The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-27 00:00:00

.R.t.IILIFdY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTHERN. The following further report of the directors will 1 be presented to the half-yearly ordinary general meeting of the proprietors, to be held by adjourn ment at the London Tavern, on Ist Dec. next : "In the report issued on the 21st August last the dizectora duly published 'a. scheme showing the profits of the company since the precediug half-yearly meeting, at. which a dividend was declared,' (as the Com p anies Clauses Act requires), after retaining the whole e arnings of the last half of the year 1856 , 243 , 9231 . ss. Bd. Thisf sum has been appropriated by the Act o f Parliament au fr . o this year, to repurchase the amount of the stocks dulently created and issuedlby Redpat h and to repay allhis frauds incurred by the company b y reason of frauds and forgeries , . Particulars of the expenditure of the 243,923/. ss. 8:1., and of any amount that may be -recovered from Redpath's est a t e, will be published after the completion of the purchase of the frauduient stocks. 1t is expected that this account will be ready by the next talf-vearly general meeting. "The amount of such profits now to be divided is 183,2761. 15s. T_ltider the recent decree of the Court of Chaecery it is only competent for the meeting to declare dividend on the footing of paying thersout to the pre ference stockholders a full year's dividend, which will he 168,1251. 65., leaving 15,1511. 94. to be divided among the holders of original stock, including the A. and B stocks. This will yield a dividend of 6s. per cent. on the original stock, and therefore of 12s. per cent. on the B stock, and none on the A stock, leaving a small balance to be carried ts the next account, "The great majority of the proprietors will, no doubt, be .much disappointed at this result of the legislation and litigation of this year. The directors caa only say they have done their best to carry into effect the resolutions of the meetings of March and July last. It is not their fault that the bill was drawn so as not properly to express the declared intention of the company, and of the com— mittees of both Houses of Parliament, who unanimously adopted it in the belief that they were thereby making all classes of shareholders contribute to the loss caused by Redpath's forgeries ; an intention which the Lord Chancellor said in his judgment might reasonably have been entertained by Parliament, 'as the whole act was a compromise' between the different classes of share holders, who were all reduced to an equal difficulty ; only it had not been clearly expressed. "Nor was it the directors' fault that after this defect had been discovered and amended in the House of Lords, the House of Commons was induced to disregard the epinion of their own committee, who had heard the case fully argued, and to defeat the compromise unanimously adopted by the committee of each house, by retaining this technical defect in the bill. "The decision will no doubt seriously affect the re lative position of the diferent classes of shareholders is many companies, by giving a new and unexpected value to what have been hitherto called preference shame and effacing the reeognised distinction between theis and guaranteed shares. Fortunately, however, this part of the decision is not likely to have any practical effect on the proprietors in the Great Northern Railway Company, since bill; for some such ex'raordinary calamity as that which produced all this C;nfusion, there would probably never have been occa sioieto consider whether the preference stocks are en titled to arrears of dividend or not. " After all, the original shareholders mast remember that the result of these proceedings, however unfairly brought about, is only equivalent to that which was contemplated by the bill first introduced by the directors and stopped by Lord Itedesdale, which would ultimately bavis thrown the whole loss on the ordinary stock, by capitalising it at their expense. The directors sincerely regret the distress which has been occasioned to many of the proprietors by the refusal of one. House of Parlia ment (or the person who exercises its authority) to allow that loss to be made easy by capitalising it, and of the ether to sanction the compromise by which the payment of the whole out of one half-year's income was agreed to op the condition of all parties contributing to it. "The directors venture also to remind the proprietors that no good can now be done by further complaints. " At the last two or three meetings of this company, language has been used from which a stranger wouldsup posi that the shareholders had been brought to the verge of ruin and deprived of all hope of a fair dividers' for years to corns. "It is true; that, as usually happens, the greatest noise has been made by those who suffered leas. ".Bat the preference shareholders who deno unce d th e _ _ directors for delaying their dividends of 21. and 11. 45., until the most important railway question that has ever been tried could be fully heard and decided, have evidently been encouraged in this course by finding themselves in a majority of voices, though always in a minority of vote;, even without the proxies; still a ma jority can in the first instance carry anything and resist anything, as there are no means of counting the votes without - the tedious process of a poll on every question. " If the peaceful and rational majority of the proprie tors think the cbaracterof the company worth preserving and.that the time is come to make an end of the business which has caused so much ill-feeling, it is neither pru dent for themselves, nor fair to those who have had to fight their battle for them, to leave their opponents in even apparent command of the meeting. " /t is impossible to foresee what course may be taken at the approaching meeting by those who have created the disturbance at the last two. " But the time is coming when no company will get persons of character to serve them as directors ifAhey are to be insulted by their constituents whenever they meet then publicly, and not even allowed to make the speeches necessary to conduct the business without in terruptions. If the proprietors think their business wound be better done by such persons as those who usually distinguish themselves by imputing the worst posSible motives to the present directors in all their acts, it is easy for them to say so, and as soon as that opinion is deliberately expressed it shall be immediately acted on. "But they must make their choice, and the proceed ings of th© ensuing meeting will probably be taken to indicate that et:price in one way or the other. " The proprietors are reminded that among the busi- Mfg adjourned, is Mr. Greening's vote of censure on the.directors, which is necessarily connected with the consideration of the report of Messrs. Giesler, Malice, and Waters, three members of the late committee of inqjiiry on the same subject, to which the director; now therefore publish their answer and send it herewith.' The Great Northern board.have issued what they ter " The Answer of the Great Northern Railway Board to the report of the Committee of Inquiry." The only really important portion of " The An steer" is the following, in which it will be seen th a t the directors persevere in their determina'ion to throw the blame of the Redpath forgeries on Mr. Clark, the late share registrar of the company. The committee are perfectly aware (though they do not state it, test leave it to be picked out of documents) that the forgeries had reached 120,5371., while Redpath was only a clerk under Mr. W. H. Clark, the then registrar, and that the largest amount of forgeries in any half-year was committed in the one just before Mr. Clark's resignation. Yet, so far was that gentieman from even then diicovering that he had this enormous and constantly-increasing amount of forged stock in his books, that (as he