The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-15 00:00:00

Oe Court.

The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and
Prince Albert yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning,
attended by Lieutenant-Colonel lion. Alexander Gordon.
The royal family took their usual pony and walking ex-
ercise yesterday in the garden of the Palace.
The royal dinner party at Buckinginun Palace yesterday
included the Ducheas of Kent, the Duke of Norfolk, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Norraimby, Barnum& de tipeth,
land Lieut.-Col. Lion. C. B. Phipps.

A deputation in reference to the Denbighshire Police
Force, including Mr. John Williams, M.P., Mr. G. 11.
Whalley 0"1as Slailockhad an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Home Office.
Mr. Charles A. Saunders had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Bailey, M.P., Mr. Ellico,
and Mr. Laird, Birkenhead Dock Trustees' and Mr. Aber-
nethy, Engineer, hail an interview with Lord Seymour
yi-terilay at the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of
Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place.
The M ,vor of Portsmouth and deputation had an inter-
view yestenlay with Sir George Grey.
Colonel W. L. Freestun, had an interview with
the Right lion. Henry Lobonchere yesterday at the office
of the Board of Trade.

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re-
venue, Mr. Presily. and Mr. Timm, had au interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Captain W. C. Barris. Chief Constable of Ifampshire,
and slr. Compton, had an interview with Sir George Grey •
yesterday.
DT. Shier had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey.
Earl de Grey and Lord de Tapley had an interview yes-
terday with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council oat yes-
terday. An appeal, " Barclay v. Rogge" (The Gleual-
leyn), part heard, was resumed and concluded. An appeal
was heard, "General Steam Navigation Company v. Van
Vlissiasgen " (The Burgumeister Ilendekofer.)

(From lassnlen't Gazette.)
LEVELA.—Loau CLUMBERLAIN'S OFFICE., FF.B. 13.
—Notice is hereby glum, that her Majesty will hold levees
at St. Jame. s Palace on the following days, at 2 treloeli,
Wednesday, 26th Fi.bru iry inst.; Thursday, 6th March
next ; Wednesday, 26th March nest.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FED. 7.--The Queen has been
pleased to appoint the following Chaplains in Ordinary to
her Majesty:—The Rev. Charles Baring, the Rev. Dr.
James Cartutell, the Rev. Dr. Charles John Vaughan.
•

I/OWNEID-ETED:ET, FEB. 14.—The Queen has been
pleasod to appoint David Robert Rasa, Esq., to 1H• Lieut.-
Governor of the island of Tobago. Also Aston Davoren,
Esq., to be Chief Justice for the island of Saint Chriatopher.

WIIETEILALL. FEB. 12.—The Queen has been
pitased to prtaat the Her. Alexander Stewart to the
eliurehmt of Balachulish and Curran of Anlgour, in the
parish of Kilmallie, in the presbytery of Abertartf, and
county of vacant by the transportation of the Rev.
John Macleod, late minims:r thereof, to the parish of Laggan.

lain Intelligente.

EQUITY COURTS.7-YEsTzRDAY.

aisolut •tcs-Crmocu.s.na limettr binca.
CICATTON T. FRITH.-WILL.-CHARITY.

Mr. Philip Frith, the testator in the ranee, by his will
bequeathed the residue of his property to trustees for the
following purpose, viz., for opening new schools, subscrib-
ing to those audy. opened in England, Ireland, Scotland,
or elsewhere ; and in purchasing land to let out to the poor
at a low rent, anti the rent to he applied to any benevolent
purpose the trustees might think fit. The questions princi-
pally argued were, lot, whether the last of these purposes'
was within the Nlortmain Act, it being contended that, as
, the testator contemplated not only England in the benefits
intended to be conferred by his will, the land might be
bought in Scotland; 2nd, whether, so a. not to violate the
Mortinain Act, if it were within the Mortmsin Act, the
trustees might not in their discretion apply the whole pro-
perty bequeathed to the other purposes mentioned by the
testator; and, lastly, whether, if both the above questions
were answered iu the negative, the purposes were to be
considered as two or three, and in what proportion the be-
quest might ho applied to them.
I The Vice-Chan*llor said the first question was, whether
the testator gave a discretion as to the apportionment of the
fund among the charitable purposes designated by him, or as
to the cvelusion of any one of them from the gift. Now,there
was nothing from which the court could imply an intention
to give such a discretion, and there was an implication to
the contrary, from the express words conferring a discre-
tion as to the application of the rents of the land to he let
Ito the poor. 'I here being no discretion, the fund must be
equally divided among the objects pointed out by the tes-
tator, and then arose the question whether it was divisible
into two or into three equal parts. On the whole his
Honour's opinion was, that the two first mentioned pur-
poses, which, at first sight might appear several, were I
really one, namely the one general purpose of charitable
education. The division being therefore into two parts, that
portion of the fund which was given for education would
be applied to that purpose, as not being contrary to the
Mortmain Act. The trust for the purchase of land would
fail, as being contrary to that statute, and, therefore, the
other moiety of the fund would belong to the next of kin.
A decree was instle carrying into effect this decision,
and disposing of the other matters remaining for considera-
tion in the cause.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH- : \ ESTI:1111AT.
SITTINGS AT NM PILICSI AT 01.111,11A1.1.-bI7OR• LiiRD CAMTDDI
AND CDltro• JVDTIO.

