The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-11 00:00:00

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[TWOPENCE

MEMORIAL TO THE LATE LORD CARLISLE.

A meeting of the subscribers Co the fund for
emoting a memorial to the late Earl of Carlisle was held
on Thurvd!ty in the De Grey Rooms, York. The chair
was occupied by the Earl of ZITLANII, Toni lieutenant of
the North Riding. The secretary, Mt 11T. P. Creyke, read
the report by the general committee, which stated that the
subscriptions received emanated to Abut 2,450/. The
had been about 1801., of which the largest moiety,
fri.7. for preliminary expenses and advertising in the
first instance. Allowing mom margin for deficiency in
getting in the rest of the subecriptionsp it will probably
not be safe to reckon on having moss than 2,2001. to
expend. The most suitable site to be found was on an
eminence known ne Bulmer-hill, from whence a monu-
ment would be visible from the whole vale of York.
Five eminent architects were asked to send in designs,
and the design of By co4ero,i, of London, having a
large majority tri its fairotrr was soo&dingly selected.
This design, which was submitted to the meeting, is •
large Doric column, decorated at the top pith wreaths, and
having at the base • flight of steps and four smaller
columns, which will contain the arms of the late Earl.
On tee motion of Mt D. Gayle', 4tonded by Mr. G.
Baines, the repot was adopted. • 4
•

EXTRAORDINARY EMBEZZLE-1f ENT AND
FORGERY AT ZING'S YNN.

One of the moat extensive cams• of defalcation
with which forgery and embezzlement are mixed up that
has been known in the eastern counties ter some time past
has just been brought to light. and has evolved no small
amount of local excitement, as the delinquent moved in a
Lun2ectable position is society and was universally
The ern, whiebtes been plundered of several
thousands of pounds, is one of the oldest and most respect-
able in King's Lynn—blears. Everard and Sons, wholesale
wine and spirit merchants, the vaults being extensive and
supposed to be filled with beaded and other stores. It
appears that Janus Docking, the delinquent, has been con-
fidential and msoagsag clerk to Everard and Sons for
many years. About five or six years ago, the active
partner died, and since then the whole of the busi-
ness had been under the care of Docking. Early in
the present year Mr. Henry Reward dial, and the busi-
ness of the firm as well as the property fell into
the hands of Major Everard Hutton, who was desirous
of disposing of the business, and Dimling, representing
that a wealthy baronet residing in the district had
offered to let him belie several thoneand pounds to take
the business, was teethe probable purchaser. None
of his friends ap d to entertain a doubt as to the scan-
raq of his repteseutatious, and so little surprise was occa-
sioned by an attempt to take hie life, which was foiled.
As the time approached for completing the arrangement
Docking proceeded to Londes, accompanied by a respect-
able solieitor, the object 6f the journey being to receive
3,0001. from the London and Westminster Bank, but
through some bitch another visit was rendered necessary,
and Docking, allowing the 'elicitor to enter first, failed to
follow, but disappeared, and the man of law returned to
Lynn minus both money and man. An investigation of
the affairs of the firm soon disclosed irregularities
and defalcations, to which was added forgery and
embezzlement. If there had been only a deficiency of several
hundred pounds it is more than probableili at there would
have been no warrant applied for ; but when it became
evident that thousands—how many is not yet known—
instead of hundreds represented the amount not ac-
counted for or embezzled, and when to all this was added
forgery, Major Evernrd Hutton at once took out a war-
rant for Docking's apprehension. A few days since a re-
spectable tredennan, and formerly a friend of Docking's,
received a letter from him asking foe sloth of money, end
suggesting that it should be sent to a certain place at St.
Ives, in Huntingdonshire. This person, with every proper
sense of his duty, at mica handed over the letter to Major
E. Hutton, the result being that the warrant was placed
in the heads of Lieutenant Reeves, the superintendent of
the borough police, and he was immediately despatched to
effect his capture. This he did not do, and what he did is
perhaps best known to himself, for when he returned to
Lynn be was in such a agate that he could give no account
of anything, and at a meeting of the watch committee
held yesterday he was discharged from the force. Another
officer has started after the fugitive, whQ it is hoped will
shortly fall into the bands of justice to meet the very
serious charges to be preferred against him. Each day
brings out some new and darker feature of the crime, and
up to this date the defalcations discovered cannot be less
than 4,0001.

