The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-25 00:00:00

FORGERY AND FRAUD BY A SOLICITOR.

Yesterday Mr. Thomas Gorham, solicitor, of
Woolwich, was charged before Sir T. M. WILSON
and a full bench of Magistrates with forgery and
fraud to a considerable extent.

Mr. Hudson, of Woolwich, builder, deposed as
follows :—He said that the prisoner sent him a note
requesting him to call upon him. He went, and
the prisoner stated that he had a 50/. bill upon Mr.
Lewis Shrubsole, of Sheerness, which had been
paid to him by persons for whom he had been em-
Played ; he wanted some money to pay on account
might i tydedaurc'dt liifis
of his brother Richard, for whom he had become
the witness would take tnaekte
atthefirbstillfikhee
and he afterwards gave bt6iiirysit the bill until he had inquired the respecta-
of the
This he did of a Mr. Canham,
the prisoner 201. He paid
the bill into
Mr. Shrubsole
Webb, of
to be a forgery,Woolwich Bank, when it was ob-
servedthat the bill was a forgery.
Mr. Thomas
Mile-town, Sheerness,
bwielrfli:tis the acceptor, proved
whose name was on the
BI
present.
writing,
The for his defence,
that it was not his hand-
The prisoner, on being eallenc)!
prisoner, had ac
said that he had nothing tooa_a_
Mr. Andrew Patterson,
cepted a bill for 401. to accormtockahteeartihi;
Wool_
was his brother-in-law. This bill had
wards been altered to 140/4 the stamp had after-
wards
cut off and another put on. The bill was paid intoen
the house of Noakes and Ward, bankers, at
wich, when the fraud was discovered.
Mr. Noakes, to v'hom the prisoner had been
articled, had now, on his own behalf, to bring for-
ward a case of the blackest ingratitude he had ever
met with. Some short time ago the prisoner ap.
plied to him for the loan of 1001., and tendered the
lease of certain premises stated to be at Tooting,
Surrey, as security. He advanced the money, but
he had since discovered that the lease was entirely

At the risk of being deemed importunate and te-
dious, we must continue to press upon the attention
of our readers the claims of this important under-
taking. In our fourth page will be found an article
from the—Merthyr Guardian, showing the benefit
that will in all probability accrue to South Wales
from its adoption. We rejoice at this the
more, inasmuch as the co-operation of the great
iron and coal interests of South Wales is
much to be desired, and we should regret to
see their energies wasted upon another plan, infi-
nitely more speculative, which would in some degree
have come in opposition to the Western Railway.
It argues well for the latter, that in all the lines
which would have interfered with its formation, it
has been considered advisable to withdraw their
pretensions. Ably, however, as:the Western Rail-
way has been advocated, there is one point which
we do not think has been insisted on ; and that is,
the establishment of Bristol as a Packet Station
to the United States, &c. At present, almost all
the lucrative passages between this country and
America are taken from' Liverpool, and one
consequence is, that the Liverpool merchants
are thereby enabled to take and bring back
goods upon much lower terms than Bristol ship-
pers, who have only freight to look to for remu-
neration. Now we believe that we are strictly
correct in saying, that upon an average of cases,
vessels from the States could run into Bristol two
days earlier than they would reach Liverpool.
Suppose the railway established, we believe that
New York, via Bristol, would be at least three
days nearer London than via Liverpool, and what
immense advantage this saving of time would
afford, in a multitude of instances, need not he
pressed upon our mercantile readers. That our
enterprising neighbours of the North are fully aware
of such advantage may be judged of from the fact,
that although there are already five distinct lines of
packets (on the Ist, the Bth, the 15th, the 20th,
and the 25th of every month) another line is now
started on the 14th and 30th of the Fame. If only
a portion of this activity existed at Bristol, our It.-
mentations over the decline of its trade would soon
cease to be founded on fact.

(From the llierthyr Guardian.)

