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Tvere dismissed for malversation of funds , and now the vestry-clerk has been dismissed for keeping back certain tents which he had received . A very exciting scene took place in the Vestry Hall on Wednesday , when the conduct of Mr . Cook , the vestry-clerk , was discussed , and a motion for his immediate dismissal was carried by 43 to 3 . His books , boxes , and private room were ordered to be locked up and sealed until a committee of investigation could meet to examine them and report
affairs which was permitted to the directors . He over and over again insisted upon the directors being better informed upon them , but it was only on the 4 th of July , 1857 , twenty-four days before the report was made , that he was appointed . , a managing director , and immediately a system commenced which if it had been pursued during the previous three or four years , the unhappy results which took place would not have followed . Before he consented to a dividend he desired to have a report of the state of accounts from the manager , and having found that the whole reserve fund was lost , he , therefore , at the board meeting , strongly
opposed the declaration of a dividend , and succeeded in carrying his point . Yet this was the man who was charged with fraud and falsehood , and selected as the solventindividual among the directors to beproceeded against . The last point was the rejection as evidence , by the learned judge , of the report of 1837 , which stated that as the pecuniary transactions of customers were only known to three persons , the hank combined with the secrecy of a private , the security of a joint-stock bank . Lord " Campbell said : You have stated points of infinite importance to the commercial world , and I think j-ou ought to take a rule to show cause generally . Rule granted .
thereon . A report was then presented from the directors of the poor that the clerk to that board had absconded . A resolution was agreed to for offering a reward for the apprehension of Mr . Birchmore , the absconded relieving overseer , and Mr . Hibbard , clerk to the directors . Another complication then arose in the resignation of Mr . Salmon , the newly-elected collector of No . 2 Ward , in the place of Hallam absconded , on account of his alleged incompetency to discharge the duty from the state of the books .
Mr . Justice Hill took the oath and Ins seat on Wednesday as one of the puisne judges of the Court of Queen ' s Bench . Lord Campbell improved the opportunity to congratulate the public on the abolition of that part of the oath abjuring the descendants of the Stuarts . In the case of Waddington against th < 5 City of London Union , judgment has been given by the Court of Error . The facts will be remembered . A collector of rates for
the City of London Union , one Manini , embezzled some forty thousand pounds of the Union money , and the guardians , to supply the deficiency , made a special rate on . all the parishes in the Union equally . As Manini ¦ was collector only in some parishes , the others disputed the validity of the rate , but the Court of Queen ' s Bench affirmed If * The Court of Error has , however , reversed the decision of the Queen ' s Bench , and laid it down as law that none of the parishes whose rates Manini did not collect are liable .
At the Mansion-house , Mr . Benjamin , a fish salesman of Billingsgate , was charged with having exposed for sale salmon obtained from the Tweed during the '' closed season . " This being contrary to the lair , Mr . Benjamin was fined half-a-crown on each fish . In the Court of Bankruptcy an adjourned meeting in the case . of Mr . Humphrey Brown took place . The balance-sheet appeared to be satisfactory to Mr . Linklater . Mr . Bagley , for the bankrupt , . expressed his belief that the prejudice against Mr . Brcnvn would be removed-before he left the Court . The certificate meeting was appointed to he held on the 30 th November .
The affairs of the Liverpool Borough Bank came before the Court of Queen ' s Bench on . Thursday on an application , of the Attorney-General for a rule to show cause why the verdict , in the case of Scott and another against Dixon , should not be set aside . The plaintiffs were shareholders of the Liverpool Borough Bank , and had brought an action against the defendant , who wiis a director of the bank , for the money which they had , as they alleged , lost in that undertaking by fraudulent representations . The Attorney-General ' s application was founded principally upon two points , first , that there was no evidence to support the charge , which was left to inquiry , and secondly , that no x'epresentation at all was made by the defendant to the
plaintiffs . Further , he would move on the rejection of evidence which ought to have been admitted . Ho would also certainly ask their Lordships , if it became necessary , whether the verdict was not against the evidence ; but the great question turned upon a single sentence in a written document , and their Lordships would be able , therefore , to dispose of the case on its true merits , without entering into any conflicting evidence or considering too minutely the multitudinous facts involved in its history . When the bank was established in 1886 the issue of sharos was limited , but it was contemplated , and at last carried into effect , that there should be 100 , 000 shares of 101 . each , consequently the capital was 1 , 000 , 000 / . sterling . There were twelve directors who carried on the business of
