The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

MPERIA lAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(YEsTERDAy.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at 5 o'clock. Lord DUNGANNON gave notice of his intention to move for a copy of the depositions in the case of an assault adjudicated upon by the Justices of Kilkenny, and in which certain persons connected with the Irish Church Mission were complainants, and James Ryan was defendant. BREACHES OF TRUSTS. Lord ST. LEONARDS" inquired whether it was the intention of Government early next session to bring in a bill to render persons guilty of a breach of trust crimi nally,liable. The noble lord said the law as it at present stood rendered it necessary that a measure of this nature should be speedily passed, in order that the evils at pre sent existing might be remedied, and narrated several cases that had occurred, in which numbers of widows and orphans had lost the whole of their property through the improper conduct of certain persons who bad been appointed their trustees. The LORD CHANCELLOR said a bill had been already prepared by the Government on the subject, and it would be brought in immediately upon the as sembling of the new Parliament, but it was only to inest the cases of trustees who had been criminally guilty for their own benefit. There was great difficulty in the case. Lord ST. LEONARDS said, such being the case, he should bring in a bill as a pendant to the bill of the Go vernment to protect trustees who had properly per formed their duty. , CHINA. In reply to a question from the Earl of HARDWICKE, relative to the production of the papers connected with the war in China, Earl GRANVILLE said if the noble earl had been in his place when the noble earl the Secretary for Foreign Affairs had last addressed the house, he would have heard that there was no objection to produce the papers alluded to. The noble earl seemed to think that Sir J. Bowring was to blame for everything that bad occurred in China, but he did not think that Sir J. Bowring was at all to blame for the naval operations that had taken place. He was prepared to assert that both Sir J. Bo wring and Admi ral Seymour had acted with the greatest judgment, and had conducted the operations with prudence ever since the commencement of the war. Earl GREY said so far from concurring in the opinion of the Ministry, be was convinced that the war was most imprudently begun, with means which were ineffectual, and now having committed great , cruelties they were reduced to a most ignominious state of defence, which was neither likely to do honotir to the kingdom nor our arms. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said Sir J. Bowr ing ought to have known that Hong Kong was depen dent on the individual character of the Chinese, and he ought to have taken steps or abstained accordingly. Earl GRANVILLE again referred to the previous operations against China, reiterated his opinion that it was not fair to put upon Sir J. Bowring the whole of the odium of this affair. His duty was to consult with the Admiral, and as he found aat a small ope• ration had been successful in obtaining a great result, he was justified in supposing that the force there was quite sufficient to justify him in ad vising the Admiral, as he had done, at all events to sanc tion his proceedings ; and the mere circumstance of the measures they had taken having met with considerable resistance ought not to be urged against him. Earl DERBY said this was net the first time that Sir J. Bowring had made a fatal mistake, and he must be prepared to take the re=sponsibility of his aetions. Lord PA.NMETRE contended that Admiral Ssyrneur had done everything that was possible for bim to accom plish in the Canton river. The Emperor of China had sent instructions to the officers of the other four ports to preserve ainieahle relations with the British, leaving the authorities at Canters to settle their disagreements with this country themselves. The Earl of ELLENBORO LTG Q said that there was no charge whatever against Admiral Seymour far the conduct of the operations ; but the whole of the b:ame rested with Sr J. Bowring, who had ordered the opera ions to take place. After some further desultory conversation, the discus sion was broailt to a class. PRIVATE BITSTNES - 3. On the motion of L'ird REDESDALE, the standing orders were di-pensed with in the case o Rite Corn wall Railway, Plice's Pa•ent Candle Company Bill, and the White,i,aven and Cieator Railway CiAnpany Bill, and the tills were read a second time. The,edstoms Duties Btll, the Racehorse Doty and A , - sesnuent Bid, Cinque Ports Aat Amendment Bill, and Pauper Maintena. ce A( it Bill were read a second time and ordered to be committed. The Camaii-sionen of Supply (3cotllnd) B It was read a third time and passed. The Income Tax B il, the Indemnity Bill, the Copy hold and Enclosure Commission Bill, Eoura-Parochial Place, and the Ecclesiastical Julie liction Bill pa4sed through committee without amendment, and were ordered t.• he report.O. Visc,,unt DUNGANNON inquired whether the sys tem gt at.ttug tickw's of leave t convicts was for the su,pindtd until s one means of dispoAn LI them ±,y transpottation otherwi s e shoul I hav e been g laid be foie Partiament by her Nije4tv'. G.veronient 'lle Earl of lI.A.WtOWBY was understood to say ti at tickets of leave would oury la, given to a vet , . few cz;nvicts who were (miler sente,.ce, and wild) respec., to whom favoerai.de reports had been received by the cerement. WAR WITH . CHINA. , Tae Marquis of INRICAIfDE inquired of the Secretary of State f.,r War what pay awl alio wane is the :fl5 e.rs end Aid hers about to br sent t ) China were t receive, and also inqured whetle.-r the noble I)rd would have any olie.ction to lay upon the table of the house a I e:trarate or return showing the cooparative c,.st of the BritAtt regiments servjto in the Persian Gulf and upon the coast of Cnioa? Ha undentood that the troops sent to China were not_ ko receive the carne pay ai the troops serving in the Perdan Gulf, and he could not tic demand why such diff,rence stsould exist Something had been sail about camp followers. He could not see the utility of camp fillowers at all. Lord PANSIURE said that a difference did exist. Those troops sent from this coati - try would not receive the same pay as those in the service of the East India Company. The troops would receive the usual pay, while the rations would be increased. There was by the regu laticns an allowance, called the extraordinary fiel r allow ance, which officers received preparati,ry to taking the field. The officers of this expedition would receive s x months' advance by that extraordinary field allowance, which would enable them to prepitte for taking the &Li. On the arrival of troops in Hong Kong, there was in the Mauritius and Ceylon the colonial allowance, and the officers of the expedition woad be placed in the same position with regard to that colonial allowance as the officers already in the colony. He had no objection to produce the papers required. In this expedition, while every attention would be paid to economy, every atten tion would at the same time be paid to the health of the troops and the maintenance of their efficiency, and for that purpose the Government had resolved, as the troops would land in China in the hot season, to attach to those troops camp-followers frbm India, and Gen. Ashburn ham had been applied to to use his experience in getting those carnp•fellowers. There would be a sanitary estab lishment at Penang for the sick of the army, who would be removed thereto by steam vessels provided for that purpose, and every precaution would be taken to prevent those evils which were felt in the last Chinese war. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH did not think the colony ought to be saddled with the additional colonial allowances to those officers. Lord PANMURE said that would not.be; the ailow anee would be made by this country. Toe Earl of ELLENBOROUGH explained what was meant by camp-followers. They were coolies, and per sons who carried water and other valuable labourers. With regard to increasing the rations of the troops, he wou!d remind the noble earl from experience that the worst thing a man could do in these hot climates was to eat much. The less a person had to eat the better, and the noble lord would find that in India he could not eat such a dinner as he could here. He thought the officers of this expedition would have to incur great expenses in fitting out. They were not going to garrison, but to war. Therefore, if any peculiar indulgence were extended to them, consistent with principle, and which would not be creating an inconvenient precedent, he thought it would be moat desirable to extend that indulgence. Allusion the other night was made to the relations between this country and France, and the noble lord opposite ex pressed his satisfaction that the troops of France would co-operate with ours. He (the Earl of Ellenborough) presumed the noble lord meant force, because no French troops had been sent. He (the Earl of Eileaborough) would deeply regret such co-operation. France had no to n a l erel with China ; indeed we had no qua'rel with nClissitii_rTeereuareel was with the Cantonese and Corn e b. Et would be a deplorable thing to in clude the other fr ports. He desired peace, and the re-establishment of parts' He did not desire to extort now terms from the Empero r of China. He would sus_ gest to the Government the propriety of sending out 4n mediate peremptory orde rs to flushire to fiirward from thence the additional force which had been sent there which was not now ht be a requ bsolired, on to Chin a . The presence of that force mig utely required at S in and Hong Kong. ga ore The order could reach Bushiraenoi:ohear month, and the troops might be at Hong Kong in month ; so that six weeks would be saved, as the troops sent from this country would be three months and a half before they arrived. Lord PANMURE, with reference to the increase in the rations, raid the increase meant that they would he more diversifi e d, so as to b e word conducivethe health of the troops, Earl GREY hoped we were not go ing , to enThark in that most fat a l measure—an invasion of the great Em pire of China. He trusted that her Majesty's Govern went bad some clear and definite object before them e because as yet no such object was known to the house. What did we want with China ? Our interest with China was simply to carryon onr trade. If we embarked in It war with China, every Woe, we inflicted would recoil upon ourselves. If we laid waste the t..wns of China, we should only render the Chinese worse customers to us. If we were to attempt an- invasion of China, we should take a stop fatal to the interests of the country. The subject then dropped. On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, The house adjourned at halt-past six to twelve o'clock this day (Wednesday). HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTERDAY.) The &TAXER took the Chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. The following eill3 were read a second time and or- rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY-. dered to be committed :—Birkenhead District Gas and Water ; West London and Crystal Palace Railway. PETTY SESSION (IRELAND) BILL. The order of the day for the second read- g of the Petty Session (Ireland) Bill was read and discharged. GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Mr. BOWYER, the order for the second reading of the Grand Juries (Ire , at.d) Bill, Sxed for to-morrow, was ordered to be discharged. CLIFFORD'S PLAN OF LOWERING BOATS. In reply to a question from Admiral WALCOTT, Admiral BERKELEY said that the vessels employed in transporting ships to China bad been furnished with Clifford's boat lowering gear. • Every trial of it had answered so well that he hoped before long it would be adopted throughout the service. SIR J. M'NEILL AND COL. TULLOCH. Lord CASTLEROSSE appeared at the bar of the house with her Majesty's gracious reply to the address praying for some special mark of favour to be conferred on Sir J. WNeill and Col. Tulloch, which he read as follows :—" I have received your address praying that some special mark of approbation should be conferred on Sir J. M'Neill and Col. Tulloch in consideration of their able services rendered by them as Commissioners in the Crimea, and having taken the same into considera tion I have given directions for this purpose. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. Mr. BOWYER called the attention of the Home Se cretary to the decision in the House of Lords yesterday in the case of Gray and another v. PiPi erson , and aft er entering into the particulars of that decision in reference to the decision by the majority of the judges, he asked if it were the intention of the Government a t an ear l y period of next session for the improvement of the appel late jurisdiction of the House of Lords. Sir G. GREY said he knew nothing of the case re ferred to, and so far as the Government was concerned he did not think the hon. member's explanation of the facts of the case had been sufficient to require the inter ference of the Government with the appellate jurisdic tion of the House of Lords. THE CASE OF HONORA BROSNAHAN. Mr. H. HERBERT asked the President of the Poor Law Board whether his attention had been called to the circumstances of the removal of a female pauper, named Honora Brosnahan, and her children, from the Holborn Union to Ireland ; whether he had reason to believe that the said Honora Brosaahan's husband was born in England • and whether any reme d y ex i ste d b y the present law for the injustice inflicted on the woman herself, and ou the Tralee Union in Ireland, to whick she had been removed. Mr. BOUVERIE said that he had made inquiry re lative to this case, and the result was that the woman was the wife of a man who had been a policeman and had deserted her. She became chargeable to the Holborn Union, and on inquiry it could not be proved that the husband had a settlement in this country, and as the clause of irremovability did not apply to her case, she was re moved to Ireland in accordance with her wish. PROSECUTION FEES. In reply to a question from Mr. MOODY, Sir G. GREY said that no uniform table of fees bad been prepared under the 14 and 15 Viet. providing for the expenses of prosecutions. T a bl es of fees were now being acted on in several counties. As the hon. member had not given him notice of the question, he was unable then to state any particulars in reference to it. THE WINE DUTIES. Mr. OLIVEIRA. withdrew his notice relative to the wine duties, but stated that, if he had a seat in the new Parliament, he should renew it at an early period of the session. . THE LAND TRANSPORT CORPS COMMITTEE. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE withdrew his motion for naming a committee in reference to the grievances complained of bythfr members of the Land Transport Corp. H e un derstood the complaints of the ccrps were now under the consideration of the War-office, and if it was not amicably arranged he should rene.v his motion next session, if Le then had a scat in the house. THE SOUND DUES. Mr. B. MOORE called the attention of the house to the Sound dues, and asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer if a treaty bad been signed to capitalise tboae due-, and indemnify Danmark for giving up her reputed rights,• and if it were the intention of her Majesty's Go vernment that such treaty should be acted upon before Parliament had voted the moor-y for such object. Mr. LIDDELL called attention t the Chancellar of the Exchequer's statement that the treaty included the redemption of feur-Sffhe of the transit dues, and asked it it really was so, and why the whole amount of the dues had not been redeemed ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that on the 14th of the month two treaties were siened at C 'penbagen. One between Denmark, Russia, Prussia, France, and Great Britain, and other States containing stipulations common to those countrie.. The second treaty was between Great Britain and Den mark, and contained stipulations peculiar to those two: countries. By the first treaty the Sound was to be opened on the Ist of April, and the amount of com pensation to be paid by each Power wa's as well an the time, when the whole was t be ratified,viz., within three months. Denmark was to retain a provisional status quo unt 1 the ratification f the treaties, and the good faith of E•sgla.nd was in no way pledged to this arrangement, and it wou'd he open to the new Parlament to enter into the question. was oily able to speak from a teleeraphic message. In r-ply to Sir /I WILLOUGHBY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sa!ti that the share to be psi I by Great Britain f r the re demption of the Sound dues was 1,125,2061. Ire aa ?le dole to give the partieeltrs required relative to the ransit dues. TUE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. In reply to Sir F. KELLY, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said be regretted to he unable, from the sudden termination of Parliament, to bring in his pr,,po.sed measure relative to Directors of