The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-23 00:00:00

Vbtrti ':,..,* *itt tti SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Olock. PONTEFRACT RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH . .) TRADESMAN'S PLATE. Sister to Nancy Walhalla Four ran. INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Yentick... Victory Eight ran. CUP STAKES. Excitement Martlett Five ran. STAND PLATE. Excitement.. Bourgeois.. Five ran. ARRIVALS AT LEICESTER. TUESDAY, 4 P M. Gemma de Vergy, Neva, Bright Phoebus, Sork, Pantomime, Lily, Prince's Mixture, Adam, Caledonian, Patter, Weathercock, Scharnyl, New Brighton, Breeze, Bold Buccleuch, Coal Black Rose, Chatterers, Madle. Clicquot, Vulcan, Leamington, and Lance. UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIA- TION. (MEETING THIS DAY.) This afternoon an extraordinary general meeting of the proprietors of the Unity Fire Insurance Association was held at the London Tavern, Bishopgate-street, by adjournment from the offices in Cannon-street, for the appointment of Mr. J. Bradshaw, of Nottingham, Mr. R. Clitherow, of Horncastle, Mr. H. Hawks, of B'r mingham, Rev. Edw. Johnstone, of Hampton, Mr. W. Salmon, of Bury St. Edmunds, Mr. J. Smitherman, of Benges, Mr. T. Vaughan, of Stoke Newington, a corn mittee for the purpose of calling in a professional ass• countant to enquire and examine into the past and pre sent expenditure and management of the association, and other matters connected with it specifically set forth in the notice, Dr. Lloyd in the chair. The notice convening the meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN stated that the meeting was called in 'consequence of a correspondence that had taken pla - !e between Mr.• Bradshaw, chairman of the Nottingham local board, and the directors relative to the expenditure and management of the association. At Vie Chairman's request, a lengthened correspon f ence was read, the particulars of which will he foiled in Mr. Bradshaw's address below. In the course of that correspondence the directors concurred in the appoint ment of a committee, but differed from the mode of its operation as suggested by Mr. Bradshaw. The di rectors, at a board meeting, had passed a reso lution stating their willingness to resign unless they possessed the confidence of the shareholders. The CHAIRMAN, in addressing the meeting, said the directors were desirous of having a close investigation into the affairs of the association, because they declined to act as such without possessing the fullest confidence of the shareholders; and on receiving the recommenda- tion from Mr. Bradshaw for a committee of investio tion the directors sent down to him and asked him to name such a committee, but he declined to do so, and the directors bad in consequence called this meeting, because they courted the strictest investigation into the affairs of the association. He (the chairman) declined to take the responsibility of the legality or illegality of the meeting, and threw it entirely on the company's solicitor. He (the chairman) considered the association was now on its trial before the bar of public opinion, but he had no misgivings as to the result of the proposed inquiry, and be called on the shareholders to support the chairman, and appoint the committee. He called on the solicitor to state the object for which the meeting was called, because Mr. Bradshaw's resolution evidently was drawn up by a solicitor. Mr. TAYLOR, the solicitor, said the resolution, by the terms of the association's bye laws, must be passed or rejected in its entirety. A SHIREHOLDER—Cannot I substitute one name f)r another on the committee 1 Mr. TATLOE—No. You cannot vary the substance of the res)lution. After some discussion on the procae,ling4, Mr. BRA.D3RAW, the chairman of the Nottingham Local Board, said as impression froth the first had pre vailed amongst the Nottingham Board that the expenses of the association ,were too much, and condemned the payment of 101. to the agents and managers of the asso ciation for the original disposal of the shares. The Not tingham people were also much displeased at so much money being spent in bringing directors and eharehold,r3 to Birmingham to lay the foundation-stone of the society's offices, and many of them left the association in conse quence. On the part of the Nottingham Board, he took exception to the inadequate amount of business done in London, in comparison with the central expenditure, and generally as to the expenditure, and the want of prompt and undivided attention of the management at the central office so early as 1354 ; and he read resolu tions passed by the Nottingham Board in reference to it, and referred to the correspondence that ensued in . conseqnence, and‘ to an interview that took place be tween Dr. Lloyd and another director, a deputation to the Nottingham Board, wheu the deputation pledged themselves to use greater economy for the future. Ile next alluded to the directors neglecting to publish their accounts the following year, but they sent to the NA tinghatin Board a statement of the accounts for their perusal, who was so rnuc'e astonished at the expenditure ' that on the 12th December, 1855, the Nottingham Board passed a resolution, and forwarded it to the Direc , tors, to the effect that they saw with dismay and regret an expenditure of 29,0001. for 23,0001. worth of busi ness, and called for the appointment of an independent • commissioner to investigate the affairs of the aesecla tion. They also condemned the mode of producing the accounts by the directors at sO lieg a period after they were made up. He regretted the directors had gene to the expense of convening thia m-eting, because it could have been otherwise by the deed. In 1854 the assoe.a tion did business to the amount of 13 millions, and in 1855, to 19 millions, .which was satisfactory, so far ao it went, but he was at a foes to know how it was that when the association did but fotir millions of busineee the se. shares were at is and 2s 04 premium at Notti g ham, they had now fallen tip 2s 'discount, except it Was that the expenditure . was beyond the society's means, and that public confidence was wavering. He jueticied the conduct cif himself and friends at Nottingham for the course they had taken with reference to this meeting, and expressed surprise at the conduct of the hoard in not calling this meeting withoutarequisition:and their inc in sistency in requesting their names to hendded to therequei tion calling on the directors to convene a meeting for the appointment of a committee of inquiry. Seven-eiglith4 of the capital bad been raised, and seven-eighths of the bud ness done had been in the provinces, and with provn dale, and as at least seven-eighths of the'dissatisfactien existed in the country he had thought it right to take the majority of the committee from the provinces, and to get rid of the insinuation that a London cenonitlee had been appointed to exonerate the London board. He concluded by moving the appointment of the folio s ing gentlemen as a committee of inquiry, viz : Job Bradshaw, of Nottingham, gentleman, Richard Clitherow, of HorncaAle, in county of Lincoln, gen tleman, Henry Hawker, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Eiq., the Rev. Edward Johnston, of Hampton, in the county of Middlesex, clerk, William Salmon, of Bury Saint Edmunds, in the county of Sat folk, Fsq., John Smitherman, of Benaes, in the county of Hertford, gentleman, and Thomas Vaughan, of Stoke Newington, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. The Rev. Mr. HIND seconded the resolution, though he disapproved of the persons named fr min their beine un known to most of the shareholders. He wished the resolution had been drawn by a non professional man, because then they would , not be in such a fix as now, and compelled to take it or-not. He thought with teo evils it was better to take the least, and with tint feel ing he seconded the resolution. If it had been compe tent for him to have done so he should have moved an amendment to it. Mr. T. Vaughan (director) said he had no knowledge of his name being on the committee until the resolution was sent to the directors. Mr. LANCASTER (Southampton) condemned the con• duct of Mr. Bradshaw in sending circulars all over the country in reference to the association, which bad bad the effect of depreciating it in the opinion of the puielic. He was anxious for the appointment of a committee of inquiry, and came to the meeting prepared to support such a committee as they might select, but not a self nominated or constituted one, such as thew were till they must appoint or reject. He mitered. into a fall • statement of the business done at Southampton, and the ex p e nses thereon, whi c h amounted to is Per cent., whilst that of Nottingham amounted to 2.P1, he asked Mr. Bradshaw why he did not c our mence reform and retrenchment in management at home instead of beginning with the London board. In • Birmingham th e expenses amounted to 2,5281. 