The Sun. — London, England, 1858-02-24 00:00:00

t3Vit JAL INTELLI.viI J OL. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton Market yesterday manifested a very firm appear ance, and prices tended upwards. The sales were estimated at 5,000 bi,les, 500 of which were taken by the speculators. Although the influx of gold into the Bank of England is rather less rapid than it has been of late, a steady accumulation of the precious metals is ncertheless going on, and the weekly re turn which will appear in next Friday's Gazette may be expected to show a further important in crease. About 44,0001. was added yesterday, and the arrivals from America will no doubt cause a further augmentation, but the exports to the Continent are now rather larger, and a fair proportion of our supplies will, it is thought, be henceforth transmitted to France, the downward movement in the exchanges having made further progress. The price of gold in Paris is still rather dearer than in London, but the Bank of France authorities are stated not to b purchas ing specie, and the amounts remitted are either for the settlement of accounts or for the purchase of silver. This metal is in moderate demand, and bars are quoted ss. lid. per ounce standard. There is not much demand for money in Loin bard-street, or at the Bank of England, but in some quarters the applications are stated to have increased. At the forthcoming meeting of the Bank of Egypt a dividend, at the rate of 7 per cent., will be recom mended. A dividend of 7f. ptr share has been declared on the AntwArp and Rotterdam Railway Shares. It is stated that the directors recommend that uo further issue of shares for the purpose of raising additional capital should take place. This day the half-yearly meeting of the South ampton Dock Company took place at which a favourable report was read, showing that the net revenue for the half-year, after paying the deben ture interest and other expenses, was 6,7287. 19s. 10d., to which the former balance of 6267. IGs. 10d., making an available balance of 7,3551. IGs. Bd., from which the directors recommended a dividend on the ordinary stock at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, leaving 1411.6. Bd. to be carried forward. The dividend at the meeting of the Norrolk Railway Company, to-day, was at the rate of V. per cent. per annum. The report of the Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, received at the meeting of to -day, states that the profi's on the contracts of the Sydney, Australian, and Adelaide were 4,360/. The Sydney and Australian had since been sold for a sum of 49,9951. The sum of 55,4021. 10s. had been returned to the shareholders. The Victoria had been chartered to the European and Australian Royal Mail Company for twelve months. The Adelaide bad performed a successful voyage to China with troops, and would return in May. The accounts at King George's Sound had been cloed. It was stated that the balance of assets over liabili ties would be about 15,0001., and that another 105. would be payable at the next meeting. There is very little animation in the market for English Securities, but prices are rather firmer. At the opening a rise ofd per cent. took place, and several transactions were concluded, but since then the quotations have been a shade flatter. Consuls have been 96i 97, and 961 for money and account. They are now tolerably steady, viz., at 9 Gi ; for money, 94 sellers for March, and 97 to 07± for Apt The New Three per Cents. are 9 41 the Reduced 97 to 97f, and Exchequer Bills 30s. to 34g. premium. India Stock is 224. 13 uFiness in the Foreign Stock Market is quiet, and prices' are steady. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 101 to 1011 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 104 l Peruvian per Cents., 82 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 111. F 111; Spanish New Deferred, 261 ; and Venezuela 4i Per Cents., 34. The following are tho nominal prices of Foreign St ocks :—Gren , da D. furred Bonds, 51 t,, Gi ; Mexi can. 3 per Cents., 231 to 201 ; Peruvian, 81 to 83 ; Do. 3 per Cents., to —; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45 to 46 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 110 to 112; Do. 41 per Cents., —to ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 44 to 45 ; and Do. New Deferred, 26k to 26, The Railway Share Market, this moru;ng, has been moderately active, and, iu several instances, 411 improvement, to the extent of about to 1 Per cent., may be quoted. Great Western, N orth-Western, Midland, and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, advanced 10s. Brighton and North British, 15s. ; and Caledonian, and North- Eastern (Berwick), 11. Norfolk and South- E' astern declined about 10s. ; and Vale of Neath, 11• The Foreign and Colonial Lines are inactive, and no material variation can be quoted in prices. Mining Shares are neglected, and at quite nomi nal quotations. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dealt in to a very limited extent. Bank of Austra lasia improved 10s. ; Ottoman Bank, 53. ; Bank tf Egypt declined ss. 44112E1 FUNDS. —CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. ( From the O f ficial List:) BueineaS R 8 Per Cent. R e d uce d A nnu iti es - / 7 done. per /lent Console finnuitiek ew 3 per Cent. Annuities 97 g I a Lon 2 Annuities, expire cti •fan. 1R60.. 2 1-16 ®Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct. 1859 1 13-16 Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, I ' BBs. 18/ India St oc k 24 India H onda 2 p Ditto, und er 2 10(10 . 29 .......... ............. • • . p Onsols for Aeconvit . . .. 25 p 97 6i 7 6 Exchequer Bills, 20. ******** ** ''''''''''' GOP . Ditto Advertised ..... .............. ...... Exchequer Bonds, 1658, 36 per Cent.— 100A4 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS —THIS DAY. Grenada New Active, 24 per Cent. Ditto Deferred,,, 64 ▪ exicau 6 p er C ent -ver uvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 ▪ Ditto 18b3, 3 per Cent 46i 6 Lttssian Bonds, 1822, t St., 5 per Cent ll2 111 Da 1 21411 Bosds, 3 per Cent. Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cen . t. . 264 4:l4 rkiah clonds, t' per cent Ditto Guaranteed. 4 par Cu nt lO4 w nneznela Bonds, 4i per Cent Dividend., on the above payable in London. ttitEE O'CLOCK. Consols, money Consols account (March 4) 14 1 e lq i I NT 0 " P " ill Paid LLOYD'S SHIPPTI":I.—(T):ds Dav b 11" D". Feb. 24.—Wind this day at noon, E.; strong eeze, and fine clear weather. to, e T ARDIFF, Feb. LChase 23. Win -s E.—Sailed—Eliz a Carew , ',able Bay , Cub. h... v ALIIOUTH, Feb. 23.—Wind S.E.—Sailed —Alluvia, for - sa•va nnah. i4l Po nramollTH, Feb. 23.—Wind S.E. to E.—Arriveel— g orpion, from St. Michael's. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 21.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived— :klharnbra(e), from Gibralta r ; w ith 28,452/. in specie on Jill ight. .fDawrIroUTH, Feb. 23 .—Vir dE N E Arrived —Sylid r,m Forrevecebia. in • • •--- BRISTOL, Feb. 23.—Wind , St.. Michael's; James Gib S.E:—Sailed—Ellen, for 'tit . Michael's. son, St. Vincent; King Arthur, ..,.. OFF QUEENSTOWN', Feb. 22.—Wind S.E k rived— vY ild Rover, from Liverpool for New York. . --r .„. DUNDEE, Feb. 21—Wind s.E.