the bank , with the assistance of a manager , who was the chief officer , and other persons in their employ . It might be supposed that every individual director made himself acquainted with all the details of the business of the bank , with the state of accounts , tho debts and eredita , aaeata and liabilities ; but such was not the ¦ ystetn upon which the concern was founded . All the apcounts and details calculated to show at any time tho real condition of the bank were confined to the manager , and , two managing directors . As early as 1887 , And in the first general report , crodlt was expressly claimed for the mode of carrying on the business
by which tho particular transaction of customers t «« only known to a seleot body of three persons . The Attorney-General then entered into an analysis of tho bank ' s accounts , for tho purpose of allowing that the Statements in the report of July , 1857 , wore not fulse and fraudulent , but a fair representation of tho real position of tho establishment , so far / as it could , bo , then ascertained . H [ o trusted that tho court would grant a " jjule In a oaso " ho novel in its facts nnd so fearful in nil its consequences to tho defendant , who , if tho verdict stood , would bo a ruined man . Nearly two years before tho bank failed , Mr . Dixon . oxprossod dls-BAtbfftotlon , at tho limited knowledge ) of tho bank ' s
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IRELAND . Gaiavay and America . —The following ; statement appears in the Galway Vindicator : —" Last week Mr . Seymour Clarke and Mr . Walter Leath , of the Great Northern Railway Company , and Mr . Wilkinson , of the London and Sheffield Railway , arrived in Galway , with a view of seeing and judging of the commercial capabilities of . this port . From Mr . Weir , general manager , and Captain Thompson , marine superintendent , they received the fullest information respecting the facilities and advantages which Galway possessed , and was about to receive , to render it in every respect suitable for a Transatlantic packet station . They expressed themselves delighted with the fine bay and harbour . These
gentlemen have visited Galway in order to enter into arrangements with the Irish railway companies and the directors of the Lever line for the transmission of the American traffic on their English lines by the new route via Galway . Father Daly pointed out from the Admiralty chart the capabilities of the habourj and gave the gentlemen all the information respecting Galway with which he is so thoroughly conversant . " The Vindicator contains information respecting a project for the establishment of telegraphic communication between Galway and Quebec : >—* " In the event of opening communication with America by a new and improved construction of the electric wire , Galway is looked to by Englishmen
he was bound to comply . All Queenstown was up and out , the greatest consternation prevailing . The officer on board the flag-ship Nile thought that a mutiny had broken out in the Hawke , and sent two officers to ascertain the cause ; but when they came alongside the Hawke the officer told them that if they did not move off immediately he would give orders , to have them fired upon . They accordingly returned . The following morning the officer was placed under arrest . We understand that , though a young man , he has been distinguished for bravery , and that it was only recently he returned from China in an invalided state ! From this last circumstance it has been inferred that his intellect was weakened .
of business and enterprise , this Irish port having so eminently succeeded in establishing a fleet of steamers between the countries . A company is in course of formation to be called the British and Canadian Submarine Telegraph Company ( Limited ) , to connect British North America with Great Britain by electric telegraph , commencing with that portion of the line between Galway and Quebec , and extending it onwards to the Pacific as soon after as may be deemed expedient . The wire to be used will be of a totally different nature and construction from any hitherto employed , and tho whole arrangements will be such as to secure its being successfully laid . "
Marriage of the Lokd-Lieutenaxt .- —On Wednesday the Earl of Eglington was married to Lady Adela Cape ) , at tho Viceregal Lodge . The proceedings were strictly private . Lady A . Capel arrived , at Kingstown on Tuesday ovening , accompanied by her father , the Earl of Essex . The bride nnd bridegroom remain at tho Viceregal Lodge . The Attempted Assassination . —A meeting of magistrates and gentlemon of the county Donegal was held on Saturday , at Lettorkenny , when a reward of 0001 . was agreed to bo offered for tho conviction of the assassins . Mr . Nixon is going on favourably , and almost
out of danger . He cannot speak , his tongue is so injured by a slug having gone through it . One of tho bullets lodged in tho bonnet of his daughter , who was with him at tho time of the attack . No efibrt is being spared to hunt up tho intending assassins . Mr . Cruise , R . M ., and somo hundred additional constabulary are still in the district whero tho attempt was made . Sovoral arrests have boon effected . The correspondent of S ' aundcra ' a Neioa Letter , writing from tho neighbourhood of the outrage , states that there is a report current that the Ribbon fraternity aro determined to shoot every one who was summoned to London and gave evidence which so fully exposed tho falsehood of tho priests' nppoul .
