The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

THAMES.

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER.—Patrick Driscoll, an Irish
labourer, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with
violently assaulting and wounding Henry Emmett.
The complainant, whose right arm was in an hospital
splint, and whose face was swollen and discoloured, said he
gave evidence against the prisoner and others for stealing a
small cask of wine from the London Docks. The prisoner
and another man were committed for trial. Tho prisoner
was acquitted and his confederate found guilty, and sena
tented to a long term of imprisonment. Since the trial
annoyances and threats had been made by the prisoner and
others. He understood a conspiracy had been formed to
murder him, Yesterday aftecaoon as soon as he loft the
London Dock a sudden attack was made upon him
by the prisoner, who struck him about the head with his
fist. He fell, or was thrown by the prisoner, and was
trying to get up when the prisoner kicked' at him fiercely,
and made several kicks at his belly and a more vital part
of his person. He called out for help. He could not get
up. His shoulder was dislocated.
Mr Paget—How was that ?

Witness—My arm was doubled under me when I was
thrown. He has been threatening my life since the trial.
I gave evidence against him at this court, and also at the
Sessions House. The man who was convicted said, "By
G—, when 1 come out, I'll murder you." I have been
given to understand my life was to be sacrificed for the
evidence I gave.

William Henry Emmett, the father of the last witness,
said the prisoner was standing at the side door of the dock
entrance when his son was coining out. He saw his son
on the ground and the prisoner kicking him.
Edmund Ellis, a constable in the service of the London
Dock Company, gave evidence of the facts relating to the
prosecution of the men for stealing an octave of wine. The
prosecutor was an accomplice, and allowed to give evidence
for the Crown.
Mr Nathaniel Hickford, house-surgeon of the London
Hospital, said the prosecutor was brought there yesterday
with a severe contusion over the right eye, and a disloca-
tion of the right elbow joint. One month would elapse
before the prisoner would recover the use of hie arm.
Mr Paget committed the prisoner for trial. •

At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of
the London and Westminster Bank, Mr. Alderman
Salomons, M.P., in the , .
_ chair, the report of the
c.Lo
ar
fst, e which
making sv as unanimously adopted, stated
provision for all bad and
the income tax, and setting
apart £2,000 towards the b Ad'
ui lags of the bank—
the net profits of the bank
ddthiorauetbtful debts, plying
3 ' a. This sum, added to
to that
e
f.. last half-year
£18,844125. `^i' the unappropriated balance of the
apal mmi6nsoos.auf7nnudtneodd
ahttoa
the
2er3ea4nt £234,032 33.
per cent.per ann'am (X 6,898
16s, sa. Out of this amount interest on the rest t,r sur-
amount to L252,87Q '
preceding half-year, would
_and, which now
were aware, an arranin,_ .
18—'' :flat. was entered into with
As the shareholders
Lh- d -11— Co,r a transfer of their
Messrst.e
business on the 18th of A
-.Pril last. The sum paid,
including their valuable freehold premises (at pre
sent temporarily used as
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the County Office), was
£187,500. The directors
now declare a dividend to
the shareholders at the rate of 6
per cent. per annum,
out of the profits,
asnbdobnyuswoafy olftfupretrheerendti.vuidneod
the paid-up capital.
The sum of £BO,OOO has been
Messrs. Jones Lloyd
appropriated in re-
adnudcticoon. ofAttfteeramthoeusnet
pPaayidinetourvtesz
were made there
of—fB433the present-half-
year.i 2519
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that
h.
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would remain raemmoauinntathbealdainrce
to £300,000.
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press their opinion
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loss a:should
balance
account
to the sum of
1.:500,000.

MANSION.HousE,—The Lord Mayor 6,nd the
Lady Ylayoress have invited her Majesty's Minis.
;.ers to a banquet, to be held on N\ ednesday, the 27th of
July, in the Egyptian-hall of the Mansion-house, For
some weeks the Lord Mayor has. been confined to the house
by the effects of an accident which occurred to him at the
Tunbridge railway st ition on his waY to town to attend a
meeting of the Court of Common Council. Yesterday, for
the first time, he was able to
,leave. his room to take the
chair at a Court of Aldermen at Guildhall,

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS or
1.4
N GL AN D.—
The following gentlemen pand physiologyas
sed their Primary exa-
minations in anatomyat a meeting of the
Court of Examiners on the 19th instant, and when eligible
will be admitted to the pass examination :—Messrs Alder-
son News.sm, R. R. S. C. C. Lloyd, J. D. Rowlands, and
W. i 3.. Pywell, students of Guy's llospital ; James Kelly,
tl}1•
li°
virucies,
J. 11. Quinn, Thomas Laflan, and G. N. Dunn, of Dublin;
W,Jc.h l\alroinugn-tearionsasniidolsVpi. B. ; Swann,r. svof Leeds; T. A. Tur-
ner,Edinburgh;
W. Y. Martin, Manchester ; James Wickham, Middlesex
Hospital; Richard Jeffreys, Sheffield; W. A, Creser, Hull;
W. B. Dawson, London Hospital; and J. M. Gibbes, St.
George's Hospital.
TIIE LIVERPOOL VOLUNTEERS .—A review of the
Liverpool volunteers is to be held on the Aintree Racecourse
on the 20th of August, the expense of which will be defrayed
by the Mayor, Mr Charles Motley.