Banks and Fraudulent Tru,te. If he had a seat in the now Pail ament he would reintro , luc-t icon an early day. THE SPEAKER'S RETIREMENT BILL. This bill passed through committee. EXCHEQUER BILLS (C 21.049,700) BILL AND THE CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIA• TION) BILL These bills alo passed through committee, and were ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. MUTINY BILL —THE TWO SICILIES. On the motion for considering the amendments to this bill, Mr. DISRAELI called attention to the suppressed portion of the c nrespondence n the papers laid on the table of the house relative to the Two Siciliest, and said that as the newspapers appeared to be in possession of them, he asked whether in the course of the cammtnaL cations that took place with reference to the Two Sinaloa her Majesty's Glvernment had made offer to a fo• reign power that if an attempt were made to establish a republican institution in the south of Italy they were prepared to interfere, and, if necessary, with force of arms to prevent it ? - Lord PALMERSTON—Na such offer was ever made. The subject then dropped, and tke Mutiny Bill, after a short disicussion, in which Mr. Duncan, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. %V. Ewart, General Codrington, and Lord Palmer ston on the bi!letting of soldiers in Scotland took part, the bill was ordered for a third reading to-morrow. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CERCIIIT.—LEwEs, Milton 17. Crrn SIDE. (Before Mr. Baron Channel.) WEEDEN V. FIFE. This was an action upon a bill of exchange for 3001., drawn by the defendant, who is a cornet in the 3d Dragoons, and accepted by Mr. Joseph Paxton, also a cornet in the same regiment, and which was endorsed to the plaintiff by a person named Curlewis. There was a number of pleas put upon the record by the defendant, but the only material one was a plea that the bill in question had been fraudulently obtained by a person named John Charles Johns, and that no consideration had been given for it by the plaintiff. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Honeyman were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. E. James, Q.C., and Mr. Pollock were for the defendant. It appeared that the bill which was the subject of the action was dated the 27th September, 1856, at three months' date, and it bore the indorsement of Johns and also that of Mr. Curlewis, and the fact of the notice of dishonour was admitted, and these formal facts having been put in evidence, the case for the plaintiff was closed. Mr. James addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant, and he said that the present case was one that would require their most careful consider ; ation, because there could. be no doubt that the defendant had been robbed of this bill, under the pretence that it should be discounted for him, and although there was always considerable difficulty in making out the real facts connected with these bill transactions, be hoped to be able to satisfy them that this was really the case in the present instance. The defendant, Mr. Fife, was an officer in the 3d Dragoons, and Mr. Paxton, who was the son of Sir J. Paxton, was a brother officer in the same regi ment, and there was no doubt that the bill in ques tion was drawn for their mutual accommodation to raise money, and it was entrusted to Johns, whose name appeared as the endorser of the bill, in order that he might discount it, which he undertook to do. Instead of that, however, he kept Use bill, and nothing was heard of it until the present action was brought against Mr. Fife. Mr. G. Paxton was then examined—He deposed that he was formerly an officer in the 3d Dragoons, and in Sept. last he was with the regiment at Brigh ton. The defendant (Mr. Fife) was an officer in the regiment. About the 25th Sept., Johns, the per son whose name appeared as one of the endorsers of the bill in question, called upon him at the barracks. He had never seen him before that time. They had some conversation about money, and Johns told lexa that if he could get She name of another officer with his own to a bill, he could get it discounted for him. He afterwards saw Johns at the shop of a cigar merchant at Brighton, and a bill for 3001. was cashed by him. This was not the bill that was the subject of the present action. Another bill for 6004, which was drawn by Mr. Fife and accepted by witness, was afterwards discounted through the agency of Johns, and 2001. was paid in money for it and two race-horses. Witness had the horses and Mr. Fife had the money. The . 3001. bill that was now the subject of.inquiry was given to Johns to get discounted, and he promistd to pay the money into witness's bankers in London a day or two afterwards, but he never did 60, and he had never received a farthing on account of the bill; and the first information he heard relating to it was from his attorney, who told him that an action had been commenced against Mr. Fife as the drawer of the bill to recover the amount. When he found that he could not obtein the money he applied to restore him the bill, and he tell him it was de stroyed, and be was satisfies with this answer. Cross -examined—He had altogether several mo ney and racing transactions with Johns, and he won one bat of him upon the Great Northern Handicap. Johns did not find the money for the 600 i. bill, but it was advanced by a person named La M , rt. The horses were the property of La Alert, and they we .e still in witness's possession. The 6001. bill had baen paid. Witness had been sued upon one of his acceptances, but after he had pleaded ;o the action it was not proceeded with. He pleaded in fancy. Ha was nut yet of age, and he was cf course not of age while these bill transactions were go ng on. He might hav e t o ld th e parties he was of age. Could not say how long he had been in the habit of accepting bills of exchange for the ac commodation of himself and other brother officers. He might have " becked" bills to the amount of 2,000/. or 3,0001. while he was in the army. The transactions between him and Mr. Fife might have amounted altogether to ab sot 1,205/. or 1,3001. Mr. IFife "backed" bills for ;aim to the amount of about 1,0001., ant he in return "13.teke I . ' one for him to the am .unt of 230/. Ha hal hal the same sort of operat oas with other officers. In answer t? f.:r t ter clue tio s put by Mr. Ceitm e:-s, the witne ss said that he m i g h t h ave accepted bills t) the am iunt of 3,0G04, knowing at the, tune that he was a a He also stated that h 3 hid now left 11 about firee weeks, and that he had resign,. comae ssion for privats reasons that bad ne hia whatever to do with these tran - actione. In re-ex imitation the witne a said that he was I now twenty years and six m inths old. It, also ap peared that Johns kept racehorses, and that th e y st eat at Vie seine stab'e a s the witness's at lllsley ; and he said that ho Wight have told km upon one occasku teat he was of age. He also said that La Mert, the partien he had mentioned, was a very curious oust Auer, and lie did not know exactly what he was. (A laugh.) The two horses he re ceived as part of the consideration for the 6001. bill were valued at 3251. to him, but he did not believe they would fetch more than 1001. or 1201. at the hammer if they were sold now. Mr. Douglas Munro Fife, the defendant, was then examined, and he confirmed the evidence given by Mr. Paxton as to no consideration having been given for the bill. In answer to a question put by Mr. Chambers, he said that when he put his name to the bill he of course intended to pay it some time or other. Mr. James then submitted that upon this evi dence he had made out a sufficient prima facie case of fraud to c ill upon the plaintiff to show that he had given value for the bill. Mr. Baron Chatinell said it appeared to hint that this ought to be done. . . Mr. Frederick Wcedon, the plaintiff; was accord ingly called. He stated that he carried on the busi ness of a woollen-draper in Warwick-street, Gol den -square, and he had been in the habit of sup plying Mr. Curlewis, one of the endorsers of tee bill, who was a tailor, with goods, and at the end of 1856 he was indebted to him more than 700/. lie asked him to give him some money on account in the beginning of January, and he h ended him the bill in question, which he placed to his account, and gave him credit for the amount. He said that he had taken other bills of Curlewis's in the sane way, and he had no knowledge of any of the cir cumstances under which the bill had been origi nally obtained. This witness was subjected to a very rigid cross / examination by Mr. E. James, and