The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-21 00:00:00

711 E SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1841.

1 THE ACTION AGAINST THE
" TIMES" NEWSPAPER.
(From the Times.)
BOGLE V. LAWSON.

If we are dcirous that attention thould be directed to
the ease of" Bogle v. Lawson," which was tried at Croy-
don before Lord Chief Justice Tindal on Monday last, it
is not from any dispOsition to obtrude upon public notice
matters in which we are ourselves personally concerned.
The occasion would call for remark, even if we were not
so immediately interested in it as we are. It is seldom
that proceedings have taken place in a Court of Justice
better calculated to illustrate, on the one hand, the na-
tional benefit of an independent press, and, on the other,
the risks, difficulties. harassing expenses, and formidable
responsibilities which those who conduct the public press
must be prepared to encounter, if they are determined
fearlessly and impartially to discharge their duty.
It is now fifteen months since we received from a cor-
respondent at Brussels, on whom we had reason to place
implicit reliance, copies of a judicial examination which
had then lately taken place in Belgium, and of certain
letters which hail been intercepted by the police of that
country. These documents furnished us with the parti-
culars of a most singular and extensive conspiracy f;ir
fraudulent purposes, in which various persons of name
and influence, Englishmen as, well as foreigners, ap-
peared to be implicated. The papers. left doubt upon
our minds as to the guilty participation in the scheme of
eleven individuals, two only of whom were then in the
hands of justice.
That our readers may understand fully the importance
to the commercial world of a complete and searching ex-
posure of this infamous affair, we will here mention a
few of the prominent facts which were proved or ad-
mitted upon the recent trial. Of the conspirators, one
was a French Marquis, most respectably connected by
marriage in this country. Another was a Baron, the
son of a most distinguished General of the empire and
Peer of France. The third was a Count. The fourth
was a Scotch gentleman, most highly connected, who for
many years had represented the county of Stirling in
Parliament ; and the fifth was his. son. The principal
partner of a banking-house in high credit at Florence
was asserted to be a sixth; and besides these there were
numerous other 'inferior agents and accomplices, both
male and female. Such were the circumstances and po-
sition in society of the parties, and it must be admitted
that a More formidable banditti, or one against which it
would be more difficult for men of business to be upon
their guard, never was organised.
These parties, having settled their plan of operations,
resolved to attach the commercial world in the tenderest
point. Every one knows what wonderful facilities
have been given of late years to travellers upon the
Continent, through the medium of circular letters of
credit from the principal bankers of London. Such is
the reputation of British commerce in every part of'
the world, so. universally known and appreciated are
the, stability and punctuality in business of the
great London houses, ,that a letter of credit
from Messrs. Coutts and Co., or Messrs. Glyn
and Co. is as readily recognized and as unhesitatingly
honoured in Alexandria or Smyrna, as if it were pre-
sented in Lombard-street or the Strand. But the very
circumstances which make this letter-of-credit system so
great an accommodation to the traveller, make it also
peculiarly open to the machinations of fraud, it being al-
most impossible that everyone of the thirty or forty firms,
in different cities to whom every circular letter of credit
is addressed (and to the great majority of whom no one
letter is likely to be presented), should in every case be
advised of the fact that such a letter has been issued by
the London house. Money, therefore, is unavoidably
advanced upon these letters, in the ordinary course of
business, without advice ; and flir this reason the Marquis
de Bourbel and his companions determined to carry on
their fraud by means of forged letters of credit. We
need hardly remark, that in proportion as the present
facilities of travelling are valuable to the public, and in
proportion also to the difficulty of' guarding against this
description of fraud, it was important that a conspiracy
which threatened, if carried much further, to discredii
circular letters altogether, should be unsparingly exposed,
The conspirators having selected Messrs. Glyn,. Hali-
fax, Mills, and Co., as the firm whose name they should
use (no British banking firm having. a more extensive
mercantile connection), succeeded in possessing them-
selves of one of their genuine letters of credit, anal in
producing so perfect an imitation, both of' the body of the
letter and of the signature, that one of the partners of
that house, when placed in the witness-box on Monday
last, was at first unable to distinguish between the forgery
and a genuine letter. With this instrument, multiplied
by numerous copies, they carried on their schemes of de-
predation with surprising rapidity, and had they not been
wholly deficient in caution, might have escaped detection
for a much longer -period than they did. The deposi-
tions put in at the trial proved that, within the space of
a few days, they succeeded in obtaining, upon these
forged letters of credit, upwards of 10,0001.
It cannot be necessary for us to go into any further
details to show that, as journalists enjoying an extensive
circulation in this great commercial country, we should
have been greatly wanting to our duty if we had ne-
glected to give ptiblicity to the facts relative to so unpre-
cidented a conspiracy, as soon as they came to us in an
authentic form ; and more especially to the names of
the guilty parties. Least of all should we have been
justified in suppressing the name of a person situated like
Bogle (the plaintiff in the late action), at the head of a
banking establishment of credit and connection in the
mercantile world, after satisfying ourselves of his guilt
upon evidence sufficient to produce moral conviction in
any unprejudiced mind. We did so satisfy ourselves,
and we published his name accordingly—whether upon
insufficient grounds we leave to be inferred from the ver-
dict of the jury, which has t:timated Mr. Bugle's cha-
racter at the value of one farthing.
We feel that, under these circumstances, we may fairly
take to ourselves the praise of having done some service
to the public by the disclosures which involved us in the
recent vexatious and costly proceedings. If so, we are
entitled to ask, if it is not unjust and unreasonable that
a journalist, who does no more than his duty in a case of
this sort, should be put to the alternative of either de-
ceiving the public and promoting the designs of thieves
by, recanting statements in which all the mercantile
world is interested, which he has published upon clear
evidence, and which he knows to be true, or else of being
forced, at his own expence, to trace out and collect the
legal proofs of a mass of transactions distributed all over
the continent of Europe, in the face of unparalleled diffi-
culties of every kind ? For more than a year have we
been engaged in making preparations for this trial ; and
law has done its worst to bully us into submission. Let
our solicitor tell his own tale :—" Mr. Dobie was exa-
mined by Sir W. Follett: Is the acting attorney for the
defendant in this case. Ile went abroad on the 10th of Au-
gust, 1840, for the purpose of collecting evidence.
Visited for that purpose, Paris, Brussels, Ostend, Genoa,
Turin, Bologna, Florence, Parma, Cologne, Liege, Ghent,
Antwerp, and Coblentz. He visited all the principal
towns on the Continent, where forgeries had been com-
mitted and bankers had been robbed. He made fre-
quent attempts to procure the original letters. Applied
several times to the Garde des Sceaux, but did not at
first obtain any answer from him. The Procureur du
Roi said it was impossible to have the use of the original
letters."

