The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

PROISIOTIONS

Rev. John Bentley Waiters, M.A., to the Vicarage of South
Stainslev, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. W.
Reynard, M.A. ; patron, R. Reynard, Esq.
Rev. G, Platt, to the Vicarage of Sedbergh, York-
shire ; patron, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College,
Cambridge.
Rev. Robert Moulton Atkinson, M.A., has been instituted,
on his own petition, to the Rectory of Great Cheverill, Wilts,
void by the death of the Rev. Robert Torres.
Rev. R. H. Tripp, to the Vicarage of Altarnun, Cornwall ;
patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter.
Rev. Jos. Betton, to be the Incumbent Minister of Beres-
ford Episcopal Chapel, Walvvorth.
Rev. John Benson Skipper, M.A., of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Asbchurch, Glouces-
tershire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Henry Pruen of
Oriel College, Oxford.
Rev. John Geale Uwins, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy
of St. Matthew at Ebley, in the parish of Stonehouse,
Gloucestershire, void by the cession of the Rev. H. W.
Bowles Daubeny •, patron, T. C. Croome, Esq., of Caincross.
The Bishop of St. David's has appointed the Rev. D. T.
Thomas, Vicar of Trelech-a'r-Bettws, to be Rural Dean for
le Deanery of Upper Carmarthen, on the resignation of the
Rey. J. Jenkins, Vicar of Mydrim.

MA LONE v. O'CoNNoa..—We are authorised, in the most
unqualified terms, to contradict the paragraph which ap-
peared in the Morning and Weekly Register of the 27th inst.,
wherein it is stated that the above suit has been compromised.
It is true, a compromise has been offered by the defendants
to the effect therein mentioned ; but it is not, nor will it be,
accepted by the plaintiff, who is determined to prosecute his
chums to the utmost of his power and ability. We have this
chumthe best authority.—Dublin Evening Packet.
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From Yesttrday's London Titneic

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By an extraordinary express from Marseilles, we have
received in anticipation of the overland mail tiles of all the
newspapers published in the several presidencies of India,
together with letters from our correspondents in Bombay
and Calcutta.
The steamer Berenice, kvhich conveyed the mail, left Bom-
bay, November Ist, and arrived at Suez on the 20th ult.
The mail reached Alexandria early on the morning of the
23rd, and was immediately despatched to Marseilles, where
it arrived on the Ist instant. . . . . .

The intelligence which we have received by this mail is
not of a striking character. There had been no arrival at
Bombay from China since that of the Atalanta steamer,
with news to the 24th of August, which was taken by the
mail of last month.

The chief topic of interest now is the visit of Tharawaddie
to Rangoon, whither he is accompanied by some hundreds of
thousands of soldiers and rabble. The British residents at
Moulmein have been highly alarmed at his approach. Va-
rious opinions hare been current as to his intentions, some
being of opinion that he will proceed to attack Moulmein, if
the opportunity be favourable. Under these circumstances,'
the Government of India had been most active in sending
troops to defend that important position. A strong fleet of
steamers had been got ready from Calcutta and Bombay. It
is confidently asserted that Tharawaddie, who is accompanied
by his wives and children, does not desire war ; nevertheless,
every preparation is made by the British to prevent a sur-
prise.
The rumour has been repeated of expected disturbances in
Nepaul, but nothing positive is known on the subject. An
officer has been despatched by the Supreme Government to
examine and report upon the proceedings of the Sikh in-
vaders in Thibet. It is also asserted that diplomacy is at
work, and that a treaty, offensive and defensive, has been
entered into by the Sikh Chief, Shere Singh, with the Go-
vernment of India. _

Sham Soojah is said to have been dangerously ill: his
death would contribute to produce a different feeling in some
of the tribes of Affghanistan, among whom he is very un-
popular. Sir W. H. M`Naghten, the British Envoy at his
court, who was lately named governor of this presidency,
would, as it is now stated, not come to Bombay for some
months. His experience of the Affghans may render his
presence there at this period u matter of high importance.
Earl Auckland has, it is said, refused permission to a
Russian prince and agent, who was anxious to travel in the
Punjaub.
No intelligence of importance has reached us from Herat
or Persia. _ _

