The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-25 00:00:00

Wm. Roupell would have passed unscathed through
the ordeal of the new Land Registry-office, an as-
sumption which, as we humbly conceive, is not
entitled to be made.

Since the above was in type we have heard that
it is not improbable the opening of the Land Re-
gistry-office may be postponed until towards the
end of October ; for although the Lord Chancellor
has exerted himself greatly to bring his Act into
operation on the day on announced, the
difficulties attendant upon the first establishment
of an important public department are so numerous,
owing mainly to the delays which take place in the
communications between the different public offices,
that we understand it is almost impossible to com-
plete the arrangements for opening the Land Regis-
try-office by the day first named.

GUILDHALL.—ALLEGED WHOLESALE SWIN-
DLING.—LeopoId S hocke, a foreigner, who described
himself as a commission agent, was brought up by
Sergeant Funnell, of the City detective force, before
Alderman Rose, for final examination, relative to
the charge of feloniously uttering a forged order for
the delivery of goods to the value of £290, and
with conspiring with one Henry Cowen, who has
since fled the country, to defraud the Tees Woollen
Company, of Barnard's Castle, in the county of
Durham, of goods to the value of £3,000.
Mr. Lewis, jun., conducted the prosecution. Mr.
L. C. Lumley, of the firm of Lumley and Lumley,
attended for the Tees Woollen Company. Mr. Beard
for creditors of Cowen, the absconding bankrupt,
Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys and Mor-
gan, appeared on behalf of Mr. Venables. Mr.
Orridge, instructed by Mr. M. Abrahams, attended
for Messrs. Spielmann and Co. Mr. Wavell, from
Stubbs's Trade Protection Offices, and Mr. Pocock,
from the Merchants' and Traders' Association,
watched the proceedings on behalf of eubscribers.
Mr. Buchanan defended the prisoner.
The depositions taken on the last examination
having been read over,
Mr. Lewis said he proposed calling other two
witnesses before closing his case. One of them was
a lad who had been in the employ of Cowen, and
would be able to prove that the prisoner was at the
office daily assisting Cowen in a variety of ways,
but not in the capacity of a clerk or servant. It had
been suggested that the prisoner was a servant, and
therefore innocent ; but it was well known that a
servant might be equally guilty with the master in
matters of this kind, and he would show not only
the manner in which Cowen's account at Messrs.
Spielmann's was opened and closed, but—
Mr. Martin said that could have no material bear-
ing upon the case before the Court.
Mr. Lewis said it was important, as it was part
of the evidence in support of the charge of conspi-
racy to defraud the Tees Woollen Company of their
goods. Of course, he could not connect the prisoner
with the opening of the account, but he would show
that, on the 13th of August, he was in possession of
patterns, and sold the goods at a rate very much
below the invoice prices, Cowen having previously
stated that he required them for shipment to a Paris
merchant, for whom he was correspondent, a state-
ment corroborated by the prisoner upon his appre-
hension ; and on the 14th of August the goods ar-
rived. On the same day the prisoner was shown
bargaining with the carman for their delivery
to Messrs. Venables, the goods never having
been unpacked after their arrival from the
railway, and he had been previously, and is
afterwards present in the office when Cowen offers
to go and get the packer's receipt for the goods,
and accompanies him for that purpose, well know-
ing that he had already sold the goods which Cowen
represented as being at the packers. He returned
with Cowen, who gave the forged receipt to Mr.
Walker, the manager of the Tees Woollen Company,
and eventually, after Cowen had left the country,
the prisoner was shown to have been dictating a
letter to Mr. Walker, explaining the reason why
remittances had not been forwarded to be that Mr.
Cowen had been disappointed in getting money
from his Paris house, in consequence of a delay in
th© delivery of the goods at Paris. To show that the
prisoner must have known the receipt was a forgery,
he would adduce evidence to prove that on a former
occasion the prisoner had employed Mr. Southgate,
of London-wall, as a packer, and that the firm of
Bellinger and Co., packers, of Jewry-street, Ald-
gate, so far from having done business with the pri-
soner or Cowen, were in fact a fictitious firm. If all
these circumstances were not sufficient evidence of a
conspiracy to defraud, of course there would be an
end of the case.
Alderman Rose asked why the transaction of the
Ist of August had been introduced ?
Mr. Lewis said it was to show that the goods
were disposed of by the prisoner directly they ar-
rived, at a great reduction, and that other goods
were afterwards sold by him in the same manner,
and ou the same terms.
Mr. Walker was then recalled, and said that on
the Ist of August the goods sold to Cowen amounted
to £368 14s. 5d., and that on the same day he
(Cowen) remitted him £lOO.
Cross-examined—On the day that Cowen gave
him the forged receipt he asked him, having great
confidence in his honesty, for a receipt acknowledg-
ing that he was holding the goods to the company's
order, upon which Cowen said the packer's receipt
would be more business-like, and said, in the pri-
soner's presence, "We will go and get the packer's
receipt for the goods." The prisoner was in another
room when Cowen gave witness the receipt.
Re-examined—They made use of a " blind" to
prevent him going with them.
Edward Wm. Holland said he was in Cowen's em-
ploy for four months as errand boy. The prisoner
was there every day. About a month ago a man
from Mr. Southgate, the packer, of London-wall,
came to pack some goods, and the prisoner said he
had sent him. When Cowen left he said he was
going to Brighton.
William Farr, manager to Mr. Southgate, the
packer, proved that he sent a man by the prisoner's
orders to Union-court for some goods to pack on the
6th August. Those goods were forwarded to Glasgow.
Messrs. Spielmann's bookkeeper produced Cowen's
account, and in answer to questions from Mr. Lewis
and the Court, said a person of the name of Henry
Cowen opened an account at their house on the 10th
July with a sum of £l2l 10s. Bd.
Mr. Martin said this evidence had no reference
to the present charge.
Mr. Orridge, on behalf of Messrs. Spielmann,
said it was not his clients' wish to shut out any in-
formation that the prosecution might require.
Mr. Lewis said it was material, as his case was
that the whole of these matters connected with
Cowen were a swindle, as was apparent from the
fact that in the short period of two months he had
succeeded in getting possession of £6,000 worth of
goods.
Mr. Martin said he could not see the material
bearing of these facts on the prosecution of the pri-
soner.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 24.

