The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-10 00:00:00

FINANCIIS OF SPAIN.

The pithead= is Madrid of a work by M. Oral's.
It surly eunnicted with the government, ea the finances of
Spain aspd th. it acieninio ratio's by lie d.lferent pasties which
bast• herr. in power .ices 1831, is the subject of •notice la
tho Coits-rturionarl. The wetk referred to is professedly
written wi'h • view to windiee a the superior ability awl
melts of administration nadir th . party known by the
ease of Moderadoe as contrasted with these of the varies*
sections of Progreaistee, their opponents. The Cboastifes-
Howse says:

" The total deficit of t►e treasury at the 'ad of the MIMI
of December. UM, amounted to 132,561,283 realm (t►e reel
is worth five soles). After the melanomas of DM nLL the
engagements of the state wets heatled with esastitede.
la 1836 :he payammt of dividends out the debt was

suep•r.ded. Nu bifBgsts were prepared save in 18117, 1839.
and 1840, sod then all with great deficits. In the mant► of
December, 1810, the floating debt reached to 668,709,998
reale. From 1840 to 1845, the epoch almost exclusively of
Progresista ascendancy, the measures and the mesas
adopted fur ameliorating the state of the finance* remained
atonic of result in every use. The arrears of emstetbstioas
to be rcruvered at the end of 1843 amounted to 710,968,398
reale, in cievequence of the tolerated negligent* is the re-
parlition sad recovery of the taxes at their respeetire
periods. Two budgets only met with approval, these of
1841 and of 1842 ; they were wound up with a deleit of
more than 200 afflicts of reale. At the moment when the
Progrssi•ta party quitted power, which it had eserained
all shapes during three years, it left the treasury with a de-
ficit of 2,397,735,226 realm, after taviog applied to the liabi.
lilies of the treasury all the values realised in that time.
Thus, on the accession of the llodsrades in 1844, they found
a budget burdened with that sum At
'the end of 1849 the total deficit amounted to
2,119,083,581 reels, whilst, at the dam of 1843,
it was 2,897,736.225 reale, making a reduction
of 278,871,664 reale. The reform of the atria wee tiseted,
which produced an natal Mamie of 148,176,416 mate to
the treasury. Tie important improvements realised in the
administrative system la 1846, ►y the Minister of ?Mates,

M. Moo, 'rho inscraMed thit easesidel ipso*, Mad to

868,173,819 reds th• reesipte of tb. 111140111IP,
. tobacco monopoly, stamps, 'mortgages, salt. biW of ozobaago.
and those equivalent to th. t.z called aliseisistv, which in
1343 bad only given 616,998,60 i rook."

The anufu;itiowssel Men refers to the atesesioe mad
ao-
tinunce of power in 1860, 1861, and 1863, of X. Bravo
Murillo, the head of another amities of the Modica& party,
by whom the work of administrative amelioratioos was per-
sued ; sad, in conclusion, advors to the sameediag Maki-
stratiao et Y. Bertones and Y. de Bea Luis, both in tio
one case as is the other without the Meatiest of tho budgets
and figures, whieb should lead to en appreciations( the re-
melts of their ausaaial labours.

LIVERPOOL, THIFISDAL
By the mew-steamer, Vasco de Gana, Captain
Taylor, we have whims from Lisbon to the 2nd of
August.
The Peninsular and Oriental Compaq's stint
ship Tagus, from Southampton, arrived at Lisbon on
the Ist, and left on the morning of the tad for
Gibraltar.

The screw steam ship Douro had arrived from
Liverpool, and the Sardinian steamer Oaheat, from
London.

ihe only vessels of war in the Tagus were the
Phenix and the Newton.

Tb preparations for welcoming the advent of the
young King were on the most magnificent Peale.
The royal family were at Cintra, where they will
await the arrival of his Majesty.
The port of Perot& had been declared infected with
the cholera by the Hoard of Health.
The corn crop was nearly all cot, sad the yield is
woks@ 01 as most abundant.
The vine disease was spreading, and bad accounts
have been received from all the provinces.

NAPLES AND ITS RULERS.

(Flux OCZ OWN CON

NAPLES. JILT 28.

