The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-04 00:00:00

ATCraga Amount
Pease a Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 35,434
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten awl C 0... 10,056
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter-
borough—M's'rs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson
and White
Pezenrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven.
and Co

FRANCE.
The Legitimatists and parti-pretre, by uniting with
the Mountain, managed on Wednesday to secure a
victory over the Ministers, and to defeat the progress
of a measure which they profess to have most
sincerely at heart. M. Parrieu, the Minister of
Public Instruction, proposed that the law pre-
sented by the Ministers, giving to the prefects
the power of dismissing the schoolmasters of primary
schools should be declared urgent, and he went
through all the usual accusations which hare any
time for the last six months been brought
forward by the parti-pretre against these school-
masters; but, strange to say, ho found him-
self opposed by M. Berryer and the
parti-pretre, on the ground that if the law presented
were passed it might occasion the indefinite post-
ponement of the discussion on the organic law. The
Mountain were but too glad to secure the co-operation
of the parti-pretre, and the strange sight was presented
of MM. Berryer and Jules Favre voting together
against MM. Parrieu and Mole—the result was a tie,
the numbers being on each side 312 ; the victory,
th,!refore, remains with the Mountain : and if there
be any truth in the complaints of M. Berryer
and his friends, that Socialism is on the
increase among the peasantry in consequence of the
propaganda carried on by the primary schoolmasters,
he has now only himself to thank for its continuance.
The real victory is in this instance that of the Moun-
tain, R ho, by exploiting the hatred and bigotry of
the Legitimatists and parti-pretre, have not only pre-
vented the dismissal of the Socialist schoolmasters,
but have succeeded in breaking up the majority.

in the possession of Lourio or Gordon, and that he
had no warrant to apprehend any of the prisoners.
Meyers Lemuel Cohen, Hebrew teacher of reading
anti writing—l am acquainted with the language in
which the letters produced are written, and the
translations produced are correct.
The following are extracts from the correspondence
produced in evidence :
Jacobson to Faderman.

7,04 2

10,125

N 5, .
" To Zadoe Faderman—l duly tr
receivedov. yourlB let titer
this morning at ten o'clock, and have already sent this
day a letter to our people. I did not receive up to this
day any tidings from our people. I hope to receive some
on Monday, and as soon as I receive any I will imme-
diately send some money as you request. You make me
in your precedent letter surly remarks that I did not pay
the postage for the letter. Ido swear you by life that I
did pay for the letter, including the pass, 18 Hambro'
shillings. Ido not understand, therefore, why you had
to pay again. It was written on the letter ' free. I did
not receive any letter from home; but it is, thank God,
quiet. My compliments to Bersig and our friend Aaron-
son. I have already had some brandy, and did remem-
ber you also, but it is of no use.—your friend for ever,
" JACOSON."
This was written on the back of the precedinßg letter
in Hebrew
My Friend,—lt must not cause any wonder to you
that I did not write within 13 days. First, you do know
exactly what;a fine man }leis; second, the work requires
very much time, though the other
glung' is finished
just at I wrote you.—(Laughter.) There has also been
a great deal of correction. It lasted up to this day.
Third, you do know the money is gone, and your friend
still wants 41. up to to-morrow, and they have invested
in business since our departure 201.; but, thank God!
this day wo took off the second sort without mistake, and
I hope this evening to take off the goods, and also to be
able to send a transport. This day will I forward, but,
by the assistance of God, it will not be later. To-mor-
row evening will I positively take off the goods. I will
write to morrow to our people in what way I intend to
take the goods off."
" Jacobson to Zadoc Federman.
" Berlin, Nov. 14, 89.
This day I received a letter from oar friend, 1
with a
bill amounting to 400 rix dollars. Our friend Moses
Almog excuses himself as having not sent in so long a
time while ho had no letter from us, but I believe he has
not sent it for the reason while the fourth class was in
the way. He feels happy that you have commenced the
enterprise of 15,000. I have sent you a bill of 201. on
Daxat and Co., in Bishopsgate-street. I fsel great
trouble here respecting the chart of sojourn. When you
come, please God, -you should begin your passport in
Hawburgh again. You should take a declaration from
the captain, stating that you came with him from Lon-
don, and you should say to the police that you were re-
turned from Hawburgh to London; therefore is he to
state that you have been all this time in Hamburgb,
otherwise the pass will not do. Don't neglect the cap-
tein's declaration. I paid seven-rix dollars for a pound,
so that the bill came to 140 rix dollars. Our friend
Moses Alosog says the goods were good—nothing more.
" Your friend,

Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 24,304
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co 25,138
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 4,76'
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood.% Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 7,566
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 11,992
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 11,719

