The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

tampob ire.

SOUTH AM PTON. —A same V corm To Ounce
LIPL—On Wednesday the town of Southampton
contributed an addition to the long list of unhappy
women whose lives have been sacrificed to the we.
railing extravagant fashion of expanded dress. TIN
unfortunate victim in this instance was • fine young
woman named Bather Spenser, about 20 years of age,
who has lived as • domestic servant for some three
years in the family of Mr. James Bishop, boot maker,
of Bernard-street. A little after six o'clock the had
lighted the kitchen fire, and was peeing across the
room by the grate, when her dress, expanded by
crinoline, ignited, and before sesidanoe was at hand
every particle of her clothing was burnt away, and
! the poor crYstare was literally roasted to a cinder in
the steel cage in which, in common with thousands
of her sex, she had encased herself. Her piteous
screams for help awoke Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, the
latter of whom, thinking the hones nas on fire, and
alarmed for the safety of her children, caught up
two of them and radial out on to the roof of the
house, where she was seen by several neighbours in
a position of great danger, making her way with the
children along the open parapet to the next house,
which she happily reached in safety. Mr. Bishop,
on going down, found the poor girl lying on the
landing at the top of the kitchen stairs, to all appear.
soca nothing but a heap of smouldering ashes.
Neighbours were called in, and medical aid pro.
cared, and the unfortunate sufferer was taken to the
Royal South Hants Infirmary, bat she was beyond
human help, and her excruciating agonies termi•
noted in death about four hours after the accident.
The deceased was much respected by her master and
mistress.

It is announced that Grove* I, King of Greece, will
take bin departure from Copenhagen for his future
home immediately after the arrangement of the lonian
Islands question. Should he take these islands with
him to Greece he ought W be received with special
favour by his subjects.
The report that Spain had taken some diplomatic steps
in reference to the recognition of the Southern Con-
federacy has been officially contradicted. Si sin like her
neighbours, will await the course of events.
The Colonel O'Brien who wee no barbarously murdered
by the mob during the late riots in New York is supposed
to be a gentleman who resided for some time in Sheffield
under the name of Thompson. The colonel, it is said,
had **en service in the Crimea, and had been in Italy
with Garibaldi. He left for New York in December
last, was appointed a major in the Federal army, and
was wounded slightly in the battle of Fredericksburg.
Too candidates for the House of Commons' seat at
Pontefract, rendered by the elevation of Richard
Monckton Maass (Lord Houghton) to the peerage, are
sneounced aa being in the field. Tho one is Sir F. W.
Head, late Governor•Ovieral in Canada, and author of
the " Handbook of Spanish Painters," and the other is
Mr. Samuel Waterhouse a less distinguished man.
The first is a Liberal, who believes that the truest Con-
servatism lies in progress, and the sewed is a Consens.
I ties, who is strongly opposed to the fashioning of the
English constitution "after • trans-Atlantic model."
Mr. Waterhouse is not likely to be called upon to resist
such an innovstion.
The poet sessional appearances of members of Parlia-
ment before their constituents have commenced. The
representatives of Harylebone have been giving an
account of their stewardship to the represented, and
have, in • general sense, of course, made confession of
their having been unprofitable servants during the last
110•6011. Lord Ferrnoy complimented the Government
on their gener.l policy, and descanted on the foreign
questions that came before Parliament. Mr. H. Lewis
dealt with home questions.
Sir John Bowenng, (Her Majesty's late Plenipoten-
tiary in China,) recently stated before the Glasgow
Chamber of Commerce, ' that many of the beet_ looking
teas are the very commonest brown leaves disguised
with powdered Prussian blue and Erpsuni, and that if
• Chinaman was offered such coloured tea for his own
drinking, it would offend him." English consumers
know tat by using Horniman's Pure Tea, absolute
freedom hem all mineral colour is insured- the demand
experienced for these Teas is immense, they are with-
out equal for strength and quality. Dr. Hassell write,
" When at the docks. I inspected Hotelman and Co.'s
imports, the Greens have none et the 'bluish firoZ
data an COW TOM, they exhibit a dell olive ku
being thus pure, with the Meek are parfeetlylarliole-
some." geieredi in Packs* end supplied in every
tows by Ayala oily; ems the Leal Bel in tide paper.

