The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-18 00:00:00

PRICES uF SHARES

Mr. Henry Hacket proved that in the month of Sep- I
tember, 1843, he was bookkeeper at the George, in
Leicester, and recollected the parcel being brought on
the 13th of September of that year, to be sent to London.
It was directed to Smith and Co., and after remaining
in his possession about half an hour it was sent to the
railway station by George Mason, the porter.
Cross-examined—He was positive about it, as it was
the only parcel on that day fur London, and he entered
it on the book produced, for which Is. 3d. was paid, but
he could not say by whom it was brought, and he gave a
receipt as for a banker's parcel.
George Mason having proved the delivery of the parcel,
George Wade, a porter employed at the Midland Rail-
way station, in Leicester, said he recollected receiving
the parcel from the last witness shortly after nine o'clock
in the evening, which he put in the usual place for par-
cels in the office, where it remained till the mail train
arrived, and then it was sent to London, having put it
in the bag himself. When he put the parcel in the office
he locked the door and put the key in another office, and
after returning from supper he found it in the same state
he had left it, and then he forwarded it.
Mr. JARDINE observed it was very serious to find such
important companies, for the purpose of saving expense,
retuse to come forward and assist the officers, which
would be the means of dispensing with the attendance of
several persons, which would not have been the case had
legal advice been taken, the object being to prevent a
recurrence of such robberies.
Inspector Haynes said the inconvenience was incalcu-
lable, for as the house of Pares and Co., had been indem-
nified, several tradespeople who could not afford it exe-
cuted orders to considerable amounts upon the receipt of
half-notes, being as a matter of course ignorant of any
understanding that might exist between the company
and the Bank of England.
The witness Wade being recalled, said the keys of the
parcel van were kept at the termini, and there was no
possibility of opening during the transfer by the guard,
who merely carried the way bill.
Mr. JARDINE said it would be well if more distinct
evidence as to the practices were given, in order to show
that no person could by any possibility get even at the
lock. _ _

