The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-02 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1858.

•
ONT BLANC TO-NIGHT AT 8, and
TO-MORROW AFTERNOON AT 3.

R. BENEDICT'S GRAND ANNUAL
MORNI SG CONCERT, under the immediate patronage of
her Most Graeious Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, will take place at Her
Majesty's Theatre, on MONDAY, June 21.

CREMORNE.—Open Daily, with all its varied
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( Wednesday). and folowing days, the GREAT AMERICAN
FLOWER SHOW will be open from ten till dusk.—Admission, Is.

4SH BURNHAM PAVILION, adjoining
CREMORNE.—Mr. T. B. SIMPSON, of Cremorne, has the
honour to announce that Messrs. WATERER and GODFREY'S
Grand Exhibit'on of AMERICAN PLANTS, from Snap-hill Nur-
sery, Woking, Surrey, will take place daily durint the month of
June, in the Pavilion, which was built expressly for the purpose in
1856, and was then visited by her Majery the Queen, the Prince
Consort, the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia, the
Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary of Cambridge.—Admission
no Shilling.

R and MRS. GERMAN REED'S NEW
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tions by Me. and Mrs. REED (late Miss P. MORTON),
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Ad nission Is., 25., and 3s. • stalls, secured, without extra charge,
at ths Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, and at
Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street.

Ai R. CHARLES DICKENS TO-MORROW
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his "CHRISTMAS CAROL" on Wednesday Afternosn, June 9,
at Three o'clock, at ST. MARTIN'S HALL,
The Reading will last two hours.
Stalls (numbered and reserved), 55.; Area and Galleries, 2s. 6d.;
Unreserved Beats, Is. Tickets to be had at Messrs. Chapman and
Hall's, Publishers, 193, Piccadilly; and at St. Martin's Hall, Long
Acre.

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overflo-vr of.Tisitprß to his HISTORICAL DIORAMA,of the INDIAN
MUTINY, numbers of persons haviux each night been unable to gain
admission, he has arranged to keep it open until further notice, ac-
compani d by a Sax Tuba Band and a Descriptive Lecture.—Dally
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Gallery, is. Juveniles under 12, and schools, half-price.

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Introduced an extra row, which will afford more comfosts to their
numerous patrons.—Evening at 8, and on Saturday Morning,
commencing at 3. Prices—Boxes, 1/. ls. ; Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 2s. ;
Back, Is.

DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL AND
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3, TICEIBORNE-STREET (Opposite the Haymarket).
LECTURES daily by DR. KAHN at Three, and by Dr. SEXTON at a
quarter past One, at Four, and, on Diseases of the Skin, at Eight.
Open from Twelve till Five, and from Seven till Ten.
Admission, ONE SHILLING.
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MARRIAGE, &c., post free for twelve stamps.

ADELAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade,
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Valentino at Paris ; principal cornet-a-pi-stir-1. A. BOULCOURT, "the
greatest artist in the world on that instrument ; " Leader, Mr.
CHARLES BALL. The above band plays selections from "La
Traviata," "It Trovatore," and "Lucia Di Lammermoor," nightly,
and is to be engaged for Concerts and Balls. Apply to R. R. BRINELL,
at the "Original Argyll Rooms," Great Windmill-street, Hay-
market. Doors open at half-pastB. Admission, is.

EORGE HOBSON begs to invite the attention
‘_3l of Gentlemen to his new Stock of Trowserings for the pre-
sent season, price 21s. to 255.
G. H. submits for inspection his new Overcoats, in all the new ap-
proved and various shades of colour for spring wear. Excellence
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MB. DISRAELI'S SPEECH AT SLOUGH.

(Front the Daily News.)