I have often spoken of the incense which is offered!,
to the Sovereign by the Neapolitan police. At the
same time no opportunity is ever omitted of insinu-
ating 'I
into the minds of the muses that the idea of
royalty is identical with that of divinity. Thus, in
all court festivities, aL inscriptions presented to the
public unite with the " Revive al Sovrano," the
Evviva ails Vergiee ;" as is dose also on woman°
of religious festivities, merely inverting the order of
the epithets. Au example of the first kind wu wit-
nessed in the illuminated vessel on the fetes of 30th
May ; one of the second kind on occasion of the
recent fetes in honour of the Madonna del Carmine,
in the Piazza del Meroato, the nest of the very lowest
classes, amongst whom the polies lose no effort to
awaken the savage reminiscences of 1799. Strange
and impudent, doubtless, is the expectation that, by ;
inscriptions, a prince can be changed into the master
or proprietor of his subjects; or these into machines
deprived of every human right. I am inclined to '
believe that these attempts, so ridiculous, so in-
jurious
to the sovereign, and so much regretted
by his beat and wisest friends, are the result of
the very hottest policy on the part of the
police authorities. The monopoly of robbing by
continued and arbitrary impositions, and of coffiog a
people like a flock of sheep, are privileges which are
worth a struggle, and will not be easily yielded. That
which however raises the public astonishment and in-
dignation to boiling point is the assertion of the
government journal that the epithet of "Padrone
nnioo ed assoluto" is the chosen title of " this good
people of Naples." Such are the efforts made to
deceive the stranger as to the public spirit of the
country. In fact, whenever it is necessary to mention
the name of the King in the presence of the Director
of Police he becomes greatly irritated, and even has
recourse to blows unisex the epithet of " Absolute ed
nano Padrone " be added. Asa case in point, an in-
different painter, by name Freemen, under the per-
suasion that he would be executing a work acceptable
to royalty, made a drawing of the celebrated marine
machine, which was illuminated on the 30th of May.
It had two figures, one of the Iminaeolats, another of
Ferdinand° 11., each with two inscription.. Now,
it happened that on one side wss inscribed " Viva
Maria Inimacolata, and Viva Ferdinando 11. ;" oa
the other " Viva it noetro mono ed assoluto Padrone,"
&c. As the painter represented that side of the machine
on which the former inscriptions were written, those
only were given : whilst the latter inscriptions were
omitted. The picture was thee mum tedto his Majesty,
who noodescended to accept it. Immediately after-
wards the painter was summoned before the Direo-
tor of Police, who questioned him as to the motives
of his preference for the first inscriptions, and with-
out waiting for his answer, fell upon and beat him in
the officee of the Ministry. He was afterwards im-
prisoned, and happy for him was it that he had each
a Maecenas as the Prince Sebastian°, brother-in-law of
the King, through whose influence he was liberated.
apropos to the same subject. An exalted personage
about the court had occasion to see the Director of
Police on official business, and in speaking of his
Majesty, used the epithet only of " Nustro Signore:
when Muse, brusquely interrupting him, demanded,
" Why don't you say, I Neste° unico ed assoluto
Paden' '" " Signor Director," replied the noble-
man, " you have served the government for a few
years only. I, who have served it for a long period,
shall continue to use the language to which I am
accustomed." One would imagine that the govern-
mutt announces its own feebleness, and becomes
ieferiated with those who do not offer
adelatims. Every smile badly interpreted—every
delay to the most capricious shirro is magnified into
high treason ; and thus the entire sovereignty of the
Two Skates lies within the grasp of tte police.'
Royal visits, I have said, are always productive of
erieg in Naples, and every day furnishes proofs
that that of the King of Portugal was no exception.
On that occasion thu sbirri were multiplied in the
Via Toledo to prevent the passage et loaded luta.
IkhaPpeeed that a man was leading a waggon aver
the prohibited ground, unconseious of his offence,
when a polio. n.an, before the man could have gives
mother direction to hie horses, struck him a violent
blow on the skull with his bludgeon, and brought
him to the grated fainting and half covered with
blood. A crowd collecting. and showing signs of
eanspassion and indignation, the sbirro shouted oat
that they wanted to renew the revolution of 1848.
The peer wooded asa was serried, deprived of

