The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-15 00:00:00

BARNSTAPLE ELECTION COMMITTEE

Al ter our report left yesterday,
Mr. Uoyd was sworn. and said—l ern at present the
sitting member for Barnstaple. The notion of my standing
was suggested to me at Birmingham by Mr. Moore. I had
known him some years before, but had lost sight of him
natal I met him spin in the West of &Wand, and renewed
my acquaistanee with him. He afterwards came to Sir-
mmgham, and asked me to go to Barnstaple, stating that Mr.
Mackay could not go on account of some domestic affliction.
I went down along with Mr. Matthews. • solicitor at Bir-
miogbam. I gave OW Instruction from the beginning
and that was that I should not approve of a single shelling
being spent in • manner is the slightest degree
repeated that instruction snore than mos. Afers t eiec-
non was over I stated that my return hed bees obtained
without the expenditure of a shies shilling in either bri-
bery or treating, and that was my belief up to • fortnight
ego. When I went to the borough I was informed that it
was Mesetially • liberal borough, and that 300 votes would
secure thelelection, that there were frem2sobo27o which were
unquestionable, and that if them wee no bribeagie the
other aids there would be a great chaste of my the
election. Throughout the election I neither y nor
indirectly countenanced the expenditure of • single dulling
in bribery. I mewed both written and verbal accounts
stating that so roam had been impropelyezpeeded. About
a fortnight ego I was told that some penes' had committed
bribery, but that It was entirely on their own responsibility.
Within the last two or three days 1 have been informed by
Mr. Olaboo, my solicitor, who has been down to Bern-
, staple, that several mass of bribery am be proved. I have
not the most remote suspicion *hare the mosey came from
or who paid it. I have not the slightest naderstandieg of
as honourable kind on the subject, and know nothing about
it. I wander that I have bees treated in a most disgraceful
and scandalous manner.

Yr. Coleridge said he would now withdraw from
the caw

Mr. O'Malley then proposed to go on with the scrutiny
for the porno*" of striking off 22 votes.
The eommittee tbsa pared a resolution declaring that
Mr. Lloyd was not duly sleeted.
Several voters ware then celled, who admitted having
reosived Si. each for their votes.

hir.l;l;ard Yartio, as auctioeeer, was celled, and
proved that a voter, named Charles Hancock, admitted
that he had received 101. for his vote.

At tM time of :,ii;;;;i six umr had been
struck off.

THE PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS TO THE COUNTY
PRISONS.

A ggeeneral meeting of the magistrates of the county
of Middlesex was held yesterday at the Seisione Have,
Clerkeowell-geese, for the transaction of the usual county
brewer, Mr. H. PO WNLLL in the chair ; and the court was
eery numerously attended by magistrates, draera together
by the notice which stood ou the page for the appointment
of Roman catholic clueless to the peeress of the ormaty.
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Ultimately If r. Sergeant PATIII moved the amendment of
which be had gives notice, which was es follows :--" That it
appears to this omit, that, by the laws new in force, all pri-
scoot+ who belong to Churches or persuasions differing from
the church of England, in addition to the instruction they
may be willies to receive from the chaplain of the wive,
are entitled, at their own request, to be visited by a
minister of the religious persuasion to which they belong, but
DO primers are compelled to receive such visits against
their will. That, comparatively, few cciecisirs of the va-
rlets' religious denominations have made such requests, and
those who have have been duly visited. This court is
therefore of opinion that the present arrangements for the
moral Led religious instruction of the prisoners are sue.
cient, and that any appointments by this court, or permis-
moo by the visiting justices for Roman catholic priests to
attend at the prima on ellootemeue, whether their miuir
trations are required or not, ;would be unnecessary and
improper."o."
Considerable discussion took place.

The CHAIRMAN pat the motion, when there appeared—
for the amendment, 70 ; against it, 24 ; mejaity, 46.
The resole was received with loud and prolonged cheer-
ing ; and the rue of the business having been disposed of, the
court adjoureed.

