The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

TILE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1859.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

A WitSALTY, Joie 29.—PROStonose. Mates
H. C. Osabit (1658). sad F. Stirling, pt tad to tits mak
al Ilsatsaasta.

dr PO la NI IN TS.-SeCO4l4 MINIM T. R. Ray tom, to the
Rt.rl,mak•hmi, 4, paidle-wheel amass traadmart , !Ind W.
T. Dodds is be addlikeml to the Asia, St, at Portsmouth.
Paymaster J. Tompkits (Ittiro) to the Videos, 6, screw-
steam troop-Alp, at Portsmouth.
A.Masst Paymaster J. T. Fsrvell, to the Ampblon,
crew steam htgate. at ShetThele.
aerie J. R. Johmstoa, to the Elm; end J. W. Thomi-
sm to the CM.

WOOL, 31.-se
The troops of Royal Horse Arti:lWICH ery now at this
garrison, and occupying that portion of the barracks known
as the Eat-squirt, will Mare for Aldershot! in a few day,—
It having been resolved to carry out earten improvements in
accordanoe with th) rrcomuiendatinn of the Army Sanitary
Ctaucuitter.

An official hairnet, n was yesterday tc:efved at Woolwich
to the effect that his kepif litertutese the General Commend-
ing in-Chief world inspect the troops in prtiBoo this day.
A communication was sabfequantly received eGooternivntliog
this Notice, bat It is hollered that a general review will take
pier in • few day..
• iarge rptantty of machinery for the new works now in
progrew at the Royal Aroma! has Leen retarived from the
mmulecturent Meyers. Shepard, Bill, sad Spick, of Leeds.
TM arrangements far the rworganitati at or the regiment
of ItayalArtillerf , which are °rimed btake effect on the let
of July, are nearly compkted. mid the majority of the bat-
teries have left for the several lesedaquaater stations of the
bvistades to which they are attached.
Peonage to widows of officers sad to salaried officers will
be paid at the Acconntaewetlice, Woolwich datkyard oh
the ler awl to civil sun* cams aod widowe of ditto on
the 2ad of July.

CHATHAM, it's' 29.
THATECTtoN OF THE ROYAL MARINE.—Ths M-
ond leepsclion of this diebroa of Royal Maine Light la-
fai.ry alss c.a....wed this wonting by M ijor-Giearral 8.
R. W.elcy. Deputy-Adjutant General, who was attended
by ~leyx 0. IL Rodney, as his side-decamp. The eatire
maid... Gag of eight complaint, end cambering, In-
cluding reerrte, upward. of 640 men cf all teak., was drawn
wen the- parade ground in fine, sad received General
why with the out nosey salmon. Among othtr loser-
ANN IL hasp., who ere undergaisg a e,,,urse of instraction
In the nes of He tide, were searched to the marshes at let.
=7Cresk when they wear through bill-ering at ranges
Aar 200 to 900 yards, the pea tee being very emir
Lowy. The %opt Mos will be renamed to morrow wont-
tag. when the division will be neerettal t, the hese for the
=a going through the evoluti as of a dell-day. The
Lod_ s .ro be insiected la their gas drill at the

PORTSMOUTH, Juan 29.
iiimoua3, 8, iron screw steam troopship, cos-
maks Jona 31 Cooke, was Woo 'n'o time is rata took
no-day todissnan• Is sad unite ff. •xt defo ts.
Tlto ark as, C, tatte.wtoel stem. .1 oi,, 'tn.' Beagle, 4,
mow Mar gan-s.ssslowdl G takia tat. Hu asst basin to-
sorrow Os Is conaissiccol.

TN akar.. b 'ton screw steam trccpsblp, .iu to tare
out of ass Vous bt. to•whortow, for the purp lan tt via(
oat of harbour to try but sew seems, by AteedaleyGtr
Co. She is se be esessoteeseed by Coramanda Jobe M.
Co •10, of the &woes, east the Grew tame 1 yen to her.
The Mcipocarse. /MOW tript Captain Utter avert,
',idea 'mid teat BacirOey week tar the Mtrol, to In op
Mr crew, ie mooned to be marl, comptets. Sa bee esly •
vocssc.s.

