The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-07 00:00:00

ntribtriity InteMature.

Vattu Intelliatnre.

CAMBRIDGE, Jl`Nt C.
At a cong..egation this day a grace was °tiered to
thsHenate. That the Vice-Chancellor. the Master of Trinity,
Prifemors Challis. Stokes, Cayley, Adams, and Liveins:
Mr. Parkinson, Johns; Mr. Campion, Queens' ; Mr.
Phear. Rummel ; Mr. Frost, sen., St. John'.; Mr. Mathi.
NM. Trinity ; Mr. Walters, Trinity ; Mr. Todhuuter,
Juba's, and, Mr. Routh, of St. Peter's, be • syndicate to can-
aille• whether any regulations could not be made to sae, ..
second mathematical examination for the Smith's nuithe-
mistiest prizes. As it is, the examinatiofl for the Smith's
prize follows immediately on the great trial of the year,
and whoever may " come out," in university slang, tint
at the niathen stied examination, has to tight his way to
win the Smith'. prize with two or three of his former ci4a-
petitors, and sometimes in this, the second mathematical
wrangling. the places are reversed. It has been felt for
some time teat the second examination for the Smith's
prizes was an unr.eces,ary additional strain on candidates
at the examination held fa the tripos just before. and
hence the trace. The grace wu opposed but carried by
40 placate to 00 non-pleats.
There were auudry other graces, but they were chitty
of a aUtlavtirtry or lecal character.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER. —JuNs G.

Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron, and
Barons Martin, Bramwell, and ChannelL)
STAMPING A7F:UAVrTA.

The Lord Chief Baron, having found that attidmits on
which rules oisi had been granted were unstaniped, re-
marked that it was the duty ut the bar to see that the
aihd.ivits on which they moved were properly stamped.
Mr. E. James, Q. C., said he had been requested by
several members of the bar to state that his lordship was
laying down a rule which—whether right or wrong—was
entirely a new one.
The Lad Chief Baron replied that he was pronouncing
no rule, he was only declaring the law. It warn impossible
for the coutt to determine, when a gentleman of the bar
rose to maks a motion, whether his affidavit+ were
damped.
Mr. James said the gentlemen of the bar were some-
times furnished, not with the original affidavits, but with
copies, and his lordship would be imposing upon the bar a
duty which he thought they were not called upon to dis-
charge. It was sufficient that they trusted to the attorney
in the matter.
The Lord Chief Baron observed that the court hail no
alternative, because if reference had to be made to the
attorney, cues would often be st:,pped while he was sent
for to produce the original affidavit. It was the opinion
of the bench that no gentleman at the bar should make a
motion on an affidavit unless he knew of his own know-
ledge, not only that such affidavit had been duly sworn, but
that it was duly stamped ; otherwise, from negligence or
fraud, the counsel might be instructed to make a motion
where those conditions had not been complied with.
Mr. James thought it was not for the bar to take this
duty upon themselves, and suggested that if the attorney
had neglected hie duty in this respect, being an officer of
the court, he would be amenable to its orders.
The Lord Chief Baron said it was a duty which devolved
upon the bar, and was not cut upon them by the court,
and he was sure a° member of the bar would be more
ready to discharge it than the learned counsel himself.
At a subsequent period of the day, his lordship said
that where a rule was granted the officer of the court
would not draw it up until he had seen that the affidavit
was stamped ; but where a rule was refused there was no
check of this kind. If any member of the bar could sug-
gest another course than that mentioned, the court would
cousider it.

ilabal anlr inflitarg.

PORTSMOUTH. JrNt fa

The Minotaur, 26, iron screw frigate, Captain ,1
James G. Goodenough, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
F. Warden, C. 8.. left Spithead this morning for Port-
land, and it is expected that she will sail thence with some
other ships belonging to the Channel squadron for Cher-
hoe
The Victoria. 121 guns, screw three-decker, late flag-
ship of Vice-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget in the Blediter-
rumen, arrived at :?pithead this afternoon, and on anchor-
ing excluinvil salutes with the flag-ship of the coinnu.der-
in-ehief. The Victoria will come into Portsmouth harbour
to dismantle :rid pay out of commission, having completed
the term of her first, and probably of her last, service, as
the Ines?. woo ten three-decker in the British navy.
The Trsfalgar. hired sailing transport, which arrived at
spitheail y, st-nlay from Kurrachee, came into harhour
this morning to disembark the invalids and time-expired
men who came home in her.

THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
THE LEEDS BANK.

At the Mansion-house yesterday, Mr. Thomas
Edgeley, who formerly carried on business as a merchant
in Sermon-lane, a very gentlemanly-looking middle-aged
man, against whom a warrant had been issued by the Lori I
Mayor for fraud and forgery upon the late Leeds Bank, i
whereby upwards of 100,000/. was obtained from that
establishment prior to its failure, and who hail voluntarily
surrendered liin.self yesterday morning, was placed at the ,
bar in charge of Webb, the detective officer, before the
Lord Mayor. to undergo an examination upon the above
charges.
Mr. Poland now attended to conduct the prosecution on
behalf of the official liquidator of the Leeds Bank, in-
structed by Marra Froddield and Co. Mr. Sleigh
peered for the defence.
It will be recollected that a Frenchman named De.
villas has recently undergone several examinations at
this court upon the same charge, and the name of the
prisoner, who was alleged to have been a principal in the
transaction. was frequently mentioned during the inquiry.
In the result Devillera was discharged, and the
substantial offence imputed to him and to Mr. Edgeley, to
whom the former was clerk, and who, it is said, was also
related to him by marriage, was that they had obtained a
very large sum of money from the Leeds Bank. through
Mr. Greenland, the manager, by representing that a com-
pany was in existence in Semis, called the Maydempeck
Forest Compio.). and that certain bills, purporting
to be drawn by that company, were genuine
foreign ooruniercial instruments, the fact being that
no such company was in existence, and the pre-
tended bills having been drawn and executed in the office
of the prisoner in Sermon-lane. A warrant was obtained
for the apprehension of the prisoner in the beginning of
April, which was placed in the hands of Webb, e officer,
hut he was unable to execute it. Yesterday morning, how-
ever. the solicitors for the prosecution received a letter
from the prisoner, in which Le announced his intention
to surrender himself at Bow-lane police station, and the
officers (Webb and Bull), who had the matter in hand,
were in attendance, and the prisoner came according to
his appointment. and was taken into custody.
Mr. Sleigh, at the commencement of the pio,.....dings,
said he wished it to be understood that Mr. Edgeley had
surrendered entirely voluntarily, and that he denied that
there was an foundation for the charge that had been
made against him, or that he bad been guilty of any cri-
minal offence.
Mr. Poland then briefly stated the nature of the charge
be intended to prefer against the prisoner, and said that,
although it was true that he had voluntarily surrendered
himself, a warrant had been issued against him for a con-
siderable time, and the officers had been unable to execute
it. and it certainly would have been much more satis-
factory if the prisoner had surrendered at an earlier period,
whilst the proceedings were going on against the other
accused person Devlllers.
Henry Webb, the detective sergeant, was then sworn,
and he stated that in consNuenoe of a communication he
received, he went to Bow-lane police-station yes-
terday morning, with Sergeant Bull, who had also been en-
gaged in the inquiry. After waiting • abort time, the
pnsoner came in, and he addressed him as Mr. Edieley,
and he at once atated that was his name. Witness then
told him that he had a warrant to apprehend him for
forrry and conspiracy, and he bad searched for hint but
n not find him. 'The prisoner upon this said that be
and Bull had done their duty, and he added, "Give my
compliments to the Lord Mayor, and tell him to discharge
me as he has done Devillers ; there is not a tittle of
evidence against me." (A laugh.) He then asked the
prisoner for his address, and he said it was Sermon-lane,
and upon his telling him that this was not hie address,
and that what he wanted to know was where he slept the
previous night, he said be did not sleep at all, and he re-
fused to give any other address than Sermon-lane.
The evidence that hail been given by one or two of the
witnesses who were examined en support of the charge
against Devillers was then read over, after which Mr.
Poland asked for a remand.
_ _. . . .