The greatest hardship of all consists in this, that after all
the trouble and expense to which we have been put, and
after obtaining what every man, woman, and child,
knows to be virtually a verdict in our favour, we are
still debarred, in the present state of the English law,
front that common measure of justice which gives a de-
fendant, harassed by groundless litigation, a claim upon
his adversary for his costs of suit. We do not complain
of the nominal verdict for the plaintiff ; it was the neces-
sary result of the rule of law which compelled the jury
(as instructed by the .Learned Judge) to exclude from
their consideration those letters of the conspirators,
Bourbel and Graham, in which Bogle's name was men-
tioned, and upon which our own conviction of Bogle's
guilt was originally grounded. We do not allege that
there was direct evidence sufficiently clear to have con-
victed Bogle, had he been then placed on his trial for a
criminal offence ; but we do insist that, in a case where
the Jury decide that-the plaintiff's character had sus-
tained no injury, the defendant is morally and equitably
entitled to his costs, whatever may be the formal ver-
dict ; and if the Legislature does not wish to throw im-
pediments in the way of the discharge of the most useful
functions of the press, we are entitled to demand and
expect protection for the future against such unreason-
able liabilities as those to which the recent action has
shown us to be exposed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT—Croydon, August 20.

STAKES, CLERK, V. JOINT STEWART, EARL OF DARNLEY,

SAVAGE, AND OTHERS!.

This was a feigned issue to try the liability of certain
lands in the parish of Cobham, in Kent, to the payment
of tithe to the Vicar. The declaration, charged that the
lands in question were liable to the payment of tithe in
kind,' the defendants. pleaded they were not, and upon
this issue was joined.
Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Channel!, Mr. Peacock,
and Mr. Smith, were for the plaintiff ; Mr. Platt, Mr.
Chambers, and Mr. Bremwell, for the defendants.
Mr. THESIGER stated the case, _

When the Learned JUDGE intimated that from the
nature of the case, it was utterly impossible that any
decision come to at the present time could be final, and
as he would not attempt to give a judgment as to the ad-
missibility of such a mass of documentary evidence, he
should, under all the circumstances, feel it to be his duty
to both parties to direct that a special case should be
laid before the Judges ; and he therefore suggested that
this course should be at once adopted, without going into
the evidence, and occupying two or three days at least of
the public time, when no result could be obtained.