Sinoui . au Affair . —On Sunday night tho inhabitants of Cork woro nrouaed by a heavy cannonado from H . M . ' s ship Hawko , 00 , Capt . Crispin , which lies at anchor above tho guard-ship Nilo , between Iluulbowlino Island and Whitopoiut , This firing continued for nearly three-quarters of an hour , and is thus-explained by the Cork ISmuininor . On Sunday night tho ship was loft-in charge of tho third lloutonant , who had invited a gentleman to dine with him . About ton o ' clock both appeared on dock , and , the officer directed the gunner to call up the men and flro a volley . The gunner expostulated , but his superior having indignantly deulrod him to obey his orders or abide by tho consoquoucos of a refusal ,
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Majoe-General Sir W . Reid , K . C . B . —This distinguished officer died on Sunday last . Sir "William was born in 1791 . He was educated at Mussel burg , and subsequently at the Military Academy at Woolwich ' whence ho entered the Royal Engineers in 1808 , and ' served under the Duke of Wellington to the end of the Peninsular war . He was made Colonel of the Engineers in 1854 , and Major-General in 180 G . From February 1839 , to October , 184 G , he was Governor of Bermuda ; from October , 184 . 0 , to August , 1818 , Governor of the Windward- Islands '; and \ ya . s appoin-tcd Governor of Malta in 1851 . He is the author of two valuable works on the law of storms . Tins Late Distuuuaxces at Siiekuness . —The General Commanding-in-Chief lias had under his consideration the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry held to investigate the circumstances attending the disturbance between certain men of the North Cork lliflcs and the seamen , marines , and inhabitants of Slieerness , by which he was compelled , in order to restore and maintain the tranquillity of the town , to remove the regiment to Aldershott . His Royal Highness collects from the evidence that the militia " cannot he considered as the original aggressors . "
Acciwext to a Taoor-siiii' . —Hie steamship Lrgent , Commander M'Douald , on her way from the Mediterranean ,-got ashore on a shoal called East rule , oil" the mouth of Chichester harbour , on Monday night , about half-past cig-lrt o'clock , and remained fasti Sliii made signals of distress , and sont communications of her perilous position to the authorities of Portsmouth dockyard , who promptly sent assistance—the steam vessels Echo . and Pigmy , with the requisite gear for such emergencies—and at high tide on Tuesday morning they succeeded in getting her ofi " , apparently -without much damage . The steamers towed her . direct into Portsmouth'harbour , and she was moored alongside thejstfyi She brought home the wives and children ( about 3 U 0 ) of the 91 st , 46 ( h , and 3 rd Regiments , who have been sent on to India , and about 120 male invalids from other regiments , and men to join their depots .
Vaissuavx BiiLiEits . — A singular letter appears in the Times , which says : — " It has been stated publicly and frequently that the engine of destruction called the " naval ram " was first invented by the Emperor of the French , and the idea of vessels propelled by steam ,, impervious to shot and shell from without , has been claimed as an original one by more than one . Not many years since , in America , a rich merchant named Stephens suffered seriously in his pocket from . collisions at sea ; Ins attention was turned to the subject , and it occurred to him thntthe tremendous force of steam power might be
turned to account in naval warfare in the same way . In a word , ho conceived the possibility of building ft steam ram , and communicated his ideas to the Government . Theso notions were not appreciated , but Sti-phons was so impressed with tho importance of thu mutter that ho determined to set to work at onco . l !< . ' i"tf a ™ man , he mot with no serious obstacle . Year nllur voat went by , and gradually tho leviathan progressed , i ne steamer was to bo shot-proof by means of iron p atos , and it was to travel at tho rate of -JO knots an hour . It was to bo propelled by six powerful engines , to do iron at uotii
sharp at the bow and storn , being a lied of oxtromitios , carrying o »» o monster gun , and a heavy armament , after tho Mcrrimac model . All » ho wouiu have to fear would be being laid aboard , lo prevciu this sho was to throw streams of boiling water from nor sides , so as to bo unapprouehablo . Tho enterprise gtaduolly progressed , but Mr . Stophona did uot » Hvo to sco it completed , although ho was fortunate enoug h to nn \« bis conception approved and his expenses rol ' iindoa , i » American Government carry ing 1 out hia i | lutt < A . naval rain is now noarly finished , u yoarly »«» n ua \ i » b been allotted to the work—so noarly as to bo rouuy > oi immediate use , and what a fearful power Is thus
possessed by America I , i In The Kiipmc Brigade , —Wo boliovo that it ia tno m tontion of tho Uommandor-in-Chlof nnd military uui " - ritios to raise , early in tho ouauing your , uu < kIuH » wm ( 5 th ) battalion to tho Kino Brigade . , .. , „„ . PilACTICAfc JOXOS IN T 1 IIC A « MY .-r-Hy » " "Vl ,. " tlal , hold at Portsmouth , in July lust , Iwwltf" ° "' J Janios Scott , of tho 47 th lloglmont , wua found gu uy-v having , while on tho alok Hat , Mt his barracks wlt | iom permission , nrooooilod to tho qunrtorH of nnollior 'oiiu « i and , in IiIh ivbsouao , upsot hia furniture m >< 1 uLo '' tli , ' ,. disarranged hlu room , but Wa oouduofc wua not , »» "
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1182 THE LEADER . [ No . 450 , November 6 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 1182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2267/page/6/
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