8,226

5,056

Rye flank, Rye—Ponafret and Co.
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
1 Co
Ross (Jkl Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Alla,--y 3,810
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and Co 21,871
Shrewsbury Olt Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and Co
Sittingbourne an.l Miiton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Valiance and Son 3,088
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton —Maddison and Pearce ll,lBO
Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co 13,181
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story —
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie —
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and
King.......... .........
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall . 3,545
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,718
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragz, and Co
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Cc 11,017
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old But!;, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welsbpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.
St. Alban's and Hefts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFFS' COUR7; Jan. 3.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuacuELL.)
THE DOWAGER LADY SLIGO v. RUSSELL.
This was an inquiry to assess damages in an action
brought by the lion. Hester Catherine, Marchioness
Dowager Sligo, against a gentleman named Russell,
to recover damages for a breach of contract.
Mr. P. TAYLOR appeared for the plaintiff, and stated
that it would not be necessary for him to call any
evidence, as the defendant, by buffering judgment to
go by default, had admitted that the allegations in the
declaration were true, and the principal of these alle-
gations was, that the defendant was indebted to Lady
Sligo in the sum of 2501. under these circumstances :--
In March, last year, Lady Sligo agreed to let, for a
term of two years, and the defendant agreed to take,
the house, No. 2, Mansfield-street, Portland-place,
together with the household furniture it contained, at
5001. a year, the payments to be made six months in
advance, 2501. to be paid down on the agreement
being perfected. The defendant, however, had failed
to make any payments whatever, and the plaintiff
instituted these proceedings to recover. The Learned
Counsel abandoned all claim to interest.
Verdict for the plaintiff, damages 2501.

son and Stuart
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs.Badcock 20,754
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co
Thornhury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and Barne
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 11,020
Triag Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Tor:nester Old Bank, Toweester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, llelston—Vivian and
Co.
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, smith,
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, IVallingfor,l—Allnatt &Co 5,925
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Greenway and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox
Brothers
West Riding. Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wa:efiehl—Leatham, Tew, and Co 37,000
Whitby 01(1 Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 12,481
Winchester, Alresford, and Altoii Bank, Win-
chester--Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Ban'-,
Weymouth--Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ash bourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gum.ey and Co.
Wivelisewrabe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricl:e and Ifolyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,
and Co.
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 67
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster—.
Everett and Co.
Wolverhampton
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten ...
York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and C 0.... 38,754

6,863

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 3.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS alon3 sat, and disposed o:
►cn cases.

JACOBSON.
" I make my compliments to your good" friend Bersig
and also Aaronson."

8,261

"Aaronson to Jacobson.

James Bickerton,' a hat-manufacturer in Bread-
street, Cheapside, came up on th 3 question of certifi•
cate. There was no opposition, but the Commissioner
suspended it for six months.

" Sunday, half-Fast one, Dec. 2, 1849.
" Friend Jacobson,—We feel how uneasy you must
feel. We had decided not to write you until the goods
would be sent off; but, friend, be easy. All is, thank
God, quiet an i well.—(Laughter.) The goods are
finished, only the numbers aro wanting on the jongnas'
(the young ones). All is packed. Friend, I hope I
shill succeed, as I do swear you, by all that is sacred, I
have held the goods in my hand. To-morrow morning
they will commence numbering; to-morrow evening we
will take off all:that:will be finished, end. Tuesday evening
they will altogether be:sent off if God pleases. We leave
cn Wednesday, at ten o'clock, for Rotterdam. The trans-
port will have Tuesday evening by Hamburgh.
Await us all with happiness, which wishes your
friend " AARONSON,"
The following is written in another handwriting
immediately beneath
" Friend Jacobson.—l follow in the words above men-
tioned, th&t it is all the real truth ; therefore, if you
v.ish to write to our friend you will see that there is
nothing to fear, I will write to you on Tuesday re-
specting my departure from here. This is the last letter
Horn here, and we will, if God pleases, be off on Wed-
nesday morning, with your above-mentioned friend,
and I will send the transport on Tuesday night next. I
have no doubt that you will send the money as you
have written, 125 rix dollars, and to-morrow morning
I hope to answer. Without this we cannot move from
this place. You may believe me, I have no more than
1/. " Your friend, " Z. F. M."
The last letter read was from Jacobson to Fader-
man, dated November 29, 1849, and contained the
notes of the Bank of England and Prussia. The fol-
lowing is an extract :
" I received this day your letter, and I send you 151.
English currency by notes, and 20 rix dollars in paper
currency on Prussia. I did not write to our people, as
I do not know what to state, and I am besides con-
sidered by them as A liar, and if I should write them
they will not believe me. I feel rather troublesome
here with my chart of sojourn, as Berlin is not London.
I fear I af.all be forced to leave Berlin."
Mr. L. J. Doxat, jun., of 13, Bishopsgate-
street-without, merchant—l produce a bill drawn on
our house for 201. in favour of Zidoe Faderinan. Ii
was presented on the 19th of September for accept-
ance, and was paid on the 21st.
Daniel Forrester produced a piece of paper, which
he said he found upon the person of Lourio, and upon
which was written " 13, Bishoplgate-street-withcut."
Mr. Clarkson intimated that the case only waited
the presence of a commissioner from Russia.
Alderman GIBBS then directed that the depositions
should be signed, and that the prisoners should be
brought up on Tuesday, in order, if the necessary
witness should by that time have arrived, to be com-
mitted for trial.