IRONMASTEET QUARTERLY MEETING.

The must important of the quarterly assemblies
of the ironniesters of South Staffordshire wee held in the
Town-hall, Birmingham, yesterday afternoon. There was
• large attendanos, all the principal firms urged in the
trade in this and ether districts being repnieeoted. From
the commencement there were indicatioss that this was to
be a fiat quarter-day ; oonsumers were deappototed at prices
not going lower, and many of them held back from entering
into fresh engagementa in consequence ; the result wes that
the transactions scarcely came up to the average.
But notwithstanding the slackness is this respect,
the ironrcesters themselves expressed a 000llidest
opinion that the present scale of prices will be
maintained for a time, and none of the leading firms would
take orders at lower rates; the wood-clue makers will
in all probability be compelled to do so salsas the trade
rallies speedily ; nothing in that line was, however, re-
ported at this meeting. But the present state of the trade
affords • striking illustration of the ill effects molting
from foreleg prices beyond their natural level ; had the
last advance not bees imposed it is probable that the trsde
would have been in • tolerably healthy state at this mo-
ment. As matters stand, the foreign demand is checked ;
and amongst home consumers there is a want of coo-
Menu in referees to the future of prices, the effect of
which has been to bring about the launid tone mani-
fested at theuseeting yesterday. The real sou of this I.
the attitude mourned by the mete ia the middle of last year
in their persistent demand for advance in the wages wale ;
these were conceded at the time, but in the cod this will
operate unfavourably for them, probably on no distant day.
The sales of pig iron were almost nominal. The quotation
for best hot blast, all mine, is 44 10a. per too, but boyars
would not go beyond 41. la 6d.—heeds the puncity of busi-
ness. Inferior pig was sot much ID demand ; sod as it
will not suit the purpose of the pig masters to stack their
make, it is most likely that furnaces will be blown out.
, Indeed it was stated in the hall that that proceeding is in
contemplation in several instances. For Shropshire iron
there was the usual steady demand. This meetingpassed
at cheerfully, considering the moderate amount of =isms
due. At the close the members of the association dined at
the Hen sail Chickens Hotel.

PAILLIAMCNTLRI Rsroan.—At &numerous meet-
ing of the inhabitants of Leeds, held oa Wednesday night
is the Victoria Hall, resolutions were adopted in favour of
Mr. Baines's 61. Borough Pr•schise BilL A feeble opposi-
tion was offered by • few parsons friendly to the fancy
franchises proposed by Mr. Ilisraali, but this only served
to arouse the enthusiasm of the meeting, and show bow
extremely limited in number were those who designed to
throw discord into the proceedings. At • public meeting
held at Barnsley, on Tuesday, resolutions were unanimously
adopted in support of Mr. Baum'. biLL

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DI/U.411101M RAILWAY ACClDZllT.—Yesterday
afternoon, about 3 o'clock, an alarming occurrence
='at the Surbiton station of the South-Western
,;" It that a horse-box, aoetaiaiag three
valuable animals, one of which we. worth 260 guineas,
was being traaiderred from one line to the other, when
the station master and rotors OD dutz perceived a train
rapidly approaching at all speed op • Iles. They had
scarcely time to give an alarm end ran out of the way
when the train come up, catching the boreiebom forging
the greater part of it on the top of the engine, and killing
instantaneously the three bones, but injuring no one ex-
cept the stoker, who was slightly scratched on the face.
The carriages kept the rails, and were brought up about 200
yards from the scene of the mishap. Part of one of the
homes, fearfully mangled, was found attached to the eosins.
The covered part of the platform of the up-line was reduced
to a wreck, and some of the brick work of the static,, was
carried away. A body of men were instantly despatched
from Waterloo oo receipt of the news, and io a few boars
completely removed all traces of the accident. The train
was returning from Woking Necropolia.*

