The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY I_4l 1857.

PARLIAMENTARY PRINTING.

THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERYa

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—JAN. 13.
OLD COURT.
[The following appeared in part of our impression of
yesterday
(Before Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Willes.)
The prisoners, Pierce, Burgess, and Tester were this
morning placed at the bar charged with the gold bullion
robbery on the South-Eastern Railway in May, 1855.
There was very little excitement or interest evinced in
the proceedings on the part of the public. The various
indictments charging the prisoners with the robbery
were read over to them by Mr. Straight, clerk of ar-
raigns, to each of which the prisoners severally pleaded
not guilty. • •
Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Monk were
counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Sergeant Parry and
Mr. Ribton defended Pierce ; Mr. Sergeant Ballantine
and Mr. Sleigh defended Tester ; and Mr. Giffard, Mr.
Poland, and Mr. H. F. Lewis defended Burgess.
Mr. Sergeant Shee, in stating the case to the jury,
said that it was scarcely possible to believe that
they had not learnt through the usual channels of public
information the general history of the gold robbery
committed on the South-Eastern Railway, and he cau-
tioned them not to attend to any information they might
have so gained, but to confine their attention to the
statement he should be able to prove by the evidences of
the various witnesses he should call before them. The
prisoners were indicted for having committed this rob-
bery on the night of the 15th May, 1855, when a large
amount of gold was entrusted to the company by
persons of the name of Able, Spielman, and Bult,
and the learned Sergeant then laid the circumstances of
the robbery before the jury. The case rested principally
on the evidence of Agar, a convict, but it would be their
duty to require that his evidence should be corroborated.
The evidence of Agar he should corroborate by most
respectable witnesses—indeed so much so that their
evidence alone would present the strongest case of
circumstantial evidence he bad ever known, that the
robbery was committed by the knowledge and conniv-
ance of the prisoners in the train of which Burgess was
the guard. The learned counsel said that Agar's induce-
ment to give the information he had, with reference to
this robbery, arose from a breach of trust and faith
on the part of Pierce towards Fanny Kay and
his child relative to property he had placed
in his hands for their benefit and support. It was
lamentable to find so much industry, dexterity, perse-
verance, and knowledge displayed on the part of the
prisoners, and had it not been met in the same manner
by the prosecution the perpetrators of this robbery
would never have been detected.
The learned Sergeant then called
Edward Agar, who entered the witness box in custody.
He said—l am a'convict, under sentence of transportation
for life for uttering a forged banker's cheque. lam one
of the persons by whom the robbery of gold was effected.
I know the prisoners at the bar. I have known Pierce
more than five years. He was not in the company's
employ when I first knew him. I have known
Burgess and Tester about three or four years. They
were both in the company's employ. I first had a
conversation with Pierce about four years since in re-
ference to this robberY. It was after my return from
America. He was a clerk at a betting-office in King-
street, Covent-garden. I met him accidentally. I had had
a conversation with Pierce before going to America to
commit the robbery, but I declined then, not thinking it
practicable. Pierce asked me when I met him if I had
thought any more of the robbery. I said it was impos-
sible to be done unless the keys could be got. He said
be thought he could get them if I would undertake it.
I had several meetings after with Pierce on the subject
of the robbery. Pierce said he thought he could get
the keys if I had no objection to complete the robbery.
Tester and Burgess's names were mentioned, and Pierce
said he would endeavour to get the keys of Tester to get
impressions of them. I asked him how many were to
be connected with the robbery, and he said four—Tester,
Burgess, himself, and myself. I had not seen Tester at
this time. I had a conversation with the whole of the
prisoners about 12 months before the robbery. On one
occasion I went to Margate, where Tester was station.
master, to see him. He wished to see me because he
could show me the cash-box if that was of any service.
I took tea with him, and he showed me the chest and
key for taking the cash up and down the line, and asked
me if I thought it would be of any use to me. I said no.
Ile said it was a pity Pierce had not mentioned it to
him before, as he could then have given me the impres-
sion of the bullion keys. The witness then detailed his
movements shortly after this, and the opinion he
gave to -Pierce how the thing could be done,
and said it was at my suggestion that Pierce and I went
to Folkestone, and took lodgings to watch the arrival
and departure of the trains. I went then by the name
of Adams. In consequence of the particular attention
of the police to our movements Pierce left, and I re-
mained a few days longer. Our object in going to Folke-
stone was to see the bullion chest opened, and where the
keys were kept there. When I came up to London I
saw Pierce and Burgess. Pierce then resided in Wal-
nut-tree-walk, Lambeth. It was arranged afterwards
by Pierce that I should go to Folkestone, and Tester
would introduce me there to a person named Sharman,
a clerk in the company's employ, who would show me the
keys. I went down, and Tester was to meet me there as
though by accident. This was about 8 or 9 months before
the robbery. I stopped at the Pavilion Hotel at
Folkestone. I saw Pierce and Tester at the up-station
on a Sunday, and we walked together down to the
harbour-station arm-in-arm. Tester then introduced me
to Sharman as his friend ; it was then proposed that we
should go to the Pavilion Hotel, where we bad some
sherry and biscuits, during which time Tester and Shar-
man spoke of how business was progressing with the
company, and how much bullion passed over the line.
I and Tester dined together that day, and he asked me
my opinion of the robbery, and I said that I thought I
should be able to do it, now that I had had an introduc-
tion to Sharman. Tester left for London ; I remained
and walked about with Sharman, but he was
a sedate young man, and I could not get any-
thing from him. I afterwards returned to
London, and communicated to Pierce and Burgess that
I could do nothing with Sharman, and suggested the
matter should rest for a time. About this time I was
informed by Pierce that he had received a letter from
Tester that one of the keys of the bullion chest was lost,
and that the chest would have to be sent to Messr
Chubbs' to be repaired. It was proposed that Tester
should be supplied with wax to take the impression of
the keys when the bullion chest came up, but I objected,
saying that I must take the impression myself. By
appointment I met Tester after at the Arcade, near
the station at London-bridge, who informed me
that he had not got the key. We met several
times without success. Not liking to stand
so long in the arcade we appointed to meet at a beer-
shop at the corner of Tooley-street, kept by a person
named Wallace. I met Pierce and Tester there, when
Tester produced the keys. I said I must go into another
room and take the impression. Tester hesitated to part
with them, and asked me if I could not do it there. I
said no. I rang the bell, and was shown to a bed-room
under the excuse of washing my hands, and there I took
an impression of one of the keys ; after that I returned
the key to Tester. I knew the train Burgess worked.
We were in the habit of meeting Burgess at Stearne's
publichouse, which the railway officials frequented. I
there informed him how the matter was progressing.
I was first taken to the house by Pierce. It
was then arranged that I should go to Folkel
stone so as to be able to get an impression of the
keys kept there. I went to the Pavilio❑ Hotel, and
Pierce forwarded to me there a box containing 200 or
300 sovereigns, which I had advanced for that purpose.
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I received a letter by post from Pierce, informing ins
that he bad forwarded the box to me. It was insured in
the usual manner and addressed to me in the name of
Archer, to the care of Chapman or Ledger, at theoffice.
I called and inquired for the box once before it arrived.
It arrival on a Sunday, whilst I was at the higher
station awaiting the arrival of the train. I saw the
chest arrive, and I followed it to the lower station, where
it was opened by Chapman with one key. There
were two locks on the safe. I noticed that he took the
key from a cupboard on the left hand side at the back of
the office. He took out the box I expected and gave it
to me, and he also gave me a form to sign acknowledging
its receipt. I told him I could not write, as I had injured
my finger, and at my request he filled it up, and I signed
it in the name of E. R. Archer. The form produced is the
one Iso signed. I took the box to the Pavilion Hotel,
where I opened it and took out the sovereigns. I returned
to London and had an interview with Pierce and Bur-
gess, and told them where the key was kept. It wag they
arranged that
.I and Pierce should go to Dover, and
walk across the cliffs to Folkestone. About a
week after that we went down by a train that
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said it was a good job, and that he would do all in' his
power to assist us in the robbery. I met Burgess
several times at the Marquis of Granby, at New-cross.
I had some blank keys made and I filed them and finished
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them to the impression. commenced filing them at
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Pierce's residence, at Walnut-tree-walk. Fanny Kay
had lived with me as my wife, and she and her child
were living at Harleyford-road. I had had a difference
with her about that time, and we were living apart. We

