The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1856•

founders , Rochdale, Dec. 19 and Jan. 9, at twelve, at the
xbit n I Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee,
4 Mr,nchester ; Hinson and Robinson, Manchester.
Henry Evans, grocer, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, Dec.
18 and Jan. 8, at ten, at' the Birmingham District Court.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Sheldon, Wed-
nesi.ury ; Knight, Birmingham.
Abraham Coronel, cigar manufacturer, Minories, Dec.
19, at twelve, and Jan. 20, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldemanbury; Abrahams,
Southampton-buildings.
Henry George Dearlove, timber merchant, Palace-row,
New-road, Dec. 17, at twelve, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee,
Baaiughall-street ; Abrahams, Southampton-buildings.
Thomas Firmston, builder, Shrewsbury, Salop, Dec.
18 and Jan. 8, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Cooper and
Broaghall, Shrewsbury ; James, Birmingham.
William Overton, builder, Leamington Priors, War-
wickshire Dec. 17, sand Jan. 14, at half-past ten, at the
Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee,
Birmingham ; Messrs. Poole and Son, Kenilworth ; Messrs.
Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham.
Benjamin Linfoot, builder, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,
Dec. 30 and Jan. 6, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall,
Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ;
Deverill, Nottingham.
John Barfoot, cattle and sheep salesman, North Stone-
ham, Hants, Dec. 19, at two, and Jan. 20, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Lovell and Co., South-square, Gray's-inn ;
Rawlins' Dorsetshire.
Miles Lord and George Rostron, woollen manufacturers,
Cage Mill, Lancashire, Dec. 24, and Jan. 12, at twelve, at
the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee,
Manchester; Cobbett and Wheeler, Manchester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Angus Stewart, tailor and clothier, Glasgow.
George Campbell Smith, land surveyor, Banff.
R. B. Neill and Alexander Stewart, oil distillers, Glas-
gow.
Mrs. Ann Peacock Bryan or Osborne, agent, Tobago-
street, Calton, Glasgow.
John Dick, Sons, and Co., thread manufacturers, Glas-
gow.
Keith and Co., jewellers, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.

SUN OFF ICE, Seven o'clock.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.)

The following appointments were made this afternoon
at the Admiralty :
Mate—A. M. Norman, to the Trident.
Clers—W. H. Whichelo, to the Pembroke ; D. Mar-
tin, to the Cornwallis.
Assistant-Clerk—Robt. VW. Parish, to the Meander.
Assistant• Paymaster —C. W. M`Dermott, to thft
Mseander.

LONDON GAZETTE--(This Evening.)

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 28.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine, Esq.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Forts
and Settlements on the Gold Coast.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 28.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Henry Davison, Esq., of the Inner
Temple, Barrister-at-Law.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 28.
The Qatien was this day pleased- to cenfer the honour
of Knighthood upon William Brooke O'Shaughnessy,
Esq., F.R.S., Surgeon in the Bengal Army.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon-
ourable Lord Campbell, the Right Honourable Lord Wens-
leydale, Sir Edward Hall Alderson, Knt., Sir Creswell.
Cresawell, Knt., the Right Hon. Sir John Somerset Pak-
ington, Bart., the Right Hon. James Archibald Stuart
Wortley, Sir Fred. Thesiger, Knt., John Wilson Patten,
Esq., and Horatio Waddington, Esq., to be her Majesty's
Commissioners for enquiring into the present arrangements
for transacting the judicial business, civil and criminal,
of the Superior Courts of Common Law in England and
Wales.
WAR-DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, DEC. 5.
sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Arthur
Thomas Frederick, from the 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant,
paying the difference, vice Fitz Gerald, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference; Cornet Thomas Duffield, from the
16th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Ferguson, pro-
moted.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel William Samuel
Newton to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Col.
Gordon Drummond, deceased ; Lieutenant and Captain
and Brevet-Major John Halkett Le Couteur to be Cap-
tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice
Newton.
7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Francis John Foster to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice the Hon. Howard
Moreton, deceased.
llth Foot—Ensign St. Aubin Barnett Lennard has
been permitted to resign his commission.
18th Foot—Lieutenant Hobart Evans Fitz Gerald, front
the sth Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Frederick, who
exchanges.
50th Foot—Wm. Richard White, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Conran, promoted in the 86th Foot.
54th Foot—Frederick Augustus Campbell, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Hughes, promoted.
77th Foot—Ensign Frederic Duncan Mant to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Sydney Smith, deceased.
81st Foot—Wm. Henry Mouton Jackson, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Evans, deceased.
Ist West India Regiment—Sergeant-Major David Gar-
diner, from the 22d Foot, to bo Ensign, without purchase,
vice Samson, promoted ; Richard Brew, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Bourke, whose appointment
on the 13th Nov., 1836, has been cancelled ; Staff-Surgeon
of the Second Class William Freeman Daniell, M.D., to be
Surgeon, vice Cole, placed upon half pay.
Cold Coast Corps—William Cumming, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase. vice Gatehouse, promoted.
MILITARY TRAIN.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Pratt Woodfull to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Dew, whose appointment on 31st
October, 1856, has been cancelled.
DEPOT BATTALION.
Quartermaster Patrick Higgins, from half-pay British
German Legion, to be Quartermaster.
STAFF.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--Tats DAY.