2s. 11d., for the receipt of 3,2131. 3R, 81 . of premium,,. With these facts, he was astonished that any man eeeld select a committee comprising members taken from kcal boards, to praise, in effect, each other's management. The business at Norwich amounted to 5,3131 : 63." and- the expenditure 1,1891. 4e. 6d., or 221 per cen t. At Hertford the receipt s were 1,982 i. le. .7d., and the expen dit ure on 2s. 10d, ; and at Leeds the receipts T 1[1: P., SUN, I.A (..t IN tN, Tti 144' n A were 3,0641. 193. 20., and the expenditure 8981. 2s. Thee receipts showed that the local boards were valu .l,le, ant that with the right man in the right plane this would be the best institu'ion in Er gland. The gentle men named on the committee could not and ought not to sit on their own accounts. Mr. MEcai—ln adlition to the expenditure you have named, is the usual 121 per cent. coremissioe paid ? Mr. LANCASTER—Yea. He object- d to the powers to be vested in the committee, and if it had been com netent for him to do so he should have moved an amend ,rent. One of the clauses of the resolution empowered the committee to draw on the institution for any amount they pleased for the expenses of this investigation, and he called on the meeting to reject the resolution. Mr. H AWIKES (of Birmingham) defended the business done at Birmingham. He said that an invidious coin oarison had been made with regard to the expenditure and business done there, and that the expenditure now li , toot amount to more than 6001. on 1,8001. receipts. The buildings erected at Birmingham returned 71 per cent. Lifter what had been said of the committee investigating their own accounts he should vote against the resolution, not wishing to be placed in such a painful position. Mr. GODDARD addressed the meeting at great length, in the course of which he entered into the details of the management. He urged on the meeting to support the resolution, a committee of inquiry being essentially necessary. He asked Mr. Baylis if he had not foreseen what has now happened, and if a finance committee was not appointed in December last, and that he had acted in contravention of the principles laid down in their re port to the directors for the future management of the :association ? He wished also to be informed what. special -errices Mr. Baylis performed for the 1,0001 paid him I Mr. MECHI defended the conduct of the directors, which, he said, had been straightforward and honest. Mr. SALMON said that the number of pamphlets that had been published in reference to this association had been a great injury to it, as also had been the irrita. bility of Mr. Baylis, their managing director. The appointment of a committee of inquiry was necessary before they changed their directors, and if the com mittee be appointed, he as one of that committee should insist on an accountant being called in, to tho roughly investigate the affairs of the association. Mr. BAYLIS said he had hoped the meeting would have agreed to the resolution without opposition. It was a popular mode of damaging a man to rake up all his little defects of management and produce them before a meeting of that kind ; but he assured the meeting ne courted inveetigation into his conduct, and he was determined to have it. In the mean time, they ought to suspend their judgment. The directors had always courted inquiry. His income from this institu tion was 5001. per annum, and was reduced to that amount at his own request. He denied having received a check for 1,0001. as referred to. After advert ing to many of the statements put forth against the in stitution, he said there were just reasons for much that bad been said, but that was not a place to enter into them. Let them apppoint a committee, and if he did not satis fabtorily explain his conduct he would withdraw in stantly from the management. (Hear, hear.) Any in firmity of temper was no fault of his, and whatever it was he strived to do his best for the institution, and if he had failed, he should be happy to see his place filled with a better and'abler person. As it appeared impos sible to carry the resolution proposed, he suggested that the meeting should separate with the reliance that the London Biard, having in their board room the power to appoint a committee, would do so, and that the corn mittee should comprise the following gentlemen :--Mr. J. Bradshaw ' of Nottingham ; Mr. R. Ciitherow, of Horncastle ; Mr. H. Hawkes, of Birmingham ; Mr. S. Stnitherman, of Hertford ; Mr. Salmon, Bury St. Edmunds ; Mr. J. Mechi, of London ; Dr. Lancaster, of Southampton ; and Mr. Parker, of Northampton. Dr. LANCASTER objected to his being one of the com mittee. After some further discussion relative to the non publishing of the balance-sheet at the last meeting, Mr. J. RICHARDSON said there must be a change of the directors and the management, because it was from a want of commercial confidence in them that so little business was done in London. The CHAIRMAN, before putting the resolution, said that the Board of Directors had no objection to Mr. Bradshaw's committee, and that if the resolution was negatived the shareholders were alone to blame. Toe resolution was then put and negatived by a large majority. A vote of thanks was accorded to the Chairman, after which the shareholder 3 nominated several gentlemen as a committee for the Directors to appoint to investigate the affairs of the Institution. The meeting did not terminate till half-past 4 o'clock. LONDON GAZETTE—ahis Evening.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 10. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Briga dier-General William Rose Mansfield to be her Majesty's Consul-General at Warsaw. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 23. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Jose Maria Martinez p Rosado as Consul at Belize for the Re public of Mexico. The Queen has been pleased 1.0 approve of Senor C. F. Halle as Consul at Manchester for the Republic of Vene zuela. RUSSIAN CORONATION FETES. We have already described the coronation and consecration of the Czar from the graphic descrip tion supplied by the correspondent of the Times. We now borrow from the same some account of the preparations, from the magnitude of which an idea may be formed of the imposing nature of the ceremony : THE KREMLIN.—EarIy as it is (6 a.m.) our party, all in uniform though they be, have a hard strug gle to reach one of the gates. Ascending the broad staircase, which in two flights reaches from the court to the upper storey of the palace and to the esplanade outside the Hall of St. Andrew, we find at the first landing a wide door, which open 3 into the ante-chamber—in itself a hall—to the Hall of St. George. This staircase is covered with scarlet cloth, from which it derives its name (Krasnci Kriltzo), and it is lined on both sides and at both landings by the chevalier garde, in gilt calques, with silver eagles as crest, gilt cui rass, white coats, and dark blue trousers with red stripes. The hall into which we enter is a magni ficent apartment, white and gold, sustained by a colonnade of ten pillars and two ranges of " pil ions" sustaining the architraves, richly ornamented. Tile pillars are made of zinc, and are in demi-re lief. At the end of the hall is a fine statue of St. George, the patron saint of Moscow, killing the dragon, and the cross and star of the order, richly gilt, are emblazoned all over the walls. The floor is of the finest parquetry of many wcods, and is highly polished. On the wall opposite the win dows are noticesemblazoned in Slavonic, reminding the readers of the glories of Russian history ; sofas are placed at this side, but there is no other fur niture in it ; above the three arched doorways which lead one to the Hall of St. Vladimir is a choir for an orchestra ; at the.further extremity is Vie Hall of St. Alexander Nevski ; this is built of rose-coloured marble, covered with gilding and emblazonments of the ensigns of, the order, and, like the Hall of St. George, it is filled with a mul titude of officers, ministers, and members of the Imperial court and of all the courts ofEurope. The Russian generals wear scarlet trousers with a gold stripe, green frock coats with gold lace cuffs, up right collars, and shoulder straps, and gold cord aiguillettes and tassels ; their rank is denoted by stars on the shoulder strap ; their head-dress is a casque of silver, or a black patent leather helmet with gold or silver mounting, and a spike on the top, from which there depends a large plume of black, yellow, and white feathers. The etat-ma jor wear silver instead of gold lace ; all