The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTJBER 2, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
RE R. WESTBROOK.

This bankrupt was a solicitor, of Marsham-street, and
this was a 'meeting for last examination and discharge. The
debts are stated at £675, and debts secured £7oo—assets,
good debts, £l3B.
There was no opposition, but his Honour adjourned the
case for an amendment of the accounts.

IN RE CLARKE.
This bankrupt was an umbrella manufacturer, and this
was an adjourned last examination and discharge.
Mr. Reed opposed on behalf of the assignees, on the
ground that the bankrupt had not filed a special account
which had been ordered in May last, and that he had in-
curred debts to the amount of 17,500 within four months of
his bankruptcy, and the only assets were about £350.
The bankrupt said he could not make out the accounts
without assistance.
His Honour said that ho had had quite time enough to
do it.
Mr. Reed said the creditors objected to any further allow-
ances to the bankrupt, or to paying for another adjourn-
ment. _ _

The case was adjourned sine die at bankrupt's expence.

IN RE CHURCH.

This bankrupt was a leather merchant in Giltspur street,
and this was an adjJurned meeting for last examination and
discharge.
Mr. Bazley appeared for the assignee, and said that there
had been no less than four adjournments in consequence of
the intricacy of the accounts, but which had at length boen
satisfactorily arranged by Messrs. Hart Brothers and
Hayles, and it did not appear that any benefit would arise
from any further adjournment.
The examination was passed, and the discharge was
adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BURGLARY.—John M'Mahon, Alfred Morris, and
Liam Byrne, the three young men charged with burglari-
ously breaking and entering the premises of Mr. Thomas
George Rotherham Swallow, the Blue Posts, Berwick-
street, Soho, and stealing a quantity of money, &c., M'Ma-
lion being further charged with stealing clothing, &0., to
the amount of £lO from the house of Mr. Samuel Welsh-
man, licensed victualler, Wardour-street, Soho, in the
month of July last, were again brought before Mr. Knox
for final examination.

The evidence against the prisoners in Mr. Swallow's
case was not very strong, the two chief points of it being
that one of the prisoners (Morris) was found wearing a hat
which belonged to Swallow, which was taken from the bar
parlour when the burglary was committed, and there the
prisoners were seen together about one o'clock on the
morning of the burglary in Little Pulteney-street, not far
frem Mr. Swallow's house, by Gordon, 323 A, who said that
at the time prisoner was wearing " a deer stalker's" hat.
Mr. Edward Lewis. of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for M'Mahon, Mr. Neall for Byrne, and Mr. Fisher
for Morris. _ _

Mr. Knox discharged M'Mahon and Byrne, hearing that
there was no further evidence against them in Mr. Swal-
low's case.

Mr. Fisher, having cross-examined Mr. Swallow respect-
ing the hat, addressed the magistrate on Morris's behalf,
stating he would call a witness who would prove that
Morris was in bed the night before the burglary at half-
past 10, and another (Morris's master), who would prove
that he had seen Morris wear a hat similar to the one pro-
duced.

Mr. John Davis, tailor, 11, Sherwood-street, Golden-
square, said Morris had worked for him since May last
year to the Ist of September. Prisoner had worn a hat like
the one produced till lately, when he wore a sort of cloth
hat. He believed the hat produced was the identical one.
The prisoner's hat had a black band on it like the one pro.
doted, he being in mourning for a child. The prisoner
never lost a day while 'working for him, and he had en-
trusted him with his business.

In answer to Mr. Knox, Sergeant Cole said he knew
nothing against the prisoner Morris's character.
Mr. Knox said he felt no jury would convict the prisoner,
and he should discharge him.
M‘Mahon was then replaced at the bar in Mr. Welsh-
man's case.

