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LONDON, rtTESDAY EVENINGT, JULY 6,- 1858

EAST INDT.i. HOUSE, 23D JuNE. IgsB.
rHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
ti INDIA CO WPANY do HEREBY GIVE' NOTICE, that a
SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at
their house In Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 7th July
next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of snbraitting
for the confirmation of the Proprietors, the Resolition passed by the
General Court this day, approving an unanimous Resolution of the
Court of Dir&tors of the 9th instant, granting an annuity of 2,0001.
to General Sir Colin Campbell, O.C.R.
J. D. DICKINSON, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 23D JUNE, 1858.
-EE COURT OF DIRECTORS of the EAST
L INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE. NOTICE, that a
SPECIAL GENE Lat. COURT of the said Company will be held at
their house in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 7th
Jiliy next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of
sub mating for the confirmation of the Proprietors, the Resolution
paiwed by the General Court this day, approving an unanimous
Resolution of the Court of Directors of the 9th instant, granting an
annuity of 1,000/. to Major-General Sir James Outram, G.C.B.
The Court of Directors further Give Notice that a Proprietor has
given Notice, that at tbe said Special General Court be shall propose
that the Annuity to Sir James Outram be continued to the Eldest
Son of that Officer.
J. I). DICKINSON, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, STO JULY, 1858.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do HERCBY GIVE NOTICE, that the
SPECIAL GE, COURT of the said Company appointed to
be held at their house, in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY
next, the 7th instant. is further made Special for the purpo,e of
laying before the El'oprietors the Bill No. 3, entitled" A Bill for the
Netter Government ot India," wit J itsD. amendment.%
. DICKINSON. Secretary.

ka EA, BATHING:— FAMILY TICKETS to
k 11,IVRE and TitOUVI,LE (the Brighton of Prance), from
the Waterloo-bridge Station, via Southampton, available for return
within a month. Fares : —London* to Havre and back, for Four Pas-
sengers, 5/. 2d Class; 71. Ist Class. For Six Passengers. 71. 2d Class;
91. Ist class. Fast. and commodious ;team-ships sail every Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday. thr Havre.--SM the" Times" daily.

GREAT WESTERN i-AIL,WAY.-
On FRIDAY, JULY 9, an EXCURSION TRAIN will
leave PADDINGTON' at 8.0 a.m. for POrsiOUTII (offer-
ing facilities for visiting Torbay, Brixham, Dartmouth, and
the South Coast of Devon), calling at Weston-super-3.lare, Bridge.
water, Taunton, Tiverton-road, Exeter, Barnstaple, and Bideford
(for Ilfracombe, and the North Coast of Devon), Starmss, Dawlish,
Teignmouth, Newton, Torquay, Totness, and Kintabridge-road, and
returning on Saturday, July 17, from Plymouth, at 6.20 a.m.,
and intermediate stations as per handbills.

WEYMOUTH and CHANNEL ISLANDS
STEAM-P CK ET COMPANY (Limited).
EXCURSION TO ALDERNEY and CHERBOURG.---One of the
fast Paddle-wheel steamers belonging to this Company, Cygnus or
Aquila, will make another Excursion to Alderney end Cherbourg. en
SATURDAY, 3d July, 1558, leaving Weymouth Harbour at 7 a.m.,
and return on Monday, July sth, at 6 a.m.. and Alderney at 8 a.m.
IV Parties availing themselves of this excur.lon will not re inire
Passports.
The Great Western Railway Company will convey passengers
holding steam-boat tickets to Weymouth on Friday. July 2d, and
ba'ck on Monday or Tuesday, July sth or 6th, at a sin ;le fare, from
their principal stations.

FARES. lst class 2d class
Weymouth to Cherbourg and back .... 20s. .. 14s.
51 Alderney ,„ •• • • 19g. 13s.

Alderney to Cherbourg •• •• 7s. .. ss.
The great national works at Cherbourg, now near completion, are
attracting the attention of Europe, and are well worthy inspection.,
JOSEPH MAUNDERS, Secretary and Manager.