Lord Clarendon appears to have been of opinion that
the annihilation cf Mr. Disraeli could not be accomplished
without Lie avenging hand. On Monday evening the
arch-enemy was attacked in the Commons by the chiefs
of the noble earl's lete colleagues in the Cabinet, and as
some folks would probably say by the Premier of the
Cabal. The public has ere this formed its own opinion
of the results of that encounter. By his admirers, Lord
Palmerston's onslaught upon the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer is of course extolled as another proof of septua-
genarian vigour, and thorough-bred statesmanship. By
his opponents it will be scoffed at as an abortive attempt
to browbeat a formidable though somewhat venturous
antagonist. By the impartial, grave, and earnest public
at large, the whole affair will undoubtedly be regarded
very much in the light in which it was put by Sir J. Pak-
ington, as an unprofitable and unseemly waste of Parlia
mentary time. But whatever be the justice of any or
all of these views, it is evident that none of them satis-
fied the ex-Secretary for Fereign Affairs. He had some-
thing to say on the oocasion that nobody but himself
could or would gay. Mr. Disraeli's reputation was to
be extinguished as the penal y of his saucy speech at
Slough ; and he, Lord Clarendon, felt within himself
that he had a mission to perform the part of extinguisher.
Late at night, therefore, when the battle in the Lower
House was over, the noble lord gave notice in the -Upper
that on the following day he would sum up the case for
the prosecution, pronounce judgment and carry into
execution the extreme penalty of the law of aristocratic
opinion against the audacious plebeian who had dared
to nickname the Cambridge-house confederacy a
"Cabal."
Accordingly, therefore, towards sun-down a goodly
con couree of Peers, temporal and spiritual, were gathered
together to witness the appalling ceremony. The up
start was to be once and for all put down. The man of
letters was to be criticised by hereditary skill, and shown
up to the world as a mere wretch of genius. The man
without a grandfather was to be trade to know the diffe
rence, and to be taught an exemplary lesson, to use Lord
Clarendon's contemptuous expression, "what is the con-
duct customary among gentlemen." Many were the
spectators, whom:curiosity, hope, love of mischief, patty
feeling, and sheer ill-nature attracted to the scene.
Various were the conjectures indulged in as to what
would happen. How would the attack be
warded off the devoted head of him who had not[the
right of self-defence in that haeighty hall of high-horn
privilege? Who would undertake the office of his de-
fender ? Could all the specious tales long circulated
about the weariness of Mr. Disraeli felt by his colleagues,
and their anxiety to get rid of him, belies 7 Would Lord
Derby throw him over in debate, or Lord Maltnesbury
repudiate his version of the former Government's diplo-
macy ? Conjecture stood on tip-toe. Last month had
been signalised by the hunting of Lord Eilenborough out
of office ; was the midsummer moon destined to witness
the ostracism of a still more notable member of the
Tory not ministration ? Grievous, however, proved the
disappointment. By some inconceivable hallucination,
the execution, after the fullest preparation and most
solemn denunciation of want of patriotism in a Minister
of the Crown, and eft-repeated protestations of an over-
whelming sense of duty—amid the silent shudder of his
wondering friends, instead of Mr. Disraeli's head placed
his own upon the block, and, with a deliberation to telly
astounding drew down the fatal blade upon himself.
Instead of confining his observations to an analysis
of the exaggerations and hyperboles of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer's harangue to his constituents in Bucks,
Lord Clarendon had the infatuation to recall with tedious
intrepidity the whole of the disastrous details of the
Conspiracy Bill, and especially those in which he was
individually concerned. Four months' leisure for re-
consideration and repentance have wrought no change
in that incorrigible mind. Coolly and wantonly he tells
the House of Commons, whose censure drove him and
his associates from power, that he was right in not
answering M.
.Waleweki's insolent despatch, and that
they were wrong in declaring ho ought to have done so.
Needlessly and stupidly be dclares afresh that the Con-
spiracy Bill was essentially sound and wise, and that the
universal voice of public opinion, which branded it as an
unworthy act of truckling to foreign influence, was blind
and absurd. Equally suicidal were the noble Earl's as-
sertions upon other points. Far from there having been
any ruffle in the even tenor of confidence and friendship
between the Palmerston Cabinet and that of the
Tuileries, on the subject of the Conspiracy Bill, Lord
Clarendon solemnly assured the Peers laet night that
when ho left. office there was not the smallest cause for
uneasiness or misgiving ; upon which Lord Derby
pointedly reminded him not only of the lavish use made
of threats of a rupture with France while the un-English
Bill was pending in the Commons, but of a conversation
which took place between himself and the ex-Secretary,
in which Lord Clarendon told Lord Darby that
he could not answer for the immediate consequences,
if something in the way of legislation were not done
to appease the wrath of the French Emperor. Finally,
with reference to the affair of the Cagliari, the noble
lord appears to have gone out of his way to remind the
world of his own negligence and apathy, to use uo
stronger terms. Endorsing Lord Palmerston's hardy
ail-,gation that it was to the exertions of the late Go-
vernment, rather than to those of the present, that Park
and Watt owed their liberation, Lord Clarendon re-
counted with complacency his eight months' correspond-
ence on the subject, at the end ot which he left these two
British subjects not actually free indeed, but in " a con-
dition which was, comparatively speaking, one of para-
dise"! One of paradise I—a filthy dungeon being the
abode of one, and a hospital-prison, with a guard of
Lord Clarendon's own suggestion, " to prevent the pos-
sibility of escape," being that of the other !
We have not space to dwell upon the topics of Lord
Derby's reply, or on the more than questionable taste
of his allusion to Lord Palmerston's age ; but it is evi-
dent, from its entire tone and tenour, that the Premier
has no mind to desert or betray the mast eloquent, and,
upon the whole, the most efficient of his colleagues.
protest otceositleague utteredbtitt a
. Lord Derby does not stickle for the special fitness of
ienv ery
substancerhetorical
and phrasespirit
he
em
adoptsploye employed
theby his

