The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-06 00:00:00

THE SON. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCPOBER 6, HA

LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE JOHNSON-APPLICATION FOR RELEASE.

This bankrupt was a solicitor in Great Marlbarough-
street, and applied some time since to be released from cus-
tody, but Mr. Commissioner Fane refused to grant it, on the
ground that the bankrupt had vexatiously defended an
action.
Mr. Chidley now renewed the application. He said the
allegation was that the bankrupt had vexatiously defended an
action, but the fact was he disputed the case and a summons
was taken out before the Master to hear the grounds of
defence, but the bankrupt was unable to attend, as he was
summoned for the same hour to the police court at Bo w-street
in a criminal case, and in consequence of his absence in the
suit the case was treated as undefended, and judgment went
against the bankrupt in default. The learned gentleman
contended that a vexatious defence was generally treated as
a matter of discharge, and not against the release ; but even
if it were, the bankrupt had been in prison for two months,
which no doubt would be deemed by the court a sufficient
punishment.
Mr. Dowse, for the opposing creditor, contended that as
the case had originally been before Mr. Commissioner Fane,
the matter should stand over for his consideration,
His Honour asked whether, under the Act, there was any
power for one Commissioner to vary the order of another
Commissioner,

Mr.Chidley thought it discretionary. On a change of cir-
cumstance the original application had been refused, pro-
bably because no assignee had been chosen, and he could
well understand, indeed, it was frequently the case that the
Commissioner would not grant a release until there had
been an opportunity of consulting the assignee.
His Honour—Mr. Commissioner Fane refused the appli-
cation, and I do not consider I have the right, or am com •
petent, to reverse his judgment.
Mr. Chidley—Then the bankrupt may have to remain in
prison 5 or 6 weeks longer.
His Honour—You can communicate with Mr. Fane,
and if he has no objection, I will entertain the question, but
not without.

The bankrupt was therefore sent'back in custody.
RE CORNER

This bankrupt was a solicitor in the Kent-road, and this
was an adjourned meeting for last examination and dis-
charge, but the bankrupt did not appear, nor could his soli-
citor account for his absence.

His Honour granted an hour's delay, and as the bank-
rupt did not then appear, the examination was adjourned
sine die.

IN RE SYKES.

This bankrupt was a county court bailiff at Mile-end,
and this was a meeting for discharge.
Mr. Aldridge said that the bankrupt, when in debt him-
self in £llO, had become security for his father, and almost
immediately afterwards became bankrupt, but he (Mr. Ald-
ridge) didn't oppose.
His Honour said that it was very wrong for a man to
become security even for his father unless he knew he could
pay his own debts, but as there was no opposition the bank-
rupt might take his discharge.

ger was likely to result from the wound, and the sergeant
said he had not heard so.

Mr. Knox said he would take the prisoner's own recog-
nisance to appear to•morrow at two o'clock, and in the
meantime the case could be looked into, as he did not like
such cases to go off in such a manner.
ANNOTINO AN HOTEL KEEPER..—EIIen Young, a young
woman, was charged before Mr. Knox with annoying M.
Giovanni Chialey, proprietor of the Hotel de l'Etoile, 16,
Great Windmill-street, and with being drunk and dis-
orderly.
•

M. Chialey said the prisoner had formerly been his ser-
vant, and last night, between nine and ten, she came to the
hotel drunk, and made a great disturbance, and he was
obliged to give her in charge.
Prisoner said M. Chialey was the father of her child, and
he had not lately given her any money.
Mr. Knox asked the prisoner whether she affiliated the
child, and she said she did, but that she had had no money
for 12 months.

341 A said that on going to the hotel the prisoner refused
to go away unless the complainant gave her £2O. The
whole hotel was in an uproar, and a large crowd of persons
assembled outside in consequence of the prisoner's conduct.
Mr. Knox asked the prisoner whether she would promise
to keep away from the hotel, and take the proper remedy to
recover her taioney due for the child. If she did not, he
should reluctantly, as complainant was the father of her
child, have to send her to prison.
The prisoner having given a promise not to go to the
complainant's again, was discharged.

