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      tions with La MIert , the mau who figured in the Coglan case , of which we gave an . account last week . He and Mr . Fife had ' "backed' bills for one another , and he had done the same with other persons . Although tinder age , he had probably accepted bills to the amount of 3000 ? . He had been sued on one of his acceptances ; but he pleaded infancy , and the action was not proceeded with . ECc added , that he might have stated that he was over age , Mr . Paxton and Mr . Tife both swore that no consideration had " been , given for tlie bill on — _ . ' '

      which the present action was brought . On the other hand , Mr . We « don , who is a woollen-draper , swore that he took the bill from Mr . Curlewis , a tailor , in part payment of a debt of 700 ? . for goods supplied . The bill bore the endorsement of Jolins , 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 . Paxton ' 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 BE 1 TISH BANK . Mk . Edward Esdaile , Governor of the the Royal British Bank , 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 . Linklater * 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 in a flourishing state , when the contrary was the fact . " Very likely" he told him there was 310 cause for the depreciation in the market value of the shares ; " most likely" he advised him to buy shares ; and he " might" have told him they should be be a profit to him . But he had " no recollection" of having said that the bank would lend MnvlOOOf . on his accceptance , if he went into the market , and bought shares . Mr . Marcus was another person whom he had induced to buy shares .

      should be kept on all controllable outgoings , and you may depend upon it that shall be the case with us . "We have not either seen H . B . ' s remittance from Liverpool . Money with our establishment seems , as & rale , to be rather centrifugal than centripetal . How is it with the Scotch , whom you have been conferring with ? You will sea by SatiusUy ' s return that the bullion in tho Bank of England lias been subjected to another very serious fall , and

      things seetu to be comfortable with the Bank of France , in the same respect . We have to-day put up a notification of our new issue in the bank and its branches , as far as shareholders and customers are concerned ; we think it may act as an indirect stimulus to the public , as the steps we have taken are sure to l > e talked about out of doors . Take care of your new gtn ; I don ' t like new-fangled , firearms . A bad fitting in any part of th « piece , and you need not go so far as Sebastopol for a result .

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

      Mr . Linklater : "I observe in February , 1853 , Mr . Humphrey Bxown had overdrawn 10 , 000 ? . or ' 12 , 000 / . —Mn Esdaile : " 13 , 000 / . " Mr . Linklaster : " And sinoe you became governor , has It not . increased to 28 , 0007 . ?"—Mr . Esdaile : ¦ "Thai 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 lie was on a visit to Xord Macdorald , and he was going to see Sir James Matheson . "

      Mr . Linklater proposed to read the letter , and Mr . Esdaile complained of private letters being lead . —Mi-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 Sir J . M . ' s accession . I find from j'our letter to Mr . McLeod that both your friends , and I may add Mr . S . and Mr . M . P , are staying where you are bound for . This concurrence of forces is alike apropos , and , in a military point of view , ' formidable . ' Before this concentrated attack , the Malnkoff should , I think , surrender .

      "It hns occurred to me—and this is my principal motive just now in writing , as I find Mr . hnd pen in . hand for our service too—it lias occurred to me that tho progreasive increment cf out- capital should bo a good weapon to use with your powerful friend . 1 enn well imagine one of Sir « T . W . ' s position might hesitate in connecting his name with a hank of small capital , but that tho objection should diminish readily with the increase . 200 , 000 / . is one thing , 500 , 000 / . quito another , and tho prospect , eventually ( pcThapa at no very distant period ) of converting that figure into G 0 O , OO 0 J . subsKSribcd , ia so essentially different , that in the latter case no- capitalist need bo ashamed of tlio

      alliance . But all this line of argument and observation I am sure 5 b already proacnt to your mind , and it strilccs mo as a powerful one to use . On tho other hand , every additional 50 , 000 ? . subscribed is fortifying his position in regard to capital , and ia in fact reducing that consideration merely to one of in put ., which 1 presumo is no consideration to him to whom I am referring . " \ Ve have seen nothing of tho alderman since your departure , and nothing as yet of tho 8000 / ., but I presume his iro has not been implacably excited , inasmuch as your humble servant has received from liin undcr-Hheriil" an invitation to dine -with the shcriHH , at thoir approaching inauguration festival , which , by-thc-by , should have been yours .