Till MILITIA.
The Second Tower Hamlets Militia have received
malice Mu the conemmodesimed cacaos and rt huggers will
be eap.. ted to seestobln at their Isad.qusrters, Bekaa'.
pees. ea the moiniag of Wedassiffey, July 13. f,e two
me &eye:training sod exegete. Tie &nth Deets Mihtia ty-
we appoluted t., serer:ale for tralatagi er Plyreteth es the
sth ef July, under the roomed of Lee etarcem. The
Sista 0.. ilale ltraimeut of ilarifedrhies Millt's has
received oldsra from Lord listbsetne, the Lord-Lienteesat
oe the Cesar,. to smemble 6t t weery.one days* training on
Tee4sy, July 6, aster the command cf Litu..-Colonel
Levert. The Ilford Cleasrroa Militia will sesetuble fur
ffltre Within. Rader the c)tentead of Lteut.•
Celesta J. Mardoasld, as Tbureday, July 7, at Can ova'.
The Iris of VI ofilit Militia Artillery sesembled at Ban-
don la Tivstey lay foe twenty-ene day.' trainisq. The
Smood West York MINIM sesembled at York fur duty on
Tmeday rimier the ociatumad of Colonel &myth, M.P.
Tse later MILITIA.—As nff . ial notice hae been nomad
calling out ell the volute r.trimettV of with two ex.
eepticee. The date Bud for the rrubolituent is the 18th of
July. A aelite to this effect has bra desiatthed from the
cow altar, sad will ho geeerslly node known at the
Madgwtat. of .11 the regiments thwart:low the provintte
this day (Wedeuelai).—tinenclers.

TEE 10741 BRITISH BUNS.
At a tweeting, held on Mammy last, of the commit-
tee appointed by the depositors of the Royal British
Bank, it was resolved :

That the Mate of the Royal British Bask, as admioh.ored
In Bsokraptcy, harts" realised for the depositor. and credi-
tors a larger return to dividends than was expected it becomes
the duty of all interested to the realisation of the assets to
movies the services of the mimes and aolloltwe to the
benkruptcy, more especially those services rendered by
James Wyld, Esq,, and Robert Taylor, Esq., the two meet
active a/reinsert, and John Linklater, Esq., the solicitor, f
their lu:towing attention to the interests of the creditors,
and the unweerpn. efforts they have mad* to avoid litiga-
tion end ensure • large and prompt diatribiation of the bank
meets.
It was also resolved :

That r the whole of the legal steps whereby the deposi-
tors and creditors of the Royal British Beak elegised control
over, sad administration of„ the meats and effete@ of the
bank, and the act of parliament whereby the oppresiden of
shareholders 11.111 prevented, and the WWII' to eft! them •
legal discharge by compromise was nude attainable, and the
racerefol proiecution of the directors, are the direct results
of Mr. Linklater's interference in the comma of the Royal
British Bank, that Mr. Linklater merits • t-rimonial In
recognition of the out services, public and priva.e, that he
bee rendered.

A copy of the following letter was ordered to be
forwarded to all the depositors : _

