The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-22 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE BANK FORGERIES

IN MANCHESTER,

An extensive forgery on the Manchester and
Liverpool District Bank has just been discovered.
Two men implicated in the felony have been appre-
hended, and it is supposed that the investigations
which are about to be commenced will lead to the
discovery of a number of serious forgeries upon the
same company. The circumstances connected with
the present case are, that on the 20th ult., in conse-
quence of an advertisement which appeared in the
Liverpool Mercury, a person named Lindley applied
for a situation, and received an answer appointing a
meeting with the writer (a Mr. Robinson, who at
that time called himself Openshaw), at the Stork
Hotel, in that town. After that meeting a further in-
terview took place at the Corn Exchange, in Manches-
ter, at which Robinson, after giving Lindley two letters,
the one to post and the other to deliver, gave him a
cheque upon the Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank for 3371. 155., desiring him to get it cashed. This
Lindley did, and returned with six 501. notes the re-
mainder of the amount being in gold. The notes, at Ro-
binson's request, were subsequently turned into gold at
the Bank of England, and Robinson pocketed the
money without taking the trouble to count it. At
another interview, a few days afterwards, Robinson
offered Lindley a situation, but requested him to re-
turn to Liverpool, promising to communicate with
him upon the subject, and giving him money to de-
fray his expenses. On the Tuesday following Lind-
ley began to suspect from various circumstances that
he had been duped, and, having called at the branch
bank in Liverpool, he there related the above circum-
stances, and an investigation took place. The cheque
purported to have been drawn by Messrs. Collinson
and Simpson, brewers in Manchester, who have an
account with the Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank, and it has been pronounced by Mr. Simpson
to be a forgery—and a remarkably clever one—of
his handwriting. The circumstances were communi-
cated to the detective police, and on Friday last Robin-
son was apprehended by one of the Liverpool detec-
tive force in the shop of a man named Macauley,
who was supposed to be an accomplice. They were
taken into custody, and examined before the magis-
trates on the following (Saturday) morning. Ro-
binson was clearly identified, and a young man of
the name of M'lntire related another instance of
having been duped by the same individual.
Macauley, however, did not seem to he implicated in
the charge beyond having been seen in the hotel with
Robinson and also at the bank when M'lntire was
cashing another cheque, which Robinson had given to
him under circumstances precisely similar to those
detailed in the case of Lindley. We understand
that the above is only one of a series of forgeries
which have been recently committed, and from
which the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank
has been a sufferer to a considerable amount—pro-
bably not less than from 1,2001. to 1,5001. The
prisoners have been remanded to afford time for insti-
tuting further inquiries into the subject.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Aua. 20, 1849.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Thurs-
day next, the 23d inst., for his late Majesty King Charles
Albert, father of the King of Sardinia, viz.:—Tbe ladies
to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves,
necklaces, and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans
and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed,
fringed or:plain linen, black swords and buckles. The
Court to change the mourning on Thursday the 30th
instant, viz:—The ladies to wear black silk or velvet,
coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white
and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons.
The gentlemen to wear black coats and black or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waist-
coats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And
on Sunday, the 2d of September next, the Court to go
out of mourning
[From the _Dublin Gazette, Aug. 17, 1849.]
CROWN AND HANAPER OFFICE.
In pursuance of an Act, passed in the fortieth year of
the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, inti-
tuled " An Act to regulate the mode by which the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal and Commons to serve in the Par-
liament of the United Kingdom, on the part of Ireland, shall
be summoned and returned to the said Parliament," I do
hereby give notice, that George John Danvers, Earl of
LanesboroUgh, has been chosen by a majority of votes to
be the peer to sit in the House of Lords of the United
Kingdom, in the room of John, Earl of Mayo, deceased,
Aug. 14. C. FiTz-StmoN,
Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper.
WAR-OFFICE, Aua. 21.
,yal Regiment of Horse Guards—George Philip
CeLil Arthur Lord Stanhope to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Gambier, promoted, Aug. 21; Thomas Lord Rib.
blesdale to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Breedon, pro-
moted, Aug. 22.
Ist Dragoon Guards—William Peareth, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Carew, promoted, Aug. 21.
7th Dragoon Guards—Thomas Joseph Reddington
Ffrench, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Middle-
ton, promoted, Aug. 21.
Ist Dragoons—John Inglis Jones, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Stocks, promoted, Aug. 21.
3d Light Dragoons—Edward Howard Vyse, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ricketts, promoted,
Aug. 21.
10th Light Dragoons—Thomas Manners Townley,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Blair, promoted,
Aug. 21.
16th Light Dragoons—Julius Alexander Sartoris,