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THE JAMAICA PROSECUTIONS.
THE JAMAICA PROSECUTIONS. X--on and Lieutenant Brand appeared at Stenl1p,Uet' ^ice Court, on Tuesday. Mr. Fitzjames cutiV"^ Horno Payne appeared for the prose- Bristol ted bv Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe. Mr. tenant r^'v11^ on behalf of the Admiralty for Lieu- tlie \Vlrn an<] Mr. Claude Scott, solicitor for the asked H,, /Ulni(,nt, for Colonel Nelson.-Mr. Bristowe stand "lef Magistrate to allow the defendants tc tlwi f01? ^e floor of the court instead of being place <(.,]. j, i 'to whicli Sir Tliomas Henry at once assen tlleL ?t,tllo,lffendants declined to avail themselves of liege, and remained in the dock. the 'St"rhon proceeded to state the case on behalf ol irinn °S.ecu''°n" He said In opening this important wU1 be necessary for me to trespass for some «ngth upon your attention, in order that the gentle- Shi stand at the bar may understand the exact mature of thP charo-e brought against them by the pro Biters in this case It fsno Ly matter, in conduct- *ng a case of :his ki^ to abstain on the onehand from speakm* with which will be most improper 0n every ground a nd to prevent on the otherthose who anj Dotaccujt..med to the manner of conducting cnmi- »al prosecutions from receiving false ifflPress:ions *si to tlje Position in which the prosecutors stand. It is sup- Posed by some— f Sir Thomas Henry I do not think it is necessary for you to go ii2t,) those matters. Mr. Stephen: T have been very much pained to see the extremely violent opinions which have been ex- pressed on both sides in the discussion of this case Sir Thomas Henry: You very properly steered cleai of all that. Mr. Stephen An impression appears to be enter- tained by some persons that I treated the case as if I felt that it was not a very serious prosecution. With re- ference to that opinion, I have only to state that those who have undertaken the prosecution have the fullest sense of the i esponsibility attaching to the course which they have adopted. As to the facts with regard to the arrest and execution of Mr. Gordon under martial law, it was a matter upon which there could be no dispute. The question to be considered was whether he was legally executed. He contended that the whole pro- ceeding was illegal from the very beginning. He based his argument chiefly on the following points :-First, that except so far as it was modified by special and local acts, the law of England was the law of Jamaica; that the Jamaica acts were to be construed by the common law of England. He should at a proper stage call Mr. Phillips, a distinguished English barrister, versed in the law of Jamaica,to produce a variety of documents, acts and precedents to prove that proposition. If it should be made apparent (as he did not think it would) that the intention of the Jamaica acts was to establish a state of things that was unknown and was repugnant tc the Jaw of England, that intention was not in operation because it was ultra vires. Martial law was not defined in the Jamaica acts they seemed rather to treat it as something the existence of which they assumed. He ^°'itended. however, that martial law could only be egal in Jamaica, in whatever service it was, when it was legal in England. That is, that it was a notice to wl 't might concern of a certain state of facts, quit in the opinion of the authorities, rendered it lnea necessarv to resort at once to the most extreme eioo crfTu' ani| the use of military force for the suppres- martial i state of things. If it were considered that different "V" Was a setting up of a system or code of law ^hieh di,i r°?\ tlie ordinary law, that was a power But he ir ? belong even to the Sovereign personally. wpre tain? J nded thut the whole of the proceedings Which ith the vice of the original proclamation, effect i k y itsplf illegal. The proclamation was in tants nf f declaration of war against the mhabi- Kintrcf county of Surrey, except m the town of not fi! Now- he contended that the Sovereign had a J he POW"r to declare war against her own subjects, p lJ( that even traitors could not be held as the Queen's Ernies. Enemies, in law, could only be those who ,,ere out of allegiance to the Sovereign. It was held that when the King had conquered a country he had the legal right to put all the inhabitants to death-to Exterminate them- So, if this could be done, the officer in command would have absolute power of life and death over Her Majesty's subjects in that locality. The dis- tinction he made as to the legality of martial law was that it was legal for the purpose of suppression, not for punishment, except so far as that punishment was neces- sary for suppression If even the proclamation were effective, it could not justify the punishment of Gordon for what he was alleged to have done before the date of the proclamation. There could be only two modes of defence to the charge—one was that the proceedings were lot;al, and the second was that legal or not it was necessary for the preservation of the peace. He con- tended that as to the legality there was at least a very fP'ave question indeed, which he was sure the learned "OllgiRtrate would not deal with. As for necessity, he 1I:1Ight rest himself contented with saying that when a tnan was put to death the onus of showing that the act Was necessary or justified rested with the parties autho- ring the nroceeding. But it was one of the singular features of this case, that tliey had the motives of the actors stated fully, frankly, and he believed fair- even by themselves. Mr. Stephen then proceeded to thfi8Wier tl,e circumstances of the trial to show that th Was 7,0 necessity for the execution of Gordon, and Wa 6Ven ^ie Part*es themselves did not think there Was, or Put it on the ground of necessity. General Nel- 0 had gtatod in his memorandum approving of the sen* 0 nce, that he did not order the execution of Gordon on Und.-iy because the state of the country did not render 1 ^ecessary. And if not necessary at that time, nothing •>ad occurred on the Sunday to render it necessary on lhe following day. The fact was, that these gentlemen acted, not from any belief that the execution of Gordon Was an act of military necessity, but they had power Punish him for the use of certain language by which .bey considered that he had instigated the rebellion— *0 short, been use he was an agitator. It was one of the In short, been use he was an agitator. It was one of the jn°st remarkable exertions of power ever known in his- ™rV. and lie contended that it was an act for which the *jQglish law had no other name than wilful murder. He ^sed that, word in its legal sense, and not with an inten- tion to use harsh language, or impute any other motives than those of men who thought they were justified in what thev did. Dr. Fiddes was then re-called, and examined by Mr. Horne Pavne, and Mr. Lewis by Mr. Bristowe. They repeated their former evidence. Mr. Bristowe said that Mr. Roundell had thought it b's duty to hand over certain papers to the Colonial Secretary. They were now brought to the Court by a clerk from the Colonial Office, who would be sworn to produce them, and would hand them as required to Mr. Roundell, who would be sworn to put them in, and state This form having been gone through, Mr. Augustus Lake, of Kingston, -Tamacia, reporter forthe press, said that in October, 1865, being the reporter of the Colonial Stvn<larJ, he was instructed to go to Morant Bay im- pifdiately on the outbreak. He left, Kingston on the :|3tli of October, and remained till the 2nd of November. Ye saw no disturbance during that period. It was his duty to look for any thing of the sort and report i He Was present at the court-martial and took notes of the Proceedings. (Produced by Mr. Roundell.) He had handed those notes over to Mr. Roundell when he gave I duty to look for any thing of the sort and report i'. He evidence before the Commission. He could swear to the accuracy of those notes. They were not in short- band. The evidence was given very slowly to enable Lieutenant Brand to write it down. He was the presi- dent. Witnesses were examined, and Gordon made a defence. Witness remembered, though he was unable to discover it in his notes, that Gordon wished to call Major, when the president said he was not in Court, and that he was not in the Bay. Witness was at the execution. Col. Nelson was there. Mr. Brand was not. Sir Thomas Henry said he did not see that this wit- ness proved any more than was already given in the evidence of Mr. Lewis. Mr. Bristow said it might be necessary to call him at a later stage, and in that case it would be made a matter of remark if lie had not been called before the magis- I trate. Mr. Roundell then put in the whole of the documents relating to the court-martial, as produced before the commission. The minutes of the proceedings of the coui t-mnrtial were then read over. The accused were remanded, and bail was again accepted.