The magistrates of Belfast have at length re-
solved to act with something like vigour. They
found, after nearly a week's experience, that coax-
ing and reasoning with daring ruffians, who pelted
them with stones while reading the Riot Act, had
no effect but to encourage the work of destruction,
which went on and increased night after night.
On Tuesday, therefore, the Mayor issued a pro-
clamation which he ought to have issued on Thurs-
day, after the first night's rioting. The following
is a copy of the proclamation :
"W hereas the peace of the town has been seri-
ously disturbed by the illegal and tumultuous as-
sembling together of large bodies of persons for
several nights past.

" Now I, Charles Lanyon, Mayor of Belfast, do
hereby give notice that the magistrates have de-
termined to apprehend all parties who refuse to
disperse and peaceably to depart to their habitations
after the reading of the Riot Act.
" Sept. 22. CHARLES LANYON, Mayor."

Notices " to the Orangemen of Belfast" were also
placarded through the town, signed by "W.
Peebles, District Secretary," one of which stated
that—

" Any Orangeman known to take any part what-
ever in the disgraceful riots which for a certain well-
known object are now got up in the town will be
removed forthwith from the loyal Orange Institu-
tion."
The other notice is as follows :

" The riots which now disgrace our town are got
up for a certain well•known object. Orangemen,
be wise. Keep wholly away. Confine yourselves
strictly to your homes, and exhort to this course all
within your reach.'

_____.
Mr. Lewis said Cowen's account was an import-
ant feature in the case.

The bookkeeper said the account was opened on
the 10th July with money and bills, and on the Ist
August a sum of £7O was paid to Cowen's credit,
and a cheque for £lOO paid out to the Tees Woollen
Company. On the 14th of August the balance in
Cowen's favour was £75.
Alderman Rose asked when the account was
closed.

