The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-28 00:00:00

£15,000 out of £24,000 made last year should he '
the meat was ordered by Colonel Wilson. to he de-
set aside for a dividend was referred to the consi- 9troycd witness went to Hitchin, and there saw the
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deration of the directors. _ 1 defendant, who admitted having sent the body of a

The retiring directors having been re-elected, a
resolution providing that the next meeting (a half
yearly one) shop Id be held in September was carried,
and the proceedings terminated.

ATLANTIC ROYAL MAIL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY.
The ordinary meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. Malcomson
in the chair.

The report stated that the present directors, who
had come into office in September last, had since
been doing everything in their power to improve.
the financial position and prospects of the com-
pany. To carry on the company it was necessary
to raise £600,000 additional capital by the issue of
preference shares, and to regard all the losses
hitherto sustained as so much capital invested.
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report,
and said, although they had not succeeded in
converting difficulties into success, he trusted they
had laid the foundation of a prosperous future for
the company. He trusted that when on the 9th of
next month they recommenced the postal service
they would be able to afford so much satisfaction
both to the Government and the public that they
would secure such an accession of traffic as would
enable them, after the payment of working ex-
penses, to keep the subsidy clear to pay not only
the interest on the transference capital, hut also
within a short time to pay a good dividend to the
original shareholders. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. J. S. STIRLING seconded the motion, and it
was carried.

The CHAIRMAN moved the creation of £600,000
additional capital by £lO shares, with a preference
of 6 per cent.
Mr. ROBINSON having seconded the motion,
Mr. STIRLING moved, as an amendment, that the
preference interest be 7 per cent., which was se-
conded, and unanimously agreed to, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.

POLICE MitELIIGENCE.—March 27.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Edward Holland, 22, de-
scribed as a letter-carrier, and dressed in the extreme
of fashion, was brought before the Lord Mayor in
custody of Hayden and Russell, detective officers,
and charged with uttering at the bank of Messrs.
Glyn and Co., in Lombard-street, a cheque for £690
7s. 3d., bearing a forged endorsement.
The accusation was preferred by Mr. Peacock,
the solicitor to the Post-office. The prisoner was
undefended.
The circumstances are remarkable.—On the 25th
of Jan. last Mr. George Souter, the cashier in Edin-
burgh of the Religious Tract Society, forwarded by
post, enclosed in a letter, a draught for £690 7s. 3d.
to Mr. Richard Jones, the "depositary" of the so-
ciety, as that gentleman called himself, at their
head-quarters in Paternoster-row. The check was
drawn by the National Bank of Scotland on Messrs.
Glyn and Co., and made payable on demand to the
order of Mr. Jones. It was endorsed on the back
with the name of Mr. Jones, which he proved to be
a forgery. The letter, with its enclosure, ought t o
have arrived in London next morning by ordinary
course of post, but it never reached its destination.
On Monday, the 28th of January, between 1 and 2
o'clock in the day, the draught was presented for
payment at the bank of Messrs. Glyn by a man who
received in exchange far it 12 £5O-notes of the
Bank of England, £9O in gold, and 7s. 3d. in silver.
The notes were all dated the 20th of November,
1860, and bore numbers, which were regularly re-
gistered in the books of the bank. Mr. Campbell
Hardy, the cashier, who paid the money, had not
now any recollection of the man who presented the
draught, but a clerk in the bank named Thomson,
who saw the money handed across the counter, took
particular notice of the recipient, thinking it was a
large sum for a person of his appearance to receive
on his own account. The prisoner, to the best of
his belief, was the man. In less than half-an-hour
afterwards the prisoner presented three of the £5O
notes at the Bank of England, asking to have them
exchanged for gold. Mr. AV. S. I)ean, one of the
pay-clerks in attendance, noticed that the notes
were endorsed on the back " Richard Jones, 40, Pre-
bend-street, Islington," and his suspicion being ex-
cited by the prisoner desiring to have the whole of
the £l5O in gold, he turned his back for a moment
to look at a directory which lay in a little room par-
titioned off from the counter, with a view of verify-
ing the address, and on his return the prisoner had
disappeared, leaving the three £5O-notes be-
hind him, and without having obtained the money.
Mr. Dean immediately went to see if the prisoner
had left the place, and learnt that a man of his
appearance had gone out by a back way which was
unknown to strangers. In a day or two afterwards
the Religious Tract Society, becoming aware of the
robbery, offered a reward of £6O for the apprehen-
sion of the prisoner. The police authorities, how
ever, lost all trace of him until Monday last. On
that day the prisoner entered the shop of Mr.
Campbell, a jeweller in Tottenham-court-road, and
asked to look at a diamond ring which was in the
window. Before leaving he selected a watch and
chain, the price of which together was £33. Taking
out a pocket book, he said he had not sufficient
change, and ordering the articles to be sent home,
giving an address in Euston-square, he went away.
Frank Perry, the shopman, suspecting the prisoner,
went to Scotland-yard and mentioned the transac-
tion to the police authorities before delivering the
goods. From there he took the watch and chain to
the house in question in Euston-square, where he
saw the prisoner, who offered him a £5O note in
payment. This Perry declined to take, prisoner
being a stranger to him, but offered to go and pro-
cure change for it. The prisoner, who on that
suggestion appeared rather confused, handed the
note to Perry for that purpose, who left, taking his
goods with him, and went directly to the Bank of
England, where the note, being one of the 12, the
payment of which had by that time been stopped,
was detained. On Tuesday afternoon Russell and
. Hayden, the detective officers, went to a house in
Clarence-row, Kentish-town, where•they found the
prisoner. In reply to a question he said his name
was Holland; but at firstdisowned. and then admitted
that on the previous day he had bought a watch and
chain at a shop in Tottenham-court-road, and
offered a £5O note in payment. Telling him they
were detectives, they charged him with uttering
the stolen draught for £690 odd, and forging the
endorsement on it. They then tried to wax
him to give up the rest of the notes, uFon which,
hesitating for a few moments, he drew from a
pocket of his trousers a purse, from which he
took seven £5O notes of the Bank of England,
which were afterwards identified as part of those
he received at the bank of Messrs. Glyn. Russell
said there was still another £5O note missing, and
demanded to know where it was. The prisoner
replied he had left it with the landlady in Tiuston-
square, as a deposit on taking her apartments on
the previous day. Russell told him the landlady
had denied that he gave her any money. The
prisoner insisted that he had, adding that he loft
it with her because he had no small change, He
also stated that he was a letter-carrier, and did not
wish to be made the subject of a Post-office prose-
cution ; that he had found the notes, but did not
say where.
The prisoner with some bravado cross-examined
the witness Thomson, from Messrs. Glyn's, as to
how it was possible he could swear to him, seeing,
as the witness admitted he did, some 500 people at
the hank in a day. Thomson repeated his belief
that he was the man who presented the draught
there for payment, and the witness I lean, from the
Bank of England, spoke positively to the identity
of the prisoner.
On the application of Mr. Peacock, who com-
mended the witness Perry for the great discretion
he had shown in the transaction, the Lord Mayor
remanded the prisoner until Monday.

