The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-14 00:00:00

W ORSHIP- STREET.

A young man named Richard Harris, described
as a solicitor's clerk, who stood charged with having
uttered several forged 51. Bank of England notes, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold for further ex-
amination.

Mr. Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank, attended to
conduct the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine, the bar-
rister, appeared with Mr.Vann, the solicitor, on behalf
of the prisoner.
The facts adduced at the former examination have
already appeared in this paper, from which it may be
recollected that the prisoner then stood charged with
having uttered a forged 8/. note to Martha Wilton,
the keeper of a house of bad repute in Essex-street,
Kingsland-road, and the following additional cases
were now proceeded with.
Albin Plush, who described himself as the keeper
of a lodging-house for railway travellers in Welles-
ley-street, Euston-square, stated, that about nine
o'clock on the evening of the 16th ult. the prisoner
came to his house, accompanied by a woman, and in-
quired if they could be accommodated with an apartment
for the night. They were shown into a room upstairs,
but had only been there a few minutes when the pri-
soner came down alone, and requested the witness's wife
to sent out for a pint of port wine, and handed her a
five pound note, stating that he was entirely without
change. Witness went himself for the wine to an
adjoining public-house, where he procured change for
the note, and gave the prisoner the difference. The
prisoner then returned to the apartment, and after a
short interval a person, with whom witness had seen
him in conversation a short time before, presented
himself at the door in apparent baste, and stated that
one of the prisoner's friends, who had just arrived by
the railway, was waiting at the end of the street, and
wished to see him immediately. On communicating
the message to the prisoner he instantly hurried out,
promising that he would be back in a few minutes,
but he failed to return, and witness saw no more of
him until he found him in the custody of the police
upon another charge.
In cross-examination by Mr. Ballantine, the witness
admitted that he kept a house of general accommo.
dation, and that he was not at all particular about the
character of his customers so long as they paid their
way. _ _ _

Mr. Ballantine—ln fact, the house you keep is
neither more nor less than a common brothel 'I

Witness—Exactly so; and I am not at all ashamed
to say It.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, landlady of the Dolphin
public-house, Tonbridge-street, New-road, proved
that, at the time mentioned, she had given change to
the last witness for the note produced, which was
paid away by her husband a few days afterwards,
but that it was subsequently returned to him stamped
as a forgery.
A third case was then gone into, in which the
prisoner was positively identified by Esther Harrison,
a young woman of abandoned habits, as having
handed to her a 51. bank-note at her own lodging-
some time since, with instructions to get it changed In
payment of some brandy and other spirits, which she
did at a neighbouring vintner's named Burton ; but
the witness fixed the time she had uttered it for the

prisoner at between nine and ten o'clock, 'while the
landlord of the house stated it to he a much later

hour; and, there appearing to exist several other
rather important discrepancies between her testimony
and that of the changer of the note, the magistrate
did not consider the evidence sufficiently conclusive,
and the case was therefore not proceeded with to a
conclusion.
Mr. Ballantine, on b!half of the accused, said that
he should be prepared with a complete answer to the
charges gone into upon a future occasion, and inti-
mated that two of the partners in the firm in which
the prisoner was employed were the-n in attendance,
and were so firmly convinced of his innocence that
they were willing to tender bail for his future ap
pearance to any amount that might be required.
Mr. Freshfield, on the part of the prosecution, said
that he felt it his duty to oppose any application for

bail, as a large number of similar forged notes had
lately been put into circulation, and he understood
that the police believed they would be able to con-
nect the prisoner with other transactions of a similar
description.

Sergeant Teakle intimated to the magistrate that
the prisoner had been identified that morning as the
utterer of another 51. note, which he had then in his
possession, and he fully expected that he should be in
a condition on a future day to substantiate several
other cases against him.
Mr. ARNOLD, under these circumstances, declined
to accept bail, and the prisoner was therefore re-
manded for a week.
The general defence seemed to be that an entire
mistake had been made in the prisoner's identity,
though the witnesses carefully described the dress and
personal appearance of the utterer of the notes in each
instance.

RAILWAY SHAKE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 13.
_ _

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market again receded to-
day, Great Western' Quarters, having been done at 9% dis.,
and Midland Stock at 561,4:___

LIVERfOOL, SEPT. 13.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was very dull
to-day. The transactions were few, and prices lower. The
sales are London and North Western, 115—Ditto, New
Quarters, 134 c. p.—Ditto (C), 41s. 3d. p.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 10E/2 Midland, 54
—Ditto, Halves, 171, die. South-Eastern and over (No.
4), 61, 6e. U.—South Staffordshire, 4'4 die.
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 13.

STOCK EXCHANGIL—The transactions to-day were as fol-
low :—Manchester and', Birmingham (C) Quarters,' 2 p.—
North Staffordshire, 714 dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths,
5 9-16 dis.—Dover (No. 4), Registered, 6t —Ditto Scrip,
6t—East Lancashire, ,43/4—London and North-Western,
117%—West Riding Union, 6 dis.
YORK, SEPT. 12.
STOCK ETCHANGE.—The transactions to-clay were as
follow :—Great Northern, N—North British, Quarters, 2%
Ditto, Preference, 31. 10s. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick (G. N.E. Purchase), 3,4.
GLASGOW, Sm. 12.

STOCK EXCIIANC4E.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 75—Edinburgh, Perth,
and Newport, 5/. Bs.—North oritish, Preference, 71s. 6d.

FATAL EFFECTS FROM CHARCOAL —A young
man, named Ajalbert, working as a journeyman at a
cooper's in the Rue des Marais, Faubourg du Temple,
Paris, had on several occasions, when in a state of som-
nambulism, been known to get up during the night and
employ himself about his room. Having obtained leave
from his master to pay a visit to his friends in the
country, Sunday was appointed for bis departure. On
Saturday night, his mind being probably occupied with
the next day's journey, he got up in his sleep and lit the
stove in the room with charcoal, and then returned to
his bed. Two apprentices who slept in the room were
soon awoke by the overpowering vapour. The elder
one endeavoured to save the other by dragging him out
of the room, but, wanting force to execute his pur-
pose, he fell on the floor with his companion. The next
mulling, the master finding that Ajalbert did not come
down early, as he had intended, went up stairs to call
him. On entering the room, be was horror-struck at.
the sight which presented itself. Ajalbert lay on his
f nI
bed already dead, whilst the two lads. who, rom b_
on the floor, had been probably less affected by the deleg -
terious gas, still breathed, though
in a
most dangerous
state. They were at once removed the hospital St.
Louis, and hopes are entertained of to
saving their lives.
AN EXCELLENT LANDLORD.—
On Monday the
Marquis of Downshire, accompanied by his agent, Wil-
liam Owen, Esq.,
made presents of upwards of 150
prize Leinster ewes to the tenantry on his Wicdlow and
Kildare estates. Blesinten, since the Noble Lord's arrival,
has presented a continued scene of amusement. He has
entertained upwards of 1,500 persons to a splendid ball
and supper, consisting of good roast beef and plum pud•
ding. On the following morning the fragments of the
previous night's festivities were distributed to the la-
bouring population.—Leinster Express.
LEAP FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—John Riley,
charged with being concerned in the burglary and mur-
derous assault at Handsworth, on the 24th ult., was ap-
prehended on Tuesday. He was handcuffed and placed
under the charge of a policeman, and taken to West
Bromwich; but, having contrived to slip the handcuffs.
he jumped out of the railway carriage when near the
New Inn, Handsworth, but did not succeed in making
his escape, being too much shaken by the effects of the
leap to avail himself of his recovered liberty.—Aris's
Birmingham Gazette.