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      General ) attended in the Court of Queen ' s Beach last Saturday , to . show cause why the defendants in the British Bank case should not be supplied -with particulars with reference to the various counts in the indictments for conspiracy and fraud , in order that they might fee the tetter able to conduct their defence . The court was crowded , and Mr . Dallas , the American Minister , was accommodated with a seat on the bench . Sir Frederick said he apprehended that the point turned upon whether the information already given conveyed to the

      defendants upon the face of it sulhcieut specification of the particulars of conspiracy it was intended to establish . That was all the defendants were entitled hi law or justice to demand , for they had « o right to know by what means it was intended to establish the charge of conspiracy , nor the nature of the evidence proposed to be offered , with which , it appeared to him , tlie parties required to be furnished . In this case , the question depended entirely on their Lordships' view of the counts relative to the defendants' having described tlie bank to be in a flourishing and prosperous condition . Mr . Serjeant Ballantine , the second counsel , at some length contended that the counts gave the defendants sufficient information in reference to the false representation of the bank ' s position . After some further discussion between the second counsel and their Lordships , Sir Frederick

      Thesiger consented to strike out all the general counts , and to give the defendants notice and particulars of the overt acts relied on , and not to enter on any other on the trial . Sir Fitzroy Kelly then , on the part of Mr . Stapleton , applied to the court for particulars to be furnished to the defendant in reference to the alleged fraudulent balance sheet , ia which -was an item of 310 , 204 ? . Id ., as convertible security , bills discounted , &c . ; without them , it would be impossible for the defendant to be in a position to answer the charge . A similar application was made by Mr . Digby Seymour on the part of Mr . Cameron , the secretary . The Court was unanimously of opinion that no further information should be supplied beyond what the Attorney-General considered himself justified in furnishing , and observed that the defendants had supplied the accounts referred to which were said to be fraudulent .

      The appeal from the decree of Vice-Chancellor Wood , ¦ with , respect to the case of the preference shareholders of the Great Northern Railway Company and the deficiency created by the frauds of Redpatb , was , last Saturday ( after argument on previous days } , brougTit forward in the Equity Courts for the judgment of the Lord Chanceller and the Lords Justices . The point to be decided ¦ was , whether or not the plaintiffs , who are preference shareholders , are entitled , together with tlie otlier preference shareholders , to be paid full dividends from June

      30 tli , 1856 , before any dividends shall bo paid to the ordinary shareholders ; that is to say , whether or not the fact of their being preference shareholders gives them immunity from the losses occasioned to the company generally by the delinquencies of Redpath . Vice-Chancellor Wood had decided in favour of the plaintiffs ; but the company appealed against this decision . The Lorcl Chancellor and the Lords Justices , however , now confirmed the previous decree , and the appeal was dismissed , with costs . The preference shareholders must therefore be paid in full .

      A dividend meeting was held last Saturday under the bankruptcy of "William James Robson , described as an antimony smelter of Bowling-green-mews , Kcnnington , but better known in connexion with the extensive frauds on the Crystal Palace Company . An arrangement has been effected with the company , which resulted in their large claim in respect of the bankrupt ' s frauds being withdrawn , and a dividend of 3 s . 9 d . in the pound being paid to the trade creditors , amounting to 3707 / . There is now 3947 , in hand , and Mr . Johnson , th « oflicial assignee , states there will be a further dividend of Is . 4 d . or Is . 6 d . in the pound , which in all probability will be a Gual one . Only one additional proof was admitted on Saturday , and the dividend was declared pro forma . The dividend upon several claims having been ordered to be reserved , the proceedings ended .

      In the matter of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation , a petition was filed on Wednesday , before Yice-Chancellor Sir William Page AVood , by Major Alfred Henry Cortield , a shareholder in the company , praying its dissolution and winding up , under the provision of the Joint-Stock Companies ActB , 1848-0 . This is the hank with which tub notorious Colonel Waugh was connected . It was arranged that an order should bo taken for dissolution and winding up , and for the appointment of Mr . Stuart , the present manager , the costs of all parties to be paid out of the assets of the company . The examination of the Directors of the Royal British Bank in the Court of Bankruptcy , was on Thursday further adjourned to the 6 th of March . The criminal trial is now arranged to commence in the first week of February .