male it up then, and I took a house, dambridgesvillei I had 3,0001. invested, which was sold out and
Shepherd's-bush, where we lived together again. I there to pierce to invest for the benefit of Fanny Kay
finished the keYs. Pierce then left Walnut-tree walk,
and took a house in Cieiwn:terra:Se, Hesenpsteari-road. It
was arranged that after I had finished the kels Ishould go
down by the train and try them in the bullion chess.
I went down several times with Burgess when he had
the chest, and tried the keys before they would fit. I
watched an opportunity of getting into Burgess's van
before the starting of the train. I tried them five or six
times before they would fit. Burgess was present on
the van, and saw me try them, and saw me open the
chest with them. I never went down with any other
person in the van but Burgess. The keys being found
to fit, I learnt from Burgess and Tester that when the
tidal train went down early in the morning the bullion
was to be sent down by the mail train. It was the mail
train that was robbed. It was arranged that I
should provide lead about two hundredweight,
which we calculated 12,0001. of gold would weigh, and
which we thought would be as much as we could carry.
Pierce and I procured shot, which we placed in bags
and conveyed to Cambridge-villas. The shot was then
placed in Sib and 41b check bags. Fanny Kay, my
child, and a servant named Painter were at home when
this was done. I dont think Fanny Kay knew what
we were doing. We had more shot than we required,
and we threw the excess away in the streets and fields
of the neighbourhood. The small bags of shot were put
into four courier bags we had made at a shop at the corner.
of Queen-street, Drury-lane. The courier bags were
made to order and to a particular size. The strength of
bags was tested at Cambridgesvilla. They were made of
drab leather. Some of the stitches gave way, and I
repaired them. The shot in the coarser bags was
removed in a carpet bag with a cart and horse to
Pierce's house, Crown-terrace, Hampstead-road. I had
a black leather bag made for Tester, who consented to
go to Reigate and take part of the gold and bring it up
to London, so as to relieve us of their weight. Alt the
bags were taken to Pierce's house. Everything being in
readiness for the robbery, arrangements were made
when Burgess got on the mail train that I and
Pierce, ;Burgess, and Tester should meet at London
Bridge. I and Pierce were to go in a cab with the
courier and carpet-bag to St. Thomas-street. We hired
a cab from the stand and walked to it a short distance
from Pierce's house. Pierce had a black wig and
whiskers on. He wore a cloak and carried two courier
bags underneath and a carpet-bag in his hand. I had
on a cloak, and had the other two courier-bags on and
carried a carpet-bag. We drove to St. Thomas-street.
I took off my courier-bags and cloak and left them with
Pierce, whilst I walked to the station and met Tester,
who told me there was no gold going down that night.
This was repeated, I think, five or six times before
the robbery was committed. On some occasions Tester
came to the cab and had a conversation with Pierce
respecting the robbery. On one occasion Pierce car-
ried a carpet-bag on his shoulder and left it with me
at a coffee - shop near the Eagle, College-street,
whilst he went home and dressed himself up. On the
night of the robbery Pierce and I were at a public-house
near the turnpike-gate, Camden-town, where we took a
cab, with our bags, to St. Thomas-street. I got out then
and went to the station as usual. Burgess came out
of the station, arid wiped his face. That was the signal
agreed on when the bullion was going down. He
went to his house. I went back to Pierce in the cab,
and we directed the cabman to drive us to the Dover
railway office. I had previously seen Tester on the in-
cline, near the station, who said in a hurried manner
"All right." I went to the station and procured two
first-class tickets. We kept our courier bags
on, but gave the carpet bags to a porter,
I gave Pierce a ticket, and he got into a
first-class carriage. I walked up and down, and saw
the carpet-bag given to Burgess, who placed it in the
van. The small black leather bag was in the carpet-
bag. I walked up and down the platform till the train
started, when I watched an opportunity and jumped
into Burgess's van. I crouched down in a corner,
and Burgess threw his apron over me. I was in
the guard's portico of the van till the train started,
when I got up and saw there were two iron safes
in the van. As soon as the train started I went into
the baggage department, opened the iron safe, and took
out one of the wooden boxes (the box produced is the
one); it was fastened with nails through the lid by bands
and was sealed. I had a pair of pinchers to raise the
iron and box-wood wedges with which to force open the
the lid. I took out of that box, I think, 4 bars of gold;
one of them I placed in Tester's bag and gave it to
Burgess ; the others were taken out and placed in the
carpet bag, and I put shot into the box. Burgess
placed the bag for Tester in the guard's compartment.
The train by this time had arrived at Reigate. I gave the
bag to Burgess, and I heard Tester say, " Where is it?"
and I saw no more of it till the next morning. I
did not see Tester —I only heard his voice. When the
train started again Burgess joined me, and I opened
another box in the same safe, containing American gold
coins. I don't know the amount. I put them into my
hag and substituted shot for them. I fastened down
both boxes (the one with American coins with screws),
and sealed them again with some seals and a wax taper
I had purchased for the purpose. I then locked the one
cheat and opened the other chest, and also one of the
boxes, which I found to contain small bars of gold. I
took out as many bars of gold as I thought I bad shot
to make up the weight, and then fastened up the box
again. The safes were taken out at Fol estone, and
we went on to Dover. I and Pierce took the courier bags
and carpet bags, and we went to the Dover Castle. It
was about 11 o'clock. We went into the coffee-room,
placed the carpet bags under the window, and ordered
supper. During the absence of the waiter we took off
the courier bags. The waiter asked if we wanted beds,
and we replied no, that we had driven in, and were going
up by the 2 o'clock train. I left Pierce at the hotel,
whilst I went to the pier, and threw the mallet, chisel,
&c., with which I opened the boxes, into the sea.
When I came back we paid the bill and sent the waiter
for some brandy in a soda'water bottle, in order that
we might replace our courier bags. 'We then left, and
went to the station. At the station the porter
asked to take the earpet-bags. I refused, but he per-
sisted and almost forced them out cf my hands. The
porter then asked us if we had our tickets. We replied,
"Yes,Ostend tickets." The porter asked us to show them,
and he said "There's been no baggage through the Cus-
toms to-day."• I replied "No; we came yesterday," at the
same time putting some silver in his hand. He then
left and we went into a first-class carriage. Burgess was
guard of the train. Few passengers came up by the
train. Pierce and I were alone in a first-class carriage.
On the way up we opened the large carpet-bags, which
were "dummies," threw out the hay, and at one of the
stations Pierce got out and placed the carpet-bags behind
the door of the waiting-room. The gold was then in
the small carpet and courier bags. On our arrival at
the London-bridge station we walked to the cab-stand,
and desired the cabman to drive us to the Great
Western Railway. Before getting there we said we
had made a mistake, and ordered him to drive us to the
Euston-square station. When we got out there we
discharged the cab, and Pierce got another, and we
drove to the neighbourhood of Crown-terrace. We
there discharged the cab, and took the bags to Pierce's
house. From thence we went to London-bridge in a
cab, with the American gold coins. The cab was then dis-
charged, and I met Tester with the box of gold, as had been
previously arranged. Tester gave me the box of gold,
and I believed be went to his office. I and Pierce then
took a cab and drove to the neighbourhood of the East
India House. Pierce got out, taking with him part of
the American coins, and sold them at a shop at the cor-
ner of St. Mary Axe. I remained in the cab. On
Pierce's return, he told me he bad to wait whilst the
money-changer sent to the Bank for gold. He obtained
upwards of 2001. for the coins. We then drove to an-
other money-changer's in the Haymarket, and Pierce
sold the remainder of the American gold coins for 201/.,
which was paid by cheque on the Union Bank.
The cheque was then teken to the bank and
cashed. We then returned to Pierce's house. Pierce had
the proceeds of the American coins. At that time I was
not in want of money, but Pierce was ; he had to
pledge his things for support. Pierce afterwards hired
a horse and cart, and we drove with the box of gold to
Cambridge-villas, where I then resided. Fanny Kay
was at home when we arrived there. The bags were
first put into the parlour, and afterwards in my trunk,
in my bed • room. Pierce took the horse and
cart back from whence he had borrowed it,
and I saw no more of him on that day.
I saw him in a day or two after at my house, when we
cut a 100 oz. of gold off one of the bars, and sold it at
31. per ounce. I had the proCeeds. It was then ar.
ranged .that we should melt the gold, and we accord-
ingly took out the stove in my first floor back room, and
procured some fire-bricks for that purpose. The fire-
brick produced is one of them, and on it small particles
of gold are to be now seen. The gold, when melted,
was poured into an " ingot " (100 oz. bars) that had
been procured for the purpose by myself and Pierce.
On one occasion, when taking one of the crucibles out
of the fire I met with an accident and broke it, and the
gold was scattered about on the floor, which was
burnt ; Fanny Kay on one occasion complained
of the heat, and asked what we were about. I replied
"leather apron making," meaning " mind your own
business," The courier bags were destroyed. It took
four days to melt the gold. Pierce remained with me
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sold
the gold for me. I sold him a second lot of 500 oz., for
which he paid me 31. 2s, 6d. per OS. He paid me in
gold. Saward charged Is. or lid. pet °nude tiommishion
for his trouble) I Can't say which. About this time I
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had another quarrel with Fanny Kay, and I left Shep-
t
herd's-bush and took lodgings at Kilburn in
the name of Adams, The gold had previously
been removed from ray house to Fierce s.
Pierce about this time removed from Crown•
him to live, and was living there when I was appre-
dViniliPieracried's hlts:sfetearwboaurdt afterwards went
wweenekt. with
Burgess and Tester met me and Pierce
house at Kilburn. It was stated what gold
Burgess
changedreceived
and Tester bad 6001. each. The money was received
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apprehended. The remainder of the unsold gold had
the house. At the time of the robbery I had seven
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1001. Spanish Bonds purchased of Mr. Young, stock-
broker, a considerable time before the robbery. I sold
five of them on the night of the division of the spoil,
at 481. each, to Tester, who paid me out
of the notes he had received as his share. On the
morning of my arrest I saw Pierce, and made an ap-
pointment with him to go with me that day to Shep-
herd's-bush to fetch the child's clothing, &c. After that
I left to meet a man named Humphreys in Holborn, but
I was arrested on my way. 1 saw Pierce after my arrest.
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child.
Cross-examined by Sergeant Parry—l am 41 years of
age. I was once in the employ of Mr, D ivis, linen-
deeper Chiswell-street, for four years. That is 14 years
i ago. t they be 20 years, but I won't speak positively.
No robbery took thee there that I know of. I have not
been in employment since. I have got my living since
by specula ion in the United States of America.
Mr. Parry—What, in railway carriages ?
Witness—No; by buying and selling things. I first
went to America between three and five years after I
left Mr. Davis. I decline answering how I lived dur-
ing that time. I was not engaged in forging then, nor
never have been. I did not know Saward then. I
decline answering how I gained my living at the time
referred to.
Mr. Baron Martin—l don't see how it can hurt you.
Unless you have done something that renders you liable
to be hanged you can't be worse off than you now are.
(Laughter.)
Witness still declined answering the question, or if he
had done anything that would render him liable to be
hanged. I did not rob, or utter forged documents in
America. I don't know that Saward is in custody.
Saward's flash name was " Barrister Saward." (Laugh.
ter.) I have discounted bills for him. I never
had any transactions in
,cheques with him.
I am innocent of the charge I was convicted on.
I am not a perfectly honest person, for I have
received the proceeds of forgery. I never forged
or uttered a forged document. The stock I was pos-
sessed of was purchased before the robbery. Your client
had my share of that robbery. I was convicted of ut-
tering a forged cheque for 7001., and was caught running
away with a bag of 700 fa:things in my possession. I
can work at almost anything—at making jewellery.
Mr. Parry—And bars of gold !
Witness—Yes, sir ; there's proof of that. (Laughter.)
I don't kn.iw if Pierce was a betting man.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—l have
no particular motive for declining to say how I got
my living after I left Mr. Davis ; I am not afraid of the
consequences,
Mr. Ballantine—l apprehend, then, my lord, he is
bound to answer the question!
Mr. Baron Martin—Not, if it will render him liable
to prosecution.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine (to witness) —And is that the
reason why you refuse to answer the question I
Witness—No. I was frat introduced to Pierce by
two thieves, and he at once opened the business to me.
I took tea with Tester at his lodgings, at Margate. It
was served by an elderly female. The division of the
money took place about two months after the robbery.
Tester asked me the best way to invest his money. I
said I have some Spanish bonds that are paying 7 per
cent., that I gave 474 for them, and would sell them for
481., and ho purchased five of them.
By Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—You were convicted for
uttering a forged cheque
Witness—Yes. And you defended me.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Yes. And you were con-
victed on the evidence of an accomplice
Witness—Yes. Every word he said was untrue, and
it was also untrue what Mr. Mullins, the solicitor to the
prosecution, stated on the trial, that I was outside the
bank, waiting. when the cheque was presented. I was
at Shepherd': -Mush at the time. When I was asked by
my-
self asonea
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thief. I tried to get the keys at Folkestone without the
prt ehsset e e
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aknowledge of any of the company's servants. I became
familiar with Sharman so as to get the keys when' his
Tester that er we
back was turned. I did not attempt to corrupt him.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Did Tester try to corrupt
your innocence
Witness—Oh 1 dear, no. (Laughter.)
Crosc-examined by Mr. Poland—l have gone by the
names r Adams, Archer, Agar. (my right name), and
Roberts. I answered to any name the prisoners choose
to give me. I first made a communication to Mr. Rees,
at Portland. I did not then tell him Burgess had
nothing to do with the robbery. I have never said that
Burgess had notbing to do with it. These were not the
first false keys I ever made. I made some for Pierce to
commit a robbery at the South-Eastern station. I may
have made others. I may hr: a received the proceeds of
three Or four forgeries. The money I had in the bank
was not part of the forgeries, but the proceeds of hard
work and speculation in America. I have never passed
off forged notes either in this country or America.
Re-Oxamined by Mr. Bodkin—My reason for not an-
swering Mr. Parry was that he seemed to wish to force it
out of me. When I left Mr. Davis's employ I had 501.
I had caved, and with that, and by pledging my clothes,
and assisting my cousin, a boot closer, I supported my-
self till I went to America.
Mr.!Baron Martin—There could have been no objec
tion, then, to your answering the question just now ?
Witness—l should not if Mr. Parry had not tried to
force it out of me.
By Mr. Bodkin—One of the witnesses in the case in
which I was convicted was called Humphreys, who used
to live with Emily Campbell, with whom I was living at
the time in Stanley-place. When I was apprehended I
was on my way to Humphreys' house, near Bedford-
row, to receive 2501. I had lent him. When near there
the man Smith, who gave evidence against me, saw me,
and said, I have been looking for you, and that Bill,
meaning Humphreys, had sent him to me to say
I was not to go to his house, for there was a
screw loose, and as we walked along he said
Humphreys had sent 2001. to me, at the same time pul-
ling out a bag, and gave it to me. When he gave me
the bag I asked who the men were that were following
us, and at his advise I ran off and he joined in the pur-
suit with the officers.
By Mr. Baron Martin—About three years after I left
Davis's I commenc'l a career of crime. From that
time to the time of my conviction I was engaged in

