The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

ettrlx Mbition

BUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE

NEW MINISTRY.

The meeting of the L iberal party, held at Lord
JOHN RUS3ELL'S, in Chesham-place, remained in de-
liberation for several hours. The result is believed
to be, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL will undertake to
form a Government.

Little doubt can be entertained that, arriving at this
conclusion, he has weighed the probable support and
opposition he will receive or encounter from
the different sections of the Tory party, and
the line which the leaders of the late Cabinet
will pursue.

No details can be given until the QUEEN has
approved the arrangements proposed, but if ll°
difficulty, at present unforeseen, should arise, the
particular positions of the new Administration will
very shortly be announced.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The political meeting at Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
residence broke up soon after three o'clock this
afternoon, when the whole of the Noblemen and
Gentlemen present took their departure.

ALLEGED MURDER ON THE
HIGH SEAS.

THAMES POLICE COURT.—(THIS DAY).
To-day, at twelve o'clock, the adjourned examination
of Captain Johnstone, for the murder of Rambert, Mars,
and Reason, and also for cutting and maiming several
of the crew, took place at the Thames Police-court.
The crowd outside was as great, and apparently nq

Was in it, was assailed with a perfect storm
of yells, hisses, and expressions of opprobium. Mr.
Humphries attended to watch the case, as before, for the
prisoner. Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, took down the
depositions as on the paevious occasions.
Thomas Gair was the first witness called and exa-
mined. He stated that on the Ist of November he was
put in irons on beard the ship Tory, on a false charge
of threatening to take the captain's life. He remained
in irons about eleven days. On the 7th of November
the captain sent for him into the cabin. The captain
sent Julian Cordiavello for him, and be (the witness)
went as desired. He found Anderson, Nelson, and
and William Burton there. As soon as witness went
in, the captain ordered him to go on his knees, and then
commenced cutting at him. The captain also told
French to load his pistols and fire at witness. He told
him to load and put a double charge of ball in it. The
captain said, if he did not load and do as he desired him,
he would take his life. French loaded, but did not put
a ball in it. He fired several times with charges of
powder in the witness's face. The captain afterwards
cut witness several times on the head, and then placed
the point of the cutlass against his side, and said he
would thrust him through. By a stagger, the captain
being intoxicated at the time, the point of the cutlass
went through witness's clothes, and gave a slight wound
in his side. He then took the cutlass, and hove it at him ;
it went through his clothes, and cut witness's shoulder.
He then rose, and in doing so ordered the man French
to fire again. French did not do so. He ordered wit-
ness on the table, and when he went on it, he took the
cutlass and pushed him off with its point. The crew
were then ordered up to pump ship. They went :on
deck and manned the pumps. Witness went also on
deck, but was not able to do anything. In a few minutes
witness, with some others, were ordered down
again. They went down and stopped some time, but
the captain did not make his appearance. Witness was
then taken up and put in irons again, and placed in the
lower fore-castle. 'Witness altogether had received eigh-
teen cuts in his head, two on his left shoulder, two on
his breast, two on his left side, one on the left thigh,
and one on the right arm. There were several other
smaller wounds on different parts of his arms. His face
was swollen very much, and he had lost the use of the
right eye for six or seven days. Ile did not see Morris
when he was in the cabin.
Joseph Morris alias Ruellan, a Frenchman, was next
called. As the witness could speak English but im-
perfectly, recourse was had to an interpreter. His evi-
dence was to the following effect :—While in the Chan-
nel the pilot came on board, and the same evening the
captain called witness into the cabin. When there
the captain asked if witness had heard the
crew say anything of him forward.: Witness replied that
he knew of nothing. The captain answered, "You
know all about it, you son of a b—h." He then said to
witness get upon your knees, and then struck at him
with a cutlass. The mark of the blow was on his temple.
The blow was with the edge. The captain then called on
the cabin-boy for a pistol. He aimed it at witness's
stomach. The pistol missed fire by burning, priming
only. He then called the boy to bring some
more powder to prime afresh. He fired again, and
the ball went through witness's thigh and leg, as
he was upon his knees. Witness then ran upon deck,
feeling that he was wounded. The cook caught him, and
brought him down again. The cook said to the captain,
" This man is wounded." The captain said, " Take him
away." Witness then went on deck, and stowed him-
self away in the long-boat, under some sails. This was
all he had to say.
Barry Yelverton examined—Said that he would state
what took place after the ship came to Plymouth, and the
pilot came on board. The captain that morning was
speaking to witness in French about the cuts which the
men had received ; he said, " Now, boy, we'll send them
all aft, and swear mutiny against them." The night
before this, the captain took witness into the cabin,
tote the shirt off his back, and beat him
for about an hour or two. The next morning his eves
were black and his throat swollen. The same morning
the captain said, " I am sorry for what I have done to
you ;' and said further, " It is a wonder I did not kill
you. Do you know the way you addressed me
yesterday ?" Witness replied, " Yes, sir ; you wcro
threatening to kill all hands, and I said to you,
for God's sake, don't kill any more." French was
present at the time referred to, and said, " Never
mind what this person (meaning the witness):says. the
moon affects him." I replied, "There is very little moon
in what I said, I am speaking for the captain's good."
Witness repeated these remarks to the captain in answer
to the question put about the manner he had addressed
him the previous day. The captain then said there was
no harm in that, and the witness retired. The day after
this the captain ordered witness into his berth, while he
called the crew down, and in telling him to do so said
that he intended to deliver up the man, and that
he (the witness) was to say that the men had been
threatening his life, and had tied him to the mizen
mast with a rope round his neck. After this the men
were confined, and the captain and French went about
the ship firing their pistols. The crew were ordered
into various attitudes, sometimes sitting, sometimes
eaani!ir:g. Witness saw the captain and French fire at
the man Nelson and at Gair, and also cut
them a good deal with the cutlass. Witness was
in tie cabin when Morris was shot. The
witness went into details respceting the treatment of
Morris, which corroborated in its main features the
statement cf that witness. The witness also deposed to
having been commanded by the captain to cut and shoot
at the men while the ship was in the channel. He had,
however, never struck the men, having got it put off on
some other of the men.