Mr. Welshman said that in July last the prisoner and
another came to his house and asked for the bagatelle balls,
and went upstairs and played, and then left, and directly
after they were gone he went into his bedroom and missed
a quantity of property. On seeing the prisoner in custody
he at once identified him as one of the two men.
_ _

In answer to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Welshman said it was about
six o'clock in the evening, that he had last seen the pro-
perty safe in the morning, and that a great many persons
had been upstairs in the course of the day. He was informed
by the police that they had taken a man on suspicion of
stealing his clothes ; and on going to the station he saw
three men in plain clothes, and identified the prisoner. The
prisoner when he lett had no bundle.
In answer to a solicitor for the prosecution Mr. Welsh-
man said he had no doubt whatever of the prisoner's
identity.
Mr. Knox said there was nothing against the prisoner,
only the fact that he had played at bagatelle on the day
the robbery was committed. He should therefore discharge
him.

THE GREAT SHIP COMPANY.

SPECIAL MEETING-THIS DAY.

A special general meeting of shareholders was held this
day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering
and determining the steps to be adopted to relieve the
Great Ship Company from the difficulties that at present
surround it.

IV. Baker, Esq., chairman of the Board of Directors,

presided.

The CHAIRMAN, in his observations to the meeting, said
they were all aware of the difficulties that encompassed
the company, from the detailed report which had been
extensively circulated amongst them. The directorshad done
all in their power to make the ship remunerative, but diffi-
culties unforeseen, and over which they had no control had
arisen, and it had been thought right to call the shareholders
together to consider what should be done to relieve the
company of its present difficulties. It remained entirely
with the meeting to determine what should be done as the
directors had exhausted all the means at their disposal.
After a few words from Mr. TAYLOR,

Mr, lIA.wEs proceeded to condemn the policy
that had been pursued by the directors. It ap-
peared to him to have been a mistake throughout
for them to place such a ship on the American
station, where she had to compete with other ships built for
speed alone. They appeared to forget that it was never
intended to submit the vessel to the frequent chances of
danger in trading with America. (Hear, hear.) She had
been built for bug voyages, such as Australia and India,
yet she had never once been further than America. He
never expected that she would pay on the station, and he
had told them so two years ago, but if they, by her
means, brought Australia within forty days of England
success would have been certain. The directors seemed en-

tirely at a loss as to policy, so he thought the sooner they
had a body of men with some more fixed principles the
better. (Hear, hear,) He proposed that before anything
was decided by the meeting, that a committee of shareholders
should be appointed to inquire into the present position of
the company, and that an adjournment should take place
for 10 days, to allow time for a thorough examination
of the company's affairs. He felt certain they had only to
place the ship in the position for which she was constructed
to ensure a return for the expense and anxieties she had
occasioned. He had the utmost confidence in the capabi-
lities of the vessel, and he felt sure she would triumph over
all her enemies.
We shall continue the report in a late edition,

SCANDALOUS OUTRAGE ON A LADY.

(From a Correspondent of the Morning Post.)

BIARRITZ, Sept. 28.—A disgraceful scene has
taken place at this fashionable watering place,
where the Court at present resides. Among the
numerous foreign visitors there are a great many
Russians and Poles, who naturally look upon one
another with great hostility. As the sympathies
of the French visitors are all for the Poles, they,
too, are not regarded with very friendly feelings by
the Russians. Among them was a French lady,
who, having just arrived from Lemberg, where she
had had opportunities of closely observing the
Polish character under great trials, was particularly
demonstrative in her expressions of attachment to
and admiration for that long-suffering nation.
These demonstrations were very unpalatable to a
certain Russian lady of high rank, who determined
to put a stop to them by inflicting a punishment
worthy of her countrymen in Poland on the enthu-
siastic Frenchwoman. Meeting her in the open
street, and in view of the imperial carriage, which
was driving past, she struck her in the face with
her parasol. The result of this brutal act was that
the Empress struck the name of the Russian lady
and several other Russians out of her visiting list.
The Russians were extremely dissatisfied at this,
especially as the Countess Przezdiecka, who,
although a Pole, is a subject of Alexander 11., was
retained on the list. A fresh revenge was deter-
mined upon. As the countess was returning from
an official soiree, a man accosted her with a letter,
requesting her to read it immediately. Thecountess
took the letter to her room and broke the seal.
Immediately some detonating powder, which was
in the seal, burst with a loud explosion, and the
countess's head-dress was on fire. Luckily her
chambermaid was near, and extinguished the flames,
which had already burnt her eyebrows and part of
her hair. 'I he letter contained the following words:
"Wretched little Polish woman, do you think we do
not know that it is by your intrigues and your de-
gradation that you have succeeded in being admitted
to the intimacy of that miserable little French
court ? We care very little either for it or you. Do
not be too proud of those miserable distinctions
which we know how to stop when we like. Let not
your barefooted compatriots imagine that they will
triumph through you. You are now warned, and
they will be also." This affair has caused great and
universal indignation, and it is said that it will be
brought forward in a court of justice.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipte.-.,

