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London, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PAR TAME T.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Day.)
Parliament was this day further prorogued by Royal
Commission.

At two o'clock the Lord Chancellor, and the other
Peers named in the Itoya.l Commission, entered the
house, and took their seats on the woolsack.

The Rr,y:-.3,1 Commission having been read, the Usher
of the Black Rod was ordered to summon the Com-
mons to the bar of their lords'uips' house.
After a short time the Commons, represented by the
Clerks of the House, appeared at the bar, and, the
Royal Commission having been again read,

The LCRD CHANCELLOR declared the Parliament to
stand further prorogued until Tuesday, Dec. 16.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner llolroyd.)
IN BE BRAMWELL.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE,-This bankrupt was described
as of Royal Exchange-buildings, metal mErchant, and
today was appointed for his last examination.

Mr. Lawrence appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Link-
later, for the bankrupt; Mr. Chidley, for Mr. Hawkins,
a creditor ; and Mr. Phillips, a solicitor, to oppose in
person.

Mr. Linklater, in the first place, applied to his
Honour to sign a certificate under the Private Arrange-
ment Act, the bankrupt having assigned the whole of
his property for the benefit of his creditors in September,
1854 ; but, by some accident, the usual certificate, al-
though drawn up, was not signed.
Mr. Lawrence, the solicitor under the bankruptcy,
handed in the certificate, which was undated and unsigned.
The accounts, prepared by Messrs. Harding and Pot-
lein, under the arrangement and under the bankruptcy,
wero put in.

Mr. Phillips opposed the granting of the certificate
ou several grounds, contending that if any fraud could
be shown it disentitled the petitioner to a certificate.
The first objection was that the bankrupt in both balance
sheets had wholly omitted a settlement on his wife. He
had aizo set down his property at. 4001., whereby accord
ing to the premium it must have been insured for
2, 500/.,and he bad also insured his life, which, according
to the premiums must have been for from 1,500/. to
2,0001. He had also an interest in the Sunderland Bank,
not one word of which was stated. He had also been a
partner in the firm of Maitland, Hatch, and Co., which
was omitted. He also charged the bankrupt with having
fraudulently contracted debts previously to the petition,
and further urged minor grounds.

Mr. Lawrence had never heard about the settlement,
and had been told that the property insured (In Con-
naught-terrace) had been sold to the incoming tenant
seven years ago.

His Honour said the bankrupt could be examined, and
his examination and that of several witnesses will occupy
the whole of the day.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

LlvEnrcn, \Vednesday.'—Mr. Cyrus Field, of New
York, Mr. J. W. Brett, of London, and the Messrs.
Bright, of the. Magnetic Telegraph Company, attended
at the Underwriters' Rooms this afternoon, for the pur-
pose of explaining to the gentlemen present the means
intended to be adoptcd to connect, by submarine tele-
graph, this country and the United States of America.
In the course of his observations, Mr. Field referred to
the great importance of the object, the facilities afforded
by the American Government in the despatch of the
Arctic steamer t take the soundings without any ex-
pense to the company—adding that they were also
fitting out a vessel to lay down the wires, which were
now all ready. The company had been in communication
with the English Government, who were also fitting
out a vessel to assist in the operations ; and he had no
doubt they would have instantaneous communication
with the Western Continent before the next summer had
passed over. Tue telegraphic line was already com-
pleted between Newfoundland and New York, a dis-
tance of 1,065 miles ; and the submarine cable to be
laid between the coast of Newfoundland and the west
coast of Ireland—a distance of 1,640 geographical, or
1,900 nautical miles—constitxted the remaining link in
the line of communication. Mr. Brett and Mr. C. T.
Bright entered into several interesting details respecting
the advantages likely to accrue to the commerce of the
world by the successful carrying out of the design. No
doubt whatever existed of the practicability of laying
the cable. An interesting convenatiou then took place
between Mr. Edward Heath, Mr. fright, Mr. Field,
and other gentlemen ; after which a vote of thanks was
passed to the other gentlemen of the company for their
information, after which the assembly dispersed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day).

