The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-13 00:00:00

ravel. and iVaitary Int2w.gence.

FORGERY OF BANK NOTES.

A Ma'ta letter of the sth inst. gives the following na-
val and military intelligence :-
"The B thiatiaand K aigaroo st'asratransports arrived
from Liverpool on the 3d bound for Constantinople.
" The Emperor, steam-transport, arrived from Liver-
pool on the 4th.
" Her Majesty's steam-corvette Higbflyer arrived
from Constantinople on the Ist, and left :in the 3d for
Spithead, conveying 20 invalided Artillerymen.
" Her Majesty's steam corvette Spiteful left for Tri-
poli on the 2d, conveying Captain Sir George Otway,
R.N.
"The Candia, steam-transport, arrived from Ismid on
the 3d.
"The Victoria, steam-transport, arrived from Scutari
on the 3d.
"The Belgravia, sailing-transport, arrived from Balak-
lava and Constactinople on the 4th, with Government
stores, for Spithead.
"The Australian, steam-transport, arrived from Balak-
lava on the 4th, with ordnance stores and 250 of the
Army Works Corps.
" The Bacchante steam-transport left for Constanti-
nople on the Ist.
"The Nile, Egyptian steam-frigate, arrived from
Alexandria on the 3d.
"The Fleurus, French screw steam line-of-battle ship,
arrived from Kamiesh on the 4th, bringing 54 officers
and 1,000 non-commissioned officers and privates.
"The Prophete, French steamer, arrived from Tripoli
on the 2d, and left for Tunis on the 4th.
" The English bark Tigris, with ammunition and war-
like stores for the Sardinian Government, arrived from
Balaklava on the 2d. - -
" The Earl of Aberdeen steam transport left for
Spezzia on the 30th of April, with 35 officers and 152
non-commissioned officers and privates.
"The Lady Berriedale steamer arrived from Ka-
miesh and Constantinople on the 2d, with a cargo of
grain, silk, wool, &c., for London.
"The Vectis, Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-packet, arrived from Marseilles on the Ist.
" The Capitole, French postal steamer, left for the
Italian ports and Marseilles on the let of May.
"The Danube, French postal steamer, arrived from
Marseilles on the 4th, bringing for Malta Dr. Duncan,
and for the East 8 French soldiers.
"The Demetrius screw steamer arrived from Hartle-
. pool and Gibraltar on the 3d, with a general cargo for
Beyront.
, " The Araxes screw steamer arrived from Alexandria
on the 3d, bound to Gibraltar and Tangier."
Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour and Rear-Admiral
Martin went to Osborne in the Fire Queen yesterday,
on a visit to her Majesty.
The Hastings, 60, Capt. Fanshawe, was paid off yes-
terday at Portsmouth.
The Tartar, 21, Capt. Dunlop, and the Megasra steam
troop-ship, Commander Johnson, were paid wages yes
terday, and their crews granted leave.
The Merlin, 6, steam-vessel, Capt. Sulivan, sailed
yesterday afternoon for the eastward, with two mortar-
assels.
The Severn, No. 194 steam-transport, came into har-
bour yesterday to land invalids. "
The Vesuvius, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hore,
sailed yesterday aftcrnoon for the westward, with two
mortar-vessels.
The Firefly, 4, steam-vessel, Captain Otter, the
Hecla, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Aplin, and the
Otter, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Glover, sailed yes-
terday, with mortar-vessels.
The screw steam-ship Conqueror, 100, Captain T. M.
C. Symonds, at Devonport, has had defects made good.
The London, 90, Captain W. El. Jervis ; the hospital
ship Belleisle, 6, Commander J. Hosken ; the paddle-
wheel steam frigate Dragon, 6, Captain W. H. Stewart;
and the paddle-wheel steam-ship Bulldog, 6, Commander
A. C. Gordon, were to leave Plymouth yesterday for the
Crimea to bring home troops.
The sloops Atalanta, 16, and Camilla, 16, were taken
into dock at Devonport on Thursday to have their cop-
per examined and repaired.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Virago, 6, at Devon-
port, is ordered to be put in commission.
Tne hired Government transport Cape of Good Hope,
No. 227, left Plymouth on Saturday morning for the
Crimea.
The Locust, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander John Bythesea, arrived at Sheerness on
Sunday from Portsmouth, with No. 133 mortar-vessel
in tow, and proceeded to Chatham, where the mortar-
vessels are to be laid up.
The Driver, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
Alan H. Gardner, arrived at Sheerness on Sunday from
Portsmouth, with Nos. 106, 108, 109, and 111 mortar-
boats in tow, having been four days from Portsmouth.
The Driver left Sheerness yesterday for Portsmouth. to
tow the remainder of the mortar-vessels round for Cha-
tham. The Lizard iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Thomas B. Christopher, left Sheer-
ness yesterday at 9 a.m. with the mortar-vessels Nos,
106, 108, 109, and 111 in tow for Chatham.
The Horatio, 8, screw steam-ship, Captain the Hon.
Arthur A. Cochrane, C. 8., was paid off at Sheerness yes-
terday. Her third lieutenant, Theophilus M. Kelsall,
left yesterday to join the Orion as second lieutenant.
Captain the Hon. Arthur A Cochrane, C. 8., will leave
to-day to commission the Niger, 14, screw steam-sloop,
now at Woolwich.
The Russell, 60, screw steam-ship, Capt. Francis Scott,
is to be paid off at Sheerness on Friday.
Preparations are being made for receiving part of the
ships from the Back Sea at Sheerness.
The Nimrod, 6, new screw steam gun-boat, has been
taken into No. 2 dry dock at Sheerness, to be made
ready for being immediately commissioned.
Her Majesty's 11-gun screw steam-sloop Rattler, 200-
horse power, Commander Wrn, A Fellowes, arrived at
Woolwich from the East In lies, last from Portsmouth, on
Sunday evening. She got up steam yesterday morning
and proceeded down the river to try her machinery,
prior to being dismantled and refitted. The Rattler,
having fulfilled her term of commission afloat-namely,
5 years, is now to be paid off and docked for repairs.
The Pearl, 21, Capt. Sotheby, arrived at Spithead on
Saturday morning from the Westward.
The Cruiser, 17, Capt. the Hon. G. S. Douglas, ar-
rived at Spithead on Saturday from the westward, and
went into harbour to be paid off.
The Minden steam-transport, No. 122, arrived at
Spithead on Saturday from Malta and Gibraltar.
The convict-ship Runnymede arrived at Woolwich ar-
senal yesterday morning from Deptford, for the purpose
of embarking convicts thence for Western Australia.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the ..A.dmiral'y .-G. H. Wall, to be Lieutenant to the
Sampson ; T. C. Bruce, to be Lieutenant to the Alsiers ;
E. A. Carey, to be Master to the Boscawen ; J. Lornax,
to he Assistant-Surgeon to the Horatio (confirmed) ; J.
C. Eastcott, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Conflict ; J.
T. Farewell, to be clerk to the St. Jean D'Acre ; W.
K. Horne, to be Assistant-Clerk to the Sphinx.
Various projectile proofs which have been carried on