ciime.
By Mr. Sergeant Parry—l never boasted to my fel-
low prisoners at Portland that I effectri this robbery
alone, and went of 'r it to Boulogne. I never said any-
thing about it until I mentions .1 it to Mr. Rees. I had
heard at that time that Pierce had given up. the child
to its mother, and that Fanny Kay was in a state of
destitution—that he refused to give the child a change
of dress.
Evidence was then given to prove the packing of the
gold and its delivery to the South-Eastern Railway
Company for tram.nission fa the Continent. From
May till December, 1855, the Company resisted the
claims of Mr. Abell for the value of his gold, asserting it
must have been lost between Folkestone and Boulogne.
Several witnessrs from France stet-I that it W 2.4 ap-
parent to the officials of the Custom House at Boulogne
that one of the boxri had been meddled with prior
to its arrival there. After hearing evidence tracing the
arrival of the boxes at Pa:is, the weighing of them,
showing a deficiency of 401b5., and their being opened
and found to contain a large quantity of shot in small
bags,
The Court adjourned at 6 o'clock until to-day.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND GREENWICH.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the office, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street—
Mr. J. Wilson in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN commenced the proceedings by reading
a statement of the accounts for the half-year ending the
31st of December, from which it appeared the half-year's
rent paid by the South-Eastern Railway Company
amounted to 22,5001., the transfer fees to 71. 55., interest
on balances to 1401., and 321. from last acc oint, making
22,6801. From this was deducted 4,7001., interest en
bonds, and 5,5681., interest in preference ; 4361. for
office and other expenses, and 8151. income tax, leaving
a disposable sum of 11,1601., out of which the directors
recommend a dividend on the unprivileged shares of
58. 2 I. per share, clear of income tax, leaving a small
balance for the next account.
A resolution approving the dividend as carried una-
nimously, and Mr. J. Filcher and Mr. T. Corney, the
retiring directors, were re-elected.
Mr. MACLAURIN suggested that a few lines showing
the state of the accounts should be sent to each share-
holder with the dividend warrant on the 15th inst.
The CHAIRMAN said that it would involve an expense
of a few pounds, and as they were anxious to prevent the
dividend falling below ss. 2d. per share they wished to
avoid additional expense, but would send a copy of the
statement of accounts to Mr. Maclaurin or any share-
holder reque4ing the same.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the pro-
ceedings.