—Sailed—Tay (ss), for i'v reenland. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIT.) Wednesday Morni ng . p.`iOuTRAMPToN, Wind E. 'Arrived—Le Coq, from Cherbourg. 4 !_.iled— Lyme Ltia (a), for Cardiff; Atalanta ( s ) , Jersey ; utior, . W ald s LIVERPOOL, Wednesday M orn i ng. .E. sailed',. Crichton, for Trinidad. (.1. SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)] GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. grind E. ; tide, high Ra t er; f r e s h, and fine. .Bariiii v ed—Cherub, fromfit . lllichael'~. e a — Fanny, for Chatham. Wh o DEAL, Wednesday morning. N oeii -u--5;., moderate. e m a _ riPlive, from Smyrna , and City of London, from ti s—both for London. wr a th ik (`ay s the Manchester Guardian) that the fel alion on the p a r t of Mr. Gladßtooe and his tit ?de to keep aloof from the Drrl. , y party in power, if nt o Ppoßition, will be greeted with at least that ig,,antive R atisfaction with wltich we bail the miscarriage " Projects for unbuly lliance, TS-- (This Day). this information relative to what occurred in 1856, they would not occupy further time on that head, but, pass on the evidence of Fhaiehold , rs and dep)sitors to prove they were ignorant of the affairs of the bank. Mr. Thomas Cantrill, Mr. Marcus, Mr. Beetle, Mr. R. Mitchell, Mr. D. Stewart, Dr. Richards, and Mr. J. Sidcombe (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 Sl. per share at that time ; Warkworth Dock shares he never heard of in the market; the Irishßeet-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 Mr. Lee (o ffi cial ass i gnee t o 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. 33. Bd. The official manager returned 5,0001. as indemnity. There were 33,0001. outstanding, making 217,0831. 3s. Bd. No debts were proved upon the capital which had been lost. The Welsh mines were sold on Feb. 8, 1858, for 4,000/. to the landlord. By Mr. James—The legal expenses under the fiat were 8,0001. Mr. James—That won't cover them. Witness—The whole of the legal expenses of working the estate amounted to 22,0001. It included the official assignee's expenses and the 5,0001. for the official manager. He did nob 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 of ss, 6d. and 2s. 6d. in the pound, 2s. in the pound more was expected, and 4s. 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 claims of the ba n k. M r . H. Brown ' s estate had realised 20,8161. 15s. 41; Mr. Macgregor'?, 1,9881. 12.. 6d. ; Mr. Cochrane's, 2,017/. 10s. ; and Mr. Blacker's, 3751. At present nothing had been received from the Islington Cattle-market, Mr. Gwynn?, Mr. Mullein, and Mr. Cameron's estates ; 6,0001. additional was expected from Mr. H. Brown's estate. The plant of the Welsh works were valued by Messrs. Fuller and Horsey for the assignees at 13,0001. or 14,0001., at a forced sale, and 38,0001. or 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 mini- , . (Laughter.) Mr. Paddison recalled, and, in answer to Mr. James, said that Mr. Dumlerr's reference to the Bank of England when he opened his 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. On the last day of the Royal British Bank's existence there was in cash, bill?, and at the Bank o England, at the chief office and at the branches, 189,234/, After some further evidence on points of detail rely tive to evidence given in the course of the trial, Far.: Leasing . Compazies. I Cinsing tbis day liminess this day ti:lostr g this day. Barmass done this day. 3t. 'lOO ;t. 'lOO 5 all ;t, 100 5 all R. 100 5 3 - C 8 4 1 - 8i 72 - 73 ••• a.. 94 --91 94 - 96 95i - 96. 3 7 33 ..• 4 - 5. ••• •••••• ... - i -- 4 4 i 18 - 19 1 62i -63 i 4 8 - 50 1 32 - 34 15 - 17 94 - 95 C 7 = GB. 23 - 28. 93 - 98 9i -10 i 107 - 107 92 - 94 131 - 133 104 - 106 614 -61 i 61 - 63 85 88 11 —l2 p 11 12 95i 95' - 4d 63 - 6i 1071 - 108, 101 - 101 - 1 73 - 98. •• sh • ...... ... 39i - 40:] 101 -101 i 72 - 74 fi - ii 65 - 671 3i - 3i 521 - 531, Mr. Atherton said he had closed the case for the Crown. Lord Campbell said he thought he might now con gratulate S.r 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, he ought to be called upon to address the jury. Lord Campbell said, in his opinion, the case against the defendants varied very considerably, but he mutt leave it to the learned gentleman who conducted the prosecution to say what courie they would pure ue. 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 be fell in a case like this, and representing as be 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 character, or the conduct of Mr. Stapleton, and he must declare with profound sincerity that it was with 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, for during the long and arduous 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 ho ventured to say that if at the close of this great cause he should leave the Court with out the shadow or the shade of a stain or a suspicion ou his character no man in thil free and enlightened country, where justice was administered more perely, 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 misfortune to be connected with an establishment like the Royal British Bank. Ile at the outset woul l call their attention not in the technical language of thelaw, but plainly and intelligently as to what was the nature of the charge made against Mr. Stiple ton and the ether defendants, and be 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 had 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 the 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 conspiracy was said to have been formed, and by which the public, it was stated, had been defrauded anti deceived; comprising the period between the early part of December, 1855, and the let of February, 1856, when the balance-sheet and the report up to the 31st 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 indispens a bl e ire 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 time 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 impose upon the public by the publication of the balance sheet and report up to 31st December, 1855, which were materially and substantially false, and which they knew to be false when they published it to the world, and the charge from which, through their verdict, he had to deliver Mr. Stapleton was that before or at the time when the balance-sheet. up to 31st Dec. 1855, was published to the shareholders he knew they were substantially and materially false, and that knowing so, he was a party to the publication to the shareholders and the world at large. If it be brought home to air. Stapleton that such was the fact, they ought to pronounce a verdict of guilty against him, but when he had called their attention to the undoubted and 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 reason of bad debts, Zisc., they might as well charge him (the learned counsel) and them (the jury) with the same offerce, who neer,r heard of these transactions till long after the failure of the bank, and they became notorious to the public out of doors. The learned counsel then referred to the period when Mr. Stapleton became a depositor and director in 31st July, 1855, and if the bank was sound on the 31st of December, 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 bad been proved, it was false at any other