The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-29 00:00:00

LIFE PEERS AND HEREDITAIzr PEERS.

them. The :vault is obvious. Those who a..
capacity for leading the nation are outweighed .
those who claim the post without posaessinglise
power. Men are disposed to approve of the actions
of those in everystation who have proved their'
to respect ; but they are disinclined to submit .
times to the decisions of Peers whose hereditary
titles are their sole credentials. According to the
constitution, the House of Lords is the chief court
of appeal, but its non-legal members have been
forced to forego their rights when judgment is
given in an appellate case. U they would act
wisely, they must surrender the exercise of another
right. They have refused to allow a Peer created
for life only to take his place in their midst. The
hereditary principle they regard as their sheet-
' anchor. It is the action of this system
which has discredited their House in public
estimation. At one time a Peer was by the
necessity of his position a skilful warrior or an
accomplished gentleman. Hs had opportunities
for self-improvement which a commoner never
enjoyed. Modern arrangements have effected a
revolution in his position. A " levelling up-
" wards" has been in progress for many years.
The increasing predominance of the House of
Commons has dwarfed the influence of the Lords.
Although a measure be repugnant to the Upper
House, it must yet be passed eventually. Its last
and most desperate fight was made when the
Reform Act of 1832 was introduced. Beaten
I then, it has never recovered its lost prestige. Its
only practical achievements in recent timer have
been to delay for several years the political eman-
cipation of the Jews and the abolition of Church-
rates ; and it may succeed for a short period in up-
holding the Irish Church against the wishes of the
people of the United Kingdom and of their repre-
sentatives in Parliament.
Reforming the House of Lords hes become im-
perative. Little more is necessary to give it a
new start than to mainly substitute life peerages for
hereditary ones in future creations. If a man
has served his country either in the field,
or in the pursuit of the bounteous arty of
peace, let him be honoured with a peerage.
What personal merits he possesses will be dis-
played after his elevation as well as before it, and
whatever he advocates will receive attention on his
account from a public which is always ready to
hearken to the counsel of really distinguished men.
Were peers for life the rule, we should have
greater honesty and sincerity displayed in party
contests. At present, the heir to a title votes as
hie family has done. He inherits his political
opinions with his paternal estates. A great Whig
or an old Tory family is better fitted for producing
partisans than statesmen. The Liberal party is
the chief sufferer in this matter. Highly-born
men are naturally inclined to magnify their order,
to despise and disparage the multitude. Hence
an hereditary Tory is an obstructive in a twofold
sense. Au hereditary Whig cannot heartily and
entirely cast in his lot with the people of whom
his traditions compel him to be the ally and the
advocate. However unwelcome the task may be,
still the reform of the Upper House is one which
must be undertaken, if its members would preserve
unimpaired the influence which they have so long
possessed.

" Wuer shall we do with the Lords ? " is a
question which has been often put of late. Thirty-
six years ago, it was one of the principal topics of
the day, and it was then discussed with greater
heat than impartiality. Those who now consider
it are actuated by very different feelings. No
wide-spread desire is manifested in these days for
what was formerly the ideal of " root and branch
" r.forrners." The minority is insignificant alike
in numbers and influence which now aims at
levelling every ancient institution. It is admitted
that the shortcomings of tho Upper House are
attributable to accidental circumstances, which can
.be removed without detriment to the principle
whereon it is lased. The belief is all but
universal that an Upper House is a component
part of a constitutional system of government.
The majority of the House of L. is com-
posed of men belonging to what are supposed to
be good families, because they were ennobled
many years ago. Those who cad boast that their
forefathers were made peers on account of their
services in subduing the Saxon population of Eng- I
land occupy the first rank. To trace his descent to
one of the men who followed the banner or the
camp of Wiictam the CONQUEIIOc is the highest
ambition of a peer. Others have to content them-
selves with the reflection that the founders of their
houses were the favourites of a isms or a
CHARLEB, forgetting, if possible, the reasons which
made either Monarch bestow honours on them.
A few can claim descent from renowned masters
in the art of war ; but the descendants of the
heroes of Blenheim, Trafalgar, and Waterloo do
well not to set too grett store on their kinship
with their illustrious ancestors, for to do this
would provoke comparisons which might not re-
dound to the advantage of the lineal successors
of national idols. But every section of tele
House which dates its nobility v eantury back
looks askance at those who have entered it MVO
recently. A new boy at school is not treated
with more marked superiority by his seniors than
is a newly-created peer by his colleagues. They
look clown upon him from the pedestal of their
ancestry. They consider it more noble to have an
old title, although unloved in history, than to
assume a new one at the biddio4 of the Sovereign.
Thus the House of Lords, as now constituted,
is not only an aristocratic aisembly ; it is also
. an assembly wherein the nr.ii w it seated for
his personal merit is ranked Leneati. those who sit
OM merely because their Where did so before

