The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-19 00:00:00

BANK CIRCULATION.

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The following is the return of the Bank of England
average weekly circulation, &c., from May 18 to the 10th
instant :

Circulation, Now ...... ....£21,324,000
Last time

Increase 78,000
Deposits, Now
Last time

Increase
Securities, Now ...... 22,908,000
Last time 22,471,000

Increase ...... 437,000
Bullion, Last time
Now ...... ......

Decrease lBB,OOO
Rest, Now 3,073,000
Last time ... 3,015,000

Increase

' hiroRTATIoN OF FRUlT.—Application baring been
made to the Customs authorities, setting forth, that the
cargoes of fruit, which are daily aciving by the steaiAers
from the Continent, are generally
of a very ripe and
perishable nature,- and requesting that fruit and vege-
tables of the kind may be landed from the vessels with-
out waiting for the usual entries to be passed, which
causes delay, and very frequently deteriorates and in-
jures the goofs, orders have been issued that, on a written
request being made to the principal officer of the Cus-
toms, at the station where the ship is lying, giving the
name of the vessel, the marks and numbers of the pack-
ages, the number of packages, the description of the
goods, and the supposed value and duty, fruit and veget-
ables of a ripe and perishable nature may be allowed to
be unshipped from the vessel, on a deposit being made
of the duty, and on conditions that if the vessel be not
alongside the wharf or quay, the goods be removed
thereto, by craft in charge of an officer of the Customs,
the Crown being put to no additional expense ; and that
the. same be landed and examined during daylight. The
quantity of fruit imported from the Continent into this
country is very great, and from the necessarily close
manner in which it is packed, and its perishable nature,
it is requisite that it should be exposed to the air as
quickly as possible, to prevent its decay.
DIABOLICAL ACT.—An atrocious act of villainy
was perpetrated on Wednesday se'nnight, at Andrew's-
house Colliery, near Whickham, by some fitting disciple
of the fiendish leaders of the pit population—Beazeley
and Co. About twelve o'clock at night, a metal pipe,
about fourteen inches in length, loaded with powder and
pieces of metal, &c., was discharged through the house-
door of a pitman, named William Glasper, in the direc-
tion of the bed whereon he and his wife were lying.
Fortunately, however, the
charge flew above the bed,
and lodged in the wall and ceiling, leaving the inmates
totally unharmed. Glasper's offence, as will be sup-
poSed, consisted in his having deserted the ranks of
Beazeley and Co., and returned to earn his living by
work, instead of prowling about in idleness, and turning
out his wife and children as mendicants and vagrants.—
Durham Chronicle.

Sunions CASH ROBBERY AT WASEFIELD.—OR
Wednesday last, Ann Higgins, of Kirkgate, Leeds, was
placed at the bar of the Wakefield Court-house, charged
with receiving a large sum of money stolen from Mr.
Messrs. Leathern's bank, d
Exleyeof Wakefield, corn-merchant. The particulars of
the robbery were, that on the 31st of July, Mr.
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of Bank
of
rs England notes, one
Charles Exley gave to his brother, to take to
the bank along with some gold, 4 promissory note
for 301.,nd three hir t
e 5eL n
notes
an
other property. Mr. Exley, who is book-keeper to his
brother, proceeded home, having, as he thought, the
notes in a pocket-book along with him,
101., 301.,
aotbut, on examina-
tion, found that he had either lost it on the way, or left
it in the counting-house. On returning to the counting-
house, the money was not there, and nothing
further was
heard of it for some days. Suspicion had attached to some
parties in Leeds, who had displayed a
good deal
money, and the prisoner, Ann Higgins
,I along with a Mrs.
Lengthorn, Ann Machan, and a Young man who was
afterwards discharged, were detected offering part of
the stolen money at various shops in Kirkgate and
Briggate, Leeds. Mrs. Lengthorn and Ann Machan
were both admitted evidence for the prosecution, and
clearly swore that the notes they had endeavoured to
get changed had been given to them for that purpose by
Ann Higgins. The final detection of the delinquents
Pegler, draper, of
was made by Mr. Briggate, , who, on
having the 301. note offered to him by Elizabeth Long-
thorn and another woman, suspecting it to be stolen,
took it to Messrs. Beckett s bank, where it was identified,
by number and description, as one of the notes stolen
from Mr. Exley. Several tradesmen from Leeds at-
tended, and proved having changed notes for the parties.
After a careful investigation of_ Ihe corroborative cir-
cumstances against the prisoner, Mr. Tew committed the
woman for trial at York assizes. The money was sup-
posed to have been stolen by a son of the prisoner, now
an inmate of York Castle, for brutally maiming a
man in
Leeds. The prisoner, although repeatedly cautioned not
to do so, said, in her defence— Last Last Saturday week,
there came a young woman, Elle_r_t_Tide, into my house;
it is not a house, but a cellar. Ellen is a bad woman ;
she came and asked if my son had come home. I said,
no ; she said he would soon be here, &c. After a little
while, Peter came in, and she took__ something out of her
breast, and gave it to him. _ They went into the coal-
hole together, and stuffed it (the money) under the coals.
That night I got a sup of drink, and took the money out.
I went into Lengthorn 's house next morning, and her
(Mrs. Lengthorn) and Caller woman robbed me of it—
every penny." The prisoner, who is an Irishwoman,
here made a strong asseveration of the truth of her state-
ment, and declared that Mrs. Lengthorn had told her that
Ann Machan bad robbed her. If this statement is cor-
rect, the case bears the singular feature of money stolen
by the paramour of a son, having been re-stolen from
the son by his mother, and again re-stolen from the
guilty mother, while in a state of drunkenness by another
party.