The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

TICKET-OF-LEAVB SYSTEM. Colonel Jebb is a first-rate statist. He has the right figures, and he reasons admirably upon them. His letter in our paper of yesterday is a model for any country the population of whichis entirely under the dominion of reason, the climate of which secures it from nervous complaints, and where even the robbers and murderers—if there are any—take in blue-books, and amuse themselves with decimal sums is criminal arithmetic. The Colonel, how ever, makes soma admissions not at all of a nature to reassure the old ladies, or even the old gentle men, who now lie listening for " noises" till two o'clock in the morning, His first admission is, that under the existing acts there can be no pos sible alteration of the practice. He leaves us no loophole. It is all according to law. No doubt, be intimates, judges and magistrates are very un discriminating, and sometimes pass very light sen tences on atrocious offenders. The law, however, cannot undertake the office of the judge. It can only deal with the sentence ; and if the same sen tence has been passed on the wretched pilferer of a few pounds of bacon and the deliberate perpe trator of the most horrible outrages, the law, says Colonel Jebb, interferes at the same period, and restores them both to society. So far, however, from the practice being an innovation on the side of lenity, it is much more severe than the pre • vious one ; at least, by the testimony of the criminals themselves, who, the Colonel informs us, would much rather be sent to Austr a li a at the end of four years' imprisonment in this country than set at large in their own dear country after two years and a half. The chaplain, he say., has nothing to do with it. The only condition re quired by the act is a certain amount of good be haviour. In the department of criminal science it a ppears that the moral scale is gra d ua t e d w i t h an ac curacy which removes all doubt between the convict and his keepers. The former sees the scale, and knows hotr to act up to its requirements. The Home-office, the visiting magistrates, and all the authorities concerned see at once when the requisite degree of morality has been attained: shutting their eyes to all " antecedents," to the peculiar circumstances under which their hopeful protege came under their care, and despising the vulgar belief that a man who has done certain things is sure to do them again, they give him his liberty, leaving society to take care of itself. It's all quite regular, says the Colonel, and he pro nounces it good. So, of course, we are not sur prised at the further aggravation of the present state of things that, in the Colonel's opinion, there can be no immediate improvement upon it. Very well ; as, according to the Colonel, there is not sufficient discrimination, or rather none at all, except between what nurserymaids call the " behaviour" of this convict or that, neither of them having a very wide scope within the bur walls of a gaol ; as the chaplain has not oven the opportunity of discriminating; as the sentences are very undiscriminatory; as the Home-office does not venture to discriminate • and as the system is simply a machine by which convicts of all sorts and sizes come in at one end and re-appear at the other in the uniform shape of ticket-of-leave people, we cannot be very wide of the mark if we suggest that some further attempt he made towards a better discrimination, and consequent classification. If we are to deal with all convicts in the same way, then we can understand the present system may meet a g reat variety of cases a s we ll as any one other. With more discrimination, however, we may attempt different methods of treatment. There clearly are those of whose reform we may entertain some reasonable hope, and as clearly there are others who are either irreclaimable or too dangerous to be set at large. We don't see why the personal question—for it is a personal question—may not decided while the man is in prison, and upon va rious considerations. For example, we mu , t say, in the present state of society, considering the mutual confidence in which we all dwell, and the way in which we leave ourselves at the mercy of violence, we have a very great reluctance to see men con victed of gross personal outrages thrown again on the public, except after the utmost possible ordeal. But, assuming certain less desperate or less for midable classes, surely we have not yet exhausted the desert shores, the outlying and inhospitable regions of the earth, where these men might spend the rest of their lives in such labours and under such a system as the site and the community would allows It need not he a paradise ; as little need it be a hell ; but to a moderate purgatory we have no objection. The chief point, of course, would be that there should be no escape, and an impassa ble gulf between it and the more attractive colonies. Nature itself has adapted New Holland for the purpose, and left two of its shores as remote and inaccessible as could be required for such an object. For more desperate offenders, for those whose ten dencies are positively formidable, and whose amendment it is folly to hope for, there remains the last resource of perpetual and hopeless impri sonment at home. Such persons, seeing that humanity does not permit penal hunger and mace ration, may as well be employed on public works, such as those of Portland. The colonel himself observes that there is plenty of this sort of work to be done, and rather a want of convict labour for the purpose. Indeed, this is about the only suggestion of practical value in his letter, and as soon as Parliament meets we trust that every ticket of-leave man caught at his old tricks may reap the benefit of it.—Times. COLONIAL REPRESENTATIVE COVERNMENT. (From the Ttmee.) Till within a very few years no product of Eng land appeared so impossible to transport across the seas as her responsible government. The great Republic which has sprung from our American colonies has developed our love of liberty, our respect for individual rights, and our de ference to public opinion, but has never been able to appropriate to herself the Eng lish executive. In every State, as well as in the Central Legislature, the chief magististe is elected for a definite period, and the Ministers of the Federal Government are excluded from seats in the Legislature, and may retain office, although thoy.and their opinions are in a decided minority. The notion of a responsible Government holding office so long as it retained the confidence of the Legislative Assembly has for the first time in the present year been brought into practice in the Australian colonies. Educated hitherto under a system of political tutelage, with one-third of their members nominated by the Crown, and consisting partly of officials whom no possible success of oppo sition could displace, the Australian Assemblies had but little experience of the theory or practice of constitutional government. How matters are to proceed in Victoria we do not know, for the elections are not yet concluded ; but we have had a notable specimen of the turbulent infancy of re sponsible government in New South Wales. The spring of last year was occupied in that colony by an election of members to serve in the Lower House. The electoral districts in the colony were said at the time of passing the act under which it received its constitution to have been framed with great inequality, and from this cause, or from some other of which our accounts do not inform us, par ties appear to have been nearly equally ba:anced. The Governor, Sir Wm. Denison—whose conduct throughout the whole of these complicated transac tions appears, so far as we have the means of judg ing, to have been extremely judicious and impar tial—first devolved the task of forming a Go vernment of Mr. Thompson, the Colonial Secretary under the old regime. On the failure of this gen tleman the duty was entrusted to Mr. Donaldson, a merchant and settler, who succeeded, though with great difficulty, in forming a Ministry. This Government seems to have been formed of Con servative elements, and to have been suspected at least of an intention to maintain the claims of the present occupants of Crown lands in all their in tegrity. However, the Government obtained a majority, but• a majority so small that in Angus' last they resigned because they did not receive that amount of support to which they believed themselves entitled. Sir William Denison then summoned to his Councils Mr. Cowper, the leader of the Opposition, who formed a Government, lost •was driven to select