We stated in our last number that a meeting had been
held at Bath to take into consideration the expediency of
forming the Great Western Railway from Bristol to Lon-
don. The intelligence that we then laid before our readers
showed that the plan was approved and warmly supported;
but subsequent intelligence, found in ano,her column, in-
forms us that a deputution from the Bristol Committee has
proceeded to Ireland, to lay the plan before the wealthy
landholders of that country.
We conceive that the Great Western Railway is a pro-
ject deserving much more serious attention than it has yet
received from the southern part of the Principality. It is
now about five months since we first announced to the
public the project conceived by Mr. Woodeson of a railway
to lead from Milford, through Gloucester, to London.
After we had for some weeks adverted to this subject, it
attracted the attention of one of our respected subscribers,
a gentleman of great influence and discernment, at whose
suggestion Mr. Woodeson laid his plan before the princi-
pal iron masters of Merthyr, and afterwards before the
public meeting held ha this town. The result of this
meeting, and of the consequent meetings at Swansea and
Need), is fresh in the memory of our readers.
In this stage of the affair, Mr. Woodeson proceeded to
Gloucester, with the view, it was generally supposed, of
drawing the attention of the inhabitants of that district,
to the great advantag, s of a railway communication between
them and London. Here, however, to the unqualified
surprise of; we believe, every man in Wales, the idea of
a railroad to London appears to have been dropped, and
a railroad from Gloucester to Birmingham to have been
unexpectedly and solely contemplated. A railway to
London was an object in which the interests of all Wales
were evidently and deeply concerned : but one to Bir-
mingham was, we conceive, a very different matter.
Such a railroad can have been useful to us only on the
supposition, either that Birmingham was a natural market
for our produce; or that it was a stage in advance
towards London ; or that it was one towards Liverpool.
As to the first supposition ; 19 tons in 20 of Welch ex-
ports are coal or iron ; but who would send these things
150 miles, for sale to people who dig them from beneath
their own cellars? In the second supposed case, (besides
making our road two sides of a triangle) we leave it open
to the Staffordshire ironmasters, our natural rivals on
this occasion, to lay a prohibitory duty on our produce.
There can be no doubt that the great hulk of the shares
in the London and Birmingham Railway will be held by
these gentlemen. In the Act of Parliament for forming
their railroad, it will be necessary to limit the tonnage to
a certain rate. By introducing, under the plea of a sure
protection, a rate rather higher than is absolutely neces•
eery; and then by charging on the Welch iron the full
legal rate and on their own only the smallest saving rate,
it will be open to the Staffordshire ironmasters to impose
on the Welch iron a duty which will put us out of the
London market. So much for the value of a railway to
Birmingham, as in transitit to London. And if we con-
sider it as a road towards Liverpool, we are to remember
that the value of that market is almost wholly for ship-
ping, to places to which we can sail from Cardiff, New-
port, or Swansea, without going over 200 miles of land.
It appears from these reasons that the Gloucester and
Birmingham Railway, great as will be its usefulness to the
many seats of trade through which it will pass, is not
that great thoroughfare that is necessary for the traffic of
Wales; but in the Bristol and London Railway, we have
an intere,t which deserves our very serious attention. By
a line about 28 miles in length, leading from Gloucester,
passing a little to the west of Cirencester, we strike into
the Great Western Railway a little North of Swinton, and
thus reach the metropolis with an expense, East of Glou-
cester, of only 28 miles, instead of 106 miles, in con-
structing a railroad. The vast importance to the Prin-
cipality in forming a railway communication with London
is so manifest, that it were wasting the time of our
readers to dwell upon it. In our case it is a matter
of self-preservation ; for if we have it not, our pro-
duce is shut out from the market by more enterprising
rivals. Let not those districts of South Wales to which the
road does not reach, suppose they are not affected by it : in
the increased trade and wealth of Merthyr and Swansea
and Neath, there is a great accession to the value of tne
agricultural and manufactured produce, and to the em.
pioyment for the industry of Breconshire, Ctrmarthen-
shire, and even Pembrokeshire : and a railroad to Swan-
sea is only an anticipation by some few years of a railroad
to Milford. The Great Western Railroad was first pro•
jetted in Bristol, where it underwent the searching exa-
mination of many intelligent men before it was announced
vttiusiit:oehnaeotafprayut
htterieclinihcbeeu:nbievtbshlw as afterwards adopted with great eager.
mess in London as a prudent investment of capital : and
schemes,
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the
few d dbnaeyesasguob:cigritedtthousand out of ten thousand shares
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etc
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morel' were mtaekenng.' 'We feel all
by which the prosperity of Wales may be incalculably
promoted.