From the London Gazette of Last Night. "ferry
erry Ironworks, Glamorganshire, ironmaster—Feb. 12,
A. Vogt, Cheltenham, dealer in pianofort,s—Feb. 5,
1 W. R.lLowa, Wolverhampton, mannfacturing ehemist--
1 Feb. 4, E. R .Sanderson, West Kimmald-ferry, Lincoln•
t shire, seed crusher.
CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED.
Feb. 6, .1. F. King, Belle Vue-villas, Seven Sisters-road,
builder—Feb. 4, M. Willis, Shot Tower-wharf, Lambeth,
fire-wood. manufacturer—Feb. 4, J. C, Cooke, Prince's'
street, Soho, carver--Feb. 5, W. Fevre, Peterborougks
publican—Feb. 3. J. Symes, E. B. Symes, and R. Roper,
Strand, electro-platers - Feb. 6, W. Briscoe, Ashton-under.
Line, timber dealer—Feb. 4, S. and E. Lord, Bacup, Lan'
cashire, inillwrightsFeb. 5, R. and J. Helsby, Childwso
and Warrington, Lancashire, builders—Feb. 9, E
Hodder, Birmingham, grocer—Feb. 9, W. J. Peppers
Coventry, printer—Feb. 5, T. Firmston, Shrewsipurh
builder—March 3, R. and G. Marston, Leicester, manufae"
turers of hosiery.

