The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-19 00:00:00

ASSIZ.

ham.
The Perseverance, iron screw troopship, Com-
mander E. R. Power, arrived at Spithead from
Malta and Gibraltar at midnight on Saturday.
She will go into Portsmouth harbour this morning
to land her invalids, passengers, and will after-
wards make good her defects and prepare for fur-
ther service.
The Melpomene, 51, screw, Captain C. J. F.
Ewart, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the
Channel.
The Vigilant, 4, screw steam-sloop, Commander
W. Armytage, alongside the dockyard at Ports-
mouth stripping for paying off, had leave granted
ashore to her crew from Saturday night until this
morning, only sufficient hands being left on board
to keep watch.
The 141egcera screw troopship, undergoing repairs
at Portsmouth, has been placed in No. 8 dock at
that port.
The paddlewheel steam sloops Alecto and Hecate,
under repairs at 'Woolwich, will be ready in a
few days for tke pendant, and the Devastation,
Antelope, and Rifleman have been removed
from the fitting basin to the river. The new
screw steam-frigate, 26 Galatea, on Saturdayreceived her yards and. other portions of her equip-
ment, and in a few days she will proceed under
steam to Sheerness. The steam storeship Supply
has been hauled into basin for examination and re-
pairs. The Harpy was on Saturday undocked. The
Industry, from Ascension, cleared out the remainder
of her cargo of returned stores on Saturday, and
will commence reloading for her return voyage.
The military store steam transport Lord Panmure,
H. T. Moore commander, arrived at Woolwich on
Saturday, from Pembroke, Carrickfergus, and Dub-
lin, laden with returned stores, having experienced
some heavy and severe weather in the Irish and.
English Channels.
The screw steam transport Himalaya, Captain
Seccombe, from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth
Sound on Friday morning. She is appointed to
embark 80 men of the 41st Regiment, and proceed
to Queenstown. There is some doubt about her
going to Nova Scotia, as originally intended.
The gunboat Shamrock, at Devonport, is in a
bad condition ; she is to have a thorough repair
preparatory to the resumption of her surveying
duties in the spring.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Theodore M.
Jones to the St. Vincent; Lieutenant J. Simpson
(b), to command the Jackal, vice Lieutenant N. G.
R Murray, superseded ; George Marsh, master,
to the Edgar; James M. Share, master, to the
Wellington, for the Revenge; Frederick B.
Youel, master, to the Wellington, for the Or-
lando; Frank Inglis, master, to the Diadem;
Daniel J. May, master, to the Flying Fish ; Geo.
Giles, master, to the Cumberland, for the Charybdis
Frederick Townsend, Thomas Pounds, John F. R
Ayien, James S. Watts, Henry G. Swainson,
Charles B. Ryall, Frederick Piper, Percy V. James,
and Frederick J. Ray, second-masters, have been
promoted to the rank of masters ; Robert Bryan
Turner and Henry Darroll, acting third-class
assistant-engineers, to the Asia, as supernumeraries.

(From the Daily News)
The nomination of Count Cavour to represent
Sardinia. in the Pasta Congress is the important
fact of the day. It nds forth as a proof that the
House of Savoy, however sensible of its recent
obligations to the Emperor of the French, is not
prepared to sacrifice to that potentate its deeper
sympathies and its far more sacred attachment and
allegiance to the cause of Italy. Count Villamarina
has been removed from the post of Sardinian Am-
bassador in Paris, avowedly on account of his being
the private friend and political adherent of Cavour.
Even the fact of his having been the successful
agent who negotiated the marriage of Prince Na-
poleon with the Princess Clotilda slid not save him.
It was augured, therefore, that the same Imperial
fiat would exclude his principal from the Congress.
The retirement of Count Cavour from office was
no doubt chiefly owing to his own dissatisfaction
with what he considered the abandonment of the
Italian cause in the Treaty of Villafranca ; but that
treaty, for which so many motives have been as-
signed, was precipitated in no small degree by the
unceasing attacks of the Roman Government upon
the Minister of Piedmont. Cardinal Antonelli re-
presented that Count Cavour's efforts were directed
towards the total disruption of the Papacy ; and he
twitted the French Emperor with being, net the
accomplice, but the dupe of a revolutionary and
anti-sacerdotal movement. The Emperor made
light at first' of such accusations. He was himself,
indeed, busied in revolutionising Italy through his
friend and agent, Mons. Pietri, and considered the
rising of Bologna as the necessary consequence of
Roman misrule. Nothing daunted. Antonelli
placed in the hands of the Duc de Grammont a
series of documents and letters, alleged to be from
Cavour and his agents, by. which the insurrection
in the Roman States was in some way connected
with the action of the Piedmontese Government.