Amsterdam....... ..... 11 1442 Gibraltar ..............
Ditto, three months .. 11 17%1 Leghorn .. •• 29 7a
Rotterdam 11 17%, Genoa .. 25 85
Antwerp • • • • .•.• • • • • . • 25 32% Milan • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • •
Brussels .... •• 25 32% Venice • • -
Elumburgh ............13 7% Naples •• •• •••• •• •.• ••• 43%
Altona •• ••• •• .• •• •• -• • Palermo •• • • • ..... • • •• 130
Pari5............ • • 25 25 !Messina ... ... 130%
Ditto, three months .. 25 65 ; Lisbon .......... • • 514
Marseilles 25 67% Oporto .......... ...... 51N
Bourdeaux Rio Janeir0............-

Frankfort-on-Yraine .... 11953
Berlin .• •• •• •• •• .• •• ••
Vienna •• •• •.•• •• •• .. •• 10 42
Trieste. •• •• •• • •... 10 43
Petersburg ............3714
Madrid. 487 i
Barcelona ............
Seville-. •• •• ••• Ir• ••

Buenos Ayres.. • .....
New York,GO days' sight
Philadelphia
PRICES Of BULLION, PZA oz.
Foreign Gold in Bars £0 0 0
Portugal Gold Coin • • 0 0 0
I Mexican Dollars .... 0 6 0
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bars ....... 0 0 0

CHOLERA IN INDIA.

The legend which ascribes to the eating of human
flesh the origin of one of the most loathsome of dia.
eases, scarce offers a more horrible picture to the
imagination than is presented by a letter in the
Ceylon Examiner of October. We have already
alluded to the ravages made by cholera in India
during the early part of this year. The latest
accounts inform us that this scourge has also devas-
tated the beautiful islands of Mauritius and Bour-
bon. These islands are largely supplied with
pork from Patna, a province of Hindostan that has
itself been overrun by the cholera.' Both there
and at Calcutta the bodies of the natives are con-
signed to the Ganges, instead of being interred.
" Let any persons" says the writer in the Ceylon
paper, "at day-break start from the gates of
Government House, Calcutta ; and whether his
walk be to the banks of the river, or to the banks
of the canals which on three sides surround the
city, he will see pigs feeding on the dead bodies
of the natives that have been thrown there during
the nignt ; during the day the river police clear
away and sink all that remains of the bodies. Bad
as Is the metropolis of India, it is nothing compared
to Patna Hundreds upon hundreds of human
corpses are there strewed along the strand ; and
fattening, Ghoule-like, upon these are droves upon
droves of swine. These swine are slaughtered, cut
up and salted into hams, bacon, and pickled pork,
and then despatched to Calcutta. The great
market for this poisonous swine produce is the
Mauritius and Bourbon," where it is foisted on the
inhabitants as the produce of Europe. Moreover,
as these swine are sold in Calcutta at three or four
shillings each carcase, it is stated that the inferior
class of homeward-bound vessels are provisioned
with them, and thus this human-fed pork is intro-
duced into Europe and America. To the conclusion
of the writer, that this is a probable cause of the
spread of cholera, we do not assent. But we would
call attention to the revolting scenes described by
him ; for it is in a British possession, and under
the control of British rule, that these enormities
are allowed to continue.—Lancet.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Sillery, upon half-pay of a
Depot Battalion, to be Deputy Quartermaster-General to
the Troops serving in New Zealand, vice Brevet-Colonel
W. A. Di`Cleverty, whose period of Staff service has ex,
pired.

I RUTLAND AGRIOUTURAL SHOW.