Slough against the restoration of an exclaiive and un-
popular clique to a monopoly of administrative power.

(Front the Morning Herald )
Members of the Oppos;tion are not pleased at the
popularity of the new Government. The late Ministers,
of course, object to a reversal cf their policy, which
gives general satisfaction. Lord J. Ru-sell appeared as
their champion on Friday laat. The member for Tiver.•
ton returned to the charge on Monday, and last night
Lord Clarendon indulged the assembled peers with one
of those factious displays thaklaave become of too fre-
quent occurrence. Since the Conservative Cabinet ac-
ceded to office every obstacle has, been thrown in their
way. Lord Derby in a telling and effective speech;dis-
posed cf Lord Clarendon.'s • absurd statements • and
charges, and to that admirable address we refer our readers.
They will find that it contains not only a complete refu-
tation of the various charges trumped up against Mr.
Disraeli, but also a vindication of the principles aid
policy of the new Government. Members of the Oppo-
sition indulge in oisgraceful attacks upon particular
Ministers. Lord Ellenborough was first assailed, and
he had no sooner resigned than lord Granville admitted
the justice of an eusogium passed upon him by the Pre-
mier. Mr. Disraeli is now singled out as the object' of
attack, and with such acrimony and obstinacy is this
carried that that right hon. gentleman has Leeu assailed
no less than three times in oae week. The real cause
of such d:sgracefat tactics is evident to all, ani the peo-
ple of England understand fully the difference that
cal ti between the policy of the late Cabinet and the
principles of those at present in power.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

THE ADMIRALTY LEVEE.

The First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir John Pakington,
held his first levee this season at the Admiralty, White-
hall, yesterday afternoon, when the following officers were
present - . 4--
Admirals —The Hon. Sir Fleet Wood Pellew and John
Ayscougb.
Vice-Admira!a —Sir J. Stirling, B. T. B. Collier, and Sir
T. Maitland.

Rear-Admirals—Michael Quin, George Elliott, John
Furneaux, Sir G. Lambert, Mainwaring, Rodney
Mundy, Cho.% Talbot, and John A. Duntze.
Major-General—John A. P. Philips.
Captains —Claude H. M. Buckle, C. 8., Thompson. Gif-
ford, G. 0. Willis, T. P. Thompson, R. B. &achy, T. H.
Glasse, C. R. Johnson, C. C. Forsyth, A. Boyle, and J.
Carbett.

Commanders—F. Selwyn, Thomas Pakenham, Sir M.
MacGregor, B. A. Wake, T. Mitchell, T. D. Stewart, F.
A. Soley, and Colin Campbell.
Lieutenant—A. F. Tracy.
Master—G. H. H. Barber.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Tune l

(Before Air. Commissioner Fonblanque.)

IN RE JONATHAN HILLS AND ROBERT HILLS.