his Attorney-General from among the solicitors instead of the bar, theme be ing, as it appears, the same line of demarcation between the two branches of the profession there as in England. The bar, of course, were indignant at such a slight, and personal objections seem to have existed against the new Attorney-General of more force than his belonging to the wrong branch of the legal hierarchy. When this Ministry met the House a vote of censure was moved upon them, mainly levelled at this obnoxious Attorney General and carried by a majority of 2. Mr. Cowper and his colleagues thereupon resigned, and the scale, which had inclined for the moment in favour of the Liberals, once more favoured the Conservatives. By the last accounts a new Ministry was formed by Mr. Parke r a gentle man w ho s e fame, whatever it may be, has not yet penetrated these northern regions. - We have been thus particular in narrating these events, because, as it is of great importance to truth that the difficulties of responsible government should be extenuated, so it is of equal consequence to the future well government of our colonies that they should not be exaggerated or misrepresented. It is very easy to raise out of th ese f requent, almost theatricai, changes of Ministers and Ministries a cry that the colonies are unfit for self-government.. For our own part we see nothing in what has hap pened in New South Wales which might not per fectly well have happened in England itself, always excepting the sensitiveness of a Prime Minister who resigns office while he has got a working majority of two, and the nomination of Attorney- General selected from the roll of solicitors. It is nothing new in this country for parties to be nearly balanced or Ministries to be shortlived. Nor is the conflict, as has been represented, one merely for place and power. There is a vast prize at stake— no less than the unsold lands of the colony, which the one party wish to retain in the hands of the present occupants at nominal rents, and the other eo throw open to purchase. The minority claim to represent the larger portion of the people of the colony, and only to be outvoted by an unfair division of the electoral districts. The struggle must con tinue till victory decides for one side or the other ; and instead of cavilling at its course, we ought to rejoice that we have provided our colo nists with an arena on which to fight out their local differences by argument and reason, instead of having recourse to those explosions of fury and discord which are apt to agitate those communities for whose passions a similar safety-valve is not provided. Responsible government can do great things, but it cannot beforehand ascertain the relative force of parties, nor discern without trial the fittest men to conduct the government, nor remedy by its own innate force the faulty distribution of electoral power ; but there is no reason to doubt that in Australia, as elsewhere, the effect of responsible government, when time has been given it to attain its full development, will prove the same blessing that it has been in England and in Ca' tda. We must beware of copying the impatience of many well-meaning persons in 1848, who, because their new institutions did not at once regenerate nations utterly unaccustomed to think and act for them selves, and restore a prosp er ity undermined by centuries of misgovernment, believed their aspira tions after liberty a dream, and sank back into their old lethargy. A remembrance of the struggles and blunders, the crimes and absurdities, through which England floundered into her present consti tution should lead us to look with tolerance and with hope on our rising colonies, and teach us not to be surprised above measure if they do not realise fully in six months a work which cost us as many centuries. THE LATE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS. The Chapter of the Metropolitan Church of Paris has appointed as capitulary vicars Mgr. the Bishop of Tripoli, and MM. Buquet, Surat, and Darbois. The funeral of the archbishop will take place on Tuesday, the 13th, and the purification of the church of St. Etienne-du-Mont the following day. On the body of the archbishop being embalmed, it was found that one of the cavities of the heart had been traversed by the knife. The blow was given with such violence that the thick embroidery of the stole could not stop it. The heart has been s Tarately embalmed, and will be deposited in the church of the Carmes, near those of his prede cessors. One of the journals denies that the assassin cried out, in striking the fatal blow, " No god dess !" (pas de deesse !) but our contemporary is in error ; the exclamation was heard by seve ral persons, and Verger himself admits that he uttered it, and declares that it was meant as a pro test against the doctrine of the Immaculate Con ception. Among the numerous persons present at the ceremony at St. Etienite-du Mont was Madame Merard, a wood dealer of Ecouen, and at her side the assassin stood for nearly an hour, dur ing which she was struck by his apparent de votion. She relates that, when the procession made the first round, he quietly drew back his chair, in order not to impede its passage. A little after, when Mme. Merard's umbrella fell down, he picked it up, and presented it to her with great politeness. At the second turn of the procession, when the archbishop was passing, she saw her neigh bour draw a knife from under his coat, and rush with fury on the prelate. Mme. Merard seized the man by the arm, when the knife inflicted a slight wound in her left hand, from which the blood flowed freely. But for this she would not hale let go her hold of the assassin. The incidents to which some men are subjected in life are exceedingly strange, as has been exem plified in the present case. Pierre, the old valet of Mgr. Affre, who, in li4B, supported from the bar ricades the almost lifeless body of his unfortunate master carried in his arms the bleeding body of Mgr. Sibour, his venerable successor, and placed it in his carriage. Verger's conduct whet at the ecclesiastical semi nary of Montrougo incurred no reproach ; but he was not much liked by his companions, for he was gloomy and taciturn, and replied in few words to the questions addressed to him. His eyes were or dinarily bent on the ground, and he uelrer look-2d the person with whom ho spoke in the face. As the period of his stay at the seminary was drawing to a close, some pieces of money were stolen : he was accused and convicted of the robbery, and had in consequence to leave the seminary. The body of the Archbishop of Paris lay ii state on Wednesday, from one o'clock, in a chapelle ardente erected in the grand drawing-room et the ground floor of the archiepiscopal palace in the Rue de Grenelle St. Germain. The principal entrance to the palace was entirely hung with black, and in the midst of the hangings are placed the armorial bearings of the family of the archbishop. The cha pelle ardente is reached after passing through seve ral rooms, hung with black, and scarcely having any light admitted. In the chapelle, the body of the deceased, clothed in his pontifical robes, is placed on a satin bed. The features have not been changed by death. They retain all their usual expression of mildness to such a degree that a per son would be almost tempted to believe that the deceased was asleep rather than dead. The hands are crossed over the breast and touch the cross sus pended from his neck. On one of the fingers of the right hand is nis pastoral ring. The bed on which the body lies is covered above by a canopy formed of black and white drapery, and surmounted by the arms of the archbishop. The canopy is surmounted by high wax tapers, and by candelabra full of smaller ones. Twelve priests, placed ou either side of Lhe body, recite aloud the prayers tor the dead. Some other priests and religieuses also pray in other places. A numerous crowd as sembled in the forenoon in the Rue de Grenelle, and being at last admitted passed through the chapelle ardeute with every mark of respect and regret. The whole scene was full of song and gran deur. The body is to lie in state for several days, the public being admitted for the future at eleven o'clock- The Metropolitan Chapter, which temporarily directs the affairs of the diocese of Paris, has issued a pastoral letter to the heads of the clergy, express ing its deep regret at the melancholy death of the Archbishop of Paris. The letter is followed by an ordonnance, containing five articles, pointing out the services which are to be daily performed in all the churches, and announcing the day fixed for the