The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-12 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

To sundry creditors
£792 5 5
To creditors •n drawing accounts 303,635 8 5
To creditors on deposit accounts
To creditors on cash accounts 1,329 8 4
To creditors on promis. notes, with interest 5,000 0 0
To creditors on ditto, without interest ... 2,584 11 0
To creditors on bills in duplicate
To creditors on circular notes
To creditors on drafts on demand 7 4 18 9
To creditors on unclaimed dividends

£571,566 18 6
Deduct accounts standing to credit of parties
on their drawing or deposit accounts, who
are the drawers, acceptors, or endorsees of
bills under discount

£529,226 12 9
. 8,600 0 0

To farther estimated liabilities
To liabilities on acceptances granted by
the bank for 5,4331. ss. id., expected to
be met by the drawers, who are indebted
to the same amount.

To liabilities on bills discounted, 103,3351.
12s. 2d., of which it is expected the
amount of 102,0301. 15s. 2d. will be duly
honoured

1,305 0 0

£539,131 12 9

ASSETS.
By cash at head office and branches £48,528 1. 3
By buildings and furniture at head office
and branches
By debtors on drawing accounts
By ditto ditto, doubtful, estimated at 246 14 9
By ditto, on accounts on which cash limits
were allowed
By ditto, doubtful, estimated at
By advances on convertible securities
By ditto ditto, doubtful, estimated at OO 0 0
By past due loans, good
By ditto, doubtful, estimated at
By past due bills, good 6,822 15 1
By ditto, doubtful, estimated at
By London bills discounted
By ditto, doubtful, estimated at
By country bills discounted. 3,416 7 4
By bills continued, with collateral security,
estimated at
By ditto ditto, on account of W. Tarte,
22,510/. 35., estimated at..
By sundry debtors, good
By stamps

100 0 0

1,300 0 0
698 16 10
345 0 4

£342,268 4 8
Less amounts against which parties hay
credit—balances, contra

£299,927 18 11
Less allowance for contingencies, exclusive
of any expense (5 per cent. on 225,6691.
16s. 9d.)

11,283 10 0

Assets £283,614 8 11
Welsh works (exclusive of interest) cost t106,453 4 9

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 10.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Edward Horace Montefiore,
who has been charged with the forgery to the amount of
5,3001., and with having committed extensive frauds,
was again brought up before the Lord Mayor for re-exa-
mination.

Mr. Ribton, instructed by Mr. Roy, solicitor to the
London and Westminster Bank, attended for the prose•
cution ; Mr. Lawes for the defence.

Mr. Ribton said he should be able to prove that a letter
bad been received from the prisoner, dated May, 1855,
in the name of Langfelt, when he was in treaty for the
purchase of a schooner for 6001. He was then traced to
London. In reference to the document signed " Silvery,"
the learned counsel would be able to prove that to be in
the prisoner's handwriting. The prisoner was then traced
from London to Leith, and theAtiaptain of the ship in
which he sailed, as well as the waiter at an hotel in
Edinburgh, would prove that in July of the same year he
was passing in the name of Lyon. He afterwards passed
in the name of Montefiore. This was the whole of the
evidence in addition to that already adduced in respect
to the first charge. The bills which had been proved to
be forgeries were written "London," although uttered
at the Cape of Good Hope, and therefore there could he
no doubt as to the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor in the
case. The bank at the Cape had been defrauded by the
prisoner, by means of forged letters of credit, of 8001.
With reference to the second case, the prisoner had been
proved, if not absolutely to have presented the letters
of credit, yet to have made such allusion to them in the
presence of one of the directors of the bank as to have
identified himself with them. The document signed
" Silvery" pointed especially to this case. On the sth
or 6th of June the prisoner went to the London and
Westminster Bank and applied for a letter of credit
for 101. He filled up the usual form, paid the 101., and
obtained the letter of credit. This was a forgery
of a name, and he (M:r. Ribton) submitted that
it was evidence for a jury, whether, when the scheme
was commenced in London, they were not satisfied that
the documents were forged in London. The learned
counsel said be had a third charge to make against the
prisoner, of having defrauded Messrs. Guthrie and Co.,
of London, of 811. When the prisoner reached Cape
Town he was received by the first families there on ac
count of his negotiating the forged letters of credit.
Ile gave grand dinner parties, and issued cards of invi-
tation with a coat of arms on' them, and was there con
aidered one of the most celebrated and illustrious per-
sons in the town. In fact, for the purpose of carrying
'out his scheme he had forged the name of Baring Bro-
thers, as well as those of the directors of the London and
Westminster Bank, to various documents. Under ali
these circumstances the learned counsel submitted that
the fact of juri-diction was clearly made out.
Several witnesses were examined in confirmation of the
statemeut of the learned counsel, and the prisoner was
again remanded.

