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These documents having been sent in to the Stock Exchange
committee, the company was admitted into the official list.
Within a short time after this result had been obtained the ba-
lances at the bankers' rapidly decreased ; and it was admitted
that, between the 16th and the 30th of April, as much as 30,000/.
was drawn out by cheques which contained no names of persons
to whom they were payable, but only numbers. The company
continued in the " Stock Exchange List" until the 20th of Ja-
nuary, 1854, when, by a resolution of the Stock Exchange com-
mittee, it was struck out of the " List."
Counsel for the defendant urged that the misrepre-
sentation, if such there had been, was to the Stock
Exchange committee, and not to the plaintiff :

The CHIEF JUST[CZ, in summing up, said that the fraud im-
puted was this, that the defendant and some other of the direc-
tors, knowing that to get the company into the official list it was
necessary that 40,000 shares should be paid upon, and about 6,000
shares only having been taken, they went through the form of
paying into the bankers the requisite amount, and temporarily
handing over as a colourable issue a certain number of shares.
And it was further imputed that that money, having answered
the purpose for which it had been paid in, was withdrawn, and
that the shares were never substantially issued or paid for. The
questions upon this were—first, was this fraud? and secondly,
did the defendant know of it?
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages
931. 15s.

AN ACTION FOR 1,4501., on account of " board and
lodging," was brought in the Common Pleas by a
woman, who called herself French, against Mr. Bolt.
The case was tried on Wednesday. Plaintiff ex-
plained through her counsel and by her own evidence,
in very candid terms, the nature of contract which
had existed between herself and the defendant. In

1847 she was living in a house near Belgrave-square
in a style of great splendour, with carriages, men
servants, and unbounded luxury, under the " protec •
tion" of a nobleman. 'While riding near the Serpen-
tine the defendant saw her, and commenced an
acquaintance, which ended some time afterwards in
her separating from her protector and taking a house,
in which the defendant lived with her. He undertook,
it was alleged, to pay the rent, and allow her 501. per
month for her board and lodging. This, however, he
soon failed to do. He was hunted by duns and exe-
cutions, and, as the establishment was conducted on
a very extravagant scale, the plaintiff stated that, in
the course of about two years, she had been obliged
to pawn or sell all her plate, jewellery, end furniture.
She had now nothing left; tine defendant had goiie
abroad ; and the present action was brought for the
balance left unpaid on the board and lodging account.
Defendant's counsel retorted the allegation of extra-
vagance. The plaintiff had come from Bath thirteen
years ago, and had since lived under the protectionof
several men, spending their money rapidly, and ruin-
ing more than one of them. This, also, she had done
for the defendant., and had since, it was argued, en-
deavoured to wring a further sum from his family
under the threat of exposure in that court. The
jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
SAMUEL CLARKSON PETERS, lately a bankrupt, was
tried on Wednesday at the Old Bailey for fraudulent
dealings prior to his bankruptcy. It was alleged
that, shortly before the fiat was issued, he had ob-
tained goods under colour and pretence of carrying
on his trade, with intent to defraud his creditors.
Other counts in the indictment set forth the same

facts, but founded thereon a charge of conspiracy,
in which two other parties, Messrs. Hart and Jonas
Simeon, were associated with Peters, and all three
put upon their trial together. The leading features
of the case were recapitulated by the counsel for the
prosecution

The defendant Peters commenced business as a draper, at
Southampton, in September, 1653, and at that time was possessed
of a capital of 7001. lie was supposed to be carrying ou a re-
spectable and profitable business, and therefore found no diffi-
culty In procuring credit among the wholesale houses of London,
and between the month of September and the following month of
April goods were consigned to him from different warehouses to
the amount of 12,0001. In the beginning of the latter month lie
became bankrupt, and, upon an examination of his affairs, it was
found that be had made payments to different creditors to the
amount of 4,0731., and that the remaining stock upon the premises
was not worth mole than 2,900/. altogether, so that there was a
deficiency of over 5,0001. totally unaccounted for. An investiga-
tion took place at the Bankruptcy Court, and it was ascertained
that very soon after the defendant bad entered into business he
had commenced a regular system of disposing of his property to
Ilart, one of the other defendants, and that the sales were made,
in many instances, at a reduction of 75 per cent. upon the cost
price of the goods. The third defendant, Simeon, who repre-
sented himself to be an Australian merchant, appeared to have
provided the money for the purchase of the property, and the
whole of it appeared to have come into his possession. The
goods had, it seemed, all been sent away to Australia by the de-
fendant Simeon.
Evidence being given at great length to substantiate
the above statement, the jury returned a verdict of
Guilty against Peters, who was sentenced to fifteen
months' imprisonment. The other defendants were
acquitted.
THE WOMAN SEAGO, who caused the death of her
stepson some time since by cruel treatment and ne-
glect, was tried for the crime on Thursday at the
Central Criminal Court :
It appeared that the prisoner had been married to her present
husband about twelve months, and the deceased, who was five
years old, was hie son by a former wife. Prisoner and her hus-
band were in the habit of getting drunk, and frequently quar-
relled end lived very unhappily together. On Sunday, the 21st
of Mav, another of the children told the prisoner that his brother
Billy had got him into " a row," and that his father had struck
him. Immediately upon this the prisoner seized the child and
thr,'w him with great violence upon the floor, and then put him
into a tub of water. The husband came in, and after setae words
wont away again. The moonlit ha was guns the prisoner seta.