The Committee of Depositors appreciate in common with
their fellow-enditore the successful result of the administra-
tion of the estate of the Royal British Bank in bankruptcy.
They feel that some recognition I. due to the sesignees and
solicitors, by whose unwearied exertion, that result has bees
accomplished, and In compliance with the wishes expressed
by numerous depositors, the committee have resolved en
pteentieg eullable testimonials to Mr. James Wyld and
Mr. Robert Taylor, the two assignees who underto-4 the
chief management of the estate, and to Mr. John Linklater,
on whom devolved the principal conduct of the bankruptcy
as well as of the examination and prosecution of the direc-
tors. The depositors will remember that the most sanguine
had no expectation of receiving more then 10e. in the pound
from the estate in bankruptcy, which hap, however, &heady
produced Ile. in the pound, and will enable the assignee to
make a farther dividend. Thera ie now no doubt that the
creditors will receive at least 10s. in the pound, and if the
shareholders had acted up to the prmin of their committee
the dividends would hays been touch increned. The aim-
mitts, have personally much pinny' In contributimir to the
ievuead fund, and trust their follow•creditere will ad them
liberally In their object. It la proposed to give the deposi-
tors the opportunity of directing ths appropriation of their
subscription either to a joint bend, to bi_sppliel as the com-
mutate may determine, or to separate kW to be art apart
for a testimonial to the assignees, or to Mr. Linklater.

THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND THE SOUTH
FTZSZERE RAILWAY COMPANIES.

The direetwe of the London and Brighton Rail-
way have lamed a reply to the statement circulated
esb
Captain Hugh. The reply is signed by Mr. Fred, rick
Blight, by ceder of the Board of Detectors, It commences
se foliose:
It swears to the Drightm board that undue strew has
been laid by Captain Mangles upon the quakes which
have arisen as regards the Portsmouth Railway, sad that a
perasal of his statement ought load the reeler to the 0011 •
elusion that the leasing by the 8-Aith Waiters board of that
Bashes bees and ir, as Captain /dangles term. It, 'the great
base el ceetenneie between the Brighton and South
Welters Coeppanie a. The erroneoua preition is usurped, and
thereupon a eq stem of reasoning a corunieticed, with a view
t show that the Brighton Company ought not to require a
joint Interest in the Portsmouth It Man and that tbeyought
not to have adniirsioa to the district which that IMe pees-
'rates, end it appears probable that any reader who nitwit be
brought to coincide is that showing, would, as a consequence,
be eiroarously led to the copclatioa that the routing differ-
ences are aloe caused by Noe claims improperly advsnxd
by the Brighton Board in reaped of the Portsmouth
Undoubtedly the alexia taken by the South Wevere Board,
as regard, toe pate:ham or Leese of that line, were the karate
diet* COON) of the existing rupture ; but it is equally true, as
Intimated by the cha man this company at the special
naming of toe proprie:ore held ea the 9th of May last, that
the most aeriumi point of difference between the two ono-
panne is not iu the contest for the Portsmouth traffic, but in
the threatening and eggreteice mammas adopted by the
South Western hoard in the district south of Epsom, and it
Lemmata necessary to place the proprietors in possession of
the exact facts a. regards both three nutter, at to which the
Brighton board are at WILD with the determents of Captain
Mangles... . . . . .

Alter a fell r xeminatien of the several points in dispute the
document con. lodes: •• The circumstances connected with
the conduct cf the South Western board ea maids the Emile
and Leatherh‘ ad line, ere fully stated in the Brghtos Com-
pany's letter of the Rikh May lat. It is obvious that in the
hands of the !Lighten Company that line would be protec-
tive, while in the hands of the South Wesera Compaq it •
teat be Potentially aggressive; and If any proof waft re-
quired of this, it is found In the fact thee, In this very
maim of parliament, the South Western Company manly
supported an extension from Leatherbeed to Dorking, and
no attempt was made to conceal the intended projection of a
further extension from Dorking to Horsham. So long as
there was any probability of the extension from Lesthernead
to Dorking being granted—while the South-Weatern
connexion ,ei h that schwa was .till undeclared—
and upon the conditka that each extension was
seated exeludvely in the Brighton Company, the
directors hid for the make of penes 'seemed to the
South Western Company being joint owners of the Epsom
and leatherhesd line, but the Dorking retention being re•
fused, and the Epsom and Leetherhead being forcibly wrested
hum the; oompany by the South Western board, the discolors
would only be misleading their proprietors were they to ex-
press any hope of the re-eatablistaueut of peaceful relations
on a seesre or useful bale, until the South Western board, by
withdrawing from Leatherheed, give something like a sub-
Mardi el proof of their determination to desist from aggreesicn
on the Brighton Company's system. The Brighton board feel
eatcfied of the justice of their views, and they have twice
offered to submit the whole matter to arbitration. They un-
hesitatingly used that no impartial person, on making him-
sell fully re quaioted with the fate, can deny that they have
acted strictly up to the trine spirit of their engagements, and
that they have not bees guilty of any aggression on South
Western tertitoty, or of inflicting my *jay oa South
Western intrteete. They only ark that the mum spirit shall
govern the conduct of their neighbours. They have shown
their matinees to make more than namable concessions to
the South Western Company, provided tat the South
Western bear] would, as regards the district soothe( Spore,
revert to the teriitotiel position of 1858, and leave the
Brighton Corepany to carry out the arraneement for the
purchase of the Epees sad Leatherhead line. But the
Brighton directors hive fret.kly told the South Western
board, and they hers repast to their shareholders, licit they
leek upon the retracing of this mat boodle step on the pat
of the South Western board as a aim gala eon toe resumption
of friendly relations with that company. That point once
ceded, the remainder could be arranged with facility."

