The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-26 00:00:00

TRIAL OF ALTONIO MOLTENI FOR FORGERY ON THE

AUSTRIAN GOVERNIAENT.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
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 from Forrester. The next day Forrester
and Lee the elder called on witness and produced another
note. Afterwards saw Baron Kohler, who referred wit-
ness to the Commissioners cf Police, and has since in-
structed witness in all the subsequent proceedings coa-
-1 nected with this matter.

Mr. James Shepherd keeps the George public-house,
Brook-street, Holborn. Prisoner came to his house on

lunday, the Ist September. Had known the prisoner
before; he had been a picture dealer in Edinburgh for
some time. Remembers Forrester coming to his house.
Charles G-3,11ie, of 68, Hatton-garden, had known the
prisoner about 25 years. Prisoner is an Italian, and
speaks both Italian and English. lie was in partnership
with others in London as picture dealers until about
1840.

M. Watsoloni, a looking-glass manufacturer, had known
the prisoner for 25 years. lie 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 Cchertscher, 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 found on the prisoner were
not genuine.
The notes in question were then put in evidence. The
first is the five lire note, and is as follows:-
1 Aprile, 1349. A.
Regno Lombardo Veneto. Viglietto (5) del Tesoro.
Austriache Lire Cinque.

Il presente viglietto di lire cinque viene accettato
in payamento come danaro sonante dalle casse centrali
e da tutte le pubbliche caise del regno Lombardo Veneto.
II Comuaissario Imperiale Plenipotenziario
MONTECUCCOLI.

(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 Icaperialapemmissary Plenipotentiary,
MONTECUCCOLI.
The following is a copy in Italian of the sixty lire
note :

No. 11,349 G. 1 Aprile, 1849. D.
Regno Lombardo-Veneto. Viglietto (GO) del Tesoro.—

Austriache LireSessanta.

Il presente viglietto di lire seisanta ol'importa degli
interessi relativi a norma dell indicaziDno a tergo ven-
gono accettati in payamento come danaro sonacte dalle
case centrali a da tutte le pubbliche casse del regno
Lombardo-Veneto. Decors() un anna gli interessi si
pegheranno in contante dalle case centrali vtrso l'emis-
siene di un auovo viglietto.
Il Commissario Inaperale Plenipotenziario,
MONTECUCCOLL

(rranslation.)
No. 11,3496. April 1, 1849.
Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom. Note (60) of the Trea-
_.

aury—Sixty Austrian Lire.

The present note of sixty lire, and the amount of the
relative interest in conformity with the indication on
the back hereof, are accepted in payment as hard cash
at the central office, and at all the public offices of the
Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. At the expiration of
one year the interest will be paid in cash at the central
offices against the issue of a uew note.

The Imperial,Commissary Plenipotentiary,
MONTECUCCOLL
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury on behalf of
the prisoner, contending that the circumstances showed
a probability of there being a really guilty person be-
hind the scenes in this transaction, in the person of a
Frenchman, and that the prisoner acted as an innocent
agent of that party, not being aware of the conse-
quences.
Mr. Justice MAULE having summed up.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty; and
His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to be trans-
ported for seven years.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Nathaniel Eaton
Bushell, aged 25, a police-constable, surrendered on his
bail to answer an indictment charging him with bloni-
ously killing and slaying James Geary.
On the application of Mr. BALLANTINE, the prisoner's
counsel, the trial was postponed until to-morrow (this)
morning on account of the lateness of the hour (halt-
past three), at which the prisoner was called in.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STI?EE
A man named James Quin, apparently an agricultural
labourer, was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold,
charged with having stolen a carpet-bag, containing
wearing apparel and other articles of the vitae of between
30i and 40!, the property of Mr. Alfred Theophilus Lee,
of Christ College, Cambridge.
It appeared from the evidence that as police-constable
Ward, of the N division, was on duty in the Lea-bridge-
road, shortly after nine o'clock, on the evening of
Saturday su'nnight, he saw the prisoner proceeding at a
rapid pace with a large bundle under his arm, which ho
was evidently endeavouring to conceal from observation,
and he therefore stopped him and insisted upon search-
ing the bundle,the contents of which, upon examination,
turned cut to he arieles of gentlemen's wearing apparel
of such a description as could manifestly not belong to
him, and of lair.; possession of which ho
avo so unsatis-
thetery an account that he was was forthwith transferred
to the station. Suspicions being entertained that other
portions of the property bad been :were
•;
ted by the pri-
soner, the constable was dispatched by Inspector Coward
to search about the neighbourhood of the spot where the
man was taken, and upon examining an adjoining drain