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      Gatherings From Law And Polic E Courts. ...

      were distaissed for malversation of funds , and now the vestry-clerk has been dismissed for keeping back certain rents which he had received . A very exciting scene took place in the Vestry Hall on Wednesday , when the conduct of Mr , Cook , the vestry-clerk , was discussed , and a motion for his immediate dismissal was carried by 43 to 3 . His books , boxes , and private room were ordered to be locked up and sealed until a committee of investigation could meet to examine them and report

      thereon . A report was then presented from the directors of the poor that the clerk to that board had absconded . A resolution was agreed to for offering a reward for the apprehension of Mr . Birehmore , the absconded relieving overseer , and Mr . Hibbard , clerk to the directors . Another complication then arose in the resignation of Mr . Salmon , the newly-elected collector of No . 2 Ward , in the place of Hallam absconded , on account of his alleged incompetency to discharge the duty from the state of the books .

      Mr . Justice Hill "took the oath and his seat on Wednesday as one of the puisne juclge 3 of the Court of Queen ' s Bench . Lord Campbell improved the bpjiortunity to congratulate the public on the abolition of that part of the oath abjuring the descendants of the Stuarts . In the case of "Waddington against the City of London Union , judgment has been given by the Court of Error . The facts will be remembered . A collector of rates for

      the City of London Union , one Manini , embezzled some forty thousand pounds of the Union money , and the guardians , to snpjjly the deficiency , made , a special rate on all the parishes in the Union equally . As Manini ¦ wa s collector only in some parishes , the others disputed the validity of the rate , but the Court of Queen ' s Bench affirmed it . The Court of Error has , however , reversed the decision of the Queen's Bench , and laid it down as law that none of the parishes whose rates Manini did not collect are liable .

      At the Mansion-house , Mr , Benjamin , a fish salesman of Billingsgate , was charged with having exposed for sale salmon obtained from the Tweed during the " closed season . " This being contrary to the law , Mr . Benjamin ¦ was fined half-a-crown on each fish . In the Court of Bankruptcy an adjourned meeting in the case of flfr . Humphrey Brown took place . The balance-sheet appeared to be satisfactory to Mr . Linklater . Mr . Bagley , for the bankrupt , expressed his belief that the prejudice against Mr . Brown would be removed before he left the Court . The certificate meeting was appointed to be held on the 30 th November .

      The affairs of the Liverpool Borough Bank dame before the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Thursday on an application of the Attorney-General for a rule to show cause why the verdict , in the case of Scott and another against Dixon , should not be set aside . The plaintiffs ¦ were shareholders of the Liverpool Borough Bank , and liad brought an action against the defendant , who-mis a director of the bank , for the money which they had , as they alleged , lost in that undertaking by fraudulent representations . The Attorney-General ' s application was founded principally upon two points , first , that there was no evidence to support the charge , ¦ which waa left to inquiry , and secondly , that no representation at all was made by the defendant to the

      plaintiffs . Further , ho would move on the rejection of evidence which ought to have been admitted . Ho -would also certainly ask their Lordships , if it became necessary , whether the verdict was not against the evidence ; but the great qtiestion turned upon a singlo sentence in a written document , and their Lordships would be able , therefore , to dispose of the case on its true merits , without entering into any conflicting evidence or considering too minutely the multitudinous facts involved in its history . When the bank was established in 1386 the issue of shams was limitocl , but it was contemplated , and at last carried into effect , that thore should be 100 , 000 shares of 10 / . each , consequently the capital was 1 , 000 , 000 / . sterling . There

      were twelve ^ directors who carried on the business of the bank , with the assistauce of a manager , who was the chief officer , and other persona in their employ . It might bo supposed that every individual director made himself acquainted with nil the details of the business of the bank , with the state of accounts , the debts and credits , assets and liabilities ; but such was not the system upon which the concern was founded . All the accounts and details calculated to show at any time the real condition of the bank were confined to the manager . and two managing directors . As early as 1887 , and in the flrat general report , credit was expressly claimed for the mode of carrying on the business

      by which the particular transaction of customers wore only known , to a select body of three persons . The Attorney-General then entered into an analysis of th © bank ' s accounts , for the purpose of showing that the Statements in the roport of July , 1857 , were not false and fraudulent , but a fair representation of the real position of tho establishment , so far as it could bo then ascertained . Ho trustod that the court would' grant ft rule In a caso so novel in its facts and so fearful In all its coneoqaences to thG "defendant , who , if tho verdict stood , would' ba a rulnocl ninn . Nearly two years before tho bank fulled . Mr . Dixon expressed dlasattefaqtioa at tUo limited Jmowlodgo of tho bank's

      affairs which was permitted to the directors . He over and over again insisted upon the directors being better informed upon them , but it was only on the 4 th of July , 1857 , twenty ^ four days before the report was made , that he was appointed a managing director , and immediately a system commenced which if it had been pursued during the previous three or four years , the unhappy results which took place - ^ ould not have followed . Before he consented to a dividend he desired to have a report of the state of accounts from the manager , and having found that the whole reserve fund was lost , he , therefore , at the board meeting , strongly

      opposed the declaration of a dividend , and succeeded in carrying his point . Yet this was the man who was charged with fraud and falsehood , and selected as the soLventindividual among the directors to be proceeded against . The last point was the rejection as evidence , by the learned judge , of the report of 1837 , which stated that as the pecuniary transactions of customers were only known to three " persons , the bank combined with the secrecy of a private , the security of a joint-stock bank . Lord " Campbell said : You have stated points of infinite importance to the commercial world , and I think vou ought to take a rule to show cause generally . Kule granted .

