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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 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 ti) 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 be 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.

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it is opened by the tunnel, through Piedmont, the
Emilian provinces, and the straight coast line of the
Marches and of the old Neapolitan territories, as
far perhaps as Brindisi, which looks right into the
Levant.

BRAINS OF MEN OF GENIUS.

In my letter published in the Kerry Star of July
3d, I stated, when noticing the death of Lord Camp-
bell, that there was no post-mortem examination,
i
but I think there ought to have been, and such !
the opinion of the first medical men in London.
have just learned that there really was a very care-
ful examination of the body, and the report when
published in extenso will be read with interest.
learned to-day some of the particulars. In the first
place, the brain was of considerable size and re-
markably healthy; its weight was 53 ounces and a
quarter ; the heart was considerably (hypertrophied)
enlarged with atheromatous deposits in the valves
of the aorta, commonly known as valvular diseases
of the heart—the right side of the heart was quite
te
empty, but the left side full of blood. The liver
was enlarged and full of cysts. There is one feature
connected with the case of Lord Campbell of some
importance. It is the enormous size of the brain in
a perfectly healthy state in a man, such as Lord
Campbell, of 80 years of age, who had gone through
more hard drudgery and plodding brain-work than
any other man of modern times. There are only two
cases on record of brains being larger than that of
the late Lord High Chancellor of England ; the
first is that of envier, the great naturalist, whose
brain weighed 59 ounces four drachms and 30
grains ; the next is that of Dupuytren, the famous
French surgeon, weighing 58 ounces, but in both
cases the brain matter was found In a state of dis-
ease. The general weight of the brains of male
adults in Europe varies from 40 to 52 ounces, and
the brains o, females are usually four to eight
i
ounces less in weight than those of males, and it s
singular to observe that there is not one case on re-
cord of a female brain weighing more than 48
ounces. Another circumstance I wish more par-
ticularly at present to bring under the notice of the
psychologist of, not only Kerry, but of Munster, is
t hat here in England the brains of the Southern popu-
lation are much smaller than those of the North. I
learned a short time since that a very large manufac-
turer in London sends all his large hats to the
north of England for sale. Another peculiar cir-
cumstance regarding this cerebral development Is
that on the north-east coast of Scotland the cere-
brum or cerebellum or brain matter is in much
greater abundance with individuals residing in those
localities than, not only the other parts of Scotland,
but of anywhere else. Now, Lord Campbell, as
well as Sir David Wilkie, and others of great mental
capacity, were natives of Fifeshire, and it is curious
to make out how locality could influence such a
peculiar development. The size and fulness of the
cranii peculiar to the residents in those parts of
Scotland, is sought by some to be accounted for from
the circumstance that the Danes, Norsemen, or
Scandinavians, who had centuries ago invaded those
parts and settled there, had left numerous offspring'
and that the old people inhabiting the north-east
coast of Scotland preserve all the characters of those
invaders. The brains of a great majority of the
people in the western counties of England and
especially about Somersetshire are small, and as
compared with others not of much weight. The
average weight of the brains of those dying in the
Somersetshire Asylum is 30oz. In men with small
brains, however, fine qualities are to be observed,
and a great amount of genius.—London Correspon-
dent of Kerry Star.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

SHEFFIELD-JULY 30,

A small attendance, and the supply of grain was belay/
the average. Trade ruled dull, and prieeP., were unchanged'
The weather continues unsettled.
Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bu:shels 24s Od to 26s Ocl.
White ?) )) 258 Od to 28$ Oc!
New red l7B Od to 26s 01
New white :, ,
22s Od to 26s Oa
,7
Beans
~ l6s Od to 1880 Peas, per qr. ),
54s Od to 55s Od
Grinding barley, per qr 33s Od to 35s Od
Malting ditto, ~ 358 Od to 43s 00l
Oats )1 2ss 6d to 34s Od
Millers' prices for flour-2s 2d, 2s 4d, and 28 7d pet
141 b.

NEWARK—Jun- 31.:
The show of wheat from the growers to-day was bY. ll°
means abundant, and sales took place at fully former prices:
Barley hardly an average show, and trade was inactive, at
recent rates. Oats were scarce, with a steady inquul'
Beans were in moderate request at late quotations. „
White wheat, new, 65s to 70s Barley, grinding.. 30s to 3a'
Red do. 6os to 65s Oats, old, .. 32s to 34'
Old white 658 to 70s New do 24:?. to 288
Red do.. 50s to 60s Beans.. 54s to 580
Barley, malting... . 388 to 42s Beans,. new 40s to 465
Peas, ....40s to 50s.