Railways. ~._.__.......:__-,,...-...,.--.
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862
£ 4 2
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,104 2,375
Belfast and County Down- 49 49 64 t 680
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,628 2,176
Bristol and Exeter 1215 1215 6,893 7,348
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington B4 8 309 29 t
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 351 329
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 218 251
Cork and Youghal • • 325 27 470 430
Cornwall 634 634 1,803 1,396
Deeside l7 17 322 336
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,473 1,512
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,653 1.924
Dublin and Meath - 191 1 3
Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 614 485 2,531 2,246
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1695 1695 8,657 8.356
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 6 / 2,952 2,678
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 351 851 39,36) 39,45
Great North of Scotland 6B 58 1,090 2,086
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 714
165 572 519
9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3541 329 9,037 8,689
Great Western 10564 10325 63,991 65.695
Inverness & Aberdeen June_ 864 864 1,495 1,391
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,596 1,564:
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 3951 39,168 36.530
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 261. 265 157 227
Llanelly 464 465 613 678
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 54 51 1,917 1,942
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 211 23,219 24,920
London, Chatham, & Dover 72 725 6,043 6,136
Do. Metropolitan Extension 106 24 1.400 60
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheflield,& Lincolnsh
Blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham (4 94 1,509
1.152
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
_2! 1,394 1,196
1,663_
Midland (incL N.-Western) 641 6145 49,277 46,478
Midland Ot.Westn. of Irind 2591. 1925 4,518 4,5)1
Monkland
Monmoutlish. Rail. & Canal 44
44 2,738 2,626
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee ...
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl. 1095 10774 57,633 51,41 3
North London
North Staffordshire
Oswestry and Newton 5O 421,5997 896 1,249 1,130
Rhymney ................ .
St-Helen's Canal& Itailway • 62 52 2,168 1,981
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern . 138 1.124 5,570 5,524
Somerset and Dorset 3ot 395 730 468
South Devon
South-Ea5tern............... 306 308 29,666 29,920
Taff Vale .•• 65 55 5,840 5,540
Ulster
Vale of Ciwyd ... 10 10 211 241
Vale of Neath . .... .......... 324 254 2,411 2.011
Waterford and *Kilkenny ..... 31 31 407 387
Waterford and Limerick ..... 77, 77 1,569 1,578
West Cornwall ..... . ........ 2K 42t 275 815 872
W.HartlepoolHaibr.&RaiL . • 48 4,925 4,583
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. i 7 566 577
Whitchaven Junction........ ?,, 12 907 736
Whitehaven & Furness Jun.. • •,) 35 815 743
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 62
Antwerp and Rotterdam ..... ~ 52 1,639 1,591
Austrian O2. 828 30,048 38,382
Belgian Eastern Junction .• • • ..n 265 315 322
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 100. 1321 1,322 947
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1084 - _
Eaatern of France lO7B 1050 55,194 60,961
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Indian Peninsula 5384 4374 4,227 4,400
Great Luxembourg .. ..
Great Southeen of India .. • • ,? 79 551 377
Great Western of Canada.. • • 3,,,',' .3i5 11,,,48 9,,.91
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant. • Iv,' 435 21,332 20,062
Northern of Canada ... - -
Northern of France
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 las{ 131,088 143,492
Paris and 0r1ean5...........
Pernambuco 774 ...... 506 -
Royal Danish 69 69 741 741
Sambre and Meuse 6B Ita 1,403 1,310
South Austrian . 1430 1315 59,000 56,151
Southern of France . • 7" 777 33,228 31,607
Victorian 196 151 8,319 5,310
Welland ........ ........ 25 25 283 640
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France .

