Henry Palmer, a fashionably-dressed young man, was brought before the
Birmingham Magistrates on Friday last, accused of having passed a number of fictitious bills of exchange, purporting to be drawn by the Sheerness and Queenborough Bank, and the Flintsbire District Banking Company, (no such banks being in existence,) on the London and Westminster Bank. It is said that Palmer is only one of a gang who are carrying on such fraudulent practices to a great extent ; and some important discoveries are expected in the course of the investi. gation which has only been as yet commenced. Palmez was remanded. Two other members of the gang, by name Jones and Roberts, have since been taken in an attempt to pass the same bills, the first in Man. chester, the other in Liverpool.
At the Liverpool Police-office, on ;Saturday, George Darwell, who had for some years been a confidential clerk of Mr. Wostenbolme, a cotton-broker, was examined on a charge of embezzling sums of money belonging to his employer, to the amount of 8,2001. He had st.len this money at various times, and given it to a former paramour,— Frances Maclean, a coarse large woman of forty, who, it appeared, had inveigled him into this course of rascality. Frances Maclean, and Richard Maclean, a relation of the woman, were also remanded as accomplices of the chief delinquent. Darwell is fifty years of age. A singularity of the case is, that he had preserved regular entries of the sums paid to the woman from time to time. The money had been partly invested in the purchase of houses and in the manufacture of bricks.
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