Tut RATE OF DumouNr.—The following memo-
rial from the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce was to
be presented yesterday —" To the Bight Honourable
Benjamin Disraeli, Chautallor of her Majesty's Exchequer.
—The memorial of tho Council of the Birmingham Cham-
ber of Connneree respectfully showeth- -That the rate of
discount which hes prevailed during the lest three months
has injuriously affected the trade of this district, and that
the longer continuance thereof will be productive of results
digest:one to its oenunerebil and manufacturing interests.
Your meworialista, therefore, pray that her Majesty's
government wiR take immediate step, to relieve the
existing pressure, by withdrawing the letter of the 11th
May last, authorising the easpeodois of the Bank Charter
Act of 1844, under certain conditions, and by substituting
another letter which shall empower the governors of the
Beak of England to mike en additional issue of notes,
without imposing any restriction as to •the rate of dis-
count, or by the adoption of such other measures as her
Majesty's government' may deem better' aispted for the
dialunent of the pm:wooed object. Signed on
ba=, and by authority, of ,the Council, Vice-President
3. S. \Valour."
DOWNAELL-HALL 'ESTATE, EMAET.— This free-
hold estate was offered to auction by Mr. Marsh,on Thurs-
day last, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, with the following
result Lots 1 aud2 bought in ; lot 3, sold to Miss Piole,
ef Southweald, for 1301. ; lot 4, sold to Mr. Deacon, of
Ditchleye, for 1,4301. ; lot 5, sold to Mr. Catling, of Glou-
cester-terrace, Hyde-park, for 31(11. ; lot 6, sold to Mr. Cat-
ling, for3ool. ; lot 7, sold to Mr. Toovey, of Somerset-street,
Portman-square, far 1,0001. ; let 8, sold to Mr. Toovey for
1,200/. ; lot 2, sold to Mr. teatime. of ' Brentwood, for
1,0201. • lot 10, sold to Mr. Nicholls, ,of Downsells, for
1601. ; lot 11, sold to Mr. Nicholls for 7001. ; lot 12, sold to
Mrs. Mimi!, of the White Hart, Brentwood, for 1,8001.;
lot 13, sold to Mr. Nicholls for *sx ; lot 14, sold to Mr.
Nicholls for 3801.; lot 15, sold to Mr. Nicholls for 'llO/. ;
lot lb, sold to Mr. Nicholls for 500/. ; lot 'l7, bought in.
DELVING OFF THE FORELONIIIri: —The village
and neighbourhood of Cowden was, on. Saturday night,
thrown into a state of great excitement in consequence of
an alarming riot between the English and French navvies
employed in the construction of the Surrey and Sussex
line of railwiy. It appears that the French engineers em-
ployed by the contractors, Messrs. Waring Brothers, have
engaged some lOU Pictish navvies to compete with the
English navvies (about the same in number), who were
earning Os. per day, the Frinchmen engaging to work
Joe 4e. per deg, 11, some even as low as 2s. 4d. In
consequence of the Frenchmen working fur so much
less money than the Englishmen, the Englishmen
came to the determinated on Saturday of driving
every foreigner off the line. At about half-pest ten
o'clock in the evening they went to a farm house at
Blowers Hill, occupied by the Frenchmen, and put their
threat labs execution, taming them odt, and smashing
the windows at the same time. When they went to the
house they found the occupents—mee, women, and chil-
dren—all in bed. The English navvies rapped at the
door for some time before the lendford would open
it, but as woe as he did so they struck him down with
a bludgeon, and turned the Frenchmen, with their wives
and children, out of the house in their bed clothes,
and one poor woman who had been eoufined about
• fortnight previously pleaded hardnt she should
remain in the house, but theyd her out also
with the rest. No policemen were r present at this
I time, but a man rode off to the police-station at Tonbridge,
I and Superintendent Dance soon dimpal,ched a body. of
police, beaded hy himself, to the spot. Their arrival
stayed further &mare, eisepting that in the meantime
seven" bats had been pulled down by them, until Mon-
day morning, when the English navvies, aimed with
bludgeons, some two and a half feet in length, drove the
IFrenchmen in herds before them to the Edenbridge sta-
tion, where the police were awaiting them. The French-
' men had drawn their knives, and were brandishing
them about, and nu doubt the riot would have
resulted in a general slaughter had it not been for
the interference of the police, numbering about sixty.
When at Edenbridge station the English navvies
were kept in the village, and the Frenchmen above
the station, the police being stationed between them, ass
rangementa being made for other bodies of police, together
with a detachment of military to be in readiness when
celled tiro. Severs/ of the. French navvies proceeded to
acted, in Surrey (on another line), but the greater portion
renwined at the Edenbridge station, under the protection
of the polies, until orders ars received ;froto the Home
Secretary how they are to be diver,' of. On Monday morn-
-Mg all tbebeershope were closed in Edenbridge, excepting
sere, in consommes of the riot, and busbies* was to a cer-
tain extent at a stand-stilL The greater portion of Eng.
lish navvies resumed work on the line on Tuesday morn-
ing, and the town was generally quiet. An Englishman
wee beenghli Mime the 'Tonkeidge magistrates and re-
manded.
A railway is aboi4 to be constructed between
Clonmel, the chief town of Tipperary, and the town of
Dungan-an, in the county of 'Waterford, and passing
I through Lennon. The Mesa (AMU* states that the
Duke of Devonshire has consented to take 60,0001. worth
of shares, and also to advance out of his own private purse
-Sturdier gam of tIOPOOL tumid' to comple-
tion of the work, while arrangements have been made far
obtaining a loan of 100,0001.