Mr. Henry Bradbury delivered a lecture on Friday
night, at the Royal Institutien, Albemarle-street, upon
tite " Manufacture of Bank Notee in connection with the
subject of Forgery." The audience was numerous and
distinguished ; the Duke of Northumberland presiding.
Mr. H. Bradbury said it was his object principally to
direct attention to the engraving, as the most important
feature in the manufacture of bank notes, because upon
that depends the security in the eyes of the public ; and
the necsssity for discussing the question arose from the
fact that forgery is on the increase ; that differences of
opinion exist upon the best method to be employed to
obviate it ; that facilities are growing up to a-,sist for-
gery ; and that there isa tendency to employ that method
of manufacture which is most exposed to the operations
of the forger. A committee sat to inquire into the
subject as far back as 1819, and bad their report been
adopted the present etate of things could never have
arisen. That committee decided that each of the
methods then in use—not dissimilar to those of the pre-ent
day—had their respective merits if carried to the high-
est result ; historical engraving, engine work, chaste
and elaborate ornament, perfection of type, combined
with stereotype ; and that the use of these, more or less,
might be attended with success. This report was of great
value then, and in these days is capable of great exten-
sion, as by the aid of a nice judgment, joined to artistic
advantages that can now be commanded, a result may be
attained, new, and of so high a character as to set it
above the reach of forgery, by stamping upon the pro-
duction an individuality expressing qualities beyond the
province of mechanical imitation. The main feature of
the note, the engraving, and its security, depends upon
the vignette ; the higher quality of the artistic impress,
therefore, which this vignette carries, the greater the
security of the note. The vignette derives its great value
from being the uncounterfeitable Seal of the note—un-
counterfeitable, because its individuality cannot be imi-
tated. However similar, there isa difference in the human
countenance—however similar, there is a difference in
handwriting, and if any number of the most eminent en-
gravers were to endeavour to copy each other, it would
be detected by a casual examination. The eye cf the bank-
ing clerk or the man of business would soon become
expert at this sort of fine-art reading. This was proved
in the case of the Plymouth Bank, half a century ago.
Their bills were forged, there notes were not, simply on
account of the vignette ; and when the vignette was
added to the bills the forgeries ceased. Of the various
methods of engraving, the choice lies more especially
between intaglio and surface engraving ; between
steel and copper plate or letter-press and wood
engraving ; the first being pre-eminent for its beauty
and adaptability to the production of bank notes. Ob-
jections validly urged against this method years age are
now excluded ; cost and difficulty of reproduction hav-
ing been overcome by the electrotype, which, in addition
to its cheapness, gives a fixed oneness to the paper issue
to a bank, however extensive it may be; which no
cheapness or rapidity of production from letter press or
surface engraving can counterbalance, notwithstanding
the fact that the notes of the Bank (f England, and also
of the Bank of France and the Bank of Russia, are pro-
duced from surface-engraved plates. In the engraving
of the bank note two principles are involved for con-
sideration—the first, shnplici'oy of design ; the second, the
combination of vignette work with intricate engine work;
and both these principles possess high claims to the
attention of banking authorities as security against
forgery—the one on account of the difficulty of mecha-
nical imitation, the other on the ground of a first-sight
recognition. Simplicity of design, when it amounts to
the character of high-class ait, the lecturer regards as
much the best for the issue of national notes ; for where
variety of pattern and freaks of ornament distract the
attention, it is put more within the field of the imitator
than when he has to contend with an ideality for which
neither his education nor his pursuits are like y to fit him.
By way of illustration Mr. Bradbury here submitted to
the audience what (or something similar) should, in his
opini n, be the representative note of a national bank,
de,cribing it as being as simple as a nstiouat note could
with safety be, its attributes being individual unity-
simple and salient features, with due prominency of nu-
merical value, and a general caaracter of a sort of me-
dimval cast. After explaining Vie protective crialities of,
and replying to objec ions against, this model note, Mr.
Mr. Bradbury displayed a Bank of England note, and
gave a brief account of its history, as follows :
The Bank of England note has always been charac-
terised by simplicity, but carried to an extreme in the
opposite direction, the same general design having been
preserved from the issue of their first note. I have no
objection, however, to submit, namely, that its simpli-
city is too simple, not bearing upon the face of it those
features which characterise the true art-point. The vig
nette is a specimen the reverse of what I have been ad-
vocating ; it is alike deficient in conception and execu-
tion. Surface-printing having been chosen as the me-
dium, the bank authorities were restricted in the appli-
cation of their art. - In consequence of this the Bank of
England note in its present form is unworthy of the
bank and na-ion. The great aim of the bank has
been to secure simple identity and ready recognition
through the excellence of the paper, known by its
peculiar colour, by its thinness and transparency, as
well as by its feel, crisp and tough, patent to the
