The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-19 00:00:00

JULY 19, 1847.

LAST WEEK.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS,
TRAFALGAR SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY will FINALLY
CLOSE on Senranar NEXT, .the 24th instant, at Seven o'clock
precisely. ,

At:mission from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling. Catalogue
One Shilling.

- JOHN PRESCOTT KNIGHT, R.A., Dep. Sec.
Exhibitors are requested to send for their Works on Wednesday,
the 28th, or Thursday, the 29th Instant.
CONFUSION having frequently occurred at her
Majesty's Theatre, the Italian Opera, and the principal
Soirees given this Season by the Nobility, in consequence of so many
Noblemen wearing the REGISTERED PALETOT, Messrs. NICOLL
respectfully beg to state, that in future a space on the silk lable
attached to each of their paletoti will be left for the name of the
wearer. Messrs. Nicoll are willing, without charge, to attach the
new label to any of their paletots already in use, 11 sent to them car-
riage paid, 114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill.

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the 13th of June, 1846, directed him' to attend•on the
following Monday to give the necessary explanations.
lastead however, of punctually observing the engage-
ment, he absconded and on the very day he disappeared.
he received upon the account of his employer the sum of
50/. Messrs. Nathaniel Johnson and Co., it was neces-
,ary to state, kept an account with Messrs. H. and J.
Johnson, of Bush-lane, and it was from the latter firm
the prisoner received the amount first mentioned. It
was the duty of the prisoner upon receiving any money
for his employers to enter the amount in his books, and
In the absence of any of the principals of the firm from
town to town, to apply, if money should be required for
the transaction of business, to Messrs. H. and J. Jonson,
of Bush-lane, for the necessary sum, and advantage had-
been taken of the power thus given, to cause deficiencies
of no slight magnitude.
Mr. Judd said—l reside at No. 6, Mark-lane, and
cirry on business there under the name of Nathaniel
Johnson and Sons, wine merchants. On the 13th of
June the prisoner was in my service, and had been so
during the six preceding years. It was his duty to re-
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had a letter of credit upon H. and J. Johnson, of No.
15, Bush-lane, to whom, when I was out of town, it was
occasionally the duty of the prisoner to apply. It was
for
all
also his duty occasionally to write a cheque from my
house to enable Messrs. H. and J. Johnson to send a
counter cheque.— (Here a cheque for 50/. and a letter
were handed to witness.) This cheque, signed W. H.
Thompson, and dated 13th June, and this letter, without
a date are in the handwriting of the prisoner. The
cheque is upon the banking-house of Smith, Payne, and
Smiths, but it was never entered in our books. I told
the prisoner to meet me in our counting-house at ten
o'clock on Monday, as I was not satisfied with the way
in which he made up his books. He did not meet me
according to appointment. I knew he was in the city on
the day appointed, but I have not seen him since until
now.

In his cross-examination, the witness said he could
not tell the exact time at which the prisoner 'mama
superior clerk in the establishment, but the prisoner had
the total charge of the business of the house after the
death of Mr. Miller, who had been principally employed.
When witness was in London, the prisoner certainly was
not empowered to sign cheques.
The Learned Counsel for the prisoner then proceeded
to put questions to the witness relative to the kind of
confidence reposed in clerks in wine houses, connected
with those secrets of trade which commercial men are
not compellable to disclose, but the Lord Mayor objected
to such a course.

The witness admitted that he reposed confidence in
the prisoner. He had, he said, received 401. from John
Forrester, the officer, who apprehended the prisoner, on
the general account of the prisoner.
The counsel for the prisoner put several questions to
the witness with the view of obtaining an answer to the
effect that the 401. handed over to him by John For-
rester was upon the account of the particular cheque for
50/. drawn by the prisoner upon the house of H. and J.
Johnson, of Bush-lane.

The witness replied that he received the 40/. on ac-
count of the defalcations of the prisoner (as our reporter
understood the evidence.)
The witness, in his re-examination, stated that the
prisoner had no authority whatever to draw the cheque
tor the 50L, and that the letter address to Messrs. M.
and J. Bush, representing that there was occasion for
that money to pay duties on certain wines, contained a
misrepresentation altogether.
The counsel for the prisoner submitted that it ap-
peared that the prisoner had acted upon a general order,
and that such being the case, no embezzlement had been
made out.

Mr. Humphreys was satisfied that the Lord Mayor
would see as clear a case of embezzlement in the facts
stated as could be exhibited.
The Lon") MAYOR—The case distinctly amounts to
this—that the prisoner has not accounted for the 50.:
Mr. Humphreys—There is a great deal said about a
doubt as to the eMbezzlement of this sum of 50/. There
are several other cases which I shall-ea/I mow a future
day ; in the meantime, I shall `ask Mr. ',add Sitbamceint
of the prisoner's defalcations ? • e 411,0 C
Mr. Judd—They are certainly harjnpon 4, 01.-.
Mr. Humphreys—You say thatJohMorresVrbrouglit
you 401. upon account of his defalcatons ; would you
not be_very4 gl if‘he hail *tight Au 4410* • Mr.
tludit—r Mo.st *nly. very' glhd indeed. ' %
• Mr!ik. E. t to -mil erk to Messrs. H. and J. John•
son, said he was in .1% service of his present employers
,)n the 13th of June,'
1846, on which day he received
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the cheque signed %V. H. Thompson. and the letter with
he same signature. By virtue of that cheque and that
letter he gave the bearer a cheque for 50/. upon the
'louse of Messrs. Payne and Smith, to the best of his re-
collection. The cheque was returned in due course by
the bankers.

Mr. Judd, in answer to other questions, said the pri-
ioner had a commission upon sales, and a certain sum
innually as clerk, and witness had heard from him that
he was in partnership with another firm.
By the consent of both sides it was then determined
hat the prisoner should be remanded till the 10th of
august.