The Gazette contains a notice that the Speaker will issue
his warrant at the end of 14 days for the election of a
member of Parliament for the borough of Salford, in the
room of the late Joseph Brotherton, Esq.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 12.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Rode-
rick Nicolson to the church and parish of Applecross, in
the Presbytery of Lochcarron, and county of Ross, vacant
by the transportation cf the Rev. John Reid, late minister
thereof, to the parish of Barvas.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 9.
-

-
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, enclosing
copy of a Portuguese Royal Decree, opening the port of
Mossamedes, in the province of Angola, to foreign com-
merce. .

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 13.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, transmit-
ting copy of a Portuguese R)yal Decree, equalising the
duty to 139 paid upon the importation into Portugal of
foreign oils, to that established in the Municipal Customs'
Tariff, viz, : 680 reis per 341bs. weight.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 13.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in
China, transmitting a copy of a proclamation issued by
the King of Siam, permitting the exportation of rice from
kis dominions.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN., 1857.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a
despatch front her Majesty's Superintendent of Trade in
China, forwarding samples of various products of Siam.

Country Markets.

LIVERPOOL—JAN. 13.
There was but a limited attendance of the town find
country trade to-day, and only a moderate demand W 5
at first experienced for wheat—however, towards the close
some speculative operators cleared off the most pressing
parcels and strengthened the market, which closed at about
Friday's rates, or 2d per 701bs lower than on this d ,141
week. Flour met with a very slow sale, and may be quote('
6d per barrel and sack down on the week. Oats and oat'
meal only in limited, request, and barely maintained their
value. Barley, beans, and peas neglected, and again the
turn lower. Indian corn continues out of favour with
speculators, and, with few orders from Ireland, the valu°
has declined 6d per qr. on the week, mixed being obtain'
able at 33s 9d, yellow at 34s to 34s 6d, and white at 35010
36s par qr.

HULL—JAN. 13.
A small show of wheat, which met a very good sale 6/
fully the rates paid last week. Barley in good request et
full prices. Beans and oats neglected. Linseed the tuns
dearer, and cakes proving scarce on improved demand, ate
5s per ton dearer. There are some very good foreign 011
the market, Marseilles, Swedish, and the favourite boa"
of Tilsit. Rape cakes unaltered. Bones fetch long price°
for floating cargoes with choice of ports.
8

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 10.
Corps of Royal Marines--First Lieutenant Henry Brad-
.ey Roberts to be First Lieutenant and Quartermaster,
vice Mawbey, promoted.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Brecknock Royal Rifle Regiment of Militia—Alfred
George Drake Pocock, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—Henry Gully Foy,
Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Colston, appointed to
the East India Company's Service.
Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Assistant Sur-
geon Thomas Brittain to be Surgeon, vice Bascome, de-
ceased.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Jan. 12.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Greek brigantine
Chrissys, captured May 22, 1855, the Greek vessels Hari-
klia and the Panagia Drapaniotisa, captured May 30, 1855,
by her Majesty's ship Niger, will commence on Thursday,
29th Jan., in the Prize Branch of the Department of the
" Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house."
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share of
any captor, serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman marine, or other person, who may
desil eto receive his share from the Collector of Customs or
Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is required to
intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On Prize Basi-
ness, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London," in which
letter his own place of residence is to be precisely stated,
as well as the place of the nearest Collector of Customs
or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be convenient
to receive such share of prize money.
THE CHRISSYS.
. £l4 1 1 I Sixth class
33 7 8 Seventh class
7510 I Eighth class Ol5 7
4 13 8 Ninth class
2.12 1 Tenth class
THE HARIELIA.
£ s. d.
Flag share
Commander
Third class
Fourth class 9 7 5
Fifth class
THE PANAGIA
s. d.
Flag share
Commander 2O 3 2
Third class
Fourth class 216 7
Fifth class 1 11 4

Wheat, English, red 58 to 60'
Ditto white 6O to 65
Dantzic and Konigs-

s. s. f
Peas, grey and black to i
Linseed, Black Sea... 63 to '5
Ditto Petersburgh ... 52 to 1'

Flag share
Commander

Third class
Fourth class
Fifth class

berg 66 to 72'
Pomeranianandllam-

Ditto Rigaand Arch-
angel

£ s. d.
Sixth class
Seventh class
Eighth class ......
I Ninth class 1 0 10
I Tenth class 0 161 4
DIIAPANIOTISA. _

