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      Gatherings From The X.Aw Avn Police Cour...

      tiona with La Mert , the man who figured in the Coglan case , of which we gave an account last week . He and Mr . Fife liad ' backed' bills for one another , and he had doro the same with other persons . Although Tinder age , he had probably accepted bills to the amount of 30007 . He had . been sued on one of his acceptances ; but he pleaded infancy , and the action ' vras not proceeded with . He added , that he might hare stated that he was over age . Mr . Paxton and Mr . Fife both swore that no consideration had been given for the bill on

      which the present action was brought . On the other hand , Mr . Weedou , who is a woollen-draper , swore that he took the bill from Mr . Curlewis , a tailor , in part payment of a delt of 700 ? . for goods supplied . The bill bore the endorsement of Johns , as well as of Mr . Curlewis ; and the former , to whom the document was given , promised to get it discounted , and to pay the amount into Mr . Faxton ' s bankers in a few days , but it would seem that he never did so . The jury-, after about an hour ' s deliberation , gave a verdict in favour of the defendant .

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      The Royal British Bank. Mr. Emr_\Jbd Esd...

      THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK . Mr . Emr _\ jBD Esdaile , Governor of the the Royal British lank , was again examined in the Court of Bankruptcy on Wednesday . The proceedings again occupied a very ' long time , and the questions and answers were most voluminous . Mr . LinWater ' s cross-questioning was of the same unsparing character as before , and Mr . Esdaile again , fenced a great deal , but was forced into admitting much . He declined to answer the questions as to whether he had not told one of the shareholders , Mr . Goddard , now a bankrupt , that the bank

      was m a flourishing state , when the contrary was the fact . " Very likely" he told him there was no cause for the depreciation in the market value of the shares ; " most likely" he advised him to buy shares ; and lie •* ' mig ht 11 have told him they should be be a profit to Mm . But he had " no recollection" of having said that the bank would lend him 1000 / . on his accceptanee , if le went into tie market , and bought shares . Mr . Marcus was another person whom he lad induced to lruy shares .

      Mr . Xinklater : " I observe in February , 1853 , Mr . Humphrey Brown had overdrawn 10 , 000 ^ . or 12 , 000 Z . —Mr . Esdaile : " 13 , 000 / . '' Mr . LAnklater : " And sinoe you became governor , has it not increased to 28 , 000 Z . ?"—Mr , Esdaile : " That requires explanation . "We had to release Mr . Walton to obtain possession of some property , and transfer his bills to Mr . Humphrey Brown ' s account . Before Mr-Walton would consent to this arrangement , we had to release him from several obligations jointly with Mr . Brown . That accounted for the apparent increase . " Mr . Linklater : " Did you not know in July , 1856 , that Mr . Cameron was endeavouring to get an accession of shareholders ?"— " I knew he wa 3 on a visit to Lord Macdonald , and he was going to see Sir James Matheson . "

      Mr . Linklater proposed to read the letter , and Mr . Esdaile complained of private letters being read . Mr Linklater : " It is necessary to read anything that will throw light on this conspiracy . " The letter ran thus : — " London , Sept . 17 th , 1855 . "My dear Mr . Cameron , " I am pleased to see your handwriting from Edinburgh , and the feeling of pleasure was somewhat enhanced by the less doubtful prospect you hold out of SirJ . M . ' s accession . I find from your letter to Mr . McLeod that loth your friends , and I may add Mr . S . and Mr . M . P—— ,. are staying whero you arc bound for . This concurrence of forces is alike ajiropos , and , in a military point of view , ' formidable . ' Before this concentrated attack , the Malakoff should , I think , surrender .

