The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-06 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND ROUTES TO
INDIA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l have the pleasure to enclose your particulars of
the route by which the second express, via Trieste, an-
nounced in your columns this morning, arrived.
Should there still be any doubters as to the positive su-
periority of the Trieste route under the most adverse circum-
stances, I beg to tell them that if proper arrangements had
been made, and good steamers placed between Alexandria
and Trieste, Ostend and Dover, this news would have been
in London in eight days and a half from Alexandria.
Pray allow me to thank you on behalf of the Austrian
Lloyd's Company for the liberal present you made Mr.
Frigehniiller, the courier who brought the express in ques-
tion.—l remain, Sir, your most faithful servant,
THOMAS WAGHORN.
_ _ _

Overland-office, 34, Cornhill, Feb. 5. - -
The Austrian Lloyd's steamer Imperatrice left Alexandria
on the 22d of January at noon, encountered heavy storms,
and having disabled some of her machinery, and run short of
coals, was obliged to put into Corfu, and only arrived at
Trieste at 6 P.M. of the 29th- of January.
The Imperatrice did not arrive at Dwino, but at Trieste,
as there were no previous arrangements made for a courier.
The dispatches were cleared by the Board of Health at 8,
and Mr. Frigelmiiller left Trieste soon after.
Here it must be remarked that no preparations were
made on any part of the route, as there was no intention
of sending a courier until it was found that the dispatches
were of such importance, and for the chance of arriving ear-
lier in London than the Marseilles express. There were no-
where horses ready, and in many instances the courier was
obliged to wait for them. Rain or snow prevailed the whole
journey, and in some parts the snow was from three to four
feet deep, and the roads in the worst condition that could
be imagined during any winter. The journey, therefore, was
from—

Trieste to Inspruck,
Inspruck to Ulm,
Uhrl to Stutgard,
Stutgard to Carlsruhe.
_._

The courier having arrived at Carlsruhe at night, and no
preparation having been made fur a special train on the
railway to Manheim, and there being no steam-boats on the
Rhine, on account of the floods, the whole journey from
Carlsruhe to Cologne was performed in a carriage, over roads
that were much flooded.

From Colbgne to Ostend the journey was by railway.
Arrived at Ostend, Mr. Frigelmiiller was obliged to wait
five hours, no special steam-boat being available; and then
he caine, not to Dover, but to the Thames. He left Ostend
at 3 o'clock, A.M., and arrived in the river at half-past 5,
P.M., on the 4th of February.

- THOMAS WAGHORN.
Overland-office, 34, Cornhill, Feb. 5.

EXTENSIVE FORGERY OF RAIL-

WAY TRANSFERS AT LEEDS.
(ntom OUR REPORTER.)
LEEDS, THURSDAY.—A case of considerable importance,
and which has caused a great deal of excitement in this
town, particularly amongst sharebrokers and dealers, was
heard beforo the Mayor, John Darnton Luccock, Esq., and
a full bench of magistrotes, at the Court-house here to-day.
The person charged was Hermann Julius Marcus, late of the
firm of Marcus, Naylor, and Co., sharebrokers, and a person
moving in the best circles of society. He is joint secretary
to the Mechanics' Institution, a member of the committee of
the Philosophical Society, and a deacon connected with a
Dissenting congregation in this town.
The charge against him was, that he had forged the name
of Mr. Darnton Lupton, ex-mayor of Leeds, to transfers for
one hundred shares in the London and Croydon Railway, for
the purpose of cheating his partners out of the profits arising
from the transaction

It appeared from the evidence of Mr. John Naylor, one of
the partners in the late firm, that about the latter end of
June last, the prisoner purchased one hundred shares in the'
London and Croydon Railway, on account, as it appeared
from the books, of Mr. Darnton Lupton, the value of which
was 2,3001. About the middle of July, the shares were
sold by the prisoner, on account of Mr. Lupton, for 2,474/.
10s., leaving a profit of 174/. 10s., which the prisoner had
put into hisown pocket. When the shares, however, were sold,
it was necessary they should be transferred in the usual
manner, and the prisoner accordingly forged the name of Mr.
Lupton to the transfer, as will appear by the following evi-
dence. _

Darnton Lupton, Esq., being sworn, stated that he had
known the prisoner for many years, and for some time
had employed him and his partners to buy and sell
railway scrip. It was usual when scrip was either bought
or sold, for the brokers to send a written notice stating the
particulars; and when the scrip of shares he had bought was
delivered he paid the amount directly, either in a cheque on
Messrs. Beckett and Co., or in cash. In August last he went
to the office of Marcus, Naylor, and Co., to see how his ac-
count stood, but none of the partners were in. He saw the
clerk, and desired him to turn to his (Mr. Lupton's) ac-
count, and he there saw a large amount to his debit, 2,3001.
he believed, for London and Croydon shares, upon which he
remarked " those shares are not mine," and put a cross op-
posite to the amount. Two months afterwards he received
a dividend warrant from the London and Croydon office,
and as he never held any stock in that Company,
it excited his suspicions that all was not right.
He shortly afterwards wrote to the secretary of
the company, and from the answer he received he felt it
his duty to apply to the magistrates for a warrant to appre-
hend the prisoner, who was accordingly taken into custody.
In answer to a question, the witness said that the prisoner
had upon two occasions, he believed, orders to buy scrip for
him, without specifying any particular line of railway, no
amount being named. All his communications in buying and
selling scrip through the prisoner or his partners were given
verbally, but: he felt certain he never had any communica-
tion with them on the subject of London and Croydon shares.
He was certain the prisoner never had told him he had
bought 87 and 13 London and Croydon shares on his
(witness's) account, nor any other number. The in-
variable practice was to send a contract when any-
thing was bought, and he had never received one,
nor had the prisoner, ever told him that he had
sold any London and Croydon shares on his account, nor did
he (the prisoner) ever account to him for the purchase or
sale of any such shares.
The transfers were here handed to Mr. Lupton, who care-
fully examined them, and declared the signature Darnton
Lupton, which was affixed to each, not to be his hand-
writing, and that he had never given his consent or autho-
rity for any party whatever to sign his name to any such
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rue red to the property,
Lips ASSURA.NCE.—This most important subject, ap-
preciated as it may be at present, is still more beneficially
developed by the prospectus of a new assbeiation, the Alpha
United Life Assurance and Investment Company, uniting
with its posthumous utility immediate and continuous ad_
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Company by lease or otherwise, extending and improving
the equitable principles of Building Societies; thus affording
return
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meat of privileges at once to the purchaser, absolute con-
veyance on an agreed term of years, and certain Unencum-
bered possession on death to his representatives' with an
identity of interest between the borrower and the Company
—thus completing, by these varied radii,. a centre of mutual
support and safety.—Globe.
STATE OF DUNGARVAN.—The accounts we continue
to receive from Dungarvan are, indeed,' melancholy in the
extreme. Sickness, scarcity, and want of employment, shed
their bitterness upon the devoted heads of the poor. There
are upwards of five thousand human beings, we are given to
understand, in a state of want and wretchedness, requwing, as_
sistance from government, or from those whom God has blessed
with means for such purpose. The poorhouse is crammed
with women and children, in which
.there arc also upwards
of forty men capable of work, but none to be had. The spread
of fever is really alarming, induced, of course, from want,
cold, and hunger. Nor do the evils stop here. The poor-
law guardians met on last Thursday, when they reported
that the supply of potatoes, destined for use during the season,
and carefully put up. turned out, on examination, to be more
than half rotten, and that the remainder are going fast.—
Cork Examine.