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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, JULY Si
(Before Mr. Owned=lonsr HOLZOTD.)
Rs '3OLONEL WILLIAM PETRIE WAUGH.
Thin was the adjourned application for release from
eustod
Thetankrupt had obtained from Mr. Commissioner
Gooßourn leave to surrender to his bankruptcy. The
colonel is in Whitecrose-street, at the suit of the official
manager of the defunct bank, for unpaid calls amount.
ing to between 1150,000 and £60,000. There was also
another detainer lodged against him. but removed this
morning. The Court was crowded, the publie seeming
to regard this noted case with unabated interest.
Messrs. Sargood, Roxburgh, Linklater, and C. K
Lewis were in the case.
Amongst the heap of documeete produced was an
illustrated catalogue of Breaks's bland, with views of
Branksea Castle, Lc., all set off with &lure/deg letter-
press, in the true George Robins style, and really an in-
teresting pamphlet in folio. The pines is described as
a freehold domain, entirely surrounded by the asas_oon-
eating of 760 acres, situated at the mooth of Poole
Harbour. It will be seam from the widow* that, in tx.
estimation of one engineer, it was only to be surpassed
in value by Sinbad's valley of Di/moods, the gentle-
man in Ts/otiose having set a_ value of from fifteen to
twenty minima siesta( upon Breaks's Island.
The proceedings were commenced by Mr. Roxburgh,
who applied for the release of the bankrupt The only
detainer now against him was at the suit of the London
and Eastern Banking Corporation, or rather the official
manager thereof. The claim' was founded on • pro-
miosory note for £50,000 given by the bankrupt a debt
which he submitted was barred by the statute of limita-
tions. it Laving been given more than six yeas. ago.
William donee, Esq , M.D., examlned by Mr. &r-
-iot.' lam a physician, residing at 27, Albanyatreet,
and have also a residence at Latterworth, is Leiesseer-
shire. I have been attending Colonel Waugh during
the eighteen weeks be has been in prison. The present
data of his health is very precarious. He is suffering
from iritia (an MR1.41.146011 of the Iris,) and also from an
internal disease. He bad fifteen attacks of iritis before
I attended hint. The disease has been dieddedly aggra-
vated by confinement, and the result of continued con-
finement will probably be total bhndoess. The general
eats of his health, arising from confinement has been
very moderate. Protracted incarceration is likely to
endanger his life.
Cross-examined by Mr. Linklater: Did not think
Spain a better climate for frith; than England.
Colonel Waugh examined: I became • director of the
London and Eastern Bonk in August, 1855. I never
aaw the book. of the bank in or aliont !tugged, or Sep-
tember. or October 1857.
Mr. Linklater : Not about that tireef—Nntaime : no
help me Ood, it is my intention and desire to slate all
I know and can recollect.
Mr. Liuklakr : Without teseveratioa, I will believe
you.
Witness continued: It was previously to my connec-
tion with the bank that I bought the Wood of Brook-
sea, which was, I was assured, a very valuable pro-
Pert). I had previously been 23 years in the army, and
subsequently had nothingto do except as a simple
country gentleman. I left the army in 1852. I per.
chased Branksea Island from Sir Frederick Foster for
£13,000. I raised the money partly by mortgage.
There remained on mortgage, at the Instance of Sir F.
Foster, £B,OOO of the money. My income was then
about £3,000 a-year, consisting of E4OO a-year of my
own, and the rest—my wife's jointure—l had married
shortly before—and the money of an aunt who lived
