The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVVNING, AUGUST 17, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

AN AWKWARD MISTAKE—A CASE OF MISTAKEN
IDENTITY.—Mary Ann Lazell, a respectable looking female,
was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with being concerned
with others in stealing a watch and chain, of the value of
£9, the property of Patrick Burke, a tailor, living at Nc. 24,
Castle-street, Leicester-square.
The prosecutor said that on Monday night he was going
through Leicester-square when he was accosted by two
women, who asked him to treat them. He did so, not
being quite sober at the time, and after leaving the public-
house, and when near Orange-street, he received a blow
from behind which knocked him down, and on getting up
againthe found that his watch and chain, of the value of £9,
were gone, and the two women as well. Seeing the pri-
soner last night; and believing she was one of the women
who robbed him, he took hold of her and told her so, and
she sail she weu!d go wi:h him to the Vine-street station,
but that she had not robbed him. He, however, had now
a doubt on his mind, and would not swear she was one of
the women, but last night he believed she was.
Mr Tyrwhitt—Were you sober last night
Prosecutor said he was, but not on Monday night. lie
went home directly after ho was robbed and told his wife
all about it.

In reply to the accused, the prosecutor said it was near
twelve o'clock when he was robbed.

The accused said she was in bed on Monday night by ten
o'clock, and could call a witness to prove it. She had lived
in service at No. 5, Waterloo-place, Pall mall, and persons
there could state that she was a respectable person.
Williams, 129 C, said the accused, on being given into
custody, said she was in bed at the time of the robbery.
The accused again asserted her innocence, and said she
had never seen the prosecutor before he gave her into
custody.

A respectable female said the accused slept with her on
Monday night, and, she was positive, was not out of the
house after ten o'clock.

11Ir Tyrwhitt said ho considered it proper for the sake of
the accused that the case should be heard out. A. mistake
had been. committed, and a most important one, and the
accused, who would be discharged, would leave the court
without a stain on her character.
The accused was then discharged,

Metropolitan Railway Company.

MEETING (THIS DAY).

The half•yearly general meeting of the shareholders in
this company was held this afternoon at the London
Tavern.

The report, which has appeared in The Sun, was taken
as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said it was so
full, and entered so completely into the policy of the com-
pany and its results, that be need not say anything more
about it. He had received letters urging that a larger divi-
dend should be declared, but he thought that which was
now declared, under all circumstances, was a fair ono.
Mr. PARSON, ex-deputy chairman, in seconding the
motion, said that from the amount to be carried over
another half per cent, might be declared, but the sum to be
carried over would be exceedingly small. The directors
in determining the amount of dividend to be declared, had
bees guided to a great extent by the fact that the Finsbury
.extension would participate in the earnings of the line this
I half year, while the Finsbury extension itself would not be
productive of any benefit. The object of the directors was
to give to the shareholders sucha dividend which theywould
be able to maintain next half year when the Finsbury capital
would be brought in. He believed that in April next their
line would be in working order up to Aldersgate-street, and
that by this time next year would be open to Finsbury it-
self. (Hear, hear.) He could assure the proprietors that
the dividend to be declared had been fairly earned during
the half-year, and no person who had a wish to invest his
money in the line need limn any fear that the dividqnsl
had been improperly made up. Considering the difficulties
they had had to encounter he thought a dividend at the
rate of 51 per cent. which it was, proposed
to declare was a very fair one. The directors
had no intention of unduly burdening their shareholders
with extensions and unconsidered speculations.
The CHAIRMAN said he had forgotten to mention the
subject of working men's trains. During the last week they
had carried 2,768 working men to their business and homes,
and that at a profit to the company. This was a great ad-
vantage to the working men, who, at the time of the marn-
ing at which these trains ran, could not avail themselves of
omnibuses, and would obliged to walk,
After some conversation the report was unanimously
adopted, and a dividend was declared at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum on the preference stock, and at the rate of
51 per cent. on the ordinary stock, carrying forward to the
credit of next half-year a balance ef £2,463 68 10.1.
The meetisg was then made special, and resolutions
were passed authorising the raising of capital by the crea.
tion of new shares.
The meeting then separated.

Dr. Nanning on the Catastrophe at
Santiago.