tab inteiltgenn.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Jere 29.

Ships' at Nisi P,ioa In London.—(Before Lord Oalei
Justice Eris sad a Spada' Jury.)

?A/10VMM. AND ANOTHIDI O. NORZETZ.-LUNACY.

This was au Lieue from the Court of Chancery, the question
raised being whether between the 10th of December, 1851,
and the 16th of May, 1837, Mr. Olorge Watts, who during
that
mind period had executed several mortgapdeeds, was of sound
Mr. Meta James, Mr. Lush, and Mr. Henry James, ap-
peared for the platen& ; and Mr. Buvill, Mr.Serteant Parry,
and Mr. P. Brown, for the defendant.
It was statei is the opening speech that the plaintiffs were
the mentors of Mr. Snook, who was formerly a cotter in the
city of &Rebury, a man of vary considerable property, of Ex-
traordinarily penurious habits, and who delighted in the
name whin had been mentioned. (A laugh.) The de-
fendant was the committee of Mr. Watts under
• COMOISIJOII in lunacy which had been ireued
against him in 1845. Mr. Snook had advanced Mr.
Watts money upon mortgage, Mrs. Wars herself
being a patty in the transaction, and receiving the benefit of
the money advanced; and yet no sooner did Mr. Snook'.
executors claim the money which had been advanced than
she alleged that at the time her husband executed the
'mortgage deed he was of unsound mind. By an extraordinary
ex parte proceeding, for the mortgagee, could not be repre-
sented then, a commiselon of lunacy was obtained, and Mr.
Watts was found to have been lunatic *WC* 1822. More ex-
traordinary evidence upon which to find a teen Winne had
never been submitted to a jury. Mr. Watts formerly owned
an estate worth ab ant 3501. • year, near Speen, In Berkshire,
which he farmed himself; but he was now resident at
'Camden-town end was in good health, so he could be called
by the defendant if it was Showed prom. It was trite he
was 70.yeare old, but that woe of mall consequenos now-a-
days when persons of great age filled the highest alma in
the state. (Laughter.) Mr. Watts married in 1816 a
perms somewhat beneath him in position, and who was an
extremely erring ant women, and had led him Into the
necessity of raising money by the mortgageedeeds now dis-
puted. He was informed that she was an extremely violent
person, and led her husband a crackled life. The tint deed
impeached was dated the 10th December, 1834, and it was
executed under these circumetanoes —ln. 1834 Mr. Watts

