The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN ILE JACOI3SON.

This bankrupt was described as of Houndsditch, whole-
sale clothier. This was an adjourned meeting for last
examination and discharge. The debts are stated at £928;
assets £6. The bankrupt had been subjected to severe
examination by Mr Treherne for creditors. The bankrupt
admitted that he had started with £6O or £7O, and he dis-
charged himself by debtors, from whom he could get no
returns—one having gone to the Old Bailey, another to
California, and others to unknown regions. In the course
of his examination he prevaricated, and on soma points he
was flatly contradicted by witnesses.
Mr tTreherne now further questioned the bankrupt,
and his Honour said that it would be quite out of the
question passing the bankrupt on such accounts, and the
case must be adjourned sine die, with liberty t9r the bank-
rupt to come when prepared.
Mr Treherne asked that it should be at the bankrupt's
expense, as th2re was not a farthing for the creditors.

His Honour assented.
The bank-upt applied for protection for two months.
A creditor, in person, thought it was such a case that the
Court ought not to grant protection.
His Honour granted protection for one month.
(Before Mr Registrar Murray.)
IN RE GEORGE MIDDLETON.

This bankrupt was described as of Hanover-square, Fen-
church-street, wine merchant, and this was a meeting for
choice of assignees, a deed of assignment for the benefit of
creditors having been set aside by the Lord Chancellor.
The debts are stated at £1,200, the assets depending on the
realisation of property.

Mr Hart (Lemon Hart and Son) and Mr Barnard, bottle
merchant, Paula-wharf, Thames•street, were chosen ap-

signees.

Mr. Commissioner Holroyd was the commissioner of the
day, but did not take his seat in Court until half-past 12,
delaying public business. The assistance of one commis-
sioner as commissioner of the day, would greatly facilitate
the business, and a paid messenger, as doorkeeper, would
keep the court in order.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,--This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

Walter Antrobus was indicted for forging and uttering
the names of certain witnesses to a deed and aftl lavit to be
used in the Bankruptcy Court.
The Solicitor General and Mr Sleigh prosecuted, and Mr
Begley defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 2d of June last two persons of the
names of Becker and Sack, who had been trading together,
wished to enter into a composition with their creditors, and
the prisoner, who called himself an accountant, undertook
to act and pass them professionally through the Bankruptcy
Court. Under the Act of 1861. certain deeds and affidavits
have to be executed and attest ed by a commissioner appointed
for that purpose. Oa the 2d June the prisoner attendtd at
the office of aMr Cox, a commissioner under the act, having
offices in Rood• lane, with Mr Sack, and asked him to wit•
ness the signature of the usual deeds, which were signed
by Becker and Sack, the latter only being present. Mr.
Carr objected to attest the deed, only one being present,
and Mr Becker's name was struck out, and Mr Carr signed
the deed. The prisoner afterwards waited on Mr Keen,
the Registrar in Bankruptcy, with the document,
and at that time the name of Becker had been
inserted, and the initials A. C. placed against the attesta-
tion representing that Mr Carr had attested Becker's sig-
nature. The affidavit was informal, and Mr Keen refused
to receive it, and said it must be resworn. The prisoner
left with the deed and affidavit, and in a very few moments
returned. Mr Keen told him he had not had time to go
to Mr Carr's, and the prisoner replied that he had met
him close by. Mt Keen still doubted the genuineness of
the signature and the initials to the name of Becker,
which had been inserted. 11e kept the document and com-
municated with Mr. Carr, and it was then ascertained that
the initials and the signature showing the affidavits had
been, resworn, were forgeries, and that the initials and sig-
nature was in the hand writing of the prisoner.

