The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-18 00:00:00

2'ELE WHITSUNTIDE REVIEWS.

GRIMSBY.

By the advice of the coroner, the jury returned an open
verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons
unknown, thus leaving the matter in the Lands of the
magistrates.

ENGLISH DIFFICULTIES IN CHINA.

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Among the parliamentary papers just issued are some
documents of importance relating to China. One of these
contains the correspondence relating to the proceedings
of her Majesty's ship Janus, at Sharp Peak Island,
near Foo-Chow-Foo. It will be remembered that Consul
Sinclair called upon Lieutenant Keppel, commanding
the Janus, to employ force in the settlement of some
differences between an English missionary and the natives
of Sharp Peak Island, a line of conduct strongly censured
by Lord Clarendon. Mi. Wolfe, the missionary, had
obtained the title deeds of some land at the island, but the
natives would not allow him to build upon it. Consul
Sinclair described a Chinaman, named,Wang-Yew-Cbow,
as the chief instigator of the disturbance, and recom-
mended that Lieutenant Keppel should land a large force
of cutlass-men. This he did, and threatened to pull clown
Wang-Yew-Chow's house if he did not agree to the pro.
nosed terms, the result being that the Chinaman gave a
bond for future good behaviour, of which a copy is given in
these papers. Vice-Admiral Sir H. Keppel, in reporting
the affair, says that in his opinion the Glint se xv,re the
proper parties to take action in the matter, and that they
had intended to do so, and the interference of the
Janus was, therefore,unnecessary. Lord Clerendon, as we
have said, severely censures the Consul, whose
measures, he considers, " had a direct tendency
to provoke without sufficient cause a collision
with the Chinese authorities and people," and he iswarned
to be more circumspect for the future. Another batch of
correspondence refers to the engagement of H.M.S.
Aigerine with junks supposed to belong, to pirates off
Namoa harbour. It seems from the account given in
these documents that the Algerine gunboat, with a man-
darin on board, encountered thirteen armed junks off
Namoa harbour. The commanders of the junks
refused to shew their papers, and fired on the
Algerine. Lieutenant Domville engaged them forth-
with, passing three times along their line, and- pouring
In grape and shell, which, he sayi himself, " told with
fearful effect," and dispersed the junks. Vice-Admiral
Keppel, in enclosing the account of the engagement,
recommends Commander Domville for the skill and gal-
lantry with which he opposed a superior force.
Unluckily, the junks subsequently turned out
not to be pirates, but opium smugglers, who never
allow even their own vessels of war to communi-
cate with them, and consequently the Admiralty instead
of applauding Commander .Domvillo for " his skill and
gallantry," censured him for beginning the action at all,
and blamed the Admiral for giving his sanction
to the affair. Orders are therefore given that
Chinese vessels are not to be attacked unless there is no
reasonable doubt that they are engaged in piracy. The
suppression of these pirates in the Chinese waters is a
difficult and troublesome task. The correspondence
respecting the proceedings of her Majesty's ships
Bustard and Drake in assisting the Imperial
troops in the river Han gives an account of some more •
satisfactory exploits than those we have referred to ;
though, at Lord Stanley's suggestion, a sum of £2,000,
exacted from the village of Choo-Chi, was refunded. Mr.
Holt, acting Vice-Consul at Tamsing, was fortunate
enough to obtain the necessary reparation for an outrage
on British merchants in Banca without employing
force, a full account of the affair being given in these
papers.

The fasting girl at Ulvcrston, after having ab-
stained from food since last October, has now, it is stated,
commenced to both eat and talk. She has, according to
report, been tweLty-five weeks without any solid food pass-
ing her lips, and sixteen wilLat having her lips even
moistened.

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TREAP!');‘,OACHING MARRIAGE OF LORD LYTTEL-
.cuN.—The Birmingham, Post is informed that the mar-
riage of Lord Lyttelton with Mrs. Humphrey Alildmay,
widow of the late member for Herefordshire, will be
solemnised early in ;Tune. Airs. Mildmay is a niece of
the Rev. Mr. Clive, who was sometime rector of Solihull.

SALE OF THE OVERTON ESTATE.—We (Salisbury
Journal) understand that the Overton estate (near
Marlborough) which was purchased about three years ago
of the Duke of Marlborough, by the late Mr. R. 0. Long,
at something like £140,000, has just been sold by the
.axecutors of that gentleman to Lord Earnest Bruce (as
the representative of Sir H. Meux) at a profit of nearly
£20,000.

