The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1859.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Paid. CirrioBce.ing I BDuSoinnitig
Share Railways.

Atlantic & St Lawrence
Leased at 6 per cent..
13oln.,Itaroda&Cent.Ind

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1 13i
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79 81

161 17

g. 5 per cent

Do. Addit. Capital A
Do. Do.
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Do. New
Buffalo, Brant. &Godrich
6 p. ct. bds. 1 Aug., 1872
Do. do. 1 July, 1873
Do. do. 1 June, 1874
Clcutta. &S. E astrn. Lim.
Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.)
Cape Town & Dock Scrip
Central Oude (Limited)
Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c
Demerara
Eastern Bengal.tru.sp.c
East Indian, gu. 5 p. a
Do. C Shares
Do. F Shares Ext
Do. Jubbulpore
Do.4i p.c. Bds. pay.'s9
G eelong& Mel.gua..s p. c.
Geelong Corporation 6
per cent. Bonds
Grand Trunk of Canada
Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B
Do. 6 per cent. Pref
Gt. IndiaPenin gua.sp.e
Do. New, gua.s per cent
Do. do
Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.—Scrip
guaranteed 5 per cent.
Gt.W. of Canada Shares
Do. New
Do. Bonds pay. '76,with
Apt. till '6O
Do. do. '73 till '6O
Do. do. ''/3 without opt
Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do
Madras, guar., 4i p. c
Do. do. 5 per cent
Do. 41 p. c. Extension
Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c
Do. Fourth do.
Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds
Newßrunswick&Canda.
Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc
Class ACapitl.share
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Do. do. B. Capital do
Do. do. Land do
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FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

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10 Antwerp • & Rotterdam all 41 4}
20 Ardennes all p
20 Bali.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 3 11 f d
5 Belgian East. Junction all 1
20 Bcziers to Graissessaa all
5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 2 21
20 Dutch Rhenish
6 Eastern of France
20 Euphrates Valley 25. p
20 Great Central of France all
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. sh s all 0/ (11 61
10 Italian Junction .. 8
20 Lake Constance & Bale all
20 Lierre and Turnhout
20 Lombardo Venetian 8 21 2ip'
20 Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.c.pf all
20 Lyons and Geneva all
334 Maria Antonia all
20 Do. do. New
20 Namur and Liege all 81 RI
20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref. all 19 20
16 Northern of France
20 Do. New Shares
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 9 10
20 Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent 7 -
20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit. all 311 3.5
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20 Paris and Orleans
Recife& S. Fran. (Perm)
20 20 3 21 d
gua. 7 p. et. (Lim.)
20 Riga and Dunaburg 4
10 Rome and Frascati
20 Royal Danish all
5 Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.
20 Sambre and Meuse all 6 64
10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref.
20 Southern of France
81 West Flanders all 51 6
10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference
20 W. & N.W. of France all 211 221 22 1
20 Western of Austria .. 6
20 Western of Switzerland all
6 Wiesbaden
6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all
20 Zealand all —•-•
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Share Securities. Paid.l Closing Business Prices. Done.
Can.Gov.6p.e Ja. &July 100 112 113 1121
Do. 6 p.c.ra.&Aug. 100 110 112
Do. 6 p.c.3lr. & Sep. 100 ;113 115 ,
N.8.G0v.6p.c. Ja. &July 10C ,1094 1101
Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 ; -
- N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 106 981 991
NovaScoii aGov.6 p.c. S.
Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 1091 1104 1101
S.Aus.Gt.6 pc.Jan&July 100 108 110
Vict•Gov.6p.c.JamirJuly 100

BRITISH MINES.

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Mines.

!Alfred Consols (Philack)!
British Iron
Condurrow (Camborne)
Devon G. Cons. (Tavist )
Nast Bassett (Mogan)
E. WI Russl (Tavistk )
Great South Tolgus
G.Whcal Alfd.(Phillack)
G. Wheal Vor (Helston)
Lady Bertha
North Frances (Illogan)
North Wheal Crofty
N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan)
Par Consols (St. Blaxy
Porkellis Unit. (Wend.
Sortridge Cons. Min. Co.
SouthCaradon (St. Cleer)
Soi'th C. Brea( Illogan).
S Wheal Fran. (Illogan)
Tamar Silver and Lead

-ifining Co
Tin Croft
UnitedMines(Gwennap)
Vale of Tower (Caren.)
West Basset (tllogan)
W. Caradon (Liskeard)
Wheal Basset (logan).
Wheal Buller (Rellthuth)
Wheal Edward (Cale.)
Wheal Kitty (U. Lelant)
Wh'l Mary Ann (Meahe)
Wh'l Trelawney (Lisk.)l

Paid. \ Closing Business
Price. Done.