      1182 The Leader. [No/450, November 6, 18...

      1182 THE LEADER . [ No / 450 , November 6 , 1858 .

      Ireland. Gaiavay And America.—The Folio-...

      IRELAND . Gaiavay and America . —The folio-wing ; statement appears in the Galway Vindicator : —" Last week Mr . Seymour Clarke and Mr . Walter Leath , of the Great Northern Railway Company , and Mr . Wilkinson , of the London and Sheffield Railway , arrived in Galway , with a view of seeing and judging of the commercial Capabilities of this port . From Mr . Weir , general manager , and Captain Thompson , marine superintendent , they received the fullest information respecting the facilities and advantages which Galway possessed , and was about to receive , to render it in every respect suitable for a Transatlantic packet station . They expressed themselves delighted with the fine bay and harbour . These

      gentlemen have visited Galway in order to enter into arrangements with the Irish railway companies and the directors of the Lever line for the transmission of the American traffic on their English lines by the new route via Galway . Father Daly pointed , out from the Admiralty chart the capabilities of the habour , and gave the gentlemen all the information respecting Galway with which he is so thoroughly conversant . " The \ 'inclicator contains information respecting a project for the establishment of telegraphic communication between Galway and Quebec : —" In the event of opening communication with America by a new and improved construction of the electric wire , Galwav is looked to by Englishmen

      of business and enterprise , tins Irish port having so eminently succeeded in establishing a fleet of steamers between the countries . A company is in course of formation to be called the British and Canadian Submarine Telegraph Company ( Limited ) , to connect British North America with Great Britain by electric telegraph , commencing with that portion of the lino between Galway and Quebec , and extending it onwards to the Pacific as soon after as may be deemed expedient . The wire to be used will be of a totally different nature and construction from any hitherto employed , and the whole arrangements will be such ns to secure its being successfully laid . "

      MAimiAGE op tiie Lokd-Lieutexant . —On Wednesday tho Earl of Eglington was married to Lady Adela Capel , at tho Viceregal Lodge . Tlie proceedings were strictly private . Lady A . Capel arrived nt Kingstown on Tuesday evening , accompanied by her father , the Ear ] of Essex . Tho bride and bridegroom remain nt tho Viceregal Lodge . The Attempted Assassination . —A meeting of magistrates and gentlemen" of tho county Donognl was held on Saturday , at Letterkenny , when a reward of 500 / . was ngreod to bo offered for the conviction of tho assassins . Mr . Nixon is going on favourably , and almost

      out of danger . Ho cannot speak , his tongue is so injured by a slug having gone through it , One- of the bullets lodged in tho bonnet of his daughter , who was with him at tho tivno of tho attack . No effort is being spared to hunt up tho intending assassins . Mr . Cruiwe , R . M ., and some hundred additional constabulary are still in tho district where tho attempt was made . Several arrests have boon effected . Tho correspondent of Saundertfa Nowa Letter , writing froih tho neighbourhood of the outrage , states that there is a roport current that tho Ribbon fraternity nro determined to shoot ovory one who was summoned to London and gave evidence which so fully oxposod tho falsehood of tho prlosts' appeal .

      Singular Affair . —On Sunday night the inhabitants of Cork wore aroused by a heavy ennnonado from H . M . ' ship Hawko , 00 , Capt . Crispin , which lies at anchor abovo tho guard-ship Nile , between Iluulbowlino Island and Whitopoint . This firing continued for nearly throe-quarters' of nn hour , and is thus explained by tho Cork Examiner . On Sunday night tho ship was loft in ' charge of , tho third lieutenant , who hud invited a gentleman t 6 'dino with him . About ton o ' clock both appeared on dock , and tho ofilcor dlrootod tho gunnor to cnll up tho men and firo a volley . TUogunnor ' expostulated , but hia suporior having indignantly doulrod him to obey hia ordora on abido by tho oonsoquoncca of a refusal ,

      he was bound to comply . All Queenstown was up and out , the greatest consternation prevailing . The officer on board the flag-ship Nile thought that a mutiny h ad broken out in the ITawke , and sent two officers to ascertain the cause ; but when they came alongside the Hawkc the officer told them that if they did not move off immediately he would give orders to have them fired upon . They a / cordingly returned . The following morning the officer was placed under arrest . We understand that , though a young man , he lias been distinguished for bravery , and that it was Only recently he returned from China in an invalided state . From this last circumstance it has been inferred that his intellect was weakened .

