The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1868.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADX.II4I.IT, MAT 13.—Amonniarrs.—Muters
8. W. X. Fromm (1849), lotto Pembroke, 80, wow moot-
good
Goord. VONS4 bah lad W. H. Obroo (1867), to the
Coast
Pommels, W. H. J. Him (1868), to Ho Plumper, lip
wow atom Arming Tassel, at Toftwoottb.

CHATHAM MAY 11.
THE PORTCULLIS CHAIN BARRIER.
Thie same= the troops belonging to the Royal
=Were, with the Peet India Company's sappers
, saw liamheed at /hornpipe berncks, were
testsengaged la ame siege owning sad experiments, for
=of Mal haw busi the libisith of the pore.
ben* whisk dm been remedy Invented by
Neer Sperm Walmoweit, Royal Regimen, and which,
thee is me thably wWS whim ter It is used, prove a forret-
dere eberis to the estmee of any amber of troops into a
Merl sr err hatred perk& I'll' apertmwts, which
woe mike re illnelles of Oskar H. eemiYser, mosaread-
jai As purforosed et Fort Amherst
aver the berery, erre ine et the
tale drift Moir bed bees sera emir.
pan-
the emir et the let ezrebrale big under-
ter nom! Maportest imperilment@ Mr bees
aloud kp Captain Weasseoott I. hie re. L., with the
row of arse revered reeeath to the airs bonier, as it
wtr heekea re 111111611 of the he agetiseur, that
re was relleyel in a we where It ma con-
erred tbe ersis weaYlrn (parrs The gist la the r-
eadies bring her amend, it we Ole Amer roper
to try whet rhot • iel wield bar larstrytag the Wrier.
With this view ea serrey S•lealt ri, Mr with about
3lba weight et gespeedir, wee aramir boa me of the
nags fa dm mon of the perloals, whlsh Mil Ma
let
does is the web bar* late Per Merest.
la etre le rive explosive hies le the
eta, ent also so prevent any miwidst Mari
Ism re prole flyleg &boat, the very
emed mind by rime of a Orr few of plash&
Oa the Mil berg *irk Ms abet is lir chain barrier we
mod ampOst &imp pram at re preafir about five
tort speamit tor away, giving as sper m estfideatly
Mee In aWIy el Mops to par lissegL It ther appear
Set elliesgh Ogler Westrecore lama= le a rod
vetoers one, Ma dwiirt Oran *no to dry Memo-
tka by rem Ile the swelarry ohm. etrilev, yet
whim emiiteek mill quantity le tepleiM Is • shell,
the bler Beef be sadly desuredl. The ameliorate
mum wirmeit wer ma farm by Oekrd Yerlibie
arderierillateMemeek sofa loge amber of -
am dims. • leper et the egentlerr, leper a
drawing et the cern Mohr 'her ir refteilea, lakes by
Lierierst O. =BA., will be kewieded to the autho-
rities at lie W

PORTSMOUTH. MA Y 13.
The Marlborough, 131, Capt. Lord Frederick Kerr,
mewl as her d the harbour for the Int time this fore-
is the passes of a large concourse of spectatont Tim
is at primmt the largest mas-cd-var Wiest,
being lesser than the Duke of Wellington, the
dace* at fir C. Napier to the Battle lest duties
the bee Ter. Ills wag midge the Lind la bar ap
is gasd *Abe emiwomed le Imat Oak Oa Platima better/ the Idarthereesh sahmemd the
penis
the
Oesersdr-la-Chist, Admiral Mr G. tessamrar.
dim vas esemar mild out et harbour by ASS al the usury
abashed to be pert. end alio by ems el the go-
reemmast Tits pliant Port Admiral sea ger
H
es 12Las Cassia Santiago sod Cemanander
Zen. amd Mr. llorrsy, of the seglamer daparbrat. She
s mespaidoent appmeasee, sad amen* already to be in
priest mdse. The Marlborough is hooded, we miderstand,
te be the darship of Admiral Pasehamem is the Nediterra•
NINA