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menced another most brutal attack upon the child, and continued
to beat it and illuse it until it actually died under her hands. She
afterwards went out for some brandy, and tried to administer it
to the deceased child ; but found he was unable to swallow, and
then wrapped him up in a cloth and carried him to the London
Hospital, where he wasifound to be quite dead.
The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty of Man-
slaughter," and the prisoner was sentenced to trans-
portation for life.

ARMY PROMOTION.
THE Commissioners on Promotion in the Army have
just issued a voluminons report, with a list of " re-
commendations" appended to it. The points of chief
interest at this moment in the list are those referring
to the promotion of young officers without waiting for
the slow advance of seniority into posts of high com-
mand. On this head the commissioners recom-
mend

" That your Majesty should more freely exercise your
undoubted power of appointing colonels to commands as
major•generals, with temporary rank as such ; that this
should be done more especially as regards commands
abroad, and without regard to seniority.
" That general periodical brevets be prospectively abo-
lished. That there shall be a fixed establishment of gene-
ral officers.

" That, in addition to the colonels promoted by seniority
to be major-generals, colonels in every branch of the ser-
vice shall be eligible for promotion to the ranks of major-
general, lieutenant-general, orgeneral, either for brilliant
service in the field, or in consequence of their having held
commands with temporary ranks as general officers for five
years during peace, or for any shorter period during war
which may appear to the Commander-in-Chief or the Mu-
ter-General of the Ordnance to give them a just claim to
have their temporary rank made permanent.
" That the rank of field-marshal shall be given without
reference to seniority. That soy captain, major, or lieu-
tenant colonel may be rewarded by promotion for brilliant
service in the field. That the command of battalions in.
the Ordnance corps be given without reference to seniority.
" That your Majesty should exercise your undoubted
power of selecting officers of all ranks in the Ordnance
corps for service, and give such rank or promotion to such
officers as their merits may appear to require, without re
gard to their seniority in the corps."

CAMBRIDGE ARMEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
Trix annual meeting of this institute has taken
place during the week, commencing on Monday
morning. The town and university were filled with
a very numerous concourse of visitors, and the an-
nounced intention of Prince Albert, Chancellor cf
the University, to attend gave much eclat to the
proceedings. The first day's transactions were
limited to d meeting in the senate-house, where the
prize poems of the season were recited, and a second
meeting in the evening, chiefly devoted to the ar-
rangement of business between the three "sectional"
committees—for History, under Edwin Guest, Esq.,
LL.D. ; Early and Medieval Antiquities, under the
Hon. Richard Cornwallis Neville ; and Architecture,
presided over by the Rev. W. Whewell, D.D. Tues-
day was, however, the great day, when the Prince
Chancellor was to assist at the proceedings. Before
his arrival, however, the inaugural meeting that
place in the Town-hall, where, notwithstanding the
early hour—half-past eight o'clock—a numerous as-
semblage, including many ladies, had gathered.
Lord Talbot de Malahide, the president of the year,
attended, and was received with much applause.
Prince Albert arrived at half-past one, and, being
received at the station by the Vice-Chancellor, prc.
ceeded to Trinity-ball lodge for the purpose of robing
Then his Royal Highness went to the senate-house,
where the discourses were in progress. After the
formalities attendant upon his reception were over,
the Prince listened while Dr. Guest illustrated, by a
lecture and diagrams, the "Great Boundary Dykes
of Cambridgeshire, their Purpose and Origin." Pro-
fessor Willis afterwards read a paper on the "Build-
ings of the University." The Prince Chancellor
then retired, and, after lunching with the Vice-
Chancellor, visited, in company with Professor Willis,
the chapel of Jesus College, lately restored, and
I thence went to inspect the museum of the institute.
Prince Albert finally left Cambridge at four o'clock,
and reached Buckingham Palace by six.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, July 4.
BANK RUPT S.—RE z c cA and J AR.WILC Etc Mow, H Igh-strsit
Newington-butts, upholsterers—Mauna H. Cox, High-street,
Kensington, corn merchant—CD...luxe Joni; CATFALL, Rick-
mansworth, auctioneer—Ws. HENRY UNwIN, Forest-hill, Cam-
berwell, builder—Ws. PATON, Bread-street, warehouseman—
ALFRED IDES HORSCROPT, Union-road, Clapham, builder
CRAELsa FRED. TIBBS, late of America-square, City, ship-
owner—ALFßED FIELDING, Greenwich, dealer in watches—
GEORG! EDWIN TOTES, Evesham, Worcestershire, innkeeper—
CHARLES MEL, Bath, Berlin wool-dealer—GEORGE FORSTER
Liverpool. stockbroker—lsAAc Coos, Sunderland, painter.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.— J. PonvEus, Glasgow ,
writer—lirLEt.L.ts and ANO us, Glasgow, warehousemen—lL G
ROSS, Glasgow, lithographer.
Friday, July 7.
BANKRUPTS.—Joss WEBS, Rayleigh, Essex, ifrocer-BX.
SIVEL Yours, Birkenhead, joiner—Jour( ELLIS *ATKINSON.
Halifax, groeer--lusts JOHN NEWMAN and JAMES LEADRIST.
TER, Charlton, Kent, waterproofers—Jour( WILLIAM WILLIADIS
and WILLIAM FIsHER WARBRECK, Liverpool, manufacturing
chemists—JOHN OinsoN, Histlngton, Cumberland, grocer—
C PURL ST Wllll E. Watford, cattle dealer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—J. G. TAit.on end Co., Lon
don and Glasgow, wholesalejewellerv—TßoExa Roes, Glasgow'
c ottnission agent•-FATESsoIc, MAC DOA LLD, sad Co., Glaspiri
merchants.

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