1 sense, to the polies station at Meatuslarlo, and
thecae to the hospital of Pellegrini, with orders that
on his reonery he should be immediately committed
' to prison on the ground of having resisted the public
force. In fact the ebirro has been rewarded, whilst
the sufferer now pines in the prison of Vicaria.
Again, the royal visit was fatal to two other per-
sons. They were upon the terrace of their house
' facing the Marina, and amusing themselves by firing
1 at a mark. Of course they had a " license," and
must have been well known to the polies. A commis-
sary, however, on seeing them, gave them orders to
' cease, and to make their appearacoe before him, and
1 on their delaying to do so, they were both arrested,
' aced sent off to the Vicaria with this imputation, that
' whilst the " (min edusolutoPadrone " and the King
' of Portugal were passing, they were surprised with
guns in hand in a criminal set. No one act, however,
' hat caused the Neapolitans to thrill with such indig-
' nation as the following piece of vengeance practised',
towards Signor Di Lorenzo, a respectable shopkeeper',
1 in the Strada Ouibbonari, near the Meresto. A
shirr° brought an order to Di Lorenso to make his
I &putrefies immediately before the Signore (thus is
the Commissary of Police usually described). Di Lo-
renzo excused his delay on the ground that he was
' the only person in the shop. An inspector came and
' repeated the order in a most brutal manner. As he
' had no mark of office on him, Di Lorenzo replied
, that be did not know him. On this the shop was as-
sailed, and the poor man dragg to the police station.
On the following morning, July 13, by order of the
Director, a Commission of three police authorities,
called the " Commission of Mazzste," "blows and flog-
ging,"
ordered that Di Lorenzo should receive 100'
blows with a stick. It was just the hour when the
, magistrates, advocates, and other persona were going
to the Palace of Justice, when the dreadful spectacle
was presented. Di Lorenzo, a parson of respectable
appearance, was extended halt naked on the
1 " Cualletto," and at slow intervals the heavy blows
i were being given. In a short time he wu covered
with blood and fainted ; this did not, however,
prevent the executioners from oompleting the
punishment to the hundredth blow. The life of Di
Lorerso is despaired of. Enough, however, for the I
present. Till another letter let me suspend this
enumeration of disgusting excesses—excesses per-
petrated daily and with impunity under the bright
son of Italy. Here there is no redress, sea must
suffer and be silent, in the words of Tufts',
" Admin.° per inquisitions et loquendi andiendique
cominereio." It is only through the medium, therefore,
of public opinion, as represented by the public
press of Europe, that so fatal and inhuman a system
can be checked. It is impossible, of course, to regard
the court as responsible for such brutalities any far-
ther than ignorance of what ought to be known,
non carcass, can imply responsibility; at the same
time it is difficult for the mind to avoid rising to the
Mantels head of all authority, and hence the evil
which sash seormities omission to the monarchy.
As I conjectured would be the case, the accident in
the" Castello Nuovo" was attributed to revolutionary
designs. A person who was flying from the spot in a
carriage was arrested on suspicion, and the report
was spread that it was all a plot got up by the
liberals against the soldiery. This is a part of that
policy which would introduce dissensions between
the citizens and the military, and which attempted
last year to accomplish the same object by spreedisg
• report that during the cholera the liberals poisoned
the wine, water, and eatables.
I hear that fresh floggings have followed that of
Di Lorenso. Seven other persons on the morning
of the 23rd July received from thirty to sixty blows
each, and were then committed to the Vicaria to take
their triaL Amongst them was a priest, who despite
of his ecclesiastical dress was dragged by ebirri at
midday through the streets of the quarter of Monte
Calvario. It was a political affair, the Couoordat
was therefore silent. Much maccaroni has bees con-
tracted for as well as biscuit since the passing of the
recent decree, though I have heard of no purchases
on account of the allies.
[Letters received in Paris say that to neutralise the
reluctant concession, made at the instance of Franoe
and England, of the liberty to export biscuit, Ferdi-
nand has hit upon the expedient of prohibiting the
bakers from making any. This is assigned as the
reason for the extremely hostile tone of the
French government press towards Naples, which
has been remarked within the last two or three days.
The Constitersannel and Pattie are very eloquent
about the "Committee of Butonnades," and repro-
dace as a novelty the secret police circular, which
appeared originally in the Daily News three weeks
ago.]

