On this page
-
Text (3)
-
A P E R ened to lock him or put an attac...
-
^ Qf ^ . _ _ _ ^ —.——.—,.. —^ —_*- ^^ v ...
-
MISCKLLANEUUS; The CouRT.-^-The Queen an...
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Gatherings From The Law Ant) Police Cou1...
ened to lock him up or put an attachment on the cheque , if it were not given up to them . Mr . Nairn asked if Mr . Smith , junior , would change the cheque , and give him 5 £ out of it . He refused , but ultimately gave up the entire cheque , on Mr . Nairn handing him a receipt for it , and a promise to restore it to the father if he called for it . The receipt was signed by a Mr . Patten . The Lord Mayor was extremely indignant at such a charge having been made against Mr . Nairn , who , he thoughr , was entitled to the thanks of the _ tw «_^/ 9 # _ * _ . ly _*> l- ' \\ i _ _ _ II TV ___• T __ l _ " mt _ lt _"__ i" » l » _ - _ A *"_»^ _ ¦ " _¦ - _*_ _¦!___
creditors for having protected their property . A Mr . Wood , who appeared in support of tlie charge , contended that the money was the property of Mr . Smith until the case had been adjudicated upon by the court . He had a right to collect his debts , and the seizure of the cheque was a felonious carrying away . These opinions the Lord Mayor rather loftily and angrily * pooh-poohed , ' and said that 110 respectable solicitor would undertake such a case . The proceedings were * monstrous ; ' and Mr . Nairn was discharged . Joseph Coghlan , a labourer formerly in the employment of Messrs . Pratt and Sewell , contractors , of Gray ' s Innroad and King ' s-cross , has brought an action against those gentlemen in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , for compensation for injuries received from a dog kept by them on their premises . He - \ ras taken to the hospital in a cab , and his employers , it was asserted , stopped , iu a uiu , tiuu . ins einjjiu ^ -eis , jl was asserieo , sioppeu .
Is . 6 d . out of his wages to p » ay for the vehicle . This , however , was denied . The dog was chained , but the chain was sev * m feet long , and Coghlan went too near . The defence was that the man had not exercueJ . reasonable caution ; and the jury gave a verdict for the defendants , who , through , their counsel , vaguely intimated an intention to make some private arrangement . A Mr . Jackson , a proprietor of racehorses residing in Yorkshire , has sued Mr . Edward Rawson Clarke , known as Dorsay Clarke , and also on the turf , for 100 / lent to him to enable him to pay a debt resulting from his having lost a bet on a certain horse . The action was tried in the Court of Queen ' s Beach , and the jury found for the plain tiff . The question of crossed cheques -was revived in the Court of Common Pleas ori Tuesday in connexion with a case already tried , but in . which , the verdict baring
been for the defendant , liberty was given to the plaintiff to move to enter a verdict for him . A crossed cheque had been stolen , and theWords written across had been obliterated so admirably that the cheque was paid . The question now to be determined was , Tvhether the bank or the customer should bear the loss . Mr . Justice Cresswell delivered the judgment of the court , discharging the rule , and deciding that the loss should be borne by the customer . Lord Chief Justice Cockburn concurred in this judgment , though not without some hesitation . A Dutchman of the name of John Anthony Polso was charged last Saturday before the Marlborough-street magistrate with stealing from a French refugee , named Louis de Thouroude , an album filled with drawings ,
stated to be of the value of 50 / L M . Thouroude had been banished from France about five years ago for refusing to acknowledge Louis Napoleon as Emperor , although , being a thorough Republican , he had previously taken an active part in raising him . to his first rank of President . During his exile , he had made a series of views of different places on the Continent frequented by tourists . Tbese views were cut oat in variously tinted papers and made up into an album . Polso , having obtained a knowledge of this , and likewisa of the circumstances in which M . Thouroude was placed , requested the latter some few weeks ago to let him have the album in order that he might show it to the authorities of the British Museum , with the view , finall