MANSION-HOUSE.
THE BULLION ROBBERY.

We'lliant Pierce and James Burgess, till recently guards
in the service of the South-Eastern Railway Company,
were again placed at the bar, upon remand, in custody
of Sergeant Smith and Sergeant Thornton, detective
officers attached to the Scotland-yard division of the
metropolitan police force, charged with having stolen
15,0001. worth of bullion from a package, in its transit
from London to Folkestone, last May twelvemonth.
Mr. Bodkin, instructed by Mr. Rees, the solicitor to
the company, again appeared in support of the prosecu-
tion.

Mr. Wontuer attended on behalf of Pierce; and
Burgess was defended by Mr. Lewis.
The prisoners were placed at the bar at 5 minutes to
2 o'clock, when

Mr. Bodkin said the circumstances of the case were
very remarkable. The witness adverted to yesterday
had arrived, and he hoped to be able to proceed with
the case and prove the guilt of the prisoners. The
learned counsel then detailed the position of the pri-
soners when in the South-Eastern Railway Company's
employ, and said that for some time suspicion had fallen
on Burgess, but it was thought advisable not to pro-
mo.' against him on it. The robbery was one corn'
mitted with great adroitness and deliberation by four per-
sons, the two prisoners, a man named Agar, now under
sentence for forgery, and another man named Tester
who had been in the company's service, but was not now
in this country. The evidence of Agar was of curse
tainted with crime, and he was a ma❑ who had for years
been following crime as a source of profit; but he had
been induced to make this communication not from any
desire to shirk his part of the responsibility. It ap-
peared that Agar cohabit:d with a woman, by whom
he had a child, and, having a natural affection
for the woman and child, and before he was
committed for trial for forgery, he deposited with Pierce
7001. in gold for the benefit of this woma*and child.
After Agar's committal Pierce turned the woman adrift,
and she being penniless gave what information she k new
to the South Eastern Railway Company. After some fur-
ther remarks the learned counsel ()ailed

Henry Agar, who deposed-4 am at present a con•
vict in confinement at the Portland Works. I was con-
victed in September, 1855, and sentenced to
transportation for life for forgery. I am one
of the persons by whom a very large quantity of
gold was stolen in transitu in May, 1855, on the
South-Eastern Railway. I know the prisoners Pierce
and Burgess. I have known Pierce about five or six
years, and Burgess not quite so long. Pierce, when
first I knew him, was out of employ; but Burgess was
a guard on the line. I have several times been to the
United States. The last time was about three years
ago, and I returned about twelve months before the rob-
bery. Before I went the last time to the United States
I bad a conversation with Pierce relative to a robbery
f bullion, and on my return from America I met him by
accident.

(TVe shall give the conclusion in •ur last edition.)

BOW-STREET.

THE MURDER IN PARLIAMENT-STREET.—This day
Robert liai•lc %las again placed at the bar before Mr.
Jardine, and was charged with the murder of Richard
Cope.

The evidence adduced against the prisoner was merely
a repetition of that given at the coroner's inquest held
on the body of the unfortunate man, Richard Cope, at
the Westminster Hospital last evening, a report of which
we published in our late edition, and which will be found
in another part of The Sun.

At the conclusion of the evidence the magistrate fully
committed the prisoner for trial for the wilful murder of
Richard Cope.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