William Burton was ne%t called, and said that he
offi,:ia:ed, after the death of Mars, as second mate. He
le collected the pilot coming on board and going down
into the cabin with the captain. When they came up
the pilot had a bundle under his arm, which he took on
shore. He believed it was the log-book, and he told
the captain he did not care, as he knew what he
had stated in evidence, and what was written in the
book, namely, that Rambert and Reason came to him
and wanted to pull }aim out to go aft with them to fasten
the cabin-doors. The captain replied, " That is not what
yon told me; you said they came to bring me aft." Wit-
ness repeated his former evidence, when the captain
flung a soup knife at him, but it missed. Witness was
then put in irons, and the captain said "He was
a riscal, and going to give false evidence againit
Loin.". When in irons witness was cut three
"es by the captain—on the car, the cheek, and
the wrist Gair was also called down, and
in
presence of witness the captain cut him most unmer-
cifully. The men were afterwards called upon deck,
and the captain and French shouted out, " Mutiny !
to arms !" and they began to pull the men into the
cabin. 'rhe captain took his cutlass and began cutting
at them. The men at this time had nothing in their
hands. There was no mutiny, that witness was aware
of, on board. He heard no threats or mutinous lan•
guage from the crew, and he did not see any
mutinous gestures. A light was brought in to
the cabin, and the captain began to cut away
at them. The men wore on their knees at the time.
French was ordered to load the pistols and fire
away at them, else he would have his life taken. French
fired at Gair and Nelson four or five different times, and
then put the pistol to witne3s's ear, and said, " You
br, I'll shoot you." Witness was in irons at the
time. French put the point of the pistol to witness's ear
and fired. It was filled with powder only. After which
s•ruck him two blows with the lock of the weapon
on the head. In about half an hour afterward., the
carpenter called out to pump ship, and the crew were all
ordered on deck. Witness went into the long boat
where he was ordered, and there ho stopped all night.
About ten o'clock next morning witness was sent for
dawn into the cabin, and the captain told him to keep
up his heart, for that there was no fear of him, and
ordered Julian to get some warm water to wash the blood
and powder off his face. When Julian went for the
water witness went out into the forecastle, where he waited
tall be was washed. The captain ordered him to hare
clean clothes on ; that he was to have leg irons on, and
that he was to stop in the lower forecastle till the ship
reached London. On the 9th the revenue cutter boarded
the ship, and the second in command, who came on
board, ordered the three men in irons, Cone,iGair, and
himself, to be taken out of the lower forecastle and
placed in the topgallant forecastle. This was accord-
ingly done. That day the remainder of the crew were
confined in the aft-deck. The three in irons were libe-
rated that night by the order of the second in
command of her Majesty's cutter Ranger, and told to
make themselves as comfortable as they could.

Hepry Slack examined —The pilot came on board when
the ship was in the Channel. The witness here went
into circumstances referred to in the evidence of the pre-
vious witnesses, after the ship was boarded by the pilot,
which he corroborated in their main features. He was
witness to the cutting, shooting at, and putting into irons
several of the men.