Witness said on the 27th August.
Alderman Rose inquired the total amount of the
transactions with Cowen in that period, and what
the balance of the account was at the time it was
closed.
Witness said the total of the transactions was
£544 9s. 6d., and the balance of Cowen's account,
on the 27th August, was 45. 101 d.
Mr. Morgan said he was exceedingly glad that
this witness had been called, as his evidence proved
that Mr. Venables had actually paid the whole of
the £125 for the goods, and not £25 only, as it was
assumed on the former occasion on the production
of the receipt.
Alderman Rose said that was all cleared up on
the last occasion, and it was not necessary to go
into it again.
Mr. Morgan said he was happy to hear the
Alderman say so, as it was not generally understood
to have been satisfactorily cleared up, as Mr. Ven-
ables had received from 50 to 60 letters on the sub-
ject, from persons to whom he was known, since the
last examination.
Mr. Orridge said he was also glad that the last
witness had been called, as it afforded him an op-
portunity of saying something in reference to these
transactions as far as Messrs. Spielmann were con-
cerned, and in answer to some observations made
by the Alderman upon the subject, said it was quite
evident that from the first introduction of Cowen to
the closing of his account, his transactions with
Messrs. Spielmann were of a perfectly bona fide
character. He opened his account in a proper man-
ner, and during the time it was kept open, so far
from ever being indebted to Messrs. Spielmann, he
never overdrew his account, but on the Ist of August
had a balance in his favour of £179 9s. 10d. Messrs.
Spielmann could have no notion as to the probable
duration of his account, which was kept open only
so long as they had funds of his in their hands to
meet any cheques he might draw against it. With
regard to the references, Messrs. Spielmann had
been exceedingly careful not to recommend per-
sons for credit, and the inquiries instituted were not
if Cowen could be trusted, but only if he had an
account there, and if it would be safe to buy goods
of him. It might have been extremely dangerous
if Messrs. Spielmann had said that Cowen might
be trusted to any amount—they had no idea
that he might not be trusted—but they would not
go out of their way to gia e him a better character
than they thought he dese They felt that
fia ccount, d that they
Cowen's was a bona
were doing him elalY a simple act of justice in
what they knew of him. Messrs.
stating merely
SC, ere in court, and open for the
Spielmann's books
inspection of every one, and he hoped the worthy
alderman would t4ay, after this explanation, that the
*ezpretision of his opinion on the last occasion with