.tpter
..scion with its service: that sock Freesias am
essentially different in principle from legislative
grantswLichare subject to the pleasure of the Crown,
and therefore to its judgment on the merits. It
was upon these and various other kindred considera-
tions that he left the Colonial service, with all
its emoluments and expectations, in order
to render himself free to accept the vote. Sir
Caritas enters into a justification of his conduct
in the administration of the government of Victoria,

and claims that all his proceedings in reference to
the grant should be subjected to the fullest

Wa see by the report of the Public Petitions
Committee that between the 20th and 24th inst.
2,578 petitions, bearing 292,374 signatures, were
presented to the House of Commons against the
diaendowment of the Church of Ireland. Within
the same period 558 petitions, with 223,231
signatures, were presented, praying for the
diaendowment. This gives the opponents of
Mr. GLADSTONE'S resolutions an average of
113 for each petition, and the other side
an average of 400. The petitioners against
diaendowment appear from the report to
chiefly consist of deans, prebendaries, in-
cumbents, and churchwardens in agricul-
tural counties in England, and of church-
men in Ireland. On the other hand,
• considerable number of the petitions against the
Establishment proceed from public meetings in
important English towns, to which the signatures
of Chairmen alone are attached.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

to papport the empire and the imperial dynuty
without reserve ; but at the slime time he will cri-
ticise all the acts of government with " indepen-
dent conscientiousness." It is impossible, he says,

that the government should not sometimes be
wrong, but it is more likely to be right than
wrong, for the simple reason that its interest is to
do right, and that the penalty it pays for its faults
is too heavy for it to commit any lightly.
The Swiss general Dufour, who was the Empe-
ror's military tutor, and with whom his Majesty
has never ceased to keep up friendly relations, is
now in Paris, and dined yesterday at the Tuileries.
Among the many presents which the Princess
Margaret received on the occasion of her marriage
with Prince Humbert was a copy, enclosed in a
casket ornamented with precious stones, of the
poet Alumni's report on the best means of making
all tahans speak one dialect. This gift was pre-
sented on the part of the Minister of Public
Instruction by the senator Count Chiavarina, who
was the Italian commissioner at the Exhibition of
1867.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE
DUKE OF EDINBURGH.
(asurza'a vsz.sosam.)
SYDNEY, APRIL L
The attempt on the life of the Dake of Edin-
burgh has caused an outburst of horror and
indignation throughout the colonies. Enormous
demonstrations have taken place, and numerous
addressee have been signed. Prayers and thanks-
givings have been offered up in all the churches.
The assassin O'Farrel was tried by a special
commission. The defence set up was insanity, but
the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to
death.
His royal highness has recovered from his wound,
and sails for England on the 4th April.
TURKEY AND PERSIA.
The Libert4 in its latest intelligence gives the
following :
We learn from a good source that England is at the pre-
sent moment making every effort to effect a reconciliation
between P. rsie and Turkey. On the other hand Russia is
endeavouring to embroil them more and more, and there
is every reason for believing that war has become inevita-
ble between the Persians and the Turks.