LAUNCH or ?NI TOPAZ.—The lama of this fine frigate
took pier as Wednesday from No. 4 slip at Detmpart
Dockyard. The IpubiWile were admitted IFkb., IM*bt on,
and the day tologlaratifally 11r Mare was a hew attend-
ance than wee ever present of my radon lamb in Mkt
iyard within the armory of thee resCparanage eldest
nhabitant" of the district, Amer primer were the
Earl and Conran at Morley and , the Port Admiral,
Sir B. Remolds, lady, and , Gond Eden
and family, Mr T. S. Pesky and Lady, Major and
Ledqabbesaimiteen, Her Mrs. Keith Stewart, all the heeds
of in the port, and several offices, of the
United Stair frigate Niagara. The ,Coggatees of Mount-
Edgcumbs, Lady Ernestine Edgers* and Min
Eden, were unorat the company on board the ship during
the larob. The Topaz is the sister ship to the Liffey,
which was launched about two years ago. She hue ban
censtriond ether the superintendesoe of the able and
obliging meter shipwright of the yard 11. Allyo, Esq., and
is, we rdseneed, the 89th ship which that
tuner
Ins I
launched In thereon dills tuner. The Tops
will WNW 61 ger, and the are her dimensions
Length Hem lire part of drys to lair% MS. lb.;
length herrn the perpendiculars, 235 ft. ; hurl of keel for
toren% WM. her ; extremebreadth, SO& Its.; breadth
for egneren, Oft. 7b. ; do. moulded, 48h. ilin. ; depth in
hold, 18ft. lir ; burden in tons, old ineswareneent,
2,066 57-91 ; do., new, 1,159 1160-300 ; rear 500-pons
power, by Mama Ibasasky. The esnmenv of waft the
shimasperferneed by Lady Remolds.
Malta Thews publishes • proclamation from
Sir John Gaspard Le Merchant, dated April 30, announcing
that he has reamed the Administrating of the government
in the Wand. It also ocateine notion of the appointment of
Lieutenant-Colonel Trans Le Mandrel (unattached) to be
his eacelleocy's Ovate secretary, and of Captain Wilford
Brett, 76th Reglement, as his private secretary. The same
journal states that on the let, Sir William Reid, the late
governor, embarked in a try unostentatious. manner on
beard the Berms steamer for Southampton. The Coquette
arrived at Malta on the 26th. announcing the from
Tonle of the rquedron under Lord Lyons; and the neat day
the Conqueror and Centurion came to anchor at the entrance
of the grad harbor. The Royal Albert, the Princess
Royal, end the err vends, remainsi in the offing. Souse
hoer saw the ships wads sail for the northward and east-
word, Coda befog nil to be that, dastration.

tab) intilligena•

COURT OF QUERN'S BENCH.-MAT 13.

Malaga at NW Prim at OaildleaU.—Belore Mr. Juitioe
Coleridge sad Comma Judea)

ba their bilere-shest. He deposed that the srrangement
wee kerteril by ere creditor, awned Bnart, who masted
:Alai Mee fatal!, sad suggested that the accounts
alight be made eat, so that ha might naive 20e.
the aad the ether creditors would know nothing
K. This wee shortly before they stoppwl. Atta-
ined§ &Mt semylehrd of the =enabler of that stock, and
rid fist kw right to have bought much more wheat ca
the previous Xessilay. Witness said it would have been a
very unjust act to do so. He had bought wheat of Snart
about • month Wore but did not think that unjust. The
month's credit expired two days before his failure, on the
11th May. On the Bth of May he had paid an acosptance of
2901., doe to Mr. Wright, of Boston.
Mr. William Swart, corn miathant, of Boston, was era-
mined, sod flatly contradicted the bankrupt's statement about
hypes more when. It was also untrue that he hod
:A=l a fedillealen of the account' to deceive the other
At the meeting of creditors he expired die-
erkbelles what Ur statement rendered by the bankrupts,
sad Ward to amp their proposal. He found afterwards
that Welshes km of 2904. had been paid on May 8, while his
own reset, des en the Bth, was wholly unpaid, and
oft hat 1 serente were reprinted to be doe to relatives
the beeirepta.
Mr. T dicitor to the bankrupt sad the magnets)
was eseadiestl, sad confirmed the bankrupt's statement as
to Soares peoaodtlon to " 000 k the somata," and in other
particulars y contradicting Smart.
The Cmmiashar--Eithei the bankrupt and Mr. Young
or Mr. &tart must have called God to witness an untruth.
This is a most serious matter. If upon comparison Hr.
Young's and the bankrupt's statanenta are found to concur,
that is entfieleat to contradict the oath of Mr. Smart, and he will
bs Indicted is, perjury. But at coarse the evidence se yet la
su observation from either side.
ir.4 to
Baglay applied for an adjournment, feeling incapable
from indisposition to address the court..

An adjonsent was ordered woo • ly, it being under-
stood that the owe en either aids was sad that no
further evidence would be tendered.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Behr* ILL Bane Kati,' sad Mr. Judos Crowddr.)