with us then. In 1855 I bad some money Invested on
security in Indio. I obtained the mousy from the sale
of my commission when I mid oat.
Mr. Roxburgh objected to this line of examination,
which ought not to be pursued until the bankrupt hat
the accounts and papers before him, and was in a poe-
Con fairly to undergo hi. examination. No man,
without the documents, could relate such transactions
after the lopes of no many years.
Witness: Mr. Roxburgh, it is my wish to answer as
far as I can. I want to conceal nothing.
Commissioner: An examination into details is at
present quite unnecessary.
Mr. Linklater: There were three or four minim
upon which the assignees were most desirous of infer.
Examination continued: I joined the London and
Eastern Bank in 1855. I had then Branksea Island. I
laid out upon it more than £30,000. I had not then
any other property of my own. I had my wife's in-
come. I raised most of the money Iso expended. I
had borrowed £30,000 when I joined the bank. I bad
heard of the bank quite by accident. I recollect call*,
at the bank in March, 1853. My introduction was the
valuation of the Brackett. Island estate. My first
transaction with the bank WSJ raising money from some
Agra Bank Shares, of which my sister lent ma £5,000
worth.
Mr. Iluklatar: £5,000 worth '—Witness: Yes'
, for, '
forseeing that one day or other I would be totally blind
and tumble to get any help from documents, I have
tried to impress that facts on my mind. The bank at
firet, upon the security stated, discounted my bill for
£2,600. The Agra Rink shares ought to appear in the
books of the Eastern Bank to my credit. The bank
sold the Agra Ronk shores in 1855. Upon • subse-
quent occasion I told the manager of the London and
Eastern Bank that I should want £50.000 to lay out on
Branksea bland, which expenditure would render it of
immense value, for so I was Ramrod. 1 was to have the
power of drawing. cheques from time to time for that
amount, hieing green what was considered by the bank
good security. That arrangement was made before I
became a director. Breaks's was then in mortgage for
230.000. I became a director of the Bank in A nattA
1855. toy qualification being shares to the vales of
13,000. The £l.OOO I obtained from the bank for the
time being on security. I did not see whether or not
the whole of the capital of the bank waa paid up or not,
but I believed it was a good bank. I was not then, and
am not now: swore that some of the Aimst... had not
paid no their qualification.
Mr. Roxburgh : This is wholly irrelevant.
Colonel Waugh Pray allow me to answer as far as I
can.
Commiesioner : What is your object, Mr. Linklater?
Mr. Linklater replied that be was instructed that
Colonel Waugh well knew that none of tire directors of
the bank had paid up, end that C.olonel Waugh had
been allowed to borrow from the bank no leas than
£240,000 on so-called security, which was wholly insuffi-
cient, and this was done behind the back and without
the knowledge of the directors, and by collusion with
the m.nager of the bank. He was also informed that
since the bankrupt went away, he had been engaged in
certain mining operations in Spain, in which the
creditors might have an interest.
Commissioner : The point which the Court has to
decide may he settled without any detailed inquiry,
which may take place at a future stage.
Mr. Roxburgh protruded against Mr. Linklater making
statement' which would appear in the newspapers next
morning without the bankrupt havinehad the means or
the opportunity of refuting them, and showing by
authentic documents bow untrue or how exaggerated