Three soldiers of the Ist Lancers of the Guard, I
stationed at Fontainebleau, were convicted by a '
court-martial yesterday of having thrown acivilian
into the Seine, and drowning him. The three men ,
haying obtained permission to be out till midnight
went at a late hour and when half drunk to a house
of ill-fame, where they were refused admittance.
While they were vainly knocking with their sabres
at the door a chemist's assistant, well known in
the town as an inoffensive man, came out of the
house. The door being speedily closed after him,
the soldiers made him responsible for not letting
them in, and proceeded to abuse him and knock
him about. They followed him down a steep alley
leading to the river, pushed him in, and then ran
away. There was a good deal of evidence to the '
effect that the prisoners had been heard to say they
would throw him into the river and do for him.
Their own versionwasthat he insulted them and that
he fell into the river during an altercation. The-'
court regarded the crime as manslaughter, and
sentenced one of the prisoners to five years' im-
prisonment with hard labour, the second to a year's
imprisonment, and the third, who had not actually
laid a hand upon the victim, to fifteen lays. The
president of the court-martial severely blamed the
prisoners, who were all able to swim, for their
cowardice in not attempting to rescue the drown-
ing man—assuming it to be true that they had not
purposed to take his life.
Rossini has just received the Grand Cordon of
the new Order of the Crown of Italy. The Italian
Minister Plenipotentiary, Chevalier Nigra, in pur-
suance of orders from Victor Emmanuel, waited
upon the illustrious maestro, at his house, to pre-
sent him with the insignia. Verdi and S. Mer-
cadante hare been made commanders of the new
order.

Mr. James Cane, a native of Tours, but of
English extraction, has just died, leaving a million
of francs to the poor of that town. He was brought
up s protestant, but had become a member of the
new sect of solidaires, and desired by his will to be
buried without funeral rites.
The Bourse opened at an advance on yester-
day's prices, but receded considerably for the close.
Rente fell 15c. for cash and Inc. for account,
closing at 69fr. 30c. and 69fr. 32frc. Italian was
affected by rumours of disturbances in the Cals-
brim, and fell 77{4c., closing at 48fr. 40c. Credit
Foncier fell 6fr. 45c. ; Mobilier only lfr. 25c.
It is not doubted that the protectionist inter-
pellations proposed by M. Pouyer-Quertier and
others will be accepted, and that a great debate
will take place.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.)

A new writ was ordered for the election of a member for
Stamford.
The second Nadia; of the Church-rates Commutation
Bill was postponed till to-morrow.
Sir W. HUTT then moved the second reading of the
Railway and Joint Stock Companies Acooants Bill.
Mr. S. CAVE said be had no objection to the second
reading, es the measure was in accordance with the
principle of one prepared by the government.
After some disonesion,
The bill was read a second time.
COUNTY FDTANOLLL BOARDS (No. 2) BILL.
_ .

Mr. WYLD, in moving the seoond reading of this bill,
said the object of it was to give the ratepayers of counties
a fair share of representation with regard to county

expenditure.
Mr. KENDALL wended the motion.
Lord HENLEY thought the bill should be referred to •
select committee.
Mr. P. WYNHAM apposed the bill.
Mr. HANDY believed that in the main there was
judicious and *impended management under she present
system. He did not think any admits(' would accrue
from sending the bill to • committee. It was • permis-
live bill and • Japanese bill—that is, there would be a
dual authority on all points.
Hear hear.)
Lloft doing.]