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
Two men, named Reilly and Chowns, were charged
before the Lord Mayor with having conspired together
to defraud the mate of a vessel which had just arrived
from a long voyage. The case, which excited the
greatest interestwas occasionally interrupted by bursts
of laughter.
Mr. E. Morris, the proprietor of the East India
Arms Tavern, in Fenchurch-street, stated that while
he was in the cellar some person had gone up stairs,
accompanied by a sailor, and, another man having
speedily followed, there was reason to apprehend that
all was not right. Something was ordered to drink
by the two first visitors, and the witness soon after-
u wards heard the clinking of a lock, and one of those
in the room offered to lay a wager of 201. or 251.,
upon which an officer was sent for, and the sailor, who
was a jolly, open-hearted fellow, and the two prison-
ers, were suddenly stopped as they were rising to
depart, and informed that they must stay a little for
the sake of justice. It was in fact seen that the two
prisoners had laid a plan for robbing the sailor, and as
u an attempt of a similar kind had been made about two
years before in the same house, the witness was de-
termined to make an example of the men at the bar if
possible.
The following particulars were collected from the
impetuous and disjointed statement of the mate :—As
the mate was going along Fenchurch-street, he asked
a man, who happened to be the prisoner Reilly, the
way to the station in the Minories. Reilly said he
was going that way himself, and he would show the
way, but proposed that they should have a drop of
beer together; and together they went into the East
India Arms, in one of the private rooms of which
they had no sooner sat down, than in walked the
other gentleman, Mr. Chowns, who seemed to be
quite a stranger, began to drink by himself, and pro-
duced a lock, which he said nobody could open. The
mate, who never, he declared, had seen so foolish a
lock in his life, opened it with ease ; and another lock,
equally simple and foolish in appearance having been
exhibited by Mr. Chowns, he offered to open that
with as little difficulty, and then the challenge to bet,
which had been heard by the policeman, was made.
The mate happened to have securities for the money
about him, but no money, otherwise the wager would
) have been very probably, as he said himself laid, and
the trick would have succeeded.
Here several flash notes and counterfeit sovereigns,
which were found in the posession of the prisoners,
.% were produced, as were some marked cards. They
were both known to the police as common cheats,
and one of them had been tried at the Central Criminal
it Court.
It was not until the prisoners and the mate were
E •
;34 introduced to the Lord Mayor, that the latter had
any idea into what sort of company he had unluckily
,/% got, and if it had not been for the keenness of the
landlord of the tavern, he would no doubt have had
to lament the incident which introduced him to their
acquaintance, although at that time ,he had no cash
in his possession.
5% The LORD MAYOR—Why, my good fellow, it was
r a very fortunate thing for you that ,you escaped so
3% well out of the clutches of these men.
The mate—l see they are a pair of d—d scoundrels,
) but I could have opened twenty such locks, and rd
lay any money of it. You never saw anything so
3s. foolish. Why, one of these gentlemen offered to lay
me 401.
3% The LORD MAYOR—And if you had had the money
*2 you would have betted ? The mate—Yes, I dare
) say I should; and I'd have won, too.—(A laugh.)
is The policeman here produced the lock which the
sit mate had opened, and another lock resembling it,
5)% which was made so as not to be capable of being
opened at all. The sleight-of-hand substitution of
one of these locks for the other, was one of the
- modes of obtaining plunder ; and in aid of that plan
the counterfeit money and bank-notes were kept in
pocket-books by the prisoners, who were both smartly
dressed, Chowns being attired like a respectable coun-
) tryman.
The mate—Why, that gentleman that looks like a
) farmer told us, when he joined us, that he was the
gamekeeper to the Earl of Pembroke, and he said he
)% had come to town to look for two of his master's
hounds, that were locked together with the same sort
of lock, and that wherever the dogs were they must
be together, as nobody else could open the lock.
The LORD MAYOR—Did he say the Earl of Perri-
% broke's dogs had been stolen ? The mate—He did
;30 so ; and I advised him to go to the police about the
dogs ; and I did think him a great fool, but I find
' that I was the fool, after all.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Woolf, for one of the prisoners—But you lost
' nothing by the transaction ? The mate—Nothing at
all. I gained by it, for I had some beer and I never
paid for it.—(Laughter.) What an unlucky fellow I
am. Here I come home after being shipwrecked
5% and being away three years, and the instant I come
ashore I get into the hands of a pair of rascals, and
5 then lam taken up by the police and brought here to
73% complain against them, and I want to have nothing at
all to do with them, but to call and see my relations
and be off to sea again. Was there ever so unfortu-
I nate a man as lam ?
The LORD MAYOR said it would be lamentable if
such fellows escaped justice any longer.
Mr. Hobler, who appeared for the second prisoner,
submitted that there was no case against his client
for the Central Criminal Court.