After some argument, it was arranged that a verdict
the plaintiff shuuld be taken, subject to a special case.

ROUSE V. FIVAZ.
This was an action of a rather extraordinary cha-
racter to recover the amount of a bill of exchange, by
One John Ashell Lemon, and accepted by the defendant,
for 331. 6s. Bd., and endorsed by the plaintiff.
The defendant pleaded that the bill had been given to
compound a felony, and that, therefore the plaintiff
could not recover upon it.
Mr. Platt and another were for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Thesiger and Mr. ESpinasse for the defimdant. •
Peters, a clerk in the firm of Messrs. Winsborn
and Collett, attorneys, of Chancery-lane, proved the de-
fendant's acceptance. •
Cross-examined—His employers were attorneys for
Mr. Nicholls, to whom the bill was originally given.
John Ashell Lemon, the drawer of the bill in question,
was clerk to Mr. Nicholls, and he was in custody at
upon Charge of embezzlement, Made
aUglatrist hillllant'a
by Mr. :Nicholls. He was in custody till
the 21st of November, and the bill was dated the 23d..
Never• saw or knew the bill to be in the possession of
the plaintiff till it became due. He was aware that
some money transactions took place, and that more
securities were to be given by Lenion.
Mr. TIIESIGER addressed the Jury for the defendant,
and called witnesses.

• Lord Chief-Justice TINDAL, in summing, observed,
that the question the Jury had to decide was one •of a
most important character. The offence of compounding.
.a felony, and this it was which Was imputed by the de-
fendant to have taken place, was of a serious character,
and by the law of England no security was of any' value
that was given for such a purpose, unless the person
holding it had given real consideration for it. The
Jury would have to say whether Rouse was put forward,
nominally, to relieve Nicholls from the effect of the de-
fendant's plea, in which case he would stand in exactly
the same position that he himself would have done; and,
secondly, whether the charge of compounding a fe-
lony had been made out. Undoubtedly if it had been a
mere question of debt, Nicholls would have been justi-
fied in seeking security from Lemon, but it certainly ap-
peared very strange that while the latter was in actual
custody he should have demanded a security for 4001. for
the appearance of Lemon after he was discharged, in
order that he might give other securities to the same
amount.

The Jury, after a minute's deliberation, returned a
verdict for the defendant.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 18.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Lord DEN MAN.)
William Barber, William Parkinson, Thomas Gnarlier,
Samuel Pennington, and Henry Ellis, were indicted for a
burglary, with violence, in the house of Thomas Shaw,
at Poulton-cum-Fearnheed; on the 27th of March last.
Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Monk conducted the prosecu-
tion. Mr. Murphy defended the prisoners Ellis and
Pennington.
It appeared from the evidence of Hannah Barton,
who was the housekeeper of the prosecutor, that she
was awoke on the night of the 27th of March by the
barking of a dog. She then heard the noise of feet
about the door, and a crash, and the sound of fire-
arms. She ran to the window, when a pistol was fired
at her from without, the ball from which grazed her
forehead. Stones were then thrown in, one of
which struck her. She went down stairs to alarm her
master, and a servant-man who slept in the parlour,
when she saw four men there ; she, with some difficulty,
broke the window of a back workshop, and was getting
out, when the prisoner Ellis caught hold of her, and ano-
ther came from the back door, with a weapon in his hand.
She begged them not to hurt her, and they said, if she
got in, they would not, and the man raised his weapon,
and threatened to knock her brains out, if she did not get
in, which she did. While there, two men came from the
parlour, one with a pistol, the other with a dark lantern.
They refused to let her go to her master and the man.
The one with the pistol threatened to blow out her brains
if she attempted it. They remained after this about 20
minutes, and went away, locking the door after diem, and
taking the key away. A dark lantern-slide was found in
the kitchen.
Thomas Shaw, the prosecutor, deposed, that when
the door WAS broken, four men rushed into the parlour,
and with dreadful oaths and threats demanded his mo-
ney. They all seemed to be armed with pistols, and
two had dark lanterns. The servant struggled with one
of them, but they thrust him down in the bed and held
the bolster over him.. Shaw then gave them his purse,
containing about 35/. in gold. They next broke open
the doors and cupboards and took what silver they could
find, with a knife and some other articles. One stood
sentry over the witness with a loaded pistol pointed at •
him, while the others searched the house.
Thomas Sutton, an approver, who was admitted to"
give evidence, stated that he lodged with Pennington in
Parkinson's house, at Chorlton-upon-Medlock, sixteen
miles from Shaw's, and that the robbery was planned
on the 25th of March. The parties set off by different
roads, and met at a stile near the house about ten
o'clock. They then went to a house not far off, and
got some buttermilk, and returned to a heap of maraire
near the house, where they remained about en hour, and
then proceeded to their purpose. The witness then de-
tailed the circumstances already given in evidence by the
housekeeper and theproseeutor, maladded, that when they
got out of the house Pennington had a large watch mid
Parkinson some silver. Barker pulled out 71. 10s. in
gold from his pocket, and Goodier had two large spoons.
They overtook a lad with two horses, upon which they
procured a ride for some distance towards Manchester.
Ile then went toi Parkinson's and to bed. In the evening
he saw Parkinson, who said he had sold the old spoons
for Gs., and gave witness Is. 3d. Some days after he,
George Bibbey, Parkinson, and Ellis went to the railway
station, where they were taken into custody by Jones,
the constable of Warrington.
It appeared from the cross-examination of this witness
that he had been engaged in other expeditions of a simi-
lar nature, but his evidence was nevertheless corrobo-
rated by that of other witnesses in several points.
Jones, the constable, searched Parkinson's house,
where he found two black packs of calico, apparently in-
tended to be used as a disguise, two pistols, two dark-
lanterns, two " jemmies," a large bunch of skeleton keys,
and other instruments of their calling. The " jemmies"
fitted the marks where the- house door:had been forced
open.

