The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1866

MARK E T S.—This Day.

for P.Y.C. on the spot is 475. 9d. to 48s. per cwt. Town
tallow commands 465. net cash ; rough fat, 2s. sd. per Blbs.

Particulars. . _
1863. 1864. 1865. 1866.
Stock this day 42,828 53,068 38,781 32,483
Price of Y.C. 543s Od to
,41s 3d 39s 3d 47s 9d to
-1. --s Od —s Od —s Od 48s Od
Delivery last week B2O 1102 1,966 1,073
Ditto from June 1: 71,376 67,368 83,996 94,793
Arrival last week 22 115 1,065 400
Ditto fr( in June 1 75,925 82.589 77,756 95,356
Price of Town

The Charge of Forgery against a City

Merchant.

On Saturday, at the Mansion-house, Edward J. Lindsay
was brought up before Mr. Alderman Gabriel for final ex-
amination, charged with feloniously forging and uttering
the acceptance of a bill of exchange for the payment of £385
with intent to defraud the Agra and Masterman's Bank,
Limited.

As on the previous examination, Mr. Sleigh, instructed
by Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the London Bankers' Associa-
tion, appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Lewis, sen., of
Ely-place, attended on behalf of the prisoner.
The case has been so frequently reported that it is only
necessary to remind the public that the accused carried on
the business of a general merchant under the firm of Lind-
say, Lawson, and Co., in Cannon-street, City, and was him-
self a subscriber at Lloyd's. He kept an account with the
Agra and Masterman's Bank, and on the 20th March last
applied to Mr. Shipman, the manager of this establish-
ment, to discount a 13]1, as he stated, for about £4OO, drawn
upon and accepted by Messrs. Graham Gilmore and Co.,
merchants, of Glasgow. Knowing that firm as keeping an
account with the Agra, &c., Bank, Mr. Shipman at once
consented to do so, and on the next day the prisoner again
attended at the bank, and presented to Mr. Crabb, one of
the cashiers, the bill in question, drawn by the prisoner's
firm on Graham Gilmore and Co., of Glasgow, for £385,
and purporting to be accepted by them, payable at four
months' date from the 16th March, 1866, at the London
Joint-Stock Bank. This bill was taken by Mr. Crabb to
the manager, Mr. Shipman, who was at once struck with
the singularity that Gilmore and Co., having an account
with the Agra, &c., Bank, should have made the bill pay-
able at the London Joint-Stock Bank. This he directed
Mr. Crabb to mention to the prisoner, and to return to him
the bill with this explanation. Mr. Crabb did so. The
prisoner put the bill in his pocket, and left the bank, re-
marking that he would write by that night's mail to Gil-
more and Co. In the meantime Mr. Shipman communi-
cated by telegraph with that firm, and received a telegram
from Mr. Gilmore, declaring the bill of which Mr. Shipman
sent down a copy was a forgery. The telegram with this
announcement was at once placed in the hands of Mr. Mul-
lens, solicitor to the London Bankers' Association, who
wailed upon the prisoner at his offices, with a view to get
back the bill. The prisoner, after some equivocation, de-
clared that it was a forgery, that he had himself done it,
and that after receiving the bill back from Mr. Crabb, the
cashier at the bank, he had destroyed it. Subsequently
the prisoner was taken into custody on the charge by De-
tective-officer George Scott, and when told the charge
offered no defence or explanation. The case was remanded
to Saturday, in order to procure the attendance of Mr. Gil-
more from Glasgow to give his evidence in the matter.

Mr. Sleigh now intimated to the presiding alderman that'
Mr. Gilmore was in attendance, and he should at once call
him as a witness.

Mr. Gilmore was then sworn, and in reply to interro-
gations by Mr. Sleigh, stated that his name was Graham
Gilmore, and that he was a merchant, carrying on business
in Glasgow under the firm of Graham Gilmore and Co. He
had now no partner, and carried on the business solely on
his own account. He had been connected with the pri-
soner in business transactions, in the course of which the
prisoner had drawn upon him in the name of his firm, and
those drafts ho (witness) had accepted, and they had been
duly honoured on arriving at maturity. Of these bills the
witness produced five.
Mr. Sleigh—Now be good enough to tell me whether or
not you accepted a bill for £385 drawn 16th March, 1866,
at four months' date, by Lindsay, Lawson, and Co., on your
firm, and made payable at the London Joint-Stock Bank ?
Witness—No, Sir. I did not.

