The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN. iii:O4DON. FRIDAY EvENING, AUGUST Si, IBSS,

THIS DAY'S NEWS

LA IV INTELLIGENCE.-(TBIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Bef ,re Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
IN RE MRS. ELIZABETH MARY MULLER.

This was a meeting for last examination. The bank-
rupt was described as of 31, Castle-street, East Oxford-
street, picture dealer.

The balance-sheet commenced Sept., 1853, and ended
July, 1855, and showed debtor to creditors unsecured
1241. 15s. 2d.; do. holding security, 6101. 10s.; liabilities,
451. ; profits, 76/245. 4d. ; surplus at her husband's death,
3,8411. 16s. 6d. ; creditors by property surrendered to as-
assignees' estimated value, 2001. ; by property, with cre-
ditors' estimated value, 2,8401.65. ; repairs, 611. ; losses,
1,222/. ; trade expenses, 501. ; interest, 301. ; domestic
expenses, 250/. ; liabilities contra, 451.
The losses consisted of the difference between the
estimated value of certain pictures, cabine te, &c., and
the amount they were sold for. The furniture and cabi-
nets possessed by her late husband, valued at 1, 000/.,
had been sold for 2281.

The bankrupt passed her examination.
IN RE THOMAS TOYNBEE.

This was a meeting for last examination. The bank-
rupt was described as a horse-dealer, residing at Slough.
The balance-sheet commenced Sept., 1853, and ended
July, 1855, and showed to creditors, unsecured, 2,1821.
13s. 11d. ; do. bolding security, 1501. ; profits on trad-
ing, 1,9951. 109. 4d. ; amount received from wife's pro
perty, 3001. ; credits by deficiency, 1871. 17s. lld.
debts doubtful, 50/. 12s. ; bad, 1451. ; security in hands
of creditors, 267/. 108.; property to be given up 1741.
15s. 6d. ; losses, 4291. 4s. lid. ; trade expenses, 1,5941.
15s. sd. ; law costs, 4521. lls. 6d. ; cash received, 311.
103. ; interest, 31. 7s. 9d. ; domestic and personal ex-
penses, 9351. Os. Sd. ; E. Toynbee, 3551.175. 9d.
Mr. Chidley supported the bankrupt.

Mr. For I (of no gerson and Ford) appeared for the
assignees, and asked for an explanation of a bill of sale
given by the bankrupt for 1001.
The bankrupt ultimately passed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

ROBBERY. —James Mayne, an omnibus-driver, re-
manded from Wednesday last, charged with having the
halves of five 51. notes in his possession, supposed to
have been stolen, was again placed at the bar before Sir
Robert Carden.

On the 18th inst., Mr. Hatton, grocer, of Beacons-
field, gave the prisoner, who drove the omnibus between
that place and Slough, a sealed letter, containing the
halves of the notes in question, addressed to Mr. James
Crook, Slough, with five sovereigns in gold and silver,
requesting him to be particular and give both to the
person to whom the letter was addressed as soon as
possible. Prosecutor said to him, "Take care of it,',
and prisoner replied, " I won't run away for 5/." On his
return in the evening he told prosecutor he had delivered
the letter and money to the lady, the gentleman being from
home. Prosecutor asked him his charge and he replied
ls. which he paid him. On the following Monday he
received a letter from Mr. Crook, stating he had not
received the money. He then made inquiry for the
prisoner, but he heard nothing of him till he received a
communication from the police. The prisoner formerly
lived at the hotel at Slough which induced witness to
trust him with the money believing him to be a re spec-
table man.

