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one punishment , which might extend as far as three months , for a servant absenting himself from a service into which he had once entered . The judges , after con- sultation in their private room , found they could not agree in their interpretation of the law . Mr . Baron Watson said that , in his opinion , the contract remained if the justice did not dissolve it ' , and the refusal to return after the first conviction and imprisonment was a fresh absenting , for which the servant could" be punished . Mr . Baron Bramwell , Mr . Baron Martin , and the Chief Baron , thought differently ; and Baker was accordingly set at liberty .
Two cases of great interest to shareholders in the Royal British Bank were broug ht forward for judgment before Vice-Chancellor Kindersley last Saturday . The first case to be decided was , whether the executors of the late Charles Walton were liable to be placed upon the list of contributories of the company . Mr . Walton died on the 16 th of April . 1856 , possessing certain shares in the Royal British Bank , which shares , on the 19 th of August , 1856 , the executors instructed a broker to sell . On the 21 st of August , the shares were sold on the Stock Exchange . A few days afterwards , a clerk of the broker acting for Walton ' s executors , went to the office of the Royal British Bank , and desired that instructions might be given for the preparation of the deed of transfer . The clerk handed him two blank printed forms of transfer , which were to be filled up and signed by the
parties transferring the shares . This was done—the transfer deeds , when so filled up , bearing date 30 th of August , 1856 ; and they were subsequently handed to the brokers for the purchasers . On the 3 rd of September , the bank stopped payment , and on the 15 th of September an application was made to its officers to register the transfer from Walton ' s . executors ; but , as business was at an end , that could not be done . Under these circumstances , it was contended by the official manager that the transfers were not made according te the rules legally imposed upon the bank , and that , therefore , Mr . Walton ' s executors still remained primarily liable to be placed on the list of contributories . The facts in the other case ( that of a Mrs . Hue ) were substantially the same as the foregoing . The Vice-Chancellor ruled that Mrs . Hue and the executors of ' Mr . Walton are still
liable to be placed in the list of contributories . As the point involved was one of some difficulty , he directed the costs of the official . manager to come out of the estate * and that the other side in each case should pay its own costs . Another British Bank case has been argued before the Court of Chancery , composed of the Lord Chancellor and the Lor 3 s Justices of Appeal , sitting in bankruptcy . John Peter M'Morland Greig , cabinetmaker , of Bartlett ' sbuildings , Holborn , was at the time of his bankruptcy a holder of sixteen shares in the Roj'al British Bank . A proof was tendered against his estate by Mr . Harding , the official manager of the bank , for a sum of 1200 / ., being the amount of the call of 75 / . per share made on the 10 th of last January on the shares held by the
bankrupt , who had been placed on the list of contributories . The Commissioner , on the 2 nd of May , rejected the proof on the ground that the bankrupt had never been legally put upon the list of contributorics . It appeared that the list , in the first instance , had been made out by Mr . Pugh , the chief-cleik of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley , but afterwards signed by the Vice-Chancellor ; and the Commissioner was of opinion that , under these circumstances , the list must be taken to have been settled by the chief-clerk , a ministerial act he was not competent to do under the statute appointing him ( the 16 th and 16 th of Victoria , cap . 80 ) . From this decision the official manager appealed . Their Lordships now decided that the proof must be admitted ; the coats of all pat-ties to come out of the bankrupt's estate .
Mr . Serjeant Byles and Mr . Skinner , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Monday , showed cause why a mandamus should not issue commanding the Justices of Gloucestershire to order payment of certain fees to Mr . Gajsford , one of Iho coroners of the county . That official had held certain inquests which the justices regarded as unnecessary , and they therefore refused him his fees ; but , as he hud travelled a considerable distance to attend each inquiry , he was allowed his mileage and other disbursements . The court upheld the decision of the justices , Lord Campbell observing that Parliament had made them the judges of whether , a coroner is to be paid Mb fees or not .
A criminal information has been granted by the Court of Queen ' s Bench aguinst Sir Edward Conroy , Bart ., one of the magistrates at the potty sessions at Wokingham , for using insulting langungo towards Mr . Barker , one of his brother magistrates in open court . The two had had some previous disagreement , and Sir Edward alleges that on a provious day ho had himself been insulted in court by Mr , Barker . Ho ( Sir Edward ) now put in an aflidavit , expressing regret for the words he had used , but it appeared that , previous to the scone in court , ho hn , d written an insulting lotter to Mr , Barker , indireotly inciting him to a challenge . Thomas Brooks , until recently a clerk in the employ of Messrs . Barton and Abbott , news agonta of Upper Wellington-street , is under remand at Bow-street , charged with forging the name of Mr . Barton to several cheques , which ho afterwards uttered to various tradeai 1
men , obtaining in lieu of them goods arid change in cash . After being discharged from Mr . Barton's , he had got one of his employer ' s cheque-books from the bank , and was thus enabled to pursue his design . The case of — Ryder was brought before Mr . Commissioner Holroyd in the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday . It had been before the court since April ^ 1856 . The main charges against the bankrupt were i reckless trading ; the having improperly contracted a debt with the trade assignee , Mr . Warner ; and speculations on the Stock Exchange , causing a loss of more than 20 / . in one day . The Commissioner , in an elaborately written
judgment , stated that he considered the charges had been proved ; that the bankrupt , though he was not amenable to the first , had brought himself within the second branch of the penal section in the Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Act . He ( Mr . Holroyd ) was of opinion that the words of the section ought to be strictly construed , and that it would be mischievous and dangerous in the highest degree to restrict the meaning of the words ' gaming or wagering . ' For these reasons he must refuse the certificate altogether ; but he would stay certificate of execution for twenty-one days , so as to give the bankrupt an opportunity of appealing against his decision .
