The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

HOW BUBBLE COMPANIES ARE FLOATED.

At the Guildhall, on Friday, Edwin Yelland, a pro. Whether it be true, as the Times suggests,
rooter of public companies, having offices at 26, New or not, that Mr. Disraeli makes a raid on the
Bridge-street, Blackfriars, and living at 25, Aldridge-road Constitution because it suits his political con-
Villas, Westbourne-park, was charged with obtaining I venience, or that Mr. Gladstone " immolates
money by false pretences. Mr. Lewis said that he ap.
the Church Establishment because in no other
peared to prosecute the prisoner crn several charges of obtain-
way can he get the wind of a daring and un-
ing money by false pretences. The first charge he would prove
was that of obtaining £lOO from Dr. Bartrat by fraud ; scrupulous antagonist," our course is clear in
the second of obtaining £2OO from Mr. Winscom ; the the coming elections. We have nothing to do
third, obtaining £lOO from Mr. Donaldson, and a fourth, I at present with the motives which impel Mr.
obtaining £5O from another person. The prisoner was a Gladstone to attack, or Mr. Disraeli to defend
"getter up" of companies, and amongst them he brought the Irish Establishment. The motives which
out the British Alliance Assurance Corporation (Limited). actuate these• rival politicians may go far to
At the outset he (Mr. Lewis) wished to state that that cora- entitle or to disentitle them to our confidence
pany had no connection with a very respectable company as future leaders of the country ; but in the
called " The Alliance British and Foreign Life Assurance I present elections all Catholics have to look
Society," which was extremely respectable, and there was to is, that no candidate receive any vote or
no doubt the prisoner intended to trade upon their repu- I support from nem who is not pledged to
tation by having the name as similar as the law 1 the disestablishment of the Irish Church. The
would allow him. An advertisement for two medical . issue is of the plainest and directest character.
officers was inserted in the Lancet, to which Mr. The minds of the Catholics of the United
Bartlett replied. He saw the prisoner Yelland, who stated I(ingdom, with the exception of a few mere
that the company was registered, that it was in full swing
o
n litical
partizans, whose opinion is not worth
•
and doing a large business, that they had agents all over • a button, are made up that Protestant ascend-
the country, and that Messrs. Valiance and Valiance were
symbolized and kept alive in the United
the solicitors to the company. Their names gave a stand- alleY7
ing to the society it did not merit, and My. Kingdom by the Irish Establishment, must be
y. Bartlett i
gave his hundred pounds to it with perfect confidence, 1 abolished root and branch. On this single
believing that the representations were true. But the 1 issue the elections depend. It is a great ques-
real fact was that those eminent solicitors had . tion, like Catholic Emancipation and the re-
never granted permission for their name to be used. i establishment of the Hierarchy in England, in
The next charge was that of Mr. Winscom, who was which every other question is involved, or by
appointed secretary to the company, at a salary of £5OO which for the moment, as being of lesser im-
a year, and by the representations of Yelland was port, is superseded. Consequently, Catholics
induced to part with £5O in cash, and three bills of £5O will have nothing to do with the comparative
each, the first of which had been paid, and the other merits of Whig or Tory candidates ; for the
two had been passed into the hands of innocent holders Tories are unfortunately, committed to the
to recover. Having secured a secretary, Yelland next support of 'Mr. Disraeli and Protestant ascend-
advertised for a solicitor, who was to pay £lOO down, but i ane
; choice
v No is left to us, therefore, but
that person being cautious, paid only £5O, and was to 14. -
to elect those who are pledged to carry Mr.
have paid the other £5O at a subsequent date. Yelland :
Gladstone's resolutions in the new Parliament.
then advertised for a chief clerk, and got him to '
Still less can there now be any question of the
invest £5O in this company, under the pretence that
policy of " levelling up," as Lord Mayo called
it was registered, and doing a good business. He
(Mr. Lewis) would be able to prove that there was it, for such a policy is under actual circum-
at that time no company, that no company was regis. stances not only a compromise of the absolute
tered, that the London and Westminster Bank which liberation, which before all things Ireland
was represented to be their banker was not their banker, stands in need of, from Protestant ascendancy,