acknowledged to the committee) he was only informed a few weeks before he left that there were some comparatively trifling discrepancies So trifling, indeed, did they appear to him, that he again certified the register to be correct, for the 13th time since the forgeries began, and left a letter behind him sta'iag that everything in his office would be found correct. . . "It might have occurred to them (the committee) to inquire how far the registration system of this company had been copied from others of greater capital and expe Tittles, and also how far the non-disc )very of the frauds was due to any system established or sanctioned by the directors, and how far to the mode of working it. They have indeed reported emphatically enough, that ' the secretary signed the dividend warrants without exsmina- Coil, and without even noting the amount ; so that if be had been required to state on the following day what sums he had drawn from the banker, there was no re c,» dto give the information.' But they never ae!red a single question as to the directors' knowledge or sanction of that practice ; and have so stated the matter ate to lead any one to infer that the directors had invented or sanctioned a system by which any amount of false or excessive dividend-warrants might be sent to the secre tary for signature, without the possibility of his disco vering the excess. " With equal disregard both of the facts and the law, they try to connect the forgeries with the use of the secretary's stamped signature, not on the dividend werrants, but on the stock and transfer certificates ; - whereas there ii not the smallest proof that the over issue& would have been more difficult if the signature had bleu printed beforehand, as the committee kno w that it is is other companies. Their statement that the secretary's signature was requisite to make the tranefera valid in this company is in direct contradiction or con tempt of Sir Fitzroy Kelly's opinion, and Mr. Rochfort Clarke's, and of Mr. Justice Willes's declaration on Redpath's trial, of which opinions Mr. Giesler and his 43J-reporters cannot pretend to be ignorant, as they have a 1 been published in the company's reports. "It is remarkable that with all their desire to throw the blame of this calamity upon the directors, the com mittee have not ventured to specify a single thing which the directors ought to have done to prevent it. If their general insinuations have any defini e meaning, it craly be that th e di rectors ought to go through the rd l'avi e t r :of every d e p ar t ment over again themselves, ' in o to be sure that the auditors, the accountants, the se6r °tun the regi s t rar, and theirrerpective clerks, and inJeed every officeranservant of the co m p an y h ave a ll kept thei r proper cheeks ittee meant seytein of?Ph on each other. If the com at is kind, they had better have id so distinctly, or it 4 t a have said what they do , m e an. For even as reganrcylartatee ture, the shareholders are requested to observe that if t hei r protection against similar frauds is to depend upon an . improvement in the e d n . d s e h d by system, or any new made of contiol this committee, there - is no reason why tehceorrara not begin again next year ; for they have doneebsoluotuelldy nothing towards suggesting any specific improvement or alteration whatever; they have added nothing to the information possessed by the public long before their report came out ; they have elucidated nothing, except their own incapacity for dealing with the suFject they professed to investigate. " But although the committee who were specially appointed for this purpose have failed to point any speefic defect, or to make any specific suggestion, and have left the matter exactly as they round it, the directors have done otherwise. They have been favoured with informa tion from nine of the principal railway companies as to theAsysteme previously in use with them, and the modifi cations made by them since the discovery of Redpath' fraud. It appears that there is not one in which fraud of the same kind might not have been committed and gone on for a considerable time with being discovered. Indeed, it has been already stated that the plan of registration and eieming of dividend warrant& of the company was origi-. ginally founded on that pursued by the London and North-Western ; and in consequence of the discovery made at the expense of the unfortunate proprietors of this company, all the others have already made alte rations in their systems, more or less radical and more or less complete. It is probably impossible to invent any system of checks which can be relied upon as a complete protection, where the fraud of one party is helped by the collusion of some and the negli gence of others. It is only after long experience and the discovery of most unexpected modes of fraud that the Bank of England and the Exchequer-bill Office have arrived at their present system, which, after all, can only be pronounced perfect until some new Fletcher, Redpath, or Smith demonstrates its imperfection. But the directors hope that the plan which will be hencefor ward pursued in this company will, at least, do all that can be done to anticipate any conceivable fraud being carried on without being speedily found out." MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN- dOLNSHIRE. The receipts and working expenses since the close of the last half-year's working contrast unfavour ably with those for the corresponding period of 1856. The entire working charges for the fortnight ending Nov. 15 (exclusive of the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincham line) show an excess of 1,1891. The total expenditure of the past 6 mouths' working has been 102,7691. ; presenting an in crease over the corresponding period of 1856 , of 12,954/. The receipts on the company's canals for the month of October exhibit a falling-off of about 4001., and upon the three months a decrease of nearly 5001. ; and the expenditure for the same period presents an increase of 2,3001. With respect to the receipts of the South Junction line, there is an increase of 4,8471., while the increase of expen diture has been 1,0021. CEN IR L CRIMINAL COURT—Nov. 26. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Baron • Watson. ) , James Bagley, 23, and J ohn Embleton, 43, were charged with forging a Post-office order for 2/. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prose cution ; Mr. Ribton defouded Bagley ; Enableton was undefended. Mr. Ribton made a very ingenious address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner Bagley, and he urged that there was nothing to show that the story he told was not the truth, and that some person who had either found or stolen the letter contain ing the money-order had employed him to get it cashed. He at the same time observed that 'a postman was a very likely person who would be employed for such a purpose. The other prisoner said that he had merely pre sented the order at the Pust-office, and that he was not aware of there being anything wrong in the transaction. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners, and Bagley was sentenced to four years' penal servitude, and Embleton to be impri soned and kept to hard labour for 18 months. Mark Nicholas Powles, 20, was charged with felony, under a statute passed in the reign of his late Majesty William IV., in having unlawfully entered into a recognizance of bail in the name of another party, without the authority of that party. The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to be kept to hard labour for fifteen months. John Grace Leveridge, 26, was charged with stealing an order for 311. 2s. 2d., the property of William Oldham. Mr. Ribton conducted, the prosecution; the pri soner was defended by Mr. Sleigh. This case occupied the Court for a considerable time, owing to the line of defence that was adopted, but the facts were in a very small compass. The prosecutor is a wine merchant, carrying on busi ness in London-street, Fenchurch-street, and ,the prisoner had been in his service for nine years, and wasamployed in a very confidential manner. Ac cording to the evidence of the prosecut or, about the 4th of November he gave the prisoner a cheque for 311. 