Mr. Sleigh—Did you give the prisoner, or any other
person, authority to accept any such bill in the name of
your firm ?
Witness—No, Sir. I did not do anything of the kind.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l have had many business
transactions with the prisoner, whom I have known for
several years on terms of friendship, I will not say intimacy.
Mr. Lewis—Suppose this bill had been sent down to you
by the accused would you have accepted it for him ?
Witness—l should have had no hesitation to do so pro-
vided the accused had given me any satisfactory reason for
drawing upon me.
Mr. Lewis—From the great friendship between you do
you believe that the prisoner may have fancied and be-
lieved that he might make use of your name yithout your
express authority ?

Mr. Sleigh objected to the question. How could the
witness know what the prisoner may have fancied or
believed ?

Mr. Alderman Gabriel concurred in the objection, and,
according to his notion of the law, ho could not allow tho
question to be put. If answered in the affirmative, it had
nothing to do with the present charge.
Mr. Lewis said that a case had occurred not long ago at
the Central Criminal Court, when one of the Judges al-
lowed a similar question to be put to a witness, and the
answer being in the affirmative the man charged with the
offence of forgery was acquitted.

Mr. Alderman Gabriel remarked that in this case the
question might be put before the higher tribunal, and ar-
gued and disposed of by the judges. At present he, Its
presiding authority in that court, held that the question
could not be put, or the depositions burthened with the
reply which might be given to it.
Mr. Lewis (to the witness)—Supposing the prisoner had
used your name to the bill, and had communicated that fact
to you, would you have paid the bill ?
Mr. Alderman Gabriel—How can that affect the present
charge ? If, out of feelings of sympathy and commisera-
tion, the bill had been paid by the witness, it could not do
away with the offence of forgery.
The prisoner, when told the charges on which he would
stand committed, namely, first for forgery and uttering the
acceptance to the bill of exchange in question ; secondly,
for feloniously attempting to obtain money by fraudulent
representations ; and thirdly, for the common law offence
of attempted fraud, said, by the advice of his solicitor, that
he was not guilty.
The depositions having been completed, the prisoner
was committed for trial at the ensuing sessions of the
Central Criminal Court.

The Suffrage Question in the United States.

The New York, Times, commenting upon the
Reform Bill in England, says the current on this
side, among persons who think, is at present in the
opposite direction. All our City commissioners,
which are conferring such untold blessings on this
community and others, are in direct opposition to
the government of universal suffrage in local com-
munities. The whole Union is feeling the evils and
curses of ignorant and vicious suffrage, especially
in the form of opposition to the principles of the
Government which the low Copperhead party of cur
great cities has shown. Almost all reflecting men
are beginning to see that the whole matter of suf-
frage is a pure question of expediency. It can be
given or withheld, or limited, according as the best
interests of the State demand. The claim to it is
not like the claim to liberty or legal justice, a
natural right. 'We withhold it from many a de-
serving young man between 17 and 20, and from
still more deserving women, and from certain
foreigners, because we judge that on a broad scale
society will be better off for the limitation. "We
give it unreservedly to all free white male citizens
over 21, because our theory has been that the edu-
cating influence of suffrage and its equalising effect,
and its attraction to the peasantry of Europe, will
more than counterbalance the evils of our ignorant
and debased voting population. The great weak-
ness in the position of our friends, demanding uni-
versal suffrage for the freedmen, was in the gene-
ral opinion of the North that we had gone too far
even in white suffrage ; and that what we had felt
the evils of, in our own system, we ought not to
extend to Southern society. They claimed as a
right what was merely a question of public benefit.
The strength of their position—which we fully con-
cur in—was in the claim that suffrage should never
be limited by race.
The
g whenTw forkthe herald remarks that there is no
telling
Representatives and Senators
tel e
elected to Congress from the late rebel States will
be admitted. There is but a shadowy prospect
during the present session, even for the unques-
tionably loyal members from Tennessee, a State
which was reconstructed under the appointments
and supervision of President Lincoln. As for the
other States of the late rebel Confederacy their
chances of restoration this side of the next Presi-
dential contest are extremely doubtful from present
appearances. Meantime the Reconstruction Com-
mittee of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and Senator Fes-
senden have it all their own way. They produce
their witnesses to prove the dangerous disloyalty
prevailing in all the excluded States, and the testi-
mony thus collected is published and sown broadcast
over all the country ; and all this time the South-
ern Senators and Representatives elect (most inter-
ested) are denied a hearing on the floor of either
house.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET

A GIRL CHARGED WITH ROBBING HER FATHER.—Sarah
Ann Burt, a good-looking girl, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel,
&c., the property of her father, James Burt, an engine-
driver, living at No. 6, George-street, Grosvenor-square•
The prosecutor, a respectable-looking man, said that
on Tuesday last the prisoner, who was his daughter,
absconded from his house, 6, George-street, Grosvenor-
square, taking with her his watch and a quantity of
wearing apparel. On Saturday night she came to the
house, admitted having taken the property away and
pledged it, and said she was 'willing to give herself up.
The prosecutor produced about a dozen duplicates
which the prisoner gave up.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said his
daughter had never robbed him before.
The prisoner said she had nothing to say.
A constable proved taking the prisoner into custody,
and seeing her give up the duplicate of her father's
watch to her father. She said she had taken the things,
and was quite willing to go to the police station.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner for a week, stating
that the pawnbrokers would have to give the property up.
THE WAY MRS. BALCOMBE DOES HER MARKETING.
Mary Balcombe was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
stealing a rabbit from the shop of Mr. Taylor, poulterer,
&c., Little Pulteney-street.
William James Baldwin, a young man in Mr. Taylor's
employ, proved seeing the prisoner on Saturday night
draw up the rabbit and slowly walk away from the slop
in the most unconcerned manner. He followed her and
gave her into custody.
Police-constable Stevens, 190 C, said that on taking the
prisoner into custody he found in her possession a piece of
salt beef and a hand of pork. _ _

Mr. Tyrwhitt—She had not got a duck also, had she ?
(Laughter.)
The Constable—No, sir.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner that inquiries
might be made respecting her.

WESTMINSTER.

BEGGING CHILDREN.—Anne Waters, a girl of 12 years of
age, well known at this court, was charged with begging.
The Marquis To wnshend said, at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday
he was in Eccleston-square, and the prisoner accosted him,
asking him to buy some fusees. He said he wanted none,
and then she asked him for a copper. le had previously
seen her beg of a lady, and looked for a policeman. During
the time he waited for one she begged of several people ;
in fact she accosted every passer by.
Prisoner denied his lordship's assertions, and said she
didn't beg—she only tried to sell her fusees.
The mother was fetched into the court, and said the child
was uncontrollable, and she wished the magistrate to get
her into a school, for she went out when she pleased, and
sometimes was out half the night.

It having been stated that the girl had been charged
several timos with begging, and that on the last occasion
her mother had been told that if she sent her out again
to beg sho would be held amicable to the law,
The mother said she only sent her out with the fusees
to sell.
Mr. Selfe ordered the mother into custody.

The girl gave evidence against her, and said that her
mother gave her the money to buy the fusees. She made
7d. by them, and spent that in breakfast and tea at the sta-
tion. If she hadn't been in custody her mother would-have
had the money, as sho always gave her the money she got
when she went out.

Mr. Selfe said the prisoner wanted the public to pay for
what it was her duty to do, namely, bring up the girl her-
self ; and she sent her to beg to get the girl off her hands
and get her in an institution. She had had warning, and
her offence would not be overlooked ; warnings could not
be given in vain. The child would be sent to the work-
house till Saturday, and the mother would be sent to pri-
son for five days.