The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

MR. CHARLES MATHEWS IN THE

INSOLVENT COURT,

The celebrated comedian, Mr. Charles James Mathews,
came before John Addison, Esq., the County Court judge,
at the Insolvent Court, Lancaster, yesterday.
Mr. Mathews was arrested on the 4th of July last, at
Preston (at the suit of a creditor resident in Manchester)
when going to the theatre there to fulfil an engagement into
which he had entered. The arrest took place under rather
peculiar circumstances. Mr. Mathews was announced to
appear in one of his most popular characters Hopu, in the
comedy of " Married for Money," and the house was
unusually crowded with a select and fashionable audience.
The hour for the commencement of the performance having
passed, the audience became impatient, and at length the
manager (Mr. Egan) came forward, and stated that circum-
stances had taken place which prevented Mr. Mathews's
appearance, and that in consequence another performance
would be substituted, and that any lady or gentleman- who
choose, could have their money returned. The announce-
ment, as might have been expected, caused mach chagrin
and disappointment. There was instantly a great rush from
the theatre, and in a few minutes " a beggarly account of
empty boxes" was realised. •
Mr. Mathews, on appearing in court, looked very much
haggard and careworn, and few will saw him would have
imagined him to be the same individual who, in the mimic
scene, has the power of keeping an audience for hours in
uninterrupted laughter and good humour.
The following was Mr. Mathews' description, as it
appeared on the face of the schedule :—" Charles James
Mathews, formerly of Gore Lodge, Old Brompton, in the
County of Middlesex, comedian, and lessee of the Lyceum
Theatre, in the Strand, in the same county. Then of Gore
Lodge, Fulham, in the county aforesaid, comedian, and a
part of the time lessee of the Lyceum Theatre, aforesaid, and
other parts of the time comedian only, and late of the
Wellington Hotel, Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
comedian, and during the whole time occasionally fulSlling
engagements in various counties in England, and also in
Scotland."
Mr. Sowler and Mr. M'Oubrey appeared in support of
the insolvent, and Mr. Harbin, solicitor, of London,
appeared on behalf of Mr. Alcroft, of London.
According to the statement iu the balayce sheet, his
liabilities amounted to £9,781, and his assefs to nil, com-
mencing in June, 1854, and ending in the spring of the
present year

It was alleged on the part of the insolvent, that his
insolvency ;lad arisen almost wholly from his being misled
by friends as to a sum of money to be presented to him by
way of capital to enable him to resume the lesseeship of the
Lyeenm Theatre. The facts are best set forth in the entry
in the balance sheet, dated June, 1854, and are as
follows :

"At this time a number of my friends induced me, by
the representation that they would present me with a
sum of £3,000, as capital to commence with, provided I
obtained a first-class certificate under my bankruptcy,
which was afterwards awarded to me, again to take the
Lyceum Theatre, and which I accordingly agreed to
do, but the proprietor, declining to wait the result of
the promised subscription, and refusing to grant a
lease of the theatre without I paid a deposit of about
£1,200 down, or gave security for the same, Mr.
Allcroft volunteered to become that security to the
amount of £7OO or thereabouts towards the required
deposit, I finding a sum of .aOO to complete it. In
November following I paid to Mr. Arnold, the pro-
prietor of the Lyceum Theatre, as such deposit, a snm
of £1,200, consisting of the £7OO guaranteed by Mr.
Allcroft, and the remaining £5OO by myself, this latter
sum having been advanced me on engagements that I
entered into in the provinces." Then, under date of Nov.

...
in the same year, he says:—" In consequence of the non-
presentation of the sum of £3OOO, and having entered into
engagements which I could not rescind, as well as having
paid the said sum of £1,200, I found myself with the
theatre, and company of performers, without the means of
carrying it on without upital, yet unable to withdraw from
the engagements or recover the deposit paid. It was there-
fore necessary to obtain a further sum to enable me to open
the theatre. Through the a'sistance of Mr. Allcroft, the
Commercial Rank, Lothbury, were induced to advance me
a sum of £5OO. I also received loans from various parties,
and from bills being discounted, £3,500. I also revived
in receipts from the theatre, £5,838 19s 10d." The
balance sheet has also the following entries :—" From
Noven-ber to March, 1854-5, I paid tor rent of theatre,
salaries, and incidental expenses, £7,938 18s 4d. I also
repaid to Mr. Al'croft for advances made me (it being
rurreed that he should receive the whole of the prlccca3
from the gallery, and sixpence out of every payment for
entrance into the pit) £1,221 3s. 5d." In March, 18155,
there is the following entry : " About this time, finding
that I was only running mrself more deeply in debt
daily, I resolved to close the theatre, considering it perfectly
useless to carry it on any further." His immense pro-
fessional earnings are shown by the following entry :
Between these dates, March 1855 to July 1856) 1
received from my profession as comedian, about
£10,330." It was also stated on behalf of the insol-
vent that in order to enable him to obtain other monies,
he was induced to renew debts which otherwise

