The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-19 00:00:00

Naval and IYlilitai yr Intelligence.

Of the three regiments quartered in Portsmouth
Garrison which are under orders for China the fol-
lowing officers remain with their depots :-23d
Roy:.l Welsh Fusiliers—Captain Vane, Lieutenants
the Hon. N. Fiennes and T. F. Lewis, and Ensign
H. C. Willis ; 82d Regiment—Captain Bailie,
Lieutenants Spencer and Dickson, and Ensign T.
Ryan ; 90th Regiment—Captain ammond, Lieu-
tenants Trencher and Barwell, and Ensign Handy.
Forty-two officers and 750 men of the 90th Regi-
ment will embark in her Majesty's steam troop-
ship Transit, Commander Chambers, at Port smoutb,
on Tuesday, the 24th inst., as at present ordered.
One field officer, one medical officer, and compa-
nies' officers remain with the other 250 to go in
some other ship, No horses are to go by this con-
veyance. Moun+ed officers are to be supplied with
horses by the Commissariat on arrival at Hong
Kong. . _

Orders were received at Portsmouth Dockyard
yesterday for the Princess Charlotte, 104, old sail-
ing three-decker, to be brought from the ordinary
for intnediate commission, and for service in China,
it is presumed as an hospital or other depot ship
She was launched about 35 years ago, and has only
been once commissioned. She bore the flag of Ad-
miral Sir Robert Stopford at Acre. She will pro-
bably carry out troops.
The iron troop-ships Adventure and Assistance,
fitting for troop service, are nearly rigged, and will
be speedily ready for the pendant.
The Cormorant, 4, screw despatch gun-vessel,
Commander Saumarez, was docked yesterday to be
examined, and to have a few defects repaired.
Yesterday the troops stationed at Chatham gar-
rison, consisting of about 6,000 men, were reviewed
on Chatham Lines by Col. W. H. Eden, Comman-
dant of the garrison. The troops, comprising the
Previsional battalion, under the command of Col.
H. Jervis ; the Royal Engineers, commanded by
Col. H. Sandham ; and the Royal Marine Light
Infantry, under the command of Col. E. A. Par-
ker, assembled on their respective parade grounds,
from which they marched to Chatham Lines, where
the regiments of the line formed into two battalions,
eemmandod. by Col. Jervis and Col. R. N. Phillips,
took up their position in the centre, with the Royal
Engineers and the Royal Marines on their right
and left. The entire brigade was then put through
a variety of movements by Cql. Eden, including
forming into contiguous columns ; deploying into
Kite on No. 1 of third battalion, marching past in
quick time, advancing in open columns of com-
panies from inward flanks of battalion, forming
mass on third battalion, and wheeling into con-
tiguous column ; changing front to the rear by the
counts sotarch of sub-divisions round the centre of
b vttalions ; deploying into contiguous column on
the rear battalion, and changing front to the right
by retiring in direct echelon, from :the right. The
various movements were gone through by the
troops in a highly creditable manner, and gave much
satisfaction to the commanding field officer.
The paddle-wheel steam store-ship Rhadaman-
thus yesterday morning commenced reloading with
steam-engines and machinery iu Woolwich basin
for Portsmouth dockyard. She brought a number
of superniimeraries for Sheerness, who were con-
veyed to their quarters by the Hart, tender to the
Waterloo at Sheerness. The Hart brought a
number of seamen to Woolwich for disposal in the
gun-boats fitting out in that dockyard for service
in China.

The Furious, 16, paddle, Captain Sherard
Osborne, C.B.—An order has been issued from the
board that none other but continuous service men
are to be entered on board ships now fitting for
China.

The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Captain
Henry Caldwell (flag of Rear-Admiral R. S.
Dhndas), may be expected to arrive at Spithead,
from Lisbon, on or about the 26th inst.
The Melville, old 71, having undergone exten-
sive repairs and alterations, fitting for an hospital-
ship on the China station, by the Messrs. White,
of Cowes, Isle of Wight, will come out of the
Medina dock the next spring, and be towed to this
port, to be completed for service.
His Prussian Majesty's frigate Thetis, 40, Capt.
Sundewal, after wintering and refitting, left Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday afternoon. She anchored
at Spithead.
Mr. John Davy, Royal Naval Engineer of the
first class, has been promoted to be Inspector of
Steam Machinery afloat, and appointed to take
charge of the machinery of the China steam squad-
ron ; he goes out in the Pera from Southampton
to-morrow. Mr. Knapp, Purveyor, in the Com-
missariat department, goes out also in the Pera,
being ordered to Hong Kong.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Retribution, 28,
Captain Charles Barker, left Plymouth Sound ou
Monday for South America.
The screw steamship Sanspareil, 71, Capt. A. C.
Key, sailed from IPlymouth on Tuesday evening
with marines and ordnance for China.

Surprise, despatch gun vessel, at Devonport, has
been commissioned by Commander S. G. Cress-
well.