DBATII OF A

SOLDIER.

(MON A COASISPONDINT.)
By intelligence just received from the Crimea, the
death of " Tom Wilson" is reported. About flee sad-twenty
years ego • youth was frequently aotieed driving the hones
of the fly-boats ea the canal between Edinburgh and Giese
goer who was remarkable for his tuneful whistling and
singing, also for the ennelnese of his features tad vivacity
of his manors. This youth, then known only as " Tom"
(his parentage and proper surname being unknown to him
eel( or canal companions), called himself ant:sat:li Tam
Wilma. la 1838 several books were pub per-
.rting to relate the history and Wantons of the
British Legion in Spain under Sir De Lacy Bean
from as* of which the periodical
_toren gusted extract:
which caused readers to exclaim, " What a singslet fellow
that Tom Wilson, of the Bth Regiment, must have beta I"
This referred to such incidents as these:—At the capture of
the torts sad town of Iran, some part of his regiment was
found is a hone planderiog and pursuing distracted
women. Wilson, treat the early agonisticot aof his life, bed
the reputation of having given evidence if • "light-finger,"
but on this oesasion be bad rotted • baby deserted in that
house, and we. seen nursing and caressing it, and wholly
disregarding the &bonds .t pleader around hire. On as,
other occasion a party of 40 men were cut off during as en-
gagement, and took range in • quarry. The ma-
jority proposed to surrender as prisoners. " Who is
that speaks of giving in ?" exclaimed Wilson. "
run my bayonet in him if he names it igen I
Focht it cot to the lest man, ye —a." Sir De Lacy
saw this small party in its jeopardy from the distance of
half • mile, and ordered • force to its relief ; but only 17
out of the 40 seeped, of whom Wilier, and the writer who
gives these last fen words to his memory, were two. At
the manse» in the church and square of Andottio, 14th
August, 1837, every man and officer present were, alter
daring their arms, murdered by the Car/lets with the
exception of Tom Wilson. A female pulled him throvelt
doorway, secreted him fa • tomb beasath the church Soor,
and subsequently conducted Aim into France. He made
his way to Bayonne, and obtained from the British enema
a passage by a yawl which landed him somewhere ia De-
vtutsbire. her are bat ample incidents of his Elgin Bpain.
Some of Its subsequent events were still more extraor-
dinary.
It is net yet forgotten bow profound was the sensation
when mews of the disasters which betel Newel Elphin-
stone's army in Affghaantaa reached Bagland—the 44th
Foot b.ing at Ent reported as utterly lost in the Khyber
Pass. It turned out that twelve or thirteen men eadoEciers
escaped. We a-iy "twelve or thirteen" became • doubt
was raised about the thirteenth. He made his appearance
at Calcutta elan and called himself Edwards ; said that he
got out of she pose by tortuous mountain paths, hidieg by
day while near the Afghans. and latterly travelling so as
to avoid wild beasta at one time and men at another. He'
gave such an account of the country through which he bad
travelled that those who knew it in Calcutta gave
entire endian to his story. This Edwards was Tom
Wilson. For ones fortune seemed to intend him higher
favours the& merely to escape from enemies with his bars
life. The residents of all dulls were moved with the story
of his escape, and subscribed a considerable sum of mosey
for his discharge from the army, should money be required
for it under such circumstance., and as • testimonial of ad.
saltation. But, unluckily for him, the wits of • soldier of
the 3rd Foot recognised 114 a as a men that had enlisted in
that regiment after coming from Spain, and had destined
from it in England. On being questioned, he admitted
this to he true, whereupon he was seat to rejoin the 3rd, and
the mosey withhold from him. Hie subsequent fortunes in
We Buffs we need not now relate. Like thoatwods more, he
has at last fallen under the effects of hard work, wounds,
and disease; and probably the army does not contain •
soldier who Ism seen more adventures.

