The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-19 00:00:00

riFiEi SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1860.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS .

' Closinf,
Share' Railways. Braid. • ''' usinessdone
Price.
'
100 'Atlantic &St Lawrence all 8063 !
stk c Born.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 93 94 /1"42
t Gu. 5 per cent........
18 Do, Do. B; 16 11 15 d
205 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 5 55d 2
205 Do. New
10 Do. Preference ~ .. : tri 65 75
100 I ,Buffalo,BrantAGodrich
6p. ct. bds. huv,. 1, 18721 100 78 82
100 Do: do. July 1, 1873; 100 73 78
100 Do. do. June 1, 18741 100 70 75
5 Cleutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim; 1. 30. 5 d 5p 3
20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Line.) 2s.
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 3s. 15 11 d
29 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 75 14 5 d
175 Demerara.
20 Eastn. Bengakfu. sp. c 71 15 11 d
stock East Indian,irgu. sp. c. 100 994 10 995 100 195
20 Do. F Shares Ext l5 1 d pr
20 Do. Jubbulpore l5 5 d pr
100 Do. 45 pc. Debentrs all 93 99
100 Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864 all 101 102 1015
20 Geelong & Melbourne —
sto. Geelong Corporation 6 100 —.per cent. Bonds
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 27 28 275 i
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 81 86
100 Do. 6 per et. Debentr all 51 53 52
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862
100 Do. do. 1867
100 Do. do. 1872., all 48 50
• tock Gt.lndtarenin.p.,,na.sp.c. 100 965 ' 96,1 965 i 1
20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 6 15d 5 d
20 Gt. South.of India (Lim) 13 25 15d
guaranteed 5 per cent,
205 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 135 14 41 135
20 Do. New
100 I Do. Bonds Pay. '76, NVitli all 100 102
opt, till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 100 102
100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 100 102
100 Do. 55 p, a, do. '77 do, , all 93 85
stock Madras, guar., 45 p. a lOO 84 85
stook i Do, do. 5 per cent. ~ 100 935 On
stock I Do. 44p, Q. Extension 100 87 88 874 5 7
20 I Do. Fourth do lO 15 11 d
20 Do, d 0,..., .._.• all
stock Melb.Corp. 6 p. c,. Buds. 100 i
Newßrunswick & Canda
20 Ry,&Land(Lim.)2-.6pc 1
Class A Capital Share all 5 7
Do, do. Land do
20 Do. do. B Capital do (
.. Do. do. Land do. ...... all 5 7 t
20 Othle (Limited) ~...... ss. &
stock Seim& .......... d„z 100 0531 995
20 ;Do. l'unjaub .... 21, g 7 15 8 112 t
20 i Do. 1)o.
__ .. Felo. q,. 0 all --d I
stook Do. Indus. St. F., 100 93 94 931
{
20 IS t.Andrews & Quebec A 18 i.
10 I Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 5 5 d 1
._..._......________... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. a
10 Antwerp & Rotterdam l3 all 51 55 i
20 !Ardennes ............ .. all —p V
20 tl3ah.&S.Fran..Lim.7l).c. 85 15 5 8 b
5 Bekriaa East. Junction all 5 1
20 Beziers to Graissessac.. all
6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all , 25 21 n
100 Copiabo .............. all
10 Ditto Extension all 21 2 d m
20 Dutch Rhenish ...... .. 15 35 252
20 Eastern of France .... all 25 26
20 Grand Rus. Guar. 6p. c. 6 I.'
20 Do. do. all
20 !Great Central of France
20 IGt. Luxem., Con. shs... 64 65 ts
20 Italian Junction ...... el
20 Lake Constance & Bale. sl
20 ILierre & Turnhout .... all
20 IL yens & Geneva ...... all 0
335 , Maria Antonia .... —.. all
10 Do. New ...... ........ all
20 Namur & Liege ........ all 75 8/ lo
20 Do. 6it c. Pref......... all 191 204 hi
16 ,Northern of France.... all 88 39
20 Do. New Shares .—.. 15 it(
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 75 81 H
20 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. all 36 37
20 Paris & 0r1ean5........ all 53 55
20 1R eo.cuia.fe .p S.:;.raititi.ir
..e.r.n...) ni
13 35 24d;
20 Riga & Itinaburg...... 14 lit
10 Rome & Frascati . . all sti
20 Royal Dazish all 13 15
5 Royal Swedish ........ all —.— m:
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all
20 Sambre ..t Meuse ....„ ail 55 64 to
10 Do. 55 per cent. Pref..... all 85 8/ .
20 San Paulo. lim, v. 7p. c. 2 I Id 5 1 sti
20 S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin 12 ; 5 d
20 Southern of France.... all 191 205
84 West Flanders . ... all 51 6 1111
10 Do. 55 p. c. Preference.. all 9 ci
20 W. &N.W.of France .. all i an
N '42 23
23 Western of Austria.. t, 6 _ ___ Bt
20 Western of Switterlafld all pr:
6 Wiesbaden ~ , .
6 p!o. 8 per cent. !'ref..., all 4
20 'Zealand

Share' Mines.

