The Press.
London, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

should take placa on the Ist of July.

THE DIRECTORS OF THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK are
gradually making their appearance. Mr. Esdaile
and Alderman Kennedy have arrived in London and
found bail, and Mr. Cameron has made that ap
pearanee at last which his friends have anxiously
anticipated so long. Bail for 8,0001. was asked and
given in the cases of Mr. Esdaile and Alderman
Kennedy, but for Mr. Cameron Mr. Justice Erle
demanded bail to the extent of 24,0001. Mr.
Cameron was unable to obtain bail to the amount
and was yesterday taken to the Queen's Bend;
prison.
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THE ACTION "Roux v. WISEMAN," in which the plain-
tiff, the Abbe Roux, sought to recover a security for
25,000 f. which he alleged he bad deposited with the
defendant, Cardinal Wiseman, has not yet been con-
cluded. At the trial, which took place at Gloucester
at the last assizes, the plaintiff obtained a verdict,
with 5001. damages, but a rule was subsequently
granted for a new trial upon the ground that the
verdict was against the evidence. Mr. Sergeant
Pigott and Mr. Griffiths (with whom was Mr. Huddle-
ston) showed cause against the rule last week
before the Caurt of Queen's Bench, when the further
hearing of the case was adjourned till yesterday,
when the rale was made absolute for a new trial on
payment of costs.
AN ATTORNEY AT LIVERPOOL, one Shattock,of Dale-
street in that town, has been charged before the
local police-court with forging the acceptance of
Messrs. Little and Murray, builders and contractors,
West Derby, to a bill of 301. 10s. 6d., which was dis-
counted in Bristol, by Mr. Jacques, through the
agency of Mr. Coles, a personal friend of the
prisoner. The prisoner was committed for trial on
that charge, and other cases which are to be brought
against him were adjourned.
MRS. Dyes SOMBRE'S APPEAL against the taxing
of the bill of costs, on the ground of additional and
unnecessary expenses being allowed, was adjudged
at the Court of Privy Council last week. Dr. Lush-
ington delivered their lordships' judgment, which
dismissed the petition with costs.
MR. ALFRED ALLEN, a great Sussex mister, has
been convicted of infractions upon the excise laws,
and mulcted of 100,0001. to the Crown. The details
are these. At each of his great malting establish-
ments at Worthing, Mulsey, and Horsham, Mr. Allen
bad fitted up in underground vaults malting cisterns
and couch frames, so constructed that be could carry
on an illicit trade at the same time that he was car-
rying on a perfectly legal one upstairs. It was im-
possible to say to what extent the revenue had been
defrauded, but thus much was found out—that, be-
tween the 3rd of January and the 3rd of April, Mr.
Allen had, in his sales to customers, exceeded his
quantity of malt surveyed by the excise officers by
7,000 bushels. The Lord Chief Baron said "he bad
never in till his experience met with so flagrant and
so extensive a system of fiscal dishonesty and unfair
trading." The penalties were laid at 375,0001., but
the Crown accepted a verdict for 100,0001., with the
forfeiture of all the malt, 41:c., belonging to defendant.
ROBERT TRIPP, the old soldier charged with the
murder of his landlord, James Scott, on the mornin g
of 7th April last, at 28, Gifford-street, Islington, was
tried on the 18th, acquitted of murder, found guilty
of manslaughter, and sentenced to eight years' penal
servitude.
THE EXAMINATION OF Mn. SMITH, the lessee of
Drury-lane Theatre, in the bankruptcy case of the
convict Robson, is fixed for the 30th.

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THE Cumberland, 70, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral
Wallis, has left St. Helen's on her voyage to the
Brazils.

DETACHMENTS of the Bth, 32nd, 35th, 53rd, 60th,
and 75th Regiments are held in immediate readiness
for embarkation for India.