The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-17 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON, MON'TDAY EVE

Average Amount.
Oxfordshire Witney Bark Witney—Williams
Clinch, and Co
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 46,558
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 11,428
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—Messrs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and Simpson 11,445
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—simonas and Co 38,001
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
42.778
Co
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 6,376
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co 5,‘241
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson
Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot-
ner and Son
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 15,966
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 16,694
Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 21,835
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
14,158
Co
Ross 61d Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Allaw!), 4,284

10,160

9,614

Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co 18,377
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and 23,773
Co
Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews-
bury—Adaras, Adams, and Co 8,363
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and Co. . 38,625
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Valiance and Son
4,1113
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Son 17,625
Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co.
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 2,768
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,185
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and
King - 9,0'
_ __ _ _ _ -

Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 6,945
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co 16,453 •
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,448
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
17,564
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co. 25,719
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-
son and Stuart 2,296
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs.Badeock 28,867
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
13,130
Co
Thornburg Bank, Thornburg—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and Barne
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 11,103
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
16,173
Co
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co. 25,265
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 11,744
Warwick and Warwickshire Bauk, Warwick—
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 29,342
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,
Brothers 4,097
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co.
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co

Wincliester Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co 5,453
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co.
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock ...
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender:
I land Co. . 13,316
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, techmere, and Co. 87,031
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner 12,521
Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil-
kinson

'9,765

5,515

Leeds

Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-CharlesFoster and
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster-
Everett and Co.
Wrexham Bank, Wrexham-J. and S. Kenrick 2,655
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,605
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten
York Bank. York-Swaim. Clough, and Co 46,164
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal ..
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 51,109
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford .... ....
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield :
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington . .
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 16,401
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
Carlisle 25,093
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,797
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley 37,193
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 20,003
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 147,753
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 17,390
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,964
Hull Banking Company, Hull 27,520
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 14,312
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax 39,665429
Helston Banking Company, Helston l,
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 22,917
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 26,983
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,550
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster ~.. 64,529
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,143
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company,

Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 396
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,143
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 29,589
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham _ 26,096

Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 77,139
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 58,432
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 79,453
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
a
mpton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 58,775
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-
c
ester
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 3,190
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 36,112
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
-353,914
port
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ...
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Corn
pany, Stourbridge .................. 56,554
Sheffield and liallamshiro Banking Company,
Sheffield . 19,927
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, Sheffield
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
..... 51 480
Richmond ..
.................. ,
Stockton and Durham County Banking Com-
pany, Stockton......
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company,
Shaftesbury .........................................
855
. 9,600
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ...
Suffolk Banking Company, Ipswich
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com-
LieamingEtiza. ..
parry, Wolverhampton
i ii_t,Wakefielde Warwick.
aannad BarnsleyL
eteu
a 4 i
g tc Union
Banking
n k ,
uoni Wakefieldp a y ,
West hoc en Joint-Stock Rankin.. Company,
Whitehaven ' ,-,
13,712
31 810
4. .. ....
BUJ*, Bxisiia Il's and South Wales District
79,902

Averal

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;e Amount

Wilts and :Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 74,151
West Ridit ig Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfiekl
Whitchur e h and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitch Larch
Woreestw City and County Banking Company,
Worcester , 6,754
York Uni.on Banking Company, York
York City and County Banking Company, York 94,845
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
114,038
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, May 8, 1847.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 15.
IMPORTANT CASE.-CHILTON V, THE LONDON AND

CROYDON RAILWAY COMPANY.

