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

Navel and Military Intelligence.

The volunteering for the several depots at the provi-
sional battalion, Chatham, has been Attended with graat
success, several of the colonial and Indian depots having
received a large number of volunteers from other regi-
ments. The 3,1 Buffs and the 63tS Light Infantry have
given 25 volunteers to the 52d Light Infantry and the
70th Regiments, both of which ara on the Indian esta-
blishment ; and the 2Gth Cameronians and the 35th
r
Royal Susses Regiments have also received a number of
volunteers.

Yesterday the troops stationed at St. Mary's Barracks,
Chatham, having been assembled for inspection, an order
was read from the War-office directing the discharge of
250 non-commissioned officers and men, who had been
inspected by the Board of Commissioners from Chelsea
Hospital and declared unfit for further service. A large
number of the men to be discharged served in the Crimea
during the whole of the campaign, and are decorated
with the Crimean medal with four clasp?.
The Stromboli, 6,
steam-sloop, Commander Burgess,
was officially reported and the crew mustered yesterdayin Portsmouth harbour by Vice-Admiral Sir G. F.
Seymour,
Tee Pembroke, 60,
being dismantled and paid off.
--1(-1:113, the Commander-in-Chief, prior to
screw block-ship or coast-guard
service, Capt. Fraser, bent sails yesterday in Portsmouth
f
harbour, and goes to Spitbead this day.
The Victor Emmanuel, 91, having been proved suf-
ficiently, has now been placed in the first class in the
steam fleet in reserve in Portsmouth harbour, under
the superintendence of Capt. the Hon. F. T. Pelham,
C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Blenheim.
The Simoom steam transport, is expected to arrive in
Kingstown harbour in a few days to take on board the
service companies (800 strong) of the 33d (Duke of Wel-
lingt,m's) Regt., for conveyance to the Mauritius.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam vessel Pluto, 4,
Lieut.-Commander Swinburne, sailed from Plymouth on
Tuesday for the west coast of Africa.

The following appointments were made at the Admi-
ralty yesterday _ _

Mate—li. K Grey to the Pembroke.
Naval Cadet—H. C. Walker to the Hermes.
Midshipmen—F. L. Wood, C. E. Martyn, and E.
Rice, to the Iris. .

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—DEC. 31.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.
A private meeting was fixed in this matter to-day.
Mr. James Johnstone, the messenger of this court, has
just returned from Wales, where he had been to inspect
the mines which the assignees now hold. There are two
coal-mines and one iron-mine--that is to say, one part
of the tract of ground produces iron and another coal,
for they may be said to run one into the other. The
works at the iron mine, which, of course, are of an ex-
pensive and heavy character, have been stopped for the
present ; but about a hundred men are daily employed
under the superintendence of Mr. Bowater, one of Mr.
Johnstone's principal assistants. About 400 or 500 tons
of coal and coke are weekly produced, and find a ready
sale. There is a railway station within a few miles of
the mine, and there is also a depot on the coast. On the
whole the Welsh prospects are rather cheering to credi-
tors, shareholders, and all interested in that unfortunate
concern—the British Bank.
SUPPLEMENTAL DIVIDEND,
Mr. Linklater—Perhaps your Honour will allow me
to take this opportunity of making an application in the
matter of the Royal British Bank, which it is necessary
should be made on or before Friday. In consequence of
the short time which some of the creditors think they
have for proving their debts in this Court, we find that
a great number haie been shut out from the dividend
which was declared on Tuesday last. Several of those
creditors have complained of this, and no doubt there
are a great many more in the same position, of whom
we have not heard. If your Honour will be kind enough
to appoint a dividend meeting, to be advertised i❑ next
Friday's Gazette, and the dividend to bo paid within three
weeks, we shall have ample funds to pay all those cre-
ditors the amount of dividend already declared.
Commissioner—So as to put them on the same footing
as the others ?
Mr. Linklater—Just so. It appears that great com-
plaints have been made, and we think this the' most
effectual way of remedying them.
Mr. Lawrence—l suppose this will not interfere with
the payment of your former dividend ?
Commissioner—Of course not. It will merely be
putting the other creditors on the same footing as those
who proved their debts before the last dividend meeting.
Mr. Linklater—Having done that, if we have enough
for a further dividend, we shall declare it at the same
time.

Mr. Lawrence—A. creditor was complaining to me
that the dividend had been made upon proofs for only
200,0001., while in Chancery there had been debts proved
to the amount of 400,000/.
Mr Linklater—The dividend was made upon debts
proved of 360,0001., and we do not expect that we shall
have quite 100,000/. more of proofs. I thought it best
to apply at once for another dividend meeting, as some
of the creditors who have recently proved appear to be
under apprehension that they should lose the past divi-
dend.