GUILDHALL, Ist July, 1858. The
Committee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guildhall
on WEDNESDAY, the 14th July instant, at One o'clock precisely,
to receive Proposals for Leases of a House, Workshops, and Pre-
mises on the north side of the City-mews, Whitecross-street, and a
Tenement lately used as an engine-house on the west aide of Char-
lotte-row, Mansion-house, in the City of London.
Plans of the property may be seen. and forms of tender obtained
upon application at the Architect's Office, Guildhall.
FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller.

ity ESSRS. NICOLL'S ESTABLISHMENTS
are thus divided :
No. 114, REGENT-STREET, is their Depot for Paletots, Uni-
form, Gentlemen's Evening and Morning Dress.
N 0.116, for the manufacture of the Guinea Trousers.
No. 118, for the Half-Guinea Waistcoats.
No. 120, for Waterproofed Guinea Capes, and Servants' Liveries.
N 0.142 is their new Establishment for Ladies' Riding Habits and
Mantles.

No. 144 contains their other new Department for Clothing young
gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and economy whereby Messrs.
NICOLL have secured wide spread confidence.
The Wholesale Warerooms are at the rear of the Regent-street
premises, Tlz., 29. 30, 31, and 41, WAR WICK-STRE ET.
The City Depot is at 21 and 22, Cornhill.
The addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised in the
journals of the United Kingdom and the Colonies.)

R. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet-
street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI-
FICIAL TEETH ,fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so
perfectly resemble the nataral teeth as not to be distinguished from
the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or
lecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used.
Phis method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painfhl
operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is
guaranteed to restore .articulatiou and mastication; and that Mr,
Howanfa improvement may be withintia6 reacirof the most econo-
mical, ho has fixed the charges at the lowest scale possible. De-
cayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastics-
ion.-52, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five.

THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.
It ts only a short time since this singularly efficacious article
of animal diet first made its aprearaiKe ; and already its celebrity
is world-wide. It has been a subject of wonder, and has puzzled
many a brain to explain how this has been brought about. Yet when
we are acquainted w;th a few facts concerning the food, our wonder
will cease. A few days since, a gentleman, wrote, stating that he
had a horse which was a " perfect bag of bones." He tried all kinds
of things to get the animal into condition, but in vain. Ho then
bought some of Thorley's food ; and he says the effect was wonder-
ful. The horse rapidly grew fat, and inthe course of a few weeks, had
gained no less than 12 stones. Again we find at the late agricultural
Mows at Birmingham, Cardiff, Bse.,*the animals which carried off the
highest pr;zes, bad been partly fed with Thorley's food for cattle,
Such facts speak for themselves. and we are forged to the conclu-
sion, that its celebrity arises solely from its own intrinsic merits,
and the great deinand for it can proceed alone from the good opinion
and testimony of those who have tried it. All parries interested in
horses and cattle will do well to apply to 77, Newgate-street,
London, for a pamphlet which is sent post-free.

A:TY INiTELLIGENCE.—JaIy 5.

COURT OF QUEEN'S. BTSCH.
'Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhal, before Lord
Chief Justice Canipoell and a Special jury.)

THE QUEEN (ON THE PROSECUTION a F. W. STOCK-
WELL) V. • JEFFREE, AND. LORD CEARLES PELIT.93f

CLINTON'.

