The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY" EVENING, JANUARY 15 1857

LINES LEASED AT FLIED RENTALS.

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compan yeirerflay. this day
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St 1,10 Clydesdale,.:, . Caledon 98 102
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St. 100 E. Lin. g. 6 pc. Ot.Nrtnn. 133 136
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St. 100 Glas. Barr. & Caldonian.
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100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New.
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59 all Middleabro' & Stckton
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ELECTION OF A MEMBER FOR THE
BOROUGH OF NEWPORT.

There are now four candidates for th© vacan t
seat for the borough of Newport—three Liberal,
and one Conservative. Mr. Charles Seeley was
the first in the field, and would probably have
been the only one, but being in favour of opening
the Crystal Palace on Sundays, he preferred with-
drawing to giving up this point, and issued an ad-
dress to the electors and retired ; but the address
was of such a straightforward English character
that some of the electors determined to try to
prevail on him to stand, and a number of them
(170 it is said) invited him to return, promising
him their votes and influence, and it has just been
announced that he is again in the field. Mr. A. W.
Kinglake, the second Liberal, canvassed the bo-
rough with Mr. S. Pring, and, so supported,
calculated on being returned. While Mr. William
Major Cooke, the third Liberal, felt confident that
he was the favourite. Then came Mr. R. W. Ken-
nard, the Conservative candidate. He has the
support of all the old Tories and of many of the
moderate Whigs, and, if only two of the Liberals
go to the poll, the party so divided must lose, and
the Conservatives will carry the election. To-day
(Thursday) there will be a meeting of the Liberals
to try to decide on which of the three gentlemen
they prefer, and to endeavour to prevail ou the
other two to retire.

THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERY.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—(Tuis DAY.)

THIRD DAY.

(Before Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Willes.)
The prisoners Pierce, Burgess, and Tester, were again
placed at the bar, when they commenced their defence.
Mr. Sergeant Parry, iu addressing the jury for the
prisoner Pierce, entreated the jury to dismiss from their
minds all they had heard out of doors in reference to
this case. It was one of a most peculiar character in
reference to the legal principles that must guide them in
coming to a conclusion of the prisoner's guilt, from
the main witness, and he was going to say the only
witness, who deposed to the commission of the offence,
being its perpetrator. He had given a statement that
it was difficult for ordinary minds not to act on ; but in
courts of justice they must act on the invariable rules
that guided the administration of the criminal courts of
this country, which was the cause of that unanimous
confidence that existed in this country in favour
of the administration of criminal justice. The
proposition that he sought to establish was—and it was
a principle not absolutely of law—that an ace implice
should be corroborated, not merely however as to the
facts, of wlsich no doubt he knew the truth, from having
been a participator, but also corroborated in reference to
the person against whom he was giving his evidence, as
well as in the material and substantial particulars of his
statement. The learned counsel then read the opinion
of Lord Abinger and Baron Alderson in support of the
proposition he had laid down. This was a case in which
an advocate could not, or ought not, to do more than
calmly discuss the evidence, and see whether by the law
of the land, and the practice of the courts the evidence
brought home the charge to the prisoner. If he be
guilty, he (the learned Sergeant) freely admitted he was
guilty of a most serious and grave offence, and one
which, should they consider him so, would render him
liable to a serious punishment. He hoped, however, to
be able to demonstrate to them that by law and practice
of the Courts the evidence produced in this case failed
to establish his guilt. The learned sergeant then refer-
red to the history of the case, and said that it was im-
possible for him or any other person to add a word of
detestation beyond what must be entertained by all who
had heard Agar's statement against that man's conduct,
and which statement stamped his character as a man
unworthy of belief. From the age of 13 or 20 he had
followed a course of crime, and it was on the evidence
of such a man this charge was to be supported.
There could be no doubt that Agar and Fanny
Kay entertained a malignant feeling towards Pierce, but
unfortunately no one but himself could explain his con
duct towards that woman and her child. An impressio❑
was endeavoured to be created against him as to his
non-investment of Agar's money for the woman and her
child, but it fortunately happened for him that Mr.
Wontner who defended him defended Agar also, and to
the kindness of his lordship Mr. Wontner had been al-
lowed out of order to give a satisfactory explanation of
the matter, and if the woman and her child did not
receive the money, it would be the South-Eastern Rail-
way Company, in whose possession the Turkish Bonds
were, that would deprive them of it. The learned ser-
geant then proceeded to analyse the evidence, and al-
though admitting that Pierce had known Agar, who no
doubt bad endeavoured to corrupt him, said that the
evidence did not establish Pierce's guilt, but rather that
Agar was the planner and perpetrator of the robbery.
Agar's statement of the leading circumstances of the
robbery, connecting Pierce with it, was not in the
slightest degree corroborated—viz , the perpetration of
the robbery and the return and sale of the gold. It was
essential, according to the judgments he had read of
Lord Abinger and Mr. Baron Alderson, that Agar should
be corroborated in these material facts, to entitle his