My. Carr and Mr. Keen proved the above facts.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The prisoner, who had been five weeks in prison, was
len sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with hard

labour,

Thomas Parker, 46, solicitor, but uncertificated, was
indicted for forging a petition to be used in the Cuurt of
Bankruptcy. The prisoner had used the name of another
solicitor to whom he occasionally sated as clerk.
The prisoner, by the advice of his counsel, pleaded
guilty.
The Solicitor-General thought justice would be satisfied
by the prisoner being called upon to enter into his own
recognisances to come up forjudgment when called upon.
Henry Minehin and Montgomery Somerville were in-
dicted for forging and uttering a cheque for the payment of
£ló, with intent to defraud the Union Bank of London.
The prisoner Somerville some time ago had been in the
service of a gentleman named Wilson, and whilst so en-
gaged he had means of obtaining access to his employer's
cheque book. The bank had paid on a former occasion a
forged cheque bearing the name of Wilson, and accordingly
means were taken to discover the persons who had committed
the fraud. On the 29th June the prisoner Minchin entered
the bank and produced a cheque for payment, signed by Mr
Wilson. The signature was a forgery, and Minchin was
given into custody. He said he received the document from
Somerville, and when he presented it at the bank he had not
the least idea it was a forgery.
The jury found Somerville guilty, and acquitted Minchin.
The Recorder sentenced him to five years' penal servitude.
Henry Knox was found guilty of robbing his employer
of a quantity of velvet and other goods.
The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment
and hard labour.

Herbert Thompson, a respectable looking lad, pleaded
guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing 192
silk handkerchiefs, the property of Mr Samuel Morley, of
Wood-street, t_ heapside.
The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment.

NEW COURT.
(Before Commissioner Kerr.)

George Smith was indicted for unlawfully having in his
possession a quantity of counterfeit coin.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment, with hard labour.

This morning the father of Mr. Alderman Rose
suddenly expired in a fit of apoplexy while journeying from
his suburban residence at Kennington to the City.
CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY.—A correspondent
ofi he Debuts, writing from Turin on the 7th, says:
Yesterday evening the Chamber discussed a measure
which has caused some emotion. The Minister
of War proposes to suppress absolutely the exemp-
tion from military service established in favour
of young men intended for the ecclesiastical pro-
fession. This rigorous measure is one of the
espisodes of the war which is taking place between the
Church and the State. It is impossible to regard it other-
wise. The war is unfortunate in itself ; and can lead to no
good. But its causes are so well known and so serious that
we cannot hope to see it cad quickly. The law was opposed
by an eminent man, Cesare Cantu, who is almost the only
representative in the chamber of the religious party. It
will, notwithstanding, be voted almost unanimously."
BLACKBURN.—In the union of Blackburn 5,292
persons were relieved last week, at n coat of £2Bl 16s. 3d.
against 6,148 persons and £2BO 9s. 7d. in the preceding year,

The strike of colliers at Langton and Fenton, and
of the ironstone getters at the Sneyd Green Colliery, con-
tinues, but at Ford Green 360 turn-outs had returned to
work at a reduction of 6d per day.

Most of the Paris papers, in commenting on the
recent debates,regard the retirement of Lord Russell
from the ministry as highly probable. The Opinion, in
quoting a despatch from the Correspondance Haves, prints
in italics the following lines :—" The programme which
Lord Palmerston's ministry seems decided to follow after
their recent victory is not without importance. Measures
of reform at horse ; abroad a renewal of the Anglo-French
alliance on terms of the closest intimacy, with the expressed
intention of seeking, in concert with France, to put an end
to the frightful carnage of which America is the theatre
and the victim. If Lord Russell does not frankly accept
this programme, he will be succeeded by Lord Clarendon,"
ROCHDALE. The Conservative committee at
Rochdale issued a placard on Saturday, in which
they state that they "have great pleasure in inform-
ing the electors that the number of signatures to the
requisition to Mr. Brett has already exceeded their san-
guine expectations, and so far from it being the intention
of either Mr. Brett cr his committee to retire from the
stops they have already taken, they are fully determined to
contest the borough the first opportunity."