Tne Queers r. KILDALI..—INDICTMENT VOIL PERJURY.
This was an indictment for perjury, preferred by the
Slimness Von Stentz against a Mr. Sobieski Kilil4ll.
Mr. Charnock, who appeared for the prosecution, stated
that as the baroness was absent, owing to illness, he (Mr.
Charnock) could not su,tain the indictment.
Lord Campbell then directed the jury to acquit the de-
fendant._.

A verdict of not guilty was accordingly returned.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER—YEsTERDAY.

Nlll Yaws.—Buois Stc Y. Pottut, Camp Bung, up • Mows
AEI grrxzu

THE ATTORNEY-GENE UAL O.IIIILONIION DOCK COY..
PANT-INIVOUTANT REVENUE CACHE.

This cause was resumed yesterday morning, when the
following witnesses were called :
George Williams, examined by Mr. Peacock, Q.C. lam
clerk in the London Docks for about thirteen years I have'
assisted my father in making these returns. This paper
was written about the end of 1849.
Cross-examined by the Solicitor-General.—The first part
of this book is my father's handwriting. It was copied from
returns which I received from my father. I will swear
that what is entered here in 1818 was then entered in this
book. I made the entries in this book in December, 1849.
James Davis,exarained by Mr. Macauley, Q.C.—I have
been in the Dock Company's employment for 27 or 28 years.
I have been employed for the last seven years at the Eastern
Dock. There n a place called after my name. It is shout
five or six yards square. I frequently see the custom-house
officers there. aly duty is to attend to all sorts of Finger
scrpings of all descriptions. Some come out of the ship's
hold; some are dry, and some very wet, indeed. What
drips out of the hogsheads arc called droininge. All the dry
scrapings L keep by themselves. I keep them outside until
I make live casks of scrapings, when the surveyor used to
examine them. I very seldom have anything to do with
fetching the things to my corner. They arc brought by dif-
ferent men; I cannot name anyof them for they were often
strangers. I used to wash the sugar, and get the muck and
rubbish out of it. I made molasses of it. I cannot say
that molasses and wet drainings are the same. That
which drips from the casks in the warehouse is
wet drainings. We make it thick enough with
the black stud'. When I have got ten casks tared I get
them examined by the Surveyor of Custom.. I have got
nothing to do with them afterwards. The surveyor ex-
' amines them both inside and outside. We roll them out
sometimes, when we are full in the warehouse. I very
seldom put into the wet sugar good enough to go into the
dry. The five cooks contain the scrapings from the hold,
and the scrapings from the hogsheads, when dry enough.
Some might mistake sawdust and sugar together for sugar
in my dark place, hut I know better. If the sawdust was
very had, I get it out with a little water. Such sugar as
that would become part of the wet drainings. I don't re-'
member ever having put sugar into the wet drainings that
I could put amongst the dry scrapings. I never pat good
merchantable sugar into the wet drainings. I remember
Mr. Bari,er comiug one day to my corner. There was it
cask half full with sugar at my corner. That cask stood
there for two or three days, but I did not know what it
contained at the time. Ido not know who did bring the
cask there. I had not worked any part of the con-
tents of the cask until Mr. Barber came. There
were about fourteen casks standing round, into
which I put the draining& Mr. Barber asked me no quee-
Clone about that cask. Ile put his stick into all the other
teak', WAY quite satisfied, and went away. Mr. Moore was
the locker of that warehouse, he came there too afterwards.
Ile said—" llolloa, what have yuu got there ?" I said—
. Scrapings," it looked so dirty, until I took a shovel or
two off. Moore then went for Mr. Barber. When he came
the cask was taken out to the light and shot out. It was
drippings from the Buis& sugar. I know the Bulah sugar.
It was dirty on the top and one side of it. It was in cakes.
When I was asked the question I told how long it stood
there. Mr. Wicks was there too. Ile inked rue why I
worked that sugar. I said I did not know what sort of
sager it was. Mr. Wicks told me to go home, but I met
Mr. Bales who told rue to go to my work for the present.
It ia not true that 1 or my men carried away two or three casks
of the Bulah sugar and tuned it into inoluseve. We took near
