The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-24 00:00:00

18.18.91
30.17.6

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVE.NING, MAY 24, 186 as

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Brougham.)
IN RE WOLLHEIM.

This bankrupt was -described as of 14, Charles-street,
Westbourne-square, merchant, lately trading in co-part-
uership with Joseph Wollheim and °kirles Schiff, as
merchants at Alexandria. To-day was appointed for
the first meeting, but no accounts are yet filed, the figures
being very heavy—debts X 150,000, and assets not yet
ascertained.
IN RE -. -A DISPUTED ADJUDICATION.

In re a firm of merchants in the city, the adjudication
was disputed. The figures are said to be heavy, but it
would be manifestly unfair to tho firm to publish tho facts
pending the result.
(Before Mr. Registrar Winslow.)

IN RE LIEUT.-COL. CHESNEY-THE NATIVE INDIAN ARMY.

This bankrupt Was described as a retired lieutenant-
colonel of the Madras Native Indian Army. He was for-
merly a lieutenant, then a captain, then a major, in the
23d Regiment of Madras Native Infantry, and then Deputy
Commissioner of various places in India. He ascribes his
failure to having been obliged to retire from the army in
consequence of being pressed by various creditors. The
accounts filed show debts £2,780, of which the bankrupt
states that he shall object to the proof of about £760 under
the statute of limitations.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

LONDON BAD FISH SENT TO PARIS-BENJAMIN V. EDIVARDS.

This was an action to recover £lO for fish supplied to
defendant, plaintiff being a fish salesman of Billingsgate,
and defendant also a fish dealer.

Plaintiff deposed that he had sold the defendant the fish
charged for.
Mr. Buchanan (for defendant)—Was not Mr. Edwards
employed by you to send the fish to Paris, as it was unfit
for the London markets ?

Plaintiff—l believe that the fish did go to Paris to a
person there, but I did not employ him to send it. Defen-
dant bought the fish upon his own account.
His Honour—Was any one present ?
Plaintiff—My son.
Plaintiff's Son—l was at the stand when defendant
bought the fish. He bought them in his own name.
Mr. Buchanan—Were they sent to Paris ?
Witness—Yes.
Mr. Buchanan—They were too bad for the London
market, were they not ? (A laugh.)
Witness—They had been put on one side.
Mr. Buchanan—They were not that day's, fish, at all
events.

Witness—No, they were not. They were the previous
day's fish, and had been put on one side.

Mr. Buchanan—Now, I ask you, was the fish fit for tho
London market ?
Witness—Well, not quite. (Laughter.)
His Honour thought he had better leave the case to a
jury.

- Mr. Buchanan—l will call a witness to show that plain-
tiff actually employed defendant to send his fish to Paris.

Defendant—l was in the service of a man named Myers,
who consigned large quantities of fish to Paris. Plaintiff
wanted to send some, and he sent them in my name, as he
did not wish Myers to know that ho was consigning fish
to Paris.

His Honour—l shall send the case to a jury.
Mr. Buchanan did not think the parties should be put to
the expense.
His Honour—l shall send it to a jury, to see if they
would give plaintiff a verdict upon this evidence as to the
fish sent to Pars.

The parties subsequently agreed to settle the case, and
defendant was to pay the debt by instalments.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PARISH PROSECUTION OP BROTHEL KEEPERS.—RacheI
Nathan, refreshment-house keeper, 29, Coventry-street,
and Martha Thompson, her servant, were brought before
Mr. Tyrwhitt, on a warrant, charged with keeping a
brothel.

Mr. Robinson (from the office of Messrs. Dangerfield and
Frazer, solicitors to St. Martin's parish) appeared for the
prosecution; and Mr. E. Dillon Lewis, of Great Marl-
borough-street, for the defence.
Inspector Walker, C division, having proved that the
prisoners were the persons keeping the house and named
in the warrant,

Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the prisoners to find two bails
each in £4O.

