The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-06 00:00:00

THE CASE OF THOMAS EDGELET.

The defendant, Edgeley, this morning surrendered
to an indictment charging him with forging to de-
fraud the Leeds Banking Company, and also to
another indictment for misdemeanour.

:Giffard having intimated that he proposed
to proceed with the indictment for misdemeanour,
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he had come to the
court that morning to try the forgery cases, and he
thought it was competent for his learned friend now
to choose to go on with the misdemeanour.
Mr. Giffard said there arose certain difficulties
with respect to a witness named Greenland, who
was now in Geneva, as to his attendance at the
trial for forgery, and as the care for misdemeanour
was not affected by that circumstance, he proposed
to try the case now.
Mr. Justice Willes asked what was proposed to he
done with the forgery case?
Mr. Giffard said, in the event of a conviction,
he should ask for the charge of forgery to stand
over.

Mr. Justice Willes—But what in the case of an
acquittal ?

Mr. Giffard—Then I should not offer any evi-
dence on the charge of forgery.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine asked that the trial might
be further postponed to allow him to make an ap-
plication to the Court of Queen's Bench for a cer-
tiorari, in accordance with the direction of Mr. Justice
Bramwell.

Mr. Justice Willes said he did not think thal
Baron Bramwell's directions applied to the presen
altered state of affairs. He thought the defendaul
had ample notice; and therefore the case ought al
once to go on.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine asked that it might be
postponed for two or three days, Saturday for
instance.

Mr. Giffard objected to that ; the case could be
taken either to-morrow or Friday.
Mr. Justice Willes thought the trial ought at once
to go on.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine thought a day or two's
delay ought to be granted.
After a consultation with Mr. Justice Channell,
Mr. Justice Willes fixed the case for Friday, not
only that the prisoner should surrender, but that he
should take his trial.

LwISaTs3ITrS.
CASE
aliaso F
ocA
nEN,
Peter TAHlEohun,arraigned for
feloniously, maliciously-, and advisedly
endeavour-
ing to seduce John Maloney and others, then being
persons serving in her Majesty's land forces, from
their duty and allegiance to her said Majesty, ho
well knowing at the time that the said John Ma-
loney and others were then persons serving in her
Majesty's land forces.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty to this indict-
ment, and also to the following indictment that he
did, together with divers other evil disposed per-
sons, feloniously and wickedly compass, imagine,
invent, devise, and intend to deprive and depose
our lady the Queen from the style, honour, and
royal name of the imperial crown of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The facts of the case were fully reported in The
Sun during the examination of the prisoner before
the magistrate at Bow-street Police-court.
The trial was proceeding when we went to press.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
TIIE CHARGE OF ROBBING A TURK.--John
Hamilton, a very fashionably-dressed man, was
indicted for stealing a purse, 6 coins, called Napo-
leons, one £5 bank note, and divers papers, the
property of Ali Suair, from his person, and also for
feloniously forging and uttering an order for the
payment of £2OO, with intent to defraud the same.
It will be recollected that the charge against the
prisoner was that he met the prosecutor on the de-
parture platform of the South Eastern Railway,
and, after he was joined by three companions, cards
were produced, and after the prosecutor had refused
to play his
pockets were rifled and the property
taken from him by the prisoner.
A very long trial ended in the jury returning a
verdict of acquittal.

THE RAILWAY CLEARANCE-ITOUSE.—In the case
of " Eyton v. the Denbigh, &c., Railway Company," be-
fore Mr. Church, the Chief Clerk, yesterday, at the Rolls
Chambers, an application was made on the part of he
Railway Clearance-house that a sum of money should be
deposited to meet any claim that might arise on the Den-
bigh Railway. The Clearauce-house had established a
system to " clear " all railways, and it was remarked, in
support of the application, that a large sum had been lost
from not having deposits made to meet weekly claims on
companies. The Chief Clerk made en order iu accordance
with the prayer of the Clearance-house.

PREFERENCE S ARES.
Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. 2, 844
Great Western, Orig. 44 per cent., 82
tit. Western. Wt. blidland, Oxford Ist guaranteed, 1034
Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock,
Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent.,
Ditto, 4i per cent. rd., 914
North:Eastern, G. N. E., 4 per cent., 99
North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail,. 814

FOILEfGN BAIL WAYE.
Great Luxembourg, 10}
San PAULO, Jim., gua. 6 per cent., 171
I+'OREIOII MINKS.
Anglo.Braz' lieu Gold,
Choateles biol,l and Silver 3fining,lllm., 2 13-16
Don l'edro, N rLli Del Hey, 1 15-16 pm
St. John del Hey, lien 194

BANKS.

Agra, lira., A, 101]
Ditto, B, VI
Alliance, lim., 121 1
Bank of New Zealand, 131
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China. 171
Chartered her, of India, London, and China; 281
Consolidated, lira., 4. I
English and /Ho de Janeiro, lira., 81
English. Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 17i
Imperial Ottoman, 101
London Chartered lianK of Australia, 241
London and County, 5.1 21
London Joint Stock, 35
London and Westminster, 691
Ditto, Scrip, 461 1
Union of Australia, 43
Union of London, 343 I
MISCELLANEOUS:
Anglo American Telegraph, 23i
Atlantic Telegraph, 5'3..?
Ditto, 8 per cent , 1033 5
Australian Mart. Land and Finanos,:eim., 43
Ceylon Company,'—
Ditto, A shares, 21
City of Moscow Gas, 1im.,*51 4i 5
Continental Union Gas, Bin_ 14; 153
Credit Foncier of England, lim., 3
East India Irrigation and Canal. 171
Egyptian 9 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua.by Egypt. G0y.,190a
Gen. Credit and Discount, tim., 4 15-16 5 1.16
Hudson's Bay, 153 15
National Discount Company. 103
New Zealand Loan :rod Mer% Agency, lira., 3 2i
o..ean Marine Insurau,c), 193 19
Panama. New Z.:Aland and Aus. It. Mail., 31
reoinsula and Oriental steam, 5Si 9j
Societe Financiere d'Egypte, lira.. 4
Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance, 112
Upper Ase tin 'Tea, lira 4;
of Egypt, 7 per cent.). Mortgage) Loan, 7 1 1 701 11

MRS. LEECH, widow of the late John Leech, so
long and so intimately associated w:th Punch, died a few
days ago at Kensington.
'rho Royal Commission on Courts-Martial met
yesterday, at the E Committee-room, House of Lords.
President—the chairman, Col. Wilson Patten, the Marquis
of Harlington, Lieut.-General Peel, the Judge-Advocate-
General, the Right Hon. T. E. Headlam, Lieut.-General
Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., Lieut.-General Henry
Eyre, Mr. S. Whitbread, M.P., Captain the Hon. J. C.
Vivian, Colonel Lowder, 0.13. The secretary, Mr. J. L
Warton, also attended.