The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-25 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)
:OLD COURT.

TRIAL OF ALTONIO MOLTENI FOR FORGERY ON THE

AUSTRIAN GOVERNSIENT.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. John Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullins,
said—ln consequence of a communication containing one
of the notes in question, which he received on the 2d
September, he went to Messrs. Rothschild, the bankers
of the Austrian Government, who referred him to the
Baron Kohler. In the interval witness received a copy
of the same note feom Forrester. The next day Forrester
and Lea the elder called on witness and produced another
note. Afterwards s.tw Baron Kohler, who referred wit-
ness to the Commissioners of Police, and has since in-
structed witness in all the subscq!int proceedings con-
necter' with this matter.

Mr. JIMeS Shepherd keeps the George n üblic-house,
Brook-sfr,ec, P.isoner came to ihis house on
Sunday, the Ist September.' had known the prisoner
beforc; he had been a picture dealer in Edinburgh fir
some time. Remembers Forrester coming to his 11,,use.
(.:tarics Gallic, of 68, Hatton-garden, had known the
prisoner about 23 years. Prisoner is an Italian, and
speaks both Ita!oln and English. lie was in psrtner,hip
with others in Lord ,u as picture dealers until about
1840.

M. Wats()loni, s looking-glass manuracturer, had known
the prisoner for 25 years. He was a native of the village
of Copiano, near the lake of Como.
M. Paul Pretsch, overseer of the Royal Printing-office
at Vienna, under the direction of the Imperial Minister
of Finance, was called and identified two genuine lire
notes current in Austria, printed in the institution to
which he belonged. (Shown two other notes, engraved
by the prisoner's direction.) Those were not genuine;
they were forgeries.
Guiseppi Lchertscher, the General Paymaster of the
Lombardo-Venetian provinces of Austria, deposed that
it was part of his functions to issue the paper money of
Austria, and that the notes fuund on the prisoner were
not genuine. _

The notes in question were then put in evidence. The
first is the live lire note, and is as follows:
. 1 Aprile, 1849. A.
Repo Lombardo Veneto. Viglietto (5) del Tesoro.
" Austria the Lire Cinque.
" I 1 presente viglietto di Lire cinque viene accettato
in payamento come danaro sonante dalle caise centrali
a da tutte le pubbliche casse del regno Lombsrdo Veneto.
"Il Commiseario Imperiale Plenipotenziario
MONTECUCCOLL"
(Translation of the above.)
April 1, 1849. A.
Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom. Note (5) of the Trea-
sury.—Five Austrian Lire.

The present note of five lire is accepted in payment as
hard cash at the central offices, and at all the public
offices of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom.
The Imperial Commissary Plenipotentiary,
MONTECUCCOLI.
The following is a copy in Italian of the sixty lire
note :

No. 11,3496. 1 Aprile, 1849. D.
Regno Lombardo-VGneto. Viglietto (60) del Tesoro.—

Austriache Lire Sessanta.

Il presente viglietto di lire sessanta e l'importo degli
interessi relativi,a norm% dell indicazit,ne a tergo ven-
gono accettati in payamento come danaro sonante dalle
casse centrali e da tutte le pubbliehe casae del regno
Lombardo-Veneto. Decorso on anna gii interessi si
pegheranno in contante dalle case centrali vtrso l'emis-
siene di un auovo viglietto.
Ii Conamissario Itaperale Plenipotenziario,
MONTEC LICCOLI.