The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-09 00:00:00

N°. 22,347.

THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1804.

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THE MARITIME INSURANCE COMPANY
(Limited).
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Companies Act, 1862."
Capital, One Million, in 100,000 shares of £lO each. First
Issue 25,000 shares.
Deposit on Application £1 per Share. Further payment on
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Francis Boult, Esq. (Messrs. Boult, English and Brandon.)
Alexander Duranty, Esq. (Messrs. A. Duranty and Co.)
William Harrison, Esq. (.111, ssrs. Harrisons and Latham.)
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With power to add to their number.
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Henry Case, Esq.
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TEMPORARY OFFICES.
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The success which has attended the operations of Marine
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paid. price. to
The Thames and Mersey £2 £7 0 0 250 percent. pm.
The British and Foreign 2 415 0 137 ~
The Union 2 5 1 3 116
The Empire
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The s tric' est economy will be exercised in working, and the
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Tc, be retained by the Bankers.
The Maritime Insurance Company (Limited).
To the Directors of the Maritime Insurance Company
(Limited).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to the Bankers of the above-
named Corn any the sum of £ , I hereby request
t Litt you will allot me Shares in the said Company,
and I agree to accept such Shares, or any smaller number
that may be allotted to me, and to become a member of the
Company, and I authorise you to place my name on the Re-
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me, and I agree to b • bound by all the conditions and regu-
lations contained in the Memorandum and Articles of Asso-
ciation of the Company ; I further authorise you to forward
by post to my address, as below, the certificate for any shares
which may be allotted to me.
Dated this day
Nof 1861.
ame in full
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THE NAVY.

An Admiralty order has been received by the authorities
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Pallas, now building in that yard before the close of the
present financial year—May, 1865. Tho number of hands
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to be launched this morning from her building slip at
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and one woman-2d battalion, 2d Foot, one man and
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Parsons and wife. For Malta : 2d battalion, 7th Foot, En-
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The Death of the Actuary of the Camden
Town Savings Bank.

Yesterday afternoon Dr. Lankester, coroner for Central
Middlesex, held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle,
King's-road, Camden Town, on the body of Mr. Phillip
Nuthall King, aged 49, late actuary to the Camden Town
Savings Bank.
It appears that in consequence of the deceased's recent
habits the suspicions of the committee conducting the Cam-
den Town Savings Bank had been aroused, and on Tuesday
evening last they held a meeting, when they discovered that
the
the amount of about £BOO. So satisfied were they of the
fact,ry
thatua they had
a
beent guilty of forgery and embezzlement to
once resolved to give deceased into
act
custody. On Cook, a detective constable, going to his
house in Hamilton-street he found both the deceased and
his wife in a state of intoxication, the latter lying on the
sofa. He told the deceased with what he was charged, and
took him to Platt-street station-house, where his manner
sentbb for, and, as described in his
/ assistant to Dr. Sutherin,
wastheo
divisional strange
that
surgeon, lSlevidence, he found r
vasV
him uproariously drunk, but discovered
he had got paralysis of the right side, The police, by his
sle
directions, made him up a bed in front of the fire, and gave
him some hot coffee. He saw him again at five the next
morning, when, although sensible, he appeared very ill,
and, instead of being taken before the magistrate, was sent
to the infirmary, where he died on Thursday.
The widow of the deceased, who behaved very strangely
while before the coroner, and kept flourishing her hands
(which were covered with massive rings) about, attributed
his death to what she called " the illegal conduct of the
police in taking her husband into custody."
Mr. Saul, the infirmary surgeon, said when deceased
was brought there he was in a comatose state, suffering
from apoplectic symptoms. Every possible remedy was ap-
plied, but he died the following day. Death had, in his
opinion, resulted from apoplexy induced by excessive drink-
ing. He being taken into custody might have had some
effect in accelerating it.
Mr. Edward Ingpen, a director of the savings bank, said
in answer to a question, that the committee were induced to
give deceased into custody, as they had a clear case of for-
gery and embezzlement against him to about £BOO. It was
wished to b 3 stated that the depositors would not suffer a
penny loss, as the bond for deceased would be paid, and the
committee make up the balz!nce.
The jury returned a verdict of " Died from apoplexy in-
duced by intoxication, and they wished to add, that in their
opinion no blame attached to those who had given or taken
deceased into custody on the charges preferred againsthim