7,177

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
NIANSION-HOUSE.
Federman, Lourio, and Gordon, the foreigners who
stand charged with having forged a vast number of
notes in imitation of the issue of the Imperial Bank of
Russia, were brought before Alderman Gibbs for
further Examination.
Mr. Clarkson, instructed by Mr. Peachey, of the
house of Oliverson and Co., of the Old Jewry, at-
tended for the Russian Government; Mr. Isaacs at-
tended for Faderman, and Mr. Norton for Lourio and
Gordon. The justice-room was crowded, and the
investigation lasted during the greater part of the day.
The following is the substance of the additional
evidence brought forward for the prosecution
Catherine Dillon said, I lived in August at 19,
Church-street, Rotherhithe, and on the 24th of that
month a person took lodgings at my house, and
brought two persons, one of whom was Faderman,
who remained in them five weeks. Lourio and Gor-
don were in the habit of visiting Faderman, and I
remember an Englishman, whose face I did not see,
but. whose height and size corresponded with Mr.
I eger's, going upstairs to visit him also.
Vincent Poeleski, a Polish exile—l reside at No.
5, Surrey place, Thomas-street Kennington. On
the 29th of September Faderman came to lodge at
my house. Pour or five days previously Lourio and
Gordon came to take the lodging, and said they
wanted it for two gentlemen for a couple of weeks,
or perhaps longer. Another gentleman, whose
name was Jacobs or Jacobson, came along with
them. Jacobson went away about three weeks
afterwards. Federman occupied the lodging until he
was apprehended, and Lourio and Gordon, but no
other foreigners, came frequently to visit him. A week
before the 3d of December Faderman said be should
leave my house shortly and go home. After Jacobson
left he said he expected some letters, which would be
directed to me at my house, and he crme directly the
postman knocked, and took the letter produced. I
saw him open it and take something out of it, and I
saw him take out a 51. note, a 101. note, and some
foreign notes. The letter has the name of Federman
in the corner. There were two or three letters
marked in the same manner brought to my house,
and whenever the postman knocked Faderman came
down as if expecting one. On the Monday evening
he was apprehended he went out between eight and
nine o'clock with Lourio and Gordon, and said he
should not be long gone, but he never returned. I
sat up for him that night. I recollect a man !with a
white shawl calling at nine o'clock that morning.
Cross-examined by Mr. Norton—l have been in
this country about fourteen years, and I have lived at
six or seven different places during that time. I have
known Gordon, who was the person who took the
lodgings of me, about a year. I did not visit Fader-
man before he came to my place.
Reuben Brillman, of 6, Aldgate, watch-manufacturer
—I know Lourio, by the name of Lourio Aaronson.
He lodged in my house for nearly two years. I think
I have seen him write, but very seldom, and can't
remember when ; it was in a foreign language. I dare
say I could form an opinion of his handwriting. I
can't say whether the letter produced is his hand-
I think he writes a finer hand. I don't think this is his
writing. If I could see his handwriting I dare say I
could form an opinion of it.
Mr. Clerkson—Do you know a man of the name of
Jacobs or Jacobson ? Mind what you say. Be
cautious.
Witness—Jacobs or Jacobson. No, Ido not.
By Mr. Norton—Jacobs and Jacobson are corn-
men names among the Jews, and upon my oath, I
don't know any person, I think, of the name.
Mr. Clarkson—What ! don't you know any person
named Yacobson
Witness—Yes, I know Moses Yacobson, but it's
in the Bible I know him.—(Laughter.)
Alderman GIBBS—What ! is Moses Yacobson in
your Bible ? I assure you Mr. Moses Yacobson is
not in my copy.—(Great laughter.) Witness—He is
in mine.—(Laughter.) I don't know any other.
Daniel Forrester, the officer—l assisted in taking
Lourio and Gordon into custody at the house of Mr.
Feger, at Aldgate, at a little after nine o'clock, on
the 3d of December. My brother and another were
with me. I pushed the door open, and Lourio and
Gordon were standing with their faces towards me
when I entered. We secured them, and I took from
Lourio a letter, which was partly in his pocket. On
the lefthand side, on the counter, there were two or
three parcels of notes. One was done up, or partly
done up, in paper, I think ; and on a bench facing
the door, at the back of Lourio and Gordon, lay three
copper plates, which I produce, and a fourth I took
from the witness Sanson (Mr. Feger's apprentice),
who was in the shop. Neither Lourio nor Gordon
asked why they were taken into custody. I went
out to look for a third man, but not finding him
I returned to the shop and asked Lourio and Gordon
what they were doing there, and what they came for?
Gordon said he was a capmaker, and that he came
for some cards. Lourio said that he was a dealer in
watches at the Custom-house, as I understood him,
and he wanted some cards or something of that kind.
Mr. Feger then came down stairs, and I asked him,
pointing to Lourio and Gordon, what these men
wanted there ? He told me they had given him orders
to engrave plates and print notes. Neither Lourio
nor Gordon said anything. I afterwards took from
Lourio some papers, which I produce. Lourio gave
me his address as No. 6, Aldgate, and I went there,
I think, on the sth of December, in company with
my brother, and saw Brillman, who pointed out the
room occupied by Lourio, and the drawers generally
used by him, and I found there the papers I produce.
On the 4th of December, 1849, I went to Kennington,
to the house of Mr. Poeleski, who showed me Fa-
derman's room, and I found there in adrawer a pocket.
book containing some letters.
Cross-examined—I had no warrant when I went
to Mr. Feger's shop. I went there by appointment
with him. Lourio and Gordon were handcuffed as
soon 23 we took them into custody.
The witness, on re-examination, said, he had had
information of the proceedings of the prisoners from
time to time long before their apprehension.
John Forrester, brother to the last witness, pro-
duced parcels of the spurious notes which he had
found in Mr. Feger's shop. He believed them to be
imitations of Russian 10 rouble notes. After the