2s. 2d. to pay the duty on a butt of wine that he had sold to the Earl of Leicester, and about the same time he also gave the prisoner a blank cheque, which he was to have filled •up for the sum of 31. for a week's petty cash, but it appeared, that instead of doing so, he inserted the sum of 961. 2s. 2d. on the cheque, and obtained that amount from the bankers ; and he also cashed the cheque for 311. 2s. 2d., and afterwards obtained gold for the notes at the Bank of England, and it did not appear to be denied that the ptistmer had appropriated the residue of this money to his own The jury retired, and after being absent about half-an-hour gave a verdict of not guilty. There was another charge.againSt the prisoner of forging the.cheque for 961. 2s. 2d., which Mr. Rib ton intimated his intention to proceed with. NEW COURT. [Before the Recorder.] John White, gunmaker, was indicted for stealing 51., the moneys of Thomas Frost. Mr. Platt prosecuted, and Mr. Langford defended. The prosecutor, an eldetly countryman, carrying on business as a miller at Halsted, in Essex, said, that upon the 16th of November he was in Wel lington-street, near London-bridze, when he asked some one whom he met if he could tell him where a boiler maker was to be found ; the man said he would take him to his brother, who followed that trade. The man first asked him if he would have some beer, and the prosecutor assenting, they all went to a public-house, where the prisoner and another man joined them ; one of the party then said that he had some money left him, and was up in town to receive it. A lock was then produced, and the man who first spoke to prosecutor offered to bet that it could not be picked. Another one pressed the prosecutor to bet, but he refused. He was then taunted about not ;having any money, upon which he was incautious enough to produce the sum named, which the prisoner took up and went away with, but was soon after taken into custody. .... . . . Mr. - Langford, in a speech of some length, con tended that the money had been lost fairly in a bet made by the.prosecutor. The jury, however, entertaining a different opinion; of the transaction, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to 12 months' im prisonment. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) William Moody, 29, soldier, was indicted for robbery with violence upon Joseph Fleck, and stealing from him a watch and chain. Mr. Gent prosecuted. The prosecutor, a German, living in Pembroke place, Vauxhall, was upon the night of the 30th of October proceeding along Victoria-street, West minster, when he was stopped by the prisoner and another man. He was almost immediately knocked down with great violence, and the prisoner fell upon him. He raised an outcry, and prisoner then got up, ani tearing the watch and guard from pro secutor's neck, both men ran off. The police said that hearing the prosecutor they went in that direction, and saw the prisoner run ning away from the spot. They followed him into Blue Anchor-yard, and took him into custody. Upon being taken into custody he said he had run up that place to escape the observation of a picket which had just turned out. There being , nothing found upon him at the station the con stables went back to the spot where they had ap prehended him, and there among some rubbish found the prosecutor's watch and chain. The jury found the prisoner guilty. — An officer of the Guards, to whose regiment the prisoner-belonged, said he had been specially sent to inform the Courttbat the prisoner bore a very bad character in the regiment. He had been tried several times when in the Crimea, but never con victed. The Court sentenced him to four year' penal servitude. Thomas Eastley, Si, soldier, was indicted for stealing a canvas tent, waggon cover , and three blankets, the property of our Lady the Queen. Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, and Mr. Brooke, de fended. It appeared that a police-constable met the pri soner upon the night of the3oth of October coming from the barracks at Woolwich with a sack upoa his shoulder. He (the officer) stopped him, and, opening the sack, found the articles in question, which were quite new, and apparently had been just taken from the stores, and had the Govern ment mark upon them. _ _ Mr. Brooke, for the prisoner, urged in mitiga tion the - my high character which he bad_ borne, and the tact that his pension would be lost. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Bodkin requested that sentence might be deferred to afford the prisoner an opportunity of giving information to the authorities, as it was evident a system of plunder was now going on. Sentence porApotted. Francis Allen , 35, tailor, and James Coward, 22, labourer, were indicted for ste din°. 52.) copes of the London Journal, the property of William Mark Cl ar k. Mr. Metcalf e and. Mr. W. Cooper, Mr. Mr. Poland prosecuted ; and J. P. -DJyle a nd M • Ribton defended. . r I. _ . The facts have been- very recently reported. The prosecutor is the publisher in Warwick-lane and upon the 24th of October both prisoners had been to his office. As Eoon as they left, a quantity of copies of the above work were missed, and almost - Afterwards traced to the sh o p o f Allen, in directly. Bath-street. , '. Newgate-stre e t. The jur f •'und them both gu ilt y , an d C owar d y ' ''ore convicted, was sentenced to 18, having been be , 12 Da onths' imprisonment. and Allen to AIIDDIEsfi SESSIONS, Nov. 26. The November Genera.: Sessions of the Pea c e f o r the county of Middlesex con2menced this morning at Clerkenwell, before Mr. Bliss, Q. C., Attorney- General for the Duchy of Lancaster, presiding for the Assistarec:Judge, and a bench of magistrates. There were 53 cases of felony and 9 of misde meanour for trial. Mr. Bliss in his charge to the grand jury observed that the learnvd Assistant-Judge had, he was glad to say, so far recovered from his late serious and severe illness that there were hopes of his being soon able to resume his duties. Alfred Jones was indicted for stealing the sum of 3/. in the dwelling-house of William Lowman. He pleaded " Guilty." Mr. Bliss said he had read the depositions, and from the evidence it appeared that the prisoner, who was a paper-hanger by trade, had been em ployed in that way of business at the prosecutor's house, and while so engaged had taken advantage of an opportunity, necessarily afforded him, to steal from one of the rooms a small box in which there were 3/. There was a most aggravating circum stance in the case. The prisoner, after emptying the box of the money it contained, placed it in the trunk of one of the servants, to avert suspicion from himself and to throw it upon an innocent individual. That was a very base and subtle act, for which, however, he had made some atonement, for by pleading guilty he had removed all doubt as to the guilty person. The sentence was that be be kept to hard labour for six calendar months. The prisoner wished the Court to understand that he protested against the assumption that he placed the cashbox in the servant's trunk with the idea attributed to him. The trunk was empty, and he placed the box in it, so that it should not be found. Charles Pemberton, 20, was indicted for stealing three saws, the property of Henry Fairbank, an engineer in Old-street, St. Luke's. The prisoner was acquitted on this charge, and he was then tried for feloniously receiving part cf a pump made of gun-metal, weighing 441 b., which Stafford Smith, 18, engineer, pleaded guilty to stealin g . The latter prisoner wa4 one of the same prosecutor's apprentices, and the cylinder of a pump being missed from the premises inquiries were set on foot, and ultimately it was ascertained that it had been sold by the prisoners, acting together, at a marine storedealer's, 67, Friar's-mount, Bethnal green. They got 4d. per pound for it, but the pro secutor said it was worth Bd. even for old metal. The marin storedealer gave it up to the prosecutor the day after it was inquired for. The jury found Pemberton guilty in this case, and The Court sentenced him to eight months', and Smith to six months' hard labour. Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Orridge for the prisoner Pemberton. John Frooms, 19, was indicted for stealing six bottles of wine, value 1/. 10s., the property of Robert Lowden. Mr. Dighy appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. lorry for the prisoner. The prosecutor was a carrier between London, Southall-green and Norwood, and it appeared from his evidence that on the morning of the 25th of October, soon after 12 o'clock, as he was passing the Duke of Northumberland's residence at Isle worth, he observed the shadow of men at the tail board of his cart. He immediately jumped down, and the men ran away. On examining two wine flats which were packed behind the cart he found that one of them had been broken open and five boti les of port and one of sherry, w&ich a short time before he had seen safe, been taken out. Though he bad but a momentary glance at the men, be gave a description of their appearance, the light of the moon being full upon them. A good deal of circumstantial evidence was given to prove the pri solar was one of the parties concerned. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Abraham Fawkes, 24, journeyman butcher, was in&cted for feloniously embezzling several sums of money re3ei7e'l by him on acc o u n t o f George Sut ton, his master, from customers. He was found guilty and sentenced to six months' hard labour. - Caleb Smith, 28, and Thomas Herbert, 34, were indicted for unlawfully attempting to obtain one sovereign from William Boatock, with intent to defraud. Wiliam Bost)ck, the prosecutor, stated that he was the keeper of the Sir Walter Scott beershop in Brunswick-street, Hackney-road, and on the 31st of October the prisoners came to him and asked if he would purchase any tobacco cheap ; he said he would, and' Smith showed him about a quarter of a pound, as ,a sample of a quantity—about 501 b.— whiel he said he would sell at 2s. per pound, as he had. obtained it "on the eross"—leading witness to infer therefrom that it was either stolen by him, or was the proceeds of a rabery committed by some other person. Smith offered him 121 b. for a sovereign, or the whole for 31. He agreed to take a 121 b. packet, and told them to wait in the bar a short Moue. lln n nut out and informed two police officers, whom he stationed near Shoreditch church.' He then went back home, when the prisoners asked him to lend them a bag to fetch the tobacco, and ho arranged to meet them at Shoreditch church. In about half an hour they appeared at the ap pointed place, Herbert carrying the bag. Witness asked them if they bad Dt the tobacco, to which Smith replied that it was all right, and requested that the money might be handed over befOre he parted with the tobacco. Witness asked them to step over the way to a tobacconist, but they re• fused, and asked that they might have the money then and there. On crossing the way the police took them into custody, and the bag, on being exa mined, was found to contain a small quantity of tobacco only, the great bulk of it being sawdust. The prisoners did not deny the offence, but beg ged for mercy on the ground th a t th e y had never done wrong before. Tha jury found them guilty, and Smith was proved to have be©n convicted on a former occa sion of defrauding detective officers by pretending to be able Lo give a clue to the parties concerned in the robbery of the Queen's plate. Smith was sen tenced to three and Herbert to one month's hard labour. (Before Mr. Creasy.) Eugene Riordan, 23, miller, was indicted for stealing half an ounce of gold, the property of John Bacon. • Mr. Taylor prosecuted ; Mr. T. Atkinson ap peared for the prisoner. The prosecutor is a gold watchcase manufacturer, carrying on business at 5, Charles-street, City-road, and on Oat. 15 he sent the sweepings of his shop to a mill in Great Sutton-street, Clcrkenwell, to be ground, for the purpose of extracting the valuable metal therefrom. He sent a boy to the mill, named John Castroe, to see the process of grinding and while so engaged he saw the prisoner (who was em ployed to grind the sweepings) repeatedly put some thing into his pocket. Upon this he left the place, and went and informed his master of what he had seen. The master, immediately returned to th e mill, and charged the prisoner with having stolen some pieces of gold. He denied that he had done so, and produced from his pocket a piece of copper. The prosecutor persisted in saying that he had some gold, upon which he took out of his pocket several grains, and slid that was all ; but on a policeman making his appearance he threw some more pieces on the floor. These the prosecutor picked up and kept, with the grains the prisoner had before given to him. When the policeman searched the prisoner he found some pieces of metal wrapped up in paper in his trousers pocket, and also some grains.of gold in his waistcoat pocket. He was then given into custody for having stolen the gold. Mr. Tindal Atkinson addressed the jury for the prisoner, contending that there was no proof of the identity of the pieces of metal as ever having be longed to the prosecutor, and altogether the case was too loose for the jury to act upon. As there was considerable doubt in it, they were in common justice bound to give the prisoner the benefit of it, and acquit him of this charge. • Mr, Creasy summed up, and The jury found the prisoner guilty. . Sentence was deferred fur inquiries to be made as to the character of the prisoner. Wm. Frost, 27, plane-maker, was indicted for stealing in the dwelling-house of Edward Cox. The prosecutor resided at No. 3, Pembroke wharf, Caledonian-road, and the prisoner was his nephew. He had lived with him ever since he was a child, but five weeks. before ,the commission of the robbery he had been forbidden from again en tering his house. On Monday, the 9th November, in consequence of a communication made to him by his wife, he went upstairs and found that a box in his bedroom had ben broken open, and 561. in, gold and silver hail Leen take n from it. The pri soner knew that lie kept his.money there. The j money was q uite safe in the box on the day previous. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Creasy sail he weuld take time to consider what sentence he would pass upon the prisoner. John Ricluno id, 60, ropemsker ' was indicted for unlawfully attempting to commit the crime of self murder by cutting his thrJat with a knife. He pleaded guilty. _ _ _ It appeared that in 1843 the prisoner was tried at the Old Bailey for attempting to murder his wife by cutting her throat, and was sentenced to 15 years' trans , }ortation. In 1855 he was liberated on a ticket of leave, receiving a gratuity, and he wont back to his wife and children, and behaved wolifor - some time, but at length he broko into Ma of violerice towards them, and in the end turned his aga,:nst himself. One day he was found lying on a sofa at the house of a brother-in-law with hi: . throat cut. This charge was preferred to xestrain him from further violence. Mr. Bliss, before whom the prisoner was tried, severely admonished him upon the enormity of his conduct, and sentenced him to one month's im prisonment, and to give security for his good be haviour for 12 monts. VENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1857. SCREW STEAMERS AND SAILING VESSELS. (From the Times.) Never was there a contest in which the victors owed so little to what is called "luck" as that which seems now to be drawing to a close in India. Everywhere the governing race was surprised, out witted, and