The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-22 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1567.

SHARE MARKETS.--This day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

ROBBING A MEMBER. OF PARLIAMENT.—Thomas Clever-
house, formerly in the service of Mr. Thomas Hughes,
M.P. for Lambeth, was charged helot() Mr. Mansfield with
stealing some forks, the property of Mr. Hughes.
Sergeant Cole, of the 0 division, said that seeing the
prisoner coming out of the shop of Mr. Meihuish, pawn-
broker, of Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, and in conse-
quence of what Mr. Meßanish informed him, he stopped the
prisoner and asked him what ho had pledged. Ho replied,
" Nothing." He then told the prisoner that he had been to
the pawnbroker's with four forks, and the prisoner then
produced the forks, and said, "these are the forks!'
On asking the prisoner how he got them, be said he
bought them in the country two year ago, but where or
of whom ho did not know, but he gave 10s. or 12s. for
them. He told the prisoner that he did not believe him,
and he then began crying, and said, "I'll tell you the
truth, I took them from Mr. Hughes; they were four forks
not in the plate list. All the other plate is right I know.
How I came to take them I cannot tell ; but I owed some
money at the time." On searching the prisoner at the
station he found a pocket-book containing some duplicates;
and in a box he had left at a house in Shouldham-streot,
Marylebone, ho found a few trifling articles which had
been missed by Mrs. Hughes.
Mr. Thomas Hughes, of No. 33, Park-street, Grosvenor-
square, said the forks produced were similar to some he
once had. He had had a largo plate robbery at his house
three years ago, and a few forks were lelt of the same pat-
tern as those produced.

The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Mansfield committed the prisoner for six months
with hard labour.

WESTMINSTER.

"FILIAL REGARD."—RoVerTioies, carpenter and joiner,
was charged with assaulting and threatening his father.
Complainant said that his son lived with him at 15,
Brewer-street, Pimlico, and he had recently kept him
while out of work for six weeks, for which he had made
a very ungrateful return. Ho at last got defendant a job
in Regent-street, but he would not go to his work. He
was out all night, and could not go to work in the morn-
ing. Yesterday at dinner time the defendant found fault
with some meat which had been cooked for him, and
slapped it in complainant's face. He left home, and when
he returned to his tea his son re-commenced his miscon-
duct, and was becoming very violent with another parson
when complainant interfered to restore order, and then
defendant struck him a violent blow on the eye, and
threatened to have his life. He said he would have his
liver out.

Mr. Selfe (to defendant)—Would you like to ask your
father anything?
Defendant—lt's no use', he's such a fearful liar. Yes, 1
will ask him a question. Did you not hit me first ?
Complainant—No, I did not.
Defendant—You aro a liar.
Mr. Selfe—l will not have such behaviour here. Be-
have with decency if you can, sir. You have no business
to use such language to your father, especially here.
Defendant went into a long story about family matters,
complaining of what he had to put up with at home, and
said his father struck him first.
Mr. Selfe told him he had no business at home at his
time of life, and all the things he had said were additional
reasons why he should leave it.
Mr. Sella said he would not deal with the assault, but
would take care he kept the peace for three mouths to
come.
He was ordered to find bail for that time.

BOMBAY MAIL.

We have received, via Marseilles, Bombay papers
to April 27. The following summary is from the
Bombay Gazette :
The English mail of the 26th March arrived in
Bombay on the 17th inst., and that of the 3d April
on the 25th. The latest London date via Indo-
European line is of April 24th.
Tenders are out for the new public works loan
for £1,500,000, terminable in five, ten, and fifteen
years respectively.
The Governor has gone back to Matheran, where
he will remain until the rains set in, occasionally
returning to Bombay to attend meetings of the
Legislative Council.
The Hon. Mr. Shaw Stewart is to act as Chief
Secretary to Government, Bombay, during the
absence on leave of Mr. Chapman.

Mr. Henry Maxwell has been elected a director
of the Bank of Bombay in the room of Mr. Stewart.
A meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of
Bombay was held on the 16th, at which there was
a long discussion on the proposed amalgamation
with the Bank of Bengal ; no result was arrived at.

A private meeting of some of the most influential
shareholders of the Bank of Bombay and the direc-
tors was held on the 26th, when a resolution was
agreed to expressing an opinion that a scheme
should be considered for the reconstruction of the
bank as an alternative to the proposed amalgama-
tion, and a committee was appointed to act in con-
cert with the Board.