Sixth class
Seventh class
Eighth class
Ninth class

£ a. d.
1 8 4
o 18 10
0 9 5
0 6 4
0 3 1

Tenth class

burgh
Danish ,Holdtein, and Memel 44 01
Friesland 54 to 58 Per Teo
Russian and Odessa 58 t 0.63 Lins.c., Hullol Os to 101106 ri
Oats, English
Ditto Danish
Ditto Friesland
Ditto Russian 23 to 30'Rape cakes .-s Od to 12560:
Barley, malting
00
Ditto grinding 35 to 38 Ditto foreign
Beans
Ditto foreign
Peas, white and yel. 40 to 42 Flour, per brL 3ss. -

LEEDS—JAN. 13.
We are fairly supplied with wheat. The trade
slow. Good dry qualities fetch about Friday's currenell
but all other descriptions are difficult to quit. Barley.be'
firmly at full prices. Beans and oats, with other era°
vary little from last week.
Average price of grain—Wheat, 59s Od ; barley, A,
2d ; oats, 28s Id ; beans, 42s 10d ; peas, 41s. °"'
rye, —s. Od.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
,m5terdam............ 11 14 Gibraltar ••• • ••
Ditto, three months .. 11 174 Leghorn .. •• • •57
•• 29 /If
Rotterdam ............ 11 174 Genoa *** ••••• •• ' I
intwerp 25 323 Milan • • .......•
Brussels .... • • ........ 25 323 Veniee................ .„
ilamburgh ............ 13 64 Naples •• • • 4°
129
Altona .. • • ...... Palermo
Pari5........25 25 !Messina .. • •.. 129 S
Ditto, three months .. 25 67% Lisbon ... 5l
Marseilles 25 6738 Oporto .............. • • 51N
Bourdeaux Rio Janeiro ..•

Frankfort-on-Maine .... 1183 Buenos Ayres.... • ...
Berlin New York,6o days' sight

Vienna • • .... 10 42 Philadelphia ..........
frle,ste ........ • • 10 43 PEICES or striaics, pzi 0%'9
Petersburg ............ 37% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 0
viadrid .........., .... 49 Portugal Gold Coin .. 00 0
Cadiz ..........• 49% Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
Barcelona ............ New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Seville— ......... Silver in bars ...... 0

BANKRUPTS.
Joseph Harbut, licensed victualler, Portswood, to sur-
render, Jan. 22, at twelve, and Feb. 27, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore official assignee, Bas-
inghall-street ; Westall, South-square, Gray's-inn ; Cox-
well and Bassett, Southampton.
James Henry Smith, corset maker and milliner, Oxford-
street, Jan. 23, and Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ;
Linklator and Attwood, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury.
Richard Carpenter, Museum Tavern, Museum-street,
Bloomsbury, Jan. 23 at one, and Feb. 24, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alderman-
bury ; Mackeson, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Thomas Henry Tripney, grocer, Perranporth, Cornwall,
Jan, 22, and Feb. 19, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Goddard, King-street,
Cheapside ; Ford, Exeter.
George Fearis, draper, Lambeth-walk, Jan. 23, at half-
past twelve, and Fob. 26, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Mason and Sturt, Gresham-street, city.
Alfred Henry Harrold, druggist, Frome Sal wood, So-
mersetehire, Jan. 26, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Miller,
Frome.
Samuel Bayley, grazier, Wednesbury, Staffordshire,
Jan. 28 and Feb. 18, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Knight, Birmingham.
Richard Davis son., coal merchant, West Bromwich,
Jan. 24 and Feb. 14, at half-past eleven, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Bittlelton, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Reece, Birmingham.
George Davey, plumber, Murray-street, New North-
road, Jan. 23, and Feb. 26, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-build-
ings ; Hudson and Francis, Tokenhouse-yard.
Joseph Whiteside, watchmaker, Davies-strcat, Berke-
ley-square, Jan. 28, at half-past one, and March 2, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Abrahams, Southampton-
buildings, Chaiicery-land.
Edmund Goddard, provision dealer, Aldgate, City,
Jan. 27, at half-past one, and Feb. 21, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Burr,
Paternoster-row.
William T- Gravenor, hatter and milliner, Birming-
ham, Jan. 28 and Feb. 18, at half-past ten, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham ; Morris, Old Jewry, London ; Hodgson and
Allen, Birmingham.
• Henry Osborn, wine and spirit merchant, Old Trinity
House, Water-lane, City, and the Catherine-wheel, Great
Windmill-street, Haymarket, Jan. 23, at eleven, and Feb.
26, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official
assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Anderson, Barge yard-
chambers.
Ramsden Rawnsley, builder, Copley, Yorkshire, Feb. 2
and March 2, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court Hope,
official nssignee, Leeds; Mitchell, Halifax ; Bond and Bar-
wick, Leads. . . .

