The Sun. — London, England, 1858-02-25 00:00:00

P APAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. A Royal warrant has been issued stating that every non-commissioned officer above the rank of corporal setvinginthe regular army shall receive an addition of 2d. to the present daily pay of his rank, and shall have no claim to good conduct pay assigned to the ranks below that of sergeant. Yesterday orders were received at Chatham gar naltm & rooting Major-G en . W . H . Ed en to h o ld i n readiness the following officers and troops to em bark on Saturday, at G ravesen d, on b oar d the steam-ship Antelope for Kurrachee, for the purpose of augmenting the service companies of their re spective regiments in India :—The Ist bat. 7th Royal Fusiliers, 61 non-commissioned officers and men ; Ensign C. M. Prendergast and 16 men of the 52d Light Infantry; Ensign U. Murphy and 29 men of all ranks of the 61st ; 13 men of the 70th ; Lieut. R. Swift and 10 men of the 81st ; 17 men of the 94th ; and Ensign P. H. Dobbs, with 30 non-com missioned officers and men of the 98th. Rear-Admiral of the White the Hon. G. Grey, thenewly-appointed superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, arrived at Southsea last evening, and will this morning proceed to hoist his flag and supersede Vice-Admiral Martin. The Atlas, 91, one of the large screw steam-ships ordered to be constructed at Chatham Dockyard, has been commenced, and will be built on the same slip as that from which the Renown was recently launched. The following will be the dimensions of the Atlas :—Length between perpendiculars, 244 ft. 9 in: ; length for tonnage, 210 ft. ; extreme breadth, 55 ft. 4 in. ; b rea dth for tonna ge, 54 ft. 6 in. ; breadth mould e d , 53 ft. 8 in. ; depth of hold, 24 ft. 6 in. ; burd en i n tons 3,317. With a desir e o f contributing to the comforts of the soldiers' mess, and of remedying the acknow ledged evils produced by the present monotonous system of barrack cookery, Major-Gene . i Major-General Sir W. P. Williams, Commandant of W oolwich Gar rison, has introduced the newly invented appa ratus brought forward by Capt. Grant, R. E. The object and advantages of the new stove havi ng been detailed by General Williams to • his R o y a l highness the Commander - in - Chief on his late visit t o Woolwich, the Duke was pleased to approve its immediate e rection. The apparatus was y es t er d ay put into full operation experimentally, when the va rious processes of cooking 12 cwt. of potatoes And other vegetables, fryir:g, stewing, baking, (izc., for tie supply of the three ordinary meals for 1,000 soldiers, were satisfactorily performed. A large perpendicular oven, in accordance with the requisite scale of the establishment, forms a most important portion of the apparatus, the heat of which is easily reduced and regulated by means of a small ventilator in the door, and which likewise serves to carry off any superfluous steam arising from the crowded state of the oven. On the other side of the shaft in which the oven is fixed a h uge iron plate supplies facilities for boiling, stewing, IkC. The fuel used on the occasion did not exceed six bushels of coals. The steam-transport Rhadamanthus, Mr. F. R. Sturilee, R.N., commanding, arrived at Woolwich yeatFday morning from Portsmouth and Chatham, and was ordered to prepare for a cargo of steam gear for the western yards forthwith. The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Gorgon got up steam yesterday morning in Woolwich basin and tried her machinery, which, together with the entire ship, has undergone thorough repairs. The freight-ship Susan commenced shipping war stores yesterday from Woolwich for Malta, and the steam-tyrnsport Gibraltar, for Gibraltar ; the latter ♦essetl is to sail on the 28th inst. A - considerable reduction in the factory estab lishment of Woolwich Dockyard has been ordered to meet the reduced scale of expenditure voted for that' department of the Naval service ; 40 of the factory labourers have consequently received notices of dismissal. The Arrogant,46, screw-frigate, the pioneer of the auxiliary screw fleet, is ordered to be given over to Capt: L. G. Heath, C. B. to do duty as a coast volunteer vessel, in lieu of the Melampus, old sailing frigate, which is being towed up from Southampton Water to be dismantled. Commander J. H. Selwyn, Commander F. IL Shortt, and Commander J. P. Luce were yesterday promoted to the rank of Captains ; Commander G. M. Balfour to the Syren, vice Selwyn, promoted ; and Commander M. 8.. Pechell to the Wanderer, vice Luce, promoted. SPRING ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. CARLISLE, FEB. 23. M. Baron Martin arrived here yesterday at noon, and opened the commission. Mr. Justice Byles arrived from Appleby about 5 o'clock. Their lord ships having attended Divine service, the Courts sat this morning at 11 o'clock. There were two causes on the civil side, one an action about a watercourse, and the other for money lent.: On the criminal side the calendar cmtains an entry of the names of 14 prisoners. One of them is charged with murder, the rest with minor offences. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) For nearly three hours, until 2 o'clock, the pri soners arraigned pleaded guilty as fast as the grand jury brought in bills. Joshua Sewell was indicted for shooting at Thomas Lancaster with intent to maim him, at Kirkland, on the 14th of January last. Mr. Monk, Q.C., and Mr. Scott prosecuted ; and Mr. Price defended the prisoner. It appeared that Thomas Lancaster and a party of young men had been drinking in the village of Kirkland on the night in question at a publiohouse, and on leaving there at 12 o'clock they tosk it into their heads to pass the defendant's house and en deavoured to knock up his maid-servant by throw ing earth at her window. The prisoner's attention was attracted by this, and he threw open a window sash to tell them to go away—that he knew them all. They, however, threw clods at him through his window. He then threatened to shoot if they did not go away, and, coming downstairs to his doorway with a gun fired it off in the direction of the young men. The shot from the gun struck Thomas Lancaster in the face and destroyed the sight of one eye. For the defence it was contended that the shot was fired, not at them, but for the purpose of frightening them away, and that the injury was an accidental one. His lordship having summed up, The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wounding. Sentence was deferred. Mary Simpson Carruthers, a handsome-looking woman, apparently about 36 years of age, was in dicted for bigamy in having intermarried. with William Amos Wilson, at Gretna, on the Ist of November, 1838, h er former husband being then alive. Me. M'Oubray prosecuted, and Mr. Campbell Foster defended the prisoner. It appeared that in May, 1838, the prisoner had been driven in a gig to Sark tollbar, over Gretna bridge, from Carlisle, by Richard Carruthers, a butcher of Carlisle, she then being only 16 years of age, and in the presence of the driver, a man named Moore, was married by Janet Beattie, the daughter of the tollbar-keeper, according to the law of Scotland. This event took place at two o'clook in the morning, and the cross-examination elicited that a great deal of frolic and joking was going on at the time, Carruthers saying they had come to- be married, and Janet Beattie saying she could soon manage that for them, making them join hands, and asking them'if they were single , and willing to be married, which questions were answered in the affirmative, declared them to be lawfully married. The ceremony was preceded and finished by glasses of whisky for the driver and husband, (t c., and the parties drove back to Car lisle, where there was some evidence that the pri soner, who was the daughter of a barber in Car lisle, lived with Carruthers about a month. In November in that year William Amos Wilson, now a veterinary surgeon at Liverpool, was paying his addresses to the prisoner, and told her he had heard she was married. She denied it, and he then per suaded her, or, as ho said, she persuaded him, to run off to Gretna and be married, and the cere mony was again performed there by another priest, the village publican, named Linton. After this th e prisoner appeared to have lived, with occasional in tervals of separation during quarrels, with Wilson until the present time. In 1846, at Liverpool, t satisfy some objection and to make the marriageo surer, they were married again at St. Martin's Church in Liverpool. ar u r a u t t . lie rs died about 4 yeari ago, and the crossie9x.yaemairs w l i o t ia j g Wilson elicited that, after living prisoner, he h•xcl ainie ja,naepcplarrently instituted this prosecution ag ah with the intention of marrying who lived with him as his housekeeper, child by him. Scotch "experts" proved that the marriages in Scotland were lawful according to the Scotch law. His Lordship being of opinion that both mar riage contracts were clearly proved. The prisoner was found guilty. learned counsel for the defence then, in m iti g ation of punishment , s aid he was instructed t say that the of on l y prisoner at the time of the first mar riage, being a girl 16 years of age, had in a frolic driven with Carruthers, as stated, to Sark tiien tollbar, but bad no idea that', t h e cerem ony gone through in the way described was a marriag e, and had afterwards persisted to Wilson that she POLICR INTELLIGENCE.