The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-23 00:00:00

BANKING DEB/JLTMENT.

Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest • . .. 3,418,272
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer;
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 4,083,117
Other deposits •• • • 16,354,017
Seven day and other
bills • .

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity)" 12,988,065
Other securities •• • • 18,222,548
Notes ••••••• • . • • • • • 7,497,460
Gold and silver cohi• • 664,461

963,128

39,372,534

£39,372,534
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 21st day of May, 1846

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO IV-STREET.
RAILWAY ROBBERIES AND POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—
Yesterday John Farr, who stands charged with being con-
cerned in robbing the post-office at Gravesend, and also with
several railway robberies, was brought before Mr. Jardine for
final examination.
Mr. Peacock appeared on the part of the Post office autho-
rities; Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Nash for the South-Eastern
Railway Company; and Mr. Robinson for the prisoner.
In order to complete the evidence of the post-office robbery
at Gravesend, the particulars of which have already appeared,
two bankers' clerks were examined respecting the non-arrival
and the remittance of the property stolen from the Gravesend
bags, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial.
He was next charged with negotiating a 101. Bank post-
bill, which was stolen from a letter sent by post from Glou-
cester to London.
Mr. John Williams, clerk to the Gloucester Banking Corn-
pany, stated that on the 29th December a letter was written
to Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., stating that a remittance,
under a separate cover, amounting to 1671. is. 7d., would
be forwarded by that nigh,,'s post, which he made up, and
which consisted of five cheques value 871. ls. 7d., a 101.
Bank post-bill, eight 5/. country bank notes, and three 10/.
country notes, of which the 101. Bank post-bill produced,
dated October 1,1845, No. F 3,654, formed a part, and which
he endorsed. They were, inclosed in an envelope, which he
sealed and posted at Gloucester. On the following day a
letter was received stating that no such remittance as was
mentioned had been received.
Thomas Thompson, a clerk in the service of Jones, Loyd,
and Co., proved that no such remittance came to hand, of
which he gave notice to the Gloucester Bank.
William Wood, a tobacconist, 69, King William-street,
City, proved that on the 4th of April, about seven o'clock in.
the evening, being in his shop, a man came in to purchale
cheroots and cigars, which came to 2/. 125., which he paid
for with the 10/. Bank post-bill produced, which was brought
to hiin by his shopnian, and be changed it. He was posi-
tive that the prisoner was the man.
Sergeant Witcher, a detective officer, said that when he
apprehended the prisoner, on the Bth inst., he had whiskers,
which had since been shaved off.
On this charge the prisoner was also fully commited for
trial.
Mary Anne New:and was then placed at the bar charged
with having in her possession a quantity of property, stolen
in the latter end of last month from the terminus of the
South-Eastern Railway.
Dr. John Roberts, No. 43, Baker-street, Portman-square,
stated that on the 29th of April last, he was a passenger with
his family from Folkestone to London, having a port-
manteau and a quantity of other luggage, which he saw de-
posited in the luggage train previous to starting. On
arriving at the Bricklayers' Arms he discovered that his
portmanteau was missing, and he never saw it again till the
Bth instant, when it was shown to him by the officers at
No. 163, Sloane-street, Chelsea, where the prisoner resided.
It had been forced open, and a portion of the property was
still in it, others being discovered in different parts of the
house. On seeing the male prisoner, he immediately recog-
nised him as being at Folkestone, and subsequently at the
Bricklayers' Arms station. Among the articles placed in
the portmanteau were some of his wearing apparel. several
volumes of medical books, a diploma and medical certificate,
a 51. Bank note, with a quantity of small articles belonging
to his wife, which were found mixed with the female pri-
soner's wearing apparel. There was also a gold bracelet in
the trunk, which has not been found ; and some surgical
instruments, with an opera glass, were found on the parlour
table.
Mr. William Brewster Henningham, inspector of police at
the Bricklayers' Arms station, proved that on the arrival of
the train, about a quarter past eight o'clock on the night in
question, when the last witness missed his portmanteau, he