Mr. MuttPnY addressed the Jury for Ellis and Pen-
nington, and the other prisoners spoke in their defence.
The case being summed up,
The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
Sentence was deferred, there being five indictments
against them for similar offences.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Bristul, August 19.
The commission was opened here yesterday after-
noon by Mr. Baron Maule, who arrived by the Exeter
Railway from Bridgewater, and was escorted from the
terminus to the Court by ,the usual procession. This
morninfr, at ten o'clock the Court was opened, there
being thirty-nine causes entered, two of which are spe-
cial Jury eases, and will be taken on Saturday.

FATAL MAIL-CART ACCIDENT

IN 'TIIE CITY.

A CLERGYMAN liit.r.Eu.—On Thursday, .whilst Mr.
Payne, the City Coroner, was officiating in his ordinary
duties of Clerk to the Magistrates at Guildhall, he re-
ceived information of the death of the Rev. William Rust
Cobbold, the incumbent of a parish in Hampshire, who
had been killed under the following melancholy circum-
stances :—lt appears that the Rev. Mr. Cobbold, who is
an elderly gentleman, was, shortly after eight o'clock on
Friday ' evening last, crossing from the south to the
north side of Ludgate-hill, nearly opposite to the Belle
Sauvage, at which inn he was staying, when he was
knocked down by the chest of the horse attached to the
Portsmouth mail-cart, and. before the horse could be
pulled up the wheel of the cart passed over him in an
horizontal direction, crushing his right leg and thigh,
and otherwise fearfully injuring his stomach, chest, and
shoulder. City Police-sergeant Evans, 302, who was on
duty near the spot and saw the occurrence, immediately
picked the deceased up, and conveyed him, in an appa-
rently lifeless state, to the shop of Mr. Ponton, surgeon,
of Ludgate-hill, who advised his immediate removal to
his apartments at the Belle Sauvage, where he received
the attentions of several medical men. He lingered in
great agony until. Thursday morning, when he expired
from the dreadful injuries he had sustained. Mr. Payne
has appointed the Inquest to be held yesterday, and the
driver of the mail-cart was taken into custody and
lodged in the Compter, to await the result of the in-
quiry.