THE MURDER AT SALFORD --As inquest was bold
on Walserley evening at Pendlrtm, in the borough of
B.lford, dm a body of Grain Behan, or Beaumont, whom
death wee theeribeg la the Express ea harms re.
wilted fres besels. end Mbar bental treatment by
The
Booth, • iturebewfursger omit prevision dealer. The
evident* se be the Adam of alb pthease au folly horse
est. wiped* thet nepestkei his kb/dm tbe peer wows.
os the eteemelL Mr. Edward Biel; surgeon, who had
mad* aassamiliat'ou of the body. said he found laceration
at the base of the left lobe of the liver, when** • large genti-
lity of bleed be/ emsped into the Mileevky of the abdomen.
nue would be by • kick or fall sealed the edge of
a tabie,,st of that kind. The letessel Wen.
ties wee weithwithedly the esthe if death. Mr. Bethel tbe
et
Mthleaty eseewer, aldesthed the jury, pa/atlas ell the law se
lrer
tpi
gitirmendietegmiestlmt
a,....._theLtheettuteteethil
sr • • • thriller of
" Tiewbeaer wee
• waffilthle tsa •

Cbaaaery, sad he (the learned serjeant) appeared rather
for She of channel than for the defendant. The
learned seriesat then called the defesdaat as a witness, and
his evidence was is agromnest witb the opening etatimeat
}of hie counsel. Is erosseaassination defendant maid he
should be IL years old next birth-day, and bad bad 28
rutty V. 1111.1111L—D111011:71. I years 'amines in betting
was a snit of divorce by omen of sdultery brought lir. Col*, for the plaintiff, said he bad ezpeeted to en
eman. Mrs. F jou nii„st bor monad colonel Tyler, some " fast " young gentleman, or Verdant Green, just
demi al Laren. escaped treat college, step into the witness-boa bat
The mffia oldie day was takaa up is the viva von natal- 10.101 siMin walked the respectable old read:emu
maw editilffilne• 4 meads( melte evident* of defendant, and
s. the ease he called the plaintiff,
swore peitively that he bad never betted with the de-
W al/ester extent ea the whole than 101., and that
Amweside of all wagers henries them bad been paid.
dehadaat to • Mr. hiss, who kept a tavern
nod gelds Them be ran up an *mount.
ffim (plaintiff) about his
Irian ' sal be "dub to defadant about his
Mem% end premed him to make MN arrangement con•
lit. It was then 'greed that be (plauttiff) should
girring credit for the scanat, sad that defeatism should
gin himtie aseeptance at three months. This was done is
January, and the bill fell due in April, and was dishonoured.
He (plaintiff) thus pressed defendant for payment, and the
present bill was gives as a renewal of the former one.
The learned Jidp told the jury that it was the defen-
dant's place to leaks out his plea, sad nesse he had done so
to their satisfaction their verdict must be for the plaintiff.
The jury nturan a verdict for the plaintiff, dames M.

Lab) intentgence.

CONSISTORY COJRT.—Auouse 9.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

HOME CIRCUIT.—CaorDoN, Ammar 9.

Both offline wont ocenpiod to-day in trying civil ollitiee.
WOES al. MM. WIONTISAIL
rasa .111111 11. ANDREW.

Tkie wee ea Indadawat for wabeselezient, restored by
certiorari froai the emeioas.
Mr. Clarkson sad Mr. Hupp were *enema for the prow
ratios ; Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and tdr. Leek, were
conesel for dm defendant.

The proseraton in this case were the well-known mad az-
Muir* Arm of Payne and 81m, vinegar merchants, tad it
appeared that the defendant had been in their service as
traveller in the year 1852, and he was charged with having
while so engaged embezzled different small same of messy
to whisk the castomen of the area would have bean mot-
tled as dimmest. The primmer received I. the Let lobos
enwd of eight posade a year, which wu afterwards ta-
to a a blue and chaise were provided for
him, and he wile Awed we pound per day for *apemen,
and is 'Adidas Mires to receive a commission upon all the
bulimia trammeled by his above a certain amount. It ap-
peared to be the eosins of the prosecutors to allow a die-
, must of tea per cent. upon the each payments, and' the
offense imitated to the defendant was, that he had oak
threw several occasions charged the isms of 3s. Bd., 4•. 84.,
and 3d. to his employers as discount that he had allowed
to omicron, when it was clearly proved that he had pat the
money into his own pocket and in on. instance when the
1 customer had asked for tie discount he reused to give it
him, 'Utley that the dleassat WY no longer allowed. '
Proof of the pepsine it the money to the defendant
haviag bees Om. Kr. Ss% am sift posesseises, was called to show that
the unenntelitkisin been heeded o'er to the Ira.