were cancelled by his bankruptcy, viz :—Mr. Woolf,
£5O, Mr. Aleroft, about £4,000, Mr. Roberts, £BO,
Mr. Pratt, £lOO, and Mr. Wyatt, £5OO. The in-
solvent in his schedule, also attributed his difficulties
to a considerable extent, to his wife's illness, stating
that the medical expenses alone amounted to £4OO in
two years, and, the loss of her services during that period
to at least £5,000.

Mr. Harbin, solicitor, of London, said he was attending
on behalf of Mr. Allcroft, who, unfortunately, was Mr.
Mathews' largest creditor.
The Ju3ge : Is any other gentleman instructed to appear ?
No answer.

The Judge (to Mr. Harbin) : Do you ask any question ?
Mr. Harbin : The only observation I wish to make is
that your Honour should order that a portion of the large
salary, not at present, certainly, but which shortly the in-
solvent will be in possession of, should be applied in
liquidation of his liabilities.

The Judge : That is beyond my power, and it would also
be inconsistent with the insolvent laws to do so, as those laws
do not give the power to tax a man's future exertions. If
those exertions produce sufficient to pay his creditors, then
let the creditors appeal to the insolvent court in the matter.
Mr. Harbin : Well,' but your Honour might recom-
mend it.

Mr. Sowler said that the insolvent's difficulties had arisen
from the renewal of previous debts, and he would not recom.
mend him to enter into any arrangement with the opposing
creditor. He had already renewed debts nearly to the
amount of £5,000 since his late bankruptcy.
Mr. Harbin said that that was not quite correct, as
regarded his client's debt.
Mr. Sowler remarked that he believed Mr. Allcroft was
then under confinement.

Mr. Harbin : Not at present.
Mr. Sowler hoped that before Mr. Mathews was
discharged from that court, he (Mr. Sowler) might
advise him to be cautious how he renewed debts. He had
renewed debts under his bankruptcy, which he was led to
suppose he was bound in honour to do, although not bound
in law.
After some farther conversation between Mr. Harbin and
Mr. Sowler,
Mr. Sowler remarked that no one could have behaved
more handsomely generally towards Mr. Mathews than Mr.
Allcroft had done.
The Judge : Do you ask any further questions ?
Mr. Harbin : No. I have had the pleasure of knowing
Mr. Mathews for a considerable period, and am well
acquainted with his circumstances, and therefore I have no
further observations to make.

His Honour, after carefully going through the schedule,
addressed the insolvent as follows :—Your debts are con-
siderably more than is usual with parties coming before
this court. One of them is for £5,000, but a considerable
number of them are old debts which you have renewed.
You allege that your insolvency is owing to an unfortunate
contract into which you entered in taking the Lyceum
Theatre, which did not answer. In looking through your
schedule, I see no reason to believe that that is net the
case. I cannot place my finger on anything in your schedule
to call for a remand from this court, and as you are not
opposed by any creditor I do not see why I should interfere
to prevent your discharge. There are some peculiar cir-
cumstances in your case. You have been a bankrupt, and
received a first class certificate, and you have also twice
passed through the insolvent court. In the case of an
ordinary trader, I should think that these circumstances
would require a cautious investigation on my part before
granting an immediate discharge, but a person in your
profession is obliged to incur considerable risk, and your
obligations are contracted with that understanding, and the
knowledge on the part of those that deal with you, that
your profession is au uncertain one, and your creditors
seem to think so by their non-appearance here to-day. You
may, therefore, be discharged.