*Wises Lay, 37, was charged with Many, in having
wilfully east away sod destroyed • vessel, called the Clipper,
with latent to defraud the owners of the mid venal.
In other °aunts of the indictment the intent of the pri-
soner wee said to be to defraud the underwriter who had
abated en inatusince upon the vessel.
Mr. Wilde, Q.C., and Mr. Bodkin, conducted the
peoaa-
eanon ; iltoyerat Salentine MY special, retained, with Mr.
lobtheon, to deka the prisoner,
Mr. Wlide, in opening the caws to the jury, 'ski that the
pawner woe chsrpd with an offence, happily not very oom-
moo, but which was of a very seldom charaoter, both as re-
gaided the interests of person end property. The poisoner
was charged with wilfully toasting away a vessel ailed the
Clipper about 900 tons bather', of which vessel he
was the master. It appeared that he also had
a share in the Tema to the extent of an eighth,
and that on the 9th of March she sailed • voyage
to Newport, where ohs wee to take in a cargo of coals, sad
then to proceed on a foreign voyage, and immediately before
the vested smiled It appeared that the prisonerinsured his own
effects for 1601., sad an Insurance was also effected upon the
venal hang( for 8001. Oa the 13th March the vend wen ea-
°hared off D and during the whole of that day no-
ththg was observed to the matter with her, and it she had
required say eminence there woo plenty of other vessel'
anchored elms by who could have rendered it. No snob as-
sistance wee, however, asked for, but on the following wont-
ing the vessel was discovered to be in • 'lnking state, and she
shortly aflame* sank, and the prisoner and the crew made
their mows from her in the longboat, and apes his srriving
at Margate the primmer made the usual proteat with • view
to recover the amounts of the policies. The learned counsel
than proceeded to give • narrative of the other facia of the
caw, the following evidence was adduced :
Mr. Foster, of the arm of Foster and Lacey, insurance
broken at Lloyd's, proved that he received an order from
the prisoner on the 2nd of March to effect as indorsese
upon the Clipper. The prisocer's effects were insured for
1601. Witness remarked, in the prisoner's presence, that
captains selling in that class of vessel cozily Insured fur
Ohm than 1001., and it was Meted that the prieoner's wife
would accompeny him on the voyage, and that her effects
were also regal-el to be insured.
Croce-aarnined—No claim bad yet been made upon the
Pollc7.
Kr. John Leroy partner of the last whams, proved that
• effected • policy lot 8001. upon the body of the ship. The
policy was edaetd through the instrumentality of a Captain
Buller. Ile bawd of the loss of the vessel on Monday, the
16th March, and Captain Buller handed him a protest.
Captain Buller deposed that he was pert owner of the Clip-
pr. The pHof the loss of the vessel was in the hithd-
writing of
Crose-examthed—The vessel was valued at 1,2001. at
Lloyd's, but she coat considerably more. They had ex-
patted 1,6001. upon her, and if they got the whole of the
premiums they would still be considerable losers. She was
chartered out sod home for 1,2001., and no portion of that
emceed was insured.

lie-seenTinedLYhe prisoner was formerly mate of the ves-
sel, sad he was made captain ; and he then purchased one-
eighth of the ship for 1001., but he would also have had to
pay his sham of the expense for the stereo. The former mp-
h& was drowned abroad, and the prisoner brought the mend
boom and be was then made captain.
Mr. Leslie deposed that he was also part owner of the
mead, and he accompanied the prisoner to Mr. Cartwright,
the notary, to make the protest. The primmer was asked
for the log-book, and he said it was lost, and he then made •
verbal statement from the protest of the ctrcumatances under
wince the vessel was lost. The prisoner had only paid 301.
out of the 1001. he was to pay for his share of the vessel. He
gave • bill for the balance.
J 115911 Sutton deposed that he was the master of • lugger
called the Princess Mary. On the 13th of March he was is
Dungeon; roads at night. Tho sea was very calm. He
saw the Clipper arrive in the roads and cast anchor about
Meta mile from the shore, and she appeared to be very light.
He did not observe anything the matter with her, and did
not hear any pumping. On the following morning he saw
that the Clipper was very deep is the water, and be in opine-
Times suspected something was wrong, and proceeded in his
vessel to the Clipper, and saw that the longboat was out.
The primmer was on deck, end he asked him tf be bad got
say water in his vessel, and he said be had. Witnees went
and got on board, and saw the chain cable on deck
larrid: lump on the starboard quarter. This was not
the usual place for keeping the chain cable, and it had the
effect of ceasing the vessel to heel over. Witness looked
into the main hold, and sew that the vessel wee nearly full of
water. The pumps were not ri , and the mew were
standing about the deck. The would net let him
tench anything. He on board till the vessel
sunk, and he then went away with the crow in the long
boat. He did not see anything pat into the longboat.
Cross-examined—He fret communicated what he had seen
to Captain Mott, at Deal.
POMO& Bushell, the master of a Deal lugger, deposed that
his vassal was also anchored near the Clipper on the night of
the 13th of March in Dungeness roads. He noticed the
Clipper drop her anchor and bring up about a quarter of a
al & from the logger. Them had been • little wind off the
lead during the day, but there was not much sea. The
Cdpper laid at anchor ell day, and at sunset she appeared in
the seam state as in the morning, high out of the water
and apparently in ballast. On the following morning she
=to be in a sinking stab, end he got out a email boat
to her, and some one who was on board told him
not to mom alongside, as they were going to leave ber. He
saw the longbow., but did not notice what was in it. The
Clipper mak a very few minutes after the longboat left.
Thins were severer Teasels lying at anchor near the Clipper
at the time thin occurred.

