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was the case ; for it had not been enown what they did
or said with a view of defrauding the sharehoPers of she
bank, and he defied the prosecution to do so. Mr. Staple-
ton assiduously attended to the meetings of the court
and of the former committees durirg the above p‘liiod,
when h- took a prominent part in considering the state
of four debts —one was the bills of H. Brown, and after
wards his debt ; the second was the Welsh mines ;
thirdly, the debt of Oliver ; and fourthly, Blacker's
debt. In consequence of an irregularity committed by
Mr. Cameron in reference to Brown's debt, Mr. Staple-
ton was annoyed with both Cameron and Brown, the
result of which was that the former retired from the
general management, and the latter from the directory,
and yet Mr. Stapleton was charged with a conspiracy
with men with whom he held no communication at the
time when it was stated the conspiracy took place. Be
called on the prosecution to state the day, the time, and
occasion, and the moment when Mr. Stapleton conspired
with Cameron and Brown, and defied the public
at the time when he iwas not on speaking terms with
them. To conspire, it was necessary that parties should
be on good terms, and the offence commenced in secret,
and therefore it did not appear at all probable that Mr.
Stapleton conspired with these parties, and at the time
when Cameron was making out the balance-sheet up to
December, 1855. He complained of the course adopted
by the Crown in making all the directors defendants,
which had the effect of shutting all their months, and
preventing them giving that explanation of the circum-
stances of the case which it was desirable should he known.

[To be continued i❑ our last edttionj

THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. ISAAC

BUTT, M.P.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.-TIIIS DAY.

The committee for investigating the charges in the
petition of Mr. Coffey against Mr. bean Batt re-assem-
bled this morning at 12 o'clock in No. 18, Committee-
room.

Mr. Roebuck said he should require Sir J. W. Hogg
and Mr. Mangles, chairman of the East India Company,
to be called as witnesses, as also the several clerks of
the banks who paid thecbeques of Ali Moorad.

Sir J. Graham said he would write a note to those
gentlemen requesting their attendance.
Sir James Graham to Mr. Coffey—Have you been
able to ascertain the precise date of the cheque handed
tojMr. Butt for attending the consultation
Mr. Coffey—My cheque is dated February 15, 1857.

The cross-examination of Mr. Coffey by Mr. Deasy
was then proceeded with—ln 1857 it was thought advis-
able that the Ameer should go to India. The Ameer
saw Mr. -Vernon Smith, and it was his advice that the
journey should be undertaken as expeditiously as
possible. The Ameer and myself left London
the day the cheque for 1,999/. was drawn, the
29th of August. I did not tell my brother that
we were to sail by the packet of the 27th. We
stopped in Paris two days, and I believed we should
be able to reach Vienna the day after we quitted Paris.
We reached Dresden, to the best of my recollection on
the sth of September, after leaving Paris on the 27th of
the previous month. We reached Trieste on the 11th,
but the packet for Alexandria sailed on the 10th. We
were accompaniel some part of the way by a lady named
Parr and her son. She remained at Trieste three or
four days. She was present when Mr. Elliot spoke of
Indian affairs. I was not direni,sed from the Ameer's
service. He was my friend and I was not his servant.
When Mrs Parr parted with the Ameershe wentto Venice.
I went there and met her. I have been living lately in
London. lam a married man, but lam not living with
my wife. We are not separated. There was a differ-
ence between us in consequence of our religion. I first
told Mr. Roebuck about this petition eight or ten days
ago. I have had three or four interviews with that gen
tleman. Mrs. Parr was present at the first of these in-
terviews. She has been taking an active part in this
petition, but she was referred to by inference, not by
name, by Mr. Butt, and it is to vindicate herself
from a foul aspersion that she now comes forward.
The aspersion is that I introduced her as my wife at the
ins erview in Vienna. I became aware that Mr. Butt
bad made the assertion by a letter from my brother.
Before the receipt of the letter I bad suspended pro-
ms hinge. Some three or four days after I received the
letter I saw Mrs. Parr frequently, at her residence in
Bond-street.