y , of selling it to that institution . After some wavering , M . Thouroude ultimately agreed to lend his album to the Dutchman to show to the librarian of the Museum , but not to sell it . Polso , however , appropriated it , and offered it for sale to Miss Burdett Coutts , but that lady declined to buy it , and it was therefore left with her secretary until it shonld be called for . When before the magistrate , Polso said that M . Thouroude had given him the album to sell fox 20 / ., in liquidation of a debt which ho owed him . It was then fetched from Miss Burdett Coutts ' a , and , being handed to the rightful owner , the Dutchman was discharged . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn gave judgment in the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday in the case of Svers , "Walkers , and Syers , merchants of London and Liverpool ! liiere had been much reckless but
trading ; , as some of the losses were unavoidable , the certificates are of the second class , but those of the two Syers are suspended for six months , with protection . Walker received an immediate certificate . . Air . C . T . Moon , a bookseller of Regent-street , also appeared in the Bankruptcy Court on the samo day , on the occasion of hia certificate meeting . The Commiasionor asked to what he attributed his failure . Tlie bankrupt replied : — " I fear to my having had too many irons in the fire . " This , the Commissioner observed , is a very common case . The bankrupt had been partner in a business in Green-street , which had proved to bo profitable , and had ' embarked in a restaurant , ' nh Mr . Lawrence , who appeared for the assignees , phrased it . This led to Ilia , bankruptcy . " Restaurant ! " exclaimed the commissioner ; " 1 dp not like the term .
Restaurant ! It is the last thing upon which I should think of entering . The bankrupt mav take a second class certificate . " " 1 T ^ rtn _ ¦ __ ¦ - _¦ % __ __ 4 . t T _ . Z _ _ l __ —1 _'__ __ . — . _
A P E R Ened To Lock Him Or Put An Attac...
1184 JgiLg ^_ iijj . A R - LNo-Jt 03 , December 12 , 1857 . ~ ^ — ¦
^ Qf ^ . _ _ _ ^ —.——.—,.. —^ —_*- ^^ V ...
the report was in print , an arrangement has been concluded for the transport of a regiment to India via ! Egypt 5 the Oriental having been sent from Calcutta to Suez for the special purpose of carrying troops . The telegraphic despatch naming the day on which this vessel was expected at Suez was only received on the 17 th ult . ; the directors instantly wrote to the E » st India Company , stating their ability to carry out 1000 men and their officers , and the offer was promptly accepted . Tliis regiment will be conveyed to Alexandria by a screw steamer of 1800 tons chartered for the purpose , and tlie troops will embark at Plymouth on Tuesday next . " The Cuckoo , which recently sank off Chatham , has been raised , but is much damaged . Destuuction of a Ship bv Firk . —The Howadji , 695 tons burden , bound to Liverpool from Boston , has J — — ¦ — — —— - v _> £ jr VKJ * . « . A . ^_/« Sfc K VtJ VVH > »» UO been struck bli and burnt down
0 ^ Qf - ^ . - _ _ _ - ^ — . — - — . — ,.. —^ w — - _* - ^^ v w ^ . p ^^ »»_^ rf ^ rf NAVAL , AND MILITARY . j The Transmission of Troops to India . —At a meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , last Saturday , the chairman , Mr . B . M . Willcox , read the subjoined postscript to the report : — Since
y ghtning , to the water ' s edge . Tlie crew were rescued by the Guttenberg , Captain Myers , from Hamburg . The loss is calculated at nearly 40 , 000 / . The Keis'fokoemejjts for Ijtdia . —The first draught of the new cavalry levy , in the service of the East India Company , marched last Saturday from Warley barracks to Brentwood , and thence proceeded to Tilbury and embarked on board the screw steamship Gertrude , for Calcutta . The rank and file amount to four hundred and fifty men , and these are accompanied by five olficera . The Axerican Steamship Adriatic . —The United States' mail steamship Adriatic , Captain West , which arrived off Point Lynas oil Thursday week , after a run from America of ten days four hours , has excited some attention in England on account of her large size , beauty of appearance , and excellenie of arrangement .