The French agents had received orders to keep their
efforts and their influence from the Roman frontier,
whilst the Piedmontese, bent upon the war, felt the
necessity of having the whole country south of the
Po in arms against Austria and its allies. Whether
the mass of information respecting the conduct of
the Piedmontese Government was really the cause
of the French Emperor's determining to make
peace, it certainly was employed as an argument
and an excuse to Victor Emmanuel. That monarch,
in consenting
.to the conditions of peace, placed
himself at variance with his Minister, who c
never.admit the restoration of Italian dukes that
had fought in the Austrian ranks after having go-
verned in purely Austrian interests. Count Cavour
withdrew. But there is no doubt that the King of
Sardinia is now of the opinion then expressed by
his ex-Minister, that the provisions of Villafranca
cannot be earried out.
More indeed is meant by the nomination of Count
Cavour to Congress than an expression of dissent
on the part of the Sardinian Government to the
restoration of the Dukes. Cavour not only repu-
diates this scheme, but insists that any other ar-
rangement than the creation of a great kingdom,
under the House of Savoy, in North and Central
Italy, must fail. Of this opinion he is the most
zealous supporter, and most able expounder. A
Congress that should exclude him, would be a tri-
bunal to deciie upon the affairs of Italy refusing at
the outset to hear the principal evidence. If it be
true, as alleged, that the Court of Rome has deter-
mined upon sending Cardinal Antonelli himself to
Congress, the two Italian rivals, the champions of
retrogession and of progress will meet in the arena,
and we trust the public will be allowed to know
something about the arguments employed. If the
Cardinal precipitated the treaty of Villafranca by
statements that will not bear the test of truth, the
French Emperor will be better enabled to discern
all that he sacrifices by embracing the cause of the
Popedom against Italy.
The disputation between Count Cavour and Car-
dinal Antonelli may soon be decided by serious po-
liticians. The one holds the peace of Italy in his
hands—the other holds anarchy, weakness, and
war. At the present moment the Court of Turin
alone can exercise a salutary influence. It has on
two or three recent occasions gone as far it could
to show itself grateful and obsequious to France.
In persuading Garibaldi to withdraw, in the sub-
stitution of Boncompagni for the Prince de Carig-
nan, it proved at once its influence, its adroitness,
and its desire to reconcile the new engagements of
France with the necessities of Italy. tut Victor
Emmanuel must feel, what all who observe his
position must see—that he walks the lengthened
summit of a lofty ridge, with a precipiece on either
side. To retrograde or to stand still are alike im-
possible - onward movement, without a false step,
can be
his only safety. To have sent any one else
than Count Cavour to Congress, would have been
a grievous error. For how more flagrantly desert
Italy than by leaving it virtually unrepresented in
the Congress ?
The same reasons which rendered Count Cavour's
presence in Congress inevitable, must give to his
recommendations irresistible force. Every power
save one, which is Austria, must be most desirous to
settle the affairs of Italy without the employment
of coercion and compulsion. France has solemnly
promised this ; and were he to break his promise,
Napoleon would let loose upon himself all the
mad extravagance of Italian vengeance. Eng-
land, Prussia, Russia itself, whatever the bribe
kept in reserve for it, must feel equally interested in
' taking the swords of other military empires out of
the balance. The declaration of all the non-belli-
gerent powers, that the restoration of the Dukes
could be effected by a renewal of war, must suffice
to liberate France from the engagement which
it precipitately took to labour in their behalf.
The fear that prevailed some time since, that Sar-
dinia might be induced or obliged to abandon or
compromise the question of Italian independence,
is now completely removed. The nomination of
Count Cavour is a powerful demonstration and a
sufficient guarantee that Piedmont maintains or re-
sumes the attitude which that statesman at first
gave it. Indeed, Napoleon's consent to his reap-
pearing in the councils of Europe may be taken as
a sign that even he is less bowed down to the exi-
gencies of the Court of Rome than he was. The
ecclesiastics have dared to threaten him ; and the
Emperor, whatever his faults, is certainly endowed
with the spirit that resents such dictation. Whilst
Francis Joseph seems determined to conciliate the
Pope at all risks, and even incurs the danger of an
insurrection in Hungary to please the See of Rome,
Napoleon the Third, on the contrary, appears to
think that Pontifical support may be purchased at
too high a price
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fIIILAND CIRCUIT—NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 17.