      "It hns occurred to me—and this is my principal motive just now in writing , as I find Mr . had pen in hand for our service too—it has occurred to me that the progressive increment of our capital should be a good weapon to use with your powerful friend . I crm well imagine one of Sir . 1 . W . ' a position might hesitate in connecting his name with a bank of small capital , but that the objection should diminish readily with the iiici-ense . 200 , 000 / . is one thing , 500 , 000 / . quite another , and the prospect eventually ( perhaps at no very distant period ) of converting that figure into G 0 O , 0 OOZ . subEHn-ibed , is so essentially different , that in the latter case no capitalist need be ashamed of 1 hc

      alliance . Btit all thin lino of argument nnd observation I am sure is already present to your mind , find it strikes me as a powerful one to use . On the other Land , every additional 50 , 000 / . subscribed in fortifying liis position in regard to capital , and is in fact reducing that consideration morely to one of in put ., vliieh I presume is no consideration to him to whom I am referring . "We have seen nothing of the alderman sinuo your departure , and nothing as yet of the 8000 ? ., but I presume his ire lias not been implacably excited , inasmuch an your liumble Bcrvant has received from his under-ahorili" an invitation to dino with tho sheriffs , at thoir approaching inauguration festival , which , by-the-by , should have been yours .

      "With rognrd to finance , which I linnlly like to touch upon , woaro not worse than on Wednesday last in the total , but I quite agree with you that n light Lmnd

      should be kept on all controllable outgoings , and you may depend -upon it that shall be " the case with us . We have no ± either seen ELB . ' s remittance from Liverpool- Money -with our ejfeablishmerai seems , as a rale , to be -rather centrifugal than centripetal . How is it with the Scatch whjoai you . . have haem conferring with ? You will sec by Saturday ' s return that the bullion in the Bank of England has been subjected to another very serious fall , and

      things seem to be comfortable with the Baaik of Fouice , in the same respect . We have to-day pttt tip * notification of our new issue in the bank and its branches , as far as shareholders and customers are concerned ; wo think it may act as an indirect stimulus to the public , as the steps we have taken are sure to be talked about out of doors . Take care of your new gun ; I don ' t like new-fangled firearms . A bad fitting in any part of the piece , and you need not go so far as Sevastopol for a result .

      " Wishing you high health and success in your sport , be the game Avhat it may , I remain , & c ., ' „ " "E . Esdaile . " After further cross-examination , to a like result , the proceedings were again adjourned , for a week .

      Hitalmd Military. The China Expedition. ...

      HiTALMD MILITARY . The China Expedition . —The force about to be concentrated at Hong-Kong will consist of t \ ro brigades of infantry , composed of the 5 th Fusiliers , now on their passage from-the Mauritius , the 59 th Iiegiment , now at Hong-Kong , the 23 rd Fusiliers , the 82 d , 90 th , and 93 rd Kegiments , which will proceed as soon as the shipping arrangements are completed . This force will be further reinforced by -four companies of artillery from Woolwich , 1000 Marines , and 100 men of the Royal Engineers j while , in the shape of auxiliary corps , it will be accompanied by one battalion o £ the military train , and 200 men of the Medical Staff Corps . The Commander- ' in-Ghief will be Major-General- Ashburnham , C . B ., who had a command in the Sutlej campaign ; be goes out ¦ with the rank of Lieutenanfc-Geueral . The first brigade will be commanded by Major-General Sir'Robert Garrett , K . C B ., now commanding a brigade at Gibraltar ; and the second brigade by Major-General Straubonzee , C . B ., who holds a similar position in Dublin Garrison . Colonel Pakenham , C . B ., who was Adjutant General of the Crimean Army , wiLl be the Adjutant-General to the Division , and Colonel Wetkerall , C . B ., " late Quartermaster-General of the Turkish Contingent , goes out in the same capacity to China . — Globe .

