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1136 TH E LEADE R. [No. 401, November 28...
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Gatherings Trqai The Law And Police Cour...
General ) attended m the Court of Queen ' s Bench last Saturday , to show cause why the defendants in the British Bank case should not be supplied with particulars with Teference to the various counts in the indictments for conspiracy and fraud , in order that they might be the better able to conduct their defence . The « burt was crowded , and Mr . Dallas , the American Minister , was accommodated with a seat ou the bench . Sir Frederick said , he apprehended that the point turned upon whether the information already given conveyed to the defendants upon the face of it sufficient specification of the particulars of conspiracy it was intended to establish .
That was all the defendants were entitled hi law or justice to demand , for they had no right to know by what means it Tvas intended to establish the charge of eonsiMracy , nor the nature of the evidence proposed to be offered , with which , it appeared to liiui , the parties required to be furnished . In this case , the question depended entirely on their Lordships ' view of the counts relative to the defendants' having described the bank to be in a flourishing and prosperous condition . Mr . Serjehnt Ballantine , the secoud counsel , at some length contended that the counts gave the defendants sufficient information in reference to the false representation of the bank's position . After some further discussion between the second counsel and their Lordships , Sir Frederick Thesiger consented to strike out all the general counts ,
and to give the defendants notice ami particulars of the overt acts relied on , and not to enter on any other on the trial . Sir Fitzroy Kelly then , on the -pjiifof Mr . Stapleton , applied to the court for particulars to be furnished to the . defendant in reference to the alleged fraudulent balance sheet , in which was an item of 810 , 20 i 2 . Id ., as convertible security , bills discounted , < Se . ; without them , it would be impossible for the defendant to be in a position to answer the charge . A similar application was made by Mr . Digby Seymour on the part of 'Mr . Cameron , the secretary . The Court was unanimously of opinion that no further information should be supplied beyond what the Attorney-General considered himself justified in furnishing , and observed that the defendants had supplied the accounts referred to which were said to "be fraudulent .
The appeal from the decree of Vice-Chancellor Wood , with respect to the case of the preference shareholders of the Great Northern Railway Company and the deficiency created by the frauds of Redpath , was , last Saturday ( after argument on previous days ) , brought forward in the Equity Courts for the judgment of the Lord Chanceller and the Lords Justices . The point to be decided was , whether or not the plaintiffs , > vho are preference shareholders , are entitled , together with the other preference shareholders , to be paid full dividends from June
30 th , 1856 , before any dividends shall be paid to the ordinary shareholders ; that is to say , whether or not the fact of their being preference shareholders gives them immunity from the losses occasioned to the company generally by the delinquencies of Uedpath . Vice-Chancellor Wood had decided in favour of the plaintiffs ; but the company appealed against this decision . The Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices , however , now confirmed the previous decree , and the appeal was dismissed , with costs . The preference shareholders must therefore be paid in full .
A dividend meeting was held last Saturda )* under tho bankruptcy of William James Robson , described as au antimony smelter of Bowling-green-mews , Kennington , but better known in connexion with the extensive frauds on the Crystal Palace Company . An arrangement has been effected with the company , which resulted in their large claim in respect of the bankrupt ' s frauds being withdrawn , and a dividend of 3 s . 9 d . in the pound being paid to the trade creditors , amounting to 3707 / . There is now 391 / . in hand , and Mr . Johnson , the official assignee , states there will be a further dividend of Is . 4 d . or Is . Gd . in the pound , which in all probability will be a final one . Only one additional proof was admitted on Saturday , and the dividend was declared pro forma The dividend upon several claims having been ordered to be reserved , the proceedings ended .
In tho matter of tho London and Eastern Banking Corporation , a petition" wan filed on Wednesday , before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Pago Wood , by Major Alfred Henry Corfield , a shareholder in the company , praying its dissolution and winding up , under tho provision of tho Joint-Stock Companies Acts , 1848-9 . This is the bank with which the notorious Colonel Waugh wa « connected . It was arranged that an order should bo taken for dissolution and winding up , and for the appointment of Mr . Stuart , tho present manager , tho costs of all parties to be paid out of the assets of tho company . The examination of the Directors of tho Royal British Bank in the Court of Bankruptcy , was on Thursday furlher adjourned to the 6 th of March . The criminal trial is now arranged to commence in the first week of February .
Woolf Levy , tho insolvent debtor , whoso subtle rogueries we related last week , lias appeared again before Mr . Commissioner Phillips , who dismissed the schedule , as he believed it to bo wilfully false . The insolvent was then remitted to prison . Lord Campbell , in tho Court of Queen ' s Iicnch on Wednesday , gave judgment in tlio cane of the Queen v tho Provost and College of Eton and tho Rev . John
Alexander Clarke—an action brouglit by the Attorney-General to try the light of the Crown to present to benefices left vacant "by the appointment of the incumbents to colonial bishoprics . The court decided that the Grown does not possess that right , and judgment Was accordingly given fox the defendants .