Mr. Temple arrived at Hyderabad on the 9th, and
took over his duties from Sir G. Yule on the 13th.
The Hon. Mr. C. J. Erskine, we learn, proceeds
to England by the second mail steamer of next
month. _ _

The weather is seasonably hot and the state of
the public health satisfactory.
Mr. R. V. Hearn has been appointed Public
Prosecutor for Bombay in addition to his duties as
Government Solicitor.
The Hou. A. J. Hunter has resigned his seat at
the Bombay Legislative Council.
Brigadier-General Malcolm, lately in command
of the Ahmednuggur Brigade, is appointed to the
Sind Division, vacant by the death of Gen. Heath.
Col. Merewether, it is understood will succeed Mr.
Mansfield as Commissioner of Scinde. Dr. S. M.
Pelly is to succeed the late Dr. Costelloe as Deputy
Inspector-General of Hospitals, Scinde.
There is a probability of Brigadier-General
Russel, Commanding Bombay Garrison, succeeding
Col. Merewether at Aden and of Col. Stock coming
to Bombay. .

The main drainage scheme was discussed at a
meeting of the Bench of Justices ou the 17th, when
a resolution was passed deprecating thdre-opening
of the question.

A marriage has been celebrated between Ally
Shah, son of MIL Aga Khan, and the grand-
daughter of the late King of Persia.

Information has been received of the loss of the
Dutch ship Abel Tasman (which left Bombay on
the sth instant for Liverpool), on the Byrangore
reef N.E. of the Laccadives. The captain and
crew were all saved. The Alicia, from the Clyde
for Bombay, has put into Cochin (ou the Malabar
coast) dismasted.
A meeting of the shareholders of the Commercial
Bank of India and the East was held yesterday, at
which an opinion was expressed that it was most
desirable that the bank should be resuscitated if
practicable.
A meeting of the shareholders of the United
Victoria and Colaba Reclamation and Pier Com-
pany was held on the 19th, when a resolution passed
at a previous meeting for liquidation of the present
and reconstruction of a new company was confirmed.
The ordinary annual meeting of the shareholders
was held on the 26th, at which the directors' report
for the past year was adopted.
A special general meeting of the shareholders of
the Bombay Reclamation Company was held on the
16th to consider the terms of a compromise with the
Asiatic Banking Corporation. After a long discus-
sion, the meeting wrs adjourned to give the share-
holders an opportunity of considering the matter.
Nagpore ha 3 been visited with several severe
thunder storms since our last; three persons were
killed by lightning, and a house burnt.
M. E. W. Kiely, it is believed, has been appointed
General Traffic Manager on the Bombay and Baroda
Railway.
Three natives were convicted at the late Criminal
Sessions of forging currency notes of Rs. 1,000 each.
'The notes were very neatly executed. One of the
men was transportel for life, and the other two were
each sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprison-
ment.

The Government of India have extended to all
clerks and servants on less than £lOO per year the
provision of the License Act, which exempts officials
with similar incomes.

Mr. W. Grey assumed the office of Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal on the 24th. Sir. Cecil
Beadon will not, however, leave for England till
July.
It is said in Madras that Sir Gaspard Le Mar-
chant has tendered his resignation as Commander-
in-Chief in that Presidency.
From Cabool we hear that the force of Fyz
Mahomed is still at Tuktoptial, and Shere Ali Khan
is on hii way to Khulm and Memma.
In Rangoon the discontent of the people of
Burmah with the King's administration increases,
and the princes who rebelled against him in October
last are again in the field.
A feud has broken out amongst several of the
villages in the neighbourhood of Munipore. Con-
siderable loss of life is reported.

Mr. J. D. Sandford has been appointed Regis-
trar of the High Court of the North-West Pro-

vinces.

Colonel Phayre, late Chief Commissioner, British
Burmah, intends to retire from the service. The
Government of India has suggested to the Secre-
tary of State that his services should be recognised
by her Majesty's Government.
The bookies of the Chittagong district are re-
ported to be committing sad devastations among the
lowland villages, upon which they pounce down,
putting to the sword all who resist, burn their stores
of rice or cotton, and then make away again to the
hills, taking with them captive numbers of women
and children.
Cholera has broken out in the city of Benares.
Bellary was recently visited with an extraordi-
nary hail storm ; trees are reported to have been
torn down, and some 420 head of cattle killed, be-
sides several human beings.
The Government of India, on the suggestion of
the Bombay Government, has extended the amount
of each money order from £lO to £l5.
0 DIT UARY. —Major Sykes, Delhi.
Calcutta papers to April 23 have also come to
hand. The following is from the Englishman's