He was sallOssied to a very searching atereasalastien
by Mr. lames, sad in the coarse of it be said that these were
several other similar indictments against the &deadest,
and that the whale amount which he was represented by
those indictment' to have embessled was only 41. 16s. 9d.
The prioress, it appeared, was discharged from the service
of the preiseston some time last year, but although all the
tranmetioes were represented to have taken pleas in 1862,
no indictment was preferred against him until the one-
mincemeat of the preemie year, and he monated for the
delay by stating that the whole of the foes were net seem
taised'until that time; but ha said that the moment they
beam ectsainted with what had been going on, they it
defendant taken into custody. Mr. 81es
=that there had Mss a dispute with the defendant
on ameent w w MOM suM pedal to easterners on his own
morass, mil be eke admitted that he might have mid that
he smell any oat*, prosecution if it met him a thou sad
pounds, but explained that what be meat by this wee that
it was absolutely eassesery lush a step should bs taken ia
order to establish the principles epos which aloe" their trade
meld be conduetsd. In slower to further (legations put
by Sr. luau, Mr. glee also stated that upon some ma-
shes the defeediuit had charged himself with discount
whit* it tweed out that he had not received, sad credit
ins afterwards given to him for the amount ; sad it also
appeased that In the course of his jimmies the defeadant
would have to settle several thousand semunts with diffe-
rent customers.

TSB POLICE COURTS

MANSION-HOUSE.
Edward Foky, the proprietor of the Griffin public-house,
No. 99, Illoreditelt, formerly the Carlisle Armor= brought
before the Lord Mayor, cm the charge of having feloniously
remind • Bank of England note for 201, knowing that it',
had been stolen. Mr. Wenner appeared for the proseon-
don • Mr. Mohler for the prisoner.
Mr. Wanner said the ease presented Dorm curious cir-
cumstance= The lady who was robbed upon the occasion
had been followed by three poisons of her own sex, one of
whom was a little girl, through whom vanispeeted instru-
mentality the other two matrind to get possession of her
pocket-book, enataining bbl., part of which was UN 201.
note in guidon. The prisoner kept a house which had
best notorious for the eatertainment of swell =ohmage,
skittle sharp", eard sharps, and thieves of a great variety of
degrees and demriptions, and he had Wed in such a manner
in the transaction which would be »presented by the
*video's as having taken plan at hie house as to leave no
doubt of his knowledge of the way in which those he
assisted had obtained possession of the property.
Mr• Mary Parsons, of Caroline-hone, Lewisham, widow,
said—On Friday, the 37th of July, I came to Loadon from
Lewisham to regain gooney. I 'valved from the London
sad Bastin Banking Corporatioa • 201. note, four 61.
notes, and other money elsewhere, amounting in all to
661. I put the money Ia my pocketbook, which I
then pland in my dress pocket, and I proceeded to the
Railway-statics at Loadon-bridge. Befon I arrived
there I was stopped by two women, who had a
little girl with them. They made some inquiaies about the
Crystal Palace, and I pointed towards the railway, and they
then asked me what the fare was, sad some other questions.
The little girl stood at the time does to my pocket, and
when the women were questioning me eke pulled one of
them, and said, "Let us ark Bliss," and they all went
away and allowed me to pus. I then went and got into
the train, and upon rembing home I missed nay pocket-
book, which amagiatid W» note and the tour 61. eons.
I ems aftensuede Mapped payment of the notes at the bank.
Mr. his Beliti_mehiw at the Loadon and Eastern Bank-
ing etentngsZ King William-street, said—On the
27th July I to Mn. Pam= 421. 130.9 d., part of which
was a 201. note numbered 28,956, and dated 7th Jane 1856.
The note produced by the officer Bonen is that which I
paid to the lady.
Rumen (detective dame) said—l was on duty at the
Bank of England yesterday, end whilst there I was called
to the chief cashier's epos, where I saw a men named
Bernstein, and the 201. tote prodand was shown to me.
I asked Bintatain mine questions, and from what be stated
to me I went to No. 99, Bboreditch, which is a public-hoes.,
kept by the prisoner. The prisoner was oat when I called
there' and he remained out about an hour, at the expiration
of which be returned. Bernstein was with me at the time,
and I asked Horsetails in the prisoner's presence whether
the prisoner wee the party who had given him the 201.
note. Bernstein said yes, and the prisoner said "Yee, I did
' give him the 201. note ' I asked the prisoner bow he had
got the note, to which he replied that he had not given
I anything at an for it, and that he had been out to
get change for it for two men who came to the bar for six-
pennyworth of gin. I asked him the name of the men. He
said the name of one was Webb, but he did not know the
other. I asked him where Webb lived, I. which ha replied
that he did not know. I then called his attention to the
sort of company is the holm, and I told him that when I
came !in there were two men at the bar whom I knew to be
skittle sharps and thieves, and that one of them nodded at'.
Ime as I came ia. The prisoner then spoke to his wife,
who said that one of the two men whom I bad
seen was Webb, and he said they were the wen
for whom he went to get change of the 201. note.
I told him that he must find Webb for me se I should
hold him responsible and take him into custody.
He said, after a little time, " Well, whatever happens to
me, it serves me right. I have been repeatedly cautioned
by the little butcher over the way to have no dealings with
those men. This to the first time I have had anything to do
with them, and this is how they have served me." After-
wins the prisoner said, " I stopped at the Auction Mart
for Herastein whilst he went to the Barth to change the
note."

