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      enecl to lock him up or put an attachment on the cheque , if it were not given up to them . Mr . Nairn asked if Mr . Smith , junior , would change the cheque , and give him 5 / . out of it . He refused , but ultimately gave up the entire-cheque , on Mr . Nairn handing him a receipt for it , and a promise to restove it to the father if he called for it . The receipt was signed by a Mr . Patten . The Lord Mayor was extremely indignant at such a charge having been made against Mr . Nairn , who , he thought , -was entitled to the thanks of the creditors for having protected their property . A Mr . Wood , who appeared in support of the charge , contended that the money was the property of Mr . Smith until the case had been adjudicated upon by the court . He had a right to collect his debts , and the seizure of the cheque was & felonious carrying away . These opinions , the Lord Mayor rattier loftily and angrily ' pooh-poohed , ' and said that no respectable solicitor would undertake such a case . -The proceedings were ' monstrous ; ' and Mr . Xairn was discharged . Joseph Coghlan , a labourer formerly in the employment of Messrs . Pratt and Sewell , contractors , of Gray's Innroad and King ' s-cross , has brought an action against those gentlemen in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , for compensation for injuries received from a dog kept by them on their premises . He was taken to the hospital in a cab , and his employers , it was asserted , stopped Is . 6 d . out of his wages to pay for the -vehicle . This , however , was denied . The dog was chained , but the chain was seven feet long , and Coghlan went too near . The defence was that the man had not exerciseJ reasonable caution 5 and the jury gave a verdict for the defendants , who , through their counsel , vaguely intimated an intention to make some private arrangement . A Mr . Jackson , a proprietor of racehorses residing in Yorkshire , has sued Mr . Edward Rawsoa Clarke , known as Dorsay Clarke , and also on the turf , for 10 Ql lent to him to enable him to pay a debt resulting from his having lost a bet on a certain horse . The action was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench , and the jury found for the plaintiff . The question of crossed cheques was revived in the Court of Common Pleas on Tuesday in connexion with a case already tried , but in which , the verdict having

      been for the defendant , liberty was given to the plaintiff to move to enter a verdict for him . A crossed cheque had been stolen , and the words written across had been' ' obliterated so admirably that the cheque was paid . The question now to be determined was , whether the banker the customer should bear the loss . 3 Ir . Justice Cress- 1 well delivered the judgment of the court , discharging the rule , and deciding that the loss should be borne by the customer . lord Chief Justice Cockburn concurred in this judgment , though not without some hesitation . 1 A Dutchman of the name of John Anthony Polso was i

      charged last Saturday before the Marlborough-street magistrate with , stealing from a French refugee , named 1 Louis de Thouroude , an album tilled with drawings , stated to be of the value of 50 Z . M . Thouroude had been banished from France about five years ago for refusing to acknowledge Louis Napoleon as Emperor , although , being a thorough Republican , he had previously taken an active part in raising him to Ids first rank of President . During his exile , he had made a series of views of different places on the Continent frequented by tourists . These views were cut out in

      variously tinted papers and made up into an album . Polso , having obtained a knowledge of this , and likewise of the circumstances in which M . Thouroude was placed , requested the latter some few weeks ago to let him have the album in order that he might show it to the authorities of the British Museum , with the view , finally , of selling it to that institution . After some wavering , M . Thouroude ultimately agreed to lend his album , to the Dutchman to show to the librarian of the Museum , but not to sell it . Polso , however , appropriated it , and offered it for sale to Miss Burdett Coutts , but that laddeclied tbu

      y n o y it , and it was therefore left with her secretary until it should be called for . When before the magistrate , Polso said that M . Thouroude had given him the album to sell for 20 i , in liquidatioa of a debt which ho owed him . It was then fetched from Miss Burdett Couttu'e , and , being handed to the rightful owner , the Dutchman was discharged . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn gave judgment in the Bankruptcy Court oa Wednesday in the case of S \ ers , Walkers , and Syers , merchants of London and Liverpool . There had b « en much reckless trading ; but , as some , of the losses were unavoidable , the certificates are of the second class , but those of the two Syera are suspended for six monthswith protection Walker received

      , . an immediate certificate . Mr . C . T . Moon , a bookseller of Regent-street , also appeared in the Bankruptcy Court on the same day , on the occasion of his certificate meeting . The Commissioner asked to what he attributed his failure . The bankrupt replied : — I fear to my having had too many irons in the fire . " This , the Commissioner obeorvod , is a very common case . The bankrupt had been partner in a business in Green-street , which had proved to bo profitable , and had * embarked in a restaurant , ' as Mr . Lawrence , who appeared for the assignees , phrased it . This led . to his bankruptcy . " Restaurant 1 " oxclaimed the commissioner ; " 1 do not like the term .