Banterer, gunboat, at Devonport, has been com-
missioned by Lieut. Bedford Pim.
The screw steam vessel Plumper, 12, Captain
George Richards, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday
from•Spithead.
The merchant ship William Hammond, Captain
Richardson, w;th 274 officers and men of the 67th
Regiment, from St. Lucia, West Indies, February
19th, arrived all well in Plymouth Sound on Tues-
day night.
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The-following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
Commander William Bowden to the Medusa,
vice Raby, invalided ; Charles F. A. Courtney,
William Telfer, Charles Sproull, and Robt. Irvine,
surgeons, to the Calcutta : Commander Richard
Williams has been appointed mail agent on the
An,tralian station.

THE ROY AL BRITISH RANK.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY—YrzTERDAY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
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The examination of Mr. Edward Esdaile, the
late governor of the bank, was continued at the
sitting of the court. The court was much crowded.
Mr. Yenning : Sir, Mr, Esdaile, in reading over
the transcript of the shorthand writer's notes of his
examination taken last week, finds that there are
certain parts of it which he is unwilling to sign,
became he has run into some errors in some of his
statements, and he wishes your Honour to afford
him an opportunity of explaining.
The Commissioner : Yes, certainly.
The explanations having been given at gre4t
length by Mr. Esdaile, his examination was re-
sumed as to the proposal in 1855 to get in new men
as directors, and more capital from new share-
holders, and how far Mr. Alderman Kennedy Was a
party to such a suggestion. This was in May, 1855.
He bad no motive in carrying on the bank but, for the
advantage of the bank itself. He was a man of sub-
stance at that time, although he stood indebted to his
father for his capital. He never paid a farthing of
the 501. call on the shares, but transferred 4,0001.
capital (after the doors of the bank were shut) off
his own books to his father. That was what his
father had supplied to him. In January, 1856, he
began to wish to retire from the governorihip of
the bank, and sent in his resignation, because he
saw some of the directors shirking attendance at the
board. He wrote a letter to Deputy-Governor,
Mr. Owen, on the 15th of January, 1857, in which
he said—" Our highest policy is to present a solid
front to the public—our weakest conduct is to dan-
gle a rope of sand before them. We want courage
and coolness, and with God's blessing all our diffi-
culiies will be surmounted." After that, on the
Ist of February, they made a report to the share-
holders that the bank was flourishing; declar-
ing a dividend of 6 per cent., announcing the com-
pletion of a second addition of a million to the sub-
scribed capital, and advising that 3,000 additional
shares of 501. each should be issued at a premium
of W. each. The new director, the Hon. Mr.
Stapleton, was not informed of the true condition
of the bank. On the Ist August, 1856, another
flattering and falsified report was issued to the
shareholders, and a dividend of 4 per cent. declared
"to enable them to make more than ordinary pro-
vision for bad and doubtful debts." Cameron,
who owed 20,0001., was at this time displaced by
the directors. Mr. Crawford, their general mana-
ger, refused to sign the report of 1856, as also did
Mr. Paddison. He had endeavoured in July,
1856, to get persons to take shares in the
bank. Ho had told Mr. Goddard, a share-
holder, who inquired why the shares ' were
at a discount, that there was no cause
for it, and that if he would go into the
market and buy the shares, the bank would lend
him 1,0001. to do it with. The bank, of course,
supported the price of its own shares in the market.
It was not until Cameron left, in 1856, that Mr.
Owen and himself knew from examining the "green
pocket ledger" that Mr. Humphrey Brawn owed
70,0001. to the bank. When he assumed the chair
of governor, Mr. Brown owed only 25,0001. ; when
the bank closed, the debt had grown to 75,0001.
A gay letter to Cameron from witness was read,
speaking of the "game" to be brought down in his
journey to Scotland, and pointing out how Sir
James Ma'hewson might be brought in as a direc-
tor as well as a trustee. Mr. Humphrey Brown
said the witness had pledged five ships to the bank,
and afterwards sold them himself without the bank's
sanction

The case was then adjourned until Monday, at
aleven o'clock.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—March 18.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Murphy.)
IN RE LUKE JAMES ALLEN. -SINGULAR CASE.

This insolvent, who had been captain of a trading
vessel, was opnosed by Mr. Sargood for the detain
ng creditor, Wiliam Read, a shipowner at Ipswich
Mr. Reed supported.
In 1851 the insolvent sailed as captain of the ship
Dazzler, and in 1855 Mr. Read, the owner, sent
out a Captain Cloid, who seized the ship and sold
it. Subsequently the insolvent came to England,
and when he was about to sail as captain of another
vessel he was arrested, on a judge's order, at Sun-
derland, for an alleged debt of 7701., One to Mr.
Read for freight. He was arrested in February,
1855, and had been in prison thirteen months.
When he was about to be heard by the county
court at Durham, ho was removed by Read up to
London by a writ of habeas corpus, and he appeared
to be heard in this court. There had been an arbi-
tration about the alleged debt, but the time had
expired.

There was a long and warm discussion, and there
was, as the !earned conirnissioner termed it, a good
deal of " fiery zeal" by Mr. Reed, who said he felt
that his client had been oppressed.

Mr. Commissioner Murphy eventually adjourned
the case for the insolvent to file accounts respecting
the vessel. In allusion' to the " fiery zeal," he said
it reminded him of an anecdote of Garrick. A child
said to her mother, " Oh, mamma, what a passion
Mr. Garrick is in."—" Be quiet, child," replied the
mamma, "he is paid for it." (A. laugh.)