Robart Henry Bollin, carriage builder, King's Lynn,
Norfolk, Jan. 28, at twelve, and March 2, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Goodwin and Co., King's Lynn, Norfolk, and
Lancaster-place, Strand, London.
Knowlton Wilson, surgeon, Sheffield, Jan. 31, and Feb.
21, at ten, at the Councill-hall, Sheffield. Brewin, official
assignee, Sheffield ; Hoole and Yeomans. Sheffield.
James Griffin, poulterer, Liverpool, Jan. 21, and Feb.
13, at eleven, at the Liverpool Di3trict Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Yates, jnn•► Liverpool.'
John Unwin, baker, Seacombo, Cheshire Jan. 22, and
Feb. 13, at eleven, at thouCouft ot Banktuptc3
Bird, official assignee, Liverp ; Fletcher and Hull,
Liverpool.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Alexander Law, coal merchait, Glasgow.
George Lankham, saddler, Inchture, Perthshire.
B. W. Dods and Company, merchants, Glasgow.
J. and J. W. Vint, merchants, Edinburgh.
Thomas Ness, blacksmith, Leith.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Swallow and Co., Manchester, cotton dealers—J. and
E. M'Rae and E. Evans, Ludgate hill, fancy stationers ;
as fax as regards J. M'Rae-- A.. Jackson and D. Paget,
Keighley, Yorkshire, brokers—A. and J. Booth, Man.
chaster, braid machine makers—J. Dixon, J. Galloway,
and T. 'Dixon, Manchester, calico printers ; as far as re-
gards T. Dixon—C. Brown and Co., Barborough Sawmills,
Derbyshire, and elsewhere, timber merchants--W. Sibley
and R. Jordan, Bath, bakers—S. Woodley and W.
Stephenson, Ilkley,
Yorkshire, farmers- Bailey and
Wick-
ham,eanidDeptford, Winchester,
li . Ellis and
dd
W . MSY he er fs
h t
er%
esno_l i cji
ot oh rnss-0
nH,
contractors S. Hicks and Co., Crantock, Co,
.upo rn ewn ta Cornwall,
l
malsters—Cliff Vale Iron Company, Stoke
R. Burgess and W. Cousins, Norwich, painters—Liberty
and Tomlinson, Nottingham, lace manufacturers—H.
manufacturers
—Well
lucifer match
—Edwards and Hancock, KidsgroveingShtaaffni, linendrapersdh.
M. Oppenheim. and Co.,' Londoners Staffordshire,
iron-
founders—J.where, merchants; as far as
Liverpool,
s J. E. Oppenheim—
Thomson, Finlay, and Co., merchants ; as far
eGrs._GEor.dojn.
caHr; —FWern.
Ts
as
Strand, regards
Helen's, ship agents—W. Black
n .d Sa anvire ,dg
.e r.jc4t andolT.
H. Rogers,rdemat e
as dt
Trump-street and Lawrence-lane, city, umbrella manufac-
turers—Organ and Hare, Cawoci, near' Selby, Yorkshire,
s
Paul's-churchWar.d,FlwaragrreahvoeusaemndenC_.f.pl:Arialnkdinsiton., G.
Macaire, Myd y
del ton-street, Clerken well, watchcase makers
—J. and J. Farrar, Halifax woolstaplers, and Cullenagh
mills, near Mar borough, Ireland, millers—W. Brown and
W. Hargreaves, Bradford and Keighley, Yorkshire, cut-
ters in stone—J. L. Foster and S. Arbouin, Hertford and
Mark-lane, attorneys—W. G. Gardner and W. R. Baker,
Chatham, carriers—G. Austin, Ben., and G. Austin, jun.,
Egerton and Pluckley, Kent, fprmers—A. and D. Ellis,
Liverpool, metal merchants— W. Duckworth and Son.,
Great Tower-street, wholesale coffee dealers —Watson,
Thomson, and Co., Glasgow, merchants ; as far as regards
J. Thomson.
PECLARt TIONS OF DIVIDENDS.
Royal British Bank - first div. of 5.3.6(1., on Wednesday
next and subsequent Wednesday, at Mr. Lee's, Alderman-
bury.
U. Jyrke--further div. of 16d., any Wednesday, at Mr.
Morgan s, Liverpool.
Gunamow, Wrexham, builder—first div. of 2s.
61., any Wednesday, at Mr. Turner's, Liverpool.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—The QUEEN.—Fouuded 1828.
The Sick Poor are admitted on their own application alone ; no re-
commendation is required.
During the Past month the following number received the benefits
of this
application:—
Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal

Week ending 7th November 2,154
Ditto 14th November...— 2,043
Ditto 21st November .... 1,972
Ditto 28th November
,thand 30th November.. • •
269

Total in November 1
of:which 2,775 were new ease% .••• • •• 8,747
ainder (still under treat. ment) having been admitted previonsivrem
The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the
patients.
Heavy expenses are Inevitably incurred in affording such exten-
sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestlythe entreat the aid of
The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors,
yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual
Thursday, at
General Meeting in January. A Board is held
eziness,
n
4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the
Board
business,
when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, h
all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation.
g at
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on vein-
' ary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer,
John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts
and Co. ; Drammond and Co.; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co ;
Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co.. ;
Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber-
ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital.
Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received.
By order. •"J B. Old EN, M.A., Chairman.
.

4 NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERYIN THE SCIENCE
OF MEDICINE.
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e d'Ecole de Pharmacie
form of a lozonge ,
TRIESEMAR No. 1,2, and 3, prepared inigkg
administered by
devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried lii
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Pold in tin
cases, divided into separate doses, as a
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or too
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f
Urine, Poss'olt3,trictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention o
Copalvi and c the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which
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the great Contin TRIEEMAR
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which saves I Is., and in 5/. % Ilk, or four eases in one for 335,,
To be had wholesale and retail 'n hereby there is a saving of I/. 12s.
, srdon, of Derby and Gordon,
140,Leadenhall-street; ?rout, 229
Sanger, ISO, Oxford-streorta.
lord-street Barclayy and Co., 63, Ox-
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and Son, 97, Far-
ringdon-street ; Butler and Harding,'
?awl's Churchyard.
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NATIONAL (late Cholera) ORPHAN HOME,
Ham Common, Richmond.—Founded 1849, after the visita-
tion of the Cholera.

Penton—Field-Marshal H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.
PATRONESS —H.R.II. the Duchess of GLOUCESTE
On SUNDAY MORNING next, January 18th, a SERMON will he
preached in Christchurch, Blackfri4rs-road, on behalf of the above
Institution, by the Rev. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A., Rector of the
Parish. Divine Service will commence at 11 o'clock.
There are seventy-six Orphan Girls in the Home, and an election
of four more will take place the next day, Monday, the 19th.
All imormation will be given by the Secretary, R. W. Newman,
Esq., 9, Inner 'temple-lane, and by the Matron of the Home, to
whom subscriptions may be paid; alFo to the Home account, at the
London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, Henry Kingseote, Esq.,
Treasurer.

JOSEPH BROWN, M.A., 7 Honorary
RICHD. WHITTINGTON, M.A.,j Secretaries.

BANK of L O N D O N.
HEAD BANKING-HOUSE—Ttreadneedle-street.
CuArtnici-caoss BRANCH-450, West Strand.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
rIIATRISAN.—Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., M.P., 25,
Park-lane, and iaresfleld-park,
VICE-CIIAIRMAN.—JOHN GRIFFITH FRITH, Esq. (Frith, Sands,
and Co.), Austin-friars.
John Edmund Anderdon, Ksq., Devonshire-terrace, Hyde-park.
colonel William Elsey, H E.1.C.5.. Bank [louse, Acton.
Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens, London-wall), Brixton
Rise.

Jeremiah Greatorex, Esq. (Bradbury, Greatorex, and Co., Alder-
manbury), Spring Hill House, Upper Clapton.
Alexander Constantine lonides, Esq. (Firm of lonides, Sgouta,
and Co., Gracechurch-street), 'Pulse-hill.
Charles Joyce, Esq. (Firm of Charles Joyce and Co., Moorgate-
street), Gloucester-gardens, Hyde-p..trk.
Thomas Luce, Esq., M.P., King-street, St. James's, and Malmes-
bury, Wilts.
Henry Morris, Esq., late of the Madras Civil Service, 25, Mark-
lane, City.
Sir Henry Maggeridge, Alderman of London, St. Andrew's-hill,
City.
Alfred Wilson, Esq. (Venables, Wilson, and Tyler, Queenhithe),
Firgrove, Weybridge, Surrey.
Current or drawing accounts received and interest allowed on the
balances.
DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS.—The interest allowed on money placed on
deposit at three days' notice of withdrawal is now Si. per cent.,
whether deposited by customers or the public.
No gratuities payable to officers and clerks.
MATTII E W MARSHALL, jun., Manager.
BENJA NUN SCOTT, Secretary.