Commissioner—That, of course, is out of the question;
that was once the law. If creditors did not prove at a
certain time they were shut out altogether.
Mr. Linklater—Will your Honour give us a day for
the dividend meeting
Mr. Bagley—l think the amount of the dividend seems
to have given universal satisfaction.
Mr. Lawrence—lt seems to have made the creditors
more clamorous, I think.
Mr. Linklater—lf all the shareholders will pay their
calls, no doubt we shall have a further dividend very
soon.

Commissioner—Let the dividend meeting be appointed
for the 24th January.

PO LICE INTELLIGEIVCE—Deo, 31,

GUILDHALL.—CharIes Edkins, described as an
agent and process server, was brought up betore Alder-
man Rose, for further examination relative to the oharge
•f stealing a bill of exchange fur 241. 145., belonging to
Mr. Johnson, a cabinet-maker, of Moorfields.

Mr. Denny appeared for the prisoner, and, having
commented upon the circumstances of the case, which
have already appeared in print, submitted that, although
the prisoner's conduct was reprehensible, the charge, if
an offence at all, was merely a breach of trust. It could
not be made a criminal offence, as at the time the bill was
given there was no letter of instructions given with it
to the prisoner.

Mr. -.slartin said the charge was that of stealing the
bill.

Mr. Denny said there could not be the shadow of a
pretence for such a charge, and the prosecutor's story
was improbable in the extreme ; for he said he 'cad been
sued upon this bill, and had let judgment go by default ;
when by defending it, by putting a plea upon the record
that he had never received value for it, and that it hal
been stolen from him, would have been an ample answer
to that action. He also said that he had seen the pri-
soner since the bill had been stolen, and had been drink-
ing with him in a public-house, but did not give him
into custody. It was hardly possible to believe that the
prosecutor could have acted so from stupidity, even if it
were not, as he had already suggested, been a matter of
accommodation between them—a mere exchange of ac-
ceptance.
Alderman Rose said it was a very suspicious case all
through, and he therefore ordered the bill to be im•
pounded. The prosecutor had acted very stupidly in
this matter, and had been taken advantage of accord-
ingly ; but there was not sufficient evidence to support
the charge, and he therefore dismissed the case. In doing
so, however, he could only say that it was a case of very
grave suspicion to all the parties concerned.
The prisoner was then discharged.

BOW-STREET.—JuIian Payne, a newsboy, formerly
in the service of Mr. Pavey, of Holywell•street, news-
vender and publisher, was charged with obtaining 36
morning papers, by false pretences, from James Morgan,
one of the clerks to Messrs. Smith and Son, wholesale
newsvenders in the Strand.

The prisoner, who was known at Messrs. Smith's,
having frequently been sent for newspapers when in Mv.
Pavey's service, called that morning and asked for
" Pavey's papers." The clerk, supposing him to be still
in the employ, handed him the number of papers Mr.
Pavey had ordered—namely, 18 with the impressed
stamp, and 18 " blanks," or unstamped copies. The
value, at the selling price, was 1/. 4s. 6d. Afterwards
Mr. Pavey sent for the papers, and the trick was dis•
crvered. The prisoner's address being known to Mr.
Pavey there was no difficulty in finding him. When
apprehended he said he got the papers to oblige Mr.
Pavey's boy, to whom he had given them. The prisoner
had been discharged by Mr. Pavey about two months
back.

The prisoner said he was asked by a boy, whom he
believed to be in Mr. Pavey's service, to get the papers,
as he was better acquainted with the establishment, and
could get served more readily. He did so, but on seeing
Mr. Pavey's boy in court, he found that this was not the
person to whom he bad given the papers.
Mr. Henry thought it very unlikely the prisoner would
take that trouble to serve an employer who bad dischargA
him. He (Mr. Henry) would send the case for trial, but
for the present a remand would be necessary that in-
quiry might be made as to his character. Remanded
accordingly.