in the course of his answers he said that the debt due by Cur lewis was comp o.:ed of an ofd balance, from the y, ar 1855, of 2001., and 5001. worth of goods teat he had supplied to him during 1856. He produced his books to show that the bill had been regularly entered to Ceriewis's credit, and he sal that there was always a sort of standing balance against bun, and the bills were handed to him wore mtendel to cover that balance. He also stated that when the bills were dishonoured he made no claim upon Curlewis, but at once instructed his attorney to proceed against the defendant, and his attorney, it appeared, was also the attorney for Curlewis. The plaintiff also stated that Curlewis had asked him to bring the present action. In re-examination the plaintiff swore positively that he took the bill in the ordinary course of h's business, and that he gave Curlewis credit for the amount in the ordinary way. Mr. E. James, the course of a very able sum ming up of the case for the defendant, urged that the endeavour to show that consideration had been given for the bill was a mere sham and fudge, and that the "standing balance" that had been talked about by Mr. Weedon was got up solely for the pur pose of carrying out the fraud that had been prac tised upon these young men, and to make it ap pear that a genuine debt existed betwaen Curlewis and the plaintiff. In all these Cases of bill rob beries the jury wore aware that it was necessary to find out what was called an "innocent holder" fur value to bring the action, and it certainly was an odd thing that a tailor genera'ly appeared to be the unfbrtunate individual. (A laugh.) He submitted that in the present case the evidence of the plain tiff was most uneatisfac . ory, and he observed thee if it was true that Curlewis owed the amount that had been stated' to the plaintiff, he might have been palled to prove the fact, but they had not dared t, pn.t him into the witne-s-box. M t :. Baron °barmen, in summing up the case to the jury:. explained to them the law upon the sub je ft, and said that the only point for them to con sider was NVl.:9ther the plaint ff had made out that he had given value f or th e bill , and that lie had. received it in part payment of a genuine pre-exist ing debt. The jury retired, and after being absent for about an hour, they returned into co ur t an d gave a ver dict for the defendant. a r my NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—BEDFORD, MARCH 17. (Before Mr. Justice Erle.) ARSON AT BIDWELL. Edward Finch, aged 19, a farm servant, was in. dieted for having set fire to the farm buildings of MARINE MUTINY BILL. l• Oa the consideration of the amendments to this Lit,. Mr. HENLEY renewed Vie question of instructs ins given to the English agents in the two Sicilies, and the suppression of portions of the correspondent 3. Lord PALMERSTON said that no such instruction ;, as before alluded to, had been given to the English agents. The portions of the correspondence suppressed had reference to a contingency, but not such as that re ferred to. The b:11 was' then ordered to be read a third time to morrow. After the discharge of some other business relative to private billq, amongst which was a bill to authorise the payment of the Great Northern Railway dividend, The house adjourned at 25 minutes to six o'clock. FEMALE PHYSICIANS IN AMERICA--There are not far from 20 of them. and several are in excellent business. They confine themselves generally to midwifery and the diseases of their own sex. Their tomcods in the forintr branch tends to establish them firmly in families. The number will probably be gradually on the increase, since they are beginning to be employed in the neighbouring cities of Charlestown, Cambridge, Roxbury, and adja cent towns World. much more tha n formerly.—Boston (&. S.) edical Tns FRENCH EMBASSY.- —The Countess de Persi,Ny opened the saloons of Albert-gate House' for the fi rst time this season, last evening, and was honoured with the preience of a brilliant gathering of the political and fashionable world. FALL OP A RAILWAY BRIDGE—PERILOUS ACCIDENT.— The metal bridge crossing the Limerick and Fy ne , line at Attyplin, in the county of Limerick, fell in the other morning with a tremendous crash. The first train v.as within 15 minutes of being due at the moment the accident occurred. Mr. Thomas Boyce, J.P., happened to be on the spot at the time s and, with great presence of mitid and promptitude, despatched a messenger o n horseback to M ount Earl station to stop the train there, which he fortunately arrived in time to effect. The line was thoroughly blocked op ; 100 workmen were set at once to clear away the mass pf rubbish, and it is expected that the line will be clear foe traffic this day. The loss will fall on Mr. Dargan, the contrac tl.r, and the expense of replacement will be very. ,! , eavy. F rtunately no life wasq las. - nor was any one seriet.f'lY hurt. I mmediately on Vie ' news of the accident arriv•- inilin, Limerick, that active and vigilant offiCer, Mr and carriages t p i ass the snene l'u , locotrvittva su erint d ' ' train 9 en env, being on the look out for the cotniuu , started off with a fresh engine of damage, and in half an fer. - ed to the relif•ef''gters? your had the goods, and luggage trans .....zne, lain,tdlleattr,rioviedwhinittLimerick only half an hour late. fAvVERTISEUENTI suffered for many years from a to the Runde it had Yial'abe was unable to stande 7 11E 7 ; 0 f meansramn d o v e s e a v b .i e l o c r u a a i t l t iv6in r i e : ba: : :' o 4 : B? s fee c tg , 9h; She tried a variety By the ble a ss P i P r Cons, but avittont obtaining a cure. she was perfectly cured. for wounds and orup- God an d w i n g only three pots .)f Poor Man's Friegndo, o 2‘ x l e a s n o,Elf Friend, pills, D a nrd. Roberts's taking o description, is sold in pots, ls. lid a nd Lions of every • His pima) Antiserophulm, for all itn• 2s. 9d. each. bertss h P re c e o b r purities of the blood, is sold in boxes, ls. lid., 2 s . 9d., d 22s each, by all medici ne vendors 4s. Gd., lie ., an d Colonies. throughout the United Kingd om an EVENTIN'G, MA WCII 18, 1857. Mr. Barnard, at Bidwell, in the parish of Houghton Regis. • The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the court sentenced him to be transported for 20 years. Thomas Pedder, who yesterday pleaded guilty to two charges of arson, was called up and received sentence of 14 years transportation. The assizes were brought to a close this after noon. NORTHERN CIROLJITT—YoRK, MARCR 17. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) CONSPIRACY TO FORGE A WILL. John Oldershaw, Joseph Sills, the elder, J ose ph Sills, the younger, William Wragg, Sarah Rad bourne, and Mary Wragg (all of whom were on bail), were charged with conspiring together to forge a will, purporting to be the will of one John Jackson, and with offering and uttering the said will. Mr. Price, Mr. Middleton, and Mr. Shepherd appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Temple, Q. C., Mr. Blanshard, and Mr. Dearsley, were counsel for Oldershaw, Radbourne, and the two Wraggs ; Sills senior, and Sills junior, were not defended. Mr. Price stated the case. The deceased John Jackson was a gentleman of considerable property, and resided at Stapleford, in Nottinghamshire. He ,was lord of the manor, lived in the manor house, had extensive landed estates, had a large amount of personalty, including money in the funds, and in addition always kepra larg e quantity of cash by him. He had the patronage of the perpettial curacy of Stapleford. He was a man of peculiar and eccen tricand lived by hi mse lf, an d for r t h w ab o as o , r athbchreaeyeleoarr's previous and up to the period of his death the prisoner Sarah Radbourne was his servant of all work. The present prosecu tion was instituted by a person named Searson, who alleged that he was next of kin to the deceased Mr. Jackson, -who departed this life in January, 1854. At the funeral, Searson, the next of kin, and other relatives were present, but at the conclu sion of the solemn ceremony, as is usual on such occasions, no mention was made, or hint thrown out, that the deceased had made a will. The de ceased by the will, which he should be able to prove as a forgery, left the whole of his real estate, in terest, securities, bonds, bills, and general effects to Sarah Radbourne, who was described as his trustee, and to her heirs for ever, except as to the annual sum of 201., which was left to the clergyman of the perpetual curacy of Stapleford for ever. By this will Sarah Radbourne was appointed sole execu trix, and all former wills at any other time