summary :--
" Of the famine itself the accotiflt§ sif4
ifs fiery
gloomy, except in Oussa. Of course there is A Sdd
Want tit food, greater even than was anticipated in
some clistrictsj but steamers Are tingly employed
in 6ariting rit4o front the Burnish ports to the
opposite coast, and strentidns eftotts ate being
made to avoid the errors and shortcomings of last
year, It is beginning to be confessed that the task
of saving the people of Grissa is a most ungrateful
one for every effort in their favour is made the
harder by their own apathy and obstinate laziness,
and by the unfeeling and unheard-of selfishness
of their landlords. The people seem to imagine
that the Government are bound to relieve them
of all care of themselves, and even when this is
toneedcd, they 6COIII to think this care must follow
each man into his own home, and even lay up
for him a store against the future. With such
a population the work of relief becomes an anxious
burden of no ordinary character. In other
parts of Bengal the crops seem to promise
safety from downright famine, although the
stock'of food in several districts will barely suffice
to carry the inhabitants over to the next harvest.
From Cabul we have no news of any importance.
On the reshawur frontier a cloud arose, which,
4pwever, has passed away. The Hassun-kheyl
branch of the Alfreedees stood out until troops were
in movement against them, when they gave in with
a very ill-grace and with much muttering.

THE EX7ENSIVE FORGERIES IN FRAUD
OF 7HE LATE LEEDS BANKING COM-
PANY.

Yesterday Edward Devillers, the Frenchman
charged with forging divers bills of exchange to the
amount of £120,000, with intent to defraud the late
Leeds Banking Company, was brought up in cus-
tody on remand for further examination before the
Lord Mayor.
Mr. PolaUd (instructed by Messrs. Freshfield)
again attended for the prosecution ; and Mr. Sleigh
(instructed by Messrs. Parker, Lee, and Haddock)
appeared for the prisoner. The court was again
crowded, and the proceedings commenced by
Mr. Edward Greenland, the ex-manager of the
Leeds Banking Coin pany, bjng recal:ed as a witnesi.
Mr. Greenland, as before, was brought up in cm-
tody from Newgatc by Mr. Kean, the governor of
the Leeds gaol.
Mr. Greenland, in answer to questions put, stated
that he never discounted any bills for the Maydem-
peck Forest Company except for Edgley, Teak,
and Co., and he had no- security for any of these
bills. They were all drawn in favour of Teale,
Edgiey, and Co. All the bills purported to be ac-
cepted for the Maydempeck Forest Company. He
was not at all aware that the bills were all drawn in
London at the offices of Teale and Co., and that
they were in the handwriting of the clerks of that
firm. lie was told that some of the bills were
signed by Dinelli, the former secretary of the com-
pany. When the account was opened with the
Leeds Bank both Edgley and Teale signed their
banker's book.

Mr. Greenland was subjected to a long cross-
examination, but the principal material points that
appeared to be elicited were that the wit-
ness had no recollection of any concession
relating to the Maydempeck Trust Com-
pany having been lodged with the bank as collateral
security before the bills he referred to were dis-
counted for Edgley. He also stated that the Leeds
Bank had discounted bills for Edglcy, Teale, and
Co., before the subject of the Maydempeck Forest
Company was mentioned.
Mr. Dresser was then recalled, and he stated that
he went to Servia to make some inquiries respecting
the supposed Maydempeck Forest Company, and
he could not find that any such company was known
at Maydempeck. There was a very large forest
occupying several leagues in extent, but there would
be great difficulty in conveying timber to England
on account of the distance of the forest from the
banks of the Danube.