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OAKHAM, DEg. 3.
This important meeting took place to-day in the spa-
cious building known as the Riding School. As on
former occasions, a number of animals were exhibited
which were intended for the Smithfield show. Among
those who visited the show-yard were the Earl and
Countess of Gainsborougb, Lady Victoria Noel, Lord
Aveland, Col. Lowther, the Right Hon. Sir J. Trollope,
M.P., Mr. A. Stafford, M.P., the Hon. G. H. Heath-
cote, M.P., the Hon. J. G. Noel, M.P., the Hon. E.
Freke, the Hon. H. Noel, Col. the Hon. S. Jocelyn, of
the Scots Fusilier Guards, &c.
The dinner took place in the Agricultural Hall, under
the presidency of Mr. A. Stafford, M.P., who was sup-
ported by the county members and other gentlemen of
position and influence.
After the usual loyal toasts,
The CHAIRMAN rose to propose the toast of the even-
ing, " Success to the Rutland Agricultural Society."
Now, said he, we really come to business ; and I am
going to use the language of the Riding School of this
morning in speaking of this toast. Other toasts were
" highly commended," but this is the prize toast.
(laughter and cheers)—therefore you must honour it
accordingly. With regard to the Rutland Agricultural
Society, we find that it does not confine its operations,
it does not stint its benignant influence to the little
county, but extends them so far beyond the bounds that
it crosses the banks of the Welland, and with suoh
effect that, while a member for Northamptonshire has
the honour to preside for this meeting, an ox from North-
amptonshire has had the luck to win the first prizs,
(Laughter and cheers.) Therefore it becomes us to rejoice
as a society, and certainly we have a right to do so.
Very well, as everybody is contented, some one might
turn round upo4rne and say, " What have you got
to talk :about ? Why not drink the toast in silence,
and, as Benedict' says in the play--' Give God thanks
and make no boast ?' (Laughter.) And, to a certain
extent, I don't know why we should not do so. But if
we choose to have two or three words in a colloquial
sort of way I don't know who should forbid us ; and
why should not we have a few words socially and plea-
santly together ? (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Now,
gentlemen, I intended to say nothing to you on a sub-
ject on which I spoke at Southampton, and which was
under consideration then, and is under consideration
now, among the tenant farmers of this country and
among the landed proprietors of this country also. But
a friend of mine from Ridlington said, "You must
bring forward the question of agricultural statistics."
" Well," I said, "it has been worked very much dur-
ing the whole of this autumn, and perhaps the Oakham
Agricultural Society might get a little tired of it."
"That is not the fact," he said ;k" besides, if you don't
bring it forward at such an important meesing the
enemy will get hold of it and declare that, as the
tenant farmers present were not appealed to on the
subject, it might be assumed that they were in favour
of the measure proposed by Government." But now I
think that the contrary is the fact, and that you do
consider that, however desirable it might be to have the
details of the agriculture of this country presented to the
House of Commons in a popular form, that advantage
would not, with your approbation, or with your consent,
or with your assistance, be bought at the price of an
inquisitorial system to which no other class of her Ma-
jesty's subjects is liable. (Hear, hear.) Now, with
regard to this question of agricultural statistics, the
agriculture of this country rests precisely upon the same
footing as every other class of the manufacturing in-
dustry of this country. We know the imports of
agricultural produce also: They know the import of
cotton wool, and they know the export of cotton
wool. It is the same with iron ; it is the same
with every other article. But what Would Mr. Turner
or any other respectable shopkeeper of Oakham say if a
Government inspector stepped in and said, 't How many
yards of calico," or "how many yards of riband have
you sold during the last six mouths ? Write it down
for me, and deliver it under a penalty." Then, if the
inhabitants of towns would not like that inquisitorial
process, why should the farmers be subject to it ! for as
are the cotton and the ribands of the haberdasher, as is
the iron of ,the ironmaster, so is the wheat, so is the
corn, so is the poultry (we were to descend even to the
ducks and hens) of the farmer. (" Hear," and cheers.)
And we were to register the results, and have them
served up to the Houses of Parliament in a blue-book.
Now, I don't wish at all to undervalue the importance
of knowing in this great and flourishing community the
increase of food raised—the increase, if I may so speak,
of agricultural wealth which is year by year produced in
this still more and more fertile island. But, as a guide
to the agriculturist, as a guide to the corn merchant, as
a guide to the consumer, I believe so large as our im-
portations of foreign cereal produce—that these agricul-
tural statistics would be of little or no use whatever,
(Hear, hear.) As I said before at Northampton, I now
repeat at Oakham, we have seen practically for several
years agricultural statistics collected in Ireland. They
are sent over and served up, or rather buried in a blue-
book every year before the House of Commons ; but I
never yet met with one farmer, or one corn merchant, or
one consumer in Ireland who ever made the least refer-
ence to this blue book in the carrying on of his business
or in the arrangement of his crops. (Hear, hear.) The
agricultural statistics which we want would not be the
statistics of the past, but if I may so speak, of the fu-
ture, and should not have reference merely to England,
but to those enormous tracts of corn growing country of
which we know nothing except when the cargoes arrive
at our ports. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) And why
the farmers should be subjected to the process in question
I do not understand, except that there is a class which