William Dun was next called, and requested to give
evidence respecting what took place after the ship came
into the Channel. He said they were off Plymouth
when the disturbances took place. On the evening of
the day the pilot came on board the captain cut at
Morris and Thompson, and sent for the boy Beresford,
and accused him with getting a strand to kill Mars.
The captain then cut him with a cutlass. The next
day the captain sent for Cone and Gair out of
irons, and cut them. In the afternoon, while
at tea, the captain again sent for Cone and cut
him. Witness was then sent to order all hands down,
and when they went to the captain he cut at them with
the sword. The men came down immediately on being
sent for. The captain in addition to cutting them broke
a chair over Thompson's head. They were then sent on
deck again. Witness shortly after was again sent atter
them, but he could not see all of them at the time. He
found Gair, Burton, Nelson, and Allison. When they
went into the cabin the light was put out, and he
heard the captain calling " mutiny." They then went
into the other cabin. The captain ordered French to
fire at them. The men had no arms, nor did he see any
mutinous gestures, or hear any shouts. He saw the men
on their knees. French fired at them repeatedly. The
pistol was loaded with powder and crumbs of bread.
Witness asked French to put in small charges, and
he said he would not ; he " would have full
charges ; he would let them know he was chief
mate now." The witness proceeded to detail se-
veral other instances in which the men had been,
either by the captain or at his commands, ill-treated in
the manner already described, and especially the treat-
ment received by Morris, which he fully corroborated.
Robert Thompson, one of the crew of the Tory, was
next examined. His evidence was entirely corroborative
of the statements made by the foregoing witnesses, re-
specting the violent conduct of the captain to the crew
after the ship reached the Channel, and to the cutting
of and striking at the men. Witness himself received a
severe cut on the head from the captain, and had received
a wound from the point of a cutlass in two places on the
face. In proof of the abject condition in which the
crew wctra,,nlc,....cl_ of tn 3 capiam; the tatter
ordered him and another one of the crew to kiss the sole
of his foot, which they did.
Mr. Haywood, clerk to Mr. Maule, the solicitor of the
Treasury, here came into court, and took his seat be-
side Mr. Symons.
Mr. Broderip was proceeding to call another witness,
when Mr. Humphries rose and said, it would be as well
to read the depositions over that had been taken, in-
stead of going into fresh evidence, as Mr. Haywood, in
all probability, had some application to make.
Mr. Haywood.—He was not prepared to make any
statement then, beyond expressing that the Treasury
had undertaken the conducting of the prosecution, and
that he did not think in the present state of the case it
would be possible to try any of the charges at the pre-
sent Sessions.

Mr. BRODERIP concurred, and thought justice would
be done to neither side if the case was sent for trial at
the present Sessions.
It was then arranged to take another witness and
then to adjourn the case, Mr. BRODERIP expressing a
wish that the whole of the evidence should be finished at
the next sitting.
Andrew Nelson was then called, and examined at
some length as to the violence of the captain to the crew.
He received from the captain cuts from a cutlass on
several occasions. There was no feature in his exami-
nation beyond what has been already fully given.
The prisoner was then remanded.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam CF. 12 11
Ditto, at sight l2
Rotterdam 2U. 12 11i
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona

Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months 26 5
Marseilles ..
Bourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine 123

INGE-- (THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.„..
Leghorn ....... 30 7i
Genoa 26 10
Milaa
Venice .... ....... .....
Naples ........ ..... 39i
Palermo, per oz
Lisbon s2i
Oporto.
Rio Janeiro .... 23}
Bahia .. .
Buenos A yi
NewTork,2ldyssight
Philadelphia ......
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 .5
New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 91
Silver in Bats 0 4 1

Name of Company.

Australasia • • •..... • •
Britsh North American
Commcrcia of London
Colonial ... • • .. •
Londn and Westminstr
London Joint-Stock . • .
Metropolitan . • . • • • • • •
Provincial of Ireland..
Ditto, New... • . • . • •
National of Ireland • •
Nat. Provncial of Eng.
Ditto, New... .. • . • .
Union of Australia ....
Union of L0nd0n.....

Dividend
per

Annum.

61. per cent.
4/. per cent.
51. per cent.
51. per cent.
6/. per cent.
61. per cent.

8/. per cent.
V. per cent.
51. per cent.
51. per cent.
Si. per cent.

5/. per cent.

WATER=

Dividend
same of Company. per
Annum.

Amount
of
Share.

s. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
5000
25 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0

East London ••. • .• 81.
Grand Junction .. • • • • 31.
Kcnt • • • • • • • • • • .• •• •• 21. 108

Vauxhall •••••• • • • • • • 5/. per cent.
West Middlesex ••• • • • 4/.165. pr ct.

'ORMS

Paid.

£ s. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
10 0 0
7 10 0
25 0 0
10 0 0
20 0 0
35 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
10 0 0

Amount
of Paid.
Share.

X 3, d.
100 0 0
46 13 4
100 0 0
100 0 0
63 12 9

Price

Price.