      , Restaurant ! It is the last thing upon which I should I think of entering . The bankrupt may take a second class certificate . " " 1

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      MISCELLANEUUS : The Court . —The Queen arid Court removed from Windsor to Osborne on Monday . Prince Frederick William of Prussia has left England for his own country . —The Queen and Prince Albert , on Thursday , visited the new lines of defences at Gosport . The Leviathan . — The Mill wall monster—the ' Leave-her-high-and-dry-athan , ' as the wits of Poplar call the reluctant marvel of shipbuilding—came to a standstill again last Saturday . On that daythe

      \ , Princess Royal , attended by the Duchess of Atholl , Mr . Oxmsby Gore ,. and an equerry , visited the yard , and , under the guidance of Mr . Brunei , looked at the wonderful ship and the wonderful machinery which seems to be so admirably adapted for not getting her into the water . Occasionally during the course of the day—but not while the Princess Royal was there—the vessel moved in irregular slips when the pressure was strongest ; but for the most part she stood stockstill , and she has made scarcely any progress since then . This Madras Railway . —A public dinner took place

      last Saturday at the Freemasons' Tavern for the purpose of presenting to Mr . G . B . Bruce , late chief engineer of the Madras Railway , an address and testimonial from the gentlemen of the company , expressive of the high esteem in which he is held by them . Mr . Robert Stephenson , M . P ., presided . This Chi / rcic-rate Question . —A church-rate lias been refused at Hatcham by the large majority of 295 against 56 . Fire . —Between six and seven o'clock on Sunday morning , a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs . Parry , * - » * ------- - — . Wf

      * soap and candle manufacturers , Broadway , Deptford . The discovery of the fire was rnado by a policeman . The engines were soon in attendance , but the flames could not be extinguished till the melting houses were burned out , and the candle-houses and ware-rooms , as well as the stables , destroyed . A horse was burnt to death in the latter . The loss will fall on the Atlas office . Some adjoining premises were also damaged by the fire . Tub Yictokia-stiuclct Sewick . —At the weekly meeting of tlie Metropolitan Board of Works on Friday week , Mr . Thwaites in the chair , a report was read from the Committee ofWorks , showing that the expenses incurred in the construction and repair of the Victoria-street

      sewer up to October , 1857 , amounted to 00 , 315 / . The report stated tliut the invert had dropped in some places , endangering the main building of the United Service Institution and other edifices in the immediate neighbourhood , and that nothing would do but a thorough reconstruction . The Bank Charter Act . —The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has agreed to a petition to Government agiiiiitit the Bank Charter Act . Mil W . T . Moncuikkk , tlio dramatic writer , died on Thursday week at the Charter Mousse in his sixty-third year . Official Appointmknts . —Mr . Serjeant Pigott , of the Oxford Circuit , in appointed Recorder of Hereford .

      Thomas Chown , Esq ., is appointed a member of the Xeg . slat . ve Council off H . M . ' s settlements in the Gambia Sir Gaspard le Merchant , at present Governor of ITova Scot . a , w . 11 . succeed Sir W . R . Reid as Gbvernor of Malta . Sir Gaspard will be replaced at Halifax by Lord Mulgrave , who by this appointment vacates his seat for Scarborough The late Mr . Norman Macdonald will be succeeded as Controller of tlie Lord Chamberlain ' s T > e partment by Mr . Spencer Ponsonby , who has long filled the othce of Private Secretary to Lord Clarendon , ™ whip h he will be succeeded by Mr . Villiers Lister . Mr Brand , one of the Lords of the Treasury , will occupy the place of Lord Mulgrave as assistant ' whip' to Mr Hayter . v r # ^ Indian Mutiny Relief FuND . -The sum of 419 / . os . has _ been forwarded to the committee , being the residue of a fund which was collected by British subjects in Kussia during tlie late war for the relief of their fellow-countrymen who wero prisoners of war in that country . The East India College , Hailkybury . —The haltyearly examination , of the students of this college took place on Monday in the library of the institution . Several members of the Court of Directors of the East India Company were present ; and the chairman of the court , Mr . K . D . Mangles , presided . In addressing the students , after the delivery of the prizes , Mr . Mangles pointed out that tlie atrocities recently committed in India were the work of our revolted soldiers , of felons released from the gaols , and of a few territorial tribes ; that the people of India liad been faithful to us ; and that we ought to endeavour to govern them by their affections , which he thought quite possible . The Bishop of London then made a few observations on the duty of spreading Christianity in India . The Smithfield Club Cattle Snow has been on view this week , with its usual portentous foreshadowings of Christmas cheer . For a particular account of the noteworthy facts of the exhibition , we refer the reader to our leading columns . The Cultivation of India . —Mr . Milner "Gibson , in addressing the electors and non-electors of Ashton-under-Lyne last Saturday evening , made some observations on the cultivation of the land in India " The true material ¦ A&rf 4 ¦ |

