The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-16 00:00:00

•
.X__-__, 9-C 2 ' -3. ' -1_,,--- ..'.- -,.--• e-- -
1 /- -----7
% ,i..______,,,,— e==2,-..---c_ .- /t.,-::
, .
—...0, :4;--t4'4 :
,ft
4 '•-• , i'4
4 6.C':i=•."-=!r4' ~.:: si-,
o\c‘i...e'r ~o= .4",....r1'
Is •
-. ,
'..
‘ ' ' .
. . .
....1.\i:t.:..;.‘,.it*......m0tih. ' . I WEST INDIA AND PA 254' II 'll'P''''r.f-
.
, -
/---"'!-----. - - .
1:- 7:17''4- 44Agift,.=-,).14.' allilliiii':L, _ -' • - 'll';'-‘l'.:----- 7---
...
..........._l/4...........: . . utt
,Th
. .
.. ,
. ....,„ N.. ,-. •
. :.., , -......,..7...- .
- .:...--- - ---,or, - -44 - D WIC' :444...i. , ' iljtr:.
..- "A -•,--r - tsg----

'The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasmania:,
Captain Sawyer, with the above mails, has arrived.:
She brings 65 passengers,specie value 1,059,271 dots.,.
also the following cargo-16 serons cochineal, 31
serons indigo, 13 bales sarsaparilla, 52 packages
silver ore, 43 packages skins, 250 bales bark, 130
bales Indiarnbber, 20 live turtle, and 99 packages
sundries. The Tasmanian left St Thomas on the
30th ult ; the first eleven days of the passage she
experienced strong head winds and heavy seas, sub-
eequen tly westerly gales and heavy seas.
Yelbw fever still prevails amongst the shipping
at Demerara ; the colony is reported healthy. 417
immigrants had arrived at Demerara from Barba-
does since the last mail. The accounts published
by the British Guiana Gold Company eye very
ehecring, the value of the gold found, it is said, will
produce a daily revenue of £3OO. Produce was
coming lomat d freely. Sugar quoted at 450 dots.
W.d.s; rum little demand, 400 to 42e for strong.

PRICF 4d.
- STAMPED ....6d.

£l6B 17s upon an overdrawn account. Witness produced
20 bills of Fraser, which bad all been dishonoured in 1861
and 1862. In the board minute book of Feb. 28, 1862, there
was an entry in the handwriting of Burch to the effect that
the directors had resolved that immediate steps should be
taken for the apprehension of Frazer. The latter was con-
victed in April, 1862, of forgery, but his bills were carried
into the good assets of the bank in June, 1862, and his over-
drawn account was deducted from the amount due to cus-
tomers, Witness produced the general ledger wi,le the
past due bills in it. It contained an entry of dividends re-
ceived in 1861 under the estate of Frazer of £lO and again
of £2O. and that was in Burch's hand wri it g. The amount
was carried forward after the deduction of the dividends.
Fownes and Co, were also customers of the bank. They
owed an overdrawn account of £bn on dishonour; d bills
in the beginning of 1860. That amount was carried
to the customers' ledger as an overdrawn account. The
bills were debited to Fownes and Co. When that ledger
was finished another one was opened, and then that account
was carried to the end of the book among a variety of other
overdrawn accounts. In May, 1860, there was a letter
signed by a Mr Douglas stating that a bill for £l4B 7s GJ,
which had been drawn upon his firm by Fownes and Co,,
was a forgery, but that amount was so placed in the books
as to make it appear that the bank had less owing than was
really the fact. It was treated in the same way exactly as
the other overdrawn accounts. The bank had other cus-
tomers T. W. Hall. They owed £3,849 is 9d. Forty-one
of their bills had been dishonoured in 1861. They were ex-
hibited on the 11th of June, 1861, at the Court of
Bankruptcy, under the Bankruptcy of Hall. There was no
dividend on Hall's estate. In the post-due bill book there
was an entry opposite these bills in Terry's handwriting
about a shilling dividend. That amount of £3,849 was put
forward as a good asset into the item of £207,090 and odd.
The fact of the receipt of the dividend appeared in the past-
due bill book in Terry's handwriting, and in the general
ledger in Burch's handwriting. In the past-due bill there
was no entry of "forgery" against the bills of Fownes and
Co., and in the general ledger the bills of that firm were
treated as an overdrawn account. Barclay and Co. were
also customers of the bank. They owed it £1,902. T heir
bills amounted to 14 in number, all of which were dis-
honoured in June, 1862. Dividends were received on ac-
count of that estate amounting to £1,095. The last dividend
was received in November, 1861. That left a balance of
£BO7, which was carried into the good assets of the bank in
June 1862. Among the list of dividends were some so low
as 31d. and 22d. in the pound, and the entries respecting
them were in the handwriting of ono of the clerks. Tierman
and Co. were also customers of the bank. They owed X 1,540
in eight bills, which were dishonoured in 1860. The backs
of those bills were covered with marks of dividends. After
the deduction of those dividends Tierman and Co. owed
£929 7a 11d, and that was carried into the past-due
bills into loans to customers, and it appeared as a good asset
The entry of the dividends was in Terry's handwriting,
and the entry in the general ledger was in the handwriting
of Burch. The bank had also a customer named Bunyard.
He owed between £5,000 and £6,000 at the date of the ba-
lance in dishonoured bills and overdrawn account, and other
articles carried through the cash-article book as cash in
hand. The bills were dishonoured in 1861 and 1862, and
some were running in June of the latter year. Witness pro-
duced a copy of a release made between Bunyard and his
creditors, among whom was Terry. It gave a complete re-
lease to him upon an assignment being made, and was dated
in December, 1861. Upon that same day a loan of £966 15s
was granted to him by the bank, and the entry of that was
in the handwriting of one of the clerks . The book, the re-
gister of leans, had a reference to this £966 15s as a promis-
sory note. In the board minute-book of Dec. 31, 1861, there
was no mention whatever that the loan of the £966 was
granted to Bunyard.