His Excellency Count Bernstorff left the Prussian
Legation last evening to join the countess and family a
Brighton, after attending on their Royal Highnesses the
Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia on their arrival in
England on their way to visit the Queen at Balmoral.
The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Ca-
vendish, who have returned to Holkar Hall, near Milne-
thorpe, from Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, will shortly leav
or a visit to the Earl of Carlisle in Dublin, and afterwards
go to the family estates in Ireland,

ADELPHI THEATRE,

FIRST APPEARANCE OF MISS BATEMAN.

Mr. Webster commenced his winter season last evening,
and had the wand of Prospero fallen into his hands, he
could not have created a greatar change in the interior of
his theatre than it presented on the admission of the public,
compared with its appearance but two or three nights ago.
Then it was dark, dusty, and faded ; now it is light, bright,
and brilliant. In fact, a more wonderful embellishmen
has never been made in ao short a space of time. The great
feature of the evening, however, was the debut of Miss
Bateman, an American actress of great celebrity, in a play
called " Leah," a translation of the German play of " De-
borah." in which Madame Ristori appeared at Her Majesty's
Theatre last season. It will be remembered that, some 10
or 12 years ago, two juvenile comedians, " The Bateman
Children," respectively aged six and nine, appeared at the
St. James's Theatre, in selections from our best English
comedies, and created a very favourable impression by
their acting; and the young lady, whose arrival has
been heralded in the usual public way, is the
eerier of those two children, but now a matured actress'
We must candidly confess we have always had a horror of
the " forcing " principle that must be employed in bringing
op a juvenile prodigy to the mark of excellence, because, as
a rule, it always ends by crushing out all taste and inclina-
tion a child may exhibit for any particular study. Few,
very few, who have undergone the exhausting efforts have
been heard of in after time, and as the excellence of their
early training has not been shown, it cannot be surmised
that they have, when the opportunity presented itself,
thrown up a study which could only have engendered dis •
like, and completely destroyed all real natural ability. As
a rule we think this must be taken to be the case, but as
there is no rule without an exception we are pleased to re-
cord Miss Bateman as one of those rare instances. The play
of "Leah" is intended to illustrate the persecu-
tion endured by the Jews in different parts
of the world, and in the present instance
the pane is laid in Styria, and to prepare the audience in
some measure, the following lines appear in the play bill—
. gappily the last vestige has disappeared from our own
annals of religious persecution, but that en the Continent,
and especially in some parts of Germany, it subsisted to a
very recent period. In a remote village of Styria, whose
inhabitants, simple and primitive in their manners, live in
Christian peace and harmony with each other, the appear-
ance of a poor Jewish maiden with her aged relatives is
sufficient to rouse the worst passions of human nature, and
to convert the peaceful peasant into a ferocious hater of his
fellow-creature. The wretched outcasts are denied all
communion with their Christian brethren—they are deemed
incapable of the common feelings of humanity, and bent
only on evil and sordid gain, and the village knows no rest
until they are secure that the Jewish intruders have been
hunted from its boundaries." The plot is rather long, but
briefly narrated, it is as follows :—A young Jewess named
with two or three of her persecuted race,
oLneaittheir way to Bohemia, are compelled through sickness
to halt on their road and make a temporary resting place at
the outskirts of a village in Styria. By accident a young
farmer,Audolpf, the son of the magistrate of the place,
d the
betrothed lover of Madelena meets the Jewess
Leah,h
and an attachment, enamoured no doubt by the
e
beauty of the suffering and persecuted maiden, is formed.