statement to belief. Alluding to the 1001. note changed
for Pierce by Raffin, whose name appeared on the back
of it, he reminded the jury that it was not changed until
November, 1855, six mouths after the robbery, and
after Agar was arrested. Who was to say that this
note was not one of the number Agar received on the
division of the spoil, and were in his box at Pierce's
house when he was apprehended, and that Pierce had
taken it and changed it, with which to relieve Fanny
Kay, and it should he borne in mind that he had given
her from 601. or 801. towards the support of herself and
child. It was now by Agar's malignity turned into
evidence against Pierce. If that were so, Pierce's
possession of the note would be legitimate, and that
was the only thing that had been traced to Pierce.

Mr. Giffard addressed the jury for Burgess. He said
he should not address them on the approver's statement,
after the remarks of Mr. Sergeant Parry. Agar was a
man making capital out of his former crimes, anti there-
fore his statement should be fully corroborated. The
evidence of Agar would not bear examination. Sup-
pose Agar had stated that Sharman, who was admitted
by all to be an innocent man, had allowed him to take
an impression of the keys, he would have been unjustly
placed upon his trial for participating in the robbery, and
therefore be asked the jury not to convict Burgess upon
the unsupported testimony of a man who, from a ma-
lignant feeling, desired to crush an innocent man that
he might be the gainer ; for, by convicting Burgess on
Agar's evidence, they might be unjustly condemning
him as they would Sharman if he had been put upon
his trial and convicted on his statement. The learned
counsel, in a speech of great ingenuity and ability,
dwelt upon the unreasonableness and improbability of
the leading features of Agar's statement. It was not
to be denied that Burgess met Agar at Folkestone and
had some conversation with him ; but that fact was not
to be found in Agar's statement, which undoubtedly
would have been had Burgess connived at the planning
of the robbery. There was no corroboration of
Burgess's complicity. He thought Agar's statement
untrue that he had gone down the line seven or eight

times and tried the keys in the bullion chest without its
being known, because *it was well known to the company
that bullion went down generally with the tidal train,
and not the mail train. A. railway company must, he
should think, keep an account of such a thing as bullion
going over their line, and it would only have been fair
in the company towards Burgess to have given a state-
ment of the time the bullion went down, with which to
test that part of Agar's story. The probability, in his,
(the learned counsel's) opinion, was, that the robbery was
not perpetrated in the railway van, but on the pier
at Folkestone, where the chest remained two hours
and a half before it was put on board the boat. One of
the keys of the bullion chest kept on board the steamer
was lost, and it was not improbable that the person who
got polisession of it took an opportunity to lull phe vigi-
lance of the watchman on the pier and perpetrate the
robbery. Agar's statement was on the whole very im-
probable ; and he asked the jury if they believed that he,
Pierce, and Burgess could have come out of the guard's
van, at either of the stations, without being seen by the
porters in attendance on the arrival of the train, and
who rushed to the van to get out the luggage that might
be there belonging to the various passengers in the
train. He contended there was no confirmation of
A