INQUEST ON THE BODY.
Yesterday afternoon it lengthened investigation was
entered upon before. Mr. PAYNE, and a highly respect-
able Jury, at the Belle Sauvage Inn, Ludgate-hill, to in-
quire into the circumstances causing the death of the
Rev. Wm. Rust Cobbold.
Geo. Elset. Evans, a sergeant in the City Police Force,
stated, that abouteight o'clock on Friday, the 13th inst.,
he perceived one of the mail carts coming down Ludgate-
hill at a rapid pace, and almost immediately after, the
deceased, who was crossing the street, was struck by the
chest of the
.horse, and the wheel of the cart passed
over his person from the shoulder downwards to the hip.
The driver immediately pulled up, and witness found the
cart to be the Portsmouth mail, and bore the name of
William Chaplin, Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.
The guard who accompanied the. mail bags begged
that the driver might be allo;ved to proceed, the time
allowed to take the bags being limited, which witness
consented to on condition of the guard being responsible
for the driver's appearance. The deceased was then re-
moved to the shop of Mr. Ponton, surgeon, of 42, Lud-
gate-hill, and his injuries attended- to. The deceased,
who told witness that at the time of the accident he was
going to Kennington, was able to walk, with the assist-
ance of a constable, from Mr. Ponton's to his lodgings,
at the Belle Sauvage.
.By a Juror—The streets were almost clear of car-
riages at the time of the accident.
By the CORONER—The driver was on the proper side
of the street, and quite sober. He also expressed much
regret for the accident.
.The cart was going at the rate
of about seven miles an hour. .
After several other witnesses had been examined,
touching the circumstances of the accident, whose evi-
dence, however, was nothing more than a repetition of
Sergeant Evans's,
Mr. Ponton said, that on Friday evening the deceased
was brought into his surgery, and he being from home,
his assistant upon examination found the shoulder
dislocated, which he set, and deceased left. On the fol-
lowing Sunday witness went to deceased's lodgings, and
found that the bone had again slipped from the socket.
He again set it, and on further examination found
two ribs were broken, which he treated according to the
usual practice. He considered death to be caused by
weakness of the constitution arising from the injuries,
and the deceased's extreme old age.
By a Juror—His assistant had not a diploma front
any College, but he considered him perfectly competent
to practice as a surgeon. The deceased being of rather
an obese habit, rendered it more difficult to
.t.liscover the
fracture of the ribs. The dislocated bone might a second
time slip from the socket, on account of the muscular
relaxation, as well as on account of improper bandages.
A gentleman named Morgan, whom we understood to
be a relative of the deceased, identified the body as that,
of William Rust Cobbold, a clergyman residing at Sel-
burn, in Yorkshire. lib asked some questions of Mr.
Ponton concerning his attendance on the deceased, as be
had been informed deceased was under the impression
that the assistant was a principal in the establishment.
He was anxious to investigate the ease thoroughly, as
Mr. Cobbold was at a distance from his friends and rela-
tives at the time, and consequently' rendered the
faithful discharge of the medical, attendants' duty
the more imperative. In justice, however, to
Mr. Mutton, he felt bound to state that the
deceased was on Tuesday visited by Mr. Copeland,
an eminent surgeon, who said he considered he was

then going on well ; however, on Viednesday he got
worse, and expired on Thursday morning. He was
sixty-eight years of age, and, as well as he (Mr. M.)
could perceive, was defective in-neither sight nor hearing.
The_ ConoxLa having summed up, the Jury retired
to a private room, and after a long deliberation re-
turned a verdict that the deceased came by his death
accidentally, but at the same time they should record
their opinion that the deceased had not had. the proper
medical attendance which his cam required.
The driver of the cart, whose name is John Maskell,

was pr3sent during the ingairy,.an,i at its terminatio^
his employer gave him a very -high character for 6o -
briety and steadiness.

LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DOWNING,STREET, Auc. 19, 1841.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right
Honourable Lord Sydenham, Governor-General of Pritish
North America, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the Alost
Honourable Order of the Bath.

DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 20.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Were Hunt-
ley, Esq. Commander in the Royal Navy, to be Lieutenant-
Governor of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulph of St. Law-
rence.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Richard Cle-
ment Moody, Esq. Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, to be
Lieutenant-Governor of the Falkland Islands.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint John Carr, Esq.
to be Chief Justice of the Colony of Sierra Leone and its de-
pendencies.

- The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Charles Zachary
Macaully, Esq., to be Registrar of the Court of First Instance
in the Island of Mauritius.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Francis Cynrie
Sheridan, Esq., to be Treasurer of the Island of Mauritius.
The Queen has alsl been pleased to appoint Alban Charles
Stnnor, Esq., to be Crown Solicitor in Van Diemen's Land.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Peter Fraser,
Esq., to be Treasurer of the Island of Van Diemen's Land.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint John Burnett,
Esq., to be Sheriff of the Island of Van Diemen's Land.