they were.
Afr. Linklater : Did you not borrow from the bank
£240,000 7--Colonel Waugh : Nothing of the sort, and
I was never more ourpriaW in my life than when I beard
such • etatement first made in a court of justios, and I
wee not allowed to o ,ntradict it.
Mr Lioklater : What did you receive from the baok
- -Witness : As nearly as I can gate, about £114,000 in
money. I often asked for, but could never get, my
account of interest from the bank.
Mr. Linklater : How did you appear in the balance.
sheete of the bank?
. Mr. Roxbunth : Produce them before you ask any
emotions upon them.
Kr. Linklater : Did you appear as a debtor in the
bank books for Mo,ooo.—Witness : No • so far as I
know, only for £114.000. I never could ge:t any proper
amount I cannot say what pawed at the board
meetings of the bank in September and October, 1658,
for I was then very ill. I never bad more than
£114,000 in cub from the bank. lam rare of that
Mr. Linklater : Did you not borrow from the bank aj
10 percent.
Mr. Roxburgh : Don't answer without seeing the docu-
ments
Witness: When I joined the bank, I was to pay 5
per amt. ; but they said, if the island (Beelike's')
turns nut wall, you must pay us 10 per cent. (A
laugh.) I had • valuation of the island made by Mr.
Neale.
Mr. Linklater : And I believe he valued it at 215,000,000
or £911,000,000 sterling. (Laughter.)
Witmer : Neale (Neale and Driver) furnished •
printed report, from which it appeared that &Lassa
Wend might be worth £15,000,000 or 2211,000,000 ; but
I don't thlnk that report was made until 1857; at all
events, I obtained no money from the bank upon it. I
then thought Neale to be a competent valuer. He was
a civil engineer, and had been recommended to me by
the bank. He assured me that the value of the island
was incalculable. (Laughter.)
Mr. Linklater Was not this Neale • druggist ?
Witness : I had not heard so.
Mr. Linklater Had be not been insolvent in 1851 or
1852 '—Witness: I do not know.
Mr. Linklater : Had he not been an Inspector of nui-
ranee. at one time? (Laughter.)—Witncas : I don't
know.
Mr. Linklater : Had be not been, at another time,
'lceman to a dyer 7—Witness : I don't know.
Mr. Linklater : And "a lodger out of business ?"
Laughter )—Witness: I had not heard.
Mr. Roxburgh : What has all this to do with the
question before the Court.
The Commissioner. I really cannot aee.
Examination continued: I left the country in March,
1857. I wish to say distinctly that I never got one
shilling from the bank on the report of Neale. Messrs.
Trimmer also valued it. They, at all events, were com-
petent valuers, and they made their report to the bank
on the nature of the security. I executed a bill of sale
to the bank just before I left the country over all my
goods and chattels. I gave all I had to the bank. I
owed my other creditors, I was of opinion, about
£25,000 or 126000. I assigned WI my property to the
bank on the distinct understanding, and in the faith
and belief that as soon as they realised the neuritis'
I had deposited in their hen& they would settle with
all my creditors. They (the directors, Mr. Morris,
Colonel Yates, and others) promised so to do.
The question of the solvency of the bank or its in-
solvency was bein disonased before I went away,
for the Royal British Bank had failed, and the
Tines had an article about advances by banks to
directors. A few days before I went swv I borrowed
from • Mr. Fryer £7OO or 1.100, MO or MO
of it a day or two before I started. When I found the
bank about to break I called my servants, who were very
much attached to me, together, told them that I was
about to give up my establishment. that they must look
out for another master, and paid them their wages, as
well as the wages of every one employed by me on
Branham law& I remained a week or ten days in
town after that Out of the last £2OO I got from Mr.
Fryer I
_paid MO rent dne. I took away; no
more. Part of that amount was of my wife's fortune,
part was my aunt's, and • part was the money of my
daughter, who, I regret to say, has since died. I waII
remember the night is which I loft Buglaarl—March
28,1867. I went to Paris. Being ill I rarnainad there
two or three days Mon wont to &MM, and thaws
to Senile, where I remained for more tiara • year. I
returned to France once daring Mg, in July. I was
then four dart In Parks, te have y arm azoniusel.
was then aware that I had barn dailared bankrupt, but
wee too ill to surrender. I had not ea operation=
formed on uny go, ozoapt with maga
Paris at that time I wont to Masmiflan tboowi to
Fertile. I Ord mate to Enka, attar lot in VA

