The Press.
London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

Pti anh Volta.

THE AFFAIRS OF MESSRS. PRINCE, formerly the
proprietors of the " Princes Club" have been in-
vestigated at the Bankruptcy Court. On Wednesday
the balance-sheet was exhibited, extending from the
29th September, 1850, to the date of the bankruptcy,
2:2nd August last. The principal items are the fol-
lowing :—To creditors, 17,3981.; to ditto holding se.
curity, 13,773/. ; capital 5901; profits, 7,935/. By debts
estimated to realise 1,700/. ; debts assigned, 2,7891.;
cash at banker's, 61. 15s. 2d. ; property, 5551.; ditto held
by creditors, 17,5771. ; interest and discount, 4,3191.;
law charges, 091)1.; trade expenses, 11,0021. ; house
and personal ditto, 3,200/. ; drawn out by George
I'rince, 5001.; by James Prince, 500/. ; losses, 1,682/.
After some controversy among the lawyers engaged
the bankrupt's examination was adjourned.
THE PROCEEDINGS arising out of the late appre-
hension of 114 persons at the Rising Sun public-
house, Long-acre, were resumed on Tuesday at
Bow-street Police Court, by Mr. Jardine. The num-
ber of defendants had been reduced to about seventy
by the discharge of those who were not found in the
rooms devoted to betting purposes. The others
were all set at liberty upon their own personal re-
cognisances, with the exception of Ryan, the waiter,
who was required to find bail. The magistrates now
inquired whether all or any of the present defendants
could be distinctly shown to have been engaged in
betting when taken into custody :

Superintendent Pearce was under the impression that all
persons present, whether so engaged or not, wri a liable.
Mr. JARDINE presumed that a distinction must be drawn be.
tween the persons taking part in the betting and mere spectators,
such • distinction as was generally observed In proceedings
against unlicensed theatres, &c. The managers on such occasions
were the persons chiefly responsible.
Mr. HUDDLESTON said it never was intended by the Legislature
that mere betting in a room should come within the provisions
of the act for the suppression of batting-shops, for in that ease
the establishment or Mr. Tattersall and many of the London
clubs would he eqeally liable. The language of its promoters and
the preamble of the bill itself clearly proved that the measure was
designed to suppress those offices in which the owner was in the
habit of keeping a sort of bank, advancing or receiving money
upon racing events, or similar contingencies, to or from persons
who assembled there for the purpose of betting. The defendants
in this case were assembled together, taking refreshments, end
betting among themselves. Neither Mr. Morbey the landlord,
nor any other person connected with his house took any part in
the betting, either by holding staked or otherwise, and therefore
the defendants were in exactly the same position as the Arian).
cratio frequenters of Tattersall's.
All the defendants were ultimately discharged, with
the exception of Ryan, the waiter, who was tined 50L.,
or three months' imprisonment.

Tar. TEMPLE GARDENS now present one of the
finest floral exhibitions. The chrysanthemum, so
acceptable as an autumn flower, is here cultivated
with the greatest care and skill. Being what may
he termed a coarse-breathing plant, it is able to con-
tend against the smoke and dust with which the
atmosphere in the City is charged ; and in these
gardens may be seen every variety of colour and
size of which the flower seems capable, from pure
white to the deepest red, and from the size of a
button to that of a common cauliflower.
THE following has been published as a list of the
new Sewers' Commission for the metropolis
Richard Jebb, Esq. (chairman), Sir John Villiers
Shelley, Bart., Thomas Hawes, Esq., Lawrence Red-
head, Esq., O. Spencer Smith, Esq., Augustin Sayer,
Esq., M.D., James Pascall, Esq., George Offer, Esq.,
Francis Chalmers, Esq., John Thwaites, Esq.,
William Evans, Esq., John Wade, Esq., Cutbbett
William Johnson, Esq., Joseph Hodgson, Esq.,
Frederick Oldfleld Ward, Esq., Waller Augustus
Lewis, M.D. Mr. Jebb, the chairman, with Mr.
Hawes, Mr. Redhead, and Mr. Spencer Smith, were
members of the late commission ; Sir John Shelley,
Dr. Sayer, and Messrs. Pascall, Offer, Chalmers,
Thwaites, Evans, and Wade, have been nominated
by the representatives of the metropolitan con-
stituencies ; while Messrs. Johnson, Hodpen,
Ward, and Dr. Lewis, are selected by the Home-
office.
MR. Rysitrit, author of " Modern Painters," pm
on Saturday the first of a course of lectures, ex
decorative colour and design, as appli
' ornament, and to the decoration
of books, at the Architectural Museum,
The class to whom the lecture was
particularly addressed was the workmen wbo
- habit of executing ornamental designs
especially letterings) on walls, shop fronts,
was a considerable body of workmen,
- engaged in