The Press. — 1855-12-15 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  attempting, while being in Balaklava, to embezzle five bags of Government biscuit. It appeared from the evidence that the Salucia was laden with a cargo of biscuit, and that, on the night of the 28th of September, five bags were secretly put into a boat and sent on board the Equator. Suspicion was aroused at the lot's, information was given, and the authorities in Balaklava searched the Equator and found the five missing bags. The various depositions of the Balaklava witnesses having been read, the magistrates committed the defendants to take their trial at the Winchester Assizes, but  accepted bail in 6001. each. A CASE OF FORGERY AGAINST • CLERGYMAN of high connections was tried before Mr. Baron Martin, on Tuesday, at the York Assizes. William D. 13eresford, cousin of Lord Decies, was charged with having, in November, 1848, forged an endorsement to a bill of exchange, purporting to be drawn by Major-General Marcus Beresford (now in India), at that time Adjutant-General of Ireland. The facts of the case were simple. The prisoner, on a visit to Mr. Kay, of Manningham-hall, near Bradford, in October, 1848, presented the bill of exchange at the Bradford bank. The manager, being unacquainted with the prisoner, declined to discount the bill without the endorsement of some person known in the neighbourhood. Mr. Beresford, returning to Manningham-hall, asked Mr. Kay's son to endorse the bill. Mr. Kay refused, and Mr. Beresford, leaving the ball, returned to Bradford. Two days later, having written to Mr. Kay to forward to the bank a letter left behind at the hall, Mr. Beresford called at the bank, and opened the letter, which proved to contain the bills of exchange endorsed with Mr. Kay's name. This name was forged. From that date to the 10th of April last the prisoner had not been met with, although known to be living in London. Mr. Kty, on that day, meeting the prisoner, gave him into custody. Mr. Kay in evidence denied ever having endorsed the bill, and swore to the forgery. The defence set up turned upon the length of time which bad elapsed since the commission of the offence, that there was nothing to prove that the bill was not a good bill, and that throughout the whole transaction the prisoner bad given bis own name without concealment. The learned Judge summed up briefly, and pointed out to the jury that the sole point to consider was whether the endorsement was forged or not. The jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner guilty ; and the learned Judge briefly sentenced Mr. Beresford to " tran sportatio for life." ALICE GREY, who was brought up at the Birmingham Police court on Saturday last, was removed by order of the Treasury to Wolverhampton to answer the charge of perjury in the case of the two boys, Perry and Randle. The proceedings, which were of a formal character, resulted in the prisoner being remanded to Stafford Gaol for a week. JOHANNA DUTTON, who was charged under circumstances of peculiar brutality with murdering her own child in September last, was tried at Nottingham on Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict of "Acquittal." MR. WALTER GORRINGE, the collector of St. Mary's Hospital, charged with embezzling large sums belonging to the trustees, was re-examined on Wednesday betore Mr. Broughton at Marylebone and committed for trial.