The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS.

The Bankers, Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir-
culation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending May 31. These
returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and
Irish Banks for the same period, and the average circula-
tion of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the
28th May (the nearest date furnished by their returns)'
will give the following results of the circulation of notes in
the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous

onth

rnontn :
May 3, ' May 31,
1862. 1862. Increase'Decrease.
-------Ta 21 2 3 341 20 854 9Cr -------1
Bank of Fivian,..• , , , , J -
.33,03073,879746 3,282,206 358,436
91,568
Private Bjan"ks .....
Joint-stock Banks.. . , , 2,966,608 _ 99,288
Total in England. 27,653,011 27,1T3,719)---- -
549,292
5c0t1and............ 3,966,075 4,609,954) 643,879
Ireland ............ 5,859,325 5,740,894 _ 118,431
United Kingdom. 37,478,411 37,454,5671 ----
. - 23,844

And, as compared with the month endinethe Ist June,
1861, the above returns show an increase of £1,101,856
in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of
£589,064 in the circulation of the United Kingdom
On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve-
ral banks the following is the state of the circulation :
The English private banks are below their fixed
issue .................................... £1,065,702
The English joint-stock banks are below their
fixed issue..

Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,401,451
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue .. £1,860,683
The Irish banks are below their fixed issue .... £613,600

The average stockofl3 ullion held by the Bank of Eng --
land in both departments during the month ending the 28th
a decrease of £291,594 as
May was £16,677 162, being
compared with the previous month, and an increase of
4322,304 when compared with the same period last year.
The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch
and Irish banks during the month ending the 31st May :
Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks.... .... £2,67.3,257
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks ...... 2,159,233

4832,400
Being a increase of £33,71G as compared with the
previous return, anda decrease of £58,038 when compared
with the correopeaulg Period of last year,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—June 30.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sitting at Nisi Prius, before the Lord Chief Justice
Erie and a Special Jury.)

