The Press. — London, England, 1853-05-21 00:00:00

•P" - '4 The interest felt in the Dublin Exhibition by the French Government awl press is evidenced by the fact that the proprietors of the Pays, the Paris journal most directly in communication with the French Government, have sent 31. Alfred 'limpet, one of their most distinguished writers, to Dublin, to report , upon the Exhibition. M. Itusquet arrived on Saturday last. M. I,emoine, of the Journal des Mats, and two of the best artists of the Paris Illustration, were also to arrive iu Dublin during the course of the present week. The Limerick Chronicle statr.s that E. 13. Esq., M.P., will shortly be raised to the peerage by the title of Viscount Fermoy, and that john J. Heard, Esq., M.l'. for Kinsale, is to havo baronetcy. It is reported that the Duke of I,einmer is to hold a grand masonic festival in Dublin of all the order in Ireland, to which all the foreigner; of the craft now in Dublin will ho invited.. The apparatus for working tae electric telegraph between Cork and Mallow was put up on Tuesday, and in a short period the line of electric eommuni nication between Dublin, Cork, and Killarney will be complete. Successful experiments have been made in intro ducing the power-loom in the manufacture of linen cloth in Belfast, a chiwge which is likely to lead to a revolution in the staple trade of Ulster. The fisheries on the Galway coast are now carried on with decided snettems, the arrest and committal of the Claddagh rioters liming produced a most salutary effect in putting an end to the system of in timidation. aRb Mn. Senn., the well-known trainer, brought an aetion against a Mr. Hemingway, a Liverpool mer chant, but deeply implicated in racing transactions, to recover the sum of 109/. The amount was the balance left unpaid out of the purchase money for a horse named Warwick, which huii been first fa vourite in the betting, and actind winner in a race at Warwick last July. 400/. was the price of the horse, of which MO/. was paid, and an 1 0 U given for the balance. On this I 0 U the action Vag brought, which came off in a trial at Nisi Prins in the Guild hall on Monday. The defendant pleaded three pleas :-Ist : never indebted ; 2nd : that the debt was paid; and :irdly : a set off. The plaintiff, having stated the facts and produced the document, was cross-examined : The defendant, at the time of the transnetion, had several ram her.es in training with him. Ile reeolleeted, shortly after, giving the fellowing paper to thee defendant. It ran mithese words :--" 1 hereby agree to give np your L It II when I receive OM awe of 1001., till account of the sale of the horse Warwick. Signed, William Henry Scott." The !terse, at the time he 'ens wild, was only entered for one engagement, and that was at the Ludlow races. After he was sold, IVerwiek was entered fur the Warwick races, the horse still 11.111 , tillill'A` ill 11114 In July he was very high in the bettito, awl on Um morning of the rare he wits the favourite. 'Elm heroe ran, end won in a ranter. The horse wits tint entered for that. race at the time of his being 'sold, or in July, hat lie thought he was entered about the Ist of September. Ile aid 110 t know that Aspinall had anything to do with hint, but lie haul heard that tier.' were some "betting tickets" upon the horse, which had been obtained at wane of the " betting.uallees." Ile haul hearth that. Cam...were - betting-offices," but lie knew nothing 'fluent them. nor did he know anything ahem the ticket aOr oho " betting-humw , ." Ile had seen b(111113 1/1' lieu, bat. hit knew nothing at all alma them. Tulr. Sergeant sittEE fulneetetl to any referent%) being made to these tiekets. They were oat produced, and Ito did not know what they were. Mr. liartin M twos : Only look at some of the pollee reports, and you will know what th e y nil, brother Shee. (loni9hter.) Examination reennie‘l : Ile lint bead that there view Slllllr tickets from wenn of On, " betting.oftlees" in refereneo to this horse, bat he haul never had env of them, nut had ho received a her of them in pay ment tuf this I 0 I'. Ile did not see Mr. Montt, hut he saw the defendant, hat the latter never said one word to him about any "betting-house tickets: . Mr. Orsimmt, for the defendant, said that there had been a rit tttt tt g account hetween the plaintiff feel Mr. Aspinall, and although the 1 0 I hail not been Ito: mitred by a direct payment, yet it had been paid by the handing