The bankrupts, father ani son, were bankers, of
Dartford and Gravesend. This was an adjourned
examination meeting.
Mr. Lawrance, as representing Mr. Russell, of
Dartford, solicitor for the assignees, said that since
the last sitting the senior partner had died, and
that the accounts, as now amended, showed that
the bank was in a deficiency in 1851, of 1,8001.,
instead of hating a surplus. The assignees were
willing that Robert Hills should now pass.
Mr. Bagley, as representing creditors who had
instituted an independent inquiry, said he was not
surprised that Mr. Lawrance, as representing Mr.
Russell, should suggest the course intimated, for
Mr. Russell was the holder of certain valuable se-
curities which properly belongad to the assignees.

Mr. Lowrance said Mr. Russell was. a creditor
for upwards of 4001., and that the only securities
he held were terrain bills of exchange which were
valueless, but upon which, whatever their value,
he claimed to have a lien.

Mr. Bagley—According to the bankrupts' evi-
dence, as given under the inquiry instituted by my
clien's, several of the bills of exchange referred to
are the bills of persons who are tuoroughly sol-
vent. Mr. Russell prepared securities for the
bankrupts, and he holds tide deeds to this day.
Mr. Lawrance—Mr. Russell holds no deeds.

Mr. Bagley—No, Mr. Gibson, solicitor, holds
the deeds. Mr. Bagley proceeded to state that the
accounts showed the drawings of the partners since
1851 fo have been 16,0001. Robert Hills now
stated that the amount should be 13,000/. Jle had,
however, furnished a_ statement of the disburse-
ments to the amount of 20,0001., but which state-
ment was most unsatisfactory. The bankrupts'
transactions with one Henry Gibson, who was re-
turned as a debtor to the bankrupts' estate for
16,16J1., bad been of the most extraordinary cha-
racter. Robert Hills stated that he ha I been acci
dentally introduced to Gibson about 11 years ago
by Mr. W. Nash, his (bankrupts) father-in-law.
Gibson was described as a merchant, having offices
first in Railway-place, and afterwards in Grace-
church-street, his residence being somewhere in
Whiteehapel-road. The bankrupts had advanced
the 16,0001. from time to time, and there were joint
speculations in consignments to Australia and in
mining shares on the part of Robert Hills and this
Gibson. The bankrupt stated that Gibson had.
never furnished any statement of the result of thi se
speculations further than a verbal statement that
they had resulted in a profit. The bankrupt, how-
ever, admitted that he had incurred losses to the
amount of 6,0001. on mining shares. He also ad-
mitted that he knew in 1856 of Gibson being insol-
vent, and he believed that Gibson on leaving the
country iu 1856 for America took a great deal of
money with him. It was not, he said, until a trial
took place at Bristol that he became aware that
Gibson was a returned convict.

Mr. Hilleary (who appeared for the bankrupt.)
protested against such statements being made at
this stage of the inquiry. They got into the papers,
and a cloud of prejudice was raised up against the
certificate meeting.
Mr. Bagley—Robert Hills states that he knew
Gibson was a returned convict 12 months before be
left this e.mutry, and that he had business transac-
tions with him after be knew that interesting fact,
but that they were chiefly in the form of an endea-
vour to get out. He admitted, however, that be
had never pressed Gibson for a settlement, and that
he had taken no legal proceedings against him. To
the last he believed Gibson to be an honest man
and a man of truth. Before the bankrupt could he
allowed to pass the creditors ought to know some-
thing more in respect to the whereabouts and posi-
tion of this Gibson, who had departed with a great
deal of money.
The Commissioner—Gibson departs owing the
bank 16,1841. ?—The bankrupt—Yes.
Mr. Hilleary—Every farthing of the advance is
accounted for in the br.ok..