gar's evidence, and after referring to several other facts
n Agar's statement, he called on the jury to acquit• the
prisoner Burgess.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantiue next addressed the jury on
the part of Tester. He said that he was happy to find
that he had been preceded by Mr. Sergeant Parry and
Mr. Giffard, who, having alluded to many points he in-
tended to touch on, precluded the necessity of his again
referring to them. This had truly been denominated a
romance in one of the public papers, but it was not a
history founded on fact, but a fiction got up with devilish
ingenuity. Let them review the position of the pri-
soners at the bar. The learned counsel then referred

to Tester, who was respectably connected, and
held a responsible situation on the South-Eastern
Railway, which he left for a more lucrative one
on a railway in Sweden. Hearing there of
what was doing in the country with reference to the
inquiry relative to the robbery, he voluntarily left a
place of safety and surrendered himself to justice in this
country, feeling he was an innocent man. There were
a variety of scoundrels in this country, and, by his own
confession, Agar was one. He was a perfect miracle,
and deserved their careful attention and study, for it was
on the statement of such a man that Tester's position
depended. After alluding to the dangerous character of
Agar and his effect upon society if again he obtained his
liberty, the learned counsel said Agar was one of the
class of men they read of in the middle ages,
who would not hesitate to poison the cup of
his nearest relative a wretch who, if he
remained in a house, would not hesitate to commit
murder, and everything that was bad, and who would
rather fix, if possible, guilt on an innocent man, than one
who had committed crime. He charged Agar with
having deliberately made a charge against Tester,
which he knew was false, and he had made this false
and scandalous charge against Tester, because he was a
man he could not corrupt, and one in whose conviction he
would derive more pleasure than over the conviction of
one of his own class. After some further remarks on
Agar's conduct, his motive for making this statement,
and the hope he had of regaining his liberty, no
matter at what cost to others, and which he would look
upon as a noble triumph of art, and show himself the
worthy head of the noble Guild of Scoundrels.
[Wu shall continuo the coo in our ;a44 odition,j

LLOYD'S SIIIPPDTG.--ahis

LOarm, Jan. 15.—Wind at noon S.W.—Light breeze,
with drizzling rain.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 14.—Wind N.—Sailed—Chili, for
Valparaiso.
FALMOUTH, Jan. 14.—Wind N.N.E. Sailed—. Al-
chymist, for Savannah.
SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 14.—Sailed—Columbian, for Aus-
tralia.
Cows, Jan. 14.—Wind N.—Arrived—Vikingen, Sun-
derland, for Odessa, to stop a leak. Sailed—Titania, for
Havana. . .

RAMSGATE, Jan. 14. —Wind N.E.—.Arrived—Gateshead,
from Shields, for Havana, with damage from collision.
SWANSEA, Jan. H.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Fanny, for
Coquimbo.
Hamricit, Jan. 15—The Luna, of and from Emden,
for London, has been assisted off the Shipvvash, leaky and
with damage.
JERSEY, Jan. 13.—Wind E.—Sailed—Shamrock, for
Pernambuco. _

BELFAST, Jan. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived-Quebec,
from St. John's, N.B.

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 14.—A small vessel, sunk, with top-
mast above water, 7 miles S.W. of Saltees is reported.
A vessel, of about 200 tons, bottom up, with the sea break-
ing over her, was passed this morning W.S.W. of Black
Comb. Several logs of timber were passed on the 17th
inst on the edge of Soundings.
BRISTOL, Jan. 14.—The Alpha, honce to Seville, drove
on shore near Trevose head, Padstow, on the night of the
11th inst., and has since gone to pieces ; crew drowned.
CHERBOURG, Jan. 22.—The Elizabeth Thompson, of
Inverkeitbing, sunk on the 11th inst. at 10 a.m., Lizard
Point bearing N.N.W., distant about 20 miles; crow
saved by a French steamer and landed here.
IllEssiNA, Jan. 9.--The British iron schooner Arrow, of
Leith, put in to-day, leaky, and will probably discharge.