Monday being the "Feast of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary," an altar which has recently been
erected in the Catholic church of St. Charles Borromeo, in
Upper Ogle-street, Fitzroy-square, was, with groat pomp
and solemnity, dedicated to "Our Lady Immaculate," as a
reparation for the many blasphemies offered to Jesus and
Mary in consequence of the terrible catastrophe which
occurred at Santiago towards the close of last year. The
ceremony was witnessed by a very numerous and attentive
congregation. At the high mass whichfellowed a sermon
was preached by the Right Rev. Monsignore Manning,
D.D., who, in referring to the special object for which they
had assembled, said the terrible accident at Santiago,
which had caused such wide-spread misery and affliction,
was one of those occurrences that had been per-
mitted by the Divine will for some inscrutable purpose.
The facts were fresh in the memory of all, and it would
therefore be unnecessary for him to repeat them. The hu-
man heart was harrowed by the mere thought of the suffer-
ings, both bodily and mental, which in a single moment
came like a flood upon a whole congregation who were as-
sembled in the sane nary of God. But the world, ever ready
to seize an opportunity of inveighing against the Church,
took occasion, more especially in this country, to your out
a tide of blasphemy more vehement than the flood of
sorrow which had fallen upon Santiago, mad to utter• sen-
timents of which a cultivated and above all a Christian
nation ought to be profoundly ashamed. The best way for
them, as Catholics, to reply to such charges was by main-
taining perfect silence, for the persons who could speak
in such a way were incapable of argument and reason.
It was vain to argue or remonstrate with those who spoke
blasphemy—they could only pray for them. Nothing
could offend a man more deeply than an insult directed
against his mother, and it was reasonable to believe that
when our Divine Lord was spit upon during his lifetime
here upon earth he suffered the indignity with a greater
calm than he had borne the insults lately poured out upon
the memory of his mother. It was their duty, then, to an-
swer those insults by acts of reparation, and of love, honour,
and gratitude to the blessed Virgin. They had chosen the
Festival of the Assumption for the inauguration of the altar,
because it was on another feast 0 the Holy Virgin—that of
the Immaculate Conception—that the catastrophe took place
which had given rise to the outpouring of so much impiety,
He would take leave of this distasteful subject by urging
upon his hearers the duty of silence, reparation, and prayer
for those who had been guilty of that impiety. They would
pray that the Divine illumination might to given to those
who knew not what they did, and that their eyes might be
opened, so that they might perceive that in blaspheming
the immaculate mother of God they were crucifying again
her Divine Son.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General': Report.)

The present return shows a manifest improvement
in the health of London in last week, as compared
with the two previous weeks. The deaths, which
were 1,607 and 1,595 respectively in the two weeks
ending the 6th of August, declined to 1,433 in that
which ended last Saturday. The deaths of young
persons (under 20 years of age) fell from about 980
to 862.

The average number of deaths in the 32d week of
ten previous years, 1854-63, is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1,368, and the number ac-
tually returned for last week exhibits an excess of
65 over the number estimated for the second week
of August. _ _

In respect of fatal diseases a comparison of results
in the last two weeks shows a decrease in the deaths
by measles from 102 to 72, in those by scarlatina
from 58 to 46, in those by diarrh cel from 286 to 228.
Besides the 228 from diarrbcei lest week, there were
22 from cholera, 5 of which occurred to adults.
Of the deaths from diarrhoea, all except 24 were
among infants: Both this complaint and measles
Were most prevalent in the east districts; 4 deaths
from measles and 18 from diarrbcoa were recorded in
the Shoreditch district, 5 from measles and 9 from
diarrl 031 in Bethnal-green, 7 from measles and 10
from diarrhoea in 'WhitechaPel, 6 from measles and
2 from diarrhoea in St. George-in-the-East, 4 from
measles and 9 from diarrbW in Stepney, 6 from
measles and 6 from diaraceA in Mile-end Old Town,
10 from measles and 13 from diarrhoea in Poplar.
DiarrLcca was returned in 11 cases in the Lambeth
district, in 13 in that of Greenwich, in 10 in Isling.
ton, anti in 6 in the south sub-district of West
London.
A woman, aged 65 years, died on the 9th inst.,
after 11 days' illness, of apoplexy from exposure to
the beat.
' child, aged eleven weeks, died at 2, Albion-
street, Bey..l'nal-green, from "want of nourishment
and rough usag.' by the father."
boys and 948 girls,
Last week the bit..." of 1,014
in all 1,962 children, were registered in London. In
the
years 1854 63
..
the ten corresponding weeks o.
the average number (corrected) was 1,83,.2.
mean
the
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwicu:
height of the barometer in the week was 29.:158 in.
The mean daily reading was above 30in. on the
three days. The reading fell to 29.62 in. on Tues-
day, and rose to 30.23 in. on Saturday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 61.2 deg.
which is 0 6 deg. below the average of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher).
The mean daily temperature was below the average
on four days. The highest day temperature was
82.4 deg. on Monday; the lowest night tempera-
ture was 42.2 deg. on Friday. The range in the
week was therefore 40.2 deg. The mean daily
range was 25.1 deg. The least daily range was
13.3 deg.; the greatest 34 deg. The difference be•
tween the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 12.7 dcg. The mean degree of
the humidity of the air was 64, complete saturation
being reprevnted by 100. On Tuesday the humi-
dity rose to 92; on Thursday it fell to 54. The
wind was iu the south-west on the first three days;
afterwards in the north-west, south-east, and south-
' west. Half an inch of rain fell on Tuesday.