MR. GEORGE ODG ER. —A meeting. of the Green-
wich Advanced Liberal Association was held a day or two
back, at which the following re3olution was carried unani-
mously :—" That the advanced Liberal 3 of the borough of
Greenwich learn with satisfaction-that Mr. George Odger
has allowed himself to be put in nomination as the repre-
sentative of the working classes for Stafford, and trust
that the advanced Liberals of Stafford will send him to
the Commons House of Parliament as the advanced
Liberals of Greenwich returned the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone."

Another yeolin bas acemplished the diflieu7t feat
.4 falling off his horse. Sir Theophilus Biddulph has
met with a selions accident at Warwick. While
at drill with the Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry his
horse became very restive and began rearing and plunging
about in a furious manner. Ev,•,:tnally* Sir Theophilus
was thrown, and fell upon the ground with great force.
Several members of the regiment quickly ran to his
assistance, and he was conveyed to his lodgings in a
car. Dr. Dullock was caged in, :.nd found the
hon, baronet suffering from the dints of temporary concus-
sion of the brain and a severe flesh wound in the face, from
Which he had lost a large quantity of Llood. Ile was also
ercatly shaken. In the covree of the day, however, he was I
•>atuch improved.

.Tilitsurt Monday was a grand day for the volunteers of
MI metropolis. Most of the regiments went off either to
rarer Park, Tooting, or Greenwich. The
tOview at Panshan ger, the seat of the Earl
Cowper. in Hertford6hire, was a small one.
Nine different battalions, of which half-a-dozen were
Metropolitan corps, took part in the evolutions ;
and as= despite the threatening clouds of the morning,
the day tuzned out fine, the proceedings went off with
complete satfeaction to all concerned, except those rigid
critics who cannot pardon any departure from exact
military rules in the manceuvring of our Litizen
soldiery. The plan of the review was not
perhaps all that i " real soldier " could wish.
Certain of the forces took np their position in a wood, from
which it was the duty of the other volunteers to drive
them. They succeeded in doing so, and the two rival
armies became one, and marched past in excellent style.
The same kind of thing took place on Tooting Common,
where Lord Truro commanded. We are told that "the
enemy were defeated," and that the march past was really
well done.

THE FATAL POACHING AFFRAY NEAR

The inquest on the body of Enoch Godly, the gardener
shot dead by a poacher on Sunday morning at Grimsby,
has been held. James Marshall deposed: I am game•
keeper to Mr. Thorold, of Cuxwold. On Sunday morning
last the deceased, Enoch Goldy, and I left Cuxwold for the
purpose of watching game. We reached Eavendale about
two o'clock in the morning. About four o'clock we observed
two men on Mr. Thorold's property; I saw one of the men
creeping down by the hedge-side with- a gun in his hand
preparing. to 'shoot, a hare. The hare ran from them,
and then the men came towards the hedge ; when
they got opposite to us they stopped. I observed
that they saw us, and I jumped up and endeavoured
to get over the hedge. I said, "Hollow, what are you
doing there this morning with a gun?" One of the men
replied, "Do you mean that, you b—?" and he turned and
ran back. In getting over the hedge I attempted to get
hold of him, but did not reach him. The men ran
away. Deceased jumped over the hedge after me,
and we both gave chase. Deceased passed me,
and I said to him, "If you can catch them, run up
'lt once while lam close to." Ge'dy said, " Aye, but
they have got a gun ; I'll run them till they stop."
After running about a mile and a half, going through
a wood Goldy called out to give me an idea which way they
were going. I then said, "Golly, run through a gate-
stead," when he stopped and hesitated a minute, as if he
had lost sight of the men. Goldy then turned to the right,
and was out of my sight. I then immediately heard a great
clap, which turned out to Le the report of a gun. Then I heard
deceased call out " Oh, dear! Come up, Marshall ; come up,
Marshall." I then saw Goldy come back past the gate-
stead, and run right into the hedge. I was then about 100
yards away. I then saw the man that had the gun in his
hand run up to Goldy,point his gun at him—not from the
shoulder, but holding it with both hands—and fire at
deceased. It appeared as though the man put the muzzle of
the gun close to deceased, who was partly down on the hedge.
I only saw one man with a gun. There was time to re-
load the gun between the two reports. When I got up
to Goldy he was quite dead, and I perceived there was a
great hole at the back of his head. Both men ran away,
and whilst I was looking at the deceased I lost sight of
them entirely.
Mr. H. George, surgeon, North Thoresby, deposed that
he had made a post-mortem examination of the deceased.
He found a gunshot wound in the left breast, between
the second and third ribs, which had gone through
the left lung, from which he extracted a quantity of shot
and wadding. He also found a wound at the Lack
of the left ear, which penetrated the brain several hid:cf.
Both wounds were sufficient to cause death.