_
was. a very harsh one Mr. Lewis addressed th.'
regard to Messrs. Spina, nly too pleased that the conduct of the accuse was
magistrate, contending
and undeserved, and they would be
the sub- sistent with his entire innocence o: perfectly co n -
to feel that they had satisfied his mind on the charge. His
jeet. elient said he had been for ten
yettrs . clerk to a
a.
Alderman Rose said he was not called upon to Queen 'a' counsel of large practice, an n. therefore
reply to the remarks made by Mr. Orridge, but he large swag o: money pli assed through his hands,. and,is-
might say that it did appear that certain swindlers he was not a perso.
had defrauded persons of goods to a very large honesty of stealing a pulse containing three ,er talur
kely to descend to the
al
amount, and the references in some instances were shillings. The gentleman whom he was ser vinj
Messrs. Spielmann. Now, if Messrs. Spielmann was at present on the Continent, or he had :htl
had furnished the information to any one inquiring doubt he would be in attendance to vouch for his.
the date of the account, the amount it was opened probity and respectability, but there were present
with, the balance to credit, and the total of trans- gentlemen who would speak as to his character.
actions up to the time of inquiring, persons like Several gentlemen spoke to their knowledge of
Cowen could not have got such large quantities of the prisoner as a respectable man, and amongst
goods, and heavy losses to some might have been those examined was Mr. James Graham Lewis, of
prevented. With regard to his concluding remarks Ely-plsce, who deposed that he had known the pri
on the last examination, he begged to state that he sonar as clerk to a gentleman at the bar, and had.
was not in the habit of using strong expressions, paid him many hundred pounds on account of his
and as it was an error in the report, he hoped the master. He was perfectly surprised on eattering
Press would correct it. He was made to ask if all the court to find him at the bar, and had no h esita-
the references to Messrs. Spielmann had resulted in tion in saying that, from his knowledge of him, he
such " lies." His own observation was, if they had was perfectly incapable of having committed suet
resulted in such " losses." an act as that imputed to him.
Mr. Morgan said he had the invoice of the Tees Mr. Elliott remarked that the present was one of
Woollen Company, dated that very morning, show- those cases in which people jumped to too hasty
ing that Mr. Venables had bought goods of them a conclusion. The witness Bigg had deposed to
at much lower prices. seeing the prisoner put his hand under the cloak of
Mr. Lewis said it was utterly untrue, as the in- the complainant ; but, taking the relative position,
voice showed the goods had been bought of a Mr. of the parties into consideration, he (Mr. Elliott)
Taylor. thought it most difficult to pick her pocket of her
Mr. Morgan said surely the Tees Woollen Com- purse. And after the character he had heard of the
pang would not deny their own agent. accused, and believing also that the gentleman in
Mr. Lewis, after communicating with Mr. Wal- whose service he was would not keep any untrust
ker, said it was true that Mr. 'Taylor was the cow- worthy person in his employment, his opinion was
pany's agent, but the goods were of a different the complainants were, though honestly so, mis-
description. taken in their opinion, and that the accused was
Mr. Venables, sett., said after what had appeared wholly innocent. At the same time, he (Mr. Elliott)
in the newspapers, it was due to his firm to state felt bound to say that if the statement of the con-
they had bought the goods of Cowen at a price duct imputed to him, of touching the feet and
above the actual market value, in addition to which clothes of the females, were correct, he had acted in-
they had bought that morning similar goods of the decently, but of the other offence he was discharged.
Tees Woollen Company at from 20 to 40 per cent. The accused here quitted the dock, and left the
discount off the price the others were invoiced at. court accompanied by his friends.
Mr. Lewis said Mr. Walker was present at the
time the goods were sold, but they were not of the
same weight, nor of the same number, as those sup-
plied to Cowen.
Mr. Venables said they were the same quality
goods, and as it had gone forth to the world that
he had bought goods under price, he hoped it would
also go forth that he had bought the same manu-
facture of goods direct from the Tees Woollen Com-
pany at a lower price that morning.
Mr. Lewis said not the same numbers or weights,
Mr. Venables said the same numbers and weights.
Atderman Rose said he could not permit any
more discussion on the subject there, and asked the
prisoner what he had to say to the charge.
Mr. Buchanan most ably summed up the whole
features of the case, and having commented upon
all the facts in evidence seriatim, as they appeared
to affect his client, contended that there was no •
thing in the prisoner's conduct from first to last
inconsistent with his innocence of anything like
participation in the fraudulent dealings of Cowen,
and confidently submitted that the only course open
to the court was to discharge the prisoner.
Alderman Rose said he had given the best atten-
tion he could to the case, tod he felt he should not
be doing his dnty if he did not send it for a jury to
decide. It was urged that the prigoner was a ser -
vant, and had no guilty knowledge of those trans-
actions, but he was found, according to the evi-
dence, to have been selling the goods on the 13th
August and on the following day in company with
Cowen, the two representing that the goods were
still under their own control at the packers, and
offering to give Mr. Walker control over them by
an order on the packers, well knowing that they
'had already been disposed of to Mr. Venables. He
ultimately dictated a letter, in which he makes the
clerk state that there has been a delay in the deli-
very of those identical goods in Paris, and when
apprehended, he at first denied all knowledge of
them, and then said he supposed they had be en
shipped. Under all the circumstances he could only
come to the conclusion, Cowen having escaped, that
the prisoner, who was about to leave the country,
intended joining Cowen to share in the proceeds of
these frauds, and he therefore had no hesitation in
committing him to take his trial for uttering a forged
receipt, and for conspiring with Cowen to obtain
the goods and to defraud the Tees Woollen Com-
pany.
Mr. Beard said every exertion had been made by
the creditors, but they could not ascertain any clue
to Cowen's whereabouts at present.
Mr. Buchanan mentioned the question of bail.
Alderman Rose said he had taken the responsi-
bility on himself of sending the case to a jury, and
he must also take the responsibility of referring Mr.
Buchanan to a judge with regard to bail.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
[We aro requested by Mr. Walker to state that
he was misunderstood at the last examination. He
did not mean to say that the Tees Woollen Company
sold goods below their invoice prices, as it was con
trary to their practice, except upon the usual re
cognised trade terms for cash.]

