The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

Board of Trade Returns.

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official returns relating to trade and naviga-
,..',.* or the nine months ended the 30th September
just been published, From these it appears
the I declared value of the exports from the
Unitecr—Ttinf,Ydom was £123,404,161 egainst
1.:104,294-,YI-3:on the like period of 1863, showing
an increase of 419,109;448, the increase is most
perceptible in coals and culm, cotton yarn,
cotton manufactures, earthenware, haberdashery
and millinery, hardwares and cutlery, linen menu-
facteres, machinery, sheep and lambs' wool and
woollen manufactures. The importation of the
princpal articles were larger as regards raw cot-
ton, sheep and lambs' wool, fit; quicksilver, ecffce,
bra Nil; t *ccei tend witteerTiiistoe4ool4)pen asaislit-
n u ion, hdtv'ever,
_isrfitiTtsille,` tallow,
cocoa, wheat, bailey, itnics74-4;'," neftea.
The shipping accounts eAiliit'.;!stA,!f rease in the
amount of tonnage employed in the fo-Lt: ."treatt4t,
the United Kingdom for the entries inwards, as also
for the clearances outwards. Iu the coasting, trade,
however, for the same period, there Las been a
slight decrease in the tonnage engaged for both the
entries inwards and the clearances outwards.

The Lord Mayor and the Charing-cross
Railway.

At the Lord Mayor's C;Tirt on Saturday, before Mr
Kerslake, Q.C., as assessor, and a special jury, a compensa-
tion case which has been pending some time, Lawrence and
others v. the Charing-cress Railway Company, was heard
and occupied the whole day. Mr Bovill, Q.C,, and Mr H.
Lloyd were counsel for the Lord Mayor, and Mr Lloyd,
with whom was Mr Shiel, represented the company. The
claim was for two houses, Nos. 5 and 6, Cannon-street,
near Turnwheel lane, which were built in 1852 by Mr Al-
derman Lawrence, and let respectively at £350 and £450.
One was leased to Baron Rothshild and would expire in
1866,the other to a public company, and would expire in 1874.
The principal question raised was the value of the rever-
sion. All the witnesses admitted that property in the City
of London had greatly increased in value within the last
few years. It had "enormously" risen in price within
the "commercial area," and a question was mooted whether
the houses were within that area. Several witnesses de-
scribed the houses as worth respectively £650 and £B5O a
year. One was at the corner of Turnwheel-lane. On the
part of Mr. Alderman Lawrence the property was valued at
upwards of £30,000, the highest sum being nearly L 30,700.
On the other hand, for the company the valuers estimated
the worth of the two houses from £21,000 to £21,6)0,
including the usual 10 per cent. for a compulsory sale. Mr.
Hyde;the surveyor or the Charing-cross Railway, said he 110
purchased property for the South-Eastetn and the Charing-
cross Railway to nearly £3,000,000, He considered that
£21,641 was a liberal price for the property in question. In
a letter which was -read to the jury, addressed to the Lord
Mayor, Mr. Ryde said that in order to settle the matter and
on account of the "uncertain view which juries took of pro-
perty in the city of London," he offered a sum of £23,000.
The Lord Mayor, in answer, said that was not a fair value
for the increase in the price of property, and he would sub-
mit the case to a jury. Mr Lloyd entreated the jury not to
be led away to give an extravagant sum. His experience,
connected as he was with railway companies, as to compen-
sation claims, was a painful one. Enormous sums had been.
demanded, and if property was to increase in value as it had
within the last few years, there were trades that could not
be carried on within the city, as they could not give the rent
demanded, His opinion was, that property had now reached
its culminating point in the city—it had attained its apex,
and it must go down. He (Mr Lloyd) thought that at the
present time, when money was fetching S and 9 per cent.,
a gentleman would be glad to receive his money. Juries
had been in the habit of giving 10 per cent, to cover any
difficulty as to investment, but new there was a demand
for money, and large interest was to be obtained. He prayed
the jury not to give an extravagant price. A. very fair
offer of £23,000 had been made to avoid the present litiga-
tion, which was an expensive affair, but upwards of £30,000
had been demanded. Mr Bovill ridiculed the view taken by
Mr Lloyd, as to the culminating point in the value of pro-
perty and the means of investment at the present time. The
value given had been attained in the last 10 years, and was
increasing. It showed the great wealth of England, and the
large sums made by commerce, The question was not what
was to be obtained for money at a month or so, which might
be 8 or 9 per cent., but what it would yield as a permanent
investment in the funds, which would be from 3 to 31 per
cent. The learned assessor, in placing the case before the
jury, contrasted the evidence given on both sides, and told
them that tin question was, what was a fair and liberal
compensation for the property. There was nothing in the
Act as to 10 per cent, being given fora compulsory sate. It
had been the practice for juries to do so, and it was for them
to give the amount or any other sum. They had heard of the
offer made by the company and the sum demanded—they Led
heard of the value put on it by respectable men on both sides,
from £29,000 and some hundreds to £30,700, and on the
other side to £21,000 and upwards. The jury retired, and
on their return assessed the value at £15,100, loci uding 100
for fixtures.

ZA call of £2 lOs pz.: share has been made by the
directors of the City Offices Company.
An accident occurred at the Theatre of Nirmes
(Gard) a few evenings since, during the performance of the
" Pirates de la Savane." An actor who was performing
the part of Riberio arrived on the stage on horseback, when
the animal, being frightened by
the glare of light, became
unruly and fell into the orchestra. Both the rider and horse
fartunately escaped unhurt, and the damage was limited to
the breaking of a few music desks, The performance CAI•
tiuut.4 after a bliort interruption.