mrstraaNcE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company.
A nn per
Share. of Paid. Price.
um.
X s. d. X • s. d.
Albion .... ••••• • • • • • 31. 105. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 1 1 0 0 20
Ditto Marine. ••• • .• 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 6%
138.6 d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16%
British Commercial - 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7%
Clericl,Med. SD Gen. Lift 5L per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
County .... .... .•• • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
r 9s. and 7
1 61. ss. bs. _i 40 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle . 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5%
i
Economic Life.
1000 0 0 250 0 0
/&30s.bs.
Eng.& Scot. Law ••• • • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
' European Life ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons'..,. ••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
, Globe ..... -.••• • • - • 61. per cent. Stock. - 142%
i Guardian
, Imperial Fire •.-• • • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 235
b Imperial Life
1 Indemnity Marine... • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29
.I.Ar e 11._55. 10600
00 00 120 e 0 00 560%
' LawL e Legal 1 I andAfe .G .e
'n
e. r it .1
t London Fire
t London Ship
3 Marine .• ••••• • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10%
Med.ln vlid& Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0• 5
E. National Loan Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
F National Life ••••• • . • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9%
i Palladium Life • .....
Phoenix • • - - 210
Protector Life. ••• -• . 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 38.
' Provident Life -• . .. IL ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Rock Life • • .... -.• • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange ...... 5/. per cent. Stock. - 186
Sun Fire - -
Ditto Life .......... 1/. Gs. - - 18
Universal Life . • lO%/. pr cnt. 100 0 615 0 18
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES,
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. ' Price
Annum. Share.
• X s. d. 4 s. d
Bank of Scotland ... • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 171
Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 165
British Linen Company 8/• per cent. - 100 0 0 230
Commercial Bank •. • • 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 166
National Bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 15%
Union Bank of Scotland 7%L pr cent. - 50 0 0 98%
Western Bank .... - -6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 84%
Northof Scotland Bank i 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 '7 ze
Clydesdale Bank •••• • • i 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14%
Eastern Bank .. .•• • -5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11%
Caledonian Bank ... • • 7%1. pr cent. - 2 10 0 6
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. - 5 0 0 74
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 815 0 15%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 120 0 0 10 0 1
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Incur. Co. of Scotind- 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10%
North British Incur 5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28%
Caledonian Fire hymn 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24%
Edinburgh Life Incur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19%
Edin. &44 lasg. Railway 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65
Ditto, % Shares•
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 21%
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. M. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70
Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 21
Glsgw&Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. i 36
Standard Life Assarrice.l 51 per cent. J5O 0 0 I 210 0 1 8
DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
' - ---
Xs. d. ;.4 5. d.
Commercial -
East and West India - 134
East Country - 21
L mdon .. .. ••••. • • • • i 4%1. pr cent. Stock. - 112
St Katharine ••••• . • • I 5 per cent. Stock. - 108%
Southampton •••• • • • • 41. per cent.; 50 0 0 50 0 0 30
CANALS.
Names of 4.•,.4 Dividend' Names of Dividend
Companies.A per Price. Companies. per Price.
Annum., w
.0 Annum.
-__--- - ----- - --•
4 I X
Ashtn&Oldh 97 51.55. pel 72 Monmouthsh 100 91. 160
Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 IL 98
Barnsley. •• • 160 121. 180 Macclesfield . 1001 - 95
Basingstoke.. 100 _
... Neath .... - 100 201. 365
Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham . 150 121. 260
RePeakgenFtr...t..
3738 31.11.
245%
1 8 103 Rochdale...•
12865
8411..
_54 ;
ceornford.... 100 181.
80 Shropshire ..
Derby
100 32 3_oo
sSr_ort4iosalt 15102 76,/..p10. se.. 12131 ,
EuDreueasye.h&..:.c....h...
.3:
j 1330000
441:...•
Forth & Clyd 100 41.
GrandJunctn 100 71. 100 tffrd &Wore 140 281. 440 1,
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230
2_lo
sStrtlydtouxbrioidigAe,.. 17495
1120110... -
Glamorgnsh. 172 13%1.
Glstr & Brkly ,00 -
Grantham • . 150 121. 100 Severn and}
26 11. Bs. -
Huddersfield. 57 - _2O Wye Rail.
Kennt Ac Avu 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-7 50 30/.
.....
Lancaster ... 47 11. 10. 40 sey, % sh.j
Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 525 Thams &Med 19 - 10
Leicester .... 140 10/. 105 Worcstr 841
78 V. 49
Leicstr & Nth 83 4/. 62 Blrming.
Loughboregh 142 701. 850 ilts & Brks 67 11. 4s. 11

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 16, 1845.'

M.D., from the Rifie Brigade, vice 'Watson ; Surgeon W. H.
Burrell, M.D., from the 77th Foot, vice Henry, Dec. 16.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Flintshire.
R. J. Mostvn, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Sept. 6.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.
.Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia.—P. D. P. Dun-
combe the younger,_ Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 5.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 5.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis Bodham, of
Wellington, in the county of Somerset, Gent. to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 8.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed. David Thomas
Willis, of Winslow, in the county of Buckingham, Gent., to
be a M.,.ster Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 11.

17 The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert John Francis
Oldacres of Leicester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary of
the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 15, 1845.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Thomas '
Thomas, of Langhorne, in the county of Carmarthen, Gent.
to be a Master Extraordinary in theiligh Court of Chancery,.
BANKRUPTS.

William Kearton, cheesemonger, Lamb-street, Spitallields,
to surrender Dec. 23 and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Hutchison, Crown-
con rt, Threadneedle- st reet.
Michael Jones, grocer, Theobald's-road, Dec. 24, at two,
and Jan. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, offi-
cial assignee, Coletnan-street -buildings ; Miles, Brunswick-
place, City-road.
Thomas Pool, builder, Princes-road, Notting-hill, Midd!e-
sex, Dec.3o and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Foster, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-
street; Wright, Cook's-court, Lincoln's-inn.
William Gill, poulterer, Leadenhall-market, Dec. 22, at
eleven, and Jan. 27, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, 13, Old Jewry-chambers;
Tippetts, Paucras lane.
William Humphryes, hotel keeper, Haymarket, Dec. 29,
at eleven, and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy
Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Lewis, Arundel-
street, Strand.