LA J 1 INTELLIGENCE-(TBIS .DAY.)

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Joyce.)
IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY AND OTHER PUBLIC COMPA-
NIES.—THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

- . V. HITCHCOCK. -
Upon this case being called a gentleman at once got into
the witness-box on behalf of the plaintiffs, defendant also
putting in an appearance.

Mr. Joyce (to plaintiff's witness) --Arc you in the service
of the company ?

Witness—Ves, for more than ten years, I now appear as
agent for the company. •
Mr. Joyce—have you any appointment under the seal of
the company ?

Witness—No ; but surely I can appear as agent.
Mr. Joyce--Not unless you appear under the seal of the
company. I must nonsuit the company. They are not
poor, and ought to appear by their attorney. The attor-
nies to the railway are most respectable people.
Witness—l have often attended as agent before.
Mr. Joyce--I should not have allowed it had I presided.
Plaintiffs nonsuited.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS' DAT.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DISORDERLY GENTLEMEN.-Mr. George Nicholson, 23,
Alexander-square, merchant, and Mr. Frederick Perkins,
Barnard's-inn, Holborn, were charged as follows :
Sergeant Joy, 9 C, said that about four this morning,
hearing a cry of " Police " near Newport-market, he went
to see the cause, when he found the two defendants
quarrelling with a female. He sent the female away one
road and the defendants the other. After a few minutes
the defendants began shouting, and on his telling them to
desist, Perkins said they (the police) were "a lot of
dressed up fellows;" that they (the defendants) were gen-
tlemen; that Nicholson belonged to the Royal Exchange,
and that they would do as they liked; and also that one of
them was an officer, and would send to the Tower for a dozen
soldiers. They continued to create a disturbance, and he
was compelled to take them into custody. On the way to
Vine-street station Nicholson knocked off a constable's hat,
and tried to make his escape, and it required three consta-
bles to take them into custody. Perkins further said he
would give £2, £3, or even £5 if he would let him go, as iv)
had never been locked up before at a police station.
Nicholson said the officer made a little mistake in the
names.

Perkins said he had taken a glass of wine tto much, and
was very sorry if he had interfered with the police.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendants—parkins 10s., and
Nicholson ss.

SINGULAR CHARGE Or ROBr,ERY.-Wm. Leslie, a
tailor, living in Church-court, Doctors'-commons, was
charged with stealing a table of the value of 265. from the
shop of Mr. Henry Bridges, furbiture manufacturer, 4041,
Oxford-street.
A constable said, finm information he received, he fol-
lowed the prisoner tP, Crown-street, Soho and there stopped
him with the to
'"..,te on his shoulder. Hoy asked him where
he got it, slcl he said he purchased it upon the pavement.
He then took him back to 406, Oxford-street.
Mrs. Hannah. Mary Bridges, wife of Mr. Bridges, fur-
niture dealer, of 406, Oxford-street, identified the table as
her husband's property. On being spoken to by the con-
stable she missed the table, which she had seen safe twenty
minutes before.
The prisoner said he did not steal it, it was given to him
to carry by his master Mr. Haberfield, a tailor in Sutton-
street.

Habcrfield on being sent for said, he bought the table of a
man in Oxford-street, for 45., it was between Dean-street
and Charles-street, near a shop where the the name of
Bridges or Burgess was painted up. He gave it to the
prisoner to carry home, and thought it very cheap.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the witness whether he usually
bought tables in the street ?

Haberfield said he only bought it to oblige the man.
A witness was called, who said he was with Habev.field
when he bought it, and the gentleman (the prisoner) was
with them.
Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered. the table to be givr,n up to Mr.
Bridges, and the prisoner to be discharged.

MURDER OF A SE4NAII::

After the disposal of the night charges a t the Thames
Police Court to-day, Mr. Wm. Brookhole Ling Webb, the
chief mate of the ship Brierly Hill, from Australia, was
brought up on remand before Mr. Selfe, charged with the
wilful murder 9f Wm. Brown, otherwise Lancaster, on the
high seas, near the Island of Ascension , on the 6th day of
August last.
The ship arrived in the port of LOT
ition on Sunday last,
but no steps were taken to arrest thep
risoner until Thurs-
day morning, when the law was set 1- d motion by the Home
Office, owing to a communication, ',laving been received by
the Board of Trade from the shipping-office in Poplar,
where the official log-book V. the Brierly Hill was depo-
sited.

Mr. Charles Young, gol%citor, again appeared for the
defence.