over of of number of " bet t 1111 - Ales tickets," which plaintiff had consented to receive in pay ment of the I 0 I". The defendant himself, however, on being called, directly contradicted the statement made for him by his counsel : Tile horse ran at Warwick, won easily. and he received about 2344. um the tickets. Not any of that Tin/. went to the plaintiff, for he had tou interes the tickets, nor haul he any interest in the money which they reflised. had prOttlittvit to satisfy this I 0 for leo!, tint of the produce of the tickets—oh no, net at all. The jury, under the direction of the learned judge, found for the plaintiff—Damages 100/. A CAsE of much importance to foreign bankers and agents was heard, on remand, at the Mansion-house, before Alderman Wire. Gabriel Sans Garrett, a foreigner, was the bearer of a letter of credit, drawn by Messrs. Duncan and Shearman, of New York, upon the Union Bank of London, and various other corresponding tints at Petersburg, Berlin, and else where. The origin:ll nitionis of the credit WWI 21M, which Ciarrett, it appearell, hail drawn for, rattly at St. Petersburg, anti partly at the Union Bank, until it was exhanstel. For each payment as it was suc cessively made he signed a cheque which the bankers kept. after having made a corresponding endorsement upon the letter of credit, to signify the progress of THE PRESS. is liquidation. The document, being thus authenti cated by repeated inscriptions, signed by well-known firms, had afterwards been altered by the addition of a few letters and figures, so as to appear drawn for 5,2101., and, thus expanded in seeming value, was pre sented by the prisoner at Messrs. Shickler's bank in Berlin, who advanced without•scruple a sum of 5001., on receiving the customary draft, with his signature ; but, on this draft being duly presented at the Union Bank, it was refused payment, on the ground that the letter of credit had been already exhausted. In a long ex amination it appeared that Messrs. Duncan, when granting letters of credit upon their European corre spondents, sent generally a letter of advic ; to but one, viz., the London Union Bank. At that bank, there fore, no letter of credit would have been paid if un authenticated by, or differing from, a corresponding letter of advice. But, as other continental agents of the New York firm were provided with no such guides, the altered credit was duly honoured by the Berlin bankers to the amount of 5001., and, as Mr. Wontner stated could he shown hereafter, by a bank at St. Pe tersburg to the large sum of 3,5001. In corroboration of the charge, an hotel-keeper of New Bridge-street, 131ackfriars, was called, who said that Garrett, after staying some days in his house, left in a great hurry on the 11th of March, on which day Thorne, a detec tive, had been actively hunting for him ; and a clerk at Messrs. Monteaux's money-changing office proved that he had obtained cheques there for nearly 1,5001., being the value of a quantity of Russian imperials, frederick d'ors, napoleons, and louis d'ors. These facts being stated, the question arose as to the mode in which the charge could be brought home to the prisoner in any shape that would render him amen able to the English law : Mr. Alderman Wine: How do yon shape your charge, Mr. Mullens ? Mr. Mi'LLEN9I: The charge I make against the prisoner is that of Attempting by false pretences to obtain the sum of :lOW. from the Union Bank of London; an d I g round that charge in this way—t he prisoner goes to the banking-hottan of Messrs. Shickier, of Berlin, and there makes a statement to them, either verbally or in writing, I do not care which, but which is afterwards re- dared into writing, mid sawed by himself; that hi pur4uance of a certain letter of credit. from Messrs. Duncan, Sheannam and Co., lie has authority to demand front the 1 7 nion Bank of London the sum of COOL He pins that into writing, and signs it; it is a bill of exchange; it may be a letter or anything, but it 1.4 ad dressed to the Union Bank of London. According to the faets which have come out I will take it to be suttleiently proved that that pretence is wholly without foundation, and that the prisoner lout no authority to draw upon the Union Bank of London for Mr. Alderman WilIt:: It is not pretended that he bail any au• thority eveept that which ho derived from the letter of credit.. NB . . Preeisely so; and we have proved that the Union Bank had no authority to pay. I