Frederick Cordaroy, hatter, Liverpool, Dec. 31, and Jan,
16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. blinshull,
official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent and Sherwood, Temple,
London.

James Reynolds, farmer, Fazakerley, Liverpool, Dec. 30,
and Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, London-
wall, London ; Dodge, Liverpool.
James Hulme, paper dealer, Manchester, Jan. 2, and 16, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official
sciare, London; Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester.
'Thomas Ibbetson Hellawell, James Norteliffe, and John
Betumont Hellawell, dyers, Halifax, Dec. 29, and Jan. 21, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee,
Leeds; Taylor, Nicholas-lane, London; Clegg, Bradford;
Ca ass, Leeds.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the Bight Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the
RECORDER, &C.)

Caroline Cummins, 23, spinster, and Mary Cummins,
21, were indicted for feloniously stealing a silver coffee-
pot, value 14/., :the property of Sarah Hunter Taylor
Cathcart, in the dwelling-house of Charles Shaw.
In another count the property was said to belong to
Mr. Shaw.
It will be remembered that the prisoners were ar-
raigned upon an indictment, charging them with being
concerned with other persons in a very exter,sive rob-
bery from the house of Mr. Shaw, in whose house the
prisoner Caroline lived as servant, at the last session of
this Court, but upon the Counsel for tho prisoner
making a suggestion that Mrs. Shaw, the wife of the
prosecutor, had sanctioned the pawning of the property,
and that lady being too ill then to attend to contradict
the insinuation, the prisoners obtained an acquittal, and
the other indictments were then ordered to stand over to
the present session, in order that Mrs. Shaw might be
en abled to attend.
Mr. PARRY having briefly stated the circumstances
under which the charge was brought against the pri-
soners, and alluded to the nature of the defence sat up
on the former occasion, proceeded to call the witnesses.
From their testimony it appeared that the prosecutor,
Mr. Charles Shaw, is a solicitor on Fish-street-hill, and
his country residence was No. 11, Walworth-terrace,
where the prisoner, Caroline Cummins, was employed as
servant in his establishment. It seems that a lady named
Cathcart had left in Mr. Shaw's care a box, containing a

large quantity of silver plate, which was corded and
placed under his bed for security. In the month of
October it was discovered that the box had been opened
and a great deal of the plate abstracted, and the pri-
soner, Caroline Cummins, upon being taxed with the
robbery, then gave her mistress seventeen duplicate.:,,
and admitted to her master, who afterwards questioned
her, that she had taken the property at the instigation of
her sister Mary, and that she had given her the articles
to pledge.
Mrs. Shaw, upon being cross-examined by Mr. BAL-
LANTINE, said that in the previous January she had dis-
covered that the plate was pledged, and the prisoner
Caroline then also admitted that she had pledged it ; but
on heigoing upon her knees and entreating her forgive-
ness she consented to advance the nwnev to redeem the
cal,au ~Eto ugic ,iieutristance from tne itnowieuge
of her husband. She said that the prisoner had ben
many years in her service, and she acted as she did
solely from a feeling of kindness towards her, and she
declared that she had not the slightest knowledge of the
fact of the subsequent pawning until the prisoner pro-
duced the duplicates.
Mr. Shaw confirmed the testimony of his wife, and
added that when he questioned the prisoner Caroline,
she said that her sister Mary would come to the house,
and that she had compelled her to give her the plate to
pledge, and she begged him to have mercy upon her.
Christopher Greeves, the shopman of Mr. Turner, a
pawnbroker in the Walworth-road, proved that the pri-
soner Mary Cummins pledged the coffze-pot at his
master's shop on the 30th of March, in the name of
Mary Back.
The coffee-pot was produced, and identified by Miss
Cathcart as being her property.
-Mr. BALLANTINE having briefly addressed the jury,
after a short deliberation they returned a verdict of
Guilty against both prisoners.
The RECORDER said the Court would be glad to have
some information with regard to the prisoners, in order
to guide its judgment as to what sentence ought to be
passed upon them.
Mrs. Shaw informed the Learned Judge that Mary
Cummins had been in her service several years ago, but

she had discharged her, and forbade her to come to the
house. She had very good reason to believe that she
had become acquainted with some very bad characters,
and that she had instigated her sister to rob them.
The RECORDER then ordered Mary Cummins to be
brought up for judgment, and after observing that her
case was a. very aggravated one, as there was every rea-
son to suppose that she had brought her sister into her
present situation, he said he felt it his duty to pass upon
her a sentence of transportation for ten years.
There were several other indictments against these
prisoners for stealing other articles of plate, but they
were not proceeded with.
The prisoner Maly Cummins was then indicted, with
a woman named Elizabeth Clayton, for stealing a coat,
he property of Mr. Shaw.
The article had also been pledged at Mr. Turner's
shop, but Mr. Turner, jun., who took the pledge, could
not identify the party who made it.
A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly returned.
The same prisoners were then arraigned for stealing a
pair of trousers, and upon this indictment a verdict of
Guilty was returned against Clayton.
They were then charged upon another indictment with
stealing a gold ring, the property of Mr. Shaw.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both.
They were called up for judgment, and the Re-
corder, after remarking that it was evident there
had been a complete conspiracy to plunder the
property of the prosecutor, said, that as
there did appear, however, to be some ground for sup-
posing that the prisoner, Caroline Cummins, had been
made the dupe of older and more designing persons
the Court would feel itself justified in passing a co►n-
paratively lenient sentence, which was, that she be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. The
other prisioner, Clayton, he sentenced to eighteen
months' hard labour.