Total of Meal and
Flour

450,157 3 7

By order of the Commissioners,
C. A. SCOVELL, Secretary.
Custom-house, London, Jan. 21, 1834.

The circumstances attending the trial for the
murder of Mr. Colin Campbell, of Glenure, supposed to
have been perpetrated by Allan Breck, under the instiga-
tion of Mr. James Stewart, who was brought to trial, were
of a very extraordinary and mysterious nature. A bitter
feud had for some time existed between the clans of
Campbells and Stewarts, and it was at the time considered
that justice was not done to the accused by placing his
fate in the hands of a jury of Campbells. Much may be
expected from such a remarkable subject in the hands of
so able a writer as the author of " The Subaltern." We
are led to expect a story of equal interest with that master-
piece by Bulwer, " Eugene Aram." Mr. Gleig's new
work is announced under the title of " Allan Breck.".

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—Last night
an Inquest was held at the London Hospital, before Mr.
Baker, on the body of Catherine Rennell, a young wo-
man, aged 20. On Monday afternoon, the deceased was
drinking with a young woman named Wilks and another
person, at 40, Phoenix-street, Brick-lane, when Wilks
lost her ring, and the deceased was accused of having
taken it. She sent for a young man named Tipple, with
whom she cohabited, and told him, in tears of the ac-
cusation ; but Tipple replied that she was served right, as
she ought not to have got drunk. The deceased then
collared Tipple, and insisted o❑ his remaining and drink-
ing with them ; he remained there, but refused to take
any liquor, on which she seized an oyster knife, and, with
a horrible expression, said she would stab him. Tipple
warded off the blow, and held both her arms until he
thought she was cooled ; but on letting her free she
snatched up a table knife, and said " I would as soon stab
you as myself," and, at the same time plunged the wea
pon into the right side of the abdomen, and instantly fell
on the floor. She died on Tuesday last, of the wound.
It appeared that she was a woman of very violent tem-
per. Verdict—Temporary Insanity, caused by excessive
drinking.

‘, The first thing, I did," said Davy, " after
I got to Washington„ was to go to the President's house,
—thinks I, whose afeared If 1 didn't I wish I may be
shot. Says I, ' Mr. Adams, I'm Mr. Crockett, from
Tennessee.' So,' says he, ' how d'ye do, Mr. Crockett,
and he shook me by the hand, although he knowed I went
the whole hog for Jackson. If he didn't I wish I may
be shot. Not only that, but he sent me a printed ticket
to dine with him. I've got it in my pocket yet. (Here
the printed ticket was exhibited for the admiration of the
whole company.) I went to dinner, and I walked all
round the long table, looking for something I liked. At
last I took my seat just beside a fat goose, and I helped
myself to as much of it as 1 wanted. But I hadn't took
three bites, when I looked away up the table at a man
they called Tash ' (attache). He was talking French to
a woman on t'other side of the table. He dodged his
head and she dodged hers, and then they got to drinking
wine across the table. But when I looked bark again my
plate was gone, goose and all. So I jist cast my eyes
down to t'other end of the table, and, sure enough, I seed
a white man walking off with my plate. I says, Hello,
Mister, bring back my plate.' He fetched it back in a
hurry, as you may think ; and when he set it down before
me, how do you think it was? Licked as clean as r:;)
hand. If it wasn't I wish I may be shot. Says he,
What will you have, Sir ? And says You may
well say that after stealing my goose.' And he began to
laugh. Then says I, Mister, laugh if you please; but
I don't half like such tricks upon travellers.' I then filled
my plate with bacon and greens; and whenever I looked
up or down the table, I held on my plate with my left
hand. When we were all done ea•ing, they cleared every
thing off the table, and took away the cloth. And wh
think ? There was ano•her cloth tita,ler it. If
do you
there wasn't I wish I may be shot. Then I saw a man
coming along, carrying a great glass thing, with a glass
handle below, stimething like a candlestick. It was stuck
full of little glass cups, with something in them that
looked good to eat. Says I, ' Mister, bring that thing
here.' Thinks I, let's taste them fist. They were mighty
sweet and good ; so I took six of 'em. If I didn't I wish
I may be shot.—Colonel Crockett's 11Ielnoirs.