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

MPERIA IAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his scat on the woo: sack at 5 o'clock. - Lord DUNGANNON gave notice of hi s i ntention to move for a copy of the depositions in the etse 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. LEONA RDS 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 had 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 Plrliament, but it was only to meet the cases of trustees who hart been criminally guilty for their own benefit. Thdre was great difficulty in the case. Lord ST. LEONARDS said, such being the else, 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. Idered to b e committed .:—Birkenhead District G as an d Water; Weat London and Crystal Palace Railways PETTY SESSION (IRELAND) BILL. The t.rtler of the day far the second real. g of the Petty Session (Ireland) Bill was read and discharged. GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Mr. BOW YER, the order for the second reading of the Grand Juries (Ire ar d) Bill, axed 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 had been furnished with Cliff , rd'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. WNEILL AND COL. TULLOCLI. Lord CASFLEROSSE appeared at the bar of the house with her Majes'y's gracious reply to the address praying for some special mark of favour to be conferred on Sir J. M`Neill and Cel. 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. Tuiloch 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. AP? E LIATE JURISDICTION. Mr. BOWYER called the attention of the Home Se cretary to the decision in th• House of Lords yesterday in the case of Gray and another v. Pierson, and after 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 at an early period of next session for the improvement of the appel late jurisdiction of the House of Lords. Sir G. GREY said he know 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. 11. HERBERT asked the President of the Poor Law Board whether his attention bad been called to the eircemstances of the removal of a female pauper, named. Honors Bresnahan, and her children, from the Holborn Union to Ireland ; whether he had reason to believe that the said Honora Brottaahan's husband was born In &gland • and whether an y reme d y ex i sted by the present law !or the injustice inflicted on the woman herself, and on the Tralee Uniin in Ireland, to which she had been removed. Mr. BOUVERIE said that he bad made inquiry re lative to this case, and the result was that the woman was the wife of a mart 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 hada 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 Vict , providing for the expenses of prosecutions. Tables 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. TEE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINI-1, IVIARCH 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 yean. Thomas Pedder, who yesterday pleaded guilty to two charges of arson, was called up and re2eivecl sentence of 14 years' transportation. The assizes were brought to a close this after noon. with them-ttcVng in concert - . Witness followed them and. saw Grays lift Miss Ford's dress, while the other covered her with her muff, and as soon as they wore 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, iii the Lotidon-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 21. ls. lid, 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. CHINA. In reply to a question from the Eirl of EfARDWICKE, relative to the production of the papers connecled with the war in China., Earl GRANVILLE said if the noble earl hail been in his place when the noble earl the Secretary for Foreign Affairs bad 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. Bo wring was to blame for everything that had 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. Bowring 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 ineffeottini, and now having committed great cruelties they were reduced to a most ignominious state of defense, w hich was neither likely to do honour 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. Bowling the whole of the odium of this affair. His duty was to consult with the Admiral, and as he found that a small ope• ration had been successful In obtaining a great result, he was justified in supoeing that force th ere was quite sufficient top justify him the in - Tieing th e Ad m i ral, as he had done) at ell events to sanc tion his proceedings ; and the mere circumstance of the measures they bad taken having met with considerable resistance ought not to be urged against him. J. Earl DERBY said this was net the first time that Sir Bowring had made a fatal mistake, and he must be prepared te take the responsibility, of his actions. Lord PLNMURE contene' Le d that Admiral Seymour bad done everything that, was possible for him to accom plish in the Canton r i- vers The Emperor of China had sent instructions to t he officers of the other four ports to preserve amicablP, relations with the British, leaving the authorities an y Canton to settle their disagreements with this core _ .,try themselves. .Le Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that there was eio charge whatever against Admiral Seymour for the conduct of the operations ; but the whole of the blame rested with Sir J. Bowring, who had ordered the opera ions to take place. After some further desultory conversation, the discus sion was brought to a close. PRIVATE BUSINESS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the standing orders were dispensed with in the case o ithe Corn wall Railway, Price's Patent Candle Company Bill, and the Whitehaven and Creator Railway Company Bill, and the hills were read a second time. TheXustoms Duties Bill, the Racehorse Duty and As sessment Bill, Cinque Ports Act Amendment Bill, and Peeper Maintena.,ce Ant Bill were read is second time and ordered to be committed. The Commissioners of Supply (Scotland) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Income Tax Bill, the Indemnity Bill, the Copy hold and Enclosure Commission Bill, Extra-Parochial Places, and the Ecclesiastical Jurisiiction Bill passed through committee without amendment, and were ordered to be reported. Viscount DUNGANNON inquired whether the eye- Una of granting tickets of leave to convicts was for the present suspended until