The prisoner was ordered to be taken before a county
magistrate for examination and commitment.
IMPORTANT QUESTION AFFECTING THE JEWISH
MODE OF SLAUGHTERING CATTLE.—On the Ifith of
August an application was made by Mr. Foster,
Secretary to the Society for the prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, to Sir Robert Carden for a summons against
Yankoff Cohen and Thomas Reynolds for cruelty to a
bullock. The charge was not that of specific cruelty to
this bullock, but one affecting the Jewish law of killing
their cattle. A summons was accordingly granted, re-
turnable to-day, wben Mr. Foster and his witnesses at-
tended to enter on the case.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

Mr. Sampson Samuels, who appeared for the defen-
dants, applied for a postponement of the case, in conse-
quence of the charge being one affecting the religious
rights of the Jews, which could not well be entered into
in a court of justice. In the meantime the question
would be considered by the Jews ; and if what was com-

plained of could be prevented, they would do so ; but
if not, they would defend the case.
The hearing was adjourned to the sth October.

BOW-STREET.

CORN EXCHANGE.

THE WATCH ROBBERY IN THE STRAND.

This morning the two men, nam ed Joseph Levy, and
George Purser, a waiter out of employ, were placed at
the bar for further examination, ch arged with being in
possession of a portion of the stolen property.
It will be recollected that at th 9 last examination,
when the man Purser was placed at the bar, that he
was apprehended at the shop of Mr. Tomlinson, a pawn-
broker, pledging a watch from vbi ch the name of
Milleret was erased. The account gi yen by Purser of how
the watch came in possession of tb e prisoner was that
while he was in the shop of a man named Charlton, in
Holy well-street, a man whom he di d know came in and
offered him half a crown if he would go and pawn the
watch for him, and that the priso aers were remanded
for the production of the man Ch arlton, who had ab-
sconded.

Inspector Mackenzie said that have had not yet been
able to discover the retreat of Charlton, and he must
therefore ask the magistrate for another remand.
An application was here made for the admission of
Purser to bail.

The present week'.l arrivals of English wheat, coastwise,
have bee❑ very limited, viz., 610 quarters. By land car-
riage, fresh up to-day, the receipts were limited, and the
show of samples was small. Although the demand was
by no means brisk, a aeady business was transacted, at
fully Monday's advance in the quotations.
The imports of fereign wheat have been limited, and
the supply of that grain on offer was comparatively small.
Holders were very firm, and Monday's currency was well
supported. Floating cargoes were tolerably firm.
The few samples of barley in the market realised ex
trem e rates.

Malt was quite as dear as on Monday.
Good fresh oats were rather dearer, and inferior parcels
ruled steady.
Beans, peas, and flour were firm.
ARRITALS THIS WEEK.
Barley. ( Malt.
74)

Wheat.
610

Oats. Flour
G9O
1,970
6,630
I,B6osck
,
I I 2,120brs

Mr. Henry eaid that at preset rt he must decline
taking bail, but if the case was n of complete by next
week he would then think of it.

The prisoners were then ordered. to be brought up
again this day week.

MR. E. T. SMITH AND HIS AFRI MAN TWINS.-It will
be recollected that Mr. E. T. Smit t, the lessee of Drury-
lane Theatre, some days ago mac le an application for
advice as to the best means to 6 adopted to recover
the possession of two African chil Idren that he alleged
bad been clandestinely removed from the custody of
their guardians. The children in question were two
little negro girls, united in a similar manner to that of
the Siamese Twins.

SPIRIT OF THE t ÜBLIC JUURIVALS.

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This afternoon Mr. Smith wait ed upon 111 r. Henry,
to inform him that in Scotland he had obtained posses-
sion of the children, and thinkin ib ho (the worthy ma-
gistrate) would like to see them he had taken the
liberty of bringing them into court for his inspection.
The children were here carried in to court enveloped in
a large carpet, which upon being removed discovered
two little negro children, appare qtly about five years
old, dressed in amber coloured f rocks and blue satin
bonnets. Upon a portion of the fress being removed,
the cause of union was plainly visible. Mr. Smith then
told one of the children to sing a s ong to the gentlemen,
upon which she began singing the negro ditty of "Oh,
Susannah, don't you cry for me. " She had scarcely
commenced her song when the oth, sr child began singing
the same melody, which seamed greatly to amuse the
worthy magistrate, as it di I the ft sw persons who hap-
pened to be in court., Upot being again re-covered with
the carpet, the magistrate ast• ed i f that was the usual
way of travelling ?