three casks of sugar scrapings and put it behind Smith's box.
It went with all the other dry scrapings. Smith had the
management of all the scrapings. I kept two casks in my
EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OP A CLERCVMAIL—A corner for the reception of black stuff. Smith was turned
correspondeut of the Wiltshire Indepesdesit draws attention out of his situation by Mr. Bales for putting good sugar
to some very unusual proceedings of the Vicar of Stratton, into black stuff. I never assisted a man named Falkner to
St. Margaret's, near Swindon. Two or three years ago, carry eight casks from the inclined plane to my corner.
nye that journal, the village church was repaired, and the I never saw anything like the destruction of eight casks
expense was met by a church raw. No provision, however, at my corner in 1848, or any time else. There has never
was made "for tin restoration of the elm, ends, and the been any concealment about my corner. I believe the
tablets containing the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and the corner was taken up to have the casks out of the way of
vicar nut considering the old ones good enough, has never the traffic.
allowed them to be put up. but has been constantly demand- Cross-examined by the Solieitor-General.—l never lost
nag new ones of the churchwarden. One of those gentle- a day's work by drink in my life. When the hogsheads
men, however, has peremptorily declined having anything
men six
are not there, it is light enough. Mr. Smith sent me five
to do with another church rate, and instead of putting the orwhen there was nut work enough fur myself and
parish to the expense of new articles, has recommended that another. I was not examined for a long time after theseizure.
the old ones should be repaired and made good. On I did not say that it would be better if the company put
Friday night, the 31st ult., while the church choir were me out of the way. Smith wanted to have conversations
practising, the vicar cut to pieces, with his penknife, the with me about these matters. Mr. Bales did nut tell me if
tablets containing the Commandments, Apostles' Creed, and
the Lord's Prayer, and after thus destroying them, left the customs officers asked me any questions to say I knew
nothing about it. I signed a paper fur Mr. Bales. Drain-
them in the belfry of the church. The next morning, at 7 isms from the hogsheads and the . ships' hold were brought to
o'clock, he repaired to the church, taking with hint his ser-
vant, whom he ordered to burn the fragments in the church- me. They drain into the gangways. The scrapings from
the hogsheads, the chips' hold, and from the floors were
yard, which act was perpetrated and witnessed by a respect- brought to me. They never fetched dry sugar from the eor-
able farmer of the village." ncr to make up deficiencies. For the last three years dry
THE MURDER-4 AT WEDNESBURY COLLIERY.—ID- sweepings did not come to my corner.a hast bee ta
my lent.
quests have been held on the bodies of the three unfortunate to
Smith'sth 1"t
three ba;aers nwoitthic'dnryc sweepings.nth a
men alto met their dentin lately at the Wednesbury Old nn foreman" with deficienciesy of sugar. There war, no part
Field Colliery, in consequence of the pit rope having been
eat through maliciously. The jury returned verdicts of of cargo the Bulahbrought to me, it was taken to Smith's
" Wilful murder against some person orpersons unknown"
corner, except the pipe. Then were very nearly
'
—Worcestershire Chronicle. three casks taken from the Bulah cargo. I took
them to Smith's corner myself. The half pipe of
CRUEL. TREATMENT OF A SERTINT . Grat.—A ease scrapings from the Bulah was dry. I did not work
of cruel treatment of is servant girl, by assault, which it when I taw what it was. Mr. Barber did not take •
exceeded even the ferocity of the 'Sloane', came before the sample of it, but Mr. Moore took a handful of it. (I don't
Edinburgh police magistrates on Monday last. The parties know whether this is it or not.) I had only worked at thi
charged were also husband and wife—Mr. and Mrs. Thorn- Bulah stuff for a few minutes when Barber and Moore in-
son, tavern-keepers. Shakspeare-square. They were terrupWd me. I have no orders to keep strangers out.
charged with wickedly and feloniously attacking Catherine Plenty of room for custom-house officers. There are no
Raddock, servant girl, residing with them, on Thurada