officers on duty have a silver lace sash round their waists, and those who have distinguished themselves may be known by their sword knots of honour, which at once show in what service they have been en gaged by their colour and material. Those gene rals who belong to the army of the Caucasus wear a prodigious Tartar or Cossack bonnet of long fine white sheep's wool, with a scarlet conical crown piece, striped with gold thread. From the Salle d'Alexandre we pass on to the Hall of St. Andrew, at the end of which is the Imperial throne, in pur ple and gold, with seven steps ascending to it. Above is emblazoned " L'OBil de .';Dieu," :sur rounded by a golden glory. The walls are covered with blue, the colour of the St. Andrew riband, with the armorial bearings of all the kingdoms, principalities, duchies, and provinces of the. Russian empire, and between the windows are represented in gilt relief the chain and cross of the Apostle. At the upper end of the hall, on the left hand side, there is a great crowd of persons at one side of a small table. They are feas'uing their eyes on the crown, the sceptre, and t:ie globe, which will be used presently in the great ceremony of the day. The only praise that can be given to diamonds be longs to those in the crown—they are very big and very bright. The crown is a cluster of Koh-i-noors, and there is a wreath of large diamonds in the form of oak-leaves around it which is dazzling as the sun himself. Many of these brilliants are the size of pistol halls of the good old duelling diameter. As to the sceptre, there is a tip to it formed of a fatuous diamond, which one is almost afraid to talk about. I really would not venture to state how large it seems to be, and shall content myself by saying that this is the precious stone for which Catherine 11. gave nearly 80,0001. and a large pen sion for life to a runaway slave. Vide every story book. Turning away from these important ingre dients in the ceremonial of to-day, let us look at what is curious or worthy of notice in the hall itself. The diamonds will remain for ever, and will be justly regarded with the same feeling of tradi tionary stupid admiration as they are now till some chemist fashions them, like Prince Rupert's drops, by the dozen. There are objects here which will not last so long. In two long lines, from door to door of the Hall of St. Andrew and of the Hall of St. George, are drawn up the Grenadiers of the pa lace, the veterans of the great war. To me those fine old soldiers were more interesting and attractive than all the display of riches and the blaze of gold and silver around and above us. Their dress recalled the days of those Titanic struggles which shook all Europe. The huge bearskin cap, with white tassels and gilt cords, the ample broad-chested coatee and cross belt, and the white pantaloons with many buttons at the outer side from the knee to the foot, re minded one of the time when Kutusoff and Blucher and Murat and Wellington were the heroes of fast recurring battles. These men aro picked from va rious regiments, with some regard perhaps to size, but certainly with undoubted claims on the score of service, for there is not one of them who does not bear five or six ribands and crosses or medals on his breast. As you walk along that wall of soldiers it is difficult to believe that they have lived under three Emperors, and have fought against the great Napoleon. They are all in perfect preservation. The only thing to betray old age is a certain stiff ness about the knee, and those implacable and invincible and inevitable wrinkles which will come upon us as records of so many lustres. The hair is jet black, the moustache is lustrous and dark as the boot which was wont to affright the feline of our boyhood, and the whiskers—for old Russia wore whiskers—are of the same ,fine polish. The surprise into which you may be thrown at such evidences of juvenility on the part of men who have seen the horrors of the Beresina and who beheld Murat turn his back at Yaroslavitz, is removed, however, when you see that the vete ran who touches his moustache blackens the fingers of his glove; he has had his hair dyed, just as his boots have been polished—for effect. Some of these veterans are historical monuments—some have served under Suvaroff at Ismail and in Italy— others have marched triumoantly into Paris— others have crossed the Balkan with Diebitsch. Of all their numerous decorations these veterans seem to prize the Paris medal and riband. the 'most, and they point to it with great pride, though it hangs amid memorials of tremendous battle-fields. How these rugged old warriors, the relies of Austerlitz, Friedland, Eylau, Pultowa, and Borodino must smile in their hearts at the medal which has this day been given away to nearly all Russia on account of the late war The line in which the soldiers were dressed was perfect ; the men were six paces apart, and from time to time the general on duty for the day moved up and down the ranks, took beatings with his eye from breast to breast, and " dressed" them with his own hands. They were of different height, being selected for merit and service, but on an average they were six feet high. In the alleys formed between them, and in the intervals betw&n the rear of the line and the sides of the hall, moved the most gorgeous crowd that it is possible to fancy—an ever-shifting play of colour, changing like some rich web shot with various hues, in which green, gold, and silver pre dominate. The casques of the officers, surmounted with. long tricoloured plumes, yellow, black, and white, of cocks' feathers, are well suited for effect whatever way they are worn, and inside the balls as they were borne on the owners' arms those plumes fluttered or drooped gracefully over the polished steel or silver of the headpiece ; the Heralds-at-arms strutted about in lemon-coloured long boots with gilt spurs, slashed doublets of cloth of gold, and tabards emblazoned with the arms of the empire, and Spanish hose, so delightfully chi valresque and crusader-like that I was quite angry with one of them, who suddenly came forth to destroy my delusions by moans of a pair of mild looking spectacles, through which he surveyed the gay crowd with a thorough Pickwickian expression of countenance. It is very striking indeed to see the number of Russian officers who are obliged to resort to such aids to imperfect vision. There must be something peculiar iu their habits or in the climate which renders it necessary - for so large a proportion of the military men to wear glasses. In another group may be seen the intrepid little naval officer Biruleff, who has received high marks of favour from his coun trymen for his conduct at Sebastopol. He led no less than 13 sorties against the allied trenches, and escaped unhurt till the last, 'when he ' was badly wounded, and retired to Moscow to reap the fruits of bis intrepidity. In another spot Prince Men schikoff, who is still a favourite with the Russians, is speaking with his usual dryness of manner to an attentive .little audience. The prince is very sore respecting the criticism to which he has been exposed for his plan of defence at the Alma, and the letters which have appeared in the public pa pers from him and his accusers are a new feature in Ruskian journals. The prince's friends say that his plan was frustrated by the neglect of the gene ral who commanded the left wing to carry out his instructions ; these were, to allow five or six battalions of the French to get up to, the edge of the plateau, and then to attack them and hurl them BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT, 22. The Right Honourable the Lords of the of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Forsinn Affairs, a copy of a despatch from ,her llajesty's Ambassador at Paris, enclosing a copy of a French Imperial Decree, fixing a 3 follows the duty on tobacco imported into Algeria. Tobacco in leaf : From French entrepots, 20 fr. per 100 kilos, without 10 per cent. assesed. From foreign parts, 25 fr. per 100 kilos, without 10 per cent, assessed, Manufactured tobacco, 40 fr. per 100 kilos, without 10 per cent. assessed. BOA RD OF TRADE, WHITE HALL, SEPT. 22. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en closing copy of a French Imperial Decree, prolonging the period fixed by the decrees of Bth Sept. and 13th Oct., 1855, respecting provisions, until the 31st Dec., 1857. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 22. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's consul at Vigo, reporting the outbreak of yellow fever at Oporto. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. 