reduced to the moat terrible straits. Everywhere fortune seemed to go against them— the fortune of position, of opportunity, and of sea son. The largest cities, in which were concentrated the strongest forces of Sepoys, fell into the hands of the enemy ; Delhi, Agra, Lucknow, and Cawnpore seemed irretrievably lost. The time was one when the British force in India was unprecedently small, -since within a few years kingdom after kingdom had been annexed without any corresponding in crease of European troops. Then the mutiny broke out in the early summer, when the natives of a temperate climate are least able to bear exertion, and a long march or a bard day's fighting may be expected to lay up nearly every man in hospital. Our countrymen seem, in fact, to have been placed by fortune under every possible disadvantage, an to have plucked safety and victory out of danger only by the exercise of tho highest faculties neces sary to war. Perhaps the most surprising fact con nected with this great history is that success has been won without the slightest aid from home. When Delhi was stormed, and the Residency at Lucknow relieved, more than 40,000 men were tossing on the ocean, but not one had reached the scene of war. In every kind of steam or sailing vessel which could be adapted to the conveyance of troops, the forces of England had been shipped off batch by batch during three long months, but even the swiftest sailer bad hardly arrived in the Hoeghly before the fate of the war had been decided. Now, though we have in this case happily fallen on our feet, and though the British name will even receive a higher lustre from the scantiness of the numbers who have won the battle, yet it is not unimportant to point out the fault that has been committed in sending reinforcements by such slow and antiquated machines as the ordinary class of sailing ships. By the last mail we have in telligencethat a num ber of vessels, containing about 5,000 mon, had ar rived at various ports of our Indian possessions up to the 22d Oct. It is to the difference in the length of these passages that we would call attention. It may, however, be remarked that all the sailing.vee sels have made passages far more tedious than the average, and that winds and waves seem also to have been in a conspiracymith our enemies. We even hear of calms on the Line lasting for nearly four weeks. There had arrived, however, at Calcutta when the mail left, the steam ships Thebes, Golden Fleece, and Caledonian. The Thebes sailed on 31st July, the Golden - Fleece August 8, the Caledonian, July 26. Thus all these steamers had accomplished the voyage under three months, and the Golden Fleece, one of the largest ancl.finest vessels afloat, had arrived in about two months and a half. The mail steamer passed the ships Areta and Bucephalus, the former of which left England as e ar ly as th e 18th of June, while the ,other sailed on the Ist of July. Thus the Golden Fleece, which sailed more than seven weeks after the Areta, arrived at Calcutta before her, beat ing the Bucephalus also by more than five weeks. No w, the event has been fortunate, but if it had been otherwise what would the world have thought of an arrangemeat which produced so intolerable a delay ? Seven weeks ! What might not have been done in that time ? The mines under Lucknow might have been finished, and . Havelock might hive come too late for the rescue ; the Punjaub or the Bombay Presidency might have broken into revolt through a belief that the English succours that were so long talked about had no ex silence. In fact, the whole fortune of the war, and perhaps the destiny of India, might have been changed by the neglect to use the most familiar application of science at the critical hour. At Madras were the Carthage and United Kingdom steamers, the for mer of which left England on the Ist of August, an 1 the latter on tlte 4th of the earns mouth. At the latest dates 'no sailing vessel had reached Madre& At Gallo there had waived on the 234 of October the steam-ship Australian, which left England on the 15th of August, and had there fore made the passage in 69 days' ; on the 25th the C.%ndia arrived in 71 clays, while only two or three sealing veasels from among thoseearliest despatched had made their appearance. On the whole, it may be said that the average difference between the pas sages of the sailing vessels and the steamers will pro bably be found considerably to exceed a month. Of course, in this estimate we do not include large clip pers like the Lightning and the James Baines, which were taken up at a later period, but only the ordi nary sailing craft in which the troops were de spatched during June and the early part of July. Now, there can be no doubt that the whole of the • troops, might have been sent in steamers without any sacrifice to the country. The great impulse which the building of screw-steamers had received would have enabled the Government at any time to c omraan dthe services of a dozen or m e re fi rs t- c l ass vessels. The owners are always willing to lend if the Government will hire. Nor can we believe that the additional expense ought to weigh for a moment in the choice. In fact, it ,is doubtful if steam transport is not in reality cheaper than by the ordi nary . sailing vessels. ' ,The passage .is shorter, and tbe ship may be returned to its owners within a less time. The loss of the soldier's services by a long voyage must also be taken into account, and the chance of sickness induced by protracted confinement on board. Vi ewe d even as a matter of money, we may say that the prompt arrival of troops is necessarily the first considera atinoan.y.most pressing, yet in emergencyoi. remonst w re a n s ce troops we re sent in ships which have lost Wren weeks on the d h e e fi re m th ee e voyage. . If we are rightly informed, the Queen's Govern ment has not been primarily to blame in this affair. Toe East India Directors have been the partisans of that method of marine locomotion which best accords with their antique traditions. In fact, the first batch of troops was sent out upon the requisi-. tion of the Company, the Government being only concerned so far that it furnished the men. A cer tain number of troops were made over to the Com pany, which transported them in its own manner. It was only when the danger became extreme that the Directors were prevailed upon to take up the best vessels and to send out the men with the utmost despatch. Of course, the reasoning of the Directors and their partisans has been that lcudia belongs to the Company, and that all which the Government should do is to supply at a fair remuneration men to defend it. But the country can no longer submit to such fictions. The double Government, which is the type of obstruction and circumlocution, has had its. day, and must now give way to some thino better suited to the - present time and to - actual wants. We are happy to - say that as soon as-Parliament meets -for the despatch- of general business the total abolition of the Company's Go yernment will be proposed by Ministers. India will be brought immediately under the control of the Crown and Parliament, with such a machinery of administration as shall be thought eouduciv© to its welfare. The greatest dependeiicy.of the empire will receive the benefits of direct Ministerial respou sibility. Under -such a system we cannot doubt that the nation which has conquered and recou qeered India will -soon urge it,..onwaral., with new force in the path of improvement. • Dr, Livingstone was to have embarksd for Portugal yesterday at Southampton' in the Peninsular mail packet. • The last advicee from Lisbon, however, con vey so fearful a representation of .the ravages of the epidemic there that the doctor has thought right to p r ,,t,, lne his visit to that capital. rADTEItTISEIMNT.I—The indefatigable researches of Dr. Livingstone have suddenly made us acquainted with one of the happiest people in the world, of whose very existence