      Shipwrecks . —Her Majesty ' s sailing sloop Electra , Commander William Morris , which arrived at Spithead last Sunday from the Australian station , took in the captain and part of the crew of the Lord George Bentinck , trader , of London , which foundered at sea near the Falklands . Her crew and captain , sixteen in all , took to a boat , and were six days in ier without any food but one pigeon ; four of the crew ivere drowned . — The captain and crew of the Madrid , wrecked near Tigo on the 20 th ult , arrived at Southampton in the Tagus last Sunday . The officers and men sent out in tho Tagus to assist in saving the Madrid also arrived homo on the same day . The unfortunate vessel had broken up , and some trilling portions of her , such as a mast and an anchor , wore the only things saved . In the summer , an attempt will probably be made to save her machinery .

      Pkuilotts Meeciiandise . —Three packages were received at Southampton , last week from France to be shipped on board tho Magdalena , which is to leave the former place with the West India mails . Tho packages were declared by the shi ppers to consist of woollen goods . Two of them were shipped underneath other goods , but the other was hy accident separated from them . On Sunday , thia package caught fire , and it was then found that all three consisted of lucifer matches . Stabbing on Boaiid an American Sim * . —William Hick ? , chief mate of tho American ship John J . Boyd , lying ofl" Rock Ferry , discovered one of the seamen , John Bradley , in the act of breaking open the passengers' luggage , lie ordered him on deck , when Bradley drew his knife , ami , rushing at the mate , stabbed him in the car and arm . lie was speedily secured and given in charge . —Liverpool Albion .

      Accident to a Glasgow Maii , Sxeamick . —A very serious accident occurred to tlic Stag mail Hteamar , which left Grecnock with twenty ctilnn passengers and seventytwo passengers in tho . steerage . A dense drift of buo v sot in , mid , when the vessel Approached the Irish coast , Captain Diyce put luir at hIuiv speed ; but uho ran asliorc on a low , rocky promontory , near Blackhead . The passengers were landed in this midst of the snow on a very bare , dissolute <; on « t ; hut shortly nftcrwnrds they were taken ofl" by the Cambria , Captain Duncan .

      Misciulankou S. Tiik Coukt.—The Queen He...

      MISCIULANKOU S . Tiik Coukt . —The Queen held a Court on Monday at Buckingham Palace . Honor Gonzalez Bravo had an audience and delivered to her Majesty bin credentials an Envoy Extraordinary ami Minister Plenipotentiary from thoQuocn of Spain . Ilin Excellency was introduced by tho Earl of Clarendon , K . G . Palksxikjs . —A dispute lias arisen at Jerusalem

      botweenthe Greeks and the Copts with respect to the right of repairing a chapel built against the monument which covers the sepulchre of Jesus . The chapel was injured in the disturbances which recently took place on the occasion , of tbe Greek ceremony of " the sacred fire •" and the Copts dispute the right of the Greeks to make the repairs , saying that it belongs to the Latins . The Greeks have appealed to Constantinople , but the Copts are said to have the protection of the English consul at

      Jerusalem . F . i & Ks . ~ -A very destructive fire broke put on the premises of Me . Child , brush-maker , Providence-row , near Fiusbury-sqnare , about two o ' clock on Sunday morning . The flames had made considerable progress before the building was known to be on fire ; consequently , by tho time that the eugiues arrived , the conflagration had reached to such a height that , . notwithstanding all the efforts of the firemen , the roof " was entirely burnt through , and fell in . The firo was seen from almost

      every part of London , ami'it . was not until after several hours bad elapsed , that it could bo lhially extinguished . The whole of the extensive premises included in Mr . Child ' s warehouse , comprising a back factory and a . number of workshops' and sale-rooms , were consumed , by the fire , with all their contents . Mr . Child ' s private residence adjoining "was likewise partially burnt , and its contents damaged by water and hasty removal . Both , this and the brush manufactory wero insured , together with ail they contained . Three of the neighbouring dwellings were considerably injured by fire and water ; but they also w « re insured—Another fire , attended with loss of life , occurred on the same inomiug at a house in

      Mill-yard , Castle-street , Commercial-road East , belonging to a woman who let it out in lodgings to several poor families . The fire destroyed the whole of the stair-, case , and the floorings of the second and third stories , and also burnt oiF the greater portion of the roof , beforo it could be got under . Previous to the arrival of the fire-escapes , a woman who lived in one of the upper floors , finding that she could not descend the staircase , jumped out of the window . into the street , after having first thrown out her child . The latter was not much hurt , bat the woman was so severely injured that b 3 io was taken to the London Hospital . The bodies of a man and a cliild were afterwards found , amongst tlie ruins , both burnt to a cinder .