( From the Times of this clay. )

It is said, on good authority, that at the be-
ginning of the year there really were people who
had considered the touting ,ncy of actual hostilities,
who thought that, iu that case, it was possible the.
mortars and mortar boats just completed, at a very
great cost, might be brought into use,.and who had
gone so far as to contemplate. the probability;.
amounting to an absolute certainty, that in the
event of the mortars being used to any purpose
they would soon be used up. - Those people who
ventured to look so far into the future strongly
recommended the Admiralty that a double reserve
of mortars, shells, and all the requisites of a bom-
bardment might be sent to the Baltic ; that is,
that fOr every mortar required for immediate use
two more might be in readiness. These adventu-
rous people, too, proposed that there might be
something of a workshop,
as well as an arsenal,
with machinery, that might occasionally save the
nation the loss of time, the expense. and the ridi-
culous effect of ships, great anti small, continually
passing through the Sound on their way home
merely to have a crank in their machinery set
right; or, as we have just seen, have their mortars
renewed. Unfortunately these advisers, these Cas-
sandras of the Admiralty, as it has turned out,
were civilians or semi-civilians, and their advice
went for nothing. The real old British Admirals,
the sort that survives a long peace, were quite of a
contrary opinion ; they pouh-pooli'd the whole
scheme. They declared there was no sort of occa-
sion for a single spare mortar to be sent out, and
they evidently thought nothing so good for ships
and sailors, captains and crews, as steamily,.
perpetually backwards and forwards, on all kinds'
of pretences, or none at all, between the river
Thames and the Gulf of Finland. The real old
British Admirals carried the day, and a fleet that
cost England and France, for this season only, not
less than 20,000,0001., went out to do a day's work
—we beg its pardon4s hours' work, and no more ;
to burn down an arsenal, blow up a magazine, and
then send home its only available force for fresh
mortars.

The British people will not stand alone in their
surprise and disappointment at the discovery that
in these days a naval victory and defeat mean the
same thing, and that it is impossible to strike more
than one blow in a season. There happen to be
some very near, very enlightened, and also very
interested spectators of the war in the North, who,
without the inspiration of the British journals, will
be quite as much surprised and disappointed as we
can possibly be. The Stockholm Aftonblad gives
way to transports of joy at the devastation of Swea-
borg, to which it very naturally ascribes a retribu-
tive character. Its delight is all the greater be-
cause hope has been deferred. "At length," it
says, " tue cannon have spoken, and the echoes of
their voices have gladdened the Swedish hearts,
which no family compact has connected, or ever
will connect, with Muscovite cunning." But, after
dilating on the amount of destruction done, it asks,
with very pardonable anxiety,—" Will the allied
fleet be content with this achievement, without
deriving more direct results from it, without at-
tempting to take possession of the works, of which
the power of resistance, if not wholly destroyed,
must necessarily have been much weakened ?
The question is impossible to answer, as nothing
has occurred to indicate the intention of the com-
manders." Then, after some fruitless specu-
lation as to a possible change of plan, it pro-
ceeds,—" In the meantime, we heartily congratu-
late the allies—we could almost say our allies
on the unexpected event, the first of the year,
and we hope now, with some degree of confi-
dence, that it will not be the last before the winter
closes in." The degree of confidence which we feel
ourselves on this point is by no means equal to that
of our Swedish contemporary, and if what it calls
" the icy bond of neutrality that now protects the
flank of the Russian giant" is not to be melted
except by continuous and well-sustained flames,
we have little hope of a Swedish alliance for the
present, at least. We must wait till the war as-
sumes a less intermittent character, and the con-
querors do not think it necessary to retire from
the field of action every time they have struck a
successful blow.