stiil cherishes a feeling against us, and which is never hap-
py, and never seems to be quite pleased until it is doing
something to tease the agriculturists of this country.
Well, if those, or anything like those, are your opi-
nions, it will be your duty to instruct your members
on thisjoubject ; and I confess I shall be anxious to
hear tin two hon. members on my right (the Hon.
G. H. Ilieathcote and the Hon. J. G. Noel) give their
opinion on the matter. (Loud cheers.) The chairman
concluded acrid vehement plaudits, and the toast was
drunk with every demonstration of enthusiasm.
The Hon. J. G. NOEL was first to reply. He was
truly glad that he could congratulate them on the
success of this society, now, ho thought, in its 26th
year. He was glad to say that Providence had blessed
US with a more than average harvest—a better one
than that of last year ; and he was given to understand
that prices were =remunerative' and that, generally
speaking, agricultural prospects had not been better
for many years past. He thought that the Agricul-
tural Statistics Bill, as presented to Parliament, was
an insult to the tenant-farmers—(cheers)—and right
glad was he to find that that bill was withdrawn. He
thought the agricultural districts had spoken out pretty
significantly during the last two months, and bad con-
demned most strongly such a prying, inquisitorial, and
un-English measure as the one which had been pro-
,ected.
The Hon. G. H. Heathcote also returned thanks for
the honour they had done him in drinking his health
there for the first time as their representative; and he
could assure them that it would always be his endea-
vour to serve them well and truly, and to promote the
success of agriculture. (Cheers.) We had hal an abun-
dant harvest this year, and he therefore thought this was
a good opportunity for carrying on all those improve-
ments which he saw in progress. They saw how necessary
it was to bring science and machinery to bear upon
aericultnral labour. Indeed, be did not know to what
length they might go at last ; they might, perhaps, see the
steamplough at work in some of their fields by and by.
He would now allude to a subject which he felt to be
deeply interesting, and upon which he bad been asked by
the hon. chairman to give his opinion ; he alluded to
agricultural statistics. He'had great pleasure in receiv-
ing a deputation from his constituents in London, and
in reading the petition they sent up. With that petition
he quite agreed, and had the Government bill as it stood
then come to a vote in the House of Commons it was
his full intention to have given his opposition to it.
Should any new measure he introduced, he should hope
to receive their opinion upon it, and that opinion, he
was sure, would meet with every attention on his part.
He could not, of course—and he thought they would
hardly ask it of him—he could not pledge himself to
oppose any bill which might be introduced until he saw
it ; because, if any good and comprehensive measure of
this kind could be brought in, he thought it seemed
agreed by all parties, even by those gentlemen whom
they had always looked up to as friends of the farmers
—abd Lord Derby he thought was in favour of some-
thing of the kind—it seemed agreed that it was desirable,
and he thought they could hardly expect him to give a
pledge to oppose such a measure. After again thank-
ing his audienco, the hon, member sat down amid
applause.
Various other toasts were given and the proceedings
prolonged until eight o'clock.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE WEEKLY NEWS, PRICE 2D.
CONSUMPTION ; ITS CAUSE AND CURE.—A series of
interesting lectures on this distressing malady, and the
success of anaspasia, or traction, in relieving and curing
it, as delivered by Dr. Denis Crcnin, of 35, Bruton-
street, Berkeley-square, will be commenced in the lVeekly
News of Dec. 6, 1856. Every family is concerned in it.
Weekly News office, 6, Hind-court and Wine Office-court.
SNOWSTORM IN SCOTLAND.—We have had fur the last
four or five clays more or less snow daily, varied only by
showers of bail. There has been a good deal of wind, and
there has in consequence been drifting. The roads are
nearly all blocked up, or the next thing to impassable.
The coaches in the district are, with one exception, laid
aside. The Banff and Peterhead coach became fast in
Pitsligo on Thursday on its upward journey. The Banff
and Oldmeldrum coach left on Thursday morning, but
did not return. The Banff and Huntly coach ran till
Friday night, but did not turn out on Saturday. The
Portsoy, Cullen, and Keith omnibus ventured out on
Saturday morning, but was unable to leave Keith on its
return. The Spey and Deveron coach between Banff
and Fochabers laid up on Friday morning. The only
coach that has kept the road is the Earl of Fife between
Banff and Elgin, the driver of which, by great energy,
got through on Saturday and yesterday. If the weather
does not improve, however, he may not be able to re-
turn to-morrow. The mails, of course, fell behind.
Yesterday afternoon there were four south mails due in
Banff. At 5 o'clock a mail gig, with two horses, came
in with mails from London up to Saturday morning.
and to Edinburgh up to Saturday evening. This mail
had only arrived in Aberdeen on Sknday night at 5,
instead of 4 o'clock in the morning. There is still one
mad due from London, and two from Edinburgh. The
mail-gig, which came in to-night from Aberdeen, only
started in the morning, The driver describes the real
as very heavy. The Huntly road is perhaps worst of
any in the district. A party travelling it on horseback
on Saturday was nearly smothered among the snow,
and had to seek shelter for the night halfway. We
have not had such a storm so early in the season for the
last 11 vears.—Banffsh,ire Journal of Tuesday.
HAWICK -- THE LIDDESDALE RAILWAY. —At an
adjourned meeting of the Town Council on the
evening of Friday last, the Railway Committee
presented their report. The substance of the report
is very similar to what appeared in the Scotsman of
Friday—viz., that the committee had met at New-
castle the Duke of Northumberland's commissioner,