applied to Mr. 11;elders, •solFcrtW at Ouitdfuad, who Was
mince dead, to raise 3,000!. by way of mortgage upon the
estate. Mr.filuabb advanced the money, and the m
deed was executed. The teem clerk of Southamptoor:,gar:
Deacon, had far some time been solicitor for Mr. Watts, who
had become indebted to Mr. Hawkins for the amount of a
promiesory nom for 2,2001. hares alleged on the other side
that Mr. Watts never received the money for which the
mortgage was given on the 10th December, 1831; but it was
proved that be did, and that out of that money he paid
the 2,200!. and obtained poseemion of his title-deeds, which
had been deposited by way of equitable mortgage. Before
the mortgage of the 10th December was executed it was
netesesry that the deeds should to delivered up, and there-
fore) Mr. Watts was obliged to pay the 2,200!. The deed
was executed at Southampton,and Mr. Colebrook, • friend of
the shammy's and • medical may, happened to be called in to
attest the execution. The whole mutter bad been the sub-
ject of long and expensive litigation, and on one occasion
Lord Lonedals decided that there wan nothing to impeach
any one of the deeds except the rne to which reference had
bees made, and he added that he would have been satisfied
with that oneif any medical more had been engem d in the
tranaaction. The gentlemen who then had the affair in hand
wee not acquainted with the fact that Mr. Colebrook, •
surgeon, was there. The next deed lenge idiot was dated
the 23rd April, 1831, and that wee a mortgage for an
additional sum of 4001,, lent by Mr. ELWIN, a
eeecbmaker, of Southampton, and • client of Mr.
DVIMIGn. The next deed in question was dated the 16th
January, 1836, at the time Mr. Deacon had eased to be Mr.
Watt: solicitor, Mr. Raiford, of Salisbury, acting in that
cepadty. Mr. Snook was a client of Mr. Raiford, and he
agreed to advance 6,300!., out of which the 3,00 d!. and the
4001. mortgages were peed off. The witnesses who attested
the execution of that mortgage would state their surprise
when they saw Mr. Snook take off his coat and walatooat,
end with • pair of scissors cut open the back of his waircost
and take out of ;It the 6,3001. In notes, so that he actually
carried his banker on his beck. (A laugh.) Mr. Watts
yid the greater part of the balance of the 6,3001. into the
Newbury Bank, and drew cheques against it. but it was not
Meng beime it had all gone. In May, 1837, there was a
further charge upon the estate at 3001. Mr. Snook
died prier to 1942, in which year bin executors
!might to foreclose the mortgagee, and it was on that
occasion that the defence of insanity was set up. In 1840
Mr. Watt.' diffictJiles had increased upon bins, and he was
a prisoner in Reading Oaol from that year until 1842, during
which time the officials of the prison raw no ground for
inferring that he woe of unsound mind. He undererood that
two facts were to be relied en to prove insanity. Mr. Watts
was proud of having • nice hand, but one of him forefingers
was disfigured with a deer's-foot nail, the tail being divided
down the centre; and his wife having twitted him about it,
he cut it off, and part of his finger with it. The other fact
wee, that he had inflicted come injury upon am of his eyes.
Many documents, however, and a great dell of oral testimony,
would begiven to show that Mr. Watts was a shrewd man
of business, and anything but insane.
The remainder of the day was occupied by evidence for
the plaintiffs, and the further bearing was postponed.

Teen as a collector; The ()manatee Society were security
f him, The defalcations wen dinovered In making up the
year's accounts, and the prisoner at tenth confessed.
After hearieg the evidence.
Mr. Ingham said he should remand the prisoner until
Monday neat to give Mr. Thom en opportunity of pro-
ducieg PIS clear oases.
Mr. Thorne said the Guarantee Society had intimated
their intenti.a of paying them only to the amount for which
the prisoner wan renvived. He wished to knew
whether the society would be compelled to pay the whole
amount?

Hr. ing ham said they would decidedly have to pay the
whole auzeont of the detalceliens. The prisoner would be
sent for trial for certain amounts, but befae he was con-
victed the judge would inquire the total amount of the num
he bad embezzled and the society would have to pay what
they really were.
The percale wee then locked tap.