(Before Vios-Chaneellar Sir B. Maim a.)
ON. HI TARTE THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AID DOVII
CO/ATAXY.
This was an application by Mr. B. Hedger, one of the
IE directors of the company, against the other seven directors
to restrain them from excluding him from the exercise of
1 all the duties of a director, and as far as possible to pre.
vent them excluding him from sub-committees. no
Court
injunctiont e
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to
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had by
LTOH
V. HOME. Chatham, and Dover Railway (Arrangements) Act of last
Mr.oo roMaime6l"gneed Qaddress.C"&""onlithetiAlhaffolthethedwefuenndszithiatHmoomern. session,
. the vacation
tion, and Mr. Glasse and Mr. Baphaw opposed.
Mr. Cotton and Mr. Martineau supported the applies
Commenting on the demeanour of the plsintiff, Mrs. Lyon,•
as exhibited is the wirer-hex, he observed that she had The ViesChaneellor said it was most unfortunate for
shown remarkable strength and freedom from fa- • this company that it should have added to all the other
tigae. She had displayed also great warmth diffipc,nlbertirowt itshh:rehihcohlditersbid"hadd toracoorinitevindr.,
st,hedilbeifficetoultaty,
of feeling, muck sense of the humorous, n
ofn. • divided board. The board, composed of en equal
of the comic--as SHOW& by the way she mimicked Home's held its first meeting on the 22nd of August, and fot
entreaties that she would hies him ; considerable anger and some time appeared to have gone on in harm
n was
Tioaktivenesiouid =mud obstinacy as manifested in tho ' but dissensions arose, and on the 18th of December al.',
trivial matter of her refining to raise her veil This was the solutio passed by six or seven of the directors ie.
had 4
woman who, his Honour
was
coma
upon to • moving
th re
Mr. Hodgson from his office deputy-chairman.
On of January • resolution was pared removing
say, had been imposed upon and deceived. PTO- I Mr. Hodgson from a joint committee to which he
needing to the history of her relations with been appointed, and subsequently • parliamentary corn.
that
theunder exception of r. Modem. It was clear
M
Horne, he observed that she was found to be ' mitten was formed consisting of all the members of the
on intimate terms with Miss Berry, Miss Nicholls,
! board,
Ind which was re-eaacWd by the Arrangements Act, the di-
and several other mediums. She sought out Home, 95th section of the Lands Clauses Act,
rectors ware not obliged to appoint any particular member
then came her account of the find interview in Slore-1
street. Mark the improbability of her story. Here of their body upon a committee, and be was bound there-
=exceeded their parliamentary. powers. He was not
was a woman, shabbily dressed as the witnesses said she foes to come to the conclusion that they had not in this
was at that time, a stranger to Home, who did not know so that there had been any intention on the part
whether she was Mrs. or Miss ; and upon her the conic I of the board to exclude Mr. Hod,pon from the exercise of
wee asked to believe Mr. Home had in that the ordinary functions of • director, though he was of
I .
short interview exhausted all the resources of I riders that there was a fixed design to exclude him from
his art. The story of the handkerchief was an the committees Mr. Hodgson did not consider himself
afterthought devised to support her story. This statement at liberty to resign his office of director, as he represented• large number of creditors, but his Honour was satisfied
and that about the sooordionseemed to showthat the menu- that that gentleman would best consult what was due to
script contained in the marbled book was compiled at some himself as well as to the interests of the company, and
time between the 27th of June, 1887, when the plaintiff's the particular body he represented, by withdrawing in
first affidavit was filed, and the 31st of March, favour of some one who would act more in harmony with
that there had been any breach or neglect of duty on the
the other directors. Upon the whole, he was not satisfied
1868. There was the evidence of Emily ;
uPort part of the board, and the present application must be re.
so that the matter did not stand solely
Yr. Home's denial, nor on the intrinsic improbability of fund, with oats
the story. Then came the interview of the 4th Oct. The
plaintiff deposed to "raps" almost immediately. Against
Mrs. Key's statement might be set off the defendant's con.
temp orsneona account to Mrs. Henning of what toot place.