The NS cather was dry, and favourable for manufac.
luring operations. Freights, no change; for sugar
to London 2s, and 2,1 d for rum. Eachange, 90
days' sight on London, 476 dole.
Yellow fever continued to rage fearfully at Ha-
vana. Mr Beer, purser of the Deurent, fell a vice
tim to the scourge whilst at that place.
The greatest tranquillity prevails at Haiti, and
the first deliveries of coffee had begun with pro.
raising prospects.
The Barbadoes House of Assembly met on the
11th; the business transacted was unimportant.
The weather was fine, and the crops looking bet.
ter than for many years, with a prospect of a larger
crop than ever reaped in the island. The health.
of the island was good. Trade quiet; sugar 4,76
to 5 dole. per 100 lbs. Exchange, 90 days, 485 dolts.

Trade dull at Trinidad. The weather, however,
was fine, and the heat intense. The health of the
ecdony was good. The gulf was still bare of ship-
ping.

The Grenada Legislature was to assemble on the
25th ult. The weather was fine for the planters,
and the cane crop promised to be productive. Cocoa
was also looking well. Cotton cultivation was be-
coming general over the colony. Provisions, fruits,
and spices were abundant, and the island free from
all epidemic disease. _ _ .

The Jamaica legislature was to meet on the Ist
inst. The steamer, Plantagenet arrived at Jamaica
on the 12th in 301 days from Liverpool. Her Ma-
jesty's steamer Fawn, from Bermuda, arrived on
the 18th ult. Small-pox continued its ravages in
Jamaica, and several deaths are reported ; amongst
the victims are G. B. Smith, E3q., George Dellisier,
E,q., M. Alexander Neer de Graffe, and Mrs Prices,
wife of the Hon. George Price, The death of Lieut.-
Governor Price is reported from Dominica. Trade
remained inactive, with little improvement in prices
—the crops of Guinea corn were suffering for want
of rain. Coffee reported at 47s to 48s for ordinary.
Rum, sales at 2s 3d to 2s 6d for proof 18 in bond.
Tobacco dull, no sales. Sugar fetched for middling
qualities, 22s to 23s per 1001bs—fair ditto, Hs—
dark withdrawn at bids varying from 18s 3d to
192 6d. Exchange on London 90 days, 1 per cent.
premium-60 days, LI per cent. ditto—and 30 days,
2 per cent. premium.

The Pacific Company's steamers Bogota from the
Pacific ports, and Inca,from the intermediate ports,
had arrived et Panama. The following is the latest
intelligence
The death of General Jose Flores, the commander.
inachief of the Ecuadorian army, and one of the
most prominent men in that republic, is announced
as having occurred on board the steamer Bogota,
whilst proceeding for Guayaquail.
The Ecuadorian troops had defeated the revolu'
tionists and taken possession of Santa Rosa, but
not without heavy loss—the revolutionist loss was
very small.