WORSHIP-STREET.—DARING SACRILEGE.—John
Staunard and James Defier, journeymen masons, were
placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with a
most daring attempt to rob West Hackney Church of the
s_teramental plate.
Mr. Alfred Dunn Meredith, the sexton, stated that
shortly before seven on Tuesday evening his children
directed his attention to a light that appeared to be
burning in the vestry, and having sent for Williams, the
beadle, they went together to the lobby, the door of
which was locked. He unlocked it, and Williams quietly
approached the vestry, but hearing persons inside, hastily
returned, and went for further assistance, and on enter-
ing the ♦estry presently afterwards they found the large
iron plate chest pulled out from the wall and turned
upside down, and with every appearance of a desperate
effort having been made to force it open—one of the
handles as well as the hasp and scutchen plate of the
keyhole being broken off. It was still locked, however,
and the witness anxiously opening it, found the contents
undisturbed, comprising a silver flagon, two chalices, two
patens, the bread-plates, spoons, alms-dish, and other
articles used at the communion service, valued at
1801. While engaged in that examination his little girl
called his attention to a noise at the back door like
somebody trying to open it; he hastened back through
the lobby, and distinctly saw the prisoner Staunard and
another man not in custody endeavouring to make their
way down a staircase leading to the vaults under the
church ; and the vaults were entered and searched, but
the men had then escaped by forcing up and removing a
grating. He knew the men, and had employed thorn►
and the prisoner Deller that day in putting down grave-
stones in the churchyard, but they had no business what-
ever in any part of the church. The plate chest weighed
7 cwt., and very great force must have been used to
detach it from the wall. A smaller iron chest had been

taken down, and the lid forced up at the ends sufficiently
to admit a man's hand—the lock having withstood the
attempt to force it, but it contained only tools ; and a
wooden chest had also been forced, but it only contained
a metal tankard and chalice, which were left in it, the
robbers evidently being intent upon getting possession of
the valuable silver plate. While they were making the
investigation in the vestry the prisoner Duller entered
and said, "D.ar me, what bare they been doing ?" but
witness told him that he had no business there, and the
sooner he went the better, and he accordingly went away;
Thomas Williams, the beadle, corroborated the sexton's
evidence, and produced a crowbar which he hart found
left in the chest, which the villains were evidently in the
act of breaking open when disturbed. He afterwards
went with the police to a house in Sandford-lane, where
both the prisoners were apprehended, and when told
what they were charged with they both declared that it
was all false, and denied having been at the church at all.
Inspector Langdon, of the N division, stated that he
found Duller at No. 1 cottage in Sandford-lane, end,
leaving him in charge of another officer, went out into
the lane, where he presently afterwards met with
Staunard, who, in reply to his question, denied that he
lived there, but on being taken in was identified by the
other witnesses. When told of the charge against hire,
he raid, "You are mistaken, my friend," and declared
that he was innocent.

The prisoners were remanded for a week, for the corn
pletion of the evidence for their committal.

CLETZKENWELL.—UNFOUNDED CHARGE OP ROB.
BERY AGAINST A FEMALE —Amelia We6thall, a haud•
some, well-dressed girl,ll7 years of age, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Tyr whitt, charged by Charles Richd.
Waddell Watkins, an elderly eccentric-looking man,
who was described in the police ocet as I. "gentleman,"

residing at No. 43, Burford-street, St. Pancras, on sus-
picion of stealing 3/. in gold.
The prosecutor having been sworn, in a wild manner
said—l live at No. 43, Burford-ztreet, St. Pancras. Oa
Tuesday, at two o'cioek, the prisoner visited me, as she
was in the habit of doing. She prepared dinner, and
we dined. We went to bed together, and afterwards
she said her hand was bad, and she mu-t go to a surgeon
to have it dressed. While we were in bed my trousers
were on the bed. I felt in the pocket, and I missed 11
sovereigns, but charged her only with stealing three. I
entreated her to return the money, telling her I could
not afford to lose so much, but she refused and resisted.
I locked her in the room and brought a policeman, and
charged her with stealing three sovereigns. The police-
man went to make a search in the bed, and he found an
empty purse and several sovereigns on the carpet. I
complain of the policeman picking up three and putting
them into his coat pocket, which he refused to deliver
up to me.

Police-constable 92 E, sworn, said—l accompanied
the prosecutor to his house in Burford-street. He said
he had been robbed of 101. He (Hr. Watkins) unlocked
the door. I then saw the prisoner sitting on a chair
near the fire. I told her she must consider herself my
prisoner on a charge of robbery. I began a search, and
saw several sovereigns lying on the carpet of the room.
She said nothing. The prosecutor was in the room at
the time. I did not put any of the money in my poet
pocket. I put my hand behind to get my pocket hand-
kerchief, when he charged me with putting some sove-
reigns in my pocket. He wanted to search me, but I
would not submit until at the station-bailie.
Sergeant Chamberlaine, E division, was in the station-
house when the charge was brought there. The con
stable was searched, and no sovereigns were found, but
only ss. in his purse. It was his voluntary offer to be
searched.