Mary Cross was charged with keeping a brothel at 8,
Oxendon-street, and Mary Howell one at 15, James-street,
Haymarket, and were ordered to enter into bail.
The prisoners were all committed to the sessions.

SELLING IMITATION JEWELLERY WITHOUT A LICENSE.—
WM. Justice, described as a hawker, of No. 3, Hanover-
street, Pimlico, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with
hawking imitation jewellery without a license.
Sergeant Thos. Shillingford, 4 C, -said that about one
o'clock that morning he saw the prisoner offering imitation
gold articles for sale. He said he had a first-rate gold
watch, and that he would sell it at cost price. A page boy
bought a set of sleeve links of him, and he (Shillingford)
then asked him if he had a license as a hawker, and he
said he had not, but that he was employed by a firm in
New York. He then took the prisoner, who had been
drinking, into custody, and at the station found in his pos-
session a quantity of jewellery made in imitation of gold.
The prisoner said he had been dealing in the articles for
years, and that he had never been interfered with before..
The prisoner said there was not a publichouse from
Pimlico, where he lived, to that. court, but he was known at.
To do as he had done was better than getting his living
dishonestly, and he did not see why he should bo picked
out more than others.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner's was a most mischievous
trade, as he got amongst raw servants from the country
and imposed upon them. The prisoner had got no license,
and ho would therefore be fined 405., or a month.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The fresh arrival of English wheat to this morning's
market was small ; but there was a considerable number of
Monday's unsold samples on the stands. The trade, both
for red and white qualities, was in a sluggish state, at a
decline in prices from Friday last of ls. per quarter.
The market was very moderately supplied with foreign
wheat. The demand for all qualities ruled far from active ;
nevertheless, previous quotations were supported.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request, at fully
late rates.

The ' supply of English barley on sale was small; of
foreign, moderate. The trade was slow, on former terms•
Malt met a slow sale, at late rates. There was a good
supply of oats on the stands. Generally speaking, sales
progressed slowly, at rather lower prices.
Beans ruled firm, and changed hands at somewhat en-
hanced rates.

Peas moved off steadily, at very full prices.
A fair average business was transacted in flour at full
quotations.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 280 110 390 220 290
Irish
Foreign
.17,670 5,990 43,320 430 sks.
brls

Comparative Quantities and Prices of Grain.—For th
Week ending May -29, 1865.—Wheat, 88,015 quarters
average, 41s. Bd. ; barley, 8,181, 295. 9d. ; oats, 3,359 ,
225. 9d. For the corresponding week last year.—Wheat,
74,321, 395. 3d. ; barley, 3,975, 295. 9d. ; oats, 5,050, 198.8 d.

The Case of the Alhambra Again,

At the Marlborough-street, police-court, yesterday, Mr.
Roberts applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt for a summons against
the proprietor of the Alhambra, for allowing stage dancing
and theatrical representations, the place of public resort not
being licensed for such performances. The magistrate
would recollect that the elaborate judgment given by him,
after hearing evidence on both sides, had been reversed on
appeal to the magistrates at the Middlesex Sessions. This
reversal, he would venture to assert, had caused general
surprise, and was opposed to the opinion of the majority of
the legal profession. Had the magistrate done at the time
what he was solicited to do, imposed such a fine as would
have obliged the defendant to take the case to the judges,
the present application would not have been necessary, for
such a decision would have been given as would have set
the question at rest, and been satisfactory to the country at
large. He thought that the magistrate, in justice to himself,
his decision having been overridden by the magistrates,
ougfit to grant a new summons.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would take a little time to consider
the application. He must pay respect and proper deference
to the opinion of the court, which was regarded as superior
to a police court. He presumed that Mr. Roberts made
this application on fresh evidence.

Mr. Roberts said the evidence was precisely similar to the
evidence brought forward on the original charge. The
same ballet and the same accessories would be put in evi-
dence.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said, that case having been decided, he
could not think of granting another summons to try it over
again.

