The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-27 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY `27, t 857,

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EPSOM RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

THE DERBY.
Blink Bonny
28 Ran
TOWN PLATE.

Questionable
Hegira

Eight ran.

LATEST BETTING.

4 to 1 agst Tournament (taken)
to 1 agst Saunterer (taken)

7to 1 agst Skirmisher (t9,ken)
Bto 1 agst M.D. (taken)
10 to 1 agst Anton (taken)
10 to 1 agst Arsenal (taken)

25 to 1 agst Zuyder Zee (taken)

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, May 27.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.;
moderate breeze and fine.
PLYMOUTH, May 26.---Wind S.—Arrived—The Dunbar,
from Loudon, for Sydney, N.S.W.
SHIELDS, May 26.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Condor,
for Alexandria.
PORTSMbUTH, May 2;.--Wind S.S. W. to S. S. E.
Sailed —Her Majesty's Yacht, for Cherbourg.
COWES, May 26.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived---Alice Tarl-
ton, from Callao.
On SCILLY, May 2g.—Arrivel—W. V. Kent, from
Charleston for Antwerp.
SWANSEA, May 26.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Esther
and Frances, from Cuba. Sailed- -Julia, for Alexandria;
Endeavour, Gibraltar; Mary Seaton, Ascension; Under-
ley, Cuba.
SUNDERLAND, May 26.—Wind S.S.W.--Sailed—Perse-
verance, for Rio Janeiro.
CLYDE, May 26. —Sailed—Ovangond, for Bombay.
MIFLORD, May 26.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Hercules,
from Sierra Leone.
WATERFORD, May 2:l.—Wind E. S. E.—Arrived--Caro.
line, from Quebec.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGR&PR.)
LIVERPOOL, Wednehday Morning.

Wind S.

Arrived, May 26—Excelsior, from New Orleans ; Elise,
Bordeaux ; Amelia, Charleston ; Cornelia, Lawrence,
New York ; Eliza Puhe, CJurtown, with cargo from
Emperor, sunk off Blackwater Bank ; Isabella, Nassau,
with cargo from the Kniscot.
Sailed—Eliza Morrison and Kate, for Quebec; John
Alison, Shanghai, Pochohantes, Calcutta.
Off—Hornet, Markwell, Plutarch, Isaac Wright, Lydia,
Ocean ride, Juan, Paragon, British Queen, screw steamer.
QUEENSTOWN, May 25.

Wind E.

Arrived.—David J. Fleming, from Callao ; Cherokee,
Benini ; Spirit of Trade, from Rangoon; Ivy Green, Sierra
Leone; North American, Callao.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 9. 47 a.m.
Wind S.W. ; tide last hour's ebb ; fine.
Arrived, May 26.—Auguste, from Gravelines ; Laura,
Sagua le Grand ; Princess Guernsey.
Arrived, May 27.—Speedwell, from Rouen ; Governor
Moreton, Callao ; Ornus, Cronstadt ; Bounty, Providence,
Dunkirk ; Cordelia, Ibrail.
DEAL, Wednesday, 9.22 a.m.

Wind W., moderate.
Passed—James Holmes, from Barbadoes, for London ;
Planter, Tobago, London ; Neptune, Havanna, London ;
Athelston, Demerara, London.
Passed in tow—Spirit of the North, from China, for
London ; H 8, Dai len. London ; Enterprise, Langarotte,
London ; Mayflower, Shields, Lisbon ; Lena, London,
Marseilles; /Eolus, London, St. Lucia; Salvia, London,
Newport.
Passed, May 24—Akyab, in Channel.
Passed in Channel—John, from Abo.
Sailed—Wellesley, for Bombay.

THE FALL OF HOUSES IN TOTTEAIiAIVf-
COURT-ROAD.