period and Mr. Stapleton, in the hour when heN be came a shareholder of the Royal British Bank, in July, 1855, became a ruined man. He was the deceived, and not the deceiver—he 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. He then stated that Mr. Stapleton was nut a wealthy man, as big deposit with the bank showed, but it also showed that he had no accommodation whil-t he was connected with it. Refering to the balance-sheet, the learned gentleman said that Mr. Cameron and those who 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 he had joined a solvent establishment, and there was nothing on the face of things to awaken a sus picion that anything was wrong. Dur in g 1855, the period f when Mr. Stapleton was a director , he was absent or a considerable period during the long vacation , and again when Lady Matheson met with a lamenta ble accident that deprived her of her life; but it w as true that be attended the court meetings from October, wtd lB to ss h , av to e February, 1856, when the conspiracy as a aken place. But no evidence had been given s that such was the case ; for it had not been shown of the what they did or said with a view of defraudi n g the do s hareholders so. Mr. Staple bank, and he defied the prose cution tothee period, court Staple ton assiduously attended to themeet and of the former committees during tings o the above v when he took a prominent p a rt in considering the state of four debts — on e was the bills of H. Brown, and after wards his debt ; t he second was the Welsh mines ; thirdly, the debt of Oliver ; and fourthly, Blacker's debt. In cons e q uence of an irregulaifty 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 crccasion, and the moment when Mr. Stapleton conspired 973 • is par t 51i 62,3 82..3 83; 94 3 - 3 i 7j - 8 8j - 9j 32. i - 33 9 - 5 109 111 20/ 274 49 bl 31 2? 36 3g 741 75 82 83 13 15 d 7 5 d 9 11 38 39 100 - 103 ••• '''''' 3.; - - TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1858 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 secret, 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, and the securi ties taken, as well as the meetings of the Court of Direc tors and the committee meetings, is the course of which he argued that with regard to Brown's deist he had given a greater security than his debt, but that the deprecia tion in the value of ships, 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 the sole control of the debts and making up the balance sheet, without the interferer ce of the directors. The directors in succession, from 1849 to 1855, had acquiesced in it, and Cameron had reprimanded and threatened the dismissal of a clerk for merely having communicated to a director something that came within his (Cameron's) peculiar functions 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 afterwards duly audited by the auditors appointed by the shareholders, and was it to be expected that a young and inexperienced director of 3 months' stand ing could have had suspicion that he was bein g deceived. The prosecution had taken 12 months to d ea l with these accounts, and arrive at the result which had taken 10 days to prove. Yet all that was supposed by the pro secution to have been known in seine incemprehensive way by Mr. Stapleton at one meeting 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. Stapleton had not been down to examine t tern, and if he had he doubted if he would be able to form an opi nion of their value more than he was to the exact distance of the earth from one of the fixed stare. Mr. Stapleton was never called on to turn his attention to their value, and from all he had heard he was led to believe they were valuable and productive. Ether in Nov. or Dec. his attention was called to a repert that had been pre sented to the bank that if railway corn uunication could be made from the pll's mouth with the South Wales Railway, the mines would amp yrepay the bank for its ad vances. There were only three or four meetings in reference to the mines, and the result was that an arrangement had been made by the Bank with the Llynvie Valley Com mittee that would accomplish the above object, and thereby increase their value. Tho learned gentleman referred to the report of Mr. Clarke that eouid not be found, which valued the mines at 93,000/. in 1851, and remarked that there was no evidence to show that information had been communicated to Mr. Stapleton that this estimate was an erroneous one ; and, referring to the sale of the mines very recently for 6,0001., he said that, in May 1856, Mr. Strict valued the mints as worth 16,0001 a-year,and which would have made them ample security for the advances of the bank. The mines were not worth less in Dec., 1855, than they were in June, 1855, and if Mr. Stapleton had bean asked a question of that kind he would have been answered they had always been treated in the same way, and be wculd of course have considered they had been treated rightly under 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 34 he did in June. If they were bad debts so much the wors.e, and if they had not been entered as they ought t have been, that w. , s the fault of those who prepared the balance-sheet in June, 1855, when Mr. Stapleton joined the directory. After some further remarks on the bad debts of the bank, and the publication of dila° reports and balance-sheets, the learned g-ntleman, in conclusion, said be did not rest Mr. Stapleton's case on the question of good or bad debts, but that when he became a shareholder he be. lievej that the balance-sheet of 1855, and the report of Jau., 185 d, published in February f wing, wore cor rect, and that he had no reason to believe the insolvent at that tune was insolvent. Lord Campbell said that Sir F. Thesiger admitted, in his opening addres4, that when Mr. Stapleton came into the directory he was ignorant of the state of the bank. Sir F. Kelly—Exactly so. It was that that had led him earnestly and confidently to Lope that when the case for the prosecution was closed that those who represented his friend, Sir F. Thesiger, who had been justly elevated to the distinguished office of Lord Chancellor, that they would have done Mr. Stapleton the tardy justice of consenting to his acquittal at that stage of the preceedinge. He, however, defied his learned friend to point out any one particle of evidence against Mr. Stapleton. He said there was none, not eves to the last moment of its existence, Le believed in i a solvency. The failure of the bank took him as much qy 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 tbat it would become one of the leading institutions of the Metropolis. He contended there was nothing in Mr. Stapleton's cond❑ct 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 a pent the greater period of his life in India. He was the son of an Indian general officer, and bad himself spent 32 years of his life in India, as physician general at Bom bay, and when he resigned his appointment he left Bom bay in the enjoyment of the highest possible estimation for his honour and integrity. Mr. Ald. Kennedy, when he arrived in this country, with an ample competency, was about 55 years of age, and he was desirous of obtaining some means of employing it to his own benefit and that of his countrymen. He