The third interview was on Sunday the 7th of October.
The plaintiff's account in substance was this—
that Mr. Hume proposed marriage to her. That suggestion
of marriage was worth notice and comment. If it were
true that Mr. Home desired marriage why should he not
have rapped out • message that the spirit desired her to
marry Home, and marry him without • settlement?
To support the plaintiff's story she called two witnesses,
the boy Daniel Phillips and Mrs. James Fellowes. These
'triturate contradicted themselves. The boy heard *seams
so loud that he was alarmed for Mrs. Lyon's safety. Mrs.
James Fellowes said she heard " Let me see him !" But
Mrs. Lyon deposed to no screams, no vision, no sight of
her husband so changed" as hese witnessed stated.
Might not this evidence have been arranged since, or have
been interpolated from what took place on another ors-
sion. Emily Kingdom said that Daniel Phillips laughed at
the " spirit rapper "as he called him. As to the vision
of the golden-haired boy, to no less than ten witnesses did
she tell that story. It was said that this showed the
superstitions character of her mind. But if it arose
from the original weakness of the plaintiff's mind
Home was not responsible for acts flowing from such•
a motive. Here was an ambitious woman, upon whose
birth a stain rested, with whom her husband's relations
would not associate, desirous of notoriety and society.
What more likely than that she should talk of her won-
derful visions and dreams se the mesas of giving her some
of the éclat which she could not otherwise obtain ?
He objected to the interpretation which had
been placed upon the answer, as if it had been
attempted to show that the old woman bad to
go to school to this muter of his art. That was
twisting the answer to an unfair purpose. The late Mr.
Lyon's alleged statement was one of the most vapid andl
silly ecr.munications possible ; and it wan incredible that
so shrewd, vigorous, and self-willed • woman as Mrs. Lyon
was imposed upon by it. How different was this vague,
impression from the solemn influence which re %ion
exercised over the mind, arising from the hopes and the
tests of the believer! And it must be remembered that
the legal authorities upon which his learned
friends relied were all of them ease' of re-
ligious influence. His honour would remember the ex-
treme eagerness with which Mrs. Lyon denied having
gone to the Athensearn &reload time before Home's return
from Malvern. Did not that spring from her consciousness
of the fond and foolish affection which she then felt for the
defendant? But he (Mr. Matthews) submitted it was
conelrively proved that there was an inter-
view on the Monday. Then came the interview
on Tuesday when Mr. Home and Mr. Hall
called. Did Mr. Hall call upon Mrs. Lyon on the 9th ?
(Mr. Hall's evidence was read.) If Mr. Hall's evidence
were anything like true, how could it be reconciled with
the theory that Mrs. Lyon at this moment was under a
spiritual delusion? Was it conceivable that she should
not have mentioned to Mr. Hall something of her dreams
in her messages? The conversation deposed to was of
I the most business-like nature. One or two of the
accounts must be false. Mr. Hall's statement
was utterly irreconclleable with the theory of a delusion
practised on a weak mind, incapable either of resisting
or of concealing it. It had been suggested that Mr. Hall
requested the letter of the 14th of October to be written.
He (Mr. Matthews) wished Mr. Hall had been crow
examined on this point. The letter, however, was
written. Neither in the bill, nor in the affidavits, nor in
a single paper in the cause had the plaintiff mentioned
that letter. Had Mrs. Lyon forgotten ? Was it likely?
If she bad what light did it throw on the truthfulness
of her testimony? When it weashown to her in the witness.
hog, she maid she wrote it from • draft. If she forgot all
about it till she saw it, was it not likely that the story
about the draft was • ready-made invention? Then rise
Mrs. Key's statement about what she heard when she was
• at the door. This witness's memory was moat
remarkable ; she arid hear little or nothing but the Inc.
portent figures upon which so much depended " Three
hundred, five hundred, or seven hundred, shall it be, dear
spirit?" that was to be set the clear
statement Againsti Hall. Then came the letter to the
brokers, which she said she wrote under the influence of
the split. Could stetter of that plain, home-spun, every-
day character have been dictated by • person under spin-
tr.!! influence?

