The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON; WEDNESDAY EVENTNUT, AUGUST 21, 1861.

LATV INTELLIGENCE.-1 This Day.)

STATE OF TRADE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)
THE ISLE OF WIGHT HOTEL COMPANY.

A petition was presented in this case for winding up the
affairs of the company, on the ground that it was unable to
meet its liabilities.

Mr. Lucas was for the petitioning creditors.

Mr. W. Tate, solicitor, for the company, and also a
creditor, did not oppose, and the order was made, none of
the facts transpiring.

SECONDARIES' COURT.
(Before Mr. Potter and a Jury.)
A LIGHT DAY-A PATIENT JURY.

There were three causes on the list, the first being a
mere matter of form. No attorneys being present, the jury
waited patiently looking at the learned Secondary, who in-
formed them that very soon there would be no business as
the remanets were being quickly used up. By and by the
second cause was withdrawn, and the jury were informed
that an attorney would be in attendance very soon. The
jury still waited, and after a few more minutes it was mys-
teriously announced ihat the third case had been with-
drawn. Just as the jury were leaving the box the plaintiff
in one of the cases came into court, and was surprised to
hear his little matter had been withdrawn.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day)

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Hill.)

THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A SOLICITOR.

Richard Austwick Westbrook, a solicitor, was charged on
the coroner's inquisition, with killing and slaying Jane
Janet Cathery, the grand jury having yesterday ignored
the bill against him for manslaughter.
Mr. Orridge said that as the grand jury were of opinion
that the death of the lady was caused by accident, he
should not, with permission of the Court, offer any evi-
dence on the present indictment.

The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and he was
discharged.

THE CASE OP BARON DE VIDIL.

Sergeant Ballantine, on behalf of the prisoner, applied to
his lordship to fix a day for the trial, in order that the
necessary arrangements might be made.

After a short discussion his lordship appointed Friday
next. The baron elected to be tried by a jury composed
entirely of Englishmen.

DR. GRIFFITH JONES'S CASE.

Dr. Griffith Jones was placed at the bar, indicted with
feloniously forging and uttering a certain will and testa-
ment, purporting to be the will of Sophia Bellis, deceased.
There was also another indictment against him for wilful
and corrupt perjury.

Sergeant Ballantine (with whom were Mr, Clark and
Mr. Giffard) made an application for the postponement of
the trial, on the ground that the evidence was of a very
voluminous nature, and that he had not had time to make
himself fully acquainted with the whole of it.
Sergeant Parry opposed the application.

His Lordship thought the request of the learned sergeant
might be granted, and therefore he would postpone the trial
till the first Wednesday in the next session.

CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.

James Roe, 42, a clergyman, was indicted for feloniously
forging an order for £6,000, with intent to defraud.

The facts of this case have already appeared in the The
Sun during the examination of the prisoner at the Bow-
street police-court. It will be recollected that the Rev. J.
Roe, the prisoner,was the nephew of Mr. E.Roe who had car-
ried on business in Macclesfield, and realised a fortune. The
prisoner anticipated that he would have been appointed re-
siduary legatee under the will of Mr. Roe, but that turned
out not to be the case, and he was simply left £5OO. The
will was made on the 26th of December, 1858, but a codicil
was added on the 30th, and on the Ist of January, 1859, he
died. The prisoner expressed his disappointment at the
directions of the document, and lodged a caveat in the pro
per aloe for the purpose of disputing the validity of the
will. After some correspondence the caveat was withdrawn
by agreement with the prisoner, but afterwards another party,
at the instance of the prisoner, filed a petition disputing
the will, and the cause was tried at Chester in April, 1860.
The petition did not suceeed, and it was suggested that the
prisoner having failed to become possessed of a conside-
rable part of the property of the testator, devised a scheme
to obtain the sum of £6,000 out of it. The will contained
a direction to pay all outstanding cheques at the
time of his death, and the prisoner went to the attorneys,
Messrs. Salmon and Coute, and told them that he had dis-
covered, by accident, a cheque for £6,000 drawn by the testa-
tor in his favour a day prior to his death, and he accounted
for the cheque not being presented until the 6th June, by the
circumstance that, as he had to make periodical visits to
Bath and Macclesfield, the letter containing the cheque had
been by some means overlooked. The payment was dis-
puted, and proceedings in Chancery were taken to recover
the amount, when circumstances arose which tended to show
that the cheque was a forgery, and the present trial arose
out of those proceedings. The letter enclosing the cheque,
the envelope, and the post marks thereon, were also alleged
to be forgeries.
(The case was not concluded when we went to press.)

NEW COURT.
(Before Commitisioner Kerr.)
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.

Thomas Stamford, clerk, 43, who was acquitted yester-
day on the charge of embezzling and stealing several sums
of money, the property of the South-Western Railway
Company, was again placed at the bar this morning on a
similar indictment.

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to 12 months' imprisonment,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULTS.—SEVERAL CASES.—Patrick
Mahoney, a rough-looking fellow, was charged before Mr.
Mansfield as follows :

Mr. Thomas Samuel Edwards, of the Black Horse, Tot-
tenham-court-road, said—Last night the prisoner came
into my house and used such vile language that all my
customers left. The prisoner, seeing that I was a cripple,
put himself in a fighting attitude, and on my attempting to
put him out he blackened my eye. With the assistance
of my young man I got him outside, when he jumped up
and broke a pane of glass of the value of 305., and also
tried to break another. 11e, then tried to kick me
in a delicate part, and struck rue twice on the head. The
irisoner has been a great annoyance to the neighbourhood
for years, only coming there when in St. Giles's his con-
duct was so bad that they would not serve him. His con•
duct was also beastly in the extreme.
A Constable—l have known the prisoner for 10 years,
your worship, and he has frequently been convicted for
assaults.