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A WORKHOUSE SCF.NE.—At the Lambeth PoliceCourt, on Monday, Emma Hands, Mary Giddens, Eliza Gib- ling, ard B rid tret Gearing, all strong young women of about 19, WPI-P charged with riotous conduct in Lam- beth Workhouse, and doing damage to the amount of £ 4. From the testimony of Mrs. Wilson, the assistant matron, and the taskmaster, it appeared that on tlie day before. thejn-isoners made their appearance among the othor panpers with their hair dressed a l<i Eugenie. They were told by the matron to retire to their differ- ent, wards and alter it, but they refused, and made use of language so horrible that the witnesses could not repeat it. They were removed by force to the ward, and when served out with bread and water for their dinner as a punishment, they broke 49 squares of gla^s and "6 basins, thus destroying property of the value £ 4. In answer to the questions of the Magistrate the witnesses said the prisoners had been for years a burden to the parish and several situations had been provided for them, but they were too idle and saucy to keep them, and were continually in and out of the workhouse. The conduct of the prisoners while the evidence was beinggiven was such that it required the utmost efforts of thegaolerand his assistant to restrain them from personal violence, and furnished ample proof that they were lost to all shame. Giblinghad not behaved so ill as the others, and the Magistrate discharged her, but lie sentenced the three others to two months' hard labour. On hearing their sentence the prisonerseaid, using the most dis- prusting words, they could do that "littlebit" on their taead.-
THE CASE OF OVEREND, GURNET,…
THE CASE OF OVEREND, GURNET, AND COMPANY. I Vice-Chancellor Malins gave judgment on Saturday morning, on two motions by shareholders of the,oom- pany to have their names taken off the list of contribu- tories and the register of members of the company. One motion was in behalf of Mr. Oaks an original allottee of shares, and the other on behalf of Mr. Peake, who became a transferee of shares a few months after the formation of the company. His Honour said both mo- tions were made on the ground that the applicants were induced to take their shares by false and fraudulent statements. The applicants represented 676 sharehold- ers, who had taken rather more than a fifth of the shares of the company. The motions were opposed by the of- ficial liquidator who represented the company and its ereditors, and by Alr. Oppenlieim, ti-,o creditors' (luly appointed representative, by Mr. Stevenson, a creditor who appeared at his own expense, and by the directors not only on account of the pecuniary interest they had in putting the applicants op the list, but also for the still more important object of vindicating themselves from the charges of fraud which were made against them. The questions raised were of the highest im- portance to the parties concerned, and also to the com- mercial interests of the country. The great firm of Overend, Gurney and Co. was founded towards the end of the last century. In July, 1865, it was determined to turn the firm into a limited company. In the sixty- five years during which the firm existed it attained the highest commercial repute, and was universally con- sidered by those best informed on such subjects to one of the most flourishing and money making concerns in the greatest commercial city of the world and therefore it was not surprising that the 100,000 shares of which it was proposed the company should consist, were eagerly sought for, or that they speedily rose to a high premium in the market. There appeared to be no reason for doubting that this great concern did realise enormous profits down to about the year 1857 or 1858-profi.ts amounting to upwards of £190,000 per annum. But, in consequence of the death of some of the old partners and the retirement of others,agreatchangeinthemodeof conducting the business took place in 1858 or 1859,and a result was produced which rendered it necessary either to obtain an accession of capital or to bring the business to a close. This state of things no doubt led to the sug- gestion of turning the concern into a limited company. In 1865 the partners of the firm consisted of nine persona of whom four carried on business in London and the other five were engaged in different places in the country. In forming the new company it was thought necessary that new directors should be introduced in order to represent the shareholders who might bring in new capital, and who by their high character and well-known commercial standing in the city of London might give confidence to the shareholders, and cause the concern tofloat. It was only justice to the four partners who consented to join the board of the new company to say that they made the fullest disclosure of the state of the firm to the directors of the new company. They stated that the firm was, in fact, insolvent at the time to the extent of £ 2,000,000, if not £ 3,000,000. It was astounding that these directors, after such disclosures were made, could have thought themselves justified in proceeding with the formation of the new company, and in inducing others to embark their capital in it. In order to make the concern bear an ap- pearance of solvency, it was necessary to take credit for a list of debts amounting to £ 4,199,000, but of which it appeared that no more than £ 1,082,000 could be recover- ed, according to a estimate made by Mr. J. H. Gurney. But it seemed that the directors persuaded themselves that they might rely on the guarantee of the old firm to make good any deficiency of assets. He (the Vice-Chan. cellor) waajmost decidedly of opinion that the directors were bound to disclose the real state of things to those persons whom they invited to take shares. The prospec.. tus stated that £500,000 was the stated price of the good- will of the business of the old firm. Did not that state- ment imply that the business of the old firm at the time of the transfer of the business was highly profitable r It was said that the members of the old firm had gua. ranteed the company against the liabilities of the old firm by making their private estates liable. But these private estates were not sufficient to meet the liabilities of the old firm, and even if they were, the directors of the company had not taken any precautions to prevent those private estates from being sold or from being taken by creditors in the event of the bankruptcy of the owners thereof. If the public had been told how matters stood by the prospectus, not a single share would have been taken. If it had not been the desire of the directors to keep the shareholders in the dark they would not have concealed the fact that the mem- bers of the old firm had, by a deed, guaranteed the company against any deficieitcy of the assets. The shareholders were led to infer that the deed which transferred the business of the old firm transferred a very profitable business. If the directors had not been desirous of concealing the real truth, that deed could have given the company the guarantee on the private estates of the old firm. If truth had been the directors' object, there would have been no necessity for two deeds. The deed giving the guarantee was a private transac- tion between partners of the old firm and the directors of the new company. Many thousands had been made desolate by the failure of this company. It was difQ. cult to say whether the case of the shareholders or that of creditors was the harder. The former had embarked capital to the amount of £ 1,500,000, which must in any event be lost, and if they were not entitled to be relieved by these motions they would have to pay calls amount- ing to about jM.000,000 more. After reviewing thE cases bearing on the subject, the Vice-Chancellor said he was of opinion that, whatever claim the shareholders might have to be relieved as against the directors, they were liable to the creditors, and the motions must be refused, with costs.
