The Press. — London, England, 1857-01-17 00:00:00

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Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News Agents; if direct to the OfficP, accompanied by a remittance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED lvi, HO, Strand, London. 7 - i)x 4arTgg+ LONDON, SATURDAY. JANUARY 17, 1857 POSTSCRIPT. ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL. The papers and letters in advance of the overland mail have come to hand. No intelligence of the slightest interest had been received from the Persian Gulf since the departure of the fleet from Bombay ; but it was believed that it would meet with more resistance than, perhaps, its numerical strength might be enabled to overcome; for it was stated that a force of 40,000 Persians was collected in the vicinity of Bushire, with orders from the Shah to dispute the landing of the British troops. The expeditionary force under Brigadier Chamber layne was within a few marches of Cabul. Sir John Lawrence was with the troops. Lost Mahomed was said to be just on the frontier waiting an interview. The principal motive for the match is believed to have been to ascertain the fact whether or not a route might be found into the Cabul districts without the necessity of penetrating the Khyber Pass, and the affirmative, it is said, has been satisfactorily deter mined. There was a talk of troops mustering at Peshawur with a view to an advance on Candahar. There had been sDme disturbances in the Madras Presidency, but, on the whole, tranquillity prevailed throughout the British dominions in India. From China we have four days' later ne*s. The American commodore attacked the Barrier For►.s, CIA would appear CO have been remanned by the Chinese, and bombarded them for an entire day. The Chinese had fired upon some American boats' crews. It was ;hoped that the affair would be satis factori'y settled. Admiral Seymour had carried out no further operations beyond blowing up the Bogue forts. The Factories were being put in a state of defence. Despatches had arrived from Yel► to Sir John Bowring, but their contents had not transpired. Intelligence from Madrid, Jan. 13th, states : An official account fro•n the Philippine Islands states that 15,9 x► houses have been destroyed there by a hurri• cane. Considerable damage has also been done at Manilla. The Osservatore Triestino confirme the news of the Triest Zeitung relative to the occupation of the islands on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Berlin on the 12th, anti left the next day f9r Hanover. Intelligence from Con,tantinople, Jan. oth, stales that the Shah of Persia is said to insist on the con tinuation of thou war with England. General Chesney has received a concession for the construction of the Fuphrates Valley Railroad. The Paris papers of Thursday contain nothing of political importance. Verges' appeal to the Court of Cessation has been rejected. The revenue return for 1856 shows an amount of 1,028,207,000 E, being an increase of 7,:.328,000f. on that of 1855, THE PRESS. Bnio Star wag reported at Portsmouth on Wednesday night as having been dismasted in the chops of the Channel. A steamer was sent in search of her. THE CREW OF THE STEAMER Briton, bound to Seville were picked up at Rea on Sunday night, the Briton , having foundered off Cape Ushant. TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF REDPATH. Mr. RETWATII was put upon his trial, yesterday, at the Old Bailey. The first indictment charged him with forging and uttering a certain transfer—deed No. 3,623. Mr. Sergeant BALLANTINE addressed the jury for the prosecution ; and the evidecce of Mr. Henry Atterbury, the audit•clerk of the Great Northern Railway Company, having been given in support of the learned counsel's statement, Mr. Sergeant PARRY closely cross-examined Atter bury with respect to the signatures to the transfer being in Redpath's hand. Witness had no hesita tion in swearing to Redpath's signature. This wit ness further admitted that he had borrowed, and not repaid, 15/. of Redpath. He did not know that Mr. Reynolds, the accountant, had borrowed 12,000!. of Redpath. Neither did he know that Mr. Denison, the chairman, held shares in Reynolds's name. Mr. Runty then proceeded to reply on the defence : In themselves railways were splendid and beneficent works ; bat they had engendered a spirit of gambling that had been the ruin of thousands of fatuities, and would pro bably he the ruin of the gentleman at the bar. It was clear that a most extensive and improper system of specu lation had been carried on by the responsible persons be longing to this company, and the prisoner appeared to have only done the same as the others. The prosecution had carefully kept back every witness who could give them genuine information of what had been done by the direc tors of this company ; and, although the secretary was pre• sent, they dare not put him into the witness-box. It was admitted that some of the directors had stock on the books of the company in false names, and he submitted that this was done for the purpose of cheating the public, and pre venting them from being aware that the stock they pur chased was the property of the company and not of the parties who were represented to be disposing of it; and if the prisoner should be convicted, he would owe that result to his having unfortunately been placed in such an atmo sphere of speculation and fraud. The prisoner had been in the company's service about eight years, haviog entered it at a moderate salary, when he found, as had been proved by the reluctant testimony of Atterhury, a system of speculation and dealing with shares, if not under fictitious and fraudulent names, under names that did not belong to the real owners of the stock, and be would say again that if the prisoner were found guilty upon the charge preferred against him, he would have been led into it by the unfortunate circumstance of his being a clerk in the registration-office of the Great Northern Railway. The jury would have seen that he ( Mr. Sergeant Parry) had had great difficulty in eliciting facts from Atterbury, hut he thought he had elicited sufficient to warrant him in saying, that whatever might be the consciences of railway directors, such a mode of doing business as that adopted by the Great Northern Railway was a wicked and deli berate fraud upon the general community, because if the directors dealt in shares in their own names their stock would have been depreciated on the Stock Exchange. Mr. Justice WILLEs summed up with great care, printing out that the question of signature was the only point for the jury to consider, and explaining (hat the forgery of a fictitious name was in the eye of the law a forgery to all intent. The