sense of touch alone. The basis of its security
to the public rests upon its paper. It is supposed
to be unmatchable. Such is the case in this country.
Not because it cannot be imitated, but because the law
affords ample supervision to detect it—which is 39 good
as preventing it. As successful imitations of this paper
have been made abroad, and passed in this country, too
much reliance ought not to be placed upon this superi-
ority of the paper. Again, the fallacy of its security
consists in the extreme facility it affords for reproduction
by hand, apart from reproduction afforded either by the
Anastatic or Photographic processes. I have thought
it only right to refer to these processes with reference to
this note in particular, inasmuch as if the paper were
procurable, a successful copy of the engraved pits
might eel-Vainly he effected by the aid of photography.
From 1837 to 1854 these notes were printed from steel
plates, reproduced by the Siderographic or transfer
processes. At the commencement of 1855 a change
took place in the production of the notes by the sub-
stitution of surface-printing from electrotypes for steel
plate printing. A variation was then made in the form
of the old note by adopting an engraved signature in-
stead of a manual one—the object being still further to
strengthen the identity of recognition.
Mr. H. Bradbury then exhibited a specimen of simple
note, bank of France, compared with a surface printed
note of the same bank, admitting, however, that sim-
plicity of design is not to be advocated as solely applic-
able to a note in all instances. It is snore especially
suited for national notes, because immediate recognition
should be one of their essential features, while for pro-
vincial notes, not having so wide a range of circulation,
the complex note has peculiar advantages. Mr. Brad-
bury then glanced at complex engraving, which is per-
formed in two ways—relief and medallion work, guil-
t ,che or rose-engine work—the one representing models
on fiat surfaces, the other lines, straight, waved, or
curved; circles, ellipses, parallel or intersecting, result-
ing in a particular effect; and exhibited specimens of
pi-Auction by both processe4, describing the latter as
bei ,g at once more beautiful, less confused, and ac-
companied by more facility of detection taan ti4e former.
Mr. Bradbury' then exhibited specimens of `• engine.
turned designs on glass," simple and complex, both of
which he conceived to combine beauty with security,
and facility of recognition—a result tint practicable to
attain until the electrotype became a reeognised agent in
practical reproduction. Since the discovery of the elec-
trotype, efforts hal been made in several cases to apply
its perpetuating power to the reproductien of cepper en-
gravings generally, but with no better result than signal
failure ; but the lecturer stated that an experiment was
made a few months ago to establish in this country (it
having long been in practical operation at Vienna) its
practical as well as its economical adaptability. In this
experiment 1,200,000 cotes of the Brazilian Government,
of very elaborate work, were printed from electrotype
plates ; the means for future production still existing for
printing as many million notes more as thousands had
already been printed—and with this certainty that the
last note printed shall be identical with the first.
The lecturer then described Siderographic bank-note
printing, as being a process for transferring figures from
steel to steel, and thus multiplying the number of plates
to be printed from. It consists in taking up an en-
graved plate upon a roller of softened steel, a combina-
tion of rolling and pressure, so that the engraved sub-
ject stands in relief upon the roller, which then under-
goes a process of rehardening, and the subject in relief
is then, by rolling and pressure, transferred to a surface
of steel, softened to receive it. The objections to this
plan are, that every subject so transferred must be re-
touched by the graver, that it is inapplicable to the
manufacture of complex notes, that it ie not economical,
and that it is doubtful whether it secures identity. Still
it has been in use for 30 years in America, and was, in
fact, an American invention.
The lecturer then exhibited specimens of Brazilian,
American, Austrian, Prussian, and Russian notes, re-
marking in succession upon their faults of design
and execution, and proceeded to deal with the most
difficult part of the question, security of manufacture,
glancing first at the Anastatic process as, in suppo-
sition, applicab:e to forgery, and suggesting as
the best and simplest way of obviating the
danger the adoption of copper plate and very fine work.
Then comes photography, by which copies of bank notes
have certainly been produced, but-not to an extent to be
considered dangerous, as the copies were imperfect, as
there was a failure in appearance generally. But photo-
graphy has made advances, and is now capable of pro-
ducing more serious results by means of a printing-plate.
Both in the case of the Anastatic and the photographic
processes, the antidote consists in the adoption of print-
ing in different colours ; for in attempetiinngnptoountdakneotaen,
Anastatic or photographic copy of a
the separation of the two printings, in different colours,
cannot be effected without destroying the combined
transfer ; and the more elaborate and artistic the second
working in colour is rendered, the more the difficulty of
dissection is increased. If the water-mark were backed
by excellence of art and engraving, the bank note might
be regarded as unforgeable ; but if this should ba found
not to be the case, then it should be imperative on the
Government in committee to resolve this question,
and offer a reward for its solution.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--Hay 12.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENXI.