By Mt Sleigh—lf the money was a renewal of the old
debt it would have been brought before the directors.
Witness held in his hand a note of hand for the £966, the
body of which was drawn in the handwriting of Burch.
There was another loan of £735 granted to Banyard, but
that did not appear upon the face of the books to have been
ever brought before the directors. There was about £2,500
of Bunyard's bills under discount, which entered into the
item of £207,000., and in the overdrawn account far £1,690
there appeared a difference of £lOO or £5OO in the cash-article
book. There was a book partly made up by both defendants
showing the past-due bills. The debt of Bunyard did not
appear in that book, nor did the bill for the £936 appear
there. On Jan. 20, 1863, a resolution was passed by the

The revolution in the eouth part of the republic
is said to be ended. Muchala and Santa Rosa
are in the hands of the Government, which is
engaged in re-establishing order.
The revolutionary movements in the north have
been frustrated by the measures of the Ecuadorian
Government, assisted by the friendly co operation
of the authorities of the United States of Columbia
on the frontier.

directors that an account should be made out of the good,
bad, and doubt`•ul debts. This account showed that most of
the debts were bad and doubtful. Banyard's £O6O did not
appear in that statement, Two of his loans, amounting toge-
ther to £1,700, were considered favourable of in Juno, 1862
One of these was due in January, and the other in April
They appeared in the book as matured and current bills in
1862, and they did not appear as past due bills of debtors:
There's% ere debtors included in it similar in every respect to
Bunyard. The book contained the items of several past duo
bills. The loans were very few, but the past due bills wery
many. It was then resolved by the directors that a further
alphabetical list of all defaulting customers should be pre-
pared, showing the amount of debts owing, the bills which
had been paid, and the debts which were good, bad, and
doubtful, with observations. Mr Jabez Wood was also a cus-
tomer of the bank, and he was a trustee under Banyard's
deed.

Mr Lewis said this case would probably occupy a long
time, and that perhaps this would be a good point at which
to break off for the day.
Mr Sleigh applied once more that his client might be
admitted to bail.
The Lord Mayor said that the plot seemed to thicken.
Mr Sleigh hoped his lordship would not arrive at a con-
clusion of that sort upon what, after all, was at present only
an ex parte case. The inquiry might last a very considerable
length of time, and for the prisoners to continue to remain
in custody seemed harsh, and was certainly unnecessary.
It might be that the investigation would last until after
Christmas. He wished not to say arything offensive,but this
he could not forbear from observing, that the prisoners Rer6l
the mere employes of the bank. They were in a position to
furnish tangible and substantial bail, and Terry had not,
while in communication with the committee of liquidators,
and supplying them from time to time with information,
shown the slightest inclination to abscond.
Mr Metcalfe supported the application, and said that in
the case of the British Bank the prisoners were admitted
out on bail. He believed the prisoner in this case were mere
scapegoats, and that the investigation pointed more against
others than it did against his client, Burch, who was the
mere secretary, carrying out the directions of his superiors.
The Lord Mayor said that without wishing in any way
to prejudice the case he must decline the application. But
he would consider the question of bail between this and the
next examination with his brother magistrates.

The prisoner was then remanded until 1 o'clock on Fri-
day next.

University Intelligence.

OXFORD, Nov. 15.

In a Convocation to be holden on Thursday next, the
17th inst., at 2 o'clock, it will be proposed that the election
of the next Vinerian Scholar be postponed to Lent Term,
and that all such candidates, and such only, shall be ad-
missible as by their standing could have offered themselves
in the present term.
In the same Convocation it will be proposed-1, that
Thomas Moymott Tidy, of Queen's College, and Donald
Maclean Claxton, of St. Edmund Hall, be permitted to
enter their names in the Proctor's list for examination in
the School of Law and Modern History and in the Mathe-
matical School respectively this term; and 2, that the Rev.
Thomas Humphrey Lindsay Leary, of Brasonose
College, be permitted to commute from the degree of M,A.
to that of B.C.L, and proceed forthwith to D.C.L.
In the same Convocation the name of Mr F. Ashpitel,
M.A., of Brasenose College, whose nomination to the office
of Moderator has been approved by congregation, will be
submitted to the house.
A Convocation will be holden on Tuesday, December 6,
at 2 o'clock, for the purpose of electing a clerk to be pre-
sented to the incumbency of Holm° Cultram, in the diocese
of Carlisle, now vacant.