This was an indictment ihvolviag a charge of
fraud and misrepresentation against .Mr. Alfred
Jeffree and Lord C. P. Clinton. The' indictment
was preferred against the defendants at the instance
of Mr. F., W. Stockwell, a mining agent, carrying
on business in Old Broad-street, City, and charged
the defendants—the former of whore was secretary,
and the . latter an extensive. shareholder of the
Wheal Sion Mining Company—in caving bad re-
course to fraud and 'misrepresentation, in transac-
tions with hinrin reference to shares in the com-
pany with which they 'were respectively connected.
There was also a count for conspiracies.
The defendants pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Robinson con-
ducted the prosecution • the Attorney-General,
Mr. Edwin James, and Mr. Sleigh for Lord C. P.
Clinton ; and Mr. M. Smith and Hr. Gifford ap-
peared for Mr. Jeffree.
From the opening statement of Mr. Sergeant
Ballantine, it appeared that no shares in the Wheal
Sion Company could be registered or transferred by
the persona holding them until all the calls upon
them had been paid. In Jan., 1857, application
was made to Mr. Stockwell, the prosecutor, to dis-
count a bill for 3001. at three months' date, drawn
by Jeffree upon, and accepted by, Lord C. P.
Clinton. Three hundred shares in the mining et:tim-
pani, as well as some shares in other mines, were
to be transferred to him and d'apbsited with him
as collateral security. Air. Stockwell advanced the
money upon those terms to Jeffcee, by whom the
transaction was conducted. On the sth of April
the bill was dishonoured, and after some negotia-
tions conducted by Jeffree, it was renewed for 5001.,
with an additional advance of money upon the secu-
rity of some further shsr in WIILII were deposited.
There wei e also other transactions between them.
The prosecutor disposed of some of the shares, and
it subsequently turned out that Lord Charles Clin-
ton bad transferred to him between 30) and 400
shares upon which the calls had not been regularly
paid up. The prosecutor was thou held liable and
in justification of himself he charged Lord Charles
Clinton and Mr. Jeffree, before the Lord Mayer,
with fraud, but the case was dismissed on the ground
of insufficient evidence. However, the prosecutor
felt himself aggrieved, and he determined to proceed
against the defendants by way of indictment to
vindicate his character. It seemed that the calls
upon the shares were ultimately paid, and that the
prosecutor was no sufferer in a pecuniary point of
view, all the money owing to him in respect of these
transactions having been paid to him by Lord C.
Clinton. The learned counsel, at the 'conclusion of
his statement, said it was very probable. that Lord
Charles Clinton, who was not a man of business,
had been misled by the misrepresentations of others
in regard to the shares. •
Lord Campbell—What is the specifie charge
against the defendants ? •
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Representing that Lord
Charles Clinton had more shares in the mining
company than he really possessed.
Lord Campbell—That does not appear in the in-
dictment. In a serious case of this kind counsel
ought to be prepared to point out in the indictment
the false pretence which is relied upon.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—The fraud is in repre-
senting that the calls upon the shares had been paid
when in reality they had not.
Mr. Stockwell, the prosecutor, was then examined
at some length, in regard to the details of his trans-
actions with Mr. Jeffree and the other defendant.
The Attorney-General submitted that upon this
evidence there was no proof of any fraud on the
part of Lord Clinton. •
Lord Campbell—l do not see any case made out
against him yet.
The Attorney-General—That being your lord-
ship's opinion, I shall not cross-examine the prose-
cutor.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said that in his opening
he had conveyed to the jury the impression in his
own mind with respect to Lord Charles Clinton,
and after that expression of his lordship's he was of
opinion that he could not miry the case against
him further.

Zord Campbell—Then I think,Lord Chas., Clin-
ton ought to be acquitted.
One of the Jury—We are quite of the same
opinion, my 'ford.
A verdict of "Nut Guilty," as regarded Lord
Charles Clinton, was then returned.
The Attorney-General—.l am bound to say, on
the part of Lord Charles Clinton, that we are pre-
pared with the clearest evidence in the world to
prove that he gave security for treble the amount
he ever received from the prosecutor, and he was
guilty of no fraud or misrepresentation wha'ever,
and although all the bills had been paid, Lord Chas.
Clinton had not up to the present moment received
back his shares.

Lord Campbell—l say nothing about the other
defendant ' • but as far as Lord Charles Clinton is
concerned, I think it is a very improper prosecution.
After the charge had been investigated before a ma-
gistrate and dismissed for want of evidence, the pro-
secutor took upon himself to prefer a bill of indict-
ment against the defendants. I lament that a bill
of indictment can be preferred without previously
going before a magistrate ; but when a case is exa-
mined by a magistrate, and he finds there is no
foundation for it, I think it is extremely wrong for
the prosecutor to go before a greed jury and get a
bill of indictment against the accused party behind
his back.

The Attorney-General said several noblemen and
gentlemen were present to speak on behalf of Lord
Charles Clinton ; but as the case against him was at
an end, their further attendance would not be re-
quired.

Lord Combermere, Lord Colchester, Viscount
Ingestre, and Sir W. Willoughby, who had been ac-
commodated with seats on the bench, now left the
court.

Other evidence having been adduced against the
other defendant,
Mr. M. Smith rose to address the jury for the de-
fence.