      Woolf Levy , the insolvent debtor , whoso subtle rogueries wo related last week , has appeared again before Mr . Commissioner Phillips , who dismissed the schedule , as ho believed it to bo wilfully false . The insolvent was then remitted to prison . Lord Campbell , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on ^ cdtvoaday , gave judgment in the case of the Queen v the Provost and Collogo of Eton « nd the Rev . John

      Alexander Clarke—an action brought by the Attorney-General to try the right of the Crown to present to benefices left vacant by the appointment of the incumbents to colonial bishoprics . The court decided that the Crown does not possess that right , and judgment was accordingly given for the defendants .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY SmrrtNG Disasters . —Some serious disasters ,

      attended with the loss of several lives , occurred last week to several vessels oft * the eastern coast . Tutu RiciNFOKCicMENTS l'On India . —The steam transports Australia and United Kingdom had reached Galle with troops on the 23 rd of October . Orders were issued from the AYiir-orrice on Saturday last , directing the commandants of the depot battalions at Chatham and Colchester to hold in readiness detachments of the undermentioned corps , the whole of whom are to embark at Gravesend on December the 4 th for India , for the purpose of reinforcing the liritish regiments serving in the Bengal , Bombay , and Madras Presidencies—viz .: —204 non-commissioned officers and men selected from the 8 th ( the King ' s ) , 10 tb , 19 th , 20 th , 23 rd ( . Royal Welsh

      Fusiliers )^^!) , 29 th , S 2 nd , 35 th , 37 th , 75 th , 82 nd , S 4 th , and 90 th ( Light Infantry ) Regiments , together with 6 officers , the whole of whom will embark for Calcutta : 164 non-commissioned officers and men and 5 officers from the 18 th ( Royal Irish ) , 51 st ( Light Infantry ) , G 4 th , 83 rd , and 86 th ( Royal County Down ) Regiments , to joi ' n . the head-quarters of their respective regiments serving in the Bombay Presidency ; 181 non-commissioned officers and privates of . the 7 th ( Royal Fusiliers ) , 27 th ( Enuiskillen ) , 52 nd ( Light Infantry ) , 53 rd , 61 st , 70 th , 87 th ( Royal Irish Fusiliers ) , 94 th , and 98 th Regiments , to embark for Kurrachee , together with reinforcements for the 43 d Light Infantry , who are under orders to proceed to Madras . The total number of reinforcements ordered

      to leave Chatham garrison for India is 556 men of all ranks , together with 20 officers . Baronetcies for the Brave . —The Queen has signified her pleasure to raise to the dignity of Baronet of the United Kingdom Generals Wilson and Havelock , by the titles of Sir Archdale Wilson of Delhi , and Sir Henry Havelock of Lucknow . ; Courts-Martial- —A court-martial was held on board her Majesty ' s ship St . "Vincent , yesterday week , to try Mr . Drew , late acting master of the Juno , on charges of negligently performing his duty , and of behaving disre ^ spectfully to his captain . The inquiry ended in an acquittal . Mr . Drew has been under arrest for the last nine months . —Lieutenant Burnaby of the same vessel has also been tried for insubordination and disrespect . On Captain Fremantle being ordered by the President to give his evidence , lie said he knew nothing , and was

      prepared to abandon the prosecution , and to indemnify the prisoner by ' corporeal pains . ' The cabin was cleared , and Captain Fremantle Avas given . time to consider : but , . qa the resumption of the sitting , he said he felt utterly unable to collect his ideas with reference to matters which had happened so long ago . " I feel impressed , " he added , " that my views of the service have been mistaken and wrong . " He also asserted that tliore was a confusion in his head , and he requested that the President would allow him to sit down . He was told he might retire , and givu his evidence subsequently , which he did , and tlie accused then entered on his defence . On Wednesday , Lieutenant Burnaby was acquitted , uml the Court stated , furthermore , that there were not sufficient grounds for preferring the charge . — Another case in connexion -with tho same ship lias also ended in an acquittal .

      An Autii / l , euym : an Flogged . —John Day , a gunner of Captain Fisher ' s 1 st Company , 7 th Battalion Royal Artillery , received fifty laslies yesterday week at Chatham , for refusing to perform duty when at Tilbury Fort , and for throwiug his busby at Captain Fisher , and telling that oilicer that ho had not earned the Crimean medal with which lio was decorated . lie will -also be imprisoned for two years . He did not seem to suffer much from the flogging , though many of the spectators were sickened by the sight , SicitmcHS in the Aumy . —Several men liave been sent away from Forton Barracks , Gosport , and from the barracks at Portsmouth , owing to the great amount of sickness prevalent there .

      Wueck ok Two Stkajiehs . —Intelligence has been received at Lloyd ' s of the wreck of the scrcw-stcamor Durham , Captain Lcuthwaito , while on her voyage from Cape Coast Castle nnd TenerifTe to London , with four hundred tons of jmlm oil . The crew were landed , and part of the cargo will be saved . Another Btcmner mentioned as wrecked ia the Mag G . Do la Gardie , which went oh shore near Gothenburg during the voyage from that port for London , and soon afterwards became a total wreck . The crew wore drowned . E . soAiuc op a Convicx viiom Chatham . —Numerous bodies of convicts at the Chatham barracks linvo been employed for some time past in , breaking stonea and otherwise repairing the Government roads at that plrtce . Last Saturday morning , as one of them , named Thomas King , alias Kelly , wna engaged in this occupation , ho asked permission of Jackson , one of the barrack warders by whom the convicts arc guarded , to retire for a short

      tune . Leave having been granted him , King walked forward a few paces , closely followed by Jackson , when suddenly the former darted through the railings near the military cemetery at the foot of the lines His warder immediately fired his rifle at him , and pursued him some distance ; but , although it was broad daylight and several of the other warders and a police-constable joined in pursuit of the fugitive , he succeeded in escaping , and gaining the woods at the outskirts of the town .

