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THE, SUN, I.OI\IDON, MONDAY EVE,NIN G, APRIL 25, 1864

'BANKS—Continued.
South Eastern, Em., 41 4
Standard of British South Africa (lim.), 291
Union of Australia, 572
Ditto, new, 411
Union of Ireland, lira., 20i 1
Union of London, 57 8 9/
MISCELLANEOUS.
Contract Corporation, lim.,
Crystal Palace, 35
Crystal Palace. a per cent. perpetl. deb. 113
Discount Corporation, Ilk
Egyptian Corn and Trading, lim., 47,5
English and Australian Copper, 11
Geu. Credit and Finance of LJndon, lim., 10 01:1
Hudson's Bay, 10;f 0
Imperial Financial, lim.. 9}
International Financial ,ociety, lim., 110 0
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour ,
Joint Stock Discount, lira., 7}
Laud Securities, Urn., 51
London Financial Association, Em.,
Ditto, new, 16 0
M dras Imgation and Canal, 11
Marine Invest me:A, lim , 3
Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 111
National Discount Company, 1im.,1131 14
Nova Scotia Cold and Land, lim ,
Ocein arine (Insurance). 20i
Peninsula and Oriental Steam 5
Ditto, new, 51
South Australian Land, 31
Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, 51
Upper ASSaIII Tea, lim., 4i

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices
Blackburn, Mellor, and Shee.)

THE QUEEN V. THE MAGISTRATES OF LIVERPOOL.

Mr. Edward James, Q C., moved for a rule nisi
calling upon the magistrates of Liverpool to show
cause why a writ of habeas should not issue to
bring up the bodies of three Americans named
Quency, Kelly, and Clements, of the ship Legerity,
now in custody for piracy on the high seas within
the jurisdiction of America. It appeared that
a requisition was made on the 16th of Feb-
ruary to the secretary of State Sir George
Grey, by the American Minister, Mr. Adams,
under the treaty between this country and America
and the Act of Extradition, or an information duly
sworn, in which it was stated the three persons
named had been guilty of piracy on the high seas ;
the application being made at the instance of the
Federal Government, and the defendants being in
the service of the Confederates. Upon that requsi-
tion the Secretary of State issued the warrant for
the apprehension of the defendants and their
examination, and, in the event of committal, of
being delivered up to the American Government
under the Treaty of Extradition. The learned
counsel said the case was one of great im-
portance, and if he could not obtai❑ the in-
terference of the Court the defendants might be de-
livered up to the Federal Government, and be
without any remedy, and his contention was that
upon the face of the depositions and evidence
taken before the magistrates it clearly ap-
peared that they acted only as belligerents
and not as pirates, and also that if they committed
an act of piracy, as alleged, on the high seas, they
might be tried in this country in the Court of Ad-
miralty. The case had been tried before Mr.
Justice Wilke, at Liverpool, who had expressed a
very strong opinion that the case was one which
deserved the greatest consideration of the Court,
and that the proper mode would be to raise the
qu stion on the application for a writ of habeas.
He, the learned counsel, was at a loss to know in
what other form it could be brought before the
Court.

Mr. Justice Blackburn doub`ed whether the
habeas wee the proper form, but admitted that the
case was a most important one, and entitled to the
consideration of the Court.
The Lord Chief Justice did not well see which
other form there could be than an application for a
habeas. There could be no doubt it was a very im-
l.ortant case ; the facts looked very much like
piracy. The persons charged went out as passengers
on board a Federal ship with the intention, which
they carried into execution, and took possession of
the ship, placing the captain in irons, and after-
wards put them on shore. That certainly looked
like piracy. He thought there might be a rule nisi.
The other judges concurred in the issuing of rule
nisi for habeas.

Mr. Lush, Q.C., watched the case on the part of
the Confederate Government, who denied that the
men were Confederates.
The writ was directed to the Governor of Kirk-
dale Gaol.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,
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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A rISCHARGED COMMISSIONAIRE CHARGED WITH
STEALING A LETTER CONTAINING A £2O NOTE.—Wm.
Reardon, described as a discharged soldier, and who was
formerly in the Corps of Commissionaires, was charged be-
fore Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a letter containing a £2O
Bank of England note, entrusted by Mr. William Henry
Bruce Ogilvy, a gentleman staying at Long's Hotel, New
Bond-street.

Mr. Ogilvy said—Last Saturday week I gave the pri-
mer a letter containing a X2O Bank of England note to de-
liver at No. 31, Colchester •street, St. George's-square. The
prisoner came back to me at Long's Hotel the same evening
and stated that he had delivered the letter. I then paid the
prisoner his fee, but shortly after was informed the prisoner
had not delivered the letter. Having to leave London I left
tho matter in the h4nds of the head waiter.

Mr. Tyrvrhitt—How did you know the prisoner ?
Mr. Ogilvy—By seeing him doing duty daily opposite
the hotel, and thinking he was a regular commissionaire,
but I have found out that although wearing the uniform of
the corps he did not belong to it, having been discharged.
Butcher, 137 C—On Saturday I saw the prisoner outside
the hotel. I spoke to the prisoner about the letter, and at
first he said he delivered it himself, but afterwards that he
gave it to an old comrade to deliver, but that the man had
not done so. The prisoner then took me to Turnham's, in
High-street, Marylebone, a public•house, and I there as-
certained that the note had been changed there by, as they
stated, a man in payment of a quartern of rum, the man
stating that he was a discharged soldier.
Prisoner—l gave the note to an old comrade named
George Payne, not knowing there was anything of value in
it. I have heard that he has been seen to change it, and I
have tried to find him, but have not succeeded in doing so.
I have been told that Payne has been about public-houses
since drinking. I have not been charged with such a
thing before, although I have been entrusted with thou-
sands from Long's Hotel. _ _

Butcher—l found a letter in his possession had nava
been delivered by him as it ought to have been.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall remand the prisoner.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market strong.
Sales about 10,000 bales. Imports, 2,489. Pre-
viously, 5,059.

His Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge left
town on Saturday on a visit to the Prince and Princess of
Wales at Sandringham. The duke will most likely ac-
company the Prince of Wales to Newmarket to-morrow,
and will return to town the same evening.

The Duke of Newcastle is daily regaining
strength. Owing to the change in the weather the noble
duke was not out yesterday.
The Earl and Countess of Zetland entertained a
select circle at dinner on Saturday evening at their resi-
dence in Arlington-street.

The Earl and Countess of Bective and family
have left Underley Hall, Westmoreland, for 24, Grafton-
street, London.
The Earl of Wilton left town on Saturday for
Newmarket. The Countess remains in town.

The Dowager Countess of Essex and Miss John-
atone have returned to Belgrave-square.

We have reason to believe that a marriage is
arranged between Lord Frederick Cavendish, second son
of the Duke of Devonshire, and the llon. Lucy Lyttelton,
maid of honour to the Queen, and Second daughter of Lord
Lyttelton.
rd and Lady Aveland and the Hon. Misses
Ileathcote have arrived at their town residence, 12
13.0 grave-square, from Normanton-park, for the season.
DR. WIIATELEY'S FORTHCOMING MEMOIRS.—
Mr. W. J. Fitzpatrick, the biogropher of Dr.
1)031', is preparing an anecdotal memoir of the late
Archbishop Whately. The hook will contain a col-,
fiction of the Archbishop's sayings. Miss Whately
is also preparing for pu'oliciltion a selection fron his
Commonplace Bcoll.
TIIE RULES IN RESPECT TO MENTAL LABOUR
that are worth remembering the new number of the
Social Science Revitlo defines as thus few and simple:—
First, that literary workers should oontent themselves with
much less effort than mere physical workers, because the
mental effort carries with it not a distributive labour, but a
labour concentrated on one organ, and that organ the key-
stone of all the organs—the brain ; secondly, that regu-
larity of habit, especially in regard to hours of sleep, ab-
sence from stimulants, and care in sustaining the body by
good food, is an essential to the prolongation of health
under literary exertion ; and thirdly, that haste in writing
—sudden pressure, that is to say, on the organ of the mind
—is specially deleterious.—Artide by .Dr, Richard',"