some means of disposing of them by transportation or otherwise should have been laid be fore Parliament by her Majesty's G ivernruent The Earl of HAFtIIOWBY was understood to say that tickets of leave would only be given to a very few convicts who were under sentence, and with respect to whom favourable reports had been received by the Go vernment. WAR ITFI . The Marqui s of CLA W NRICARDE CHINA inquired of the Secretary of State for War what pay and allowaeoes the officers and so! hers about to be sent to China were to receive, and ;dm inquired whether the noble lird would have any olijection to lay upon the table of the house any estimate or return showing the coeparative cost of the British regiments serving in the Persian Gulf and upon the coast of China? He understood that the troops sent to China were not to receive the same pay as the troops serving in the Persian Gulf, and he could not un derstand why such difference should exist. Something bad been said about camp followers. He could not see the utility of camp followers at all. Lord PANNIURE said that a difference did exist. Those troops sent from this coantry would net 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 lsticns an allowance, called the extraordinary fill t allow ance, which officers received preparat mry to taking the field. The officers of this expedition would receive s months' advance by that extraordinary field allowance, which would enable them to prepare fir taking the field. On the arrival of troops in Hong Kong, there was in the Mauritius and Ceylon the colonial allowance, and the officers of the expedition wou:d be placed in the same po-ition with regard to that oolonial allowance as the officers already in the celony, He had no objection to produce the papers respired. In this expedition, while every attention would be paid te economy, every atten tion would at the same tioie be pail to the heath of the troops and the maintenance of their efficiency, aril for that purpose ti:e Govern anent had resslvrd, as the troops would laud in Cuina in the hot season, to att tele to those troops catniefoilowers limn India, an.l Gen. Ashburn barn had been applied to to use his experience in getting those campielswers. There would bra sanitary estab lishment at Penang for the sick of the army, wh r would be renioved thereto by steam vess.l, provided for teat Purpose, and every precaution would be taken to prevent those evils which were felt in the last Chinese war. The Earl s: ELLENBOROUGH did not think the colony ought to be sad tied with the additional colonial allowaec- m to those officers. Lord PIeNeIURE said that would not be; the allow ance wou'd be mace by this country. Time Earl of ELLENBOROUGLI Explained what was mean, by caeip felluwers. They were coolies, and per sons who carried water mid other valuable labourers. With reeat d to increasin g the rations of the troops; he wood remind the nulls earl front experience that the Worst thing a min ciuld do in these hot cernate3 was to eat much. The less a person had to eat tile better, and the n , ble lord would find that in Lelia ho cool I not eat such a dinner as he could here. He thought the (Aeons of this expedition would have to incur great t zeensee in fitting out. They were not going to garrison, but to war. Therefore, it any peculiar ioeul;ence were extended to them, consistent with principle, and which would not be creating an inconvenient precedent, he thought it would be most de irable to extend that indulgence. Allusirn 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 our. He (the Earl of E:lenborough) presumed the noble lord meant force, because no French troops had been sent, He (the Earl of Ellenhorough) would deeply regret such co-operaiior. France had no quarrel with Carina; indeed we had no qua red with China. Th e quarrel was with the Csntonese and Com missioner Yeb. It would he a de Jerald.) thin g to in clude th e ot h er four one. desired l peace, ) and the re-establishru ee t of trade. He did not desire to ext.ort new terms from the Emperor of Ceiba. He would sug- gest to the G)vereteent th e Propriety of sending out im mediate peremptory orders to Bushire to ter wee] froth thence the additional force which had been sent there, which was not now required, o n to Chink Tee presence Y revired a'. Singapore of thatforce might be abs:eutel and Hong Kong. The order could steels Busimire, iu a month, and the troops might be , a a t e ee ll e ",:t!,:e a t! i t e hu another wou, month ;so that .s ix peeks troops sent from this country would be t h ree months and a halt before they arrived. Lord PANMURE, with rcferenco to the increase in the rations, raid the increase meant that they would i more diversifi e d, so as to be mere conducive to the health of the troops. Enid GREY hoped we were not going t t h o o great embark Etn in . that most fatal m easure — au invasion i - piers of China. He trusted that her Meje...4tY 8 Govern meat had some clew and defieee object before them, because as yet no such of was known to the house. What did we want with China ? Our late - est with Mrs was simply to carry on tor trade. If we embarked in a war Wiol MTV), story tv , ) inflicted would recoil upon ourselves, Ii we laid waste the t,wne of China, we should only rerdsr -the Ceinese worse customers to us. If we were to Attempt on invasion of China, we should take a step fatal to Vie intereqs of the country. The subject then dropped. • On the ;notion of Ea:l GRANVILLE, The house adjourned at half-pa,t six to twelve o'clock this day (Wednesday). HOUSt OF COMMONS.--(YESTERDAY,) The SPEAKER took Vie Chair at 4 o'click. PATE BILLS. The following were read a second time and or- 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 sesgion. THE LAND TRANSPORT CORP.i COMMITTEE. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE withdrew his motion for naming a committee in reference to the grievances complained of by the members of the Land Transport Corps. H e un derstood the complaints of the corps were now under the consideration of the War-office, and if it was not amicably arranged he should renew his motion next session, if he then had a seat in the house. THE SOUND DUES. Mr. 73. MOORE called the attention of the house to the Sound dues, and asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer if a treaty had been signed to capitalise those dues, and indemnify Denmark for giving up her reputed rights, and if it were the intention of her Majgsty's Go vernment that such treaty should be acted upon before Parliament had voted the money for such object. Mr. LIDDELL called attention to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement that the treaty included the redemption of four-fifths of the transit dues, and asked if 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 signed at Copenhagen. One between Denmark, Russia, Prussia, France, and Great Britain, and other States containing stipulations common to those countries. 