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      MISCELLANEOUS , The Court . —Saturday being the anniversary of the Princess Royal ' s birthday , the band of the Ro yal Horse Guards played a corale on the south terrace at seven o'clock in the morning . The garrison of Windsor , consisting of the Royal Horse Guards and the 2 nd battalion of the Fusilier Guards , paraded in the quadrangle of the Castle to witness the ceremony of the presentation of the Victoria Cross by the Queen to Lieutenant Tcesdale , of the ltoyal Artillery , Lieutenant Symons , 5 th battalion Military Train ( late of the Royal Artillery ) , Ensign and Adjutant Craig , 3 rd battalion Military Train fjate of the Scots Fusilier Guards ) , and Sergeant Malone , 13 th Dragoons . After receiving the crosses , the regiments marched . ' past in slow and quick time , wheeled into line , presented arms , and gave three cheers in honour of the Princess lloyaVs birthday . —The Siamese Anibassador 3 paid a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle on Wednesday . Thk Bishop of Oxfoki > on Church Missions . — A lecture on the subject of Church Missions , with especial reference to India , was delivered a few evenings ago at Reading by the Bishop of Oxford . He traced the history of these missions , and showed that tliey did not originate till long after the abolition of Popery in this country—namely , about two centuries ago ; and that they were then first of all set on foot by laymen . The Church Missionary Society demand « d that all its agents shall be ' the colour of the Church of England ; ' but it doe 3 not belong to any peculiar s « ction of that bodyi

      I he Bishop pointed out the vastness of the field for missionary labour presented by the population of 180 , 000 , 000 , or 200 , 000 , 000 , in India , and said we had hitherto done nothing but truckle to the superstitions of the natives , out of a most un-English timidity . We had only thought of getting wealth for ourselves and children , aud , if we were to be swept from that mighty peninsula to morrow , wo should scarcely leave behind us in any part of it a mark of our having been a Christian people . We had shown respect to idolatry , and had forced Sir Peregrine Maitland to resign because he would not let his troops salute a Hindoo idol . We had reared our army on the

      infamous principle of caste , and that army had now turned against us . These were the causes of our disasters , and they must now be amended . Mr . Mechi on Aouiculturk . —Mr . Mechi made some remarks on agriculture at a recent meeting of the Coggi'shall Agricultural Society . Speaking of improvements in farming , he said : — " The farmer had now found it to his interest to cast awny the flail , which costs Is ., as an instrument for thrashiug his corn , and to use a machine which costs 300 / ., as , notwithstanding the enormous disparity in expense , the steam engine produces a cheaper result . The other day he went down to Wandsworth with Mr . Caird and Mr . Morton , to see a scheme of railway adapted for agricultural purposes , patented by Mr . Halkett , by which he promises to plough land at a cost of la . 7 d . per acre , hoe it at Is . 3 d ., and get in the harvest at Is . per acre , carrying the manure , &c , of the farm at Id . per ton per mile , leaving a margin for the interest of the cost of the railway , which could be adapted to the farm at a cost of 2-1 / . per acre . By this scheme lie might plough his land by night as well ns by day if he pleased , and , if it were necessary for the production of a good crop that the laud should be brought in contact witli the air , they would see how important it ia to have a long fallow . There are yet many things which might be done by agriculturists to great advantage ; but he could not forget how much some had done , and that there was one gentleman present-who every year at least burnt a thousand tons of eartli into ashes , which , laid upon heavy day land , greatly increases its fertility . " New Zkaland . —Every day brings further evidence o the extent and richness of tlie gold fields m -Now Zealand . A great many persons are flocking to t » e auriferous diHtricts . , ., Exeter Hjiu .-The incumbent of St . Michael s , Burleigh-utroct , Strand , having put a stop to the Sunday evening services at Exctor Ha . ll , ns being derogatory to the dignity of the Church of England , tho Dissenters have taken up the scheme , and tho first of their series was held laat Sunday evening , with tho sanction an « approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury und t it I Bishop of London . Tho Kov . W . Brock , minister of tw Baptist Chapel in Bloomsbury , wub the oil « ci « ti » b preacher , and ho was accompanied on tho p latform y Mr . A . Kinnaird , M . P ., Mr . Morley , and several ot tew . TJio hymns imd ritual wore thoao of the Churcli England . < t r > rd Tub Siamicsis Am . kabsai > obs paid . a vioit to m » Clarendon , ut tho Foreign Oflllce , la » t Saturday .

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      1136 THE LEADER . [ No . 401 , November . 28 . 1857

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 28, 1857, page 1136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2219/page/8/