2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— Lieut. Chas. Garraway to be Captain, vice Hughes, re signed. Huntingdonshire Militia—Arthur Tillard, Gent., to be First Lieuteuant. BANZRUPT. William Stuart :Findlater, coal merchant, Plymouth, to surrtmder, Sept. 29 and OA. 27, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Ed monds and Sons, Plymouth ; Simons, Merthyr Tydvil. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-THis DAY. irl•sterdatr.. , . I 5 Gibraltar -- Ditto, three months .. 11 174 Leghorn •• • • ...... •.29 55 Rotterdam ............ 11 17}, i Genoa ................ z; - . 75 25 35 Milan •.... ..... • Brussels •,. •• 25 35 Venice................ [tarn 13 7% Naples •• •• .........• •• 44 tH kit.ona •••• • • .• ona ••• • • •—• Palermo ••• • • ..... 25 32% Messina .. Ditto, tliree months .. 25 65 Lisbor 524,, m .......... 25 65 , Oporto •• r , 274, flour leaux • •• ! .laneiro ...... • • Frankfort-on- .laine -• .. 119% Buenos Ayres.... •• .• •.1 •s •• • • •• •• New York, 63 clays' sight . . •• •• 10 31 Philadelphia frist(l.. ~ 10 31 FitICE4 OF F.I7LLICN, FEE OZ, i'ctc,rsburg ............ Foreign Gold in ilßrs £3 17 9 adrid 4974 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 ~„.. 50 IA j Mexican Dollars 05 1 New Dollars ~..•• 0 0 0 .—• ........., I Sliver in bars .. 0 5 2S LOCAL SHARE MAREETt.i. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 22. 'i'.l2riCX EXCHANGE. This market was doing a very steady basiress to-day. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 96,E —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 32i s—London and North Westerns, 1021 i—Eastern Counties, 9i 3-16— Greet Western of Canada, new, 1 prem.—Midlands, —South Eastern, 21g—Caledonian, 26,4—Great W - estern, 611—North British, 93—Whitehaven and Fur ness, 6 —East Lancashire, 20i. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 22. :5:0013 EXOUANGE. — The transactions in every descrip tion of stock were dull today, and prices were rather lower. Sheffields, 325 i—Dovers, 215—Midlands, 78ii 4 Leeds, 9Gi---Whitehaven and Furness, 6. LEEDS, SEPT. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There bas been a Plight depression to-day. The sales were—NorthWestern, 6 13.16 6/. 183. Midland, 784 Craven Moor, 16s. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 22. .!ITOOX EXCEIANGE.—The market was about stationary as regarded prices, and mainly regulated by the quotations last received from London. The only budoess transacted publicly was in local stocks, which were steady at about last quotations. Birmingham Canal Co.'s shares wore done at 92, and Warwick and Napton Canal, at 9. TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT TO THE BISHOP OP DURHAM. Desirous of paying some tribute of resp4ct to the Bishop of Dirhala on hikijcavine,b Auckland C as tl e , th u inhabi tants of Bi s h o p Auckland and neighbourhood have con• ceived the idea the.t in no way more appropriate or gratifying to his lordship could this be done than by inserting a memorial stained glass window in the east end of South Church—his lordship's parish church. The id. a of placing a new window in the church, which is much needed, has been talked of for some time, and i t i s thought if the plan could be carried out by a general subscription, it would be the moans of at once beauti fying the church and of showing, probably in the most acceptable way, the respect entertained of the high cha racter cf his lordship. It is also intended to present an address to his' lordship.—Durham Chronicle. POOICS, &C., FOR TURKS ISLAND.— G ENERAL P OST . OFFICE, Sept. 20th, 1856.—0 n the let October next, and thenceforward. the provisions of the Col.•nial Book Pest will be extended to hooks transmitted by packet between the United Kingdom and the colony of Turks Island, in the West Indies. Upon bolt packets for the above-mentioned colony the rates of postage will be as follows, viz. :—For a packet not exceeding ilh. in weight, 6d. ; for a packet exceeding 3 lb. and not exceeding 1 lb., . Is. • for a packet exceeding 1 lb. and not exceeding 2 lbs., 2s. ; and so on, increasing one shilling for every pound or fraction of ajoomid.— By command of _the Potua.aoer•.cieD ol :A l .77-4,97P4ND . HILL, Secretary. 5 SEPt El I down on tho columas aaCendimi front below i brit, instead of doing tio § the general permitted nine or ten battalions and a battery of artillery to crown the heights before be assailed them wish all his force, and then they *Crto tab stiong to be dis lodged. However this may be, it is certain that the Russians regard Prince Menschikoff as the most accomplished general they possess, so far as re gards the theory of war. He is extremely well read in many branches of learning, and is said to be as various and versatile as our own Achitophel —chemist, doctor, naturalist, geologist, lawyer, diplomatist, soldier, sailor, kc. His manlier is im perious and harsh, albeit he is given to theory and reverie rather than action, and he never " receives" at his house or studies the arts of popularity. Todtleben is also in the hall, but I cannot see him, lost as he is in the crowd of generals and states men. There, too, is the second Gortschakoff, who is as celebrated as his great relative, and the bluff, soldierly, and intelligent-looking Aide-de-Camp General Luders, whose arrival with fabulous rein forcements was our constant bugbear in the Crimea. Towering by a head at least over all this assem blage, and conspicuous for his fine bearing and face, notwithstanding those horrid spectacles, Major or Colonel Stalipine is readily conspicuous, and, al though not many Englishmen or Frenchmen may have heard of him, he is known throughout Russia for his bravery and devotion on the day of the Tohernaya. He served on the staff of Gen. Read, and when that officer fell he was seen under a tre mendous fire coolly walking through the field look ing for his body ; not succeeding in that object, he came, ho Never, upon the place where General Mayern was lying badly wounded, and taking him upon his gigantic shoulders, he bore him out of the fight and escaped, in spite of all the efforts of the French to shoot him down as he strode off with his burden. Amid these warriors and statesmen ladies in full court dress are pressing towards the inner apartments of the palace, radiant with dia monds, for the display of which the Muscovite head dress now in vogue is peculiarly adapted. This consists of a high circlet or coronet of satin velvet or cloth, which encompasses the top of the head, and is studded with precious stones. Persians, in high black sheepskin caps, and rich loose dresses of the finest silk, and gossamer shawls—flat-faced Tartar deputies, wild delegates from the further shores of the Caspian, Georgians, Circassians, Abas ses, Tcherkesses, Mingrelians, Uralians Mongols, Gourians, Daghestanees, Koords,Lapps;Kalmucks, Cossacks—mingling with Russians, French, English, Spaniards, Romans, Greeks, Austrians, Prussians, Saxons, Danes—here was an epitome of the Asiatic and European races, all in their finest bravery, mingling together in the narrow compass of two grand halls. From the Hall of St. Andrew the doors on one side lead to the fine promenade which is formed on the top of the first stofey of the façade of the Imperial palace. As we stepped out on this esplanade a sight such as can neither be described nor forgotten met the eye. It was yet early— about half-past 6 o'clock ; the sun shining from the left lighted up the gilt domes and vanes of the Kremlin and those of the churches on the right of the picture with a rich orange flame, that seemed to die away or gather fresh vividness as the pours of the morning rolled up more densely from the river, or thinned away before the feeble breeze. The view is bounded by the Kremlin on the left, and on the right by the buildings of the palace, at the end of the facade. Below the spectator there is the carriage way, outside the palace, already thronged with spectators of the lower classes and masses of soldiery. This way is on the verge of the plateau on which the Kremlin stands, over the course of the Moskwa. Nearer to the river there is another broad path, close to the outer wall which surrounds the ancient fortress and overlooks the stream, and already the artillerymen are standing by the guns mounted on one of the old gothic forts which break the lines of the crenelated wall. The people are here also—their faces turned up to the white walls of the palace. At the other side of the river, which is about 200 yards across, there is an other walk lined with houses—a veritable quay, on which men and women and children are stand ing in groups, looking towards the Kremlin. Be hind this line of houses opens out the city like some great sea ; the houses are almost hidden by the thick haze of Russian autumn, but above it for many miles, in every possible shape, cupola, tur ret, dome, spire, cross, minaret, rise to greet the eun, and reflect this rays from their gilded