The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Intelligence was received yesterday by the City police that 00
Friday morning a box, containing two bars of gold, value 1,6001., was
stolen from the luggage train station of the Dover Railroad, at the,
Bricklayer's Arms. The box arrived between three and four o'clock
in the morning, and was deposited among% other luggage, and at els
o'clock it was missed.
A Parliamentary return has been issued showing that last year tha
expense of supplying Acts of Parliament to public departments wee
5,4241, Gs. 314 d. The return, as to Scotland, is nil ; and with re- .
spect to Ireland, 4,1831. 10s. 04d.
The estimate of the total cost of- the New Houses of Parliament,
according to the latest approved plan, is 928,9131. Gs. 3d.
The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the Shareholders of the Hull
and Selby Railway was held on Friday at Hull; Richard Tattle,
Esq., the newly-elected Chairman of Directors, presiding. The
Directors recommended that the Proprietors should give them autho-
rity to open and conclude a negotiation with the Manchester and
Leeds Ra lway Company, on such terms as they might think
eligible, for a complete and immediate amalgamation of the two
companies, including the projected Leeds and West Riding Junction,
and the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railways, with others that
might hereafter be deemed promising, in the event of the Board of
Trade being fhvourable to such amalgamation, and the decision being
confirmed by the Legislature. A resolution, conveying to the Di,
rectors the necessary powers, was unanimously passed.
The Lord Mayor, yesterday, requested that the newspapers would
mention that he had received the following sums for the poor-box
The Drapers' Company, 101. 10s. ; Newcastle-under-Lyne, 11. Is. ; a
Middlesex Curate, Conservative Club, F. H., 21.

THE LATE MYSTERIOUS CASE

OF POISONING AT CAMBERWELL.

Yesterday George May, shopman to the late Mr. Mon-
tague, who, it will be recollected, had, with Mrs. Montagne,
been poisoned at Camberwell on the 11th of last month, was
Placed in the felons' dock, before Mr. Henry, at Lambeth
olice-court, on the following charge, as entered inthe police
sheet :—" For feloniously appropriating to his own use various
sums of money received by him for and on account of his
late master ; also with forging the name of the deceased to
various receipts in the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell."

Mr. Dodd, the vestry-clerk of Camberwell, attended to
prosecute on behalf of the heir-at-law to the late Mr.
Montague ; and Mr. Humphries appeared on behalf of the

Mr. Dodd briefly alluded to the melancholy circumstances
which led to the apprehension of the prisoner, and said that
since the mysterious death of Mr. and Mrs. Montague, their
books and accounts bad been examined, and it was found
that the prisoner, who had been their shopman and confiden-
tial servant, had received various sums of money on account
of his master, of which he had made no entry in the books
kept for that purpose ; and coupling this fact with the in-
formation which had been obtained from the customers them-
selves, the nephew of Mr. Montague, who is next of kin,
deemed it advisable to give him into custody on the charge
of embezzlement and forgery.
Evidence was then adduced as to certain declarations of
the prisoner to police-inspector Campbell, with respect to
the accounts, and of the receipt of moneys, of which no entry
had been made.

Mr. Humphries observed that en the inquest holden after
the melancholy-affair, on the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Mon-
tague, the prisoner had been examined for hours, and, though
not upon oath, his deposition had been taken down touching
these very accounts, with the greatest minuteness. He com-
plained that it was an indirect attempt to connect the pri-
soner with a charge of murder. '"
Mr. lIENRY said he had nothing to do with such irregu-
larities, and that he should countenance no more inferential
imputations. He was of opinion, however, that there were
grounds for remand, and he asked what was the total amount
of the alleged embezzlement ? •
Mr. Dodd replied from 501. to 100 L, and added that he
would be able to show on a future occasion that the prisoner
had represented himself on many occasions as the nephew of
the deceased.
The prisoner was remanded to a future day, and Mr.
Henry consented to take good bail for his appearance.