The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-22 00:00:00

Royal Dramatic College,

The subscribers to the Royal Dramatic College okieivecif
yesterday, a very pleasant and satisfactory evidence of t'"
good results cf their arduous and praiseworthy untie"
taking. " The place to spend a happy day," which is so caw
tinually suggested to us by the Posters of Rosherville, vvas
discovered yesterday, at Woking, and to Mr J. W. Ape °TO
the spirited Secretary of the Royal Dramatic College' -
due the chief merit of the discovery. At half-past eleveo
a,m. clout a hundred and forty ladies and gentlemen started
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:rem the Waterloo station in a special train courteously
provided for the occasion by the directors of the Londea
and South-Western Rahway Company, whose °iris
dial sympathy with the good cause was liberally
manifested by the reduction of the fares to b5O
the usual rates. The main object of the excursion
was to enable those who had contributed their mond., `3
see how it was expended; and to all the result of the '1113).
must have been satisfactory. The well-designed eeDt,r.:o
hell, though not yet quite finished, needs only a few tenem'o
of decorative detail to make it complete, and there are 13,°03
twenty residences furnished and fit for occupation. T'le:10
of these are already tenanted by as many families
veteran artist being allowed the companionship of a wife
or a daughter in this pleasant and honourable retiremen'
The gardens, refreshed by recent rain, were bright 51,1 i;
blooming, and univesal harmony prevailed among tr'n
guests. M. Itiviere's band lent their aid on the oceesi°;
and dancing on the lawn was kept up with great spirit.
Nor was the chief object of the undertaking overloolild
the pleasant excitement that prevailed. The veteran Petit:
siontrs were greeted with marked interest and resPeca
Little groups of visitors gathered round the old actors
or actresses with unfeigned sympathy and attolti;hl:l.o
These worn-out servants of the public had good proof of l'o-
effectionute interest which is felt in their welfare by
who love and revere the art to which they devoted t-a
labour of their lives. The veterans all looked well, °la
seemed as happy as their most ardent well-wishers on a
desire, and the day was evidently for them one of fluvili,e6,l
enjoyment. Refreshments of excellent quality were
by Mr Percy, of the Albion Hotel, Woking, and at a Vitt a
ter before five the visitors started for London, leaving 1:L41:of
them a most agreeable impression. The gay Ineet,;l9: a
yesterday, which will, in all probability, be only the first
series of annual festivals, rfifiects great credit upon its Ca
d
rectorA, a the friends of the Roya Dramatic College
cause to rcndjoice in the success ofl their admirable Ifla(4e-d
taking.

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ADELPIII THEATRE.—The annual benefit of I.-
popular manager of this theatre is announced t 0
take place on Saturday next, when the nightly attraeti%
will be varied by the revival of Planchti's comic
drat°,:r
" Who's your friend ?" in which Mr Webster will aPPe
in his original character of Giles Fairfield. The other end
tertainments will comprise the successful novelty 011:
" Stephen Digges," which has served to impress the plat.
going world with a much higher sense of Mr Toole's IP-;
trionic powers than they have heretofore entertained, l'nia
the well-known burlesque by Mr Byron of 4, The Tubes .
the Wood." So liberal a programme would, under ei3Y—P
cumstances, be a guarantee for the attendance of a 1311/33„eci
rous auditory, but when the additional fact is contiide;-
that the performances are to be given in honour of
rle
matic artist who has achieved a high honour in the Lr''
character of author, manager, and actor, there can beciii';
loubt that Mr Webster will—as he always and deserve iii.o
(toes on these occasions--receive a large weed of Pu"

patronage.
THE OLYMPIC THEATRE.—We are authorised too
contradict the report that the Olympic Theatre will in
futut
be under the direction of a Limited Company. Mr livrt'ef
Wigan has obtained a lease of the property for a t°3'l as
years, and will shortly reopen the theatre for the ',,eo°ll
Eile lessee and manager.
EXTRAORDINARY TURN OUT AT 1N1199°,51:
BOROUGH.—Yesterday the whole of the workra'4
employed by Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan, ironraOterf,'
Middlesborough, struck work, owing to the forelni-c:
George Bushel, refusing to allow the men to leave i
works on the occasion of a workman, named Taylor, "Dy
fatally injured by machinery. Bushel was mobbed
ja
the men and hooted. They charged him with rein!, to
necessary assistance to the injured man, and threatene
take his life. The excitement spread with great raPicil:l,l
and caused considerable alarm in the town. Two till;d tit
men struck. A monster indignation meeting wash
otie;eed,
,he quay side, at which Bushel was Btrongly den
and a deputation was appointed to insist on his disc.'" or
Last night a mob perambulated the town, caness