flinerel and the services which are to take place on that occasion. Verger, the assassin, is the son cf a tailor at Neuilly. He ewes his education to protectors who took an interest in him, from the disposition to learn which he showed while he was pupil at the commu nal school at Neuilly. Among those protectors was Mme. de Rochefort, better known by the name of Sister Ste. Melanie. As he at the same time showed great religious fervour his education was con tinued so as to enable him to eater holy orders, and he thus became a priest. Verger was of a very violent temper, and wherever he lived he quarrelled with those around him. Several times, in the com munes where he officiated, his parishioners rose against him. In addition to ideas against the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, he advocated the marriage of priests, and a number of writings ou both these questions have bees seized at his resi dence. It is positively stated that he published a few months since a pamphlet against Mgr. Sibour and the Metropolitan _Chapter, which was seized. He then applied to the Chamber of Appeals of the Correctional Police on the subject, which again condemned the work. It appears that on leaving the court on that occasion Verger exclaimed, " Clare a l'Archeveque I" This fact, if correct, would tend to prove that the assassin had given way t o ranco rous feelings of revenge, in committing the cr i me which has se painfully excited the inhabitants of Paris. Verger continues to display the same calm as he did in the execution of his crime and at the moment of his interrogatory. Ho relates with a sort of in difference and with great minuteness of detail his previous life, as well as his preparations for the death of the archbishop. He manifests no repent ance. A search made in the lodgings last occupied by Verger, in the house of his brother, a dealer in look ing-glasses, Rue de Seine St. Germain, has led to the discovery and seizure of numerous papers, all written by him, and displaying great facility of style ; one of them is a lar4e manuscript volume, l'A biJe Verger." entitled "Notes Sur - - A subscription has been opened in the city, at the Royal and Imperial Mail Steam Packet office, on behalf of the widows and orphans, altogether 40 in number, of tho captain, crew, &c., of the Ostend mail packet Violet, lost on Tuesday morning on the Goodwin Sands. Notwithstanding the payment of tcLe dividends there wa>, an activedewapd for money yesterday in the discoant - market, at rates slightly below those of the Bank of England. The advances to be reimbursed to that °stab. 1 , 8/Lment were extremely heavy, and the amounts falling due there during several days to come are believed to be very large. LAW INTELUGENCE.—Jan. 8. BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE THE ROYAL BRITISII BANK. A private meeting was held to-day under the bank ruptcy, the object being to discuss a great number of proofs on the part of shareholders, to prove as creditors against the estate. Mr. Mellish appeared in support of the claims ; and Mr. Browne (instructed by Messrs. Linklater) for the assignees, to oppose. The following are some of the articles in the indenture between the present directors and other subscribers and trustees which are important:— Clause 1. That the parties hereto associate to form a company called the " British Bank," and promote to the utmost its interests. They bind themselves to the articles contained, which are to constitute the fundamental articles of the company. Clause 2. The capital is to be 100,0001., in 1,000 shares of 1001. each, to be increased if required, by creation of new shares. The shares not subscribed for, and afterwards created, to be allotted according to the discretion of the court. The profits to be carried to the "reserved fund." No one to hold more than 600 shares unless acquired, Clause 22. Directors appointed for present year and to continue in office until Sept., 1850. Directors to nominate others as co-directors for above period. One-fourth at the least of the directors to retire at every annual general meeting, those retiring to be chosen by the court, but al ways outof those who have been longest in office. The ♦a cancies to be supplied by election of other shareholders. No retiring director to be re-elected for at least 12 months. Appointment of governor and deputy-governor and of the chairman. Clause 23. A director to hold ten shares ii his own right; no clerk, &c., of any other bank eligible as a director. The circumstances rendering the office of director vacant. Of relations, partners in trade, not more than one eligible for director. Clause 24. Directors to signify acceptance of office ; sub scribing declaration of secrecy tantamount to acceptance. Failing the performance of both these, offices to be declared vacant, and court to appoint another, who will stand in all respects as the one superseded. Clause 25. If conduct of director appears prejudicial to company, court at special meeting by majority of three fourths may remove director. Shareholders at general or extraordinary meeting by majorityof four-fifths in nusaber and value, present in person or proxy, may remove any director. Clause 29. Directors and others to faithfully discharge their several dudes, and observe secrecy on transactions of the company with their customers, and on the state of ac counts with individuals. Director to pledge himself not to make any revelation unless required to do so by the court or meeting, or court of law. Clause 30. Director or officer may resign on giving notice to the general manager. In the case of the general manager notice to be given to the court. Fourteen days' notice re quisite for a director, and three months for manager or other officer. Clause 31. Appointment of trustees; grants of land,dtc., made in their names. Appointment of William Cash and others as present trustees, who may be removed by the court. All purchases, Scc., in names of trustees, to be under control of the court • and all writings made in their name to be countersigned by general manager. The court's di rections obligatory on the trustees. Clause 32. Directors, trustees, and officers, held harmless from expenses in any proceeding at law or equity, except incurred by their own neglect ; such expense to be paid out of the assets of the company, and have a priority over all other claims, and be satisfied, in the first place, out of the " reserved fund." Each director and officer answerable for his own negligence only. Clause 33. The court to give credit on cash accounts, agreeably to the bye-laws made to regulate advances. No proprietor entitled as a right to demand a cash or other credit. No director or vote on any motion benefiting him self directly or indirectly, or become surety in any loan transaction. Clause 34. Power to invest capital not required for im mediate purposes. Clause 36. Books to be kept containing true, fair, and explicit entries of receipts, payments, transactions, deal ings, profits, gains, and losses ; also an account of the capi tal and moneys deposited with the company. Books to be balanced monthly, and statement published, fully mani festing the actual position of the company. No proprietor, unless a director or auditor, entitled to inspect the books, Ste., except those produced at any general meeting; nor any proprietor entitled in equity to a discovery thereof. Clause 44. General meeting of proprietors to be held in September yearly. Directors to be then elected as pro vided. Fourteen days' notice specifying business of the meeting to be given. No other than the specified business to be transacted. Clause 4J. Half yearly meeting may be held, notice and business as in last clause. If no half yearly meeting be held, a printed statement of the position of the company to be forwarded to each proprietor. In September every year a balance sheet, profit and loss account, and auditor's report to be sent to every proprietor. Clause 46. The court, or not less than nine proprietors holding collectively 21 shares, may require an extraordinary meeting to be called by requisition to general manager, stating object of meeting, who will appoint meeting within 21 days, giving 14 days' notice. Nothing transacted at such meeting to be binding unless ca,,firmed by a second general meeting, which is convened by chairmen of the Ent meeting upon notice of 14 days. Upon manager's re fusal to call meeting shareholders may call such meeting upon 14 days' notice. Clause 47. True balance sheet and report of profits apd accumulation of capital to be exhibited at every general meeting. Clause 48. The governor, deputy governor, or director