Kr. Sleigh said he felt that he could not resist the ap-
plication, but he asked that the prisoner might be admitted
to bail, urging in support of Ina application that he bad
now surrendered voluntarily, and, through him, asserted
his entire innocence of any criminal act in reference to this
transaction. . .

The Lord Mayor said he would admit the prisoner to
bail ; but, although the prisoner had now surrendered
voluntarily. he could not lose tight of the fact that he had
for a considerable time evaded the process of the law by
keeping out of the way. He should therefore require sub-
stantial =reties, the prisoner himself being bound in the
sum of 2.0001., with two bail in 1,0001. each.
Mr. Sleigh said that the required sureties would be at
once forthcoming, and the case was then adjourned until
Friday. the 14th inst.

Tes Suinmin Ctscurrs.—The judges met yes-
terday for the purpose of choosing their respective cir-
cuits, which were thus allotted:—Home Circuit—Mr.
Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Blackburn. Western—Mr.
Justice Willem and Mr. Justice Keating. Midland—Mr.
Baron Pigott and Mr. Justice Lush. Oxford—Mr. Justice
Mellor and Mr. Justice Shee. Norfolk—The Lord Chief
Justice of the queen's Bench and Mr. Justice Bytes.
Northern—Lord Chief Justice Boyill and Mr. Justice Mon-
tague Smith. North Wales—The Lord Chief Baron.
South Wales—Mr. Baron Channel]. Mr. Baron Bramwell
remains in town. _ . .

STRIdt OF THZ BluonroN TAILORB.—It having
been reported to the central oommittei of the tailors'
union that the masters whose shop have struck in London
were getting a large quantity of their more orders
made up at Brighton, Mr. Druitt, the president,
as sent
off to Brighton on Wednesday to inquire as to the truth
of the report. He found it to be as stated, that the majority
of the Brighton masters were making a large number of
garments for the London shops on strike. He at once
called a meeting of the trade on Wednesday evening to
consider the matter, and another meeting was held yester-
day morning. A resolution was unanimously carried that
no London work should be executed in Bnghton during
the continuance of the strike, and that all men then
employed on London work should at once cease
work. This resolution was at once acted upon,
and yesterday afternoon two hundred men turned out.
In the meantime the masters are visiting the establish-
ments of thole firms in London who have not struck,
and, where pc.oible, influencing those firms to discharge
all their men known to belong to the union. From this
cause a large number of men within the last three days
have bass thrown upon the union funds. The remittances
from the trades in the country have been coming in
liberally during the week, and notwithstanding the addi-
tional number on strike, altogether now amounting to
nearly 3,000, including 300 women, the committee expect
to be able to pay the full strike allowance on Saturday
next. _ .

Tea STAITE or GIORGI& CANNlNG.—Yesterday
afternoon a large crowd of persons assembled on the large
open space on the north of Westminster Abbey to witness
the preparations for replacing the 'natio) of George Can-
ning on its pedestal. The statue, it will be remembered,
used to stand in the garden opposite to New Palace-yard,
but in consequence of the arrangements for the railway
that space has been cleared, and the statue henceforward
will stand in the garden opposite to the Seseions-house, and
close to the road which runs from Great George-street in
• circular direction to the Abbey. The site is a good one,
as the statuewillbe seen without interruptionby thosewho
are proceeding to parliament and the law courts or towards
the Abbey. Everybody who witnessed yesterday's opera-
tion was astonished at the immense size of the statue.
As it stood in its original position it looked small and
somewhat mean ; bat as it stood yesterday on the ground
awaiting its final resting place, it was seen to be at least
14 feet high, and of noble proportions.
LONDON GENIRAL 0NN181179 COMPANY (Lamm)).
—Traffic receipts week ending June 2,13,0341. 13a. 3d.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1867.

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