secrets whatever there. I don't wash dry scrapings, unless
morning last, between 12 and 1 o'clock. Mr. Thome= was they were very dirty indeed. I never mixed water with dry
further charged with kicking, and otherwise maltreating wrapings or sweepings. When thc five casks were surveyed by
and abusing her, whereby she was hurt and injured. The the customs,' know nothing ofthem afterwards. Inthescason
assault was occasioned in consequence of the girl Nang in he might make up 30 in the month, each cask containing
an unfit state to attend the rooms on account of her having 10 cwt. I have had Falkner and Donovan for as much as
been engaged washing .luring the day. Mrs. Thomson was 12 months together, but have had no men regularly there.
the first to commence the assault by using abusive epithets I mean to say that neither Falkner nor Donovan have
towards Raddock, and then pushing her about the house fluxed water with dry sugar at my corner. They don't
and tearing her clothes. The girl ran into the coffee-room, work now at my corner, and they have removed the forks
where there were some gentlemen drinking ale, to solicit and vessels to other places. I don't believe that in 1848
their proteetion. Her mistress chased her and seised her there was one cask brought to me from the inclined plane.
by the neck, and several times knocked her head against Re-examined by Sir F. Kelly—l could not tell what part the swats. She
_pot released and ran back again to the of the warehouse the things were brought to me. The dry
kitchen, where Thomson was sitting. lie swore at her, stiff was brought to Smith's corner, and the dirty mucky
and threatened to kirk her down stairs. The girl being stuff to me.
alarmed for her life, rushed to the door to get out : Thom- By the Jury —I have never seen an original bag of sugar
son sprang from his seat and followed her, and kicked her made into molames at the corner.
severely as she was leaving the house. Raddock then went George Falkncr examined by Mr. Groves—l have been
and obtained refuge in a neighbour's house. The girl's about four years in the employ of the Dock Company, and
evidence was corroborated by that of the witnesses who about IS months at Davis's corner, where we washed and
were in the coffee-room, and by Mee. Crawford, who cleaned sugar. We never put good merchantable sugar into
afforded the girl shelter from her assailants. These wit- those washings. What we did we did openly. I never
news also deponed to the sobriety of the girl, and her removed eight casks of sugar. I have been employed as a
exhausted appearance at the time of the assault. The scraper. I never put good merchantable sugar into those
charge was found proven, and Thomson was fined 11., or scrapings, or any one to my knowledge.
be imprisoned for ten days, and la security to keep the Cross-examined by Mr. Watson, Q.C.—There has been
peace for twelve mouths, or suffer other ten days' imprison- nothing of that kind done atDavis's corner since the
ment. Mrs. Thomson having, as a wife, no personal pro- wino,. There has been as many as five men at work at
petty, could not be tined, and she was in consequence sen- Davis's corner besides him and myself. The two men
tenoed to find bail for twelve months, or be imprisoned for constantly employed were Davis and myself. Smith was
ten &tr.—Warpage Doily Moil.
the foreman at Davis's corner. I was there at the time of
MAILS ON MAU-MAYA—Yesterday a return to the the seizure. (The sample of sugar was handed to the jury,
liemen of Commons was Waned showing the amount paid and they declared that it was dirty.) I can swear that
ler*, the years 1848 and 1849, by the Peet-office to rail- Davis did not say to me that the Customs would seize the
may companies for the conveyance of the mails, &e. The sugar we turned out, there being so many casks turned out
sit paid in 1848 was 818,8641. is. Ids and in 1849, together. I had nothing to do with carrying goods to Davis's
111181.1 W. Ils. Ild. For ether services SS/. was paid in coeh corner.
yew. The amount paid in each year does not in all cams Re-examined—l never mixed water with good or fair
lbw Om expellee incurred for the service of the year ' • in sugar at Davies corner.
sena loseemess it Laclede, more sad is some leas than the Thomism Doddridge examined by Sir F. Kelly—l ban
swills dike year. bees between 18 sad 19 years is the employ of the Loudon