were revoked. It was dated the 24th of Nov., 1853, and after the usual attestation clause, the names of the two Sills appeared as the witnesses. In another part of the will, John Oldershaw, builder, was ap pointed trustee under the will. The learned coun sel said he should call before the jury a number of highly respectable witnesses, who would prove that the will in question was not signed by the decease-I, the signature "John Jackson" not being in his handwriting. Re should also show that the de ceased never made a will—that nothing could in duce him to do so ; and that on the Monday in the week when he died a person of the name of Fletcher used every endeavour to persuade Mr. Jackson to make a will, but in vain. The case for the prosecu tion was that this will was made by John Oldershaw after Mr. Jacksonfi death signed by the two Sills, who pretended to be the attesting witnesses ; that Sarah Radbourne well knew that no will had been made by the deceased, and that she was fully aware of everything that took place, and was i n fact privy to a f rged will being prepared in h er favour. With respect to the Wraggs he might re mark that some I:ttle time before the death of the deceased they called upon an iridividual named Barker, who was a sort of amateur lawyer, and knew a little about the making and wording o f w ill. , and asked him t o wr i te out a will for Mr. Jackson Barker did so, and the Wraggs took the copy of an -h will away with them. The -wording of this document displayed some legal knowledge, as it was coue'ied in legal terms. The Wraggs suF sequently waled upon Barker and asked him t o f orge the signature of John Jackson to the will, but he re fused to dO so. Upon this Wm. Wragg offere I to give him 5,0001. to forge the signature, hut he still declined, and before leaving the liouse Wm. Wragg undertook to make Barke.'s wife a present of 1, 0001. if she should succeed in pest Kling her husband to accede to his application. The learned counsel said he should not be able to prove this by Barker, for he was now dead, but that his widow would ape rk to the facts he had stated. At the funeral of the deceased, as he had before said, no will was pro duced or re rd, and Sarah Radblurne entered into possession of the property, took charge of every thing, received the ren s, and 'rea'ed the whole of the effecti <4' the deceased as her own. Eventually the next of kiu, having he Lid certain rumours re sp,cting the property of the late Mr. Jackson, con side7ed it desirable to assert his rights. lie applied to administer to the estate and effect; of the de ceased, as be'ng the next of kin, nothing of the will having bee n -h ear d o f up to that time. This was opposed by Sarah Radbourne, who emit in the will, p:otesting'that it was the last wilraud testament of the person whose signature it bore, and that tile whole of the property bad been left •to her. It therefore became necessary that the validity of this will should be proved, and the attesting witnesses were called upon to :peak to the circurnstan-:e3 con necte 1 with the testator signing his name. Tde two Sills were consequently required to give evict-nee, but not appear ng they were committed to gaol for c nitempt of court. Af ter remai..in, in pri-on f o r some time they were r e l ease d , and they then gave evidence in the Ecclesiastical Court, de posing that Mr. Jackson. had duly signed the will, and that they were the attesting witnesses. At the same time Oldershaw offered himself as a witness, upon which Sarah Radbourne appeared to be iu great distress, and expressed herself as exceedingly, sorry that sh e h a d a nythin g t o d o with the will, laying the blame upon Oldershaw, as being the party wh o h a d l e d her i nto it. This showed com plicity on the part of Radbourne with the two Sills and Oldershaw, the latter of whom, in all proba bility, had prevailed upon Radbourne to become h's tool in the transaction. The two Sills, while in gaol, said that they had done in respect to this will what would transport them in order to serve Older shaw and Radbourne; that they could tell what would transport them and the whole party ; that Jackson n ever s i gne d th e w ill, and that the whole affair was a fraud and a swindle: In describing the pens and ink with which the will was alleged to have been signed, the two Sills, in their evidence, differed in many important particulars to Older shaw, showing that if these parties had been speak ing to the real truth there could have been no such discrepancy. It was said there was only one ink stand in the room where the will was signed, but the signatures of the two Sills, and that of the de ceased, were written in different coloured ink, a circumstance which could not have occurred with only a single inkstand. In conclusion the learned Counsel submitt e d th a t t h e whole of the prisoners hid acted in concert with a common design. The Sills knew full well that they were appending their names to a forged will, the Wraggs had offered money for the - obtaining of a forged si gnature of the deceased, R idb ourne k new t h at Mr. Jackson never made a will, yet she c'mnsented to a will being forged in her favour, and Oldershaw had been the principal mover in the transaction, having made the female Radbourne his dupe. From all thesurrounding circumstances of the case, the learned counsel said it was clear that the prisoners had con spired together in the forging and uttering of the will in question, and without entering into the minor details, which would occupy too much time, he should proceed to call the evidence. A large number of witnesses were called, showing that the deceased always refused with great perti nacity to make a will, that the existeece of any such document was not known until some time after the funeral of Mr. Jackson, and the facts in connection with the part th e six prisoners took-in the prepara tion and execution of the alleged forged will were proved in evidence. The case for the prosecution occupied all day, and was not concluded when the report was despatched. 'OLIVE INTELLIGENCE.—March 17. ---, m i.__ - MANSION-HOUSE —Mr. James Hill and Mr. • Thomas Brough, coal factors, carrying on business I at 28, St. Mary -at-hill, appeared before the Lord Mayor, in answer to a summons which had been issued at the instance of Messrs. Harrison and Co., owners of the Ratcliffe Colliery, near Newcastle-Pon- Tyne, and which charged them with having, a, agents of Messrs. Harrison and Co., converted t their own use two bills of exchange of the re§pec•ive sums of 1001. 13s. 6d. and 1001., which bad benn entrusted to them for a specific purpoSe. Mr. Sleigh appeared in support of the prosecu tion ; and. Mr. nobler attended on the part of the defendants. Mr. Hobler asked for an adjournment of the case, on the ground that he hadonly been instructed iu the matter. Mr. Sleigh resiste I the application, Paying that the summons bad Lean issued on the 6th inst , and that the defendants had therefore had plenty of time to instruct any professional adviser upon their behalf. In addition to this witnesses were in at tendance from Newcastle and from several banking houses. , • The Lord Mayor, after a short discussion said that under all the circumstance 3 the case must be at once gone into. Mr. Sleigh—l have the honour to appear • here, my Lord Mayor, to prosecute this charge against the defendants; and it is a charge beyond all doubt of the very greatest importance whether as regards them or as regards the mercantile community ge- nerally. The summons upon which they now stand before you has been issued under that which is known as the Bankers' or Factors' Act—an act which was very much discussed in a late celebrated case (that of Strahan, Paul, and Bates), and an act which, amongst 4a4her things, enacts, "That if any money, or security for the payment of money, shall be entrusted to any banker, merchant, broker, at torney, or other agent, with any direction in writing to apply such money or any part thereof, or the proceeds or any part of the proceeds of such se curity, for any purpose specified in such .direction, and he shall in violation of good faith, and contrary to the purpose so specified, in anywise convert to his own use or benefit such money, security, or proceeds, or any part thereof respectively, every such offender shall be guilty of a naisdemeanour. That is the 7th and Bth Geo. IV., C. 29, s. 49. There is a proviso in a subsequent portion of the statute to which it is not necessary that I should call your particular attention, except that it is in.