became a member of the Cor poration of London in 1354, when he was elected an alderman for the ward of Cheap, and whatever might have been said of the Corporation of London, they had never yet admitted or allowed a man to remain a mem bar of the Corporation whose character was open to the slightest suspicion against Lie credit, which was a strong presumption of his honourable character in his favour. Mr. Alderman Kennedy was one of the origi nal promoters of the bank, in which he had staked the whole of his fortune, and during the time he had bee❑ connected with it he had never trafilced in its shares or earned a shilling in connection with it. He was one of the earliest promoters of the bank, and when he be came aware of some discounts in connection with Mac gregor, who, from his having been under-secretary to the Board of Trade in Sir R. Peel's Government, was be lieved to be a man of substance and respectability. He left the directory, but was induced to return in Oct., 1854, and remained till the stoppage of the bank, doing his bent to mitigate the losses that had been incurred since its establishment. 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 misre presenting the state of the bank, and in conclusion said there could be no doubt Mr. Alderman Kennedy knew of some locke-up of the bank, through the Welsh mines and other advances, but there was no reason to believe till after the bankruptcy that any other than Mullins' securities were hopeless. His belief all along was that the ba❑k only wanted commercial strength at the board to make it one of the safest and soundest of its kind in the kingdom, He strongly expressed his conviction that it was impossible to say Mr. Alderman Kennedy bad been guilty of the charge of conspiracy by which he was to render desolate the hearths and homes of those for whose benefit he was induced to establish the bank. He implored them to remember that during the end of 1855 and nearly the whole of 1856, Mr. Alderman Kennedy was prevented from attending to the board meetings owing to his having to discharge the arduous and responsible duty of sheriff of London and Middlesex— an office the most laborious that could be found, from its occupying the time of the holder both by day and night—in the former in diecharing the business part of the office, and by night dispensing hospitality and countenancing acts of charity aad benevolence through out the whole period of his year of office. If Mr. Ald. Kennedy was absent, how could he have conspired with others to defraud the public; and if he had been cog nisant of the true state of the bank, it was not likely he would have brought hie brother-in-law, Mr. L. M. Valiant, into the Directory in Feb. 1856, and have induced his nephew and mother-in-law to become depo sitors. The learned gentleman's address occupied the court till its rising at half-past five o'clock. There are four other learned gentlemen to address the jury in support of the respective clients. It is under stood that some of them intend to call witnesses, but it is confidently anticipated the case will be concluded by Saturday night. ..M01.1••••••••• BAILTVAY TRAFFIC RET URNS. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTIIM RATLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Feb. 20, 1858 £14,267 8 7 Corresponding week last year Decrease in 1853 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 20, 1858 Corresponding weak last year 10,259 0 0 Total of the half-year to this date, 1858 E5,618 0 0 Total of the half-year to this date, 1857 83,418 0 0 LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelph'.o. Steamship Coutpany's steamer Kanga rco sails to-morrow (this day) for New York with a moderate cargo and about 200 passengers. This com pany announce to-day that after her departure the sailings of their vessels will be changed to the Wedoes days in the other week to the one they now take, there being now three departures for America from England on their present days of sailing ; while, owing to the present cessation of the sailings of the Collins' line, then, Is no Wednesday departure in the week they are about_ to take, an, o this alteration will cause a continuance of a regular semi-weekly depart vie to New York. ASS. ISSESSIONS. i - i 203 . . 100 100 12. -13 i 186 -- 90 80 -- 85 77 -- 82 par -- ip St. 20 100 100 70 If - lip - 1 109 -110 i - 2P, 19} -- 20 51 -- 53 83 -- 85 21:1 -- 22 iP 201 -- 201 id„ 1110 - 115 1110 - 115 105 110 19 1 - 191, 20 211, d par IP iP 1 4p FOREIGN. 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam' 6a 6 3 20 all Ardennes ... —• SOO 5 all Belgian East. Janet 1 14 20 al IBe ziers to Graissessac ... ... 6 all Carmeaux&Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 3 1 4 20 15 Dutch Rhenish 20 all !Eastern of France 20 all Do. New ... 20 2s, Euphrates Valley 20 all t. Central of France ... ... 20 all Great Luxembourg 7i —81 j ..G 10 6 Italian Junction 20 all Lake Const. & Bale ... ... 20 all Lierre and Turnhout ... ...d 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 4i - 58 p 11 5 all Lucca de Pist.sp.c.p. ... .. 20 all Lyons and Geneva 27 28 20 all Lyons & Meditorran ... ... 3311 all Maria Antonia ••• 10 all Do. New !. ) 0 all Namur & Liege 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref 2Ol. - 21 16 all Northern of France 3B 331 37f 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 8i 9 20 all Paris and Lyons 334 34 20 all Paris and Orleans 5l 56 20 9 Rceife & San Fran., {Perham.) g. 7p. c. i 1 9 1 10 all Roma and Frascati ... 20 all. Royal Danish l6 18 5 all Royal Swedish i , , 2C all Sambre and M e us e 8 63 10 all Do. 5i per cent. pref 8 8 6 20 all Southern of France 214 —22 j 8i all West Flanders 4l 41 10 all Do. 5 per c. Prd 20 all W.& N. W. of France 26 27 20 6 Western of Austria._ „., ... 20 all West, of Switzerland ... . 6 all 1 W iesiaden - .. ' 6 all I Do. Bp. cent. pref. •... .. •• .. 20 all Zealand JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 1 86 88 87 10025 1 5 8 0 i Ban kß au k of o L t Egypt London 4 8 52 40 all IBri. Col. Bk.& Lu. Co. ... _ .. 50 all i British N. American ... _ ... 20 10 IC.lik.of Ind•Au.&Ch .... ... 10d 50 City b9 61 1(0 25 Colonial 110 20 Commercial ' of Loud ... _ 20 20 all lEng.Seot.daus.Cnt l7i 18 20 all Lon. Ch. Bk.of A akt l7i 184 18 20 all Ditto New 60 20 !London and County .. ... 294 CO 'Lml .&E.Bnkng. Corp ... ... 150 10 London Joint Stock. ... ... 30/ i 100 20 Lond.andWestminst. ... • - 44 4 i t 00 35 National Pro. of Eng. ... ... 20 10 Do. New 50 25 National Bank 20 all New South Wales 44 46 10 2 ,111 D t . to man 25 all Ori en t a l Bank Corp 36 38 20 0 Ottoman Bank 1 00 '5 Provin c i a l o f Ireland ... •—• ." "' ••• 5 1 R.Aus.l3.&G.Im.Co ••• ,•• 25 all , South Australia -- 25 all Union of Australia 46 48 46 . 764 ... '2 Do. Now. —. .. . & 7i 6i 50 10 i Linion of London 00 „5 1 ) Westrpßk of Lo ud' 7 , .......7 ...4 jOO 50 Unity r C in Calron .W ... ' E.U.IgE.O Gt.Northn E. Count. aldonian. 1D0... 'ARP MARY: A L R AiLwATS. .O'Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June...— I Belfast & Ballymen rßirmng. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsb. Cheshire Jnnct Black burn ........ 