      Naval And Military. Major-Geneuar, Sir W...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Major-GeneuAr , Sir W . Ricid , K . C . B . —This dis - tinguished officer died on Sunday last . Sir William was born in 1791 . lie was educated at Mussc-lbur " and subsequently at the Military Academy at AVoulwicn " whence he entered the Royal . Engineers in l ^ Oti , and served under the Duke of Wellington to the end of the Peninsular war . lie was made Colonel of the Engineers iii 1 S 54 , and Major-General hi ISiJG ' . From February , 1830 , to October , 18-1 G , he was Governor of Bermuda . * from October , 18-iG ., to August , la IS , Governor of the Windward Islands ; and was appointed Governor of Malta in 1851 . lie is the author of two valuable works on the law of storms . Tiik Late Distuuiiaxces at SiiKiinxisss . —The General Cominanding-iu-Chief has had under his consideration tlie proceedings of the Court of Inquiry held to investigate the circumstances attending the disturbance between certain men of the Xorth Cork Rifles . and the seamen , marines , and inhabitants of { sheonicss , by ¦ which ho was compelled , in order to restore and maintain the tranquillity of the town , to remove the regiment to AldershoLt . His Royal Highness collects from the evidence that the militia ' ¦ cannot be considered as the original aggressors . "

      Accii > ext to a Tuoor-smr . —The steamship Urgent , Commander M'JDoualil , on her way from the Mediterranean , got ashore on a shoal called . . East l ' ule , oil ' the mouth of ChiohcstCT harbour , on Monday ui ^ h . t , about half-past ciiclit o ' clock , and remained fast . She made signals of distress , and sent communications of , her perilous position' to the authorities of Portsmouth dockyard j who . promptly sent assistance—the steam vessels Echo and Pigmy ,-with the requisite . gear for such emergencies—and at * high tide on Tuesday morning , they succeeded hi ^ tting her oil " , apparently -without much damage . The steamers Unveil her direct into l ' ortsmoutli harbour , and she was moored alongside the jetty . She brought home the - » vivi- > and children ( about : { iH )) of tlie 91 st , lGth , and 3 rd Regiments , who have been sent on to India , and about l- > 0 male invalids from other regiments , and men to join their depots . , in

      Vaisseacx Hkmkks . —A singular letter appears the Timvg , which says : — "It has been stated publicly and frequently that ' the engine of destruction called the " naval ram " was first invented by the Emperor of the French , and the idea of vessels propelled by steam , impervious to shot and shell from without , has been claimed as an original one by more than one . Is ' ot many years since , in America , a * rich ¦ merchant named Stephens Miffered seriously in hia pocket from . collisions at sea ; lu . s attention was turned to the subject , and it occurred to him that tho tremendous force of steam power might ba

      turned to account in naval warfare in the same . way . In a word , be conceived the possibility of building ft steam ram , and communicated his ideas to the Government . These notions were not appreciated , but Sk ' plu'iis was so impressed with the . importance of tho matter that ho determined to set to work at once . Ik-ing a rich man , ho met with no serious obstacle Your alter your went by , and gradually the loviiitlmn progressed , llio steamer was to bo shot-proof by moans of iron plates , and it was to travel at tho ruto of 20 knots an hour . It was to bo propelled by six powerful engine * , to bo sharp at tho bow and stern , iicing a bod of iron at botli nnd af

      extremities , carrying one monster gun , a lionvy - moment , after tho Merrimac model . All site would have to fear would bo being laid aboard . To prevent this sho was to throw streams of boiling water from » er aides , so as to bo unapproachable . Tim enterprise gradually progressed , but Mr . Stephen * did not live to »<& it completed , although ho was fortunnto enough to naVO liis conception approved mid Ids o . xpouHca refunded ,, tiio American Government currying out his idea . J ma naval rain is now nearly finished , n yearly sum having boon allotted to tho work—so nearly ad to bo ready lor immediate uso , and what n fearful power i » thud

      possessed by America !" Ti « Ilnxic Biiicjauh ; . —Wo boliovo that it i « tho intention of tho Commander-in-Ohiuf nnd military uuiuorltlort to raise , early in tho onsuiug year , u » additional ( 5 th ) battalion to tho liiflo Brigade . l ' HAGTiOAi ,. Jokicb in tiik Aumy— -Dv reouit- mnitinl , huld at Portsmouth , In July "«« l , Knsitfu Join James Scott , of tlio 47 lli Kegiincmt , W"H found guilty oi having , while on tho slok list ,, loft hid barracks wituout permission , procoodod to tho quarters ol' another om- 'oi , and , in hi « nbaonoo , upwot hl « itmilturo «» d utuiwiw- ami disarranged his room , but his oouduofc was not , w uw

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111858/page/6/