7,896

5,349

19,056

3,780

7,98

9,854

1,635

Bank,

14,90
Wolverhampton—

11,810

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,313
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford
20,504
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington .
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 10,591
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 17,223
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,870
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington 14,451
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 121,015
Hallfax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,826
Hull Banking Company, Hull 20,456
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha-

LAMBETH.
Yesterday Mary Glennon, a girl 14 years of age,
was finally examined before Mr. Elliott, on a charge
of wilfully setting fire to the dwelling-house of Mr.
John Campbell Nelson, a gentleman residing at No.
20, Church-street, Old Kent road.
The prisoner, who declined saying anything in
defence, was fully committed to take her trial on the
capital charge of arson.

SOOTHIVARK.
Mr. William George Watts, solicitor, of Bermond-
sey-street, attended for the purpose of giving infor-
mation of a most daring attack and highway robbery,
perpetrated by three ruffians on himself, on Wednesday
night, in the vicinity of this court.
The applicant was recommended to proceed to the
station-house at the rear of the court, and to relate all
the facts connected with so daring a
highway robbery
to the inspector on duty, particularly as it was perpe-
trated in a thoroughfare so near at hand. The appli-
cant :expressed his intention of adopting the above
advice, and left. the court for that purpose.

How TO CURE CORNS • —..I2HE BAKERS V. THE
CHIROPODIST.—Some few da)
s ago our town was ho-
noured by the visit of an itinerant " professor " of the
art of removing corns from the feet of the afflicted
" without cutting or causing the slightest pain." No
sooner had he arrived than be issued his circulars, and
deluded by the specious promises set forth in the an-
nouncement, two respectable bakers of the town, martyrs
rplacing themselves under the
cordiegly
operations were duly performed
they became patients
"professor's"
of p corns,trhoefechiropodist—the
determined
hands.Ap
—and the fees were paid. Bu', unfortunately, in the
course of a short time the men of dough became dissatis-
fied with their bargain. Their feet began to bleed and
they hunted the corn-doctor from house to house, de-
manding a return of the money, To this
application he
refused to accede, but they determined on obtaining
satisfaction by some means or other. They pursued him
all over the town, and pummelled him so severely in the
Arcade, that the fellow thought he should best consult
his own comfort by at once bidding adieu to Chelten
ham.—Cheltenham Journal.

ax
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Coin-
piny, Halifax 33,614
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,609
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 15,926
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 20,430
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,850
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 44,174
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 43,945
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,160
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 27,509
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham ..... 40,335
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton.. 63,210
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 25,136
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-
cester .
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,561
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 33,469
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ...
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbridge
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,
Sheffield .... ~..
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
aleda Company,l Shln
,3ileid
e 48,140
S
Isleydale Banking Company,
Richmond ...
Storey a
Swaledale and v
and Thomas's Banking Company
Shaftesbury
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield :.. -
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhampton,
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 10,420
Whitehaven Joint -Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven
Warwick and Letimington Banking Company,
Warwick ., 26,087
West of Englana and South Wales District
Bank. Bristol
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 66,115
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield
32,900
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch .. .....
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester .. ................ ,
York Union Banking Company, Y0rk3,491
York City and County Banking C0mpany,52,935
York 83,143
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leedsll9,3ll
P. DENS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Inland ReT9ll29,.Sonaerset_Howse, Dec, 29, 1849.

DEAF AND DUMB TEA PARTY..--We (Manchester
Guardian) witnessed last night, for a few minutes, a
very interesting scene in a social party of deaf and
dumb persons, held at Wovendeu's pining-rooms, Mar-
ket-street. The occasion of the meeting was to celebrate
the anniversary of an association formed by pupils who
have quitted the establishment on the Stretford-road, and
who meet every Sunday for the purpose of receiving
religious instruction apart from the distinctive tenets of
any sect. A similar institution exists in Edinburgh, the
present being the 20th year of its duration; and another
in London, the anniversary of which was also celebrated
last night. The members of the Manchester association
had assembled to the number of about 100, mostly young
men and women, and all evidently in the enjoyment of
high cheerfulness and spirits. After tea, speeches were
made through the medium of the deaf and dumb alpha-
bet, and were regarded with manifest interest and atten-
tion. Miss Knight, the matron of the institution, aided
by her assistants, Miss Magson, Miss Harrison, and Miss
Goodwin, had the rare fortune of presiding at these
silent tea tables. Mr. James Herriott took the chair in
the latter part of the evening, and there were alsc present
Mr. Marsden, of Wakefield; Mr. Whitfield, of Dublin;
Messrs. Magson, Hogg, &c. It is the intention of this
association to build a chapel as soon as they can obtain
the necessary funds. The liberal spirit in which they
accommodate the form of their worship to fellow-sufferers
of all sects, ought to earn for them support in the pro-
motion of this object.
Captain Washington, Tidal Harbour Commissioner,
who was officially instructed to make a personal survey
in the neighbourhood of Ulverston as to the site for a
monument to be erected to the memory of the late Sir
John Barrow, Bart., Assistant Secretary to
i the Ad-
miralty, to combine the twofold object of its being
placed near to the birth•place of the deceased Baronet,
and at the same time so situated as to be of practical
utility as a seamark to vessels navigating Morecambe
Bay, has reported that he confiders the fill of Hoad,
at Ulverston, the best site; and that the committee in
London. and Sir Francis Beaufort, hydrographer to the
Admiralty, have coincided in the report. All matters
considered, we concur in opinion with the Gallant Cap-
tain, that the site is the best that could possibly have been
selected.—Cumberland Facquet.
lk", second son of Mr. W. Elp:tiek, of
STEINING.—We regret to state that while Mr.
James E[thic
Court Farm, was oat shooting the day after Christmas-
day, his gun burst (a double barrel), and shattered his
left hand in a frightful manner. Amputation of the
thumb was obliged -to be porlormed at once; and we
hear that Mr. Elphick is now going on favourably.—
Brighton Gazette.

