EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF BANK POST BILLS.

Evening Post, Issue 78, 10 May 1865, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF BANK POST BILLS.

A sum of £\2OO in bank post bills was re covered in a very remarkable manner thr null Vfre promptitude and vigilance exhJbite.i by Mr. Pliiiip flnrnett [brother of Afr. B.nnptt, auctioneer, of this city ] of the firm of R-vne't and Co., bullion dealers and bankers, 27 South Castle-street, Liverpool. Betue«n twelve and one o'clock, a young man, who gave the name of "Nicho'as Keam% 16 Regent-street," entered Messrs. Bar.ißtt's establishment and presented three bank nost bills of ths Liverpool B-anch Bank of EnsUnd, London, for £1200, requesting gold in exoliang . Mr. Barnett questioned the young man, and not feeling satisfied with his explanation, as he wished to have all the money in gold, became suspici us as to the trans-ac-tion. In order to detain him he commenced counting out the gold, having first despatohod a messenger to Hie detective department for an efflcer. Detective-officer Lees was quickly in attendance, and some further questions were then put to Keane, who prevaricated in his statements. First, ho stated that he had received the notes from Ireland, but at norwards made a different statement to the el? ct tha(%e had got the bills from a person named Martin, in whose favour they were driwn. Fut; her interrogatories elicited from Kea.io an explanation Hiafi the person referred to, Felix Martin, died on tho previous day. Koane was then taken into custody. It was subsequently ascertained that Martin was lyinif dead at 16 Regent-street, in this town, and the bills had been abstracted from liis porson. The no^es being due, and no notice of iheir non-payment having been given to the bank, it would have been easy to get them cashed but for inquiries made by Mr B.imett. It is entirely owing to the care he exetuisyd that this large amount will be recovered, and apppropriated amongst the relatives of the deceased man Martin, who are understood to bo in indigent circumstances. Martin, it seems, finding himself ill, wrote to his nisfer and nephew, who reside in County Monuglun, Ireland, reques'iug them to come to Liverpool. They ariived here about four hours after liis death It is said that the deceased was in the habit of accommodating cattle dealers and others with loans at a considerable rate of interest, and by this means amassed a large sum of money. Although he chose low lodj<imjs, and had all the appearance of a nun in poor ciicumstances, yet, in fact he was a man of considerable wealth. From Measina it is reported that an eruption of Mount Etna took place during the night of January 31, after several shocks of carthqiuke. The lava was flowing ramMly, and several villages were in danger. The volunteer movement has been started in the Tyrol, with every prospect of a lar^e accession to the armed forces of Austria A regular enlistment of volunteer riflemen is being carried out amongst the mountaineers of the Tyrol, and it is estimated that at lua-t 40,000 men, all hardy sons of the hills, and tlib finest sh jis^n the worM, will be organic d under the command of officers drawn iro-ii the regular army, and will be armed with breeclt-loading nil s ot the very best manufacture. The enro'niQiit of thi'se new batt.ilioas will, it is thought, more than compensate for the contemplated reductions in the Austrian army. Tamburini, the brigand chief, has been taken by the French, and sent to St. Angelo. The Monde thus describes him—" Tatnbunai U the ideal of a brave brigand chief of Calabria, one of the handsomest men imaginable. Ha is dressed in a rich velvet uniform, with silver buttons and silken waistba'd. He wears a picturesque har, graced with flowing plumes — he loolc3 every mcli a prinuu." Then, to add to the romance, there is the question of a jeuno iille, "of fairy form and Classical features." A singular accident has occurred during a battue in the environs of Cracow. A young deer endeavoured to escape by leaping over the had of a gamekeeper, when its foot bdcame entangled in the man's dress. Both hu and the anim il came to the ground together, and the deer in its struggles to get free broke the collar bone and dislocated the arm of the keeper. It finally got away. The following appears in the advertising columns of the Selma (Alabama) Dispatcn: — '• One Million Dollars Wanted, to Have Pence by the Ist of Murch.— lf the citizens of the Southern Confederacy will furnish me with the cash, or good securities for the sum of 1,000,000 dollars, I will cause the lives of Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Andrew Johnston, to be taken by the l*t of March hpxC. This will give us peace, and satisfy the world that cruel tyrants cannot live in a ' laud of liberty.' If this is not accomplished, nothing will be claimed beyond the sum of 50,000 dollars in advance, which is supposed to be necessary to reach and slaughter the three villains. I will give myself 1000 dollars towards this patriotic purpose. Everyone wishing to contribute will address • X, r box X, Cahaba, Alabama. December 1, 1864" There are various stories afloat in Paris as -co the Mnntmorency trial. One is, that judgment whl not be delivered in the case, as a puerage 4Being the special privilege of a sovereign to bedtow on whomsoever he may please, the emperor having done so in this instance cannot be put in question. The result to M Talleyrand-Perigord is, that ho has received eightegii challenges from various members of the De Montmorency family, who, it may be mentioned are his own maternal relations— of which eighteen messages he has accepted three. These duels will come off as soon as he has sufficiently recovered from his wound. The strange part of the case is, that the Talleyrand- Ferigord family ai-e amoncthG most aristocratic of the Faubourg St JGfermain, and that iv reviving the

