The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8.

THose persons who have no time nor inclination
to read the police reports in the daily newspapers
generally miss some of the most instructive chro-
nicles of the age. Such reports are often more
amusing than fiction, and more reliable than
history. They give us pictures of manners, cus-
toms, habits, and morals, remarkable for their
simple truthfulness. They occasionally lay bare
the hidden machinery of society with the most
delightful freedom, the pleasure of the spectators
being increased by the knowledge that the painter
often paints with an unwilling brush. A revela-
tion wholly unexpected, extracted by crow-ex-
amining ingenuity from a floundering witness—a
turning of the tables, by which the prosecutor be-
comes the defendant, and the defendant almost the
prosecutor, are always gratifying to listeners and
lookers-on. The gratification is increased if the
witness is reputed to be clever, because cleverness
is an assertion of superiority, and it is pleasant to
see it attacked.

It was our duty yesterday to record a case in
which a small mining company was suddenly put
upon its trial, and in which a Mr. Jxssiz JOHN
TusriN, who entered the court an indignant prose-
cutor, was induced to favour the world with con-
fessions that rivalled Rousszen's in bewitching
candour. The morning after a speech at which
reporters are present is generally an anxious time
for the best orators amongst us, and we rush to
the earliest editions of the journals to see
whether we have made ourselvcs famous or ridicu-
lous. We can imagine Mr. Tuerrix, the day after
the examination, sitting up in bed, surrounded by
half-a-dozen proofs of his yesterday's folly, shutting
his eyes for a moment and trying in vain to think
that he had been dreaming, and struggling hard
against a conviction that he had made a fool of
himself. We can imagine him trying to extract
a little comfort from the fact that he went boldly
into the witness-box, and so disappointed those
who expected that he would have been more cau-
tions.

The substance of Mr. TUSTIN'S confessions, put
in a narrative form, ought to convey a useful
lesson to dabblers in mining property. It appears
that this gentleman, whose legitimate business is
that of a chemical colour manufacturer, became
the owner a few years ago of two lead mines which
were not very productive. Judging that all they
wanted was a certain amount of capital to "develop
" their resources," and that a given quantity of
gold sunk would bring up a given quantity of lead,
the idea struck Mr. TusriN of getting up a com-
pany topurchaae and work the property. In carrying
out this idea the projector fell in with a Mr. Jom
JENNINGS, F.S.S., who first became a shareholder,
paying 2001., then a director, receiving no fees,
and finally secretary at the moderate salary of
sixty pounds a year, payable weekly. The enter-
prise became dimly known to fame as the North
Carrock Mining Company, and offices were
taken for it in Tokenhouse-yard.
Though the difficulties of starting a public
company are much lightened when a projector has
something to sell, because then there is a person
who has a direct interest in paying the preliminary
expenses, the North Carrock Company does not
appear to have thrived. its nominal capital was
to be 20,0001., in 4,000 five-pound shares,
but it is not clear that many of these
shares were taken up by the public. A
prospectus, in which figured a number of
presentable but not properly qualified directors,
was issued in 1860 ; but this had borne little
fruit even by February, 1862. The humble de-
posit of five shillings a share was only extracted
from a few believing shareholders, and the directors
melted away, leaving only Mr. Twang and a few
faithful adherents behind. One of these was Mr.
JOHN JENNINGS, F.S.S., Mr. TUSTIN, jun., a son
of the projector, who may be left out of the
account, and a gentleman with the very suggestive
name of Mr. W. BAYLEY BRAY. Finding himself
so thinly supported by confiding shareholders—
having, in fact, no active partners in the specu-
lation except Mr. JENNINGS and Mr. BILLY, the
old saying seems to have occurred to him, that
two is company and three is none, and he therefore
carried a resolution to get rid of the secretary. A
quarrel seems to have taken place between them
as to the comparative merits of the " Dry Gill "
and " Roughten Gill " Mines (the two mines sold
by Mr. TUSTIN to the "company "), and the secre-
tary appears to have spoken disrespectfully of the

first mine, whose name certainly does not
promise a stream of riches. For this un-
becoming behaviour he was formally die-
charged by an "extraordinary" meeting of the
shareholders, consisting of two men and a boy,
but his triple character made him very difficult
to deal with. The secretary was discharged, but
the director and shareholder still remained,
with all their powers of " self-help" now stimu-
lated to the utmost. Mr. Jrarwirtos took his
leave of the ungrateful company as a paid servant
with a few arrears of salary, and satisfied
his pocket as an indignant shareholder
and unpaid director by securing 1991. Bs, 11d.
For this act of " self-help" he was brought before
Mr. Alderman GABRIF.L at Guildhall, and charged
with robbery and embezzlement. Mr. Toms was
put in the witness-box to sustain the charge, and
under the examination of Mr. Lewis, jun., he
gave, in substance, the foregoing history of the
North Carrock Company.
The more we look at this case, and the interests
depending upon it, the more astonished we are
that Mr. Twirls should have so exposed his trans-
actions for the chanceof getting back 1991. 81.11 d.
The " Dry-Gill" may not be very productive, the
"Roughten-Gill" may only be a little more produc-
tive, but surely the two mines, still in the market,
can afford to pay two hundred pounds to keep up
their character.