A telegram was received in Liverpool yesterday
(Thursday), to the effect that the AlDerlolll ship Hiawatha,
which left Cardiff 000111 weeks since for New York with a
cam of opal and railroad iron, on the l&th of March, when
in lat. 42 N. len. 35 W., sprang • link, and wag sinking
feet, when • vessel hove in sight. The crew of the Hiawatha
at ow lowered their boat, abandoned their ship, and pro-
ceeded towards the strange vessel. On boarding her—to
the intense dismay of all on board—they found the new
comer to be a derelict brig, with ally the =impost
sod mainyard standing, and on fire. After boarding the
brig their only boat was stove alongside and loot. The brig
was, of course, unmaisageable ; but eventually, and !anti-
oately for those oa baud, she drifted ashore ow 80.
George's. The crew got safe to land, list what became of
the original crew of the brig is s mystery.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

EQUITY COUSTS.—Aran. 14.
(Bohn Vio►C6eooellor /Lindenley.)
HAMM 11. wear.

This was a molten to eoMit the defendant for breech
of an order of the Meeter of the Boils for an injunction to
restrain the selling, or offering, or advertising. for sale
certain property at Blackheath. It appeared that the
plaintiff was a builder and had bad traumatises with the
defendant, end this bill wee ultimately filed on the lit of
April, 1861, in respect of them transactions. A general
demurrer was patio, and the VierChansellor allowed it on
the technical ground that there wee not ta berm an offer to
redeem. It appeared that thedefeedeat when erred with
the order for the injunction bad instructed Mr. Clarke, of
bloorgatretreet, his auetioneer, to advertise for sale, and
he had done so in the Tiara end Daily News, and
considered that having sent the advertisements they could
not be withdrawn, it being then about eleven o'clock. It
appeared, however, by an affidavit by a person employed at
the Timm office that up to two o'clock an advertisement
could be withdrawn. Subsequently an advertisement wee
inserted, stating simply that the sale wee postponed.
Mr. Baily and Mr. Herbert Smith appeared for the
plaintiff ; Mr. Glam. and Mr. Harding far the defendant.
His Honour wee of opinion that the artreme diligence
required by the court in seek seam bad not been used,
and as of course the court never sagely committed in such
maim, the defendants must pay the ousts. It was a hard
ewe for the, auctioneers.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Pigott)
William Wyka, 45, a gentlemanly-looking man, described
a wine merchant, 'unordered to take his trial upon an
indictment which alleged that he, having in hie poessernon •
bill of exchange for 700 f., unlawfully and feloniously
forged an somprance to the mid bill with intent to defraud,.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Hillard maw:tad the proesention ;
ieryiaet &Moraine was apemally retained with Mr. F. H.
Lewis and Mr. Montagu Williams to defied the prisoner.
Mr. Sleigh, in opening the ors to the jury. said that it
involved a question of very great importance to •
commercial community, because he believed it would
not be disputed that the aomptance to the bill
in question was not genuine, but that an &tempt
would be made to set up that the primmer
bed some implied authority from the supposed acceptor to
put his name to the instrument. He observed that it was
unneosseary for him to make soy remarks upon the dan-
gerous consequences that were likely to ensue if the doctrine
were to be lightly acted upon that became a man fancied
he had the authority of another to put his news to an im-
portant commercial instrument, and issued it to the world
as being genuine, he was sot to be criminally reeponeible.
The jury would therefore have to my, upon the facts that
would be laid before them, whether the prisoner had any
authority for putting the acceptance to the bill, and whether
in point of fact the prisoner had not committed the crime
of forgery that was imputed to him by the present indict.
meet.