FOREIGN OFFICE, AUGUST 20.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John
Laurence Stoddart, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at
Alexandtia.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint James
Lilburn, Esq., t* be her i%lajesty•s Consul in the Island of
Cyprus. _ _

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Da-
niel Florence O'Leary, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at
Puerto Cabello.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Cap-
tain Charles Elliott. R.N., to be her Majesty's Consul-General
to the Republic of Texas.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Colonel Gustavus Charles Pu Plat to be her Majesty's Consul
at Warsaw.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Col.
Hugh Rose to be her Majestj's Consul-General in Syria.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
henry Suter, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Kaisseriah.

CROWN OFFICE, AUG. .18.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE NEV PARLIAMENT.
Aloninouth (County)—The Right Hon. Granville Charles
Henry Somerset, commonly called Lord Granville Charles
Henry Somerset; Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, of
Trerlegar, in the county of Monmouth, Esq.
Monmouth—Reginand James Blewitt, Esq.

WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 20.
34th Regiment of Foot—Major W. Ogilvy, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Major, vice G. Ruxton, who exchanges;
Brevet Major C. B. Brisbane to be Major, by purchase; vice
Ogilvy, who retires ; Lieut. H. J. Hutton to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brisbane ; Ensign A. C. Robertson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hutton ; Gentleman Cadet 'f.
A. M. Brisbane, from the Royal Military College, to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Robertson, August 20.
50th Foot—Ensign H. J. Frampton to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Parker, who retires ; E. J. Chambers, Gent.,
to bc Ensign, by purchase, August 20.
68th Foot—Lieut. M. R. Campbell, from the 96th Foot, to
be Paymaster, vice L. Bulkley, replaced upon half-pay, Aug. 20.
74th Foot—Lieutenant-General G. Dunlevie, from the 11th
Foot, to be Paymaster, vice R. Davies, retired upon half-pay,
Aug. 20.

96th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon W. Lucas, from the Ceylon
Regiment, to be Surgeon, vice J. Shorland, who retires upon
half pay, Aug. 20.
Ist West India Regiment—J. G. Bowlby, Gent., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Campbell, deceased, Aug. 20.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment— ssist ant- Surgeon W. K. Swetten-
ham;from the Stall', to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Lucas, pro-
moted in the 96th Foot, August 20.
UNATTACIIED.—Captain J. Alves, from the 74th Foot, to
be Major, without purchase, Aug. 17; Lieut. P. Hennessy,
from the 20th Foot. to be Captain, without purchase, A ug. 20.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—C. Thompson, M. 8., to be Assistant-
Surgeon to the Forces, vice Swettenham, appointed to the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment; J. Fraser, M.D., to be Assistant-
Surgeon to the Forces, vice Caw, deceased, Aug. 20.

AIRMORA NMl:ff.—Her Majesty has been pleased to approve
of the Corps whiCh has been ordered to be formed for perma-
nent service in North America, and directed to be arme,l,
clothed, equipped, and trained as a Rifle Corps, being styled
the " Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment."

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire.
The Right Hon. William Earl of Burlington to be Vice
Lieutenant, Aug. 4.
Commissions sinned by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
The Right Hon. G. W. Bampfylde Lord Poltimore to be
Deputy-Lieutenant, July 13, 1839 ; The Hon. P. P. Bou-
verie to be ditto; W. Pinney, Esq., to be ditto; W. Perfect,
Esq., to be ditto; R. M. King, Esq., to be ditto; W. F.
Beadon, Esq., to be ditto, Aug. 9.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeomanry Ca-
valry--J. Pickernell, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Pardoe, de-
ceased, Aug. 17.

!kly Liabilities and Assets of the
e 25th of May to the 17th of
published pursuant to the Act,

Quarterly Average of the Wee
Bank of Engfind, from the
August, 1841, both inclusive,
3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98.
LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation £17,22e,000 Securities
Deposits ...... 7,936.000 Bullion

£23,184,000
Downing-street, August 19,

1841.

X 28,118,000

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

WILLIAM WORSFOLD, coach smith and spring maker,
Margaret-street, Cavendish-square.
RICHARD SOUTHALL, jun., factor, Birmingham.
GEORGE EVAivS. draper, I.lankeidy, Carmarthenshire.
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