•
for some weeks past at Shoeburynese, under the direc-
tion of the Colonel-Superintendent of the royal gun fac-
tories at Woolwich Arsenal, have drawn to a close.
They consisted of experimental trials with rifled shot of
a somewhat novel description. Shells capable of contain-
ing considerable charges of powder were fired from 6-
pound field guns, rifled with many grooves to receive
the projections on the surface of the shells. The experi-
ments, as they extended, have been pronounced success•
ful, and were tried with charges varying from llb. to
131 b., and with 10 degrees elevation shells equal in
weight to two ordinary sot were thrown to a distance of
2.800 yards ; some of them reached an ultimate range of
3,400 yards.

Capt. D. Blyth, Capt. C. J. Ellis, First-Lieutenants
W. Taylor, C. W. Carrington. J. F. Hawkey, J. G. S.
lililreux, with 4 serjeants, 10 corporals, and 200 pri-
vates of the Royal Marine Corps, have resumed the
duties of guard at the various stations in the dockyard
at Woolwich, as heretofore. In consequence of this the
body of police has been reduced 1 inspector, 2 sergeants,
and 25 constables, who will be paid down and await or-
ders from Scotland-yard as to their future destination.
The Superintendent of Police has received orders to issue
instructions for the strict observance of the new regula-
tion for the exclusion of strangers from the Royal Arsenal
at Woolwich on all days, except Tuesdays and Fridays,
and then only on condition of applicants being provided
with tickets of admission from Lord Paninure or one of
the heads of departments At Woolwich Arsenal.
The following officers belonging to the depots of the
provisional battalion, Chatham, having completed their
course of instruction in the theory and practice of the
Enfield rifle at the School of Musketry, Hytbe, have
been ordered to rejoin their respective depots at Chat-
ham Barracks ; Capt. J. Bailie, sth Northumberland
Fusiliers ; Capt. S. B. Gordon, 45th Regiment ; Capt.
H. E. Burnside, 61st Regiment ; Lieut. W. Taylor,
29th Regiment ; Lieut. A. M‘Leod, 70th Highlanders ;
Ensign W. D. Jarvis, 12th Foot, and about 40 men be-
longing to depots.