AN ARTFUL TRICK.---Robert With y, an ill-looking
young fellow, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bing-
ham, on the following charges.
John Goddard, an intelligent lad, about 14 years of
age, stated that he was an errand boy to a butcher in
Fitzroy market. On the previous evening he was
coming down Charlotte-street, Fitzroy square, when he
met the prisoner, who asked him to fetch him a quar-
tern of gin, and promised him a penny for his trouble.
Witness said he would, and the prisoner then gave him a
bottle and the half crown produced to pay for the liquor.
He went into the public-house at the corner of
Charles-street, and called for the gin, in payment
for which he gave the barman the half-Drown.
The landlord at once detected the coin to be
a counterfeit, and asked him where he got it
from. Witness told him ho had received it from a man
outside who was waiting for the gin. The landlord fol-
lowed him out, and on his pointing to the prisoner as
the man from whom he received the coin, he (the land.
lord) gave him into custody.
John Page, landlord of the Spread Eagle, Charles-
street, Oxford-street, said on detecting the half-crown to
be a counterfeit, and hearing the lad's statement as to
how he came possessed of it, he followed him outside the
door, and raw him give the gin to the prisoner. Wit-
ness immediately collared him, when he denied all know-
ledge of the lad. A constable at that moment came up,
and he gave him into custody.

The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded
for a week.

THAMES.

ROBBING A CRIMEAN HERO OF HIS MEDAL,—Thos.
Simonds, a strange looking fellow well known as a
mendicant, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged
with stealing a Crimean medal from George Barker, a
soldier belonging to the Coldstream Guards.
Barker stated that he bad lost his medal, and he was
very much distressed about it.

Mr. Yardley—Tell me how that came about.
Barker stated that, on the 29th of October last, he
went into the Cock and Neptune public-house, in RAt-
cliff-highway, near Wellelose-square, with a comrade;
and had a pint of beer. The prisoner was there, and
asked him to lot him have a look at his medal, which he
had put into his pocket before he entered the public-
house. He handed it to the prisoner, who showed it to
a civilian, and then took it into the bar, and kept it a
long time before he brought it back. Soon afterwards
the prisoner asked for the medal again, and he handed
it to him. The prisoner handed it round the room,
and then walked out of the house with it. He had just
met the prisoner, and gave him into custody.
The prisoner said he was not guilty.
Barker—That is the man ; his right hand is maimed,
and he has lost the ends of some of his fingers.
Mr. Yardley—Look at his hand, Rociie.

Roche, the gaoler of the court, held up the prisoner's
right hand, which was bandaged and maimed in the way
described by the soldier.
Barker—That is the man, sir ; that is the hand that
received my medal.

Lewis Lane, waiter at the Cock and Neptune, saw
the prisoner in the house on the 29th October, and saw
him with the medal.

Cressy, 221 Er, said the prisoner wan a cadger and a
thief, and well known about Rateliff•highway.
Mr. Yardley said that such a fellow ought not to
have been allowed in the public.house.
Lane—We always took hitn to be a sailor.
Mr. Yardley—Nonsense. All sorts of characters con-
gregate in the Cock and Neptune. lam surprised the
two soldiers, who appear to be respectable men, have
rendered important services to their country, and belong
to an honourable corps', should have gone into the Cock
and Neptune. They ought to have more respect for
themselves. There will he no difficulty, I hope, in
tracing the medal.

Barker—Tiiero i 3 my name on it and the regimental
number, 3,065. It has four clasps for Alma, Inkerman,
Balaklava, and Sebastopol.
Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner for a week.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—Mr. Love, chair-
man of the late investigation committee, is a candidate
for the office of director, vacated by Mr. Waddington.
CONFLAGRATIONS CAUSED BY FIREWORKS.—Some
very serious accidents occurred at Gravesend on Mon-
day, in consequence of the abuse of fireworks, which is.
usually indulged in on the election of the mayor for the.
year. Several houses were ignited, and one was almost.
entirely destroyed. Several persons, male and female,.
were very much injured by rockets, which were thrown,.
abiut in the most reckless and wanton manner.