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Special Juries.)
HUGHSON V. WINDHAM.
This action, which was commenced on Friday
last, and which was brought to recover a balance of
£414 alleged to be due to the plaintiff, after giving
credit to the defendant for payments amounting to
£275 for extra services rendered by him while the
clerk of Messrs. Chappell, the defendant's attorney,
in frequenting night houses, getting up evidence in
the defendant's divorce case, and expenses incurred
in so doing, was resumed this morning.
Mr. Karslake, for the defendant, summed up the
defendant's evidence, relying on the extreme impro-
bability of the defendant having entered into any
special contract with the plaintiff to pay him for
his services while he was the clerk of his attorney,
whom he had to pay for the same services, and also
on the improbability of such a contract being entered
into by the plaintiff', who had been an attorney,
without his making any written memorandum of it,
or making any allusion to it before the action was
brought: The contract rested entirely on the evi-
dence of the plaintiff himself, and was in no way
corroborated. He contended it was plain from the
letters produced that the £2OO, less discount, and
the £lOO claimed to be payments to him on account
by the plaintiff were, in fact, loans to him at his
pressing request, made by the defendant, that the
plaintiff's claim was wholly without foundation,
and his services had already been paid for in
Messrs. Chappell's bill of costs.

Mr. Powell claimed to treat the transaction as
one entirely of business, and proposed to rest his
case on the evidence, and to ask the jury had the
work been done, and had the expenses sought to be
recovered been incurred under a special contract
with the defendant. Not a single item of the charges
sought to be recovered had been pointed out in
Messrs. Chappell's bill, nor had they dared to pro-
duce that enormous bill to show such to be the ease.
He contended that there was abundant evidence
to show that the special night work had been done
with the knowledge of the defendant, and some of it
at his special request. It was also proved that the
plaintiff had spent from 15s. to L 3 a night in his
expenses. Yet the whole of the expenses allowtal
him by Messrs. Chappell did not exceed ss. a night.
As to the special contract depending on the credit
the jury gave to the plaintiff, its denial depended
on the credit they gave to the defendant. If it was
asked who was the plaintiff, he had been an attor-
ney, and Mr. Chappell had known him for 20 years
when he engaged him in this matter as clerk. That
was some voucher for his respectability. But who,
he asked, was the defendant ? He was a young man
who a few years ago might have been said to have
the world at his feet—the descendant of an ancient
and respected family, with an historic name, and
possessed of a princely estate, and what was he now
as they had seen him in the witness-box P If their
judgment was to be formed on the existence of this
special contract on the respectability of the plain-
tiff or the defendant, he confidently placed his client
in contrast with the defendant. His friend Mr.
Kerslake, when speaking of the plaintiff's claim,
had spoken of the cloud of vultures ready to pounce
on the defendant, circumstanced as he was, and with
such an unfortunate notoriety, and that his friends
advised him to resist to the utmost such demands as
this. Who were his friends ? Were they Mr. Bugg,
his attorney ? or Mr. Chappell, his late attorney ?
Talk of vultures, the plaintiff in his demand was a
sparrow hawk compared with the attorneys in
whose hands he was. He strenuously insisted that
there was reliable evidence of the contract, that the
work had been done, and the expenses incurred,
and that the plaintiff was entitled to his verdict.

His Lordship, in summing up, told the jury there
was no question that the plaintiff had received a
sum of £275, and whether that sum was treated as
a payment or as a set off, the question for the jury
was, was it enough reasonably to satisfy the plain-
tiff's demand, assuming him to have done extra
work for the defendant ? If they thought it
enough, they would find for the defendant.
The jury retired, and, on their return, found that
the sum the plaintiff had received was sufficient.
There was a verdict for the defendant.

His Lordship expressed his disapproval of the
manner in which the action had been commenced,
by causing the defendant's arrest, as a kind of ex-
tortion which ought not to have been attempted.
WELCH V. PASKE.