This was an action for assault and false imprisonment.
Sir F. Thesiger. Mr. Sergeant Channel, and Mr.
Peacock, appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Kennedy
for the defendants.
Sir F. THESIGER stated that Mr. Chilton, who is one
of her Majesty's counsel, on the evening of the 15th of
October, 1845, took a ticket to proceed from Sydenham,
where his family resided, to London, by the Croydon
Railway, in a first-class carriage. 11 e was very well
known to the officers, and there was no difficulty in iden-
tifying him. Mr. Chilton lost his ticket, and stated the
fact upon his arrival at the London terminus to Smith,
au officer of the company. He offered to pay one shilling,
which is the fare from Sydenham to London, but Smith
insisted upon having Is. 3d., being the whole fare from
Croydon to London, which Mr. Chilton refused to pay,
whereupon Smith gave him into the custody of a police-
officer. Mr. Chilton refused to go without being forced
to do so, whereupon the constable laid his hands upon
him. and Mr. Chilton said that was sufficient, and he
would go with the officer, and he accordingly went to
the station-house. Mr. Chilton, fearing that his
family might be alarmed at his absence, offered to
pay the Is. 3d., which Smith refused to re-
ceive, and insisted on the charge being taken.
The charge was entered, " For having rode in a
railway carriage without paying his fare." It happened
that a Mr. Roberts, a solicitor, was passing by, who,
knowing Mr. Chilton, offered to become bail, which was
accepted. Mr. Chilton having been detained about halt
an hour. The next morning Mr. Chilton attended be-
fore a magistrate, who made an order for the payment
of Is. 3d., but afterwards rescinded it, feeling that he
had not the power to make such an order. On the 17th
of October Mr. Chilton wrote to the company, com-
plaining of Smith's conduct in the matter, and request-
ing that the by-law, which was supposed to give such
power to the company, should be abrogated. This,
however, was refused. Much correspondence followed,
and ultimately Mr. Chilton brought his action. The
defendants pleaded, first, not guilty ; and, secondly,
justification under the by-laws. To this last plea the
plaintiff demurred, and the Court, upon argument held
the plea to be bad. This state of facts came out in
evidence before the Court yesterday.
The CHIEF BARON suggested to the defendants to
apologise.
Mr. KENNEDY, however, declined to do this, and ad-
dressed the jury, observing that the arrest was made by
the defendants' officer, upon the belief that the by-laws
of the company gave him that power, and the company
always conceived they had that power, until the Court
upon the decision respecting the demurrer, declared that
they had Rot. The power, however, was necessary, not
only for the benefit of the company, but fcr the security
of the public, and the Company would go to Parliament
to get the power.
The CHIEF BARON, in summing up, :expressed his
belief that Parliament never would grant the power in
question, as it was one which no body of men ovght to
possess over the subjects of this realm.
The jury returned to consider their verdict, and after
a lengthened consultation, name into Court, and returned
a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 5001.

QUEEN'S BENCH, May 15.
WALLINGTON V. LAMBERT.