Mr. Edward Henry Watts was then called and
examined by Mr. Poland. The witness deposed
that he was staying at the Norfolk Hotel, but his
family were residing in Somersetshire, At the age
of 15 he went into the mercantile marine service,
and served in the employment of the Royal
West India mail packets until the year 1858,
when he left it. After that he went into a mer-
chant's office, where he remained two or three
months ; and last he was introduced to Edgley in
June or July, 1858, by a fellow lodger of his (wit-
ness's), at a house in Frederick-street, Gray's-inn-
lane. At that time Edgley had offices in Sise-lane,
City. At that time he knew nothing of business,
but went into Edgley's office to learn, and was
thae without salary. After that Edgley was about
to open the warehouse'in Sermon-lane, St. Paul's-
churchyard, and it was arranged that he should go
there, and he did so, attending everyday for five or
six months without salary. At the latter end of
1858 he went into partnership with Edgley as
woollen and silk warehousemen in Sermon-lane,
under the firm of Thomas Edgley and Co., his (wit-
ness's) father, who is a clergyman in the country,
putting into the concern £BOO for him: He (wit-
ness) was to have one-fourth of the profit of the
concern.
,After this—namely, in 1862—the firm of
E. H. Watts and Co. was established in Leeds by
Edgley. Of this he knew nothing until after it was
established, when Edgley told him to go down to
Leeds and sign the book at the bankers in the usual
way on an account being opened. He (witnes.o
had nothing to do with the management of the
concern at Leeds, which was first conducted by a
pJrson named Hall, and, after his death, by a young
man named Bryson. He could not remember when
he first saw anything of the Maydempeck Forest
Company's bills, but he did remember seeing Van
011, ff send time in ie z. Edgley was always telling
him what a wonderful place Maydempeck was, full
of timber, besides mineral products. He first saw the
Forest bills in Sermon-lane, and by direction of
Edgley he endorsed several of them, under the firm
of E. H. Watts and Co. Nothing was said about
the bills being made payable to that firm, but. he
understood that the bills were for money sent to
pay the labourers employed in felling the timber at
Mayderupeck. Before he (witness) joined Edgley
he did not think that he had ever seen a bill of ex-
change. Edgley had told him that he had a con-
cession of the forest from Van Clieff, which he bad
handed over to the Leeds
.Banking Company, who
were to advance money for carrying on the works.
Witness had no particular department in the
business in Sermon-lane, except that he was to
do what he was told. (A laugh.) In the first
year he drew out of the concern between £3OO
and £4OO, and in the latter years between
£6OO and £7OO per annum. When the Leeds Bank
stopped in 1864 the firm of Watts and Co. stopped
also, and that of Edgley and Co. went on under a
deed of inspection, as he was told it was called.
After that W. &rant joined the concern, and the
firm in Sermon-lane was changed to Edgley, Watts,
and Grant. When he endorsed the bills drawn in
the name of E. Devillers, Edgley used to say he
was going to send Devillers out to Servia, to look
after the business which was being mismanaged.
He first saw the prisoner some time in 1862, at the
park beyond Tottenham, where Edgley lived, and
he afterwards saw him at Cowes, where he was
taken by Edgley to pass from the Saturday to
Monday there. That was in the year 1864. Wit-
ness left Edgley in September last, and received
from hint to go out of the firm two acceptances,
amounting to £450, one of which had been dis-
honoured, and the other was not yet due.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—ln January last
year I was staying at Oaklands, where I had a house,
but did not refrain from going to the Bankruptcy
Court when I was wanted there. I was staying at
Brighton and other places up to the time the pri-
soner was taken into custody on this charge, in
which I never was afraid I should be made a de-
fendant. Before I appeared to give evidence here
I did not obtain an uudertakieg that if I came as a
witness I should not be included in the charge. This is
the first I have heard of such a thing. He knew that
ships had been chartered by Edgley to go out to the
Danube to bring home timber, but they did not do so,
in consequence, as Edgley told him, of the people
having begun felling timber at too distant a part
of the forest to get it down in time for shipment.
The ships were detained too long, and an action for
damages was brought against our firm. I know
that .1 never wrote the prisoner's name to any of
these bills, nor did I ever direct Grant to do so. If
Grant Imo stated to the contrary he has
.stated falsely.
I know nothing of, nor did I ever see, a deed of
assignment iorn Van Clieff to Edgley of the May-
dempeck Forest,
34r, Greenland Was again recalled, and in reply '
to Mr. Sleigh gated that he line av that an assign-
ment had been prepared, but he believed it had
never been executed.
Mr. Poland at this stage stated that he did not
propose to go further with the evidence to-day, and
asked for a nother adjournment.
Mr. Sleigh said he hoped at thenelie next hearing
risntiAglbr).
Watt would be again produced, as
had just received au important document,ite, rAes-
spect to which he desired to cross-
n
the adjournment must now tako place,
prisoner
emust
again ask the Lord Mayor to admit the to
bail, but reducing the amount of the sureties which
had been fixed on the last occasion at £5OO. This
the accused had been unable to procure, and from
the change in the aspect of the case against him
which this day's proceedings had effected, he wished
his lordship would reduce the amount of bail to
£lOO each.
The Lord Mayor assented to reduce the amount
to two sureties in £2OO each, notice to be given to
the solicitors for the prosecution.
The case was then adjourned to Wednesday, the
29th Lust,

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, FOUR O'CLOCK.

EPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

EPSOM RACES—Tars DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
BENTINCK PLATE.
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The Boutin* Plato of 100 sues (handicap); winners of
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