the. Joint Stock Companies' Registration Act, showed that
there had been established under that act 28 companies.
Or these 12 had already been disselved ; and, taking the
whole of the accounts which had been returned to the
government in an, intellieible shape, bath good and bad,
it appeared that about 97 per cent: of the receipts had
been expended in losses and charges before any
dividend had been declared. Now, he did not know
whether many of the gentlemen present had seen
the very remarkable statement which appeared in the
London Times, of the 24th of hot month—a statement com-
piled. From that statement some very striking results
were shown. Out of nine offices, whose names were given,
only three of them—of which he was very glad to see that
the Royal Insurance Company was one—showed any
surplus of receipts, after paying all expenditure, applicable
to the payment of dividend. Of the remaining six cases,
the expenditure had been very largely in excess of the
receipts. This, he thought the gentlemen present would
agree with him, was a very remarkable statement, and one
for which he thought he was justified in supposing many of
them were scarcely prepared. It also, he thought, showed
abundantly that very great care, circumspection, and
caution, were necessary in the management of insurance
business. With that care and caution which the company
had hitherto used, and which, he trusted, they would
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proprietor might wish to ask, and he had now to move that
the report just read be adopted, printed, and circulated
among the shareholders.
Mr: Alderman S. Holme said he had great pleasure in
seconding that resolution, as he had in seconding a similar
resolution upon a former occasion. The report itself had
gone so fully into all the details, and the establishment of
the company, that it really left very little for him .o say.
There were two passages in that report, which had just
been put into his hand, to which he looked with great
pleasure. One was, that the company had not only yielded
a liberal dividend on the capital employed, but afforded as
annual addition of more or less importance to the reserved
fund ; and the second was that in which the directors stated
that "they have never made a report of the affairs of the
company with a clearer conviction that its statements will
give entire satisfaction to the proprietors, and full confidence
to the public." Although he would not allude to the large
dividend, which, including with it the bonus, would amount
to a large per tentage upon the paid up capital of the com-
pany—for that did not come within the sphere of the
resolution he had the honour of seconding—yet he should
express his conviction that the office was placed upon so
durable a basis, that with the prudent management to
which the chairman alluded, it must go on increasingly
prosperous. He was in hopes that those great losses which
sometimes used to swamp the whole premiums of years, in
whole streets of warehouses being consumed in their
mercantile towns, would not occur again, in consequence of
the better construction of mercantile buildings, and the
operations of the act under which those buildings were now
erected. Allusions had been made to the American
business, and he was glad to know that it had been that
year a favourable one. He ventured to say last year, that
although the account might not be very favourable with
reference to America, yet they should not, in an insurance
company especially, expect that they were to have prosperity
every year, but that they must take an average number of
years, and upon that average number calculate the average
prosperity of the company. It was a great satisfaction to
reflect, on seeing the report, that the accounts being made
up to the end of last year the company must be in a position,
and doubtless had good grounds for making the remark they
made at the end of their report, because half the current
year having elapsed, they of course must know the position
their accounts were in for that period. The parliamentary
returns to which the chairman had alluded he had
read, as doubtless every person who had an interest
in these companies had done, with very great
pleasure. They were documents which were unmistakeable.
They showed, at all events, that in a eampany like that
there could be nothing like a "cooking" of the accounts, and
they showed a degree of prosperity on which they must all
look with great gratification. He apprehended that in
mercantile or any other business a men who lost £5,000
one year, and gained £lO,OOO the next, would take an
average of three years, and be satisfied with the result.
Some gentlemen, in conversation with him last year, having
expressed a dread of the American business, he then ven-
tured to ask them to forego their fears for another year,
until they had had an opportunity of testing the question ;
and he was glad to see, by the report he held in his hand,
that that department last year had been a profitable one to
a very considerable extent. With reference to the life
department, it was also pleasing to see the increase of the
number of policies, of sums assured, and of premiums which
had been paid ; and when the principle became better
known, he doubted not that the business cf an office like
that, established now in public estimation, upon such a
durable basis, would go on increasingly in a similar ratio to
that which the directors had been enabled to show to the pro-
prietary that year. He believed that office was now established
upon a durable basis, and he had the gratification of
knowing that, like all institutions which were destined to
go on increasingly prosperous—its progress had been
gradual to some extent. It was true many might call its
progress rapid, but he considered it, for an insurance
company, only securely gradual. It had been now in
existence eleven years. A transient and brilliant prosperity
was not, in his mind, to be compared with moderate profits
and security, because experience bad shewn him that in all
cases where enormous profits had been realised, an
enormous dividends paid, it had been more or less at risk
and hazard—and he confessed himself old fashioned enough
to believe that to go on slowly but solidly and surely, not
like the transient dream he had alluded to, was the best
security for the continued prosperity, of the company, and
for the directors being enabled to (-rive that amount of
dividend which they were able faithfully and honestly to
declare that day. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Holme concluded by
seconding the resolution.

