The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-04 00:00:00

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

AUDIT OFFICE, SOMERSET HOUSE.-Mr. Robert H.
Chambers has been appointed Assistant Examiner, vice
Copeland, resigned. Mr. Edward Stirling has been ap-
pointed Assistant-Examiner, vice Walsham, resigned.
Mr. Harry M. Atchley has been appointed Temporary
Clerk, vice Lewis, promoted.
GENERAL POST-OFFICE.-Mr. J. Drought, one of the
surveyors in Ireland, has resigned. The vacancy is not
to be filled up. Mr. Beaufort is appointed surveyor
of the North Wales District vice Churchill superan-
nuated. Mr. Norman, of the mail department, has been
afoprpt.oinl,ted lr.
Ta
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P Urqu.
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ORDNANCEsuperannuated
Bi
DEPARTMENT.—Mr. ti aESsNtOTOD.ILi sptAer firer at.
nCOnhiEuarncr s George Ban-
nister has been appointed solicitor to the Ordnance,
vice Clarke, deceased.
CUSTOMS.-Mr. J. Wilson Culling has been appointed
clerk in the office of Controller of Warehousing Ac-
counts, West India Docks, London. Mr. R. A. Free-
man has been appointed clerk in the office of Controller
of Warehousing Account., St. Katharine's Docks,
London. Mr. H. Onslow has been appointed extra
clerk in London. Mr. J. Richardson has been sp-
pointcd clerk at Liverpool.
STAMPS AND TAXES.-Mr, Henry W. Purdue, sur-
veyor of taxes at Newport, has been promoted to be
surveyor of taxes at Coventry.—Civil Service Gazette.

ROBBERIES BY A RAILWAY PORTER
AT BRISTOL.

James Nash, a confidential porter employed in the
secretary's and transfer offices of the Bristol and Exeter
stolen
uf
from
Railway Company, was yesterday brought before the
sitting magistrates upon a charge of having stolen sundry
bheeel:asstoli
sums of money, the property of the company, from the
cash-box in the transfer office.
It appeared that Mr. Hutchings, the chief clerk '
of
fas
tswhhhabi have been ' f
that office, bad found difficulty in making his cash in
ac-
moconiusAsnertdobnaadslaauynmcl
balance, in
timn toocenys, ewq examineuiieien
which
ms from which he
it subsequently to his leaving the office
Saturday. Heimm cate
ediatelycommuni on the previous
d what bad trans
pired to the otherclerks in the office, and th -
concerted a plan for the detection ey between them
marked 51. 16s. sd, in gold, silver, of the thief. Having
they placed that amount in the and copper money,
the box having been put into cash box. The key of
they deposited the box in the drawer in which it was
Having locked
the key, and placed it in the drawer, they removed
them both, and took a another drawer, they locked
Opening and way the key of the latter. Oa
they discovered that •
examining the cash box the next morning
of the marked sovereigns it only contained 4/. 16s. 5d., one
to
upon
discovering
having been stolen. They de-
and they placed in
this, to make a second trial,
making in all 71. In 6 the box three more sovereigns,
locked away the cash box, In the evening they again
as
si
itaefkoing the same precautions
in reference to the keys
On Wednesday the cash box wase. again examined, and
nothing being missed, it was again locked up, and re-
deposited in the usual place. The next time it was
opened it was found that a sovereign, half sovereign,
and half-crown, and six shillings had been removed.
Suspicion immediately fell upon the prisoner, who
was charged with the theft by the secretary, Mr. Bail-
ham ; upon his denying the charge he was given into
the custody of the superintendent of the oontpany's
police, Mr. Blackmore.
Upon his being searched four of the marked shillings
.
were found, with some other silver in his pocket, and in
a lumber room, the keys of which were found upon hi m,
were discovered some keys which fitted the drawer and
the cash box, and by the nid of which the robbery ha
doubtless been committed.
The prisoner was fully committed to tape his trial
upon two distinct charges of felony.