Inspector Cox, of the Thames Police, who arrested the
prisoner, handed the oftcial log-book of the Brierly Hill
to the magistrate. The witnesses Farrow and Kcarnan,
who gave their evidence on Thursday with remarkable
clearness, said the entry made in the log-book after the
deceased was shot was net a correct one, and that after seven
of the crew had gone aft to request the captain to put in
to the Island of Ascension for fresh water, he refused to
do so. Brown then said if the captain did not he would
have to be tied down till he did, but this was not accom-
panied by any violence or any attempt to seize the
captain or do him any harm. The prisoner,
however, immediately went below, returned with a
loaded pistol, which he cocked on deck, and after
saying, " I'll blow the first man's brains out tkat lays a
hand upon the captain," deliberately presented the pistol
at the deceased and tedot him dead. Tho prisoner then ob-
tained a second pistril from the hands of the carpenter, who
was standing by, mad said, "If you don't go forward, I'll
shoot every one of you;" and the men did go forward.
About thrce-quarters of an hour afterwards, the men were
again w_u.stered in the after-part of the ship. The prisoner
said; % This is what comes of your mutiny ;" and declared
tae pistol went off by accident. The two witnesses swore
distinctly the pistol did not go off by accident, that it was
upon half-cock when it was brought on deck, and that it
was deliberately presented and fired at the deceased.

John Taylor, able Beaman on board the Brierly Hill,
was called in confirmation of the evidence of Farrow and
Kearnan. He said—l went aft with Brown and five other
men to complain of the water. I heard and saw every-
thing. There was no agreement as to what we should do
before we went aft. We certainly went to complain of the
water. It was not good. Kearnan had some tea in a
pannikin, and asked Captain Vincent, the master, to tar,'„,
it. The captain said it was good. Then Brown.
forward and said, " Will you go into the Island. of came
Ascen-
sion to get fresh water." The captain said, "I•To Brown
~
said, "We will have you tied down," P,r words to that
effect. I cannot exactly say. Brown 'Yr
as then five or six
feet off. He did not advance t,
Jwards the captain
or attempt to touch him. vdith that the chief
mate went down to his er.ein and brought up a
large horse pistol in his lul hand, and cocked it with his
right. The captain c.id. r:ot order him to go below for the
pistol. The mate
on the captain I will blew his brains out." The mate was
said., " The first man that lays his hands
then very 'close to ;crown, and had the pistol presented
towards b i,n, Bmwn said, " Will you," but he did nothing
at all., or attempt to do anything. The mate immediately
svaot the man, who fell dead at his feet. The pistol was
such a one as that on the magistrates' desk. I cannot say
if it cocked easily. After the deceased was shot the pri-
soner handed the pistol down the companion to the car-
penter, took another, and said, "If you don't go forward I
will shoot every man of you."

The following official entry in the log-book, which the
three witnesses already examined said was false, was read.
It was in the handwriting of the captain :
" I hereby declare that the seamen came aft in a body.
Christopher Kearnan asked me if I was going to the Isle of
Ascension. I told him no. Wm. Brown then spoke up and
said, if I would not they would come aft to make me fast
and take the ship there themselves, and that they would do
it. The mate jumped below to fetch up a pistol, and after
William Brown had made an attompt to lay hold of me, he
(the mate) presented the pistol, which had been loaded
over night, and said he would fire at the first man that at-
tempted to lay hold of the captain. While the mate made
use of these words Brown cried out " Will ypu, will you ?"
and put his hand behind him to draw his knife, but
the words were not out of the mate's mouth
before the pistol, which was at full cock,
went off in the mate's hand and shot Wpm... Tho
knife tell xrom his hand as he fell, when the rest of the
crew dispersed forward. The bullet had entered the man's
body, and he died in a few minutes. I was at the cabin
door when the pistol went off, receiving pistols from the
carpenter, whom I had previously sent down into the cabin
for them, and the mate got between me and the man, so I
did not see the pistol go off. The mate declares that he
did not intend to fire, but that in raising his hand towards
the man he might have unconsciously touched the trigger,
and I fully believe and declare upon oath that he did not
intend to shoot the man. I declare the above entry to
have been duly read over to the crow, and signed—William
Vincent, master ; William Brookholding Webb, first officer;
John Horne, 2d officer, Isaac Wilson, carpenter.
The witnesses, Farrow, Kearnan, and Taylor, all swore
in the most positive manner, and with great distinctness,
that the deceased did not take his knife out of the sheath,
or attempt to do so ; that his knife was not in his hand
when he fell, and that he did not attempt to lay hold of the
captain or the pistol, and that it was deliberately fired by
the mate. The vessel afterwards put into Ascension Island,
where fresh water was obtained.

Mr. Pyer, the chief clerk, having completed the deposi.,
tiens, they were read over, and the prisoner, who said he
would reserve his defence, was fully committed for trial for

wilful murder.