The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-12 00:00:00

CLIARGE AGAINST A BANK CLERK.

Yesterday George Hyde, 27 years of age, de-
scribed as a clerk, and as having no fixed residence,
was charged on remand before the Lord Mayor, at
the Justice-room of the Mansion-hous:!, with steal-
ing a B tnk of England note for £5OO, and with
embtzzling various sums of money to the extent
of £4OO, belonging to Mesa?. Barnetts, Hoares
Hanburys, and Co., bankers, Lombard-street.
Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the London Bankers'
Protection Association, appeared for the prosecu-
tion.

The prisoner was a clerk in the service of the pro-
secutors until the 22d of October, 1867, when he
absconded. He had been employed as a cpllecti❑g
cashier in the lower west walk, and on .the 21st of
October a communication was made to him by Mr.
Gray, the chief clerk, as to a draught for £368 15s.
which he had had to collect some days previously,
and which he had not accounted for. In reply
he said he had left it for acceptance at the office of
the Paymaster-General, and would go and fetch it
immediately. He left the bank for that purpose,
and never returned.

Mr. Muliens preferred another charge against
him of embezzling a sum of £368 15s. on the 3d
of October, which it was believed he had appro-
priated to conceal another and a larger deficiency
in his accounts.

Mr. Nutter Gray, chief clerk to Messrs. Barnetts,
Hoires, and Co., was recalled. lie produced the
account-book of the lower west walk for the 27th of
September, 1869, on which day prisoner was col-
lecting cashier. He had to collect £8,3C6 3s. 9d. on
the entire walk, and he returned with the whole of
that sum, with the exception of the amount of £4ll
lls. 9d., which he entered on a slip to be carried
forward as an outstanding draught of the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners, whose office was in the walk.
It was the practice of the bank to leave all draughts,
on the Ecclesiastical Commissioners several days
before they became due for the purpose of exami-
nation. That amount remained in the books as un-
paid until the 3rd of October, when the prisoner
again took the walk. On that day, including the
£4ll 11 s. he had to collect in all £6,475 2s. 2d.,
of which £1,113 9s. 10d. was due from the Pay-
master-General. The items in the walk book were
written by a junior clerk named Richardson, to
whom the prisoner was teaching the walk, but in
the margin was a deduction of £368 155., leaving
£744 4s. 10d. as the amount collected from the
Paymaster-General. 'This deduction was made by
the prisoner, who paid in the entire sum, with the
exception of 368 153., which he represented had not
been paid. The amount was carried forward from
day to day in the books as still outstanding, and on
the 21st of October witness spoke to the prisoner
about it. In reply he male several evasive answers,
and eventually said the Paymaster-General had lost
or mislaid it. He went out to inquire about it, and
never returned.

Mr. Richard Arthur St. Leger, from the office of
the Paymaster-General, proved that on the 3d of
Octob:r, 1867, Me,srs. Barretts had a charge on
their oiiicc. It was the practice of the walk clerk
to leave the details of the charges with the Pay-
master-General. He produced the slip in the pri-
soner's handwriting, dated the 3d of October, the
total of which, including an item of £363 155.,
was £1,113 9s. 10d. IVitness produced the voucher
for that amount, which was paid by check. It was
crossed to Barnetts and Co., and had since been
returned by the Bank of England as paid.
Mr. Muliens, addressing the Bench, said that
would be the case fur the prosecution.
Mr. Oke, the Chief Clerk, read the formal charge
to the prisoner, and the Lprd Mayor gave him the
usual caution from the Bench.

The Lord Mayor committed the prisoner to
Newgate for trial.

THE INSURRECTION IN DALMATIA.

VIENNA, Nov. 8.

The armed resistance in the mountainous region
between Cattaro and Budua is now broken, and the
whole of the district of Zuppa, with the exception
of three places, has surrendered, the mid from
Cattaro to Budua being now open. This fact is
clear from the last despatches received from the
scene of the insurrection, and it is also certain that
these successes have been obtained without any
great effusion of blood. On Friday last the bri-
gade of Colonel Fischer advanced from Lisich as
far as Pobori without encountering any severe
resistance. The fort of Stanjevich had just been
destroyed by the insurgents themselves, and an
engagement which lasted several hours took place
before Pobori. Here the insurgents were in a dis-
advantageous position, hemmed in by Col. Fischer
on one side and Colonel Schonfeld on the other.
Completely beaten, a portion surrendered and the
rest took to flight, and it was in consequence
of this defeat that the whole of the Zuppa, with
the exception of Pobori, Markowic, and Braic, sub-
mitted to the authorities.

Colonel Schonfeld is at this moment carrying on
operations against the two latter places, which are
situated close to the Montenegrin frontier.
Provisions had been forwarded from Budua to
Fort Cosmaco, which is in this region, but unfor-
tunately, according to a telegraphic despatch which
has been received, the fort has been pillaged by the
insurgents, in consequence of the inconceivable care-
lessness of its two commandants, Lieuts. i\iarz and
Mayauak. The extreme northern portion of the
country is still completely in the hands of the insur-
gents, and since the 26th of October no soldiers
have been there ; it is, therefore, probable that the
insurgents profited by that circumstance to organise
andestablish their base of operations in thatquarter.

T.HE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS,

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At the first ordinary general meeting of the
session, held on Tuesday, Mr. Charles Hutton
Gregory, the president, referred to the notification
gazetted by the Public 11, orks Department of the
Government of India, in which it was alleged
that it was the recognised practice for civil engi-
neers in England to receive commissions on
contracts, &c., in addition to their salaries.
" The Council," he said, "immediately met,
and unanimously passed a series of resolutions
emphatically denying that such practices were
recognised in the profession, and asserting that
any engineer detected in such practices would be
held to be guilty of disgraceful conduct, which
would disqualify him from being a member of this
institution. Regret was expressed that so grave a
charge should have been received and published
by the Government of India without proper in-
quiry, as such inquiry would have shown that the
charge was absolutely untrue ; and, having refer-
ence to the grievous wrong which such an imputa-
tion, stamped with such authority, was calculated
to do to an honourable profession, an appeal was
made to the Government of India to cause the scan-
dalous statement to be withdrawn. The Duke of
Argyll promised to investigate the case, and with
thenataral instinct of a just and high-minded states-
man, has put on record that ' he regards with im-
plicit confidence the indignant repudiation by the
institution of any recognition of the practice
referred to in the notification.' At the approach-
ing annual general meeting the Council will ask
that ratification of their action which they are con-
fident that the members will unanimously and
cordially give; and if among the public there be
some cynical minds which, while very sensitive for
their own repute, can take pleasure in a libel
directed against others, the members of this insti-
tution may feel sure that, in vindicating the honour
of the profession, they will have the sympathy of
all honourable men."

TERRIBLE' CUL LiEni- favi.e.sios R
SEA.

To-day's Western Mad announces that yesterday
morning, about one o'clock, an explosion of fire-
damp took place at the Ilerdreforgati Colliery
Cwmtwrch, Swansea Valley. Twelve men and boys
were in the pit, six of whom were killed.

THUNDERSTORM AND SNu\V IN IORKSIHRE.-011
Tuesday night the temperature sank to 25 deg. in North
Yorkshire. On Wednesday afternoon a heavy snowstorm
set in, together with a violent thunderstorm, on the moors
with hailstones as large as nuts. The country is for the
third time covered with snow, and everything wears a
most wintry appearance.