surfaces. It is impossible to imagine this scene. It is in vain, indeed, that the eye which gazes on it seeks, as it were, to seize the details of the world of clocktowers, palaces, churches, and public build ings, which seem to extend as far as the horizon itself, springing up amid, and separated by, boulevards, meadows, gardens, and small plan tations. All the architectures, as all the nations of the globe, are represented here. Here a strange-looiring dome reminds you of Calcutta or some Indian city ; beside it is the mural tower and Gothic battlement of tee Crusade ; the sentries on the fire-towers seem gigantic in the haze, and just as you begin to fancy they are warders on the don jon keep you make out that the tower is not Norman, but very modern Byzantine, and that the man wears the long coat and flap cap of active ser vice. There you see Chinese willow-pattern edi fices besides gothic churches, next to a green dome fantastically carved like a prodigious pine-apple. The fog, half smoke half vapour, is tinged with many colours as it rolls amid this forest of glitter ing spires and domes and the vast mosaic of varie gated clouds, roofs, and housetops. As one gazed upon this scene he could not help being startled if he remembered that 44 years ago Napoleon looked do vn on a similar scene from the walls of the old Kremlin. Next Sunday, indeed, one week hence, will be the anniversary of that fatal entry into Mos cow which France has scarce avenged at Sebastopol. It was on the anniversary of this day that England and France for the last day poured that desolating stream of fire and iron on the devoted city which heralded the grand assault, and on this very day just two years ago the allied squadrons sailed from Varna to their rendezvous at Baltshik to prepare for the descent on the Crimea. As Moscow has risen from its ashes so will Sebastopol arise from its ruins. But hark ! There once again is the old familiar voice of the Russian cannon !—a flash of fire spurts from an abrasure below, and the thick white smoke rushes into the air. The bells of the church of the Assumption ring out merrily, and at the signal the thousand bells of Moscow take up the chorus. It is 7 o'clock. The echoes of the cannon shake the old Kremlin 21 times in rapid succession. This is the signal for the various persons engaged in the ceremonial to repair to the places indicated in the prograunne and ordre die jour. There is a perceptible movement among the uniforms, and, turning to the left, we come out upon the end of the perron rouge, or Krasnoi Kriltzo, at which there is placed the ca nopy beneath which the Emperor and Empress will march to the church of the Assumption. It is of orange coloured cloth of gold, embroidered with Imperial eagles, and is held up by 16 wands of silver gilt, ornamented with yellow, black, and white ribands. On the hangings are embroidered the Emperor's cipher, surmounted by a crown, sur rounded by the order of St. Andrew. It is sur mounted with 16 aigrettes of tricoloured ostrich feathers, and is embroidered with the arms of the empire, as well as those of Kazan, Astracan, Po land, Siberia, of Tauris, Kieff, Vladimir, Novgorod, Finland, and other devices. All these and many more details do I quote on the authority of the great work by the master of the ceremonies, for indeed to me all is gold that glitters, and in the general impression produced by the sight of such things one ransacks the memory in vain for the component parts which pleased him. What a scene there is in that court below !—an assemblage of parasols, bonnets, helmets, coats, shawls, all of th e ga y es t hues. At the foot of the staircase there is one large raised stand full of people—there is also a gallery on the right hand side from the palace to the church, full of people— before us all the church belfries are full of people, and the court is thronged also. There are two streams of people, in uniforms and court dresses, pouring up and down from the palace to th , court. By the dais there is for the present only an escort of the Grenadiers it Cheval, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Fanshawe, a nephew of our stout Admiral w h o comm anded the sailing squa dron at the great naval review at Spithead some years ago. At presen t th e s il v er batons are upheld by private soldiers only, and they evidently regard it as a most solemn and sacred affair. Every one who passes to and fro uncovers his head. Passing through the crowd along the upper landing, over a rich scarlet cloth we come again to the door by which we first entered the palace. The old Grena diers are still standing as rigid and steady as before. Let us go in again and turn to the right, passing between a wall of soldiers. Let us enter the ban queting hall. Surely here are the riches of the world ! Such a glare of gold plate, such a wild profusion of goblets, vases, c ups, salvers, heaped on tables, m asse d on s ideboards or carved stands along the walls of this glittering room ! This is the Grauovitaya Palata a the Hall of the Ancient Tsars (fors° the Russians spell the word in French). Can it be described ? Assuredly not by the pen, nor by the pencil of any artist but one who can dip his brush in the hues of the rainbow. The low many-arched roof of the hall is sustained by a huge square pillar in the centre, round which is placed a platform with receding ledges to the height of nine or ten feet, each ledge groaning with ancient vases and dishes in gold and silver. Some of these are of the quaintest form and curious work manship—models of old castles and palaces, strange animals, battle-pieces, birds— craftily worked , in , past centuries by forgotten descendants of Tubal clain4 and each a museum in itself. G> t of the hall on entering, there is a bullet which seems crushed henertth thu masses of gold vessels upon it, each a study, but enriched, above all, by Pio 'grand cup from Thnvenuto's own hand, fur which Russia paid the sum of 10,0001. sterling. On the left there is an estractil for the orchestra and for the singers, among whom arc Lablach©, Dumeric, Bosie, Calzelari, and Tagliafico, It is covered with cramoisied purple velvet, with gold fringes and borders. The Imperial throne is placed ° at the end of the room opposite the buffet on the right hand side. Three steps, co vered with gold embroidered purple velvet, iced to the platform on which the throne is placed. Above there is a canopy, with an l*periale of cloth of gold covered with imperial eagles, with a crown in the centre on a cushion of velvet and cloth of gold, with fringes and acorns of gold, shot with yellow, black, and white. The edge of the top of the canopy is carved and gilt, and in the centre is a 'shield with the imperial cipher, with the imperial crown above, encompassed by the collar of the order of Saint Andrew. At each side are smaller shields, with the collar of Saint Andrew around them, richly emblazoned, and all three are draped with Imperial standards. At the ends of the top of the canopy there are aigrettes of ostrich plumes, dyed yellow, white, and black. Beneath, at the back of the throne, is displayed the imperial mantle of ermine, with the arms of the empire in a golden border in the centre, and the imperial cipher profusely emblazoned on it. The edges of the steps of the platform are ornamented with large salvers and goblets of gold, on pedestals of malachite and gold ; the three ancient thrones of the. Czars are placed beneath the canopy, and on the left there is a table for the crown, sceptre, and globe, covered with crimson velvet embroidered with gold, and a cloth of gold beneath it. There is a table at the steps to the platform, which is to be Lorne up to the throne when the banquet com mences by three of the High Chamberlains of the Empire. On the left of the pillar are placed two tables extending the whole length of the room, for the guests. These are weighed down likewise with gold and silver plates, goblets, plateaux, 'epergnes, and salvers. The chairs, of white and gold,. with crimson velvet seats, are placed at the left sides of the tables only, so that all the guests will have their faces turned towards their Majesties. Such are the glories of the banquet-room of the Czar. TEE. ROYAL BRITISH BANK. Publicity is the first principle of our political institutions. On it we depend for liberty, order, honour, and all that makes life tolerable. For every affair of the least general importance we know that even here what has been whispered in the ear will be proclaimed from the housetops. There are people who argue against, and enlarge on the evils attending the exposure of crime. No doubt there are such evils. No doubt youthful passion and foolish curiosity may now and then find their own nourishment in criminal reports and other details. We presume the temptation changes with years, for really, if we ever read anything that struck us as calculated to charm the manly fancy and to cor rupt the mature mind it is the revelations at the meeting of the shareholders of the Royal British Bank. It is impossible for a man—we say empha tically a respectable man, a man with fairish ante cedents, or at least without bad ones—a man with any tail to his name—for example, an Alderman or an M.P.