Bushel, and threatening to burn him in effigY•
SUDDEN DEATIL—When th© omnibus rutini
from the railway station of Montbord to Sanlieu (C°ted °of
arrive: Montigny Mertfort, two mornings bin"' "clui
eto
(he passengers, a gentleman, was ascertained to be
dead. On his person were found bank-nctcs and section,:
to the value of 20,000 fr., and also papers whica servol, t.,
identify him as a resident of Sanlieu. All the other P 7...
sengcrs were ladies; they had observed that the
looked ill, but had no idea that he was dead. genticre

The Conviction of Isaac Watson,

The case of Isaac Watson, before the justices at
DriMeld, is commented on by the Solicitors' Journal,
'which impugns the conviction under the statute re-
ferred to—the 4th George IV., c 34—" for disobey-
lag the orders of his employer, to whom he had
Lired himself for a year, and who desired him to
attend a place of worship once every Sunday. The
,Solicitors' Journal says :
Such a thing has been heard of as " driving a coach and
four through an act of Parliament," and not unfrequently
aro uses met with in which the laws have been perverted to
effect an object never contemplated by them; but the jus-
Lel's of Driffield appear to have made themselves parties to
an attempt to make a man religious by act of Parliament,
and, in so doing, have, as we humbly submit, perverted the
2neaning of the 4th George IV., c 34. We presume it is
intended that the offence charge I comes within the words of
the third section of the act, which says that if any servant,
o , shall contract with any person to servo him, and shall
not enter into his service according to his contract (such con-
tract being in writing), or having entered shall absent him-
'Mt, whether such contract be in writing or not, or neglect
to fulfil the same or be guilty of any other misconduct or mis-
demeanour in the execution thereof, or otherwise respecting
the same, then the justice may issue a warrant upon a com-
xlaint being made on oath. Upon proof being made of the
offence charged, the justice may commit the prisoner totard
labour for three months, or may abate the whole or part of his
Wages for the time of his absence, or may discharge the
contract. Now, it does not appear that the offence charged
was contemplated by the statute. Ic the first place, it is
not probable that the servant agreed in writing to go to
eh. urch every Sunday, and the presumption from the show-
ing of these letters is that no such contract existed. Was
Isaac Watson guilty of any neglect in the fulfilment of
his contract, or guilty of any other misconduct, or misde-
meanour in the execution thereof, or otherwise respecting
the same? The offence charged was not within his con-
tract for service, and therefore could not have come under
this clause of the section. To anyone reading the third
section of the act, of which we have given an abridgement,
it must appear evident that no such offence as is charged is
within the statute. The justice is to issue his warrant to
apprehend the offender— nothing is said of a summons in
the first instance—clearly chewing that the absence of the
servant from his ordinary work and labour is being guarded
against. Then again the punishment to be awarded shows
the same intent—imprisonment with hard labour, or a fine
of which the master is to reap the benefit. Clearly, if a man
is at church, he cannot be doing work on a farm, and there-
fore the master would for that time lose the benefit of the
servant's work; but this does not appear to have been the
Complaint here, The master lost nothing by his servant's
absence from church. The act was passed to protect mas-
ters from loss by reason of a servant's misconduct in his
service, and not for such a purpose as it has now been per-
verted to. The statement in the Marquis Townshend's
letter to Sir George Grey is very short, and may not contain
the terms of the sentence pronounced upon the offender in
their entirety; but we apprehend that the justices have no
Power under this act to order the prisoner to attend church.
There is a civil remedy to compel the performance of a con-
tract ; but this appears to have been one of those cases,
now so frequent, in which a penal statute has been resorted
to for the purpose of enforcing a legal right.

