The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-25 00:00:00

LIST OF SCOTTISH FR

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Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- -- -
X a. d. I X I.d
Rank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 ;100 0 0 190
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Clydesdale Bank -••• •• 634 per cent. 20 0 01 10 0 0 14
Commercial Bank .• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 ,100 0 0 174
Eastern Bank.... •• - 61. percent. 25 00110 0 0 9
Edinb.k Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 51. 10
Exchangeßnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 • 16
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 63. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15U
North of Scotlandßank 4Lper cent. 20 0 0 50 0 3%
North British Bank - - - -
Royalßank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 135
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 92
Western Bank ...• •• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Fire and Life 8%1.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 • 0 20
E. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 41. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 17i 3d
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. pet cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Colonial Life ... - 50 0 0 1 00 1/ es.
City of Glasgow Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 121
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 20M
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 -
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 , -
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 -
Insur. Co. of Scetind•• V. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. les
Mercantile Life
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 120 s. 6d
North British Insur. • • 5361. pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 ' 24%
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 0 -
Scot. M as. and Gen. Life - e 0 015 0 1 -
Scottish Union Insrnce. 610. pr cent, 20 0 0 1 0 0 245.64
Standard Life ...... - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 i 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 L 175 Od
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-------- -.
X. a. d. X. a. d.
Anetion Mart •••• • • • • 2/. ss. 50 0 0 - 25
Australian Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 1/. lea. 10 0 0 10
Ditto, Half Shares.. - -2 10 0
Canada ... •• •• •.- .. Gt. per cent. 100 0 0'32 10 0 26
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - 89
City Navigation .. • • - - - 91
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.&bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 94
Equitable Reversienry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 105
Gon.SteamNavigation 11. 85. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27%
London Institution .• • - - 78 15 0 -
- 26 5 0
Russell Institution • • • • - -
Peninslric Orient.Stm. 81. per cont. 50 0 0 50 0 0 79%
Revorsionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 91
Royal Mail Steam•• •. 61 18. 4. p. C. 100 0 01 60 0 0 -
South Australian .• •• . 1/. per share. 25 0 0, 25 0 0 -
Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 00i29 0 0 -

THE VAPOURS OF DISEASE AND DEATH AT LAM-
EETH.—A correspondent of the Builder rays: Pray, Sir
are any steps being taken towards the removal of all
those abominable nuisances in that seat of poison,
Princes-street, Lambeth, consisting of bone-boilers,
potteries, starch-makers, and several-of a like abominable
nature? or are they to continue to poison and annoy a
whole community through next summer, and carry off
their thousands of ♦ictims again? A person cannot now
pass within a quarter of a mile, without feeling a sen-
sation of sickness, and almost vomiting, so intolerable is
it; and when the wind is southerly (I pity the poor Arch-
bishop), the poisonous vapours are carried, not only
through Lambeth, but also into the very heart of the
metropolis. If the whole of these wretched hovels and
filthy factories were swept away altogether from the
south side of Lambeth Church to Vauxhall, and again,
from the waterside back to the railway arches, it would
be a downright boon to the parish; and in their places
there should be a ht.ndsome ricer frontage, consisting of
a terrace, with carriage-way next the water, and streets
at certain distances, to turn out of this terrace, towards
the railway arches; this would soon become a valuable
property, and would also be an ornament to the neigh-
bourhdod both by land and by water.
PAUPER EMIGRATION.—Ten fine-looking girls,
cleanly and comfortably dressed, passed through Kil-
konny on Friday, from the Callan workhouse, under
the charge of the master, Mr. Toumy, for Dublin,
from which they sailed on Saturday for Plymouth,
where th'y are to embark for Australia. Last April
another party left Callan for the eaxto place.—Kilkehny
Journal.
FRANKFORT.—Dr. Emden, a Jew, has been elected
one of the secretaries to the new Legislative Assembly,
recently renewed here.—Jewish Chronicle.

