The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-17 00:00:00

LAIPlati..4.L PAR LIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(This Day.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following, billy ware read a second time and
ordered to be o mmittod :—Allendale Stinted Pasture ;
Birkenhead Improliement Commissioners (Gas aed
-Water) ; Blackl urn Railway ; Manchester Poor ; Sel-
kirk-and Galashiels Railway ; Stockton and Darlington,
Wear Valley, &c., Railway Companies Amalgamation ;
Warrington and Stockport Railway (Capital) ; aLd
Chester Gas.

(LEFT SITTING )

NOTTINGHAM RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
Arrived.--Peter Flat, Nicholas, and Little Yeoman.
Vandermeulin is not expected to run.

THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK (This Day)

COURT OF
QUEEN'S BENCH, GUILDHALL.
(Sitting at Niei Prius, before Lord Campbell and a
IP
Special Jury.)
THE QUEEN V. BROWN AND OTHERS.
FOURTH DAY.
The trial of the information againrt the directors and
manager of the Royal British Bank for c eespirieg by
false pretences to defraud the shareholders and cue-
town and the public, was this day resumed.
The same counsel appeared as before.
Mr. Paddieon's eximieation was resumed. A letter
from Cameron to Brown, dated Nov. 26, 1855, was put
in and read. It detailed the state of Mr. Brown's
account up to that period, and asking for a liquidation
of the balance. It is stated that previous to Mr.
Cameron's departure for Scotland, in January, 1855, the
amount was 23,9051. 51. 3d.,
which, on his return in
May bad been increased to 74,5391. la., owing to cer-
tain amounts; having been transferred from Mr. Watton's
account to Mr. Brown's, and that at the date of the letter
it amounted to 77,6981. 's.2d. Mr, Cameron in that letter
called upon Mr. Brown to provide additional security
and take means to liquidate the debt. In December
following, Mr. Brown wrote to Mr. Cameron, inclosing
him a draft for 1071. odd to be placed to his credit. In
October, Mr. Cameron wrote a letter to Brown, urging
the necessity of insuring and registering the ships; and
Mr. Brown's reply, on which was a memorandum in
Cameron's handwriting, that the matter had been
arranged. On the 20th of November, 1855, Mr. Owen
gave notice of a motion for the appointment of a committee
to investigate the convertible securities, which was
seconded by Mr. L. N. Valiant ; at a subse-
quent meeting, held on the 4th of December, when
the defendants were present. Mr. L. N. Valiant
seconded the motion, and Mr. Esdaile, Mr. Stapleton,
Mr. M'Cloud, and the general manager, were appointed
the committee. On 17th December a meeting of the
committee was held, when Mr. Stapleton, Mr. M'Cloud,
and the general manager were present. Mr. Brown's
securities were examined. A valuation of them was
made in a tabular form, which was produced. He
believed the pencil marks on them were upon them when
they were presented to the committee. Some of them
were in Mr. Cameron's handwriting and others Mr.
Walton.
Mr. Huddleston proposed to read the valuations of
the ships held as security by the bank.
Lord Campbel—Whose valuation is it 'I
Mr. Paddison said he always understood it was Mr.
Walton'e.
Mr. Huddleston then read the valuation, Mr. Paddi-
son examinieg the original. The ship Hornet was 1,287
tons, and was purchased in July, 1854, for 18,3501.
There was expended on her 3,500/.—total, 21,8501., and
the present value was entered id pencil 15,000/., and
again 18,0001. The Magdalena was 870 tons. She was
purchased in May, 1863 ; cost, 4,750/. ; there was
expended on her 3,500/.—total, 8,2001. ; present value
5,500/. and 8,0001. The witness, in answer to questions,
said that some of the pencil figures, showing a lower
valuation, had been placed on the list since its produc- I
tion before the security committee.

Evidence was then called to prove the writing in
foiled wax partly Mr. Walton'e, governor of the bank at
that time.

A Juryman said he eaw a mistake of 10,0001. in a
Copy of the list produced.
Mr. Atherton said it was a deduction made in the
Court of Bankruptcy relative to vessels in the list not
mortgaged to the bank.

AJtirymanl--fbedifference still exists after that
explanation.

Mr. Huddleston then read the; statement. Helen
Lindsay, 544 tens, cost 6,500/., expended on her
1,500/., valuation in pencil 6,000/. and 7,0001.; Hero,
455 tons, cost 4,5001., expended on her 2,0001., valua-
tion in pencil 4,8001. and 5,500/. ; Ambroeium, 437
tons, cost 6,6001., expended on her 1,0001., valuation in
pencil 5,0001. and 5,5001. ; Ocean Wave, 347 tons, coFt
6,6001., expended on her 1,5001., valuation in
pencil 5,0001. and 6.0001. ; Bride, 396 tons, cost
2,7001., expended on her 1,2501., valuation in pencil
fignrcs2,Bool. and 3,2001.; Wasp, cost 2,500/., expended
on her 1,4001., valuation in pencil 1,5001. and 1,8001.'
Rosy Brown, cost 3,0001., expended on her 1,500/.,
valuation is pencil 1,6001. and 2,2001. ; Caroline Brown,
112 tons, co-t 2,0001., expended on her 460/., valuation
in pencil 1,2001. and 1,7001. ; Young Morgan, 135 tone,
cast 2,1001., expended on her 5001., valuation in
pencil 1,6001. and 2,0001. Madonna, 126 tons, cost
1,1001., expended on her 35Q1., valuation in pencil first
sold, and in the other 1,4501. Mr. Walton initialled the
whole of the account, which gave a total of cost of the
ships, 82,850/., and the valuation first 52,5001., and the
other 65,8501.

