The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

7!HB BAMIr.RUPT BANEVI?S.

AT a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, & Co.,
on Tuesday, it was stated that there is scarcely a tradesman
among the debtors under the estate, the Itgal profession,
through themselves cetheir clients, being the 9rineipal sufferers.
The two firms of Strahan, Paul, & Co., and Milford & Co., are
identical, but the opinion is that the latter will, as far as its
separate position is concerned, be found in wrauch better posi-
tion.than the former. On Wednesday Mr: Robert :Makin
Bates, .the third partner in the firm, wae_paeoed at the bar of
Boarstreet Police-court, before Mr. Jaldlue,. to answer the
charge of having,..ha conjunction with Messrs..Strahan & Paul,
unlawfully negotiated or otherwise disposal,of certain deeds or
securities to the. value of £3,000, which ;lad been entrusted to
them for safe keeping by Dr. Griffiths., itatte.rapts had been
made, it was thew stated, to apprehenclthe other two partners.
J.. D. Paid was, indeed, actually taken into custody on
Tuesday evening, at his residence at Nutfield, near Reigate.
-ThiOfficersiound Sir John at homeeand.succeeded in serving
the warrant upon him, but, it beingtoo late to return to Lon-
don,the same night, alllowed their prisoner tog° to bed, sitting
up all night: themselves within viesseafhisroom. Next morn-
ing they conducted the prisoner tothe Reigate station, arriving
barely in time to save the train. liakats were procured hur-
riedly for the three, and, according; to: the statements of the-
officers„the train was actually in:motinn when Sir John took.
his seat in a second-class carriage,. The constables were follow-
ing him: into the same carriageovhen a railway porter pul.W,
them back, exclaiming, " TlattrAin is in motion, and you can't
get in." The officers "We are police-constables e. he
is our prisoner, and we musitaccompany him ; resist us at your
peril," To this the porters, merely rejoined that they were
only carrying out their orders, "to prevent any one entering a,
carriage while the train was.in motion," and having closed the
carriage-door against the• officers, the train went off without
them. The constables state:that they immediately represented
the facts to the superintendent and showed him theirauthority,
but he refused to "signal," the train to stop, although.consent-
ing to send a telegraphic message to the London station.
This was done by desire of the officers, who proceeded. to town
by the next up-train,, which reached London-bridge only ten
minutes after the one they had missed. On inquiry,.howeeer,
of the station-master at London-bridge if their prisoner had
been detained, he replied that he did not know the person of
Sir John Paul by sight, and had taken no steps in the matter.
The police officers, who had been in some measure disarmed by
Sir John's suavity of manner, had thus the mortification of
.finding that their prisoner hadeffectually escaped, and throngh- -
out the day no trace of him could be found. They were also
unsuccessful in their pursuit of Mr. Stra.han, who was expected
to keep an appointment at the bank, but who did not make his
appearance, although anxiously looked for throughout the day.
Some formal evidence, respecting the disappearance of cer-
tain Dutch bonds belonging to Dr. Griffiths, and entrusted to
the firm, being given, the prisoner was remanded.
Since the examination of Mr. Bates on Wednesday, the
other two partners have surrendered themselves to the author-
ities. Mr. Strahan gave himself up that same evening, and
was briefly examined on the following day, when he was also.
remanded. On Thursday Sir J. D. Paul surrendered at Bow-
street police-court, declaring that he had no intention of es-
caping from the officers who captured him. The three defen-
dants were placed at the bar before Mr. Hall on Friday , when
Dr. Griffiths again gave evidence respecting the charge which
he preferred against them. Securities worth £22,000, chiefly
in Dutch stocks, he stated had been lodged in the bank for
safe custody, Messrs. Strahan being merely empowered to re-
ceive the dividends, and lodge them to his account. The secu-
rities were now missing, and Dr. Griffiths deposed that Mr.
Strahan had confessed to having taken them, together with
similar documents belonging to different parties, to the value
in the whole of £lOO,OOO, to a discount house in the City, for
the purpose of obtaining advances: The only object being to
take enough evidence to justify a remand, the further inves-
tigation of the case was postponed until to-morrow, Wednesday,
and the prisoners sent to the House of Detention at Clerkenweli,

5,

LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE

INSTITUTION.

AT the half-yearly distribution of prizes, on Friday,
tiie Rev. J. S. Howson, the Principal of the institution,
presided, in the absence of the Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of the Diocese. Interesting addresses were
delivered by himself, and by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile,
Mr. S. Holme, and other gentlemen, The following
is a list of the prizes :