' The Chairman then proposed that a dividend of 3s per
share, and a bonus of 2s p=r share be declared, both free of
income-tax, and observed that the extent of their profits
during the past year, fully justified them in dividing that
sum—in the first department, the profits on the British
branch being £6,510, while on the American branch, they
reached the sum of £18,533. That, however, he should
observe, did not quite clear what they had written off from
the American business in previous years, but was within
£2,000 or £3,000 of it. During the present half-year, the
American business had not gone on quite as well, there
being only a profit of £2,000 after deducting all the losses
they had heard of up to the present period. But in re-
gard to the dividend and bonus, they proposed to divide
the money in this way :—The dividend and bonus would
both amount to £23,176 ss, and income-tax to £1,545 is
Bd. They were engaged in making some necessary altera-
tions on their business premises in Lombard-street, London,
which would cost some £4,000, and that sum they proposed
to take not from the capital of the company, but from the
net profits of the year. They then proposed to write off
£2,000 against the building in Liverpool, which now
standing at £17,000, would then stand at £15,000, a sum
at which the directors considered they might be allowed to
remain. Deducting all these amounts, there would then
remain £12,127 19s I Id, which they proposed to carry to
the reserve fund. It was stated in the report of last year,
that fund then stood at £68,000, and with the reserve now
to be carried over to it, would amount to £BO,OOO ; but as
it was the opinion of persons well-informed in such matters,
that the reserve should at least amount to one year's
premiums, he trusted that it would soon swell up to that
figure, and that it would equal their annual premiums,
which now stood at £130,000. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Bramley-Moore: M.P., seconded the motion. He
observed that the report so fully explained the position of
the company, that his duty was a very simple one, and in
fact he rose merely for the purpose of identifying himself
with it, and also with the statements which had fallen from
the Chairman.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.
The Chairman then moved that the retiring directors,
whose names will he found in the report, be re-elected.
Mr. Charles Mosley seconded the motion. He considered
that the company had been conducted to its present
favourable position by the gentlemen who had hitherto the
management of its affairs, and he trusted that it would not
be considered ungracious on his part, or in any way depre-
ciatory of their services, if he for a moment departed from
the resolution, to call the attention of the meeting to the
propriety of occasionally introducing new blood into the
direction. He would remind them that when a direction
continued for a lengthened period, they became wedded to
peculiar opinions and peculiar views, and that circumstance
frequently marred the progress of the concern. He did not
mean to imply that this had been the effect in this instance,
but it was well to remember the tendency of such a system,
and occasionally to introduce new men into the direction,
whose influence and position would be advantageous to the
company,

The motion was unanimously adopted.
Mr. William Titherington and Mr. John Dickenson, were
re-elected auditors.
On the motion of Mr. David Lamb, seconded by Mr. W.
Titherington, thanks were unanimously voted to the
directors imacknowiedgment of their services.
The Chairman moved that the thanks of the meeting be
also given to the directors and secretary of the London
branch, and also to the local board at New York,
Mr. George Horsfall seconded the motion, and in doing
so, took the opportunity to say, that he fully concurred in
the remarks whichohad fallen from Mr. Mosley, as to the
necessity of introducing new blood into the directors. He
could assure them, that since he had been a member of the
board, it had been the study of the directors to look for
such men who, from their position and connection, would
on the direction lead to an increase of the business of the
company,

The motion was unanimously adopted,
The Chairman then moved that the special thanks of the
maeting be given to the manager, Mr. Dove, of whose
services he could not speak too highly, and also to Mr.
Gray, the secretary, and the other officers of the company.
Mr. Mosley begged to be allowed to second the motion,
and observed, that from his intercourse with Mr. Dove, he

