The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-01 00:00:00

HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETY'S MEETING.

PERTH, WEDNESDAY.

are few for carting the corn in bulk to the central
rickyard—fitted with its fixed engine or cheaper
waterwheel.
One of the main attractions for t)-morrow is the
trial of Messrs. Howard's steam plough and culti-
vator at Friarton, half a mile from the showyard,
at an admittance fee of 6d. each person; and now
that the prime cost is only £449, or without the
engine £2OO, and ploughing, grubbing, harrowing,
and indeed almost any desired tillage operation can
be accomplished at much less cost than by horse-
power on any soils, however tenacious and in any
situation, excepting very steep elevations and de-
clivities, North Britain, like the rest of the world,
presents a broad and accessible field for this newly-
improved and easily-managed machinery.
Professor Anderson's lecture last night in the
Court-house on " Experimental Agriculture" was
fairly attended. To-morrow the showyard opens,
the implement exhibition early, and the well-filled
cattle department at 2 o'clock.

1L WA Y INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT NORTHERN.

The directors of this company have determined
to recommend to the proprietors at the general
meeting a dividend for the half-year, ending the
30th of June last, at the rate of £3 15s. per cent.
per annum on the original stock ; giving for the
half-year £1 17s. 6d. per cent. on the original
stock, £3 :per cent. to the B stock, and 15s. per
crnt. to the A stock.

COLCHESTER, STOUR VALLEY, AND
SUDBURY.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held yesterday at Colchester, and a dividend was
declared of £1 12s. 6d. for the half-year, free of
income tax, leaving a balance in hand of about £5B.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1861.

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L ATV LIV TELLIG EN CE, July 31.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-truly 31.

THAMES.--SINGULAR CHARGE OF FRAUD.—
Abraham Lazarus, a German Jew, described as a
tailor, of No. 21, Mansell-street, Whitechapel, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with obtain-
ing £3, a silver watch, a silver guard, a gold key, a
gold ring, and a gold locket, value in all about £l5,
by false and fraudulent pretences, with intent to
cheat Marcus Felper.
Mr. Gomm, from the office of Mr. Chas. Young,
solicitor, defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor is a Polish Jew, by trade a
glazier, and dwelling at No. 7, Bedford-street,
York-street, Walworth. He has a brother in
Melbourne, and was desirous of proceeding to
that place to • meet him and spend the remain-
der of his days with one so near and dear to
him. On the Bth of April last he met the pri-
soner, of whom he had some previous knowledge,
and by appointment in Dock-street, Whitechapel.
The prisoner said to him, " You want to go to your
brother in Melbourne. I have a friend, a captain
of a ship ; he will take you there cheap." The pro-
secutor said he was a very poor man, and asked how
much was required., The prisoner said, " I will
bring the captain out, and he will tell you what you
ought to give him." The prisoner then took Felper
to a place where there were a great many sailors,
and which, according to his description, must have
been the Sailors' Home, in Well-street. The prisoner
repeatedly pointed to a young man in the building,
called him out, and accompanied him and the pro-
secutor to a coffee-shop, where some papers were
produced and written upon, and forms filled. The
young man who represented the captain said he
wanted £8 to convey the prosecutor to Melbourne.
Felper said he had only £3 in money, and it was
agreed that he should give that sum and a silver
watch, silver guard, gold key, gold ring, and gold
locket for his passage, and that the watch should
be returned to him on reaching Melbourne on pay-
ing £l. The prisoner gave the prosecutor two re-
ceipts for the money and the articles mentioned,
which he received and put in his pocket, and said,
"Your passage is certain, and you will see your
brother in a few months, and be very happy." Some
other conversation took place. The prisoner and
the pretended captain left the coffee-shop together.
The prisoner said t the prosecutor, " I have settled
it; the ship will sail in a few days from London,
and in two days you must be prepared." The pro-
secutor collected the little property he had and met
the prisoner the following day on London-bridge.
Lazarus said the ship which was to convey Felper
to Melbourne would not sail from the port of London
but from Liverpool, on which the prosecutor began to
cry loudly, and said, " What shall I do." The pri-
soner said, "You must go to Liverpool directly, or
you will lose your passage." The prosecutor with
great difficulty raised sufficient money to pay his
passage per railway to Liverpool, and the prisoner
after writing upon one piece of paper " Ship C. G.
Roget," and upon another "Chas. Harris, 107, Bath-
street, Liverpool," directed Felper to call at the
last named place on reaching Liverpool, and he
would see there the captain of the C. G. Roget, who
would accompany him to the ship and put him in
possession of his berth. Felper implicitly believed
every word and every representation made by the
prisoner, but on reaching Liverpool found he had
been hoaxed. He remained in the town five days,
no such ship as the C. G. Roget could be found, and
no one answering the description of Charles Harris
of the "Hotel de Countenant," 107, Bath-street,
could be discovered. The prosecutor returned to
London penniless, and in a state of great destitu-
tion. He sought for the prisoner at his usual haunts,
but in vain, and did not meet with him until Tues-
day night, and he then gave him into custody.
The defence set up by Mr. Gomm was that Fel•-
per was mistaken in the identity of the man who so
vilely cheated him, and that he had actually given
another man into custody and caused him to be
taken to the Whitechapel station-house, in Leman-
street, where he was detained for two hours.
The prosecutor explained that he gave a man into
custody who knew the prisoner and refused to state
where he was to be found.

Mr. Woolrych said to know a man who had com-
mitted a fraud or robbery was no offence at all. He
intended to commit the prisoner for trial. Before
the depositions were completed he would see the
police inspector for the purpose of ascertaining what
actually occurred at the station-house.
The prisoner was then remanded until Tuesday.