The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-10 00:00:00

FORGERIES IN THE CITY.

The Lord Mayor was engaged in further investigating
two charges of forgery, at the Justice-room of the
Mansion House, on Monday, which had come before l 0
in the course of last week. The first case taken 06,
that of Mr. Robert Salisbury Saltmarsh, described
as a commission agent, against whom tbe,,
charge is that of tendering with a guilty knowledge"
bill of exchange for £2OO to a firm of bill-brokers in the
City. The prisoner was committed for trial, and a net
i
charge, relating to the forgery of a bill for £45, Was nest
gone into.
The other charge was against a young man naN
John Gibbs, a clerk, for forging and uttering a chee
for £4OO, with intent to defraud Messrs. Glyn, Mill°;
and Co., bankers, Lombard-street. In this C
ral'
the prisoner had been a clerk to Mr. Draper,
a merchant in London-wall, and one of the PP'
don agents of the Danube Steam Navigation CO51;
,
pany, but had left. He knew where Mr. POP:
was in the habit of keeping his cheque•be°"'
and what was his usual signature. On th:f
24th of July a man went to the bank
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co. and Preselge,
to Mr. Hand, a cashier, a cheque for *"l"ht
purporting to be signed by Mr. Draper. He was psi'n'n
two notes for £3OO and £lOO, and then left the bank- r
the same afternoon these identical notes were changecli%)°-
gold at the Bank of England, and they then bore upoltn
the name of John Draper and Henry Austin, of 81, Leo"°-;
wall. On the 29th ult. £370 in gold was changed 111.0
man, believed to be the prisoner, at the weighing•°'
of the Bank, for seven £5O notes and four for £5 each'
~11E•
the order then written by the person who presented
it
presented that it was required by the Danube St'a
Navigation Company. It was proved that the order 9:0
the signatures on the two notes for £3OO and £lOO ve
both in the prisoner's handwriting. Of thefour £5 Iwt4d;
three were traced to the possession of the prisoner, °0
having been tendered by him in payment for a poret"°iff,
order ; another had been changed at his request by -01
Edwin Draper, a brother of his employer, and the th'lo
had been paid to Messrs. Gurney, of the EurePe
Tavern, Cheapside, which house the prisoner 111g15
quented. . Mr. Mullens applied for a remand, to en';ot
him to trace the £5O notes, which the Lord 31°1
granted.

MASS MEETING OF SOUTH yo.RSSIIII3I

COLLIERS.

Not fewer than from 10,000 to 12,000 of unionist ral-e
Oil
belonging to the South Yorkshire district thronge--
town of Barnsley on Monday at a monster fai
II
meeting, procession, and gala. The gathering, wilh•re
was held under the auspices of the South -3(Ork:°) e:1
Miners' Association, the largest combination of rnj-d
in England, seemed to possess great imPert°o;
owing to the unhappy strife which is at Prest-ht
raging in that district. It may be stated that tO
present time not fewer than 2,000 miners, together Tbo,
their wives and children (in all 8,000 souls) are def.:to
dent on the union funds for support, with no itnalethe
signs of resuming work. Throughout the whole al
extensive district work was suspended. A great ttillef.
meeting was held in a large enclosed field. The tr
R. Stainton, of Sheffield, presided. The annual sod
meat of accounts of the association was placed beo°o
the meeting and adopted. The following resoltitelo;
were agreed to :—" That this meeting, having heard
the statement of expenditure for the past twelve re 11;
and the statement as to the present position of aff9rgtll6
the mining district of South Yorkshire, regrets tb°a oo
association should have been called upon to exPe,nejd
large a sum of money in support of its members ',iogf
out and on strike, when, in the opinion of this wee.
here
the establishment of boards of arbitration Now"- -ate/
settled the various protracted disputes now
between some of the coal-owners and their worlt PecioB
That propositions having been frequently made i)Ytire!
men and by the association to settle the present n'"ro'
by arbitration, and the colliery proprietors 11311/3tg tioe
jected such proposals, this meeting pledges itself .°OlOl
every endeavour to keep up the support of the
,01)°
lccked out and on strike until satisfactory terms eiootb
obtained from the employers. That the miners ef the
Yorkshire (after six years' labour and at great cost -,hotit
association, in conjunction with the miners threa'se ,
the United Kingdom, to get a bill before the Oil for
Commons for the better regulation of alinesa'rijoll°
the protection of miners), feel deeply the injustic.°4o3°
to them by the Secretary of State in withdrawl.testf
Mines Regulation Bill until another session of Fttrii:colr
seeing that the lives of their fellow-men are beill°,Aoioa
stantly sacrificed through the want of better snl'er'e-otor
that ought to be enforced by the Legislature of the
oty
try." The rest of the day was spent in dancing, ana
amusements.