ANALYSIS OF TILE DIVISION ON MR.

DISRAELI'S MOTION.

The Iri.h radical members who voted against the
government arc—Mean. Wyndham Goold, Limerick ; J. T.
Deverena, Wexford ; Col. Dunne, l'ortarlington ; J. Fagan,
Wexford; 0. D. J. Grace, Roscommon; lienry Grattan,
Meath; It. Keating, Waterford; lion. C. Lawless, Clon-
met ; T. M'Cullagh, Dundalk ; J. Meagher, Waterford ;
W. Monsell, Limerick ; G. 11. Moore, Mayo; T. O'Brien,
Cashel; Anthony O'Fluherty, Galway; N. Power, Water-
ford; J. Reynolds, ; E. D. Ruche, Cork ; J. Sadleir,
Carlow; K. Scully, Tipperary ; M. Sullivan, Kilkenny ; W
[Keogh, Athlone.

We notice also amongst the liberals voting against govern-
ment Mesita. T. Alcock, Viscount Anson, Humphrey
Brown, W. IC Banbury, W. J. Chaplin, H. C. Ley, T.
B. Leonard, Earl of Euston, G. F. Muntz, Feargus O'Con-
nor, and J. Simeon.
The Peelites who voted with Mr.Disracli were:—Messrs.
S. Christy, Lion. It. li. Clive, A. D. Cochrane, T. S.
Cocks, lion. 11. L. Curry, W. Cuhitt, lion. Colonel Darner,
Henry Drummond, Lord C. Hamilton, 11. T. Hope, Sir J.
Johnstone, G. C. Ugh, Sir E. Mac Nughten, Colonel Peel,
Colonel Reid, G. Sandars, Alderman Sidney, J. G. Smyth,
H. Stuart, and Sir 11. Willoughby.
Members who voted for Mr. Disraeli's motion this year
who voted against him last year:—W. J. Chaplin, liberal;
J. T. Devereuz, liberal, Wexford ; H. T. Hope, Pcclite ;
W. Keogh, liberal, Athlone; W. T. M'Cullagh, liberal,
Dundalk; 6. T. Monte, radical, Birmingham; Sir T.
O'Brien, liberal, Cashel; Nicholas Power, liberal, Water-
ford ; David Pugh, liberal conservative, Montgomery-
shire; J. Reynolds, liberal, Dubin; and Francis Scully,
liberal, Tipperary.
Members who %ohs! fur Mr. Disraeli's motion this year,
who did not vote at all last year :—C. B. Adderley, Charles
Baldwin, Viscount Thomas Booker, Sir It. U.
Booth, Sir A. Brooke, crav,errative • llumphry Brown, a
liberal; Cul. Bruen, Alex. D. Cochrane, Hon. ('ol. Darner,
D. A. S. Davies, W. Beedes' Sir J. T. B. Duckworth, lion.
U. Buncombe, U. Banda", H. Edwards, Viscount Emlyn,
conservatives; Jame. Fagan, liberal ; Wyndham Gould,
liberal; Marquis of Granby, Greenall, 6. J. litathcote,
' W. B. Hughes, W. N. Hodgson, conservatives; R. Keating,
liberal; lion. C. Lawless, liberal; 0. 11. Moore, liberal;
Sr Lucius O'Brien, A. Oswald, Cul. Pell, Col. Powell,
Lord W. Powlett, conservatives; E. B. Roche, radical;
Viscount &sham; Alderman Thompson, Loftus Wiping,
' and Herbert W. W. Wynn.
Amongst the Peclites, or free-trade conservatives, who
voted for government were : Admiral J. Boyd, Lord E.
Bruce, E. 11. Banbury, E. Cardwell, Sir G. Clerk, Alder-
, man Copeland, E. Denison, Marquis of Douro, J. Buneurt,
J. B. B. Esteourt, lion. 11. Fitzlioy, Sir J. Graham, Sir J.
Harmer, Hight Sidney Herbert, Lord A. Hervey,
Sir J. W. Hogg, Earl Jermyn, Sir C. Lemon, A. E. Lock-
hart, W. A. Mackinnon, Sir J. M'Taggart ; C. W. Martin,
J. Masterman, Lord Norreys, Sr .1. Owen, J. Soudan, W.
. Wrightson, Sir J. Young.

Dooks. I am delivery foreman. The sweepings arc under
my management. Davis and a good many others
have been the principal persons to collect scrapings.
I had the management of the scrapings until
about three years ago. It was given to Smith.
There wan no good or merchantable sugar taken to
Davis's corner. The five casks were tared by the
locker and submitted to the Customs. Only the dry scrap-
Wm; were taken to Davis's corner. Water was never to my
knowledge mixed with the sugar. That which was taken
to Davis; corner was the scrapings of the floors. I say,
emphatically, that Davis had no orders whatever to use
good merchantable sugar at the corner. I Lad been in the
habit of going there when no one was there, and I never
detected anything of the kind. It would be impossible that
tons of sugar could be used there. There wan no conceal-
ment or attempt at secretly. Until the changes that bad
lately taken place there wan no place where such conveyance
was had for the matters done at Davies corner. About
four years ago I received 3!. hum the Loudon Docks.
We applied fur overtime. It had nothing to do with sweep-

have done. But this loss happened 10 years ago, and there
could be no doubt as to the t •.sty and integrity of John-
son. As to a sum of 400/., it wan not a gilt by the Nu* to
Juhngon, but was lent to him by Mr. Gaup, a former
partner. As to Oberton, manager and agent of the branch
at Dorking, he was a person earning on business in an ex-
tensive way u a draper at forking, lic,ring a high the-
racter, and of repudiated solvency ; and therefor: the
bankrupts were justified in having tram:idiom' with him.
His honour—By the transaction-, of the father and son
(Overton) the bunk is minus 4,000'.
Mr. Bayley sold that Overton was the agent, and in that
respect losses had arisen. A banker's business, it own be
remembered, was one in which great risks existed. Then,
as to the transactions of Mr. Nettle with his Wne, respecting
' a brewery, Mr. Neale the hankruid had leen possessed of a
brewery at Dorking for many years, and in 1830 his son,
Thomes Neale, la-came the pun•haser of one-fourth
share of the brewery, for whkh he paid. Thus mat-
ters continued till 1833, when a fresh valuation of the
brewery was made and William Neale, another son,
joined hi. brother in busimss. The brewery WAS valued
at 22,0001., and out of this sum 8,0001. was paid in rash,
joint promissory notes being given fur the remaining
14,0001., out of which 4,0001. had been paid shortly before
the stoppage. The br•we never ltelonged to the bank,
and the creditors had gained by the transaction. The secu-
rity given had turned out very valuable, and any banker
would hare been justified in taking it.

