A meeting of merchants and bankers was held at the
Mansionhouse yesterday, to express the sense which the mercantile community have of the exertions of the Times newspaper in exposing the late con- spiracy on the Continent to defraud bankers by forged letters of credit. The requisition to the Lord Mayor to call the meeting was signed by some of the most influential people in the City ; the Lord Mayor him- self presided at the meeting; and many of the chief City men took part in the proceedings. Resolutions were passed, highly complimentary to the public-spirit of the Times. A subscription was talked of to defray the expenses of the trial of Bogle versus Lawson ; but it was considered that a simple expression of public gratitude would be more satisfactory to the proprietors of the journal ; and so it was simply resolved to put the thanks of the meeting in some tangible shape—the mode of doing so being left to a Committee.
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