the directors of the Border Counties Railway, Mr.

Hodgson and Mr. Douglas, of the North British, and
Mr. Sewell, C.E., with whom they had conferred re-
garding the Liddesda a scheme. All parties had been
unanimous in favour of, and resolved to support it ; and
it was agreed that a deputation should meet with Mr.
Sewell's capitalists in London on the 9th of December
to make arrangements for carrying out the scheme in
Parliament, and forming a provisional committee.
The report concluded by recommending the Council
vigorously to prosecute the scheme. Bailie Oliver
inquired who the capitalists were, but the committee
declined to give the information. After some other lin-
quiries, Bailie Oliver said he believed the scheme was
a complete deception. Neither the Border Coun-
ties nor the North British Companies had any sin-
cere intention of carrying it out, and they were in
face precluded from doing so, because in the advertised
notices no powers were asked to enable them to
contribute to it, while in the notices given for the line
from the Belling to Belses Station those powers were
applied for. The truth was, the pretended capitalists
' were not in existence. The directors of the North British
had secretly agreed to pay the expenses of the survey ;
and he was convinced that the whole affair was a ruse
n,f, theirs to distract the minds of the inhabitants of
Zwick, and prevent their supporting the Teviotdale
castle
sflo:_, The committee maintained that from the corre-
esesifscie.ntheeayrr had had with the various parties, and
especially from what passed at the late meeting at
that he had be
, they were convinced that all parties were
discussion
which
ying out the scheme. During the
the outset in ich followed, Bailie Oliver further stated
formed that at the meeting held in
when Mr. Ge Edinburgh at the request of Mr. Hodgson,
Gee. Wilson and other Hawick gentlemen
were present, Mr
rtD. ii odgson promised that if they
would go on the,
visional committee they would
be guaranteed agates
all risk, and that Mr. Wilson
and the rest had
disdainfully 'repudiated any such
proposition. Mr.Wilsonn and Mr. Purdom, who were
present, denied that
amade. Bailie Oliver then proposed proposition had been
pr:oposed a resolution in
which were embodied the various objections he had
advanced, and the apprehendedr
insincerity of the
various parties connected with the
to support tne
Liddesdale line,
and concluded with pledging the Council
Teviotdale line. The motion was
John Turnbull, seedsman. Mr. seconded William
by Mr.
Scott,
tobacconist, tobacconist, proposed, as an amendment, that thet
report of the Railway Committee be
approved of
which was seconded by Mr. James Turnbull, draper.
On a Tote being taken, five voted for the motion, and
14, including five of the committee, for the amendment.
Toe report was west:quo:loy adop' el
NEW GRANADA.—It has transpired that the instruc-
tions intended to have been sent out by the last mail t ,
the Admiral on the Jamaica station for a blockade of
the ports of New Granada were delayed. The hope is
therefore entertained by those interested in the trade of
that republic that its Government will take such steps
as may obviate the necessity of the threatened coercion.
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week
ending Nov. 29, 1856 2222 11 2
lorresponding week last year 275 8 8

MEETING OF WATCHMAKERS.—A numerous meeting
of this society took place on Tuesday evening last at
the Adam and Eve, St. John-street-road, Clerkenwell,
for the purpose of considering what would be the effect
of the introduction of female labour into those busi-
nesses. The following resolution was agreed to :
" That a committee be formed in order to call a public
meeting, at a time and place suitable to Mr. Bennett
(the great advocate for the introduction of female
labour), to argue the subject as fair between the em-
ployer and employed."
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Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purveyors
to her Majesty, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Graccchnrch-street ;
33J and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside; 68, Cornhill ; 49, Bishops-
gate-street; 55, Charing-crows ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 63
and 110, Cliferct-street.

LA W EN TELLIGENCE.—Dec. 4.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

(Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices.)
TEE OFZICIAL MANAGER IN RE WINDING-17P ACT AND THE

ROYAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.
The Court gave judgment in this case to-day. The
appeal was from the decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart
and Mr. Justice Erle, who held that a call under the
Winding-up Act was to be considered, not to be a spe-
cialty debt, but a simple contract only. The Court below
having decided that it was a simple contract only, the
appeal was brought. The assistance of two common
law judges—namely, Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr.
Baron Martin, having been called in, these two learned
judges stated that they were of opinion the debt was a
ample contract only.
The Lord Chancellor, in giving final judgment to-day,
said he agreed in the opinion which had been ex-
pressed by the Vice-Chancellor and the three learned
common law judges—that the debt was a simple con-
tract only.
The Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner were
inclined to hold a different opinion, but under the cir-
cumstances they felt bound to concur in the opinion ex-
pressed by the Lord Chancellor, and the judgment of
the Court below was accordingly affirmed, and the appeal
dismissed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 4.

WESTERN CIRCUIT—WINCHESTER.
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.)
MURDER AND MACY.
This case, from its shocking atrocity, caused the court to
be completely crowded ; but, by the excellent arrange-
ments of the Under-Sheriff (Mr. Hadfield, solicitor, of
Southampton), all inconvenience was obyiated, and the
most perfect silence was observed during the day.
Giuseppe Legava, Giovanna Barbalano, and Matte°
Perich, three Italians, were arraigned on six different in-
dictments—one for the wilful murder, on the high seas, on
the sth of July last, of Joseph Pattinson ; another for felo-
niously stabbing and wounding, with intent to murder,
John Scotland and Daniel Cullen; another for piratically
stealing 11 sovereigns and a halfifranc piece, with divers
other things, the property of the said John Scotland and
others on board the British bark Globe. The other indict-
ments varied the charges against the prisoners, and the
whole offences were charged with having been committed
on the high seas,. on board the said ship, on the sth of July
last.
The jury was composed of five foreign gentlemen resi-
dent in Winchester, and the remaining seven were taken
from the assize petty jury panel, and M. Bacigalupo, of
Portsmouth, was sworn as interpreter.
Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Russell were counsel for the pro.
secution ; and Mr. Yonge, at the request of the learned
judge, undertook the defence of the prisoners.
The indictment for murder was first proceeded with.
Mr. Coleridge opened the case by stating the different
facts upon which the prosecution asked for a conviction.
The learned counsel dwelt with much force upon the cir-
cumstances attending the case, and then called the follow-