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Mr. J. Kelly, owner of c\'u Ubivegardensancl orchards at Rathmullen, comity of Aleatli, has died, in conse- quence of being riddtui over accidentally while looking at a hunt near his own house, by P. Dulton, the whipper. in of the Louth hounds. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will, by com- mand of the Queen hold levees at St. James's Palace, on behalf of Her Majesty, on Monday, the 4th of March and on Wednesday, the 20th of March next, at two o'clock. It is the Queen's pleasure that presentations to his Royal Higliuess at these levees shall be considered as eauivalent to nresentatious to ller Majesty. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Two :\[1;, BURIED ALIVE.-On Friday, a shocking occurrence took place in the Victoria Park, by which two men lost their lives. The contractor had obtained permission to carry a drain pipe from the basement of a new house into the main sewer, to get at which a shaft was sunk in the centre of the road, 26 feet in depth, to the sewer, and a tunnel bored under the pathway for the pipes down to the sewer. Four men and a boy were at work, and they had reached the crown of the sewer, and were preparing to tap it, when the shaft collapsed, and some tons of ea,rth fell and buried the poor fellows below. The boy saw it falling and had time to run into the tunnel, and escaped. Two of the men were soon got out alive, but the extrication of their other companions occupied several hours, and both proved to be dead. The bodies were removed to the dead house of Betlinal-green Workhouse. Both men have left large families. STEPHENS, THE FENIAN HEAD CENTRE.—The Paris correspondent of the Sunday Gazette, writing on Friday evening, saya :—Jenncs Stephens, late Fenian head- centre, has just arrived in France by the Ville de Paris. It may be that he is short of funds, for he crossed the Atlantic as a second-class passenger; but he may, there- fore, still be considered as a conspirator. When I saw him on his way out to the United States to organise, he told me plainly that he should return to resume the head of his rebellion; and he has returned as far as this coun- try, and has now only to run the gauntlet, and get into BOuie Irish port—that is to say, if he intends to go on with this dangerous game, from which very few persons rise up winners. We shall probably soon know who are in the right—those who consider Fenianism played out, and its chief in search of a quiet spot to spend what he has been able to lay by or those who believe in the con- spiracy, and look for the coming of Stephens as Napo- leon, as Hoche, as Humbert were looked for in tiuies which were far darker than the present for England. BARNED'S BAXK.—The case of Barned's Bank came before the Master of the Rolls, on Saturday. This mat- ter was before the Court on the 12th January, on an application by the official liquidator of the Company for an order directing a call to be made for zC40 per share on certain shareholders who had been placed by the Chief Clei k on the list of contributories. The Court then directed the matter to stand over until Saturday last, to enable some of the contributories who disputed their liability to complete their cases, and get them ready for argument. The Court also then intimated that if those cases were not ready by that day, the order for the call must be made. It was estimated that the proposed call if responded to, would produce about £ 500,000. From that direction, however, the partiea appealed to the Lord Justices, who desired the matter to be mentioned to them again on Saturday, but expressed an opinion that the call ought to be made forthwith. The alleged contributories disputing their position on the list had not yet completed their case, and the mat- Fer was in due course again brought on on Saturday.— His Lordship said that, even if he had not felt as he did on the former occasion when the matter was before him the call ought to be made. He should now be bound to order it to be made. The dissentient shareholders were not only not ready with their cases, which he had thought a month would have enabled them fully to pre- pare, but the Court of Appeal had expressed so strong an opinion as to the propriety of the call that His Lord- ship thought he had no discretion in the matter. There would, therefore, be an order for a call of jE40 per share, and must be paid into Court on or before the 1st of Apri I next. Questions as to costs, except those of the official liquidator, must be reserved for further consideration; those of the official liquidator must be allowed out of the Company's estate.
I MULTUM IN PARVO,
MULTUM IN PARVO, Commander Frederick Lewis (1853) has been awarded a. navy pension. There have been 1,600 divorces granted in Massachu- setts in the last six years. There are 7,772 makers and sellers of playing cards, and the duty last year was £HS2. Last year, the duty on spirits amounted to€10,437,163, being an increase of £ 2GI),4S7 on the preceding year. In the Chinese section of the Paris Exhibition, there is to be a restaurant kapt by two women from the Celes- tial empire. The King of Sweden vs said to have written a memoir on military reform, and to have dedicated it to the Emperor of the French. The Russian post office has announced that a bi-weekly mail has been established, through Siberia, from St. Petersburg to Pekin. The time of transport will be five weeks. The Athenamm announces the death of Mrs. Groom, who, as Miss Wilkinson, some 40 years ago, made a favourable impression as an oratorio and concert singer. The Rev. Dr. Robert Lowell, brother of Professor J. R. Lowell, and author of The New Priest," has been elected to the Professorship of English Literature in Racine College, Wisconsin. From the statistics of theRegistrar-General,it appears that a much larger number of those children born at the latter part of the summer die within a year of birth than is the case with those born at other periods. A youth, named Devaney, who had a weak chest, was so much crushed at Hengler'sCircus, Liverpool, on Sa- turday night, that he died almost immediately. The Coroner's Jury, on Monday, returned a verdict of acci- dental death. The Majorca fishermen are just now making hand- some profits of an enormous take of sardines, which are sold at as little as four maravedis (about two-thirds of a penny) per lb. The pension for distinguished or meritorious ser- vices, vacant by the appointment of Maior General H. K. Bloomfield to the colonelcy of the 64th Regiment, will, in all likelihood, be given to Colonel William Hope, C.B., of the 71st. Colonel Henry Marion Durand, C.B. member of the Council of the Viceroy of India, and Mr. William Mail-, secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, have been appointed knights commanders of the Order of the Star of India. It appears from a report addressed to the Admiralty at St. Petersburg by the commander of the Russian frigate General Admiral, that on the 29th of December the frigate took to the Pirseus, 1,141 Cretan fugitives, consisting of 155 men, 424 women, and 562 children. The Paris Etendard of Friday evening publishes a telegram from Alexandria, announcing that Lord Clar- ence Paget has visited the works of the Suez Canal, in company with M. de Lesseps, to whom he had expressed his appreciation of the greatness and utility of the en- terprise. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Chris- tian will, on their return to Windsor Castle with the Oueen, occupy the anartments used by the Prince and Princess of Prussia after their marriage. These rooms were formerly occupied by her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Gazette of Bavaria officially announces the aboli- tion, so far as Bavaria isconcerned, of all the naviga- tion dues on the Rhine since the 1st Jan. last, in ac- cordance with an article in the treaty of peace of the 22nd August last, agreed to in conjunction with all the states bordering upon that river. It has been found necessary to abandon "for the present" the proposed memorial cathedral to Cardinal Wieeman. But it is announced that the fund still exists, should anyone wish to subscribe to it. We believe that at no time did the sum amount to jE20,000, although all Europe was canvassed for subscriptions. A plated frigate, named Prince Frederick Charles, is in progress of construction in France for the Prussian Government. She is to be 280ft. long, 50ft. broad, and of 4,050 tons burthen. Her draught will be about 23ft. and her engines of 950 horses' power. Her plates will be 4¥in. thick, and her armament is to consist of 2672. pounders. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Mar- chioness of Carmarthen and Major Teesdale in waiting, attended divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on Sunday morning. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, from St. Matthew, chap. 13, partof verse 38. The Prince of Teck and the Princess Mary attended the service. Loss OF A STEAMER AND EIGHTEEN LIVES.—A steam- ship that was seen to founder suddenly, with all hands, off St. Ive's Head, near to Plymouth, has proved to be the Fanny Lambert, of London, 526 tons. The body of a young man, supposed to be that of the mate, has been washed ashore with a life-buoy around it. Parts of the wreck have also been picked up. The crew num- bered 18. Besides the privileges hitherto accorded to the public in visiting Windsor Castle, tickets may be obtained for inspecting the royal gardens at Frogmore, the royal dairy in the Home Park, and the Prince Consort's re- nowned model farm at Frogmore, during the absence of the Queen from Windsor, by applying either to Sir Thomas Biddulph, Sir J. Cowell, or General the Hon. A. R. Hood.—Court Circular. The Jesuits, according to their custom, have published the annual statistics of their society. The company reckoned at the close of 1866, four cousistories and 20 provinces; the number of members being 8,107, show- ing an augmentation of 215 over the year 1865. In the French province there are 2,422, whereas, in 1865, there were only 2,266. Notwithstandingtheir expulsion from Naples, Sicily, Turin, Venetia, and the Mexican empire, they are incessantly increasing in number. A new process for cleaning the ft cades at public build- ings and dwelling-houses is now being experimented on in Paris. A steam engine supplies pipes of gutta pereha with a constant stream of vapour. These are applied to the stone or brick surface of buildings, one man direct- ing the steam jet and the other using a brush. The building, after the application of this system, looks as clean and new as when erected. A couple of men in three days will thus wath the fi-io.de of an hotel. The Queen drove out on Saturday afternoon, accom- panied by Princess Louise. PrinceArthur and the Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Henry of Prus- sia walked in the grounds. Her Majesty and the Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice attended divine service at Osborne, on Sunday morning. The Rev. R. Duckworth officiated. Sir Thomas and the Honour- able Lady Biddulph had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal family on Saturday. The Covrt Circular says :—" We are pleased to an- nounce that it is the intention of Her Majesty to take a yachting cruise during the coming summer season. Her Majesty's yacht, the Victoria and Albert, is at the present time being redecorated and embellished, to be in readiness for the Queen's use, and will be ready for service by the 20th day of May. Besides the intention of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to spend a Kortion of each year in Ireland, it is, we believe, Her lajesty's intention to visit the Lakes of Killarney dur- ing the present year. Should these intentions be car- ried out, it cannot but have a most beneficial effect on this portion of Her Majesty's dominions." SINGULAR STATEMENT.—In the National Zeitung of February I we find a remarkable statement, made on the 29th of January, to the Second Chamber at Darm- stadt, by Herr Von Dalwigk. Many vague entries in the civil list having been questioned, the Minister re- plied for that part of them which related to the marri- age of Prince Louis that" these charges had arisen chiefly from the sending of presents to high English personages, for example, EarLRussell and others. Ac- cording to the English lawthey might not be decorated with orders, and thereru, p" they (Herr Von Dalwigkand others,) had been compelled, especially by intimations which had been received from England, to reward in this way services that had been rendered.Examiner. RESULTS OF THE ORISSA FAHINE.-The figures of the great Orissa disaster are at last becoming clear. The government of Bengal, in a despatch intended to ex- plain its conduct and defend its inaction, admits that one-fifth of the population has perished, or about 681,000 persons, and according to the Calcutta correspondent of the Times, Mr. Ravenshaw, the commissioner of the province, estimates the deaths at more than a million. This is exclusive of the losses in the hill districts, in Ganjam, and in some districts of Bengal; but we will accept the official admission, and it is equivalent to this the entire population of Wales has perished slowly of hunger, under a British Government, levying a revenue of £45,000,000 a year.-Spectator. A deputation waited on Saturday upon the Earl of Derby to impress upon His Lordship the necessity of something being done to relieve the distress in the east of London. Mr. Potter asked that the contracts for the ships the Government intend to build should be given out at once to the shipbuilders on the Thames. To that Lord Derby replied that the Government must, of course, consider the public interest in what they did. Mr. Hughes, the manager of the Millwall Iron Works, asked that the Government should give their orders immediately for the iron they required for guns and gun carriages, instead of at the usual time—a little later in the year. He promised that if this were done the Government should not be asked for the money until the usual time. Lord Derby promised to consult Gen. Peel and Sir J. Pakington on the matters to which reference had been zaade. A cabinet council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing street. The ministers present were—the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malniesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Wal- pole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Cariv.u\o i, General Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequor, Sir John Pakington, Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. THE PntNCE OF WALFS WITH THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS. -On Friday morning. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Teck, and attended by the Marquis of Blandford, Major Teesdale, and Colo- lie-I JIardinge, huntod with the Royal buckhounds. The Royal party arrived at Windsor by the eleven o'clock ordinary train of the Great Western Railway, and pro- ceeded from the station in the Queen's Royal shooting break to the meet, which was fixed at the Three Horse- shoes, Wakefield, about eight miles from Windsor. Here a good muster of sporting gentlemen had assembled, in- cluding Lord Colville, the noble master, and the Earl of Cork, the late master. Previous to the turn-out, the Prince of Wales and Darty dismounted, and entered the Horseshoes Inn, and partook of a slight refreshment. The deer, Volunteer," was afterwards turned out in a field close by and went away to Hawthorn-hill, and Brickbridge, close by Shottisbrook farm to the left, by Lowbrooks to the right, and crossed the rail and on to Maidenhead Thicket, Pinkney's-green, Cookham Dean, and then to Quarry Wood, where it was lost in conse- quence of the flooded state of the lowland. The Prince re- turned to Windsor in one ofths Royal carriages, and left for town by the 3.50 p.m. train on the Great Western Railway. In consequence of the heaviness of the ground the deer kept the road a good portion of the time, al- though it is known to be second tu none for going across country. The Prince of Wales, as usual, rode well up to the pack. EXTRAORDINARY CASK OF VIOLENCE.