to be chairman of extraordinary or general meeting. Chair man to have casting vote. Motion primarily decided by show of hands. Four shareholders may demand a poll. Proprietors entitled to vote as follow ; Holders of 4 and less than 10 shares, one vote ; 10 and less than 20, two votes ; 20 and less than 50, three votes ; 50 and upwards, four votes ; of above 100 shares, to have one additional vote for every 50 shares above 100 held. No shareholder to have more than fifteen votes ; and no one possessing less than four to vote. General manager to fur nish form of proxy to applicants, kc. Mr. Mellish appeared on behalf of a large body of new shareholders in support of their claim to prove for money had and received, for sums which had been received from them by the Royal British Bank, on the ground that those sums were obtained from them by fraud of directors and managers of the bank—that those shareholders never dis covered the fraud until after the bank had stopped, but, having discovered it, they said they were entitled to repu• diate those shares, and to claim the sums paid by them as money had and received. There was no doubt as to the general proposition of law, that if a contract was procured by fraudulent misrepresentation or by fraud, and money was paid under it, as soon as the party who had paid that money discovered the fraud, he had a right to elect to re cind that contract and recover the sum he had paid under it in an action for money had and received. And, of course, if entitled to recover in an action, he was equally entitled to prove for the amount in bankruptcy. The general state of the case was this :—The Royal British Bank was formed by a charter issued February 17, 1849, and by that charter the capital of the bank was fixed at 100,0001., divided into 1,000 shares of 1001. each, None of the parties he repre sented held any of the shares which formed the original capital, hat they held shares under the new charter, granted February 23, 1855. Prior to that time it was clear that the directors had no power, by the terms of the original charter, to increase the capital of the bank without obtaining another charter of the Crown for that purpose. It might be a serious question ultimately, in point of law, whether even the Crown h a d p o w er t o g i ve them the right to increase their capital, because the Joint- Stock Bank Act, 7 and 8 Vic., c. 112, had certain enact ments regarding the capital of the company which hal not been complied with in this case. The fifth section ran thus "Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any such company to commence business until all the shares have been subscribed for, and until the deed of partnership shall have been executed personally, or by some person duly authorised by warrant of attorney to execute the same, on behalf of such holder or holders being the holders all the shares in the said business, and until a sum of not le ss th an one -h a lf o f th e amount of each ghat e shall have been paid in respect of each such share : And it shall not be lawful for the company to repay any part of the sum so paid up without leave of the lords of the committee." The learned counsel then proceeded to argue that when the Crown issued tie new charter, the preliminaries required by this act were not complied with —lO per cept. of the capital was not paid up—and it was therefore a serious question whether the parties had be cone shareholders at all. But the main ground was fraudulent representation. It appeared from what had been published in the newspapers that Mr. Coleman was called in after the stoppage. Commissioner—You must state what you are going to prove. Mr. Mellish said he would call Mr. Coleman to prove the facts which he had set forth in his report. He should also rely on the evidence of the books of the bank. He pro posed to read the affidavits of several shareholders to show that they have been imposed upon by the representations of the directors of the bank. Mr. Brown said it was his duty, on behalf of the assignee s of the bank, to object to the course proposed. This was an important inquiry, involving proofs againtt the estate for no less a sum than 60,0002. ; and, as each case might stand upon different grounds, he must insist on viva voce exami nation in each case. He was not aware of any principle on which the shareholders could be classified. Mr. H. Mellish said he would begin with one case—that of Mr. Edwin Booth, surgeon, of Great Queen-street, Westminster. His Honour said he thought the case ought to be con- ducted as if they were at nisi prius trying an action for money had and received. Mr. Mellish was prepared to show that the directors had knowingly published false reprosantations with the view of inducing parties to take shares, and that they were so induced. This would be sufficient proof of the fraud. He would prove that tho directors had declared fictitious dividends—not dividends out of profit, but out of capital, and out of the deposits of the customers. He then road the affidavit of Mr. Booth. Mr. Brown objected to this, unless Mr. Booth was pre sent to be cross-examined. ----- Mr. Mellish said the case of Booth was this. He kept a drawing account at the Strand branch of the bank from Oct., 1850, down to the stoppage. He perused the reports periodically issued, especially one in liec., 1854, stating that the bank had 804,7931. on loan, on convertible secu rity, &c. Shortly after he called on the manager, and was by him induced to take shares as an eligible invest ment. In March, 1855, ho received a circular from the directors announcin g that a new charter had been granted , and th a t 300,0001. would lie added to ) the capital. He would prove that the representations in that circular, as to the amount of dividend, were false and fraudulent : at the very time the report was issued the bank had lost the whole of its subscribed capital and a large amount in addi tion; that the dividend of 6 per cent. had been paid out of capital and out of depositors' money, and that there really was no reservefund - of 10,0001. in existence. The directors, manager, solicitor, and chairman had bor rowed very large sums of the bank—over from 40,0001. to 71,000/., 'which in the aggregate exceeded the paid.ap capital, an d which the parties well knew they were unable to pay. And yet these were all treated as available assets, as were the bad debts due from Mr Oliver, of Liverpool, and from the holders of Welsh mines. It could not be doubted that at the time this report was issued they had lost so much that they could not go on without this additional capital, and that there was a scheme on the part of the di rectors to is duce new shareholders to come in. They must have know• a that if a fair and honest statement had been made not a single penny of the new capital of 300,000 1 . would hay a been subscribed. To obtain this capital it was necessary to misrepresent the affairs of the bank .Mr. Booth, af' ;er per using this circular, applied for Biz new shares, ar L ij had them allotted to him on March 17, paying a deposit of 10Z. on each share. The share certificates were lamed in June. On the 20th of that month Mr. Booth paid up the remainder of the money, 2401., and received front the bank certificates numbered from 2,642 to 2,647. It wa3 not until after the bank had stopped payment in Sep tember last that Mr. Booth became aware of the frauds that had been practised on him ; and on that ground he repudiated his being a shareholder. If any dividend had been received by Mr. Booth, credit would be given for that a mount—the contract being treated as null. The falsity of the reports and representations would be shown by the books of the bank ; and if this were done the charge would be proved against the whole of the directors who published the reports.. The learned gentleman then referred to the case of Burnes and Pennell (2d House of Lords' Cases, 497), where it was held that if the shareholder had been deluded by the representations of the directors, though not made immediately or directly to him, he was entitled to nec Tsr. In this case, as in that, directors had fictitiously raised the price of shares. He would prove that the direc tors wore constantly endeavouring to induce all parties with whom they came in contact, by these false and fraudulent representations, to take the new shares. After some discussion, during which it appeared that Mr. Booth was unable to attend to-day to give evidence, another new shareholder was called : William Nelson—l am a clerk, residing at Canter bury Villas. I opened an account at the Royal British Bank in March, 1854, and kept it there (at the Strand