A VALIANT YANKEE.—A man in Rochester
advertises that he will assassinate Jeff. Davis if the Go-
vernment will furnish him with six pairs of pistols and 500
dols. Probably he wants a transportation train also, to
convey his firearms.—New York World.
TIIE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT TO DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 13.—The Faedreland of to-day says,
6' It is generally reported that the Prince and Princess of
Wales will visit our Royal Family in September. The
semi official Berlingske Tzdende states that Prince Alfred
will visit Iceland, and return to England at the commence-
ment of next month,—.Reuter's Express,

THE WAR IN DENMARK,

(From the Correspondent of the Dally Newsl

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 11.

A royal proclamation has been issued, add resseti
to the Danish army, in which his Majesty announces
forthcoming peace. "Soldiers," he begins, "the
struggle is ended. From the war's bloody scenes
you will return to your home work." Then follows
mention of the heavy cost entailed by the war, of
the still heavier sacrifices to purchase peace; "The
fatherland's welfare bids us prefer peace to a cons
tinued battling." King Christian tells his army
that, though trusting in his readiness again ,to meet
the enemy, rat he is greatly constrained because
these hold all too large a portion of the land which
is thus open to devastation. " Therefore must our
struggle end even with an abandonment of terri-
tory that from the oldest times has belonged to
Denmark, and which is knit to the heart of every
Dane." The address goes on to say that a small
force can come out with honour from a defeat by
the armies of two great Powers. His Mejee'y
afterwards thanks the soldiers for their brave en-
deavours, and reminds them that only by remaining
united for the future can Denmark's freedom be
secure. "Be in peace what you have been in war,,'
he ad3s, " and you will promote our country's
prosperity as you have hitherto upheld its renown."
It is a difficult task to gild the bitter pill and
make defeat seem pleasant or tolerable. An in-
vader that holds more than half your country, and
against whom no effectual effort can be made, has
the power of imposing his yoke very palpably, and
of, in popular parlance, putting your nose to the
grindstone. Sleswigers are sent back by the
thousand, discharged from military service, to be
welcomed in their native duchy by what a month
ago were treasonable songs. Jutlanders go home on
furlough in civilian dress, to pass under Prussian
authorities and be bullied by their foemen of the
late campaign. A little army of returning prisoners
will carry throughout Denmark the sense of recent
discomfiture, and will, moreover, bring with it vivid
impressions of Germany's size and power. In
America it has been customary to give the chiefs of
a conquered Indian tribe a tour through the States,
visiting Washington, New York, and Pittsburg,
that they might better judge of the greatness of the
pale faces, and take warning not to resist them
again. Danes who have travelled to Vienna and
Komorn, Minden, and Ehrenbreitstein—l speak of
the rank and file—must inevitably return north-
ward, oppressed with a sense of their enemy's huge-
ness. The lesson that ten to one is rather long
odds, and that les Bros battaillons are better than a
good clause, will have sunk deep into every
Danish captive. Soldiers remaining with Stein-
mann, or quartered upon Zealand, to whom the
royal proclamation is more particularly addressed,
were gloomy, but not despairing. They believed
that a battle might be won at Middelfahrt which
would retrieve their prestige, and were anxious to
see Prince Frederick Charles try his luck in an
attack on Fyen. So far there is perfect truth in the
official statement that the army was ready to meet
the enemy if necessary. Then, as to his Majesty's
praise of its courage and endurance, none who saw
what those poor fellows went through without com-
plaining will dispute the justice of such commenda-
tion. If England be ever outnumbered by an
alliance of several great powers, if our territory be
invaded, and we experience a struggle for honour
and freedom like that which Denmark has main-
tained, I hope that we may have better equipment
and bettor fOrtune than the Danes, but I need not
wish my countrymen stouter hearts. King Chris-
tian suffers along with his people. He is robbed as
a monarch; they are too frequently ruined as indi-
viduals; he can therefore touch unreservedly upon
the national disaster, and has done so, as above
quoted. It was impossible to put a cheering aspect
upon what is occurring. The army knows well
enough that things have taken a bad turn, and under
existing circumstances a very fair valedictory ad-
dress has been composed.
Alfred Hage, whose position in society and family
losses give him deserved weight, and who, as I
think I mentioned to you lately, is a member of the
Folkething is both legislative bodies, has put some
searching questions to the Ministers of War and
Marine. They are regarding Alsen's capture on
June 29th as a defeat most damaging to Danish
reputation, and keenly felt by all classes. What
answer the ministers return matters not much, since
a new cabinet can easily throw overboard its prefe•
cessor's responsibility. But there is significance in
any sign of parliamentary vigour and life at this
moment, the problem of home government being
still unsolved.