was convinced of his ability, and of his peculiar fitness for
the important position which he held. As for his courtesy
and urbanity, they were known to all. (Hear, hear.)
The motion was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Dove, in acknowledging the compliment, referred t(t
the government returns of insurance companies, and
observed, that whenever the Press would more ful'y analyse
them, it would be found, that not only in the fire
branch, but also in the life branch, the Royal
Insurance Company maintained the position not only in
success, hut in the moderate expenses with which it carried
on that business, The amount of their expenses, including
their preliminary expenses, did not exceed 15 per cent. ;
but when the government returns were fully analysed, it
would be found that the expenses of other c,mpanies varied
from 40 per cent, to 80 per cent., and that in some
instances, he was sorry to say, they had amounted from 200
per cent. to 400 per cent., from the time of their establish-
ment. The registration of the accounts of insurance
companies, under the authority of government, and subse-
quent publication, were destined to do much (rood. The
public were beginning to understand them, an I would be
able to tell how a life company stood ; and, henceforward,
he expected that no life insurance company, whose
expenses bore a large proportion to its premiums, would
command either their support or confidence. In conclusion,
he mentioned that within the last month the increase of
their business exceeded that of any other month in the
history of the company.
The meeting then separated.

FRIGHTFUL SUFFERINGS OF EMIGRANTS

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DEATHS.

The T, tie Californian gives the following account of the
dreadful sufferings endured by the passengers who left New
York in April last for California, by way of Nicaragua :
The steamer Oriz tba left New York on the Bth of April,
with some five hundred passengers for California, by way of
Nicaragua. On the 16th she arrived at San Juan, and the
passengers disembarked. By means of open boats they
started up the river, during a soaking rain. The exposure
caused them much suffering. When they arrived at Castilla
they were informed that the transit across the country was
closed ; and after two days' delay, during which they were
constantly exposed to the weather, they were told that if
they chose they could return to New York ; but only fifteen
minutes were allowed them; and as they were compelled to
abandon their baggage in case they concluded to go bick
three hundred of the passengers determined to push on.
They were taken to Granada, where they were detained a
month, notwithstanding that an epidemic was prevailing
there. Here the most fearful disease commenced to rage
among them. In four weeks seventy-nine of the three
hundred were buried. During this time they suffered every
privation—many were without means, and those who had
money were compelled to put up with extortion and robbery
it every hand. On the 20th of May, in the evening, news
reached Granada of the arrival of the Sierra Nevada at San
Juan del Sur, and three hours were given the surviving
passengers, sick and well, to get on board the Lake steamer.
At the time it was pouring rain and pitch dark. The sick
were carried down in the best manner possible. all getting
thoroughly drenched. Upon reaching the landing of the
Lake steamer they were kept in the rain until all had exhi-
bited their tickets, which detained them several hours.
Finally all were crowded on board, but before morning three
of the sick died and were sent on shore. On the Lake
steamer the scene is described as having been dreadful. The
passengers were crowded together like sheep in a penn.
There was scarcely room for the sick to lie down. Fur
nineteen hours tl.ey were thus confined, suffering every tor-
ture of body and of mind ' • several poor wretches gave up
the ghost on the boat, and others died while attempting the
journey from the Lake to San Juan. After they embarked
in the Sierra Nevada the sickness broke out again, and
during the passage from San Juan to this port thirty-three
deaths occurred. The sufferings on board the Sierra Nevada
beggar all description The officers of the steamer did all
in their power to alleviate their suffering., but that was
little. No time was last in disposing of the dead, and the
body was hardly allowed to get cold before it was thrown
overboard. The safety of the living demanded that there
should be no unnecessary detention of the dead. The Sierra
Nevada arrived at San Francisc ) on the 6th of June.

THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPT TO MURDER

A CLERGYMAN

At the Warwick Assizes, on Thursday, held before Mr.
Justice Cresswell, the Rev. Patrick King, aged 37, curate of
Aston Juxta, Birmingham, was charged with having, at
Lapworth, on the 30th of May, unlawfully and feloniously
attempted to drown and suff.)cate one Arthur Dawson, with
intent then and there feloniously, wilfully, and with malice
aforethought, the said Arthur Dawson to kill and murder.
Mr. Bittleston was for the prosecution, and Mr. O'Brien
for the defence:

Mr. Bittleston commented upon the lamentable nature of
the case, made more so by the circumstance of the person
charged being a clergyman, and he urged them to form their
judgment entirely upon the evidence given, dismissing any
prepossessions from their minds.
Walter Wood said, lam a farm servant at Lapworth. I
found a child by the side of a road, about eighty yards
from my master's house. It was near a pit with water in
it. I afterwards pointed out to Mr. J. Wild and Mr.
Eborall the exact spot where I found the child. It was on
a bank sloping down to the water. There is a cart hovel
at the top of the slope. It was about•five o'clock. I fetched
Eliza Haddleton, a fellow servant. We looked to see if we
could find anybody, but did not. We fetched the young
mistress, and then Haddleton took away the child. It was
lying on its back, sideways, towards the water.
Cross-examined: I made no mark when I found the
child.

