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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, J ULY 12, 1856.

From the London Gazette of Last Night•

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 29.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Thomas
riott Hughes, Esquire, now attached to her Majesty's
Embassy at Constantinople, to be her Majesty's Consul at
Erzeroum.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, qULY 4.
The Queen has been graciously 'pleased to appoint
Charles Batten Hillier, Esquire, to be her Majesty's Consul
at Bangkok, in Siam.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 11.
Whereas divers British subjects, who have entered into
engagements for employment tibroad as railway labourers,
miners, engineers, stokers, and firemen, on board steam
vessels, and in other capacities (such engagements in gene-
ral containing no provision for the maintenance of such
British subjects, or for furnishing them with the means of
returning to this country), have applied to her Majesty's
Consuls in foreign parts for relief as distressed British
subjects, and considerable expense has been incurred in
relieving such persons, and in sending them back
to this country : Notice is hereby given that for the
future all persons who aceepV engageirlents in foreign coun-
tries, as such railway labourers, miners, engineers, stokers,
and firemen, as, aforesaid, or in any other capacity, are
not considered by her Majesty's Government to be en-
titled to relief as distressed British subjects, or to be sent
back to this country at the public expense; and such per-
sons are hereby warned that her Majesty's Consuls abroad
have received orders henceforward not to afford relief in
such cases.

WHITEHALL, JULY 9.
The Queen has been pleased to order a cones d'elire to
the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Bristol,
empowering them to elect a Bishop of the see of Glouces-
ter and Bristol, the same being void by the death of
Doctor James Henry Monk, late Bishop thereof ; and her
I:lll4eaty - has also been pleased to recommend to the said
Dean and Chapter the Reverend Charles Baring, M.A.,
to be by them elected Bishop of the said see.
WHITEHALL, JULY 11.
The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be issued
undor the Great Seal of the United. Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland for summoning Henry Petty Fitz-
maurice, Esq. (commonly called Earl of Shelburne), to the
House of Peers, by the style and title of Baron Wycombe,
of Chepping Wycombe, in the county of Bucks.
_ _ _

CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 10.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Calne—Sir William Fenwick Williams,
Bart., a Major-General in the Army, in the room of Henry
Petty Fizmaurice (commonly called Earl of Shelburne), who
has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor
of Hempholme.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 10.

With reference to the notice contained in the Gazette of
the 4th inst., of a French Imperial Decree, fixing certain
duties upon the importation into France of cotton and
woollen goods, wearing apparel, and products arising
from the decomposition of salt, the Lords of the Commit-
tee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations hereby give
notice, that the decree in question should have bean de-
scribed as a draft decree, modifying the proposed law for
the removal of prohibitions in the French tariff.
Their Lordships have since received intelligence through
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that
the consideration of this proposed law has been deferred
until the next session of the French Chambers.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 11.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations has received a
commucieation from the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, stating that in consequence of the pulmonary epi-
'
lemtc prevai ing amongst horned cattle in several of the
German states, the importation of such cattle into the
duchies of Lauenburg and Halstein will not be permitted
unless-on the production of an official certificate stating
the place from which the cattle are brought, and that no
epidemic of a pulmonary nature has appeared there for
more than six months.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 11.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en-
closing copy of a French Imperial Decree, permitting the
importation of raw wool through the Custom-house at
Verrieres•de•Joux (Doubs). Also copy of a Decree adding
tow of hemp and flax, intended for the manufacture of
sail-cloth, to the list of articles allowed to be imported
free of duty.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JULY 11.
11th Regiment of Foot—Major-General William George
Cochrane to be Colonel, vice General Sir John Wilson,
S.C.B.' deceased.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JULY 11.
9d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Henry
Miles Stapylton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Walker,
who retires ; Cornet P. Alexander Watson Cameo, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stapylton.
6th Dragoon Guards—Cornet John Grainger, from the
9th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, without purchase.
Ist Dragoons—Probationary Veterinary Surgeon Evan-
der Chambers to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Cherry, de-
ceased.
9th Light Dragoons—John Grainger, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Goldie, promoted.
13th Light Dragoons—Cornet Francis Levison Michael
has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale
of his commission; Francis Levison Michael, Gent., to be
Riding Master.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentlemen Cadets to be
Lieutenants—W. M. Tollner, G. B. B. Hobart, H. A.
Tracey, W. Strahan. A. M. Bonar, H. J. F. Shea, H. H.
Webber, W. H. King-Harman, T. S. Secaombe, R. D.
Hay, J. C. Smith-Windham, W. B. R. Hall, W. T, Bud-
gen, E. Broadrick, E. H. Thurlow, R. Atonsby, and Hon.
A. Stewart.