      . w ' ^ ' ^ " ¦ ' " ™ m , w «^ ^ K «^ « «^ ^ u ^« M *« « . * t& * «* ** ^ 4 A *^ w ^ k &A ^^ V ¦ «*^^ up £ ^ V V * A € * interests of the natives of India are , he believed , identical with the interests of the industrious classes in this country : if the resources of India were developed , at the same time the wages and the employment of the working classes here would be increased . ( Hear , hear . ) Hitherto , the English in India had been either taxgatherers or soldiers ; During the last fourteen years , according to the evidence of the chairman of the Board of Directors , before a committee of the House of Commons , the Government of India had drawn from the population no less than 300000000 / . sterling . ( Cries

      , , . of' Shame ! ' ') And how much did they think had been spent in improving India ? 1 , 400 , 000 / . Here is a country , one of tlie most fertile in the world , with a magnificent climate and labour sufficient , but -wanting those things which Governments must provide in such countries , namely , roads aad irrigating works . With the 300 , 000 , 0 OOf . of revenue taken from the people of India , the Government ought to have done something more than they had to develop the agricultural wealth of the land . The people of Lancashire are deeply interested in this question . He had heard it said by competent

      authorities that cotton of any quality could be delivered in England at some 3 jd . a pound , leaving Zl . per acre profit to the cultivator .. What is the condition of the cultivation of India ? People talk about annexation—of wanting more land—while no one can deny that at present there is only one acre in four of all the culturable land under cultivation , and in some parts of Bombay only fourteen per cent , of the land is cultivated . " Hawaudes Church . —Some woodwork designed for the interior of the new Ilawarden Church was destroyed by fire at Mold , Flintshire , towards the close of last

      week . The church was itself burnt a few weeks ago . Ivoky Papbk . —A pait of Wednesday ' s edition of the Hartford Daily Couraut ( says an American journal ) U printed upon paper made of ivory shavings . It is said to be the first successful experiment of the kind yet attempted . In factories where ivory is worked , the accumulation of shavings is large , and heretofore they have been considered . worthless . There being a good deal of fibre in these shavings , it is found that they work up very well into paper . The paper produced is not so good ns that ordinarily used for newspapers , but it can probably be improved . The Micmtburaneah Telegraph is now complete *^ ^ ^ — ¦ w > r ^ B »» Pi" «» «* W 4 * * BhVa ^^ 1 M ¦¦¦* W ^ I l ^ H M 4 fffa 4 fl ^ l ^ IPfeV » P »^ ¦ ¦ — —

      from Multa to Corfu . The Hank Iasuics Ihdemnity I 3 ili-. — This bill was issued on Monday . Tlie preamble recites the act ol 1844 , and the lute correspondence with the Uank . l « c enacting portion of the bill consists of three sections , of which the first gives validity to the issues of B «»' o » England notes sinco the 12 tU of lost November , anil all acts done in relatioa to them , at the name time indemnifying the Governor and Company of the Uaiik iu respect of over issues . The second declares that tlio Act of 1844 shall bo deemed to have been suspended since the 12 th of November , so far as it hunts the power of the Bunk to take securities in its i » auc clennrtment / 'and further continues the suspension until tl »«

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . I The Transmission op Troops to India . —At a meet- ' ing of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation . Company , last Saturdayj the chairman , Mr . B . M . Will- j cox , read the subjoined postscript to the report : — " Since the report was in print , an arrangement has been concluded for the transport of a regiment to India via Egypt 5 fc " Oriental having been sent from Calcutta to Suez for the special purpose of carrying troops . The telegraphic despatch naming the day on which , this vessel was expected at Suez was only received on the 17 th iilt . ; tlie directors instantly wrote to the E « st India Company , stating their ability to carry out 1000 men and their officers , and the offer was promptly accepted . This regiment will be conveyed to Alexandria by a screw steamer of 1800 tons chartered for the purpose , and the troops will embark at Plymouth on Tuesday next . " The Cuckoo , which recently sank off Chatham , has been raised , but is much damaged . Destuuction of a Ship by Fire . —The Howadji , 695 tons burden , hound to Liverpool from Boston , has been struck by lightuing , and burnt down to the water's edge . The crew were rescued by the Guttenberg , Captain Myers , from Hamburg . The loss is calculated at nearly 40 , 000 / . The Reinfokcesiexts for India . —The first draught of the new cavalry levy , in the service of the East India Company , marched last Saturday from Warley barracks to Breiitwood , and thence proceeded to Tilbury and embarked on board the screw steamship Gertrude , for Calcutta . The rank and file amount to four hundred and fifty men , and these are accompanied by five officers . The American Steamship Adrlv . ti ; c . —The United States' mail steamship Adriatic , Captain West , which arrived off Point Lynas on Thursday week , after a run fron > America of ten days four hours , has excited some attention in England on account of her large size , beauty of appearance , and excellenie of arrangement .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 12, 1857, page 1184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2221/page/8/