—Before the Mai" ton Bench, on Saturday, a rag-merchant, named James Cook, was charged with a violent assault upon a tailor, named William Calvert. For some days it was uncer- tain whether the charge would not be one of manslaugh- ter. Cooke, who surrendered on bail of zC200 was de- fended by Mr. Dale, of York. The plaintiff, Calvert, appeared in court with his head bandaged, and was so ill that he required a chair. He said that on the night of Saturday he had got drink at various places, and could not recollect anything that had occuned after leaving a public-house until find ing himself wounded in bed on Saturday. Sergeant Kitching and Police-con- stable Angus proved that Cook struck Calvert in the street, and afterwards began beating his head on the footpath until blood ran from him f. eely. In defence, witnesses were called to prove that plaintiff and defen- dant were couipauions at a prize-fight uu Sunday morn- ing, and apparently on good terms. These witnesses al- leged that Calvert, when drunk, three times attacked Cooke, the last attack being the one upon which the charge was founded. The North-Eastern Company's watchman, however, proved that lie took Cooke off Calvert after the prize-fight, and that he subsequently kicked his head three times. The bench inflicted the heaviest penalty the law allowed, a fine of £ 5, or im- prisonment with hard labour for two months.— The money was paid. MORE SERIOUS SHIPPING ACCIDENTS.—On Friday the steamer Collettis, of Goole, arrived at Hull, bringuig iu tow the sloop Anne, of Scarborough, from Goole. Tlie sloop was on a voyage to Rochester, laden with wheat, and when near Spurn Point, sprang a leak, and made water so fast that the crew had to hoist a signal of dis- tress. The steamers trading between Hull and Rot ter- dam have been detained at Helvoet in consequence of the storm. On Friday, the sloop Telegraph, Captain Flinn, of and from Sunderland, for London, with a car- go of bottles, was lost upon the Barber Sands on the east coast. The Crew were saved by means of the life- boat. The Beverley, Captain Haw ksfield, from Shields for Dover, came in collision, the other day, during the storm, with a vessel name unknown. The crew found it necessary to abandon their vessel and took to the boat. They landed at Yarmouth. The brig Anne, from Grimsby, for Hartlepool, in ballast, was being towed into Whitby by a steam tug, when the tug struck the west pier in taking the harbour, the wind blowing tre- mendously at the time, and the brig caught the east pier, receiving such damage that she speedily sank in the inner harbour. The brig Lark, Captain Shilleto, from Sunderland to Bordeaux, has been in collision off the Humber, receiving damage to such an extent that she was compelled to put into Grimsby for repairs. DELIBERATE POISONING.—At NewLa,II'-undpr-Ly,np, on Saturday, James Machin, a farrier in the employ of Mr. Llewellyn, veterinary surgeon, was charged with feloniously administering chloride of zinc to Henry Rainford, with intent to kill and murder him. Rain- ford is Llewellyn's foreman, and the assumption of the Erosecution is that the prisoner attempted to poison im to get his place, which is worth 10s. a week more than his own. The prosecutor said he was in very good health up to September last, when he began to suffer violent vomitings and purgings after drinking ale that was fetched by the prisoner, had swelling in the legs, and his health generally had deteriorated. It was al- ways his custom to drink a pint of ale every morning before he began his work (at six o'clock), and when- ever the prisoner had fetched the ale, lie experienced directly he had swallowed it a burning sensation from the throat to the pit of his stomach, and followed by purging and vomiting. This did not occur when any one else fetched the ale. After two month expe ie ce of this kind he gave up ale, attributing his illness tu the bad quality of the drink, and took to gin and water. He went on very well with this drink for a week or two and then the same symptoms again showed, He went to the Infirmary, and after being an in-patient in that institution became an out patient. He returned to work and took medicine supplied from the Tntirmary during the day. A few days after his return he was visited by sickness and purging, preceded by a burning sensation, aftera (lose of pllvsic. The next day he saw the pris- oner with his bottle of physic in his hand, and seeing him looking at him at once put it down. Shortly after he took up a bottle contaujiug gin/to which he had added some cold tea, and a draught of the liquid brought on arepetitionofthesvmptonis. He tookpussession of the bottle containing the remainder of the gin and tea, and carefully preserved it until the next Monday, when he gave it to his employer, who had it analysed. It was j found that a large proport ion of chloride of zinc had been put in the bottle. When the prisoner found that the contents of the bottle were to be analysed he said lie had upset a bottle of chloride of zinc (which was kept in the shop for use in dressing diseased parts of horses), and a portion of it had fallen into the bottle of gin and tea below; but the medical evidence showed that the quantity was too large to be thrown in accidentally, and must have been purposely put in. The prisoner had told another man in Mr. Llewellyn's service tli4 he was to have Rainford's place if the latter did not get better. Rainford said he had no sickness or purging while in the Infirmary, or since the discovery of the zinc on Mon- day last. There was a good deal of other strong cir- cumstantial evidence against the prisoner, who, at the close of the inquiry which lasted all day, was committed for trial at, the next Stafford Assizes. THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRADE UNIONS. — On THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRADE UNIONS. — On Friday, a deputation from the London Working Men's Association waited on Mr. Walpole in reference to the royal commission about to issue tu inquire into trade unions. Mr. G. Potler stated that the object of the deputation in approaching the Government was that the interests of the working classes should be represented on the commission. If it was not consistent that work- ing men should serve on the commission, the deputation desired that their representatives should do so. The I working classes were not opposed to the inquiry, but they felt that those who were to make the investigation should include some acting in their behalf, and watching the interests of trade unions, against which so unnecessary, a prejudice had sprung un. There were several well- known gentlemen whom they should like to see on the j commission.—Mr. Walpole Wiiat namesare vouadvert- ingto ?—Mr. Potter: Mr. GoWl^'in Smith,Professor Bees- ley, Mr. J. M. Ludlow, Mr. Godfrey Lu-hington, Mr. Newton, and some others.—Mi. Walpole You are aware that I proposed to put Mr. Mill on the commission, but that his attention was toro enerossed to attend to it?— Mr. Potter: Yes.—Mr. Walpole said that if he put working men on the commission he must necessarily put masters also, and lie did not think the deputation would like that. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, if he could name an independent commission in such a manner as to give general satisfaction, it would be better and more impartial. This inquiry was not intended to be insti- tuted in hostility to trade unions, but to settle those dif- ferences which had arisen between fellow-workmen, or masters and men, to the satisfaction of all, and there- fore, to the interests of the country; that was the sole object he had in view. As to the constitution of the corn- mission, he thought it would be impossible to take ex- ception to any of the names. He proposed the commis- sion should consist of ten noblemen and gentlemen— two from the House of Lords, four from the House of Commons, and four outside both Houses of Parliament. The names of them were—Sir W. Erie, president the Earl of Lichfield, Lord Ebury, Sir E. Head, Sir D. Gooch, Mr. J. Roebuck, Mr. T. Hughes, Mr. J. Booth, Mr. W. Matthews, and Mr. Merivale. Mr. Walpole then asked them what gentlemen they would prefer if there are to be any, to be added to the commission.- Mr. Potter replied, Mr Harrison, of Lincoln's Inn, for he was practically acquainted with the organisation of trade unions, and lie would be able to assist rather than to hinder the investigation- — Mr. Walpole said of course he could not say, without consulting his col- leagues, whether Mr. Harrison could be placed on the commission, but he conld assure the deputation that it was the desire of the Government to give the working classes every facility for advancing their views.—Sev- eral members of the deputation expressed satisfaction with Mr. Walpole's observations, and confidence that ample justice would be done them.-The deputation then withdrew. 'Mr. Harrison has since been put upon the commission. — > POISOXING FROM DISAPPOINTED LOVE. — On Sunday, a man named George Parkins, residing in Spencer street, Hull, attempted to poison himself. He had been disappointed in love, and like a lover of the real senti- mental stamp, proceeded forthwith to a druggist's shop, where he bought a quantity of strychnine, intending to poison himself. He seems to have hesitated in his purpose until Sunday, when he swallowed the poison. lie was discovered in strong convulsions by his friends, and a doctor was sent for. The person who went on the errand applied to four of the faculty, but all made ex- cuses for not attending. Ultimately, Dr. Macmillan went to the man, and administered the necessary medi- cine. It is believed he will recover. A SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAlt LEEDS.—A shocking and fatal accident occurred on Monday night at the Coplev-hill siding, upon the London and North Western Railway, at Wortley, near Leeds. About 7.45, a shunter, named Levi Yates, was employed in shunting some waggons from a North Eastern goods train, but the points not being properly attended to, the waggons, instead of running on to the siding, kept upon the main line, and Yates, in order to arrest their progress down the incline, seized a long wooden bar and inserted it between the spokes of one of the wheels. The revolu- tion of the wheel carried round the bar, and Yates was struck to the ground. He reeled on to the metals, and the wheels of two or three waggons dashed over his body. He was terribly mutilated, his viscera was spread over the line, and he presented a very shocking spectacle. D-ath was of course instantaneous. The poor fellow's remains were gathered together, and removed to the house of Mr. Ralph Hunter, the Crown Inn, top of Wellington-road, there to await the inquest. A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.—At the Westminster Police Court, on Monday, William O'Shaughnessy and John Collins, two rough-looking fellows, one of whom had been previously convicted of felony, were charged with being found in the garden of 8, Paulton Place, Chelsea, for an unlawful purpose. Mrs.Phillips, who resides next door, discovered the men in the garden of No. 8. which is unoccupied. She called out that she would fire upon them if they attempted to escape, and immediately sent for the police. They pretended they had been sent there by the landlord, when she told them she knew better. They then said they were looking for bread, when she replied that it was no use looking for bread in an empty house. Finding that they were gradually retreating down the garden, she seized O'Shaughnessy's cap. He caught hold of her hand, and twisted it violently, when she called to her servant to bring her a stick. O'Shaugh. nessy then jumped ovar the wall into Chelsea Park, and the other prisoner got up a tree. The police shortly aftel came, and the prisoners were captured. They had re- moved a portion of a lead pipe when interrupted by Mrs. Phillips.—Mr. Selfe committed them for three months to hard labour, remarking that Mrs. Phillips's braverj and intelligence would be well worthy of imitation bj some of the police. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED CHILD MURDER—At the Man- chester City Police Court, on Monday, Mary Hindley, wife of a working man and living in Ain»worth -street, was charged with attempting to murder one of her children.—A neighbour, named Lavinia Howard, said that, on Saturday afternoon last, she was passing the prisoner's house, and she heard the prisoner's children screaming murder. On her entering the place, witness found it in great disorder, the chairs and tables were all upset, and one of the children was hiding itself in a corner of the room. The prisoner had another child, about four or five years, old, laid across her knee, and in her hand was a razor case. Witness heard her say, I'll take thy head off," and observed her open a razor which she bad got from the case. She moved the razor towards the boy's neck, and, witness struck her arm, snatched up the child, and ran away. The prisoner fol- lowed her with the open razor in her hand, but a police- man stopped her ana took her into custody. She told the policeman it was well he had got her, or she would have murdered the children.—It was said that the pri- soner had been drinking, and her appearance in court would justify the supposition that, to say the least, -he was in a very excited condition.—She was remanded for a week, in order that she might be examined by a medi- cal man. COLLISION RETWEEN Two EXPRESS TRAINS. — An alarming accident took place on the Scottish North- Eastern line, about three miles from Aberdeen—the ex- press train from the south having run offthe rails, and the express from Aberdeen having run into and smashed some of the carriages which were lying across the UD line. The train which ran off the rails was the express from the south, due in Aberdeen at ten minute past four on Monday morning. ThiB train was twelve mintues late at Stonehaven, and proceeded at a very high speed till about a mile on this side of Cove, when the eugine jumped off the rails, dragging the tender and two car- riages with it. It tore along the line for about fifty or sixty yards, and, breaking off from the tender, fell across the other line of rails, the tender falling across the down line. It is marvellous to state, that the driver Alexander Butchart, and the guard, William Hood, both escaped with their lives, and though they have both sus- tained injuries they were not considered severe. Most of the passengers were bumped and bruised, and slightly cut. The startled passengers and officials had hardly time to realise their escape, when another fearful danger seemed impending over them, for the mail train which leaves Aberdeen at 4 15 was due at that moment at the place of the accident; and before the waymen—who ran to signal—had time to do so, the train was upon them. The driver, William Doigg, had only about a hundred yards notice of the catastrophe, but he immediately shut off steam, reversed the engines, and put on the break. He then leaped off, and has escaped uninjured. The mail came into collision with the fallen engine of the other train, but the measures for lessening the shock so happily and bravely effected, were so successful that comparatively little damage was done, and the shock was so slight that, though a number of second class pas- sengers were more or less bruised, some of the first class passengers hardly new that any collision had occurred at all. The passengers by the train which ran off the line walked to Aberdeen and, later on in the evening, the 4 15 mail returned to Aberdeen till the line should be clear. Men were telegraphed for from Perth to clear the line.