1 Blyth & Tyn e nri gina' (is. at £45)... , Bristol & Exeter • . aledon IChester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon ICork, Black. & Pass Cornwall A t Do. B IDublin &Belfast Jun c Dun. P. &Aber.Junc East Anglian Eastern Counties jEasternUnion, A. stk , Do., do. B Do. New A East Kant East Lancashire !East Suffolk Do. Ed inburgh & Glasgow lEdinb. and Peebles Edinb. Prth. &Dundee Forth and ClydeJunc. 'Furness ila.sgow & S.Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do., A. Stock ...., Do., B. Stock ..... 'it. Sth.&West.(lre). Groat Western. ... IDo. Str.V.R gua.St Irish South-Eastern. (Lancaster &Carlisle. Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F £l6 ... Do., Wst. Riding Un., Do. Southport. 'London & Blaekwar Lond.Bright.drS.Cst London & N. Wester Do. Fifths D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London & S. Western Lndndrry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk Manch.Shef.drLincln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo'k• arrangement 'Midland Do. Birming. & Dell) \ Midland G.West.(lr. Do. A Shares ......... Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newpt.lk b erg. drllrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & RP strovor Norfolk,. ••• OS Northn.Counties Un North British ...... • North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock Do., A Stock Do., B Stock ... N. Eastern —Berwick Do. do. Extension _ Do do. G.N.E.Purch Do Leeds Do. York North London N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn,. North Staffordshire North Western.. N. dr S. Westrn. June Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 18 1 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney "100 Scottish Central 1100 Sect. N. E. Ahrdn. St 100 ,Shropshiro Union S Sitingbourne &Sheer 100 South Devon 100 ,South Eastern all IDo. 4} per c. Shares 100 :South Wales. all ;S. Yorksh. Riv'grDulul 10 IDo. 11i: all St. 100 St. 100 20 all 10 1 all 12i 5 Sb. 100 45 all 25 all St. 100 ' 10 r 1?, 10 1 St. 100 St. 100 50 all 25 all 00 all 25' all Staines,Wok,,&Wok.l all 'Stockton Sr, Darling 17 Do. do., 1834 5 Do. do 1M 16i ;Stockton' & Ilartlepl 100 Taff Vale 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 22 Thames Hay. D. &R all 1 Val: of Neath.. 100 IWaterfd. & Kilkenny, all IWaterfordezLimerickl all West all West End of London and Crystal Palace.; all Do. A all Do. B all West London all I Do. First Class all Do. Second Class all IWnable don &Croydon BRITISH Atian. and St. Law. ' Bombay, Baroda, and eel:l.lnd, guar. 5 p. e. Do. Buffalo dr Lake }fur Buff. Brnt. & Godch p. Ads. , 1 Aug..'72 Do. do., 1 July, '731 • do., Do, 1 Juue,'74l Calcutta and S. Bast. Central Oudo (Lim.) Ceylon A slares Do. B. do. Demerara Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares . D 0.44 p.e.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, do. Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent.... Gd. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In, Pen. g. 5 per c Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Wcstn. of Canada Do. New Do. Bds., payable '57, Do. do., 75, p. '60... do., '73, do. ...1 Do. do., '73, without option Madras, guar. 4l p.c Do. do., 5 per e 1 Do. 4/ p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c Do. 4th Ex., do, lOude (Limited) Scinde, guar. 5 per c Do all 1 100 100 100 all ' all all 25 St. 20 10 St. St. 50 St. St. 25 25 St. St St. 20 20 10 St. 100 32 100 100 17 all all 1100 all all 100 100 2s6d 10, all all all all 95i 6! 6 33 181 i 63 1 2i 31 104 61 4 95i 5 i 6i 107 i 4 8 i i 1011 98 7i .00i 1 1003 1 g 20 50 St. 531 21 97i 8i 51 I 1/ i 82i 3,1 14i i 1011 J 3 1101 10 51i 1 / 2 841 4 21f 4i 2(0 $ g Bnckghamsh. I :Co . i. cl i S e n t s . o ci g 1 alo Jc. E. Un. If. Sh. Glas. Barr. dt Neils. Direct. Do. New Gistr.&Dn.Fr ituli & 6elby Do. Shares Do. i Shares Lon. & Greenw Do.Preferenco Lon. Til., Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket Bury-E.G.spc. N.diEst.s p.c. •De 6 per et io f all IDo.Fiied sp. c 35 all Prest. & Wyre l 2 all ; Do. Shrs. 3t. 100 fßoystn. & Hit. ' .0 all Shrews.& Her .2 all S. Staffordsh i 0 all I W earVal.g6pc 5 all 'Do.. it. :100 !WiltsdrSomrst Gt. \Yestu & Do si. Eastern. Pet° & Co. diN .W W. Midld. E. Count.. &N. W Do Gt. Northn' T. Brausey M. MOloan Stk.&Dar Do Gt.Westn. 98 100 100 - 102 13 - 15 139 - 141 4 - 41 ••• ''''''' 1116 - 112 12 - 13 24 - 25 97 - 109 21 - 2i 98 - 100 i • iP 56 - 58 rlB - 140 8 - Bi_ 104 - 33 - 91 - n FERENCE SHARES. all Blyth and Tyne 10 p, c.pref. (issd.at 50/.; 100 13ris.&Ex.4 P.C. St. 7 /Do. 4 per c. Shares., 100 Caledu. £lO 4i p. c, 100 !Ches. & Ho. 5 p.c. 100 !Do. do. 5 per cent 1 all !Cork&Bandonsip.c i all Dun.Porth.&Aber.J 100 E. Anglian ClB. ASh 100 'Do. do. Cis. B 6p. c 100 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c 00 Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l 00 Do, No, 2 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St all :East Un., G. 6 p. c. D all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do, 10/. Debentr.Sh. all o. do. 4 per cent 100 East Lane ash. 6 p.cts all 'E.&W. York. J. sths 9 ! Edin. &Gl. sp. c. Sh. 100 rEd.Prth.&Dun.4p.e. 100 !Furness, 5 p. c 100 (Groat & 5.W.G.5 p.c. 100 Groat Northn. 5 p.c. 100 Do. 5 p. 0. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem.,,, 100 Do. 4i per cent ....., 60 Do. 5 Red. at 5 p. c. prem. all Gt.N.ofScot.lst 18 Gt. S di W. (Ireland) 18 Do. 4 per c. Prof. St. iGt.W.(B.&ll.Ex.spc . 100 iDo. con. rod. 4A p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4 p. c. . 13 100 Do. irred. 4 por lent. 1.00 Do. 5 p. c. red. prof. all Do. Birm. Prof. Sh.. all o. ChesterBp.c.P.S. all Do. do. 5 p. c. do—. 100 Do. Birm. Gila. Stk. all Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh. all Do. do. do al Do. do. do 100 Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No. 1 100 D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 100 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. 100 1)o. do. sp. c., No. 4 100 Lon. &N.W. , Cov. & Nuneaton 5 r. et... 100 Lon. &S.W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares ... all Londy.& Color. 6 Sh. all Londy.&Ennis. A Sh. 100 M., S., &L. 6p. Cent. 43 Do. do. do. 1100 - Do. do. 3} per cent. all Marypt. Carl. 4 P.C. 1 all Do. 4i per cent 10:1 Do. do. ' l lOO 4 Nlid.Consol.6p.c. St. 100 Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c. 100 Do. 4. p. c. Pref. St. 'lOO Do. L. &11. Pref. St. all New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 p. c. pm. all Do. Perpot. 6 pr. et. all gorfk. Deb. 4p. c. Sh. 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1546 100 Do. 5# p.c. pf , 1847 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. 'lOO North British 3 1 IDo 71 Preference 100 . N.B. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf. 1 1 _ 8 Do. do. do 13')21o. Leeds 6 pa. No.l 9 Do. do. Qrs., IS4S 10 Do. York 11. &S. Pur all North Staffordshire 100 Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar. 100 IDo. 6 p. c. 2d guar._ 100 Do, do. Debeutr. St. all cot. Ceut.Now Pref. 100 'c.N.E.Aber.g.6p.c. 100 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. 