The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-08 00:00:00

THAMES.

RAILWAY COMPANY'S NEGLIGENCE.—A seaman named
Henry Wells, belonging to the Royal Naval Reserve, came
before Mr. Woolrych, and complained of the non-delivery
of a bag of clothes, value £lO, which he had delivered to art
officer of the Great Western Railway, at their station
ifl
Bristol, on Wednesday, the 25th ult. The bag of clothes
was directed to No. 2, Jamaica-place, West India-road,
Limohouse. He had made inquiries at the Paddington
station of the Great Western Railway, and his bag of
clothes was not forthcoming. He had been sent by the
clerks and guards to various offices to make inquiries. Ile
went wherever he was told to go, but could obtain no

tidings of his property, and he had been puttOserio:slo;
and inconvenience. He could not obtain a ship without his
kit. He might have obtained a berth in a ship about to
proceed to sea ten days ago if his bag of clothes had been,
properly delivered.

Mr. Woolrych—Did you pay the carriage of your bag of
clothes ?

Wells—l did, sir. I paid 2s. 6d.—here is the receipt.
(Ho handed to the magistrate a printed receipt of the Great
Western Railway, signed " Paid H. Corfield.")
Mr. Woolrych—Yes, that is a proper receipt. Where do
you live ?

Wells—At No. 4, Ratcliff• street, Ratcliff-highway. It
is a hard case that I should lay out of employ and not bo
able to get a ship.

Mr. Woolrych thought it was a very hard case indeed.
The Great Western Railway Company were liable to make
good the loss of the seamen's bag of clothes, and to pay
him reasonable damage for his loss of time and loss of ern—
ployment. He thought the applicant could summon the
secretary of the railway company in the Whitechapel
County Court, and if not there at the Marylebono County
Court, near the Yorkshire Stingo, Marylebone-mad. He
advised the applicant to make one more application for his
property, and compensation for his loss of employ at the
Great Western Railway station, Paddington; to produce
the receipt, but not to part with it, and if his demand was
not complied with, to summon the secretary of the railway
company. Ho hopod that company would act liberally by
the sailor.

A MARINE SWINDLER.—George Franks, a foreigner,
aged 21, was charged with obtaining a suit of clothes and
some money of Mr. Henry Fayle, outfitter, of Providence-
place, Commercial-road, near Limehouse Church.

The prisoner, a dirty and dissipated-looking fellow,
waited on Mr. Fayle a few days ago and represented that
he belonged to the ship Lancester in the West India Dock ;
that he had just returned after a long voyage, and that he
had £25 wages to receive. He asked Mr. Fayle to provide
him with some clothing; and he told such a plausible tale
that Mr. Fayle was induced to supply him with a suit of
clothes, neckerchief, stockings, and other things ; in fact
the prisoner had a completely new rig out, and
was also provided with 25., and subsequently with 3s.
more, the prisoner having promised to pay for his clothing
and repay the money when he received his wages. Al r.
Fayle subsequently discovered that the prisoner was an im-
poster, and did not belong to the Lancaster at all, and had
not a farthing to receive. He met the prisoner afterwards
and upon demanding his money was violently assaulted by
the prisoner, and knocked down. A description of the pri-
soner was given to a policeman and he was taken into cus-
tody. On being searched a document was found upon him
from which it appeared that he had been making a false de-
claration, and cheated the Naval Reserve, but in what
manner was not explained.

The prisoner said Mr. Fayle made him put on the new
clothes. His ship was gone to Alexandria. He left her in
Ramsgate Harbour. Mr. Fayle came to his lodgings with.
the old clothes left in the shop and carried away the now
ones.

Mr. Fayle said he had recovered the property of which
he had been swindled. The prisoner had duped others,
and that was the reason he prosecuted him.
The prisoner said he was knocked down five or six times
by Mr. Fayle, who fell down, and while he was falling he
ran away.

The prisoner was fined 20s. for the assault on Mr. Faylc,
and in default of payment 10 days' imprisonment. lle was
sent away in the van, and when ho comes out of prison
other charges of swindling will be brought against him.

The commercial accounts from New York indi-
cate an increase of gloom and dissatisfaction consequent
upon the taking of Lexington, in Missouri, and the capture
of 3,000 Government troops. The next movement of the
Confederates would, it was supposed, be an attack on
Jefferson city. Meanwhile, civil war had broken out in
Kentucky, and the Confederates had fortified Munson's-
hill, which is only three or four miles from Washington.
Some anxiety was also caused by the progress of enlist-
ment for the Federal army being slow, and the consequent
prospect that it may be necessary to make draughts on the
militia of the various States. Produce of all kinds con-
tinued to rise, but the effect on the rate of exchange had
been temporarily counteracted by the purchases of wheat
for France, and although the present steamer has brought
£1,160 in specie, the quotation on London had receded from
109 to 1081 Tho belief that if the war continues the
banks will, in the course of a few months, be compelled to
suspend cash payments, was nevertheless, undiminished.
The total subscriptions to the Federal loan of £10,000,000
had as yet amounted only to £3,600,000 from all parts, but
the New York journals continue to express confidence that
the banks would bike the fresh £10,000,000 required on
Tuesday last. Among the mercantile disasters of the week
had been the failure of Messrs. C. W. and J. T. Moore,
one of the oldest and most respectable houses in the dry
soda trade,