Captain Nott, MN., deposed that on the 20th of March he
went as the at for Lloyd's to raise the Clipper. On the
27th she had hauled conaiderably on shore, and was par-
daily dry. The first thing they saw was water nobbling up
through tbs ballast pott, which they found open. Under ordi-
nary circumstances this port should be cloyed and secured.
Upon further examination of the vessel he discovered a hole
ea the starboard quarter on the rim of the vessel, about two
lathes square. This hole had evidently been made by some
sharp instrament, such as • chisel. It wee on the pert of
the vessel commonly called the lazaretto, which was inues•
Mately under the captain's cabin, and about three fest below
the floor. He afterwards disoovered two augur boles la the
side of the vessel, about an inch in circumference. Another

sots —wee—eitar—w—ar. de-7;o7d,7data; did;.l Wee *ooloTietir y
through the Male of the mewl, bat which soil admitted
sows water. The holes were ell sto and the veinal wee
than towed to Dover. This oeothree or font bows,
sad the vowel weds so water during that period.
Mr. Bedew*, a aldpwright, who accompanied Captaht
Nott, oorroborated the evidence given by that gentlemen as
to the state of the meth He also proved that there were
no clothes or of w property on board of her.
Mr. Callen, soother shipwright, gave gather evidence.
He also stated that he thewvered an augur on board which
fitted the holes to the weed's side.

Mrs.Lrito7a deposed that ski kad a brother who was mat*
as board the Clipper, aad is consequauoe of some information
she received she wont with the preser'm wife in a cart to
red the rekteteer at Loadebridge. She had not knee
the prefer before, and his wife Introduced le to hr.
See hear, sad a beer bed, sad sore comperse sad
other *Mho we afterwards put into the sat, and the pri-
mer 4:Maid See seise as hi. property. They were
takes le wilee's resides at Carbridge-heads, and were
Mosel Is the shop, sad ea the Monday fallowing the
rimer asked her to bunt the boxes sad the bags, and
le the cies, with lets, and take the nautical books
se Mar eat all the ports where his name was
wee tasromany of the dote we marked with hie
feet W. , in fail, and the prime inked her to pick
et SO nanom taro aide There were compares
ea
a sober d dusts seas the articles, and also a ev-
e ter sad the peer tell to r y that the des be-
longed to bee brellmr. Oa the eras day were Mid the
prisoner what she had herd about the ship, and be rid
then was so trek to it. Witness tali him that Mau Lek.,
bad told her that be had odd that M wee her to " hates"
the veal, as if they went to re to bar she would hare
reed a Mir to them all. Mrs. Laker had also min that
46m1 to take ma the ship's tools oat of bee, gad she
" Ord Gad, Willie ; don't be so avadeloaa." The
than add that it was owing to his wife haying
' lea • gbes, _" sad Oat the would stab the whole tither..
The pataser alma* sided bit to "weer that the things
were be, sad upon her 'via' she could not do so, be laid

that ha sad her brothel.. John would !mar oat forty of them.