!••• The LORD MAYOR remanded the prisoners, and
1% stated that he would not take less bail for each of
them than two good securities fin. 100/. each, and
their own recognisances in 20til. each.
) Adolphus Valentine Wyatt, eating-house keeper, of
5 Silver-street, was committed to Newgate for trial
1 upon the charge of having committed a felonious as-
sault upon Mary Ann Lee, his servant.
a BOW-STREET.
BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—Ye3terday Richard Elliot,
described as a tobacconist, and Richard Vincent, an om-
nibus driver, were brought up fur final examination,
7%
4% charged with being concerned in breaking into the
57's dwelling-house of Mr. Cox, a clerical robe-maker, 29,
2 Southampton-street, Strand, on the night of the 24th
7 of December, and stealing several pieces of silk, and
9 other articles, amounting to nearly 2001.
r 5
It may be necessary to state, that information being
5% given of the circumstance, the officers of the detective
,t 4. force discovered that the prisoners had disposed of a
!414 piece of silk, consisting of seventeen yards, for 11. ss. 64.,
to Mrs. Dismore, the landlady of the King's Arms public-
k house, in the Coal-yard, Drury-lane, who was unable to
,I;4i, identify the prisoners, but they being sub-equently als-
oprehended in Paddington, the remainder of the property
if% was discovered in the house of Elliot, together with a
o considerable quantity of other valuable property.
8
o% Inspector Shackle said, as a wrong impression was
ox, made on the Court at the last examination, respecting
7 the public-house where the silk had been sold, he had
744 received a letter from the landlord, offering to produce
24g persons, who were in his house when the property was
9 disposed of, to speak to the identity of the prisoners.
0
414 Inspector Shackle said, he was bound to add that Mr.
Dismore gave every assistance in tracing out the parties
111 by whom the property had been sold, and he thought he
,
wams ern. tjiAtlßedrats%succohnsiadesrteadterhee matter statement.
required only tot.
..t be corrected, and, as the officers were satisfied with the
si assistance they had received, it was sufficient to remove
; any wrong impressions that might have been made at the
last examination.
James Bachelor, a coach-lace manufacturer, proved
3% that on Saturday, the 28th of December, about four
3
o'clock in the afternoon, being at the bar of the King's
4 Arms for the purpose of getting change to pay his men,
4ihe saw two men enter, one of whom was Elliot, with a
8 parcel under his arm, and on asking the landlady if the
would purchase a piece of silk, seventeen yards, she re-
plied she did not require so much to make a dress. He
then said he had taken it for a bad debt, allowing 3s per
0 yard for it, but he would take ls. 6d. a yard for it, upon
6 which she gave 1/. ss. 6d., and, placed the parcel under
g% the counter.
3V) Mr. Robinson applied for bail to be taken for Vincent,
as he had heretofore held an irreproachable character,
1 and the officer could bring no other charge.
iss Mr. JARDINE agreed to accept of bail, himself in the
3 sum of 1001. and sureties in 50/. each, to answer the
r charge at the Central Criminal Court, and the wit-
nesses being bound over, the prisoners were committed
for trial.
ROBBERY OF THE LEICESTER BANE.—The prisoner,
Elliot, was then charged with stealing the sum of
1,071/. 16s. 101, the property of Messrs. Pares and Co.,
ic the Leicestershire Joint-Stock Banking Company.
Mr. Henry Thomas Hill, a clerk in the service of the
prosecutors, stated that on Wednesday, the 13th of Sep-
% tember, 1843, he made up a parcel containing the sinister
Si of Bank of England, country notes and cheques, amount-
ing to 1,0711. 16s. 10d., which consisted of one
hundred and "forty-six 5/. notes, and nine 101.
g notes, with nine cheques, directing it to Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Smith, of Lombard-street, London. Having
e made up the parcel he sealed it, and took it to the book-
ing-office at the George Hotel, Leicester, where he deli-
vered it into the hands of Mr. Henry Hacket, who was
then a clerk, for the purpose of having it forwarded to
London. The dexter halves of the notes he made up in
a letter, which be directed the same evennig in the
same manner, and put iato the post-office. He did not
take the number of the notes, as it was not then the
custom, nor had he seen them since. Witness identified
the sinister half-note produced of the Bank of England
for 5/., dated the 2d of Nov., 1842, No. T. 0. 26,785,
which passed through the Bank 9th of Sept., 1843 or
1844, but he could not tell which without referring to
the books; also the sinister half of another for SL, dated
2d Nov., 1841, No. S. P. 26,364, as having passed
through the bank on the 11th of Sept, but he could
not tell the year ; and a third for 5/., dated 16th of Feb.,
1842, No. S. A. 83,413, passing the bank on the 13th of
September.
In cross-examination, witness could not say the notes
were part of the parcel that bad been made up and posted
in the manner described.
Inspector Haynes informed the Court that as Pares
and Co. had indemnified the Bank of England for the
loss, they declined to interfere in the prosecution. The
same objection had been made by the Midland, and the
London and Birmingham Compamea, on the ground that
the parcel had not been lost rty their servants ; and as
to Smith and Co., they considered the expense too great,
which obliged him to get the evidence in the best way
he could.