suppose my Priend is to eoatend that this pretence was made at Berlin, and, therefore, is not within the jurisdiction of the tribunals of this coutry. prsitine he will y that whatever the prisoner did waste,mpleted at Berlin; that the fraud was intended to he com mitted upon the bankers there, and not. upon the Union Bank. ?dr. Witsvisr.a, at considerable length, contended that. the pri soner laul not been proved to have comniitted any thence ren dering Idol amenable to the laws of this conntry, howcver much he might have transgreased the law at Berlin. Mr. Alderman Wins:: This is a ease of so much importance, both to the commercial world and to the prisoner himself, that I shall remand it, in order that I mny have time to consider the law ns appiicahle to the ease I whether or not I v authority to send him to trial ; because would not subjee ha t e hint, foreigner. to the ignominy of a trial unless I thought conviction would fidlow. The prisoner was remanded for a week. A PUBLICAN at Kensington, whose house adjoined the barracks near the Palace, was charged on Tues day at the Hammersmith Police-office with having his house open and ser‘in liquor dm ing service hours on the previous Sunday. it was shown that the defendant's door was open and some soldiers were seen drinking at the bar at half-past eleven on the day specified. In reply, he admitted the facts, and pleaded in justification that he acted under the authority and a lmost by the command of the War- Mice authorities : Ito had served the military for the last seventeen years, and this was the first emnplaint ever made against him. bound to serve the soldiers at the barracks while on guard with refreshents. by the direetion of the c ommanding officer, nd if he vilifi m ed his conduct would be reported to the horse Gua a rds. To confirm this statement the defendant called a sergeant in the Guards, who said that it was looked upon as a matter of right that soldiers shoul and he d be served with re freshments at any hour or day, never knew the landlord of a " uttling-h ouse " who ever refused them : Mr. lir.Anom (the nuvzistrate) inquired If it was not laid down in the Mutiny Act that the military should not be served during divine service ? The sergeant said he was not. aware of it being so. The defendant said he way serving under two laws. Ile had a beence from the Board of Green Cloth. at Buckingham Palace, and another from the 111140IttrIttreS. Ills house was not like a canteen, for, it' it was, hr would ho under the control of the Board of Ordnance. Mr. Mums said the subject was a new one to him, and ought. to be settled for the guidance of parties hereafter. He had loked into te Mutiny Aet, hut could not find that any of the auttlin o hour' s were mentioned. Ile should like to know the difference between a eilliteen and a suttling-house. The Sergeant : A canteen was not licensed to sell spirits, but suttling-houses were. If he saw nay civiliaus served in a muttling-house during the prescribed hours on Sunday, he should white a report of it to the isimmanding officer. In a canteen they cleared the place tif civilians. and were responsille for the conduct of the house, while in a suttlinit-house the land lord was responsible, and was bound to clear the hoots of SATURDAY, Mr. ISt/trio:it said he was of opinion the statement of the sergeant was the correet one, and wider the circumstances he should not interfere with the defendant as long as he continued to serve the soldiers at the barracks, but, if he served civilians, that was another story. However. the pollee had a right to visit the house, and if the defendant was found serving civilians he would certainly be punished. The summons was dismissed. A BEERSHOP-KEEPER named M. Goldsmith, whose house is situate in Back Church-street, St. Georges in the East, was summoned be fore the Thames Police-office, lon Monday, for allowing gambling on his premises. On the previous Tuesday Captain Kasen, master of the Emilie, a Norwegian vessel, met one Jones, a well-known skittle-sharper, who opened an attack upon him by inviting him to look at some sailcloth which he had for disposal. On their way they passed the defendant's house, when Jones in viting hun in they encountered a " pal" named Long, and the captain was induced to join in a game which was played with three cards. It was so arranged that the luck seemed at first to alternate, but in the end the captain was not only stripped of 71., but was also