The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-13 00:00:00

THE ARMY•

By a circular memorandum, dated the Bth of
June, 1861, his Royal Highness the General Com-
mading-in-Chief, with the concurrence of the
Secretary of State for War, has directed that on
and after the 20th inst. the bounty for all recruits
for the army shall be reduced from £2 to £l, which
is to be paid to them on joining their corps in cash,
without deduction.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief has been pleased, with the concurrence of
the Secretary of State for India in Council, to
select Brevet-Major W. W. H. Greathead, C. 8.,
Bengal Engineers, as assistant military secretary
at head-quarters temporarily, vice Brevet Lieut.-
Col. H. W. Norman, C. 8., who has been permitted
to relinquish the appointment for the purpose of
resuming that of Deputy Adjt.-General in Bengal.
At one o'clock yesterday morning a detachment
of 40 men, belonging to various carps serving in
Newfoundland and Halifax, arrived at Chatham gar-
rison from Liverpool, under the command of Lieut.
W. L. Knowles, 63d Regiment, having disembarked
from the American mail steamer Europa. The
troops belong to the Royal Artillery, Royal Engi-
neers, 62d and 63d Regiments. After they had
been medically inspected, six men were admitted
into Fort Pitt Hospital, and three taken into the
Lunatic Asylum, the remainder being forwarded
to the St. Mary's Invalid Establishment.
Yesterday the whole of the officers and troops
comprising the 2d battalion of infantry at Chatham
assembled on the inner lines, for the purpose of
witnessing the decoration of Sergeant-Major H.
Pangbourne and Corporal J. Wilson, two non-
commissioned officers, and J. Gad, a private soldier
of the battalion, with silver medals, which together
with money gratuities, had been awarded them by
the Duke of Cambridge for long service and meri-
torious conduct.

The London Rifle Brigade are to drill on Satur-
day next with regular troops. Preparations were
yesterday commenced at Chatham for a night
attack on an extensive scale, in which the entire
force of the garrison, together with the Volunteers,
will take part.
On Tuesday the troops in the Edinburgh garri-
son—namely, the Scots Greys, 26th (Cameronians),
and Royal Artillery, were reviewed in Holyrood-
park by Major-General Walker, commanding in
North Britain. The weather being favourable
there was a large assemblage of spectators. The
evolutions included the assault on positions held by
a supposed enemy, and also the ordinary parade
movements, all of which were executed with
steadiness and excellent order.

It was yesterday announced at head-quarters,
Royal Artillery, Woolwich, that according to pre-
sent arrangements, the Great Eastern, conveying
troops to Canada, will sail from Liverpool about
the 20th inst. Major Penn's battery of the 4th
brigade, Royal Artillery, is under orders to march
from Aldershot with horses, Armstrong guns, and
battery complete this morning, to be in readiness
for embarkation. An additional battery of 12-
pounder Armstrong guns will be forwarded from
Woolwich Arsenal, together with 2,500 rounds of
ammunition, &c., for conveyance by the Great
Eastern to Quebec. As the march from the camp
to Liverpool would occupy seven days, it is expected
a part of the journey will be performed by rail.
A heavy reserve of 100 and 40-pounder Arm-
strong guns, and ammunition, is in readiness for
transport from Woolwich Arsenal for Malta, and
also a reserve of ammunition for Bermuda, Halifax,
and Jamaica.

A course of experiments was yesterday entered
into at the long range in Woolwich marsh for the
purpose of testing the effect of liquid iron on a rico-
chet gun battery, supposed to be engaged in active
warfare. A number of gun-carriages, platforms,
and dummies in wood, representing artillerymen,
distributed in zig zag fashion, were planted about
the battery, which received the storm of molten fire
poured in rapid succession from Martin's shells,
fired from a couple of 68-pounder smooth-bore guns.
The effect, it appears, was satisfactory, and was wit-

nessed by Gen. Sir Richard Dacres, K.C.8., com-
manding at Woolwich, and the garrison Staff, con-
sisting of Major Reilly, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp, Bri-
gade Major Milward, Major Field, Deputy-Assist.-
Quartermaster-General, Sir Willi9m Armstrong,
K.C.8., Mr. Anderson, Col. St. George, President,
and the Members of the Select Committee of Wool-
wich Arsenal. The guns were supplied by 50 gun-
ners of the Royal Artillery, and were fired at an
elevation of five degrees over a range of 600 yards.
The iron was melted in one of the new cupolas, of
which 300 have been received at Woolwich for dis-
tribution around the coast and to the colonies abroad.