f tea
Mr. Titus Saltle
late Dean of Durham by presenting to tb
followed the e;canlP °Albs'
Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles, fcr the Neer.here C:to
ties, now being erected at Lauer, ster, the munificent s
£5,000. cooP
A STRIKE IN THE KITCHEN. The fernaleand
of Alais, in France, have struck work. Their cl'4st
are threefold—higher wages, less labour, and the:rg'of
est
ibel
NNsofhcnaebßmwocEroibloAlui
duesrsglg meatharGep
lTaloallfsbrgtl
Eooei
receiving their "cousins" in the kitchen. Lsale-ifeo°
ive
.11
.etet_theiero
rTrpi
sbit.ileoy ,cwo Methodistio
fnkedEf
o:fp:s:et:oh:pc Dsi:oe;;;41,0:
ep
burned S t don auray by the explosion of a can of roe('
oil. She was engaged in canning fruit, and in ° tee:
increase the fire, which did not burn h reec't
well, s e IC ,
the exceedingly dangerous expedient of pouring
_°,ooo'
seneh oil from a gallon can. The result was the s'"--
undreds of similar instances. —New York, rifizejl; 0090
A VILLAGE HAMPDEN WITH amp of
BREAST.—Mr. Robertson, of Dondonnachie, the -I—vart
to
of Dunkeld Bridge. has ungracefully cast off tie;cet
patriot at the most critical stage. He had bees woe°.
prison on refusing to pay the penalty which th 'bride•
decreed against him for forcing his way across tbe
and had carried out the part so far as to enter th;:j'aclea.
On second thoughts, however, the village Lolled
ingloriously paid the money, quitted prison, an
-
little romance.—Scotsman.
Perhaps
SIR RODERICK MURCHISON—It is 110'1 ast, god
generally known that in early life our great sblr
Roderick Murchison, was a soldier. Our venera'ose carfleo
pher first fought under Sir Arthur Wellesley'. )I,p
the colours of the 36th Regiment, in 1808, at t'-icie Ol bat;
of Boleia, and Vimiera, and it was with no little 7 to
many years afterwards, Sir Roderick recalletheroduro:
memory of the Duke of Wellington that be West iiitaiens
cheeked ensign who answered to his call
The 1'4,11013
`• Where are the colours of the 36th ? too -
had followed the troops of Junot with ratheriojetio
impetuosity, and Sir Arthur followed in sou° rcics
call them back. Sir Roderick's second Year °E se
herb
under Sir John Moore. aO6
A CHANGE OF MIND.—As Mr. COX, oroso
magistrate, was recently proceeding bane helle°oo
meadows, to his father's residence, Spondonillaniog COffs
loud cries of " Oh, save me ! oh, save Mel" CO ye
the direction of the Nottingham-road Calla': the Itlle
at once hurried in the direction from when an ill tot
proceeded, and found a middle-aged W°l33ited 01l°
centre of the canal ;be hurriedly told her to te e
and he would rescue her, and nnother
got into the water ; but she made an effort to :tight het
and sank further in the mud. However, he ,riaginA
of her, and after much difficulty succeeded ion
to the bank. Mr. Cox then found bring °ooing• fit
crinoline and different articles of underc. _ toter DO
woman admitted that she had jumped into ter 011! hef
at al' OS'
the intention of destroying herself, but t 1 ,ive
entered she changed her mind. She refused t°oeavat
her name or address, and was allowed t° g eS•
business. ite"
bee
EDUCATION AMONG THE MINBRS', te—f
H. Sandford, her Majesty's Inspector a 1,-_.-.l,jeet 9 to
addressing a large meeting of miners on th
.su_sropoSo,"
„geo too
education of their children. Mr. SandforcitheF
the meeting either that all youths betweenwi otrte'd
and 14 should attend school on alternate c.l
eYci to %f 11
hours a day, or that they should be reclult_ aly„eS
„too
school four or five hours a week between t. 7 nine nu the
and 16, and limiting their hours of labour tio_,sa b 9
800 e
reoeovt'ed
These suggestions were favourably
hagrFaleodswtlfhßateeEhsi
fl
assembly, and were, indeed, warmlY ad° Areal tbe
of the more intelligent among the well. course of
the.
avast or ye
points that came up for discussion in
ThiS
proceedings was the butty system• lo rae/'
condemned, and especially that de7c.hPose,
system in which the butty keeps a Pub 1 onaling'oijille
SHIPS' COMPASSES.—Mr. ~e largelia
Glasgow, has so adjusted the compasses
the
Neva, recently built at Glasgow, tbatof
le Os
error is avoided. In adjusting the eeraC43,.nsepossitlolla
magnets are applied to counteract, as far ,Do
upon the.cor3-01,0 ;or
action of the iron of the ship
after this is clone a table of errors is rnacteAs theotole
uncorrected inaccuracy at the several
.pclu__eot this ,011:
Pass, but with the crdinary gdsm of adjust eeoe
,111
Fright, u Will co'
is correct only when the ship Pr ver, oc
sO. has 114
correct when the ship heels or vas
of t
•
constantly
tt does under a pressure of sail
° ent joss ,coes,
the re cutis tape;
Tin heelin flea'
slotted disasters to many ships, and g a
Glenorchy has been traced to it. tIA
,h his,
which has been introduced in the Nei',
rood'" a
eth 11
is to secure the accuracy of the table of e)4O,
1"
ship be upright or inclined, and was 040
the shin was loaded and in harbour.