The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-01 00:00:00

Vol. Crawley and Sergeant-Major Wakefield.

Many of the circumstances connected with the
Management by Lieut.-Col. Crawley of the 6th In-
niskiiling Dragoons will be brought under the
notice of the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas in the course of the forthcoming
term, which will commence on Friday, the 15th
inst. The plaintiff in the case is Sergeant-Major
Wakefield, and the defendant Lieut.-Col. Crawley.
The proceedings out of which the action arose are
those which were immediately identified with the
11Ihow court-martial, and of which much was said
in the early stages of the court-martial on Lieut.-
Col. Crawley at Aldershot. Lieutenant-Colonel
Crawley was
appointed early in 1861 to the corn-
niatid of the Inniskilling Dragoons, then stationed
at Atnednuggur, in the Dewar. He introduced
some changes into the regiment, which soon became
broken up into hostile cliques. In less than a year
from the time Lieut.-Colonel Crawley assumed the
command Paymaster Smales was brought once be-
fore a court of inquiry and once before a court-
martial. At the latter trial, known as the Meow
court-martial, three non-commissioned officers who
Were to have given evidence were arrested by order
of Colonel Crawley and kept in close coofinment.
They were Regimental Sergeant Major Lilley,
Troop Sergeant Major Duval, and Troop Ser-
geant Major Wakefield. The first of these died,
and the latter is the plaintiff in the present
action. The action is brought by the plaintiff
against his late commanding officer for trespass
in causing him to be arrested and confined on
11 charge of insubordination, the second count alleg-
ing that the defendant caused the plaintiff to be so
arrested maliciously and without any reasonable or
Probable cause; and the third alleges that while the
Plaintiff was so under arrest, without reasonable or
prob4bie cause, the defendant, by false representa-
ti°"B, induced Major-Genera: Farrell, commanding
ther, Mho division, and Sir William Mansfield,
Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay army, to
aPprore of the arrest, and to order the plaintiff
,to be detained in prison, without bringing
jlizu before a court-martial, as he was bound
to do under the Mutiny Act. The plaintiff lays
his damages at £5,000. To this declaration
Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley has pleaded :-
1• h e general issue of " not guilty" to the whole of
the Counts, under the Mutiny Acts. To the count
en trespass he has pleaded a justification, to she
(frect that the plaintiff had been guilty of gross
inisconduct, of insubordination, and in other
Pecta of breaches of military discipline ; further, that
the defendant was justified as commanding officer
'a causing the plaintiff to be arrested and impri
tuned. 2. That the defendant was justified in de•
twining the plaintiff in prison under and by virtue
of the command of his superior officer, the command-
ing officer of the district (Major-General
.111 the 3d place, Lieut.-Colonel Crawley pleads
justification in detaining and continuing
the plaintiff in prison in virtue of the command of
General Sir William Mansfield, who was in com-
mand of the Bombay division of the army. To
cetic pleas the plaintiff has replied, taking issue on
T em as to matters of fact, and farther assigns that
Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley kept him in solitary
confinement, and on several occasions after his
arrest and without reasonable cause punished
iitn- To this part of the replication Lieu-
tenantl Crawley has demurred, and has also
Pleaded a special rejoinder that what he
did in causing the plaintiff to be arrested
41.1 d continued in imprisonment was done
bona fide in the discharge of his duties as com-
manding officer, and that if he did so wrongly it was
an error, and was not done maliciously, inasmuch
as he had acted throughout with a simple desire to
'Pon
and maintain the discipline of the service.
this issue has been joined. The demurrer is
set down for argument by the full court early in
Eastern term, and the cause itself will be heard by
Lord Chief Justice Erie at the sittings at, Guildhall
after Trinity term. Mr. Lush, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins,
QrC., and Mr. Prideeux are the counsel engaged
'°;" the plaintiff. Lieut.-Col. Crawley will be re-
Presented by Mr. M. Cnambers, Q.C., and Mr.