NEAPOLITAN CIRCULAR.

The following circular has been addressed by the
Neapolitan Government to its Envoys abroad :

" Naples, 27th Dec., 1856.
"M.— Thanks to Divine assistance the dominion of
the King has come ont intact from the three terrible trials
through which it has had to pass in so short a time—trials
which, although all different, were not the less of a nature
to throw the whole kingdom into disorder, if the courage
and perspicacity of the King, and the confidence of the
people in the eminent qualities of our sovereign, and the un-
flinching fidelity of the troops, had not changed into glory
for the Lino-, and into joy for all his subjects, the catas-
trophes which exposed them to the saddest calamities. You
are already aware of the three disastrous events which have
succeeded each other—first, the insurrectional movement in
Sicily; next, the horrible attempt against the life of his Ma-
jesty; and, lastly, the accidental explosion of a powder
magazine, which blew up, but without causing the misfor-
tunes that might have resulted from it. The manifestations
by which the people have spontaneously testified to the
King their joy and their devotedness have removed every
trace of alarm which this accident caused. They have
increased the conviction of the love of the people for their
sovereign, and given the assurance that it will be always
vain to make any atteu pt to disturb that tranquillity in the
States of the King which reposes on the clemency, the
wisdom, and the firmness of his Majesty. It is that state of
things which offers to the kingdom the surest guarantee for
the future, and which maintains in the mind of the King tho
same intentions to continue for the future as in the past his
acts of clemency towards those of his subjects who have been
condemned, by granting the remission of the punishments,
or recalling from exile those who shall make the request
and evince their sincere submission. You will find M.—,
in addition to that which I have already sent you, a new list
of those individuals, which I forward to you, in order that
you may co-operate, as far as you are concerned, in ear-
-1 rying into effect the pardons granted by the King ; and in
order that you may, when an opportunity shall present
itself, conform your language so as to refute the lying na-
-1 sertions which are made relative to the tyranny of your
Government.
" CARAFA."

Loss OF A LIVERPOOL SHIP.—The advices per the
steamship Canada, from the United States, report the
total loss of the iron ship John Garrow, Captain Dyer,
from Savannah for Liverpool. The John Garrow cleared
at Savannah for Liverpool on the 13th of November,
with 2;386 bales of cotton, and when about six days at
sea she sprung a leak in a furious gale, which continued
to increase until she was abandoned in lat. 37 N., long.
57 W. The crew were taken off by the E. Z., bound
from this port to New York. When abandoned the
John Garrow had 19 feet of water in her hold. She was
a ship of 642 tone, owned by Mr. Robinson, of this port,
and was built in 1840.

....... ...._
EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.—LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.
—A. statement of a most extraordinary character w
made public to-day, in the Underwriters' Rooms here.as
have'
-!-twas said that a vessel belonging to London, the
Kelpie,eas an opium clipper, was lost in 1846, in the China
been Sand all
drowned.her cre w
By
yn d passengerstbe n
an
overland
raei
1. s intelligenceupp oe e
d t l
has just been received from China,ver stating that a ring,
which was known to have belonged t-) one of the pas-
sengers of the Kelpie, having
in been lately offered for sale
Canton, inquiries • -
were instituted, which led to the
discovery of thepassengers extraordinary fact that the crew and
acco werunts, living in not drowned, but were, at the late-t
Formosa. No a state of slavery, in the island of
AWFULLY Sui: further particulars are yet known.
morning DEN DEATH
an
railw elderly gentleman was coming up from the
sntnreet, he suddenly fell en arrived at the top of Butler-
nveyed into the Rail down. He was picked up and
sur-
geon, who was way Tavern, and Mr. Hall, sur-
life was found to be passingex '
at the time, was called in, when
ance of sever extinct. 1
al gentlemen ' .ilr. Hall, with the assist-
ceased, with a view of di; examined the pockets of de-
when the following large sums a clue to his identity,
in gold, lin 10/u.nas were found upon him :-
4061,
4d. in silver, and Vtd. in co Bank of England notes, 6s.
by Mr. Hall as one -tor a de PPoPs7tr2 and a receipt read over
of Messrs. Pedder and Co., of u7.f88,500/. in the bank
was sent to the Old Bank, whore' h town, The money
Mr. Whalley, from Welsh Whittlee. WasT identified as
pressed an opinion that the causeof death wad doctor exi
the heart.—Preston Herald, Jan. 10,
was disease o
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The poultry exhibition
Crystal Palace continues to attract a large , at the
visitors. As a proof of the interest taken in poultry,
of
following may be mentioned as among the sales !y, the
effected
—A pen of Polish fowls, exhibited by Mr. C. :c nie :
ridge, Eton, 25/. ; a p,2n of ducks, exhibited by Mr.'
Breavingtoo, 261. ; a pen of gee“), by the same exhibitor,
10 guineas ; a pen of Brahma Pootra fowls, exhibited by
Mr. H. R. Bush, 10 guineas ; a pen of Dorkings, exhi.
bited by the Rev. J. B >ys, 10 guineas ; a similar pen
exhibited by the Rev. Stephen Dowse, 15, guineas ; a
pen of turkeys exhibited by the Rev. T. L. Fellowes,
10/. ; a pen of Spangled Harnburgs exhibited by Mrs.
Henry Sharpe, 10 guineas ; a pen of Dorkings exhibited
by Mr. Frederick Lowe, 151.; a pen of geese exhibited
by Mr. H. T. Davies, Hounslow, 21/. ; a pen of Turkeys,
exhibited by Mr. Charles Edwards, 15 guineas; a pen of
gold-penciled Hamburgs exhibited by Mr. G. Botham,
10 guineas ; a pen of White Dorking' exhibited by Mr.
George Horne 10 guinea; ; a pen of Dorking; exhibited
by Mr. C. H. 'Wakefield, 251. ; and a single game
exhibited by Mr. R. R. Sewell 10 guineas. One gentle-
• man has made purchases to the extent of 1041.