The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-26 00:00:00

PROSECUTION OF THE MONARCH
INSURANCE DIRECTORS.

The further examination of Major the Hon. A. G. F.
Joscelyn, 31r. G. E. Bulwer, Major J. W. Carnegie, and
Mr. J. Taylor, Directors of the Monarch In-
surance Company, on a charge of conspiring
to obtain large sums of money under false
pretences was resumed yesterday morning at the Mansion
House. Mr. Hodges the manager of the company, and
Messrs. Wright and Herward, two other directors, sum-
moned, did not appear. It was stated that the manager
had absconded. Mr. Hale Swetnam stated that under the
articles of association of the Monarch Com-
pany he was to receive £6,000 as promotion
money. He assisted to " get up " the company,
and was to receive the sum mentioned for
procuring director. He induced Captain Bulwer
to join as director. He did not pay anything for his
shares. Witness paid for them on his behalf. Captain
Bulwer for being director of the company, was to
benefit by having the directors' fees. Witness
himself endeavoured to obtain shareholders and fixed his
own remuneration at £6,000. He was not aware who pro-
cured Major Joscelyn or Major Carnegie to be appointed
directors. He was security to Mr. Bayley for advertising
the prospectus of the company. Witness was formerly
connected with the Oceanic. Telegraphic Company, and
he was described in the prospectus of that company as of
Wandsworth Common, landed proprietor. He had not
received any money whatever from the Monarch Company.
The witness went on to say that he had not upon any
occasion demanded payment of the sum of £6,000. He
was employed as a clerk in the offices of the company at
a salary of £2OO per annum from the time it commenced
business until it stopped. He said he was unable to give
any information as to what had become of the £1,300.
He held fifty shares in the company, and the name of an
uncle of his was put down for one thousand shares. The
uncle he referred to was a man of property, and he had no
doubt that he could be found at the address in the share list.
It was understood that Captain Bulwer was to be quali-
fied as a director without his paying any iLoney, and he
believed this was a very usual proceeding. He was not
aware of any printed balance sheet of the aflairs of the
Company having been published. Further evidence was
given, and it was shewn that the indebtedness of the
Company to Mr. Bailey, the advertizing agent, at Christ-
mas, 1869, for advertising and stationery was about £1,700;
although, according to the balance sheet, the only in-
debtedness appeared to be £6B. The inquiry was then
adjourn d till to-day week, and the defendants were
afterwards admitted to bail.

The execution of Lawrence and Mary Anne
Shields, who were convicted some time time since for the
murder of Patrick Dune, at Philliptown, is appointed to
take place on Friday next at Tullamore.
THE SUEZ CANAL.—AdvAces received in Liver-
pool state that the steam trade through the Suez Canal
is rapidly increasing, and that the rates of freight
have scarcely undergone any diminution since the last ac-
counts.

A. farmer, named Sullivan, residing near Kanturk,
in County Cork, purchased some poison for dressing
sheep a few days since. On Tuesday a servant used some
of this poison 'for making bread, mistaking it for soda,
and shortly after dinner the whole family manifested
symptoms of being poisoned. Medical assistance was
promptly obtained, but the patients are not yet out of
danger. •

A gentleman writes that on Monday evening,
about nine o'clock, his house, which is situated in the
busy thoroughfare called the Leytonstone-road, near
Stratford, and is so well known by visitors to Loughton,
Woodford, and Epping Forest, was entered by burglars
at the front door with a false key, and some cash and
articles of clothing, and silver abstracted. The occupant,
who had only left his house for a short time at eight
o'clock, adds, "it was a cheering sight fer me to witness
the zeal of the police, who,. to the number of six,
gathered round me, and inquired and noted down the
particulars which I could give them of the affair after it
had occurred."

THE FRENCH TREATY. - The Macclesfield
Chamber of Commerce has discussed the operation of
the commercial treaty with France on the silk trade, It
was resolved as follows :—"After careful con-
sideration as to the policy of sending represen-
tatives to Paris to the inquiry now being held
there, it is considered more advisable by this chamber
that advantage should be taken of Sir Louis Mallett's visit
to Macclesfield at early date to inform him of our wishes,
so that our own Government may be fully apprised of the
injury which Macclesfield manufacturers suffer-by the
imposition of the existing duties on mixed fabrics, which
form a large portion or the productions of Macclesfield,
and also to the necessity of removing the duty on spun
silk and spun silk fabrics."

THE POLICE AND THE THIEVES.—" They manage
things better in France " is a text on which many a
sermon is spoken at English officials, and we are reminded
of it in reference to the suggestion recently made by the
Chief Commissioner of Police to establish in this country,
with a view to the more easy detection of crime, a gallery,
a photographic Valhalla, of our criminal population.
Colonel Henderson—or was it Mr. Bruce ?—hit some
short time ago upon the idea of photographing the large
roll of criminals incarcerated in our gaols aad convict
establishments. The Paris thieves have hit upon a better
idea from their point of view. Photography has its
limits, and it is easier to identify one of sixty detectives
than one of six thousand convicts. Every Paris thief
has, it seems, his little album, and knows a detective, by
sight, at once. Should the " idea " cross the Channel,
Colonel Henderson will be " winged " with an arrow from
his own quiver.
'AMERICAN AND ENGLISH MOWING MACHINES.—
Reaping and mowing machines have now become standard
implements on English farms ; but in France they are
still regarded somewhat as. innovations; the lower rate
of wages across the Channel having hitherto acted as a
barrier to the introduction of labour-saving ma-
chines in agriculture. Wages, however, are rising
in France, as in most other countries, and the
attention, therefore, of agriculturists is directed to the
best form of reaping and mowing machines. Several inter-
national trials of these machines are announced for the
coming. summer. The first came off last week at Bourges
123 miles south of Paris, at which there was a very sharp
contest between the English and American machines.
After a long and careful trial the award was given in favour
of the English machine of Messrs. Howard, of Bedford,
wh 1,, in mowing an acre, beat the far-famed American
machines of Mr. W. A. Wood and Mr. M'Cormick by
eighteen minutes.