The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE NIN:3-, AITGLTST 20, 1867.

TILE ALLEGED FORGERIES ON TIIE LEEDS BANK.

Mr. Sleigh made application this morning on the
part of the defendant, Thomas Edgley, for a post-
ponement of his trial, on the ground that Mr.
Greenland, whose evidence was of the utmost im-
portance, should be enabled personally to attend in
court. If the trial was proceeded with at the pre-
sent time that would be an impossibility, as Mr.
Greenland, it was well known, was now suffering
from severe indisposition. Undoubtedly if he was
not in attendance his deposition could be put in,
but then that would preclude the possibility of cross-
examination, which it was of the highest importance
to the defendant should take place. He believed,
under the circumstances, his learned friends engaged
for the prosecution did not object to his request to
the Court.

Mr. Gifford, Q.C., said he frankly admitted that
it would be much better that Mr. Greenland should
be in attendance, and it was of great importance for
the defendant that it should be so, and therefore, as
the witness was precluded from being present at the
present session, he did not think that he ought to
object to a postponement of the trial.
Mr. Sleigh said he agreed on the present occasion
for postponement until next session, in consequence
of there being no power to postpone beyond session
to session ; yet his great desire was that the trial
might go over until the October session, when all
parties he trusted woull be ready to go on.
The Recorder said he should not object if the
prosecution assented. Bail, however, would have
to be renewed every session.

Mr. Sleigh made a further application that the
first Thursday in the October session might be fixed
for the trial, and that the learned judge himself
would try the case.
The Recorder said he had no objection to the day
mentioned, but he would not say that he would take
the case.

The Court was occupied the whole of the day in
hearing the evidence in an indictment preferred
against a person named Brasier, for an infringement
of the ,bankruptcy laws. It was totally devoid of
general interest. The cases taken in the New Court
were confined to Mint prosecutions.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING FLOWERS IN HYDE-PARK.—Richard Thomas,
foreman of the stonemasons employed in llyde-park, in
replacing the iron railings, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with stealing two geraniums and four verbenas,
in Hyde-park.
Jonathan Finlow, 201 A, said that ho was on duty in
Hyde-park last night, about eight o'clock, and saw the
prisoner with some flowers in his hand. The prisoner
passed him and wont on to a flower bed, and thou plucked
a geranium. Knowing that the prisoner was connected
with the works in the park ho asked him who had given
him leave to do so. He replied that he could gather others
if he thought proper.

The prisoner admitted plucking the verbenas, but not
the geranium.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was one of those mis-
chievous fellows, whose fingers being lighter than their
brains, could not resist plucking things that came in their
way. He should deal with the case under the Police Act,
and fine the prisoner 10s., or seven days.

A SEAMAN CHARGED WITH WILFUL DAMAGE AT THE
OXFORD.—John Huxtablo, a seaman, was charged before
Mr..Tyrwhitt with wilfully breaking a pane of glass of the
value of .£l2, the property of Mr. Charles Morton, of the
Oxford Music-hall, Oxford-street.

Mr. Cecil Stuart, vocalist, of Kenipsfold-road, Kenning-
ton, said that shortly before one o'clock that morning he
was at the Oxford, and saw the prisoner take up a glass
from the bar and deliberately throw it at a window, which
in consequence was smashed. The prisoner was then given
into custody.

In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the witness stated that the
prisoner was in a perfect state of intoxication.

Mr. Morton's potman having given similar evidence,
Mr. Morton said the plate of glass measured 7 feet by 3
feet 6 inches, and it would cost from £l2 to £l4 to replace
it. The prisoner had had nothing to drink in his house,
but came in after quarrelling with a cabman outside, and
ho was very drunk.

Thomas Goddard, 733 A, proved that the prisoner was
very drunk.

The prisoner said ho did not recollect what occurred
Ile only came ashore yesterday, having come from Mad-
ras in tho ship Carmarthenshire.

Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial, but would
take two bail in £lO each for the prisoner's appearance at
the Sessions.

THAMES.

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.—AIHORIO Bartels,
aged 21, of No.l, Buckle-street, Whitecbapol, was brought
before Mr. Benson, charged with assaulting and wounding
Daniel Schamlofel, in Plough-street, Whitechapel.
The wounded man is in the London Hospital in a very
precarious condition. The prisoner and the prosecutor are
both German mechanics. The prosecutor was quarrelling
with the prisoner's companions in a ginger beer shop, and
they kicked him in a very brutal manner. They boat him
and and won bending him down, and the
prisoner icsoknerkteod hiokhmis, clasp knife from his pocket, and delibe-
rately advanced two steps, and stabbed Schamlofel in the
thigh, and he fell. He was found weltering in his blood,
on the floor of the shop, by the police, and carried to the
London Hospital. He cannot be removed at present.
The evidence was interpreted to the prisoner by Mr.
Nairn, the second clerk, and Mr. Benson remanded the
prisoner for a week.

A REIGN OF TERROR AT THE SAILORS' Efords.—Two
prostitutes, named Ellen Fitzgerald and Ann Wilson, were
brought before Mr. Benson, charged with throwing mud
at Mr. Campbell, carman to the Sailors' Home, in Well-
street, and ono of his men.

It appeared that a number of seamen, whose services
are required in outward bound ships at Liverpool, wore
about to proceed to the railway station in one of Camp-
boll's vans last night, when the prisoners and other in-
famous women of the same class, demanded money of them,
and declared it was owing to them. On the sailors refus-
ing to comply with these impudent demands, the prisoners
commenced pelting them ,with mud, horse droppings, and
all the filth they could collect. One of Campbell's men
was covered with slime and dirt. Several mariners
were treated in a similar manner. Foster, 207 H,
and another officer ,interfered, and captured the
prisoners with filth in their hands. It was stated by
Campbell and Foster that a complei e reign of terror
existed in Well-street, and that the vile prostitutes and
crimps did all in their power to prevent the sailors leaving
the port of London for other ports while they had any
money in their possession, and preferred fictitious claims
to enable them, if possible, to keep the sailors here. Ott
many occasions the sailors had been pelted and injured by
hordes of prostitutes, crimps, toutors, and thieves, and it
was at last considered necessary by the authorities of that
useful institution—the Sailors' llomo—to adopt strong
measures to suppress these outrages.

The prisoners said they were very sorry for what they
had done.

Mr. Benson said it could not bo tolerated that seamen
and others wero to be subjected to insult and robbery by
disorderly women. He would not allow it. Ile sentenced
the prisoners to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
one month.

THUNDER STORM.—Last night and early this
morning the metropolis was visited with a thunderstorm
of a most violent character. It commenced soon after ten
o'clock, and lasted about an hour. Soon after one o'clock
it came up again, apparently from the south or south-east,
and for nearly two hours the streets were illuminated by
lightning more vivid and rapid than is ten seen in this
country. The thunder was incessant but axes towards
the close of the storm, not remarkably ho rain
fell in torrents. The lightning, which wa3 sheet and
tCaliOdl yeas of a pale hlue colour,