The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-09 00:00:00

On the motion of Mr. WILSON a select committee
was ordered to be appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in all
matters which relate to the printing (xecuted by order of
this house, and fur the purpose of selecting and arrang-
ing for printing returns and papers presented in pursu-
ance of motions made by members of this house.
REGISTRATION OF LEASES, &c. SCOTLAND.
Leave was given to Mr. DUNLOP to bring in a bill to
provide for the registration of long leases in Scotland, and
assignations thereof. The bill was read a first time.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL BILL.
Leave was given to Mr. ADDERLEY to bring in a bill
for establishing industrial schotls in England and Wales.
The bill was read a first time.
KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS.
On the motion of Colonel FRENCH the following were
appo wed a standing committee to control the arrange-
ment of the kitchen and refreshment rooms in the de-
partment of the Sergeant-at-Arms attending this house :
—Colonel French. Colonel Boldero, Mr. Alderman
Cribitt, Mr. Sqmotir Fitz Gerald, Mr. Hume, Mr.
Robertson, and Mr. Braneley-More.
JUDGMENTS EXECUTION BILL.
Mr. CR A.UFURD moved for leave to bring in a
bill to render judgments or decreets obtained it) certain
courts in England, Scotland, and Ireland, respectively, '
effectual in any other part of the United Kingdom.
Mr. WHITESIDE congratulated the hon. and
learned member on his perseverance. Defeat made no
impression upon him. Four times the same bad been
discus•,ed and debated, and he was rather surprised, con-
sidering the fate of this bill in the early part of last ses-
sion, that the hon. and learned member should have
brought it in again. Would it not be better to refer this
bill to the department which was about to consider the
law bills, for which department he also had a budget ?
He assured the hon. and learned member that his bill was
worth nothing; that it would encounter the same oppo-
sition as on former rccasions ; and that it would meet the
same fate. The bill was not quite worthy of a place in
the programme which was rather sarcastically called law
reform in the Queen's Speech..
Col. FRENCH said that the hon. and learned mem-
ber's bill had been not four times, but five times brought
before the House, and it had been opposed by every Irish
member, except the late member for Clare, who had lost
his seat. The Government ought not to support the in-
troduction of idle measures of this kind, when the time
available for the business of the session was so short.
Mr. BLAND could assure the hon. and learned mem-
ber that every kind of opposition should be given to his

Leave was given to bring in the bill, which was read a
first time.

On the motion of Mr. GROGAN certain returns relative
;o the Mercantile Marine Fund were ordered.
MALT, &c.

On the motion of Mr. Bess returns were ordered of the
number of bushels of malt brought to charge in each of
the four years ending the sth or Ist day of April, 1854,
1855, 1856, and 1857, as the years may end on one or
other of those days ; of the average price of barley for
each of the four years above-named ; of the amount in
"old duty" charged on English hops for each of the be-
fore-named four years ; and of the number of cwts, of
foreign hops imported in each of the same four years.
ELECTION PETITIONS.

Petitions were presented against the returns for the
boroughs of Athlone, Cambridge, and Huntingdon.
The house then adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—May 8.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. William Cockburn and
Mr. William John Lawson appeared before Mr. Alder-
man Bale, in discharge of their recognieances, for hav-
ing combined and conspired together to injure the repu-
tation and character of the Bank of London.

Mr. G. liooper—l am a clerk in the City of London
Union. Mr. Lawson has also been employed there. I
am acquainted with his handwriting. The letter now
shown me and the other documents (slips of articles
printed in the John; Stock Companies Journal) I believe
to he in his handwriting.

Mr. Hughes, ledger-clerk to the City of London Union,
and Mr. Paul Graham and Mr. Argent, printers of the
journal, gave similar evidence to that of the last witness.

Mr. Bodkin said he had now closed the case for the
prosecution and asked for a committal.
The magistrate called upon each of the defendants to
enter into his own recognisances in 2006. to appear at
the Central Criminal Court, which they immediately did
and left.

GUILDHALL.—John Hind May, of Iluzgin-lane,
City, and Stanley-stitet, Pimlico, and Wm. Taylor, of
No. I, Church-passage, Gresham-street, were again
brought up (the latter on bail), before Alderman Hum-
phery, on the charge of conspiring to defraud Mr. Gor-
man, of Lurgan, in Ireland, of a quantity of cambric
handkerchiefs to the value of 5001., and Mr. Lawson, a
manufacturer of the same place, of similar goods to he
amount of SOO/.
Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphrey?, Son, and
Morgan, appeared, as before, for the prosecution.
Mr. Huddlsstone, instructed by Messrs Sole, Turner
and Co., attended for Taylor ; and Mr. Woutner, de-
fended May.
Mr. Bodkin, instructed by Mr. Pontifex, attended to

watch the case for Mr. Meeking, of Holborn-hill.
It will be remembered that Taylor, who bad been au-
thorised by Mr. Gorman to dispose of his surplus sto ck,

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on cornmiasion, wrote to him, representing that " Mye,-4
and Co., late of Ludgate-hill, had bought the goods,
to the net value of 6471. 141, Bd., for cash 1001. on

I delivery, and the rest in bills." These terms were accept.
ed by Mr. Gorman, but after several other letters from
Taylor about the transaction, be received one from
Taylor to the following effect Sir,—l had sent over
to me on Satnrcley afternoon a cheque from Myers eked
Co., for 811. 10s., and gold 181. 10s. by May, the par ty
who sold the handkerchiefs for Myers and Co., avid
thinking it strange that Mr. Myers did not come, I wro to
to his private house to say I was surprised he had not
called with the cash and bills himeelf. He has teen
here, and I find that May is an out-and-out villain. He
has intercepted the goods, sold them in his own nai no,
and it is said received the cash, pocketed the won or,
with a lot more, and has bolted. * * * I bad no
idea in the world that Myers had not seen the got. cis.
He says he bas never gem them, and did not know tlreey
had been delivered. * u * I have ever found 3 Lay
honourable," &e., &c. On the 9th of April Mr. Gorn )an
received another letter from Taylor, enclosing a che,iue
from Myers for 1001., and stating that May was very• ill
in bed, and unable to leave London, and expressing I lie
own conviction that M)ers was responsible for the
voile, as the instructions given by Myers for their r le
livery had boon carried not to the letter. On the 10 ith
of April Mr. Gorman came to London and asi-sed Ta y-
lor why he bad let May have the goods, and the prison ,er
replied that May had obtained theta when he wa S 01 it.
Several other interviews took p'.ace between Mr. GI or-
Taylor, and Mr. Turner, the solicitor, to eon. tic er
what means there were of obtaining redress, and the, re-
sult was that May and Taylor were given into cuett ody.
Woodward, one of Mr. Charles Meeking's buyers, rie.
posed that he purchased these goods of May on two dtl Te-
rent days, amounting to 3541. 14s. 6J. and 591. 3s. th I,
and that he paid for them in two cheques, one for 250.1.
and another for the balance, payahle lo May.
There was a good deal of additional evidence taken,
and several of kao witnesses, connected with the estab.
thillraeutti of ""4-14 and of Myers, were cross-?Narnined,