L uANALS,itAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. I

Names of Com-
panies.

Amount
of
Share. I

Canals.
As... and Oldham...
Ashby.de-la.Zonch.av
Basingstoke .....
Brecknock & Abergay.
Birmingham,l.l6thsh.
Do. and Liverp. June.
Chelmer & Blackwator
Coventry •••••••••••••••••••
Crom ford
Dudley ••••••••••••••••••••••
Danube and Mayne
Ellesmere and Chester
Erewash
Forth and ,
Grand Junction .....
Grand Union
Grand Surrey
Grand Western ..... ..-
Glamorgansh., ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
Huddersfield . .... ....av
Kennet tad Aven ...av
Lancaster *
Leeds and Liverpool
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp
Loughborough ....ay
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowbray
Mersey and Irwell.
Macclesfield
Oxford
Peak Forest..
Regent's (or London)
R0chda1e...............3v
Shropshire ...»...•«..»••
Somerset . . ... .
Do. Lock Fund ica
Stafford and Worcester
Stratford-on.Avon...av
Swansea...,
Severn & Wye- & Rail.
Trent & Mersey, sh.
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick and firming.
Warwick and Napten...
Worcester & Birming.
Wilts and Berka......av

A s. d.
tl7 18 0
113 0 0
100 0 0
150 0 0
8 15 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
190 0 0
41 13 4
133 0 0
100 0 •
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 9
100 0 0
100 0 0
172 13 4
100 0 0
150 0 0

57 6 6
39 18 10
47 6 8
LO6 0 0
140 0 0
83 10 0
142 17 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

78 0 0

3316 8
85 0 0
125 0 0
150 0 0
12 10 0
140 0
125 0 0
145 e o
79 9 8
100 0 0
26 9 3
50 0 0
19 5 8
100 • 0
100 0 0
78 8 0
67 10 8
105 0 0
110 0 C

James Smith, foreman porter at the Euston-square
terminus, recollected the parcel coming to the station in
a very good condition, being sealed. He called it over
and handed it to another p,rter.
In answer to the Court, witness said the keys of the
Leicester van he kept, and it was the universal practice
there should be no other key kept but at the other ter-
minus in London.
Mr. Thomas Greenhough, clerk to Smith and Com-
pany, identified the parcel produced as having arrived
on the 14th of September, 1843, strapped in light-
coloured paper, on which he put a number. On opening
it he found it contained several pieces of waste paper,
and the outside cover of an old book produced, but no
bank-notes.
Mr. James Ball, another clerk, said that on the 14th
of September, he received a letter, directed to his em-
ployers, containing the halves of several country notes,
amounting to 8201., and also several cheques, amounting
to 251/. 16s. 10d. Witness here described the dexter
halves and their numbers, as spoken to by the first
witness.
Inspector Shackle stated that on Monday, the 30th of
December last, he apprehended the prisoner upon an-
other charge, and on searching him he found six halves
of the Bank of England notes produced, three for 101.,
three for 51., being joined together to form three notes,
bnt having different dates and numbers, being the notes
missing from the parcel.
John Draper, jun., of the Globe Tavern, in Hatton-
garden identified the prisoner as the person who came,
about the month of October last, to the house to request
some parcel containing guns would be directed to John
Moore, from Mr. Bradley, of Birmingham, which he ex-
pected, and the housekeeper gave him permission in his
presence. He never saw the prisoner before, and in a
few days after the parcel, as described, which was a long
deal box, arrived. It was heavy, and paid for, and the
next day the prisoner, having asked if it had come, was
answered in the affirmative, and he took it away on his
shoulder. In a few days after he called again, and asked
if a letter addressed to Mr. John Moore had arrived
from Mr. Bradley, as he (prisoner) lived in Bleeding-
heart-yard, and his wife forgot to ask for it when she
called for the beer.
Mr. Draper, sen., said he saw the prisoner only once,
when he took away the parcel ; but on receiving a se-
' cond letter he kept it, as he understood there was some
fraudulent transaction, till he delivered it to the officers.
Mr. JARDINE said the officers should do the best they
could to get up further evidence, and ordered the pri-
soner to be remanded for a week.

WI/beach ••«••••••••••.••
Wey and Arun.......

Docks.
Commercial .... ........
East and West India
London .
Ditto Bonds
Bristol.... ........ ........av
Do. Bnds, var. amounts
Rt. Katharine......
Ditto Bonds
Ditto Bonds ......
Southampton ......