THE GREAT EASTERN.

LIVERPOOL ASSIZES, AUGUST 16.
CIVIL SIDE.
(Before Mr Baron Pigott.)
EAR V. CUNARD AND ANOTHER.

In this case the plaintiff was Mr John Rao, and the de.
fendants Mr Joseph Cunard and Mr James Archibald Kerr
Wilson, and the action was brought to recover compensation
from the auctioneers engaged in the sale by auction of the
Great Eastern for not having handed her over ro the plain-
tiff, who claimed to have made the highest bid, and to have
complied wil h all the conditions of the sale. .

Mr James, Q.C., stated the case fir the plaintiff, from
which it appeared that on Feb. 17 last the Great Eastern
was put up to auction by Mr Cunard, who performed the
office of auctioneer, Mr Wilson assisting him, and it being
a sale without reserve as announced, the defendant stated
that he was ready to receive any bid that might be made.
He waited some time, and at last a bid was made of £20,000.
A bid then came from the further end of the room of .£25,000.
"Name" was called out, and the gentleman's name was
announced as Mr John Rae, who had been for upwards of
40 years a shipowner in Liverpool, and was extremely well
known. There was a pause, and some conversation seemed
to take place between Mr Cunard, Mr Wilson, and Mr Gill,
an attorney. After another pause Mr Wilson proceeded to
Mr Rae and said "Are you prepared to pay the deposit ?"
Mr Rae replied " Why, one has not always money to this
large extent in one's pocket. Knock the vessel down to me
and I will provide the money forthwith." Mr Wilson went
away, and there was some further parley between the gen-
tlemen there, when Mr Cunard put up the vessel at the
former bid of £20,000. Then there mas a bid of 20,000
guineas, and at last £25,000 was bid again, and after dwel-
ling for some time it was demanded who was the purchaser,
when a Mr Yates was announced to be the bidder, and to
him the vessel was knocked down on behalf of the Now Great
Eastern Steam Ship Company (Limited), Mr Rae there-
upon stepped up and said, " I am the bidder of Z 25,000,
and I demand to have the ship." But Mr Cunard replied,
" I have knocked it down to Mr Yates, or to the new com-
pany ; it is not yours."
These were the main facts of the case for the plaintiff;
and evidence having been heard in their support,
Mr Brett, for the defence, denied. that there was a bona
fide bid for the ship by the plaintiff, and that he was in a
condition to have paid either the deposit or purchase money.
He made a bid which he knew could not be accepted, and
after it was found that the vessel had gone at a low price,
other people sought in his name to get possession of the
ship.

His Lordship, in summing up, put the questions—Did
the plaintiff bid as an intending purchaser ; did he intend
to stand by his bid did he give it in good faith ; was the
authority to sell revoked by Mr Gill, solicitor to the trustees,
bet, re the purchase was declared ; was the plaintiff ready
to pay he deposit either within the room or in a reasonable
time at the
.Bank, supposing he had satisfied the auctioneers
in the room of
his intention and ability to do so. Ther.
.
there was the que,,A jou of damages, and they should reply
to these questions.
The jury retired to con: ider their verdict. and after six
hours' consultation returned a verdict for the —damages 40s.
The Judge ruled that, upon the j arc's reading of the con-
ditions, the sale money should have been :laid in the loom.
He therefore entered the verdict for the deendants, with
leave to the plaintiff to move for a new trial.