—to rise from the perusal of that report without being conscious of new powers for the ac quisition of wealth. The Royal road, or rather the Royal British road, to wealth in these days is sim ply for any dozen gentlemen dining together to ar range their parts, to send out d, circular to invite the public generally—that is, country clergymen, half-pay, officers, surgeons, Islington shopkeepers, spinsters, widows, and little people with still less to do—to subscribe what money they can. The dozen gentlemen have then to open an office-20 offices, it need be, to chooSe a name, and send round some more circulars, saying everything or nothing, and they may proceed to real business—that is, to di vide among themselves the contents of the till. There is, of course, an etiquette in these things, for it is not the custom to divide equally. The weight con tributed by each name, and other circumstances, are to be taken into account. Then, of course, an official may make a fair use of his opportunities. There is honour among thieves, we are told, but there is also difference of merit, and you will never find real equality either in a ditch or a cellar, a gaol or a bank parlour. The Royal British Bank, stripped of its "leather and prunella," its organisation, its eight offices, its charter, and other " properties," was a very simple affair. As fast as the five hundred simple. tons bought the shares, or " deposited " their money on the counter, the gentlemen in the par lour " took" it, or " borrowed" it, or whatever else it is to be called. Humphry Brown, Esq., M.P., one of the directors, took 70,0001. ; Mr. John G-wynne, another director, took 14,000/. ; Mr. Cameron, the secretary, took 30,0001. ; Mr. Mullins; the solicitor, took 7,0001. ; one of the auditors took 2,000/. ; John M'Gregor, Esq., M.P. for Glasgow, the eminent financial writer and pro jector of the bank, took 7,3621., and we are only surprised that, with so magnificent a prestige, he did not take more ; he had not his fair share. A number of suaaller people had 60,0001. among them. Mr. Oliver, of Liverpool, was favoured with 13,4861. The directors had also a regular allowance of 2,0001. a year among them for what the Persians call " tooth-money," for the wear and tear of their teeth in masticating and swal lowing what they took. There certainly are anomalies in the distribution that may some day be explained. There were directors who took nothing at all, or, at all events, returned what they took. The chief clue to this inequality is, perhaps, to be found in the fact of there being here, as every where, a master mind. This was Mr. Cameron, the secretary, who divided the booty, and there must have been a degree of confidence between him and some of the directors which there was not with the rest. He had come up from the country, and did not know the London way of business ; nor, as it turns out, had he any occasion to know it, for his own way of doing business was a vast deal bet ter. He kept the real accounts of the Bank in a little book with a little key to it, and prohibited all communication between the directors and either customers or clerks. So, at least, it is stated by the greener members of the direction, and Mr. Esdaile says that, even when Mr. Brown was in debt 70,0001., he (Esdaile) did not know of the debt till called to the chair in the course of the present year. Mr. Owen, while director, little more than two years ago, did not know iere was a single shareholder in debt to the Bank to the amount of 100,0001. It was all done downstairs, and lie was told that when he had shut the parlour door he had nothing to do with the Bank. So the directors sat in the parlour, and received what information Mr. Cameron chose to give them, pocketed their fees for attendance, and went home to dinner. Talk of public offices, the family of Barnacles, sil ver sticks, and prebendaries, what sinecure like that of these representatives of a free people 1 Mer cantile men of high character, Mr. Cameron as sured these gentlemen, would not come to ask money from a Board ; they would only confide their wants to the general manager. The directors of the Royal British Bank, with its loyal and patriotic title staring in your face in every great thoroughfare, and intrusted with the fortunes of hundreds of people, profess not to have known what the custom was when a man wanted a large advance from his Bank. In fact, they consisted of those who knew nothing about it and those who enjoyed Mr. Cameron's confidence, that gentleman ..himself not being acquainted with the London way of doing business, and having a way of his own. The Welsh works are a redeeming feature in the history, and cast a glow of honest enthusiasm upon it. A Bank has to sow its wild oats like any gen tleman of property ; indeed, one of the directors holds it as a rule that a Bank, like a minor just come to his estate, uniformly spends its money, goes through a period of difficulty, reforms, saves, and gets rich again. " One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," and there are few noblemen who will not have a fellow-feeling with the Bank when they hear the story. Quite in its infancy " one of the first commercial authorities in the city of London" recommended to its kindness " parties of the name of Dumellar and Scales, afterwards Dinnel!ar and Swift," with whom the Bank accord ingly opened a cash credit for 3,0001., and a dis count account of 6,0001. Very shortly, "upon the strength of the same recommendation, the parties were allowed to go beyond the general limits pre scribed. Then (that is in the ensuing autumn) came the first irregularities with regard to the paper of these parties." When the debt to the Bank had mounted up to 20,0001., which it seems to have done with wonderful buoyancy, collateral securities were demanded, and offered in the shape of Welsh works. What was to be done ? "We had," says Mr. Esdaile, "a property presented to us, and it was represented to the Board that by working the property ourselves, and getting into our hands the plant and mineral property connect ed with it, we should be able to recompense our selves for the whole of the previous debts." Who has not heard such captivating representations, and who, with the means, has not listened to them in r his time? But the dupes in this case were not fresh from college, but the directors of a Metro politan Bank of the most ambitious pretensions, and trustees for some five hundred proprietors. It is a stereotyped tale, except that, instead of a young baronet; it is a Bank that is sthe No sooner had it got the ironworks than the iron I 41, VE .2 :3 85 6 it always does in these cases. But market MI, Bank i tld the good fortune to dis jumt then the w property, which, available without cover tt coal mine in their . however, they could not mati r, :" an outpit, and " slips," and a vent ; so they set to work, and through these outpits , a nd " '2 l Ps, and vents their money flowed apace, and we ,: 1 - 0 not wonder that, as Mr. Esdailo told the sad tale, ho became suddenly conscious of a peculiar appearance of inward suffering—of pain of mind. In 1853 a Mr. F. Clarke took the works, and speedily threw thorn up for want of money ; with 10,0001. he would make hi.; fortune. So the works returned to the Bank, like Hunchback, or a bad shilling. By this time, 1853, including the original debt, and the purchase of the seccod and third mortgages, with the equity of redemption, the cost was about S'),000/. Nothing daunteu.'• the Bank went on, and by this time the works I.,save cost it 106,0001., exclusive of interest on the various advances. But we appeal to the British aris.tocracy. Is there no youthful millionaire who wish es to add to his country's wealth and his own at the .same time ? Is there no noble student of economic geology wh• has nothing else to do with his time ai_ul money ? It is true these iron-works are now, Mr. Coleman informs us, " a complete property," buy`' let us hope there. is still room for investment and enter prise. As the property has swallowed up in, ineY for the last six years at an average rate of abtlut 16,0001. a year, there is, doubtless, still scope f t , r expenditure. On the very best mining authority Mr. Coleman informs us that it can now be made to yield a profit of 16,0001. a-year. If we set the authority of this nameless gentleman against th experience of the Royal British Bank, the property is worth, in Algebraic phrase, x x 16,0007.• x x 16,0001. • 0., and we should think it au Act of great courage to take the works at only 2i years' purchase. With half the directors, the solicitor, and one of the auditors deeply in debt : with vast works goin on in Wales ; with the directors shutup in the par lour, and the real accounts in his own desk, Mr. Cameron was in command of the position and could do what he liked, not only with his own, but with everybody else's. So infact he did. His own trifling debt of 30,0001. was on the strength of securities said to be worth as much, but, as 2t now appears, only worth exactly one-tenth, and already mort gaged over and over again. Indeed with this gen tleman's power of coining money out of nothing, he ought to have done something for the Bank. On the contrary, the Bank, like the property in Wales, the more money there was spent upon it, the less was the real value and the higher the vominal. When the Bank was absolutely insolvent the directors were paying six per cent. dividends, and inviting new directors and new applications for shares on the strength of their unexampled and exuberant prosperity. " You have beeii in existence seven years," says an exasperated shareholder, who, poetical in his wrath, compared the concern to the black waters of Erebus, " and during the entire of that period you have been expending a sum of 1,5001. a-week, or 2001. a-day. Why, our connexion with such a concern was more dangerous than would have been deal ing with tomahawking savages, for the latter would have been our avowed enemies." This was not the only burst of feeling, as the shareholders fixed first on one, then another, supposed author of their wrongs. The sticks and stones flew about, and Alderman Kennedy, among others, was the object of many a savage, many a piteous appeal. But when that vir pietate gravis rose, amid profound silence, it was only to explain that he had been just as great a dupe as his colleagues, and knew nothing about the concern of which he was a paid director. These are , candid confessions, but, as a death bed repentance is all that the direction is capable of, people must be content with it. The company, of course, is dissolved ; a call of 501. a share has been made ; and in a few weeks the Royal British Bank will have resigned itself into the arms of Chancery, with what result to share holders and depositors time only can show—Times. ROBBERY OF THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. John Pratt, a young man 17 years of age, who had been remanded, but admitted to bail upon a charge of having stolen a sum of 98/. 108., belonging to the Char. tered Bank of Australasia, in wbich establishment he had been employed as junior clerk, was further exa mined before Mr. Alderman Carter, at the Mansion- house. Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for the Prevention of Forgeries and Frauds, again at tended for the prosecution ; and Mr. Lewis, jun., ap peared on behalf of the prisoner. The evidence taken at the former examination, which was to the effect that the prisoner absconded with the money, and was apprehended by Russell, a detective officer, at a brothel, when only lls. were found in his posses,ion, having been read, William Withers, who bad been twice summoned to appear and give evidence, and who neglected to attend at the last examination, was sworn and said—l am the keeper of a brothel at No. 1, Bath-buildings, City-road. On the morning of the 4th inst. the prisoner was at my house. He came there late on the Wednesday night or early the following morning, and remained till the Sun day, when the officer apprehended him. I did not change a 51. note for him. He showed me a 201. note, and asked me if I could get it changed. I then went with him in a cab to toe Bank of Engla,.d, when be left me and went into the Bank. When he came out I asked him whether he had changed it, and he replied that he had got gold for it. During the time he stayed at my house he was almost c fltinually in my company and that of women and others belonging to it. He treated us in a carriage to Epping Forest, and afterwards to Barnet fair. He gave money to a girl named Davis, to buy a silk dress, a bonnet, and a pair of boots. Mr. Mullens—Did not your wife, who accompanied you to the forest, have any of the money ? Witness— No. Mr. Mullens—Did not she came out in a new dress for Barnet fair I Witness—No ; but the prisoner paid all the expenses. Mr. Mullens—During the time he was in your house did you see auy other bank notes in his possession be sides the one for 201. which he changed ! Witness— Ne, I did nit. Mr. Mullens—Will you swear that? Witness—Yes. Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l did not receive from the prisoner a 201. note for the purpose of getting it changed by one of my tradesmen. I have seen the 201. note produced in the prisoner's possession. It is ',the one he changed at the Bank of England. He took it from his pocket-book, which contained a lot more bits of paper. • Mr. Lewis—What did you suppose the lot more bits of paper consisted of, were they the same description of paper as this note ? Witness—No. Mr. Lewis—Did he not take this note from off a roll of notes ? Witness—No ; they appeared to me to be like letters. Mr. Lewis—Were they clean looking letters ! Wit ness—l did not notice that. Mr. Lewis—Are you the landlord of this brothel I Witness— Yes, Mr. Lewis—When you. saw a boy of 17 come into your house with bank notes, did you not make some inquiries respecting either him or his money ? Witness —No ; I made no particular inquiries. We had plenty of drink, he paying for it. He lent me 10s. to get my watch out of pledge. He did not lend me a sovereign. Mr. Lewis—How was it that be came to treat your wife to the forest ? Witness—He was taking the other women out, and asked me and my wife to go with him. He paid for the. drag, and all other expenses. Mr. Lewis—Why was he to treat you and your wife ? Witness—He said he had come up from the country, and wanted to go out for a day's ride. Mr. Lewis—Have you paid him back the 10s. that you borrowed of him ? Witness--:-No. I did not delay him when the officer came to take him into custody. Russell (the officer)--Your wife denied that tne priso ner was there. You were for two hours in an adjoining room, and heard My voice when I asked for the prisoner. Alderman Carter—l fellow of this description is capable of doing anything. Mr. Lewis—Did the prisoner not spend 281. in your house in two days ? Witness—No ; he was with another female before he came to my house. Mr. Lewis—Did he breakfast with you and your wife and the prostitutes in your house ? Witness—No ; he breakfasted with the female who slept with him. Mr. Lewis—Do you mean to swear that he did not breakfast upstairs with two prostitutes ? Witness—The first morning he did, but the other morning he break fasted with me .and my wife and several prostitutes as well. Mr. Lewis—Did he not complain of being robbed .of 21. the following morning after he arrived at your house ? Witness—Yes ; but I did not persuade him to stay. I went with him to hire the drag. Mr. Lewis—As he had plenty of money, I dar esa y you thought him a very nice young man to stay in your brothel! Witness—l thought nothing of the kind ; but he was very free with his money, and used to treat us all to drink and everything else. (Sensation.) Mr. Lewis—You are a big hulking man ; are you in any business ? Witness—Yes, I am a fancy leather worker. Mr. Lewis—Where do you carry on your business ? Witness—At home. Mr. Lewis—ln this brothel ? Witness—Yes. Mr. Lewis —Who did you work with last ? Witness —I have worked at home for shops. Mr. •Lewis—What was the last shop you supplied ? Witness—Mr. Beaumont s, at Islington. Mr. Lewis—How long ago? Witness—l took Berrie work home on Saturday night. Mr. Lewis—Of what value ? Witness—lt was re pairs, which cause to 7s. Mr. Lewis—Do you mean to say—be cautious—that you hsve not seen 701. worth of notes since this boy has been in custody —notes which he had in his possession when he came to y our brothel ? Witness—l have not. Mr. Lewis—Have•you not spoken to Harriet Davis about them ? Witness—Yes. being M o ffi r c i n e L r v s h — o h u e ‘ n s V e I h ? avvt ewn m ti t ade tnheesrs y e— o d tdoi e do n kt y. h not att constable young sytahbili man with me and told him to look under the bed, immediately upon a i w r s h . h H t h j e b w a it d ne p s r s e v s i a n id u , sly " O b e b e , n y e 9, denied h e ( pr b y i s t o h n e e r w ) i t s . nessli wife, andLthe witness hoard the denial: s • Mr, Lewis--Was not a flash man of the name of Davis sent for directly ate p :Ist in or was taken into custotlyl Witness—No such .th ,rig, Mr. Lewis—On. tit t i Suns 'ay morning when the pri so, ler was aporehendn. I did . •ou not go to a public-house and fetch a flash man i l'il itness—No, I went to two or thre e public-houses ,bef.. TO ' Je was taken into custody to i r nd . i it ct.eddlen, c• gets ome I,randy. At is it I got some, but I was obliged to tell the landlord th at• it was for a case of cholera, others rise I should tic I L ave been able to procure it. (Sense tion.) Mr. Lewis—Then yoi t did not mind telling a lie t yv'ttnei as—No, but I new n tell wilful lies. .g. 1 ,34 rman Carter—Wh a t do you call that but a wilful lie ? 