A British Ship fired into by a Confede.

rate Privateer.,

The Hahneman, Captain Phillips, from London,
which arrived in Bombay on the 30th August, met
with the following adventure :—On the Ist July,
in la t. 25.25 S., and long. 32.48 W., while in com-
pany with two Dutch barques—one named the
Bulgerstyn, the other name unknown—they per-
ceived a large brig bearing down apon them with
all sail. She passed the two Dutch ships, exchanged
signals with them, and then shaped her course for
the Hahneman, which was then on the port tack,
and heading to S.S.W., with the wind S.E. The
brig then fired a blank gun, and the British colours
were immediately hoisted on the Hahneman, but
she still kept on her course. The American now
fired a shotted gun, which fortunately fell astern ;
afterwards another shot dropped just ahead. The
Hahneman then lay to, and the barque rapidly
gained upon her, and while she was hauling up her
the privateer again fired—this time, two
shotted guns—one of which nearly reached
the Hahneman, falling in a line with the foremast,
and the other passed over the poop. close by the
captain and mate. The Hahneman was immediately
brought to and waited the approach of the unwel-
come stranger. When she was within about 400
yards, a boat was lowered, manned by an officer
and four men, heavily armed, three of whom boarded
the Hahneman, and demanded her papers. The
officer was remonstrated with by the captain as to
his mode of procedure, who replied that if he was
sure she was a Federal ship, they would have sunk
her rather than let her escape. The ship's papers
Were strictly scrutinised, with which the officer ex-
pressed himself satisfied. The officer, upon inquiry,
said his ship was the Tuscaloosa, Captain Low, and
had run the blockade of Charleston after the defeat
of the ironclads, and had been fifty days ont ; she
had not captured any vessels in that time, although
several had been boarded by her. The officer, Mr.
St. Clair, a native of Virginia, then left the ship
together with his men, and the Hahneman pro-
ceeded on her way.

• TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts...,
Railways. ...._.....,-..,„_____,....____.
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862
X. .Z
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,061 2,350
Belfast and County Down 49 49 629 6,4
with and T_yne 2B 28 1,987 2,2- 0
13ristol and Exeter 1214 1214 7,059 7,669
Caledonian
Duokennouth & Workington B4 84 296 270
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 372 316
Blackrock, & Passage 6i
Cork, 6} 204 207
Cork and Youghal ......
Cornwall 654 531 1,802 1,901
Deeside l7 17 314 330
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,461 1,438
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,629 1,699
Dublin and Meath
Dab. & Wicklow and Wextd 5ll 484 2,333 2,1r6
Edinburgh and Glasgow l69} 169} 8,373 8,079
Forth & Clyde J unction
Furne__,
.s &c 5O 5) 2,954 2,727
Glasgow & South-Western _ 198 198 8,481 8,3,3
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union - 663 614 33,616 32,7t3
Great Northern 351 351 34,565 32.725
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,669 2.2 3
ut. Northil• & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7ll 564 724 628
rit.soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 354} 329 10,382 9,415
Great Western 10564 10324 65,061 66.086
ess & invernAberdeen June. - 864 86. 1,599 1,540
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,644 1,755
Lancashire & Yorkshire 395} 3254 36,780 35.274
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Poynes 261 264 203 139
LlanellY ... : ......... .
Louden andrthWtern .
London Blackwell 5l 51 1,:,05 1,889
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 26lf 2114 20,141 24,819
Loudon, Chatham, & Dover 72} 72} 5,951 5 704
Do. MetroPolitan Extension 104 21 1.330 60
Loud., Tilburb & Southend
Alan. Sheffield & Lincolnsh
nand,. s.J um& Altrincham- 9} 9} 1,425 1,262
slaryport tan Carlisle
Metropolitan. - 1,713 -
....,Aland (inc; N.-Western) 641 614/ 46,729 43,921
Maud Gt.M estn. of' Irlnd 2594 1921 4,829 4,557
Monklaud . , .... ...........
Monmoutlish. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,762 2,464
British, E_,- .
North um , Perth
and Dundee .... ....
_- .. . 414 4101 13,340 12.471
N.Eastern and Stock. & Darl. 1095 10771 58,710 5,5,344
udon
.. .. 9 3,252 3,146
North Lo
frordshir
North Ste- , _ e
Oswestry and A ewton...
Rhymney, .......... ........ .
St. Helen 8 (-; 1 allway• • 52 52 2,060 2,096
tral
Scottish Centh-E- ........' 91 91 5,308 4,920
Scottish Nandor
Dorset, astern
Somerset
South Devon ........... .... • 754
306 754
29,388 29,3,292
822
South-Nastern ...........
306