Lord Campbell asked, the jury whether they
wished to hear the learned counsel.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantiue—ll
your lordship is of
opinion that there is no evidence I will withdraw
the case. _

Lord Campbell—This is a very serious charge,
and if the defendant were found guilty, I could
sentence him to penal servitude or transportation
beyond the seas. It, therefore, ought to be made
out by clear evidence. I myself do not see ho#
the charge is fortified, but if you entertain a doubt
upon the point, the case will go on.
The jury then returned a verdict of not guilty.
Lord Campbell—l must say, gentlemen, this is a
most improper and scandalous prosecution, and re-
flects the highest discredit upon the prosecutor. It
is lamentable to see bow charges of this kind may
be brought against most innocent and honourable
members of society, and I.hope some check will be
given to such vexatious prosecutions.
The defendants then left the court accompanied
by their friends.

carrying the cable.• On the 15th May an agreement
was entered into between Capt._ Roberts and, Mr.
Brett, by which it was agreed that Capt. Ro!Jerts
should provide a suitable ship for carrying the
cable, and bring, her to Mordan's wharf,. Blackwell,
'where the cable was; and that the vessel should be
at the Nore ready to start' with the cable on the
15th July. Capt. Roberts was to bear all the ex-
pense of preparing and equippingethe ship. He was
to be paid 10,0001. for laying down the cable be-
tween Sardinia and Africa, a distance of 140 miles;
and as an 'extra distance of 40 miles of cable Wight
be required on the coast of Africa, 2,0001. more was
to be paid in respect of that. 1,0001. was to be paid
in cash within seven days of the vessel being along-
side Mordan's wharf ; 2,0001. within 21 days of her
being at the wharf ; 2,000/., one-half in cash a:ad
half by a bill, on her leaving the Nore ; and the
2,000/. for the extra length of the cable was to be
paid when the work was dons. The remaining
5,000/.ewes to
.be paid in shares in the company.
If the vessel was not ready to leave the sore on
the 15th of July, Captain Roberts was to
forfeit 2001. a-week. It was arranged that
Capt tin Kell, a friend of Mr. Brett's, and
who had been engaged in laying down a
telegraph, should go in the vessel, and that he
should be paid by Mr. Brett 1501. for his services.
Capt. Kell accordingly went to Portsmouth and
saw the vessel, and he and everybody else approved
of her, as fitted for the purpose. Af. er the contract
was signed, Mr. Brett got Capt. Raberts to. make
a declaration of the amount which he was to receive,
so that the 12,0001. might be obtained from the
French Government. On the 20th May Capt. Ro-
berts agreed to purchase the Cornwall for 6,000/.,
end on the 22d a bilrof sale was executed to hint,
for though Capt. Roberts had not the 6,400/. in his
pocket, yet from his position and reputation he
would have had no difficulty in providing the funds.
It was afearwards arranged that the first insed-'
went of 1,0001. should be p lid to Capt. Ilob,r,s by
a bill insteel cif in cash, out it having been found
that the bill was not drawn in a negotiable_ form
Capt. Brett gave it back to Mr. Dellamore, who
said be would procure him one for 2,-000/. This
had, however, not been done, and one of the claims
now made was, that either the 1,0001. or 2,0001.
bill should be handed to Capt. Roberts. A comes-
pondence.took place, the result of which was, that
Mr. Brett refused to put the cable in the Cornwall,
and it was ultimately sent out in the Result, a ves-
sel which was purchased of Mr. Green. Capt. Ro-
berts bad, however, in the meantime, incurred con-
siderable expense in fitting the vessel, and he bad
also, according to his agreement, insured the cable
for 60,0d0/. Finding that objection was made to
the Cornwall, Capt. Roberts chartered the Deli
Reada, a ship to which no objection could be made,
and sent her to Mordan's Wharf on the 7th July,
and demanded the cable. As to damages, the re-
sult of the breach of contract had been most disas-
trous to Caet. Roberts. He had involved himself
in various contracts, and had been driven to the
,Court
of Bankruptcy t ) relieve himself of his diffi-
culties. He was obliged to give up an appointment
to go out to the Black Sea in charge of some gun-
boats, and had lost his appointment of Surveyor to
the Admiralty. Capt. Roberts calculated that he
would have derived from the contract, if the Corn-
wall bad gone, a profit of 7,7001., and if the Del
Reads 5,000/., but it was still more important to
him that his character should be set right with the
Admiralty and the public.
Capt. Roberts was called as a witness to prove
these facts, and several other gentlemen were exa-
mined to prove that the Cornwall was a vessel qua-
lified to carry out the cable.
For the defence, it was stated that even if Capt.
Roberts had carried out the contract, his profit
would have been but trifling, after all the expenses
had been paid ; that Mr. Brett had repudiated the
contract in consequende of having been led to be-
lieve, from inquiries which he had made, that the
Cornwall was not sufficient for the purpose, and
several ship surveyors and other professional gentlt-
men were examined on, this part ,of the case, to
prove that that was the fact ; that the defendan',
personally, had no interest in not carrying out the
contract with Capt. Roberts, and that the declara-
tion which had been made by him was not made
for the purpose of enabling the defendant to get
the money from the French Government.
The jury gave a verdict for Capt. Roberts, with
2,300/. dumps ; and in the action of Lee v. Brett
his lordship ordered tbe verdict to be entered for
the defendant.
Leave to move on some points of law was given
in both actions.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.7—,TuIy o.