induced to leave his watch for 41. more, which ho subsequently recovered on the payment of the money. Jones and Long had since been tried on the charge of sharping, but were dismissed for want of evidence. Sergeant Favy, 7 14, said there were frequent com plaints of similar practices at the same house, and he had frequently cautioned the landlord, who was well aware of the practices that had been carried on there. Defendant was tined 5 /. and costs . A G A NDLINO-HOUSE-KKETER named Pritchard, re siding in St. James's-street, had presented a cheque for 391., signed " N. Davenport Bromley," at Messrs. Coitus' bank. There being two Messrs. Bromley, senior and junior, who kept accounts at that bank, and the cheque not being in the handwriting of Bromley the elder, nor having the letters "jr." appended, as was customary, to the signature of Bromley the younger, was not only refused payment by the cashier, but Mr. Pritchard was taken into custody on a charge of presenting a forged cheque. He was, however, admitted to bail, and the case, after being postponed, in order to communicate with Mr. Bromley, junior, who is now on the Continent, came on for final hearing at Bow-street on Tuesday last. Mr. Mullens, who had conducted the prosecution, then stated that., as it had been ascertained that the document was genuine, the charge would be with drawn, and the amount duly paid at the bank : Mr. CLARKSON, av counsel for the defendant, hoped that it would go forth to the public that his client was wholly exonerated from any imputation of discredit in this matter. Mr. Pritchard. no doubt, was the keeper of a house which was considered im moral; but lie was not the less solicitous that, in regard to the present transaction, there should be an equally candid avowal on the other side that he left the court without any stain upon his character. Mr. Ilei.i.xxs admitted that. there was 110 imputation on Mr. Pritcharits character, but contended that the clerk at the bank was quite justitied in his suspicious, from the evident dissimi larity of the cheque to those which had been usually presented. The defendant applied to have the cheque returned to him, but Mr. Mullens declined to give it up. The hank would pay the money, but the cheque, as in the ordinary is 'arse of business, would be retained. Two SOLDIERS of the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards, together with four men, said to be labourers, were charged at Marylebone Court, on Wednesday, with a serious riot and assaulting the police at Chalk Farm fair on the previous day. Bowerman, one of the soldiers, being drunk, had become quarrelsome, and struck with a whip at people who had never pro voked him. A constable coming up to arrest him was knocked down, and, when other policemen arrived, Bowerman was aided by his comrade in re sisting them, and a number of the bystanders joined in making a frightful affray. Several of the consta bles were seriously injured by stones and other mis siles. which were thrown at them from all directions. The tw soldiers were the most ruffianly conducted of the whole :arty by whom the police were attacked. The rest of theiprisoners joined in the outrage, and some them used violent exertions to extricate those who were in custody. The two soldiers were ulti mately sent to the House of Correction for four months, being one month for each of four assaults proved to have been committed by them. Three of, the other prisoners were also committed for a month each. Wirsism WILSON, who was remanded last week on the charge of attempting to extort money from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was brought up again at Merlborough-street on Thursday. and fully com mitted. His application to be allowed bail was refused. Two QUACK DOCTORS, named Coates and Camp bell, were tried in the Edinburgh Sheriff Court, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, with hard labour. They styled themselves professors their bills, and represented themselves as able to cure all m anner of diseases. They were in the habit of visit ing the towns and villages in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and for their boxes and phials charged as high as 55.. driving a pretty brisk trade. A suspi clout; purchaser submitted one of the phials for analysis, and the resu lt induced him to give informa tion to the authoritie. Cod-liver oil, soap, and rhu barb were the chief ingredients of which the mixtures were composed.