THE LATE STABBING CASE.—We regret to say that
Simon Hansen, the Norwegian sailor, who was stabbed
during a fracas in the Bute-road, ardiff, on Friday
evening, expired last night in the house of Mr. Hugo,
surgeon. The two men charged with the offence—Pa-
trick Keating and Jeremiah McMulloch—will be brought ,
before the magistrates again to-morrow, when, we un •
derstand, some very conclusive evidence will be adduced 1.
against the former.
TITHE REDEMPTION TRUST.—The Board of the Tithe
Redemption Trust held their quarterly meeting yest*r•
day at the society's rooms, No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi .
Lord John Manners, M.P., was in the chair. Tbrac
cases of voluntary restoration of tithes to their respec .-
tive parishes were announced, and the board made a
grant to a case in the diocese of Gloucester and Brista 1,
and to one in the diocese of Chichester. The want c f
funds prevented them from extending their assistance td
several other equally pressing and important appliciztiow I
whioh came before them.

BUENOS AYRES BONDHOLDERS.

The following communication has been addressed
to the Committee of the Stock-Exchange by the
agents of the Government of Buenos Ayres, en.-
bodying new proposals for the arrangement of the
debt of that Republic. It caused an improvement
in the Bonds (the previous price of which was 84i),
operations having taken place at 90 :
" 8, Bishopsgate-street-within, Nov. 12.
" The Chairman of the Committee of the
Stock-Exchange.
" Sir,—We hand you, enclosed, a translation of a
document received this morning from the Government of
Buenos Ayres, containing new proposals for the settle-
ment of the Buenos Ayres' Sterling Debt, which you will
be good enough to have immediately posted on the
Stock-Exchange for the information of all parties, as this
would appear to be the best way of making it public
without the risk of any improper use Leing made of the
information in the meantime.
" We remain, sir, your obedient servants,
" BARING, BROTHERS, AND CO."

" Buenos Ayres, Oct. 1, 1856.

"Department of Finance.

" To Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co.
" The undersigned Minister of Finance, in pursuance
of what he announced to you, gentlemen, in his commu-
nication dated 29th Aug. last (as per copy enclosed), has
now th.. honour to transmit a memorandum of the bases
whichvflils Government now proposes for the final settle.
ment of the dtt of the London loan, and which it hopes
you will be 6 ,od enough to submit in its name to the
consideration of the Committee of Bondholders.
" You, Gentlemen, will be, doubtless, satisfied that
the financial circumstances of the country being attended
to, my Government, in making the proposals referred
to, affords to its London creditors the most unequivocal
proof of its equity and of the efforts it is making to fulfil
comaletely its obligations and maintain its foreign credit,
and it flatters itself with the belief that the bondholders
will be of the same opinion.
"The undersigned avails himself of the opportunity
to renew the assurances of his perfect consideration.
"NORBERTO DE LA RIESTRA."

" Memorandum of bases proposed by the Government
of the state of Buenos Ayres for the settlement of its
London debt :
" The payme❑t of interest and sinking fund according
to the terms established in the original contract upon
the capital of the loan will be made again effective in
the following form : viz.—
In 1857 will be paid £36,000 on account of interest.
In 1858 „ 48,000 If
In 1859 „ 60,000 If
In 1860 and thenceforward 65,0001. per annum for
payment of interest and sinking fund.
" 'ln payment of the interest in arrear to the date
when the final settlement takes place, and for its entire
amount, new bonds will be issued of 201. and 501. each,
or of larger amounts, as may be convenient to the bond•
holders, such bonds being entitled to interest from and
after the year 1861 as follows :

From 1861 to 1866 inclusive, 1 per cent per annum.
From 1866 to 1870 „ 1i ),
From 1371 and after „ 2
" A sinking fund being set apart from 1861 for the
new bonds until their entire redemption of per cent.
per annum (one-half), or say the 200th part of the whole
amount, or, if more agreeable to the creditors, the Go•
vernment propose that the 3-4ths of the whole amount of
the arrears of interest (or 75 per cent.) only be recognised
issuing in payment of this sum bonds to bear interest as
follows :

From 1861 to 1865 inclusive, 1 per cent. per annum.
From 1866 to 1870 „ 2
From 1871 and after „ 3 7,
There still being set aside from 1861, as a sinking fund
for such new bonds, until their entire redemption, 6 per
cent. per annum (one-half), or say the 200th part of the
whole amount.