Royal Engineers.—Gentleman Cadets to be Lieutenants.
—Ferdinand Beckwith Maingay--George William Van-
siltart Yule—Henry Frederick Chapman Lewin—Arthur
George Durnford —Montagne Lambert.
24th Regiment of Foot.—Lieutenant Francis Freeman
White to be Paymaster, vice Geneste deoeased.
29th Foot—The appointment of Mr. A. G. Black to an
Ensigncv, which appeared in the Gazette of the Bth inst.,
was without purchase, and not by purchase, as therein
stated.
30th Foot—Sall-Sargeon of the Second Class Raphael
Woolman Read to be Surgeon, vice Dowse, who exchanges.
324 Foot--Ensign James Clery, from the 18th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Tharp Clarke, who
has retired.
40th Foot—The appointment of Lieut. Thomas Evans
Stuart, from the Londonderry Militia, to an Ensigncy,
without purchase (Supernumerary to the Establishment),
on the Bth inst., has been cancelled.
524 Foot—Major Charles J. Conway Mills to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, without purchase, vice-Brevet Col. Hughes,
who retires upon full pay; Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel C.
A. Denison to be Major, without purchase, vice Mills;
Lieutenant Frederick Albert Champion to be Captain,
Cwhitahmouptiopu ; ureEhnasseig,nvic
James
eamDeens Denison
B
n; Ernasdigshnaßwicthoarb(ol.
LDiaeuvitees.
Burroughs to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Fraser, whose promotion by pur-
chase, on the 18th April, 1556, has been cancelled.
60th Foot—Captain Francis Dawson to be instructor of
Musketry.
92d Foot—Lieutenant William Farquharson has been
permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Com•
mission.
2,1 West India Regiment—Lieutenant H. H. Steward,
from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Bovill, promoted. ry
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Surgeon Richard Robert Dowse, from the 30% Foot, to
be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Read, who
exchanges.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon George Burnside Bryden has
ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for his
services.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon William Randall Mackley has
ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for his
services.

years' The
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cut du ea rl ms ee ntr
v oc ne BREVET.
be promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Army, under
Cetoeldontereteo
ei
dn
theffi rankee rof having
L e t ecne an' compl-
eted
provisions of the Royal Warrants dated 6th October
and 3d November, 1854 :
Lieut.-Colonel Robert George Hughes, 52/1 Foot.
Lieut.-Colonel John Hill, of the Roy.l Artillery.
MEMORANDUM.—The comission of Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel S. T. Christie, of the 80th Foot, to be antedated
to the 9th December, 1853
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
North Riding of Yorkshire--William Frederick Webb,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant.
County of Oxford—Edward Campbell Stuart Cole, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant.

County of-Cumberiand—Frederick ITlrio Graham, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant; the Right Hon. Gamel Augus-
tus Pennington, Lord Muncaster, to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant.

Westmorland and Cutnberland Corps of Yeomanry
Cavalry—Philip Musgrave, Esq., to be Captain, vice
Graham, resigned,

Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Assistant-Surgeon
Edgar Lowe to be Surgeon, vine Shirley, resigned.

BANKRUPTS.

-
Alexander Elmslie Thomson, wine merchant, Cullum-
street, to surrender, July 22, at two, and Aug. 19, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official
assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Empson,
Moorgate-street.
Benjamin Chandler, attorney, Sherburne, July 21, and
Aug. 20, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel,
official assignee, Exeter; Fincham, Blandford ; Stogdon,
Exeter.
John Mortimer, printer, Strand, July 26 and Aug. 26,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Lawranco, Plows, and
Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
George Cox, mathematical instrumentmaker, Barbican,
July 21 and Aug. 22, at half-past one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basingliall-
street ; Cooper and Hodgson, Verulam- buildings, Gray's-
James Ensor, dealer in shares, Copthall-buildings, City,
.Tune 21, and August 22, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Wyatt, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn.
Thomas Watson, mining agent, Artillery-place, Fins-
bury-square, Jelv 21 and Aug. 22, at two, at the ourt of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall,
street ; Stubbs, Moorgate-street.
Samuel Neville, shoemaker, Northampton, July 24 and
Aug.eleven,
20, at at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stans-
fold, official assignee; Hensman, College-hill, City; Dennis,
Northampton.
Harriett Neale, William Neale, and John Neale, hollow.
ware manufacturers, Liverpool, July 21, and August 13,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official
assignee, Liverpool; Neal and Martin, Liverpool.
George Foster, worsted spinner, Horbury, York, July
29, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 29, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ;
vcrsbury ; Bond and Barwick, Leech.
WCathtas; Pe
Charles Henry Seaman, shipchandler, North Shields,
Northumberland, July 21, and Aug, 25, at twelve, at the

Newcastle,upon•Tyne District Court. Baker, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Story, Newcastle-up9n-
Tyne.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Gourlie or Gourlay, portioner, Motherwell.
' Peter Livingston, grocer, Dumfermline.
Sir William Henry Donßart., underwriter, Edinburgh.