100 0 0
Stock
Stock

IAI 5 0

Stock

507 0

Brid Fes
kammenmith
Southwark, new Suhs.
Ditto New of 734 pr c
Waterloo
Ditto Old Ann. of SI,
Ditto New ditto of 71
Ditto Bonds

58 0 0
03 2 8
50 0 0
100 e 0

79 10 3

Assurances.
Albion.... ...............
Alfred Life ...... .."..--
Alliance Brit. and For
Ditto Marine
Atlas
Birmingham Fire
British Commercial
Cler. Med. Is Gen. Life
County
Eag1e................." •

500 0 0
95 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
250 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 •
1000 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
29 0 0
Stock
100 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
20 6 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock

Economic Life .....
European Life

.
Ditto New ................
Freemasons ... ..... .....„

Globe
Guardian
Hepe ....
Ditto
Imperial Fire
Ditto Life....
Indemnity
Law Life .....
Legal and General Life
London Fire...............
Ditto Ship ......
National Loan Fund...
Neptune Marine
Palladium Life
Protector Life
Provident Life
Rock Life
R yal
Sun Fire
Ditto Life..........
University Life.
Universal Life
Union Fire and Life
Joint Stk 3anks
Australasi J
Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & Westminstr
Ditto New........ .....
London Joint Stock
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto New .....
National of Ireland.....
Nat. Provincial Englnd
Ditto New... .....
Gloucestershire ~..
Union of Austnlia
Union of London
Gaslight 6. Coko

100 0 0
100 0 0
200 0 0

40 0 0

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 16, 1845.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto the Bight Honourable Sir Charles Theophi-
lus Metcalfe, Bart., G.C.8., and Captain-General and
Governor in Chief of her Majesty's Provinces of Canada,
New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and of the Island of
Prince Edward, and Governor- General of all her Ma-
jesty's Provinces on the Continent of North America,
and of the Island of Prince Edward, and to the heirs
male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, sty-le.
and title of Baron Metcalfe, of Fern-hill, in the county of
Berks.

Bath
British .. ..
Ditto Provincial
Binning. & Staffbrdsh.
Bristol..
Brightrl
Ditto General
C;ty of London
Ditto New
Continental Consolid
Ditto New
Equitable
Imperinl
Isla of Thanet .......
Independent
Phcenix
.....
South Metropolitan
United General...,.,
Weßtmins. Chartered
Ditto New .....

Water Works.
Birmingh4in
East L0nd0n.......
Grand Junction ..... ..av
Kent .....

Nw Riv Len. Blida An.
Manchester and Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lond.
West Middlesex...ay
Yrk BuldgCo.Les.Prop
Iron Railways.
Birmingham & Dern),
& Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Countut,
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Grand Junction
Great North of Englnd
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares.—
Ditto Fifths .......
Harwich (Braithwaite)
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leech and Selby
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares
London and Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and El3ckwall
London and Greenwich
London and Birmingh.
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Ditto Thirds.— .....
London and S. Western
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Manchatr and Birming
Midland Counties
North British
Norwich & Brandon
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, leg. 5/. dis
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen--
Rouen and Havre
Stockton & Darlington
South East. and Dover
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and N. Midland
Ditto New Shares
Mines.

Albion
Alten .....
Anglo Mex., iss. 51. p.m
Ditto Subscription
Bolanos ........
Ditto Scrip
BraaiL Imp. in. 51. p.m
Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U.
Do. St. John Del Rey
British Iron •••••••••••«•••
Ditto Registered

100 0 0

IL 4s.
• IL lbs.

10 • • li
30 0 0 2
35 10 0 1
34 10 0 4:

bper cent.
b per cent.
pc andl
SIAM. bs.

15 0 0 2
1 10 0 Os'
5 0 0
3 0 0
7 0 0
175 0 0 2
1 25 0 0
50 0 0 fi

tper cent.
7per cent.
per cent
per cent

O 0 'lOO 0 0 R
0 •1 90 0 0 3
O 0.1 50 • •
0 0/ 90 • 0

`ANIES' PRICES,

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10 0 0
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12 10 0
1 0 0
2 10 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
25
25 9 0
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StiN, LoNDoN, SATURDAY FY-ENING, JANUARY 18, 1845