The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-21 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA

The British and North American Royal Mail
Steamship Company's steamer Asia, Captain Lott,
arrived in the Mersey this morning about three
o'clock, but up to the hour of our going to press we
had not received our usual papers and despatches

THE TIPPERARY BANK.-MR. JAMES

SADLEIR

On Friday last the Assize Commission for the County
of Tipperary, was opened at Cloumel, by the Right Hon.
Mr. Justice Moore. In his charge to the grand jury he
spoke as follows :—The calendar which has been presented
to me indicates the amount of the criminal business which
is to be transacted at the present assizes ; and, was it not
for a circumstance to which I shall presently advert, r
should not consider it necessary to trouble you with any
observations. Gentlemen, there are upon the calendar
only twelve cases for trial, and the crimes which are
imputed to the persons charged are not of a very aggra-
vated character. Gentlemen, the circumstance to which
I have already adverted is an intimation that has been
made to me of an intention upon the part of the crown
to lay before you an indictment against a person of
the name of James Sadleir. That person is not amen-
able at present ; but it is quite competent and
quite right of the clown to lay before a grand jury a
bill of indictment even when the person accused is not
present himself; or amenable at the time of the proceed-
ings carried on against him. You are, probably, aware
that the crime of conspiracy cannot be committed by a
single individual. Two, at least, must concur in the
commission of a crime of that description. No man cars
conspire with himself; and, in order to be guilty of the
crime of conspiracy, there must be two or more engaged
in seeking to effect one or more common objects. In the
present case the associate of Mr. James Sadleir, who is
charged by the indictment which will be laid before you,
is a person of the name of John Sadleir, I believe the
brother of James Sadleir, and they are charged with
having conspired together for the purpose of effectuating
the illegal purposes stated in the indictment, and to which
I may now call your' attention. You probably are aware
that the crime of conspiracy, which is the charge imputed
to James Sadleir, is of this nature—Whensoever two or more
enter into an agreement to effect an illegal object by any
means, whether legal or or whensoever two or
more enter into an agreement to effect a legal object and
purpose, to do so by illegal means, that constitutes the
crime of conspiracy, and, gentlemen, in order to constitute
the offence it is not necessary that the illegal design should
have been carried out. Having the illegal common object
of entering into an agreement to carry it out would con-
stitute the crime, although the conspirators never should
have succeeded in accomplishing their object. You are no
doubt well aware that there had existed in your county,
and up to a very late period of time, a bank which went
by the designation and name of the Tipperary Joint Stock
Bank. lam afraid that many of you have reason to be
aware of its late disastrous failure and of the stoppage
of the establishment, with its attendant ruinous re-
sults. It is alleged in the indictment which will be laid
before you that Mr. James Sadleir, being a director
and principal manager of that establishment, together
with John Sadleir, entered into an agreement to effect the
illegal objects which are stated in the different counts in
this indictment. Gentlemen, I need scarcely tell you that
if persons enter into an agreement or conspiracy, as it is
called in legal language, to defraud any portion of her
Majesty's subjects, not only in point of morality but
also in point of law it is an offence ; and alluding to the
abstract of the indictment, which appeared upon the
Crown book, these two gentlemen are charged with hav-
ing entered into a conspiracy to defraud various classes
of her Majesty's subjects, and they are publicly charged
with having done so by the concoction of false and
fabricated accounts and documents. Gentlemen,
it is not necessary for me to detail to you the
classes of persons whom they are alleged to have intended
to defraud. The indictment will be laid before you, and
you will see the classes of persons that are there enume-
rated ; and the question you will have to decide when you
come to consider the bill of indictment to be laid before
you, is whether you were satisfied upon the evidence that
those two individuals did enter into a conspiracy to
defraud any of the classes of her Majesty's subjects
mentioned in the indictment, and if you should come to
the conclusion that they did, it will be your duty to find
the bill.

The Grand Jury at two o'clock came into court, and
found a true bill.against James Sadleir on all the counts of
the indictment.

The following is au abstract of the indictment :
The first count charged that John Sadleir, the deceased,
and James Sadleir, on the 11th April, 1856, at Clonmel,
conspired by false pretences and subtle means and devices
to cheat such of her Majesty's subjects resident in Eng-
land, as they might be' able to induce to become share-
holders in the Tipperary Bank of large sums of money.
The second count was conspiring to cheat the English
parties by false pretences, that the paid up capital of the
bank was £100,000; that all the shares had been issued,
and were vested in bona fide shareholders, and that John
Sadleir and Robert Keating were then directors, they the
said John and James Sadleir well knowing the contrary to
be the fact.

The third count charged that John and James Sadleir
by false pretences conspired to cheat the depositors.
The fourth count alleged a conspiracy to cheat the
depositors by the publication of a false balance sheet,
falsely representing the paid up capital of the bank to be
£lOO,OOO.