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 let of April, and the amount of com pensation to be paid by each Power was fixed, as well as the time, when the whole was to be ratified, viz., within three months. Denmark was to retain a provisional status quo until the ratification of the treaties, and the good faith of England was in no way pledged to this arrangement, and it would be open to the new Parliament to enter into the question. He was only able to speak from a telegraphic message. In reply to Sir K. WILLOUGHBY, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the share to be pail by Great Britain for the re demption of the Sound dues was 1,125,20 G/. He was unable to give the particulars required relative to the transit dues. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. In reply to Sir F. KELLY, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he regretted to be unable, from the sudden termination of Parliament, to bring in his proposed mea•oire relative to Directors of Banks and Fraudulent Truets, If he had a seat in the new Parl ament he would reintroduci iton an early day. THE SPEAKER'S RETIREMENT BILL. This bid passed through committee. EXCHEQUER BILLS 021,049,700) BILL AND THE CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIA TION) BILL. These bills al-o 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 Mr. DISRAELI called attention to the suppressed portion of the correspondence n the papers laid on the table of the house relative to the Two Sicilies, and said that as the newspapers appeared to be in possession of them, he asked whether in the course of the clmtnuni cations that took I.lAce with reference to the Two Sied.es her Majesty'', Government had made offer to a fo. reign power that if an attempt were male to establi;li a republican institution in the south of Italy they were prep3ted to interfere, and, if necessary, with force of arms to prevent it ? L rd PAL UELZSTON—N ) such offer was ever made. The subject then dropped, and tae Mutiny Bid, after a short di•cussion, in which Mr. Duncan, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. W. 'wart, General Codriugton, and Lord Palmer ston on the bidstting of soliierd ie. Scotland took part, the bill was ordered for a third reading to-morrow. MARINE MUTINY BELL. 0 the consid-ration of the amendments to this bin. Mr. HENLEY . renewed t'ie question of instructlnis given to lbw English agents in the two Sicilics, and the suppression of portions of the correspondence. Lord PALMERSTON said that no such instruction 4, as before alluded to, had been given to the English agents. The portions of the correspondence suppressed hail reference to a contingency, but not such as that re ferred to. The bll way then ordered to be read a third time tc• morrow. After the discharge of some other business relative to private bid,, amongst which was a bill to authorise the payment of the Great Northern Railway dividend, The house adjourned at 25 minutes to six o'cl•iek. FRIULI: PHYSICIANS IN A MERICA--There aro not far from 20 of them. and several are iu Excellent business, They confine themselves generally to midwifery and the diseases of their own sex. Their euccess in the former branch tends to establish them firmly in families. Th, number will probably be gradually on the increase, since they are beginning t o b e employed in the neighbouring cities of Charlestown, Cambridge, R , xbury, and adja cent to•vns much more than for merly. —Boston. (C'. S.) Medic(tl World. THE Frig Neil EsfuAssr.--The Countess de Persiey opentd the saloons of Albert-gate House for the first time this season, last evening, an d was honoured with the presence of a brill ant gathering of the political and fashionahl9 world. ' FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE—PERILOUS ACCIDENT. The metal bridge crossing the Limerick and Fsyneg line at Attyplin, in the county of Limerick, fell in the other morning' with a tremendous crash. The first train was 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 , and, with great pr esence of mind and promptitude, despatched a messenger on horseback to Mount Etrl station to stop the train there, which he fortunat e ly a rr i ve d in tim e t o e ff ect. The line was thoroughly Wocked np ; 100 workmen were stt at once to clear away the mass of rubbish, and it is expected that the line will be clear for traffic this day. The loss wil fall on Mr. Dargan, the contrac tor, and th u ( xpense o f replac:ment will be very heavy. F irtunately no life was los., nor was any one seriously t rj. v m r locomotiveLitnorick, that !tun: Immediately on th e news o f th e acc id ent arriv officer, Mr. superintendent,active a a d being vigilant on the look out for the c flung train , started off w ith a f res h eng i ne and carriages t.) tbo slene of damage, and in half an hour had the ferred to the praesiiiieefegers, goods, and luggage trans only half an hour Lit train,. and arrived in Limerick [Anymivristustur.i e i - , near N•(.„__.,_ _ , _or,,,ftne nallett, of Whitty Head, a bad le‘gu,c`uificll-uthe I : cle 'uff:ireil for many years from wounds, so that she was vii , the howl). She tried a variety e a t i o e the ancle it had several to of stand or move about tions, hut without obtaining a cure. means and applica- God and using only three pot s ~E . Po or B y Man's Friend, of and taking three boxes of pill ,, she was perfect. perfect]. Dr. Roberts's Poor Man's Friend, for wounds anydceured. tions of every description, is sold in pots, Is. lid. r a u n P d - - 2s. 9d. each.. His Pilule, Antiscrophula3 for all im purities of the blood, is sold in boxes, is. ' lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 11s., and 225. each, by all medicine v en d ors throughout the United Kingdom and Colonies. , i NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Yome, MARCH 17. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) CONSPIRACY TO FORGE A WILL. John Oldershaw, Joseph Sills, the elder, Joseph 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 Nottinglia,msbire. 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 al ways k e pt a larg e quant i ty of cash by him. He had the patronage of the perpetual curacy of Stapleford. He was a man of peculiar and eccen tric habits, a bachelor, and dared by himself, and for two or three years previous and up to the period of his death the prisoner Sarti 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 we-e 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 Radb ourne , w h o 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 form er w ill s 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 deceased, the sign iture "John Jackson" not being in his handwriting. He should also show that the de ceased never made a will—that nothing could in dues 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. Jackson's death signed by the two Sills, who pretended to be the attesting witnesses ; that Sarah Radhourne well knew that no will had been mad* by the deceased, and that she was fully aware of everything that took place, and was in fact privy to a forged will being prepared in her favour. With respect to the Wraggs he might re mark that some little time before the death of the deceased they called upon an individual named Barker, who was a sort of amateur lawyer, and knew a little about the making and wording of wills, and asked him to write out a will for Mr. Jackson Barker did so, and the Wraggs took the copy of Ruth will away with them. The wording of this document displayed some legal knowledge, as it was must - led in legal terms. The Wraggs subsequently waited upon Barker, and asked him to forge the signature of John Jackson to the will, but he re fused to do so. Upon this Wm. Wragg offered to give him 5,000/. to forge the signature, but he still declined, and before leaving the house Wm. Wragg undertook to make Barks wife a present of 1,0001. if she should succeed in persuading her husband to lowed° 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 speak to the facts he had stated. At the funeral of the deceased, as he had before said, no will was pro duced or read, and Sarah Radbourne entered into possession of the property, took charge of every thing, received the rents, and treated the whole of the effects of the deceased as her own. Eventually the next of kin, having heard certain rumours re specting the property of the late Mr. Jackson, con sidered it desirable to assert his rights. He applied to administer to the estate and effects of the de• ceased, as being the next of kin, nothing of the will having been heard of up to that time. This was opposed by Sarah Radbourne, who put in the will, protesting that it was the last will and testament of the person whose signature it bore, and that the whole of the property had 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 speak to the circumstances con nected with the testator signing his name. The two Sills were consequently required to give evidence, but n o t a ppea r i ng th ey were comm i tted to gaol for cmtempt of court. After remaining in prison for some time they were released, - 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 in great distress, aid expressed herself as exceedingly sorry that she had anything to do with the will, laying the blame upon Oldershaw, as being the party who had led her into it. This showed cotn 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 his 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 Rad bourne ; that they could tell what weuld transport them and the whole party ; that Jackson never signed the will, 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 nu 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, ware written in different colotu.'ed ink, a sircumstsnce which could not have occurred with only a single inkstand. In conclusion, the learned counsel submitt e d th a t th e whole of the prisoners had 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 signature of the deceased, R idbourne knew that Mr. Jackson never made a will, yet she c mrsented to a will being forged in her favour, and Oldershaw had been the principal m ever in the transaction, having made the female Radbourne his dupe. From all thesurroun ling circu costa:ices 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 existence of any such document was not known until some time after the funeral of Mr. Jacks on , 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 else for the prosecution occupied all day, and -was not concluded when the report was despatched POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.—March 17. MANSION-HOUSE. —Mr. James Hill and Mr. Thomas Brough, coal factors, carrying on business 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-on- Tyne, and which charged them with having, as agents of Messrs. Harrison and Co., converted to their own use two bill s o f exchange of the respective sums of 100(. - 13s. 6d. and 1001., which had been ru entsted to them f or a specific purpose. Mr. Sleigh appeared in support of the prosecu tion ; and Mr. Hobl er attended on the pat t of the defend nts. Mr. Holder asked for an adjournment or the case, on the ground that be had only been instructed in the matter. Mr. Sleigh resisted the application, paying that the summons had been 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 bapking hous3S. The Lord Mayor, after a short discussion, said that under all the circumstances the case must be at once gone into. Mr. Sieigh—l have the honour to appear here, my Lord Mayor, to pro secu t e th i s c h arge aga i ns t the defendants; and it is a c h arge b eyon d a ll d o ubt of the very greatest imp or t ance w h et h er as rega rd s them or as regards the m ercan til e commun ity ge" Naval and Military intelligenoe. 