church. Previous to this charge he was always
considered an active and zealous man, and was
highly respected.
The prisoner was removed to the House of Cor-
rection. It is said that a number of other forged
bills are in circulation.