IiONIY MARKET

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COMMIRCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

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TWELTE O'CLOCK.
A. full demand for discounts is reported to-day in
most quarters, but the rates have not moved
Upwards, because brokers and others have experie
enced an important increase in their available
supplies by the reflex of notes and gold from the
county, where their circulation was recently
extended by the expenditure incidental to the
harvest. The average quotation today for the
last three menthe' paper is 9 per cent., but several
instances are mentioned where choice descriptions
have been negotiated at i per cent. cheaper.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as unldBe6r4:-
1863.
Great Western
North-Western ..
S 26,837 25,502
ont,,,,vestern
Brighton
Midland
Great Eastern
Northern
Lair- 3. • 42,190 39,168
boakilre and Yorkshire...,
bristol and Exeter
North Eastern 61,691 57,533
Manchester Sheffield, and Lincoln 21,383 19,253
Great Eastern
These returns, when compared with those of the
same Period of last rear, are of a favourable cha-
racter. On the Great Western there is an increase
Of £6,152 ; on the North Western of £5,967 ; on
the South Western of £1,335 ; on the Midland of
433003 ; on the Great Northern of £1,440; on the
L'tncashire and Yorkshire of £3,022 ; on the North
tastern of £7,158; on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln of £2,130; and on the Great Eastern
of £1,475.
A further sum of £33000 in gold was taken into
the Bank yesterday.
a The failure has been announced of Messrs. Seale
Leld Brothers, connected with the trade of Leeds.
Their difficulties are supposed to have been pro-
duced through their relations with the Leeds Bank-
bag company.
~rhe hills of Mr. John Abraham, of Alderman-
-
},—"Y, engaged in the Leeds woollen trade, were
returned this afternoon.
The failure has been announced of Mr. C. Dose,
a large cotton speculator at Havre. The liabilities
are stated at £40,000, and the assets are thought to
be considerable.
It is feared that the statements current yesterday
that
,the affairs of the Leeds Banking
likelyo Company are
prove less unfavourable than was at first
supposed will not prove to have been well fcunded.
;tis now said there are bills for about £2,000,000
under discount, bearing the company's endorse-
recut, of which a very considerable proportion will
"me back upon them, Under these circuoas tancea
there is no reason to apprehend that the liquidation
Will be a long and expensive one, and that heavy
ell's will have to be made on the shareholders. It is
further affirmed that the bank has been insolvent
for
a long time past, and that the distress of the last
Month or two was only the natural and inevitable
result of financial measures of more than doubtful
character, which have extended over a long period.
The biddings for £300,000 in bills on India took
place yesterday at the Bank of England. The pro-
portions allotted were—to Calcutta £177,700, to
Bombay £120,000, and to Madras £2,300. The
minimum price was, as before, Is. Did. per rupee
on Calcutta and Madras, and ls. 11td. on Bombay.
The applications within the limits amounted to
£OBO,OOO. Tenders on Calcutta and Madras at 2s.
will receive about 23 per cent., on Bombay at 2a, id.
about 60 per cent,, and all above these prices in
full. These terms indicate a diminished demand
for remittances to the East. On the last occasion
the lowest of the successful tenders was 2s. lid. on
Calcutta and 2s, lid, on Bombay, and the applica-
tions amounted to £1,300,000.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
Peinted the following special settling days :
Monday, 26 h of September, in the European Cen-
tral Railway, for bargains entered into on and after
the 23d of April; Tuesday, the 27th of September,
ih the Bank of London New £lOO shares; and in
Imperiallllexican Railway, for bargains entered
'il' en and after the Ist of September, all of which
are to be quoted in the official lists. The following
securities are likewise to be marked in the twice-a-
.wbek lists, viz., the Indian Tramway Company, and
llammersmith and City Railway Original and Pre-
ference Shares,
The directors of the South Eastern Banking
`i°4lPany have made a call of £5 pee share, £2 108
Payable on the 15th of October, and £2 10s on the
341 Of December next.

Two O'CLOCK.
At the Paris 13 )urge this day, according to
Reuters telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were
queted 65f, 95e.
The few operations recorded in the English Stock
„ifi
i 'diet have led to a decline of per cent. There
3 alBO general heaviness in the other departments,
(lecasioaed principally through the limited business
transacted, most of the members and their clients
remaining out of town. Consols are 88 t for money,
I," 88i; for the account. The New Threes end
..educz'd Annuities are 861 ; March Exchequer
111118, l Is. to 5 die,; India 5 per Cents., 1031101#;
and the Debentures, 971.
IQ the Foreign market there is very little aui-
-111"1°n) and prices are depressed. Turkish 6 per