jury retired, and, after a short absence, returned into court, and gave a verdict of " Guilty." Leopold Redpath and Charles James Comyn Kent were then arraigned for feloniously forging and uttering a transfer to George Sidney, with intent to defraud. he particulars of this case were similar to the last; and as the facts are so fresh in the recollec tion of the public, it is unnecessary now to repeat them. After the examination Gf a number of witnesses, the jury found a verdict of "Guilty" against Redpath, and Acquitted Kent. (Applause.) Mr. Justice WILLES then delivered judgment, sen tencing Redpath to TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE. The other indictments against the prisoners were withdrawn. LOSS OF " THE TYNE"_ - _ - THE Royal Mail steamship Tyne, while coming up Channel from the Brazils, ran ashore on Tuesday morning off Chapman's Cove, about Rye miles to the westward of St. Alban's Head, on the Dorsetshire coast. The weather was very foggy, no land could he seen ; and by some error or other the ship's head, it would appear, after passing the Portland Lights, was run inshore, with the inevitable result of running on shore in a very short time. The concussion when the ship struck was very great; some of the pas sengers were thrown out of their berths, and of course, in a great state of alarm and con fusion, rushed on deck to ascertain what bad occurred. At this time it was so dark and thick that objects SATURDAY, only a few inches off could not be seen. The ship was then bumping violently. As the tide rose she eased and settled down, and though every means were resorted to to get her off, they were without avail. After daylight the mails were got out by Lieutenant Fuge, who safely reached the shore, in spite of the heavy surf. About noon the boats were lowered from the ship's side and the passengers were slung into them from the deck, the high tide and heavy sea prevent ing their getting down into the boats in the usual way. During this period one or two of the boats were swamped to the great peril of some of the pas sengers ; but they were all saved, and no lives were lost. The boats reached the shore in safety, and the passengers on landing were taken care of by Lord Eldon's servants, and conveyed to the estate at Eneombe, where they were treated in the most hospitable manner, and subsequently taken in car riages and other vehicles to the Wareham Railway station. A portion of the passengers went on to Southampton, and others remained in Wareham. They were landed without a single article beyond the clothes they stood in, and those who went to Southampton looked very jaded and distressed. The Tyne left Lisbon on the 9th inst., and experienced heavy seas and hazy weather throughout her home ward run. On Monday it was found impossible to take an observation, owing to the dense state of the atmosphere. Soundings were made every two hours, and the result so far agreed with the charts and the supposed course of the ship, that no anxiety was felt on this head. After dinner, the passengers, to the number of fifty three, assembled in the saloon, and passed a unanimous vote of thanks to Captain Valler for the admirable manner in which the voyage had been so far performed. The weather continuing very thick, and the captain's reckoning showing that the ship was entering the Channel, before six o'clock the engines were reduced to and kept at half speed. At twenty minutes after eleven o'clock the Portland Lights were sighted N.E.and by E., supposed distant fifteen miles, and the course of the ship was altered to the eastward. At midnight the Portland Lights bore N.E., and at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, N.N.E. E. At ten minutes after two o'clock they bore in one N.N.W, W., distant about eight miles, and half an hour subsequently the lights "dipped." The haze still continuing, Captain Valler remained on deck, personally directing the course of the ship, and watching the operation of the lead, which was kept going every two hours. At forty minutes past three o'clock, the weather being still thick and the fog increasing, Captain Valler left the deck for a few moments to examine his chart. He had completed his examination, and was in the act of going from his cabin to the engine -room to desire the engineer on watch to stop the engines, until daybreak, when he heard the voice of the third officer calling out " Hard-a-port." Captain Valler's first thought was that a vessel might be crossing the ship's course, but hastily running up on to the deck, he at once saw breakers on the port bow, and rushing to the engine -room skylight he called out to the engineer to " stop her." Before the engines had ceased oscillat ing the ship struck heavily forward. A strong westerly swell was running at this time, and the ship bumped heavily several times. The passengers rushed up on deck in a state of great terror, and all was confusion for a few moments, until Captain Valler succeeded in persuading them that there was no imminent danger. The position of the ship was at this time unknown, and it was not until some moments after she had struck that Captain Valler observed looming through the haze the dark outline of the Encombo Cliffs, with St. Alban's bluff head s land on the starboard bow. The worst apprehen sions were now realised, and guns were fired and blue lights sent up as signals of distress to the ad joining coast. Meantime, Captain Valler used every endeavour to get the ship afloat again. The topsail and foresail were set, and by dint of great exertion the vessel's head was got round. For a moment there appeared a prospect of her coming off, but although she swung completely round, and got her head to sea, she held fast by her keel on the ledge where she had struck, and all attempts to move her failed. It is believed that but for the bursting of one of the steam pipes at the critical moment when Captain Wailer gave the order to " go-ahead," by which the engines were rendered powerless, the ship would have floated. It seems very doubtful whether the ship can be saved. A considerable portion of the baggage and a small part of the cargo have been rescued. There are five tugs rendering assistance, besides her Majesty's steam frigate Devastation, the paddle-box lifeboats of which were of great use in keeping up communication between the Tync and the tugs. It appears that there are two feet of water in the steamer's saloon at high water, and that the boilers had moved about six inches forward when the ship struck, and the steam pipe had also burst. A Coastguardsman was unhappily drowned on Tuesday night by the swamping of a limit as it was going from the shore to the ship. Every effort is being made to save the cargo ; but it is feared the vessel will be lost.