Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

FRAUD AND FORGERY AGAIN.

Another a Milton has within the last few days been made to the
number of cases of gross fraud which are gradually bat surely under-
mining that high character upon which as a nation we have so long
prided ourselves. The canker of dish meaty app ears to be spreading
among all classes, the banker, the religious man, the merchant, and
the tradesman, and boards of directors hnVe already fernishe I their
illustrations of the laxity of commercial morality. In the person of
Mr. Dean, a solicitor of King's Bende.walk, the legal profession has
now a represeatetive ite the galiery of m .dery rogues. The facility
with which extensive fraud, may be carried on is one of the most
remarkable features of the present day. The pro nice of a high rate
of interest, and the hope of 'a-ge profits, woul 1 seem to have the
effect of completely destroyine that caution and prudence which one
might expect to see Elise's el in important monetary and other tran-
sactions. A plausible case and a bland look wins its way to the
pockets of capita'ists and th t coffers of b inks, provided always the
advance required be something con iderab'e. He who wants but a
moderate amount of assistance, and offers only a fair return, must
not expect aid from the managers of joint stock beaks, or more than
empty sympathy from the capitalist. The man of humb'e require-
ments, to whom even a temporary loan might be of ince eatable
advantages, has constantly the mortifizatio aof seeing his neighbour
apparently enjoying the utmost extent of prosperity, and revelling
in the orjoyment of boundless wealth; bat in vary many cases he has
nut long to wait before he witnesses the collapse of these magn fi emit
butilles, and Dean Paul, and Redpath and Dean, stand be-ore the
world in their true colours. We pity tine widow and the orphan who
are the unzonscious victims of sues frauds ; but fur the capitalist and
banker who fail to exercise the visilaucto of men of business we have
no sympathy. The facts of the case connected with Mr. Dean appear
to be that for years past he has been in the habit of obtaining large
sums of money from his bankers, and from capita iits, on tins depo it
of forged deed', purporting to be mo'tgages of freehold property.
To such an extent has this system bean carried on, that for several
years it is stated he has been in the habit of paying as much as £3,000
a year in the shape of interest on the advances which he had obtain. d•
Already forged deeds to the extent of .460,053 have been discovered'
and there is reason to believe :hat the whole extant of the frauds has
not yet been fully ascertained. The most intimate f:iends and rela-
tives of the abscond ng defaulters are, we regret, among those who
are the greatest sufferers by his friends. Title deeds of property
which had been left by several of his clic: its in ihe han Is of Dean
have been made away with in several instances ; and, it is needless to
say, that greet distress has bean caused by has fraedalent conduct.
The defaulting solicitor lived near Barnes Comm an, and the whole
of his goods and effeets have been seized under a bill of sale, and will
be sold in a few days. 'Ste proceed. wll not, however, it is expected,
cover the amoant for what the seizure has been made. Since his
disappearance he has been adjulged and declared• a t anerupt as a
" money scrivener," and it is net improbable that the vallity of the
bill of sale may be diseuted by the assignee; under bardsruptcy.
Warrants for the appreaeesion of Dean hive been placed in the
ha•ads of Insp.ctor Field, and there is so reason to doabt that, aided
by his colleague and ass stems, he w 11 very shortly succeed ha supply.
ing another pa tner to the firm of `• Paul, Rea'path, Robson, and Co."
Printed copies of a photograph cf the defaulting solicitor have ben
made In large numbers. Judging from this portrait, De in is a man
of strong reas vning powers, and certain'y does not appear to be a
man naturally disposed to crime. He has a bro d expansive forehead,
an eye of considerable intelligence, a mo 1,..h such as physiognomists
would say would indicate firmness, and decision of character. Ilia
general cast of feature, is such as in the pinatas mini would be asso.
elated with th s idea of as" serious" or religious character. laspector
Field i a we understand, personally acquainted with Dean, and with
the assistance of the numerous phatoarap's, which h ava been very
generally distributed, it is im?ossit)le, to suppose that the de :miter
can long escape detection. After he had absconded, he was traced to
the Eel Pie House at Twickenham, whe •e he re nained fur several
days, and when ca'.led upon to settle his acceent he gave a check
upon his bank. which has not been paid. On leaving his home he
had but a comparatively small sum in his possess Ron, rot more than
250, which it is said was adv ince 1 to him the p evioua day by a
friend in order to enable Wine() meet an accepta Ice then due. Dean
has fur nearly thirty years practised as a solicitor. He has left a wife
without any apparent means of support. The husband of his only
daughter is among those who are the sufferers, he huving advanced
several thousand ',minds on ono or more of the numerous forged
deeds prepaa ed by the' defaulter.—Observer:

