The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

Bank of England note, No. 70,389, and dated Oct.
3, 1859. I didnot particularly notice the note, but
took it. to Mr. Griffin, my employer, who at once
said it was a false note, and I then saw that it was
so myself. I returned to the prisoner and told her
so, and she replied that a gentleman had met her at
the Eastern Counties Railway, who asked her to
get it changed for him, promising to give her a
fourth of the note and the brandy for her trouble,
and that she was to meet the gentleman again at
10 o'clock. She did not advert to the order for the
spirits when she said this, and, though the name
" R. Brooke" is endorsed on the note, she did not
write that or anything else in my presence. I then
went out to procure a constable to give her into
custody, and the prisoner remained quietly stand-
ing at the counter till I returned with one,
Mr. Bumsted, inspector of notes at the Bank—
The note produced was shown to me by the last
witness and by my order it was stamped " Forged,'
and so returned to him. It is a counterfeit note,
and a very badly executed counterfeit.
The prisoner had no statement to make in addi-
tion to that she had before given, and she was re-
manded for a week.

THAMES.—Capt. Thomas Anderson, master of
the American ship Devonshire, one of the regular
packets trading between London and New York,
who was accompanied by Mr. Massey, agent for
American shipping and outfitter, of Upper East
Smithfield, opposite the St. Katharine Dock, came
before Mr. Yardley fcr the purpose of refuting the
statement made on the previous day by a Mr.
Cole, of York-street, Blackfriars-road, that his re-
lative, James Matthew Humphreys, a seaman, had
been ill-used by the second mate of the Devonshire,
and cast off the riggings by him and drowned.
Mr. Yardley said there was a statement made that
a man named Humphreys had been ill-used and
cruelly murdered on board the Devonshire. That
statement affected the second mate of the vessel.
Capt. Anderson said that he was also accused of
kicking the man on the first day he came on board
the ship at New York, and that was not true, and
he wished to make a full explanation.
Mr. Yardley said, as an ex parte statement had
gone forth to the prejudice of Capt. Anderson and
one of his officers, he felt bound to hear all he had
to say.

Capt. Anderson said the deceased, Humphreys,
worked his way out to New York as cook of the
American ship Southampton, of which he (Captain
Anderson) was chief officer. He. was afterwards
appointed to the command of the Devonshire, and
upon mustering the crew on the day he sailed from
New York he was very much surprised to find
Humphreys among them, and was still more
astounded on hearing from the chief officer that
Humphreys had been shipped as an able seaman.
He said to Humphreys, " You know you are lot a
seaman at all," and he admitted he was not, and
that he had imposed upon the agent who shipped
the crew. There was no alternative but to take
the man to London, because the ship was under
way, but he gave particular directions that Hum-
phreys should not be allowed to go aloft, or do
anything that would expose him to danger.
Nothing particular occurred until the Bth of Decem-
ber, when it was blowing very hard, and the men
were reefing sails. Notwithstanding he had forbid-
den Humphreys going aloft, he got upon the top-
sailyards, went over the backstays, fell overboard,
and was drowned.

Mr. Yardley—You mean to say that owing to his
want of skill he tumbled overboard accidentally
and was drowned.

Captain Anderson—That is so, sir. It is not true
that he was cast overboard from the rigging, and
that no attempts were made to save him from a
watery grave, as stated yesterday. A life buoy was
thrown over to him by the chief mate, the ship was
brought to, end everything possible done to save
him, but the wind was blowing a gale at the time,
and the ship had great weigh on her, and it was
impossible to save him. He had been before the
American consul, and satisfied him no blame at-
tached to any one as regarded the man's death, and
that he went aloft against express orders to the cori-
trary.