(PER ELEOTRIC TELEGRAPH.,
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
Wind W.S., cloudy.
No fresh news of the Tyne. The change of wind to the
south-west is unfavourable.

Arrived—Eagle (s.)„ from Llanelly ; Anna and Maria
(8.), from Cardiff.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.
Wind N.W.
Arrived—ltalian (a.), from Havre.
Sailed—Blonde, for Tampico.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 13.
Wind N.
Arrived—Charles, from Pernambuco.
Sailed—Pandora, for Lisbon; Senator, Aden; Vene-
rable, Gibraltar.
KINGSTOWN, Jan. 14.

Wind W.
Arrived —Adonis, from Seville.
Sailed—Laurie, for Havre; Susan Leilly, Sicily; Char.
lotto Ann, Terceira.

(BY SUBMARINE AND 'MITI...oiI YE! EGttAPII.)
GRAVESENI Thursday, 10 a.m.
Wind N.W ; tide last hour's ebb ; fine.
Sailed—Corporation, for Cape Coast Castle; Denmark,
steamer, Havre.
DEAL, Thursday, 9.50 a.m.

Wind W.N.W., fine. ..
Passed, Jan. 14—Josephine, from London, for Santander

LONDON JOINT-STOOK BANS•

Half-yearly Meetiag.—(T his Day.)

The half-yearly meeting of the London Joint-Stock
Bank was held to-day. The report stAted that, inelnd•'
ing the sum of 25,036/. Hs. 6d., broug':lt forward on the
30th June last, there was a nett balance of 84,2171. 4s.
9d., which the directors appropriated ae follows :---
To dividend. 6/. ss. per cent. for this
half-year (12k per cent. per =num)._ £37,500 0 0
To bonus, 15s. 6d, per share 46,500 0 0
To guarantee fund a 217 6 9

£54,217 6
With the above addition the guarantee fund would
amount to 165,932/. 13s. 6d. The dividend and bonus,
free of income tax, will be payable after the 23d just.
The report wag adopted unanimously,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(,phis Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)

THE WARE AND HERTFORD BANK. -12 i RR S. ADAMS.

This bankrupt was described as of Ware, banker and
malt ter, and today was appointed for his last exami-

nation.

The balance sheet, which consists of upwards of 300
folio pages, and prepared by Messrs. Thomas and Cop.
ley, commences December, 1854, and ends July, 1856,
and shows debtors to creditors unsecured, 61,8491. 17e.
10d. ; to ditto holding security, 12,085/.55. ; notes in
circulation, 12,0601. ; liabilities, .56,0441. ; profits,
2,1541. Bs. ; rents, 2,2011. Surplus statecient of af-
fairs, December, 1854, 14,4591. 108. ; creditor by good
debts, 12,288/. 4s. Bd. ; ditto who lutve deposited
security, 7,2o3l.—estimated to realise 2,5311. ; freehold
property, 4,9451.; life interest in property,. 4,9341.; pro.
perty given up to assignees, 10,715/. ; ditto in hands o
creditors, 13,7151. lls. ; rents due, 1,563/. ; property
settled on Mr. Adams, 6,260/. ; debts to be paid in full,
7,861/. ls. 6d. ; trade expenses, 4,806/. ; interest 7681.;
law expenses, 1,624/. ; annuities chargeable on pro
perty, 1361. lls. ; personal expenses, 5,4871. ; losses
on farms, 1,147/. ; depreciation in value of property,
20,435/. ; losses, 3,308/. 4s. 7d. ; liabilities, 56,0001. ;
lo:s on securities, 4,671/.

In consequence of the voluminous and intricate nature
of the accounts, Messrs. Thomas and C-.plEy were unable
to file th.e balance-sheet until yesterday, and an adjourn:
['lent, therefore, was necessary, and it accordingly took
place.