It is with much regret that we have to announce the
sudden death of Mr. E I ward Lansdale, the eminent
surgeon, whe died on Fiid iy from rupture of a blood
vessel, at his house in Montazse-street. This gentian in
was the son of the distinguished artist whose paintings are
still admired by the cannoissi urs of the present day
Mr. Edward Lensdale was greatly respec!ed by the medical
profession, and had contributed largely to the literature of
orthopmlia surgery, and thrown much light on the general
subject by many papers and lcc'ures scattered through
professional periodicals. His sudden death will be lamen-
ted by a large circ'e of friends and aegis iintauces, by whom
he was beloved and esteemed for manliness of character,
urbanity of manners, and attractive sscial qualities. By
his death vacancies eesur in the snrgeoncy to the Oaho-
roe lic Hospital and to the Artists' Benevolt-nt Fund.
A FCLIOOL OF COOKERY.—We willingly dircet attention
to an institution, recently e,tablished by a committee of
ladies, for the purpose of imparting this knowledge to
the poo-. It is proposed also to instruct girls desirous of
becoming cooks, or to teach those already so employed ;
and especially to educate those qualifying as pure, s in the
preparation of articles of diet for the sick. The present
situation of this "School of Cookery" (°or that is the
title) is 190, Albany-street, Regeas's-park. The articles
of food prepared in the kitchens are sold to the poor et
little more than cost price, whilst regular customers can
have their children taught the eletnen.s cf cookery and
the first principles of housewifery gratis. The laudable
efforts of the society will be grea ly assisted by persons
ordering dishes even of the most elaborate kind for their
own tables. There is a clause in the prospectus particu-
larly addressed to the profession, and which we trust may
induce practitioners to assist so praiseworthy an institution.
It states that " orders from medical men will be received
and the food sent to them if requireti,"--- Ike Lancet.

DREADFUL COLLISION' IN THE CHANNEL AND
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