LORD LYNDHURST, we are happy to say, is better
to-day.
FitEscg ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting
M. Morellet described a case of phosphores-
cence of sea-water manifesting itself under circumstances
different from those which usually accompany the phenome•
non. On the 14th of August last, M. Morellet having
bathed in the sea at Carnou, near Penols (Herault), the
temperature being 98 Fahr. at the time, the bathing
dresses he and a friend of his had worn were washed
in the sea and then stuffed into a basket,
where they remained until nine in the evening, when
M. Morellet prepared to hang them out to dry. But
on touching
the first piece, he was astonished to
see sparks issuing from it; the same occurred with the
second,
and in fact with all. On the following morning, on
taking them down from the rope on which they were hung,
presented nothing remarkable, except a
their appearance
fine sand which adhered to the threads.
Three days
few grains of
later, on taking another bath, he paid par-
ticular attention to his clothes in order to observe the
phenomenni, with greater care, but nothing of the kind
occurred.— The Minister of Public Instruction sent in a
paper by M. Chariot Pie, on the discovery of a certain
substance
by means of which he can obtain photographs
reproducing the natural colours of the objects represented.
But as M.
13;6 did not mention the composition of the bath
he used in order to obtain such impressions, the Academy
declined appointing a commission until the author of the
Paper should have fulfilled this condition, and sent a few
proofs obtained by his process. M. Serres continued his
description of the brain of the Lepidosiren annectans, and
showed that it bore greater resemblance to the brain of rep-
tiles than to that of fishes. It resembles the perennibranchial
reptiles by the smallness of its cerebellum, the depression of
the .ptic lobe and the unity of that organ, which is always
double in osseous and cartilagineous fish; and, lastly, by
the considerable volume of the pineal gland, which is ex-
tremely small in fish. On the other hand, it has at the
base of the encephalum a spinal marrow which belongs
more to the class of fishes than to that of reptiles.
The French Academy of Fine Arts held its public
annual sitting on Saturday, M. Jouffroy presiding.
After the execution of an overture composed by
M. Guiraud, pupil of Messrs. lialevy and Barbareau,
and the reading of the r.eport on the works of the students
of the French Academy st Rome, M. Beule, perpetual
secretary, read a notice of the life and works of Horace
Vernet, which was loudly applauded. The President next
produced the names of the pupils who had gained the grand
prizes for sculpture, architecture, engraving, and music, and
the sitting terminated with the execution of the scena com-
posed by M. Massenet, pupil of m
M. Ambrose Thomas and
Reber, for which the grand prize of musical composition
hal been awarded.
The ironclad squadron which left Cherbourg on
the 27th ult., arrived in the Brest roads on the 3d inst. All
the vessela have, up to the present time given good results,
and although they have experienced heavy weather, have
not met with the slightest injury,

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LORD CAITHNESS A WORKING ENGINEER,—As the
Earl of Caithness, whose practical knowledge of
the steam engine is so well known, was going by train from
Edinburgh to London, to accompany her Majesty to Scot-
land, an accident happened to the train, by which his lord-
ship's acquaintance with steam engines was turned to good
account. Shortly alter leaving Newcastle-on-Tyne the train
came to a dead stand, and on the earl inquiring the cause he
was informed that an essential part of the engine had given
way, and that the train must be detained till the necessary
repairs were completed. His lordship immediately jumped
out of the carriage, and in less than a minute was hammer.
ing away at the disabled engine as if he were the working
engineer of the line. Sooty fingers, greased clothes, and
awkward positions in reaching the injured member, formed
no obstacle to Lord Caithness, who, in less than an hour,
had put everything to rights, and returned to his carriage
to prosecute the journey not quite so lordly looking in his
face and fingers as when he first started. Of course, the
engineer was all gratitude, and was proud to know that his
fellow-workman in this unlooked-for emergency was no
less than an earl.—Northern Ensign.
The Journal General de l'lnstruction Publigue
contains two decrees from the Minister of Public
Instruction. The first offers apr izo of 1,500 f., in 1865, to
the departmental scientific society which shall present the
best work tending to rectify or complete any of the historical
catalogues relating to France contained in the " Art de
verifier lea Dates," or to fix the chronology of the great
feudatories of France not mentioned in that work. The
second proposes a similar prize, in 1865, to the Scientific
Society of the departments of Algeria which shall present
the best work, either manuscript or printed, on any subject
of national artheology. The works must be sent to the
Minister of Public Instruction before Dec. 31, 1864, and
no work published before the Ist July, 1863, can be re-
covered.

THE SKELETON OF A WHALE caught at Cadg-
with, has been cleaned and forwarded to London, having
been sold to the Crystal Palace Company to be set up in
their grounds.

It was announced yesterday that Mr. George
Thomson, of the firm of Catto, Thomson, and Co.,
shipowners, of Aberdeen, had absconded, leaving
defalcations to a very large extent. The firm are
stated to be perfectly solvent, and will consequently
crry or their business as WWI,