and never had been, and that in point of fact they had not but it is also a delusion. For the instalment
one shilling to bank. There was an account opened there of the " levelling up " system, proposed by the
with £5O by Yelland in his own name, but that was soon Government in regard to the Catholic Univer-
drawn out. After these transactions had taken place the sity in Dublin, was of a character so objection-
company was registered, and the articles of association able in the eyes of the bishops as to necessitate
contained a clause that within twenty-eight days after an absolute rejection.
the allotment of the shares the prisoner, for parliamentary i
expenses, should be paid £3OO in cash and £6OO in fully- ' The struggle for the complete emancipation
of Ireland, and of Catholicism in the United
paid-up £1 shares. The IC3rd clause provided that
, Kingdom, from the Protestant ascendancy of
" The company shall have a managing director
a secretary, a solicitor, and bankers. The first and pre: bygone days, however prolonged, and how-
sent managing director is Edwin Yelland, Esq., whose ever severe, cannot fail in the end to be sac-
salary shall be £5OO per annum, commencing from the cessful. Judging from the temper of the pre-
registration of the company, payable quarterly, with sent House of Commons and from the cha-
a commission of 2 per cent. per annum, payable at the
racter of the new constituencies, which, at all
same time and manner, on the gross income of the 1 events, will be freer from the Protestant
company." So that the prisoner was to receive as his bigotry that still characterizes the less edu-
share £l,OOO in cash, £5OO in paid-up shares, 1'503 a year cated of the middle classes, we should say
salary, and 2 per cent. on the gross income of the company that the Establishment both in England and
for the part he hal taken in g3ttii g h company up. A in Ireland, will have strenuous opponents in
summons had been issue,], 1. ut the accused sent a medical the Parliament of household suffrage. But,
certificate, stating that he was unwell. Alderman Lusk
be that as it may, the duties of Catholics in
did not believe this, and sent a warrant officer for
the coming elections, it cannot be too often
him. Instead of being ill in bed as al' egel, Yelland '
reiterated, are of a simple and practical
was sitting in an arm-chair, after an excellent
repast. The learned counsel then proceeded to call character. One question has to be put and
answered, and on that answer depends their
evidence in support of his statement, and after the testi-
The election of every supporter of Mr.
mony of Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Henry Valiance bad been vote.
Gladstone and disestablishment is a Catholic
taken, Mr. Lewis applied for a remand. Alderman Finnis
success ; the return of a supporter of Mr.
remanded the prisoner, and agreed to take bail—two
Disraeli and of the Irish Establishment is a
suret'es in £SCO each, and himself in £l,OOO. Bail not
be:n: forthcoming when the van left, he was removed tc . Catholic loss. Don't let us have any mysti-
Newgate. • fications to blur the simple issue, or any voices
speaking with uncertain sounds. Plain and
direct speaking is the life and soul of elec-
tions. It will be our duty to chronicle the
progress of these surpassingly important and
interesting elections ; to record as each con-
stituency pronounces its verdict a triumph or
a defeat ; to hail the victorious supporter of
Mr. Gladstone as a friend ; to regard the
triumphant Tory as an enemy.
We cannot use clearer words to express our
views on the coming elections and on the posi-
tion which Catholics ought to take up in this
great crisis. But, after speaking out clearly
on the great issues now at stake, we wish also
distinctly to state that behind this great ques-
tion of Protestant ascendancy and spiritual in-
justice inflicted upon Ireland and upon Catho-
licism there is another question Of the gravest
importance, which will next claim a settlement
at the hands of the new Parliament, and in
the right settlement of which are involved the
highest spiritual interests of the nation. This
question is National Education. It is obvious
that our Liberal allies in the overthrow 'of
the Irish Establishment will be our most deter-
mined opponents in the question of education.
They are the advocates of the secular system,
we of the religious ; they are- hand and glove
with the impious Liberalism which all over the
world seeks the overthrow of Christian edu-
cation, we hold, with the Catholic Chiirch and
religious Protestants in England, that the
supporter of secular education is an enemy of
God and of the human race. With such antago-
nistic principles, it is clear, in spite of a tem-
porary alliance, there can be no lasting amity
between Catholics and Liberalism.—Westmin-
ster Gazette.