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1136 TH E LEADE R . [ No . 401 , November 28 , 1857
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'¦¦ NAVAL AND , MILITARY . Shipping Disasters . —Some serious disasters , attended with the loss of several lives , occurred last week to several vessels off the eastern coast .
• liiK-RisiNPORcisMENTS i ~ ou India . —The steam transports Australia and United Kingdom had reached Galle with troops on the 23 rd of October . Orders were issued from tlie War-office" on Saturday la . st , directing the commandants of the depot battalions at Chatham and Colchester to hold in readiness detachments of the Tindermentioned corps , the whole o f whom are to embark at Gravesend on December the 4 th for India , for the purpose of reinforcing tho British regiments serving in the Bengal , Bombay , and Madras Presidencies—viz .: —204 non-commissioned . " officers and men selected from the 8 th ( the Iving » , igtli , 19 th , 20 th , 23 rd ( . Koyal Welsh Fusiliers ) , 24 th , 29 th , 32 nd , 35 th , 37 th , 75 th , 82 nd , " 84 th , and 90 th ( Li ght Infantry ) Regiments , together with 6
officers , the whole of -whom will embark for Calcutta : 164 non-commissioned officers and men and 5 officers from the 18 th ( Royal Irish ) , 51 st ( Light Infantry ) , C 4 tli , 83 rd , aiid 8 Gth ( Royal County Down ) Regiments , to join the head-quarters of their respective regiments serving in the Bombay Presidency ; 181 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 7 th ( Royal Fusiliers ) , 27 th ( liiuriskillen ) , 52 nd ( Light Infantry ) , 53 rd , 61 st , 70 tli , 87 th ( Royal Irish Fusiliers ) , 94 th , and 08 th . Regiments , to embark for Kurracheej together -with reinforcements for the 43 d Light Infantry , who are under orders to proceed to Madras . The total number off reinforcements ordered to leave Chatham garrison for India is 556 men of all ranks , together with 20 officers .
Baronetcies tor the Brave . —The Queen has signified her pleasure to raise to the dignity of Baronet of the United Kingdom Generate Wilson , and 1-Ia . velock , by the titles of Sir Arclidale Wilson of Delhi , and Sir Henry Havelock of Luck now . . CouRTS-MARTiAti—A court naartial was held on board her Majesty ' s ship St . Vincent , yesterday week ^ to try Mr . Drew , late acting master of the Juno , on charges of negligently performing his duty , and of behaving disrespectfully to his captain . The inquiry ended in an acquittal . Mr . Drew has been under arrest for the last nine months . —Lieutenant Burnaby of the same vessel
has also been tried for insubordination and disrespect . On Captain Fremantle being ordered by the President to give his evidence , he said he knew nothing , and was prepared to abandon the prosecution , and to indemnify the prisoner by ' corporeal pains . ' The cabin was cleared , and Captain -Fremantle was given time to consider : but , on the resumption of the sitting , he sju'd he felt utterly unable to collect his ideas with reference to matters which had happened so long figo . " 1 feel impressed , " he added , " that-my views of the service have been mistaken and wrong . " He also asserted that there was a confusion in his head , and he requested that the President would allow him to sit down . He was told he
might retire , and give his evidence sub-cquently , which lie did , and the accused then entered on his defence . On Wednesday , Licutenant . Burnaby was acquitted , and the Court stated , furthermore , that there were not sufficient grounds for preferring the charge . — Another case in connexion with the same ship has also ended in an acquittal . An Auriw . ERYMAN * Flogged . —John Day , a gunner of Captain Fisher ' s 1 st Company , 7 th Battalion Royal Artillery , received fifty lashus yesterday wpelc at Chatham , for refusing to perform duty when at Tilbury Fort , and for throwiug his busby at Captain Fisher , and telling that oflicer that he had not earned tlie Crimean medal with which he was decorated . IIo will aho be imprisoned for two years . He did not seem to suffer much from tho flogging , though many of tho spectators were sickened by the sight .
Sickjsicss ur this Altai Y . ¦—Several men have been sent away from Forton Barracks , ( josport , and from the barracks at Portsmouth , owing to the great amount of sickness prevalent there . Wimcck . of Two Stisamisks . — - Intelligence has been received at Lloyd ' s of tho wreck of the screw-steamer Durham , Captain Lcuthwaitc , while on her voyage from Cape Coast Castle and Tencriffo to London , with four hundred tons of palm oil . The crew were landed , nnd part of the cargo will be saved . Another steamer mentioned as wrecked is tho Mug G . De la Gardie , which went on shoro near Gothenburg during tho voyage iVom Mint port for London , and Hoon afterwards became a total wreck . The crew wore drowned .
