The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

TN RE BANKS.

This bankrupt was a carpenter in Cambridge-street,
Bethnal green, and this was a meeting for last examination
and discharge.
Mr. R. Buchanan was for the bankrupt, and applied for
an adjournment, as no accounts had been filed in conse-
quence of the ill health of the bankrupt.
The case was adjourned accordingly.
IN RE BURTON.
This bankrupt was an optician in the Minories, and this
was an adjourned meeting for examination and discharge.
Mr. C, V. Lewis appeared for the assignees, and Mr.
B. Sorrel, Mark-lane, for creditors, and consented to the
bankrupt's passing, but the question of discharge was ad-
journed till the 6th May, as the bankrupt's transactions as
to the disposal of his property were not satisfactory.

IN RE ELLIS.
This bankrupt was a plumber, &c., in the Minories, and
surrendered under a petition opened by Mr. Sorrell, Mark-
lane. The debts are about £l,OOO ; assets not yet stated.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Wir slow.)
IN RE JACKS-THE BRITISH COLUMBIA OVERLAND
TRANSIT COMPANY.

The was a meeting for choice of assignees in the matter
of this bankruptcy. The bankrupt had been a director of
the above company, and was sued by a Mr. Collingwood,
who had taken a passage of the Company, who failed to
complete their contract. The sum claimed for passage
money was £l6O, and the costs of the action ran up the
judgment to £6OO.
Mr.Collingwood proved his debt, and was chosen assignee.
Mr. H. Harris, of Moorgate-street, is solicitor to the
estate.

The bankrupt is Comptroller of Corn Returns for the
Board of Trade.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
DAMAGES FOR NOT EMPLOYING A COOK.-NOVEL POINT,

DUMERILL V. REICHARDT.

This was an action to recover damages for breach of an
agreement. Mr. Perry, from Mr. Buchanan's, appeared
for the plaintiff, Mr. Beard representing the defendant.
It appeared that the plaintiff had been engaged by the
defendant, who is an eatinghouse-keeper, as cook at 30s.
per week and board. The defendant's wife, however, wrote
a letter to the effect that she believed the place would be too
hard for him.
Mr. Perry called plaintiff, who said that he had been
employed as a cook at St. James's Hall. He could have
a good character from the head cook there.
Defendant observed that as plaintiff had left a situation
in consequence of the work being too hard, he felt justified
in refusing to employ him.
His Honour—l think that a man is justified in leaving a
situation if he finds the work too hard for him. lam of
opinion that defendant ought to have given a week's wages
when he refused to employ plaintiff.
Verdict for plaintiff, with costs.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 12s per load.
Trade dull.

CUMBERLAND.--Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 1030 d ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 12s per load.
A slow demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—:Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10a Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 12s per load.
Trade dull.

COLONIAL.
TEL,---business has been very dull. The dealers, how-
ever, have been principally occupied with the inspection of
samples of the large quantities to be offered at public auc
tion to day. Prices, however, are expected to rule rather

easier.
SUGAR —The market has been without any change of
importance, Holders still demand high rates, but the
trade only purchase for immediaie requirements. Refined
goods continue at about previous rates.
COFFEE.-Full rates are current for good and superior
descriptions of colonial, but only moderato transactions have
been reported.
RICE.—A fair amount of business has been done, with-
out any change to record in quotations.
TALLOW.—The market has exhibited symptoms of
heaviness, quotations showing no material change. P.Y.C.,
on the spot, is quoted 41s 3d to 425; April to June
delivery, 43s to 43s 3d; and last three months, 45s per
cwt.

A Uniform Plan for Metropolitan Railway

Schemes.

If the metropolis must be cut up into sections by rail-
ways, the least that we can demand is that the companies
shall be made to conform to some uniform and general
scheme, and that the junctions shall be sufficiently nume.
roue to afford adequate facilities to the metropolitan
traffic. This is a subject which Parliament will be bound
to investigate and settle during the coming Session, for it
would be intolerable to find, a few years hence, that we had
allowed the railway companies to take possession of the me-
tropolis; and that our means of transit had been contracted
or rendered inconvenient by blundering projects or
jealous contentions. What the future of railways will be
in this metropolis is not easy to conjecture. Hitherto
London railways have been, for the greater part, merely
means for the conveyance of persons and goods to and from
the metropolis and the provinces. The internal traffic
of this great city has scarcely come under the con-
sideration of the projectors and managers of these
schemes. The Metropolitan Railway, however, has inau•
gurated a new eta, and has already found many ambitious
imitators, Most of these, it is certain, will be thrust out of
the field of contest next session, and the real trial of
strength will be between Mr. Fowler, with his Metropolitan
Extensions, embracing the inner and outer circle lines, and
Mr. Hawkshaw with his junctions with the Charing-
cross Extension. It is premature to forecast the proba-
bilities of a struggle between two such doughty champions.
If Mr. Fowler have the report of the Lords' Committee
in his favour, he has against him all the interests along
tho Thames embankment; besides the inherent fault
of the incompleteness of his design in its working
details. We have shown that, as it affects the City, Mr.
Fowler'b circles do not provide for military junctions with
the long lines; whilst Mr. Hawkshaw proposes to unite the
Great Northern, the Midland, and the North-Western with
his station at Charing-cross, whence passengers will be
carried straight into the City to the Cannon-street Terminus.
By this line, therefore, our friend Humphrey liardworker
would be eaabled to get to Birmingham without a change of
carriages, and without making such an extraordinary cir•
cumbendibus as he would be required to make by the rival
railway--Cl3l Press.

BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY.—An order WWI
yesterday made on the provisional assignee of the late In-
solvent Debtors' Court for the papment, to a person named
Weal° of £2,700 under an old insolvency, after the Par.
meat of the creditore, in full.