100 o. do.:3i p.c. pf. St , all uth Dovou all tDo. fixed 44 Pr cent. all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os, 6d. 1100 Do. 4. per cent 1100 Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh ilOO Do. New 4i pr. cent 'lOO S. Wales Gua. 4p. c. 100 Do. do. 41 p. c all iS.Yorkeli.4 p.c.Guar all ptock. &Dar., 5 p. o 19 'Do. do. do. 1 100 Ws.torfd&Kilk. 6po BRITISH 21121 Alfred Cons. (Philk.; 14 British Iron 20 Condurow (Canabrn.: 1 Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay., 30 East Basset (Ilioga* 17s Groat South Tolgus., 17/5 'Grt. W. Alfrd. (Philk.; 73 Grt.W. Vor (Helstn 17s Lady Bertha 8 N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.Basset (Illogan) t - ')/15 North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St. Blaxy) 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 66. Sort. Cons, Min. Co. 2i S. Caradon (St. Clear 2 S. Cam Brea (Illogn. ' 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn. 4I Tarn. S. &L. Min. Co 9 Tin Croft 40 Un.Mines (Gwennap) 12s 1 V. of Towey (Camay,) 1 W. Basset (Illogan) 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd.) Wh. Basset (Illogan). 5 'Wh. Buller (Rdruth). 5. Vh. Edward(Calstek 7s h. Kitty (U. Llant, 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. 4i Wh. Trelawney (Lis.: FOREIGN 7A 'Australian 10s. , Bon Accord Cop. (li. ) 27 Brazilianlmp.(hisuedi at £5 pin) all Do. Cocaos dz Cuiada 15 Do. St. John Dol Roy Clarendon Con. Min. - Co. of Jamaica...., all Cobro Copper 16 Copiapo all Dun Mountain Cop. per Mining Co. , all Fortuna all General all Linaros Lusitanian all Mariquita all New Granada all Noveau Monde all Pont. Sil.LINt. Smll 1 Port Philip 16i Santiago do Cuba all United Mexican ••• - ..• 90 - 95 1.+52 --10 i 6 - 6 108 - 112 110 - 114 115 - 120 115 - 120 130 - 135 Fi 1: i 6 ,120 -- 122 113 - 115 'lO5 - 107 64 -- E 6 10 -- 11 hi - 8 92 - 94 87 - 89 88 - 90 99 - 101 10i -16 i 16 - 17 10 - 104 74 - 76 19 - 20 9 - 10 14 - 15 138 - 140 AO - 185 121 - 123 3 - I 66 - 70 137 -- 139 102 -- 101 91 -- 95 ilk - iii - 110 98 100 i— i d id 22 23 - 123 - 109 - 99 - 120 - 112 - 73 - Hi -25 i - 103 - 103 28 - 29 MINES. 11} 3 - 5 80 - 470 - 490 95 100 153 - 16;1 4/- 5/ I.f -1/ 1 - 10 - 11 - 4 i - 20 - 21 5 - 6 lf - 1$ 360 - 370 4i - 235 - 1 - 4i - 5i 245 ]i 4I - 26 -2/ ,105 - 115 230 - 250 320 - 350 61 -7; 13 - 14 46 - 48 22 - 24 MINES. - A - l'ii - i 3 41 43 13 15 id p 16i 91 id 1 - - ••• - ••• 5 --.. 6 - 2 4 - 44 MISCELLANEOUS. 900 Atlantic Tel. (Lim.) 19 Australian Agricult. all Australn. Royal Mail all ;Berlin Water Works 2 , Do. New las. at 51. d 40 ;Brit. American Land 32 ; Canada 100 Do. Go. 6pc. JanSauly all 'Copper Min. of Eng. all !Do. Pref. 7; p. cent ail ;Crystal Palace all IDo. Preference all Crystal Pal. of France all Eastern Steam 100 Electric Telegraph all !Electric Tel. of Irel. all tEn.&Aust.Cop.SmCo I.oo.'Eur. & Ind.Jotn. Tel. all Eur. &Am. Stm.(lim. ) ‘ll 'Gen. Ir. Sc. L 4 IGen. Steam Navigat. 5 !London Discount all'Loud. Gen. Omnibus 10 'Magdalena St. Navig. all IMediteran. Eloc. Tel. all I Do. Extension Teleg. all Mexican& S.Amerion 5 'Nat. Discount Co 6 Netherlands Land all Do. Do. all Do. 8 p.c.Pf. iss. at 1d 3 Do. Do. 80 Now B. &N. S. Land 100 'N. S. W. Gov. sp.c. D. all N. B. Australasian... all Nrth.of Europe Steam all Oriental Gas 10s. Do New Shares all Peelitr. 14. & Minrl all Peninsular & Oriental 10 Do. New . all Rhymney Iron 60 Royal Mail Steam all scot. Austral. Invest 100 S. Au% Gov. 6 p.c.bds all South Austral. Land all Submarine Tel. Serip all Do. Registered 5 Trus. Ln. Co. Up. Can 28q, Van_Diemou'a ••• --- ••• 26 - 27 11 - 2 4 - 5 35 - 40 145 -- 155 113 i -114 i 30 -- 35 25 -- 27 11-Is4t ••• - ... ili - 5i 102 - 105 •.. ~.... ... 14 - li ••• ... 41 - 4i ••• 14 1 " d 33 •••8-9... - ..• - •. 1 - i . i 1 - " 2)7: gt 17 - 20 96 - 07 i - 11 1 -. li P P _* lil 7 8 4 - 7- 8 p 22 - 24 63i - 64 - 1# 108 - 110 38 - 40 - 1 -- 1 ... --- •.. 10-. 12 St. St. St. St. 10 L 0.61 50 50 50 103 :Do . 34 93 1311 84 107 1 2i f 4 1141 13j 14 4 11 li 3j & 14i 4 96 & j 't 6 ' ,4 ,„t 1 ,, ,N4r IN Iz4 SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock. THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. ISAAC BUTT, M.P. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.—THIS DAY. 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. 13, Committee room. Mr. Roebuck said he should require Sir J. W. Hogg and Mr. Mangles, chairman of the East India Company, to be called as witnesses, as also the several clerks of the banks who paid the cheques of Ali Moored. Sir J. Graham said he would write a note to those gentlemen requesting their attendance. Sir James Graham to Mr. Coffey—Have you been able to asoertain the precise date of the cheque handed tojMr. Butt for attending the consultation ? Mr. Coffey —My cheque is dated Febraary 15, 1857. The cross-examination of Mr. Coffey by Mr. Deasy was then proceeded with--In 1857 it was thought advis able that the Ameer should go to India. The Ameer 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, to the best of my recollection on the sth of September, after leaving Paris on the 27th of the previous month. We reached Trieste on the 11th, but the packet for Alexandria sailed on the 10th. We were accompanied 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 dismissed from the Ameer's service. He was my friend and I was not his servant. When Mrs Farr parted with the Ameer 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 wife. 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 these in terviews. She has been taking an active part in this petition, as she was referred to by inference, not by name, by Mr. Butt, and it is to vindicate herself from a foul aspersion that she now comes forward. The aspersion is that I introduced her as my wife at the interview in Vienna. I became aware that Mr. Butt had made the assertion by a letter from my brother. Before the receipt of the letter I had suspended pro ceilings. Some three or four days after I received the letter I saw Mrs. Parr frequently, at her residence in Bond-street. Letters were here put in showing that the petitioner's brother had remonstrated with him for introducing the aoi-disani Mrs. Coffey. Cro s-examination continued— 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 proceedings when Mr. V. Smith de clined to interfere. I received an answer to my applica tion to Mr. Smith on the 20th Sept. last. I have never given a written statement of my case to Mr. Roebuck. I never gave one to my parliamentary agent. Holmes is the name of the gentleman who was my 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 days. The only person 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 writer complained that Mr. Butt bad accused him of attempting to sell the Ameer, that Mr. Butt had drawn large sums of money from the Ameer without ever accounting for them, that Mr. Butt had informed the Ameer on the authority of the President of the Board of Control that unless the Ameer dismissed him (Mr. Coffey) he would never obtain satisfaction for his claims from the British Government. Another letter was read from Mr. Coffey toMr.Vernon Smith, asking whether Mr. Butt was accredited by the Board of Control to proceed to Trieste, also whether Messrs. Irving and Langley had been appointed to supersede him (Mr. Coffey), and also whether authority had been given Mr. Butt by the Board of Coutrol to inform the Ameer that unless he dismissed the writer he would never obtain any satisfaction from the Board of Control, and finally whether Mr. V. Smith had ever accused him (Mr. Coffey) of selling the Ameer. Cross-examination continued--The statementjust read is correct. I have spoken to my law agents about the statement, but in the preparation of the dooments just read I was not assisted 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 J. W. Hogg here entered the room, accompanied by Mr. Piinsep, 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 should be taken on Friday. Mr. Prinsep then translated a Persian document written by the Ameer arranging for the services of Mr. Coffey as secretary for a period of three years, com mencing on the Ist of April, 1856 to the 30th of March, 180, at the salary of 1,000 rupees a month. The do cument specified that Mr. Coffey was to prosecute the Ameer'e claims with the English Government. A. letter was also translated from the Ameer to Mr. Butt. It complained that Mr. Coffey had kept him for 15 days in a strange country, and continually made ex cuses 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 were like imp r i sonmen t . Cross-ex am i nat i on continued—By "cash safe" I meant that I had some money. Before Mr. B ut t l e ft E ng l an d an arrangeme n t was made that he s h ou ld ha v e 3,000/. in cash, and 7,0001. in bills. The 3,0001. was not given to Mr. Butt for the purpose of remunerating him for staying a year in India. It was given him for doing the Ameer service with the Indian Government. By Mr. Roebuck —Mr. Butt 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 we l l as his advocacy of t h e A meer ' s claims in Parliam ent that he was to receive the money. Mr. loebuck—w ag the money to be paid for Mr. Batt's influence with Parliament, the East India Com pany, and the Gove rnment, on behalf o f t h e A meer Mr. Coffey—Decidely. The Chairman —I such a question looks like leading the witness. The question was afterwards put in another form, but the same answer was returned. at were required. Mr. Roebuck —Was e money given to Mr. Butt professionally don't like to interfere, but I think Mr. Coffey—No ; Mr. Butt said it was not lawyers ment of lawyers ; wh e t L is , sa id was wanted was a num ber of members of Parli ament knew the usages who of the house. Mr. Roebucks —Did Mr. Butt ever tell yon that he was authorized to sneak on behalf of Mr. Vernon Re always objected to the employ. Smith on the affairs of India Mr. Cafey—M r. Butt with Mr. V. s mith dailyin communication • Re was introduced the Amer and himself to th e President of the Board of Control. Tonticeecoirfchuimil sh‘tawniclYeTheahte Mr. Roebuck —Did Ur. Butt speak as with the autho rity of Mr. Smith with respect to the despatch. Mr. Coffey—Yee • certiinl In answer to further questions from the hon. gentle man, Mr. Coffey said Mrs. Parr was an old acquaint children. Sir J. Graham —When was the petition of Ali Moored seatedpre to the liaise° of Commons by Mr. Butt ? Butt about money before th e led Mey—ln June, 1856 mons r• h h t e a r lm to os p t b a e ris ca w lle a d s a to re s l e a e ti h v e e r . Sir J. Graham —Had you any conversation with Mr. tion I presentation of the peti- Mr. Coffey—No, not till afterwards. Sir J. Graham—What was th e 8 tion with Mr. Butt bet ween the pi resentation of the petition in June and the m ov i ng forp pap ers in July Mr. Coffey—Mr. Butt said the advocacy of the claims of Ali Moored would be attend ed with much expense of time, and that he was not in a p os i tion to give up hi s time without remunerat ion, u "rit of the conversa tion especially as there would be an immense responsibility in carrying on the cage with Parliament and the Gove rnment. Sir J. Graham—You are c ertain that this converse tion took place before the motion for p apers I Mr. Coffey—Certainly , Mr. Sergeant Kinglake—How are you so oertain that this conversation took place prior to the motion for papers I Mr. Coffey—Because I told the A.meer the papers were actually necessary when I mentioxed the subject to him. Mr. Sergeant Kingleke — What formed th e p r i nc ipal point in your conversation with Mr. B utt respect i ng money? y stated th a t if it was throughmr worth . hCoffey—Mr.isw Parliament.h ile he ß uwut would eu d l i dd s i t d i ti c an c ro t l rt the Ameer's claim Y mention specific sum. Mr. Sergeant Kinglake—Was there ever any person present at any of these conventions ? Mr. Coffey—No—no person but m yse lf and Mr. Butt. The examination of this witness then conc l u d e d, and the committee adjourned until to-morrow. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK (This Day.) at Ni6i Prisup%mal Jury.) BENCH, Lord Campbell GUILDHALL.and a ( C s O i t y i n n g T OF QUEEN'S. before THE QUEEN V. BROWN AND OTHERS. TENTH DAY. The trial of the i n formation against th e di rectors an d manager of the Royal British Bulk for c3nspirirg by false pretences to defraud the shareholders and cus tomers 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 13k 13 98 CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr. Justice Crompton.) Mr. Alf re d Feist, late master of the Newington Workhouse, surrendered to take his trial upon a charge of misdemeanour, in having unlawfully disposed of the dead bodies of certain paupers who died in that estab• lishment. Mr. Robinson prosecuted ; Mr. Matthew was counsel fer the defendant. The facts of this case have been given at very great length, and it will be remembered that the specific charge against the defendant was that he had disposed of the bodies of a number of p aupers for th e purpose of their being dissected a; Guy 's Hospital, without the consent of the relatives, and that the dissected remains a o n f o o t n h r p t a h u e p m e r u w r e n r e e r a substituted a f ti o y r o t c h c e a s d i o e n a d f 0 body of i ng the remains of their relative to the grave. . _ After a lengthened trial, the jury returned a verdict •l 1. guilty." NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) George Richard Ratcliff, a clerk, was indicted for stealing a piece of paper, value one penny, the property of Messrs. Mockford and Maynard, merchants, of Thames-street, his masters. Mr. Bodkin, with whom was Mr. Tindal Atkinson, appeared on the part of the prosecution ; Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Orridgs defended the prisoner. The prisoner was tried yesterday on a charge of forgery, and acquitted. After a long trial, which lasted all the morning, the jury found him guilty. The Recorder sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in Holloway jail for the space of two years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. FURIOUS DRIVING.