was standing behind the barrier while the luggage was de-
posited, and he saw the male prisoner inside among the lug-
gage. Witness inquired what he was doing there, and in-
sisted on turning him out, at which time he, was in the act
of taking up a green baize bundle. On being informed of
the robbery he instituted inquiries respecting the cab in
which the prisoner drove away, and ascertained that he was
taken to Pimlico, upon which he futnished a minute descrip-
tion of the prisoner to the metropolitan police.
Samuel Page, driver of 2,060 cab, proved that he took a
man resembling the male prisoner from the Bricklayers'
Arms station on the evening of the day in question to the
White Horse public-house in Pimlico. He had at first or-
dered him to drive to the White Horse Cellar in Piccadilly,
which was the address he left at the station, in accordance
with the regulation that each driver should furnish the di-
rection to which a fare orders to be driven to. The luggage
consisted of two portmanteaus and a parcel.
Thomas Bateley, potboy.at the White Horse, Pimlico, re-
collected a gentleman coming in a cab with two trunks and
a parcel. The prisoner resembled the gentleman, and he re-
mained about a quarter of an hour. lie required to be ac-
commodated with a bed, but there was none vacant, and he
went away, leaving his luggage, and in about half an hour
he returned in another cab, and took sway the luggage.
About ten minutes before nine o'clock, while taking out the
beer, ho again saw the same cab standing opposite a pawn-
broker's door, when the seine gentleman cam up and got
into it.
Joseph Bloomfield, driver of the last-mentioned cab, said
that he took up a gentleman very much resembling the pri
soner from the White Horse public-house, by whom he was
ordered to proceed to the Vauxhall-road, but on going along
he desired him to pull up at Debenham's pawn-shop to
deposit his luggage, of which a trunk like that produced
was a part, but he did not remove the large trunk which
was outside. He next drove to the Vauxhall-road, and on
reaching the Duke of York public-house the fare got out of
the cab, taking the remainder of the luggage with him, and
in. compliance with his orders, witness handed in the large
trunk, 'which was left in the shop.
John Dobson, landlord of the public-house, said that the
prisoner resembled the person who brought the portmanteau
-and hat-box in the last witness's cab. He drank some ale,
and then took away the luggage, having delayed only a few
minutes in the shop.
Rebecca Wicks, a young' woman in the service of the
female prisoner at 163, Sloane-street, said that her mistress
went by the name of Newland, and passed as a widow. She
had lived in her service thirteen weeks, during which time
the male prisoner was in the habit of frequenting the house,
and she always understood that they were brother and sister.
On the night of the 29th of April recollected his arriving
at the house, about ten o'clock, with a portmanteau snot a
hat-box in his possession. She had seen one of the bonnets
produced in her ntistress's hand previous to the time that
Dr. Roberts came and identified the trunk and other articles
as his property. The linen articles produced were found
by the officer in a dra ver in the kitchen which was used by
the female prisoner.
in cross .examination witness said that the female rri-
soner had four children three of whom were living with
her. The male prisoner hao access to all parts of the house
except the apartments occupied by the lodgers, and her mis-
tress was not at borne when the male prisoner brought in the
trunk.
By Mr. Ballantine—She had every reason to suppose
that the prisoners cohabited together, and she never knew
that his name was Farr until two letters came directed to
him, upon which her mistress told her it was all right. The
letters arrived on the Thursday and Saturday before the pri-
soners were apprehended.
Dr. Roberts being recalled said that a bracelet and several
papers of importance which had been in the trunk were still
missing.
Mr. Ballantine said he had no further evidence to offer,
and the witnesses being bound over, the prisoners were fully
committed for trial. They will, however, be brought up
again this day.
WOI?Sli1P-STREET.
Henry Shaw, a middle-aged man of respectable appear-
ance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged
with having embezzled various sums of money, amounting
in the whole to nearly 5004 the property of his employers,
Messrs. Gammen. and Co., wholesale glass manufacturers at
Birmingham.
Mr. Phillips attended to conduct the prosecution, and Mr.
Naylor for the prisoner. .
It appeared from the statement of Mr. Phillips that the
prisoner had been for several years in the eel ;rice of the rro-