BIRKENHEAD.—It is generally reported (says the
Liverpool Albion) that the eldest son of Mr. William Jack-
son, M.P., will contest Birkenhead at the next election, in
opposition to Mr. Laird, the present ruemb2r.
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT TO LAWSON, THE
STUD GROOM AT ELTHAM.—Several members of Tatter-
sall's have formed themselves into a committee for the pur-
pose of raising a subscription in behalf of the widow and 10
children of poor Lawson, whale death from the kick of a
horse was announced a few days since. The Duke of St,
Albans, the owner of the horse that inflicted the fatal injury,
has most generously headed the list of donations with the
munificent sum of £lOO, His grace's name is followed by
those of gentlemen who are ever foremost in works of
charity, and we have no doubt their example will be fol-
lowed by the whole of the men.bers and many of the public

NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—One hun.
through Mr F. J. &atilt:Ad, forwarded to the National
and titt~ einPioys at the West India Docks have,
to 58., as a token of their sympathy for its great and
7s 10d., in sums varying from 3d.
ILlui
Lifeboat
Institution £5
national work.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

FOREIGN LOTTERIES.—Mr, Tyrwhitt handed our re-
porter the following letter which he had received :

" London and North Western Railway,
Rugby Station, July 9,
_ .

"Sir,—By yesterday's post I received the annexed cir-
cular in reference to a lottery, and on reading the police
report in a newspaper I see some allusion is made to the
very parties. Will you kindly investigate the affair and
see if its bona fide or not, as I fear many country people
may be placed in the same doubt as myself.—Yours obe-
diently. " Thos. DAVIS.

"R. P. Tyrwhitt, Esq.,
Presiding Magistrate, Marlborough•street."
Enclosed in the above letter were a " Printed Form of
Application" for shares in the next drawing of " The
Royal Imperial Austrian Loan," and the following letter
addressed to Mr. Davis :

" Frankfort-on-the .Maine.

" What we take the liberty of calling your attention to
is not a vague and complicated speculation, but a prize
drawing sanctioned by G ,vernment, in which, with a single
stake of £1 you are entitled to win a prize of 200,000 florins
or £20,000 ready money,
" This speculation you will see is clear and explicit.

" Make inquiries. Every respectable house of business
will tell you that the financial state of Austria is most satis-
factory, and that you can, without hesitation, place entire
confidence in us.

" That done, we feel convinced you will give us an older
only for the sake of trial.

" You may rest assured every attention will be paid to
ycur interests, and an official list will be forwarded after
the drawing. Yours respectfully,

" Mr Charles Hahn, of 12, Langh am S"trjeetiji:
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further explanation that may be required,"
Accompanying the last letter is a prospectus in which,
in heavy cclumns of figures, the extraordinary fortunes that
may be given are most enticingly set forth. As will be seen,
the letter of Mr Daltroff states " that Mr Hahn will give
any explanation that may be required ;" but Mr Makins,
the barrister, who a few days ego made an application to
Mr Tyrwhitt respecting the same lottery, stated that the
only person he saw at the address in Longharn-street,
and who was a foreigner and presunaed to be Mr Hahn,
professed to know nothing about the affair, but said he would
communicate with the parties at Frankfort. The scheme
altogether has a most suspicious appearance.

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WESTMINSTER.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY A MAN ON HIS WIPE.—
Michael Joy, a labourer, residing at 1, Wackham-place,
Chelsea, was charged before 111 r Selfe with the following
murderous assault upon Mary Ann, his wife, whose head
had a large bandage round it.
The complainant (who seemed very weak from loss of
blood) stated that about 2 o'clock this morning she was at
home sitting on a chair when her husband came in. She
had been waiting up for him. After he had been there a
short time he knocked her off the chair, They had some
words.

Mr Selfe—How did he do that ?
Complainant—He struck her with his fiat, and when she
was on the ground he kicked her on her forehead, and
caused a wound which bled very much. Thre was a pool
of blood on the floor. A policemaa came in and took her
husband to the station. She went there to make the charge,
when her head was dressed by the surgeon. of the division.
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sister) was also in the room.
Policeman B 159 said he was called to take the prisoner
into custody. He found complainant, who was bleeding
very much from a wound in the forehead. The prisoner
said that she fell on a tub. He (witness) had seen the in•
jury, and thought the wound was caused by a kick.

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Mr Selfe observed that it was a most brutal assault. He
always looked on a man who assaulted a woman as a great
brute, and he never passed over such conduct.
He was sent to the House of Correction for two months.

New Silver Coinage for Great Britain and

Ireland.