DAVY V. PEMBERTON-LIBEL ON A MEDICAL MAN_

This was an action to recover damages for libel;
and the defendant pleaded not guilty. -
Mr. Lush, Q.C., Mr. Karkslake, Q.C, and Mr.
Honeyman were counsel for the plaintiff • Mr.
Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Garth for the defendant.
Mr. Lush, in opening the plaintiff's case, said it
was one which would require their most serious con
sideration, as it most deeply affected the character
of the plaintiff ; and he must say that of the defen-
dant also. Mr. Davy had for 14 or 15 years been
in practice at Romford as a medical man, in which
town he had the largest share of the business in his
profession. The defendant had also for a consider-
able time lived near Romford, where he cultivated
about 70 acres of land; and in addition to this oc-
cupation, he acted as agent for the management of
the property of his brother, who had assumed the
name of Barnes upon his accession to the estate ;
and for the purpose of this business the defendant
had an office at Mile-end. On the 20th of June
last year ten copies of the libel now complained of
were sent through the post; one of them to
.Mrs.
Davy, the plaintiff's wife, and the others to inti-
mate friends and patients of his, all of them being
posted in London, and all of them having been
written by the same hand. The envelopes, how-
-1 ever, appeared to have been written by a different
hand. The libel was in the following terms :
"A curious incident in the life of a Sawbones. ' Who-
soever lieth with a woman that is a maid,' &c., Leviticus
six., 20. And Nathan said unto Davi(d), Thou art the
man, 2 Samuel xii., 7. The abovementioned Sawbones
had occasion some time ago to attend a maiden lady, living
at or near Brentwood ; and this maiden lady kept only one
servant, who was so curious to know what was going on
in her bed-room, that she took it into her head to look
through the keyhole, and behold she saw the Sawbones in
bed with the maiden lady."
There was not one word of truth in this statement,
from beginning to end, and indeed it was not even
true that the plaintiff had attended any maiden
lady at Brentwood. Immediately the circum-
stances came to the plaintiff's knowledge
he issued a bill, offering £5O reward for the disco-
very of the delinquent, and inquiries were set on
foot, but no clue could be obtained until, on account
of some information which the plaintiff obtained, he
applied to the manager of the County Bank at Rom-
ford. He put one of the envelopes before that gen-
tleman, who at once said, " lam very sorry to tell
you it is the writing of a gentleman who has been
a customer of ours for a long time. It is the writing
of Mr. Pemberton." There could be no possible mo-
tive for the defendant wishing to injure the plain-
tiff, except indeed that he was an intimate friend of
a gentleman who was a rival of the plaintiff in busi-
ness, and however insufficient, such a motive was
supposed to be the operative cause. The plaintiff,
however, did not rest satisfied with having obtained
the opinion of the manager of the bank,for he placed
one of the envelopes before another gentleman,who
was employed as clerk in the bank, and asked whose
writing was on it, and he immediately answered,
" Mr. Pemberton's." A person was employed to go
into Mr. Pemberton's office, at Mile-end, and place
one of the envelopes before a person whom he found
there, and who, without a moment's hesitation,
pronounced it to be the defendant's. At this
stage of the proceedings it was thought right to
communicate with the defendant, and accordingly
on October 2 Mr. Clifton, the plaintiff's solici-
tor, wrote to the defendant, stating his regret
that the result of inquiries was the conclusion
that he was the offending party, and asking for the
name of his solicitor. On the 25th Mr. Pemberton's
solicitor replied, stating that he was instructed by
his client to disclaim, in the most positive manner,
any knowledge on his client's part, not only of the
authorship but of the very existence of the letters
themselves and of the circumstances stated in them,
and he requested that the plaintiff would abstain
from mentioning Mr. Pemberton's name in connec-
tion with the matter. There was one singular cir-
cumstance in connection with the denial, and that
was that although the defendant denied any know-
ledge of the existence of the letters, it would be
obvious that he had himself within a day or two
after the bill offering the reward was posted, read
it. The defendant applied to inspect and take pho-
tographs of the libels, and having inspected the
documents his solicitor wrote, saying that his client,
" having examined the letters and envelopes, and
from circumstances that have come to his know-
ledge since the inspection, he has come to the im-
pression that the envelopes, if not the letters, are
in the writing of his eldest son, Robert Pemberton,
who left England for Australia in October, 1861;"
and the writer, in continuation, expressed his deep
regret that he should be led to the conclusion that
any member of his family should have published
the infamous libel of which the plaintiff so justly
complained. Now, it was singular that Mr. Robert
Pemberton, the son, was an undergraduate of Cam-
bridge; he had taken his B.A. degree, and a living
had been purchased for him in the neighbourhood
of Romford, which was worth £BOO a year, and
yet all at once he went to Australia, without being
ordained, or qualifying himself for his profession,
and he went in such haste that he took with him
nothing but a carpet-bag. A commissio%had been
sent over to examine him in Australia, and he stated
most distinctly that neither the letter nor th
e writ-
ing upon the envelopes was in his handwriting, and
added that he never saw or heard of the. documents
until he got to Australia. He also denied that they
were in his father's handwriting.
Witnesses were then called who produced the
letters in question, and also some docuents which
were admitted to be in the defendant's handwri-
ting, and witnesses were also called who expressed
their opinion that there was a great similarity be-
tween the defendant's handwriting and that of the
libels.
The case had not concluded when the Court rose.
(After Term Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall,
before Mr. Justice Keating and a Common Jury.)
SOFFE V. MARTINHALE.—SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A

MEDICAL ASSISTANT.

This was an action for libel. The defendant
pleaded first, not guilty, and secoadly, a justifica-
tion.
Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. T. Chitty were
counsel for the plaintiff. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and
Mr. 1). Keane were for the defendant.