In re-exualaation Mr. Slee stated that it appeared by the
books sad the statements made by their customers that the
defendant bad received diseased fa the same manner ia
390 oases, none of which were amounted for.
Mr. Payne, the other partner in the Am eaellthsed a
considerable portion of the testimony given by Mr. glee,
and in answer to questions put by Mr. James he said that
he bad moartakted; from an examination of the becks, that
in five Jasmines the defendant had charged himself with
discount which he had not received, and he also stated that
in two or three instances the defendant had by mistake
charged himself with debts due from outman, whisk he
had. In point of feet, not received.
Mr. James, at the close of the eath for the prosecution,
submitted that the evidence would net support the chugs
of embemlansat. The preeenton, it was clean he said,
were not 'staled to this discount messy, and, therefore,
the prisoner had no authority is receive it on their amount,
which would alone coastitat• the offence of embezzlement.
Mr. Justice Wightasan mid be should reserve the point if
such a course became necisssary, bat he would lot stop the

fdr. James then made a most eloquent address to the
jury es behalf of the defendant, urging that the prosecution
had been instituted from unworthy motives, and that the
whole proceeding arose from the defendant having, in the
extent of his boionern, unfortunately made some man in hie
asconatte, and that he wu entirely Mamma of any fraudu-
lent intention.

The learned Judge having summed up the whole cue
very carefully, the jury, after a short consultation, returned
a verdict of Not Guilty.
Mr. Clarkson upon this said he should not offer any sel-
dom* in support of the other indictments ; and a verthot of
Not guilty was taken in each cam.
The eounsel for the prosecution applied for the expenses,
which were ordered to be allowed.
1100113 DR MIMICS CISZINWILL
innuxoTomr AND OTRINS V. JOLLI7III.
Mr. Bari% Q.C., and Mr. Hawkins were counsel for the
plaintiffs; Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., sad Mr. G. Dann= were
for the defendant.

Crowszansined by Mr. Robler—The prison'r told am the
two mm were customers at his heath, and that one of
them was in the habit of coming once or twice a day, and
sometimes stopping away two or three days, bat that he did
not know the other.