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175 185
85 93
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126 6d'

1.7.2

CRIMINAL COURT.-( THIS _DA Y.)

(Before the Lord Chief Baron.)
TRIAL OF DR. SMETHURST.—SECOND DAY.
The trial of Dr. Smethurst, for the wilful murder of Miss
Isabella Bankes, at Richmond, was resumed this morning
by the examination of Dr. Julius. This gentleman's evi-
dence is so perfectly familar to the public that we abstain
from re-publishing it. Sergeant Parry, for the prisoner,
subjected the witness to a severe cross-examination, but
nothing that materially altered his evidence in chief was
elicited. At the close of which,

Sergeant Parry said—You are, I presume, a doctor of
medicine ?

Witness—Yes.

Sergeant Parry—ls yours a London degree ?
Witness—No, it is not.
Sergeant Parry—What is it then ?
Witness—lt is that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sergeant Parry—l did not know the Archbishop had the
power of making a doctor of medicine.
The Lord Chief Baron—Oh! yes, he has. He can also
make a master of arts.

Sergeant Parry—Make me a master of arts ? (Laughter.)
The Lord Chief Baron—l did not say that. I aid a
master of arts. (Laughter.)
Sergeant Parry, to witness—Did you take, then, your
degree as a mere matter of course ?

Witness—No. The granting of such a degree by the
archbishop is a very uncommon thing.
Sergeant Parry—Are you a member of the College of
Surgeons ?
Witness—Yes.

Sergeant Parry—l suppose you merely paid your fee and
got your degree as a doctor of medicine, as a matter of
course ?

Witness—Oh, dear no ; I had to get two members of the
College of Physicians, who had known me for a consider-
able period. They then certify that lam a proper person
to receive such a degree, and it is then granted. •
Sergeant Parry—You got such a certificate, and then the
degree followed ?
Witness—Yes ; it merely entitles you to call yourself
"doctor." That's all.

The Lord Chief Baron—You are a member of the Col-
lege of Surgeons ?
Witness—Yes, my lord ; and also a licentiate of the
Society of Apothecaries.
The next witness examined was Dr. Bird, the partner of
Dr. Julius. This gentleman's evidence has also repeatedly
been published. He was decidedly of opinion that the
death of Miss Bankes was caused by the constant adminis •
tration of a mineral poison in small doses.
Sergeant Parry, in cross-examination—Did you form any
decided opinion that this lady was the subject of slot,
arsenical poisoning before you were told so by Dr. Julius ?
The Lord Chief Justice—He does not say so. He says
he is of opinion that death was caused by the administra •
tion of a mineral poison in small doses. Arsenic or anti-
mony would produce the effect.
Sergeant Parry, to witness—Well, have you formed an
opinion that death was caused by arsenical poisoning ?
Witness—Yes, I have.

Sergeant Parry—During your attendance on the lady,
did you administer bismuth, ascetate of lead, and nitrate of
silver ?

Witness—Yes. [Dr. Bird, by reference to his book, ex-
plained the manner in which the medicines he supplied
were mixed.]

Sergeam Parry—Have you not come to the unfavourable
opinion you have expressed as to the cause of this lady's
death partly from what you have observed and partly from
from. what Mr. Smethurst told ymi ?
Witness—l have.

The Lord Chief Baron—Did the symptoms as described
to you by Dr.Smethurst differ from your own observation ?
Witness—Not at all.
The Lord Chief Baron—Did what the lady tell you her-
self agree with what you yourself saw?
Witness—Entirely.