dukedom of De Montmorency in its favour the emperor wished to pay a compliment to one of the few families of that, exclusive quartiur who have shown sufficient common sense to Mlvanoe with the- ajic 'f he rage of the Faubourg was mauisied at the ballot for a new committee of the CVrde tie l'Union, the members of which club are chiefly descendants of ancienne noblesse. They returned the Duke de la Ronhefoucnlil by a majority of three against the Due de Valemay, father of the Duke da Montmorency, with whim his son had fought a few days previous. Tli to are 250,000 persons in the Austrian dominions entitled to the rank of nobles ; but this is nothing compared to Sicily. In that fortunate island there are 127 princes, 48 dukes, 140 marquises, 20,000 monks, and 19,000 nuns. No one ever attempted to count the number of barons, counts, and chevaliers. Grangegorman Church, in the metropolis of Ireland, was noted, even in the days of Dr. Whately, for High Church practices. A Co- respondent of the Dublin Daily Express describes the following sight, which he witj nessed at this church on the last night of the old year :—": — " Twelve clergymen of the Established Church assembled robed with all the vestments of their sacred office, each divine bearing a lighted candle. Having former! a procession they marched with much solemnity several times round the ouNide of the building, in the midnight air. When twelve o'clock atiuok they entered the church chanting hymns." The question whether a priest can lawfully marry by the law of France, which is said to have bi^en raised only twice in 60 years, has been decided in the negative by the Court of the First Instance of faris. The plaintiff, a priest, sought a decree of nullity oli his own marriage, on the ground that he was in holy howlers at the time of the contract. The wife, though cited, did not appear, so that , the other side of the question was not argued on this occasion. Counsel for the plaintiff made a very long speech, and his arguments were adopted by the judge-advocate. In the course of the argument the counsel said :-— "It is pretended that several of the apostles were married ; I admit that, but what I deny is that any of them married after they became aposiles." He contended that the celibacy of priests was nn ordinance of Christ himself, who on several occasions had pro- ] mined the kingdom of Heaven as a reward for celibacy. The court, without going into any of the theological questions, laid it down that by the organic law of t le concordat of Gerj minal year X, persons in holy orders were I subjected to the canons then prevailing in France, and were consequently under an mii c ipacity to marry ; and tnat this organic law had never ceased to be considered a law of ihe State, and that neither the Coda Napoleon nor the constitution of the present ' Empire contained Anything Inconsistent with it. On this ground a decree of nullity was j\rnnnunced. Another case in which M. Jules Favre his counsel is now pending, but in i Mis the question is raised in a different form, j ; An interdicted priest desires to be married, | , und the mayor refusing to perform the ceremony an action i* brought to compel him. The point of law is, however, essentially the same ; holy orders are admitted to be indelible, and the fact of a priest being unfrocked cannot in law affect the construction of the concordat relied on by the court of Paris, l