littlq was hitherto known in civilised Europe generally. In their ailments they never havo recourse to cod liver oil, and they araequally independent of physic and the physician, for Dr.. Livingston found their staff of life to be the Revalenta Arabica Food, which keeps them perfectly free from disease, " consumption, scrofula,. cancer; die., having been scarcely heard of, and the smallpox and measles have not been known for 30 years!' In England also the Revalenta Arabica has pro duced a wonderrul improvement in the health of the people, removing cough, consumpti on, ast h ma, d e bility, indigesti on , (dyspepsia) constipation, nervous, bili ous , and liver com plaints, and restoring the f acu lt y, o f digestion, aid net vous muscular energy to the most enfeebled, as proved by testi monials froth the cel , d3ra.ted Professor of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey ; Dr. Canapbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzel:; Dr. Ingram; Lord Stuart de l Decies the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,000 other well known individuals, whose health has been restored by 'this useful and economical diet,. after all other means of cureliad been tried in vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery abandoned. Its effect on the progress of population is most favourable as exhibited by the Registrar-Gencral,show- ing for London an average of 1780 weekly births against a mortality of 1200, leaving a. happy gain of 580, or near 50 per cent. in favour of progress; a result most cheering to all classei, as it opens a fair prospect that by the more general use of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food the Europeans will soon enjoy the same freedom from disease . as the West Africans. It is sold in canisters, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4 s 63 . ; ' 51b., 225. The 121 b. carria ge f ree, on receipt of .post-offica order. Harry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street ; Fort num, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Grace. church-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street ; 330 and 430, Strand, I,ondon, BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in. Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 14th da F of Nov., 1857 : PRIVATE BANKS. Average Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jernmitt Pomfret,and Co. Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 25,076 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co 29,514 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co 9,384 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co. . Bedford Bank. Bedford—Barnard and Co. ... 31,352 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—H. M. and G. Tubb 16,080 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,325 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons 1 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—Clay pons and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—T. Gee and Co. Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury —J. C. and A Gillett Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Son, and Co. • .•• Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Lloyds & Co. Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and C 0.... Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Ca. Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Worlledge and Co Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank. Devonport— Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams Fast Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter' and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co. Godalming Bank, Godalming-IVlellersh and Keen •• Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon.. Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0... Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford—. Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Veasey and Co. Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin. Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross • and Archenfield Bank, Ross Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge sank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson and Co Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—• Beckett and Co. .•• Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—T. & T. T. Paget Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Whit&l,l and Co Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Lia,n dllo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—S, and- G. F. St. Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree--Nunn and Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and liun,,lrford Bank, Marlborough—Tan _ 8,839 6,177 67,355 14,387 7,673 32,651 18,253 23,715 65,04 35,017 29,590 34,262 25,886 11,444 63,555 17,025 11,924 2,289 14,339 46,06 31.631 22,694 2,963 15,803 35,429 44,006 4,265 19,330 72,835 8,564 10,004 37,628 25,635 8,446 10,319 67,249 82,814 9,181 47,266 96,346 52,216 38,988 24,700 7,001 11,210 5,781 5,359 12,692 25,902 20,060 19,943 48,537 4,905 30,283 22 : 585 19,113 62,812 14,718 51,515 43,793 5,243 55,265 36,954 29,593 19,761 86,525 30,186 7,124 3,312 37,594 10,847 13,724 1,124 ner and Co CD. ,,.. Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow - Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross 'and Herefordshire Bank, ' Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Gbdfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co.................... Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocoek. Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham . mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur ' neys and Birkbecks Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not • ting,iam, Hart, Fellows, and Co , Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Parsons and Co. 01 , 1 Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton: bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and_ Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W. Clinch and Sons Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverl3y Bank, Hull—Pease and C 0.... Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and C 0.... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walte rs . Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co Reading Bnk Reading—Stephens, Blandh and C 0............................................................. Richmond Bank, Richmond —Roper an Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches. ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston---Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son Rue BAn't, ltye— R. C. Po mfret, & Co Ross Old Bank, Heredfordshire, Ross • Allaway and Macdougal - • Saffron Walden and Noah Essex Bank, Saf fron Walden—Gibson3 and Co. Salop Bank Shrewsbury--Burton, Lloyd, and Co. Scarborough Old Banic, Scarborough—Wood all and Co ,Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and ! Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury— Rocke, Ey tons, and C 0.... Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbune. —Valiance and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce ... 10,240 17,116 29,248 14,995 21,201 50,735 18,680 20,770 47,547 4 580 10,307 3,201 20,555 9,365 29,622 11,421 33,117 7,651 9,518 44,433 10,785 9,836 11,373 27,047 28,085 6,313 4,068 G,534 11,510 9,182 13,038 3,890 28 305 14,392 24,261 41,120 3,443 1 Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co.. 11,945 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherley, Fell, and Co. Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stafford Old Bank, Stadord—Stevenso n and Cr, .• Stamford and - Rutland Bank, Stamford —Eaton, Cayley and Co. . 