The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-12 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

William George Bates, a clerk in the employment of
Messrs. Smith and Co., wharfingers, Cotton's-wharf, Tooley-
street, was brought before Mr. Jeremy, charged with al-
tering the amounts of advertisement tickets, and defrauding
his employers.
Mr. Smith, jun., of the above firm, stated that the prisoner
was a clerk in their employ, and that it was a part of his duty
to go round to the different newspapers, for the purpose of
having the firm's advertisements inserted in those publica-
tions. The charge that we prefer against the prisoner (pro-
ceeded the complainant) is for having altered certain receipts
or tickets for advertisements, which he was employed to take
for insertion in some of the daily newspapers, and obtaining a
larger sum of money from us than had been paid by him
for such advertisements. The complainant here produced
a considerable number of newspaper tickets, and said that they
had been altered by the prisoner, so as to make it ppear that
he had been charged a much greater price for each insertion
than be really had paid. Amongst the tickets were those
of the Shipping Gazette, the Morning Chronicle, and other
journals.
Mr. JEREMY asked the prisoner what he had to say in an-
swer to the charge.
The prisoner then gave the following explanation :—I have
been in the habit of altering the amounts marked in the
tickets, and have explained it to my employer's cashier, with
whose knowledge I did it. There is ten shillings owing at
the Morning Chronicle; I sent up last week to that office for
them to insert the intended sailing of the Eclipse steamer on
Tuesday and Thursday in the last week. I told them that I
would pay them when I came that way. I should have paid
and when I put in the advertisement I should have
tdhiveirnded that expense on the other receipts that I might re-
ceive at any of the other offices at some future time. Many
advertisements I have paid for myself, and have afterwards
added the amounts on the other receipts. I hay e also paid
them as being advertised in those papers. There is also I ls.
owing at the Shipping Gazette, I should very likely have
charged in the same way, though the advertisements were not
inserted by me.
The complainant said that the discovery of the manner in
which the prisoner was going on had not been found out until
within the last few days, when the erasures on the newspaper
tickets were distinguished. He added, that if the prisoner
were remanded for a few days, the most unquestionable proofs
would be adduced that the alterations he had made in the
amounts on each ticket had not been sanctioned by any person
in their employ.
Mr. JEREMY said that, should the alleged charge be proved
against the accused, it would amount to one of forgery for it
appeared that he had altered the figures on each ticket, so as
to make it appear that he had paid away an infinitely larger
sum of money than he really had done, and by which artifice
he had defrauded his employers.
Remanded until next Friday.

IMPORTANT SAVING IN SEED WIIEAT.---It has
been stated that if dibbling wheat, as practised in Norfolk,
Suffolk, and some other counties, was generally adopted, full
10,000,000 bushels of seed might be saved on the 4,000,000
acres of wheat grown annually in England and Scotland ;
and, allowing eight bushels to each person, would support
1,250,000 persons, who, if employed in weeding the crops,
might double them.