The extraordinary candour and communicative-
ness of Mr. TUSTIN, in the witness-box, are much
in his favour, and we cannot look upon him es a
mere adventurer. He has property to sell, which
he wishes to dispose of at the highest price, and
the most likely way of gratifying this wish seemed
to be by using the machinery of a public company.
According to his own evidence he has used it
badly, and has failed to attract the necessary
amount of capital. Even with money at two per
cent., and with crowds of people always eager to
rush into the very business which they know
nothing about, the North Carrock Company has
not floated, but is as heavy as its own lead. What
Mr. JOHN Jr./omits would have been if the spe-
culation had shown more vitality, it is not for us to
say. As the Aldermen declined to examine him,
we must reserve our judgment. We are certainly
not disposed to receive him as an ill-used martyr,
until we know a little more about his connexion
with the company. J udging by the evidence
given before the court, he seems quite as able
to take care of himself as Mr. TUSTIN.

The whole of the directors must be looked upon
as rowing in the same boat. They quarrelled
upon grounds which are differently stated by both
parties, and the town is amused for a few weeks
by Mr. TuirriN's confessions. The shareholders,
if there are any beyond the little circle just
described, are as much injured by what Mr.
JENNINUB has done as by what Mr. Tunny has
failed to do, while the latter gentleman seems to
have shown some degree of good faith by speaking
about re-purchasing part of the mining property.
The worthy Aldermen would probably have done
better if they had controlled their feelings, ex-
amined both sides, and thus allowed us to hear a
little more of these instructive disclosures.

trbe Court.

COBURG, Ocr. 3.

The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales,
Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, sod
Prinoess Beatrice, left Itheinhardtsbrunn at 2 o'clock this
day, and arrived at Coburg at six o'clock.
Her Majesty was received at the station at Coburg by the
Crown Prince and,Prinons of Pruaaia, who acompanied her
Majesty to the Palace, where the Duchess of Coburg re•
oared her.

The Crown Priocess with the Prince William, Princess
Charlotte, and Prince Albert Henry of Prussia, had come
from Rheinhardtsbrunn to Coburg earlier in the day.
Her Majesty is as wall ea can be expected under the
trying emotions of revisiting for the first time the birth-
place of the beloved Prince. Her Majesty has taken daily
walks and drives, with the members of her family, in the
neighbourhood of Rheinhardtabrunn, but is unequal to much
exertion.

The inhabitants of the neighbourhood have shown the
greatest respect for her Majesty's feelings by refraining
upon all occasions from intruding upon her privacy.
The Queen's departure was delayed for two days by •
slight accident which occurred to Prince Leopold. and which
proved more difficult to cure than was at first expected.
His Roy►l Highness is now quite recovered, and bore the
journey remarkably well.
Prince Arthur, who has been for some days upon • tour on
foot in the Harm Mountains, isexpected to return to-morrow
to Coburg.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the loni►n lolanda.

Despatches were sent to the Lord High
lonian Islands.

iisaioner of the

PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL.—COVENTRY.—The
inhabitants of this city, with the co-operation of the vicar
and churchwardens, have decided upon placing in the north
aisle of St. Michael's Church • memorial window, the win-
dow selected being one of a series intended to be filled with
stained glau. The subject illustrated will be the life of
Moses. The nave will be filled with heraldic devices of the
late Prince and family. Messrs. Heaton, Butler, and Bayne,
who have in hand • large east window for St. Peter's
Church, Cheater, as a memorial to the late Prince, are to
soceente it.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8., is held in readiness at Ports-
mouth to proceed to Antwerp to convey her Majesty to
England at the conclusion of the royal visit to Germany.
The yacht has not yet received her final orders, but the is
expected to sail from Porttmouth on Friday or Saturday
next.

The Earl and Counteaa Ashburnham and Ladies
Ashbarahua have arrived at Ashburnham House from •
tour of visit +.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have re-
turned to Brorklmby Park from Convamore, Ireland.

The Earl and Cotuiteas of Carnarvon arrived yes-
terday at °ldling Lodge, Notts the Earl of Chcaterfitld's
shooting.box, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury ►t Hatfield Houle, Herts.

Lmlaud Lady Forester are entertaining a select
circle at Wiley Park. Shropshire.

Lady Caroline Neeld has left London on a visit
to the Earl and Count's, of Shaftesbury, at St. Giles's,
DJI setabi re.