—Feb. 24, MANSION-HOUSE.—THE PASSPORT DIFFI CULTY.—SeveraI applications having been made to the Lord Mayor, pending the usual police business, for recommendations for passports to France, and much delay and inconvenience having been occa sioned thereby to the professional gentlemen and witnesses in attendance, The Lord Mayor said—However anxious I may be to facilitate the objects and wishes of the appli cants, I find that the public inconvenience result ing from these interruptions is becoming intoler able. lam of opinion that it would be advisable that those who require letters from me should apply between 11. and 12 o'clock in the morning, or after the charges of the day are disposed of. It must be remembered by those who seek the accommoda tion, that all justices of the peace, and all the bank ing firms, possess the same power I can exercise on such occasions, and it would certainly be desir able if applicants would go to parties who are less occupied with public duties than myself. The in timation which I thus give must be considered as a sufficient communication upon the subject to those residing out of the district of the court. I must restrict the office of entertaining applications to those alone who reside withiu my district, and it is also essential that even those should be person ally introduced by some individual known to me or to the Coutt, a written identification not being of any avail. GUILDHALL—George Brown, a rent and debt collector, appeared on bail before Mr. Alder man Copeland for further examination, relative to the charge of obtaining money under false pre tences. Mr. Buchanan, of Basinghall-street, attended for the prisoner. Elizabeth Porter said her husband had been sum moned to the Sheriffs' Court in the City, and she attended, but the case had been called on, and an order made for payment before she was aware of it. The prisoner acoosted her previously in the court, offering to plead her case for her, and gat the amount ordered to be paid reduced to ls. per month, if she would give him is. She gave him that amount, but he had not done that which he promised, and she had since ascertained he was not a solicitor. Cross-examined—He did not say he had other business there as a debt-collector, and that he would do what he could for her. He never said what he was. She afterwards saw the prisoner, and he told her the order was to pay half the amount in three weeks, and the cther half in six weeks, and she was perfectly satisfied. She had since found the order was to pay the debt in 14 days. Mr. Buchanan said the defendant was a very respectable person, and not one of those persons who usually hang about the county courts for the purpose of preying upon the poor. On this occa sion he had summoned several persons, and it was while waiting for those cases to be called on that the complainant importuned him to intercede for her in court. Alderman Copeland inquired of Mr. Buchanan, if, from his experience, he could state that practice was permitted that these persons should act as ad vocates for poor people in the county courts. Mr. Buchanan said, unfortunately it was allowed, not only by the judge, but by Act of Parliament also, and great injustice was often done to both plaintiffs and defendants, particularly to the former, who employed these agents. Alderman Copeland said he was obliged to Mr. Buchanan for the information, for he certainly thought it was a practice that should be brought under the notice of the law officers of the Crown. With regard to the prisoner, it was shown that he knew an order had been made when he received the ls. ; and the charge against him was therefore dismissed ; but if arty case of the kind should be brought before him and proved, he should certainly send it for trial. BOW-STREET.--Noel Jerrold, a French refu gee, described on the charge-sheet as a boot-closer, was brought before Mr. Henry for disorderly con duct and assault on Sergeant Hornsby, 14 F, on the occasion of the examination of M. Bernard, on Monday. As the witnesses were leaving the court on Mon day evening, at the close of the examination, seve ral of them, officers of the French police, were as sailed by the foreigners who formed a considerable portion of the crowd in the street. So noisy and threatening had been the demeanour of those per sons for some time previously, that it had been found necessary to collect a force of about 50 con stables to keep order, and the presence of the po lice prevented the commission of any act of violence near the court. As.one of the inspectors of French police was leaving the court, he was assailed with cries of " G—d —French spy," from a knot of refugees, the prisoner being one of those whom the sergeant heard utter that expression. The inspec tor appealed for protection to Hornsby, who ac cordingly conducted him down Bow-street and Wellington-street as far as Tavistock-itreet. The prisoner and his companions kept up with them, surrounding them, and continuing their abuse. 1 Prisoner made several attempts to strike the French officer, but Hornsby warded off the blows, till he was himself struck in the face by the prisoner. The inside of his cheek was cut against his teeth. A foreman attended on the part of the prisoner's employer, M. Thiene, bootmaker, Regent-street, to give him a character, and to interpret for him, as he could not speak English. He denied that he had raised his hand against any one, and added that he would never strike an English policeman. He called a witness, who said he did not see any blow struck. Mr. Henry said the fact that the witness did not see it was inconsistent with the statement of the constable, who must surely know whether the pri soner struck him or no, and who was certainly not a man likely to misrepresent. It might be true that defendant did not mean to strike the English offi cer, but aimed the blow at the Frenchman ; but if that were so, it was a very serious offence, as the law punished very heavily any attempt to molest a witness. If the French inspector had been pre sent, he (Mr. Henry) would have imposed a heavy penalty for the attack on him. But the prisoner certainly struck Hornsby, for which he must be fined 21., or in default sentenced to 21 days' im prisonment in the House of Correction. Godfrey Knowles, a private in th e C o ld s t re am Guards, was char ge d with cutting and wounding Sergeant Hammerton of that regiment, with intent to murder him at the Welli ng t on B arrac k s. James Pemberton, a private in the Coldstreams, said that the prisoner, who had been absent for a few days, came into barracks about one o'clock that morning. He had had a little to drink. He lay down on his bed for two or three minutes, and then began to throw his boots about. The sergeant of the guard, Charles Hammerton, desired him to keep quiet, and threatened to put him in the guard room. He defied the sergeant to do so. He then felt about for his kit, and, it was supposed, found his razor. He left the room for a while, and. on coming back threatened to cutHammetton's throat if ho attempted to put him in the guardroom. Ham merton got up and dressed, desiring two of the men to do the same, in order to remove the prisoner, who still continued the disturbance. Defendant then made a slash at him with the razor, which wit ness now saw for the first time. He cut the sergeant across the breast from right to left, the weapon passing through his undressccat and deep into the flesh. The sergeant, apparently unconscious of the wound, grappled with him and threw him on the bed, but received several severe cuts, one under the left breast, and one across the face. Hammerton came to witness at the further end of the room, and said, "He has cut my throat." Witness got up and took a sponge, and wiped the blood from the sergeant' s nec k , and told him to hold his head down, or h e wou ld b leed to death. He then opened the window, and the sergeant got out, as the pri soner, who was in the middle of the room, seemed about to make a se f c o o r nd attack. After that, he said approached him, and and whathe he was not sorry would cut his (Pe b m to Aa an d takentotheguard:o. took a musket, he had done. Witness brandishing it over said with an oath, that be Re was then disarmed and 1 in ci erton d) throat too. Witness 1 he said, „ Itiave s o na. BeforestabbiugFlammerton or dered hi him , or- conveyed to the hos i- lifow_uaand to be in so bad a st a te p for you." Rammeerrtved 7 yearn, wadi will serve 20 tal in a cab, and was ° that it was not likely he would. be able to at' for three weeks. Mr. Henry—l can adjourn the case frota to week. Tell the surgeon if th ere i s anycZ eek for the worse, I will attend to take the deposition!: His worship then:asked the prisoner if he bad any adding the usual caution, and pointin g thing to say, TElt SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY' EVENING,' FEBRUARY 25, ItNB was not married, to whom she had subsequently assented to be married in Scotland ; but, not feel ing satisfied afterwards with that marriage cere mony, had been married again at Liverpool, and that the present prosecution was really instituted by Wilson to get rid of her, that he might marry another woman. • His Lordship said, enough had been stated to satisfy him that this was not a case for punishment. Indeed, he had been at a loss to understand why the prosecution had been instituted, as the pri soner was clearly the wife of Carruthers, who was dead, and not of Wilson. The prisoner must take care not to annoy Wilson, and be should discharge her on her own recognisances not to do so, and she was now a free woman. The prisoner left the dock apparently highly de lighted at the result of the trial. out to him that, if the man should die, he would. be tried for his life. Prisoner—l do not know what transpired after I got into barracks. He was then remanded for a week. CLERKENWELL—THE NEw PASSPORT REGULA TIONS.