Of course, nobody here is satisfied with the result,
and all sorts of people, sagacious or simple, are put-
ting their heads together to solve the problem of
an immense preparation which not only has so ;
little to show for itself, but turns out so helpless
and abortive. People are ransacking their me-
mory, or their reading, for the history of the late
war, and they are saying—old ones as well as
young ones—that they don't remember ships
always coming back for new stores ; they don't
remember that a fleet was expected just to bom-
bard a place and then return home ; they don't
remember either that ships in the old sailing days
wero so shy of forts, or that they reckoned it a
perfectly good reason for not attacking a fort, or
forcing a harbour, or attempting to cut out the
enemy's shipping, that they were likely to suffer
some daniag• and lose some men. Certainly, on
comptaring the present with the past a great change
has come over the scene in more respects than one,
and the colossal screw steamer, twice as big as the
old liner, with twice as heavy metal, twice as
swift, and infinitely more managable, after all does
very much less work than the old liner with its
crowded broadside of small guns, its clumsy build,
its sails, and its fatal tendency to become utterly
disabled or to be becalmed just when it ought not.
There are numerous instances of sailing vessels
being deliberately moored, as at Algiers, not at the
distance of two miles, but at less than 200 yards
from a battery, and having done considerably more
harm than they received. There are instances of
ships sailing right into the enemy's harbour, and
fighting batteries and shipping all at once, without
always coming off the worst, and very seldom with-
out giving as much as they took. Now is the first
time that steam has been applied to naval warfare
on the large old scale of war. It is the time that
nautical people have long been looking forward
to as that which would solve a great problem.
Well, the problem is in solution, and we are bound
to say that thus far steam turns out very little
better than a cowardly impostor. What does it do
for us? It is always coming home, and showing
great prudence in keeping out of danger ; but, as
yet it does none of the things it was promised to
do. There was a time when naval commanders
used to say they would go anywhere, enter any
port, or stand any fire, if they could only answer
for being able to extricate themselves when they
had had enough of it. The long-desired agent has
come, and there is hardly one ship in the fleet
without it. The only result is, that our sailors for
the first time keep their distance.
We shall be told, perhaps, as we have been told
before, that we are urging our sailors into fool-
hardy enterprises merely to satisfy the impatience
of civilians. We reply with the question, " What
has been done this year with a naval armament
which altogether has cost England for this season
alone no less than 20,000,0001. ?" Some of that
money is for the transport of troops ; but, on the
other hand, the navy has its ordnance found by a
separate department, so 20,000,0001., if it does pay
the bill, is a very fair estimate. 'What has been
done more than Nelson or Collingwood could have
done with the means at their command ? As for
the Black Sea, excepting the operations in the Sea
of Azoff, the fleet there has passed so completely out
of notice that many of our readers have probably for-
gotten that there is, somewhere or other in the East,
a fleet more powerful in all respects than that which
figured in the great naval review at Portsmouth two
years age. At this moment wecaunot even say where
it is, the events of the day leaving one very little
spare attention for things that lead to no result
and come to nothing. Looking to both seas, how-
ever,
it is evident that the great question of steam
versus sails has not received a very triumphant so-
lution. Could Nelson and his illustrious contem-
poraries and predecessors rise from their graves and
take their stand ou some Finnish or Crimean head-
land—could they see the endless pother of idle
manoeuvring, the steaming to and fro, backwards
and forwards, out and back again, to bring another
mortar or a now crank, to stop a leak in a boiler,
or mend a faulty stop-cock, and could they witness
the grand act of the season, a bombardment at the
distance of two miles, followed by a return home,
and the performance ended by the middle of
August, we are inclined to think they would thank
their stars that they were horn before the days of
steam, and that their lot was cast in an age when
success and renown were expected not so much
from imposing displays, and here and there an in-
genious dodge for doing damage without risk, but
from the English virtues of enterprise, persever-
ance, and daring.

Mr. Smith—Oh, dear no—it is only adopted in order
to conceal the children from the crowd collected outside.

Mr. Smith then, with his tender- charge, withdrew.
There was an immense crowd collected outside the
court immediately it became know Fri that " The Siamese
Twins," as they are called, were in side the office, but the
envious carpet prevented their curiosity from being
gratified.