The idiotic and mischievous practice of scratching names upon the stone or woodwork of public buildings has got a young mason from the north of England into a scrape . He went to the British Museum on Tuesday , and there scratched a name upon the French-polished balustrade of the grand staircase . The name would seem to have been that of his sweetheart , and underneath were his own initials . He was brought to the Bow-street police-office , and fined one sovereign , or , in default , a week ' s imprisonment . M . Theodore Dupuis , the French master of Queen
Elizabeth ' s Free Grammar School , in the parish of bt . Olave's , South wark , has been summoned before the Southwark magistrate , and committed for trial , on a charge of cruelly beating one of the scholars , a lad twelve years old . The defence was that the boy had been impudent ; and the head master , the Rev . Mr . Hayman , said that the mother ought to have applied to the " authorities of the school , so that an investigation might have been had , instead of taking proceedings before a magistrate—a course which was likely to injure the school . Mr . Combe , the magistrate , said he could not airree with that remark . Bail was accepted for M .
Dupuis . . . Campbell ' s Divorce Bill was read a second tune in the House of Lords on Thursday . A bill case—Pace and Another v . Dear—was heard before the Court of ^ Exchequer on Thursday . . The plaintiff ia an India merchant , carrying on business in Austinfriars , and the defendant is a furniture-dealer . The action was brought to recover the sum of 48 / . odd , the difference between a bill of exchange for 251 / . odd
( which was discounted by the defendant for the plaintiff , and dishonoured ) , and another for 300 / . The defendant ' s account of what had taken place was , that he had agreed to take the risk of the payment of the 300 / . bill and was to receive the difference between that and the dishonoured 251 / . bill as a bonus for so doing . He also said that bills of Sadleir and George Hudson had been brought to him by the plaintiff for discount , and that he had refused to meddle with them . The
statements of the plaintiff wero entirely different , and ho denied the assertion with respect to the bills of Sadleir and Hudson . Mr . Baron Channell , in summing up , said the jury must say whether they believed the account of the transaction given by the plaintiff , or that given by the defendant . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 35 / . 11 s . 3 d ., the amount of his claim , deducting interest for the bill .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . A Worthy Soi-dibk . —The whole of the officers and men of the Royal Marines at present stationed at hendquarters at Chatham were a few days ago assembled on their parade-ground for the purpose of witnessing the presentation of a silver medal , together with a gratuity of 16 / ., which had been awarded by the Lords of the Admiralty to Colour-Sergeant B . Matthews , of the Chatham division , for long service and meritorious conduct . An Unwortiiv Sch . dikr . —Gunner John Cook , of the Horse Artillery at Woolwich , received fifty lashes on Monday morning as a punishment for stealing a pockethandkerchief . Surely , the penalty was disproportioned to the offence . Oub Noktiucbn Coasts . —Tho seamen of the lyno and Wear are signing a petition to Parliament wherein they state various facts with regard to tho loss of life and property in tho North Sea . They assort that" Disasters at sea and loss of life and property uro on tho increase , more particularly along tho coastB of Yorkshire , Durham , and Northumberland Your petitioners would direct tho attention of your honourable House to what , in their judgment , ga ^ d from daily experience , are tho causes to be reasonably assigned for this dcoreaso of security of life and property at sea : — First , incompotent crows ; second , vessels sailing undermanned ; third , tho increase of mixed crows speaking different languages ! fourth , tho increase of steamers ,
and the collisions by steamers , frequently from nolrmT out being kept , or landsmen being at the helm fifth , crews of ordinary seamen or landsmen navi gating ships and being ignorant of the mX of the lead ; sixth , sending vessels to sea in » unseaworthy state , either from , defective hulls leak age , bad ground tackle , or old and useless aaHs worn-out rigging , or rotten spars . But , comin * more directly to the losses on the north-east coast of England , your petitioners are fully persu aded that many lives might be saved by the erection of a harbour of refuge . .... Your petitioners would further direct your attention to the bleak and dangerous nature of the coast between the river Humber and the Frith of