—SINGULAR APPLICATION.—Two Neapolitans applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt for recommendations to the Foreign-office, for passports to enable them to go to Naples. They were not known either to the magistrate or to the officers of the court. They had previously applied to the Neapolitan Minister, who Lad refused to comply with the wishes of the appqeant4. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that it was a singular reason for applying to him for the necessary recommendation t) the Foreign-office, when the applicants had been refused by the Neapolitan Minister. He could only grant re commendations to British subjects, or naturalised British subjects, and he should, therefore, refuse the spplieation. If any wrong bad been done to the appli cants, it had not been done through the British authori ties, but had been caused by their own ambassador. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—THE HYDE-PARK MEETING. —lir. Sheen, of Bedford-row, accompanied by one of the committee who promoted the last Sue day's meeting in Hyde-park, attended, in consequence of the remarks reported to have fallen from the magis trate at the conclusion of the charges of disorderly con duct oa Sunday in Hyde-park, heard in this court on Monday last, and begged to be allowed to make a short statement on behalf of those he represented. Mr. Beadon said he had read the report alluded to in the papers of the day, and could only say be considered it quite a fair report. He had stated that ruffians and pickpockets had been drawn together, and this must have been foreseen as a consequence by those who pro moted that meeting. The applicant had the course open to him of making what explanation he pleased, but the police court was not the place for that purpose, and therefore he must decline to hear him. He considered that applicant could make his explanation on the part of the committee through the medium of the papers. Mr. Sheen submitted that the explanation he attended to offer ought to be heard and made public. Mr. Beadon said he had no control over reporters. They r:dght do as they liked. Bnt he should certainly decline to hear any statement on the subject in court, because, as he had said before, that was not the place for such purpose. He (Ur. Beadon) could only repeat that ruffians and thieves had been ea:led together through the meeting. Mr. Shaen—Just as they are on public occasions— racecourses, processions, fairs, and the like. Mr. Beadon—But not on a Sunday. He considered that applicant bad better, if it should be thought neces sary, make his explanation in the public papers. He had nothin g to do with the public preys, an d cou ld not permit the business of the court to be interrupted by such an application. Mr. Sh'aen, hoping at least that the press would notice ;hat his application had been refused, withdrew. LAMBETH.—WHOLESALE SMASH MG. —Mary Du t ton, a middle aged woman, who stated her place of resi dence to be Whitecrosa-street, St. Luke's, and Margaret West, a young woman, who gave her address, 4, Baker's-terrace, Shoreditch Church, were brought before Mr. Elliott on the following charge : Sarah Barker, barmaid to Mr. Hill, of the Gibraltar Tavern, St. U3orge's-road, Southwark, said, a short time before the prisone r D u tt on came to the bar, called for half a pint of beer, and tendered in payment a counterfeit sixpence. Witl:eTi Ir:rle it with her teeth and threw both pieces on the counter, when the prisoner said it was a very hard case, as she had been just paid for her work with the bad pence and other moneys. Mr. Frederick Hill said that having heard the conversation between his barmaid, the last witness, and the prisoner Dutton, and seeing the latter pick up the two pieces of the broken sixpence from the counter, he determined on watching her. He accordingly passed out at a side door, and while crossing the road he observed Dutton making signs with her hand to some person, and then go to the front of Mr. George Butterfield'e ' the Fountain, nearly opposite, and stoop down for a moment at the grating. She was then joined by the prisoner West, and both walked towards Lambeth-road, where they separated, and Dutton entered Mr. Healey's, the St. George's Tavern. He (Mr. Hill) followed her, and just as he got in she was in the act of tendering a sixpence in payment for half a pint of beer, which ws pronounced by the barmaid to be a bad one, and placed on the counter again. Witness instantly laid hold of the prisoner and the sixpence, charged her with utt..:ring one of a similar description just before at his own house, and handed her over to the charge of a constable. He (Mr. Hill) then took a constable with him to secure the other prisoner, whom they found at a short distance from the house standing by the Blind School. He (Mr. Hill) laid hold of one of her hands, and the policeman the other, and the latter took a bad six, pence from the hand he laid hold of. She struggled hard, and while doing so he saw a black bag whi c h had been taken from the same hand by the constable, and which contained counterfeit money. After both prisoners had been se cured, witness went to the Fountain, an .l having told Mr. Butterworth what had occurred, both went down to the cellar, and each picked up the half of the counterfeit sixpence produced, and which they found right under the grating over which he had seen the prisoner Dutton stoop. Miss Bonner, barmaid to Mr. Healey, the St. George's Tavern, cirroborat2d the testimony of Mr. Hill, respecting the counterfeit sixpence offered to her by the prisoner Dutton. Police-constable, 193 L, deposed to having re ceived the prisoner Dutton into custody, and find ing 2s 7id. in good money on her. Constable, 125, spoke to having secured the prisoner West, and. Sergeant Butt], 9 L, produced a black bag, con taining 14 counterfeit sixpences, which he had taken from the prisoner. The broken sixpence which the prisoner Dutton had first offered was positively sworn to by Miss Barker, barmaid of Mr. Hill ; and Mr. Hill himself had sworn to the pieces- as those picked up in Mr. Butterfield's cellar, one by himself and the other by Mr. But terfield, in his presence, yet the clerk from the Mint Office applied to the magistrate that the testimony of Mr. Butterfield might also be taken, and also that he might be bound over as a witness. The prisoner Dutton, in reply to the charge, said she was not aware the sixpences were bad, and West declared that the black bag with the couut,-r -felt sixpences in it had been given to her to take care of by the other prisoner, who gave her 2d. for doing so. The prisoners were fully committed for trial Mr. Hill (addressing the magistrate) said that in cases of this description the publicans were double sufferers, for in the first place their pots were stolen to make the base coin, and there were no class of tradesmen who suffered more by the passing of bad money than they did. Mr. Butterfield said that on the night before no less than four attempts to pass base money had been made at his house, and he could not help thinking that the law on the subject required immediate attention. when Lady Matheson met with a lamentable accident that deprived her of her life ; but it was true that he attended the court meetings from October, 1855, to February, 1856, when th e consp i racy was said to have taken place. But no evidence had been given that such wall the case ; for it had not been shown what they did or said with a view of defrauding the shareholders of the bank, and he defied the prosecution to do so. Mr. Staple. ton assiduously attended to the meetings of the court and of the former committees during the above period, when he took a prominent part in considering the state of four debts—one was the bills of H. Brown, and after. wards his debt • the second was the Welsh mines ; thirdly, the debt of Oliver ; and fourthly, Blacker's debt. In consequence of an irregularity committed by Mr. Cameron in reference to Brown's debt, Mr. Staple. ton was annoyed with both Cameron and Brown, the result of which was that the former retired from the general management, and the latter from the directory, and yet