(Before

DAY.)

OOURT OF EXCHEQUER.

Bitting, in Banco. —(Before the Lord Chief Baron and
Barons Martin and Pigott.)
THE CLEEKENWELL EXPLOSION.

YOUNG V. THE INHABITANTB OE THE HUNDRED OF
OSSULSTON, MIDDLESEX.
- .

This was • special case stated by order of Mr. Justice
Willes, without plesdinp, and it raised the question
whether or not the sufferers by the Clerkenwell explosiou,
which took place on the afternoon of the 13th December
last, were entitled to compensation from the Hundred of
Ossulston, in the county of Middlesex, for the injury they
bad sustained in their person and property.
Mr. Poland anal Mr. A. Galway appeared to argue on
behalf of the plaintiff ; Mr. Joseph Browne, Q.C., and
Mr. A. Channell appeared for the inhabitants of the
Hundred.

The action wu brought under the 7 and 8 George Iv.,
31, which is an amending and consolidating statute,
pertly limiting and partly extending the old remedies
under the Black Act, the 9th George 1., and other
statutes. The second section, upon which the case timed,
enacted that if any church, chapel, house, shop, building,
&a., should be feloniously demolished, pulled down,
or destroyed, wholly or in part by any persons riotously
and tumultously assembled together in every such case
the inhabitants of the Hundred should be liable to
give full compensation to the person or persons damnified
by the offence. The plmntiff was the lessee and
occupant of two houses in Corporation-lane, immediately
contiguous to the scene of the explosion, and he chimed
damages for the destruction or partial destruction of those
houses and the implements of trade and furniture thetein.
The question now raised for the decision of the court was
whether the demolition or partial demolition which oc-
curred was a felonious demolition brought about by " pei-
sons riotously and tumultuously assembled together."
The court, without calling upon the counsel for the de-
fendants, gave a unanimous judgment in favour of the
defendants.

The Lord Chief Baron said it was perfectly clear that
the act committed was neither a riotous nor a tumultuous
proceeding, and it would he • perversion of the atatute
to so describe that which was clandestine and secret. They
would manifestly, by holding that the action could be
sustained act contrary to what wu the well understood
meaning of the statute.
Baron Martin observed that the object of the statute WAS
evidently to throw upon the Hundred the duty of put.
tingonown riots.
Pigott said that the terms "riot" and " tumult
were well known to the criminal law, and until the squib
which led to the explosion was lighted there was nothing
to inspire terror.
Mr. Browne—The question was raised for the purpose
of ascertaining whether the unfortunate sufferers by the
explosion are entitled to compensation from the Hundred'
It they are not, they may urge their claims on the govern.
ment and I hope with success.
Judgment was then entered for the defendants.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
NrSHET r. MUSHIT.
This part-heard case was resumed this morning, and the
evidence of Dr. Mushet, in reply to the charges of emelt)
and adultery, was completed. The trial is likely to last
the greater part of the day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
MIL COMMISEIONER 0017LBCIIN.
It is not true, as stated in some of the papers, that Mr.
Commissioner Goulburn has sent in his resignation.
He bus been a commissioner 24 years. On Monday
his oases were disposed of by Mr. Commissioner Winslow;
and to-day Mr. Registrar Haslitt sat as commissioner
under authority conferred on him for that purpose, is
pursuance of the provisions of the act, and disposed of a
long list of eases. Mr. Hazlitt will continue to sit for
Mr. Goulburn until some other arrangement is made.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN RE PETO, BETTS, AND CRAMPTON.
The hearing of this case was resumed by adjournment
from Wednesday last.
Mr. Maynard appeared for th• assignees ; Mr. Linklater
for the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company ;
Mr. Munns for coeditors ; and Mr. Lawrence for the bank.