BANK OF
An Account pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Satur,

iNGL AND.

7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
lay the sth day of July, 1856.

.11:TALENT..

:Government debt.... 11,0155,91000
OtherGolccoin
asecuritiesd .
b.u.1110.n. 132,40.249:365
Silver bu11i0n........ -

£26,409,365
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

:PA.RTDIENT.

Government s ecurities

d Vireight
Annuity) .... • • .... 11,308,515
Other securities. . lb,s L 7,912
Notes .......... 6,552,720
Gold and silver coin.. 536,577

£83.975,724
E. MARSHALL, Chief °ewer.

General, and referred to every document, and I should,
if so required, have postponed giving judgment. On
the 20th of June, after I had given judgme t, the At-
torney-General's counsel and the Crown solicitor waited
on me in the Rolls Chamber. Why was the visit post-
poned until then ? Of what use was the visit at that
time, if the Attorney-General be right that James Sad-
leir had ceased to be amenable on the 17th or 18th of
June ? Who is responsible that no step was taken
to ascertain whether James Sadleir was implicated
from be 3d of June until alter I had given judgment
on the 20th of June ? No amount of mystification can
het rid of that plain inquiry. The real history is this :
The Master had exonerated James Sadleir on grounds
which the public do not understand. There was abun-
dant evidence against James Sadleir, independently of
John Sadleir's letter, which was not found until after
the 3d of June. The Attorney-General paid no atten-
tion to the observations made by me on that day, which
showed that I had come to entirely different conclusions
from the Master, although I had not seen John Sadleir's
letter at the time. The Attorney-General thought, I
presume, that I should not be able when giving judg-
ment, to substantiate the statement I had made, and he
remained passive until the judgment 'which I gave on the
20th of June rendered it plain that he must cease to
hold office or perform his iduty to the public). It was,
however, according to his statement then too late.
James Sadleir, he says, is no longer amenable, and that
he has not been so since the 17th or 18th of June, and
he thinks it just and proper to cast 'the responsibility
on me that tie is 'not amenable. Let him first exo-
ne