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, when t wo seamen , name Thomp sett and Minton, were drowned, an 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 are 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 panies of their corps in India and China. The four companies 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 orders for Nova Scotia, Canada, and 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 in a forward state for service), arrived at Woolwich yesterday awning from Northfleet. The fourth, to be called the Slaney, will be launched and for warded to Woolwich for fitment to-day. The paddlewheel steam 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 basin at Woolwich, after a thorough readjustment of ma chinery and sundry repairs, is now ready fop re commission. The steam storeship Reaper, in Woolwich basin, is ordered to be fitted with Griffith'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, with 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. Solne 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 mud test,cor proving the strength of metal, and to verify its competency for the pur pose of making ships' boilers. This metal has the advantage over malleable iron of being considerably lighter, and much m ore d ura bl e. Mr. R. H. Pearson, of her Majesty' ship Pem broke, has been appointed First Assistrnt-Eugineer 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; Jahn M. Hockley, master in command, to the Volcano ; and Pierce Mansfield, acting assistant-surgeon, to the 'Waterloo. LOYAL PANOPTICON. On Monday a meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the London Tavern, for the purpoie 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.ous from the 18th of March (the 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. I Od. ; 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 month a special meeting was held, when the council informed the proprietary that 25,0001. was necessary to liquidate outstanding liabilities, and to leave a balance of 3,0001. in hand to carry on the institution. Failing in raising this sum the ac count; 117,7031., the assets con sisting of the building land and its contents, valued at 30,0001., sh ow i ng a l oss o f 87,703/. The mort gagees were proceeding to sell ofi the whole concern when they were, at the suit of Mr. Clarke, re strained by an injunction from the Court of Chan cery, Vic:.-Chancellor Kindersley holding that a power to a trustee to mortgage did 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 ,be was not competent to seek relief from his own act. It was, however, still opera to any shareholder not a member of the council to apply for its renewal. . After a long discussion, it was then resolved th at the sale of the institution by the mortgages w ou l d be illegal ; that it was desirable to resuscit a t e the institution under the Limited Liability Act ; and a committee was appointed to carry out the vie ws of the meeting: His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief has signified to Major-General Breton, commanding the South-West District, at Ports mouth, his int-ntion of inspecting, one day this week, on South-ea-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., got away from Spithead under steam yesterday morning, at a quarter before eight, for China, with munitions of war, reinforcements of me n , d m . Vhen a mile to the eastward of the Nab she made sail and shaped her course down Channel under topmils, 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 tender 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 Bentinck, 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 no oars could not regain the ship, and were comp e ll e d t o leave Captain Lindsay, 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 alternlative into effect by a sail heaving in sight at 8.30 a.m., which proved to be the brig Cuba, of London, Capt. Gray, who took the starving seamen on board, clothed, and otherwise treated them with the greatest kindness, and pro ceeded with them to the Falklands • six of the crew there shipped in other vessels, the other six and Messrs. Williams and Whit e h ea d 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 of 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 keepin g u p 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. Thy Lords of the Admiralty have sanctioned a change of divisions between Captain W. R. Max well, of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, and Captain P. M. C. Croker, of the Plymouth division. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CERCUIT. —LEWES, MARCH 17, CIVIL 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 Patton, 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 cou ld b e no d ou b t 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, he hoped to be able to satisfy them that this was really the case in the present inst ince. 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 fur 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 the bill, and nothing was heard of it urstil 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., Johus, the per sou 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 him that if he could get the 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 6001., 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 300/. bill that was now the subject of inquiry was given to Johns to get discounted, and he promised to pay the money into witness's bankers in London a day or two afterwards, but he never did so, 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 obtain the money he applied to restore him the bill, and he told him it was de stroyed, and he was satisfied with this answer. floss - examined—He had altogether several mo ney and racing transactions with Johns, and he won OW bet of him upon the Great Northern Handicap. Johns did not find the money for the 6001. bill, but it was advanced by a person named La Mort. The horses were the property of La Mert, and they were still in witness's possession. The 6001. bill had been paid. Witness had been sued upon one of his acceptances, but after he had pleaded to the action it was not proceeded with. He pleaded in fancy. He was not yet of age, and he was of course not of age while these bill transactions were going on. He might have told the 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. Ho might have " backed" 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 about 1,2001. or 1,3001. Mr. Fife "backed" bills for Lim to the amount of about 1,0001., and he in return " backed" one for him to the am,mnt of 230/. He had had the same sort of operat'ons with other officers. In answer to fur ther qua tiotn