Close-azamined—Did not knew that it wan her brother
who bore the holes in the vessel. He was the mete on
board. She mixed up the clothes with her own clothes, as
the prisoner had ressreed her. Some of these things were
pawned by her servant, bat not to her knowledge. She
was not weaving some el the articles at this ems. Her
broths' did not weer any el the prisoner's clothes, nor sore
did her hushes& He was a butcher and did not wear
sailor's clothes. (A laugh.) The reason why she gave in-
formed= was, that she was afraid her brother might get
into tro,ble, and be charged as an accessory before the face.
(A laugh.) She was aoquainted with the law, and had read
• good many acts of parliament when she was young. (Re-
newed laughter.)
John Chutney, the cook and steward on board the Clipper,
deposed, that after the vessel had cast anchor at
p
nose the prisoner told him to go into his =
mad
sardown into the lazaretto. The prisoner scorn-
hint, and he saw him bore • hole under the ballast-
port. Witness also bored a hole at the same place. The
water came in through the holes. About an hour after this
he and the mode a hole under the lazaretto. They
used a an augur and • crowbar. The prisoner said
that the vessel had as& a great deal of water, and he could
not get her Into any port, sad be thought it was better to let
her sink where she was. He afterwards saw the prisoner
take oat the balsa port. They all left the vessel in the long
bast, and took thewllo6 of their wearing apparel with them.
Croas-asemined—The ship had leaked from the time of
leaving the docks. They had got so Sr as the Isle of Wight,
bat pat back to Dungeness. because the crew were all tired,
and said they could not pump any lamer. They had bad
weather during pert of the tins. The seed woe dry in the
mooning the of but she made a good deal of
water eirenirds. He coasid ssd It would not have been
safe to rned on the voyage in the state the ye eel was in.
The made no secret of what he was going to do.
Re-exasained—The vessel might have been run on shore
at Dungeons, if the prisms had been so minded.
John Manhood, mate on board the Clipper, deposed that
he wee aware of the holes being bored in the vessel about
two o'clock on the morning of the 14th March. He heard
I the sound of the augur and saw the prisoner and the last
witness down the hold. 'There was a good deal of water in
the vessel at this time, and the prisoner maid the best thing
that could be date with hems to scuttle her and let her go;
for, if she wont into a dock, the dock bill would be more
thani she was worth, and would be the ruin of him, and he
heard him give the order to knock out the ballast port. Wit-
mess did not save all bis property.
Cross-examined—The vessel made • great deal of water,
and if the holes had not been bored, she would have sunk at
sea in less than 24 hours. The last witness was hie sister.
He did not tell her to give information, but she did so upon
her own accord.

Sajeent BsMilitia., at the close of the OM for the praeeoa-
Lion, mede • very able address to the jury on behalf of the
prisoner. He said that offences of the description imputed
to him were never oommitted, except with the object of
mildew some great profit or advantage, but in the genet
CAM it was clear that even if the premiums had been paid,
the share of the prisoner would only have amounted to 1001.,
I sad it was proved that he bad paid that sum for his share,
and that the veseel was worth a good deal more. He said he
was not instruoted to deny that the prisoner had caused the
holes to be mods is the vessel, but he urged that the prisoner
in this proceeding had sated only under an error of judgment,
and in the belief that the lives of himself and crew would
have been endangered if they bad proceeded to sea in this
vessel, end that he therefore ought not to be convicted oa the
present ohmic
&venal Mimeses were called who gave the prisoner en ez-
anent character.
_ _ _

Mr. Hsson Martin then summed up, and the jury almost
hamediately returned a verdict of gewilty, but at the mme
time Mrtagly recommended the prisoner to mercy on account
of hie Previous good &erecter.
The learned Judge, in sentence, said that the poi-
soner had been convicted of crime of destroy • ship
with intent to defraud the underwriters, upon eMemo as
clear and concludes as could possibly be adduced—indeed it
was Impossible that a crime could have been proved more
clearly. Such an offence was • most actions one in this
country. Au enormous amount of capital was invested in
underwriting ships, and persons invented capital in that man-
net upon the belief that masters of ships would act honestly
by them, and that they should only incur fair risks ; and it
was clear that unless they had a fair chance of keeping the
premiums that were paid to them for the insurance of vessels,
that the amount of the policies could not ha paid when a
real diadem took place. He could not imagine a more serioes
canoe than that of taking a worthless resod to sea with
the intention of destroying her, sad then obtain-
ing • large price for such vessel from the underwriters
and it appeared to him that the evidence established
that this vessel was unseaworthy from the moment she left
the docks, and that the object of destroying her was to obtain
a much larger sum than she was worth. The jury had
I strongly recommended him to mercy on account of his good
charmer, sad he was always meet endows to give effect to
such a nommen/lotion, and but for this he believed he

should have felt compelled to sentence him to penal servitude
for M. He should, however, pawl a much more lenient sea-
trios, but he hoped it would still have the effect of teaching
meters of ships that snob offences would, under any circum-
stances, meet with condign punishment. Be then sentenced
the prisoner to be kept in petal servitude for eight years.
/Oaf Oremif, the banister's clerk, who had pleaded
guilty to nasal indictments charging him with uttering
ftged chipsseu was brought up for judgment and eentecmd
to tea years' peel servitude.