1,640

apprehension of Lourio and Gordon he went to Ken-
nington and apprehended Faderman, near the Com-
mon, at half-past 1 o'clock in the morning. He
found upon Faderman the letter described by Mr.
Poe!eski, and elso a 101. and a 51. note and four

Prussian notes, which were in the letter referred to.
The witness sail, in cross examination, that neither
of the parcels of imitation notes produced was found

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1850

JURY
_COURT, EDINBURGH.

GERRARD OR KAY V. WILSON.
This was an action of damages for seduction, in
which Mrs. Mary Ann Gerrard or Kay, and Joseph
Kay, her husband, residing in Edinburgh, were pur-
suers, and the trustees of the late William Ralph
Wilson, sometime residing in Edinburgh, and after-
wards in Glasgow, were defenders.
The facts of the case, as stated for the pursuer,
were--that in the year 1839, while living with her
maternal aunt, Mrs. Banks, of the Crown and An-
chor Tavern, High-terrace, Edinburgh, the pursuer
(then Mary Ann Gerrard) became acquainted
with Wilson, at which time she was only fifteen
years of age. Two years afterwards Wilson paid
his formal addresses to her, and obtained her consent
to marry him. He continued his visits for a con-
siderable time, and often accompenied Miss Gerrard
to church, the theatre, and other public places, for
amusement and recreation, and introduced her to
his friends as a lady for whom he had the highest
respect and the most honourable intentions, and
whom he intended to make his wife. In consequence
of indisposition he went to reside at Seafield Cottage,
near Roslin, from which he addressed a letter on the
30th of September, 1844, pleading guilty to a great
negligence in not writing, and hoping Miss Gerrard
would excuse him, and he " would be a better boy in
future." He requested in this letter that she would
meet him at the theatre at one o'clock the next day,
and then, says his epistle—
" Together we'll commune,
As lovers do when standing all apart;
No one o'erhears the whispers of their heart
Save the all silent moon."
He proceeds :—" (lave any of my kind friends been
giving you any further accounts of my (to you) in-
visible visits to town? If so, I hope you have more
sense than to pay any attention to them. We only
require to have confidence in one another to place
them at defiance, even with their mighty catalogue of
hints and insinuations:—
" ' Thrice happy is that bumble pair
Beneath the level of all care,
Over whose head those arrows fly
Of sad distrust and jealousy;
Secured in as high esteem
As if the world had none but them.'
" It is now eleven o'clock forenoon, so I will walk
over to Roslin, and post this note myself; if you do
not get it to-morrow morning, therefore, the fault is
not mine. The road is a pretty one, so I promise
myself a small extra amount of enjoyment from the
walk. Would you were with me.
"'For now, my love! my Mary bright!
The merrie lark is upl
The sun hash kissed with lip of light
The daisy's silver cup.
All pretty things are moving now,
Like dreams in azure light;
For none are half so sweet as neon!
'Tis true 1 my wee—wee bright.'
"That will do for a finish, I calculate • so adieu
till to morrow. Yours ever, W. R. W."
The intimacy of Miss Gerrard and Mr. Wilson
daily increased, and Mr. Wilson frequently informed
the servants in Mrs. Banks's that they were married,
and when he called he asked for Mrs. Wilson. In
October, 1844, he expressed his distress and unhappi-
ness at the delay which must take place in the marriage,
in consequence of some pecuniary matters which re-
quired to be arranged. The intimacy still continued,
and issued in the birth of a female child on the 24th of
July, 1845. As her confinement drew near, Gerrard
became anxious to get formally married, upon which
her aunt wrote to Wilson, informing him of her
niece's situation, and pressing upon him the necessity
of marriage. To this letter Wilson wrote an answer,
addressed to the pursuer, in which he assigns his de-
licate state of health as the cause of the delay, and
states that his doctor had recommended him not
to marry, and upbraided them for the feeling they
showed in pressing a man from what seemed his death
bed to be a principal agent in a marriage ceremony.
He adds, "I think your plan of getting over the
matter quietly at your aunt's, and then proceeding
home, is the best and wisest plan for both of us."
Several copies of verses were included in the corre-
spondence, among which is a " poem addressed to
Mary Ann," by her lover, concluding thus :--
"Dear Mary Ann, then remember me,
Remember all I've said to thce;
And my responsive pledge shall be,
I'll love but thee."
Several other letters passed between the parties re-
lative to the marriage, until Wilson died of consump-
tion at Glasgow, on the 11th of June, 1845. In the
case of multiple-poindinte, brought by the defenders
against the pursuer and others, the pursuer, inter
a'ia, claimed damages -for seduction ; but the compe-
tency
of investigating and assessing damages in such a
case was disputed, and the present case, therefore,
became necessary. Several points in this statement
of facts were disputed by the defenders.
The case went to trial on the issue, whether the
pursuer, being a virtuous person, was seduced by
Wilson. Damages were laid at 1,000/.
The Lord Advocate addressed the Court for the
pursuers, and after the examination of several wit-
nesses in support of the claim, the Dean of Faculty
replied for the de'enders.
The Lord President then summed up, and
The jury having retired, returned in a few minutes
with a verdict, unanimously finding fur the pursuers—
Damages, 201.—Edinburgh Courant.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Lord John Hay, C.B. M.P., and the Hon. W.
Cowper, M.P., have returned to the Admiralty, so
that all the members of the board are now in town.
THE COAST-GUARD PROMOTIONS.