.Thelrice7Chaneellor said he did not consider the letter '
to be of an " every-day " character. Me examination of Sir S. M. Pen by Kr. Linklater was
Mr. Matthews said he quite understood his Honour's continued. He said that in April, 1864, he applied to the
view. It did seem to have been written for a purpose. finance committee of the railway for 75,00 W. debentue
But how were its terms consistent with the state of mind bonds to deposit wall the bankers, and other 100,0001 of
imputed to Km. Lyon ? Then come the Ilth of Onto- debentures to deposit with the Imperial Mercantile
her. As to that, let the plaintiff's two statements be Finance Company, and that application was acceded to.
compared ; and in pegging he would remark upon the The subscription contract was dated on the 16th April,
plaintiff's sense of the comic in describing the *Una. of 1864, only four days before his application. He knew that
raps upon the cab. Every circumstance in the story was the company was not then in a position to issue dam•
incorrectly told, and the remark was important, se showing tares, but applied for them in the event of their
that the whole account was cunningly devised to represent being issued. The capital necessary to authorise the
a poor deluded creature led about with hereyes blinded. issue of debentures, 425,000 t., could only have been sub.
Then there was the talk with Mr. Taylor. which scribed by some arrangement with the bankers, and by his
she denied; and the talk with Mr. Backbones, firm providing it. He did not trouble himself about how
which she denied. If her story in these portion- the matter wee to be carried out, but left it to Mein.
tars wag untrue, so much the worth for Mrs. Lyon. Freshfield and Newman, the solicitors of the corn.
No doubt this was an unprecedented gift ; and it was pany, to satisfy themselves that the requirement,' of
to cost about for some reason why she should the act had been complied with. tin Chliadis'
nine= this extraordinary bounty. Here wee a woman, who occupied a responsible pied= in his firm,
possessed of 150,000 i., living in lodgings at 30s. a week, held the signature of the firm. lie had *gni
without servants of her own, her property fast a receipt on 22nd April, 1864, for a sum of 429,700 t., in
accumulating with no purpose' of be-neat or ad- payment for works on the Eastern Extension. That
vantage to herself • with no associates but was part of the means by which they expected to raise dm
Mrs. Pepper, Mrs. Sims,. and the rest ; loving a bustling capital. On the same day, 22nd April, receipts weref3Yet
situation, but leadinga lonely and useless life ; with a strong by Mn. Johnson, secretary of the railway comPaty. f?(
imagination and warm feelings. Becoming interested in 214,0001. and 213,0001. from his firm as depoli& and in
Home, through Mrs. Burn's description, she sought him payment of calls. He was ill at the time, and the
out and had en interview with him. All her life long she business was nucleated by Mr. Christian. He was the
had desired to adopt somebody. His learned friends able to say whether this exchange_ of reoeipts was made
denied this ; but be (Mr. Matthews) referred to instead of passing the cheques. He was told that Mr.
the vision, and to Mn. Lyon's intentions towards Newman preferred that it should be done in that way.
like Henning, as avidness of the fact. Hone The ch ues were not used.
was young, of not =pleasing =paean* had an Mr. C • • They were never signed.
natio friends and anootations, and a romintio air of Sir M. Pete said he knew a fortnight afterwarde that the
mystery about his life. What mere probable than that she receipts had been used to get the megistrate's certificate
should entertain a moat natural, and be (Mr. Matthews) that half the capital had been paid up. Before applY4
would unaffectedly add, a most =blameable affection for : for the dtures on the 20th April, 1864, be had °OP
him ? Nov, it was pomade for • person to forget the dna 1 tiated fora ken on them with the Union Bst