(From the Illechanie's Magazine.)
We have excellent authority for announcing the
fact that it is intended ere many months shall have
passed away, to recall the whole of the silver coins
now circulating throughout the United Kingdom,
end to replace them by an entirely new coinage of
that metal. There can be very little doubt that the
remarkable degree of success which has attended
the recent reformation of the copper currency, and
of which reformation this journal gave the earliest
intimation to the public, has prompted the
Government to take this important step. There
exists as little doubt that a judicious re-
modelling of, the silver coinage will be pro
ductive of satisfaction and advantage to the
community at least equal in amount to that which
has followed the introduction of the bronze money.

It must be patent to every person that the time has
arrived when a new coinage of silver would be
highly acceptable, for all must have experienced
more or less of inconvenience from the dilapidated
and used-up state of that which now circulates.
Our crowns and half-crowns, many millions of
which came into existence as far back as 1816, and
none of which are of more recent date than 1849,
are miserably deteriorated, having lost by abrasion
the greater part of their original impressions, and
many of them 15 per cent. of their original weight.
Our shillings are in as bad a plight, whilst the
sixpenny coinage is in a much worse condition
than either, and individual pieces are frequently
met with which weigh only two-thirds of the
standard weight at which they were issued from the
Mint. Threepenny pieces are rapidly following in
the wake of their richer relatives, and fourpenny
pieces are dying an unnatural death, for their issue
has ceased for many years. We say nothing of the
florin, because it is the youngest member of the
British family of coins, and it has been subjected to
less wear and tear in consequence.
The loss of weight among our silver coins is a great
evil no doubt, but the consequent defacement of
their impressions is of yet more serious consequence,
for it facilitates largely the operations of counterfeit
coiners. Such manipulators find it a comparatively
easy task to produce jac similes in base metal of half-
worn-out coins, and they avail themselves too freely
of the privilege thus afforded them.
Mere less of weight is of the less importance,
because at the best silver coins are simply national
tokens representing certain amounts; that is to say,
their nominal and their intrinsic value, when newly
minted, are unequal, and abrasion and sweating
only widen the ratio of inequality. A pound
weight of standard silver costs—subject to slight
fluctuations resulting from the action of the law of
supply, and demand—in the bullion market, sixty
shillings ; but after conversion into coins of either
of the denominations named, its value is nominally
raised to 665, thus leaving a margin or seiguiorage,
as the ancient term stands, for covering the cost of
coining operations, of 6s upon each pound
weight passed under the Mint presses. A
shilling at its birth therefore is not intrinsi-
cally worth a shilling; it only represents that
sum. So of all other coins in the si.ver series.
Diminution cf weight, therefore, as has been stated,
is of less consequence than defacement.
This fact admitted, there is no reason, as it seems
to us, why the pound weight of silver should not,
in the projected new coinage, be converted into
seventy shillings or even eighty shillings, and its
companion moneys in like proportions. The ex-
pense of the entire operation of recasting and re-
coining the silver moneys would thus be met, with-
out drawing a farthing from the public treasury
for the purpose; and, instead of having a miser-
able, and easily imitated mass of coins, grown
light by wear, tear, and ill usage in circulation,
we should possess a perfect token coinage.—
light, elegant, portable. and not to
be counterfeited
without the exercise of great skill. It. light silver
rmer
coins, which simply bear shadows of their

impressions, now pass from hand to hand uncint.- I
tioned, surely light coins upon which the full and
complete devices of the Mint dies stood out in
minute elaboration, ought also to circulate freely—
and so, no doubt, they would !
It may also b2como a question of interest for the
Mint antnoritters C 743 to VI lictlior n Lard., oesmrnoi.
tion than standard silver might not be discovered
and employed. Frequently the slightest variation
in the mixture of metals—take gun and bell metals
for illustration—makes a wondrous difference in
their hardness. At all events, the durability of the
new silver coinage is a point only scoond in import.
anoe to that of its speedy introduction.