The plaintiffs in this action were silk and lam mitten
in Pall-mall, sad Ike defendant was Sir William Jolliffe.
The action wee brought to recover the amount of a cheque
for 641. that was given by the defendant sport the bank
of Strains, Paul, and Co. under the following cir-
munetances :—lt appeared that the lady of the defendant
purchased same articles at the plaintiffs establishment, a
short time prior to the Bth of Jun*, mai ea the afternoon
of that day Sir William went to the shop, sad gave •
cheque for 541. upon his beakers, Mena. anaban and Co.,
to payment of the bill. The cheque was paid la oa the fol-
lowing morning to Messrs. Olyn sad Co., and aceording
to their cutout with wort-end banks, who do not use the
clearing hoses, the cheque was not presented on the same
day, and Sunday intervening, ft was not presented at the
banking-boom of Straban and Co. until the following day,
when the house stopped payment, and the there was coma-
sequently retuned to the plaintiffs. The paean salon
was brought to remover the amount, the defence being
that the cheque had not been presented within a reasonable
tints.

Mr. Hobbes—Did he not give you ovary assisting* in his
power to enable you to apprehend the persons whom he spoke
of as bung the parties from wham he bad the note ?
Witness—He has cereals', accompanied me in looking
after the persons whom he describu.
Mr. Robles—Do you not believe that he acted In good
faith towards you in rendering you the assistance ?
Witaoss—l do. _

Mr. Hobler i;;Mnitted that there was no ease of feloniously
readying spinet ha client. Possession was all that had bean
or was capable of being proved.
Mr. Wontner 'Milled that it was quit. evident from other
facts, u well as that of hie baying waited at the Auction
Mart tot the return of Bernstein from the Bank, that the
prisoner knew the sot. had been stolen.
The Lord Mayor remanded the prisoner, but said he
world accept two good bail in the sum of 601. each, upon 24
hours' anthill to Mr. Westin's.

A clerk in the "miss of the plaintiffs was called to prom
the cirmuostances under which the cheque was Oven, and he
stated that when Sir William bolliffe wrote it he appeared
to be in • hurry and not to have time to wait fora receipt,
and that Ufa sensognemes told him that he should cross
the sham, and ke mode no objection to his doing so. He
said that wboaddeessinved it was moil, four o'clock, and
that it was impossible to pay the cheque in to their beakers
Olyn and Co., on that day, as they Mooed at four o'clock.
Mr. Mitchell, one of the cashiers of Olyn and Co., proved
the roesipt of the cheque la question, with others, on Satur-
day morning, the 9th of Jane, and be said that it was pre-
unted In doe wares on Monday morning, the 11th. At
that time, the beak of &rehab and Co. had stopped
payment.
Mr. Bramwell submitted that upon this evidence there
was nothing to go to the jury, and that the plaintiffs were
not entitled to recover on account of their not having pre.
seated the cheque within a reasonable time for payment
after. the had received it. His referred to the ease of
er v. Moire," in *bleb it was distinctly laid down
that a cheque ought not, under ordinary circumstances, to be
presented for payment later than the day following its
receipt, and he said that if that more bad been taken by the
plaintiffs they would have got their money, as It was aetoriou
that the bank of !Brehm and Co. honoured all the cheques
that were presented on the Saturday. With regard to the
crossing of the cheque sad the custom among bankers cone-
quest upon that operation, be submitted that tea defendant
was no party to tkosemodlog, and that be was in no wise
responsible for the e at of it.
Mr. Bovill argu that what was a reasonable time for
the presentation of n cheque could only be gathered from
all the circumstances connected with the tranmatiou, and
he matended that no unreasonable or lino delay
had takes plum in the presuctatios of the cheque. • also
urged that there 'ought at all events to have been some
direct evidence that the beak of fitraban and Co. did really
pay cheques that were presented on the Saturday, if any
reliance were to be placed upon that fut.
Mr. Justine Croswell said that as it appeared to him that
the question was see purely of law, be should not take the
opiaion of the jury upon it, but should direct them to find
a verdict for the defendant upon his present view 01 the
ease, which was that the plaintiffs could net recover.
Leave was however given to move for a medial to be
entered for the plaintiffs, if the court above, sped tossi.
doting all the fade, should be of opinion that the evl•
dens, established kis right to recover in the must esidest