_rate himself from the heavy charge of not having
taken a single step until after I had given judgment
on the 20th of June, to ascertain whether there was
evidence to implicate James Sadleir. LA him not
imagine that he eon with all bias sophistry mystify
that question. What the public want to know is
this—First, why did he take no trouble to investigate
the charges publicly and openly made against James
Sadleir between the 4th of March and the 3d of June ?
Secondly, why did he not attempt to investigate
those charges between the 3d of June and the 20th of
June ? Thirdly, why did he omit to investigate a single
fact or read a single document affecting James Sadleir
until after he ceased to be amenable ? He rend, I pre-
sume, John Sadleir's letter on the 14th of June, but
that letter, per se, afforded no evidence against James.
This is a most grave and serious charge, and is not to
be got rid of by any insinuation that I am responsible.
I now conclude with these inquiries. Was it I who
was to blame that the Attorney-General took no trouble
to investigate the gigantic frauds of the bank, or to
make James Sadleir amenable between the sth of
March and the 3d of June. Was it I who was to blame
that the Attorney-General did not take out a copy of
any affidavit from the Master's office between the 3d of
June and the 20th of June, or adopt the necessary
proceedings to make James Sadleir amenable during
that period I The letter of John Sadleir, of which the
Crown Solicitor was in possession on the 14th of June,
renders the omission to take any step or make any in-
quiry whether James Sadleir could be connected there-
with the more inexcusable. Was it my fault that the
Attorney-General took no steps until after the 20th of
June, when he had ascertained that James Sadleir had
ceased to be amenable ? I have no apprehension of
leaving it to the decision of the public as to the
person on whom the blame rests, and the Attorney-
General may rest assured that no sophistry or mystifica-
tion can get rid of the plain unvarnished detail of facts
which I have put forward'in my own defence, and which
can neither be gainsayed nor denied.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME ClRCUlT.LlelesteTonn, JULY 11.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Erle.)
George Brereton Sharpe, surgeon, surrendered to take
his trial for misdemeanour, in having unlawfully and in-
decently caused certain dead bodies to be removed from
a burying-ground.
Mr. T. Chambers and Mr. Hawkins conducted the
prosccation. The defendant conducted his own case.
The learned counsel for the prosecution, on opening
the case to the jury, said that the inquiry they were
about to enter upon was one of a character that they,
had never before probably been called upon to investi
gate. It would be unnecessary to trouble them with
hearing the whole of the indictment, which contained
several counts, but the substantial charge against the
defendant was that he had been guilty of the
misdemeanour of unlawfully entering a burying-
ground and removing the remains of certain dead
persons that bad been interred there. The pro-
secutors of the indictment were the trustees of a Baptist
chapel at Hitobin, called Salem Chapel, which was insti-
tuted so far back as the year 1692, and to which was
attached about an acre of ground that was appropriated
tosli•-burt9g-Plese-for the meixtbers of the congregation.
;The defe dant, it appeared, was a eargeon, and ',skied
At Welwyn; and on.the 14th of November he went to a
woman named Woodfield, whose husband had the charge
of the burial-ground in question, and told her that his
father was dead, and that he wanted the keys of the
ground to make arrangements for burying him. The
defendant, it appeared, had a grave in the ground, in
which his mother, Louisa Sophia Sharpe, his step•
mother, and two nephews named Allred and C. M.
Sharpe, were interred, and he gave directions that
this grave should be opened, and a man and a boy
were employed for that purpose, and the earth was dug
out down to the coffins. Later in the day the defendant
came again to the burying-ground, and upon coming
to the coffins of the nephews, who were mere chit•
dren, it was found that they were in such a state of de-
composition that they could not be got out of the grave
except by placing cloths round them, and some cloths
that were brought by the defendant, apparently for the
purpose, were wrapped round the coffins, and they were
thus lifted out of the grave. The coffin of the step-
mother, which it appeared had been buried 15 years, but
which, notwithstanding, exhibited very little appearance
of decay, was then brought out of the grave, and after
this a brick arch, that had been built over the remains of
the mother of the defendant, who had been buried 33
years, was cut through. It was found upon arriving at
the coffin that it was in a very advanced stage of de-
cay, the lid was completely rotted off, and nothing could
be seen but a mass of mould, and a shell that had also
been brought in the cart was lowered into the grave and
the whole of the remains were swept out of the original
coffin into the shell, which was then raised out of the
grave. The coffin containing the body of the stepmo-
ther of the defendant was then lowered into the grave,
and it appeared that it was no part of the defendant's
project to remove this member of his family, for the
grave was partially filled up, and when this had been
done he gave directions that the shell containing the
remains of his mother, and the coffins containing those
of his two nephews should be placed in the cart, and
this was the first intimation he gave of his intention to
remove the bodies. Having, however, ordered the grave
to be refilled with earth, the cart and the remains that
had been deposited in it were drawn off, the defendant
stating at the same that he found there was not room to
bury his father in the grave, And therefore he should re-
move his relatives to be buried with him in Baldock
churchyard. Under these circumstances the trustees
of the chapel had felt it their duty to institute the
present prosecution, and they felt that it was of
the utmost importance, not only to themselves as a dis-
senting body, but to the public generally, that it shon'd
be known that the law would not tolerate proceedings
of this description, and that it would not be permitted
to any one to adopt such a course with regard to the re-
mains of his deceased relatives as had been taken by the
defendant on the present occasion. As to the motive of
the defendant he gathered from a letter he had written
to a newspaper published in this town, the Hertford
Mercury, and which he should put in evidence, that the
defendant's father and himself having seceded from the
dissenting congregation of which they had formerly been
members, he was desirous that the remains of his rela-
tives should be removed from unconsecrated to conse-
crated ground, and ha adopted this unjustifiable, and as
he should contend illegal, method of carrying out his
object. The learned counsel concluded by stating that
although dissenting burying grounds, by reason of their
not being consecrated, were not under the ordinary ec-
clesiastical law, yet it was clear in his opinion that the
defendant had committed an offence against the canon
law of the land, thatihis act was one contra banns mores,
and that he would be amenable to the charge contained
in the present indictment.
Evidence to the above effect having been given,
Mr. Justice Erie here observed that for the purposes
of the present indictment he should hold that it was
equally an offence improperly to remove a dead body from
a burying ground, whether the ground was consecrated
or not, and he would reserve the question for further
consideration if he was required to do an.
Mr. Justice Erle, in summing up, said he should ex-
press his opinion of the law to be, that all burying
grounds, whether belonging to dissenters or to members
of the Church of England, were equally under the pro-
tection of the law, and that it was an offence to dese-
crate either.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty,
and at the same time said they were unanimously of
opinion that the defendant went originally with the in-
tention to remove the bodies, and not to bury his father.
His Lordship then said he should take the opinion of
the Court of Appeal upon the rule of law he had laid
down, mad he ordered the defendant to enter into a re-
cognisance of 1001. to appear and receive judgment if he
should be called upon to do so.