Forth . .... Out of the sum of 3 , 388 , 001 / ., voted by Parliament for the construction of havens of refuge , not one penny has been laid out in providing a sh elter for the shipping trading along the north-east coast though its trading vessels outnuuiber those from the more southern ports as three to one . .... Your petitioners , in connexion with the discussion of loss at sea of life and property , would direct the notice of your hon . House to the many crews that have been imprisoned for refusing to sail in unseaworthy ships ; and for redress in such cases your petitio ners have no remedy at law . "
This Royal , Thames Yacht Club . —The annual race for two prizes given by the Royal Thames Yacht Club took place on Tuesday . The contest began at Erith , and extended to the Nore , which was the turning point . The vessels were divided into two classes . The first class , exceeding 35 tons , was composed of the Extravaganza , 49 tons , belonging to the port of Poole , and the property of Sir Percy F . Shelley , Bart . ; the Cyclone , 43 tons , Brhtol , the property of W . J . Patterson , Esq . ; and the Mosquito ,. 59 tons , London , the property of Thomas Groves , Esq . The second class , between 20 and 3 b tons , comprised the Silver Star , 25 tons , Colchester , the property of John Mann , Esq . ; the
Phantom , 27 tons , London , belonging to Samuel Lane , Esq . ; the Thought , 29 tons , London , the property of F . 0 . Marshall , Esq . ; the Emmet , 32 tons , Poole , E . Gibsoa , Esq . ; and the Glance , 35 tons , Southampton , belonging to E . J . Bankes , Esq . After an exciting contest , the yachts came up in the following order , as stated in the daily papers : —" At thirty-three minutes past two , the Mosquito ran round the red-painted tub-of a vessel , with a bulbous lantern at its masthead , which squats eternally at anchor under the name of the Nore light-ship . The Extravaganza got round forty-five seconds later , and the Emmet fifty seconds after the Extravaganza ; then , but at a great distance behind , came the Thought , which passed the Nore precisely at thirty-nine and a half minutes past two , followed " by the Cyclone , the Glance ^ and the
Phantom ; these lighter boats turned round with remarkable closeness and precision . The return up the river was . however , scarcely so exciting as the former part of the race had been . The Emmet gradually lost h « r place , and the Thought came up with very dexterous tacking . The Mosquito , which still asserted her superior power , arrived finally at the blue flag upon the buoy opposite Erith , the goal of the race , exactly at six o ' clock . The Extravaganza arrived nine minutes and twenty seconds after six , and the Thought came up at eighteen minutes after six ; but allowing ten minutes for the twenty tons difference in tonnage between her and the Extravaganza , the second prize was won by the Thought . The Emmet came in about five minutes later , and the Phantom , Glance , and Cyclone as soon as they could . "
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MISCELLANEO US . Tim Court . —The Grand Duke Constantino bas . paid very brief visit to the Queen at Osborne . Ho arrive " at Cherbourg on the morning of Friday week ; and hew he bade adieu to France . He was very well reteivg , and in the evening ho dined with the Prefect and wrtk Captain Seymour , of the Admiralty yacht 0 bom , which was lying in the port , ready to convej 1 » J porial Highness to tho lble of Wight . Soon after tea J ' elock at night , the Grand Duke ™\™ kf ™ ^ the Osborne , which was brilliantly lighted , and * a * charge of rockets was fired from tho Ueine Iorenn He slept on board that night , and the next . mornfflj ( Saturday ) tho yacht started . After bro kfus , brand Duke was introduced , at ha own "JJ- ^ J 0 officers of tho Osborno . Ono of them , «»« ™ A ? am « n vacht , Mr . G . H . K . Bower , was master of the Agame non under Admiral Lyons when she ' went J » » j ^ lopol during the bombardment . The 0 ™** ? " % "It us ., .. 4 n «™ ip ho « ii , i not find himself in » vu J ,,
benh / The vessel - arrived off Hun , ; CaaUo a - past twelve o ' clock , and was ^ utadjg ^ o « „ wM with tho usual twenty-one guns . A *« ° J < JJJ , of the stationed At Hurst Gastlo , by whom }»»« "PlgJ ^ vU ynoUt was signalled to Osborno , and , » or Kf / 8 a ( K » thus Informed of tho arrival of »« vtoig taj * " ^ as tho Osborno oamo in sight . , 5 f ° f s °° lobann » . tho United States paddle-wheel W ^ gHSn , » recently arrived in -order to assist in »»?»* th 0 fla Atlantic submarine telegraph cable . ^" "Jf , jjogvewel to salute tho Grand Duke «« i hj arrlwj w ^ land . She ran up tho Rusaian H * $ « t tho ro «
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536 . THE LEADER , , [ Mo . 376 , Saturdat
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2196/page/8/
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