The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-08 00:00:00

The Sham Duke of St. Alban-.

On Tuesday Captain Philip Do La Zouch Dash-
wood Artily was brought up on remand at Truro,
charged with having obtained £4 16s. from Mr.
Samuel 'Wade, proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Truro.
Mr. Marrack appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Marshall for the defence.

Mrs. Mary Ann Wade said she was the wife of
Mr. Wade, proprietor of the Royal Hotel. In the
month of December last. the prisoner arrived at her
hotel under the name of Captain Dashwood. She
could not remember the date of his arrival, but it
was in the early part of December, about the 7th.
He continued to reside there until the 3d of January,
when he left. Previous to leaving he said he in-
tended to proceed to Falmouth. He said he was
going thither to attend a ball. He hired a carriage
and pair of horses to take him to the ball. During
his stay he said he expected to receive some money
in January. I-lad a conversation with him respect-
ing the bill. He applied to have money advanced
to him, as he required cash for his own purposes.
She advanced him the sum of £4 16s. on the faith
of the cheque produced. He had previously shown
her a letter purporting to be written by Mr. Ho-
combe, solicitor, Bedford-row, London, stating that
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not have advanced the money if she had not seen
the letter, and received prisoner's assurance of pay-
ment. Prisoner left during the afternoon of the 3d
January for Falmouth, but did not return. Did
not see him again until yesterday. His bill was
£4O 12s. 9d. He gave her a cheque for £5O, and
she replied that less than the balance would serve
for his short visit to Falmouth, and he was content
to take £4 16s.

Saml. Wade, jun., said he was son of the proprietor
of the hotel, and assisted his father. He took
the cheque produced from his mother to the bankers.
It came back marked 4, Not acquainted with the
drawer," from London, and also marked " No ac-
count stated ;or what account drawn ?" Never re-
ceived the money for the cheque.

The cheque was worded as follows :—.4i To Jas.
B. Hocombc, Esq., solicitor, 13, Bedford-row, Lon-
don. Truro, Jan. 3, 1866.—Pay Mr. Samuel Wade,
on order, £5O for value received. P. De La Zouch
Dashwood. Payable at Coutts's Bank, 59, Strand."
The cheque was paid into Messrs. Williams and
Co.'s bank, Truro.

The prisoner's counsel urged that, as his client was
suffering from illness, the case should be completed
at once, or with a very short remand. The magis-
trate ordered the further hearing to take place on
Friday.

The court, which was crowded by nearly a thou-
sand persons, was then cleared with difficulty by the
police.

SERVANT GIRL CRYING HERSELF TO DEATH
A
IN A GAUL.--A servant girl named Bishop, aged 16, who
had been nursemaid to a Mr. Hayward, at Poole, in Dorset-
shire, was last Saturday week sentenced by the Recorder
to three months imprisonment with hard labour for steal-
ing a feather, some ribbon, three cap borders, and a small
quantity of velvet. Since her committal she bad refused
all food and had actually cried herself to death, having ex-
pired in the gaol on Tuesday afternoon.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE HuNTnia FIELD.—WC
regret to announce the immediate death, through an
accident, of Mr. W. Trotter, a solicitor, of large practice,
living at Bishop Auckland, and who also held the office of
coroner for the division of South Durham. The deceased
gentleman, who was about GO years of age, was, with h:s
daughter, passing near the Bishop Auckland Railway sta-
tion yesterday morning to the meet of the Hurworth
Hounds at Shildon. The whistle of a passing engine
frightened the horse Mr. Trotter was riding, which roared
and fell back on its rider, killing hire on the spot. Th
accident cast a gloom over the town and neighbourhood
where the deceased was so well known. The master
of
the hounds, Major Elwon, at once stopped the hunt.

LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB 8, 1866.

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It is some sort of satisfaction, at any rate, that
the Government should have laid the papers re-
lating to the recent proceedings in Jamaica before
the house, because it will afford the members an
opportunity of judging for themselves concerning
the merits of the case, and thus they will not be
losing time in meeting for the completion of the
labours of the Commission. The tone of Mr. CARD-
WELL'S despatches seems to alter a good deal in a
short time, and gradually to change from almost
entire approval to implied censure, and grave
doubts of the wisdom and justice of the policy
pursued by the colonial authorities. The despatch
dated November 19, in which the right hon. gen-
tleman first refers to the calamitous occurrences in
Jam •
Baca, speaks of the gratification that her MA-
"s.ll'§ Government feel iu witneelling the " dear