" 'ln any event the Government of Buenos Ayres
will remain at liberty to apply to the redemption of the
new bonds, by means of public or private purchase, any
sums which it may find convenient, at any period after
their issue, and even before said bonds commence gain-
ing any interest whatever.
" In payment of the deficiency arising (36,0001.),
between the sum assigned for the payment of interest on
the original debt in 1857 and 1858 and what is estab-
lished in the contract, there will also be issued, at a fit-
ting opportunity, new bonds under the same conditions
proposed for the payment of the interest due to date.
" ' Any arrangement which may be settled upon the
preceding bases will not take effect until after having
been approved by the Legislative Chambers, towards
which end the Government of Buenos Ayres will cause it
to be presented to them as soon as concluded.
"'Buenos Ayres, Oct. 1. "ItIESTRA.'
The annexed in relation to the debt of Vene-
zuela is from the Committee of Spanish American
Bondholders :

"Committee of Spanish-American Bondholders,
11, Austinfriars, Nov. 12.
"Venezuelan Foreign Debt.
" The following correspondence has taken place be-
tween the committee and the new Corcinissioners of the
Venezuelan Government, viz.:—

" 'll, Austinfriars, Nov. 8.
" Gentlemen,—l have reported to the Committee of
Spanish American Bondholders that I have had the
honour of receiving your visit on Tuesday last, announc•
ing your arrival in London for the purpose indicated in
the communication recently received by this committee
from Messrs. Frederick Huth and Co.
" 'The committee consider it expedient to state to you
that, as the negotiation fur the liquidation of the arrears
of the debt of Venezuela has now been protracted to an
unusual length, they trust that it will be convenient to
you to make known to them, with the least practicable
delay, the propositions which you are authorised to
make on behalf of the Government of Venezuela.

" 'Considerable impatience exists among the bond-
holders on this subject, which the committee are anxi-
ous, as early as possible, to rel►eve.
" I have the honour to he, &c.,
" 4J. D. POWLES,
" 4 Chairman of the Committee of Spanish-American

" ' Bondholders.

" Senors J. Giuseppe and Modesto Urbaneja.' "
" Translation of answer to the foregoing :
" London, Nov. 10.

" Sir,—We have the honour of receiving your letter
of the Sth inst., stating that it would be desirable speedily
to communicate the propositions which we are authorised
to make for the arrangement of the Venezuelan Foreign
Debt.
" Such was our attention on arriving in this capital,
but on coming here we learn from the Venezuelan con-
sul and the fiscal agents of the Republic that the archives
of the fortm.r Legation in Great Britain—in which there
are all the documents relating to the debt—are in Paris,
in the possession of Senor F. Corvaia, and we have the
express order of the Venezuelan Government, first of all,
to be in possession of the said archives. We must, there-
fore, go to Paris to receive the same, which we shall do
in the shortest time possible, and return to this capital
to make our propositions, since the Venezuelan Govern-
ment is most anxious for the new arrangement, that
will be as expedient for the Republic as for the bond-
holders.
"' We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
" JOHN GIUSEPPE,
MODESTO URBANEJA.
" J. D. Fowles, Esq., Chairman of the Com-
mittee of Spanish-Arnericso Bondholders.'"

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN

COUNTIES RAILWAY.