—The ere for the prosecution was then gone into. It
that the prisoner kept an account with the
Eigersdbridge breech of the London and County Bank, and
that they were in the habit of discounting bills for him,
and his mortar, transactions appeared to have been of
very extensive character. The prisoner always appeared to
have acted in an honourable and straightforward rower. The
trisection that appeared to have led to the present iequiry
commenced in November, 1862, and it seemed that at this
period the prisoner desired to have a loan of 1,2001.,
which the bank agreed to advance upon the security
of two bills of exchange, or for 7001. and the
other for 3001., both of which were drawn by the
prisoner and accepted by Mr. W. Neste, a licensed
victualler at Camberwell. Theme bills were at four months
date, and it will be annermary to follow the details of the
different transactions that took Ore when the instruments
arrived at maturity, or to state more than that upon each
occasion when they
_became due a portion of the loan was
paid off, and fresh bills given which also bore the accept-
ance of Mr. Nair. Is the month of November, 1863, the
bills again became due, and primmer then paid off 1001., and
gave a fresh bill for 7001. for the balance, which instrument
sae the subject of the present isidictmeot. This bill, like
the others, purported to be accepted by Mr. Near but it
appeared that about the period this gentlemen's son was in
partnership with him, and the acceptance purported to be
that of W. Neat. and Sou, and instead of the bill being
left for pepper at the Lades sad County Bank at
Knightsbridge, it wee made payable at Messrs. Glyn's,
who were the banker of Mr. Nearr. At this time it was
admitted that a parr acceptance for 1001. of Mr. Near,
with which he had sesommodated the prisoner, was in cir-
culation, and it became due on the same day r the 7001.
bill, and instead of their brag kept et the beak at Knights-
bridge, as the other bills had been, it appeared that they
were sent to the head office in the Cry, and were duly
presented for payment at Mara Glyn's, but both were
refused payment, a memorandum being made on the MC
bill to the effect that the acceptance was a forgery. ft
was urged as a strong fact spirt the prisoner that when
this memorandum was shown to the proper he did sot
. .

attempt to allege that he had the auth;rity of Mr. Neste to
pat his name to the bill, but merely mid that it was a mis-
take, and that the reams the bill was not paid was that Mr.
Nests was not aware that he had a bill corning due on this
day, and that there was some mistake as to the date. It
should be stated that the prisoner had ample funds at hie
own banker to pay this 7001. bill, so that no one was cistraudsd.
the bill being debited to him.
Mr. Nest., whose evidence was, of oourse, very material
in the inquiry, was celled to prove, formally, that the
aoceptame to the bill in question was not his sigoatare ; but,
in answer to questions that were put to ban by the leened
counsel for the prisouer, he admitted that he sod the pri-
mmer bad beeo on very intimate terms, sad that he enter-
tained the highest opinion of him ea a man of
hoarier and integrity. He also stated that be
sod the prisoner had formerly been io partnership, and
that since this dmeription of ocionezion between than had
ceased they had still been very friendly, and he had, cm a
peat many ocioasious, put hie mane to billed exchange for
the accommodation of the primmer, sad should have asoopted
the bill in question for him if he had asked him to do so. In
additeoo to this Mr. Nests stated that he thought it very
likely, from the nature of the relations that existed between
him sad the prisoner, the latter might have thought himself
at liberty to make use of his MUM to a bill of earliange for
his own assocamodation.

number of hied respectable witnesses were
called to speak to the ' character.
Baron Pigott, in lamming up the cane to the jury, said
that the male was undoubtedly one of • very important
character, and it appeared to him that the pnecipil point
they had to decide was whether the primer hated the ex.
prim or implied authority of Mr. Neat& to put kis seam to
the bill is queetioa. It was so answer to the charge that
Mr. Nests would have accepted the bill if he had been
sated to do so. and there was so doubt that, in law, any.
ea* who put forth to the world an iastrument of this
description with • forged signature to it must be taken
as havieg an intuition to defraud, and that this was the
necessary consequence of such an act. The whole of the
facts, however, were for their oonsideratioa, sad upon those
Gets they would say whether the primmer was guilty of
the offence imputed to him or not.
The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Not
Guilty. . . . .

Than was an attempt at applause when the verdict wu
delivered, but it was checked by the officers of the court,
and the prisoner warn then ordered to be at cote discharged.