BOW-STREET.—Thomas Johnson, a young man of
18, was charged with breaking into the house of Mr.
Forster, of 12, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, early on
Saturday morning. The parlours of the house were in
the occupation of Mr. Sidegreaves, a student at law, of
Middle Temple. At about 5 o'clock in the morning,
this gentleman heard some one effecting an entrance into
the adjoining room. He arose, took the life. preserver
which he kept in readiness for such occasions, and pro-
ceeded to the apartment, where be beheld' the prisoner
standing upright. The prisoner was so instantaneously
cowed that strong measures were unnecessary. Mr.
Sidgreaves, therefore, only seized the delinquent by the
throat, and, calling to his landlord, held him till apo
lineman could be procured. The prisoner said, "Two
men outside told me to get in, and they would follow.
They are there now." Mr. Forster dashed into the
street, and pounced upon a young man standing close
by, but the youth said, "if am the son of Mr. Smith, of
Tottenham-court-road." The landlord, knowing a per-
son of that name, imprudently allowed him to depart.
Mr. Henry eororaitted the Prisoner for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.— Win. Fish, a cab-driver,
wearing the badge numbered 4,121, was summoned upon
the charge of having exacted an excessive fare and used
abusive and insulting language towards Mr, B. Hooper,
Queen's-road, Da!ston.
The complaisant said—On the evening of
.Wednesday,
the 31st ult., I hired the defendant's cab, in which I
was conveyed with my wife and son, from the carriage-
stand in Holloway to my residence at Dalston." On reach-
in our destination, I handed ls. 6d., which I c,mceived
to be the full fare, allowing for the extra passenger, as
the distance was under two miles, but the defendant
refused the tender, and declared, with an oath, that if
he bad known his customers he would not have taken
us at ali. The defendant then commenced a volley of
abuse, but after uttering the words, " You are a
old —" he suddenly paused, and wound up the sen-
tence with the observation, "I won't say what, but I
mean anything but a gentleman." The demeanour and
gesture of the man were so rude and insulting, that in
order to get rid of him, I pulled out some loose silver,
amounting to 4s. or 55., and invited him to pay himself,
to which the defendant replied, "Oh, that's the dodge,
is it ; you mean to summons me, so I may as well take
it all," at the same time sweeping the whole of the money
into his band. The defendant then deliberately mounted
his box, and after some bantering remarks to another
cabman who had just set down a faro opposite, be drove
off with the whole of the money.
The complainant's son, Mr. E. Hooper, was also
examined, and fully confirmed his father's evidence.
Mr. Hammill said it was one of the worst cases of
the kind that had ever been brought under his notice,
and he should order the defendant to pay the maximum
penalty of 3/. for his insulting language, together with
40s. for exacting more than his fare, or to be committed,
in default, for three months to the House of Correction.
The magistrate, however, at the urgent intercession
of the complainant, was subsequently induced to remit
a portion of the penalties.

CLERKENWELL.—WaIter Booth, a young man
aged 19, an inmate of the Islington Workhouse, was
charged by James Arnault, a pauper in the same estab-
lishment, with having committed a murder. It appeared
that on Christmas night several men in the Islington
Workhouse were sitting round the fire, and agreed to
amuse themselves by telling tales and relating wonderful
events. While the history of a murder was being re-
cited the prisoner became very uneasy, groaned, and left
the room. On his return he still seemed much distressed,
and, on being asked -what was the matter, he proceeded
to relate, with many circumstantial details, an account
of a murder and robbery which he said he had himself