Northern Times. — 1857-10-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE CUSTOMS' FRAUDS IN BELFAST.  A. Belfast correspondent of Saunders's News Letter writes as follows. The letter is dated Thursday night : There Is nolager any doubt entertained that John Junes Moore, the plocipal in the largo rabberie,, of tea and the frani Oa the Customs in Belfast, has succeeded in effectiog his escape to Amerta, by the steamer As'a. Ile managed 'matters mo,t adroitly. Oa the Thursday, while the Custorn.aiLers were sa.reLing his bonded stores and loosing the chests, of which s sue 780 turned out to ba containing instead of tea, turf, bricks, and straw, he was seen on 'Change, chatting unconcernedly, and throwing suspicion oL its guard. Ire did not leave Belfast by the Liverpool beat that evening, nor did he leave Belfast by the early express trait for; Dublin, bat he took a car, drove to Lisburn, where he entered one of the up-trains to Dublin, and it was from your city that ha crosied the Channel. A gentleman from Stockport met him oa board, after the steamer left Kinlstown and there con d be no doubt about the idcati-. ficatien. Moore was jest in time in Liy,rpeol to proeee Iby the Asia; and Bete:, the private de:eetivo officer, wto was formerly conneetcd with the Liverpool police establishment, &Iry a person every way ans. werivg his Ce:cription goirt; 0.1 board the Asia and paying for a second-class passage with 201. no`e. At this time a t.legraplfc despatch reapeetins M.:ore was in the hands of the Liverpool police, but it now appears it had not been anted upon. A deteave ()Tarr was despatche I to Liverpool from Belfast cn Friday night by the Semaphore steamer, but he arrived jtast in time to be too. late, as the Semaphore and Asia passed each o her at the Sloyne. Immediately on his landing on the q9ays, hearing that the de inquent had succeeded in getting off, he te!egraphed to Belfast, and a steamer, with an Admiralty flag and officer on be:2rd, armed with a warrant for Moore's arrest, left Belfast, in the expeo:aton of intercepting :ha Asia in the North Channs',,on her outward passage. They were disappointed ; the Asia had taken the southern route, The streamer which put out from Queenstown to interee, t her and arrest the delinquent was not more successful, for, the precaution of providing an Admiralty fig Lot having, been taken, the commander of Vie- Asia woull not stop for the signal, and More is now laughing at his dopes in some corner of the Great Republic, and ripecafating a, to the best way of employing his I /gotten gain. His clerk, Harbison, is stl.l in eu•tody, not !wrong succeeded in getting ball; ar,d tla other alleged 7.articep: cri finis,, Hen'ey, is at large, his fiends hating promptly coma forward to give the necessary bail, Both are bound, as stated in previous communications, to appear at the assizes for trial. I may add that large quanti ies of Moors's teas are unpaid for, to the I (anion and Liv.rpool houses ; that he received a good deal of cash in town from parties to whom he .sold chests at a lonolp i e, representing them as "duty paid;" and that, so plausible was his manner of proceeding, he succeeded in taking in some of the most eminent houses in town. The extent of the fraud on the Customs is under 5,0101., and oa private parties it will rea.h 10,0001.  At LEWIS & OIPANY'S, it,melaglt-street, BOYS are CLOTHED from the Agea of Six to Timmy Years.  The suicide of Major Warburton, M.P., for Harwich, is announced. He shot himself on Friday morning.