Laughter

ot b• 7.1•011•5 of 1859. I think came to Landon. I
met Sir. Pryer at Dover. I did not stop longer than two
or three months in England. I did not surrender to
my bankruptcy because I was advised not to do too, be-
cause I was too ill, and because I had no money ; and
what has occurred since I did surrender that I
acted wisely in not haring done so. ou (Mr. Link-
later) are about to go for your holidays, but, though I
should be sent back to prison for it, I say I could not
and ought not to have surrendered, as I was without
health, without friends, and without means. About
that time, too: I had a 62, and was picked up insensible.
Dr. of Albany-street,. attended me. I sub-
mignon y remained for a time in Normandy. I came
again in 1861 for • few weeks to England ; and in 1882
I came here twice. I was here in August, 1862 ; but I
was then ill in bed, and rtoneblind. I petitioned the
Hone Guards for assistance, as the retards will show,
so that I might have an operation performed on my
eyes I had been wounded, but I never received •
farthing. I had invested money belonging to my mot
in a Spanish mine. That was many yawl MP- The
money was here md I did not represent otherwise. I
might have said at first that I had an interest in it, but
not afterwards. My aunt is, I believe, now on her way to
tideenontil—atOdais. Myannt lived when in Pathhi
the Champs Elysian. Ilea had advanced £7,000 or sekooo
on the mine in Spain, • copperinine, but never revered
a farthing out of it. It had been mine, but I duly made
It over to her by an attorney in 1866. The mine was
superintended by two English gentlemen. After I left
this country, in March, 1857, I sever had anything to
do on my own amount with the mine or with the shares
In it except for my mint. At one time I said the stares
In the mine were worth • goo 4. deal of money, and so I
believed them to be. Tbe mine is in the prosines of
Andalusia. L spent none of the PIAO I took out with
ms in the mine. I had none to spare. I have worked
as hard as I could at my amount. since I mass back to
England, from memory, from receipts I had, and from
amounts I received from the creditors, who have been
kind to me, and of whom I have nothing to complain.
Of canna I ain ready to giv• up every wrap of payer
I have. When in this country in December, 1802' I
lodged A 38, Stanley-suet, Pimlico. I was there until
March, 1863. I bail not recovered from a revere illness
until three or four weeks before my arrest. My wife
was then in Paris. I had no intention of returning to
the continent then (in March, 1863). I was tired and
worn out, and resolved to lee it out, and know the
wont, for 1 had exhausted the bounty of my friends.
I can offer no guarantee' for my re-appearance in this
Court under my bankruptcy except by word—the word
of an old soldier of three-and-twecty years.
Cromexamined by Mr. Lewis : In fitanlepereet.
Pimlico, I lived under the same of Max welL In all my
visits to England I passed as Colonel or Kr. MaxwelL
nod my Crtx.l I Lon k.. tia4, and nee. or them
addressed me as such. In 1859, when I came here, I
lodged in Stanley-street. In 1860, when I came here, I
lodged in Queen's-road, Bayswater, No. 19 or 29. I
was in England every year from 1859 to 1862, inclusive
—in 1859 for two or three years, in 1861 for a !miter
period—still as Colonel Maxwell. In 1861 I was in the
Queen's-road. In 18621 went straight to Stanley-street.
Matwell was my eat?, maiden name. In January,lB63,
learns to and lodged in Charterhonse-square, No.
10, as Colonel Maxwell. The whole sum
I owe to the bank for money advanced is 2114,000. In
October, 1856, I was a director. Mr. Camas Morris
was the chairman. (The minute-book of the defunct
bank was then put in, and several minutes reed, allud-
ing, among other things, to the liability of Colonel
Waugh, to the huge debt he owed the bank, to the
necessity of Be being speedily liquidated, to the then
recent failure of the Royal British Bank. and to certain
caustic articles in the Macs thereupon, and concerning
advances by the banks or their managers to the dire*.
tors.) Had no advance from the bank after September,
1856. except to take op bills falling due. No new loan
after that time. Had £7,000 to his credit, but did not
draw upon it. In January, 1857, the London and
Eastern Bank declared a dividend. Was not present.
Never had but £l,OOO in shares in the hank, 63.000
sham hail been set down to him without his sanction
or knowledge, and it was with this 63 000, and with the
Interest which it was maid accrued in the advance, by
which, to his amazement, a sum of 1'250,000, his so-
called debt to the bank, was made up, whilst, in fact
and in truth, the whole amount of advance was
£114,000, and that deemed to be upon sufficient

security.
Ur. Linklater : I intend to resist, on the part of the
assignees, the large claim which the official manager
makes.
Bankrupt: I am glad to have you with me, even for
on, at last, for you have borne very hard upon me.
Mr. Lewis : You say you did not know the amount of
your lisbd,ty to the bank?
Bankrupt (vehemently) : By heavens, I was astonished
at it when I first beard it.