POLICE IN
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The lecturer then draw attention to diagrams illustra-
tive of the process of paper manufacture (representing
the machinery of Mr. T. H. Saunders, Dartford), with a
view to show what science, labour, and capital must be
expended in the production of bank-note paper ; and in
conclusion, while deprecating censure upon what some
might deem his boldness in coming forw-rd upon such a
subject, said he could appeal to the evidence of many
eminent men who had lived before him, and whose opi-
nions were corroborative of his own. Mr. H, Bradbury,

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 13. 1856.

upon concluding, was greeted with loud ap2lauee. In
the course of his !ec.7nre no mentioned that the designs
for his illu-tratnos Were funished by Mi.. Jo;In Leigh-
ton, and the photographs nu glass by Mr. Ilennah, of
Brighton.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before Lord
Campbell and Common Juries.)
MATTHEWS V. SMITH-BRURY-LANE THEATRE.

This wa, an action for goods sold and delivered, and
work and labour done. The defendant pleaded never
indebted, and also a set off.
Mr. Watson and Mr. Denman conducted the case on
the part of the plaintiff, and Mr. E. James and Mr.
Hawkins appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Watson said the plaintiff was the executor of
John White Moore, who died in October, 1854, and who
formerly carried on the bu•iness of a printeeller at 1 and
2, West-street, St. Martin's-lane ; and the action was
brought to recover 201. 19s. 6.1. for frames supplied by
him to the defendant, Mr. Edward Tyrrell Smith, who
was originally an auctioneer, but now lessee of Drury-
lane Theatre. It appeared that some intimacy existed
between Moore and Smith, and that the amount in
question was for frames which Moore had made for some
pictures which be had given to Smith as a present. The
defendant now denied his liability to some of the items,
and pleaded a set off in respect of an advertisement of
Moore's shop, which had been introduced into a panto-
mime.