29,911 Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton—H. and R. Badcock 28,278 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and Rundle 10,790 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and Co. 8,957 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire—Thrapston, Yorke and Eland ITring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and Co Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges, Wells, and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greav,s and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers, and Co West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield— Leatham, Tew, and C 0... Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alt on B an k, Win chester—Bulpett and Co Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurneys and Co Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe— P. and W. Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Go od ricke and Holyoake Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Laven der, and Co Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co York Bauk, York— Swann, Clough, and Co 2,954 13,166 12,074 11,620 12,459 6,970 8,724 16,017 12,298 7,019 22,066 4,166 43,548 14,538 17,747 15,471 35,243 57,0G3 6,920 5,736 72,480 11,343 43,520 11,419 43,216 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmorland, Kendal... Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton. Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Bradford.. Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 35,509 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District JOint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich 22,669 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 144,465 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 17,678 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,230 Hull Banking Company, Hull 23,105 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,337 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax . Helston Banking Cbmpany, Helston 1,523 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Clara Banking Company, Knaresborough Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,773 Lancaster Banking Company, • Lancaster 64,155 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds 22,878 Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicesier 71,547 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 48,374 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors 8,735 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,484 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham ,13,278 Nott;noi rn. Nottinchamshire Banking I Company,Throttingliam 12,561 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 43,816 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 80,887 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, -Liverpool 59,720 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Saddlcworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,675 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,187 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang. port 347,03_ Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 43,890 Stourbridge and' Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge , 56,929 Sheffield and nallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield 21,870 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield 51,998 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhampton 32,970 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake field 13,901 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven 30,667 Warwick and- Leamington Banking Company, Warwick West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol 71,675 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 72,328 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield 29,340 Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Com pany, Worcester 5,977 York Uniou Banking Company, York 67,731 York City and County Banking Company, 90,385 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 116,165 J. MICHAEL, Acting Registrar of Bank Returns, Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Nov. 21. 10,850 8,926 46,805 9.520 29,827 16,464 48,470 9,73 34,036 23,260 12,807 115,420 16,837 THE COJIMPRCIAL CRISIS. A meeting of creditors of Messrs. J. and A. Dennistoun and Co., of Glasgow, with branch houses at London, Liverpool, New York, and New Orleans, whose suspension was announced on the 7th inst., was held yesterday, when a statement of affairs was submitted by Mr. Coleman, the ac countant. Mr. Murray, their London solicitor, made the following proposition on the part of Messrs. Derinistoun—namely, that the creditors of the houses in Great Britain and the United States to be paid in instalments—viz., 3s. in the pound - on or before the 30th of January, 1858, 2s. on the 31st of July, 3s. on the 31st of De cember, 4s. on the 30th of June, 1859, 4s. on the 31st Dec., and 4s. on the 30th June, 1860, with 5 per cent. interest on each instalment ; and that the creditors throu g h the Australian house should re ceive 6s. Bd. in the pound on the 30th Jan., 1858, 3s. 4d. on the 30 th June , ss . on the 31st Jan., 1859, and ss. on the 31st July, also with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. After a short discussion the proposition was passed unanimously. ' A meeting was .held yesterday morning of the creditors df Messrs. Edwards and Mattbie, who failed on the 17th inst., with large engagements in the colonial produce trade trade, but there rppeaas to be a desire to conceal the facts of the case, and no particulars have been obtain e d. It said, ow ever, that a resolution w as a d opte d to wind up under inspection. At the time of suspension the liabilities of the firm were rumoured to amount to h 3t a )o v , e o o oo b / ti . a o n r ed 4f i / a o rg ~000 0 a / d . ,, aa nt )ed e s () they n.w were arr alleged to ta, There were no fur her fai'ures in Lo u d on yester day, and e ffo r t s are still being made to resuscitate one or two of the houses connected with the trade of the north of Europe which have lately sus pended. The advises from Hamburg mention the follow ing failures :—Mr. B. Roosen, jun., Messrs. Mul ler and Kessler, Mr. J. Muller, Mr. Geb. Ruben, and Messrs. E. Thiel and Co. Some measures just adopted. however, bythe leading mercantile houses had greatly assisted in restoring confidence. LONGEVITY. —An old woman named Mary Dunn died at Bondleigh, North Devon, last Saturday, having lived to the good old age of 162 years. For the last few year, of her life the parishioners of Bondleigh were in the habit of holding festivals to commemorate her birthday. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The following changes have been made in the disposition of the various dep, is of the Indian re giments at Chatham garrison :—The 19th depot, under the command of Captain L. D. H. Currie, from the huts at Prince Henry's Bastion to St. Mary's Barracks ; the compardes of the 64th Re giment, under the command of Brevet Major W. J. tJhads, from Brornpton Barracks to the buts ; the 90th Light Infantry depot, from Chatham Bar racks to Bronipton Barracks, in order to enable the authorities to provide barrack accommodation for the numerous recruits who are daily joining the various Indian battalions at Chatham. The Calypso, 16, was commissioned at Chatham yesterday by Captain F. B. Montresor (1851.) An evening class has been established at Brompton Barracks, Chad - rain, for the instruction of the non-commissioned officers of the Royal En gineers in military drawing and fortification. The o!ass, which is under, the superintendence of Ser geant-Major J. Jones, R. E., numbers about 50 members. The Persian, 12-gun sloop, Commander John H. Chads, is ready at Sheerness for her compasses to be adjusted. The Heron, 12-gun sloop, from Chatham, com pleted the adjustment of her compasses yesterday. She is to be inspected to-day—her ore w will be paid their advance nn the following . day ; and her pre sent orders are to leave Sheerue3s on Monday next for Portsmouth. SUDDEN DEATH OF ADMIRAL BATEMAN. We regret to announce the death of Admiral Bateman, which took place ou Monday Morning, at his residence at Corston, near Bath. The de ceased, we understand, war in his usual health on Sunday, and went twice to church that day. Wheu • he retired to rest in the evening, be Made no com plaint of being indisposed, but at half-past eight on the following morning he was found, by his . daughter, Miss Bateman, lying dead in bed. From the appearance of the deceased, there was no doubt that he died from au attack of apoplexy. : On TOOS- day an inquest was held 'on the body by Mr. Bruges Fly, coroner, and a verdict of "Died from natural causes" returned by the jury. . . . .A.dmiral Bateman was born in 1776. He entered the navy in 1790 ; was in 1792 midshipman of•ihe Penelope, 32, Capt. Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, in which vessel, when in company with the Iphigenia, 32, he took part, Nor. 25, 1793, off St. Domingo. in a warm action of half an hour, which terminated in the capture, with a loss to the Penelope of one man killed and seven wounded, of the French ,36- gun frigate, L'lnconstante. Removing nett to the .Boyne, 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, Aft Bateman, in 1794, witnessed the reduction of - the French West India Islands, and was slightly wcunded while employed' on shore at the attack on Toint-h-Pitre, Guadaloupe. He was promoted to a lieutenancy, Oct. 31, 1795, in the Scipio, 64, Capt. Robert M'Douall, Francis Laforey, and Chas. Syd ney Davers, while under whom he participated in the reduction of the• Dutch settlement of Demerara, and on that occasion, as at the subsequent reduc tion of a Spani,h squadron near Trinidad, was again wounded. Was second lieutenant of the Monarch, 74, at Copenhagen, when his captain, Roi ertJari. Mosse, was killed. He obtained his commander's rank April, 1802 ; served two years and a half in command. of sloops, and was posted Sept, 25,1806. His subsequent appointments were, Sept. 25, 1809, to the Scipion, 74, bearing the flag in the Bay of Biscay of the Mon. Robert Stopford ; in the course of 1812, to the Revenge, 74, flag-ship of the Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge ; and Stately, 64, off Cadiz, where, on becoming senior officer, he effected the dismantlement of the English dockyard ; and April 12, 1813, to the Impetueux, 74, which ship he brought home and paid off in the following. June. His advancement to flag rank took place Nov. - 232 1841, but not having served the whole of the pre scribed time as a captain, he was placed on the re. served half-pay list. Rear Admiral the Elcill. Sir H. Keppel, has been meeting his friend Sir James Brooke,.and his Sarawak acquaintances. He arrived at Singa pore on the Ist of October, and was entertained at a dinner by John Harvey, Lq. (chairman), and about 40 gentlemen. Among the guests were the Hon. Sir R. B. M`Causland,, Brigadier M‘Leed, Colonel Liardet, Capt. Grenfell, of her Majesty's steamer Amethyst ; the Rev. Mc. Thompson, late chaplain of her Majesty's steamer Raleigh;; Thos. Biddle, Esq., United States consul, &c. Admiral Keppel s ill lingers in the East, and doubtless would gladly forego his flag rank for the leadership of a gunboat division. We understand that Captain. Edmond Heatheoto will shortly have command of the Mmander, 44, coast-guard ship, now in the Southampton Waters. Country Markets, MANCHESTER—Nov. 26. A fair attendance at our market to-day, and sellers com menced by asking an advance on English wheat, which checked sales, and in the business done last week's pricer could not be exceeded--the best runs of American being at the same time held firmly for 2d to 3d per 701b■. more money. The flour trade had a little more tone, and trawl.' actions moderate, at an advance of 6d to is per sack. Pats and oatmeal sold slowb, at last week's rates. Beans and , Indian corn deained is to 2s. NEWARK—Nov.. 25. There was a good supply of grain in the market to-day. The trade ruled brisk for wheat, and prices were at as advance of is to 28 per qr. Beans 2s to 31 lower. Wheat, white 58s to 608 ' red 528 to 545; barley, Malting 36s to 38s, grinding 32s to 345; oats, 24st. 358 to 37e, 225 t, 208 to 32s ;. beans, 468 to 48s ; malt, 73s to 781 ; peas' 42 ' to 448; tares, 568 to 608 per qr. LOUTH —Nov. 18. There was a limited attendance this morning. SII heavy market. The few transaction were much the same as the rates of last week. Wheat, 41s to 45s ; extra, bls ; barley 34s to 37x; ° at° 20s to 235; beans, 42s to 465. BOSTON—Noy. 25. , - The supply of wheat and all kinds of grain "was mode rate. Wheat sold firmer, at an advance of 6d to is per qr. Other qualites supported prices. In Indian corn there was no quotable change. Prices :—Wheat, red, 42s Od to 47s Od; new, —8 to —II ; white, 468 Od to 48s - Od; extra, 50s. Barley, 303 Od to 40A Od. Oats 19s to 258. Peas, 378 to 403 Od. Beans, 401 Od to 45s Od per qr. GLASGOW—Nov, 25. The foreign imports show fair arrivals of wheat and flour to a market by no means overstocked. HOlders base stiffened tneir prices a shade, but the business doing to-dal is so trifling that buyers cannot be said to have responded , and the re tail prices current for wheat,. flour, and barley are the same as last week. Oats 3d to 6d cheaper. Beans dull, at a reduction of ls. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—NoT. 25. The grain supply was large, butt the quality inferior, and prices lower. Pats better. Wheat, on the top, 4s Oil down, and on the average 2s 6d down. Barley, 2s ..down on the top, and Os 5d down on the average. Oats on the top is 2d down, and on the average Os 7d up. Beaus on the top 3s 6d down and en the average is 5d down. AVERAGES PER IMPERTAL QUARTER. Wheat £1 17 3 0-12th. Do. new -12ths. Barley Oats 1 2 7 1-12ths. Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 1117 gra sold 665 qr; Barley 2219 qrs sold 1973 qrs. Oats 1033 qrs sold 977 qrs Beans 166 gra sold 87 qrs' DERBY SMITHFIELD.—Nov. 24. A very large supply of fat beasts to-day, but the demand was flat, and a good many left unsold. The num ber of sheep was not so large, but beat quality in request. Fat calves more plentiful, and maintaining high prime. The supply of fat and store pigs was limited, and no Irish. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to ; mutton, 7d to qd ; lamb, —d to Od ; veal, 74d tc B,i per lb. ; pigs, Os 6d to 11a 3d per score ; rough fat, 4s 9LI to Os per 141 b.; hides, 41d to 6ld per lb ; calf-skins, 6d to 711 per lb. BIRTHS. OF ♦ 80X. On the 23d inst. at 2, Chester-square, the wife of Bit Justin Sheil, On the 22d inst., at Douglas, Isle ,of Man, the wife of Sir Henry 0. IL Chamberlain, Bart., of the Hon. Carps of Gentleman at Arms. On tke 21th inst., at King's-road, DAUGHTER Brighton, the wife of John Brady, Esq., M.P.—prematurely, stillbons. On the 25th inst., at the Terrace, Camberwell, the wife of Herbert Barry, E,q. MARRIED. On the 25th inst., at St. James's, Spanish-place, and afterwards A St. George's, Hanover-square, Joseph Byron Blackett, M. RC. S., 28, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, second son of the late Powell Charlie Blaekett, R.N.. to Caroline Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. Cutler, 8, Ilan. over-street, Hanover square. DIED On the 25th inst., at Gearles-square, rfoxton; Joshout Ffaldren Esq., aged 76. • On the 25th just, at Ilagley-read. Edgblston, near Bir mingham James Christie, Esq., aged 2. On the 25th inst., at Ashford, Kent, suddenly, Mr. T. Startup,o 4 n d7f.' inst., at How s h am , Y or k s hi re, G eor ge th o aged Chi-An:l.loy, Egq., aged 75. On the - 2lth lust., at Farnham, Essex, Mr. John Parris, aged 65. On the 23d inst., at Apsley House, near Woburn, Bed° , Lieut.-Colonel C. Hervey Smith, aged 74. On the 22d in t., at Potter's Fields, Southwark, Mr. r• Graves, aged 69. On ihe - 25th inst., at Laura-place, aapton, Joseph Curtis, Esq., aged 88. LONDON Printed and Published by MURDO lO(,N'. • of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N' • 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count,' of Middlesex, Friday, November 27, 1861.