This was an action for a breach of promise o
marriage. The defendant pleaded that he did no
promise, and that the supposed promise had been
obtained from him by fraud when he was drunk.
Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Robinson,
and Mr. Palmer appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr.
Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Joyce, and Mr. Campbell
Foster for the defendant.
It appeared from the opening statement of the
learned counsel for the plaintiff that the plaintiff
was a young person, about 30 years of age, living
with her aunt at Croydon, who kept a baker's and
confectioner's shop, and that the defendant had been
an officer in the army in the East India Corr pany'L-
service. In the year 1861 the plaintiff, while at-
tending in her aunt's shop, was frequently seen by
the defendant, who after asking permission to walk
out with her eventually wrote to her making her a
promise to marry her, and on the 6th of May, 1861
—" I promise you faithfully you shall be my wife."
After this promise the plaintiff had frequently
visited him at his lodgings, and once during an
illness had taken him some delicacies from the shop.
Oa the Bth of the same month of May the defendant
had written to Mr. Dennis, a grocer in Dorking,
and a friend of the plaintiff, telling him how much
he admired Mies Welch, and asking him to procure
a licence for him to marry her and also a wedding
ring. Miss Welch had lent the defendant £6 or £7,
and shortly after he chose to pay attention to a Miss
Slatter, the daughter of a linendraper in Dorking,
whom, to the great distress of the plaintiff, he
had paraded up and down before her aunt's
shop, and had afterwards married Miss Satter,
which bad been a heavy blow to the plaintiff. The
defendant, he should show, was well off, and after
the death of an aged relative he would come into
possession of £2,700 a year.
Mrs. Harriet Jones, the aunt of the plaintiff,
proved that her niece was about 30 years of age,
and sometimes served in her shop, which was a
confectioner's. The defendant in March, 1861, was
living in Dorking, under the care of a medical man,
and in April he came to her shop for almond cakes
and French rolls, and asked if Miss Welch was her
daughter, and if she might be allowed to take a
walk with him some evening. She replied, "No,
not with my consent." He asked, " When did she
walk out ?" and she told him "sometimes in the
afternoon." He afterwards told her that he had
proposed to Miss Welch and she had accepted him,
and witness told him, " She was old enough to do
as she liked." He used to come two or three times
a day. He had written a letter to her niece once
in her house expressing his " disappointment at not
having been able to escort her. Such is life"—
and. signed "yours ever."
Mr. Robinson pointed out that there were six
dashes under "ever."
Mr. Justice Byles—Do you 'mean this is for ever
and something beyond ? (Laughter.)
The defendant had afterwards written the letter
containing the promise—" My dearest Eliza,-1
promise you faithfully you shall be my wife.—Yours
ever —." This letter her niece bad shown to her
to satisfy her that the defendant's intentions were
honourable. About June the defendant ceased pay-
ing his visits and married Miss Slatter, the draper's
daughter, who was " pretty well as to respectability
—middling." (Laughter.) The first time her niece
saw the defendant walking past the shop with Miss
Slatter she nearly fainted, and was very ill in the
autumn in consequence of his neglect.
Cross-eumineo by Mr, liawkino—The defea-

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dant was living with De. Curtis, and had also a
Lunatic brother living in Dorking. The defendant
at first used to go to her shop to buy almond cakes
twice a day. The first time she saw him he had two-
pennyworth of almond cakes, and he asked to be
allowed to go into the back sitting room to cat
then. He had two almond cakes for a penny, so he
ate eight almond cakes a day—(laughter)—na
sometimes he had two French rolls twice a day.
She did not know whether her niece took him port
wine when she visited him, or whether the L 7 the
defendant owed her niece was for port wine. She
had brought an action against him to recover that
sum. She could not tell when nor where this action
was commenced.
Francis Head Dennis, grocer, of Dorking, proved
having received the letter from the defendant asking
him to procure a licence and wedding ring for the
defendant on the Bth of May. He did not get them.

Mr, Velly, of Chelmsford, the attorney to the
trustees under the late Mr. Haylefoot's will, was
called to prove the defenCant's means and expecta-
tions under that will, but this evidence was objected
to and rejected. The defendant had changed his
name to Haylefoot. It was attempted to put in the
Royal licence obtained to change his name, which
recited his expectations under Mr, Haylefoot's will,
but this was also objected to as a copy and rejected,
his Lordship saying, if necessary, he would adjourn
the ease to give time to obtain the requisite evidence.
Mr. Deb_nham, au attorney, who had served the
defendant with a copy of the writ in the action, was
c filled to prove a conversation in which the defen-
dant said, " They think because I am entitled to a
large property they will get something handsome,
but they will be disappointed. Mr. Pasha was in a
great passion, because he had served him with the
writ, and said, " His wife was a lady, and in the
position of such." (Laughter.) Ho did not know
that this action was a speculation of Mr. Young,
the attorney for the plaintiff.
This was the plaintiff's case,
Mr. Chambers then summed up, and
Mr. Hawkins was proceeding to address the jury,
and said this action " was a warning to all gentle-
men who had a passion for almond cakes"—(a
laugh)—when the junior counsel, who for some time
had been endeavouring to effect an arrangement, at
last did so, and

Mr. Joyce announced that it had been agreed be-
between the parties that there should be a verdict
for the plaintiff for £2OO damages, the judgment
not to be enforced until three months after the death
of Mr. Haylefoot, the tenant for life of the property
to which the defendant is entitled.

Verdict accordingly.
Mr. Justice Byles said the plea of fraud °ugh'
not to have been pleaded, and had his strong disap.
probation.

SECOND COURT.

',Before Mr, Justice Keating and Common Juries.

SHEPHERD V. GARRETT.

The whole of Saturday was occupied with the
trial of this cause, involving bill transactions of so
complicated a nature that even the learned Judge
at first expressed his inability to understand the
evidence of some of the witnesses.