Misckllaneuus; The Court.-^-The Queen An...
MISCKLLANEUUS ; The CouRT .- ^ -The Queen and Court removed from "Windsor to Osborne on Monday . Prince Frederick AVilliam of Prussia has left England for his own country . —The Queen and Prince Albert , on Thursday , ¦ visited the new lines of defences at Gosport . The Leviathan . — The Rlilhvall monster—the 'Leave-lier-bigh-and-dry-athan , ' as the -wits of Poplar call the reluctant marvel of shipbuilding—came to a standstill again , last Saturday . On that day , the Princess Royal , attended by the Duchess of Atholl , Mr . Ormsby Gore , aud an equerry , visited the yard , and , under the guidance of Mr . Bruneilooked at the
wonder-, ful ship and the wonderful machinery which seems to be so admirably adapted for not getting her into the water . Occasionally during the course of the day—but not while the Princess Royal was there—the vessel moved in irregular slips when the pressure was strongest ; but for the most part she stood stockstill , and she has made scarcely any progress since then . The Madras Railway . —A public dinner took place last Saturday at the Freemasons' Tavern for the purpose of presenting to Mr . G . B . Bruce , late chief engineer of the Madras Railway , an address and testimonial from the gentlemen of the company , expressive of the high esteem In which he is held by them . Mr . Robert Stephenson , 3 VI . P ., presided .
Tins Church-rate Question . —A church-rate ha 9 been refused at Hatcham by the large majority of 29 S ' against 56 . Fiue . —Between six and seven o ' clock on Sunday morning , a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs . Parry , soap and candle manufacturers , Broadway , Deptford . The discovery of the fire was made by a policeman . The engines were soon in attendance , but the names could not be extinguished till the melting houses were burned out , and the candle-houses and ware-rooms , as well as the stables , destroyed . A horse wau burnt to death in the latter . The loss will fall on the Atlas office . Some adjoining , premises were also damaged by the fire . The Victoria-stukkt Skweh . —At the weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works on Friday week ,
Mr . Thwaites in the chair , a report was read from the Committee of Works , showing that the expenses incurred in tlie construction and repair of the Victoria-street sewer . up to October , 1857 , amounted to G 0 , 815 / . Thereport stated that the invert had dropped in some places , endangering the main building of the United Service Institution and other edifices in the immediate neighbourhood , and that nothing would do but a thorough reconstruction . Tub Bank Ciiartckr Acr . —The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has agreed to a petition to Covernmont again at the Bank Charter Act . Mu . W . T . Monciukkf , the dramatic writer , died on Thursday -week at the Charter House in his aixty-third year . Opficiac Ai'pointmknts . —Mr . Serjeant Pigott , of the Oxford Circuit , is appointed Recorder of Hereford .
Secretary toLord Clarendon in wine h he will be succeeded by Mr . Villiers Lister . Mr ¦ Brand ,. on . c orthe . Lords of the Treasury , will occupy the place of Lord Mulgrave as assistant' -whip' to Mr Hayter . l '' < na / s V MuTE 7 Keuep Fund . —Tae sum of 419 / . 5 s . has been forwarded to the committee , being the residue of a fund which was collected by British subjects in Russia during the late war for the relief of their fellow-countrymen who were prisoners of war in that country . The East India College , Haileybury . —The half yearly examination of the students of this college took place on Monday in the library of the institution . Several members of the Court of Directors of the East India Company were present ; and the chairman of the court , Mr . K . D . Mangles , presided . In addressing the stuflei _ f . _ S _ nfti ^ r- fl _*» / 1 o 1 __ r __ t **_» - * vF _ -l __ i * ..:.. _ , _ tic — n , r . _ _ dentsafter the delivery of the prizes
the office of Private "' Thomas Chown , Esq ., i 3 appointed a member of the Legislat . ve Council of H . M . ' s settlements in tue Gambia Sir Gaspard Le Marchant , at present Governor of Nova I Iff !* ' t & . ¦*? *** S . ^ - »• R « d as Governor ™ Malta . Sir G-aspard will be replaced at Halifax by Lord Mulgrave , who by this appointment vacates his ? eat for Scarborough . The late Mr . Norman Macdonald wiU be succeeded as Controller of the Lord Chamberlain ' s De-? Z *? £± * ? , "_ S ? « er Ponsonby , who haa long filled _~~* - m