put by Mr. Chane:ers the witness slid that he might h ave accepte d bills to' the amount of 3,0001., knowing at the time that he was under age. He also stated that he had now left the army about three weeks, and that he had resigned his Comm ssion for private reasons that had nothing whatever to do with these transactions. In re-examination the witno , s said that he was ! now twenty years and six menthe old. It also ap peared that Johns kept racehorses, and that they stied at the same stab!e as the witness's at Insley ; and he said that ho might have told him upon one occasien that he was of age. He also said that La Mert, the person he had mentioned, was a very curious customer, and he 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, ens( 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 Channell said it appeared to hint that this ought to be done. Mr. Frederick Weedon, the plaintiff, was ascord ingly called. He st eted that he carried on the busi ne is of a woollen-draper in Warwick-strut, Gol den-square, and he had been in the habit of sup ply;ng 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 7001. He asked him to give bins some money on account in the begeining of January, and he h meted him the b 11 in ques ion, which he pl ic e d t o hi s accoun t , and gav e hi m credit for ihe amount. He said that he hest taken other bills of Curlewis's in the same way, and he had no knOwledge of any of the cir cumstances under which the bill had been origi-, pally obtained. This witness was subjected to a very rigid cross examinat.on by Mr. E. James, and in the course of his answers he said that the debt due by Cur lewis was comeosel of an o:d balance, from the Tar 1855, of 2001., and 5001. worth of goods that he had supplied to him during 1856. He produced his books to show that the bill had been regularly entered to Corlewis's credit, and he s i t that there w.is always a sort of standing balance against bins, and the bills were handed to him wore intended 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 api eared, was also the attorney for Curlewis. The plaintiff also stated that Curlewis had asked him to bring the present action. In re-examination the pliiutiff swore positively that he took the bill in the ordinary course of his 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 plaiutiff. In all these cases of bill rob beries the jury were aware that it was necessary to fiud out what was called an "innocent holder" for value to bring the action, and is certainly was an odd thing that a tailor gen,..raily appeared to be the unfortunate individual. (A laugh.) He submitted that in the present case the evidence of the plain- IX was most utratisfac`ory, and be observed that if it was true that Ourlewis owed the amount that had b-en stated to the plaintiff, he might have been called to prove the fact, but they had not dared to put him into the witne=s-box. Mr. Baron Channell, in summing up the case to the jury, explained to them the law upon the shb je .t, and said that the only point for them to con sider was whether the plaint ff had made out that he had given valve for the bill, and that he had received it in part paynient of a genuine pre-exist ing debt. jury retired, and after being absent for about an hour, they returned int o cour t an d gave a ver dict for the defendant. NORFOLK CIRCIIIT.—BEDFORD, MARCH 17. (Before Mr. Justice Erle.) ArtSON AT BIDWILLL. Edward Finch, aged 19, a farm servant, was in dicted for having set fire to the farm buildings of John Ware and Anne Ware were charged with having fought together in Threadneedle-street, in a state of drunkenness. 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 roe in a furious manner and tore my coat, and they were then takea to the station-house. Alderman Hale—What account can you give of 'ourselves ? The man—l am very sorry for it. lam a tailor, bat I was never in such a place as this before. Alderman—And whit ha; your wife to say ? She 'appears to have been the worse of the two ? The policeman—She wag, by a great - detl. When she set her husband's nose bleeding she seemed dis posed to do the same for me. The woman—l can only say we are very sorry for it. We wen) in the station-house all night. Alderman Hale—Well, I see that the woman was more culp tble than the man, and I discha rge hi m ; but I fine her ss. for being unk, 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 Messy=. Drummond's bank, in Charing-cross. The prisoner, who made no defence, was com mitted for trial. WESTMINSTER.—The Rev. Mr. Borrodaile, incumbent of St. Mary's, Tothdl-fields, waited o n the magistrate with reference to the youn g woman who appeared at this 'court on Monday, complain ing that Mr. Borrodaile had refused to christen her. Mr. Borrodaile stated that the girl bad been 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 sh e wanted a certificate of baptism before she emigrated. He told her that she would require previous in struction and preparation, and offered to commu nicate with the clergyman of her pari.h. To this she would not consent. On Monday morning she called on bim with the same request, and was met by the same offer, upon which she appealed to the ma gistrate. SOUTHWARK.—CaroIine Grays and 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, awl ninepeuce, and two gold rings, from the person of Eliza Ann Ford. Both prisoners are natives of Lancashire, and evidently connected with a gang of swell thieves infesting the crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis. The proseeutrix, a young lady residing at the Hoy Inn, CI eek-road, Deptford, said that on the previous afternoon, shortly after four o'clock, she was looking in at a milliner's window in Newing ton-causeway. She had at that time her purse and money safe in her dress pocket. While stand ing there a number of females surrounded her and pushed rudely against her. A little gill came lip to her and told her one of the n females had tali( n something out of he r pocket, kind on feeling she . missed 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 safe. Thomas Shin, engineer, of Deptford, said he was walking along Newing toh-eaussway on the previous afternoon, when he saw the prisoners follow seve ral ladies, lift up- their dresses and try their pockets. There were ftbout a dozen other feihgea nerally. The summons upon which they now stsrid before you has been issued under that which is known as the Bankers' or Factors' Act— an act which was very much discusse.l in a late celebra ed caee (that of Straban, Paul, and Bates), and an at which, amongst other thing-, enae's, "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 misdemeanour." 