The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

MORE FORGERIES.

We regret to be called upon to record another additio❑
to the list of share frauds. Forgeries have been disco-
vered amongst the certificates of scrip sent in fur registra-
tion to the offices of the Oriental Gas Company. Up to
the present time it appeals that only five spurious docu-
ment,, purporting to represent fifty shares each, have been
detected. It is usually found, however, that parties who
embark in a career of crime of this description carry on
their nefarious practices to no petty extent; and the share-
holders will naturally be very anxious to learn the further•
results that may attend the investigation which is now
being made. Fortunately, the shares of this company aro
only alt. each, fully paid up. The interests of holders
whose property is represented merely by scrip are pecu-
liarly subject to danger from forgery. It is truo that in
the case of the Great Northern Railway Company •all the
safeguards by which inscribed stock is bodged in have
proved utterly futilo ; but most persons impute this result
to the glaring inefficiency of the system of audit. When
we find thatevon tho fact of a company being made to pay
dividends upon a larger amount of capital than has been
issued is insufficient to awaken the vigilance of its officials,
there is indeed ground for argument against the entire ex-
isting system—as worthless, and calculated only to encou-
rage a delusive feeling of confidence. It is to be hoped
that this important matter will be kept in constant agita-
tion until the means of securing a larger measure of secu-
rity shall have been attained, and that fresh frauds will
not be required to stimulate the attention of the numerous
parties interested.—DaVy News.

FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT THE ENTRANCE
OF THE LONDON DOCKS.

Yesterday (Thursday)` morning, shortly after eight
o'clock, a frightful accident occurred at the entrance of the
London Docks to a man named Edward Walker, aged 40
years, under the following disastrous circumstances :
It appears that the unfortunate man was a labourer, and
it is usual for a great number of men to be waiting outside
the gates every morning for employment in the warehouses
and other parts of the vast establishment. A bout the
time above-named there was a crowd of labourers as-
sembled in expectation of work just as a heavily-laden
waggon passed into the Docks, when Walker made an at-
tempt to enter beforo the vehicle, and in his haste to do so
he was crushed most fearfully between a lamp-post and
the hind off-wheel of the waggon, and before the horses
could possibly be stopped he received frightful injuries.
His screams for help were distressing to hear, and when
released he fell to the ground in a mutilated and insensible
condition. He was carried immediately into the surgery
of Dr. English, of Upper East Smithfield, where the poor
fellow was examined, and found to have been completely
scalped—the whole of the flesh and integuments cf the
right side of the head were likewise torn away, and the
skull bone was fractured. The right shoulder bone was
dislocated, and there were also other external injuries.
After Dr. English had rendered temporary assistance,
the injured man was placed on a stretcher and removed by
four police-constables of the H division, to the accident-
ward of the London Hospital, where Mr. Hobt. Debenham,
the house-surgeon, and the whole medical staff, rendered
prompt aid ; but the injuries sustained by Walker were
so serious that very faint hopes wore given of his surviv-
ing the accident many hOurs.
Last evening he was in a low and dangerous condition.

ATROCIOUS CRUELTY.—At the Petty Sessions held on
the 9th inst., at Wednesbury, Messrs. Bagnell an-1
Walker being on the bench, George Paddock, a youth
of 17, lately in the employ of the South Staffordshire
Railway Company, was charged at the instance of Mr.
Wouss, Superintendent of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with the following
case of atrocious cruelty to a dog. From the evidence it
appeared that on the 27th ult. a Skye terrier was in the
goods shed of the Great Bridge station of the above
railway, when the defendant, with the assistance of
another young man, named Kenyon, also in the employ
of the same railway, but not yet in custody, having
procured a quantity of turpentine, they completely im-
mersed the dog with it, and having surrounded the
animal with straw, they set fire to it. The dog was
literally roasted to death, giving utterance to the most
eseruclatinß cries, the limbs dropping from the body.
The two offenders were immediately dismised from the
service of the company, when they absconded, but Pad-
dock was subsequently apprehended. In defence he
stated that he merely intended to scorch the dog, but
the magistrates considered the charge completely made
out by the evidence for the prosecution, and most pro-
rerly :itacted the utmost dty—viz., three months'
imprisonment with hard lainur, accompanying their
sentence with the ino.-,t indignant expreziiion i.f their
disgust at the revolting act of barbarity, Mr. Wemys+
applied for a warrant against the accomplice, which Has
immediately granted, and be will doubtless be also soon
brought to justice.