Mr. Roberts said, although the case and evidence would
be similar, the offence would be a fresh one, the ballet
having been played continuously.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—That, of course, would make a difference.
He would say that his opinion remained the same as it was
when he gave judgment.

Mr. Roberts said tho magistrate's opinion was the opinion
of all real lawyers.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he could not show such a want of
courtesy to the Middlesex magistrates as to decide on the
application at once.

Mr. Roberts said a case was applied for but refused by the
Middlesex magistrates, who indeed came to that decision
before they entered the court. The real question was not
tried at the sessions ; the magistrates only took into consi-
deration that they had been in the habit of granting licenses
under the 25th Geo. 11., and whether the ballet dancing
exceeded that kind of dancing intended to be covered by
such license. They held that it did not, but they did not
thereby decide the legal question, which was whether the
25th Geo. 11. gave the power to magistrates to grant dancing
licenses. When the magistrates granted the license to Mr.
E. T. Smith they said the Alhambra must not be made a
casino ; they would only grant the license for stage dancing.
That, ho contended, was beyond the authority of the
magistrates, and was the real question to be determined.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the question was no doubt a very im-
portant one. He would take a few days to decide upon the
application for another summons.

WINE.—We described a short time ago M. Pas-
teur's observations on the fungi or mycodermata
which cover the surface of wine, such as the mycoderma
aceti, which promotes its transformation into vinegar, the
mycoderma vini, which contributes to its preservation in its
natural state, then that which imparts a bitter taste to it,
&c. In the paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences,
M. de Vergnette-Lamotte adds some observations of his own
on the subject. In 1846, M. Coste had sent some wines to
Calcutta, which were sent back to him, when analysis showed
that their composition had not changed; their colour only
being altered. They no longer possessed the reddish-violet
hue which characterises Burgundy, and they had assumed
the yellowish-red colour of old wines. At this time the
existence of glycerine in wine was not known, the labours
of M. Pasteur and M. Prat having but subsequently shown
that this substance exercises a considerable influence
on the taste of alcoholic liquors. M. de V.-Lamotte,
in allusion to these facts, states that in Burgundy little fear
is entertained of the sort of mycoderma or mould which
occasions a bitter taste. Wines that have been kept 20 or
30 years will acquire that flavour, which is a symptom of
their death by old age ; but the malady which is really dan-
gerous is one which attacks them in the third or fourth
year of their existence. The wine in this case acquires a
peculiar sweetish taste, which after a while degenerates
into what the French call gout de queue de renard ; a few
bubbles of carbonic acid evolved, and in the end the tartrate
of potash contained in the wine is transformed into acetate
of potash. This disease often attacks wine kept in bottles,
so that there is every reason to suppose that all wines
have the germs of mycodermata in themselves from the
vat, and that these germs remain in a dormant state
until a favourable opportunity occurs for their de-
velopment. Drawing wine frequently from the cask
is an excellent means of preservation. A cold of 12
degrees Centigrade below freezing-point, alcohol, salts,
tannin, acids, sulphurous gas, and flowers of sulphur, all
exercise an excellent preservative action on wine. Our
author tells us that the mycodermata of wine become inert
when the liquid is for some time exposed to a warmth not
exceeding 40 deg. Centigrade, and this is the reason why
wine that has been sent to India and back is so highly
prized. 31. V. Lamotte exposed a certain number of bottles
containing Burgundy, having 13 per cent. of alcohol and a
rich violet-red, to a warmth of 50 deg. Centigrade for the
space of two months, at the end of which time it was com-
pared with the same sort of wine kept in a cellar. The
latter had acquired the sweetish taste of diseased wine,
while the former had lost its violet-red hue and its
new taste, and strongly resembled Spanish wine, though
it did contain a few mycodermata in a half-organised
state. If the experiment be prolonged, the wine loses all
its colour at the end of a year, save a golden tint, which
French wine merchants call coleurpelure d'oignon. Its taste
is then so very different from that of the wine which is
threatened with the bad mycoderma, that M. V. Lamotte
thinks his plan of exposing wine to a moderate warmth
a sovereign preservative against the disease ; only care
must be taken to leave an empty space of three centi-
metres inthe neck of the bottle.