Mr. Peddison was then examined on the freights.
Mr. Linklater was then called to explain the mistake
discovered by a juryman. He said he had not discovered
it before the paper was put in that day. It might have
been brought to his recollection sone time since, bat he
could not say.
Mr. Paddison was recalled. He stated that on the
17th December, 1855, a court was held at which a reso-
lution was adopted stating that whereas Humphrey
Brown, Esq.,
M.P., was indebted to the bank in a large
sum of money secured to the bank on several ships, and
whereas it appeared to the committee the securities now
held were insufficient, it was necessary to realise them;
and whereas Mr.H. Brown had offered to give additional
recurity by mortgages over real properq, and an
assignment on a ship called the Severn, it would
be for the advantage of the bank to sell them
forthwith, and
that consequently the broker to
the bank be directed to sell them for the benefit of the
bank as they came into
port, and render an account to
the bank. ISir, R
a'rown, on receipt of a copy of this reso-
lution, repudiated this decisicn on the part of the com-
mittee, remarking that they could not place his affairs
-
in the hands of other persors without leading to the
most awkward revelations in Teference to the bank.
A very voluminous correspondence was then read,
relative to the details of Me Brown
attempts of the bank to realise his securities, of an unin-
teresting character. 'e account of the
At an interview with Brown and Cameron in the pre-
sence of Mr. Paddition, Mr. Blown stated that he had
not received the Hornet's freight. Messrs. Buchanan
and Brown, of Liverpool, had intormed the bank before,
in answer to an inquiry from them, that they had
paid Mr. Brown 700/ , the amount of the freight.
After Mr. Brown'
had left, Mr. Cameron
said to Mr. Paddieon, " how ainful it was to find such
a man AI Mr. Brown so pcoannitting himself to
falsehoods."
A letter of Mr. Brawn'e acknowledging the receipt
of 500/, on the Hernet's freight from Messrs. Buchanan
sad Brown, of Liverpool, was put in and read.
Mr. Atherton said—That,
Hem myphrey Brown's debt.
loid is the whole of
Mr. Paddison'e ,
proae Of Mr:
Several letters were put in on the part of the respec-
tive defendants relative to Mr. Brawled debt, and their
conduct in reference to it.
Mr. L. Winterhottom, of Stroud, an officer of the
Gloucestershire Bank, was called. He stated that in
1850 Humphrey Brown opened a drawing and discount
account with the bank. He was at that time conducting
a silk throwing business at Tewkesbury. On two
occasions the bank took mortgages of the ships the Rosy
Brown, the Bride, . and the Severn. On the Rosy
Brown they received 9851. ; the Bride, with the freight,
1,7151., and the Severn 1,021/. In December 1854,
the balance against Mr. Brown was 9,554/.
Mr. E. James objected to the reception of that evi-
dence, as showing knowledge of those mortgagee.
Lord Campbell said that if it could not be carried
further it bad better be withdrawn.
The evidence was withdrawn accordingly.
Cross-examined by Mr. Huddleston—The bank ad-
vanced 4,0001. to Mr. Brown in December, 1854 ; out
of that 2,6001. were paid over to the British Bank. The
Gloster Bank held in addition to the ships, mortgages
erties, estimated to be worth
In 1851, 1852, and
magistrate, and bad twice
to be rich, He was
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carrier, and afterwards traffic taker, and furnished re-
ports thereon to the House of Common
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Mr. Huddleston—He did not know if the
first was superseded, and that he paid 20. i. in the
pound on the latter.
Mr. Wymark deposed that in September, 1855,
he sold the Madonna f9r 950/., and in May,
1854, be sold the Young Marquis for 1,7651. : he
paid the proceeds over Mr. Brown. He
was instructed by Mr. Brown and the Monster.
shire Banking Company to sell the Rosy Brown. A
paper was put in on which was written by Mr. Brown,
" say nothing about the sale of Rosy Brown, or certain
parties will want me to pay the proceeds over to them
H. B." ,
Sir F. Kelly objected to the evidence. It did not bear
on the crnspitacy, but rather that Mr. Brown was de-
ceiving his brother directors.
Lord Campbell said be did not see the materiality of
the evidence, and it bad better he Withdrawn.
The evidence was withdrawn accordingly.
Mr Ridley, ship broker, deposed that he sold the
Ocean Wave by auction at Lloyds on 5:1 March, 1857,
fur 35751. ; and on the same day the Hornet was sold
for 5,6271., and the Ellen Lindsay was sold on the 25th
June 1857 for 3,2001.
Mr. Wyemark was reealled.--Efe sold the Ambrosina
for 4,0001., but he could not state the date.
Mr. Ridley recalled A 4 d. Cre6N-uauljned by Mr. E,