Captain Robert Kerr, who has obtained the annual
recommendation for promotion entered the navy in
December, 1819, passed his examination in 1826, ob-
tained the rank of lieutenant August, 1828, was ap
pointed to the Arachne, 18, and served in her two
years in the West Indies ; was appointed to the
Conway, 28, in February, 1832, served in her in the
Pacific, and subsepiently from the 6th May, 1837,
served in the Castor, 36, in the Mediterranean ; was
promoted to the rank of commander June, 1838,
since which time he has not been afloat, but has been
employed in the coast guard since 1842. We must
confess that, notwithstanding all the above details of
service afloat and ashore, we have failed to discover
any such commanding claims for promotion to the
rank of captain, over, at least, 500 commanders on the
list.

The lieutenants promoted to the rank of com-
mander are—John Ellis Knight (1815), Joseph
Brown (1825), and John Samuel William Grandy
(1842).
Commander Knight is in the 59th year of his age,
and has served in the coast guard since 1831, being
unable to procure any other employment. Inde-
pendently, however, of his coast-guard service, for
which he has received numerous strong testimonials,
and especially so for his exertions in saving the lives
of 19 of the crew and passengers belonging to the
ship Bainbridge, of Halifax, wrecked in a heavy gale
off the Isle of Wight, Commander Knight, from his
entry into the navy in 1807, saw some hard service
during the war. According to "Byrne's Biography,"
he was in the expedition of 1809 to the Scheldt, when
he was engaged on shore in the defence of the fort of
Baltbz, when in vain attacked by a flotilla
under the orders of the French Rear-Admiral
Massieasey. Previously to _ the _ evacuation of

the Waleheren he accompanied Captain Dolling
into the Beagle sloop, commanded afterwards by
Captain John Smith, with whom he continued until
October, 1813, assisting during that period at the
cutting out of two gun-boats under Cape Grisnez, the
destruction of part of a convoy near Calais, the cap-
ture of three armed and other smugglers (services for
which Captain Dolling and a master's mate were each
promoted), and the reduction and fortification, during
the investment of St. Sebastian, of the important
island of Santa Clara. From November, 1813, until
August, 1815, Mr. Knight was further employed as
midshipman and master's mate in the Lightning, 20,
Captains Bentinck Cavendish Doyle and George
Rennie, on the Channel and Cork stations. Being
then awarded a commission dated on the tat of the
previous March, he was appointed, Jan. 5, 1827, to
the coast blockade, as supernumerary lieutenant of
the Ramilies, 74, Captain Hugh Pigot ; from which,
however, he was obliged, in October, 1829, to retire,
in consequence of a severe rupture of the left groin,
received in the execution of his duty, but for which
he has never been able to obtain remuneration.
Commander Joseph William Brown entered the
navy in Iso7, passed his examination in 1814, and
was promated in 1825, and has been almost constantly
employed in the revenue service, either in command
of a cutter or a station, ever since. His last command
was the Portsmouth district

Wind, north-west.