- tended to protect persons who have a proper lien upon any such security from being criminally pro ceeded against. The prosecutors are the owners of the Ratcliffe Colliery, at Warkworth, near New castle-on-Tyne —gentlemen of the highest respecta bility, and well-known in that part of the country; and the defendants have been for some time carry ing on business, trading under the firm of James Hill and Co., as coal factors and agents for colliers in the north of England, at 28, St. Mary-at-Hill. The Lord Mayor —The Coal Exchange is at the corner of St. Mary -at-Hill. Messrs. Hill and Co., of the Coal Exchange, are gentlemen of the highest character and respectability, and it ought to be made known th a t th e present charge is not against them. I Mr. Sleigh con ti nue d —lt is perhaps as well that I should shortly narrate the course of business adopted as regards the owners of collieries in the north of England and their agents in London. Coals are sent to London and consigned to those persons, whoare either the purchasers or the agent, selling them on commission for the principals in the north. An account current is kept between the parties —a credit and debit in the usual way— and from time to time the principals in the north draw upon their agents in London bills of exchange for proximate amounts. The drafts are accepted by the agents in London. They are in the usual way paid at maturity, and go into the account cur rent. If they pay more than they owe the balance goes to their credit ; if they pay les the parties on the other side are debited. It appearsthat in Feb. in the present year there became due a draft upon the defendants, drawn by the prosecutors for 3501. It was dated Newcastle-on-Tyne, 20th Nov., 1856, and was at three months. Consequently, in the ordinary course of business it would arrive at ma turity on 23d Feb., 1857. A few days before this draft became duo Mr. Harrison ha" spened to be in London, and bad an interview with one of the de fendants, and in consequence of what then took place he on his return to Newcastle remitted to the defendants two bills of exchange —one upon Messrs. Coutts and Co., for 1001. 13s. 6d., and another upon the Bank of England for 1001.—which were to be appropriated towards a purpose men tioned in a letter which will hereafter be' put in evidence, but in violation of good faith they cash?d the bills, they paid the money into their bankers, and drew cheques in favour of various people for the amount. The consequence was that when the bill for 3501. became due there were "no effects." Under all the circumstances it will be for the Court to say whether the defendants have not been guilty of a misappropriation of securities en trusted to them for a particular purpose. Mr. John Harrison, one of the prosecutors, was then sworn, and said—The defendants carry on business at 20, _St. Mary -at-hill, as agents and coal factors, and have been in the habit of acting as our agents for the last 21 or 3 years. Our course of business was for our firm to draw on the defendants bills of exchange for amounts representing the value of coals sent to London. Sometimes the drafts would be under and sometimes they would exce d the amount of coals sent. In Nov. last we drew a bill of exchange upon the defendants for 3501., which became due on the 23d Feb. It was accepted by the defendants, and was payable at Messrs. Glyn's. Upon the 20th Feb. I remitted to the de fendants two bills of exchange, one for 1001. 13s. 6d. on Messrs. Coutts and Co., the other for 1001. on the Bank of England. Those three bills are now before me. The bills for 100/ 138. 6i. and 1001. were remitted to the defendants in a letter which I wrote them. (The letter was read.) On the 25th Feb. the bill for 350/. was returned to as disho noured, and we had to pay the amount. A few days ago I attended a meeting of the d-fendauts' creditora at which they were present. A day or two before the meeting I saw both of them at their office, when some Conversation took Place between us. I told them that the bill for 3501., to pay which I bad sent them 2001. odd, had been return , - d to me, and that by not paying it they had misappropriated my money. I told them they would be obliged t) pay me the 2001. odd back again, or I must have them brought up before the Lord Mayor. The defendant Brouvh said he would. consult his s elicitor upon the subject. The defendants both loft, and, upon their return, Brough said that his solicitor had advised them to pay the money back by all means. This was said ;11 Hill's presence. Brough afterwards gave me an order upon hi's solicitor for the amount, but I d d not got paid. At the meeting of creditors the ba bitties of the defendants were stated to be some. thing like 1,7001., and the assets, which consisted of book debts, about 3001. The indorsement on the tills for 1001. and 1001. 13s. 6d., is in the hand writing of Brough. Mr. Hobler having stated that he was not in a situation to cross-examine the witnesses at present, the further bearing of the charge was adjourned till Thurgday next, the defendants entering into their own recognisauces in 2501. each to appear on that day. John Ware and Anne Ware were charged with having fought together in Threadneedle-street, in a state of dru n k enness . A policeman said—l heard a desperate row in the street, and saw the defendants, who are man and wife, struggling together, the woman having one arm round the man's neck, and punching him in the face with the other hand. When I went up to part them the woman turned upon we in a furious manner and tore my coat, and they were then taken to the station-house. Alderman Hale—What account can you give of yourselves 7 The man—l am very sorry for it. lam a tailor, but I was never in such a place as this before. Alderman —And what has your wife tasay ? She appears to have been the worse of the two ? The policernan—Sho was, by a great deal: When she set her husband's nose bleeding she seemed dis posed to do the same forme. The woman--I can only say we are very sorry for it. We were in the station-house all night. Alderman Hale—Well, I see that.the woman was more culpable than the man, and I-discharge him ; but I fine her ss. for being drunk, and ls. for tear, ing the policeman's coat. ,BOW-STREET.--A young man, named Robert Goodacre, formerly in the service of Mr. H. R. Abrahams, surveyor, of Howard-street, Strand, was charged with uttering several forged cheques at Messrs. Drummond's bank, in Charing-cross. • The prisoner, who made no defence, was com mitted for trial. WESTINSTER— Rev. Mr. Borrode, incumbent M of St. Mary's,T he Toth!11-fields, waited ail on the magistrate with reference to the young woman who appeared at this court on Monday, complain ing that Mr. Borrodaile had refused to christen her. Mr. Borrodaile stated that the girl had ben in his national school, from which she was expelled for ill-conduct. Some months ago 'she called on h.m, and requested him to christen her, as she wanted a certificate of baptism before she einigra.ted. He told her that she would req&ra previous in struction and preparation, and offered to commu nicate with the clergyman of her parish. Tothis she would not consent. On Monday morning she called him with the same request, and was met by the same offer, upon which s • he appealed to the inn gistrate. SOUTHWARK. —Caroline Grays arid Mary Ann Scofield, two young females fashionably attired, were brought up in custody charged with stealing a purse containing two sovereigns, two half-sove reigns, five shillings, and ninepence, and two gold rings, from th e p erson o f Eli za - A nn Ford. Both prisoners are natives of Lancashire, and evidently connected with a gang of swell thi eves i nfeiting the crowded threrouglifares of the metropolis. The prosecutrix, a young lady residing at the Hoy Inn, C eek-roa , l, Deptford, said that on the previous afternoon, shortly after four o'clock, she was poking in at a milliner's window in Newing ton-causeway. She had at that time her purse and money safe in h. r dress pocket. While stand ing there a number of females surrounded her and pushed rudely against her. A little girl came up to her and told her one of the females had t a k en someth;ng out of h er pocket, B dnd on feeling she rni-sed her puree. The prisoners where just be hind her, and Grays was pointed out by the girl as the person who had robbed her. Witness imme diately accused both of them, when Grays dropped the purse, and they both ran away. Her purse was picked up by a man and handed to her, when she found the contents'eafe. Thomas Shin, engineer, of Deptf or d, sa id h e was walking along rewnigton-caus cway on the previous afternoon, when ho saw the prisoners follow seve ral ladies, lift up their