The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

THE EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO

EX7O.R7 MONEY.

EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER, THIS DAY.
Charles Reynolds, but whose real name is Davis, was
placed at the bar of the Mansion-house, on remand, in the
custody of Sergeant Green, a detective officer, before Mr.
Alderman Humphrey, who was sitting for the Lord Mayor,
charged with an attempt to extort money (.E500) by means
of threats from Baron Rothschild.

Mr. Wontnar, solicitor, appeared to conduct the pro-
secution.

On being placed at the bar, the prisoner looked anxiously
round the court, and asked if any solicitor attended for him,
but no person answered.

Mr. Wontner said, in asking the alderman to commit the
prisoner for trial on the charge of attempting, by means of
threats, to extort money, Sir Anthony Rothschild was no
desirous to prosecute the prisoner from any vindictive
motives, but simply f. :r the ends of justice; as far as was
consistent with that view, he wished the prisoner to be
mercifully dealt with. He then put in six letters received
by Sir Anthony Rothschild, also the advertisements in the
newspapers, and asked fur a committal.

Mr. Goodman asked the prisoner whether he wished to
see the letters.

The prisoner replied no, but he admitted writing them.
Sergeant Green, of the detective force, proved that he
caused the insertion of three advertisements, which led to
the capture of the prisoner.

Major Snell, private secretary to Sir Anthony, proved
the opening of the letters, and afterwards delivering them
to Superintendent Hodgson.
The prisoner here again admitted the writing of the
letters.

The waiter at the Post-office Coffee-house said the pri-
soner told her that some letters would come to him, ad-
dressed to a Mr. Johnston.

The deposition taken on the last occasion, together with
the six threatening letters, having been read,
Mr. Goodman told the prisoner the charge against him
was that of wilfully threatening to kill and murder Sir
Anthony Rothschild.

Alderman Humphrey asked what he had to say in
answer to the charge.

Prisoner—l've got nothing to say, only that I wrote the
Letters.

The Alderman then fully committed the prisoner for
trial.

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, Aug. 12.—Wind this day at noon—North.
Westerly ; light breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Tentonia, steamer, from Hamburg; Lame.
sang, from Carentan.
Sailed—Jacobin, for Elsinore ; Mangerton, steamer, fm:
London.

from Yetai Ralden, Rescue,
(wy MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, TuesdaY Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 11—Anne,
and Albion—all from Archangel.

Arrived, Aug. 12—Dawn, and Prove; both from Arch-
angel.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Anchored—Mary Ann, from Callao for London.
passed—Flying Fish, from London, for Tro( n ; Ironside,
from Landon, for Calcutta; Admiral, from Hartlepool, for
Jersey.

Agents are now in this country desirous of
entering into contracts on behalf of the Federal Govern-
ment of America for a further supply of guns, &c., which,
it is presumed, will, like former stores of the same descrip-
tion, be shipped as " hardware," The contracts are pro-
posed with a clause that they are to be veid in case of a war
with England.

ART UNION EXHIBITION.--The pictures selected
by the prize-holders of 1862 in the Art Union of London
are now exhibited in the Suffolk-street Gallery. They are
about 100 in number, more than two-thirds consisting of
paintings in oil and the rest of watercolour drawings. Mr.
Hughes's cottage scene, entiled " Bedtime," and valued
at £200; Mr. Jones's View of Rotterdam," valued at
£100; and Mr. C. Vacher's watercolour drawing, " Salva-
tor Rosa in the Abruzzi," valued at £lOO, stand at the
head of the Lat. The other leading prizes are Mr. Bod-
dingtan's "Morning on the Usk," Mr. Hayller's "Stitch
in Time," Mr. Patten's " Protracted Return," Mr. Luker's
" Council of Bedouins," Mr. Lupton's scene On the
Conway," Mr. Shayer's "Carting Timber in the New
Forest," and Mr. Shalders's view " Near rorking.', Of
the few sculptured works the chief is Mr. Brodie's bust
" Sunshine." The prizes for the current year include. m
,r.,
W, C. Marshall's statue of the "Dancing Girl reposing"
(valued at 700 guineas), now to be seen in the International
Exhibition.

POPULATION AND REPRESENTATION.—The cen-
sus of last year supplies the means of stating more accu-
rately than for some years past the proportion of popula-
tion to representation. It shows the following facts at the
date of the census :—ln the English counties (exclusive of
the boroughs), one M.P. to every 71.423 persons ; in the
English boroughs, one to every 15,557 persons; in the
Scottish counties, one member to every 60,606 persons.
So that people in the English boroughs have not far from
three times as many members to represent them as people
in the counties.

of members of the Elswick
ogn Saturday. For the enjoy-
Vyilliam Armstrong hospitably entertained a
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ment and delectation of the guests ample provision was
made at his mansion at Jesmond. Sir 'William Was present
and took part in the interesting proceeding's.
DEATH OV MR. ROSS, C.E.'--Tiais gentleman,
who was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
and many years connected with some of the earliest and
largest railway works in this collntry, but more recently
with railway enterprise in Canada, where he constructed
the great bridge over the St. Lawrence at Montreal, one of
the most gigantic railway Works abroad, died on Friday
last at Kensington, at the age of 58.

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" The calculations for the determination of the liabilities
under these contracts were commenced some months since,
and, by using very great efforts, have been completed in
time for the meeting, although the account was closed only
on the 30th June last.
" Every possible precaution has been taken to insure
strict accuracy, and to assign to each its proper value. The
result of the whole will be seen in the following account,
which exhibits, at one view the whole of the Company's
assets and liabilities as they existed on the 30th June 'of
this year :

BALANCE SHEET.
LIABILITIES,
lES,
Interest due to proprietors ...........
Claims on decease of lives assured, sand
additions thereto unpaid ......... 56,983 2 5
Cash bonus, due to policyholders . ,
..•
••••
Sundry accounts. 683 4 8
Value of sums assured, ikc (18P4
...... 4,454 9 4
Proprietors' fund ..... ,Ll 9: ...... 4,694,810 14 0
Surplus fund as above 636,312 10 0
,042 14 4

£3,48012 9