By the Judge : The hank was grass, rather long. It had
not moved from where I first saw it when I went back with
Eliza Iladdleton.

Eliza Haddleton : I am a fellow servant of last witness.
On the afternoon of the 30th of May my attention was called
to a child by the last witness. It was on a hank sloping
towards the water. I afterwards pointed out the place as
near as I could. I took the child away, after telling the
mistress. Soon afterwards I gave it to Sarah Gilks.
By the Judge: The road leads to Lownsomford. A great
many people go that way. My master has a large farm
there, and four servants.
Sarah Gilks : lam wife of Abel Gilks, of Lapworth. I
went to Mr, King's, of Lapworth, on the afternoon of
the 30th of May, I reeeived a baby, which appeared
unwell.

James Wild, constable, Solihull, said—On the 24th of
June last I went to the house of Mr. Bing, of Lapworth,
and thence to the place pointed out by Wood and Haddle-
ton. It is about ninety odd yards from the house. I
measured the distance from the spot pointed out, to the
edge of the water. It was about three feet seven. In my
lodgment the incline was about a foot. The body was
fcund about eight feet from the track of wheels. It was about
five feet from the hovel. It was short grass when I saw it.
I measured the depth of the pond. It was eleven inches at
the edge of the water, and got gradually deeper till it was
seven feet.

By the Judge : The slope continued upwards as well as
downward,

Sarah Gilks recalled : I afterwards gaVe the child to the
governor of the workhouse.

The Judge spoke to Mr. Bittleston, who intimated that
he did not think the full charge could be sustained.
His Lordship then observed to the jury that the intention
to murder by drowning appeared out of the question by the
description. Whatever were the other facts of the ease, it
was essential to make out that whoever put that child upon
the bank did so for the purpose of its rolling into the water.
The slope, it appeared, was only one foot, and it certainly
seemed that a child not more than a month old would be
incapable of struggling sufficiently to get into the water.
It would not be safe for them to say that the placing such
a child in that position brought the prisoner within the
!boas of the act of Parliament, He 'should, therefore,
ommend them to acquit him.
The jury accordingly found a verdict of not guilty.
The prisoner then pleaded guilty to a common assault.
His Lordship said that in so serious a matter he should
take time to consider what sentence should be passed.

THE COURT-MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT J. F. DOUGAL.—
Lieutenant Dougal, 90th Highland Borderers Stirling.
Militia, who was lately sentenced by a general court-
martial, held at Edinburgh Castle, to be cashiered, has, in
consideration of his youth and inexperience; received her
Majesty's gracious pardon.
GALLANT ACT OF AN OFFICER OF THE PE➢iBROKE.-
Shortly after leaving Bermuda, in the middle watch, a
seaman fell overboard. The second master, Mr. Scudamore,
without a moment's hesitation and in the darkness of the
night, instantly plunged into the sea, and held the drowning
man up until further assistance was rendered.

SALE OF MR. MARE'S WORKS AT BLACRWALL.—The
freehold and leasehold property, with fixed plant and
machinery, forming the iron ship-building 'works of Mr.
Mare, at Blackwall, was disposed of by public auction, on
Wednesday, at the Auction Mart, under an order in bank-
ruptcy. It was stated that the property cost Mr. Mare
£160,000. The attendance was very nomerous. There
was only one bid, £55.000, from Mr. Rolt, M.P., to whom
the property was knocked down.
DISASTER TO HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-TRANSPORT PEASE-
vERANcher E,—Her Majesty's steam-ship Perseverance,
in
leaving moorings, under the Coradino Heights, at
about
a.m , on the 21st July, on departure for England, with
410 invalids from the East, Shaved the shores too closely
and ran bow on to Isola, or Senglea Point, where she con-
tinued hard and fast on the departure of the mail at noon
on 23rd, notwithstanding the discharge of her troops, stores,
fuele, water, &c., and the united steam force and power of
th Magicienne, Dragon, Argo, and Sheerwater, to move
her. A number of cables, hawsers, and warps have been
parted in the attempt. Serious injury cannot, it is feared,
but have been sustained in her bottom and keel, although
the rocks are by no means rugged.