In Scinde the freebooters continue their old system.
Major Outram, the present political agent, is about to ex-
hibit his active and energetic movements, which will, it is to
be hoped, lead to a good result. Nusseer Khan, whose
wanderings caused so much trouble during the last twelve
months, has at lentil been placed on the throne of his father
in Khelat, and has signed a treaty of alliance and friendship.
The lessons of the last year will, no doubt, prove useful to

him during life.
The disturbances created by the unruly Arab troops in the
service of the Nizam have been put down. A number of the
prisoners have been tried and sentenced to transportation,
but only one to be hanged•
Sickness has prevailed among some of the regiments quar-
tered at Bombay ; of the 17th Regiment, a portion wns sent
to sea for a trip in conseauenee of the fever prevalent in the
unhealthy barracks at Colabah.

Among the remarkable matters in which the natives are
concerned may be mentioned the fact, that a young Hindoo
widow is about to be married at Calcutta to one of her own
caste. The marriage of widows is a new step in Indian civi-
lisation. A young Parsee, who some months ago was bap-
tized under the care of one of the missionaries, notwithstand-
ing the utmost efforts of his wife, his parents, and his
relatives, has returned to his former faith, because the friends
of his young and beautiful wife, who had become a widow on
his embracing Christianity, threatened to have her married
to another.

The Bombay Bank, which has an excess of capitakis now

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discussing with the government of India the right of estab-
lishing branch banks wherever it suits the views of the
shareholders.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-SATURDAY

EXCHEQUER BILL FORGERIES

Saturday being the day appointed for the trial of Edward
Beaumont Smith for the forgery of exchequer bills, the court
was crowded at an early hour. On the bench were seated
Lord Mouteagle, Sir T. Trowbridge, Sir J. D. Paul, &c.
At ten o'clock Mr. Baron Parke entered the court, and, the
prisoner being placed at the bar, the case was immediately
called.

The Attorney-General and Solicitor-General appeared on
the part of the prosecution; and Sir T. Wilde for the
prisoner. . _ _

Mr. Clark, the clerk of the arraigns, directed the prisoner,
Edward Beaumont Smith, to be placed at the bar.
The prisoner immediately ascended the flight of steps at
the back of the dock, and presented himself to the court.
He was well dressed in a suit of mourning, and is a well-
looking portly man, having a gentlemanly address. He
looked exceedingly pale, and was evidently considerably em-
barrassed. He bowed respectfully to the learned judge and
the court.