Commander Grandy entered the navy in April,
1823, passed his examination in 1831, was appointed
to the coast guard in 1839, was promoted from that
service at the annual promotion in 1842, was re-
appointed to the revenue service as a lieutenant, and
has had the command of two or three cutters. Com-
mander Grundy is a lucky officer.
On the, whole, we do not think the coast-guard
promotions for 1849 will give universal satisfaction to
the officers employed in that service.—Herald.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—The following is from the
Arrogant Journal of the 18th ult., a newspaper got
up entirely (printing included) on board the Arrogant,
46, Captain Fitzroy, principally by the wardroom
officers, one of whom (Lieutenant A. D. Dundas)
has his name affixed as the sole proprietor :
" ARROGANT v. POMONE.
" Fate has decreed that the Arrogant should be
pitched against that very ship of all others which has
been held up as a pattern to our naval architects and a
terror to the Admiralty, and under such peculiar circum-
stances as clearly to demonstrate that it the French Go-
vernment should possess 620 more' such vessels as the
Pomone, a very much smaller proportion of the Arre.
gent class would suffice to compete with them. In the
preient v.chievtments of the screw we eye but the dawn '
of a new era in naval warfare—far greater expectations

yet remain to be realised. Still, it must be gratifying
to every one, and to none less than the greatest advo-
cates of peace and order, to observe in the instant
before us the confident ability to meet any sudden emer
gency, which is the best guarantee of a peaceful state of
society.
" The Moorish authorities ill-treat the Consul of
France at Mogadore, and news reaches Gibraltar that a
French screw-frigate has been dispatched to chastise the
offenders and obtain redress—that ecrew-frigate is the
Pomone. British iuterests are at stake. An English
frigate opportunely arrives, likewise a screw—that frigate
is the Arrogant ; she is dispatched forthwith, and
although 20 hours have elapsed, arrives off the port of
Mogadore ere her competitor has picked out a soft piece
to let go her anchor. We neither preach intervention
or non-intervention; nor do we for a moment wish to
insinuate that the would be belligerents were at all
staggered at the Arrogant apparition in the offing; but
suffice it to say that affairs were amicably arranged in a
wonderfully short space of time, and a mutual exchange
of friendly salutes publicly announced the fact.
This of itself is a lesson, but we have yet more
to relate. By noon of the day in questien the Ye-
men() bad again taken her departure from Mogadore;
in two hours more the Arrogant was in her wake ;
at 45 minutes past eight the same evening the
rival frigates were neck and neck, and it was now
Who'll be first at Gibraltar ?' Behaving most nobly,
and without at all exerting her utmost or even' turning,
a hair,' the Arrogant reached the goal 22 hours before
her adversary, thus beating her a long 24 hours on the
return voyage alone (a distance of 330 miles). As it is
only by comparison that we arrive at a certain amount
of perfection, so we must leave our readers to judge ef
the respective qualities of the two vessels. We visited
the Pomone ere she again parted company. The con-
trast was certainly most striking, and we returned to
the Arrogant congratulating the Government on their
now possessing a war steamer in real earnest, congratu-
lating the
,buiAer and the engineer by whose joint efforts
such a noble vessel had been constructed ; and lastly,
congratulating ourselves on belonging to the finest ship in
her Majesty's service.
This paper, we believe, is the first ever printed and
published on board ship, and contains many piquant
articles and paragraphs upon general subjects coming
under the notice of the officers of the ship, and a
highly interesting narrative of a visit to the great
volcano of Kiranea (Sandwich Islands), by Dr. Rees,
the surgeon.
The Hecate steam sloop, Commander Shadwell,
with his Excellency Sir Henry Bulwer, Minister to
the United States, on board, arrived at Bermuda on
the 12th of December, and was to sail the next day
for the Chesapeake.
The follovting is an extract from a letter written
on board her Majesty's ship flavannah, 22, Captain
Erskine, Auckland, New Zealand, dated June 17,
1849 :—" We left Sydney slay 26, and, after a very
rough passage, arrived here on the 7th inst. We sail
to morrow for the Bay of Islands, taking the Bishop
of New Zealand with us. We expect to be in Syd❑ey
by the end of September to refit. A ship arrived here
yesterday with news from England to the 6th of March
inclusive. All well.
Contracts were taken this day at the Royal Clarence
Victualling Establishment, Gosport, for 1,000 quarters
of wheat, at prices ranging from 41s. 4d. to 425. per
quarter, or 10 guineas per load. Above 4,000 quar-
ters were offered.

ROYAL MARINES.
The whole of the Portsmouth division marched
yesterday to Farebam in heavy marching order,
headed by their commandant, Colonel Menzies, K.H.
Captain Augustus Dovor Lyddon Farrant, of the
Portsmouth division, is under orders for the island of
Ascension.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Her Majesty's steam-frigate
Terrible, Captain Hope, bound to Lisbon, which left
Spithead on Tuesday,;arrived in the Sound about two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and in going between the
Devil's Point and Mount Edgcumbe shore ran on the
shoal off Wilderness Point, it being then (3 o'clock)
about dead low water, and there remained ten
minutes, until, aided by the young flood, she was
forced off by her own engines. She then proceeded
up harbour and went alongside the coal hulk, near the
western mud. On board the officers expected that
the Terrible would be docked today, but those con-
versant with the capability of the docks at present
available in this arsenal, state that from the narro w•
ness of the dock entrances a paddle-steamer of the
dimensions of the Terrible cannot be admitted until
next spring tides, the latter end of next week, when,
after being lightened, there will be sufficient water to
float her paddle-boxes over the pier ends.
The delay and expense necessarily resulting from
this accident are to be ascribed to an evil the removal
of which we have often advocated—we allude to the
German Rock, which lies off Devil's Point. There is
every probability that in seeking to avoid this rock on
the eastern side of the entrance the Terrible ran
aground on the western shore.
The amount of damage done to Government ships
alone during the last five years is considerably more
than the entire cost of removing this dangerous ob-
struction to the entrance of Hamoaze, and it is to be
hoped that the Board of Admiralty will at once take
measures for its removal,
The Terrible is to be paid advance of wages here.
On entering the harbour she was 57 hands short of
her complement. It is stated that the greatest rate of
steaming got out of her on her passage from Ports-
mouth was nine and a half knots.