Under the above head, we yesterday published a brief
account of the loss of the Dutch steamer Elophia, having
been run down off Dungeness by the William Hutt. Tee
following has been gattered from the statement of the
survivors, who were landed at Dover, and have been
forwarded to their destinations by the Dutch Coesul:—
, The Sophia was a fine screw steamer of 600 tons
!earthen, and had a crew of 19, including the commander,
Captain Von Knappen. Her engineers end stokers were
English, natives of Bristol. Laden with a valuable cargo
she left t :erdam at five o'clock on Thursday evening for
Bristol. The night was dark and somewhat s:ormy with
rain, but all went well until about a quarter past one on
Friday morning, when she was about six miles off Dunge-
ness pursuing her usual course down Channel. The capteer,
who had his wife on board, was below at the the time ; Mr.
Eta, the chief mate, had charge of the watch on deck; he was
on the forecastle deck, and a Bristol pilot named George
Berry was at the wheel. she was steaming at fall speed,
at the rata of 81 knots an hour, when a steamer was sad •
denly observed approaching her about three times her own
length off on the port bow. The mate ins'antly called out
for the helm to be put "port, hard a-port,"- and ran aft to
see that it was dbne so. Before there was time, however,
for bar to answer her helm the ships came together with
tremendous force. The approaching steamer, which proved
to be the William Hutt, a powerful screw collier,
bound to Shielde, from Have, came stem cets, and
struck the Sophie on the pott side between the fore
bulkhead and foremast cutting her down below t 1 ee water
line. The shock pro4uced the greatest dismay among
those on board, and all who were asleep below rushed up '
on deck. It was soon, discovered that the Sophie was
rapidly filling, but for some two or three minutes after
the collision she was kept steaming ahead at her full
power, the order for her to stop not having been given.
Mr.. John Sambrook, the chief engincee, perceiving the
vessel was settling down,. then acted upon his own
responsibility, and stopped' the engines. The mischief,
however, had been done. The connecting pipe of the
ballast tanks at the bottom of the ship was broken by the
shifting and working about of the tanks, and the water
thus, found its way from the fore compartment into
the engine-room and after-part of the vessel. The
Sophie had two quarter boats a d a long boat. It is stated
that the latter was lashed up endways by the foremast,
and therefore very difficult to get clear. It is asserted, how-
ever, that had anything like prompt (triers been given, the
lashings might easily have been cut, and the boat got over
the ship'a side. The captain was appealed to by the
enginefr, but the coufasion still prevailed, and every man
was Looking out for the best chance to save himself A rush
was made to the starboard quarter boat, and four of the
hands got into it, but in loweric gher sbe was dashed against
the side of the now rapidly sinking steamer, and
seriously stove. The men then got out of her' • and made
for the other quarter boat. In all, 19 got into
lea iucladiog the captain, his wife, a female passen-
ger, and Berry the pilot. As they were about to lower it
the ropes were found ti be secured to the davi.s Just at
this critical moment the bow of the steamer was seen to
getdually disappear under water, and before there was
time to get the ropes clear the ship went down, drawing
with her the boat and the whole of her unhappy occu-
pants. Oaly seven of them were saved. Milson, a
stoker, on coining to the surface of the water, was seized
by the captain's wife, who held on to his jacket with a
deathlike grasp. Th 3 poor fellow could not swim, and,
as her weight was dragging him down, he contrived to
loosen her grasp, and she disappeared. He' then
managed to get hold of an oil cask, upon which he floated
some twenty minutes before he was pinked up. Rex,
another of the crew, saved himself, with a dog, upon
a piece of hatchway, and others were preserved by
clinging to pieces of bulwark. The remaining four
survivors, Sambrook, ihe engineer, Ets, the mate, Morgan,
the second engineer, and Vincent, the stoker, took to the
disabled quarterboat just as the vessel was sinking. The
boat, however, was filling with water, and they expected
every moment to share the same fate as their unhappy
sh'p, They took off their clothing and stuffed it in the
holes which had been stove, and so kepi her afloat until
they were picked up by a boat from the William Hatt.
The latter brought up within 150 yards of the Sophie,
and immediately sent her boa's to the aid of the
crew, Owing to the darkness whch prevailed, it was
some 20 minutes or half an hour before the tshole
of the survivors were picked up. The William Hatt
remained near the spot for some time afterwards,
in the hope of rescuing more of those on board the
phie, and then continued her course to the Downs,
where the survivors were put on board a Dover pilot boat
and landed at Dover at 7 o'clock on Friday morning.
Tne William Hutt sustained serious damage to her stem,
and her fore compartment was reported to be full of water.
Very fortunately she was light. Hai she been loaded the
probability is that she would have gone down with the
Sophie. The names of the survivors are John Sambrook,
chief engineer ; Mr. Eta, mate ; Morgan, second engineer ;
Milson, stoker ; Rex, seaman ; Vincent, stoker ; Breeden,
seaman; Hargen, seaman ; Van Nauten, seaman; Croan, sea-
man; and PajeTsk;, seaman. The late engineer's wife, who
was drowned, was on her way to Bristol to endeavour to
obtain the release of her husband, who is in pison with
the old crew on some charge of smuggling. Nose of the
bodies have yet been washed ashore. •

CLOSE OF THE AR 7-TREASURE; EX MBITION.—The
Committee of the Ar-Treasiires Exhibition have resolvA
to close it on the 15,h Oc'ober next.

The accounts from the south of Russia represent the
harvest rouad the Sea of Anil as wonderful, and that
Be dians't is likely to take away much of the trade of
UdEssa.