Anne Reuelimn was then placed at the bar, charged
with feloniously receiving some articles that had been
stolen by the prisoner Caroline Cummins.
Mr. PARRY said, that in this case he did not propose
to offer any evidence, because, although there was no
doubt that the prisoner had received the property in
question, the prosecutcr considered it very probable she
might have done so without having any guilty know-
ledge.

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A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly returned.
Mr. PARRY then applied for the Court to order the
pawnbroker to give up the plate in his possession. He
at the same time stated that, during a few months, plate
had been pawned with him to the amount of 5001., with-
out, as it appeared, any observation being made.
The RECORDER said that be could only observe, that
if the same charitable conclusion had not been put upon
the conduct of the pawnbroker as had been extended to
the last prisoner (Reuchman), he might have found him-
self in a very awkward position. The only atonement
he could make, was to give up the whole of the property.
Mr. Turner, jun., said he believed Mary Cummins was
the wife of a respectable person, and that the plate was
her property.
Mr. PARRY said the greater part of Mr. Shaw's
plate, that had also been stolen in addition to Miss Cath-
cart's, bore his initials, and some part of it his crest.
The RECORDER said he hoped Mr. Turner would be
more careful in future. He was not at all prepared to
say what view the jury might have taken of his conduct
if he had been placed in the dock.
.At present, he must
understand that the Court made an order for him to
deliver up the whole of the property.
The plate was then given up to the prosecutor.
William Harding, 23, a very well-dressed young man,
described as a shoemaker, but who is believed to be one
of the gang who are in the habit of prowling about
the different banking houses for the purpose of com-
mitting felonies, was indicted for stealing apocket-book,
nine 10/. Bank of England notes, two 51. notes, two
cheques for 1,0001. each, and other securities, altogether
of the value of 2,7001, the property of Robert Vaughan
Wynne Williams, from his person.
The prosecutor said he was a solicitor, residing in the
Temple, and on the 27th November he had occasion to
go to Messrs. Mortimer's bank, where he changed a
cheque for 1001., and placed the notes he received in his
pocket-book,, which at the time contaiaed the other
securities mentioned in the indictment. He put the
pocket-book into the hind-pocket of his body coat, which
had a wrapper over it, and proceeded on his way
back to the Temple. As he was passing by Bucklers-
bury, he felt a very slight touch at his coat, and imme-
diately put his hand to his pocket, and feeling a packet
of letters in it, he imagined that his pocket-book was
safe, and thought no more of the circumstance ; but when
be got to his chambers he found that his pocket-book
was gone. It had since been shown to him, with its
contents perfectly safe.
John Coram, a sergeant of the City police, deposed,
that from some information he received about the time
the robbery was committed, he went into Gutter-lane,
and saw the prisoner walking along with his hands in
his pockets, and the moment 'he observed him he ran
off. Witness pursued him, calling " Stop thief," and he
saw him take a pocket-book out of his pocket. El 6 then
turned up a court, and he lost sight of him for a minute,
but he stopped him directly afterwards, and the pocket.
book was picked up close by him.
Mr. BALLANTINE said it would be useless for him to
attempt to struggle with this evidence, and he must
leave the prisoner in the hands of the jury.
ThesitEconDEß having briefly addressed the jury, they
at once returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, said there
was very little doubt that the prisoner was one of a
gang of persons who were in the habit of hangir", about
banking-houses for the purpose of committing plunder
of this description, and it was very evident that he was
a skilful hand at these matters. The sentence, therefore,
was, that he be transported for ten years.

IV E W COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.)
CRUELTY ON THE BIGH SEAS.— Alexander Gordon,
captain of the barque Nathesis, and John Cummins,
mate of the same vessel, were charged with having
cruelly assaulted William Scott, one of the apprentices
on board that vessel, about the 20th of June last, while
the ship was near the line.
Mr. PAYNE, the counsel for the prosecution, said the
case w as one of a serious character, and if proved would
exhibit a very cruel mind in those who have been in •
dieted on the charge. The charge was made against the
master and mate of the Nathesis of assaulting
and cruelly treating Scott, the apprentice. One day,
after crossing the line, the boy had been rather tardy in
getting up out of bed. Cummins, the mate, went below
with a rope's end, and flogged him up on deck. When
the boy came on deck he %I as sent aloft to tar the royal
rigging, with nothing on him except a blue shirt. The
mate followed him up, and struck him while aloft, but
the boy, to escape the flogging, leaped to lay hold of the
stays, which he missed, and fell into the water. But the
main part of the charge was—when the boy was brought
upon deck, after falling into the water, the mate
pulled the shirt over the boy's head, and the master
himself gave him two dozeti of strokes with a cat made
for the purpose. The mate wished to give him another
dozen, but the master refused to allow him then; but a
short time after the boy was brought again on deck, and
the mate gave him a dozen more. The boy was then
taken down into the cabin, and was placed on his knees
on the cabin floor. The master and the mate then said
they would pour vitriol on his back. The master re-
quested the mate to put it on the boy's back, as he was

afraid of burning his fingers. The mate had the same
fear, and hesitated to use the liquid, but he afterwards
poured what both called vitriol out of a bottle on the back
of the apprentice Scott.