Yesterday Mr. Brent, the Deputy Coroner, and
the jury empannelled to inquire aa to the deaths of
the sufferers by the late falling down of houses in
Tottenham-court-road, re-assembled for the fifth
time at Lawson's-rooms, Gower-street.
Thomas Miller examined—l reside in George-
street-, Hampstead-road, and am a carpenter. I
was at work at the roof of the houses 148 and 149
on the morning of the accident. I was employed
by Mr. Hunter. I was on the scaffold in front of
the house.l4B, and I heard a crack. I said " Good
God! what is the matter?" to a man who was
with me on the scaffold, and in an instant after
the same man said, "Look ! hereare all the houses
coming down !" I then ran away. I saw the stack
of chimneys of the houses Nos. 146 give way Cr-t,
and then the houses followed. I cannot acciunt for
the occurrence.

Mr. John Maples examined.—l reside at Hamp-
stead, and am an upholsterer. The houses 145,
146, and 147, Tottenham-court-r: a 4 were in my
occupation. About three .weeks after Mr. Hunter
commenced alterations on his premises I c•anmenced
them on my premises. Mr. Raggett was my sur-
veyor. He was recommended to me by Mr. Lock-
yer, the architect. Mr. Taylor, the builder, was
engaged by Mr Raggett at my suggestion. Ho had
done work for me before, and I 'rind always found
him a careful man. One of the works was to raise

the flooring of the house No. 147 two feet, to make

it level with the floor of 146. A new brestsummer
was required to be put in at 147 to effect this ob-
ject. I had no communication with the district
surveyor but once, and he then said he thought the
party-wall (alluding to Mr. Hunter's party-wall)
must come down. I replied, "I hope nut." There
was an agreement between Mr. Hunter and myself
as to the repairing of this party-wall. I never
heard from Mr. Baker, the district surveyor, that
he had condemned the party-wall, but there was a
notice from the police, which I sent at once to Mr.
Haggett. I placed myself in the hands of Mr.
Haggett, my surveyor, and Mr. Taylor, the builder.
Mr. George Parton Haggett, a surveyor, who
was engaged by Mr. Maple to superintend the
alterations, gave an explanation of them. He said,
—I have been 27 years in the profession. I con-
sider the cause of the occurrence was the cutting
away of the chimney breasts of the party-wall of
the houses 147 and 148, and that the making the
two holes in that wall on the morning of the
accident.

Mr. Joseph Taylor, examined—l reside at 97,
Upper Seymour street, Euston-square. I am a
builder. I was engaged to carry out certain altera-
tions at Mr. Maples's premises, under Mr. Rag-
gett, the surveyor. I saw Mr. Baker on the 23.1,
and told him the character of the works. He ob-
jected to the removal of the chimney breasts.
Nothing was done till the 27th, when the works
were commenced, and one the 30th the new brest-
summer was put in and properly pinned. On Mly
the 4th we struck the first shores, but before we did
so iron ties were put up from the brestsummer to
the joists, and into the garden. On the Thur4day
before the accident we had built up two piers from
the basement to the ground-floor ready to receive
the iron stancheons, and stone corbels were also put
into the wall. That, in my opinion, was quite sutfii-
cient of itself to carry the superstructure, but I put
two pieces of wood in addition, five feet before. I
went all round the premises on the morning of the
accident, and saw all safe and right till I observed
Barnes making a hole in Hunter's party-wall. I
asked him what he was going to do, and he said to
underpin it and put in new brick work to the first
floor. I told him to be careful, as it was a very old
wall. I saw Mr. Baker, the district surveyor, on
Friday, and he told me to stop my men doing the
match-boarding of Mr. Maple's house, No. 147, as
he was determined on having that wall (alluding
to Mr. Hunter's) taken down ; that they were to
have a meeting this afternoon, and he would have
it down. " You have had my consent," he said,
to take your chimney breasts down, but they have
taken their chimney breasts down without my con-
sent, and I will have it down." I had got about
165 feet distant from the houses, when they fell
towards the New-road. The cornices fell over on
to the pavement, and the fronts fell in. I was
much amazed and alarmed, knowing my own sou
and 19 of my men were on the premises. I ran
and informed Mr. Raggett, and then came back and
mustered 14 of my mev. In my opinion, the cause of
the accident was the weak state of Mr. Hunter's
wall, rendered still weaker by cutting the holes for
the underpinning. I ought to have had notice that
such work was going to be done to Mr. Hunter's
wall, which they did not give me.
There being no other evidence, the inquiry was
adjourned till Friday.