Joseph Gearing, foreman of the deceased Moore,
proved the delivery of the articles.
Mr. E. James said the defendant admitted his liability
to the charges in the bill, with the exception of one for
11. 10s. and another for 83., in regard to a frame which
had been made for certain drawings representing Mr. G.
V. Brooke in various characters. These items, he con-
tended, ought to have been placed to the account of Mr.
Brooke.
Mr. Matthews said he was the executor of Moore, and
the plaintiff in the present action. Four months after
Moore's decease, about Jan., 1855, saw the defendant
on the stage, and asked him to pay the deceased's ac-
count. He said he would look over it, and send a cheque
for the money. Saw him again in the theatre three
months afterwards, and he said he had not then inquired
into the matter, but he would see that the claim was
settled. He requested witness to call again, but he never
did, but instructed his solicitor to make an application
for the money. Smith never told witness that the estate
of Moore was indebted to him in anything.
Mr. Thomas, clerk to the plaintiff's attorney, said he
went several times in company with the testator Moore
to the theatre, in 1854. On one occasion, in August,
they saw the defendant. Moore asked him for payment ;
he said he could not give a cheque then, but he wanted
something more done, and he would pay for all together.
In January, 1855, a circular was sent round to all the
debtors to the estate, but no reply was received from
the defendant. Another letter was written to him in
January in the following year, and the defendant replied
that, on making the proper deductions, he found the
estate was indebted to him in the sum of 63,
Cross-examinede--Saw Smith in his private room. It
was sometime in August. He offered them orders for
the performance. Moore accepted them, but he did not.
The orders were for that or some following evening.
Mr. E. James then addressed the jury on behalf of the
defendant. He observed that this action would never
have been brought if Moore bad been alive, because there
was an understanding between them that Moore should
pay 201. for an advertisement of his shop in one of the
scenes of the pantomime. A scene of his shop was
painted, with the heading, " Moore's Racing SWeeps,
St. Martin's-lane." The Harlequin jumped through a
window, bearing the inscription, " Latest Betting upon
the Races," an I then a flap dropped down, with the
word!, "In for the Derby." (Laughter.) The Clown
next attempted to perform the same feat, but he was re-
pulsed, and then another flap came down with this in-
timation, " Out for the Oaks." This scene and the
mechanical centrivenees were prepared for the defendant
at considerable expense. Similar advertisements were
prepared for Mitch], No. 1, St. Paul's Churchyard ;
Poreeell, the confectioner, in C irnhill ; Bennett, the
watchmaker, in Cheapside ; Samuel, the tailor, in Lud-
gate-hill ; and for Scott's oyster shop, at the top of the
Haymarket ; and the charge for each of these scenes
was from 20 to 30 guineas. The defendant would posi-
tively deny that such an interview took place between
Lim and Moore, in August, at the theatre, as was de-
posed to by Ti.omae. The theatre was then closed, and
the statement as to the defendant offering them orders
for the performances was totally incorrect.
Mr. E. T. Smith, the defendant, was then called.
He said it was customary i❑ pantomimes to exhibit
scenes as advertisements for different shops, and there
was always a specific bargain between the shopkeeper.
and the manager of the theatre as to the sum which
should be charged. Mr. Nicholson waited upon him
when he was preparing the pantomime, at the latter
end of 1853, to know if he would have any objection to
introduce a scene of Mr. Moore's shop 'I
Mr. Watsone-I must object to what passed between
you and Mr. Nicholson.
Mr. Smith then explained that he afterwards saw
Moore, who wished him to introduce a description of
his shop. He told Moore his charge would be 25 gui-
neas. Moore said he would give him 201., and he ac-
cepted that sum ; but he told Moore that he would not
require the money, but that he would take it out in
frames for the engravings which he had presented to
him, he accordingly introduced the scene required, and
it was exhibited on the stage as long as the pantomime
lasted—about ten weeks. Mr. G. V. Brooke had bee❑
engaged by him prior to that time. The tragedian re-
ceived no salary, as the arrangement was that they
should divide between them the whole expenses of the
house, and then go share and share alike in the pro-
fits. After they had settled the account for which
they were jointly liable, Moore sent in a bill to him
(Smith) for 201. 193. Saw Moore on the subject of
that bill, and told him that it contained two items which
ought to have been charged to Brooke. Moore then
ra❑ his pen through them, and it was ngreed that they
should settle the account for the pantomime scene
when the frames were all finished. In the presence
of Mr. Moore he then wrote upon the bill, "20
guineas to he deducted for the pantomime." The bill
was now in the same state as when it was delivered to
his solicitor. He was in the habit of seeing Moore two
or three times during the week. He never made any
demand upon him (Smith) during his lifetime. In Aug.,
1854, the theatre was not open. He had nothing to do
with it at that time. Moore, accampanied by Thomas,
did not come to him a; the theatre and ask for a cheque,
nor did he give any orders for the performance to Moore
i-te the presence of Thomas.

On ixo,c-examination he stated that he had been
lessee of Drury•lane since 1852. He was formerly a
sheriff's auctioneer. Was also proprietor of the Sunday
Times.

Mr. Joseph Lewis said he had been treasurer of the
theatre since 1853. The charge for Dakin's advertise-
ment was 20 guineas, for Purssell's 20, and for Bennett's
25 guineas. The advertisement of Messrs. Samuel con-
sisted of the 17,.. 6d. trousers. The trousers walked
across the stage. (Laughter.) The scene in Scott's
advertisement was a shell fish shop ; the Clown was
supposed to run away with some lobsters. Moore's
consisted of racing " tips " and sweeps, and also of his
print shop. It occupied the whole of a pair of flats.
Mr. E. James —The les you say about.flats in con-
nert.on with betting shops the better. (Laughter.)
Witness—The work was one of very great merit, and
well worth 20 guineas.
Mr. E. James then replied.
Mr. Watson having replied on the whole case,
Lord Campbell summed up, and
The jury, after an absence of a quarter of an hour, re-
turned into court with a verdict for the defendant.

MANSION-HOUSE.—/o/in Markham, was charged
with forgery.
Mr. Mullens appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Lewis
for the defence.
Mr. C. F. Ash, of Nos. 20 and 21, Upper Thames-
street, iron merchant, said—My remises were broken
into in the beginning of February, and, amongst other
things taken, there were two cheques fir money—one
on the Bank of England and the other on the Royal
British Bank, and two or three blank cheques were aLe
stracted from my cheque-book upon Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Smith. The cheque produced, No. 15,430
for 911., bears the same number as the other cheques in
the book. It purports to be drawn by myself, but was
not signed by me or by my authority. I believe it to be
one of those which were torn from my book.
Jas. Humphries, a person out of employmetit, said—
On the 18th of Feb. last I advertised 'for a situation in
the Times, and had two replies ; and, in answer to one,
I went to No. 6, Oakley-crescent, City-road, to inquire
for a Mr. Hammond. I saw the prisoner, who said he
was Mr. Hammond, and I told him who was, and he
offered to employ me to collect bills for him and drive a
horse and chaise. We then spoke about the wages, and
he said his house was in Oxford, but he had business to
do in London and in Oxford. At his request I called
next day, and he then asked me to p to the railway at
Euston-square. I went there, and on my return he gave
me the cheque produced, upon Smitb, Payne, and Smith,
and asked me tr, get it changed for him. I was to bring
some notes an d some gold, and I was to take the money
hack to the house in Oakley-crescent. I accordingly
went to the banking-house and presented the cheque,
but it was not paid. I subsequently went with Mr.
Mullen; the solicitor to the bankers, to his office. In
April last I saw the prisoner in the House of Detention
in Clerkenweell, and recognised him, amongst several
other person s, as the man who bad employed me to get
the cheque eihanged.
Cross-exs.mined by Mr. Lewis—l was asked to go to
the House of Detention by Mr. Mullens, and was told that
a man likei the person I had described was in custody.
I went rou net the cells with the officer, and when I came
to the cell in which the prisoner was, I said I did not
think there vie is any one there I could identify, but the
man I had last, seen was something like him who had
employed rue. I saw about 20 cells or more. The officer
said "You've passed him ;" and then it was that I said
the last man I had seen was something like him, and
said if I was c'empelled to swear to that man, I would
not say it was him. I would say there was none there I
recognise& When I left the prison I told the officer that
there was but aria man that I thought was anything like
him. We both left under the impreision that I had not
seen the man. I next saw the prisoner at Marlborough
street, and I w ant there to see him again. I was told by
Mr. Mullens lee was to he there. I only said as I was
t leave that that vv:-,,3 the man. I said so to Mr.
Mullens's clef k. Directly he was brought I recognised
him, and said he was the man. He is now dressed as he
was in the Rouse of Detention and at Marlborough.,