Mr. PAYNE then proceeded to call the witnesses to
prove the charge.
The first witness called was the boy William Scott.
He said he was an apprentice on board the Nathesis
barque. Gordon was the master, and Cummins the
mate. The day after crossing the line, he was late in
getting up. He vas flogged up on deck, and then sent
up the foremast with the tar barrel to tar the royal
rigging.. He had nothing on but a blue flannel shu t.
W hen he refused to tar th rigging, the mate, who was
aloft, struck him.

Mr. BALLANTINE here interrupted the evidence, to say
that his Learned Friend bad so conducted the case as to
make the acquittal of Capt. Gordon a matter
.of justice.
He bad already proved an assault against the mate. There
was but one count in the indictment. The assault proved
against the mate satisfied that count ; -the captain,
therefore, he argued, must be acquitted. It had been
settled so long ago us the time of Lord Ellenborough,
in the case of " Stant v.. Prickctt." More than one
assault had been committed in that case. The counsel
for the prosecution had proved one assault, and was
proceeding to prove another, when Lord Ellenborough
stopped him, and said he might have detained the
Court and the jury all day going through the different
charges in order to select the one on which to
rely ; his Lordship said that must be done by
counsel previous to coming into Court ; enough
in that case had been proved to satisfy the
count. On this ground he (Mr. Ballantine) held
that enough had been proved to satisfy the single count
in the in ictment in the present case, and as that was
proved against the mate alone, he held that Captain
Gordon should be acquitted.

Mr. HUDDLESTONE-, Counsel for the mate Cummins,
objected against the Counsel for the prosecution tench ring
evidence of any further act in which the mate might have
been concerned. The case in the present instance was
analogous, he said, to the case of a declaration. There,
if there was .but one count put in, and a justifi-
cation proved by the accused for any one
of the assaults committed, that justification
was held to apply to the single instance of assault proved.
The prosecutcr was at liberty to pat any number of
counts he pleased on the indictment, but if he had put
must lie that act on which he will rely
and prove that. said his Learned Friend would
argue that the charge in this case was a joint charge,
but it was joint and several.
Mr. PAYNE said the charge was a joint one, and the
evidence put in was not intended to prove the act of as-
sault, but only an incident leading to it.
Mr. BALLANTINE, in reply, said an assault was an
assault by whatever name it might be called.
Mr. HUDDLESTONE, for the mate, said if his Lordship
was prepared to admit the charge was a joint charge,
then he must be prepared to follow his principle out, tor
if the charge were a joint charge, one being acquitted,
both must be acquitted.
The Learned COMMISSIONER retired to consult with
the Learned Recorder. On returning into Court, he in-
timated that the opinion expressed by the Learned Re-
corder coincided with his own, and that no further evi-
dence could be brought against either of the accused.
The jury was then directed to find Captain Gordon
Not G uilty.
The testimony of the boy Scott was continued—He
said that the mate came up with the intention of flogging
him. When he saw this he jumped off the yard-arm, and
attempted to lay hold of the backstays, but, missing
them, fell into the water. He was a quarter of an hour in
the water.

Mr. HUDDLZSTONE objected to evidence of anything
more that might have happened ; enough had been
brought forward to satisfy the Court.
The objection was allowed, and Mr. Huddlestone
proceeded to cross-examine the boy Scott. He
said it was his watch that morning. The watch
began at 7 bells, that is half an hour, before eight o'clock.
When he came up he found all the watch on
deck. He did not know what time it was
then. (The captain here was observed by a
juryman making use of means to intimidate the boy
in giving his evidence, and was ordered out of Court.)
Scott said there were four men and two boys in the
watch ;he was one of the boys. All the sails were set
except the flying-jib and the spanker. At that time he
(witness) Has dozing in bed, when the mate came
down and gave him two or three blows on the back
with a rope's end, He then ran up to the deck. He
was ordered up to tar the ropes with nothing on but a
blue woollen shirt. He asked the mate to allow him to
put on some clothes, a pair of trousers at least ; but the
mate refused this. He refused to tar the ropes in this
condition, and was struck by the mate while on the
yard-arm, which he jumped from to catch the stays, but
fell into the water.

William Morris was a seaman on board the Nathesis,
and remembered Scott having been in the water. He
saw the mate go down below with a rope in his hand.
On the deck he saw the mate give the boy two or three
blows ; the boy then had no trousers on. When aloft
he saw the mate in chase of the boy. The boy ran along
the yard-arm, where the mate struck him twice or thrice.
The boy then jumped off the fore lee yard-arm to catch
the back-stays, but he missed them and fell into the
water. The boy might have been a quarter of an hour
in the water. He could swim a little. The ship was put
about, and the boy was picked up. He, witness, was
then at the wheel.