An arrangement, which has been for some time
in contemplation by the War Department, to effect
an alteration in the system of conducting the cash
account of the manufacturing departments of the
Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, was yesterday carried
out, three paymasters having been appointed to
take the entire charge and responsibility of all cash
matters, instead of the heads of departments, as
heretofore. These officers are to be bonded in
heavy sureties and are to receive an additional
salary for their increased duties and responsibilities.
The appointments have been conferred on the late
heads of the cash and account branches of the de-
partments, viz., Messrs. W. Elliott, Royal Gun
Factories; C. Ellis, Royal Carriage Department;
and W. Thorpe, Royal Laboratories.

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CENTRAL C.RIDIINAL COURT, Acne 12.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
THE COMMERCIAL BANK ROBBERY.—John Dur-
den, 45, described in the calendar as a clerk, and
James Holeroft, 50, described as an agent, were
charged with stealing the several sums of £lB5,
£l5O, and £B6 lls. 5d., the property of Mark
Hunter, one of the public officers of the Commercial
Bank, in his dwelling-house.
The prisoners were also charged with feloniously
receiving the like sums, knowing them to have been

stolen.
When the prisoner Durden was called upon to
plead to the charge he said, " I plead guilty to
having made use of money belonging to the bank,
but I did not intend to defraud them."
Baron Bramwell told the prisoner he was charged
with stealing the money, and all he had to do was
to say whether he was guilty or not guilty.
The prisoner said he had no intention to deprive
the bank of the money, and he would therefore
plead not guilty. He added something to the
affect that his fellow-prisoner, Holcroft, was entirely
innocent.

The evidence for the prosecution having closed,
Mr. Metcalfe said that on the part of his client,
Burden, he should decline saying anything to the
jury upon the facts.
_ _

- Mr. Hawkins then made a most powerful speech
to the jury on behalf of the other prisoner. He
said he would not deny tnat a gross fraud had
been committed upon the bank, but at the same
time he hoped the jury would not jump hastily to
the conclusion that both prisoners must have been
concerned in it, and that whatever might be their
opinion with regard to the share one of the pri-
soners had taken in the transaction, they would not
convict Holcroft of having taken a guilty part in
the affair, upon the evidence that had been laid
before them. He then proceeded to argue that
there could be no doubt that Holcroft had been
carrying on a respectable business, and that there
was not the slightest imputation upon his charac-
ter until this transaction. He could not deny that
the ledger of the bank had been tampered with,
and that by means of this tampering with the
books, the bank had been robbed of a large amount
of money, but the only question the jury had to
decide was, whether the evidence established that
Holcroft had acted with a guilty knowledge in the
transaction. The learned counsel then proceeded
to argue that there was nothing whatever in the
case to show that Holcroft had not been made a
dupe by Durden, who, finding that he could not
carry out his scheme of fraud without assistance,
pitched upon Holcroft, with whom he was on
friendly terms, and to whom he had acted as a
friend to render him that assistance ; and, he con-
tended, in all the proceedings that afterwards took
place, he had acted merely as his innocent agent.
He reminded the jury that Durden was looked
upon as a man of high integrity, and that the
utmost confidence was placed in him by the direc-
tors of the bank, and that consequently a man in
the position of Holcroft was very likely to have
listened to any proposition that was made by a man
like burden; and that he might have thought-
lessly consented to allow Durden to place money
to his account, without having the slightest sus-
picion that by so doing he was rendering him any
assistance in plundering the bank of their money.
The learned counsel, in his concluding observations,
particularly urged upon the attention of the jury
that the prisoner had voluntarily offered to give a full
explanation of everything connected with the
transaction, which, he said, was just what would
be expected from an innocent man, and that he was
not permitted to give that explanation, and he
urged that, at all events, the evidence against the
prisoner was not at all conclusive, and that there
was sufficient doubt in the case to justify the jury
in acquitting the prisoner.
A great many highly respectable witnesses were
called to speak to the character of Holcroft, and
they described him as an honest, honourable man,
and as being remarkably correct in all his dealings.
Mr. Baron Bramwell, in summing up the case to
the jury, said that the prisoners were charged with
the offence of larceny in stealing three several sums
of money ; but the offence was not one of the ordi-
nary description, but was of a very peculiar charac-
ter, and in the course of the legal discussion that
had taken place, the counsel for the prosecution had
admitted that the jury could not convict Durden
unless they believed that Holcroft had a guilty
share in the transaction, and he (the learned Judge)
concurred with him in that opinion. With regard
to Durden, there could, of course, be no doubt that
he had fraudulently deprived the bank of a large
sum of money; but the only question the jury had
to consider was whether the other prisoner, Hol-
croft, had a guilty knowledge of the fraud, and un-
less the evidence satisfied them that this was the
case, they could not convict either of the prisoners.
The learned Judge then proceeded to call the atten-
tion of the jury to all the important points in the
evidence, and he concluded by stating that if any
reasonable doubt was created in their minds as to
whether Holcroft had a guilty knowledge of the
fraud that was undoubtedly committed by the
other prisoner, the good character he had received
ought to have considerable weight in the decision
they arrived at.
The jury retired to consider their verdict at five
minutes past ten o'clock. At a few minutes past
eleven they again came into court, and stated that
they could not agree as to the guilt of the prisoner
Holcroft.
Baron Bramwell said that if they were not satis-
fied of the guilt of both the prisoners, he was bound
to tell them that they could not legally convict
either of this particular offence. Durden might be
guilty of some other offence, but he could not be
convicted of this particular larceny, unless the jury--
were satisfied that the other prisoner acted in com-
plicity with him. If they could not agree he was
afraid that they must be locked UD all night.
The jury then again deliberated for a short time,
when they returned a verdict of Not Guilty as re-
garded both prisoners.
There are several other indictments against
them, which Mr. Giffard said it was intended by
the prosecution to proceed with.
The Court did not adjourn until twenty. minutes
past eleven o'clock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—June 12.