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 that the present charge is not against them. Mr. Sleigh continued—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 acscunt 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 less the parties on the other side are debited. It appears that in Feb. in the present year there became due a draft upon the defendants, drawn by th e p rosecu t ors f or 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 due Mr. Harrison happened to be in London, and had 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. 61, 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 cashed 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 2 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 exceed 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 100113 s. 6d. 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 3501. was returned to us disho noured, and we had to pay the amount. A few days ago I attended a meeting of the defendants' creditors at which they were present. A day or two before the meting 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 returned to me, and that by not paying it they had misappropriated my money. I told them they would be obliged to pay me the 2001. odd back again, or I must have them brought up before tin Lord Mayor. The defendant Brough said he would consult his solicitor upon the subject. The defendants both left, and, upon their return, Brough said that his solicitor had advised them to pay the money back by all means. This was said in Hill's presence. Brough afterwards gave me an order upon his solicitor for the amount, but I d . d not get paid. At the meeting of creditors the lia bilities of the defendants were stated to be some thing like 1,70/. and the assets, which c ons i s t e d of book debts, :bout 3001. The indorsement on the bills for 1001. and 100/. 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 Thursday next, the defendants entering in . () their own recognisauces in 2501. each to appear on that day. HOTEL AND TAVERN . KERPER6' PRO' VIDENT INSTITUTION. The annual meeting of the donors and members of this society was held at the Craven Hotel OU Monday —Mr. James Lovegrove in the chair. The report of the committee of management stated that the balance at the last audit amounted to 1001. s s. ca. ' and that 3871. O s . sd. h a d b een re ceived, v;Zr 1691. 7s. 3d. from annual subscriptions and dona - tions, and 2171. 13s. 2d. from the interest on the funded debt —the fund now amounting to 5,7 0 ° 1 • 3s. 4d. The expenditure for relief to 22 rneraher 3 and 7 widows during the same period amounted to 2791., and the expenses to 1341. Bs. 10d., lemin fd. a balance in favour of th e i nst i tu ti on o f 731. 171 c a The committee had d ur i ng th e past year f or warie circulars, together with the last reports of the COns:, mittee and auditors, to tho trade in town and throughout England and Wales, soliciting subscrip tions and donations in aid of the funds of the in stitution ; but they regretted that, although the experiment was attended with much labour an expense, it had not been responded to as the com mittee wished. Th e amounts di str ib ute d fir reliof during the last nine years had been as follows 1847, to eight members, 70/. ; in 1848, 17 m embers , 1781. 16s. ; 1849, 28 member', 2721. 12s. ; 18 50, 22 members, 264/. 18 s . ; 1851, 21 members, 2691. 1 in 1852, 32 mem b ers , 2291 . ; in 1853, 28 members, 2961. ; in 1855, 28 members, 2891. ; and in 185 6 1 29 members, 2791. ; making a total sum of 2,3 911 ' distributed in nine and a half years to 54 memberi; and the widows of members. The report also called attention to the fact that in some instances a P a r ment of one guinea for seven ye ars h a d en titledthe member to a payment of 154/., and that the large sum of 8331. had been divided among ai l , members, who w ere s till pens i oners on t h e fan°. The report was receivel and adopted, and after a vote of thanks to Mr. Tapster, the honorary sore' tary, and to the chairman, the proceedings t er. mutated. Country Markets. LIVERPOOL —MARCH 17. At this morning's market we had a small attendance of Ow millers and dealers. The business was limited. Mere 1 060 however, a disposition to invest in wheat at prices, however, which holders would not submit to. The reduction in price ° from Tuesday last was called about 2d to 3d per bushel 0 1 wheat, 6d to is per barrel and sack on flour, an d 6d to 1 6 per qr. on Lilian co rn . Th e t ra d e i n barley, beans, an d peas was limited, and in all cases of business prices ACS easier. Oats and oatmeal sustained late rates. LEEDS, AlAtm 17. Our supplies of grain continue limited ; still the whesi trade remains in a very lifeless state. The little of fine drl quality sells at about last week's rates, but other sorts iro difficult to quit, and prices tend downwards. Barley TAO' out activity ; value as before. Beans steady. Other articles unaltered. Average prices of grain—Wheat, 57s 7d ; bailey, „ 4 , 95 . 3d ; oats, 27s 2d ; b eans, 42s 6d ; peas, 41$ 0" rye, —B. —d. lIIILL-11Ans 17. We had a moderate supply of farmers' wheat to-day condition middling. Fine fresh parcels obtained about IR: week's prices, but anything inferior was difficult to oeu* Next to nothing doing in foreign. Fine malting barley 16 . ; dearer. No alter a ti on i s o th er art i cles. Linseed firmer, a nd cakes also. 8 8 Wheat, English, red 54 to 58 Ditto white 5B to 62 Dantzic and Konigs berg 5B to 63 Pomemnianandllam burgh Danish, Holstein, and Friesland 45 to 54 Russian and Odessa 50 to 60 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian 27 to 301 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 32 to 381 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 4O to 42 3 1 Peas, grey and black to ' Linseed, Black Sea 68 to „A Ditto Petersbnrgh 56 to i Ditto Bissau' Arils angel 3 Ditto Konigsberg and Memel 5O to 56 7•12 1 I,Lins.c., Hull 0/ O s to 101151°' IlDitto fine for.Bl lOs Od 10100 Ditto inf. for Ol Os Od to V" Rapeseed OOl Os to 001 O d I:Rape cakes —s Od to 1370 0 !Tares, English Ol. to liDitto foreign I'Guano OOl Os 81 tol3lloo Bones Flour, per brl. 3500. 300• COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY. tmsterclam ...... 11 16 Ditto, three months .. 11 18% Botterdana ............ 11 1854 Antwerp .............. 25 47% Bru3sels ...... 25 47% Eiamburgh ............ 13 8 Altona •••• •• •• •• •• • • -- Ditto, three months .. 25 67% Marseilles 25 67% Bourdeana ............ Franktort-on- Maine 119% Berlin •• •• go •• •• • • •• •• Vienna •• •• •• ••• • • • •• •• 10 26 rrieste.. •• .• .. • • •• •.... 10f 27 Petersburg .......... .. 37 Madrid .........., 49% Cadiz ......... 50 Barcelona ............ .• •• •• •• •• Gibraltar ...... .. •• ... •• .L Leghorn .......... •. •• 29 117. Genoa ...... .......... 25 72A , Milan ...... •..... •• .. -- , Venice............-- :—.,, Naples •• • • ..... . ... """" Palermo essin .... l3O m .. 130 1 ,4 Lisbon ... ......... ...• hi% Oporto ................ 52 IRio Janeiro ..... . •• .... Buenos Ayre5.......... --- New York,6o days' sight , .."' Philadelphia .......... FILMES OF BULLION, PIM Of. Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coln .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... • 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Silver in bars ...... 1) 0 0 LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, lifAxau 17. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The tendency of the share market today is more buoyant, but prices closed a shale lower. The following are the transactions : Caledonian, 341 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 984 4—Ditto, new 91. AIWA issued at 1 die.), p.—Eastern Counties, 1G 13s. 9d; -- London and North Western, 104—Midland, 81 soil Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 37i I—Great Wel tern of Canada (bonds payable in 18574, 3/. Be. 9t1. --01611 Eastern, 22A BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 17. STOCK EXCHANGS.—There was a good market to-br: There were seller' o f St our V a ll ey G uaranteed St oc k ". 4 54—Birmingham Pref., 104—London and North 117 e' tern, 1014-11idlands 81i—Bi rm i ng h am C ana l s a t 9 2 1 -- Birmingham Fire, at 100—Ditto, District Fire, it sil Birmingham B an ki ng C ompany, at 334. Buyers of O r o a A Western Birmingham Pref., 10—Stoir Valley Prof., —Great Western, 67. LEEDS, MARCH 17. e STOCK EXCHANQZ.—North-Easte rn (L ee d s ) , 191.1 6 5. 3(1. -Midlands, 818. MANCHESTER, MARCH 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market wasquiet SD— gat' d , Shea)ids, 37-A London and N or th W es t erns 104-I°_,..' new 9/. shares, 1- led.—Caledonians, 314- Doren, 22i London Aths, 3s. 6d. . It is now estimat e d th a t th e P en i nsular and 0603 — ha steamer will take out about 700,000/. on the 20th, prin cipally silver for India, the amount engaged for Ch i " , at present being limited. [Anyzarzsm]tExr.}—Medicine always aggravates chronic dig' , eases, such as dyspepsia (indigestion), flatulency, habitual con stipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, &c., but Mt Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food invariably cures thou in a very short time. Wo extract two out of many thousand expressions of gratitude from invalids :—From the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart. Cure 52,612.—Rosstrevor, Count/ of Down, Ireland, December 9, 1854. The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in the interest of suffering illy manity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Ara,bice Food has cured her, after all medicines had failed, of indigee: tion, bile, great nervousness•a n d i rr it a bi lity of many Yea"- sauding. This food deserves the confidence of all sufferers , and may be considered a real blessing. Inquiries will be . cheerfully a nswered.—Trevagler, Gulval, near Penzance, Feb. 20, 1851.—Eighteen years' nervous debility, violent pal Pita: tion of the heart, throbbing of the temples, violent pains o ' . the left side and back, shortness of breath, cough, numbness of the extremities, crampsPspasms, flatulency, retching, and such general weakness, that I was consequently fearful of fall ing when on mylegs; all these symptoms have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Re valen ta Arabica Food. —MARY Ostsser: Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey ; _ Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurser ; Dr. Ingrate ; Lord Stuart de Decies ; th e Dowager Countess of Castle' stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. For further particulars respect"' ing this invaluable food our readers are referred to Du Barry ig advertisement in another part of this paper. BIRTHS. OP A SOS. On the 17th inst , at 25, Nelson-terrace, Stoke It ewingtOtt the wife of J. W. Wilmot James, Esq., M.R.C.S.E. On the 17th inst., at 4, New Bridge-street, BlackfriarOP the wife of Dr. Halm OF ♦ DAUGHTER. On the 16th inst. at 5, Ampthill-square, the wife of th e Rev. Valentine Wi lliams. On the 14th inst., at 33, Lansdowne -place, Brighton, wife of William Stephens, Esq. KARR InD. • On the 17th inst., at Godmersham, Kest, Robert Tassel's Iver, Bucks, surgeon, to Ann Maria, eldest daughter of John Fagg H arv ey, Esq., of Godmersham. • On the 17th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Mr. Arthur AA. of Bombay, to Elle n , second daughter of Mr. IL C. of 40, Camden-r oa d V illas. Newt n, ~ n, DIED. - On the 17th inst., John Faulkner, Esq., one of the oldest inhabitants of the Strand, aged 81. On the 16th lust., at Isleworth, suddenly, Charles Hens! kitanbrough, Oa the 16th inst., at the Manor House, Great Stammer., Middlesex, Charles Otway Mayne, Esq., late Commander in the H. 1.0 M.S aged 77. On the 16th inst., Mr. James Hedges, of Pembroke-aquere, Kensington, aged 70. On the 15th inst., at Ditcheat Manor House, Somerset shire, the Rev. Hill Richard Dawe, LL.B., of Magdalen&Col lege, Cambridge, aged 47. On the 15th inst., William Leslie, Esq., of Warthill, Aber , deenshire ' aged 87. ' On th e 15th inst., at Brighton, Major Crause, unattached, aged 67. On the 14th inst., at Lord's Cricket Ground, Mary Ann, le wife of Mr. Robert Dark. LONDON : Printed and Pablithed by MURDO YOUNO r t i of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun, Odic°, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coo of Middl9aom s Wednesday, Afarch 18, 107.