COUNTRY MA RK 1:;

NEWARK-WEDNESDAY.

Wheat threshing has been in full operation during the
week, and the grain turns out well. To-day the prices of
new wheat declined 2s per qr.
White whist new, 52s to 56s
Red do. sos to Ms
Old white sBs to 62s ,
Red do s7s to 60s
Barley, malting 36s to 40s
Peas, ....

Barley, grinding 28s to 30s
Oats, old, .. 27s to 30s
New do.. 24s to 27s
Beans. 45s to 4Gs
Beans, new —s to
37s to 39e.

BOSTON—WEDNESDAY.
A good supply of English new wheat on offer to-day, but
very little old. Fine sorts were is and secondary and in-
ferior 2s to 3s per qr lower.
White wheat.....52s to 56s 1 Barley 33s to 36s
Red 5lB to 54s 1 Oats, new, 2ls to 24S
Beans ...43s to 45s 1 Peas 40s to 500

HULL—TUESDAY.
We have been favoured with fine weather during the
past week, and by far the greater part of the corn in the
fields in this locality are now safely housed. To-day home-
grown samples of wheat may be quoted fully 3s and foreign.
is to 2s per qr easier.
Wheat.... Old white....per qr. sBs Od to 60s Od
Old red
New white .. ~
New red .... "
Dantzic, Konb , &c:old white 57s Od to 60s Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 68s Od to 62s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red...' 53s Od to 558 Od
St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 50s Od to 52s Od
Barley.... English malting 348 Od to 37s Od
Grinding 3ls Od to 33s Od
Seal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 36s Od
Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s Od
Oats English, new 26s Od to 27s Od
Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 13d
Friesland and Dutch' osl3d to 0813 id
Swedish and Danish osl2W.to osl3d
Beans ....English, old, per qr 4ss oa to 46s Od
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
New tick
35s Od to 36s Od
36s Od to 38s Od
Peas .. EFUPoreitignalibreakers
Grinding
Tares ....Spring —s Od to —s Od
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 568 Od
crushig • 4os Od to 528 Od
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 0 0 to £9 5 0
Foreign 8 15 0 to 9 0 0
Rape cakes 6 0 0 to 6 5 0
Bones

CLERKENWELL.— SERIOUS CHARGE OF I
MANSLAUGHTER.—Robert Hanks, of 3, Crescent-
place, Caledonian-road, described as a carman in th©
service of Mr. Jay, the contractor, was charged
with having caused the death of a man unknown,
by striking him a violent blow with his fist.
From the evidence of several witnesses it ap-
peared that on Saturday evening last two
young women, named Chantrey, left home for the
purpose of going to a concert-room in St. John-
street. On their way they saw the deceased who
requested •:them to drink with him, and they en-
tered a public-house. in the course of conversation
they informed him that they were going to a
concert-room to meet some friends, and, notwith-
standing they requested him not, he insisted upon
following them there. The prisoner was in the room
in compiny:with a brother of the girl Chantrey and
another young man, with whom the dedeased en-
tered into conversation. They all left shortly
before twelve o'clock, and on arriving at Clerken-
well-green the deceased was heard to fall heavily,
and the prisoner was seen running away. On being
picked up deceased was found to be quite insensible,
and was conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital,
where he died. Neither of the witnesses saw any
blow struck, but only heard the fall, which they
described as very heavy. It was further stated by
some that the deceased was the worse for liquor,
and constantly wishing to fight.
Police-sergeant Arthur Browning said on taking
the prisoner into custody he questioned him and
informed him of the death of the man he had been
in company with, but he made no reply.
Mr. Hill, house-surgeon of the Royal Free Hos-
pital, showed that death had been the result of
effusion of blood on the brain, caused by external
violence, which must have been very violent, either
by a blow or fall.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say in anwer
to the charge, was remanded for the production of
further evidence.