      TheIosdos Kefohwaxokv . —A special public meeting of this Keformatory was held on Wednesday at WilhVs-rooms , King-street , St . James ' the president , the Earl of Sbafteshury , in the chair , supported by tlio Duke of Argyll , Lord Robert Grosvenor , M . P ., tho Hon . Arthur Kinnaird , M . P ., the Hon . F . Byng , M . Ernest Bunsen , Colonel Stace , Governor of the Reformatory , and several other gentlemen . The committee , it appears , is - II 27 . in debt . The proceedings did not present any features of special interest . Election Logic . — " 1 tell yer wot : the Haristocracy are a set of harrogant t purse-proud hupstarta ; and wot is wusb—hofuntimes no better tkan paupers . "

      Casualties at Livicihpool . —On Thursday night , at a fire in a cotton kiln in Tilhebarne-street , two women wero burned to death . Yesterday morning there was a terrific boiler explosion at Closo and Koyle ' s ship-building yard , Eirlccnhead . Some incu ( number unknown ) were killed ; ten seriously injured .- —Globe . Reported Dkatie of Dk . Yogbl . —A paragraph appears in tbe Literary Gazette , stating that intelligence has heen received at the Foreign Office from our consul at Tripoli , to tho effect that the celebrated African explorer , Dr . Togol , was murdered at Waddy by tho natives . Tho letter received at Tripoli is from Corporal Maguirc , one of the . Suppers sent out with Dr . Vogcl , and is written from Kuku . ' Tho Sheikh of Bornu has promised to forward particulars to our consul at Tripoli as soon as nos . siblc ,

      Tirio Golkkn-Lank Sciiooi-s . —A new scliool-honse for the children of the poor people in Golden-lano and i ( s neighbourhood wns formally opened on Thursday by Prince- j \ llif : rt . Tho Prince was accompanied b y the Prince of WaleH . Tho number of children in actual attendance at these . selioolf ) was , in September laat , 977 . There arc also ovcnbig classes for men and women , and evening hcIhjoI . s for hoys and girls ; the numbur alt « nd-Ing tlie . se is 500 . An inaugural addresB was delivered hy Prince Albert . OuTitAGia at Ba ; m I , uih , PoTOsi . —A letter has been addruHsod by tho Manchester Commercial Association to the Enrl of Clarendon , in which wo read : — " Information lmH reached tlio Ansociation , from sourccn upon which the utmost rcliuncu can bo placed , of tho

      perpetration of a most gross and unjustifiable outrage against I hi ; lhitiwh flag ut Sun Luis , Potosi , on the 12 th of ¦ fanuary last , whou in opon day tlio liiitinh Conaulato in that city was forcibly entered hy a body of armed men , under the command of Colonel Ilcrrau , who , acting under the orders of Ce . noral Majoa an < l Don Denidcrlo Samauicgo , revolutionary < ihiefn , carried off money ami valuable sccurilies , to the amount of 24 , 000 dollars , which h «< l been deported there for . safety . Colonel Ilorran pe minted iu hi , s proceedings , although repeatedly warned by her Mnjesty ' H ( Jonaul of tbe nature un < l coii-KL' ^ ur- ncos of the a <; t in which ho wus engaged , and although at tho very moment when be nml hi « Holdicrn wero plundering tho Consulate tbe British ( lug wiw flying abo » v « their heads . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21031857/page/11/