jutnicks-examined by Sir F. Thesiger.—Davie's corner Is •
dark place.

ltc xamined.—l have never known of good %omit. goring
to Davia's corner. The ea.,tern docks would hold from
8,000 to MOO hogsheads on the floor.
John Soanca, examined by Mr. Peacock, Q.C.—I am
quay foreman at the eastern dock. I hale been fon.inan
five yearn last September. Sweepings of the quay arc taken
to liavis's corner. 1 hare never known any clean dry sugar
mixed with au eepings or acrapings before they were taken
to Davia'a corner. _ _

II in Honour wished to know haw• it wan that Mr. Neale
had become indebted to the bank in the sum of 16,00 W.
The official cosign.. c mvpiewil it wan 01i rdrawingw
His Honour %unit! like to know how the overdrawing*
MSC.

Thomas Hards, examined by Mr. Macaulay Q.C.-1
are been siitetn years at the easttrn docks. dace never
eilt concerned in carrying sugar to 1/aN eorm r.
Cross-examined by Sir F. The.iger, but nothing import-
It was elicited.

13agley said, from tariotta sources ; not a farthing of
the bank money had been ensployal in the brewery, and
the sons had offered to pay th, it father's muitty of tho
deficiency appearing nn the haltnee-sheet.
Mr. lielly, who apiwanal as utlieitur fur Mr. Nash, denied
the lIANCItiOII. . . -

James Curtis examined by Mr. Groves—l 3N us employed
aa assistant foreman, superintending the romper.. The
scraping. were taken to Dayis's corm r. I hare never my-
self placivl good sugar amongst the scrapings, or vanetionid
its being dope. . _ _

llts Honour wished to know- was it justifiable for a parte
ncr in a bank, without capital, to rub r into speculation in
shares.

George Nett examined by Sir F. Kelly—l have been
employed in the scrapings of the docks. I have never
known good sugar worked up with the scrapings. I never
saw good sugar at Davis's corner at all. 1 never paw Smith
destroy tons of sand sugar to make it into scrapings. I never
saw Smith or any une else destroy clean sugar or make it
into scrapings. I never saw him do anything at all with
good clean sugar. The scrapings were generally taken into
a corner, called Davis's corner.
Cross-examined by the Solicitor-General—My employ-
ment was on the upper floor. I had Won three or four
days at Davis's corner. I have never seen Smith mix any
sugar with the scrapings. The sugar came from all parts.
I cannot say whether any came from the inclined plane.
We could nut always see it at Davis's corner; but we could
WI by our forks whether it was clean or not. (Laughter.)
lte-examined by Sir F. Kelly—l never saw clean sugar
there in my life. The ovordrawings never went to Day ieR
corner.

Mr. Bagley admitted that his client had pukbased twenty
abates of 1001. each in the Maritime Insurance Company,
in respect of which he was now liable to the extent of only
9001. ;_ but he positively denied that any loss had he. n sus-
tained by the t-state in respect of that transaction, at the
time of entering into whirl' the Maritime Company was in
prosperous prospens state. Tie bankrupts bad worked faithfully
and diligently to bring their affairs to a termination to the
satisfaction of their e.siaticis. lie (Mr. Bagley) had
carefully avoided making any imputation against Mr.
Nash, but he must say he could not conceive that any differ-
ence should be made betwe,u the partners because ono
was a sleeping one. Nash hail chart it the profits, his name
was over tin' dour, and lw Lad obtained has certificate. A
great number of creditor. hail .i!_nted a memorial assenting
to the bankrupt's certificate being granted. The stoppage
took place so far back us June last; the assignees did not
oppose, and therefore it was contended that the certificate
should be granted.