—Dundee Advertiser. THE FENIAN MOVEMENT UPON CHESTER.—The daring and ingeniously contrived scheme of the Fenian brother- hood has speedily come to an end. Finding their plans known, no single attempt at outrage has been reported the Irish strangers withdrew from the city during Mon- day night, passed the night in the fields and villages in the neighbourhood, and duiing Tuesday morning were to be seen pursuing their way on foot in return to the towns whence they set out on this wild expedition. During the afternoon, a number of ball cartridges and several very heavy shillelaghs were found by the police in a field near the railway station. The cartridges are for the Enfield rifle, but are not of the Government pattern. But although the affair has been thus ended, to all appearance, it has really been a veritable plot. An aggregate meeting of the Fenians was held in Liver- pool either ou -aturday or Sunday last—more probably on the latter day, when certain resolutions were passed which were immediately communicated to the Liver- pool police. Upon that information Major Greig acted, and the Chester authorities, with praiseworthy promp- titude, took those steps that would have checkmated a more formidable body than the less than 2,000 unarmed irregulars who invaded Chester streets during Monday. The substance of the resolutions was that the Cockpit, a building formerly infrequent use when that sport was fashionable, but now used as the depot for the local vol- unteers, should be first attacked. The 300 rifles obtain- ed by a successful issue of this adventure were to assist the brotherhood in the greater project of attacking the Castle, where about 30,000 stand of arms are stored in the armoury, besides cannons shells, and balls. When equipped with this material of war a train to Holyhead was to have been seized, the rails torn un behind it to prevent pursuit, aud two vessels are said to have been lying off Holyhead to carry the armed Fenians to the coast of Ireland. The city on Tuesday morning last pre- sented its ordinary appearance, except that some ex- citement was indicated by the look-out for a battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who arrived from London soon after 11 o'clock. Earl Grosvenor, one of the mem- bersfor the city, came down from London on Monday. Three men were apprehended on Tuesday morning, but after an investigation, which was conducted privately, they were discharged, as nothing was ascertained which identified them with the Fenians. It is probable that the whole affiiris now at an end, as far as Chester and the neighbourhood are concerned but there can be no doubt that intdligent men, underashrewd leader, and, without an informer in their midst, would have little difficulty in surprising the tiny garrison, and over- mastering the custodians of the 30,000 stand of arms. It is somewhat singular that the number of strangers who came to the city on Monday was ascertained to be within twenty of the number that the police were ad- vised that they might expect.Most of them were booked from Staleybridge, Oldham, Halifax, Liverpool, and Manchester; but as none were provided with return railway tickets, their home journey on -Tuesday was an involuntary march. The Leeds Mercury says :—The arrival of such a body of men excited some very con- siderable degree of alarm, and during Monday even- ing a telegram was received at the House of Com- mons by Earl Grosvenor, who is one of the members for the city of Chester, stating that 500 Fenians had arrived from Manchester, and had seized the Castle. The telegram added that 700 soldiers had been sent after them to check their further proceedings. The receipt of the telegram caused a great deal of excitement in the House, and the Duke of Cambridge, Mr. Secretary Wal- pole, and other members of the Government, at once left the House to concert further measures. A subse- quent telegram from the Mayor of Chester to the Home Secretary stated that the suspected Fenians to the num, ber of 1,200 were threatening the Castle, where thert- was a large store of arms, removed there for safety, ana ,hat the pensioners had been called out. The Imperial Revieui says that the Admiralty have decided to contribute to the Paris Exhibtiun a complete set of ship's boats, from the launch down to the dingy, our build being considered superior to that of any for- eign navy. A difficulty might be expected to arise in regard to space and shelter for these not very trifling specimens of dockyard work but this it is hoped will be overcome by fitting up one of the huge wood-carry- ing barges on the Seine with shed and hoisting tackle, and aUacliing the boats to it—an idea which will be carrieJ out if found out not to interfere with the navi- gation. ABDUCTION FROM A CONVENT.—The forcible removal of a young lady from a nunuery is reported by the Ipswich and Colchester Times. Miss Rolfe, the daugh- ter of Dr. Rolfe, of Braintree, entered the nunnery at vJaydon, about six weeks ago, with her father's con- sent, and assumed the name of Sister Theresa. Sub- sequently (about three weeks since) the doctor revoked his consent, and took her away, but she took the first opportunity of returning to Claydon. At about twelve o clock, on Wednesday, (says the Ipswich paper) a cab slowly passed through Claydon street, and this was a signal for a number of men to leave a public house where they had assembled. They went to the Nun- nery," which they found securely fastened. One party was posted at the front, and the other at the back and attempted to force in the door, which, however' proved somewhat too strong for them. One ofth. men; armed with a crowbar, made an attack on the kitchen window, the shutters being up, and succeeded, be., ides breaking the glass, in knocking the whole framework in. The Rev. George Drnrv, who had received an in- timation that some attempt at an abduction would probably be made, and who was inside when the window-frame was smashed in. provided himself with a broomstick, and gallantly did his best to keep out the besieging party one of whom, named Rush, was armed with a large hammer), but he was, of course, powerless against twenty men, who soon effected an entrance. The young lady, who had run to the oratory and bowed herself before the alta-, was afterwards secured. She screamed, and said that she was of age, and asked Dr. Drury to prevent their taking her away; but she was brought to Ipswich station by a cab, in which was her father and another person, and put into the train by one of the persons who had come with her from Claydon. THE DUKE or EDINBURGH AND THE ATLANTIC YACHI RACE. Ihe American papers publish the following correspondence which has taken place between the Duke of Edinburgh and Mr. Gordon Bennett, the owner of the yacht Henrietta, which won the late Atlantic race -Off Cowes, December, 31st, 1866.