Mr. Tyrwhitt, after a long and patient investigation,
said a more unfounded charge was never brought before
a magistrate. He believed the poor girl to be perfectly
innocent. A more gross charge was never made, and the
police con-table was free from any imputation. He
would discharge them both. It was evident the case
was brutal and sensual, and, addressing the girl (who
shed tears), told her never again to have anything to do
with such a fellow as the man Watkins.

Watkins addressed the bench insolently, saying,
" You are wrong," and the parties left the court.

SOUTHWARK.— CHARGE OF STABBING.—Henry
De Courcy was brought before Mr. Combe, charged
with maliciously stabbing James Clare, his step-brother,
a young man about 16 years of age.
It appeared from the evidence of Hough, 112 M, that
on Tuesday morning, about three o'clock, his attention
was attracted to a court in Long-lane, Bermondsey, by
bearing cries of murder. He proceeded there, and saw
the injured lad bleeding from wounds on the left arm
and the right side of his face. The prisoner was given
into his custody, and the lad was conveyed to the hospi-
tal, where he remained until that morning. The pri-
soner was his step brother, and witness was informed
that he inflicted the wounds with a knife or other sharp
instrument, which could not be found.

The complainant, whose left arm was bandaged up,
and the whole side of the right face covered with ad-
hesive plaster, was sworn, but he had evidently been
tampered with, as he gave quite a different version to
the magistrate to that which he told the constable. The
father of the lad, however, positively swore that no one
else stabbed him but the prisoner.
The surgeon from the hospital was in attendance, and
he raid the wounds were inflicted by a sharp instrument,
and the lad told him the prisoner was the person who
stabbed him.

Mr. Combe, after hearing that evidence, decided on
remanding him for a week for further examination.

LAMBETH.—ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER.—A CRIMEAN
MEDALIST.—Joseph Curtis, a private, belonging to the
Fusilier Guards, and the possessor of a Crimean medal
with one clasp for taking Sebastopol, was further exa-
mined on a charge of being concerned with another man
not in custody with robbing Mr. John Dougal Leap, a
respectable tradesman, residing at 10, Park-road,
Peckham, of three 51. notes and nearly 51. in gold and
silver. _ _

From the evidence it appeared that on the sth of last
month the prosecutor got change of a cheque for 20/.at
the Stafford-place branch of the London and Westmin-
ster Bark in three 51. notes and Si. in gold. On his
return he got drinking, and ultimately fell in with the
prisoner and a discharged railway porter at the Lord Hill
public-house, opposite the Waterloo station. There he
treated them and drank freely himself, and they ulti-
mately took him in a cab to the Black Prince public-
house in Wal worth-road, where they discharged the
cabman and induced the prosecutor to drink more ; and
ultimately he, with much difficulty, made his way home
covered with mud, and minus the whole of his money.
On the same evening the prisoner exhibited two 51.
notes at the Queen's Head public house in Griffen-
street, York-road, which notes were two of those stolen
from the prosecutor, and which he left in the care of the
landlord's daughter. Re subsequently obtained change
for one of them, and wrote his name on the back, so that
there could not be a shadow of doubt of the prisoner's
guilt. The other suspected person, the discharged rail-
way porter, still keeping out of the way, and the wit-
nesses necessary to prove the identity of the notes not
being in attendance, the prisoner was again remanded.

CHARGE OF MURDER ON TEE HIGH

SE9 S.