Mr. Mansfield—For assaulting the complainant you will
have to pay 405., or 2 months, and when the penalty is
paid, or the imprisonment has expired, you will have to pay
30s. or one month for the damage to the glass, so that in de-
fault of pa) ing you will have three months in all.
Susan Sullivan, Michael Sullivan, and John Hickey, all
low-looking persons, and who are said to frequent the
Haymarket nightly for the purpose of getting up rows so
that thieves may pick pockets, were also charged as
follows :

Smith, 327 A, said—l was in the Haymarket this morn-
ing when I heard screams of "murder,' and " police," and
on going to the spot I heard the female using the most dis-
gusting language. I attempted to take her into custody,
when she jumped up, kicked me, spat in my face, and used
the most fearful language. A young man came to my
assistance, when four men, of whom the male prisoners
are two, attempted to get the young man away, and got him
down, and while on the ground they kicked him repeatedly.
They had all been drinking.

Mr. Frederick Ensoll, draper, of Broad-street, Golden-
square, said—Seeing the last witness with the female, I
assisted him, when the female bit my finger. The male
prisoner then came up, threw me under an omnibus, and
while on the ground I was ki3ked several times, and but
for the assistance of some 'busmen I should have been
severely injured.

Sergeant Draper, 14 E--The female's language was the
worst I ever heard.

The female was fined 205., or a month, and the men 40s,
or two months each.

Thomas Wilson and Charles Calder were nest fined £5
each or a month, for an assault on Bartholomew Foley,
24 E.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states that a
great many Hungarian deserters are constantly arriving
there by railway, and are lodged by the municipality in the
suppressed convent of San Giacomo.
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The inaugural ad-
dress is to be delivered by Mr. Fairbairn on the evening of
Sept. 4, at Manchester. The members are to be invited to
partake of the hospitalities of the Earl of Ellesmere, at
Woraley, to the number of 600 on the 12th prox.
THE CRICKETERS' TRIP TO AUSTRALIA.—The
preparations for the departure of the cricketers of England
for Australia are nearly completed, the friendly and liberal
terms of the invitation recently received from the gentlemen
and players of Victoria having been cordially responded to.
The party will consist of 13 of our most eminent cricketers,
selected from the "All England Eleven" and the "United
Eleven." As the colonial players have attained a high de-
gree of proficiency great interest is evinced in both coun-
tries as to the results of the projected games. The list of the
players chosen to represent the " Old Country," in which
probably some changes may be made before the final selec-
tion is determined on, comprises the names of A. Diver, R.
Daft, T. Hayward, G. Anderson, H. Stephenson, J. Caesar,
J. Jackson, T. Hearne, R. Carpenter, J. Grundy, W.
Caffyn, G. Griffith, and T. Lockyer. H. H. Stephenson
has the management of the trip, in the place of G. Parr,
who is reluctantly compelled to decline accompanying the
expedition.

MANCHESTER, Aug. 20.—The market continues without
any material improvement. There is still the more cheer-
ful feeling in the yarn-market which set in towards the
exd of last week, but purchasers are generally holding back
except at low rates, and the business done is limited in
amount. Owing to the upward tendency of cotton, some
spinners are asking id. per pound advance, but probably
there is no alteration of price since last week, wherever sales
take place. The home-trade houses are operating more
freely in 60's to 80's. In the market for piece goods
the inactivity which prevailed all last week seems only
the more decided to-day. In 40 -inch shirtings there is
at present no business doing at all. Manufacturers have
been pretty well engaged, and therefore careless
about selling, but there contracts are now nin-
ing out, and some anxiety is shown. Prices are
nominally unchanged, but no sales could be made except
et a reduction of 3d. per piece. This applies to most India
and China goods, and other fabrics are generally dull, with
prices tending downward. The following is the report of
Messrs. J. Slagg and Co.:—" We have again to report a
very inanimate market and easier prices for nearly all kinds
of goods. Those more particularly adapted to the India
and China markets especially are neglected, and prices of
40-inch shirtings are fully 3d. per piece less than they were
a fortnight ago, and other sorts in proportion. Long-
cloths and T-cloths, though flat, are firm at last week's
quotations, being as a rule pretty well under contract."
LEEDS, 20th.—The weather is favourable to harvest,
even the showers which have fallen within these last few
days being rather beneficial to the crops. Hence the hopes
of cheap bread and collateral influences on trade and com-
merce keep the woollen manufacturers in good feeling, and
there is deemed to be a fair prospect of a good trade for the
winter. Still the market to-day has worn a quiet aspect,
and only a very moderate amount of business has been
done. The Lancashire houses aro not buying so freely as of
late, nor are the sanguine expectations which some enter-
tained about the demand for woollen goods under the
French treaty being realised, though., all things considered,
p, fair amount of goods will probably go into France from
this district as soon as the tariff comes into operation.

ROCHDALE, 19th.—There is a little better feeling in the
flannel trade, but the demand is scarcely equal to what is
usual at this time of year. To -day being the pleasure fair,
the market has been of quite a holyday character. Very
little business was done in either flannels or wool, but the
prices of both ruled steadily. Yorkshire goods are in
moderate request.