ing Witnesses :
George Nelegan—On the 2d of July last I was a boy cn
board the Globe, merchant ship, lying in the Bosphorus.
The three prisoners were also on board as seamen. There
were also two other foreigners. They wont by the names
of Angelo and Big Jack. There were also on board the
master and mate, Evan Evans, J. Pattinaon, D. Cullen,
and D. Thomas, making in all seven Englishmen and five
foreigners. We sailed on the 4th of July. My watch
was from Bto 12 that night. I turned into my bunk at
half-past 12. I slept in the forecastle. J. Pattinson and
David Thomas slept about three feet from me ; they were
on the port side, and I was on the starboard. There was
a dim light. I did not sleep. After some time I saw two
men come into the forecastle. Pattinson and Thomas were
then in their bunks. Ono of the men who came down had
a piece of lighted candle in his hand. They went to Pat-
tinson's bunk. The candle was then blown out. After that
I heard some heavy substance fall out of Pattinson's berth,
and I heard a noise and a groan. The two men then came
and sat down on the chest opposite my bunk. They were
talking in a foreign language. They then went up the
ladder on deck. I then went up the forecastle to try and
see what was going on. Barbalano saw me, and came and
stamped down the hatch. He had a sheath knife in his
hand, upon seeing which I let go and fell into a hammock
lelow, and there saw David Thomas coming down with his
hand to his neck and blood streaming from it. I called to
him, but he did not answer. I remained where I was for
an hour or two. At last, all being quiet I went up into
the forecastle, and there saw Pattinson lying alongside my
bunk with his throat cut. He was deal, and was covered
with blood. I had heard some running about on the deck.
Pettrich had a pistol in his hand, and Barbalano had a
long knife. I did not notice any blood on the two men
when they came down. I asked them not to hurt me.
Pettrich caught hold of me, kissed my cheek, and said in
English, "Me no touch you." Barbalano and Petttich
ranksacked all the men's chests, and took some clothes.
Pettrich took some money from Pattinson's chest. An-
gelo and Lazaro afterwards came down. They had knives
in their hands. They took clothes on the deck. some
time afterwards, hearing the mate call out something, I
went upon deck, and saw five men pulling away in a boat.
No foreigners were then on board. I saw Evans and
Cullen in the captain's cabin ; everything was in a state of
confusion there. We then went to Constantinople, and we
went on board the gunboat Recruit ; the officers then went
on shore, and afterwards brought Lugano on board. Lu-
gano recognised me as soon as he came on board. The
other two prisoners were brought on board. I cannot say
who were the two men who came down to Pattinsen's bunk.
Cross-examined—l saw Pettrich kneel down by the dead
body of Pattinson, and, putting his hands together, he said,
" Oh, my God 1"
David Thomas—I was a seaman on board the Globe. On
the 4th July we left the Bosphorus for Balaklava. On
the morning of the sth July I was awoke by awful screams.
I looked out and saw Big Jack and another man with him.
They had a lighted candle. Big Jack came towards me and
stabbed me on the neck and breast, and cut me in the
throat. Pattinson was then asleep in his bunk. I thek
saw Pattinson fall out of ilia bunk on to the chest. I knew
him, because he was baldheaded. I was wounded immedi-
ately after I heard the screams. I felt blood falling all over
me from the bunk above me before Pattinson fell out of his
bunk. My bunk was under his. I called out for help, when
Evans came about half-way down the ladder, and went up
again, as I told him to mind himself as they were going to
kill us all. I afterwards hid myself, and remained hid for
three hours. Some time after, healing. the mate's voice, I
went on deck, and saw men rowing away in the ship's boat.
I went to the forecastle for my clothes, and I there saw the
body of Pattinson lying covered with blood. I saw Evans
and Cullen on deck. They were both wounded and could
not move. There were marks of blood all over the ship.
There were two shirts in the longboat covered with blood.
Before this time all the crew had been on good terms.
When Legava was taken he was wearing a shirt of mine.
He had shaved off his whiskers.
John Cullen—I was also a seaman on board the Globe.
All the five foreigners were on deck together that night,
conversing among themselves. I called out to Barbalano to
relieve me at the wheel, which he did. The others ought
to have been below. I went to the head of the vessel, and
in going there I passed the other four foreigners. Legava
and Pettrich always spoke in English. I then took the
wheel from Legava. Evans came to me and gave me some
information of what was going on in the forecastle. I
begged him to go down into the forecastle, and I saw him
going. Legava then came round me at the wheel, and I was
shot under the left ear ; it was done by a person a little
behind me. I fell down on my hands. No other person
was near me. Legava then ran past me and cried, " A
man-of-war." A piece of lead was afterwards taken out of
my neck in the hospital at Therapia. I lay down on the
scuttle. I lifted up my head and saw the five foreigners
together ; they were making a noise among themselves. I
was leaning down the scuttle from loss of blood, and then
I was stabbed in the back; it bled very much. I put my
finger into the wound in my back to stop the bleeding. I
then received another wound on the right-hand side of my
neck. Evans was also wounded. I afterwards heard he was
dead. I was too bad to see the foreigners leave the ship. I
was taken to the hospital at Constantinople, and I saw
Legava wearing my boots there.
John Scotland—l was master of the ship Globe. On the
13th June I shipped the three prisoners at Constantinople
as part of my crew, together with two others namedatAtinson,ngelo
and Big Jack. I afterwards shipped Cullen, P
Nelegan, Evan Evans, and David Thomas. These formed
the crew on the 4th July. On that morning a steam tug
came alongside, about 4 o'clock, and towed our ship for
about six hours. We then proceeded on our voyage to Bala-
klava. I went to bed about 12 o'clock that night, having
gone about 30 miles from the Bosphorus. I turned into my
berth, but did not go to sleep. The mate came to me at
half-past 3to know the time. Immediately upon his com-
ing down I heard two reports of pistols. I and the
mate then went on the poop-deck. Evans
and Cullen then called out that they were
shot. I
hey
pistols in their hands, which they presented at me.T
saw Legava and Angelo at that moment with
flashed, but did not go off. Legava pointed his pistol at
me. We were both unarmed, and called my men to come
into my cabin. I then missed a musket I had in my
cabin. I found an old musket barrel, which I cleaned,
fastened to a walkingstick, and loaded it, and with this a
we kept watch. I caused the ensign to be hung out as
signal of distress, but I afterwards found it torn in a boat.
We remained below from half-past 3 till 10 o'clock. When
I was below I saw Legava at the wheel. I several times
asked the foreigners what they wanted, but they said no-
thing till about 9 o'clock, when Angelo said all they wanted
was money. Upon this I gave five sovereigns to the mate,
who put it in a bit of paper and lashed it to the end of a
ramrod, and handed it up to them at the companion door.
Angelo said they
I could hear the rest going about the deck at this time, but
wanted more, and that that would not do.
I could not see them. When they asked for more money I
said I had given them all I had, and would allow them to
come down, into the cabin, to which Angelo replied that
they should like to see my berth. The mate and I went
into another cabin, and the prisoners came down into the
state room. Angelo came first, the others following. Le.