THE ENGLISH JOINT-STOCK BANK.

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At the Mansion House, on Monday morning, Mr. Samuel
Greenway Finney, the manager of the English Joint-
stock Batik, Mr. James Abbiss, Mr. Thomas Brad-
shaw, and Captain C. E. Mangles, the directors of the
bank, were brought before the Lord Mayor upon the
charge of conspiring together to defraud the share-
holders by means of false representations and false
balance-sheets.
Mr. G. Lewis appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Met-
calfe, Mr. Poland, Mr. Ormond, Mr. Straight, and Mr.
Montague Williams appeared for the defendants.
At the commencement of the proceedings Mr. Lewis
took occasion to explain that on a former occasion he had
stated that a sum of £1,250 had found its way into
the pockets of Mr. Bradshaw. He had since, however.
ascertained that this was not the case.
Mr. C. Dradlaugh, who described himself as a financial
agent, of Old Bond-street, was examined, and lie stated.that
he had bad business transactions with the defendants.
•an+l among other matters he had negotiated the purchase
of the Nottingham Bank for the English Joint-Stock
Bank for a sum of £lB,OOO, and he received £2,250 as
commission for the transaction from Mr. Finney, the
There were also some negotiations for the
purchase of a bank at Norwich. Witness negotiated

manager.

a loan of £75,000 for the bank, and it was
arranged that a sum of £4,000 should be paid
as commission for the loan. The directors of
the English Joint-Stock Bank afterwards refused
to carry out this arrangement, and witness was very
angry, and commenced legal proceedings against them.
The result was that the bank only received £25,000, and
they gave £2,000 as interest on that amount, and witness,
in addition, raceived a sum of £l5O for himself. Witness
was very dissatisfied with the operation.
Mr. Metcalfe observed that the transaction turned out
to be a totally different one to that which was opened by
the prosecution.
Mr. Siebel, accountant and broker, carrying on business
in the City, proved that he negotiated the loan of £25,000
with the City Bank, and it was arranged that the
English Joint-Stock Bank should give their own deposit
note as security. lie received the £25,000 in Bank of
England notes, and took them to the English Joint Stock
Bank, and witness afterwards received a cheque for

£1,350 for his commission for obtaining the loan.

Evidence was then given to shew that £20,000 out
of the £25,000 received under the circumstances above
stated were paid as part of the purchase-money for the
goodwill of the business of the bank of Rogers, Olding,
and Co., and Mr. Lewis said he should shew that £2,000
were paid in to the private account of Mr. Tinney.
Mr. Howard, a solicitor, proved the sale of the goodwill
of the bank of Harding and Co., at Bideford, to the
English Joint-Stock Bank for £12,000. The witness
received £2,000 as commission for negotiating the sale of
the business, and he said that a "suggestion" was made
that a portion of this sum should be paid to Mr. Finney,
the manager of the English Joint-Stock Bank, and he
subsequently handed one-third of the -22,000 to that
gentleman.

Mr. Oswald Howell, the accountant, said he had been
retained by Mr. Lambert, the prosecutor, to investigate
the books of the English Joint-Stock Bank, and he had
been so engaged for some time. He had seen the balance-
sheet as made up to the 31st of December, 186'5, by which
the net profits of the bank were stated to be £14,173 15s.
He had carefully examined the books, and the bank had
certainly not only not made this amount of profit, but,
according to his calculation, it had not made any profit at
all. It further appeared by the books that a sum of over
£140,000 had been expended in the purchase of other banks,
fittings, &c., and the preliminary expenses were stated at
£22,353 3s. 4d., and £12,500 of this amount consisted of
the purchase of the West Surrey Bank, which belonged to
the defendant.

Captain Mangles : The books did not contain any
entry of the payment of the .€2,CGO to Mr. Howard, and
the books did not contain any minute of the directors
authorising such a payment.

Mr. Howell was examined at very considerable length,
and the effect of his testimony appeared to be that it was
his opinion that a number of items which appeared in the
books in the character of assets ought to have appeared
in the profit and loss account, and he said that they were
originally so placed, but the mode of keeping the books
appeared to have been changed.
The inquiry was then again adjourned.