STATE OF TRADE.

MR. COBDEN AND HIS DISCIPLES.

IThe following letter, from Mr. Cobden, appeared
in a morning contemporary of yesterday :
Sir,—Will you allow me to say that my leUer to
Mr. Lindsay, which appeared in your Saturday's
paper, was penned without the slightest suspicion
that it would meet the public eye ? Otherwise, al-
though the arguments and facts would have been
identically the same, I should have written in a
different and more appropriate tone.
But I am more especially anxious to offer this
explanation, that I may do justice to my feelings
towards the gentleman for whose eye alone my
hasty and familiar observations on the China ques-
tion were intended. Entertaining, as I do, a sin-
cere respect and regard for Mr. Caird, at whose feet
I sit as a pupil in my miniature practice of husban-
dry, and from whom I have received many personal
kindneszes, he is the last man at whose expense I
should have thought of parading my superior know-
ledge on questions of commercial policy—a supe-
riority which, if it really exists, is attributable
solely to his having applied his acute and original
mind to the study of another and equally important
branch of national enterprise.
I am half inclined to rap the knuckles of my
friend Mr. Lindsay ; but when I remember his try-
ing dilemma. and how often I have myself been in
the same weful plight,, the ferule drops from my
baud. lie was addressing, for the fourth or fifth
time, I believe, in the course of a couple of months,
the same audience. Under such circumstances
topics are apt to run dry and texts to be exhausted.
What was to be done ? There was my letter in his
pocket, which reached him that morning. Could it
be any breach of confidence within those familiar
walls, and in such a friendly meeting as he saw
before him, to disclose its contents ? The letter
was read ; and probably not until be saw every,
word of it blazoned to the world in the columns of
the Times was he fully aware of all that he had done.
I have encountered the same temptations scores of
times, and succumbed more than once—how can I
then refuse him absolution or doubt that our mu-
tual friend,, .Mr. Caird, will do likewise ?—I am,
Sir, your obedient servant,
lidbutst, May 23.

R. COBDEN.

FRAUDULENT TRUSTEES.

The following is the text of the bill brought into
the Home of Commons by the Attorney-General,
to make better provision for the punishment of
frauds committed by trustees, bankers, and other
persons entrusted with property :
Whereas it is expedient to make better provision
for the punishment of frauds committed by trus-
tees, bankers, and other persons entrusted with
property : Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Ex-
cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com-
mons, iu this present parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows
I. Whosoever, being a trustee of any property
for the benefit, either wholly or partially, of some
other person, shall, in violation of good faith, and
with intent to defraud, appropriate, convert, de-
stroy, dispose of, or employ such property, or any
part thereof, to or for his own benefit, use, or pur-
poses, shall be guilty of misdemeanor.
11. Whosoever, being a banker, merchant, broker,
attorney, or agent, and being entrusted as such
with the property of any other person, shall, iu
violation of good faith and with intent to defraud,
sell, negotiate, transfer, pledge, or in any manner
convert or employ, to or for his own use, such pro-
perty or any part thereof, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor

111. Any person entrusted with any power of
attorney for the sale or transfer of any property
who shall sell, transfer, and convert such property,
or any part thereof, to his own use or benefit,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

IV. Whoever, being a bailee' of any pro-
perty, shall fraudulently take or convert the same
to his own use, or the use of any person other than
the owner thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
V. Whosoever, being a director, member, or public
officer of any body corporate or public company,
shall fraudulently take or apply, for his own use,
any of the money or other property of such body
corporate or public company, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.

VI. Whosoever, being a director, public officer,
or manager of any body corporate or public com-
pany, shall receive or possess himself of any of the
money or other property of such body corporate or
public company otherwise than in payment of a
just debt or demand, and shall wilfully omit to
make or cause or direct to be made a full and true
entry thereof in the books and accounts of such
body corporate or public company, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanour.