The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

next aeconnt, 8111. 3s. 83. The profit on two months
being 1.1811. 5:4. 9cl. A dividend of 41. per share was
declared. _

At Dist Wheal R )se meeting, on Monday, the ac-
counts for January and February showed-Bulanco last
account, 2 9391. 193. 7d.; ores sold (less duev), 6,244/.
15s. ST; Cargoll adventurers for water charge, &c.,
114/. 95.---,--92991. 45. 31. No dividend was declared.
At North Basset Mine hi-monthly meeting on Wed-
nesday, the accounts showed-Balance from last ac-
count, 9351. 9s. 2 L ; copper ore sold, 2,203/. 10s. ld.=,
3,138/ 19,. 3d. Costs for two months, 1,774/. 4s. sd. ;
paid for the renewal of the lease, 5501: leaving balince to
next account, 8141. 14s. 104.; the pralt being 429/. 59.8 d.
At a general meeting of the shareholders in Wheal
Arthur, on Thurday, the chairman stated the only ita-
biiity was April In: nth's cost, amounting to 2641. I Is. 4d.,
a;ainst which there was cash in the bunker's bands,
2231. ss. 41, and r.rr,,,ars or calk Our, 2/ 10s.: showing
balance avinat the company, 38/. 165. A call of 2/ 10s.
por share was made.
At Creeg Brawa hi-monthly m,:etirg, on the 23,1 of
April, the accounts showed-Balance fait account, 477/
2s. Id.; tu' work for February, 288/. ss. 61; Maret-,
2841. Os. 6d ; tributera' balance, 250/. Is, 101; mer-
chant,' bills, 215/ 13i. 101 ; conk, 721. Os =1,587/. 12i.
9ti. By calls r!.coeved, 500/ ; coppi.r ore sold (after
plying dues), 6961 139. 5 i.: leaving balance to next ac-
count, 390/. 19*. 4.1.; calls due, 1604 A call of 51. per
share was made.

At the liennock Silver-Lead Mine meeting, on Tues •
day. the accounts showed-Balance from at account,
4201. 175. 9J.; call received, 1,480/ =1,900/. 17s. 93.
Mine costs to end of March, 5701. 17,. 2d.; paid for en-
gine, &c., 6901.; timiJer and iron, 1171. 17s. 10,'.; insu-
rence, &c., 51. 3s. Bd.: leaving balance to next account,
517/. 9s. id.; call.; in arr. ar, 201, makes 537/. 9s Icl.
assets. The liabilities being, April and May costs, 3201.;
balance due on contracts, 57i/. 7s. 31=898/. 7s. 33.:
showing a deficiency of 360/. 183. 2d. A call of ss. per
share was made.
At Mill Pool meeting, on April 26, the accounts
showed-Balance end of Jan., 621/. 193. lid.; February
wages, 138/. 2s. 101; bills, 75/, 16s. 93,..-_8351. 19s. 6d.
By tin sold (less due'). 1511. 4s. 2d.: leaving balance
against adventurers, 684/. 15a. 4d,, which was divided,
and 6s. 7id. per share called up for the further prose-
cution ot the mine; the call altogether being 11. per share.
At Great Polgooth meeting, en Monday, in accord
ance with a requisition received from the holders of
6 793 shares, it was r. solved to increase the capital
8,2504 by the issue of 2.750 new shares at 3/. each,
to be distributed pro rata amongst the present share-
holders, in the proportion of ono new for every four
old ones held by them; and in case they are not all
taken by Monday, the 17th jest, those that remain are
to be also distributed pro rata among those who have
paid up their new eharca by that day, and that the profit
realised up to the 31st December, 'last be divided and
paid at the rats of 4s. per share.
During the week, shares have changed hands in Alfred
Consols, Tiucroft, Bedford, West Providence, West
Alfred, Merllyn, ellington, South Tolgus, South
Tamar, Trcmayne, Treviskey, Bryntail, Wheal Golden,
St. Agnes Beacon, Great Bryn, East Wheal Rashleigh,
Clive, Cubert, St. Aubyn and Grylls, Drake Wails,
Lewis, Cupid, Trefusie Tamar Consols, Orseed, East
Trescoll, North Trelawny, South Pbcaaix, North
Basset, Wheal Lemon, Trannack and aisence, Vale
of Fowey, Wheal Arthur, Chiverton, Tiutterdon,
Wheal UnY, Clijah and Wentworth, Kilbricken,
Trebarvab, Wheal Edward, Harriett Langford
and Baring, Wood Mine, New East Crowndale,
Trebell Consuls, West Friendship, Wheal Fortuna,
(Landulph), Coed Mawr Pool, Mill Pool, Speedwell,
West Darlington, West Ding Doug, Trevylian, E:tst,
Gunnia Lake, Wheal Robins, West Polgooth, the
Beacon, Wheal Tom, Halarnwaning, Hennock. Weston,
Prince Albert, Georgia, Cook's Kitchen, Cwmdyle
Rock, Wheal Tehidy, West Bassett, South Cern Brea,
Bolenowe, Wheal Grenville, Raleigh, South Tresareao,
Zion, Rosewarne, Union Tin, Creboe, Fanny, East
Boringdon, Boringdon Park, East Russell, Wheal Mary
Emma, Praed Consols, West Seaton, North Pool, Wick-
low, and Mining C' mpany of Ireland.
In Foreign, the demand for Santiago has been great,
causing an advance from 7 to 13; Cobre left off at 33i.
Shares have also chaneed hands in St. John dal Hey.
General Mining, and United &Lexie an Companies.

ROYAL CYCLORAMA.
" The Crystal Palace, after all, survives," we were
tempted to exclaim on witnessing at a private view on
Thursday evening the beautiful series of tableaux which
will this week be opened to the public in succession to
" Lisbon," at this elegant place of resort. They are
seven in number, the first
.representing the exterior of
the structure as seen from the north-east aide of the
Serpentine, and the remaining six being devoted to the
interior—viz, fur views of the nave from different
gallery corners, and two of the transept, north and south.
Of these, perhaps, the most strikingly beautiful from
the extraordinary effect of the perspective. which com-
pletely cheats the eye, is the view representing the nave,
looking east, from the north-west corner of the
gallery at the extreme western end. In all the
tableaux the drawing is admirable, the colour-
ing smooth and glowing, and . the complete
effect singularly pleasing. No exhibition has been
opened more calculated to prove attractive, both as re-
calling iu vivid colours the glories of the original to the
mind of its visitors, and presenting to those who were
strangers to London last season the leading features of
that most marvellous edifice which received within its
precincts, between the Lt of May and the 11th of
October, 1851, 6,063,986 individuals, and of which the
descriptive book of these tableaux remarks, to give an
idea of the vast extent of the area, that " the Alhambra
and the Tuileries would not fill up the eastern and
western naves, and the National Galiery might have
stood beneath the transept. St. Paul's Cathedral does
not cover more than a sixth part of the ground. The
Palace of Versailles, the largest in the world, would
extend but a little way beyond the transept. A dozen
metropolitan churches could have been placed erect
under its roof of glass." The paintings are executed by
Mr. M'Nevin. The interest of the scenes is enhanced by
the performance of a series of illustrative sirs on the un-
I seen apollonicon, in those notes of suppressed melody
which excite the idea of a harmonious giant gently
piping in the gloom. This magnificent instrument is
touched by a masterly hand.