      " With regard to finance , which I hardly like to touch upon , wo aro not -worse than on Wednesday last in the total , but I quito agree with you that a tight hand

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      NATAL AND MILITARY . The China Expedition . —The force about to be concentrated at Hong-Korig will consist of two brigades of infantry , composed of the 5 tli Fusiliers , now on their passage from the Mauritius , the 59 th Regiment , now at Hong-Kong , the 23 rd Fusiliers , the 82 d , 90 th , and 93 rd Regiments , 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 Koyal Engineers ; -while , in the shape of auxiliary corps , * it will be accompanied by one battalion of the military train , and 200 men of the Medical Staff Corns . The

      Commanderm-Chief will beMajor-General Ashbuinham , C . B ., wlio had a command in the Sutlej campaign ; he goes out with the rank of Lieutenant-General . The first brigade will be commanded by Major-Genoral Sir Robert Garrett , K . CJ 3 ., now commanding a brigade at Gibraltar ; and the second brigade by Major-General Straubonzce , C . B ., who holds a similar position in Dublin Garrison . Colonel Pakenbam , C . B ., who -was Adjutant General of the Crimean Army , -will be the Adjutant-General to the Division , and Colonel Wetherall , 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 her without any food but one pigeon ; four of the crew were drowned . — The captain aud crew of the " Madrid , -wrecked near Vigo on the 20 th ult ., arrived at Southampton in the Tagus last Sunday . The officers and men sent out in the Tagus to assist in saving the Madrid also arrived home on the same day . Tho unfortunate vessel had broken up , and some trilling portions of her , such as a mast and an anchor , were the onl y things saved . In the summer , an attempt will probably he made to save her machinery .

      Perilous Mebciiandisk . —Three packages were received at Southampton last Aveek from France to be shipped on board the Magdalena , which is to leave the former place with the West India mails . The packages were declared by the shippers to consist of woollen goods . Two of them were shipped underneath other goods , but the other was by accident separated from them . On Sunday , this package caught fire , and it was then found that all three consisted of lucifer matches . Staiuiino on Bcakd an American Shu 1 . —William Hicks , chief mato of tho American ship John J . Boyd , lying oft' Itock Ferry , discovered 0110 of the seamen , John Bradley , in tho act of breaking open tho passengers' luggage . lie ordered him on < lcok , when Bradley drew his knife , and , rush ing at the mate , stabbed him in the ear and arm . lie was speedily secured and given in charge . —J / tvevpnol Albion .

      Accident to a Glakgo-sv Mau .. Stisamich . —A very serious accident occurred to the Stag mail steamer , which left Grccnoek with twenty cabin passengers , and seventytwo passengers in the Btceriige . A dense drift of sno v set in , and , when tho vessel approached tlio Irish coast , Captain Bryco pnt her at slow speed ; but she ran abhoro on a low , rocky promontory , near Blackhead . Tho passengers were landed in tho midst of tho snow on a very bare , desolate const ; but shortly afterwards they were taken off by the Cambria , Captain Duncan .

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      tween the Greeks and the Copts with respect to tie right of repairing a cliapel 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 the Greek ceremony of " the sacred fire ;" and the Copts dispute the right of the Greefca to males the repairs , saying that it belongs to the Latins . Tie Greeks have appealed to Constantinople , but the Copts are said to have the protection of the English consul at Jerusal

      em . Fibjss . —A very destructive fire broke out on the premises of Mr . Child , brush-maker , Providence-row , near Finsbury-sqiLare , about two o ' clock on Sunday morning . The fla . mes had made considerable progress before the building iras known to be on fire ; consequently , by the time that the engines 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 fire was seen from almost

      every part of London , and it was not until after several hours had elapsed , that it could be finally extinguished . The whole of the extensive premises included in Mr , Child ' s warehouse , comprising a back factory and a nunibev 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 avcio insured , together with all they contained . Three of the neighbouring dwellings were considerably injured by fire and water ; but they also were insured . —Another fire , attended -with loss of life , occurred on the same morning at a hou&e in