Harris, another seamen, was called into the witness-
box, but proved nothing.
The Counsel for the mate then addressed the jury.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that an assault had
been admitted ; the jury were to consider whether that
assault had been justified, and if they should find so they
were to acquit the prisoner.
The jury, after consulting, found the mate Not
Guilty.
The mate is, however, still in custody.
The case will be tried on a new indictment on Thurs-
day next.

DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER

RAILWAY.

A very full and influential meeting of the shareholders
of this Company was held yesterday at the London Tavern,
in consequence of the call of the Chairman of the Com-
mittee of Management, Sir Bruce Chichester, for the pur-
pose of hearing a statement of their affairs, and determin-
ing whether the Company should be carried on or not.
The proceedings of the meeting, which throughout was
an extremely stormy one, were opened by
Sir BRUCE CHICHESTER, from whose statement it
appeared that previous to his joining the Com-
mittee of Management the affairs of the Com-
pany had been carried on in a very improvi-
dent spirit ; that out of 61,000 shares that had
been allotted only 28,000 had paid up the deposit, that
the produce of those deposits was 32,395 L, that out of
that amount there had been paid for preliminary ex-
penses, 4,3441. 1 ls. 3d.; for engineering and surveying
expenses, 14,0501. ; for law expenses, 8,791/. 6s. ;
for advertising, 2,639/. 19s. 4d. ; for printing and
stationery, 5841. "; for travelling expenses, 2361. ;
for rent, salary, &c., 557/. 15s. sd. ; for miscel-
laneous expenses, 186/. 3s. ld. ; to Dr. Blundell,
not accounted for, 512/. 10s. ; leaving a balance in hand
of only 4921. I,ls. The announcement of these expenses,
and the statement of the balance in hand, created the
greatest dissatisfaction in the meeting.
The report of the Committee of Management having
been read, a long and stormy discussion ensued, in the
course of which several motions and amendments were
proposed, and it was admitted that the affairs of the
Company had been grossly mismanaged by the
preceding Committee. Ultimately, amid great con-
fusion, the following motion was agreed to:—" That
Sir Bruce Chichester, Dr. Phillimore, and Mr. Cham-
bers, be requested to form a Committee of Manage-
ment, with power to add to their number. That
the Committee be authorised to issue shares to
the extent required by Parliament, with this conditi,n,
that if the necessary amount should not be subscribed
for, the whole sum to be raised should be returned ;
and that whatever steps can be taken without expense
beyond the means in hand towards placing the project
before Parliament, be so taken, and that the Committee
of Management be requested to prepare a statement of
the accounts of the Company, and that a copy thereof
be sent to every share and scrip holder.
The report of Mr. Braithwaite, the engineer, was
read, and a vote of 'thanks was unanimously car-
tied to Sir Bruce Chichester, not only for his
presiding over and calling the meeting that day,
but for the manly course he had pursued in endeavouring
to uphold the interest of the shareholders.

THE GRAND JUNCTION AND MID.
LANDS UNION RAILWAY.
A meeting of the Shareholders in this Company, called
for the purpose of considering the future steps to be
taken by the Directors, ivas held at the Company's
offices, No. 1, Exchange-buildings, yesterday.
Mr. Barlow was called to the chair.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read,
The CHAIRMAN asked the Secretary if it had been
advertised in all the papers ?
The Secretary having answered in the affirmative,
The CHAIRMAN said he was sorry to find that the
result was not such as they might have expected from
the publicity which had been given to the advertise-
ments. Perhaps it might have been different if Lord
Ingestre, the Chairman of the Company, had presided ;
but as it was, he would endeavour to place the principal
facts before them. It was well known to all the share-
holders present that at the time the present scheme came
before the public there was none which had a greater
number of applications for shares, or which stood higher
in public estimation. It was no scheme of speculation,
but one that promised areal and permanent income; cer-
tainly if it were to be prosecuted it would be attended
with great advantages to the public and to the share-
holders. As things now stood, the position of the Com-
pany would be very different, supposing they brought
the scheme before Parliament. True, the Committee
might bear the expenses without troubling the share-
holders, and if they received the consent of the Provisional
Committee, many of whom resided in the country, they
could do so. They, however, legally required the sanc-
tion of those gentlemen, and therefore they would ask
the shareholders to leave a moiety of their original depo-
sit 4 for the double purpose of meetkg all claims and
securing to those so doing some portion of the original
scrip. 'II e Secretary would read the report.
The Secretary then read the report, which was in sub-
stance as follows:
" The proposed railway was intended to commence on:The
Trent Valley Railway near Stafford, and proceeding thittice
in an easterly direction, to pass through or near to Tixll,
Haywood, Colwich, and Abbots Bromley, to the rapidly in-
creasing town of Burton-upon-Trent, where it would run
into the Birmingham and Derby Railway, forming the shortest
and best practicable route from Stafford to Derby. Leaving
the Birmingham and Derby Railway at Burton-upon-Trent,
it would proceed along the Valley of the Trent by Rep ton,
Swarkestone, and Shardlow, to the Midland Counties Rail-