Mr. Stapleton was charged with a conspiracy with men with whom he held no communication at the time when it was stated the conspiracy took place. He called on the prosecution to state the day, the time, and occasion, and the moment when Mr. Stapleton conspired with Cameron and Brown, and defied the public at the time when he was not on speaking terms with them. To conspire, it was necessary that parties should be on good terms, and the offence commenced in recret, and therefore it did not appear at all probable that Mr. Stapleton conspired with these parties, and at the time when Cameron was making out the balance-sheet up to December, 1855. He complained of the course adopted by the Crown in making all the directors defendants, which had the effect of shutting all their mouths, and preventing them giving that explanation of the circum• stances of the case which it was desirable should be known. The learned gentleman, with great minuteness of detail, entered on a consideration of the evidence that had been adduced on the part of the prosecution in reference to the debts incurred by the British Bank, anti the securi ties taken, as well as the meetings of the Court of Direc tors and the committee meetings, in the c .ur-e of which he ar e ued that with regard to Brown's debt he had given a greater security than his debt, but that the deprecia tion in the value of ship, and the forced sales under the bankruptcy, were the causes that led to their deprecia tion. Of the whole of the debts said to be incurred, Brown's was the only one that ever came before Mr. Stapleton in detail. At that time (1855) Mr. Brown was in good credit - , and no man would have dared to have said then that he was insolvent. Had it been stated at a meeting of shareholders the party would have been proceeded against by Mr. Brown, who, there was no doubt, would have received exemplary damages from such a jury as themselves, under the direction of his lordship. The evidence showed that Mr. Cameron estab lished the bank upon a series of leading principles, one of which was that the manager should have tke sole control of the debts and making up the balance sheet, without the interfere, ce of the directors. The directors in succession, from 1849 to 1855, had acquiesced in it, and Cameron bad reprimanded and threatened the dismissal of a clerk for merely having communica,ted to a director something that canto within his (Cameron's) peculiar functians of general manager. The balance-sheet of Dec., 1855, was made up and prepared by Mr. Cameron, with experienced persons under his control, who had access to all the books of the bank, and ;there - m.ls duly audited by the auditors appointed by the shareholders, and was it to he expeetee theta young and inexperienced directoroi 3 roonthe' stand ing could have had suspicion that he was being deceived. The prosecution had taken 12 months to deal with these accounts, and arrive at the result which had taken 10 days t i prove. Yet all that was suppo , ed by the pro secution to have been known in seine incstnprehensive way by Lir. Stapleton at one nie:r log of the directors, or from conversations with the directors, in an incre dibly short period of time. Referring to the value of the Welsh mines in Dec, 1855, the learned gentleman said Mr. Stapiston had hot been down to examine t rem, and if he had he doubted if he would be able to form an opt nion of , heir value more than he was to the exact distance of the earth from one of the fixed stars. Mr. Stapleton was never called on to tura his attention to their value, and from all he had heard he was led to believe they were valuable and productive. Either in Nov. or Dec. his attention was called to a report thet had beers pre sented to the bank that it railway communication could be made from the pi 's mouth with the South Wales Railway, the mines would amp'y repay the bank for its ad vances. There were only Lhreeorfour meetings in reference to the mines, and the result was that an arrangement, had been made by the Bank with the Llynvio Valley Com mittee that would accomplish the above abj , ct, and thereby increase their value. The learned gentleman referred to the report of Mr. Clarke that ceuid not be found, which valued the mines at 93,0001. in 1851, and remarked that there was no evidence te 'show that information had been communicated to Mr. Stapleton that this estimate was an erroneous one; and, referring to the pale of the mines very recently fer 6,0001., he said that, in May 1856, Mr. Strict valued the ruides as wortti 16,000/ a-year,a;oi which would have made them ample security for the advances c,f the bank. The mines were not worth leas in Dec., 1855, than they were :a June, 1855, and if Mr. Stapleton had been asked a question of that kind be would have been answered they had always been treated in the same way, and be would of course have considered they had been treated _rightly and-r the superintendence of the previous directors. All the other debts existed in June as they did in Dec., and he knew as little of them then. as he did in June. If they were bad debts so much the worse and if they bad not been entered as th e y ou g ht t o have been, that w the fault of those who prepared the balance-sheet in June, 1855, when Mr. Stapleton joined the directory. After some further ro,naiki on toe bad debts of the bank, and the publiattien of f rise reports and balance- iheets, the learned gentlemaii, ia conclusion, said he did not rest Mr. Stapleton's ca-e on t he question of good or had debts, but that when he became a shareholder he be lieved that the balanu,sheet of 1855, and the report of Jan., 1856, published in February f dlo ming, were car rect, and that Ife had no reason to believe the insolvent at that time was insolvent. Lord Campbell said that Sir F. Thesiger admitted, in his opening addresa that when Mr. Stapleton came into the directory he was ignorant or the state of the bank. Sir F. Ke.ly—Exaetly so. It was that that had led him earnestly and cenfielently to hope that when the case for the prosecution was closet that those who represented his friend, Sir F. Toesiger, who bad been justly elevated to the distinguished office of Lord Chancellor, that they would Lave done Mr. Stapleton the tardy justice of conseutiog to his acquittal at that stage of the proceedings. He, however, defied his learned friend to point out any one particle of evidence agaiost Mr. Stapleton. He said teere was none ; eve , ' to the last moment of its exi-tence he believed in i s solvency. The failure ef the beak took him as much by surprise as it did the public, and it was only a few days before he wrote his relative, Mr. Alex. Matheson, to join the bank, believing that it would become one of the leading institutions of the metropolis. He c mtended there was eothieg in Mr. Stapleton's conduct that could cast suspicion on the honour, the integrity, and good name of that gentleman. (Applause.) L rd Campbell said he hoped such ebullition of feeling would not be repeated, and that the persons present would recollect they were in a court of justice. Mr. Sergeant Shee, in addressing the jury for Mr. Alderman Kennedy, said that that gentleman had Tent the greater period of his Hue in India. He was the son of an Indian general officer, and had himself' spent 32 years of his life in India, as physician general at Bom bay, and when he resigned his appointment he left BOm b+y in the enjoyment of the highest possible estimation for his honour and integriy Mr. Ald. Kennedy, when he arrived in this country, with an ample comperencyf,waa about 55 years of age, and he was desirous of obt tining some means of employing it to his own benefit and that of his countr,men. He became a member of the Cor poration of London in 1854, when he was elected an aklertnan for the ward of Cheap, and w h a t ever inigat have been sail of the Corporation of L on d on, they had never tr e p,,a o d r or t :Al n loed a man to remain a mem berwhose char a ct er was open to the slightest su - vicion a:zainst his credit, which was a the d strong pre , utopti:m of his ho uoura b e character in his of yet am C i , • t favour. Mr. Aldermao Kennedy was one of the origi nal promoters of the bank, in which he had staked the whole of his torture, and during the time he had been connecter with it he had never trafficked in its shares or earned a shilling in connection with it. He wa.4 one of the earlieA promoters of the bank, and when he be came a , are of some di,mounts in connection with :Vlac- gregor, who, from his having been under-secretary to the Beard of Trade in Sir R. Peel's Government, was be liered to be a man of substance and respectability. He left the directory, but was induced to return in Oct., 1854, and remained the stoppage of the bank, doing his beet to mitigate the losses that had been incurred since its establiditneet. The learned gentleman then referred to the evidence given of the connection of Mr Alderman Kennedy with the losses of the bank, and his conspiracy to defraud the public by iniere pretenting the state of the batik, and in c , inelasion said there could be no doubt Mr. Alderman Kennedy knew tkt t hi securitiesnel mg a bd, f ia me r k.i t to h %‘on e , Heil jyre b ee l ol t i i i,f i ia l , tt) : 1 p r rihto : isorli p ,eicg t ,a c ci:y y 4o.lBl: :: : : ati a pine t ri d,re ; e l. Bb r is i oa : ulidins o e d, t fhr : iesa k st ‘ lgoetaof t hi h , of some locicf.. , -up of the hank, through the Wail] mittes o t and other advances, but there was no reason to btlieve ' a nn t l the A'wlaus board Vie d i o d n i n t that it was impossible to say Mr. Alderman Kennedy had been guilty of the charge of conspiracy by whice he wee to render depohre the hearths :in , f li,nies of throe() for whose benefit he was induced to establi,h the bank, He irni lured them to ieeiernber that drring the end of 1855 and nearly the whohi of 1856, Mr. Alderman Kennedy was prevented from attending to the board meet rigs owing to his having to discharge the arduous and reeponsinle dill of ehtriff of L.tnden and Middlesex-- an uflice the most laborious that coed he found, from its occupying the time of the holder both by dayand night—in the :oriner in tfischarging the busire es part of the office, and 1;y night di-peneing huspitality an h. d countenancing acts of charity aed benevolence throin_y, Kennedy was a.b.ent, how could he have con,pire out the whole period of his year of office. If fvMr. w ith others to defraud the pub ic ; end if he had beei; ,k c. , 9g. nieant of the true state of tie bknk, it was not likely d h , a p v o e . be would have brought • his brother-m-law, Mr. e . induced his nephew and inetner-in itors. The heirned gentleman's address occupied the court till its rising at half-past five o'clock. v, foient-, into the Directory in . F l e a t w ). t i O Bs b d :co a il i There ore four•uther learned gentlemen to address the jury in support of their respr.ctive ciients. It is under. stood that some of them intend to tali witnesses, but it is confidently anticipated the case will be concluded by Saturday night. PRESCOTT, TIE AMERICAN lIISTORI.IY, reljet to letan, by a letter da,Lo , t •'Bostot , , Mite./ . Stores, February 5," that this-celebrated writer is suil, , rirg iroin an attack of paralysis.—Scotsman, THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. ISAAC BUTT, M.P. gPARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. [The following appeared in our late edition of last evening :—] The committee for investigating the charges in the petition of Mr. Coffey against Mr. Isaac Butt re-assem bled this morning at 12 o'clock in No. 18, Committee room. Mr. Roebuck said he should require Sir J. W. Hogt! and Mr. Mangles, chairman of the East India Company, to be ca led as witnesses, as also the several clerks of the hanks who paid the cheques of Ali Moorad. Sir J. Graham said he would write a note to gentlemen requesting their attendance. - Sir James Graham to Mr. Coffey—Have you been able to ascertain the precise date of the cheque handed to Mr. Butt for attending the cansultation ? Mr. Coffey—My cheque is dated February 15, 1857. The cross-examination of Mr. Coffey by Mr. Deasy was then proceeded with—ln 1857 it was thought advis able that the Ameer should go to India. The Atneer saw Mr. Vernon Smith, and it was his advice that the journey should be undertaken- as expeditiously as possible. The Ameer and myself left London the day the cheque for 1,9991. was drawn, the 29th of, August. I did not tell my brother that we were to sail by the packet of the 27th. We stopped in Paris two days, and I believed we should be able to reach Vienna the day after we quitted Paris. We reached Dresden, t o th e b est o f my recollection on the sth of September, after leaving Paris on the 27t.11 at the previous month. We reached Trieste on the 11th, but the packet for Alexandria sailed on the 10th. •We were acc'mpanie , some part of the way by a lady named Parr and her son. She remained at Trieste three or four days. She was present when Mr. Elliot spoke of Indian affairs. I was not dismi-ged from the Ameer's service. He was my friend and I was not his servant. When Mrs Parr parted with the Atneer she wentto Venice. I went there and met her. I have been living lately in London. lam a married man, but lam not living with my wile. We are not separated. There was a differ ence between us in consequence of our religion. I first told Mr. Roebuck about this petition eight or ten days ago. I have had three or four interviews with that gen" tleman. Mrs. Parr was present at the first of the,' in terviews. She has been taking an active per-. in this petition, as she was referred 'to by inference, not by name, by Mr. Butt, and it is to viricLeate herself from a foul •aspersion that she now comas forward. The aspersion is that I introduced her as my wife at the interview in Vienna. I became aware that Mro Butt had made the assertion by a letter from my brot.er. Before the receipt of the letter I had suspended pro ceedings. Some three or four days after received the letter I saw Mrs. Parr frequently, at her residence in Band-street. Letters were here put in Showing that the petitioner's brother had remonstrated with him for introducing the soi-disant Mrs Coffey. Cro s-examination cantinued— - Up to the receipt of that letter I had only written to Mr. Vernon Smith, but I had not taken any steps with respect to this petition. I, only commenced proce-dings when Mr. V. Smith de clined to interfere. I recs.ved an answer to my applica- tion to Mr. Smith on the 20th Sept last. I have never given a written statement 01 my case to Mr. Roebuck. I never gave one to my parliamentary agent. Holmes i the name of the gentleman who was nay agent. He acted for me up to the time my petition was presented. He is not acting for me now. He was engaged in my business about eight day,. Tne only persoa I ever gave a written statement of the contents of that petition was my brother. Tee written statement forwarded by Mr. Coffey to Mr. Vernon Smith was. here put in and read by the Chairman. The sriter complained that Mr. Butt hivi accused him of attempting to tell the Aineer, that Mr. Batt bad drawn large sums of money from the Arne- r without ever accounting for them, that Mr. Butt hail informed the Ameer on the autberite of the President of the Board of Control that unless the Arneer dismissed him (Mr. Coffey) he would never obtain satisfaction for his claims fr rn the British Government, Another letter was read from Mr. Coffey to Mr:Vernon Smith, asking whetner Mr. Butt was accre iited byhe Board of Control to proceed to Trieete, also whether Messrs. Irving and Langley had been appointed to supersede .him (Mr. Coffey), and also wh-ther auth irity had been given Mr. Butt by the Board of Control ro inform the Atneer that unless he dismissed the writer he would never obtain any satisfaction from the B iard of Control, and finally whether Mr. V. Smith had ever accused him (Hr. Coffey) of selling the Ameer. Crose • e xaminationcontinued—Thestatemeetjust read is correct. I have spoken to my law agents about the statement, but in the preparation of the documents just read I was nit as-isted by any parliamentary agent. I drew it up myself with the assistance of a gentleman named Hale. My petition was presented to the House of Commons four or-five days after .1 saw Mr. Roebuck I made some statements to Mr. Roebuck, but they were verbal. I sent a telegraphic message to Mr. Butt from Trieste. It contained the words " cash safe." Mr. Mangles and Sir 3. W. Hogg here entered the room, accompanied by Mr. Ptinsep, and, as the examina tion of Mr. Coffey had not concluded it was arranged that the evidence of Sir J. W. Hogg and Mr. Mangles shoeld be taken on Friday. Mr. Prineep then translated a Persian document written by the Ameer arranging for the services of Mr. C iffay as secretary for a period of three years, com mencing on the let A.oril, 1856 to the 30th of March, 1859, at the salary of 1,000 rupees a month. The do cument specified that Mr. Coffey was to prosecute the Alneer's claims with tne English Government. A letter was also translated from the Ameer to Mr Batt. It complained that Mr. Coffey had kept him fir 15 days in a strange country, and continual:) , made ex cities to delay going on to Bombay. It said that Mr. Coffey had given him no information, and prayed that Mr. Butt would release him from his troubles, which j were like imprisonment. Cross-examination continued—By "cash safe" I measat that I had some money. Before Mr. Butt left England an arrangement was made that be eb _uld have 3 0001 in cash, and 7,0001. in bills. The 3,0001 was not given tor Mr. Butt for the purpose of remunerating hie, for staying a year in :India. It was given him for doing 'the Aineer service wito the Indian Government. By Mr. Roebuck—Mr. But , had distinctly under taken to obtain from Mr. Vernon Smith a despatch restoring the territory to the Ameer, and it was for those services as well as his advocacy of the Aineer's claims in Parliament that he was to reerive the money. Mr. Roebuck—Wee the money to be paid for Mr. Butt's influence with Parliament, the East In lie Com pany, an , t the Government, on behallof the Atneer Mr, Coffey—Decidedly. The Chairman—l don't like to interfere, but I think such a question lookii like leaai sg tue witness. Tee question was after wards put in another