The prisoner was indicted for uttering a forged bill, with
intent to defraud Dudley Montague Perceval, in two other
counts he was charged in like manner with intent to defraud
Lord Monteagle. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and read the
following address, under feelings of deep distress. After a
few introductory remarks, he went on as follows .
" Pecuniary difficulty, arising from misplaced confidence,
and unconnected with discredit, and of very limited
extent, not exceeding a few hundred pounds, although be-
yond my means to meet, first exposed me to the sugges-
tions of those who tempted me to obtain a temporary relief
by the fraudulent fabrication of exchequer bills, to be
pledged for a short time, and then to be redeemed and can-
celled for ever. I yielded to the temptation, but without ob-
taining the promised relief, and once committed I became in
the power of the tempter, and my retreat has been prevented.
Allured and beguiled by a plausibility, power, and talent which
1 could not resist, I became intangled beyond escape; and
while exchequer bills were obtained from me to an enormous
extent, I never derived benefit even to the smallest extent
necessary to relieve me from my comparatively trifling em-
barrassments, and I am at this moment in debt for money
actually borrowed from sources unconnected with exchequer
bills to pay off my original incumbrances. A sordid or
avaricious motive has never influenced me, and I have been
sacrificed to the objects of others. Whatever speculations
may have been carried on by those who have used these ex-
chequer bills, no profit, or even account, either of moneys
raised or speculation entered into, or of the losses or gains
which have resulted, have ever reached me, and never was
intended to do so. Year after year bills have been wrung
from me, under pretence of redeeming and cancelling those
outstanding, in order to prevent discovery ; and afterwards,
by the repeated misapplication of them, the necessity was
created for more to accomplish the original purpose ; and
thus the frightful issue which has taken place was occasioned.
If those yet unstained by guilt could appreciate the horrors
which attend a course of crime, no sentence of the law would
be necessary to warn and deter them from entering upon it.
I am born of a family upon which disgrace never lighted till
now ; educated in principles of integrity and honour, I have
lived respected, and I believe, esteemed ; and I have enjoyed
the confidence of many highly honourable persons. lam
now, by my own confession, a guilty criminal, exposed and
trembling at the bar of justice, and shrinking with agony
from the gaze of my former friends. If any there are who
are disposed to think my principles and education aggravate
my crime, let them forbear their censure till they have also
estimated how much they deepen my condition and aggra-
vate my punishment. I have lived for years in the certain
anticipation of this dreadful hour, and knowing that it was
certain to come, except, overborne by my own feelings, I
should escape it by a still greater crime, or by flight, uncer-
tain how soon the period of detection would occur, every day
and almost every hour has awakened somealarm lest it should
have arrived, and that my character, station, and comfort,
were destroyed for ever. My lord, during the time that has
past, I have had the guilty means and strong temptation to
use exchequer bills to raise sufficient money to enable me to
fly, and thereby escape my present disgrace. But, however
the word honour may be supposed to be prostrated by s.ny
using it, I yet declare that I have been restrained from fly-
ing or raising money for such a purpose, because 1 knew
that in my absence suspicion would arise that others had
been either negligently or criminally instrumental in the com-
mission of the fraud, and that public alarm would be the
consequence to a greater extent than the evil justified. Dur-
ing the long period of my distress, therefore, although I was
overcome, and induced to continue the commission of my
offences, to avoid meeting immediate disgrace, and forbore
to make a full disclosure of my previous conduct, which I
had often desired to do, I yet always resolved that whenever
the time of discovery should come that. I would remain, and
instantly avow myself as the solely guilty official person,
and make the best reparation in my power, by preventing
unnecessary alarm and agitation to the public, and that I
would bear, with whatever pain and remorse, the whole
consequences of my guilt, and not permit the innocent
and honourable persons in office, whether high or low, to be
exposed to unjust suspicion. However guilty, therefore, I
yet am voluntarily a prisoner, and destitute of means, hav-
ing acted under the influence of feelings much more conso-
nant with my general character than are the acts which have
brought me to this bar; and you, my lord, by the deposi-
tions before you, will have learned that with ample opportu-
nity to escape, and when suspicion had not in the slightest
degree alighted upon me, I, unasked, made to the respect-
able solicitor of the Treasury the most distinct confession
that I was the sole official author of the mischief, and
instantly submitted myself to the doom which now awaits
me, and which presents the prospect of the remainder of my
life bereft of everything that can render life desirable, and
as a means only by its continuance of protracted punish-
ment to me, and of wretchedness to those near and dear to
me, and who are interested in the fate of so unhappy a being.
The only use of that life now must be to enable me, by the
fittest disclosure of every part of the transactions, to diminish
the consequences of my crime, and, as much as possible, to
offer the only atonement in my power; and, dreadful as every
one perceives my present situation to be, I can declare, that,
whatever may await me, the horror cannot equal what 1
have endured during the years of anticipation of the dis-
covery of my guilt. My lord, I await your lordship's sentence
in a spirit of respectful submission, and repeat that I know
my crime has been great, but I also feel assured that iu the
execution of your high functions, and in the judicial censure
of my offences, your lordship will never be unmindful that
mercy is the best attendant upon justice, and that while the
best of men need to cry aloud for mercy at heaven's bar, it
should not be forgotten in the administration of justice
upon earth."
Mr. Baron Parke then made some feeling allusions to the
position of the prisoner, and hoped the statement he had
made would have a good effect. The learned judge concluded
by sentencing the prisoner to transportation for life.
Inquiries were made by many persons in the court with
regard to the case of Rapallo, who, it will be recollected, was
committed to Newgate with Smith, but this individual was
on Thursday taken before the grand jury as a witness for the
prosecution, and the court has since ordered him to be de-
tained until the close of the session, when he will be dis-
charged. There can be no doubt that many highly important
disclosures will yet be made to the authorities with reference
to this extraordinary case.