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)
The Court was occupied during the latter part of
yesterday until a late hour in trying Samuel Un-
win Newton, a warehouseman, who pleaded "h ot
guilty" to the charge of feloniously uttering tee
forged Bank of England notes, with intent to
defraud.
Mr. Boden and Mr. Manson conducted the pro-
secution on behalf of the Bank of England, the pri-
soner was defended by Mr. Bristowe.
The case was one in which the guilty knowledge
and fraudulent intent of the utterer were established
beyond a doubt by the fact that there had been
three distinct utterings within about seven days of
spurious £5 Bank of England notes, printed appa-
rently from the same plate, by a man who on two
of those occasions wore the uniform of the Notts
Yeomanry Cavalry, and on all three endorsed them
with different names, not one of which was the
name of any soldier in that force, nor of the pri-
soner. The only real question for the jury was
whether he was the utterer. Of this three species
of evidence were given, none of which appeared
alone conclusive, though abundantly so when taken
together. Each of the persons to whom the false
notes had been put off, and another to whom one
had been tendered, swore to their strong belief that
the prisoner was the man who offered the notes ;
but when he was first shown to them in plain
clothes among five or six others, and wearing a hat,
several of them had only ventured to speak as to
his strong resemblance in features and com-
plexion. Mr. Samuels, a lace-dealer, in whose
employment the prisoner had been some six
months, leaving in 1857, proved that he had
during that time become well acquainted with the
prisoner's handwriting, and that the indorsements
of the names which the utterer had been seen
to write upon the notes were the prisoner's writing,
as well as the indorsement of the names Adams and
Page, in whose service the prisoner had also for-
merly been. Thirdly, a man named Mayo, who had
while suffering imprisonment in the Northampton
Gaol formed acquaintance with the prisoner, who
was also confined there, and discharged about the
same time as the prisoner, in Dec., 1858, gave evi-
dence that prisoner and himself were in May last
fellow-lodgers, and that the prisoner had at that
time borrowed the undress uniform of the Notts
Yeomanry Cavalry from one of the corps, which
was then called out for exercise ; that he had ac-
companied the prisoner on two occasions—once on
the sth of May, when he went into the shop of a
Mr. King, one of the persons to whom a false note
had been uttered, while he himself remained outside
until the prisoner came out with a pork pie, which
he said he had purchased with a false note ; and a
second time, on May the 7th, when he went to the
shop of a grocer—Mr. Burt, another of the victims
—and remained at a little distance, that the pri-
soner joined him when he came out, and informed
' him that he had given another false note in pay-
ment for some groceries which he had desired should
be sent to a publichouse a little way above, and
which he desired the witness to go and ask for. He
also stated that on another occasion, on May 12, the
prisoner had informed him that he had tried to get
change for another note at a publichouse in the
Portland-road, and that as they could not give him
change he got it at a shop nearly opposite, where
he had purchased Is. worth of cigars. This infor-
mation Mayo had given before the police had a
knowledge of the places at which the notes had been
passed, and the circumstances related by him cor•
responded in almost every particular with the facts
proved by the witnesses. Mr. Bristowe, in ad-
drressing the jury, impeached the credit of the
witness Mayo, and endeavoured to create a distust
of the evidence as to the handwriting.
The learned Judge then summed up the evidence,
and the jury, after retiring for an hour, returned a
verdict of guilty, and a previous conviction having
been proved against the prisoner, he was sentenced
to eight years' penal servitude.
The learned judge took his seat at 9 this morning.
Wm. Shirtcliff was charged with having forged
a promissory note for the payment of £144 with
intent to defraud, knowing the same to be forged.
Mr. Boden was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr.