IREL AM).
QUEEN'S BENCH, Dublin, May 8.
(Sittings in Banco.)
LinEL.—THE QUEEN AT THE PROSECUTION OF ELIZA-
BETH FRENCH AGAINST JAMES BIRCH, PROPRIETOR
OF TILE " WORLD" NEWSPAPER.
At the sitting of the Court this morning,
Mr. Birch (the traverser) made an application in
person, grounded upon affidavit, for the postponement of
his trial; which was listed for the after sittings, com-
mencing on Monday next. He read the affidavit, which
was made by himself, and stated that in November last
he proceeded against Sir William S eeserville, the then
Chief Secretary for Ireland, to recover what he con-
ceived to be a just demand for services rendered to the
late Irish Government in the publication of various arti-
cles in his newspaper in support of " law and order;"
that upon the occasion of the trial of that case he (the
traverser) was vilified, abused, and grossly slandered, in
the most unmeasured terms, by Mr. Brewster, Q.C., the
defendant's counsel, and father to the prosecutrix, and in
such a way as to deter suitors from asserting their just
rights; that the report of Mr. Brewster's speech ap-
peared in all the newspapers, which had since held him
up to public opprobrium; and that Lord Naas. the pre-
sent Chief Secretary for Ireland, in a motion of censure
on that Government, on the 19 ih of February last, in
his p'ace in the House of Commons, alluded to the case
of " Birch v. Somerville," and described his (Mr.
Birch's) conduct as being of the most gross and horriale
description—vilifying the character of merchants and
others to extort money, and not even abstaining from
making attacks upon female chastity for the same pur-
pose. The traverser proceeded to read his affidavit,
which was of great length, and contained extracts from
Lnrd Naas's speech on the occasion in question from the
Times and Nation newspapers, &a, to show that he
could not at present have a fair trial, as the public mind
was prejudiced against him.
The CRIET JUSTICE—Does your affidavit state that
you are apprehensive you still not have a fair trial, in
consequence of prejudices relating to the subject matter
of the present indictment?
Mr. Birch admitted that it did not, but said he could
amend it in that respect; and then wont on to say that
Lord Naas was either a liar or something worse, end
that his Lordship must be a little prejudiced in the
matter, or he would grant the application at once. lie
next read passages from his affidavit, to the effect that,
owing to negotiations that were pending, he had not pre-
pared for his trial; that he purposed conducting his own
defence; that he intended examining a great number of
witnesses of rank and high in office; and that, in con-
sequence of ill health, it would be but a matter of jus-
tice to postpone the case.
Mr. MAP.TLEY, Q C., on the part of the prosecution,
opposed the motion to postpone the trial,
and incluing
so said he would refer to two misstatements which ap-
peared in Mr. Birch's affidavit. In the first place, it
was totally untrue that Mrs. French had ever entered
into any negotiations directly or individually with the
traverser to settle the case, and she had made an affida-
vit to that effect; and, in the second place, it was not
true
that Mr. Birch had surrendered to take his trial as
be alleged.
Mr. Birch observed that, as to his surrendering, al-
though he was nominally arrested, he came to town to
surrender, after tendering bail, and the arrest was a
burlesque; and as to the negotiations he spoke of, a pr
position was made to Mr. Brewster, who said he would
not interfere in the matter, but no refusal was ever(j_maered.
de
to accept the proposal to apologise which was offered.
He (Mr. Birch) was very timid, and althoughe
could not he had a
high opinion of their Lordships' honour, he
but say that the opinion in the ball was that their Lord-
ships were so prejudiced against ,
convict him of libel for reading the Lord's Prayer—
(Laughter)—and he was almost disposed to think so,
when he found that the jury against him was packed by
a son of one of the judges, who was at one time known as
slater.)
"honest Louis rerrin.”--(Leu
The CHIEF JUSTICE said thaht the rep
should
be refused, as nono of the grow ds on, were sus-
pending negotiation a•as eentee.
tanned. The case of a
dieted, as unfounded, end all tee other grounds—nernsly,
the difficulty
of having a fair trial on the ground of pr. -
judice, and the difficulty of obtaining witnesses, and
ea , ill-
h lth were equally
.unsustamed, and such as would tee
warrant the Court in granting the application, which
should be refused.
On the application of Mr. Martley, the Court then
fixed Thursday next for the trial.
_ _

With reprti to Mr. Birch's sworn allegation that his
case had been " prejudged" either by the Times or its
correspondent, the truth will 13,- hest eccertianed when
the nature or the libel is made public in a court of
justice. At the time of its first publication in the
World newspaper ty Moo pf Wil§t is dilf) to the cconmeu