The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-03 00:00:00

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take care to have no circumlocution offices within
their control ; but constantly on the watch for im-
provement, set about it with business-like dis-
cretion and energy, courteously inviting, instead
of bullying, the public into the adoption of such
new regulations as, not their own ease, but the
common good may seem to demand. Co-operation
with public officers like these, we do not hesitate
to say, is a positive duty. Among the principal
alterations of the quarter is a reduction of the
charge on letters to different places abroad, and a
new regulation with regard to Australia and New
Zealand, all letters to which colonies, after the
12th inst., must be prepaid.

The Post Magazine Amanack, (W. S. D. Pate-
man, Wine Office-court, Fleet-street), maintains
its claims to the countenance and support of all
parties requiring an almanack and useful informa-
tion respecting assurance companies. The latest
changes are recorded, and following on a list of
" Projected Assurance Associations," we have the
names of those offices which have ceased to exist,
or been transferred, during the past year, and also
of those which are beil.g wound up in the Court
of Chancery. Thus the results of over-speculation
during 1856 appear to have had but little benefi-
cial effect on assurance projectors. It is to be
hoped whatever new companies are started will bo
commenced on such principles, and under such
management, only as are likely to command
success.

The Triennial Diary, Almanack, aLd Bill Due
Book for the Years 1857, 1858, and 1859. W.
Mitchell, 39,Charing-cross.

Printed and published for the Mercantile Gua-
rantee Assurance Company, and well adapted for
the purposes described. The paper is good, the
size a small quarto, and the getting up creditable
to all parties. The mercantile community and
others haying business to transact will appreciate
its value.

The Medical List. 1857. Lane and Lara.

Intended and calculated to supply an acknow-
ledged want of the profession, viz., the means of
distinguishing between the legally qualified practi-
tioner and the pretender to professional honours
and privileges. Mr. Lara informs the reader he
has sought the required information in independent
quarters, and is desirous to make the List as per-
fect as possible.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

. THE SAWARD FORGERY GANG.—This afternoon, the
further examination of Seward and Anderson, remanded
for forgery and uttering a 1,0001. bill of exchange, was
resumed at the Mansion-house, before the Lord Mayor ;
and created intense interest, in consequence of Saward's
connection with Agar, the gold robbery, and the alarm-
ing extent to which Agar and others belonging to the
same gang have, victimised the bankers of Lon-
don. Several of the principals of the large banking
firms were present, and had the satisfaction of making
the personal acquaintance, for the first time, of
men who for a lengthened period have drawn on them
without the usual and necessary introduction, and wbo,
up to this time, have baffled all attempts at detection.
At the last October sessions two men (one an elderly
man, a returned convict), named Hard wicke and Atwell,
were convicted of forgery and uttering checks to a
heavy amount, which they got cashed, and in conse-
quence were transported for life. Flom the dis-
closures. they made after their conviction, it ap
pears that they were in connection with the two
prisoners Anderson and Seward, and it was their
disclosures that led to the latter's apprehension.
The prisoners were deseribad on the police sheet
as follows :—James Anderson, of Freehold-street,
Durham-road, Hoxton, servant, for forging and utter-
ing on the 14th of June, 1856, a bill of exchange for
1,0001., with intent to defraud Messrs. Heywood,
Kennard, and Co., bankers, 4, Lombard-street, and
James Townshend Seward, of Villa-house, Walworth-
Common, barrister-at-iaw, on suspicion of being con-
cerned with the above James Anderson in forging
and uttering the above bill of exchange. Anderson
was apprehended on last Friday fortnight, and was
privately examined on the following day, and the infor-
mation then given led to the apprehension of Seward
by Huggett, a City detective. He went to a back room in
John-street, Oxford-street, and inquired for Mr. Hop-
kins, the name by which he had heart Seward was
living there, and he was informed he was gone to a
public-house in Oxford-market. He went to Oxford-
market, leaving Moss, another detective, behind, and
on his return he found Seward in Moss's custody.
Saward denied all knowledge of Hard wink, Atwell, and
Anderson, and said he was not the person of whom the
officers were in quest. Huggett, however, refused to
listen to his statement, being certain he was the man
he wanted, and he accordingly took charge of him and
conveyed him to the police-station, and his first exami-
nation took place on last Friday week, when
sufficient evidence only was given to justify
his remand till to-day. Anderson on last Saturday was
examined before the Lord Mayor in reference to other
forgeries, it being deemed prudent that the examination
in reference to the 1,0001. bill of exchange should not
be gone into until both prisoners were present. The
evidence on that occasion adduced against, Anderson
was that on Saturday the 16th of August last he uttered
successfully two forged checks on Messrs. Hankey and
Co.—one for 1001. and the other for 50/ , and the plan
he adopted was this : he went to the White Hart in
Bishopgate-street, entered the coffee-house, and desired
the boots to be sent to him, on which he gave
him a check to get cashed. He then went to the
Four Swans, in Bishopsgate-street, and repeated his con-
duct with reference to the other check. He then re-
turned to the White Hart, received the money of the
boots, and then immediately went to the Four Swans
and received that also and decamped. Another charge
was entered into against him on the above day, that of
giving a man named Roberts, residing in St. John's-
wood, a check to get changed, but in that case the
bankers refused to pay it. The plan adopted by Ander-
son was the same as that followed by Agar, that of get-
ting a stranger to present the checks, which allowed
them to make off it any difficulty was experienced in
cashing the documents.