of the degrees of guilt which the evidence attached to each. With regard to Stapleton, his Lordship, though he thought the law officers of the Crown had done right in including him in the indictment, intimated his expectation that the case as against him would have been abandoned at the close of the evidence; adding that if the jury took the same view of the case that he did, Stapleton would leave the court without a stain on his character, and that if he should at any time return to his profession of a barrister, he should be glad to see him practising in any court over which he presided. With regard to Macleod, although there was more evidence against him there was no positive proof: he was not a speculator, and he had obtained no advances from the bank. He had purchased a large number of shares, and invested in them 5000l., and instead of speculating in them he had made them the subject of his marriage-settlement. Against Owen, he thought a more serious case had been made out; but he had invested all his savings in the bank, and had not derived any benefit from it. His Lordship bore strongly against the other defendants, acquitting Esdaile of having derived any benefit from the bank, or obtained any money from it. The jury found all the defendants Guilty, recommending Stapleton, Kennedy, Owen and Macleod strongly to mercy. On Brown, Esdaile and Cameron the Lord Chief Justice passed a sentence of one year's imprisonment, adding that they had been convicted "on the clearest evidence, of an infamous crime," On Kennedy, nine months' imprisonment; on Owen, six months; on Macleod, three months; on Stapleton, "I cannot conscientiously order you to do more than pay a fine of 1s. to Her Majesty, and be discharged." APPENDIX TO The MINISTRY, as it stood on the 1st of January, 1858. First Lord of the Treasury Lord Chancellor President of the Council Lord Privy Seal Home Secretary Foreign Secretary Colonial Secretary IN THE CABINET. Chancellor of the Exchequer Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston. Most Hon. Marquess of Clanricarde. Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis. THE FOLLOWING CHANGE TOOK PLACE DURING THE YEAR. Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, Vice-President of the Committee of Privy Council for Education, to be also President of the Board of Health, vice Right Hon. William Monsell, resigned. The MINISTRY, as formed by the Earl of Derby in February, 1858. THE FOLLOWING CHANGES TOOK PLACE DURING THE YEAR. The Right Hon. Lord Stanley to be President of the Board of Control, vice the Earl of Ellenborough, resigned. After the passing of the Government of India Act, Lord Stanley became Secretary of State for India. Right Hon. Sir Edward G. E. L. Bulwer Lytton, bart., to be Secretary of State for the Colonies, vice Lord Stanley. Right Hon. Charles Baillie to be Lord Advocate of Scotland, vice Right Hon. John Inglis, Lord Justice Clerk. David Mure, esq., to be Solicitor-General for Scotland, vice Right Hon. John Inglis. SHERIFFS FOR THE YEAR 1858. Bedfordshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devonshire Dorsetshire Durham Essex Gloucestershire Herefordshire. Hertfordshire. Kent Northamptonshire Shropshire Somersetshire. Staffordshire. Southampton, Co. of Surrey. Sussex . Warwickshire. Westmoreland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire. ENGLAND. John Sambrook Crawley, of Stockwood, esq. Christopher Robert Pemberton, of Newton, esq. George Fortescue Wilbraham, of Delamere House, near John Francis Buller, of Morvall, esq. Anthony Ben Steward, of Chapel House, esq. Sir Edw. Marwood Elton, of Widworthy Court, bt. Ogswood Hanbury, of Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, esq. Rich. Snead Cox, of Pembridge and Eaton Bishop, and of William Wilshire, of the Frythe in Welwyn, esq. Godfrey Charles Morgan, of Tredegar Park, esq. Sir Alexander Acland Hood, of St. Audries, bt. Thos. Smith, of Droxford, near Bishops Waltham, esq. The Hon. George John Cavendish, of Lyne Grove, Edward Smith Bigg, of the Hyde Slangham, esq. ELECTED BY THE LIVERY OF LONDON. London and Middlesex . (Warren Stormes Hale, esq., Ald. Anglesey Flintshire. Glamorganshire Merionethshire Radnorshire WALES. Richard Davies, of Bwlch-y-fen, esq. Thomas Wood the younger, of the Lodge, esq. Thomas Hughes, of Noyadd fawr, esq. John Jocelyn Ffoulkes, of Erriviatt, Denbigh, esq. Richard Penruddock Long, of Dolforgan, esq. Howell Gwynne Howell, of Llanelwedd Hall, esq. IRELAND. Andrew Mulholland, Springvale, Ballywater, esq. John W. Lynch, Renmore Park, Galway, esq. Edward Maguire, Gortoral House, Swanlinbar, esq. John Grace, Gracefield, Athy, esq. Daniel H. Irwin, Beechwood, Roscommon, esq. Hon. George S. Gough, Rathronan, Clonmel. Sir John M. Stewart, Ballygawley, bt. Sir Henry W. Barron, Barron's Court, Waterford, bt. Joseph Salkeld, Connore, Rathdrum, esq. |