_ , , Mr . Mangles pointed out that the atrocities recently committed in India were tlie work of our revolted soldiers , of felons released from the gaols , and of a few territorial tribes ; that the people of India liad been faithful to us ; and that we ougkt to endeavour to govern them by their affections , which he thought quite possible . The Bishop of London tlien made a few observations on tha duty of spreading Christianity in India . The Smithfieij . Club Cattle Snow has been oa view this week , with its usual portentous foreshadowings of Christmas cheer / For a particular account of the noteworthy facts of the exhibition , we refer the reader to our leading columns . The Cultivation of India . —Mr . Milner Gibson , in addressing the electors and non-electors of Ashton- __ der-Lyne last Saturday evening , made some observations on the cultivation of the land in India . " The true material - —¦ - > ¦ v *«^_>^^ t » i
— — — — — — — - — — ' - — —— __ —^ ~ *__ . _ * . ^^ _> ^ ^^ . ^ ^ r vrv w ^ v ^ 4 W « interests of the natives of India are , he believed , identical with the interests of the industrious classes in this country : if the resources of India were developed , at the same time tlie wages and the employment of the working classes here would be increased . ( Hear . hear . ' ) Hitherto , the English in India had been either -taxgatherers or soldiers . During the last fourteen years , according to the evidence of the chairman of the Board of Directors , before a committee of the House of . Commons , the Government of India had drawn from the population no less than 300 , 000 , 000 ? . sterling . ( Cries of' Shame ! ' ) Aud how much did they think had been spent in improving India ? 1 , 400 , 000 ? . Here is a country , one of the most fertile in the . world , with a
magnificent climate and labour sufficient , but wanting those things which Governments must provide in such countries , namely , roads and irrigating works . With the 300 , 000 , 000 ; . of revenue taken from the people of India , the Government ought to have done something more than they had to develop the agricultural wealth of the land . The people of Lancashire are deeply interested in this question . He had heard it said by competent authorities that cotton of any quality could be delivered in England at some 3 | d . a pound , leaving 3 / . per acre profit to the cultivator . What is the condition of the cultivation of India ? People talk about annexation—of -wanting more land—while no one can deny that at present there is only one acre in four of all tlie cultumble land
under cultivation , and in some parts of Bombay only fourteen per cent , of the land is cultivated . " Hawakdks Church . —Some woodwork designed for the interior of the new JIawarden Church was destroyed by fire at Mold , Flintshire , towards the close of last week . The church was itself burnt a few weeks ago . Ivor * Papeu . —A part of Wednesday's edition of the Hartford Daily Couraut ( says an American journal ) is printed upon paper made of ivory shavings .. It is said to be the first successful experiment of the kind yet attempted . In factories where ivory is worked , the accumulation of shavings ia large , and heretofore they have been considered worthless . There being a good deal of llhro in these shavings , it is found that they work up very well into paper . The paper produced is not so but it
good as that ordinarily used for newspapers , can probably be improved . - The Mkdixburankan Tklkobaph is now complete from Malta to Corfu . Tmc Hank Issuks Indemnity Bill . —Thin bill was issued on Monday . The preamble recites the act ot 1844 , and the lute correspondence with the Bank . The enacting portion of the bill consists « f thrco sections , of which the first givca validity to the issues of Bank o £ England notes since the 12 th of lust November , and nil acts done in relation to them , at the same time indemnifying the Governor and Company of the Bank in respect of over issues . The second declares that tin ; Act of 1844 ahull bo deemed to hove been suspended since the 12 th of November , so far aa it limits the power of the Bank to take securities in its issue dcpartinont , *' und further continues tlie suspeiittion until the
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 12, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12121857/page/8/
-