form, ut the came answer was returned. Mr. Roebucic—Was the money given to Mr. Butt professionally.) Mr. Coffey—No ; Mr. Butt said it was not lawyers that were required. He always objected to the employ ment of lawyers ; what he said was wanted was a num ber of members of Parliament who knew the usages of the house. Mr. Ito-tinck—Did Mr. Butt ever tell yon that he was authorized to sneak i.n behalf of Mr. Vernon Smith on the affairs of India ? Mr. C ffev—Mr. Butt was daily in communication with Mr. V. Smith. He introduced the Atseer and himself to the President of the Board of Control. Mr. Roebuck—Did Mr. Butt speak as with the autho rity of Mr. Smith with respect to the despatch. Mr. Coffey—Yes • certainly. In answer t o further questions from the non. gentle man, Mr. Coffey said Mrs. P.irr was an old acquaint- Duce of his family—she might almost be osted a relative. The circumstance that led Ler to Paris was to see her children. Sir J. Graham—When was the petition of Ali Moorad presented to the IT,LISIti of C immune by Mr. Butt, Mr. Coffey—ln June, 1856. Sir J. Gratiani- Had yo u any conver, , ation with Mr. Butt about tnonay before th l presentation of the peti tion Mr. Coffey—No, not till afterwards. Sir J. GrAharn —What was the spirit of the conversa tion with Mr. ,Butt betwe en th e presentation of the petition in Jun e and the moving for papers in July Mr. Coffey—Mr. Butt ~ a id the advocacy of the claims of Alt iVloorad be attended with much exuen,e of time, and that he was not in a position to ive up his time without remuneration, more e,pecial:y as there would be an immense responsibility in carrying on the case with Parliament and the Government. Sir J. Graham—You are c,rtain that Qua conversa tion took place before the motion for 'papers ? Mr. Coffey—C Mr. Sergeant Kinjake—How are you so cer!win that this conversation took place prior to the motion for papers ? Mr. Coffey—Because I told the Ammer the paps were actually necessary when I mentioned the aubifel to him. - Mr. Sergeant Kinglike—What formed the prim:ion point in your conversation with Mr. Butt respectin money? Mr. Coffey—Mr. Butt di4tinctly stated that if it wa• worth 1314 while he would carry the Ameer's ok om , through Parliament. ile did not rrieution azly specig, sum. * _ there ever any person -- Air. Sergeant Kinglake — Was present at at.y of ;heNe converFivions ? Mr. C•,ffey—No—no perBon but unpelf and Mr. Butt. The examinati in of this witrie4s then Aioncluied, and the committee adjourned until to-morrow. A Itsysasig.—A t the spring a'ssizPs at Liverp oo l l a g year, Baron M-rin as jud ge , and Mr. Monk, of Pres ton, al a grand juror, shared the hospitality of the Ith,yor cif Liverpool, by dining together at the Town - Hall in that t ,wn. After a short interval uf atiout ten months, J3aron Martin pre-ides to the Crown Court, at Lancaster, and sentences -Mr Monk to transportation for lite f.r forgery. —Preston Chronicle. [ADVERTISEMENT.] y ay's Pllly, famed for thr Cure -of L'v,r Cipop aint a;al derangement the ornach,—The liver being justly esteeteed the noblest part of the body and -fountain of life ; thus it is, when tae springs become poisoned life itself is threatened, and the suffering patient is in the most imminent danger ; but thvuomda have bin-no willing testimony t o th e power of t hi s potent remedy, cleansing the blood from all impurities, strengthening the stomach, dis c h arg i ng the bile, reniovirg all obstructions, and eradicating disease w ith ou t l eav i ng a trace behind ._Sold by all me - Heine vendors throughout the World ; at Professor Holloway's Establishmente, 244, Strand, London, and 30; Maiden-lane, New York ;by A. Stamp, Constan tinople ;- A. Guidicy, Smyrna; and E , Muir, Malta. A FUGITIVE SLAVE IN LIVERPOOL (From the Liverpool Albion.) On Saturd,y afternoon A poor fugitive slave, wbo arrived three weeks ago at Liverpool, from New Orleans, stowed away in the hold of a cotton ship, was brought to, this office. The following is his own plain unvarnished tale, taken down as the narrative fell from his lips. a _ " My name is T om Wil son , I arr i ved here i n ship called the Metropolis, Captain Foster. lam slave -born ; I have been under slave bondage ever since I was born lam now 45 years old. I be longed to Mr. Henry Festman, of New York, cot ton-presser. I was undr , r him for the space 0f seven years. Before then I belonged to Colonel Barr, of Woodford, Mist - iissippi. There I had a wife and three cnildren, besides having had another child which died. I was:sold by auction by Major Bairds, auctioneer, for 2;500 dols., and was taken down to New.Orli ens, away from m wife and chil dren; and I haven't s een them since. y Shortly after I got t h ere Mr. Fes, ma rr's overseer, Burks, commenced to ill-use me. I didn't understand tying the cotton; it tsar new to me, and I was a w k war d , so I wa n flogged. They used to tie me down across a cotton bale, and give rile 200 or 300 with a leather strap. I am marked with the whip from the ankle-bone to the crown of my head. Some years before I was sold from Mississippi, the overseer there, because I resisted punishment once, cut my right arm across the muscle, and then had it stitched up. He did. that, as he said, to weaken me, because I was too strong in the arm. About a year and a half 'Ater I had been iu New Orleans I ran into the woods. I was followed by Burks and a pack of blood-hou.-Is into the • Baddenrush Swamp The dogs soon caught me. They tore my legs and body with their teeth. Here are the marks yet. [As he spoke he turned up his trousers' legging, and exposed formidable seams, extending up the calf and above the'knee-joint.] Burks (he continued) rode tip to me with his gun, and shot. me in the hip with 14 buck-shot, which can be seen and examined at any time. The dogs continued to pin me with their - teeth. After that I knowed nothing • abont what they did to me for about a week. When I got a little strong they burned my back with a red-hot iron, and my legs with spirits of turpentine, to punish me for map jug. They put an iron collar round my neeirt which I wore for eight months, besides two irons, one on each leg. After teat I was watched very closely; hut one night, about a week after Christ mas, I ran away, and hid myself under the sawdust in a sawmill pit, below New Orleans. I was fol lowed by Burks, the overseer, and the dogs., but they did not find me. I crept nut and ran away; for more safety, to the Great Salt-water Lake, behind Orlearis, secreting myr-elf under the bushes and vines. There ate alligators in the lake, and as I wailed up to the knees in the water, the alligators followed me, grunting and bel lowing, and trying to get me. I had several : times to climb up trees te escape them ; but I fell safer atsong the alligators than among the white , men. Iu the morning, at 4 o'clock, I went down to the wharf. On the road I came across some of the men who were cut watching for me, with guns and dogs. It was just getting light. I begail, to whistl e an d s i ng, and walked close by them, and , they paid no a t ention to me. When I got down to the wharf, some of the coloured crew of the American cotton ship Metropolis took me on board, and hiil me away among the hales. One of the coloured men split on me, and there was a astuch for me that day ;- but they did not fuel ma, though they came very near me, and I trembled to think I should be taken back and torturel I was frightened, too, for the coloured men who had befriended me. I was kept ou t of the sight of the white men,' and Captain Foster did not know anything about it until after the men had been paid off at Liverpool. I remained hid from a week after Christmas until about three weeks ago, when the ship came here. During the time I was secreted I was kept alive by the coloured men who had been so good to me. IVY brought me something to eat and drink every night. When I first lauded , here I was frighte ne d at every whde man I pass e d, an d I hid myself about where I could, and begged a t n ight for bread. I was afraid I should be taken into slavery ag tin. I did not know I could not be s slave here.'' With regard t o th e f uture, poor "Tom Wilsonll sail he would he gad to take a firernau's place on board a coasting steamer. When in slavery, il l America, he had been hired out as a fi reman on one of the lake steamers. He said he could do chat work very w e ll, an d cou ld stand anyama o f heat. • From inquiries we have made we are induced to 13-libve that the foregoing narrative, which reads like a lot chapte r o f " Uncle Toin's Cabin," is sub stantially true. EFFECTS OF FORTUNE-TECLING. A man named John Hodgson was charged at the Halifax police -court on Tuesday with having unlaw fully pretended to use subtl e craft--to wit, pal mistry—to deceive and impose on certain of Her Majesty's subjects. From the evidence adduced it appeared that the informant, Elizabeth Bonny, a young woman about twenty years of age, and a companion named Eden Ambler, went to the lodgings of the prisoner to have their fortunes told. He took them into a room and told them to sit down, sayinghe suppo:oad the,y understood his terms. They replied they did hot, on which he informed tern what his charge was, and the young women having consented to pay the sum, Hodgson examined their hands, muttered some gibberish, and then took out a pack of cards, which the girls by his direction cut five times. He told Bonny she would have two offers of marriage within the year, and Ambler that her cards were very bad, two young men being anxious to marry her, and one of them continually frustrating the other's connubial designs. To defeat this opposi tion the wizard directed her to read the first chap ter of Ruth when she got home, and to wish throe times. The girls then paid their money and left the fortuneteller, on the understanding that they were to return in a fortnight. On their w,.y home Ambler said she felt alarmed, an d was afraid to read the first chapter of Ruth lest the devil should take her. Afterwards she appeared nervous, and became gradually worse until Thursday. last, when she was quite deranged. She laved and screened in great fright crnstantly, and was almost unmen ageable. On one occasion she could not be kept in ted, and left the house almost naked. She was a teacher in a Sabbath school at Halifax. The pri soner denied all recollection or knowledge of the girls, and also that Ambler's illness could have been the reYtilt of any FUCEI visit, owing to the time that had elapsed since it was alleged to have taken place. The superintendent of police produced a lx.d.t found upon the prisoner, under his outer clothing, after be had been taken into custody. It was composed of a coarse material, and on the side worn next to the body was a magnet, and three crosses and four medals carefully sewn up, together with directions for fortune-telling, notes received from his corres pondents, and pieces of parchment covered with hieroglyphics. The Bench committed the prisoner to the House of Correction far three months, with hard labour, and expressed their regret that the law did not allow them to award a severer punish meat. county member, TM; PIGS AND THE COUNTY AIEMBEIL—The lat.° Sir John St. Aubyn used to tell a story, when he was a Sir John is oo k na n! ja ' n ' ' of hil canvms in a coach and six, and h ‘ avitig got o ‘ ut of his equipage to pay his complimer.t4 Zletencr°:3, freeholder, hearing the ~i fe say to her trig. turn the pigs out of the parlour, TRIAL OF THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK DIRECTORS. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, GUILDHALL. (Sitting at Nisi Priue, before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN V. BROWN AND OTHERS. TIMM DAY. [The following appeared iu successive editions of The Sun of yesterday The trial of the information against the directors and manager of the Royal British Bank for conspiring by false pretences to defraud the shareholders and cue tomere and the public, was this day resumed. The same counsel appeared as before. Mr. Atherton said that the prosecution had had time to look into the remainder of the evidence they proposed to call since the adjournment last night, and they had come to the conclusion that after the intimation of his lordship's opinion that no evidence should be given on this information relative to what occurred in 1856, they would not occupy further time on that head, but pass on to the evidence of shareholders and depositors to prove they were ignorant of the affairs of the bank. Mr. Thomas Cantrell, Mr, Marcus, Mr, Beatie, Mr. R. Mitchell, Mr. D. Stewart, Dr. Richards, and Mr. J. Siiicensbe (servant), were called to prove the above fact. Some of them stated they received the six per cent. dividend. Mr. Atherton said he proposed to prove the known worthlessness of some of the securities by the directors in 1855. Mr. Scott, sharebroker, was recalled. He stated that in December, 1855, Eastern Archipelago shares were unmarketable ; Strand Bridge shares were about 51. per share at that time ; Warkworth Dock shares he never heard of in the market; the Irish Beet-root Sugar Company shares were valueless, and there was no market for Irish Peat shares ; the Chartered Australian Gold Company were only worth a few shillings. (The above were, a part of Mr. Macgregor's securities.) Mr. Cooper, clerk to M r . L ee ( off i c i al assignee to the Royal British Bank bankruptcy), stated—The debts proved and claimed under the bankruptcy amounted to 537,6461. ls. 6d. There had been collected 279 0831. 3a. Bd. The official manager returned 5,000/. as indemnity. There were 33,000/. out-tanding, making 3 17,083/. 33. 81. No debts were proved upon the capital which had been lost. The Welsh mines were sold on Feb. 8, 1858, for 6,0001. to the landlord. By Mr. James—The legal expenses under the fiat were 8,000/. Mr. James—That won't cover them. Witness—The whole of the legal expenses of working the estate amounted to 22,000/, It included the official assignee's expenses and the 5,0001. fur the official manager. He did not know if the water had been let into the mine during its working by the official manager. The landlord claimed 10,000/. damages, and brought an action of ejectment, which had been compromised ; two dividends had been paid out of the estate en' 5.5. 61. and 2s. Cl.i in the pound, 2s. in the pound more was expected, and la in the pound from contri butors under the winding-up order. Some other evidence was given relative to proceedings in bankruptcy, in connection with estates having , refer ence to the clai ms o f the b ank. Mr. Brown s estate had realised 20,8161, 15s. 4].; Jr.f Macgregor's, 1,988/ 12 t. 6,1. ; Mr. Cochrane's,2,ol7/. 10e. ; and Mr. Blacker's, 375/. At present nothing had been received from the leliugten C ittie-rearket, Mr. C.venne, Mr. Mullens, and Mr. Cameron's estates ; 6,000/4 additional was expected from Mr. H. Brown's estate. The plant of the Welsh works was valued by Messrs. Fuller and Horsey for the assignees at 13,0001. or 14,0001., at a forced sale, and 38,0001. cr 40,000/. to a willing incoming tenant, subject to 1,5001. arrears of rent and dilapidations to a considerable extent. The lease was not valued from its being considered worthless. Mr. Seymour—That was after they let the water into the mine,. (Laughter.) Mr. Paddison recalled, and, in answer to Mr. James, said that Mr. Dumlerr's reference to the Bank of England when be opened hie account with the Royal British Bank, led to the latter discounting his bills to so large an extent, and their becoming involved with the Welsh mines. Oa the last day of the Royal British Bank's existence there was in cash, bills, and at the Bank of England, at thecbief office and at the branches, 189,234 After some further evidence on points of detail relit tive to evidence given in the course of the trial, Mr. Atherton raid he had closed the case for the Crown. Lord Campbell said he thought he might now con gratulate Sr F. Kelly on his appointment as Attorney- General —(applause) —and that then he would take precedence in addressing the jury, notwithstanding the rule that the learned counsel for the first-named defendant first addressed the jury. Sir F. Kelly asked, if looking at the dates of the balance-sheets of June, 1855, and December, 1855, in connection with the time when Mr. Stapleton joined the bank, be ought to be called upon to address the jury. Lard Campbell said, in his opinion, the case against the defendants varied very considerably, but he must leave it to the learned gentlemen who conducted the prosecution to say what course they would pursue. Mr. Atherton, for the Crown, said he must ask the opinion of the jury in the case of Mr. Stapleton. Sir F. Kelly said that although he could not but express the deep anxiety he felt in a case like this, and ',presenting as he did Mr. Stapleton, he thought it was his duty to appeal to the learned judge, now that the case for the Crown was concluded, to ask whether it could fairly be said there was a scintilla of evidence affecting the honour, the draracter, or the conduct of Mr. Stapleton, and he must declare with profound sincerity that it was wi,h no regret he had heard the answer of the learned judge and the determination (though, perhaps, with surprise) he had heard from the representatives of the Crown to take their verdict in the case of Mr. Stapleton, s for during th e l ong an d ar d uou investigation day by day of this complicated and im portant case, every moment had he longed for the opportunity of bringing under the calm, patient, and impartial consideration the case of the gentleman who had entrusted it to him. For he ventured to say that if at the close of this great cause he should not leave the Court with out the shadow or the shade of a stain or a suspicion on his character, no man in this free and enlightened country, where justice was administered more purely, and, he believed, was a nearer approach to perfection than in any other country in the world, could hold his character, his honour, or his happiness safe for a single moment if he had the misfortun e to be connected with an establishment like the Royal British Bank. He at the outset would call their attention not in the technical language of thelaw, but plainly and intelligently as to what was the naiure of the charge made against Mr. Staple• ton and the