The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,_ JANUARY 7, 1860,

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(TIIIS DAY.)

IRELAND.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
THE EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE.--.

IN RE ALLEN.

This bankrupt was described as of Lloyd's Coffee-house,
underwriter, broker, &c., and' to-day was appointed for his
adjourned examination. The bankrupt was prosecuted at
the instance of the Bank of England, convicted, and sen-
tenced to 10 years' penal servitude. The bankrupt was
brought up in custody, but no examination occurred in
public. The bankrupt was permitted an interview
with his friends in a private room. Messrs. Paul
and Turner were appointed by the Court accountants
to the estate, and Mr. Paul now reported that
he had ascertained that the liabilities amounted
to 17 about: £87,000, the assets realised about £1,200,
and outstanding debts on the underwriters' account of be-
tween £3,000 and £4,000. Under the circumstances, it was
agreed that an adjournment should be taken sine die, as
Messrs. Paul and Turner • could not carry their inquiries
further from any information to be obtained from the
bankrupt.
Through the exertions of Messrs. Paul and Turner, it is
probable that an addition will be made to the assets, but at
present £1,200 must represent proofs to the amount of be_
tween £30,000 and £lO,OOO proved debts,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

Thomas Topham, a discharged soldier from the Bengal
Artillery, was brought before the Lord Mayor charged with
being a deserter from the 7th Dragoon Guards, under the
name of Samuel Seekers.

Sergeant Cotterill, of the 7th Dragoon Guards, said ho
knew the prisoner, and gave him into custody last night as
a deserter from that regiment.

The prisoner denied the charge. He said his name was
not Samuel Seekers, rind that he was not a deserter from
the 7th Dragoon Guards. He had been in India four and
a half years, and before he went away he was taken up as a
deserter under the same name from the same regiment and
discharged.

The prisoner was remanded for further evidence.
William M'Donald was charged with fraudulently ob-
taining X2O on a cheque on Messrs. Glyn and Company's bank
from Mr. Alexander B. Manuel, merchant, Fenchurch-
street, with the intention of defrauding Mr. E. Walter Sim-
mons, Tottenham-court-road, his mastar. The sum of
£lO 10s. 11d. was found on the prisoner when taken into
custody. Ile said ho was going to America.
The charge was clearly proved, and the Lord Mayor
committed the prisoner for trial.

DISABILITIES OF AMERICAN

PERSONS OF COLOUR.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.
THE PREMIER AND THE POPE.

The effort of the Papal party to keep up steam
shows no signs of relaxation. The Mail of this
evening brings to light a curious document, which
is in course of signature, and not inthnded for pub-
lication until presented. It is in the form of a cir-
cular letter, addressed to the Roman Catholic
gentry, and enclosing a private address to Lord
Palmerston. It is already signed by Lords Dun-
raven, Southwell, Bellew, and Killeen, eight mem-
bers of Parliament, 1.5 marquises, four baronets, and
several mercantile men—in all 47.
The address is as follows :
" To VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

"My Lord,—The undersigned Catholics of Ireland,
deeply attached to the Crown and constitution of these
realms, deem it right at this important crisis to express -to
your Lordship, as the head of her Majesty's Government,
our opinion respecting the attempt now made to subvert
or weaken the temporal authority of the Pope. We be-
lieve it expedient for the general interests of Europe that
the head of our Church, which comprises the great ma-
jority of the Christian world, should by his position as
an indpondent Sovereign be free to exercise his spiritual
authority over Catholics of all nations, unfettered by
dependence on any particular State. The wisdom of this
policy has been acknowledged by Sovereigns and states-
men of various creeds. It has been solemnly sanctioned by
treaty, and we deprecate a departure from it at the present
time. Let it not be supposed that in our desire to preserve
to the Popo his temporal possessions we are indfferent to
the interest of his people. We value too highly the bless-
ings (of good government not to desire that they should be
extensively enjoyed. We feel persuaded that his Holiness
has a heart to carry further the reforms in the States of the
Church which he had commenced, and it is our earnest
wish that they may be soon completed. We deplore the
causes by which they have been hitherto impeded, but we
deem it unjust to hold the Sovereign Pontiff responsible
for the misgovernment of which he has been accused. We
appeal with satisfaction to the acts of his Holiness on
his accession to the Papacy, by which ho proved his earnest
attachment to the cause of nationality and improvement,
although his efforts were, unhappily, frustrated by the
machination of foreign adventurers, who worked by terror
and intrigue on the feelings of a volatile population, and
employed the reforms already effected by his Holiness es
instruments for the subversion of his throne. In our anxiety
to maintain unimpaired the temporal authority of the Pope
we advocate opinions in accordance with the interests of the
British Empire, which contains so many millions who
venerate his Holiness as the spiritual head of their Church,
and whose contentment is not unworthy of the serious at-
tention of the British statesman We think it right, there-
fore, frankly to declare these our opinions to your lordship,
in the hope that they may exercise a just influence on the
policy of her Majesty's Government and induce them to
promote or concur in such a settlement of the affairs of

Italy as, while it provides for the liberties of the Italian
people, will secure the integrity, independence• and neu-
trality of the dominions of the Holy See."