—SEPT. 23.
Lot many country millers up.
'as moderate ; red in fine cou-
lees about the same as last

LAMBETH.—SERIOUS CIIARGE.—Mr. George
Davey, clerk to one of the leading Queen's counsel,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott charged
with stealing from the person of Mrs. Lucy
Rutland, in the Crystal Palace, a purse containing
3s. 6d. in silver.
The prosecutrix, the wife of a cheesemonger, de-
posed that on the day before she accompanied some
friends to the Crystal Palace, and as Blondin was
about to ascend, her friends and herself seated them-
selves on the coping or ledge of the terrace leading
from the centre transept to the grounds and the top
of the wide flight of steps. While looking at B lon-
din on the rope, the prisoner, who was seated two
or three steps down, kept pulling her feet and dress.
Soon after her sister-in-law said, " I don't like that
man's behaviour; he has been pulling my feet ;"
and she (witness) replied, " And so he has been
mine ;" and immediately after missed her purse,
containing 3s. 6d. or 4s. in silver. She mentioned
her loss to herisister and brother-iu-law, and the
latter at once said he had seen the prisoner put his
hand under her cicak. She accused the prisoner of
having robbed her of her purse, but he denied it,
and was given into the custody of a constable who
had been sent for.
In cross-examination by Mr. Lewis, jun., the wit-
ness said that when accused, the prisoner made
waspn
attempt to escape or remove from where he ;
on the contrary, he indignantly denied the charge,
said he was the clerk for 10 years of Mr. —, Q.c.,
and offered to be searched. Her brother-in-law said
there was no use in searching him then, and at this
time the constable arrived and took him into custody.
In reply to the magistrate, the witness said the
prisoner kept sitting down and standing up, and
when he stood his shoulders were on a level with
her feet, and she was certain he had pulled her feet
and clothes.

Mr. Lewis—And I suppose you thought nothing
of that ?

Witness—l beg to tell you I did.
Mr. Lewis--Did you not say to your brother-in-
law that somebody else might have taken your purse?
Witness—l did not.
Mr. Robt. Bigg, brother-in-law to the last witness,
said that on being told that the purse was stolen,
.
he charged the prisoner with taking and told
him he had seen his hand under the cloak of the
complainant.
In reply to Mr. Lewis, he said the accused at
once offered to give his name and address, said what
he was, and offered to be searched.
William Heath, 263 P, said the prisoner was
given into his custody, when he at once declared
his innocence of the charge, and at the station he
found nothing on him but his card-case, his purse,
end Fey eral letters relating to professional business.

s. d. s. d.
Beans.. 24 0 to 27 0
Bere. 1.53116 0
Rapeseed 0 to 6
Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 0
Bakers' flour
Indian corn

ARK ET.
the ohm of the market.

Walls End.
Keno° ..17 3
South Kelloe l7 3
Hartlepool.. lB 0
Trimdon Hartlepool lB 0
Hetton lB 6
Camp l7 3
Heugh Hall 16
Whitworth 15 0
Caradoc ...17
Tunstall
~
Ridde11...... l6 ti
Belmont 16 3
Braddyll's Hetton 16
Stewart's .. 18 3
South Hetton 18 67,
1 South Hartlepool., 17 0

:, 96; sold, 75.