dresses and try their pocke s. There ware about a dozen other females Naval and Military intelligenle. His Royal Highness the General Commanding n-Chief has signified to Major-General Breton, commanding the South-West District, at Ports mouth, his intention of inspecting, one day this week, on Southsea-common, the troops quartered in Portsmouth Garrison who are under orders to embark for China. Preparations are being made to give eclat to the first official visit of the gallant Duke to Portsmouth. The Shannon, 51, Captain Peel, C. 8., V. C., &c., got away from Spithead under steam yesterday morning, at a quarter before eight, for China, with munitions of war, r e i n f orcements of men, &c. When a mile to the eastward of the Nab she made sail and shaped her course down Channel under topsails, jib, and foretopmast staysail, with a strong easterly breeze. She was shortly out of sight. The sailing sloop Electra, 14, Commander Mor ris, received counter orders on Monday evening to those she had previously received to go into Ports mouth harbour to be paid off. She accordingly discharged her freight, 14,176 ounces of gold, into the steam tend& Sprightly to be landed, and then sailed for Chatham to be paid off. She had on board Mr. Williams (chief mate), Mr. Whiteman, (second mate), and six hands, part of the crew of the ship Lord George Boutin ck, of Liverpool, which foundered in a heavy gale on the 22d of November last off the Falkland Islands. The boat and those in her got adrift from the ship, and having lip oars could not regain the ship, and were compelled to leave Captain Lind4ay, the steward, and two sea men on the wreck, the ship at the time lying on her beam ends, in a heavy sea. For six days and nights they drifted on the sea with no provisions or water. On the morning of the seventh day the men in the boat proposed to draw lots to sacrifice one to save the others, but was fortunately pre vented carrying this horrible alternative into effect by a sail heaving iu sight at 8.30 a.m., which proved to be the brig Cuba, of London, Capt. Gray, whotook the starving seamen on board, clothed, and otherwise treated them with the greatest kindness, and pro ceeded with them to the Falkland s , ; six of the crew there shipped i n o th er vessels, the other six and Messrs. Williams and Whitehead came to England in the Electra, with the news of the catastrophe. The Secretary of State for War has issued direc tions that the office of Paymaster of the British depots and detachments s ationed at Chatham shall be abolished after the Ist of April next, and the staff kept up for that purpose discontinued. It. is also ordered that, with the view of lessening the great expenses now incurred in keeping up that de partment of the service, the whole of the troops on the British establishment attached to the Provi sional Battalion shall be handed over to Captain J. H. Matthews, Paymaster of the Invalid Depot at Chatham. Ths Loris of the Admiralty have sanctioned a change of divisions between Captai)i W. R. Max well, of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, and Captain P. M. _C. Croker, of the Plymouth division. In consequence of the fatal accident which oc curred off Chatham dockyard on Saturday last by the capsizing of the cutter from the Fantome, 12, during a squall, w h en two seamen, name Thomp sett and Minton, were drowned, au order has been issued that for the future no boats will be allowed to use their sails when engaged in passing to and fro between the vessels and the dockyard. The officers belonging to the depots now stationed at Chatham aro required to go through a course of instruction in the use of the Enfield rifle, under W. Nott, before proceeding to join the service com .panie4 ( , f their corps in India and China. The four c inapanie3 of Royal Artillery at Wool wich, under orders for China, have been reinforced by a transfer of the required number of men from the other battalions to fill up the vacancies. The companies are now full strength, and the whole of the men, having gone through medical at testation and been pronounced efficient for service, are awaiting orders for embarkation. The other six companies of artillery at Woolwich, under orde-rs for Nova Scotia, Canada, Uad the Mauritius, are likewise ready for departure. The third of the new class of gunboats, the Leven (two of which, the Algerine and the Lee, are ie a forward state f or serv i ce), arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning from Northfleet. The fourth, to be called the Slaney, will be launched and for warded to Woolwich for fitment to-day. The paddlewheelstearn storeship Rhadamanthus, Master Commander Browne, returned to Woolwich yesterday morning from Portsmouth. She was ad mitted into basin, and is ordered to commence em barking steam machinery and boilers for the western yard.. The paddlewheel steamer Spitfire, in ba:in ,at Woolwich, after a thorough readjustment of ma chinery and sundry repairs, is now ready for re commission. The steam storeship Hesper, in Woolwich basin, is ordered to be fitt e d w ith G r iffi th ' s patent screw propeller, which possesses the advantage of enabling its angle to be altered at sea, so as to place the blades in line with the keel when under sail, wi,h out the necessity of unshipping the screw. To give her as much advantage as possible of canvass she is ordered to be rigged barque fashion. She is intended to convey the guns and war stores belong ing to the gun-boats under orders for China. Some plates of newly-discovered metal resem bling ordinary steel, and denominated by the paten tee homogeneous metal, have been introduced at Woolwich dockyard, under the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty,. and are ordered to be put through the usual test for proving the strength of metal, and to verify is competency for the pur po4) of making ships' boilers. This' metal has the advantage over malleable iron of being considerably lighter, and much more durable. Mr. R. H. Pearson, of Inar Majesty' ship Pem broke, has been appointed First Assistrnt-Engineer to her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, at Hull, vice Mr. Matthews, who exchanges. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :--Lieutenant J. W. Arm.- strong, to the Cormorant ; Spencer Chapman, naval cadet, to the Furious; Johu M. Jiockley, mister in command, to the Volcano ; and Pierce Mansfield, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Waterloo". ROYAL PANOPTICON. On Monday a meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of taking measures for the protection of their interests as against the mortgagees of the Pro perty, who are desirous of disposing of the whole of it by auction. The chair was taken by Dr. Martyn. The SECRETARY then read a report prepared by Mr. Clarke, the promoter of the institution, from which it appeared that receipts for rents and admis s:ons from the 18th of March (tbe day the institu tion was opened) to the 30th of June, 1854, amounted to 3,917/. 15s. 5d., which was so satis factory to the council that they declared a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. upon the paid-up capital. In June, 1855, however, there was on the profit and loss account a balance of 2,055/. 19s. 3 ; the receipts for the entire year having been only 8,548/. 2s. 7d. This state of things led to the final close ,of the institution on the 31st of July, 1856. The next mouth a special meeting was held, when the council informed the proprietary that 25,0001. was necessary to liquidate outstan ling liabilities, and to leave a-balance of 3,0001. in hand to carry on the institution. Failing in raisin; this sum the ac - - counts stood—liabilities, 117,7031., the assets con tiding of the building land and irs. content s valued at 30,000/., s h ow i ng a l oss of 87,703/. The mort gagees were proceeding to sell off the whole concern when they were, at the suit of Mr. Clarke, re strained by an injunction from the Court of Chan cery, Vice-Chancellor Kindersley holding that a power to a trustee to mortgage CH not give him the power to sell ; and, a fortiori, did not give him authority to give another the power to sell. That injunction was afterwards removed, on the ground that, as Mr. Clarke had been a party to the mortgage he was not competent to. seek relief from his own act. It was, however, still open to any shareholder not a member of the council to apply for its renewal. After a long discussion, it was then resolved that the sale of the institution by the mortgages would be illegal ; that it was desirable to resusc itate the icstitution under the Limited Liability Act ; a n d a committee was appointed to carry out the views of the meeting. with them acting in concert. Witue3s followed them and saw Grays lift Miss Ford's dress, while the other covered-her with her muff, and as soon as they were detected they ran .off. Grays was taken on the spot, and witness followed the other to a house in the London-road, where she was secured. He was positive they were both connected with the robbery. Henry Lowden, painter, of Deptford, said he saw Grays drop the purse, which he, picked up and handed to the prosecutrix. Police -constable 123 P said he pursued Scofield into a house up a court, in the Loudon-road, and, after a desperate resistance, in which she scratched his face and injured him very much, he succeeded in taking her into custody. She was searched 'at the station-house, and on her was found 2/. Is. 11d. in gold and silver. The prisoners, who asked for the assistance of an attorney to defend them, were remanded until Thursday. They declared that they were strangers to each other. HOTEL AND TAVERN KEPPERS' P.RO VIDgNT INSTITUTION. The annual meeting of the donors and member of ibis society was held at the Craven Hotel 0 1 Monday—Mr. James Lovegrove in the chair. Th' report of the committee of management stated tha the balance at the last audit amounted to 100/. 