LAW AND FOLICE.

THE GREAT SPIRITUALIST CASE.—Vice-Chancellor Gif-
fard has had the case of Lyon v. Home before him. In
the present instance the application was on behalf of the
defendant to vary a certificate which had Leen prepared in
chambers, finding sums amounting in the aggregate to
£964 6s. 9d. to be Cala from him on account of
sums received by way of dividends and others.
Mr. Home claimed to have this amount diminished by
the sum of £173 Is. 10d., representing the sums which
had been paid by Mrs. Lyon by way of brokerage,
on the various occasions of the sales and transfers of
stock which had been effected by her in pursuance of the
bountiful intentions which she at one time entertained for
the defendant ; and also the sums which had been paid by
Mrs. Lyon to Mr. Wilkinson by way of costs for the pre-
paration of Mrs. Lyon's will in favour of Mr. Home. Mr.
Druce, Q.C., for Mrs. Lyon, asked whether the defendant
would 1 e willing to pay the balance, consisting of
£79143. 11d. into court within six weeks, in which case
the discussion of the questions involved might be deferred
until Michaelmas term. This course having been assented
to, the Vice-Chancellor made an order for the payment
by the defendant of the balance within the time men-
tioned, and directed the rest of the summons to stand

over.
DAMAGES FOR MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.—At the tiara-
bridge Assizes the care of Cockle v. Blow, which was an
action for damages on account of a malicious prosecution,
was beard. The plaintiff was engaged by the defendant,
who is a farmer, to convey 1 utter to a wholesale dealer.
In January last this person stated that no butter had
reached her for some time past, and in the end the
plaintiff was charged with felony, but acquitted at the
sessions. The jury-awarded £2O damages.
ARSON AND SHEEP-STEALING.—At the same assizes,
Jonathan Breed pleaded guilty to setting fire to a stack of
wheat at East Hatley, and a's) to feloniously killing a
sheep, both of them the property of the same owner, Mr.
Edwards. It appeared that the prisoner, having had a
quarrel with his master, out of revenge first set fire to the
stack, destrcying property worth £2OO, and then killed one
of his master's sheep. He was sentenced to twelve years'
penal servitude.
THE MURPHY RIOTS AT / SITON.—At the Manchester
Assizes, John Flynn, 28 ; Daniel Fla,naghan, 39 ; Patrick
Hanley, 49 ; Edward Kenny, 22 ; Patrick Cerny, 27 ;
Robert Duff, 22 ; Wm. Cusick, 58 ; Thomas Harley, 19 ;
Lawrence Delaney, 19 ; James M`Dermot, 18; Patrick
Quinn, 16 ; and James Flannery, 65, were indicted for riot
and assault at Ashton-under-Lyne on the 10th May. The
case was briefly stated by the counsel for the prosecution,
and after the examination of one or two witnesses the
case was adjourned to the succeeling day.
THE MURDER OF A COM3IERCIAL TRAVELLER.—At the
Shrewsbury Assizes, George Harris, a chainmaker, was
indicted for the wilful murder of Barnard Zusman, at
Stuckley;on the 15th of November 1867. There are
seventy witnesses in the case. It was proved that the
deceased left the Rose and Crown Inn with a blackoiled
case, containing watches and chains. He stated that he
should return to dinner, but never did so. On the day
that the deceased was murdered the prisoner exhibited
two n w watches and a chain. When the person to whom
the prisoner shewed the things was summoned to the
coroners's inquest the accused said he would give him
a watch if he (witness) would tell the jury that
on the remnirg of the murder he had seen the de-
ceased at Dawle3 , in company with a strange man carrying
an oil-cased parcel, with a strap round it." On the day of
the last inquest witness was returning from the court with
the prisoner, and in the course of the conversation about
the murder, he said, " I'll lose my heart before I
split." After hearing some further evidence, the court
adjourned till the subsequent day.

The mortal remains of Lord Cranworth were
on Friday deposited in the churchyard of Keaton, a retired
village a few miles beyond Bromley, in Kent, and close to
his lordship's seat, Holwood Park.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council sat on Friday at the
Privy Council Office, Whitehall, on the subject of the
cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President
and Lord Robert Montagu.

FORGERY OF BANK NOTES.—We have to caution
the public against a rather well-executed forgery of the
£lO note of the Bank of Ireland—the first, we believe, that
has appeared of that bank for a number of years. The
difference between the genuine notes and the forgery is,
perhaps, more readily 'perceived by a comparison of the
vignettes or figures and the word " Ten" at the sides. The
forgery which has appeared also bears date 1866, whereas
there is no genuine note of that denomination dated in
that year.—Freemen's Journal
STATE OF THE CROPS IN IRELAND. —Rain lins
fallen more ur less all over the north of Ireland, and a
decided improvement is reported in the green crops
everywhere. Potatoes seem now safe to be a
very fine crop abundant and good. Turnips have
I,i2en improved by the rains ; but, as a whole,
they will be deficient. hay has been well secured
light but good. Oats have improved in some quarters,
but the complaint of shortness in the straw is very general.
Wheat bids fair to be as good a crop as it is possible to
have it. Everyone speaks of it as strong, tall, and
healthy. Flax-pulling is very general, but the return
will decidedly be below the average. Steeping is
going on, but under difficulties, as water is very scarce
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