Mr. A. W. Caudle, assistant to Drs. Julius and Bird,
was next examined byMr. Clark. He explained the different
mixtures made up and sent to Miss Bankes. When he re-
ceived the prescription, directing him to mix two drops of
prussic acid, of Scheele' strength to each dose of the mix-
ture, he thought it was rather a large quantity, and Dr.
Julius being from home, he gave four drops of prussic acid
of pharmacopic instead of two drops of Scheele's.
The Lord Chief Baron—Why did you do that ?
Witness—Because four drops of the pharmacopic prussic
acid would be under the strength of two drops of Scheele's.
[Mr. Caudle then explained the sealing up of the jars con-
taining the two evacuations given to him by Dr. Julius,
to be sent to Mr. Buzzard, of Great Marlborough• street,
London.]
Mr. Clark—ln any ono of the prescriptions you made up
and sent to Miss Bankes, was there any arsenic, antimony,
or bichlorate of mercury ?

Witness—Most certainly not.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Parry—l do not think
there is any difficulty in mixing nitrate of silver into pills.
Mr. Julius, jun., proved taking the bottles containing
the evacuations to Mr. Buzzard's; and Catherine Murray,
domestic servant to that gentleman, stated that she took
them in and loft thorn on the parlour table. Dr. Buzzard,
surgeon, of Great Marlborough-street, said he took the
bottles to Dr. Alfred Taylor, when the bottles were opened
and a portion of their contents taken out for analysis.
Mr. Barwell, assistant-surgeon at Charing-cross Hospi-
tal, stated the appearance of the body on a post-mortem
examination.

ILLNESS OF THE FOREMAN OF THE JURY.
At three minutes to two o'clock the foreman of the jury
was taken suddenly ill. Mr. Barwell, who happened to be
giving his evidence at the time, instantly rendered him as•
sistance, and in a moment afterwards Drs. Todd and Cope-
land were in attendance. Brandy was administered, but
the foreman fell back in a fainting fit. Dr. Smethurst
watched the juryman with the greatest anxiety. At length
it was found that the juryman was not in a position to pro-
ceed, and he was led out of court, and the trial, as a matter
of course, was suspended.

The Lord Chief Baron said he did not see the necessity
of entering so minutely into the medical details, and inti-
mated that the explanations given by the witness might
have produced this lamentable effect upon the juror. He
might have been affected by the very horror of the facts.
After the lapse of about 20 minutes the juryman was
brought back and the trial was resumed. He looked, ex-
tremely ill, and it is very doubtful whether,he will be able
to last out during the day.

Mr. Barwell was again placed in the box.
The Lord Chief Baron—What is your opinion as to the
cause of death P
Witness—That it arose from irritant poisons slowly ad-
ministered.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CAUTION TO EMPLOTERS.—A young man, who gave the
name of Thomas Henry Jenkins, was placed at the bar
charged with stealing ribbons to the value of 10s. and a
cambric handkerchief and a collar under the following cir-
cumstances :

It appeared from the evidence that Mr. Garmeson,
draper, 133, Tottenham-court. road, took the prisoner (who
said he came from Liverpool) into his employ, without any
character, on Friday last. Last evening the prisoner asked
a follow-assistant for a pinch of snuff. This party gave
him his box, which he kept in his possession ; and before
the hour of closing, and without leave, he left the shop
and returned at 11 o'clock at night in a state of intoxi-
cation. Mr. Garmeson sent the assistant to the pri-
soner, who was helplessly drunk in the kitchen, to ask
to make out his account and leave the place. The assistant
could not get any sense into the prisoner, and upon putting
his hand into his pocket for his snuff box he found a small
paper which contained the above articles. Prisoner had
entered Mr. Garmeson's employ in the name of Norton,
and had also gone in the name of Parkins amongst the
other shopmen, of whom there were a great many in Mr.
Garmeson's employ.
After hearing the evidence, Mr. Beadon said Mr.
Garmeson's conduct in taking a man into his employ with-
out previous inquiry into character was a premium
for crime. He ought to have found out the prisoner's
character before and not after this occurrence. If
theft had not been found out in the fortunate man-
ner that it was other young men in the establishment
might have been continually suspected. It was quite Mr.
Garmeson's own fault that he had been robbed.

Prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was then committed to six
months' hard labour in the House of Correction.
HAYMARKET FROLICS.—William Elliott and John
Hayes, both gentlemanly looking persons, were charged
with creating a disturbance in the Haymarket.
Gordon, 336 A, said that at a little after five this morn-
ing he was on duty in the Haymarket, when he saw the
two prisoners surrounded by a crowd of cabmen and prosti-
tutes, playing at single stick. He went up and remon-
strated with them upon their conduct, when Haynes struck
him with the stick, but he believed not intentional. Both
prisoners' hats had been run away with by the cabman and
prostitutes, and he had great difficulty in getting them
back.