Thea n
e e s
frequentand unusual absence of Rudoipf from home
d
certain inquiries as to the cause, but some suspect
i
that it is occasioned by his attachment to Leah. Through
the instrumentality of Nathan, an apostate, who, 15 years
ago, became a Christian to further his personal and worldly
interests, the residence of the young Jewess is discovered,
love for Rudolpf. In order to escape the ill
which she and others of her race had been
exposed,
treatmentb u but no not her
to
shebe
leaves her temporary habitation and encounters
Madelena, a niece of the village priest. This young lady,
feeling
kindly sympathy for her sufferings, endeavours
to persuade Lorrenz, the magistrate, to allow her to
a
obtain shelter in the village. Neither the magistrate nor
the priest is disposed to be deaf to the young damsel's solici-
tations; but their charitable impulses are worked upon by
Nathan, who is known as " Bertolf, the schoolmaster,"
and who professes such a deep-rooted hatred for the entire
Jewish race, that the villagers, following his dictates, turn
upon Leah with a degree of ferocity which sets at nought
of being treated otherwise than as an outcast.
ali
all her opphf,heoswever,
pursues her, and declares to her that,
the strong prejudices existing between his
a
she is the sole object of his love and at-
r e e a notwithstandingad
her
own'
w t'hat he will speedily make her his wife.
tachment,
This declaration is overheard by Nathan, who immediately
informsfather of Rudolf, and then follows a brief but
painful theter
view between father and son, the result
of which is that, as Nathan suggests a Jew will
do
for money, a sum of money shall
be offeredanything
ia
to leave the village, and thus enable
Rudolf to regain his
to Leall
partly lost affection for Madelena.
Afterwhileßudolf consents to the experiment being tried,
certain deep love of Leah that she will indignantly
a in the
refuse the bribe ; but Nathan, who is chosen to carry the
money to Leah, gives it to another Jewess, named Sarah,
who gladly promises to quit the village. Intelligence is at
once sent to Rudolf that the Jewess has accepted the money.
But in the meantime an old blind Hebrew, who has over-
heard the interview' detects in the voice of Nathan a villain
other crimes besides apostacy. This so
who has committed
enrages Nathan that he kills the old father on the spot.
Leah, however, fearful of her lover's absence, seeks him at
his end is spurned by all, even by Rudolf,
who
btehleire's house,vesthecalummes told of her. Five years are
now supposed to elapse, when Leah re-appears, vowing
hatred and revenge on Rudolf. In the meantime Rudolf
has married Madelena, and their first-born has been named
"Leah." Instead of a curse, the heart-broken wanderer
at upon Rudolf, and dies, but not before
ho re
ed blessing
the sin
gtreaebery and apostacy of Nathan.
breathes a
denounced
Having thus outlined the plot, let us now speak of the
performance, and first of Med Bateman. She is now a lady
of the most graceful
figure, with fine expressive features,
te
and a blonde. Her voice is good,
everyglittering,
word dazzlings
lieu yes'
utters is audible (but with it there is the
gng,
transatlantic twang), and her action grand, imposing, and
majestic. It is not until the third act that any great call
is made upon her powers; but then, when the effort
was made, the audience were most enthusiastic in
their applause. The fourth act was also very finely given,
and in the concluding scene she gave many of the lines
with exquisite delicacy and pathos. Since the appearance
of Miss Cushman we have not had a finer actress from the
otherand when she has overcome some
of her
Americanisms,
eid of theant Atlanticsrao,which an artiste of her great talent is
sriew
sure to do, she will become an amazing favourite with
the
igingto_n played the part of Rudolf with
great
Arthur Stirling. as Nathan,
the
gave evidence of being a very useful addition to the talented
earnestness;iir.33 and
company of the Adelphi.
The play has been put upon the stage in a magnificent
manner, and we have to congratulate Mr. Webster upon
the successful manner in which he has inaugurated his
, winter season.