The trial was adjourned at the rising of the Court,
and resumed this morning.
Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. J. Best ware for the
plaintiff; and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Joseph
Brown, and Mr. Clover for the defendant.
The action was brought by the plaintiff, as en-
dorsee of a promissory note for £l,OOO, made by the
defendant in favour of a Mr. Parker. The main
plea was that Parker represented to the defendant
that a Mr. Gladstone was under a liability to him
Parker, to pay £l,OOO in respect of certain lands of
Mr. Gladstone which the defendant and others had
agreed to purchase for a railway, and that if the
defendant would pay Gladstone £6,000 in partpay-
meat of the purchase-money of such lands Mr.
Gladstone's solicitor, a Mr. Sandilands, would pay
the said sum of £l,OOO to Parker, and thereby Par-
ker induced the defendant to make the note declared
on to secure the payment of £l,OOO to the plaintiff,
that Mr. Gladstone was not in effect under any lia-
bility to Parker to pay £l,OOO for lands or other-
wise, and that there was no consideration for the
endorsement or for the payment of the note. The
question for the jury was whether the plea was
made out to their satisfaction, and the evidence dis-
closed a state of facts of the most complicated na-
ture, interesting, however, to no one but the parties
concerned in the transactions described.

The jury gave a verdict for the defendant.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

POST.—Although the retreat of the Danes from
the Danewirke has caused but little surprise here, it
has excited great consternation and no little corrano-
tion in Copenhagen. Looking on the map at /he
long line of defences which the Danish army was
expected to hold, and having regard to the vast dial-
proportion existing between the invading and tho
resisting force, it was almost with a sense of grati-
fication that we heard that the Danes had to all
appearances retired from the unequal strife. In
Copenhagen, however, the result is differently
viewed. For years the Danish people have been led
to believe that the famous fortifications on which
so much time, and labour, and money have been ex-
pended, were impregnable, and the intelligence that
they have fallen ere the cannon with which they
were mounted had delivered a single volley has come
upon them with all the weight of a crushing and
unexpected blow. The city is in the greatest com-
motion. Its population are frantically demanding
to be led forthwith against the invaders. The Rigs-
dag in vain demand explanations from the Prime
Minister and the Minister of War of the circum-
stances which were held to justify the evacuation
of the Danewirke, and, in their first burst of indig-
nation, order the immediate dismissal of their long
tried Commander-in-Chief. Unused to their new
King, the people in their despair almost fancy that
they have been betrayed, forgetful that it is not in
the nature of things for a Sovereign to possess an
inducement for deserting his people. When it was
suggested to the last of the Polish kings, Stanislaus
Poniatowski, that he had sold his country to
Russia, he replied by the question, "What bribe
would you think of offering to a king for his
crown ?" The vague rumours which have found
their way into the French press, that a revolution
has taken place in Copenhagen, that the King
.of
Sweden has been proclaimed, and that King Chris-
tian has taken his departure for England, are
without foundation; but the fact that such rumours
could for a moment be entertained affords strong
evidence of the serious effect produced upon
the Danish population by their recent reverses.
To them the easy victory of the German forces ap-
pears utterly inexplicable, and they feel just. ..as we
would feel ourselves if, in the e of i
vent nvasin, a
hostile army managed to get to the rear of P o,uts-
mouth and so necessitated its evacuation ere a ohot
was fired. But although the Danes have been obliged
to abandon the Danewirke, it would
is at
great error
to suppose that the war in Schleswig at an end,
and that Austria and Prussia may congratulate
themselves on having secured possession of that
Duchy. This is far from being the case. The Danes
have certainly been obliged to leave the entrance to
Schleswig free, and to abandon what appeared to
us an untenable position; but they have now retired
on a line of defences which may with truth be con-
sidered unassai la
esterble. From the telegrams which
we published yday and this morning, it will
be seen that, utter evacuating the Danewirke, the
Danish army retreated by way of Flensburg to Dup-
pel, a very fortified position on the tern
coastof n
Schsltersowill y eastern
, immediately opposite th
of Alsen, to which it stands insomewhat
tles island
-
relation that Portsmouth
pthdaohe
isshto
th-elsle ofileV same
relation
From this position the
the German forces, and, as Duppeairmisy can threaten
the t
midway
between the northern and southern frontiers of the
Duchy, can render it impossible for them, except at
great risk, to occupy the northern portion. Inde-
pendently of the strong defences raised around
Duppel, the Danish forces will derive an additional
protection from their fleet, which will :be enabled
from the adjacent fiords to command with its guns
the approaches to the Danish position. The island
of Alsen will at ,the same time constitute the base
of operations of the Danish army, whilst all its sup-
plies will readily be obtained, owing to the Danish
fleet holding undisputed possession of the sea. Nor
is this the only strong position from which the
Danes may for many months carry on a defensive