Haynes said, in reply to the charge, that himself and
Elliot were most particular frOnds, and they were merely
playing at single-stick out of fan, and for the sake of a
joke.

Mr. 13aadon advised them to leave off joking in such a
way as this, and fined them ss. each.

THAMES.

INDUCING SEAMEN TO DESERT FROM THE ROYAL
NAVY.—William Kretschmere, a young man, a native of
Germany, and waiter at a coffee-shop, of No. 8, St. George-
street, alias Ratcliff-highway, appeared before Mr. Selfe,
to answer two summonses which charged him with " un-
lawfully persuading James Gray and Frederica Alfred,
persons in her Majesty's Navy, to desert and improperly
absent themselves from their duty in the ship Imperieuss,
belonging to her Majesty," by which he had rendered him-
self liable to a penalty of £2O, or imprisonment and hard
labour, not exceeding six months in each case.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, Arbour-square, Stepney,
defended the accused party

Mr. West, a barrister, instructed by the Admiralty soli-
citor, said the prosecution was directed by the Lords of the
Admiralty, and it was of the highest possible impoirtance
that the law should be made known, and that persons who
tampered with seamen in our navy should be punished.
Gray and Alfred, the seamen who were asked by the de-
fendant to desert from the Royal Navy, were examined at
great length. It appeared that on the Ist of the present
month they had leave to go on shorn at Portsmouth. Their
leave of absence expired on the sth. They came to London
and saw the defendant, who told them they could make a
good thing of it, and that he could ship them on board an
Austrian barque. They agreed 'on the solicitation of the
defendant to abandon the Royal Navy. The defendant
provided them with a lodging, and afterwards said he could
not ship them in the Austrian barque but would
provide them with berths on board an American
ship bound 'to Australia. The defendant also
promised them one or two months wages in advance, but
did not mention the rate of wages. They were taken one
evening to an -American shipping office, kept by a person
named Moss Phillips, in Ratcliffe. They were not shipped
in consequence of the lateness of the hour, and were told to
call again, but on the following day they were appre-
hended as deserters, and sent on board the Crocodile, re-
ceiving ship, off the Tower.

Alfred, who was whiskerless, also deposed that he had a
very large pair of whiskers, and the defendant advised him
to have them shaved off to ,prevent identification. Gray,
who was a shaver, exterminated his whiskers.
In cross-examination by Mr. Young, the witnesses said
they came on shore at Portsmouth to have a spree, and
were drunk in that town, and were also intoxicated every
day they were in London.

Edward Cray, a clerk employed by Moss Phillips, an
agent for American ships, said the defendant brought Gray
and Alfred to his master's shop, and said, " Can you ship
these two men ? I want to get them away in an American
ship as soon as possible." He told the defendant it was too
late, and that he must come next day and he would then
ship them.
Mr. Young, in an able address, contended that the
sailors, who were continually drunk while on shore, could
not be depended upon, and that the defendant was not awTre
they belonged to the Royal Navy when he introduced them
to the American shipping office.

Mr. Selfe was of opinion the case was clearly made out
against the defendant, who had been unwisely and illegally
interfering with two of our sailors, and inducing them to
leave t'he service of their country. He fined the defendant
£2O in each case, and in default of payment, sentenced him
to six months'imprisonment.

THE NEW COPPER COINAGE.

(From the Derbyshire Courier.)