—ENDANGERING LlFlL—Robert Masters, a coachman, in the employ of Mr. Taylor, Crystal Palace Livery Stable, Norwood, was charged with furiously driving a brougham last night is Regent-street, while in a state of drenkenness, and knocking down two women, one of whom is very seriously injured. Police -constable C 89, said be saw the defendant on the coach-bi)x of a brougham, galloping the horse furiously down Regent -street at about half-past 11 o'clock. He ran after him, calling to him in vain, for he saw there was great mischief to be apprehended from the reckless way he was driving. Suddenly he turned round into Air-s'reet, which is ♦ery narrow, and in doing so knocked down two women crossing at the time. At the same moment the defendant was pitched off his box. The witness as speedily as pos Bible stopped the horse. The two women were attended to, and the defendant taken into custody. He was discovered to be quite drunk. Defendant said he was quite sober. Inspector Webb, who took the charge, said he was positively too drunk to walk. Mary Tripp said she was walking with her daughter at the time, and both were knocked down as described. She had providentially escaped without injury, but the wheel of the vehicle passed over both her daughter's legs. They were not broken, but covered with bruises ; and th's morning she complains much of her side. The bone of her stays was brcken by the wheel, and it was a miracle they were not killed. Remanded for a week. THAMES. FRAUDS BY SEAMEN.—Thomas Murray, and Joseph Clark, seamen, wera brought before Mr. Selfe, elaargest with obtaining money and clothes to the amount of 121. by means of false pretences from Mr. Cunningham, an outfitter in the Bathing-road, near the Victoria-deck. The prisoners waited upon Mr. Cunningham and said t'rr y belonged to the ship St. George, in the Victoria dock, and ',rad 12 months' wages to receive when the ship wa3 paid off. On these representations, and without making inquiry, he supplied each seaman with a new `. rig out" and also advanced them money. It was afterwards ascertained that the prisoners had no wages to receive and that they were shipwrecked and picked up at sea by tho boats of the St. George, steamer, and a free passage was given them to England. Mr. Coleman, clerk in the General Register and Record Office for seamen, said the S , . George a steam. ship had only made a six months' voyage, and that the captain and engineer were scalded to death at sea, in conseTrenca of an accident to the boiler. Mr. Selfe asked the prisoners what they iad dons with the clothes, and they replied that they got drunk and lost them. Mr. Salle said that ho could not commit the prisoners for trial, and the only resource for the proseoutor was to bring an action against them in the County Court. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-YESTERDIT. The attendance of subscribers at the rooms to-day WAS of short duration, and the business transacted was of little importance. The Waterloo Coursing Meeting this year is looked to with more than usual interest, and will, i❑ all probability be attended by many turf influen tials. For tho Liverpool Steeplechase, Little Tom and Harry Lorrequer closed equal favourites, 100 to 11 being taken a time or two about the latter, and more than those odds could not be obtained about the former. For the Chester Cup 1,000 to 20 was taken about Tas mania, at.d 500 to 10 about Dulcamara, Botany and Vanity were much inquired after. 4 to 1 was offered agst Clydesdale for the 2,000 Guineas , Stakes, and 11 to 2 agst Brother to Marchioness. 1,000 to 100 was offered on the field for the Derby. CLOSING PRICES. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 9 to 1 aget Little Tom (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Harry Lorrequer (taken and off.) 100 to 8 aget Knight of the Shire (take 100 to 7) 100 to 7 aget Lough Bawn (taken) 100 to 7 agst The Brewer (take 100 to 6) 25 to 1 agst Joe Graham (take 30 to 1) 25 to 1 agst Tom Moody (wanted) 25 to 1 agat Conrad (take 100 to 3) TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 agat Clydesdale (offered) 11 to 2 aget Brother to Marchioness (offered) 7 to 4 agat naming the winner at twice (off.) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 100 to 7 aget Odd Trick (offered) GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Vedette (take 6 to 1) CHESTER CUP. 15 to 1 aget Adamas (taken) 25 to 1 aget Botany (take 30 to 1) 30 to 1 agat Vanity (take 100 to 3) 50 to 1 aget Tasmania (taken) 50 to 1 aget Duloamara (taken) DERBY. 11 to 1 aged Clydesdale (offered) SOBATCHINGS.—On the 19th instant Comet was struck out of the Liverpool Steeplechase, and Knight of the Shire and The Bandboy out of their engagements at Ludlow. LUDLOW RACES. The following have paid forfeit for the Corporation' Plate :—Leamington, Lambourne, Raven, Forget-me not, Elf. ida, Amorous Boy, Fashion, Salmon, Yeller Gal, Plague Royal, Silica, King David, Martha, Peeress, Dolling, Hebe, Kilsby, Nelly, and Esperanoe. The top weight accepting, Polmoodie, to be raised to 9st, and the others in proportion. The following have paid forfeit to the Weston Han dicap :—Leamington, Vandermeulin, Sunbeam, Lau damn, Barbarity, Eardrep, Shirah, Baronage, Plush colt, Honeytree, Toffey, Martha, Peeress, Thornhill, T. P. Cooke, and Nelly. The weights to be raised 151130. The following have paid forfeit for the Ludlow Han. dicap :—Leamington, Vandermeulin, Dalcamara, The Dupe, Lauclainia, Bay Hilton, Elfrida, Woodman, Honeytree, Avenger, Plush colt, Baronage, Broadlandr, Peeress, Thornhill, Pactolue, T. P. Cooke, and Cha perone. The weights are to be raised 16Ibs. THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR, Like the great Lord Chancellor Erskine Sir Frederic Thesiger began active life in the Erskine, navy, and would doubtless have distinguish e d him self as a sailor had it not been for the sudden death of an elder brother, which entirely changed his career. Soon after this event, which occurred in the year 1811, young Thesiger, in compliance with his father's wishes, quitted the navy, and repaired to the island of St. Vincent, in the West Indies, where his parent resided, an d h ad an estate. .Not long after Lis arrival he resolved to follow the law, and immediately began to attend the courts ; but in the subsequent year, for the better prosecution of his studies, he came to England, and was entered at Gray's Inn, which, however, he afterwards aban doned for the Inner Temple. The period which elapsed between the autumn of 1814 and Novem ber, 1818, when he was called to the bar, was occupied by Mr. Thesiger as a pupil—first in the chambers of that most eminent lawyer, the late Mr. Justice Holroyd, and upon his promotion to the bench in those of Godfrey Sykes, a celebrated special pleader of the day. Upon being called to the bar Thesiger attended the Surrey Sessions, and went the Home Circuit, on which he quickly gained a considerable p rac ti ce and was for several years the leader. In 1834 he obtained a silk gown, and ten ytars afterwards (iu Easter term, 1844) was made Solicit or -G enera l , uu d er the Administration of Sir Robert Peel, and in 1845, Attorney-General. Upon the dissolution of Sir Robert Peel's Govern ment, in 1846, he resigned Lis office, and was . suc ceeded.i after his resignation Sir Nicholas TindadlAttorney- General, steped into the vacant public _ proviously desire and expectation of the b and regarded as the rightfu l trent but brief Thesiger. Of Sir Frederi c' rd 8 0erb3 - all the world is tenure of office under loud Sir Frederic dis aware. At last, ?after r eat man has reaped a reward Appointments, this g prer ogative p l i lu e th n s c e e 'l a ndi f many ids deserts. Ho has accepted commensurate for his own sake. That he will retails it We hope discharge its duties worthily wo arc well assured. the dignity of Lord wi Chancellor. That he may long 161" vas the the