The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-28 00:00:00

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH

rioLEATE.

NOTTINGHAM, SATURDAY.

Last night a daring highway robbery, accom-
panied with great violence, was committed near the
village of Trowell, a lonely spot, about six miles
from Nottingham.
On the evening of the robbery a farmer, named
Thomas Smith, of Little Hallam, went to the village
of Basford, three miles from Nottingham, for the
purpose of buying a horse. On his way home he
called at a public-house at Trowell, and stayed
there about an hour and a-half, and while in the
taproom he mentioned the fact that he had been to
buy a horse, but had not completed the purchase.
Two men of suspicious appearance were in the com-
pany, and left the house a short time before Mr. '
Smith. The landlady mentioned her suspicions to
the farmer that the men meditated robbing him,
and when Smith left her house she gave him a
thick stick to protect himself if requisite. In less
than an hour the farmer returned to the public-
house, his face and clothes being covered with
blood. His head was frightfully bruised, as also
was his face. Other parts of his body were much
injured, but ho had sufficient strength to say that
the two men whom the landlady had suspected had
met him on the road ; one of them had knocked
him down with a rail and otherwise ill-treated him,
and had stolen his pocketbook, containing £25. A
surgeon was immediately sent fur, and information
of the occurrence was given to the police.
Two men, named Henry Gordon and Samuel
Thompson, who were identified as being the per-
sons drinking at the publichouse, were apprehended
the next morning in a field near the place of rob.
bery by Mr. Superintendent Palethorpe and a body
of police. As soon as the men perceived the officers
they attempted to make their escape, but after a
long pursuit were captured.
This morning they were taken before Lord Belper
and the county bench of magistrates at Notting-
ham, but, owing to the precarious state of the pro-
secutor, who was unable to attend to give evidence,
they were remanded for a week.

The prisoners appear about 25 years of age, and
follow no regular employment.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

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The will of the Dowager Lady Musgrave—relici
of -Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart., of Eden Hall, near
Pen rith, Cumberland, M.P. for Carlisle—was proved
in the London Court, on the 10th inst., by Major
General Wiliian Fludyer, the brother, sole executor.
The personalty was sworn under £16,000. Lady
Musgrave was the granddaughter of the Earl of
Westmoreland. She married Sir Philip Musgrave,
Bart., whom she survived 34 years, and had issue one
daughter,who died in 1844,unmarried. The baronetcy
consequently passed to the next male heir of her late
husband. Her ladyship possessing property in her
own right, has disposed of it by her will to Sir
Geo. Musgrave, Bart. (her brother-in-law), of Eden
Hall, with the exception of some small bequests to
other members of her family. Her ladyship usually
resided at Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, but
died in Albemarle-street, on the 21st of August
last, aged 66. _ _

The will of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., Deputy
Keeper of the Public Records, was prove& in the
London Court on the 12th inst. ; it bears date the
16th of November, 1860, the executors appointed
being Thomas Brightwen, Esq., Alfred H. Browne,
Esq., and the Rev. S. C. Brown. The personalty
was sworn under £4,000. Sir F. Palgrave, whose
original name was Cohen, assumed that of Palgrave
soon after his marriage, it being the designation of a
relative of his wife. Sir F. Palgrave filled the
office of Deputy Keeper of the Public Records
for many years, was formerly one of the Muni-
cipal Corporation Commissioners, and had the
honour of knighthood conferred upon him in 1832,
He was called to the bar in 1827, but appears never
to have practised. He was a man possessing great
literary taste, and has produced several works, some
of them being unfinished at the period of his decease.
The will, which is very brief, contains merely some
family directions. His MSS. and correspondence
he leaves to his sons, either to keep or to destroy, as
they may deem requisite, requesting them to select
from his library any books they may prefer, as well
as some personal ornaments to be retained by them
as mementoes. There are two legacies—one of
£lOO to a cousin of the testator, and one of £5O to
a personal friend. Sir F. Palgrave directs that
the residue is to be invested as an annuity
for his sister Rosa, whom he mentions in
terms of much affection, and with the singular
peculiarity of his " desolate sister." Sir F. Pal-
grave attained the age of 73, died a widower, and
has left a family of four children, all sone.
The will of Captain Edward John Lees, 86th
Regiment of Foot, of Cheltenham, Gloucester, but
who died at Torquay, Devon, on the 12th of July
last, was proved in London on the 15th instant by
his relict, Mrs. Wilhelmina Felicite Lees, and
George Lees, Esq., the testator's father, joint exe-
cutor s, and bears date the 29th of June last. This
gallant officer has bequeathed his property, consist-
ing both of realty and personalty, to his relict, for
her sole use and benefit, appointing his father and
his relict guardians of his (the testator's) infant son,
George Frederic Lees. The will is exceedingly
brief.—lllustrated News.

THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The herring fishery
there can now bo little doubt, will prove satisfactory this
year on the eastern coast, a circumstance of all the more
value after the discouraging results of last season, while the
liberal supplies of fish obtained cannot but be highly accept-
able to the middle and lower classes. On one day alone
last week 700 lasts were landed at Yarmouth, or, to speak
more plainly, the immense number of 9,240,000 fish. One
boat alone brought in 15 lasts, or 198,000 fish. At Lowes-
toft, also, highly encouraging results have been obtained,
and a cargo of herrings has been shipped direct for Dieppe,
the first export of the kind under the provisions of the new
commercial treaty. Notwithstanding the abundant supplies
of fish, prices, both at Yarmouth and Lowestoft. have been
pretty well sustained.

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And why have the Government interfered ? This
is the gist of the whole matter. The answer is—
Because their financial position in such that they
fear being called upon to pay off their Treasury
Bills, the interest on which they have already been
obliged to raise 1 pet cent. in a fortnight, in order
to keep them afloat. The Government are also
afraid to let the Bank of France take those legiti-
mate measures which they otherwise would adopt,
viz., sell Securities, and raise the rate of discount
further—because prices on the Bourse would be in-
fluenced, and the resources upon which the Govern-
ment have hitherto rested to cover their ceaseless
deficits would be cut off. Palliatives must, further,
be resorted to lest the host of small fundholders
whom Louis Napoleon has created and favoured
with issues of stock at low prices should take alarm.
The Government, from their hand-to-mouth system,
have always been dependent on the Bourse to a peril-
ous degree, and they are now coddling it up in all sorts
of soothing ways, with the sole object of puttin g off the
evil day. The expedients adopted by the Bank of
France are various, and we have probably not yet
seen the last of them. A credit with English houses
is opened to the extent of £2,000,000 sterling : and
the Bank of France, in order to stop the drain of
gold to England, sell the bills on _London to per-
sons indebted to England at an exchange which
renders it more profitable to them to buy the bills
and send them to London than to send gold. This
is the transaction in its simplest form. A similar
operation has, we believe, been. adopted to a smaller
amount with Hamburg: It is further rumoured
that an arrangement is attempted to be negotiated
with Russia, whereby it is proposed that the Rus-
sian Government shall come to an understanding
with the Russian merchants who have sold corn to
France, and pay them for it by an issue of notes of
the State Bank, or in Government Fotir per Cent.
Treasury Bills. It is then proposed that France
shall repay the Russian Government in Russian
coin, which the French Mint would supply. Thus,
assuming that France was indebted to Russia for
corn to the extent of £4,000,000 sterling, the pro-
cess of coining the silver would occupy the space of
a year, and France for that period would virtually
have a credit.

Such is one of the schemes spoken of. One diffi-
culty is, that tha Russian Government are hardly
in a position to carry it out. When we consider
the state of the Russian exchanges, it is evident
that the issue of some millions sterling of paper
money in Russia would have a very bad effect.
Again, the French capitalists hold a very large
amount of the New Italian Loan. The palliative
adopted in this case is an application to the Italian
Government to partially postpone the instalments,
and this has been acceded to. If the French
Government really wish to avert a crisis, there is
but one measure that will completely and perma-
nently obviate it, and that is a great reduction of
their enormous expenditure, which is slowly but
surely sapping the foundations of the prosperity of
France, and paving the way for a crash.
Ultimately, we harre little doubt, the present dif-
ficulties will be patched up by a State loan ; but
palliatives and expedients will not last for ever,
and it is only by a disarmament that the evil can be
permanently stayed and real confidence inspired.