A measure has been introduced in the House o
Commons, by Mr. Gladstone, for a new copper
coinage. It appears that the presentcopper coinage
consists chiefly of coins defaced, and injured by
wear and tear, of foreign coins, and of counterfeits.
Only 15 per cent. of the copper coinage is since
1852. From examinations made in the large towns
it appears that one-third of the coin is below its
legal state. " The whole value of the copper coin-
age," says Mr. Gladstone, "is £BOO,OOO, and the
quantity of copper is 3,530 tons. Taking the
copper at £lO7 10s. the ton, the actual value is
only £379,000, so that the copper coin is a pure
token, the intrinsic value being less than one-half
of the nominal or apparent value." The French
have recently issued a coinage of a bronze metal,
which is in appearance, in durability, in lightness,
and size, much more convenient than their old and
greatly effaced and battered copper. The demand
for this new coin by the public has increased 50 per
cent., but nevertheless the French Government has
derived a profit of nearly £500,000, after paying
all expenses, by the substitution of this new coin.
Mr. Gladstone proposes to issue a bronze coinage,
similar to that in use in Nova Scotia and Canada,
and he expects that a considerable profit will accrue
in this country, after paying all expenses, by the
substitution of the new bronze token for the copper
penny. We believe this move of Mr. Gladstone to
be in the right direction. The present copper
penny pretends to be of intrinsic value, but is,
as Mr. Gladstone observes, a pure token. The
new bronze penny will be a pure token, and it will
bear what it is on its face and in appearance.
The use of money is to provide a medium for the
exchange of commodities, and a legal means of dis-
charging indebtedness, and paying taxes. Former
attempts to supply a copper coinage have in a
great measure failed ; for no sooner did the price
of copper rise above that at which the coinage was
calculated, than the coins were withdrawn from
circulation and melted down. The bronze coins
will be liable to no such objection ; they will be
intrinsically only about one-half of their nominal
value, and will, therefore, not be melted or ex-
ported, but will continue to discharge the function
of money for which they will be made. This is an
entire departure from the bullionist principle that-
money should possess intrinsic valve. It is true
that the silver coinage is about 7 per cent. below
its intrinsic value, and to that circumstance we are
indebted for the retention of our silver money at
home, and for its not being melted. But this new
bronze coinage will go much farther ; it will pos-
sess but one-half of its nominal value, and be a mere
token. The defect of our gold coinage is that
being of intrinsic value, therefore it is liable to be
exported and melted, and Peel's system makes the
whole of our circulating medium, bank notes, as
well as the commercial money of the country—
namely, cheques and bills of exchange depend on
this gold basis, which is constantly liable to be
greatly contracted by exportation. Hence com-
mercial depression, panics, ruin, and distress. These
things this country has been content to endure for
the last 40 years in support of the bullionist theory
that money should possess intrinsic value. And
merely in support of an abstract theory, for prac-
tically whenever a severe drain of bullion takes
place, as in 1825, 1847, and 1857, the Bank is em-
powered to issue paper money without the neces-
sary amount of gold in its coffers to ensure con-
vertibility, and thus maintain the principle of the
intrinsic value of the bank note, the supposed
representative of the sovereign.

A chapel, lately occupied by a congregation of
Independents, in Wilson-street, Drury-lane, at the back of
St. Martin's Hall, has been pirchased for £1,600 by a
Catholic gentleman, and presented by him to the diocese
It is speedily to be opened under the patronage of our Lady
of Dolours and St, Charles Borromeo.— Weeny Register.

SPORTING NOTES.

THE YORK GATHERING

Racing men displayed much alacrity in quitting London
for York. They expect a great meeting at the city 6f un-
known antiquity, and they believe that they will recover
much of their recent losses. The programme certainly
presents an extraordinary array of stakes, and if specula-
tion be languid, money, and not opportunity, will be the
cause. Still the old bettifig spirit seems to have departed
from the Ring, and the "Phantom Bookmakers" are even
afraid of their own shadows. It would be absurd
to state that Summerside would win the Third Bien-
nial Stakes, because, as Hamlet would say, it
" needs no ghost to tell us that." But a doubt exists
respecting her running, and if she be reserved for the
Leger, John Scott will carry off the stake with either
Gamester or Phantom.

The remarks which I have penned respecting Summer-
side apply to all her engagements at York, and I am there-
fore compelled to place her chance out of consideration for
every race for which she may be engaged. I must, there-
fore, look to Yellow Rose to win the Yorkshire Oaks.
For the Convivial Stakes, I have received a favourable
report of the Rap, and if a " darkie" wins I shall expect
him to pull through.

For the Chesterfield Handicap I shall stand upon Hare-
foot and Bankrupt.

To-morrew I shall discuss the chances for the Ebor
Handicap. A FRESH MAN.

ARRIVALS AT YORK.

Hepatica, Grenadier, Lord Milton, Vesta, Merrimac,
Maid of Dement, Layton, Flash-in-Pan, Restes, Starke,
Grand Mistress, High Treason, Olympias, The Dove, Qui
Vive, Leprochaun, Etoile du Nord, Polianthus, Sabreur
Vanquisher, Volatile, Lanchester, and Whitehouse.