The opponents of the Malt Tax are determined,
in popular phrase, not to let the grass grow under
their feet, and have now organised an attack upon
the very citadel of the enemy, and have been the
very first to lay their grievances and their require-
ments before the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Moreover, they did not trust to words alone, but
supported their arguments by practical evidence,
and Mr. BALDWIN, of Birmingham, trusting to the

logic of facts, produced a bottle of beer which he
had brewed in his own house. Possibly, he thought,
that the physical refreshment might induce the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to listen more favour-
ably to the somewhat lengthened addresses of the
deputation. At any rate upon the Chancellor of
the Exchequer's demand for a corkscrew, like the
grey man in " Peter Schemihl,"immediatelyproduced
the required article from his pocket ; and Mr. GLAD-
STONE, after confessing to a prejudice in favour of
Mr. BASS, with great good humour and bonhomnzie,
accepted a glass of " home-brewed," amid the
laughter and cheers of the company. The depu-
tation, which was very strong in point of numbers
and character, and included fifty gentlemen from
various parts of the country, besides several mem-
bers of the House of Commons, among them
being Sir BULWER LYTTON, Lord EUSTACE CECIL,
Colonel NORTH, Mr. SELWYN, Mr. DUCANE, and
Mr. BASS. Colonel NORTH, who introduced the
deputation, said that they were anxious to address
the Chancellor on four points :-Ist. The injustice
to the growers of barley ; 2d. The injury to the
labouring population ; 3d. The question why free
trade should not be applied to malt ; and 4th. The
adverse influence exercised by the malt tax on the
price of meat and the fattening of stock. Different
gentlemen urged each of these several considerations
upon the attention of Mr. GLADSTONE, and their
relative importance naturally varies in town and
country. The latter argument is of especial force
at this moment, when the agricultural interest has
suffered so heavily from the cattle plague. It is
true that Mr. GLADSTONE, never at a loss for a
counter argument, had his answer ready for this
appeal, and declared that if the malt tax tended to
discourage the growth of barley for malting pur-
poses, it must favour the growing of barley for the
feeding of stock. Such, however, does not appear
to be the general opinion of the farmers, who pro.-
fessed very little gratitude for Mr. GLADSTONE'S
partial concession relative to the barley used for
stock, and who still urge the removal, or, if not,
the reduction, of the malt tax. Mr. READ, a mem-
ber of the deputation, endeavoured to illustrate the
injustice of the Malt Tax by a personal example.
He grew, he said, last year 220 acres of barley., of
which 20 acres were reserved for seed. The crop,
though rather poor, was, on the whole, a sample of
fair malting barley. Ile received for it £1,400, and
the tax he had to pay out of that was £l,OOO. He
was compelled by the Legislature to provide cheap
bread, and all he asked was to have permission to
provide cheap beer. Mr. FIELDEN, another speaker,
entered into the statistics of brewing, and showed
that when the labourer could tako his bushel of

barley to the maltster and receive in exchange a
bushel of malt, he could have beer at ld. per
quart better than any they could buy at the
pot-house. Allowing the pot-house 100 per
cent. for profits, it would make 2id. a quart,
while 2d. a glass was now paid, which made it Bd.
a quart. Even reckoning it at 1i d. a glass, as it is
in the lowest places, the difference between the sell-
ing price and the cost was 3id. a quart, making the
tax to consume 140 per cent. on the real value of
his beverage.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER listened with
great courtesay and attention to the arguments of
the deputation, though he did not appear to be much
mollified by them. lie denied having any objec-
tion to the removal of the tax, excepting so far as it
concerned the Exchequer. But surely so experienced
a financier as Mr. GLADSTONE does not need to be
reminded that any such reduction more than repays
the Exchequer. What an outcry has been made
about the removal of several taxes, while the event
has proved alike the elasticity of the revenue and
the soundness of the principles of free trade. The
Post-office is a standing example, while the lighten-
ing of the duties has contributed greatly to the
increase of consumption, and there is no doubt that
in a very short time the Exchequer will be more
than repaid by that increase ; especially so since
most tea drinkers will share Ur. GLADSTONE'S
opinion, and think an ounce of tea to the gallon
would make very poor stuff. We hope that Mr.
GLADSTONE'S promise of considering the repeal of
the Malt Tax is something more than an official
platitude, and that he will really exert his ingenuity
to see what can be done.

The arrival of the City of New York, with news
to the 27th ult., informs us that advices received
from Brownsville state that the party which cap-
tured Bagdad was composed of a miscellaneous
crowd of sutlers, adventurers, clerks, and idlers.
Some Federal soldiers were believed to be among
them, but if so they were all back on the other side
of the Rio Grande before morning, as they an-
swered to roll-call, and the capture was planned
and executed without the knowledge of any of the
Liberal chiefs. Under these circumstances there is
very little doubt that the American Government
will disavow these proceedings, and not allow them-
selves to be dragged into a war with France before
they are prepared for it. We hear, indeed, a report
from Paris that the American Minister has already
waited on M. DROUYN DE Lm vs to assure him that
the Washington Cabinet would certainly disavow
the affair on the Rio Grande. Mr. SEWARD has
arrived at Havannah, though what he intends to
do when there we are not told.

In domestic affairs the Senate has passed a bill
enlarging the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau,
which, considering the dislike already existing to-
wards it, is not likely to be a very popular mea-
sure. We are told, however, that the bill was
carried by " a strict party vote," so that we may
suppose it is the result of some more pressing on
the part of the Radicals. Meanwhile complaints of
the refusal of the freedmen to work come conti-
nually from the interior of Louisiana, so that the
negro question is at present in a somewhat unsatis-
factory state.