The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-26 00:00:00

£63,174 13

Cr.
By distribution of tracts, including expenses
of distributors, carriage, &c. ..,
By expenses of furniture and fixtures
By deputation expenses, including travelling
expenses to attend meetings and Parlia-
mentary elections in various parts of the
United Kingdom
By grants to local Free-trade Committees
By general salaries of office-staff, including
all employed in London and Manchester
on the general business of the League,
weekly wages, &c., &c.
By postage-stamps and postages, sundry
office expenses, petty cash and incidental
expenses, including repairs and alterations,
coals, cleaning, &c
By expenses of4meetings, including hire of
roon s, erecting hustings, and all other
expenses connected with public meetings 1,669 16 6
By salaries and expenses of lecturers, includ-
ing travelling expenses, &c.
By rents, times, and, gas including rent of
Covent-garden Theatre, house and offices,
London and Manchester 8,992 1 8
By stamped publications, printing and sta-
tionery, reporting, &c. &c 6,854 9 2
By bazaar expenses, including wages of per-
sons employed during the bazaar, fitting
up Covent-garden Theatre, and general
expenditure in advertising, printing, tra-
velling expenses, &e. kc.
By expenses of League newspaper, in
eluding salaries of corductors, editor,
and contributors, stamps, paper, and
printing
Deduct receipts for casual sale 1,227 6 3 10,161 7 1
By registration expenses, including salaries,
travelling, and other expenses of registra-
tion agents, legal , expenses, wages of
clerks, printing and stationery, expenses
in registration courts, and general expenses
on registration business
Balance on hand 12,033 11 1

£63,174 13 6
WILLIAM BICKHAM, } Members of the Finance
SAMUEL LEES, Committee.
W. RAWSON, Treasurer.
Examined and found correct.
WILLIAM EVANS, Member of the Council.

We should like to see an analysis by Lord Mont-
eagle of this statement, and more especially should we
like to be able to see the distinction between the ittin
" expenses of meetings, including hire of rooms," and
the item " rents, taxes, and gas, including rent of
Covent garden Theatre." Again, the ingenious Mr.
Wilson charges at one place for "expenses of furni-
ture and fixtures," then makes a second charge for
"erecting hustings ;" and, thirdly, after all " other
expenses," charges for "fitting up of Covent-garden
Theatre." Mr. Nilson would have made an excel-
lent Old Bailey attorney, especially in drawing in-
dictments. He has such a power of saying the same
thing in different words that the escape from his
meshes would be as difficult as the recall of any
money given to the Anti• Corn-law League. His
peculiar genius shines brilliantly in the ar-
ticle of " travelling expenses." The tract dis-
tributors (and considering the average number
of pumps in each particular county, under which such
gentlemen run the risk of being put, we would not
at all object to their receiving proper remuneration),
and the agitators, Cobden and the Quaker, and the
" registration agents," all charge their travelling ex-
rpses, and Mr. Wilson, more suo, varies the counts.
1-n the distribution of money to the latter class—that
is, the " registration agents," we trust that the
Leaguers have not forgotten their poor old dupe
wilijam Worthington, of Cow-lane, Coventry. That
respectable elderly individual was within a very nar-
row chance of proceeding to the Australian colonies,
merely for swearing that he signed for the League
certain notices which he did not sign. The forbear-
ance of the attorney for the Conservatives of War-
wickshire Sessions, leaves Mr. Worthington still the
deems et tetamen of the Anti. Corn-law League at
Coventry ; but though their paper designated him, be-
cause he was found out, "superannuated and in his dot-
age," that is all the greater real on why 50111 e portion of

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAMB TR.

John White and James Whiteside were placed at the
ar on a charge of attempting to defraud Mr. Ludlam, a
newavender and tobacconist, residing at 33, Stangate-
street, Bridge-road, Lambeth.
From the statement of the prosecutor it appeared that
on the day before, at about twelve o'clock, the prisoner
White entered his shop and asked him if he would buy
a quarter of a hundred weight of smuggled tobacco. lie
produced a sample, which was of an excellent quality,
and said he should sell him, witness, 25 lbs., at 25., and
should deliver it in the evening. Witness suspected at
the time that some trick was intended to be played upon
him, and this was caused both by the prisoner's manner
and the tobacco being of English manufacture, and
offered at half the usual price, but he gave an order for
the 25 lbs., which the prisoner promised to deliver in the
course of the evening. In the interim heave information to
a policeman of the occurrence, and mentioning his sus-
picions as to its being an intended " do," requested the
constable would keep a look out and be handy in the
event of his requiring his services. Shortly after five
o'clock both the prisoners came to his shop, Whiteside
carrying the bundle ; but having beckoned White into
the parlour behind the shop he took the bundle with
him. Inside he placed it upon the table, and pinching
a piece of the side of the bag, drew forth a piece of
tobacco resembling that which he had shown as a sample
in the earlier part of the day. Witness, however, had
still his suspicions, and sent for the constable, who se-
cured both men ; and the whole of the parcel produced,
with the exception of about two ounces of tobacco,
Owed at the identic.d spot where the bag had been torn,
was mere rubbish, and composed of sawdust and sand.
In his cross-examination by Mr. Wentner, who at-
tended for the prisoners, the witness said he did not
know who carried the bundle to the station-house, but
when witness overtook them the constable had posses-
sion of it. _

Police-constable Charles Revell, 175 L, deposed, that
on being called into the shop of the last witness, he
found the prisoners there ; Whiteside in the shop, and
White in the parlour. He asked Whiteside if he had a
license for selling tobacco, and he replied he did not re-
quire one. He then said, " I understand you have
some smuggled tobacco for sale," but though both pri-
soners heard him, neither made any answer. He then
asked them where the) got the bundle, and Whiteside
replied, "I shall say nothing about it. It is all right."
Some days before witness received a bundle from Mr.
Iles, a shopkeeper in Pleasant-place, Kennington-lane,
which was made up of sawdust and sand, with a little
tobacco on the top.
Mr. John Iles, who keeps a chandler's shop at No. 18,
Pleasant-place, Kennington-lane, deposed, that about a
fortnight ago the prisoner White called at his shop, and
representing himself as the mate of a foreign steamer,
showed him samples of black and green tea and tobacco,
all of which he had smuggled, and which he could afford
to sell at a very low figure indeed. Witness bought as
much of those articles from him as amounted to
4/. 6s. 6d., but in paying the prisoner he found he had
only 41. 2s. 6d. in change. The prisoner agreed to take
the latter sum, saying he should eome some evening
and smoke a pipe with him for the 'balance. On subse-
quently receiving the packages they were found to have
a small portion of each article which they had been
sold for at the top, and all the rest was sawdust and
rubbish.

The prisoners, who gave a very unsatisfactory account
of themselves, were remanded until Tuesday next.
TUE. Pooa )x.—Mr. Henry received the remaining
half of a 5/. note sent by E. C. for the poor-box belong-
ing to the Court.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORN] NG, DECEMBER 26, 1845.