TIIE LATE EARL (F CORK —The late General the Earl
of C irk is said to have bequeathed the large sum of
3,200 to the different charitable institution; of Cork, aild
to the poor of the several p rishes in that city.
Ti I: NEW Law RELATING TO Basxs —ACCOrlitig to
the new act (20 and 21 Vie., c. 42), no existing or future
banking company is to be registered as a limited company.
A local paper states the.' the name of Mr. John Frost,
the chartist, anti ex-Mayor of Newport, apVtars on the
Town-hall door, as claiming to be restored to the list of
freemen for the borough.
Most of the Ministers are expected to arrive in town in
a day or twa, a Cabinet Council having been summoned
by the Prernier, to meet in the early part of the week.
Lord Stanley of Alderley has been visiting Lord Pannaure
Irtvermark, Brichin, and returns to town with his lord-
slip. Mr. Secretary Labotorhere arrived in town yesterday.
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to arrive
to-morrow. Lord Palmerston is already is town.
Cowman:v. AssaaraT UPON A CLEaGYMAN AT A RAIL-
WAY STATION.—OR TiltltSday last, white the REV. T. M.
Morrow, of Muckamore, was in tie act cf getting a ticket
at the Antrim railway staticl, for Danadry, by the up
mid.day train, a fellow called Can. M'Qiillao, son to a
butcher of that name in Antiitn, attacked him with great
vialenea, striking him in the face, cutting him severely,
Igo e sing several of his teeth and stunning him so that he
had anao t faller. Mr Morrow at once called upin
raitway officials to take hold of him, as a matter of duty,
but they would not do so ; and, as the train was just about
to leave for Balfas:, MtQuillan got into a third class
carriage. Mr. Marrow applied to George J. Clark, Esq.,
J P., who was at hand, and would at once have issued his
warrant f r M`Qaillan's apprehension, only for the dn..
culiy of having it execu'ed, as one of the railway parties
had told Mr. Clarke's son that TrloQuillan was on his
say to Liverpool to embark for Australia. Acting on Mr.
Clarke's advice, Mr. Morrow returned to.the railway station,
to aFeertaia from the parties whether M‘Qoillan was really
coin;to' Australia. They not only denied having said so
to young 141,-. Clarke, bat declared that they bad not oven
heard where he was going. As to the reason of this das-
tardly attack, it app-stra that. during the months of May
and Jane, several very extensive cockfights were hal near
Gie,,,osy's Lane ends, in the parish of Killead, and about a
mile from Mr. Morrow's residence. These were conducted
by parties from Antrim and elsewhere. amounting to
several hundreds, having whiskey, tents, &c., as in a fair.
Mc. Morrow. having been apprised of the last fight, which
was to take place on the 221 d June, wrote forthwith
for the Antrim constabulary, bat they not having come,
Mr. Morrow went to the place himself, sad, as 'public
and personal duty, endeavoured, but without success, to
put a stop to the cruel and barbarous proceedings. Mr.
Morrow was afterwards very active in getting a large
number of the parties brought bef.re the bench in Crumlin,
where, by the exertioJs of the seticitors of the Belfast Anti-
Cruelty Society, twenty-s's of the leaders were convicted
and a large sum levied off them by way of fines, one of the
parties so fined being Con. MtQuillan. Since the convic-
Ufa several parties have been heard to threaten Mr.
Morrow with a beating should they ever get him into their
power, When Mr. Morrow arrived at the Antrim station
on Thursday he saw at the furthest end of the platform
several of the cock-filth era ; he obfertied one of them
painting him out to those teat were with him, and then the
whole party left the platrorna and entered the third-class
waiting room, were M'Quil'an was. Meanwhile Mr.
Morrow seeing the mitaucevre and dreading they were
about no good, went into the b,aoking-office till - the traia
• should arrive, and a few minutes after, when the train had
just reached the station, M'Qaillian rushed in and made
the cowardly attack, and then made off to the third•class
carriage, where, it is said, he changed his clothes with
some one in the carriage in order to escape identification.
Had such an attack been made on a Popish priest by a
Protestant there is not a corner of the land in which it
would not have been held forth as an example of Protestant
intolerance and bigotry.--Z 'elfast News Latter.

THE RECENT GREAT BANK FAILURES.

LONDON & EtSTERN BANKING CORPORATION
ROYAL BRITISH, & TIPPERARY BANKS.