L 3 tters were here put in showing that the petitioner's
brother had remonstrated with him for introducing the
soi-dzsant Mrs. Coffey.
Cre ,s-examination continued—Up to the recall of that
letter I had only written to Mr. Vernon Smith, but I
bad not taken any steps with respect to this petition. I
only commenced proceedings when Mr. V. Smith de-
clined to interfere. I received an ens wer to my applica-
tion to Mr. Smith on the 20th Sept. last. I have never
given a written statement of my case to Mr. Roebuck.
I never gave one to my parliamentary agent. Holmes
is the name of the gentleman who was my agent. He
acted, for me up to the time: my petition was presented.
He is not acting for me now. He was engaged
in my business about eight days. The only
person I ever gave a written statement of the ocntents
of that petition was my brother.
The written statement forwarded by Mr. Coffey to
Mr. Vernon Smith was here put in and read by the
Chairman. The a riter complained that Mr. Butt had
accused him of attempting to sell the Ameer, that Mr.
Batt had drawn large sums of money froin the Ameer
without ever accounting for them, that Mr. Butt had
informed the Araeer on the authority of the President of
the Board of Control that unless the Amer dismissed
him (Mr. Coffey). ho would never obtain satisfaction for
his claims from the British Government.

[To we eentinued is oar last edition.]

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman sad Mr. Justice
Crompton.)

Mr. Alfred Feist, late 'master of the Newington
Workhouse, surrendered to take his trial upon a charge
of misdemeanour, in having unlawfully disposed of the
dead bodies of certain paupers who died in that estab-
lishment.

Mr. Robinson prosecuted ; Mr. Matthew was counsel
for the defendant.

The facts of this case have been given at ♦ery great
length, and it will be remembered that the specific
charge against the defendant was that be bad disposed
of the bodies of a number of paupers for the purpose of
their being dissected at Guy's Hospital, without the
consent of the relatives, and that the dissected remains
of one pauper were substituted for the dead body of
another, the mourners on hardly any occasion following
the remains of their relative to the grave.
The case is expected to last the whole of the day, the
greater part of the morning being occupied iu the
reception of formal evidence and long trivial arguments
as to the admissibility of some of the documents pro-
duced.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
George Richard Ratcliff, a dark, was indicted for
stealing a piece of paper, value one penny, the property
of Messrs. Mockford and Maynard, merchants, of
Thames-street, his masters.
Mr. Bodkin, with whom was Mr. Tindal Atkinson,
appeared on the part of the prosecution ; Mr. Sleigh
and Mr. Orridgs defended the prisoner.
The prisoner was tried yesterday on a charge of
forgery, and acquitted. After a long trial, which lasted
all the morning, the jury found him guilty.
The Recorder sentenced him to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour in Holloway jail for the space of
two years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

FURIOUS DRITING.—ENDANCEBING LlFE.—Robert
Masters, a coachman, in the employ of Mr. Tayl,ir,
Crystal Palace Livery Stable, Norwood, was charged
with furiously driving a brougham last night in
Regent-street, while in a state of drenkenness, and
knocking down two women, one of whom is very
serioisly injured.
Police-constable C 89, said be saw the defendant on
the coach-box of a brougbam, galloping the horse
furiously down Regent-street at about half-past 11
o'clock. He ran after him, calling to him in vain,
for he saw there was great mischief to be apprehended
from the reckless way he was driving. Suddenly he
turned round into Air-street, which is very narrow,
and in doing so knocked down two women crossing at
the time. At the same moment the defendant was
pitched off his box. The witness as speedily as pos
Bible stopped the horse. The two women were attended
to, and the defendant taken into custody. He was
discovered to be quite drink.
Defendant said he was quite sober.
Inspector W ebb, who took the charge, raid be was
positively too drunk to walk.
Mary Tripp said she was walking with her daughter at
the time, and both were knocked down as described. She
had providentially escaped without injury, but the
wheel of the vehicle passed over both her daughter's legs.
They were not broken, but covered with bruises ; and
this morning she complains much of her side. The bone
of her stays was broken by the wheel, and it was a
miracle they were not killed. Remanded for a week.

THAMES.
FRAUDS BY SEAMEN.— Thomas Murray, and Joseph
Clark, seamen, were brought before Mr. Selfe, charged
with obtaining money and clothes to the amount of 121
by means of false pretences from Mr. Cunningham, an
outfitter in the Batbing-road, near the Victoria-dock.
The prisoners waited upon Mr. Cunningham and said
t'ley belonged to the ship St. George, in the Victoria-
dock, and had 12 months' wages to receive when the ship
was paid off. On these representations, and without
making inquiry, he supplied each seaman with a new
" rig out" and also advanced them money. It w
afterwards ascertained that the prisoners bad no wages
to receive and that they were shipwrecked and picked
up at sea by the boats of the St. George, steamer, and a
free passage was given them to England.
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Mr. Coleman, clerk in the General Register and
Record Office for seamen, said the S. George a steam.
ship bad only made a six months' voyage, and that the
captain and engineer were scalded to death at sea, in
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r. Selfe asked the prisoners what they lad done
with the clothes, and they replied that they got drunk
and lost them,
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fur trial, and the only resource for the prosecutorpisoners
bring an actiou against them :n the County Co art. to
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