58 6d., and that 3871. Os. sd. had been received, vie, 1691. 7s. 3d. from annual subscriptions and done tions, and 2171. 13s. 2d. from the interest on .thi funded debt—the fund now amounting to V" 3s. 4d. The expenditure for relief to 22 member" and 7 widows during the same period amounted t 4 2791., and the expenses to 1341. Bs. 10d., leaving d 8 balance in fav our o f th e i nstitution of 731. 17e. The committ ee h a d d ur i ng the past year for warde d circulars, together with the last reports of the 6131 ., d ' mittee and audit ors , t o t h e trade in town and throughout England and Wales, soliciting subscrir tions and donations in aid of the funds of the in stitution ; but they regretted that, although experiment wa s a tt en d e d with much labour en expense, it bad not been responded to as the C 0 mittee wished. The amounts distributed for relie' during the last nine years had been as follows 1847, to eight members, 70/. ; in 1848, 17 members' 178/. 16s. ; 1849, 28 members, 272/. 12s. ; 22 members, 264/. 18s. ; 185121 members, 20 P b ....' in 1852, 32 members, 229/. ; in 1853, 28 merab axa ew' 296/. ; in 185548 members, 289/. ; and in I°_ 29 members, 279/. ; ma ki ng a total sum of 2,3 v" distributed in nine and a half years to 54 mem bell i i and the widows o f mem b ers. The report also ca l l ed attention to the fact that in some instances a nient of one guinea for seven years bad entitled the member to a payment of 1541., and that th e large' sum of 8331. h a d b een divided among st members, who were still pensioners on the fun d. The report was receives and adopted, and after 3 vote of thanks to Mr. Tapster, the honorary sore' tary, and to the chairman, the proceedings t er* minated. Country Markets. LIVERPOOL —3lAatcH 17. At this morning's market we had a small attendance of the millers and dealers. The business was limited. There No' s ' however, a disposition to invest in wheat at prices, however , which holders would not submit to. The reduction in prioe s from Tuesday last was called about 2d to 3d per bushel on wheat, 6d to is per barrel and sack on flour, and 6d to is per qr. on Inllan corn. The trade in barley, beans, Lod peas was limited, and in all cases of business prices were easier. Oats and oatmeal sustained late rates. LEEDS, MARCIII 17. h e at Our supplies o f gra i n continuelimited ; still the trade remains in a very lif eless state. The little of fine drY quality sells at about last week's rates, but other sorts a r° difficult to quit, and prices tend downwards. Barley with out,_ activity ; value as before. Beans steady. Other artic les . unaltered. Average prices of grain—Wheat, 575 7d ; bazlsl, I ?! :id; oats, 27s 2d ; b eans , 425 6d ; p eas , 415 o'' rye, —s. ---d. HULL— Mena 17. We had a moderate supply of farmers' wheat to-day the condition middling. Fine fresh parcels obtained about lastweek's p r i ces , b ut an inferior was difficult to b,, Next to nothing doing in foreign. Fine malting barley 1 7; dearer. No alterati on i n ot h er articles. Linseed firmer, an d cakes also. 8 0 1 0. ~. 1. I Wheat, English, re d 54 to 58 I Peas, grey and black" to 0 Ditto white 5B to 62 Linseed, Flack Sea... 68 to 7 6 7 Dantzie and lionigs- Ditto Petersburgh ... 56 to A l berg 5B to 65 Ditto Rigaaad Areh- r 6 Pomeraulanandllam- 1 angel 48 to , burgh Danish, Holst e i n , an d 1 Memel 5O tog a Frie sland 45 to 54 p er Ton ' O a Russian and Od essa 50 to 60 Lins.c., Hull 0/ Os to 10. 15 „., Oats, English Ditto Friesland 26 to 28 Rapeseed VOL O s t o VOL „, Ditto Russian 27 to 30 Rape cakes —s Od to 1370 De Barley, malting Ditto grinding 32 to 38 Ditto foreign Beans .................. 48 to 50 Guano..... 001 Os Si tol3 166 Ditto foreign ....... 37 to 42 Bones Peas, white and yel. 40 to 42 Flour, per brL 35L 384 I COURSE OF EXCHANGE.- YESTERDAY. amsterdam .....• ...... 11 ,6 Gibraltar ....... ...___ Ditto, three mouths .. 11 18% Leghorn .......... •• 29 42g Rotterdam ............ 11 18% Genoa ......... .• —• • 95 7234 Antwerp .............. 25 47% Milan ..... ••—— • . • • 3russeis .............. 25 47% Venice.. .. ... —.— - Hamburgh ............ • 13 8 Naples .............. 43% iltona •• •• •• •• •. •• •• •• , Palermo ••• Pari5............. .... 25 25 Messina ...• •... 130% Ditto, three month s .. 25 6734 Lisbon .. 51ji Marseilles ...... • ...... 25 6734 Oporto ........ llourdeaux .....• . .. Rion aneiro .... .•• .. -- Frankfort-on- Maine .• .. 119% . Buenos Ayre5......... Berlin ...............• i New York,6o days'aight •—• .5 Philadelphia .......... Petefrle4to .. .. ..... •..... .. 10127 PRICES OF BULLION. Pgit oz. rsburg ............ 37 1 4 , Foreign Gold In Bare £3 17 9 liacicid ......... „ ~.. 494 i Poi Gold Coin .. 00 0 Jadiz ......... • • ......, 50 I Mexican Dollars .... tt 0 0 1 R trcelona .........—. 1 New Dollars .. .... 0 0 0 iaville— .• .. • ....•... i Silver in bare .. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Kutcar 17. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The tendency of the share market to day is more buoyant, but paces closed a shade lower. The following are the transactions : Caledonian, 30 Lancashire and Yorkshire, asi if /—Ditto, new N. shares, issued at 1 dis ), p.—Eastern Counties, lei 135. London and North, Western, 1 04--Midland, 81 80i Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 37i A--Great tern of Can a d a (bonds payable in 1857), 3/. Bs. 9d.—So"" Eastern, 22k t. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 17. STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was a good market to-J 3 3': There were sellers of Stonr Valley Guaranteed Stock at 45f—Birmingham Pref.. 10 i—London and North \V" - tern, 10I4—itidlands 81 i — Birmingham Can a l s a t 922 -- Birmingham Fi re, at 100—Ditto, District Fire, at B;rmingham Banki ng C ompany, at 33i. Buy ers o f Gr it 10t Western Bi rm i ng h am P ref., 10—Stour Valley Pref., '7 —Great Western, 67. LEEDS, MARCH 17. STOCK EXCIIIANGZ.—North-Eastern (Leeds), 191.1604 344 - Midlands, 81g. MANCHESTER, MARCH 17. •and STOCK EXCHAN G E.—The m ar k e t Was quiet ma- Shailields, 37k— L ondon and North Weste rns,lo4—ltu'u g now 9/. snares, 1-Ifd.—Caledonians, 314- Doyen, 22,}--- London Aths, 39. 6d. It is now estimated that the Peninsular and Oriental steamer will take out about 700,000/. on the 20th, prin cipally silver for India, the amount engaged for China at present being limited. 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For further particulars respect ing this invaluable food our readers are referred toDußarry'e advertisement in another part of this paper. BIRTHA OF A SON. On the 17th inst , at 25, Nelson-terrace, Stoke Newington the wife of J. W. Wilmot James, Esq., M.R.C.S.E. On the 17th inst., at 4, New Bridge-street, 131ackfriars, she wife of Dr. liaise. OP A DAUGHTER. On the 16th inst., at 5, Ampthill-square, tho wife o f th Rev. Valentine Williams. wife On of William the 14th i Step nst., hens, Eat 33, sq. Lansdowne -place, Brighton, th e m A RR / EID. On the I 7 s th instt G mersharn, Kent, Rob er t T asse l, Fagg Harvey Iver, Backs, u, Esq., rgeon ., a to Ann of Godmers harn Maria, eldest daughter of John On the 17th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Mr. Arthur A. Nwt West, of Bo 4U Camden to len, ' se cond daughter of M r . H. O. n, of , -road Villas. D I E D. 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