THE LONDON AND EASTERN BANK,

On Saturday a meeting was advertised to take place at
the chambers of Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood,
for the purpose of hearing all parties on the petition
" presented for the dissolution and winding-up of the London
and Eastern Banken Corporation, but it appears that, to
suit the convenience of all parties, the hearing of the
petition has been adjourned to Mo day, 21st inst., when
it will come before Vice-Chancellor W..od speeially at
Ipe ich It may be mentioned that this is the first case
of the kind where a company formed for commercial
purposes in British India has been brought under the
operation' of the English winding-up law, and a question
is likely to be raised as to whether a c impany constituted
for trading purposes in India is ameneb!e to the Joint-
Stock Companies Winding-up Act, although that act
contains a proviso that every trading corporation, whose
place of business is in the British dominions,• comes
within lei scope ; albeit, its business is conducted in any
of our territories abroad. The places of business of the
L-tndon Worn Banking Corporation were as follows:
Council- street, Calcutta; Forbes-street, Bombay; Cannon-
street, London; Wes bourne-place, 20, Pall-mall, and 44-,
Mark-lane. 'l he corporation, as it appears from the nfficial
list of shareholders, c insisted of 0 pr )prietors. Of this
number ne fewer th'n 27 were mejors and lieutenant-
colonels in the East India Comp sn:,,z's service, resident at
home and abroad; 20. naive merchants, 2 local judges,
and the remainder (between 30 and 40) resident in
England and India- It will be necessary, as there are so
many shareholdertrresident in India, to appoint a windings
'up agency in that country in connee ion with the one
in this, which will tend to inerea'e the expanse and
inconvenience in connection wi h the winding-np. Should
the Vice-Chancellor- issue an order deeNring that the
corporation is to be wound up is Chanceryi that operation
will in all probability be conducted by Mr. R. P. Harding,
who has had the carriage, under similar circumstances,
of the affairs of the Royal British Bank. It has been
suggested that the affairs of the London and Eastern
Banking Corporation should be thrown into balleruptcy,
and if this were to be dine there would be a repetition of
pree'ely the same unFeenely collision between the jurisdic-.
tion of the C urts of Chancery and Bankruptcy that
occurred in the case of the Royal British Bank; thereby
doubling the cos's of winding-up, to be paid by the
unfortunate shareholders, to the advantage, wholly and
solely, of the lawyers concerned. Toe knowing circular
has been issued to the shareholders during the week by
certain solicitors:—

" 25, Throgmorton-streef, London, 4th Sept., 1857-
"Sin : You will doubtless have been informed by the
public papers, that a peition has been presented to the Court
of Chancery, for the winding up of the affairs of the Lando&
and Eastern Banking Corporation. We are informed that
this step has been taken from •a strong' conviction that it is the
only course by which the shareholders can have justice done
to them, and by which they can secure au equal contribution
towards the liabilities, and a strict and impar ial investigation
into the transactions of ihe direo one which have broug it the
hank into its present pasition.. We have long since been
instructed by the agents of several shareholders resident
abroad. to adopt active measures to protect their interests;.
and' although we did not think it expedient to allow our
clients to be the petitioners to the Court or Chancery, we
are nevertheless fully satisfitd that a step in the right &readmit
has been. taken. Experience his- taught us.that it would be
impossible to obtain an equal vo'untar contribution from a
large body of shareholders ; that the only result of such an
attempt would be to throw the whole of • the liabilities upon
the willing portion of the shareholders; and that without the
coercion of the Court of Chancery, a large number would alto—
gether escape from contributing. The effect of such an at-
t-mpt would he to extract forthwith from the pockets of the
willing, shareholders heavy calls on their shares, leaving them
at the same 'time still ,expose.d to legal proceedings on the
part of ;the creditors, and with. the certain prospect that
aLer all they would be driven into the Court of Chancery
to obtain an equal and just contribution from tho e who
would otherwise avoid making any pap] err. Without the
aid of the strong arm of ,he law, it would also be impos—
sible to obtain a strict and searching investigation into the
transactions of those by whom the affairs of the bank have
been conducted,. and if it should he discovered, as there
is grave reason to suspett, that the funds of the bank have
been irregularly dealt with, it is only by the aid of the
Court of Chancery that the shareholders can compel the
persons, responsible far such transactions 'o refund any
moneys improperly applied, and prevent the whole of the
heavy liabilities of rho bank from falling on the innocent
shareholders, Upon an older being made for the dissolu—
tion and winding on of the bank, we think that the share—
holders will be best p-otected by appinting independent
gentlemen as official managers''
On Saturday it was understood, that another 'director, a.
_ .

large shareholder, is absent. It is stated on the one hand
that the bank is only carrying on business nominally int
Threadneedle-street, where the London offices btive been
removed, and on the other that it is transacting no busi-
ness whatever beyond that of prep iring itself to be wpund
up. It is stated that the bank has hitherto been reeeivitag-
pecuniary assistance from the Oriental Bank on certain
termi, but that, in consequence of the improbability of the
calls not being responded tom, and the non-.ealleation of the.-
Eecurities, the Oriental Bank row hesitate to render
farthrr assistance. It is rumoured that it was at one time
in contemplation by the Oriental BaLk to purchase the-
business of the London and Eastern, and the circumstance
of their rendering this assistance somewhat favours the
assumption as to this being the ulterior object intended.
some of the shareholders, it is said, have given promissory
notes in payment of call 4, but it is questionable whether,
when the time comes, if these notes will be honoured.
The liabilities, as far as can yet be ascertained, amcunt to
about a quarter of a million, exclusive of securities.