...........
Mr. W. IL Wicks, examined by Mr. Peacock, Q.C.—I I
have been deputy warehouse-keeper for two or three years.
Davis's corner is used for the reception of draining% and
scrapings. I know John Thomas Smith; he was superintend-
ent over Davis. I used to superintend all that came from
the upper boor. The overdrainings were kept by the in-
clined plane. There never was any of them taken to
Davis", corner. There was no good merchantable sugar
ever went front any part of my department to Davis's
corner. There was no good merchantable sugar ever in
the drainings. I have been ut Davis's comer. I
never saw any good slicer there, or dry sweep-
ings mixed with water. I never knew of any
sweepings mixed with water. I recollect '2B casks
of sugar seized. I know where 97 came fmm. They came
' front the inclined plane. The sugar was in bags, and kept
at the inclined plane. Twenty were tilled at different
times. That was in the beginning of 1819. They were
tilled, that is the twenty, in the month of October, 1849.
There was some there la lure I went there. I went there
labout August, 1818. With the exception of four casks.
which were exported, I believe there was no exportation by
the company since I came there. That if, the order I gave
tith October, 1849, to make the return. The eight casks
i were tilled in the month of Mardi, 1841. I was present at
! the filling of them. I say I knew where the contents of
, seven of them came from. It came front the inclined
plane. The other cask contained the contents of
the two boxes of sugar. I gave no directions to remove
these bozos secretly. I believe they were not so removed.
i The eight casks of sugar were tilled on the housing ground
t openly and publicly. 1 did not say, •• It is always handy
to hose a few boxes by us." I was not aware that they
were excessive cargo. I did not tell Potiug to take the
boxes by a circuitous route so that the officers should not
see them. I never gave directions to take es cry thing out
of sight, as the officer* were coming. Excepting those two
, boxes there were no other whatever. I never told Robins
to hide the bags. 1 gave him directions to remove goods
, in consequence of the rate. I never gas e any directions to
, hide rive or saltpetre. I never knew or gave instructions
Ito obliterate the marks of a package, and have it altered
, for another. I never gave directions to Robins to take what
I was wanted front the oserdruinings or from any one else's
' ; pile. 1 never asked John Thomas Smith whether he had
made up sugar to be taken to Davis's corner. I know of
no bugs of Manilla sugar emptied into these casks. I hose
. . .„... . -

Mr. Jolnison, the manager of the forking Bank, deposed
to having borrowed Mt. in 1814, which had now increased
by interest to 2401., and about 10 years ago he burrowed
1001. of Mr. Neale. Ile was debited with the items.
His Honour said that tan a ruse in which he would
look into the books belOre givittg judgment. No case was
of greater moment than these •ouutry banks; for the
failure of a country bunk spread ruin far and wide. It was
the duty of these tribunals to fully imestigate such
and see that parties commeuring basin. emminally witht
capital, hut really without one, did not receive deposits
right and left without the means of repa)ing the depositors.
The court would give judgment this day (Saturday)
week.—lleferred accordingly.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Ronnrny AT A REILVAI7::::4.AfIrn, A person in tho
employment of Mr. Jark-un, the etten.ive clothier, at No.
3S, Leadenhalhstrert, was brought before the Lord Mayor.
charged with having rohlted his master of 17 shillings.

Storey, the officer, said. in consequence of information
which I roceived, I watched the premises of the prosecutor
and saw the prisoner enme out, and followed him to a
colliac•-house in Bkhopsgate-stret t. I watched till he ram
out, and then took him into custody, and told him it was
for robbing his master of a piece of cloth. When 1 took
him to the station-house I told him I apprehended him for
stealing 17 shillings, and upon senrchimr him, I found
marked silver in his pocket, to the amount of 16 shillings.
Ile bud changed one shilling in the coffee-house, which I
did not get.
InspeTtor Mitchell.—l marked some silver and gave it to
a person, with directions to pnn•base certain articles at Mr.
Jackson's warehouse, and my messenger returned to mo
with the purchased goods. At the station-house the pri-
soner, upon being questioned upon the subject of tho
money found upon him, said thvt he had taken it becauso
he was in distress, and that he intended to replace it.
A policeman in coloured clothes, who purehasetl the arti•
elc.ut the shop by order of inspictor Mitchell, and )Ir.
Jackson's sou proved that the pnce of the goods had not
been accounted for, and that there had been made no
entry of the sale in the petty cash book, although it was
the duty of the prisoner to enter all the money he took in
that book.

