The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-08 00:00:00

THE GOLD DUST CAPTURE

An inquiry was held before Mr. Commissioner West,
at the Bankruptcy Court, Sheffield, on Saturday, as to
the ownership of 298 onnces 6 dwts. of gold dust. The gold
dust, which is valued at £1,200, has been seized on the
supposition that it has been brought from Australia by
Mr. Nahum Salamon, of the firm of Marks and Salamon,
merchants, of Sheffield and Australia, who were declared
bankrupts some months since. The gold dust was
seized by Mr. Gaskill, the Bankruptcy Court Messenger,
on the arrival of Mr. Salamon at Liverpool from Aus-
tralia, in the ship Lightning. When
,Mr. Gaskill
searched the Lightning for property belonging to the
bankrupt, he found the box of gold dust alluded to.
Ostensibly it did not belong to Salamon, who made
no claim to it, and who has throughout repudiated
the ownership. Mr. Gaskill's suspicions were aroused
owing to the gold dust being shipped in the name
of Solomon Naten, and being stated in the manifest to
belong to a passenger on board, while there was no pas-
senger on board the ship, except Salamon himself, with a
name at all like this. After the gold dust was seized, Mr.
Solomon Naten, a jeweller, living in Watery-street, Shef-
field, came foriYard and claimed the gold dust, stating that
he was the person to whom it was consigned, and in proof
of this he produced the bill of lading. Mr. Gaskill, how-
ever, refused to allow the gold dust to be given up. The
enquiry was in respect to Mr. Naten's claim upon the pro-
perty. Besides Mr. Naten, Mr. James Ritter and Mr.
H. Posnanski were examined. From their statements
it appeared that Mr. Ritter and Mr. Posnanski had
been in business in Australia, which they had given
up, and returned to England in the same ship as
Salamon. The gold dust had been consigned to
Naten by a Mr. Phiueas Beatus, who about two years
ago emigrated from Sheffield to Australia, having before
that time travelled about with a pedlar's box. Beatus
being an intimate friend of Naten's, and having grown
rich in the neighbourhood of the diggings, had forwarded
the box of gold dust, on the understanding that Naten
was to send back to him in return cutlery and jewellery to
the same value. Both the gold dust and the bill of lading
had been entrusted by Beatus to Ritter. No letter of
advice was sent to Naten, who had no idea of the good
fortune that was in store for him, till Ritter reached
Sheffield and told him of it. Beatus gave no instructions
as to what was to be done with the gold dust if Naten
were dead or removed. The commissioner did not come
to any decision, but the gold dust will probably be
detained for the assignees, and it will remain with Naten,
if he thinks proper, to bring an action for its recovery.

BERLIN, April 4.—A letter in the Abeille Du Nord,
preaching up the emancipation of Russian civilization
from foreign influence, and violently attacking England,
has produced a great sensation in the Russian capital.—
Morning News.

BERLIN, Sunday.—A royal ordinance prohibits stock-
brokers from negociating the scrip of foreign shares.
National shares partly paid up, and foreign shares fully
paid, only are permitted for transfer. There are other
measures against stock and money jobbing.
A Turin journal which, it is said, derives is infor-
mation from an authentic source states, that the docu-
ments which received the signatures of the Plenipoten-
tiaries on the 30th ult., were five in number, namely,
the treaty or instrument of peace, properly so called ; an
a lditional article relative to the evacuation of the Rus-
sian territory, and a convention relative to the straits.
These three were signed by the fourteen Plenipoten-
tiaries. Two annexes, one of which relates to the Aland
Isles, and is signed by Russia, France, and England ;
and the other concerning the maritime policy of the
Black Sea, signed by Turkey and Russia only.
DlssommoN of A BANat.—Some excitement has been
occasioned in Cheltenham by the sudden dissolution or cessa-
tion from business of the Cheltenham and Gloucestershire
Banking Company, and the almost simultaneous sudden
death of the manager, Mr. Ridler, lately a candidate for the
representation of the borough in parliament. The imme-
diate cause which led to the suspension of business
was, it is preetty Well understood, the complete
exhaustion of its capital, occasioned by losses
which have overbalanced the profits. Therefore the
managers of the bank decided to close business while
they were yet in a favourable position to discharge their
liabilities, which have, we believe, hitherto been liquidated
on demand. It is presumed that the shareholders will be
the sufferers, and that they will lose nearly the whole of the
money invested in the concern. The bank, we believe, has
regularly declared a dividend of five and six per cent. A
meeting of the shareholders is to be held in a fortnight.
While the town was yet ringing with the, news of the
stoppage of business at the batik, it was announced that Mr.
Ridler, the manager, and who offered himself for Chelten-
ham at the last election, had been found dead in his bed.
He had been much depressed in spirits of late, and at about
twelve o'clock took some medicine (morphine). He was
alive at six o'clock next morning, but at eight he was dead.
An inquest has been opened on the body before Mr, Love.
grove, coroner, and adjourned for an autopsy.