NO RT:

IIERN CIRCUIT. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,

DEC. 3.
(Before Mr. Justice Erie.)
Michael CaWhom was charged with the wilful murder

;ova had a pistol in his hand, on cock, and loaded to the and on a search being instituted the body h
of
the snreo
must have brought them, and we have no power to exa- deposed had all the appearances of having g one the fan
;i
mine the chests t. f the men. Angelo brought my chest out, time. There were marks on the throat and tnward extra-
and I saw him take out my purse. The other two prison- vacation, indicating strangulation, the lungs, heart, and
ems saw him do it. He put the money in his pocket. Le- intestines all being healthy; but in answer to the learned
gava looked into the berth where the two wounded men Commissioner the surgeon said, the only fact which led him
were lying. I afterwards missed my silver watch, which to believe the child had been born alive was the ;lofting of
was hanging in the cabin when the prisoners came down the lungs, and that of late years this test had been deemed a
to it. The prisoner then went ou deck and I heard a noise, doubtful one. Upon this the jury were told that the
and upon looking out of the window I saw the prisoners , charge of murder could not be sustained, but they were at
and the other two foreigners rowing away in a boat. I I liberty to return a verdict of guilty of concealing the
then went on deck, and the mate called me to see " such birth, which they accordingly did, and the prisoner was
a sight in the forecastle." I went and saw Pattinson with sentenced to be imprisoned for 12 calendar months with
his head nearly cut off. He seemed to have had two cuts. hard labour.
Thomas had his throat cut in two places.
William Scotland—l was the mate, and lam brother to
the captain. My watch was from 12 to 4 in the morning.
I was on deck from 12 till half-past 3. Two of the prisoners
were in my watch. I went below, and then I heard the re-
port of three pistols ; and then I ran up on the dock and
cried out to the master, who turned out. I gr.'s on deck
first, and found Evan Evans and Cullen on the starboard
quarter-deck crying, " They were shot ; they were shot."
I ran forward end saw Legava running away with a pistol
in his hand. I afterwards came back to Evan Evans, who
said something which Legava could not hear. Legava and
the cook came to the front with pistols presented at us. I
was nearest to them. The pistols were snapped, but did
not explode. I then helped the wounded men down below
in the cabin. We secured ourselves in the cabin. I got
out the medicine chest and dressed their wounds. As well
as we could we took care of them. The master Was seeking
for a matchlock, but could not find one. We found a bar-
rel of one. We secured ourselves in the master's cabin and
loaded the barrel. I attempted to get some water from
the steward's pantry. As I was going out Pettrich pre-
sented a pistol at me. The master proposed that we should
hang out the ensign as a signal of distress. I did so, and
Barbalano presented another pistol at mo down into the
cabin. The ensign was found afterwards torn in the long-
boat. I saw Pettrich a second time at the companion with
a pistol. I sang out to him, " I see you." I offered them
money, but they would not take it, and then we gave them
liberty to come into the cabin. Angelo afterwards asked
for more money, and said if we did not give it him they
would come down, break into the cabin, and murder us,
anal run the ship ashore. When they came into the cabin
we moved into the other cabin. They then went away,
and I saw Pattinson lying on his back on the deck quite
dead. I afterwards saw a blue flannel, boot, and a
check shirt. They were all covered with blood. They
were in the longboat. They belonged to Legava and
Pettrich. I knew them well. I also found a razor
which belonged to Barbalano. It was covered with
blood. I was present when Pettrich and Barbalano
were in custody at New Town, seven miles inland from
Kilo, a seaport town. A pistol was taken from Pettrich.
They both began to cry. I afterwards went on board the
Recruit, and found the three prisoners on board.
John Burridge —I am a gunner in the Marine Artillery.
In July I was one of the crew of the gunboat Recruit,
which was sent into the Black Sea to look after these men.
We landed 30 or 40 miles from the Bosphorus, and we
went to New Town. We there found the prisoners. They
were searched by the Turks. A pistol and some money
were found on them. Another man escaped into the woods.
With the three prisoners on board we went back to Con-
