The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-05 00:00:00

FALL OF HERAT

We learn from Paris advices of last night, received
per telegraph, that letters from Constan inople to the
24th ult announce as positive the fall of Herat with-
out a s.ruggle. The intell;g. nce, however, is from
a Persian siurce, and is not generally believed.

The Bank of France has made no alteration in the
rate of discount. Bourse heavy in consequence.

THE GREAT NORTHERN FRAUDS

RE-EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF MR.
SNELL, YESTERDAY.

William Snell, late the chief clerk in the accountant's
department of the Great Northern Railway, who has been
twice remanded on the charge of- stealing a cheque for
£5OO, and also with embezzling a like amount of money,
was, yesterday, at a few minutes to four, placed in the
dock at the Clerkenwell police court for re-examination.
Mr. Tyrwhitt was the presiding magistrate. Mr. Huddle-
ston appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Hopgood for
the defence.
Mr. H.uddleston stated that on the last occasion be
proved the case against the prisoner. There was only one
piece of evidence, which through the extreme acuteness of
Mr. Mould, the chief clerk, was suggested to be brought
forward, and that was, that nothing equivalent to the sum
stated was paid into the sick account. Mr. Reynolds had
gone carefully through the accounts, and he could state
positively that no such sums had been paid in. With
regard to £7O, he was in a position to prove that the
prisoner had not paid the money in, but had appropriated
it to himself.

Mr, Mould having read over the evidence taken on a
previous occasion.
Mr. Reynolds, the accountant, was examined, and stated
—There is a docket-book kept, and the counterfoil shows in
detail the different sums of which the amount is paid up. On
locking over that counterfoil, I do not find any mention or
entry of two such sums as the cheques were made out for, or for
either of them. The cheques were for £2O 18s 5d and
£23 12s 101. lam unable to say positively that no such
sums have been paid into the accountant's drawing ac-
count. It was the prisoner's duty to pay the same money in
that he received. He had often before paid money into the
sick account.

Some conversation ensued as to what offence the prisoner
was to be indicted with, and it was ultimately decided that
he should be indicted—the first offence with stealing, and
the second with embezzling.
The prisoner having been duly cautioned,
Mr. Hopgood said, he should reserve the defence for a
higher tribunal.

The prisoner was then removed by Turner, the gaoler,
appearing quite as confident as on the previous occasions.
The prisoner was then committed to Newgate for trial.
The case seemed to excite but very little interest, and
there were but few persons present during the investigation.

DISCOVERY OF IRON IN WILTSHIRE.--A paragraph
has appeared in some of the local papers stating that iron
ore had been discovered near Caine. It is, however, at
Seend, three miles from Melksham, and near the Kennet
and Avon Canal, that the discovery has been made. The
ore is described as being very good.—Salisbury Journal.
If we may credit one of the Perlin papers, the former
Prime Minister of the Elector of Hesse Cassel, the well
known Hassenpflug (nicknamed Hessen.'luch in the days
of his power), has been obliged to leave Cassel, and go
to reside at Marburg, simply because no inhabitant of the
former town was inclined to receive him as a tenant or a
lodger. _ _

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND.—From the
remit of the debates in the General Assembly, at Auckland,
we are led to infer that Auckland has virtually ceased to be
regarded as the future seat of government of New Zealand.
In the House of Representatives, on the 11th of August,
the government was asked whether they had come to any
conclusion as to the next session of the Assembly ? The
reply was, that the ministry being divided among themselves,
bad tendered no advice to his Excellency upon the subject.
Shortly afterwards, however, the governor sent down a
message, stating that, having come to the resolution named,
the house must make provision for the expenses necessarily
attendant on the removal of the General Assembly to
Wellington.—Emigration Record.
A curious but convenient peculiarity in the transmission
of messages by the Atlantic Telegraph will arise from the
difference of longitude—New York time being about six
hours behind London. It follows, according to the
arrangement at present contemplated, that the messages
which are forwarded from London from ten in the morn-
ing till four in the afternoon—our business hours—though
they arrive instantaneously at the other side, do so,
according to their time, between four and ten in the morn-
ing, and at their ten o'clock these replies until their four
will reach this country between four and ten in the even.
ing, leaving them the whole night for consideration or
obtaining information before our hours of activity recom-
mences at ten in the morning.
DEATH FROM A STAB.—MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.-011 Wed-
nesday evening Mr. C. St. Clair Bedford, the Westminster
coroner, heldjan inquest at King's College Hospital, on the
body of Peter Locket, aged 33, formerly a soldier in the
East India Company's service. .It appeared from the
evidence of the deceased's father and mother that the
deceased about nine weeks ago left home with a woman
named Caroline Ryan, and on his return with her at night
they observed some blood on the front of his shirt. De
ceased told theni he had had a stab in his side, but that it
had only been done in a "lark," and he would not give
them any further infbrniatiein on the matter. Deceased
was received into King's College Hospital a day or two
after. He made the same statement to the surgeon there,
but would not inform him who had inflicted the injury.
Deceased got worse, and ultimately died of pleurisy, the
effect of the wound. Police Constable 52 F stated that
although he had used every exertion he had been unable
to trace the woman Caroline Ryan, or where the deceased
was when he received the wound. The jury after_ some
deliberation, returned the following verdict, " That the
deceased died from pleurisy, caused by a wound, but how
or by whom that wound was inflicted there was no evi-
dence to show•

LQS; OF THE SHIP HAMILTON.—WEYMOUTH, DEC. I.
The following are the particulars relating to the loss of the
ship Hamilton, Captain Robinson, of London, which was
abandoned, waterlogged, on the 26th ult., on her passage
from Cronstadt for London. The crew, twenty-two in
number, including master's wife, were this afternoon landed
here from the schooner Niord, Captain Jensen, for Bristol :
—The ship Hamilton, of London, 603 tons, Captain
Robinson, with 245 standard deals and lathwood, and 150
tons of iron, from Cronstadt for London, after riding out a
continuance of heavy gales with two anchors a-head at times,
for sixteen days off Cronstadt, and heavy gales in the Gulf
of Finland, experienced a terrific gale at sea from N.W.,
on the Dogger bank, in which she sprung a leak, the stem
being started away, quickly filling up to the lower deck beams.
The captain and crew were taken on board the Niord,
Danish schooner. for Bristol, and landed at Weymouth,
being twenty souls, without the captain and his wife,
twenty-two in all, saved from the tops and starvation or a
watery grave, as in a few more hours she would
have filled up to her upper deck. The • Hamilton
was set on fire at both ends, and the crew then
got into the boats, and on board the Niord. As the
ship was in the direct track of vessels, she was destroyed to
prevent further disasters to any other ship. • The upper part
being quite dry, she soon burnt to the water's edge, and the
iron would sink the bottom.