Merewether for the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, was formerly a com-
mission agent in the lace trade, and had become an
agent for the Monetary Advance and Life Assur-
ance Company, and was in that capacity in the
habit of sending up proposals in forms supplied to
him by the company to fill in with the names, cir-
cumstances, and characters of those who applied for
loans, and of the persons proposed as sureties. The
company, upon their agreeing to make the desired
advance, sent down a form of promissory note, to-
gether with an agreement to be filled up, signed,
witnessed, and returned to them by their agent,
upon which their practice was to remit the sum bor-
rowed directly to the borrower in half Bank of
England notes, deducting interest, commission, and
expenses. In Feb., 1859, the prisoner sent up a
proposal in the name of William Goodman Wood
Bellamy, surgeon-dentist, Tollhouse-hill, Notting-
ham, describing his character and circumstances
and those of the sureties very fovourably. The
company agreed to the advance, and a form of note
and agreement having been sent down by them
were in due course returned by the prisoner. The
note was joint and several, for the sum of £144, and
purported to be signed by Bellamy, a woman named
Hoon, and by three others, all of whom were also
parties to the agreement, which was attested by
the prisoner. On receiving these documents the
secretary of the company sent by post, in an enve-
lope addressed to Mr. Bellamy by the above descrip-
tion, half notes for £lOO, and subsequently a post-
office order for a small balance, with the remaining
half-notes. On the morning before the first of these
letters was delivered at Mr. Bellamy's by post he
received a note from the prisoner requesting that
if a letter addressed as above should be received he
would send it to him, Shirtcliff. Mr. Bellamy, who
was in entire ignorance of the whole transaction,
was somewhat surprised at the request, but on the
letter arriving he delivered it to the prisoner's
wife, who called to receive it. In the interval be
tween the
.arrival of the first and second letters a
forged receipt purporting to be duly signed by Bel-
lamy was received by th company, and a second
note was sent by Shirtcliff to Bellamy, containing
a like request to that he had first made. Mr. Bel-
lamy, however, on this occasion refused compliance,
and the second letter from the company, from some
unexplained cause, was never delivered to him. Two
of those who signed the agreement and note were
marksmen, and they stated that at the time they
supposed it to be for their own benefit for a matter
of £2O.
It was elicited in cross-examination of the com-
pany's officer that he had received from some per-
son in London, who called and represented himself
as Mr. Bellamy (but was altogether a different per-
son), a part payment of £l2, and that this person
promised to pay the whole, but did not, in fact, pay
anything more. Of neither the payment nor the
promise had Mr. Bellamy any knowledge at the

time.
Mr. Mermether called the attention of the Court
to the fact that the note in question was headed
" limited," and referring to a fact elicited by him,
that the company consisted of a number exceeding
20, he contended that the company was not such an
one as could, under the Limited Liabilities Act, sue
upon the note ; that it was an invalid document,
and that as consequently neither the company nor
any person could by possibility be defrauded, so
there could not be the intention to defraud which
was necessary to support the charge. He further
contended that there was no evidence of the utter-

in The Court overruled both objections, on which
Mr. Merewether declined to address the jury,
and
The learned Juglge having summed up, the jury re-
turned the verdict of Guilty. Sentence, eight years'
penal servitude.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOCESTER, DEC. 17.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell.)
George Pinkney Moorson Atkinson was charged
with feloniously marrying one Louisa Way, at
Bristol, on the 22d Dec., 1858, his former wife,
Elizabeth Atkinson, being then alive.
Mr. W. H. Cooke appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. Cripps defended the prisoner.
The prisoner was a respectably-dressed man, who
had latterly passed as a naval officer, and he was
now charged with bigamy in marrying Louisa Way,
a girl of about 18, his former wife being still alive.
It appeared that in the month of December, 1854,
the prisoner was married at Dodbrook Church, in
Devonshire, to Elizabeth Garrow, a grand niece of
the distinguished judge of that name, and in the
marriage register he was described as the son of
Capt. William Atkinson, RN. After his marriage
he and his wife went to Ireland, and lived at Tra-
il:l6re near Waterford, -where Mrs. Atkinson sup-
ported herself by keeping a boarding school. For
some reason, which was not explained, the prisoner,
who did not appear to have any occupation, left
Ireland, and his wife went to live with her sister,
who had been married to a gentleman named Fisher,
of Rose Mount, near Waterford. According to Mr.
Fisher's evidence, the prisoner had become greatly
addicted to intemperance, and when heleft Ireland
he went to Bristol, and there indulged in the same
excesses, till he became penniless. He, however,
managed to keep up some appearance of respecta-
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and dressed himself up in the uniform of a
worth £2OO a-year. At Bristol he became ac-
quainted with Louisa Way, a young girl of 18,
who was apprenticed to the tailoring business, who