THETFORD, Nov. 12.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Press, coroner for Norfolk,
held an inquest at the Harling-road station, on the ,
Eastern Counties Railway, An the body of Wm. Sibley,
an engine-driver, who met his death on Sunday evening
under very extraordinary circumstances. The deceased
was driver of No. 92 passenger-cngine, and left Norwich
with his fireman on Sunday morning for the purpose of
working the up Parliamentary train to Cambridge. The
journey was accomplished in perfect safety, and in the
evening the deceased left Cambridge again with the same
engine, for the purpose of working the down Parliamen-
tary train to Norwich. Everything proceeded well as
far as Thetford, and the train left that station at the
time stated on the time-tables-6 46 p.m. When the
Bridgham cutting, about four miles from Thetford, was
reached, an unusual knocking noise wag beard, and the
deceased shut off the steam, applied the break, and told
his " mate," whose name is Cullington, to go round the
engine, and see what was the matter. Cullington obeyed
the order, but was almost immediately thrown off to the
ground with sues violence that he was rendered senseloso
for a few minutes. A terrible scene followed. The
tire of the left leading wheel of the engine had been
broken, and the immense machine, which was being
propelled at the rate of 25 or 30 miles an hour, left the
rails, and ran along the bank of the cutting for some
yards, when it fell over, carrying the tender with it, and
throwing it partly across the up line. The carriages
attached in the meantime continued their course, and,
the eaine being suddenly brought to a standstill, a
frightful crash took place, two of four horseboxes, which
were providentially placed next the tender, being smashed
to atoms. The shock being thus happily broken, the
passengers escaped without injury.
The disaster, however, did not end here. Agoods train
which was proceeding on the up line came up almost
immediately afterwards and struck the tender of the
fallen engine, R hich was lying, as has been already stated,
partly across the rails. The engine of the goods train
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debris between the fallen engine and tender and quite
dead. So inextricable was the confusion that it was im-
possible to get the corpse out, and, notwithstanding the
most strenuous exertions, it was not recovered for seve-
ral hours. Medical assistance was procured as soon as
possible from Thetford, but it would. have been quite
useless from the first, as the death of :the victim of the
catastrophe must have been almost ins.tantaneous. As
was to be expected, the corpse, when. recovered, was
in a horribly mutilated condition.
The passengers in the Parliamentary train were con-
veyed back to Thetford as soon as possible, and were
there accommodated for the night. lir. Stevenson,
superintendent at Norwich, and Mr. Naylor, district
locomotive superintendent between l`totwieh aeld Cam:

bridge, arrived at the scene of the disaster the same
evening, and a large body of workmen were soon
busily engaged in removing the wreck. By great ex-
ertions one line was sufficiently cleared to enable the
traffic to be resumed next morning, and all the trains
were worked under Mr. Stevenson's personal direc-
tions between Harling-road and Thetford with a pilot
engine. In the course of Monday the other line of
rails was cleared, and the usual arrangements were
resumed. _

The breaking of the tire, the cause of all the mischief,
seems to have been wholly accidental. The iron of
which it was made was of the best possible quality, and
no flaw could be with certainty detected in it on its
being examined after the accident. The wheel to which
it was attached was supplied to No. 91 engine in Jan.
of the present year, and was afterwards shifted to No.
92, which has been in constant work for the last four
months, and was considered to be in very good repair.
All the wheels of the engine were examined by the de-
ceased before the journey from Cambridge was com-
menced, and nt. defect was perceived in any of them.
The deceased, who was a very steady driver, had been
for some time in the service of the company, and appears
to have been much respected by his companions. He
was marrie f nine months since, and his wife is now near
her c mfiuement.

The jury at the inquest, after hearing the evidence of
several persons, returned a verdict to the effect that he
me'• his death accidentally.
The spot where the,accident occurred was some time
since the scene of another serious casualty, and the dis-
trict of the line has been especially unfortunate. The
line is slightly curved at the place, and in January, 1E54,
during the prevalence of the very severe snow-storms
which then occurred, witnessed a terrible collision,
which resulted in the death Of six persons. Within two
or three miles of the Thetford station another collision
also took place in December, 1855, when two passengers
in the night mail train were killed ; and in December,
1846, a train also ran off the rails and the driver and
fireman lost their lives. The locality has consequently
acquired among those who treasure up these coinci-
dences, as they term Clem, a very indifferent reputation.