      Mill-yard , Castle-street , Commercial-road . East , belonging to a . woman who let it out in lodgings to several Morjjauiilies . The fire destroyed the whole of the stair-QPMgkl the floorings of the second and third stoiies , and also burnt off tlie greater portion of the roof , before it could bo 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 , but the woman was so severely injured that she was taken to the London Hospital . The bodies of a man and a child -were afterwards found amongst the ruins , both burnt to a cinder .

      _ The Lokdon itejFORMATOjiY . - — A special public rheefcing of this Reformatory was held on Wednesday at Willis ' s-rooms , King-street , St . James ' s ; tlie president , the Earl of Shaftesbury , in . the chair , supported by the Duke of Argyll , lord Robert Grosvenor , M . P the Hon . Arthur Kinnaird , M . P ., the Hon . F- Byng , M . Ernest Bumsen , Colonel Stace , Governor of the Beforniatory , and several other gentlemen . The committee , it appears , is 112 / . in debt . The proceedings did not present any features of special interest . Election Logic . — " I tell yer-wot : the HarJBtocracy are a set of harrogant , purse-proud hupstarts ; ami vrot is wusb—hoftuntimes no better than paupers . "

      Casualties at LrvEitpooi ,. —On Thursday niglit , at a fire in a cotton kiin in Tithebarne-street , two women wero burned to death . Yesterday morning there -was a terrific boiler explosion at Closo and Royle ' a sbip-lmildring yard , Birkcnhcad . Some men ( number unknown ) were killed ; ton seriously injured . —Globe . IIeportki ) Death ov Dr . "Vooel , —A paragraph appears in the Literary Gazette , stating that intelligence has been received at the Foreign Office from our consul at Tripoli , , to tlie effect that the celebrated African explorer , Dr . Vogel , was murdered at Waddy by the natives . The letter received at Tripoli is from Corporal Maguire , one of the Sappers sent out with Dr . Yogel , and is written from Kuka . The Sheikh of Bonm has promised to forward particulars to our consul at Tripoli as soon as possible .

      Thk Gotj > kn-Lank Schools . —A new school-houeo for tho children of the poor people in Golden-lane and Ha neighbourhood was formally opened on Thursday by Prince Albert . The Prince was accompanied by tho Prince of Wales . The number of children in actual attendance at thcKe schools was , in September last , 977 . Tlierc arc also evening classes for men nnd women , and evening schools for boys and girls ; tho number attending these in 500 . An inaugural address was delivered by Prince Albert . Outraoe at San Luis , Poxosi . —A letter has been n < ldr

      porpe-MI 8 CELLANEOUS . The Couht . —The Queen held a Court on Monday at Buckingham Palace Scfior Gonzalez Bravo had an audience and delivered to her Majesty bin credentials an Knvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from ( lie Queen of Spain . Ilia Excellency was introduced by the Karl of Clarendon , K . Ci . Palestine . —A dispute has arisen at Jerusalem

      botration of n mont gross and unjustifiable outrage against tlie IJriLisli flag at San Luis , Potosi , on tho 12 th of January last , when in open day tho British Consulate in that city was forcibly cntorod by a body of armed men , under tho command of Colonel llcrran , who , acting under tho orders of General Mujca and Don Dcaidorio Samaniego , revolutionary chiefn , carried ofl ' money nnd valuable Hecurities , to the amount of 24 , 000 dollars , which had been deposited there for safety . Colonel Ilcrrun porniHtudin bin proceedings , although repeatedly warned by her Majcuty'H Consul of tho nature and consequences of the act in which he was engaged , and although at tlio very moment when ho and Iii ' h noldicra were plundering tlio Conauluto tho British flag was flying above their heads . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2185/page/11/