Sergeant Parry, in stating the plaintiff's
case, said he was a young man about 24 years of
age, who had been educated for the medical profes-
sion, and for the last five years had acted as
assistant to Mr. Prince, surgeon, of Sawston, in the
Linton Union, Cambridgeshire, who was also
medical officer to the union. The defendant, who
is a gentleman of considerable landed property,
also resides in the same parish. On the 22d Feb-
ruary last Mr. Prince was called on to attend a
young woman named Harriet Townsend at the
house of her mother, who was in poor and humble
circumstances. That gentleman sent the plaintiff,
and on nailing at the mother's house, he found the
girl in bed suffering from measles. He went up
stairs in company with the mother, and found her in
' a small dark room. She was suffering, as was stated,
from measles and a sore throat; and as diptheria was
very prevalent he requested her to get out of bed and
come to the window that he might the better be
able to examine her throat. She was got out of
bed, and in addition to her long night-dress her
mother wrapped her up in a blanket. The plain-
tiff asked for a spoon with which to depress the
tongue, and the mother fetched it, being absent
only a few seconds. After examining the throat
he desired the mother to put her to bed and
keep her warm, and he left before the girl got into
bed. After this the mother received an intimation
that the defendant wished to see her and on her
calling on him he questioned her relative to the
plaintiff's conduct towards her daughter. She re-
plied that the plaintiff's conduct was not indecent
towards her daughter ; that her daughter's person
was not exposed, and that the plaintiff had not used
abusive and indecent language to her. All she
complained of was, to use her own expression, he
,4 pulled her daughter out of bed full of the measles."
The mother, it appeared, felt some annoyance to-
the plaintiff in having the girl in her then state
taken out of bed, and his remark relative to her
dirty feet. On the 4th of March the defendant
wrote a letter to the Rev. Mr. Daniell, vicar of
Sowston, and one of the guardians, containing the
libel in question, which was in the following
terms:-
4, Rev. Sir,—Mrs. Townsend has been to me to
complain of the medical officer's assistant's extreme
gross, indelicate, and abusive conduct to her daugh-
ter. I refer her to you, and request
your capacity of guardian and vicar of
to lay such disgusting treatment immediatelytchair-
the board. I shall also myself write to
articulars,
man of the board, and give him
_thefeoreP
t hem."
and, if necessary, take the woman .b
if replied that the
To that letter the Rev. Mr. Daniell
the
eTaerfoisrhe
him to an indi-
defendant ought not to complain
vidual guardian, but to t do so ; and on the
board. The defendant did
the letter to the plain-
Rev. Mr, Daniell handinug e _
makon ois complaint to the
d his legal adviser to
tiff, he immediately Application was made
ample apology; but the
bring the matter
for a retractation_ ando
comply
The plaintiff after that
defendant
askedrefusedtthe
defendant for an apology, upon
to acnaninsssue.
personally
i atened to expose him to the clergy-
which he
atdloeining.parish. The plaintiff attributed
this illfeeling on the part of the defendant to his
ng at a meeting which the
(plaintiff's)t had called in reference to certain cha-
rities, presided.To and over which he show the
interfering
feeling of the defendant towards the plaintiff,
he wrote to the College of Surgeons to know if the,

plaintiff's name was on the books, and on receiving
an answer that it was not, he showed the letter
about the parish with a view to further damaging
• d.
his stud ies.
the plaintiff's character. The answer to that was
that the plaintiff had not yet finished
The learned counsel asked the jury to give the
plaintiff exemplary damages.
The Rev. Mr. Daniell was called and proved the
receipt of the letter produced.
Cross-examined—l had had a difference with
the defendant about this time. He thought I had
cist imputations on him. I explained to the de-
fendant and apologised conditionally. On the Ist
of March the mother complained to me of M. r.
Prince's not attending her daughter after hann, 6
an order from the overseer to do so. I said, i
have no power over him," and I asked her it the
plaintiff would not do as well. She said, "I 11
not have him. He has behaved indecently to 13:1
daughter in pulling her out of bed full of the
measles." She did not say it was done whilst she
was I
in the room, neither did she imply it.
did not ask her any particulars. I referred her to
the board. I did not show the libel complained of
to the board, but I did to the relieving officer. I
afterwards handed the letter to the plaintiff. I was
not then on good terms with the defendant.
Re-examined-4 did not see any letter from the
defendant to the board. I did not believe the libel
to be true from knowing the character of the
per"
son who wrote it. The mother made no particular
charge against the plaintiff.
The farther hearing of the case was adjourned.

EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY AT

SHEFFIELD:

At the Sheffield Town-hall on Saturday, a pro-
fessor of the mystic art of fortune-telling was charged
with obtaining money from a number of persons,
under the pretence of telling their fortunes. The
accused was named Henry Simmonite, and lived
with a brother, who keeps a druggist's shop in
Corporation-street. Visits were made by the
credulous dupes, ostensibly for drugs, perfumes, &Co
but the prisoner carried on his business in a
private room at the back of the shop, where he kept
his astrological library and instruments, wherewith
to read and rule the planets. On Friday last the
police laid a trap for the ruler of the planets, into
which he fell with somewhat surprising precipita-
tion. Two women of respectable appearance were
commissioned to visit the astrologer, and elemand.e,
peep into the secrets of futurity. The women Vila
a shilling each, and Mr. Simmonite then consulted
his books, and communicated the result of his ex
aminations. Mrs. Norton, one of the visitors was
gravely told that her husband had left Sheffield,
with a " dozy." Mrs. Norton asked if he would
come back, and' the astrologer, having again con-
suited his oracles, declared that though be " Wss
~
not like the police," if the errant husband did not
come back, he could fetch him. A similar atoll
was told to the other woman. The women had
some trouble to keep a decent gravity of
meanour, the fact being that both had ldei'
their husbands at home with their respec-
tive families. The result of the interview
was the apprehension of the astrologer, Wh°
was lodged in the Town-hall. In his pocket v7O
found a letter from a young lady, evidently one
moving in a highly respectable position, containing
a number of questions respecting love and marriage,
&c., which she desired the astrologer would answer
speedily. In the prisoner's room was also found a
neatly kept diary, containing the names and ad-
dresses of his " clients," and the matters upon which
they had consulted him. Many of the most respee-
able names in Sheffield appears in this book. The
prisoner, who seemed to consider himself an injured
innocent, was sent to prison for one month
th
hard labour as a rogue and vagabond. The magis-
trate at the same time said that such gross impos-
ture could only be supported by equal gross credu..
lity on the part of the people who resorted to the
prisoner.—Leeds Mercury.

COUNTRY RK E 2
GLOUCESTER—JUNE 28.
t'; h sold
L'
A small supply of wheat from the farmers, 'e;,iry,
at last week's prices. Foreign wheat in moderat xaq
and no advance in price. Barley, beans, and peas t "'—
Oats very dull.

COLCHESTER—JUNE 28. i-et-
To-day there was a small supply of wneat at warn'
trade slow, and late prices were barely supported. Spring
corn inactive, and prices much the same as of late.
Wheat, white 56s 62s Beans, Mazagan .. 35s 38a
red 52s 68s middle & small.3Bs 42s
Barley —s —s Peas, white 38s 42s
0at5........ —F3 —s gray 38s 42s

CHELMSFOI
The prices of wheat to-day
dull. Spring corn at late rate
Wheat, oldldwrhedit.e 44;s 7s
s 455 s
new 42s 59s f

new 47s bss
Barley 30s 39s
Chevalier ..30s 42s
Grinding 24s 32s
Malt.... 61s 67s
Chevalier . 64s 69s
Oats 22s 29s

D-JUNE 27.

were rather lower, and trade
)s, but a slow sale.

Yeas, Partridge- 37s 410
White 39s 42s
Boiling .. 41s 440
Dun 36s 405

Ditto new —s --s
Beans, Tick, old 34s 395
new 34s 390
Harrow Ticks 36s 420
new 36s 410
Mazagan 32s 400

KIRKCALDY GRAIN—JvNE 28.
We had moderate supplies to day of wheat, two pareele,
of barley, and a few oats. Sales ready, at an advance of
is to 2s per qr on wheat, and barley and oats 6d to is Per
qr higher.

Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First....46s Od 2Bs Od I 24s Od
Second ..52s Od 31s:Od 25s Od
Third ....60s Od 40s Od 28s Od

COAL Al
(rioes of Coal per Ton al

ARK ET.

the close of the market

B. d.
Carway and Duffryn
Making
Do. Anthracite 21 0
Lambert's West Hart-

Walls End.
s. d.
Framwellgate ........ 0 C,/
Caradoc ... ..15
K elloe .. ...15 6
South Kelloe. ...
.. 15 6
Hetton .... 16 6
. ..
Trimdon Hartlepool ..15
Hedley 14 0
0
Heugh . . l5
Wharneliffe l4 0
~
Bre.ddylPs Hetton l5
Cassop ...... 15 9
Hartlepool.. ......... 15
South Hart1ep001......14
, 119 ; sold, 55.

ley 15 3
North Pelton Gas 12 3
ranfield Moor 13 0
Eden Main 15 0
Walker Primrose 11 6
Buddle' s West Hartley 15 3
Byass's Bebside West
Hartley ....15 3
Hastings Hartley 15 3
Cowpen Hartley 15 3
Ships at markel

FOR.EIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE. 0.
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton July
via Marseilles July 13.
drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet . July t•
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Aug• 01.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.JWY ''
via Marseilles ... J 11137 ~' '
Falkland Islands July ..
Gibraltar, via Southampton July --'
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton July 2,.-,
via Marseilles July lo
India (Bombay), via Southampton July ''''
via Marseilles July ---•
Lisbon
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton...... July -_-.
•
via Marseilles ........ July b
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo . ............ .. July 1.
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet
by Can PackeatckA..July 2.
•
by Canadian P
..... July 10.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira and Tenerifie
"• June
July 3.
...... July 3.
Bahamas, via New York ...................... June 28.
Mexico. ......................... .• a ,
June 28.
California, and British C01umbia........ bla
_______--------__7_---.
All parts of West Indies, incluradta.g.C..ll.
... . l'..e.r.u' 1

_____ --
13IRTHS.
EnsKINE.—On the 27th June, at Victoria-street, West-
thHearlWeyif-estorfeeSt:
minster, the wife of Mai
r the Hon. E. T. Erskine, of a
son.
.n... the_ll 2
t7ht he June,29th
June,
nWe , o oaltw i2c9h, ,
H. Moore, 9
B sq. R.N., of a daughter.
Cavendish-square, Mrs. A. C. MacLarenof
) a son.
MARRIAGES.
MIVI:CLE::::

NKS—COCKERELL.—On the 28th June,'at Lower Nor-
wood,— Walter James, eldest son of James Franks, Esq.,
of Upper Norwood, to Lavinia, second daughter of Geo.
Joseph Cockerell, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middle-
sex, of Upper Sydenham-hill,

HORNER—Max.—On the 28th June, at St. George'B9
Bloomsbury, Charles M. Horner, to Jane, the youngest
daughter of Mr. Wm. Hale, Kinburn.

DEATHS.
BUCKINGHAM.—OR the 28th June, at Stowe, Mali'
Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, aged 66.
CARTER.—On the 28th June, at Matlock, Dr. DIA Carter,
R.N., of 79, Packington-street, Islington, aged 40.
DRAKE.—On the 28th June, at 3, Queen-street, Mayfair'
James William Drake, Esq., aged 52.
HALL.—.On the 26th June, Mr. Wril. Hall, of 22, King
William-street, Strand, aged 55.
LEIFCHILD.—On the 29th June at his residence, the Rev'
Tii
street,E O e 34poa Rr
Park
arrn, -e
John Leifchild, D.D., aged 82'.
62.
of 106, Fenchurch-street.
°S
Roberttthe
28Tt hh
r oJuneckm ratto Herefordnl,4l3Jart. , ag aged
W;Lsoisr.—On the 29th Juno, at 2, Haverstock-terrace,
Henry James Wilson, Esq ,

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