The fifth count charged a conspiracy to cheat by false
pretences, that the bank was then solvent and able to
meet its engagements.

The sixth count was for a conspiracy, by false pretences
and subtle devices, to cheat the English shareholders of
large sums of money.

The seventh and eighth counts were also to the effect
that the conspiracy was entered into to cheat the English
shareholders, and the facts connected with the f.3.lsc
balance sheet were specially set out.

TROOPS FOR THE CAPE.—The steam transports Imperador,
Bahiana, and Cleopatra, will sail on the 24th of this month
with troops for the Cape. One will sail direct from Liver-
pool, and the others from Kingston, where their contingents
will be in waiting for them.
THE SEE OF BRISTOL.—At a meeting of the Dean and
Chapter of Bristol Cathedral, held on Friday morning, is
pursuance of her Majesty's conge d'elire, the Rev. Charles
Baring, M.A., was elected to the vacant see of Gloucester
and Bristol. . . _ .

—.—
MR. W. SMITH O'BRlEN.—Notwithstanding Mr. Smith
O'Brien's present determination to interfere no more ie
politics; it is believed that his admirers have determines
whenever the opportunity shall arrive no effort shall be
spared on their part to effect his return to parliament.
LORD HARDINGE.—The paralysis under which big
lordship is now suffering attacked the whole of his left
side, and he has, therefore, become perfectly helpless,
having lost his right fore arm. He is quite sensible, and
even cheerful, under the affliction.— United Service
Gazette.

REGIMENTS FOR THE CAPE.—The 13th Light Infantri
and the 89th Regiment will embark immediately for the
Cape of Good Hope. The 15th and 96th will replace
these corps at Gibraltar, from Ireland. Three splendid
steam ships have already been chartered by the Govern'
meat to convey the troops to the Cape.
CONVICTION OF A POOR LAW CLEna.—At the Limerick
Assizes, just terminated, the late clerk of the Crooto
Poor Law Union was put on trial by the Poor Law
Commissioners, convicted and sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for uttering 0
forged voucher when passing his accounts to Mr. Simme•
the auditor.

ATTACK ON A ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN. The
Belfast Mercury states that the Rev. Mr. M•Kay, parish
priest of Maralin, county of Down, while returning frog%
a confirmation by the Right Rev. Dr. Blake, was beaten
very badly by a body of men, said to be Orangemen,
within a short distance of his house, near Lurgan. The
injuries sustained by the rev. gentleman are said to be
very dangerous.
DINNER TO THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. —On Friday
afternoon a dinner was given, at the Tower, to the fiCIA
battalion of the Coldstream Guards, consisting of upwards
of 1,000 men. The entertainment originated from a desire
of the Duchess of Cambridge to welcome the men baeX
from the East, the late Duke of Cambridge having been
more than forty-five years colonel of the regiment. The
Duchess, Princess Mary, Colonel Upton, Colonel Drum'
mond, and many friends and relatives of the officers were
present. Her Royal Highness passed along the room
between the tables, and frequently conversed with the
men. Colonel Upton, in appropriate terms, proposea
The Health of the Duchess of Cambridge," and the tors
responded to the toast with enthusiastic cheers. The,
entertainment took place in the large room of the new
storehouse of the Ordnance Department, which was
tastefully decorated for the occasion. There were flags,
armour, &c., and Russian trophies from Alma, Inkerma°'
and the Redar.
ALARMING OCCURRENCE.—OR Saturday night, shortli
after ten o'clock, a most alarming occurrence took place
at the establishment recently taken in Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden, as the offices and board room of the newlf
elected Board of Works for the Strand district. The
premises in question are those which have been wed
known for many years as Ofiby's wine and spirit vaults'
and which have recently undergone much improvement'
and a great deal of beautifying. On the Strand Board 0,,
Works coming into possession, it was found necessary t
build a new party wall on the west side, and the worsj
which has been progressing for some time, was completer,
and the scaffolding removed. At the time mentioned 0A
Saturday night the whole of this party wall fell out wart:
with a tremedous crash, carrying with it the whole of thif,
remaining portion of the adjoining premises and levelling
it to the ground. A man named Pace, the porter to Of;
Board of Works, and his wife, occupy apartments in the
house, and at the moment of the occurrence Pace We'
standing at the door talking to the night watchrpan,es,
whilst his wife was in the lower part of the prows d
She, however, in a moment after the fall of the building'
r
made her appearance, and set the point at rest as to her
safety. The cause of the occurrence has not as yet beef
accounted for; but it is a remarkable fact that the SLOP('
Board met in the premises only on Friday eyening,
it is stated that there were from 60 to 70 members preset_
Had the event taken place at that time, there is no kW/
jug how serious the consequences might have been.