received a bonus of 10/. as senior clerk in 184 ti, and the
other was 151. I received in 1849. I never said 1 would not
exchange my situation a ith any Custom House officer, and
that it was not so much the salary as the bonuses. I was
senior clerk in 1846. 1 never gave any directions to oblite-
rate any marks on any of the packages at the docks.
Cross-examined by Sir F. Thesigt r—lt was the sampler'a
duty to report to me of an excess of cargo, and then we
give notice to the merchant and his broker. 1 hail not
I visited the inclined plane sufficiently to know the number
of bugs of sugar. We commeneed tilling, the beginiiiug of
the year, and filled the 20 before October, '49. The course
was to till a cask from the inclined plane from time to time.
We exported 4 easks of sugar in March, 1849. N 1 hen the 20
casks were filled they were placed in different parts of the
warehouse, wherever we could get room for them. We tared
them, marking the tare on the cask and entering it in the
sweepings book. It is part of my duty to do so.
Sir F. Thesiger—Then how comes it to pass that the
tares are all entered in this book at the same time?
Witness—The tares were entered at different times. These
very entries were made from time to time as the casks
were tilled. I have no recollection of saying to Mr. Browne
that everything was swept clean, on his expressing his sur-
prise at the quantity of sweepings. 1 have no recollection
of going round with Mr. Browne or any other customs
officer. I don't remember any Custom-house officer exa-
mining the four casks in 1849. We commenced tilling the
eightcasks last March. I had heard that the customs were
coining for a length of time. I think the casks were filling
for three or four days. I will swear it was more than one
day. I cannot swear how much mere than one day it occu-
pied. I know it was more than one day. The two boxes
filled the eighth cask. I suplsne it was nine or ten hun-
dredweight. It was Havannah sugar—a light sugar.
Twenty casks were weighed at one time' and the eight at
another. The twenty casks were weighed on or about the
With of October, IMO ; and the eight were weighed just
before the seizure in March, 1850. I never knew of a pack-
age of sugar missing to be accounted for by the Duck Com-
poly.
Be-examined by Sir F. telly—l had directions to pack
the sweepings, and that has led to the packing of the eight
casks. In the instances in which we have not found the
missing bag the company had to pay for it. The risks were
sent for to the cooper's when wanted, and tared. There
was no view of concealment of any of these casks.
By the jury—There were nu marks of any kind to iden-
tify the owner of the two boxes.
Mr. William Hearne examined by Mr. Maeauley, Q.C.—
This book is in my own writing, and under my entire con-
trol. The whole of this entry was made at the some
time—the tares and the weights. It is my duty to
see that the tares are correctly marked, and I have
no other mark or memorandum at the time ex-
cept that marked on the cask. We have reached
as many as 284,000 bags of sugar in one year. The witless
explained the sources from which the 28 casks of sugar
came. The inclined plane is perfectly open to the observa-
tion of custom-house officers. The casks had been filled at
various intervals. The four casks was not all the sugar we
had when we made the return in 1818. The sugar entered
in the 28 casks was partly the accumulation of 1846 to 1849.
There was no hiding or concealment whatever about the casks
before the seizure. The eustom-house officers must have
seen them from time to time. The eight casks were all
filled one day, weighed the next, and the seizure was made
on the 16th of March last. They were weighed on the
9th. The seven were filled with the same descrip-
tion of sugar as the 20. The taro of the
Bth cask was worked on as the others. I never
heard of Robins' laboratory. I never heard such a
phrase. There was no place where Rubins was allowed to
fill up deficiencies of sugar. I never sanctioned the oblite-
ration of marks on packages. I never myself did or sanc-
tioned any one else abstracting excesses from the wiale. The
mate of an Antwerp vessel never made any complaint to me
about the loss of ten bags of Manilla sugar. The 27 casks
contained none of that sugar. I never sent, or authorised
to be sent, any sugar from the inclined plane to Davis's
corner, 1 sent no sugar at all to Davis's corner. Good
sugar was never sent from any place over which I had
control to Davis's corner.
The cross-examination was reserved until to-morrow. It
being then after 5 o'clock, the court adjourned.

The prosecutor said that he did not wish to prosecute the
MM. any further on account of the respectability of the
family of the prisoner.
The Lord ?day-or—How long has the prisoner been in
your employment, and what wages have you paid him ?
Mr. Jackson—lie has hes n with me about two years, and
I have paid him thirty-six shillings a week.
The Lord Mayor—l cannot dispose of such a case without
sending it to the Central Criminal Court on your account
as well as on account cif the piddle. I know that you havo
a great number of persons in you: establishment, • and that
you may be subjected to morn: plunder if I allow this
mutter to pass upon a mere examination befinv me, and I
ant obliged, for the sake of the public, to send many cases
of a leas :tgarieratill nature Grc trial. You hove been pay.
ing high wages to this young man, and I cannot do justlim
OA a nuuristmte without committing the accused.
Committed for trial.

MONEY MARKET.

[Fur this day's City Fern, see 4th page.]
FAIDAT EVINING.
The exchange on Paris was looking up a little to- et,
day, short bilk being done at 24f. 97 te. to 234 The •
rates on Flanders, Frankfort, Portugal, Spain,
Sicily, Naples, and Petersburg remained the same as
list post. Billa as Genoa and Leghorn were again
In favour of the &elk", the former being dose aa low
SI SOL 44e.... the latter at 30L 43e. A Ilse downward
teedeesey was observable in drafts on Hamburg,
which were negotiated at 13 marks 6 to 6:, and also
OD Holland, the 9notations for Anisterdarn being
1111. 16; to IT. There was a general impression
this morning that paper on Anstria would be in
greater demand; however, this anticipation was not
realised. Hills on Vienna were offered at the end of ,
'change at 126. 47, but found no takers at that price.
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