The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

Capital . . f. 67,900,000 0
Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,009 0
Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
Ditto of tho branch banks ... ... 2,980,750 14
Reserve-inimobiii%.xe 4,000,000 0
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 421,660,900 0
Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 119,279,125 0
Ditto to order (post-bills) 7,516,736 0
Account-current with Treasury creditor 64,991,323 85
Various accounts current ... ... 124,518,937 17
Ditto in branches 30,603,573 0
Bilis payable at sight ... 11,129,000 0
Ditto at branches 4,263,353 0
Dividends payable . . ... 454,904 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank 6,790 0
Expenses anticipated 261,782 18
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 2,492,264 94
Ditto of branch banks ... ... 1,087,856 0
Re-discounts of the last six months ... 96,733 70
Ditto in branch banks .. ... 227,245 0

Interest on protested bills ... 554,696 19
Nliscelluneous ... ... 368,728 83

£897,779,699 25
Certified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'ARGOITT.

It appears from the precedinz account that the cash in
hand has decreased by 6,800,000 f. The commercial bills
discounted have increased by 1,990,000 f. The Bank
notes in circulation have decreased by 3,700,0001.
The balance to the crodit of the Treaiury has de-
creased by 8,700,000 f. Sundry credits have increased
by 5,100,000 f.

TRANSPORTATION OF A FORTUNE-

TELLER.

A woman, named Charlotte Morris, aged 39 years,
was indicted at the Southampton quarter-sessions last
week, for having, on the 18th of July last, feloniously
and unlawfully received 55., the property of Isaac
Blandford, well knowing the same to have been fe-
loniously stolen, and further with inciting Mary Anne
Blandford to commit the same felony. It appeared
that the woman had been what is commonly called a
fortune-teller, and some time in the course of the year
a girl by the name of Anna Blandford was most im-
prudently taken to the house of this woman, and sub-
sequently was in the habit of going to have her for-
tune told. About the middle of July the girl was
talking to the woman about the Exhibition, when she
expressed her desire to see it. The woman asked her
if she or her father had any money, and she answered
that her father had some ; she eventually went to her
father's house, and took from his hard-earned
savings between 51. and 6/. She went back to the
prisoner's house, and asked her advice respecting
her visit to London, and put down ss. ou the
table whilst the prisoner turned her face to the
wall, as she said she would neither see nor touch any
money, whether it was a sovereign or a shilling, until
the girl bad gone out of the house, and then she could
say with a Blear conscience that she had never taken
anything from her; but it was proved sufficiently for
the ends of justice that she had received the money,
as she gently moved the money away. The woman
asked her if any one had seen her enter the house,
and she answered that she thought not; when she
was let out, she went home for the money she had
left behind, but on her way she was met by her father,
who took her upstairs, and she told a woman named
Elcock the whole circumstances of the case. When
they returned to the fortune-teller's house, the money
was found to have been pushed further along the
table under a piece of needlework. It appeared that
the girl had been watched, and her little sister having
discovered the money which her elder sister had left
upon the bed, had told her father of it, and thus the
plot was stopped, and they, on going to the house of
the prisoner, found the ss. she was now charged with
stealing. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The
Recorder said the offence was one of such a very serious
character that he should consider it his duty to inflict
the highest penalty the law allowed ; the sentence of
the Court was that she be transported beyond the seas
for the space of 14 years. The prisoner, on receiving
her sentence, immediately fainted.

A SERIO-COMIC BLUNDER.
Mr. Ayton, one of the principal corn merchants of
Newcastle, and Mr. Joseph Swan, were walking
arm-in-arm, on Saturday last, when a voice loudly
exclaimed " That's the man." The speaker, a woman
from Lanchester, in this county, whose husband is
(or formerly was) a common carrier in connexion
with Sunderland, fastened upon Mr. Ayton, and
accused him of having, a few days before, robbed her
of 61. Mr. Swan assured her that Mr. Ayton was
a respectable gentleman, and incapable of any act
of the kind—she must therefore be mistaken.
"0, no ! she was not mistaken ; he was the man
and Mr. Swan was doubtless no better than his com-
pany !" The result was, that a Lanchester police-
man, whom she had brought over to Newcastle, re-
quested the attendance of Mr. Ayton before a magis-
trate. The parties were now in the Corn Exchange,
where the woman's accusation prduced much excite-
ment and not a little merriment, the alleged offender
being generally known, and the unlikeliest man in the
world to be the subject of such a charge. The police-
man had no warrant and no jurisdiction; yet Mr.
Ayton, in the excess of his courtesy, consented to ac-
company him, and they all went before G. H. Ram-
say, Esq. (the woman accompanied by her husband).
It then appeared that the complainant, a few days
before, was in Newcastle, and applied at the district
bank for change for Irish provincial notes. Un-
successful in her application, she was leaving the
bank, when some one tapped her on the shoulder and
offered to assist her in effecting her object. The pro-
posal was thankfully accepted ; and as they were
passing
down Grey street she suggested to her friend
beer
that a pint ofwoulde be no bad thing. He of
They course assented.
shaky therefore repaired to a neigh-
bouring tap—the
; and peatrbee or the Ducrow—where
they had their beer
Commercial Bank, where then notes were discounted.
His kindness not yet exhausted,
the
W to
stranger accom-
panied her to a grocer's shop On the Sandhill
assist her in buying goods ; and they parted with
mutual protestations of good-will, which
were
converted, on the lady's part, into benedictions
as Irish as the notes, when she discovered that
her packet of money, so kindly made up for her
by the unknown benefactor, was 61. short. Mr.
Ayton, she positively swore, he man, and no was t
de-
nial of the charge had the least effect in mitigating
her obstinacy. " She wondered that he could think
of denying the fact. He must recollect so well that
they were half an hour together in the public-
holise, and that when she pulled out her purse
to pay for the beer, he insisted upon paying
hi - -,,
ofP.elt• This
the accusation—the 4.for it
was her constant reply to the denial
memory. the re-
if mr. A__toaras)n—the woman seeming to think that
cital
of Yhis had
t forgotten his delinquency, .
shop assured 11
Witnessesap-room liberality must refresh his
from the bank and the grocer's
Ramsay that M. Ayton wig 3:19t the

LONDON,

woman's companion, and the absurd case was dis-
missed, to afford en additional caution to courts and
juries against trusting too implicitly to oaths of iden-
tity. Had the incident occurred to a gentleman in a
place where he was a stranger, the consequences
might have been serious.—Gateshead Observer.

TUESDAY EVENING-, OCTOBER 28, IESI.

was prejudiced in their favour, and believed that they
were not impostors, otherwise he would not hay e in-
terested himself in procuring their removal hac k to
Ireland as he did ; that he should write to his lgord-
ship, acquainting him of the explanations give n by
the applicant, in order that the matter might bfe 'set
right, and that what previously occurred might not
operate to the disadvantage of the two sisters 'when
they got back to Ireland.
The applicant having thanked the magistrate, then
withdrew.