GUILDHALL.—Thomas Spencer, descrilaed as
a fishmonger and higgler, of Back-street, Hitchen,
Hertfordshire, was charged at the instance of the
Commissioners of Sewers, with unlawfully sending
to Newgate 'market the carcase of a cow which was
in such a diseased and unsound condition as to he
totally unfit for human food.

Mr-. Charles Pearson, the City Solicitor, said this
was a proceeding against the defendant for sending
to a public market in this city a quantity of
diseased meat to be sold for human food, and he
was happy to say that the salesman to whom it was
consigned called the inspector's attention to it as
soon as it arrived, and the consequence was that it
was immediately seized and condemned by order
of the magistrate at this eourt. The practice,
however, of sending meat iu such an unwhole-
some state to the London markets had become
so dangerous that the Commissioners of Sewers
were now determined to prosecute in every case, and
so put an end to a practice which Dr. Letheby had
reported was not only prejudicial to health, but
dangerous also to the lives of the poorer Masses
who, providing that they bought their meat at a
cheap rate, were not particular about the quality or
condition of it,

Mr. Waltei:Greatrex, a salesman in that part of
Newgate market called Tyler's market, said, on the
16th of February last a hamper, containing four
quarters of beef, was delivered at his shop by the
Great Northern Railway Company, and on opening
the hamper he found the meat so bad that he called
the inspector's attention to it. A label, now pro-
duced, was attached to the hamper.
Inspector Fisher said Nyhn ha selmed the four
quarters of beef thn fie:i'a was very wet, and so badly
, , ;
diSM'ec4 that the men would not handle it to weigh
it. The weight was about 3001 b. Some time gtor

cow on the I.sth of February to Mr. Greatrex, and
at the same time be'said he was employed to slaughter
the cow and dress and send it to Newgate-market
by Peter Peak, a licensed victualler, of Waldsworth,
near Hitchin.
Inspector Newman said the beef in question was
totally unfit for human food. He was afraid to
touch it, and the men refused to take it out of the
hamper until it was covered with cloths, and then
they were afraid to touch it without having gloves
on.

The railway porters were then examined, and
their evie_ence went to show that the defendant
consigned the meat at the Hitchin Station in his
own name, and that that hamper was the only one
delivered by the Great Northern Railway Company
on that morning.
Alderman Phillips said there could be no doubt
that the salesmen of Newgate-market were a highly
respectable body of men, and the pursuit that the
defendant appeared to have been engaged in was
one that could not for a moment be tolerated. This
prosecution was, therefore, a very proper one, and,
without making any remarks to prejudice the de-
fendant, he thought it was his duty to commit the
case to the sessions for trial.
The defendant was then committed to take his
trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal
Court, his friend Peter Peak becoming bail for his
appearance.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. Joseph Jopling, a clerk
in the Adjutant-General's-office at the Horse Guards,
was charged with annoying the inhabitants of
Adam-street and John-street, A delphi, by whistling
in those streets between 12 ar.d. 1 o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning.
Mr. Henry said it ill became a gentleman of
defendant's position to misconduct himself in the
manner described. The prisoner must pay 205,,
or be imprisoned for 21 days.
The prisoner paid the fine.

THAMES.—George Cohen, a Jew, about 40
years of age, reputed to be a man of considerable
wealth, who has for many years carried on the busi-
ness of a clothier, outfitter, and marine store dealer
at two establishments in Rosemary-lane, otherwise
Royal Mint-street, AVhitechapel, was brought up
on remand, charged with passing a forged £lO
Bank of England note, and two other forged notes
for £5 each, he well knowing them to be forged,
and with having three other forged notes in his
possession. _ _ _

Three cases of passing forged notes were clearly
made out against the prisoner, who had obtained
gold for them of three of his neighbours, of who,n
he had frequently obtained change for genuine
notes, and who of course entertained no suspicions
against him until the police were in communication
with him.

Mr. Selfe—l believe something has transpired at
the Mansion-house relating to forged notes of the
same numbers and dates as these being in circu-
lation.

Mr. Murfill, of the Bank—l am sorry to state
that a great many are in circulation at the present
time.

After a long investigation,
Mr. Selfe committed the prisoner for trial, and
refused bail.