Her Majesty's frigate Arethuia was taken out cf
dock and masted yesterday; she will probably be put
in commission on Saturday.
The Jackall steam-vessel went round the Eddystone
yesterday to try her engines; she Started at 12 A.M.,
and returned about 3 p.m.

APPOINTMENTS.
WooLwica, JAN. 3.—Lieutenant Charles T. lago
to the Enterprise, fitting at Woolwich for a search-
ing expedition.
Chaplain Richard Croker (1849), from the Prince
Regent
.92, on passage to Lisbon, to the Terrible

. . ...
steam-frigate, also on passage to Lisbon. -
Naval Instructor--Edgar B. Barnes, 8.A., of the
Prince Regent, to be chaplain, and appointed to per-
form both duties on board the same vessel.

Clerks—W. C. Sturgess to the Phaeton, 50, at
Sheerness ; George Penfold (1842) to the Southamp-
ton, 50, flag-ship, on the south-eatt coast of America ;
H. It Shaw (1844) to the superb, at Queenstown ;
George A. S. Ley (1849) to the Asia, 84, flag• bhip,
on the Pacific station.

Naval Cadets—Richard P. Fitzgerald and Thomas
S. Dickinson to the Fisgard flag-ship, at Woolwich;
William E. D. Cookson and Grey C. B. Wither to
the Victory, 101, flag-ship, at Portsmouth.
Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.fI , with
several friends, visited Woolwich Dockyard to day.
Captain Sir John Ross visited Woolwich Dock-
yard in the forenoon of to-day, and Captain Sir
James Clarke Ross, with Sir John H. Maxwell,
visited Captain Collinson, C.B , of the Enterprise, at
the dockyard in the afternoon.
The Niger steam sloop is ordered to be made
ready for sea by the Bth inst., as she is to accom
pdny the Enterprise and Investigator round to
Plymouth, where the Niger will remain as an
advanced war steamer.
The Adventure transport ship is expected to be
paid off at Devonport, and Master-Commander
Wellington, now in command of her, is to commission
the Nimrod, 18, sloop, for service similar to that
which was performed by the Adventure.
The Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert,
K.C.B , is daily expected home from the south-east
coast of America.

whole of the blocks for supporting, and nearly
the entire length of the keel of, the Agamemnon, 80,
screw-propeller-ship, have been laid, and a great
qu'intity of her frame timbers are ready to be put up
at Woolwich dockyard.

PROTECTIONIST MEETING. KNAREsnonouon,
JAN. 3.—Yesterday afternoon a meeting, for the pur
pose of petitioning Parliament in favour of a restoration
of protection, was held at this place. Trier° was a
very large assembly of persons of all politics present,
and the meeting was of a very influential character.
The chair was taken by Joseph Dent, Esq., late high-
sheriff of this county. The proceedings were of a most
irregular and boisterous character, probably unequalled
by any political meeting which has previously taken
place oven in this locality, notorious for its political
excesses. From first to last nothing like order could
b 3 preserved. The Free-traders assembled in very
strong force, completely overpowering in both num-
bers and energy the parties friendly to the object of
the meeting; and the result was a complete route of the
Protectionists, and indescribable confusion, amidst
which the chairman deserted his post, and the proceed-
ings terminated without any resolution whatever being
put to the vote.

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION IN COVENTRY-STREET,
HAYMARKET.—Last night, about eleven o'clock, a fire

of a serious nature, attended with a considerable destruc
tion if property, happened at No. 4, Coventry-street,
Haymarket, in the tenure of Messrs. Creese and Co.

(late Laidtaw and R idwell), Court bunt and shoemakers.
The fire commenced in the manufactory at the rear of
the front warehouse, which was of equal height with the
buildings in Coventry and Princes-streets. Some of
Mr. Crease's family, it appears, were the first to make
the discovery, and although they raised an immediate
alarm, in the course or a few minutes tho whale of the
factory became a general mass of fire. With as little
delay as possible two escapes belonging to the St.
James's Society attended, followed by the engines of the London brigade, St. Ann's parish, West of England,
and several others. The flames by that time had ob
tamed the entire possession of the factory, and had tra-
velled into the front warehouse, also till.„tecif,g de_
struetion to eve?ytlang Forturp.:ely the New
River Company's mains yielded an
ahunchntsupply of water, from which the machines
were worke supp
d a-Rh full
vigour; but in spite of the exertions of the firemen they
were unable to get the flames under before half-past
twelve o'clock this morning, and not until the premises
in a hich the misfortune occurred were levelled with the
ground, the valuable stock in trade in the front ware-
house seriously daniaged by fire, end the premises of
Mr. Taylor, stationer, Mr. Sneczum, buildpr, and several
others severely injured by fire, water, and hasty removal.
The total damage is very considerable.