OZONOMET RIC OBSERVATIONS. Our readers
know that ozone is a modification of oxygen by
electricity; that its presence in the atmosphere is ascer-
tained by a sort of test-paper prepared with iodine, and
that the quantity of ozone is manifested by the depth
of colour which such paper assumes. We will also re-
mind them that ozone is supposed to play a great part
in the sanitary condition of the atmosphere, and that
there is strong presumption in favour of the idea that the
absence of ozone favours of the progress of epidemics, and
more especially cholera. Hence ozonometric observations
have acquired considerable importance in meteorology. In
a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, Dr. Berigny
has communicated a table of such observations made
during the last nine years, with 62 readings per month,
and the results ho has obtained may be summed up as fol-
lows :—The depth of colour acquired by the test-paper is
in the inverse ratio of temperature, and nearly in the direct
ratio of the moisture of the atmosphere; it is often in opposi-
tion to the degree of clearness of the sky, and in general
increases as we rise to a higher level. In an atmo-
sphere charged with miasmatic emanations the colour of
the paper is light in proportion to the quantity of such
emanations, showing that in unhealthy districts there is a
want of ozone. The normal acidity of the atmosphere
produces no effect on the test-paper, and during storms, it
acquires a deep tint with greater rapidity, owing to the
electrified state of the air. The month of May yields the
maximum of ozone, that of November the minimum,
March and September, which are equinoctial periods, show
a maximum of ozone. The lowest average of ozone
occurred in 1856, and the highest in 1861; the year 1864
being the fifth between these two extremes. The summer
season is generally more electrical than the winter
season, a result which it was easy to foresee
summer being the drier and warmer of the two. But in
foggy weather the paper assumes a deeper tint; a curious
anomaly. Barometric variations agree tolerably well with
ozonometric ones, but thermometric ones agree much bet-
ter. In cloudy or rainy weather the test paper acquires
a deeper hue—another singularity which it is not easy to
explain. The force of the wind does not seem to produce
any particular effect on the paper, but its direction does ;
the winds most favourable to the manifestation of ozone
being the B.E. and N.W., the opposite directions being
the least favourable. Lastly, when a storm passes over
France or England the test-paper always assumes a deeper
colour.

THE STORM OF YESTERDAY. -BURSTING OF A
SEWER ON THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY. ---
FLOODING or THE LlNE.—Yesterday afternoon during the
heavy thunder and lightning storm, an old sewer which
passed under the North London Railway, between the
Kingsland and Stoke Nowington stations, burst in conse-
quence of the great rush of water, and flooded the line for
a considerable distance. It appeared that the crown of
the arch of the sewer under the centre of the permanent
way yielded, and so great was the pressure that the water
shot up in a body as if out of the main and rushed along
the line. Fortunately the engine-drivers of the trains
had notice of what had happened, and, beyond
the traffic being somewhat delayed, nothing of im-
portance occurred to the trains. While the storm of rain
lasted no measures could be taken to check the rush of
water through the sewer, and at one time there was some
two feet of water by the side of the line. At length, after
the storm had passed over, although there was a force of
water through the sewer from the upper northern districts,
the flooding on the line subsided. Bricklayers and plate-
layers were at once set to work to repair the damage to the
sewer, and to make up those parts of the permanent way
which had suffered. In the evening the traffic went on as
sual.

Yesterday Major-General A. B. Stransham, the
Inspector-General of Royal Marines Light Infantry,
continued and brought to a close the hall-yearly
inspection of the Chatham battalion of Royal Ma-
rines, resuming it at the point at which the preview
day's inspection terminated. His visit to Chatham
terminated last evening with a banquet, given by the
officers to the Inspector-Gen. and the heads of de-
partmontst both naval and