FEEBLE LITTLE JOKE OF bllt HARRIS NTCOLAS
—no late Sir Harris Nicolas used to practise
rather strongly upon some of his friends. I was not an un-
willing victim. The pleasure derived from the wit exceeded
any pain it inflicted. Indeed, Sir Harris himself one day
expressed his disappoinment at my insensibility, by saying
that he had never in his whole life been able really to hit
me. The late Lord S . . . was sitting with him one
morning listening to a very astute but rather dry explana-
tion of some matter about which his lordship had inquired.
At last ho threw himself back in his armchair and eaid,

"My dear Nicolas, I am very stupid this morning; my
brains are all gone to the dogs." On which Sir Harris
pathetically exclaimed, "Poor dogsl" —Babbage's Autobio-
graphy.
CAPT. W. W. KNOLLYS' VIVACIOUS NOVELETTE,
in form, says the _Reader, something like " Letters left at a
Pastrycook's," professing to be extracts from the diary of
a young lady consigned to the ludian matrimonial market,
will appear in a few days under the title of "Misses and
Matrimony."

A SCREAMING FARCE, in two acts, has just cure
out at Wurtzburg, the text of which is published by
Richter, called " Shakespeare in Deutschland am Tage
seiner J übelfeier." With slight alterations it would suit our
London commemoration nearly as well.
111 E NEW GOVERNOR OF THE CAPE.—Lieute-
nant-General Sir Robert Percy Manias, who has
been appointed Governor of tho Cape of Good Rope, is the
eldest son cf the late Sir Howard Douglas, who was Go-
vernor of New Brunswick from 1823 to 1829, and Lord

high Commissioner of the lonian Islands from 1535 till
1840. The new Governor was born in 1805, and succeeded
to the baronetcy in 1861. He has been Inspector of Militia
and Assistant-Adjutant-General to the Forces.
IMPORT OF CORN.—A Parliamentary return pre-
sents a tabular account ot our imports of grain, corn, flour,
and meal for the last 23 years, and shows that in the 10
years, 1841-50, the quantity averaged 5,810,470 quarters a
year; in the 10 years, 1851-60, 9,629,.425 quarters; since
then it has been larger than was ever known before—namely,
in 1861, 16,091,914 quarters; in 1862, 18,441,791 quarters;
and fn 1863, 15,352,559 quarters. The estimated value ot
these imports was £34,918,639 in 1861, £37,772,191 in 1862,
and £29,955,939 in 1863. We get at least a third of our
supply from America, but the largest portion is drawn from
our own hemisphere, and much from the most ancient
sources; we get above 1,000,000 quarters in a year from
Egypt, where the patriarch Jacob sought and found corn,
and from Turkey, Denmark, Southern Russia, Prussia,
more than 1,000,000 each.
INSURANCE AMALGAMATION.—The Leeds and
Yorkshire Assurance Company, the head office of
which is at Leeds, is about to be amalgamated with the
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company,
with which the Globe Insurance Company has just been
amalgamated. The Leeds and Yorkshire Company has been
♦ery successful, and the terms on which it unites with the
Liverpool and London are deemed very satisfactory, and the
result will probably be an increase in the Yorkshire busi-
ness of the united companies.
A HILLSIDE ON FlRE.—Last evening, part of

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the hill-side at Carrigaloe was observed to be on
fire, and in a short time the flames spread with such rapidity
that the entire side of the hill facing the river presented the
appearance of a huge sheet of flame. The conflagration is
said to be caused by a spark from the railway engine falling
amongst the heath and furzo,which, owing to the late con-
tinued hot weather, had been made easily ignitable.—Cork
Examiner.

BODY OF A CHILD FOUND IN THE CLOAK ROOM
OF THE BRIGHTON RAlLWAY.—Yesterday morning,
information was forwarded to Mr Payne, the coroner, that
on Saturday last the superintendent of the cloak-room
of the above railway, while inspecting the various parcels
left in his charge, found in a black box, which had been
lying there since the 14th ult., the body of a full grown
child. Such crimes have it seems of late been of frequent
occurrences on the metropolitan rsilways.
FIRE IN LAMBETH.—A short time before three
o'clock yesterday morning about fivo-sisths of
Davis's ginger beer and soda water manufactory, Princes-
street, Stamford-street, Lambeth, was destroyed by fire.
The private residence was also damaged and a portion of
Mr a Hies's factory destroyed. Several adjoining houses
were darnaged.
•' CONSCIENCE MONEY:'—Yesterday an official
document was printed, showing that in the year ending the
31st March the amount of " conscience money" Paid t° the
I Government was £7,400 14s, 81.1