On Tuesday, at the Plymouth Guildhall, Hugh
Orr, a robust looking man, with a profusion of
heard and moustache, was charged before the Mayor
(F. F. Bulteel, Esq.) and C. Cardew, Eiq., with
causing the death of Edward De Bugh on the high
seas, on the 3d of July.
Mr. Kelly said that he appeared for the prosecu-
tion under the instructions of the Board of Trade,
and the charge was brought under the 20th sec-
tion of the Merchant Shipping Act. The prisoner
was the master and part owner of the ship Hannah
and Jane. In the earlier part of the present year
he left Newcastle in this vessel, bound for the Cape
De Verd Islands and Rio Janeiro, and from thence
back to the first-mentioned port. De Bugh ship-
ped at Newcastle, as the cook and steward of the
ship, and sailed in her up to the 3d of July, when
he died. There was, however, no entry in the
official log stating the cause of death, but in look-
ing over it he found on the 4th of June Orr became
displeased with De Bugh, and he was fined 31. 10s.
for insolence and waste of provisions ; and between
that date and the 3d of July there was also a large
number of entries and fines, the latter amounting
in all to 451. There was also the following entry in
the log, dated the 3d of July, and signed by the
master :—" The cook is in the sulks, will not do
anything. 7.30 a. al 3d July. The mate and crew
told me ho was dead. I gave orders to lay him on
the deck, in the heat of the sun, to see if he was really
dead. Got a looking-glass to try if he could but steam
the glass, that I might really know if he was dead.
Found the glass not anything stained ; however I
gave orders to let him lay until afternoon, so that
I could make sure about it. At 1 p.m. he was
I sewn up and buried, and all his effects thrown
overboard, being in a very dirty state."
Mr. Kelly then asked for a remand of the case
until the next day, on the ground that he was not
prepared for any investigation, as he had no time
to examine the men who were to be brought for-
ward as witnesses. He did not wish to inconveni-
ence any person, bat it being in his opinion a case
for investigation that was the reason he wished to
pay particular attention to it.
Mr. Edmonds, who appeared for the defence,
objected to the remand, remarking there was no
evidence brought forward which could warrant
them in keeping his client in gaol until the day the
case was adjourned to, and he wished to know why
it could not be at once proceeded with, as all the
witnesses concerned were in Plymouth, and in his
opinion it would not be right to keep his client,
unless they heard one witness who could give evi-
dence to the effect that the deceased had been
struck by the prisoner. The case was not brought
forward at Queenstown, where the vessel lay nine
days, but now when the crew were being fined and
certain deductions made from their wages, they
came forward with the statement which threw his
client into prison. He was ready to answer the
charge, and the question was " did prisoner mur-
der De Bugh." They could not remand him on a
atement, unless they brought prima facie evi-
dence to the fact.

Mr. Kelly said he was not prepared for this.
Mr. Pdmends said there had been an inquiry into
when
the cause of De Bugh's death in Rio
ran
away,neiro ar
Ezra Atwill, the mate of the vessel, a
the consul said he would report the vessel to the
Board of Trade.
Mr. Edmonds then requested Mr. Kelly e call
Mr. Johns, the shipping master, in order -that the
l
bench should hear what he had
Johns stated
This re-
quest was acceded to, and Mr._
listohne stated thatrew
he received the official log and.
of the ship Hannah and Jane from the prisoner
who was mate of her. I of the. c
a consequence of entries
in the log, he was led to make inquiries concerning
the cause of the death of the deceased, who was
stated to have died on the 3d July.
Mr. Johns thother is as follows
not know the cause,
en
road tohpoesneineg address, and the
utries, ono of which
is given iu Mr. Kelly'sifTillieetcsouoikksc.liLedat3itduJdeul2yB..s2l.3c6lo;
longitude 44.45. (Signed) Ezra Henry Atwill
(mate), and Joseph Cong." He then further
stated that having examined the crew, and finding
tiliilelyedapccousßedrigitilr master of the vessel of having
i
ho wrote to the Board of Trade,
who ordered him to have the prisoner taken into
custody.
Mr. Phillips asked this witness whether ho
thought from what he knew that the deceased died
from foul play ?
Mr. Johns answered in the affirmative.
Mr. Edmonds said that he did not want the
belief of people, but the evidence. He then asked
Mr. Johns whether the men who made the state-
ments alluded to by him were or were not in
Plymouth ?

Mr. Johns said he believed they were.
Mr, Edmonds observed, if that were the case, he

did not see there was any impediment in proceed-
ing with the case.

Mr. Kelly said he was expecting the s'iip's paper
from London, and, if he did not ev(n wish to exh.
Mil-10 the witnesses, he would have to wait for thcse
papers. _

It was determined by the bench ultimately that
tie case should be heard to-day at 12 o'clock, to
which hour the prisoner was remanded.

Country Markets.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET-

DEO. 30.
Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large.
Oat straw, from 7s fki to Ils Oct per kemple of 16 stones
troa; wheat do., us Od to 124 Od; barley do., 7i 6d. to 108
Od. Hay from 12d to ls. 3d.

EDINBURGH MEAL—DEc. 30.
There were in the market to-day 1? sacks oatmeal, each
weighing 2801 h imperial, which Bold at 408 and 395.
Average of the whole, 1/. 19s. td.

DALKEITH MEAL

,SET-DEC. 29.

There were in the market to-tiny 11 bags ofioatmeal, oof
barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Soles dull.
Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third.
imperial
Barleymeal, per ditto -s Oct —s Od —s Oa
Peasemeal, per ditto d— Od —s Od
Flour, now, per ditto —3 Od —s Od —s Od
Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od —a Od —a Od