branch) until the bank stopped. I saw reports and balance-sheets of the bank. I saw them first when I opened a deposit account there. I saw them first through a friend, and of er wards from the Strand brauct. I asked for them, and they gave them to me on occasions when their bank meetings took place. I opened theaccount with the Strand branch with a view of taking shares. It was first mentioned to me by Mr. Davenport, a gentleman in the same office as myself. I received circulars, and that, in connection with what I was told, induced me to take new shares. Mr. Mellish said he could not find the circular. The witness said he had handed it to the solicitor. Mr. Brown would insist on the production of the cir cular if the witness was to proceed. The Cominis,ioner said there must be strict proof. The witness said he appended the circular to the letter which he sent to Mr. E. Field, or rather addressed to Messrs. Sharpe, Field, and Jackson. The circular was at length produced, and witness hav ing identified it said he received it from his friend Mr. Davenport. Mr. Brown said that all that was known of Mr. Da venport was that be was a gentleman in the same office with Mr. Nelson. That could not be received as evi dence. Commissioner—lt is printed, I suppose. Mr. Brown replied in the affirmative. Mr. Msllish—Then let ns hare the minute-book of March, 1E55. Mr. Brown—lt is not here. Commissioner—Notice should have been given for the production of all papers. Mr. Linklater—l brought all the books in my office. Commissioner—Where is the minute-book ? Search was made amid apile of books and papers. It was contended that it could not be expected that cartloads of books and papers were to be imported from the office of the official assignee to the court each time there was a meeting. A long pause was then made. It was evidently " war to the knife," neither party conceding a single inch. Mr. Brown alleged that the claim attempted to be proved was altogether of a novel character. Evidence resumed—l made application for the shares in March, 1855, in the usual printed form. It was after I received the circular. Mr. Linklater—l brought everything I have got from my office. Do you want all that are at the official as• signee's office I There are at least 20 cart loads. Commissioner—l suppose he is registered as a share holder ? Mr. Meilish—Oh, yes. Mr. Brown—We must have the application for shares as weil as the answer—the letter of allotment. I will lend no assistance in making out a claim of this kind. It will make a difference of 150,0001. to the estate. The question raised is novel and important. Mr. Mellish—lf we are put to strict proof we mutt give notice for the production of everything. Mr. Brown—Yon shall have any paper we have got. Mr. Mellish—l wish the Court would make an order that we should have access to the books, so that we might get up our case. It is the duty of the assignees to pro duce all books and papers. Mr. Brown—My friend will have access in or out of court to all the documents in our possession. Mr. Mellish—Have you got those documents Mr. Brown—We have an ocean of documents, and you will see any you are entitled to see. Mr. Mellish—Entitled to see ? Mr. Brown—Yes; any to which you would be entitled in an action at law. Commissioner—Don't yon think it is better they should have access to all the papers of the bank ! It was so arranged. Witness went on to say that he had paid in the first 201., and secondly 801. on the shares. Commissioner—Would it not be better to atop here. Let Mr. Field examine the company's papers and books, and see whether be has a case or not. If you can't bring home any fraud by one particular individual the remedy might be in equity. It may turn out that the fraud was committed on a body of people, but that a single case of fraud upon an individual could not be made out. After looking at the papers, Mr. Field will see whether he ought to proceed in this court or in equity. Mr. Linklater—We are to produce all books and pa pers that are needed to Mr. Field, but not to run riot through the books of the bank. Commissioner —What concerns each particular case. Mr. Brown—Bat not on a voyage of discovery—law and equity would stop that. Mr. Mellish—Law and equity would allow us to go through the books of the bank in order to make out our case. We want to show that the representations of the directors were false, and to show that through the books. Mr. Brown—We will show whatever can prove that the accounts published by the directors are false. Mr. Mellish—We must ask for an order of the Court. Commissioner—But you must not blow hot and cold —that you are not a shareholder, and that you are. Mr. Brown—l don't think there will be any difficulty. Mr. Linklater—There is a vast deal that it would be incorrect and unadvisable to publish. Mr. Field—We want all the papers which can go to establish our claim. Mr. Linklater—lf you want copies of them, you wi I have them in about a century. Commissioner —You had better come to some arrange ment as to the papers you want to see. Witness produced two certificates of the shares, set ting forth that the money had been paid. I completed the purchase of the shares before I obtained the certifi cates. That was after the Midsummer meeting of the shareholders. I attended the meeting before I signed the deed or paid the second instalment. I heard the report of the directors of the bank read at the meeting, and have got a copy of that report, but not here—it is at home. Mr. Mellish —Surely you can produce that report. It appeared in the newspapers of the day. Mr. Brown—l know nothing of it. Mr. Mellish—rs not this a copy of the report ? Mr. Brown—.l3e never saw that report before, and can't refresh his memory with that. Mr. Mellish —These are the objections with which we are met. Mr. Brown—You must prove your casein the ordinary wa M y. r. Mellish —You ought to admit all circulars, and all printed reports. Mr. Brown—Yes ; when I look at the minute-book, and find they correspond, but not till then. You prefer a charge of fraud against the directors. Mr. Mellish —Everybody knows that half yearly reports were made and published. Mr. Brown—Show me in the usual way what was done by the directors. Mr. Mellish —What do you mean by the usual way ! Mr. Brown—Show us by the minute-book that certain circulars or reports were issued. Mr. Mellish—You know the minute-book is not in oar custody. Mr. Brown—Then you should give us proper notice to produce it. Mr. Field—l must say this refusal is unprecedented. Mr. Brown—You ask us to give about 100,0001. from the creditors to certain shareholders. Mr. M e lli s h—We ask for justice and no more. Mr. Brown—Which we are willing you should have. Mr. Mellish—Let ns have Mr. Coleman to look through the books. Mr. Reed—No Mr. Coleman is tho accountant on behalf of the directors. _ Mr. Field—No ; Mr. Coleman is acting for the as- signees. Mr. Reed—Mr. Coleman did act for the directors, and I object now to this acting against them. Mr. Field—Then, some other accountant. Mr. Linklater—Very well. But we have no control over the clerks of the bank, who are under the control of the official manager. Commissioner—lt would be better if you would, with out going further, after inspecting the books of the company, see if you can't make out a case. Mr. Field—We must examine certain parties to get at the bottom of this case. We will still, I have no doubt, arrange the formal part. Commissioner—You ought to knew what your wit. nesses will prove, and so instruct your counsel that he may know what facts he is to elicit. Mr. Linklater—Hebas not made up his mind whether or not. Mr. Field—l want to know whether all these balance sheets and reports are lies or not. I fear there are very few of the directors to be found. Mr. Linklater—That is not the fact. Mr. Alderman s , nnedy was in court this morning, and, what is more, paid 501. per share ; and if everybody else did the same there would be soon considerable as.ets. Mr. Field—But where is Mr. Cameron—where is Mr. Mac4regor Commissioner—y o u can have summonses for what ever witnesses you want to summon. Mr. Field—We can appoint a day now. Mr. Linklater—You will have weeks of work before you can fix a day. Mr. Field—l do not come to Mr. Linklater for in structions as to what I have to do. Mr. Linklater—la;;i;rini;ou all the facilities to which you are entitled, and more. You can go to the vaults of the bank and stay there till you are ready to come back again. Mr. Field—We now clearly see what you are at, and how we are to be treated. Mr. Linklater—You are, and you shall be, treated with justice and with probity. If you wish to name a day now, or rather have one named, I will not oppose it; but I think it very unadvisable to bring parties here when you are not ready. • Commissioner—Will Monday week do? Mr. Field—We must Gave summonses for the bank clerl Commissioner--If you establish one case, you can use the evidence in that for other cases of a similar kind. Mr. Linklater—There is no objection whatever to that courie. Commissioner—Let the meeting be fixed for Monday week, at 11 o'clock, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, Jan. 8. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Willes.) John Compton, 23, a genteel-looking young man, who was described as a shoemaker, bat who, it appeared, was a constable in the D division of police, was indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of John Lee Benham, and stealing money to the amount of 361., his property. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Treasury ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Sleigh. The following evidence was adduced : Mr. John Lee Benham deposed that he carried on the business of an ironmonger with two partners i❑ Wigrnore-street, and a portio❑ of the premises was in Weibeck-street. In December last he was about to have a house in Welbeck-street thrown into his pre mises, and labourers were engaged for that purpose on the 10th of December, and a communication had been opened between the new house and the premises that were occupied by witness. Witness and his family and servants went to bed at about 11 o'clock at night on the 10th of December, and the premises were all at that time properly secured. About 4 o'clock on the follow ing morning he was awoke by a ringing at his bell, and he looked out of the window and saw a policeman, who turned out to be the prisoner, and on his going down stairs he found the Welbeck-street door open, and the prisoner standing outside in his uniform. As he was going down stairs he heard the prisoner say to another policeman, who was with him, " Don't leave, or I'll ro)ort you." Witness and the prisoner then went down to the basement, and found a basket belonging to one of the workmen on the floor, and he took possession of it, and the prisoner carried the basket and went up an un finished staircase, which rather excited witness's suspi cion. This staircase communicated with the new pre mises in Welbeck-street. Witness and the prisoner looked over the house, but he did not at the time discover that anything had been stolen, and he made an observa tion to that effect to the prisoner, and he was about to show the prisoner out, when he suggested that they should look in a small counting-house, where there was a desk that belonged to his son. Upon examining this desk it had evidently been disturbed, but as witness was not at that time aware that any money was kept in it he repeated that nothing was gone, and the prisoner then called his attention to a diawer that had evidently been broken open, and also to two empty portmonnaies that were lying o❑ a chair. Witness did not direct the pri- soner to any of the places that he examined, but he went to them of his own accord. Witness thought at this time that a small sum of money only had bee❑ taken from the drawers, and he went with the prisoner to the door, where the other policeman was waiting, and they went away. He afterwards ascertained that the pre mises had been entered by a window that abutted upon a mews at the back of Welheck-street. Thomas Knight, a sergeant of the D division, said, on the morning of the 11th Dec. he was engaged in look ing after the men on their beats, and he saw the prisoner about one o'clock, and he saw nothing more of him until a few minutes before 3, when he asked him for a penny for the widow of a late constable. The whole of the force usually subscribed a penny in such cases. Tie prisoner said he did not think he had a penny, but he afterwards pulled oce from his coat pockets, and at the same said he was not short of a shilling either, and he pulled out a pocket-book, and witness saw that it was full of large silver. Witness observed that he had plenty of money, and the prisoner asked him if he would have half-a-crown to drink his health. Witness told him he did not want his money, and was about t• walk away when the prisoner dropped half-a.-crown into his pocket, and he took it out and threw it on the pavement, and asked him why he took such a liberty with him as to put the money into his pocket, and he ought to report him for it ; he at the same time ordered the pri soner to leave his beat at 4 o'clock, and go to the station on reserve. He saw the prisoner at Mr. Benham's house about 4 o'clock, with his lamp on, and he repeated his or lers to go is the station, and he said he bad foand a door open, and witness ordered him to arouse the inmates and bring the report to him at the station as soon as he could. The prisoner did not get to the station till just before 5 o'clock, and he was in a very confused and excited state, and, in answer to inquiries witness made of him, he said that Mr. Benham's house had been entered, and that some drawers had been broken open, and also a cashbox. He was very con fused, and appeared hardly able to stand ; and witness took him before the inspector, to whom he repeated the statement he had made before. Witnebs was this about to leave the station, and the prisoner followed him. He went home, and about 9 o'clock, in conse quence of some information he received, he went, in company with Inspector Mackrell, to the prisoner's lodging in Little Weymouth-street, He was not at home at the time, but he came in in about five minutes, and Mr. Mackrell told him that a bur glary had been committed on Mr. Benham's, and that he was suspected, and that he had come to search the lodgings. The prisoner said he had no money but what he worked hard for, and that he and his wife had a severe quarrel, and that he took out all the money with him. The inspector was about to search him, when the prisoner pulled out the p , cketeook witness had seen during the night. There was then a , silver in it, but the prisoner said it con tained a 51. note, and a note for that amount was found in it. Witness a-ked him what he had done with all the silver he saw at 3 o'clock, and he said he had changed it for Si. note at Mr. Carruthers' publichouse, in Buis trode-street. Ten shillings in silver were found in the prisoner's trousers pock , -t, and witness saw Mr. Mack rell find three pawnbrokers' duplicates in the prisoner's room. The prisoner was then taken to the police sta tion, and remained in the inspector's room the whole of that day. On the following morning the prisoner was taken to the police court, and as they were g,,ing along he saw the wife of a constable looking out of a window, and he swung up his hands towards her and said, " All serene, old girl, I'll get over this all right." Witness said to him, " Don't be too sanguine, Compton ; there is more against you than you expect." He replied, " You have not found that gold, Knight ; that licked you." The prisoner's pay was 18s. 71d. per week, and he also worked at his trade as a shoemaker, but his duty as a policeman would not allow him to do much. Mr. Sleigh, at the close of the case for the prosecu tion, made a very earnest address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Baron Martin having summed up the whole of the evidence with great care and impartiality, The jury r -tired to consider their verdict, and in a few minutes they returned into court and tumid the pri goner Guilty. The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said he entirely concurred in the verdict of the jury, and be thought there could be no doubt in the mind of any one who had heard the evidence that the prisoner, and no other per son had committed the burglary, and the fact that he had never attempted to give any explanation how he became possessed of the money that was seen upon him appeared to him to be alone quite con clusive of the fact. Under what circumstances, then, was the crime committed ? He was a man paid by the public to protect them, and they were heavily taxed to pay such men as he, and they had a right at least to expect to receive that protection ; but when they found such a man actually committing plunder on those whom it was his duty to protect it was a very heinous offence indeed and if the capital punishment had not been abolished he would most assuredly have been executed. The law looked upon the crime of burglary under any circumstances with abhorence, and the hours during which the offence could alone he committed— namely, between 9 at night and 6in the morning— showed that the intention of the law was to protect peo ple from being disturbed in their beds by acts of this de• scription, and when the crime was committed by a person in the position of the prisoner it was of the most aggra vated character, and he therefore felt bound to inflict on him the full punishment, which was that he be trans ported fur life. NEW COURT. W. Gallicher was indicted, upon the coroner's war rant, for the manslaughter of Harpen Elderton. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. C. Stannard, 33, butcher, was indicted for the man slaughter of Sarah Tydernan. It appeared that prisoner, who was a cabdriver, had upon the evening of the 21st of Dec. taken up the de ceased and her sister at King's Cross, to convey them to the Marble Arch. He was, it appeared, at that time drunk, and drove them very unsteadily until he came to the Regent's -park, when he inquired his way. Having done so he then flogged his horse into a violent gallop, and drove it into a cab that was coming in an opposite direction with such force that he was thrown from the box. The horse, which was much frightened, kept on its course and ran on to the pole of an omnibus that was advancing. The pole struck the unhappy woman on the chest with such force that her spine was dislocated, and she died almost directly. The jury found him guilty. Ir. Justice Willes said that the case was a very bad one, and if passed lightly over would be productive of great public danger ; therefore, for the sake of example and safety, he could not pass a milder sentence than 12 months' imprisonthent. HOLLAND AND JAPAN.—The following details relative to the relations of Holland with Japan are given by the Annales du Commerce Exterieur :—" The Minister of the Colonies bas admitted the necessity of subjecting the co lonial tariffs to a revision, sr.d will proceed gradually to that result by modifying the export-dutie s . Th e Emperor of Japan, feeling. that he cannot maintain against foreign commerce his traditional system of exclu sion, has requested advice from the Dutch Government, He has also called for its co-operation in creating a navy ou the European system, and in obtaining instruction in naval architecture, the military art, mechanics, com merce, and manufactures. The Dutch Government has seen in this request an opportunity for extend ing its relations with the empire of Japan, and at the same time for promoting g enera l interests. A steamer of 20 guns will be sent to Desitna in the course of Janu _ Janu ary. The Dutch comme rce w i th Japan has been hitherto in the hands of the monopolists. The government has thought it necessary to do away with this sys t em , and take the trade int o it s own hands by paying to the pre sent holders of this monopoly an indemnity of 300,000 florins (21. 12c. each)." - BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 3d day of January, 1857 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 10,960 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,233 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G. and T. Copeman Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 31,567 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke — Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank. Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons 31,983 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—B.. M. and G. Tubb 13,944 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 22,979 ' Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons 9,315 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. 6,320 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 71,015 Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co 14,792 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co 31,778 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank. Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son 29,757 Bath City Bank, Bath- -G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co . 33,242 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds 27,581 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 61,224 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, 31,393 9,062 17,344 23,464 _ and Borrer • Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St.. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— 19,080 11,385 J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock & Co. Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam- 2,853 16,046 bridge - -Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and 47,811 Co - Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Promage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devanport Bank. Devonport— Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams Fast Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham - Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen .• Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon.. Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— 30,300 21,513 2,330 16,955 33,818 45,180 6,983 19,301 69,267 9,111 10,495 35,684 25,369 8,899 10,285 70,703 80,680 8,290 45,745 94,369 47,952 42,641 23,515 7,835 11,182 5,629 4,551 Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Wordbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexander ; and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstue—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co. •• Leeds Union Bank, Leed•a— W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and Co. Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst 37,040 13,535 and Co. Manningtree--Nunn and Manningtree Bank, Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co 15,459 Newark Bank, Newark —Godfrey and Riddell 26,552 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, 13,903 2,20?? 7,638 17,647 28,380 and Co................................................ Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham. mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich Gur neys and Birkbeck ....... Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bnk, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and C0............ .". . Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton — Craddock and Co. r e t Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth--Harris and Co. ............................. Bank, Nottingham—Samuel S ammE—.t............ d Nottingham Nevi Sarum Bank, and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robin Parsons, and Co . ..................... son, Old Bank, Tonbridge, Ton . bri - dg - e . ......... .. ;I : On - - bridge Wells Old Bank, To • nbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney-4. W. Clinch and Co. .......................... Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and C 0.... Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and C 0.... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, H a verfordwest—J. and W. Walters ......... ........ ................. Reading Bank, Reading—Sim onds and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Co d Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co Richmond Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds, and C 0............................. . ............ Rochester, Chatham, anStrood , Roche ter —Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Pomfret, & Co Ross Old Bank, Heredfordshire, Ross Allaway and Macdougal Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf- 50,857 20,280 19,857 60,096 95,427 10,791 3,307 17,660 8,414 30,765 12,552 30,230 8,767 fron Walden--Gibson and Co 10,811 47,075 10,650 8,917 12,763 29,010 28,529 6,230 3,751 7,242 13,414 7,780 13,740 4,050 Country Markets. DERBY SMITHFIELD.-JAN. 6. There was a short supply of fat beasts tc ...day, which sold readily. Sheep was also scarce, realising high prices. The supply of fat pigs was about the average. Fat calves were few. The following were the quotations I—Beef, 6d to 60; mutton, 7d to 74d ; lamb, —d to Od ; veal, 7d tc 8d per lb. ; pigs, IN 6d to Us Od per score ; rough fat, 5s 6(i to to per 141 b. ; hides, 4id to 6 1 d per lb ; calf-skins, 4id to. 60 per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN.-JAN. 7. A fair supply of grain in the market to-day. A good demand for all kinds, and prices a shade better. Wheat, on the top, 3s down, and on the averagf, Os 5(1 up. Barley, is 6d up on the top, and Ild up on the average. Oats on the top is Od np—on the aver age 5d up. Beans on the top 4s Gd up, and on the Average 9d up. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat .£2 2 9 9-12111. Do. new -121th. Barley Oats Beans -121ths. BOSTON-JAN. 7. We had a good attendance at market to-day, and a fair supply of all kinds of grain. The wheat trade ruled firm, at last week's prices ; but all attempts on the part of the growers to obtain an advance were effectually resisted by the dealers. Spring corn unchanged. Prices :—Wheat, red, 49s Od to 61s Od; new, —ate —a ; white, 603 Od to 63s Od extra, 665. Barley, 38s Od to 45s Od. Oat , 18s to 265. Peas, 36 to 40. s Od Beans, 37a Od to 46s Od per qr. NEWARK—Jem. 7. At our corn exchange to-day we had a good supply of grain of all descriptions, and a full attendance of farmers. Wheat and barley met a ready sale at late prices. The same may be said of other articles. Wheat, white 64s to 68s, red 603 to 635; barley, malting 46s to 50s, grinding 40s to 425; oats, 24st. 34s to 375, 223 t, Es to 303; beans, 52s to 54s ; malt, 75s to 801 ; peas, 38s to tOs ; tares, 503 to 51s per qr. LOUTH-JAN. 7. The corn market was firm to-day, and the last week's prices for all descriptions were fully maintained, and in some instances is advance in wheat. Oats and barley rather dearer. Wheat, red 54s to 58s, extra 608; barley 448 to 47e; mktg. 24s to 265; beans 42s to 45s per qr. LOCAL SHARE MARKET'S. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8. :MOE EXCHANGE.—The market continties dull, and closed easily. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 971—Grand Trunk of Canada, 134—Caledonian, 31I—Chester and Holyhead, 19 i—London and North Western, 10613 — Midland, 821 —North Western, 7f—Dutch Rhenish, p. Eastern Counties, 81. 16s. 3d. South Eastern, —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 34$ Great Western of Canada, 24i—do. New, 2i p.—North Union A, 237. MANCHESTER, J . A.X. 8. 1 1 , STOOK EXOHANGE.—There was a fair amount o f bug: ness, but the market did not close so strong as it boa opened. Great Northern A, 9i—Sheffields, 34 4---D u verer, 22 9-16—Midland, 83—Blackburns, 84—Grand Trunk 01 , Canada, 13i —She ffi eld 6L Pref ., 11-16 p—Peston an°, Wyre, 414—East Lancashire, 23 3 — Shro p shire U n i on , 3 r ; North Western, 71—Leeds, 971—Londons, 1061. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 8. STOOK EXOHANGE.—The market was steady to-clay, and prices were firm. London and North Westerns were don' at 107—Eighths, 13s. 9d. dis.—N o rth &affords, 124- - ' Chester and Holyheads, 38. LEEDS, JAN. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—South-Eastern and Dover, 22e, Midlands, 83; —North-Western, 71. 16s. 3d. SEABORNE MAILS. [When the date for making up a mail falls on a Sunday, the 17 20 , remains open until the day following; except in the ease of the Ind' , ; mail, via Southampton, which, on such occasions, is made up evening previous.] Fos 'nowt .., Made up at Whence the des- B y what When By Ifni Post Office. patched. Vessel. ex p ected ; VW.' ......0 0° Lisbon,. • • • •----- 1 7fa,l7th, & Spain South- Alham- lan. 14 Madri a nth of Gibraltar ampton bra Gibraltar 1 M alts • . • • Egypt I 4th & 20th 4th and South- • • r India Mauritius month. iviaCeylon) . China South- ........ Jan. 4.. IMO Penang .. •• iM the ampton Singapore A ustralia(via jM J 12 South- CO'um- 11 1 ) 04 the Cape) • . an. . i ,_ ' ampton bian n ' 31 Libn / Cape of Good Hope .. •• Mauritius Dart- Ceylon India Lisbon , Madeira CapedeVerds Br aztl . nuenosAyres ampton Falkland Is- lands West Indies t (except Ha vana and Honduras). Id Ist and and 17th Venezu , -la - ' 16th of M of the 1 0 Grey Town ampton OrioOct the La month. New Granada month. Chili Peru California 16th of .40 Honduras • • i vg Jan. 17 .. / ampton Orinoco the LS A - IS assau .. month. Mexico .. - South- Feb. 1 M S° Feb. 2.• .. Havana Madeira Tenerlffe I E Jan. 23 ..}. Pl y . Gambia Feb 6 I:- +h{ ° e mouth W.C.oi Africa British North Liver ri.} America United States pool United States I fan. 6 and British North E alternate Liver- Atlantic 'Jan. lb $ 5lO A merica United States British North M Jan. 14 ..} 144 South- Aram . Jan 23. F America Canada I E Jan. 27 . Jan. ~Angle • pool Saxon —' SO, Liver- Anglo- M-Morning. E-Evening. [ADVERTISSWEET. 1 BIGHT AND H EARING SFROTECSoIomon,0 101 POWERFUL TELESC•PES, OPERA, R ACE, AND Psitsrs c 3 " Gtasszs.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomon, opticians, 39, A 1,,, S°4 marie-street, Piccadilly. Obser ve — oppos i te t h e York il°4 By leer Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable ; 0 1 extraordinary improvements in the most powerful e f# brilliant Tel escopes, C amp, Racecourse, Opera, an d r spective Glasses, to know the distances. These tele: 4 lo possess such ext r ao r di nary powers that-some three and 9 ,„ 1 /0 inches, with an extra ey e -pie ce , lo show distinctly Ju_ l :4o moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the Ino telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles sv of half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They 0 . 0 1 - 0 0 larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.-- - 1.4 Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very sTlo powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by 1 P:of a person can be seen and known 1 miles distant ; they anoL, every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera lisu i 7 o , country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at Bto 10 sfl They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachtilt m sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. UP'"" rsce-conrse, camp, and perspective glasses, with wondt;p p ow er. Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the 07 4 i_ j est transparent power. The valuable advantage del'A from this invention is, th a t v i s i on becoming impsir°-00 preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons 00 enabled to employ their sight at the most minute o c i ff. pation—can see with these lenses of a much less marld ing power—and they do not require the frequent cling, to the dangerou s e ff ects of further powerful asaistsflA Persons can be suit e d at the most remote part of the WlOO by sending one of the glasses out of their spectacles l e d letter, and stati ng the distance from the eyes they can I. if. small newspaper print with it; and those who 11 :,,f , not made use of spectacles by stating their age. ness. New Discovery. The Organic Vibrator, an fof traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrumen t deafness, entirely different from all others, to 'turps** j ps' thing of the ki n d th a t h as b een, or pro b a bl y ever can d , produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not 1 eeptible ; it enables deaf p ersons t o h ear -distinetty at 0/1 0 1 and at public asse m bli es ; th e un plea sa nt sensation of einy T , b . noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all ~ , Rr s e i se t t a : i p c i e c cat hd a i llt y .p oso g ib tco : _ teldo pb ep os( i l t e e s it r edh e y .— ork 39, ri A . l utir BIRTHX; OF A BON. On the 7th inst., at Springfield House, Weybricie surrey, Mrs. Eiger Stephenson. On the sth inst., at Fulham, Mrs. Edward Inman. OP A DAUGHTER. On the Bth inst., at Canonbury-park, Islington, l l° Alfred Lamb. ig a# On the 4th inst., the wife of Thomas J. Hooper, 0 1 tor, Biggleswade, Beds. MARRIED. It o , On the Bth inst., at St. James's Catholic Church, cheater-square, William, only son of William Sills, Ale of Hinckley, Leicest e r s hi re , to Ellen Adele , second dal), ter of Commissary -General Sir Randolph ' Tatum Roll K.C.8., &c., of 19, Dorset-square. on the 7th inst., at St. Michael's, Stock we ll, Adll 4 , youngest son of the late G. Daintrey, Esq., of p e two ot Sussex, to Ellen Maria, eldest daught er o f G eo. A Y IW I Esq., f Loughborough-road, Brixton. D I PJ D. On the 7th inst., at Summerlands, Exeter, Geo o f Granville Kekewich, Esq., Judge of the Cointy Courts Cornwall, aged 55. On the Bth inst., at 5, Wbitebead's-grove, Chelsea, Struthers, Esq., aged 87. On the 7th inst., at Bedwelty House, Trodegar fon Works, S.W., James Bramwell, Esq., late of Royal change-buildings, London, aged 35. r• On the 6th in s t., a t P lea Heel, Carmarthenshire, 3101 0 General Thomas Samuel Trafford. On the 7th inst., Mr. Wm. Hailes, of Merton, Surr ey late of Netvgate-market, aged 84. On the 7th inst., at the house of John Aird, Esrl,,tt c 0 Lee, Wm. Mon ro , E sq., of Elgin, Secol a nd, many 91 engineer to-the Phoenix Gas Company, in London, 140 6S. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, ' t ; 112, St ran d, i n th e P re cinct of th e S avoy , i n t h e e: 0 of Middlesex, Fri , lay, 'January 9, 1867. 28,718 32, 709 15,744 20,028 52,459 5,143 31,116 20,042 20,896 62,536 13,545 25,191 20,693 40,365 8,600 5,335 52,490 37,511 30,012 26,14$ 89,568 23,688 7,199 3,206 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9 1 1857.