Mr. Bagley proceeded to state that about 18
months before the bankruptcy the bankrupts had
given some securities to the Commercial Bank
of London. The Commercial Bank had dis-
counted the bankrupts' customers' bills, and it
would appear to have derived considerable profit
from so doing, asit charged a discount of 1 aud 2 per
cent. above the bank's ordinary rate of in erect.
On the 16th of December the bankrupts resolved
to stop payment, unless fan titer assiatance should be
given by the Commercial Bank. Tbat assistance
was refused, and the bank closed early on the 17ch
Dec. The bankrupts had furnished a statement of
the cash, ctt,c., in the bank on the 16th day of
'Dec. That statement differed materially from the
cash, &c., actually found when they closed, and no
satisfactory explanation had been given of what
had become of the difference. " Sundries, 1,9001.,"
the bankrupt said, meant overdue bills. and which
he said bad passed into the hands of the official
assignee, but he corrected .hat statement by saying
that they were in the hands of Mr. Russell. It was
not undeserving of notice that shortly before the
bankruptcy the bankrupt had asaigne4 certainsecu-
, rities to one Miskm, his brother-in-law, to cover
lan alleged debt of 1,2001. The bankrupt's unse-
cured debts amounted to 36,9611., to meet which
the funds in the hands of the official assignee were
the pitiful amount of 3,100/. There was but little
prospect of any increase in the assets, except au
examination of Mr. Russell and the cashier of the
bank should, be instituted by his (Mr. Bagley's)
clients. The latter ought to know whore the money
was.
Mr. Lawrence submitted that no case had been
shown for an adjournment. The assets, already
infinitesimally small, would altogether disappear if
the estate were thus subjected to costs.
Mr. Bagley—lt is surprising that the bankrupt
should ever have attempted to pass on such a ba-
lance-sheet.
The bankrupt, examined by Mr. Hilleary, sail
Mr. Russell had acted as his solicitor on several
occasions, and the bills of exchange he now held
were the bills of parties whom he had instructions
to sue. They were handed to him in 1854, and
were not given in any way as a preference. He
did not sue Gibson for the 16,0001. ; he was af: aid
to do so. It had been the uniform custom of the
bank to treat over due and doubtful bills as cash.
He had given up every shilling of his property.
The assets would be 4,0001. to pay 36,0001. Gibson
had never furnished any account of their joint
speculations, but he had paid into the bank from
time to time certain sums, which he said were pro-
fits. He relied upon that representation. The
bank had taken credit for doubtful bills to the
amount of 12,0001. as so much cash. This, he
must repeat, was a uniform custom. Interest had
been charged upon Gibsons's account after he knew
that he had absconded. (A laugh.)
Mr. Bagley—The effect of thus treating bad
bills and bad debts as so mug h cosh has been this :
—The official assignee, on taking possession of what
he supposed was cash to the amount of 12,9461.,
found that he had actually got only 851. 19s. 4d.
The Commissioner—We live and learn. We cer-
tainly do see such strange things that we could
believe anything.
It appeared from the further examination of the
bankrupt that Gibson's debt bad been treated as if
it were cash, but he thought that after 1855, in the
quarterly balance-sheets of the bank, it was treated
as a bad or doubtful debt. These quarterly balance-
sheets were not taken with a view to ascertain if the
bank was solvent.
The Commissioner—Were you aware of Gibson
having been a bankrupt in Feb., 18557—The bank-
rupt—Yea.
The Commissioner—Did you prove your debt
agaitist the estate ?—The bankrupt—No.
The Commissioner—Why not.
The Bankrupt—l was ashamed of the debt. I
was afraid to prove it.
Mr. Bagley—But you continued to charge inte-
rest upon the debt after that period, and that inte-
rest is classed by the bank as a portion of its profits.
The bankrupt—That is so.
In further examination, the bankrupt said Gib-
son had told him that part of the speculations was
in the form of shipments to Mr. Simmons, in Aus-
tralia. There were some consignments also to Mr.
William Nash, his (bankrupt's) brother-in-law,
who was still living in America. lie (bankrupt)
was to share in the profits, but he never
asked for an account. He had been informed that
Mr. Russell had furnished a statement of his claim
and what he held. The latter included' four bills
of Mr. Winter. Those bills he considered would
belong to his estate. Their value was about 4001.,
and about the amount of Mr. Russell's claim. Mr.
Russell is solicitor to Mr. Allen, one of the trade
assignees.

Mr. Bagley asked for an adjournment.
The Commissioner—l do not see in what way any
further adjournment can increase the assets, except
by getting the bills out of the hands of Russell.
Will your client guarantee the costs ?
Mr. Lawrence said, Mr. Commissioner Fane de-
clined to allow coats to individual creditors unless