A marriage is arranged to take place between
Mr. William Henry Melvin, son of the late Sir James
Como Melva!, K.C.8., sad the Hon. Elizabeth Therese
Lister, youngest daughter of the late Lord Ribtdesdale, and
stepdaughter of Earl Russell.

Mr. Monckton Mikes, M.P., has left town on a
visit to Visoount and Viscountess Palmerston, at Broad.
lamb, Hants.

The Duke and Duchess de Morny and party,
who bad been visiting the Count and Countess do Flahatilt
at Tanaka Cantle, arrived in Edinburgh on Monday night,
sad left yesterday for London.

Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., M. P., returns to
the Admiralty to-day from his seat in Wales to resume his
duties as First Secretary of the Admiralty.

The Bishop of London was in Norwich on
Sunday, and preached in the morning at the cathedraL
The Marquis and Marchioness Dominique Serra,
accompanied by M. and Madame Ferrari, have left the
Cbzendon Hotel, for Paris.

General Retie...win, aide-de-camp to the Bey of
Tanis, accompanied by AL Lambecea, has left the Claroodea
Hotel, for Pr.ris. . .

Lord Palmerston has consented to take the chair
at a public. dinner to inaugurate the opening of the new
Training College for the diocese of Winchester, on Monday,
the 13th inst.

LATEST INTELLIGENOF.

(uarn's TILIGRAM&)
AMERICA.

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RIIMOURED INCREASE OF THE FEDERAL
ARMY TO ONE MILLION OF MEN.

APPROVAL OF THE EMANCIPATION PRO-
CLAMATION BY THE GOVERNORS OF
SIXTEEN UNION STATES.
NEW YORK, S. 2E, Evininta.

(Per Bohemian, vi Quebec and Loodonderry.)

No Fedorala have yet crossed into Virginia.
The Confederates remain along the upper line of
the Potomac.

It is rumoured that another draught will be pro-
claimed to increase the Federal army to 1,000,000
men.

The governors of 16 Union States assembled on
the 24th inst. at Altoona (Pennsylvania), and ad-
journed on the 25th to Washington, where they
presented an address to President Lincoln, express-
ing their determination to support his constitu-
tional authority, approving the emancipation pro-
clamation, and suggesting the expediency of raising
a reserve force of 100,000 men.
The Governor of Maryland objected to sign the
address approving the emancipation proclamation.
The New York Republican State Convention
express profound satisfaction at the President's
proclamation.
The President has been serenaded at Washington,
on which occasion he made a speech, saying that he
issued the proclamation after full deliberation and
under a heavy sense of responsibility. He trusted
in God that he had made no mistake. It was now
for America and the world, he said, to judge the
proclamation, and, it may be, to take action upon it.
The Chicago Emancipation Committee have
published President Lincoln's reply to them,
delivered on the 13th of thin month. The Presi-
dent therein states that he did not favour an
emancipation proclamation, as it would be inopera-
tive if issued, and if the slaves were armed their
arms would fall into the hands of the rebels.
The New York World thinks that the President's
change of policy is caused by a fear of foreign
intervention.

A portion of the emancipation proclamation was
erroneously printed. The proclamation declares
that the presence in Congress,on the Ist of January,
of the members from the rebellious states shall
be evidence that such states are not then in rebel-
lion, instead of the presence of such members being
evidence that they have not been in rebellion.
The Southern journals claim victory for the Con-
federates in the battle at Antietam Creek. The
Confederate Generals Startel and Branch were
killed. The Confederate force numbered 60,000
under General Lee. To avoid a flank movement
by General M'Clellan, Lee withdrew his army
across the Potomac.

The Petersburg Express thinks that the majority
of the people of Maryland are not disposed at
present to join the South, otherwise they would
have risen en masse.

The Governor of Pennsylvania has discharged
the militia lately called out.
At New Orleans General Butler ;has ordered all
foreigners to present themselves with the evidence
of their nationality to the nearest provost marshal
to be registered, as in the course of 10 days it may
be necessary to distinguish disloyal from loyal
citizens and honest neutral foreigners.
Naval expeditions are fitting out at Port Royal
and Pensacola.

Correspondents report that the Federal General
Rosenthain captured 36 cannon and 503 prisoners
in the late battle at Juka, Mississippi
Preparations have been made to burn the
city of Memphis, if attacked.
The Ariel, from Aspinwall, has arrived at New
York with 880,000 dohs.

NEW YORK, SEPT. 27, Evagnro.
(By telegraph to Father Point and from Londoodert74
General ld'elellan has constructed a pontoon
bridge upon which to cross the Potomac at Harper's
Ferry.
The Louisville Journal declares that Kentucky
will never acquiesce in President Lincoln's procla-
mation.