OLD COURT.

Emily Hodges, 22, a good-looking young woman,
and Frederick Hodges, 27, described as a jeweller,
were charged with a misdemeanour in obtaining
money by false pretences.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe was coun-
sel for the defendants.

The offence charged in the indictment was that
of having defrauded several pawnbrokers in the me-
tropolis by a very ingenious system of fraud. The
prosecutor was Mr. Sowerby, a pawnbroker, carry-
ing on business iu Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, and it
appeared that on the 9th March the female prisoner
went to his shop, and hauded to his shopmae, a per-
son named Hall, what appeared to be a golden
locket, and asked for au advance of 4s. upon it.
Hall inquired if the article was gold, and she re-
plied that it was the best of gold, and that it had
been given to her by her sweetheart before she was
married. The shopmar, without testing the article,
gave credit to the statement of the prisoner, and
advanced her the sum she required. On the 22d
March the female prisoner went to the shop again,
and handed to Hall a locket of precisely the same
description as the former one, and upon the shop-
man inquiriug whether it was the same locket she
had previously pledged, she replied that it was,
and repeated the story she had told before, that it
was of pure gold, and that it was given to her by
her sweetheart, and Hall, believing her story, ad-
vanced her 3s. She went again ou the 9th April,
and told the same story, and she was again success-
ful in obtaining au advance upon the article. The
prisoner went a fourth time to the shop on the 23d
April, and again produced a locket to pledge, but
in the meantime it appeared information bad come
to the knowledge of the prosecutor, which induced
the shopman to put some questions to the prisoner,
who refused to state where she lived, or to give any
information respecting herself, and upon a search
being made three lockets all of the same descrip-
tion were found to have been received in pledge.
A policeman was then sent for, and when the pri-
soner found she was to be detained she rushed at
gall, the shopman, and scratched his face most
severely. After the woman had been removed to
the police station, the male prisoner went there and
mid that she was his wife, and that he had sea her
to pledge the articles, and that the inspector was
exceeding his duty in detaining her, as what she
had done did not cons itute an offence against the
law, and he added that Lord Chief Justice Camp-
bell had so decided in a case of a precisely similar
character. Upon the articles being subsequently
tested, it was ascertained that at that part of the
lockets to which the aquafortis was usually apelied
for the purpose of testing, a very small quantity of
inferior gold had been introduced, but the articles
themselves were in reality of very small value—not
more than eighteen pence at the outside each. The
only evidence against the male prisoner was the
statements be bad made to Mr. Cumming, the police
inspector, and at the close of the case of the prosecu-
tion the Recorder expressed his opinion to bo that
the charge against him had not been made out, and
he was accordingly acquitted.
The jury found the woman guilty, but recom-
mended her strongly to mercy, on the ground that
there had been a want of caution evinced on the
part of the pawnbroker, and that if he had properly
tested the article in the first instance, the fraud
would have been prevented.
The Recorder sentenced her to be imprisoned in
Newgate for one month.
.14)seph Johnson surrendered to take his trial for
wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. Robinson conducted the prosecution. Mr.
Lilley appeared for the defendant.
It appeared that the prosecutor in this case was
a person named Quieten, and that on Sund .y, the
28th of March, ho and the prisoner, and several
other persons, were drinking together, and that
some of the party were a good deal the worse for
i
liquor. About 5 o'clock n the afternoon the prose-
cutor gave prisoner a sovereign to fetch half-a-pint
of gin, and he went out for that purpose, and wee
absent nearly an hour, and when he returned and
brought the gin, and was asked for the change of
the sovereign, be declared that the prosecutor had
only given him a shilling. The prosecutor up ii
this summoned the prison( r to the County Court,
and upon the former swearing that he bad given him
a sovereign, he volunteered to be himself sworn as a
witness, and, although he was cautioned to be careful
in what he stated, he declared upon his oath that
the prosecutor did not give him a sovereign, but
that it wag a shilling he received from hiw,