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COMMERCIAL ' INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Money is still in active request, and bankers and
bill brokers show no disposition to charge less than
the minimum quotation of the Bank of England for
the negotiation of short dated securities.

A further sum of £37,000 in gold was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday.
The Bank of England return for the week end-
ing Wednesday presents some unfavourable features.
The other securities, representing the discount
trancautions of the establishment, as well as the
notes in circulation, have been increased, while the
bullion shows a large reduction. The following is
our usual analysis :
Active Circulation ..
Increase ..
Bullion
Decrease ..
Rest

.. £20,409,525
.. 552,585
.. 14,163,519
.. 28.5,682
.. 3,884,915
11,353
.. 10,280,458
.. 439,135
.. 12,658,986
.. 178,832
.. 499,1 9
10,646
11,273,114
No alteration.
.. 22,199,370
.. 1,456,941
.. 6,650,530
.. 841,650

Increase ..
Public Deposits .. ..
Increase ..
Other Deposits..
Increase ..
Seven Day and other Bills
Decrease ..
Government Securities ..

Other Securities ..
Increase . •
Notes Unemployed ..
Decrease ..

A dividend of £3 per share, which is at the rate
°I. 21 per cent, per annum, will be proposed by the
directors of the Oriental Bank Corporation at the
"suing meeting of shareholders for the half-year
ending 31st December last.
rhe share list of the Central Argentine Railway
°l33PanY will be closed on Monday, April 4, for
44°13d00, and on the sth for the country.
The share list of the North Western Bank will
close 04 Saturday, April 2.
The operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
One Markets during the last few days have not
eh very extensive. Tea, however, has maintained
full
rates. Sugars have been neglected, while a
Moderate amount of business has been done in
wee, inferior qualities having declined 6d. per
tWt. In rice and fruit there has been very little
'change, while a steady business has been reported
On tal!ow for both present and forward delivery.

The London Financial Association has intro-
duced to the notice of the investing public the
Clyde Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Com-
pany, which proposes to purchase and extend the
twinbuilding business of Messrs. Smith and Rodger,
II! Glasgow. The arrangements for the transfer
'nelude the yard, engineering premises, plant, and
goodwill of the firm in question, and the purchase-
:lll,„"eY is to be paid partly in cash and partly in
49.13 - A London board has been formed to secure
eo'atracts, &a., in the metropolis. The capital re-
111''red is £500,000, the first issue of which is to con-
8141t of half the amount in shares of £5O each.
The European Central Railway Company with a
ZaYital of L 1,400,000, half of which is to form the
'st issue in shares of £4O each, has been projected
tr,3lthe Financial Corporation, for the purpose of
Jul structing a railway, under concession, across the
toeni ral division of the Swiss Alps, and developing
le greatest extent the commercial resources of
t:44itzerland, and adding to the facilities of dispos-
q!!f the produce of Southern Germany by means
et) ePorts of Leghorn Geneva, and Ancona. The
tt,,131.,ALY has secured the preferential right to ex-
rtt'i u their line to any junction with the system of
L7.,E1Y8 of Contral Europe whether at Lucerne
I;J°ltle- These undertakings, when completed,
htir fl'ect a saving of about 800 miles in the over
l(' route to India, Australia, &e., and make
til
lt,:i.P'rt of Brindisi the future landing stage for the
flails and passengers.
1,1,'L
lio 48 official returns relating to trade and naviga-
-119.4 for the two months ending the 29th February,
hao© Just been published, from which it appears
that the total declared value of tho exports from
.4
.a,)e United Kingdom for that period amounted to
°g 3'111,707f against £17,343,731 on the like period
Th 18631 showing an increase of £5,767,976.
increase has been most perceptible on beer
41.7._
_ale, coals and calm, cotton yarn, cotton
Inii4iractulsee, earthenware, haberdashery and
bar.,_:e_rY, hardwares and cutlery, linen manufac-
'4 British spirits, sheep and lamb's wool, and