1 Vitness—l knew I could not get the brandy unless 1 [ said it was for a . 7.a se of cholera. (Sensation.) IVIr. :, Lewis—This man ( la serves upon his own confer.- ne of the cashiers in the Issue Depart" %ent of the Ban' rof England said—On the 4th inst. the . • 101. note produ, red was brought to the Bank sio l‘ n ir t , o :i b l e . and chang e d b y me for g :old.. It bas tne name of "Wil liam Walt, 'rs (the last lit Pitiless), No.• 1, Bath -building s ? City-road," on it. Mr. ii . M, • Young, c• l erk in the Bank o f Australasia , identified the initials " J. P." on the note to be in the handwriting of th e prisc men Grose-extmitined..--I b. ilieve it was the prisoner's babit to put his it 6:vials upon all notes that passed through hie hands. Harriet D, wis v eas th en called, and examined by Mr. Mullene—l 11 :Fe at . No. .1, Bath-buildings, City-road. -L have been sum. mot ,ed to-,lay to produce a 501. note and a 201. note, with'th are alloged to have been given to lue by the prisoner. I cannot produce them. I never sari them, and know 136 thing of them. Cross-examined b. ir Mr. Lewis—l never even saw the 201. note which the prisoner is said to have change 3. , 7 1hen Russell, the officer, cantle, the prisoner was in 11 ty room, I s.vear tin 't I hay* 3 never had any converra ti; la with the keeper of the br, othel about 70/. worth of no , , ,‘e. When Russell wa, 4 out side my room I did not see " 4 - 0/. of notes in the pr:sore, er's possession. I per' suadt 'd him ail I could to give up • the notes to the officer if he had them. Mr. . Lewis—,Did you not tell th e officer that you sail tho pr isoner burn the notes INN fitness—No, not the note's. I said that I saw him place some papers under the kottl, 1 which was on the fire at t, tie time. e in Mr. less v is — Upon your oath did 3 ' ou not tell m m y o ffi ce sk, at the prisoner had burnt them I Wanes. —No, I said "papers," not "notes." , 1 : saw him place some papers which were in an envelove , un der the kettle, but what thvy were I do not know. Th e prisoner . wrote to me frown N",)vfgate to go to you—he wished fine . to No you. ot Mr. Lewis—Did I .talk to you about anything Oee. the 701. worth of notes 1 Witness—No. t VII M:r. Lewis—Did I not ' ; tell you that you had got tho Witness—Yes, but I dettied it. V Mr. Lewis —Will you. swear that you did not t ell 1 ' that the prisoner burnt the notes in your presence Witness-I do. pri- Mr. Lewis—Did you tea the poor woman the Boner's mother) that he bum t the notes in your Pre- Bence Witness—No, I said "papers." I nev er sai d " notes." Two other girls were in the room at the time he put the papers under the kettle. Dlr. Lewis—Now , be cautious ; do you mean to,gei that the notes were burnt at all to your know ledge WMr.itness --I could not say. Lewis—Are they not in possession of a man tact as they were I Witness—Not to my knowledge.thee° Mr. Lewis — Was it not proposed by you to p,ut very 701. worth of notes under the bed-post W itness' That is false,. When the officer apprehended the, prisoner three girls, I Matilda, Ellen, and Betsey, were in the room, mes. 'as well as rt iyself. Ido not know their other na When we w ont for a drive to North Woolw,ieht th prisoner askec I me • to accompany him to Paris. t Mr. Lewis - Do you mean to swear that you did the tell Mr. Mulle, ns and myself that the prisoner burnt notes ? Witne se — The prisoner asked me to be tr ee ' and I was true. Mr. Lewis—lVid you not tell Mr. Mullens that Y o • u tried to get them .from out of the fire with a po ker ? W it " ; ness—l said " pape. rs." I took the poker and tried to g e them out of eie fire. The prisoner when he put the paPt il l under the kettle said to me, " Don't frighten yoursel.4 Harriet dear, all right now if you will be true • and I said I would be true. (Laughter.) Mr. and Mrs Withers, and tho other girls and myself used to go ou,s. riding together. he prisoner " stood" about Si . or 4i'd worth of brandy whil 'et he was at the brothel. $e used to drink lots of neat spirits out of a tumbler, ADU used to ask him how h e could drink so much brandy had about 101. of him in' two days. He bought nae tive new dresses, a visite, a cloak, and a hat —one of the. "flop" ones. (Laughter.j‘ Mr. Goodman (chief cl.ei 'lo—Have you given us your right name. Witness—Yes. My Hans, e is Davis. Officer—She gave me the name of Davidson. Mr. Lewis—Did not the. prisoner complain of being robbed at this brothel! Witness—No; we all thougi s lt he was a gentleman who had money left him, which he vas squandering away. I did not rob him of the 21. It tux ust have been the girl be slept with before he became att atohed to me. (Laughter/ He stood a shillingsworth of br.o idy, and said he ghou l like to stay with me, and I of ca )urse had no objection. The girl that robbed him did not• belong to our regular establishment. She was only a ca, mat visitor, but lam a regular lodger there. Mr. Mullens—That is the case fa r the prosecution. Mr. Lewis—l cannot resist this case going for trial, whatever may ultimately become of ii t• The depositions were then read over and signed by the witnesses, and the prisoner was comm itted for trial ; but liberated upon bail. Country Markew. CHELMSFORD—SzeT. 19. We had a fair supply of wheat to-day, but, notsriar standing, the best qualities were from is to 2s pm' gna rl !, dearer, and secondary quality Is ; the trade, howe ver, vr:_" not brisk. Barley, of which there was a larger sup , p l y th of late, may be noted fully is per qr. cheaper, will, Ist Pe a. ' beans, and oats were firm at last week's prices. s. •,, Wheat., white, old, per s. s. 25 31 qr. 45 74 Oats, per qr ... -0 41 new . . . .48 75 Peas, DB Partridge 0uin1i.n..g..... .. ... ... ... ... ...... 404429 White ............ 0 red, old 43 68 4. 9 , new 43 67 Barley 35 43 Chevalier 38 50 Beans, Tisk .......... ..3 5 42 Grinding 33 41 Harrow ticks 40' 3 , Malt 72 76 Mazagan ....... 3 7 ,„... Chevalier • 74 78 Ditto, new...--- COLCHESTER— SEPT. 20. to A fair supply of wheat, which met a slow sale a t i s o t 2s per qr. advance on last week's prices. Barley ws s so plentiful, and good u se f u l sam pl e s were not chexP Beans and peas were taken freely at full prices. go ; Prices to-dawere a follow :—heat white t 0 83 Z psn b, red, 60s to 703; y barley, 44s to , Ps ; b oats, , 26s to 300 o , Mazagan, 40s to 420 ; middle and small, 42s to 40s; P white, 42s to 46s ; grey, 90s to 445. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, So in the port of London, from the, following P' the Sept. 15 to Sept. 20, both inclusive. )140, ____ 0 : 4 ,--- 200 Colchester — . ....- 220 Harwich ) ) _..L.: —. -- 2 4 380 --; ' --- Leigh - -- -' -- n o --- 1, 30° Mahlon lll 19 3S I --. 28 %- KIRKCALDY—SEPT. 20. _ ..hi:oh Itch To-day we had a small supply of old wheat, for farmers asked extravagant prices, so that part r em unsold. We had three parcels of new wheat, out cl d 60% dition, 55, 56, and 601bs ; they sold at 425, 50s, tw io r. per qr. Barley in f a ir supply, and is to 2s per W . ' '— Oats same as last week. vealrO• Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I - 6 '; Od First B2s Od I 45s 03 37s Oct I ,;'„' cal Second 7Bs Oct I 43s Oct I 36s Oct n v; Od Third 6Bs Oct I 385 Oct 35s Od 1 v" COAL MARK: Prim of Coal par ton at XT.-SEPT. 22. s. (1. Bates's West Hartley ~.17 6 Byass's West Hartley l9 0 Taufield Moor Butos 15 3 Wylam 17 6 Tanfield Moor l5 3 North Percy Hartley _l7 6 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 19 0 1 Walker Primrose l5 0 South Derwent 15 C Wallsenn, !gm. Gosforth l7 0 Kepier Grainge lB 3 Harton l7 0 South Durham .17 3 Bell 17 9 llctton Lyons Main l7 9 Eden Main lB Ships at market...l2 the close of the msticel. Wallsend, 3 Wharneliffe ................... Hartlepool 0 Riddell ll 0 Nies l9 0 fletton 19 0 Lyon's Stone Coal 23 6 Woodhouse C105e.... l l e4 0 3tewart's 16 6 Evenwood 0 11 Cowndon Tees ........... 0 Braddyll 11 , 1; 3 Polisher .............. 0 Russell's ' lletton Caradoc.— ................ 10 0 CassoP 7 I Sold BIRTHS. ~ 76 OP A SON. ka On the 21st inst., at 5, Devonshire-terrace, 1 1 9 6 " the wifo of H. W. Holmes, Esq. ivi' of On the 21st inst., at Bromley S. Leonard, the ° the Rev. Augustus G. How. OF A DAUGHTER. tb. 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