The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

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BANK FORGERIES.—An extensive forgery of the £5
notes of Messrs. Hall, West, and Borrer, of Brighton, has
been discovered. A man was apprehended at Birmin:;
ham for passing forged notes, when he threw a bundle of
them into the fire, which turned out to be forgeries of the
bank in question. The process by which the forgery was
accomplished is somewhat new—having been accomplished
by lithography—the counterfeit notes being prints from a
well executed transfer to a printing stone of a genuine
note. At the police-station the man in custody was
strictly searched. His hat, coat, and waistcoat underwent
the first examination, but the result was not important.
" I must trouble you," said the chief officer, to " remove
your trousers." The prisoner demurred and resisted ;
but resistance was useless. His nether garment was
taken off. " I suppose you will want my shirt next ?"
said the prisoner. " Stockings first," replied the officer.
The stockings were removed from the legs, and beneath
the garters were found eight notes exactly similar to those
already mentioned. " I suppose," said the prisoner, " you
are satisfied now." " Not quite," said Mr. Chase ; but
no further revelation attended the prosecution of the
loudest manifesta- I search.

A WISE PREDICTION. —ln his laboured statistical
figures, produced on Thursday last, during the adjourned
debate on Mr. Disraeli's motion, Mr. Wilson of the Eco-
nomist delivered himself of the following sage observa-
tion :—" The United States are not likely to export large
quantities of wheat into this country. That country is
increasing in population so rapidly that there will be a
great demand within itself for wheat." America is ad-
ding daily to her stock of labour, the bulk of which must
be employed in the cultivation of her virgin soil. Her
new stock of farmers are going to eat up all the crops that
they grow ! By and bye, if Manchester and Stockport go
on apace, and increase the number of their spinning and
weaving population, we may expect them, according to
Mr. Wilson's logic, to have no calicoes to export, inas-
much as they will want more sheets and shirts ! The ar-
gument is one of the lamest we ever heard put forward,
even by such a special pleader as Mr. Wilson ; and strik-
ingly decreases the value of his other ingenious specula-
tions upon the subject; such, for example, as the follow-
ing :—" Now a large amount of foreign wheat had bean
imported, but no one could say that there had been a
single quarter of wheat too much. He asked, where
were the stocks of grain that now affected the prices ?"
This -,uestion is easily answered. The stocks which affect
prices are in process of shipment from foreign markets
from which Mr. Wilson would have us believe they cannot
be imported here to leave a profit at less than from 455. to
555. per quarter. He continued :—" Either all the grain
grown in this country and the immense quantity im-
ported had been consumed, or there must be an immense
quantity on hand." Sagacious gentleman ! Either we
have ate our loaf or we have it in the cupboard.
But when the matter was looked into, nobody could say
there had been or was too much wheat in the country."
If there were two James Wilsons, however, getting up
statistics for her Majesty's Whig Government, and both
receiving only the same sum that one James Wilson
receives, our friend of the Economist would be disposed
to say that there was one James Wilson too much.
" He denied the proposition that home-grown wheat bad
been displaced by foreign." What does the gentleman
mean ? If we are to-day eating bread made from Ame-
rican flour, we, certainly, are not eating the English grown
article, which is thus far displaced. To-morrow we may
be eating the produce of the British soil, and thus
balancing matters. But if the introduction of tfie foreign
article causes the price of the British one to be reduced
a third, the displacement is felt severely in that most sen-
sitive part of an Englishman's person—his pocket. The
ruminations of such politico-economical doctors as the
editor of the Bconemist are unworthy of serious notice.