WESTMINSTER.—COMMITTAL OF MR. KING
HARMAN TO THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—Mr.
King Harman, a gentleman of large fortune, yes-
terday appeared for final examination, before Mr.
Arnold, charged with unlawfully resisting the
police in the course of a riot at Cremorne Gardens.
Mr. F. H. Lewis, barrister, appeared for the
defendant.

When first brought before the magistrate, upon
a warrant, there was also a charge against him for
assaulting Mr. Adams, the secretary at Cremorne.
The particulars of the transaction have been before
detailed, and OR the last examination, after a re-
mand of four days to the House of Detention, the
accused was fined £5 for assaulting Mr. Adams ;
the charge for resisting the police, by which he had
escaped on the night in question, being, at the
request of Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, who then ap-
peared for him, adjourned until yesterday.
Mr. Lewis inquired whether there was any in-
tention of proceeding further against his client ?
Police-constable Potter, of the V Division, was
placed in the witness-box, and in answer to ques-
tions from the magistrate said that when in custody
defendant did not offer any resistance himself, he
was passive ; it was those around who rescued
him ; he had hold of his back at the window,
where he escaped that way, but he did not think
defendant saw him. Defendant was greatly excited.
William Bamfield, 380 B, said he was fetched by
Inspector Drake to the circular bar at Cremorne,
and while there he was struck at with an umbrella.
After that witness was called to the coffee-room by
the manager, to keep the door ; he was there half
an hour, during which some persons were trying to
force the door open, and it at last gave way. After
the persons had forced their way into the coffee-
room, Mr. Adams came to witness and said he
wanted him to take a man into custody. Witness
went with him, and he pointed defendant out. De-
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James Manley, 347 V, said theie was a great di-•
turbance at Cremorne. He saw defendant pusl
about several persons who came in his way. The
disturbance was so great that they were compelled to
shut the coffee and supper room doors. Witness saw
defendant and two more go up and kick at the door.
Tr. Adams called on witness to take him into cus-
tody. Witness tried to make his way to him but
the mob pushed witness out of the bar. After being
put out witness saw defendant coming out of the
coffee-room window. Potter was behind him.
Mr. Wardel Carbyn, manager at Cremorne, said
that at about half-past one on the morning in ques-
tion he saw the defendant surrounded by eight or
nine of hie companions in the coffee-room, creat-