EXTENSIVE BANK FORGERIES.
BRIGHTON, SUNDAY, FEB. 24.—This town was
alarmed on Saturday evening by the discovery that
a gang of swindlers were extensively and successfully,
in part at ail events, uttering forged notes of the
Brighton Union Bank. We have made extensive
inquiries on the subject, and subjoin the fallowing
details, which will be read with much interest
throughout the country, the plan adopted by the gang
being a new process, which offers great facilities to
the operations of forgers, and is, moreover, at least as
far as we are aware, the first instance on record in
which it has been employed.
Commencing with the commencement of our know-
ledge of the affair, we may state that on Saturday
Mr. T. H. Chase, the active and intelligent chief
officer of the Brighton police, received by post a com-
munication from Mr. Stevens, chief officer of the Bir-
mingham police, that a man was in custody in the
latter town on a charge of being concerned in passing
forged notes of the ,Birmingham banks ; that when
apprehended he threw a bundle of notes into the fire,
and that one of the fragments recovered from the
flames by the police purported to be a poriion of a
51. note of the Brighton Union Bank.
This fragment was enclo,ed in the letter. It was
the second or right-hand half of a note, to all e.ppeate
ance a genuine "promise to pay." The barking
firm is that of Messrs. Hall, West, and Burrer, whose
notes are engraved in the usual manner, and b ar,
beneath the name of the bank, a miniature delineation
or the Pavilion. The writer of this article has some
knowledge of lithography, and, on being ehowii the
fragment in question, pronounced it to be a print
from a well-executed transfer to a printing-stone of a
genuine note, and his impression was confirmed en
being subsequently shown other copies, of which more
anon. He has since, however, reason to believe that
the process by which the forgery of the printed part
of the note was effected was the analogous one called
the "anesthetic," first brought into use, he believes,
by a firm at Norwich, under the patronage of the late
Bishop of that diocese.
The signature is that of Mr. West, whose writing
bears the impress of nervousness, and is not a bad imi-
tation of the real signature. It shows itself a forgery
when, and only when, it is compared side by side with
the real signature.
Mr. Chase, on receiving the communication from
Birmingham, immediately placed himself in commu-
nication with the bank. lie was engaged in conver-
sation with Mr. Pocock, chief clerk of the bank, on
the subject, on Saturday evening, when a junior
clerk of the bank interrupted them by bringing in a
Si. note, which bad been brought to the office for
change, and which was thought to be bad. This
impression was at once pronounced to be correct. It
turned out that a man of gentlemanly appearance had
walked into the shop of Mr. Lashmar, draper, and
purchased some articles, for which he tendered a Si.
Union Bank note, and that Mr. Lashmar, not having
enough change, seat the note to the bank. Mr.
Chase's house happens to be very near to Mr. Lash-
mar's shop. Mr. Chase ran to the shop immediately,
end addressing a person who was seated in a chair
awaiting the return of the messenger sent for change,
inquired whether he was the gentleman who had paid
for some articles with a Si. note ? "It is forged,"
said Mr. Chase. " I was not aware of it," said the
man. The chief officer did not care for that of course,
and walked to the hall with the draper's customer.
At the hall the men was strictly searched. His
hat, coat, and waistcoat, underwent the first exerni
nation, but the result was not important. "I must
trouble you," said the chief officer, "to remove your
trousers."lhe prisoner demurred and resisted; but
resistance was useless. His nether garment was
taken off. " I suppose you will want my shirt next,"
said the prisoner. "Stockings first," replied the
officer. The stockings were removed from the legs,
and beneath the garters were found eight notes ex-
actly similar to those already mentioned. "I sup-
pose," said the prisoner, "you are satisfied now."
" Not quite," said Mr. Chase ; but no further revels
tion attended the prosecution of the search. The
prisoner, on being further interrogated, said he had
no residence in Brighton, and that he lived in the
City-read, London, but did not know the number.
Finding in the prisoner's pocket a piece of paper
on which was written " Willy, St. James's-street,"
Mr. Chase inquired whether he had changed any 51.
notes of the Union Bank, or received any such notes
in payment for purchased articles. One of the as-
sistants replied that a man had made a purchase for
which he paid with a Si. note, subsequently changed
at Mr. Tuppen's shop, next door. Thither the chief
officer of police repaired, and inquired, " Have you
a Si. note which you can give for five sovereigns ?"
Mr. Tuppen replied that he had, and inquired,
" Would he take a Si. Bank of England note ?" "No ;
he would, prefer one of the Union Bank." Mr. Tup-
pen produced the identical note which he had received
from Mr. Willy, and was then made acquainted with
what appears above.
Mr. Chase returned to the Town-hall, and on his
way passed the shop of Mr. Lashmar, where the
first note had been uttered, surrounded by a crowd
witnessing the removal by Superintendent Crow-
burst of a second man, who had been offering another
of the forged notes at the same shop.
Constables in plain clothes were immediately dis-
patched about the town to put the tradesmen on their
guard, and in the course of the evening upwards of
twenty other Si. notes, the produce of the same for-
gery, were brought to the hall, as well as two more
of the utterers, in consequence of the information.
The notes of the bank are numbered by means of
printing types, and the forgeries are well -executed
resemblances. Economy, however, has been studied,
for all the numbers are combinations of the four
figures 6,704, differently disposed. The plan has been
well digested. The necessity of simultaneous action
seems to have been perceived, for all the utterings
were between six and eight o'clock.
The four men will undergo an examination to-mor-
row (Monday) before the Brighton magistrates. Of
the result we shall give a report on Tuesday.
Another note has since been brought in from Leaves.

RAILWAY SHAKE NIARKETS.
BRISTOL, Fin. 23.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—Tho market to-day was very inactive,
and but few sales trans .cted, prices generally having a
downward tendency.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —We have had a very trifling busi-
ness in cur Stock Exchange to-day. Prices generally have
shown a tendency to decline, and the market closed heavily
at the quotations. The transactions were as follow:
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 73/4 dis.—London and
North-Western, 106—Ditto, New Quarters, Ij p.—Ditto,
Fifths, p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), p.—Midland,
Ditto, Halves, 245111 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4),
614—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original N. and B.),
15—York and North Midland, 181%.
MANC ['ESTE R, FEB. 23.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—Our share market was dull to-day,
and prices had a downward tendency. The transactions
were as follow :—East Lancashire, 93/4—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 51—Ditto, Fifths, 75% dis.—Manchester and Bir-
mingham Quarters (C), 7-16 p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, Preference, 7—London and North-Western,
New Quarters, 5-16 p.
BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was extremely
quiet to-day. London and North-Western were quoted at
107, and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley
were done at 9/. :3s. 9d. _ _ _