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Mr. Linkhder : I suppose you regret your connection
with the bank? _

Bankrupt: Deeply.
Mr. Lewis The regret is reciprocaL (Laughter.)
Witness proceeded in answer to further questions,
to my that the nominal capital of the bank might be
£250,000 or C 500,000, but he believed the actual paid
-
up capital was 014,000. I went abroad partly through
ilLhealth, partly because I thought I might manage to
send some money home to my creditors. My servants
would have laid down their lives for me. My former
valet is sometimes with me, and sometimes he is not.
He is not an Irishman. I had been advised not to
surrender by an eminently skilled person, otherwise I
would have done so. I have lived as poorly and as
hardly as anybody for some time back, on the bounty
gmeflends, even when in prison. My property at
was valued as ample security for the bank by
Government surveyor., gentlemen of whom I knew
nothing previously. That was before the bank made
any advance. The bank did not advance the tenth part
of the value set upon it. A discovery of china clay was
made there, which was deemed to be most valuable. I
expended large sums on the property in consequence. I
fn. *h. Irnir. ap to
the last hour I remained in England. The surveyors
were able geologists. I was solicited to become • share-
holder in the bank. I consented, but
than £3,000 in shares. Finally, the bank agreed that,
upon taking all the securities, to pay off all my debts,
and allow me £1,200 a-year--an understanding which,
when I left England, I believed they would carry out.
That was the agreement with their solicitor, Mr. Levies
I had no idea of bankruptcy when I left England; not
the slightest. The promissory note given by ins in 1856
was not in respect of money then advanced, but in
respect of prior transactions. I was told the directors
had borrowed £lOO,OOO on the security which I gave
them. I had no certain notion of the amount of paid-up
or subscribed capital. I believed the directors were
honest men as ever were. (A laugh.) Yes, and I still
believe so; but as to banking. I had been 23 years a
soldier, and did not know much about it.
Mr. Linklater : You say some of your creditors knew
you as Colonel or Mr. Maxwell?—Yes.
Mr. Linklater Did I know it?
Witness: No, I would not have trusted you. (Laugh-
ter.) But some of your clients did. I was very near
calling when once in London upon the official limMators
of the London end Eastern Bank.

--
Mr. Lewis : I wish you bad. He would have been
very glad to catch you. (Laughter.)
Witness: I pledge my oath that if released I will not
abscond, but will attend the Ooart whenever called upon
to do so. I bare already given the imagines all the
Information in my power.
Mr. Linklater admitted this was a feet, but was of
opinion that without substantial bail the bankrupt
oarlit not to be released.

The Court eras of opinion that this was not a cam
in which it ought to exercise the discretionary power
under the 112th section in favour of Um bankrupt.
Colonel Waugh was in prison upon process of • superior
courVissued upon •fildavit, but there was danger of his
again going abroad. Having regard to the conduct of
the bankrupt his adjudication, in 1857, he mint hold
that the bankrupt went sway intending the necemary
compliances of his own act—conduce upon which acts
of bankruptcy were daily established in these court.—
namely, absenting himself with intent to defeat and
delay his creditors—an intent in this as well as in other
eases proved by the bankrupt's own language to his own
servants and by their evidence. He told his own estab-
lishment ha must go away because of the break up of
the London and Easton But. In this ease the
Court entertained no doubt as to what was the bank-
rupt's intention in going abroad. His saying that be
had been advised by eminent persons not to surrender
could not for one moment be admitted as • excuse, for
his own conscience, as well as reason and propriety,
must have told him it could not be right to break the
law. He ought at once to have gone to his creditors
to have told them of his position, and DO doubt they
would have eonsidered all the facts, including his state
of health ; instead of which he vent abroad, going from
France to Spain, and from Spain to France, and
expending more money than it would have taken him
to turrender again and again. Such conduct showed
that little reliance could be placed on what the bankrupt
now said—that he would not go away. He could only
be released on rufficient ball, or remitted beak to prison.
ds to the evidence of the medical gentleman, it was
not infiloiently strong upon which aka* to order a
release at the present stage of the proceeding.; it was
simply that the colonel had been for 10.D0 years labour-
ing under a disease of the eyes, and of another disease
of which be bad an attack pine two or three months
ago, and that his health mimed in prison. Beth was
unhappily the ease when parties bad been in prison for
any length of time. He pve no opinion as to whet had
been said about the Statue of Limitations.
Filially it was arranged that the colonel should be
edeaitta to bull in two sureties of 0,000 each, and
himself in £4.000.
ma
_requtoie sureties not being (fathoming, he was
taken beck to Whiteenne-streek