ether defendants, and he entreated their attention more especially to the time—to the period of time which the charge embraced, and to that to which it was exclusively confined, not that he had any interest in excluding from their attention any fact that bad been proved in evidence from the earliest establishment of the Royal British Bank to the present time, but because he felt it was essential, in order thoroughly to apprehend the bearing of the facts of tee case upon the character, con duct, and motives of Mr. Stapleton to which the indict ment related, the period of the time during which the dd and deceived; e con spiracy was said to have been formed and by which the publ the period b e t ween the early part of December, 1855, and the let of Feb ruary, 1 856, when the balance-sheet and the report up to the 31st e , orn it pr was ising stated, had been defrauded of December, 1855, were published at the meeting of shareholders. A great deal of evidence had been laid before them most material in its character, and essential and indispensable in the prosecution of the case from the earliest period of the establishment of the Royal British Bank down to the moment of its failure, and even up to the present thee when they were called upon to try this case, but it must be proved in evidence that the directors of the Royal British Bank had a knowledge of the real state of the bank and made state ments that were false, to defraud the public ; and what the judge had to deal with was, whether one or two or more of the defendants conspired to defraud and imp tile upon the public by the publication of the balance sheet aid report up to • 31st December, 1855, which Were materially and subetant;ally false, and which they knew to be false when they published it to the world, and the caange from which, through their verdict, he had to deliver Mr. Stapleton was that before or at the time when the balance-sheet, up he knew they were substantially an d m aterially false, : was publi s h e d t o th e s h are h o lders and that knowing so, h e was a party to the pu blication tot t h o o 3 s l h s a t Dec.'eholdelrBssasd the world at large. If it be brought home to air. Stapleton that such was the fact, they ought to pronounce a verdiet of guilty against him, but when he had called tf sir attention to the undoubted a a n— unquestionable facts of the case, in respect of the dates of their transaction, they would find that to charge Mr. Stapleton with a knowledge, on the 12th Feb., 1856, that the balance-sheet was false to the extent of 100,0001 or more by TC3401.1 of bad debts, &c., they might as well charge him (the learned counsel) arid them (the jury) wite the seine offence, who never heard of these transactions till long atter the failure of the bank, and they became notorious to the public out of doors. The learned coup-el then referred to the period when Mr. S tapleton became a depositor and d:rector on 31st J uy, 1855, ana if the bank was sound on the 31 st of D..comber, 1855, it was also sound at the time when Mr. Stapleton joined the bank; and if it were true that the balance. sheet was wrong at one time it was perfectly clear, and had been pr ove d , i t was false at any other period ; and Mr. Stapleton, i n the hour when he be cane a shareholder of the Royal British Bank, in July, 1855, became a ruined men. He was the deceived, and riot the deceiver —ha was the victim, and not the perpe trator of the crime with which he was charged. The learned gentleman then referred to Mr. Stapleton's family connections, and his relationship to Sir James Matheson, member of a well-known commercial house in the City, and passed on to his joining the bank. H e then stated that Mr. Stapleton was net a wealthy man, as his deposit with the bank showed, but it also showed that he had ne acceintnodation whilst he was connected with it. Referring to the balance-sheet, the learned gentleman said that Mr. Cameron and those Rho acted under him were responsible for the production of the balance-sheets, because it had been shown that none of the directors were allowed to examine the sta tistical tables on which they were made out. Mr. Cameron believing the directors had no right to interfere with the executive. When Mr. Stapleton joined the Royal British Bank he believed h e h a d j o i ned a solvent es t a bli s hment, and there was nothing on th e f ace o f th i ngs to a waken asus picion that anythi ng was wrong. During 1855, toe period_ ara when Mr. Stapl e t on was a director, he was absent f considerable period during the long vacation, and again Country MarKets EDINBUROEI BAY AND STRAW MARKET FEB. 23. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 7s Od to 10s Od per kemple of i 6 stoned tron ; wheat do., 59 0,1 to 7s Od ; barley do.. 5s G:1. to 6g 61. flay from 10d to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL—FEB. 23. There were in the market today 14 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 33a tid and —e• DALIKEITH MEAL VARKET—FEB. 22. There wer e i n th e market to.div 8 bag s o f oatmea l, 001 ba.rleymeal, and 0 pot barley.. Sales ready. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Thir_,d• imperial Flour, new, per ditto —8 Od — s Od • - ''S 1 Pot-barley, new , per di tto —a Oct —a Oct —" DUBLIN, FEB. 23. An active trade in corn to-day, and the transaction in wheat must be quoted at the rates of last week. whit, wtieat, 26, 61 to 28s Od , red ditto, 23- Od 261 Oa ditto new, s I ; barley, ma lti ug, 1 3s to 18a Od; grind ing, —s to —s ; os.,s, old, lls Od to 14s; ditto, new, Od to —s 01 , oatmeal, 14s to 15s Od; bere, new, 14s to 1. 515 Od , rano , d, 23s Od to 25s Od per brl ; ,s' (lour, 10 Od to 20a Od per cwt ; Ultima corn, 31s 01 r•o 331 6d Vl' 480 COAL %IA R FT.-FEB. . 24. Prices of Coals per ton a the close of the market d. Bates's West Hartley l3 til Tyne Main .. l2 0 Walkor Primrose l2 t Ward's West Hartley _l4 0 Wall Bend, ko. d• :elmont .. .16 0 Riddell l5 ; ,e ramwellgate l7 (' 2assop is I '•Celloe. . 19 6 6 ;,ugsell's tletton l5 Bell :: ... :: .. ~......... . ... ,1 5 : Powou's Duff . ryn Sieml+ °I Wallsetul, tw Acorn Close l7 6 Northumberland Ea,it 13 I Eden . . • l7 C Heap), Hall l7 3 Ships at market ~ 23 ; sold, 14. AL SHARA MARKET" LIVERPOOL -FEB. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE; —There was a fair amount of busines• the market opening firm, and closing at the best. The quotations are for the account ending March 15. Grand Trunks, 13 i—Sheffields, 4O 1-Eastern Counties, 1211 7.16 a d —North British, 134 s—Canadas, 20A i—Dovers, 24—Holyhead, 19a I—Birkenhead stock, 73 i—York and North Mid., , (q-..-Els . st LancAshi re , 91h 2—Midland, 99 en ti --Berwicks, 21 4,-Leeds Northern, 25 A-- x " Londons, 99, 3 / 4 /- -Caledonians, 48 4—L a ncashire end Yorkshire, 9 i 4. FEB. 24. BTocic EXCHANGE. —This market was firmer to-day, and improved towards the close. Midlands, 100 h —Lundell and North- Westerns, I.ol—Great Westerns, 62a—South Staffords, 3A—Birtningham Fire Office shares UN. AAA!%ICLIY.;STBItt, FEB. 24. STOOK EXCLIANGE.—A very fair business doing in the share market to-day, principally for next account. The following are the transactions:—Leeds, 95i—Doverd, 9-16—Loudon and North Western, 101—Sheffields, 40 , ,I.Wlautts, iOO i—T run k s, 12 15-16 Canadas, 2°4— Eastern Counties, 1 4 — E . tst Lancashire 91. A—N —Nor th S'uffurds, d—Birk en h ea d , 73— Leeds 6 pref., BIRTHS. • BEMUSE —On the 17th inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, the wife of Rear-Admiral Bethune, C. 8., of a son. NELsoN.--On the 23d inst , at Upper Clapton, the wife o f I" J. Nelson, Esq., of a daughter. AVILE—On the 23d inst., at Foulmore Rectory, near B°P ston, the lion. Mrs, Arthur Savile, of a son. WALTER—On the 24th inst., at 40, Upper Grosvenor - st reet ' the wife of J. Walter, Esq., of •, a son. MARRIAGES. BLOWN • WRIGITT —On the 23d ins,t., at All Saints' C hurello St. John's-wood, D avi d Brown, Esq , of Liandaff place, Cardiff, to Anna Marra Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Wright, Chaplain to the H.E.I.C. DEATH S. BRASS —On the 22d inst., at Mount Fort House, Barnshil: square, Islingto n , Mr . Win. Brass, of Silver - street, Food street, Cheapsido, aged 84. BLAKISTON—On the 23d inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Fran' ces, wife of Peyton Blakiston, F. R.s., aged FRANCII —On the 23d inst. at Ford-place, Stifford,jEss ° Samuel Francis, .Esq., aged 74. HAanisos—On the 23d inst., at Wolverton, Bucks, Richar d Harrison, Esq., aged 79. HAMILTON—On the 24th inst., at 9, Howe-street, Edinburgh' Thos. Hamilton, areLiteet. LIMPET —On the 2 1 st inst. , Wil liam Lionel Lampet, Esq., of - the Highlands, near Banbury, ~x fordshire, aged 68. PERRY —On the 24th inst., Sarah, wife of M r . R. Fairy, of 11 1 Re ekingli a - m -row, New Kent-road, aged 92. On the 23d inst., at &Hair Villa, Tnlse-hill, denly, Horatio John, eldest surviving son of Mr. floral.' Stringer, Leadenhall-street. LONDON Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG 4 4 t No, Liz, Strand, Frinter, at The Sun Office, •112, Strand, in the Precinct of tbe Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, February 25, 1858* ¢~, ~