Ehcapic of a Convict from Chatham . —Numerous bodies of convicts at tho Chatham barracks have been employed for some time past in breaking stones nnd otherwiHO repairing tho Government ronila at that place . Laat Saturday morning , as one of them , named Thomas King , alias Kelly , was engaged in thia occupation , lie asked permission of Jackson , ono of tho barrack wnrdera by whom tho convicts arc guarded , to retire for a short
time . Leave having been granted him , King walked forward a few paces , closely followed by Jackson , when suddenly the former darted through the railings near the military cemetery at the foot of the lines His warder immediately fired his ride at him , and pursued him some distance ; but , although it was broad daylight and several of the other warders and a police- constable joined in pursuit of the fugitive , he succeeded in escaping , and gaining the woods at the outskirts of the town .
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MISCELLANEO US . Tub Court . —Saturday being the anniversary of the Princess Royal's birthday , the band of the Royal Horse Guards played a corale on the south terrace at seven o ' clock in the morning . The garrison of Windsor , conr sis ting of the Royal Horse Guards and the 2 nd battalion of the Fusilier Guards , paraded in the quadrangle of the Castle to witness the ceremony of the presentation of the Victoria Cross by the Queen to Lieutenant Teesdale * of the Royal Artillery , Lieutenant Symons , 5 th battalion Military Train ( late of the Royal Artillery ) , Ensign and Adjutant Craig , 3 rd battalion Military Train ( late of the Scots Fusilier Guards ) , and Sergeant Malone , 13 th Dragoons . After receiving the crosses , the regiments marched past in slow and quick time , wheeled into line , presented arms , and gave three cheers in honour of the Princess Royal ' s birthday .- —The Siamese Ambassadors paid a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle on Wednesday . .
Thjs Bishop of Oxford on Church Missions . — A lecture on the subject of Church Missions , with especial reference to India , was delivered a few evenings ago at Reading by the Bishop of Oxford . He traced the history of these missions , and showed that they did not originate till long after the abolition of Popery in this country— -namely , about two centuries ago ; and that they Were then iirst of all act on foot by laymen . The Church Missionary Society demanded that all its agents shall be ^ the colour of the Church of England ; ' but it does not ' belong to any peculiar section of that body .
I he" Bishop pointed out the vastness of the field for missionary labour presented by the population of 180 , 000 , 000 , or 200 , 000 , 000 , in India , and said we had hitherto done nothing but truckle to the superstitions of the natives , out of a most un-English , timidity . ¥ e had only thought of getting wealth for ourselves and children , and , if we were to be swept from that mighty peninsula tomorrow , we should scarcely leave behind us in any part of it a mark of our having been a Christian people . We had shown respect to idolatry , and had forced Sir Peregrine Maitland to resign because he would not . let his troops salute a Hindoo idol . We had reared our army- on the
infamous principle of caste , and that army had now turned against us . These were the causes of our disasters , and they must now be amended . .. ' Mr . Mkchi on . Agriculture . —Mr . Mcehi made some remarks on agriculture at a recent meeting of the Coggeshall Agricultural Society . Speaking of improvements in farming , he said : —" The farmer had now found it to bis interest to cast away the flail , which costs Is ., as an instrument for thrushiug his corn , and to use a machine which costs 3 O 0 / ., as , notwithstanding the enormous disparity in expense , the steam engine produces a cheaper result . The other day he went down to Wandsworth with Mr . Caird and Mr . Morton , to see a
scheme of railway adapted for agricultural purposes , patented by Mr . Halkett , by which he promises to plough land at a cost of Id . 7 d . per acre , hoe it at Is . 3 d ., and get . in the harvest at Is . per acre , carrying the manure , <& c , of the farm at id . per ton per mile , leaving a margin for the interest of the cost of the railway , which could be adapted to the farm at a cost of 24 / . per acre . By this scheme lie might plough his land by night as well as by day if he pleased , and , if it were necessary for the production of a good crop that tho land should be brought in contact with this air , they would sec how important it is to have a long fallow-There are yet many things which might be done by agriculturists to great advantage ; but he could not forget how much some had done , and that there was one gentleman present who every year at least burnt a thousand tons of earth into ashes , which , laid upon heavy clay land , greatly increases its fertility . " further ide
Nkw Zbat . and . —Every day brings evnce o the extent and richness of the gold fields in New Zealand . A great many persons arc flocking to the auriforous districts . Exktick Hah The incumbent of St . Michael s , Burloigh-Btrcot , Strand , having put a stop to the Sunday evening services at Exeter Hall , aa being derogatory to tho dignit y of tho Church of England , the Uissenters have taken up the scheme , and the firat of their suncs was held last Sunday evening , with tho sanction and approval of tho Archbishop of Canterbury and tlie Bishop of London . Tho Rev . W . Brock , minister of tlie Baptist Chapel in Bloomobury , was the officiating preacher , and ho was accompanied on tho platform by Mr . A . Kimmird , M . P ., Mr . Morloy , and several others . Tho hymns and ritual wero those of the Church o » England . _ , The Siamksi 3 Amdassadors paid a viait to M > ru Clarendon , at the Foreign Office , last Saturday .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 28, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28111857/page/8/
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