-Your (Royal High- ness,—At Lord Lennox's dinner on Friday last you were pleased to match your yacht the Viking to sail the Henrietta around the Isle of Wight, nex t August, for a cup worth one hundred pounds. I would not say so then, because I was bound to make the match pro- posed; but, in fact, this arrangement will somewhat interfere with the disposition which I had determined to make of my yacht in case she should win the ocean race. I beg that you will accept, as a New Year's gift to an English yachtman from an American yachtman, the Henrietta, as she now lies in perfect order off Cowes, and I have instructed Captain Samuels to hold her sub- ject to your orders. The unbounded hospitality with which the American yachtmen have been received by all classes in England will always be remembered in the United States with the warmest gratitude and I sin- cerely hope that you will not deprive me of the oppor- tunity of acknowledging this most cordial reception by presenting the winning yacht to the representative of English yachtmen.—I have the honour to remain, very respectfully, yours, J. G. BENNETT, .Tun.— Clarence House, January 22nd, 1867. Dear Mr. Bennett,—I find it difficult to express how gratefully I appreciate the kindly feeling which dictated your letter of the 31st ult., as well as the splendid present which you offer to my acceptance, but most of all the delicacy with which you seek to diminish the personal obligation under which you would lay me by giving to your generous offer an international character. It is, indeed, this last consideration only which led me to hesitate in re- plying to your letter, for personally it would have beea impossible for me to accept so costly a present; but I felt bound fully to consider the question in the light in which you were good enough to place it; and if on full consideration I feel compelled to decline your generous offer, I trust that neithervyou nor your gallant competi- tors, nor your countrymen at large, will believe that the yachtsmen of England less appreciate or less reci- procate the feeling of good-fellowship which prompted the offer. The Henrietta is a vessel which any man may feel proud to possess, and I trust she may long con- tinue in tha hands in which she has accomplished so triumphant a success. We must try to find a rival to her, and do our best in common with all Englishmen. I sincerely hope that such f riend'.y rivalry may be the only description of contest in which our respective coun- tries may ever be engaged. It has given us great plea- sure to offeT a cordial reception to you and your com- panions in England. and I feel assured that if my pro- fessional duties in command of one of Her Majesty's tthipe should ever take me to your shores, I should there meet on the part of my brother seamen with a reception not less hearty than that which we have been happy to af- ford you here.—Believe me yours, sincerely, ALFRED. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FORGERY.—At the Man- sion House, London, on Friday, Charles Millington, a needle manufacturer, at Studley, in Derbyshire, was charged before the Lord Mayor with forgery. Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the London Bankers' Association, conducted the prosecution. The principal witness was Mr. J. R. Glanvill, sub-manager of the Metropolitan Bank, at 75, Cornhill. About a week ago, he said, the prisoner called upon him, and told him he had recently iestablislie(i his house in London, and was desirous of opening a banking account with them, stating that he was doing business with Messrs. Copestake, Messrs. Sturt, Messrs. Bradbury, and others. Witness told him the bank would be ready to discount bills accepted by any of those houses, upon which the prisoner hesitated, and said he could not give the bank London bilid only, andtliatit must t'lke eovint.ry bills of his as well. Witness said he would make inquiries about him of some of the London firms the prisoner had named, but the prisoner asked him not to do that, and said he would go to Studley and see his father as to the references liecould give. He said he would keep an average balare,atthe bank of E300 or £400, and would perhaps require about £10,000 worth of discount in the course of a year. Witness told him that, provided everything else was satisfactory, there would be no objection to that. and that they should not limit him to the houses he had named. On Mon- day last witness received a letter from him, giving re- ferences, and enclosing two bills of exchange, one being for £75, dated the 20th January last, drawn by Willliam Millington and Son, addressed to, and purporting to be accepted by, Mr. Joseph Wordsworth, Owlerton Mills, Sheffield, and payable in three months at the bank of Messrs. Prescott, GroteandCo., and the other being for i £ 8010s. 6d., dated the 1st February, drawn by William Millington and Son, addressed to, and purporting to be accepted by, Thomas Cooke, bodkin manufacturer, Malt Mill-lane, Alcester, payable three months after date at the bank of Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. On Thurs- I day afternoon, witness having made some inquiries in the meantime, the prisoner called at the bank and pre- sented two othpr bills. One. for £ 42 10s., was dated the 5th February, drawn by William Millington and Son, addressed to, and purporting to be accepted by Mr. James Summers, Moss street, Liverpool, and nayable at the bank of Messrs. Williams, Deacon and Co., three months after date. The other bearing the same date was for 946 10s. 6d., drawn by the same parties as the three preceding bills, addressed to, and purporting to be accepted by J. Collins, Shop street, Drogheda, and nayable at the bank of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, at three months after date. The prisoner Baid he wanted all the four bills discounted. On being v asked if lie had any cash to pay in, be replied that he had not but would have shortly. Witness said he would > see if the bank had received any report as to the aocep- tors. He then left the room. He returned shortly after- wards with Mr. Mullens, who told the prisoner he waa the solicitor to the bank, and that it was his duty to caution him as to anything he might say. The prisoner, in reply to Mr. Mullens, said Mr. Wordsworth's aooep- tance was first written by him (Wordsworth) in pencil, and then by him (the prisoner) in ink, and the old man meaning Mr. Wordsworth, had given him authority to do that for the last two years. Mr. Mullens told him Mr. Wordsworth had declared the bill to be a forgery; to which the prisoner replied that information could only have come from Mr. Wordsworth's son, who could not know anything about the matter. Mr. Mullens showed him the Liverpool acceptance, and asked him where he got it. He replied that he had received it from Liverpool, and that it purported to come from Mr. Summers. On being shown the Drogheda bill he said he believed it to be genuine. While they were talking a telegram arrived from Mr. Wordsworth, in answer to one from the bank, stating that the bill purporting to be accepted by him was a forgery. The prisoner then ad- mitted that Mr. Wordsworth had never seen the bill purporting to be accepted by him, but said that he had authority during the last two years to sign for him. Sergeant Spittle, a City detective officer, was then called in and the prisoner was given into custody. The prisoner went down upon his knees, and begged that he might not be ruined.—Joseph Wordsworth, wire manu- facturer at Owlerton, Sheffield, said he had known the prisoner for fifteen years, and had transacted business with him. Those transactions ceased about two years ago. The prisoner then owed him about d6140, of which JElOO still remained due but against that witness held two bills of exchange drawn by the prisoner for j621 and JE23 10s. 6d., and both purporting to be accepted by A. W. Barrett and Co., of 41, Basinghall-street. About a year or fifteen months ago witness lent him his accept- ance to two or three bills. The bill for £75, purport- ing to be accepted by witness, was a forgery.-At this- stage the hearing was adjourned until Saturday, the 16th instant, at the request of Mr. Mullens, the solici- tor to the prosecution, who said he should have lOVeral. other Qkorses to prefer against the prisoner.