o( fa letter ;it was ponible, by some subversion of the brsir, ! When he knew the circumstances under wig
not to detect communications " smelling " so to speak of ' the debentures had been issued he did not oommuoicats
fraud owes; to the glamour thrown before the eyes ; but it i them to his bankers. On the 6th of May, 1864. he_,,rjte
was incredible that llirs. Lyon should have forgotten the to Mr. Johann requerling an °canny of Atm' I
affection that once existed in her heart. Her demonslia- nature bonds for som other neuritic* which he held 0
tions were public, notorious, and were offensive to by- the company. He alio moon to doubt that the cos.
standees, as the evidenee abundantly showed. =nag pan was then in a position to nue the ht!"'
of the stringed bad been
°this thei.arn
ansedwarMinds. Did wiarti4r4thcate pereget cit.arinthPusigese eon- : giveaihat r was"Egindtheih7:roperm .olithealeoureet°6l . obfgyagthetherwelatcoilirnedtstracbetf 0,11
stroetion of an imputatim of a criminal &moor?! 31st March, 1864,1ds firm WM to be paid secorditt to .
Wee the impunities justified ? [Mr. Matthews read the amount of work certified by Mr. Turn en, the Min r
rpestengeieved
to in 1 Mawr&
exLyzam's
tikeattervaiwhitha=thasibebeenbatedso efteekim, ,
doOthwise 12th
15,May0001.hoie certifies. e4lretawicht the
Etlittio/ anolo,uantedtkeeiu;
that ne did not like him ; that was a maternal propriety He ot the Crystal Palace line. At that timelL.l3.!
Mr. Mathews) did net mama any im : rend the 75,0001. of debentures and the 50,Outt: 7
to the *lntl ; but he did shy that such a szehange for provisional bonds of some other nae.
tnia of thought met have pawed through her aria
boa avers thee the eeespeer wee not autharues to
alai' Was it then "just, druid! er foul— 1 aoplythe capital of the outran notion to anyotherpurr:
the sospaileo that something el the sort was felt at • Tlie proposed exchange was only carried out to the e
.. t
whesqueth dist. assidarlai the *video's al the brokers of 5,0001 At a general moth, of the company, :11.7
taa,..._ otittit... i WW Mrs iduire age wee, be (Mr. Mat- 12th Ociebea, 1866, be made • statement as to-th . . one
sms,.. mil TIA not knew. Pie Wlll P0L48"2: ennantht on la which the debentures of the Eastern section had nee
to take the
1.• 811.0.11tE trt tf thin
iv the plaintiff, lessed, and odd that hie firm the od to
wherrea fa thwth,Wathnlitha bY*vont,' blame ef any krepthritY that Om/ le2:rwiledmi which
ihrthi .)Theopthetra
460 sod feel& bt make good soy mai &ha& might be incurred, for
mil=4:gbdisaaro„,..kb. (arad.4.lll46hmia.a., mesa- thrilwlllitaa=l.llLuarplh::. turned oat to be a
.railiake.
etatatkaa =alit =.lllll_,—___‘,... ----oa_ —_,_—_,,r-v, twhowas Sir S. X. Pete said it had, but he was Justified
.i,
to- Yrarame—at Maley soarbedm."..'thei should ha."7e'Cllretbee".7l ..dmakingiu.th,.° N.:re:dell et the
hule time, of im—ngm"'"!
ot Yr beateetiag this beeleldlillin him. sums owing by the company to his firm, and had uMwt;:
(rh• adzes Tr less this report left] ea Mr. Novae& the reapthdbility of Pasting the rtww

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At that time nothing was dna to his firm for works on the
gmtern If the receipt was not a false receipt,
it would be true that Ids firm had received 429,0001. ot.
geount of works. on the Eastern Section. It was
sot NI. receipt, but was given in ant=
of p.iymonts ; and the receipts on the
itioc
ide were given tuautielpition of work to be done. There
re, bp Mae receipts. The whole amount of work dew,
two beginning to end, under the Eastern section contrast,
ass 59,411/. The loan by the Union Bank of 75,0001. OR
dekutures was apied for their own purposes. In July,
im,t, the company obtained power to raise further capital
for the Eastern Section and other works. They were ea-
rwaed to raise 2211,0001., and borrow 75,0001. Rewslm
em-
tire for this purpose were passed at • meeting in August,
Ijol. He and bill partners, Mr. Betts and Mr. Cranipion,
sots for this capital in Septetribee. 1904.
(The case was prooeeding when ear report left.]