The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-04 00:00:00

DERBY.

The committee to inquire into this petition met this
morning at eleven o'clock—Mr. Ingham, chairman.
Mr. James, Q.C., appeared for Mr. Veymouth, the
petitioner ; and Mr. Sergeant Wrangham for the sitting
member. _ _ _

Mr. James, in opening the case for the petitioner,
stated that a few days before the election Mr. Henry
Cox had an interview with Major Beresford at the
Carlton Club, and then Major Beresford wrote the letter
which had since obtained so much notoriety ; thatletter
was transmitted to Mr. Frail, and brought a person
named Morgan to Derby. The money which had been
used for the purpose of bribery had also been obtained,
on the strength of that letter, from the firm of Cox
Brothers, with whom Mr. Horsfall was con-
nected. On the arrival of Morgan he gave
his card to Taylor, the landlord of the County
Tavern, to be taken to Cox 'Brothers' lead works,
and this card was directed as ordered in Major
Beresford's letter. A gentleman named Hilbock was
sent for from Nottingham by Mr. Thirsk, the recognised
agent of Mr. Horsfall, and the expenses guaranteed by
him under the pretence of suspecting foul play on the
opposite side. It was found at the election that from the
number of violated promises, a system of secret bribery
existed. The police went to the room which had been
engaged by Morgan, and found him there with a large
sum of money and a list of voters on his person, and
the man who kept the door was one of the men who had
been brought by Hilbock from Nottingham. The good
and safe man had not been wanted to prevent persona-
tion on the other side, as had been alleged, inasmuch as
he was a total stranger in Derby, and also that he had
never been seen in the town at all, and even if
he had known the person of the voters he could hardly
in his back room at the Country Tavern have prevented
personation. The money found on Morgan came from
the lead works of Cox Brothers ; it was carried to Mor-
gan by a man named Lund, to whom it was given by
William Thomas Cox, and he believed that he would be
able to prove Cox to be an agent of Mr. Horsfall. The
seat was claimed by Mr. Heyworth, on the ground that
he could prove a greater number of persons bribed than
the majority by which he had been defeated.
Mr. Jones then called Thomas Hunter, who remem-
bered, the night before the election, at the King's-head
Tavern, hearing some partizans of Mr. Horsfall say that
they had loads of money, and were sure to win.
The case was proceeding when our report left.

ANOTHER BREAK DOWN or Yin AIISTRALIAN.—The
Australian, mail steamer, left Plymouth yesterday morn-
ing at nine o'clock, and returned again about noon, in
consequence of the discovery of some defect. She was
expected to leave to-day at nine a.m. The Hellespont
sailed yesterday evening for Australia. Her Majesty's
ship Sanspareil arrived from Lisbon at five p.m., yes-
terday.
THE INDIA AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The mails
which were made up this morning at the General Post-
office and dispatched via Southampton per steam-ship
Indus for Egypt, India, China, and Australia, were the
largest that have as yet been forwarded, comprising no
fewer than 163 boxes, besides several bags, these include
the letter portion of the mails that were on board the
steam-ship Australia, and which have been forwarded by
the Overland India Mail via Singapore, from which place
they will be forwarded to their destination, the heavier
parcels, consisting of newspapers, publications books,
&c., will be forwarded by.,the Australian mail-packet
via the Cape of Good Hope.
ENGINEERING IN THE ROYAL NAvy.—A correspon-
dent of a Mining paper says that some time since the
Admiralty were so alarmed at the attacks from the public
press at the deficiency of skill displayed in the steam
engineering department of the Royal Navy, that they
offered the engineering chief of one of the private steam-
packet companies a salary of 2,000/. a year to enter into
the service of the Government. The offer was declined.
ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—An
accident of a serious nature occurred early this morning,
near to the Merstham station, on the South-Eastern
Railway. A luggage train ran into a ballast train,
whereby several persons were severely injured—two
seriously so. All 'trains were detained at Redhill for an
hour or two.

GENERAL MINING COMPANY OF JAMAICA.—At the
half-yearly meeting of the Liguanea and General Min-
ing Company of Jamaica, held yesterday, the report was
adopted. The principal point of operations was stated
to be at Riverhead, where five Europeans and 50 na-

tives were engaged, a promising lode of copper having
been found in that place. No other important disco-
veries had been made. From the cash account it ap-
peared that the total receipts were 21,6221., and that the
balance at the bankers' was 1,0681,
The .GUA FRIA COMPANY state that they have re-
ceived advices from California to the 14th of January,
and that as these makes no mention of any destruction
by floods of the mills of the Gold-hill Company, with
which they are connected, they consider the recent in-
telligence to that effect to have been unfounded. Their
operations, however, were wholly suspended from the
state of the season.

ARRIVALS OF GOLD.—Advices have been received
from Constantinople to the 17th of February, in which
it is stated that 80,0001, in gold had been shipped for
England on board the City of London steamer, which
was to sail on the 19th. This remittance was in con-
nexion with the liquidation of the liabilities of the Bank
of Constantinople. The shipments of specie by the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Indus amount to
95,7441., of which 81,7341. is silver for Bombay and
Calcutta. The only large shipments of gold are 6,2401.
for Alexandria, and 5,0001. for Ceylon.
GOLD.—The Roxburgh Castle, now in the East India
Docks, has brought over a splendid sample of gold. A
large quantity has been delivered to Messrs. E. Moses
and Son, who have now in their window, in Aldgate, a
portion of it, in "nuggets" of various sizes ; one is sup-
posed to be worth nearly 2001.
NEW TRIALS IN CRIMINAL CASES. —Yesterday Mr.
Butt's bill to make further provision for the granting
of new trials in criminal courts was issued, There are
35 clauses in the bill, and one of them is that a judge
may appoint a reporter in capital cases to take the evi-
dence. It will surprise many that the bill at present is
only to extend to Ireland. •