This was an action to recover a sum of money from
the defendant, Sir H. Lambert, of Oxfordshire, as a
director of the Great Welsh Junction Railway Company,
in respect for maps prepared for that railway by the
plaintiff. The defendant's liability was not established,
as he was only a director conditionally, and the jury
returned a verdict for the defendant.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before Baron ALneasox.)
Edmund Garbett, a man of very respectable appear.
ance, was indicted for forging the acceptance to a bill of
exchange for 50L, with intent to defraud William Booth.
This case appeared to excite a more than usual interest,
owing, perhaps, to the extraordinary circumstances
under which the prisoner was committed for trial. It
will be recollected that at the last assizes at Kingston,
an action was brought by a person named Blagney,
against Mr. Booth, to recover the amount of the above
bill of exchange, alleged to have been accepted by him.
The defence was, that the acceptance in question was a
forgery; and to prove that fact the prisoner was put in
the box, when his evidence was of so extraordinary a
nature as to induce the Learned Judge, before whom the
case was tried (Lord Denman), to conclude that the wit-
ness had himself forged the acceptance, and he was ac-
cordingly committed to take hie trial on that charge.
Mr. Martin now appeared as counsel for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Montague Chambers for the prisoner.
Mr. MARTIN having briefly stated the case on the part
of the prosecution, proposed, in the first instance, to
read a copy of the short-hand writer's notes of the evi-
dence given by the prisoner on the above trial.
Mr. CHAMBERS strongly objected to this evidence
being received. The evidence that a man gave in a
civil action could not afterwards be made use of against
him in a prosection for felony.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON, however, thought it would be
better to receive the evidence than to reject it, bemuse
if it were rejected there would be an end of it. If, how-
ever, he did wrong in receiving it, he would be set right
by the other judges, for whose future decision he would
reserve the point.
The notes were then put in and read. The most
material part of the prisoner's evidence on that occasion
was to this effect :—That the acceptance in question was
not in the handwriting of William Booth ; that he knew
who it was accepted by having been present at the time,
and when asked to name the party, he said, " I am in
the hands of the Court," and he declined to answer any
questions on that point, whereupon he was committed by
Lord Denman, as already stated. The next evidence
was that of the prosecutor.
William Booth, who stated that he was a farmer, and
resided in Shropshire. He had known the prisoner
about fifteen years. When he first knew him he was
clerk to an attorney, residing at Wellington, but at the
expiration of his articleship he set up in business for
himself, and afterwards went into partnership with a
person named Dulling. In the year 1846 witness em-
ployed the prisoner in several professional transactions.
(He here stated the nature of them at great length.)
Ile only material part of his evidence in chief was that his
acceptance to the bill in question was not in his hand-
writing, and that he never, directly or indirectly, au-
thorised the prisoner to accept for him.
The witness was cross-examined at great length by
Mr. Chambers as to other bills. He admitted his know-
ledge that the prisoner had accepted several other bills
in his name, and that he had taken no steps to punish
him for so doing: or to prevent a repetition of such con-
duct, but he denied most distinctly having ever said to the
prisoner, with reference to those bills, " I don't mind
your using my name, providing I don't get into any
trouble." He further stated that at the time when the
.bill in question was issued he did not owe the prisoner
any money. The bill was then put in and read. It was
for 501., dated June, 1846, drawn by the prisoner on, and
purported to be accepted by William Booth, and payable
at three months after date. This was the case on the
part of the prosecution.
Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the jury at great length on
the part of the prisoner ; but the main point of his argu-
ment was that as the prosecutor had received due notice
long before the transaction which gave rise to the present
proceedings, that certain bills purporting to be accepted
by him had been circulated by the prisoner, and had taken
no steps to punish him for making so free with his
name, prisoner might, considering the intimacy that
existed between them, have construed that into an im-
plied authority to continue such conduct, provided the
bills were provided for when they came to maturity.
Implied authority could not be judged of by the mere
denial by the party interested, that he had given it, but
might be inferred by his general conduct in reference to
previous transactions (.4' a similar nature. The question
was one entirely for a. jury to decide. The Learned
Counsel then urged that after the alleged forgery, the
prisoner might have kept out of the way if he pleased,
instead of which he appeared rs a witness on the trial,
the proceedings at which led to his being placed in his
present unfortunate predicanient. In conclusion, he said,
if the jury entertained any doubt upon the case, it was
their duty to give the prisoner the benefit of it. He did
not cal any witnesses.
the jury was whether with reference to previous con-
duct on the part of the prisoner that of the prosecutor
said
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the evideneoef,
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had been such as to give the prisoner any reasonable
ground for supposing that the prosecutor had given him
any right, express or implied, to put his name to Bills of
Exchange, and not whether he had reason to suppose
that the prosecutor would not take steps to punish him
if he did so. returned a
verdict of Guilty. effect indif-
The prisoner heard the verdict with pFr
The jury, after a very short consultation,
courtT h e trial
wasl the
he left the dock. He will not receive sentence upti
decision of the twelve judges is known on the points re-
ference and shook hands with some of his friends before
served for their consideration.
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lington, M.P.,
POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.
a duel.
MARLBOROUGII-STREE7'.
production Mr . e kos Clarkson BELLIGERENT LEctsLATotts.—Lord Viscount Pol-
bfesy s:enghatlinagdviseare,Zl3ileocin by Mr.
for a vearrant against the lion. S. P. Smythe, M.P., of
aCylatorksa,
Bin ham
68, Harley-street, for having sent him a letter with
intent to provoke him to commit a breach of the peace,
be-
lieved that Mr. Smythe intended to provoke him to
tight a duel, and he would establish this point by the
.- by Mr. Smythe to Lord
Isettatteerdwtrhita.tenLord Pollington verily
Pollington, the previous evening. The letter had refer-
ence to a dinner at which Mr. Smythe was to preside,
at Eton.
Mr. BINGIUM, after perusing it, was of opinion that
the letter contained expressions sufficiently offensive to
warrant the belief entertained by Lord Pollington, and
granted a summons against Ur. 51:0411°'