stantinople.
Mr. Yonge then addressed the jury for the prisoners,
urging upon them the probability that the two missing
men had committed the murder, and that, at all events,
there was no evidence to show by whose hand Pattinson's
life had been taken. That the prisoner had committed
robbery he was not there to deny, but he suggested there
was sufficient defect in the evidence to justify the jury in
giving the prisoners the benefit of a doubt, and in such
case it was their privilege to acquit.
The learned Judge then most carefully summed up the
case, explaining to the jury the law as regarded persons
acting with a common design. If the jury entertained a
doubt as to all or either of the prisoners, it wan not only
their privilege, but the law required that they should give
the prisoners the benefit of it.
The Jury retired for about two hours, and then returned
a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners.
Mr. Justice Coleridge, then, through the interpreter,
thus addressed them—Prisoners at the bar, I am extremely
sorry that I am unable to convey to you in your own la
guage the few words I have to pronounce upon the pre-
sent most painful occasion. You have received, I trust,
as fair, as patient, and as discerning a trial as it was in my
power to give you. Understanding that you were in groat
poverty and had no friends, and were in a foreign country,
I requested, at the commencement of these assizes,
a learned and able advocate to prepare himself
and conduct your defence, and, although you are not able
to judge of the manner in which he has conducted that de-
fence, I am bound to say—and every person here present
who is a competent judge would say the same—that he has
omitted no point that was available for your defence. The
jury who have heard the case have considered the evidence
very attentively, and I am compelled to say that I entirely
agree with them in the painful conclusion to which they
have come ; though, if it should appear that the jury had
fallen into any mistake—because the wisest men may make
a mistake in such a matter as this—care will be taken,
upon your application, that such investigation may be
made as to set their mistake right. At the same time,
don't let me excite in your minds false and pernicious
hopes. My firm belief is that this verdict is a perfectly
just one ; and the truest mercy I can show to you is to
exhort you to entertain no expectation that your lives
may be spared. You will be attended by a faithful priest
of your own persuasion ; and I exhort you to pay strict
attention to all the advice that ho shall give you, to pre-
pare yourselves for another world. Depend upon it, pri-
soners, that your days upon earth are numbered.; and it
only remains for me to pronounce upon you the awful sen-
tence of the law. His lordship then pronounced upon them
the sentence of death.
The prisoners were then removed, protesting their inno-
cence, and saying that, as the witnesses had been heard
against them, they ought to be allowed to make their
statement.
In

THE GREAT NORTHERN FRAUDS.

-
CLERK EN WELL POLICE COURT.
The following appeared in part of our impression of
yesterday :
This afternoon William Snell, late a clerk in the em-
ploy of the Great Northern Railway Company, was
again placed at the bar on remand, charged with appro-
priating a sum of money, amounting to about 1,0001.
the property of the company, to his own use.
Mr. Huddlestone appeared for the prosecution, and
the prisoner was defended by Mr. Hopwood.
Mr. Huddlestone said at the last examination a corn
plete charge was 'made against the prisoner for appro.
priating a sum of 500/. ; but it will be recollected that,
in the second case, it was thought desirable to
prove that nothing equivalent to the two cheques
which the prisoner was charged with stealing had been
paid into the accountant's drawing account. He should
call Mr. Reynolds, the accountant of the company, who
had gone through the accounts, and he would state that
after a very careful examination he could find aothing at

all like it.
Mr. Reynolds was then called, and stated that he
could not find any entry of the kind.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Nothing like the two cheques for
_ _

281. 18s. and 231. 12s.
Mr. Reynolds—No ;I am enabled to say that no such
sums have been paid into the accountant's drawing ac-

count.
After the evidence had been read over, the whole of
the witnesses were bound over to appear and give evi-
dence against the prisoner, at the next session of the
Central Criminal Court, on two charges of felony.