The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1865.

questions alone. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, in his
speech at, the election yesterday, made some good
observations, and vindicated his party from some of
the unfair attacks made upon it. He demurred to
the practice of some who called the Conservatives
drag-ohains and hindrances in the march of improve-
ment. He truly said that the reason why our political
course was so successful was that all reforms were
freely discussed, and in this lay the secret of the
the advance of England. Sir S. NORTHCOTE rightly
said that the personal influence of the Premier had
a great deal to do with the continuance of the pre-
sent Government in office, and it was often with
the support of the Conservatives that they held on
to office against their own followers. The hon.
baronet expressed an opinion that the new Parlia-
ment would neither be revolutionary nor reac-
tionary, but that the great mass would maintain
the principles of the British constitution, forward
moderate and safe reforms, and advance, as far as
they safely could, the cause of commercial and gene-
ral freedom and improvement. There is no doubtthat
this will prove in the main a very fair description of
the future representative assembly at St. Stephen's.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE is a man who could be ill spared
from the House, for he is enlightened in his views,
and not unduly influenced by the claims of party.
He rightly said that the duties of an oppositon were
only second in importance to those of Government
itself, " for much depends on the conduct of those
on the left hand side of the Speaker." The Conser-
vatives have the credit of ably discharging the
duties of the Opposition, while the Liberal party
signally fails in so doing, and never can comport
itself with anything like dignity and decorum. It
is time that they raised themselves to the ful-
filment of their duties, and thought less of
private and party considerations and more of
the honour and interests of the mighty principles
they profess and the great cause they advocate.
Much has recently occurred to cast a slur on the
reputation and impugn the sincerity of many dis-
ciples of progress and advocates of freedom. No
reform is more necessary or desirable at present
than one in the Liberal party itself, for its motley
army comprise men of every shade of opinion,
who never really coalesce with any spirit or
energy but when they think that their position is
threatened. Thus, in power, they never achieve
anything great or lasting, while out of it they
make promises they will not perform, and give
pledges they cannot fulfil, reckless of the scandal
and oblivious of the shame of such proceedings, only
too happy if by any means, at any cost, they can
pass through the wilderness of opposition to the
promised land of office.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTYR'S TELEGRAMS.)

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, JULY 11.

The Government, contrary to general expecta-
tion, have carried the elections by a small majority
throughout the country. In Lisbon and Oporto,
however, the Opposition obtained the majority.

TURKEY.
(pa Marseilles.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 5.

The rumours that cholera has broken out here
and at .Smyrna are unfounded. A short quaran-
tine is, how ever, imposed on vessels sailing between
the two ports.

.
Tbe parties implicated in the Djeddah massacre
have men amnestied.

The rumoured voyage of the Prince Royal o.
Persia to Europe has been coutradicted.

FRANCE.

The Courrier de Bretagne, a paper published at
Lorient, gives an interesting account of an experi-
ment made at Belle-Isle last week to fish at night
by means of electric light. The light was produced
by a powerful electro-magnetic machine constructed
by M. Bazin, the well-known engineer. The experi-
ment, which was conducted by M. Bazin on board
the Andalouse, in the presence of 1,500 persons as-
sembled on the pier, was completely successful, and
the quantity of fish taken very large. A person who
was present states that nothing can be more exciting
than fishing at sea by night with the aid of this light.
As soon as the submarine lantern was immersed
shoals of fish of every description came to sport in
the illuminated circle, while the fishermen outside it
spread their nets from their boats. The light illumi-
nating the -leep sea, the fish arriving in shoals,
attracted by the fictitious sun, the boats at the edge
of the lighted circle, the deep silence, interrupted
only by the grating of the electro-magnetic machine,
is described as an imposing sight. M. Bazin is
shortly to proceed to Bona, in Algeria, to establish
a coral fishery by the assistance of his electric light.
He proposes in the meantime to descend full 400
feet into the sea, and explore what he calls the
" depths of the ocean" with his submarine instru-
ments. The Minister of Marine has given orders
for a ship of war to be placed at his disposal, and
Aamiral Choppart has appointed a commission,
composed of engineers and naval officers, to attend
M. Bazin's experiments officially.
A magnificent casino,
commenced in November,
1863, under the direction of Mr. Badger, an Eng-
lish architect, after plans previously approved of by
the Emperor, has just been opened at Vichy. The
building consists of an enclosure for open-air con-
certs, a ball-room capable of containing 800 persons,
and a restaurant, with cafe and terrace.

The Lyons journals state that during a thunder-
storm on Sunday last, a house was struck by light-
ning in the Rue de laVisitation, at the Croix Rousse.
A chimney was shattered by the shock, and two per-
sons in a room on the second floor were not only
nearly suffocated, but one of them had a leg broken.
Both lie at present in an almost hopeless state.
Very heavy rain fell in that city and neighbourhood
for several hours.

"We have been informed," says the Industrie,
" that M. Quillacq, mechanical engineer, of Anzin
(Nord), has received an order to make a powerful
pumping machine for a coal-mine near Newcastle.
This will be the first machine of the kind ever sent
from France to England."
So violent a storm broke over St. Etienne (Loire)
three days back, that all circulation was for a time
suspended on the Firminy and Pont de Lignon
railway in consequence of the quantity of earth
washed on the line by the flood of water which de-
-1 scended from the mountains. The Bourbonnais
railway near Fouillouse, was also damaged, and the
traffic interrupted at one point. The company has
issued a notice stating that between Petruiset and
Buret there is a complete obstruction, and that be-
tween Firminy and Pont-de-Lignon a service of
conveyance has been organised.
BOURSE, July 11.—The markets for Stocks and
Shares have been tolerably active since the opening
to-day, and the rates realised show a further aug-
mentation on yesterday's close. Threes, for the
Account, which opened at 67f. 12c., are now at
67f. 30c., and Mobilier shares, which were first
quoted at 656 f., are done at 663 f. 75c. The stock
of the Mexican and Italian Loans show no reduc-
tion
quotations. The
ted during the early
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hours has continued, and the market closes with a
further advance in nearly all classes of Securities :

41 per Cents 97
Do. end month —

Ditto Threes 65
New Mexican . 46 75

3 per Cents. 67 45
Do. end month 67 45
Credit Mobilier 600

Do. Bonds 3lB 75
Russian
Austrian -

Do. end month 695
Bank Shares 3575

Spanish Threes
Home Debt

Credit Foncier

Deferred

39 25

Italian Loan 64 80
Do. end month 64 90

Ronian

RAIL'

Orleans

'AYS.

Cash. Acd.
... 880 ... 830

Northern lO3B 75 ::. 1038 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 845 ... 845
Southern 556 25 ... 557 50
Western 535 . 533 75
Eastern
Sardinian . 262 50 ... 260
Austrian
Lombard 482 50 ... 485
North of Spain 152 50 ... 160
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

MARKETS---This Day,

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of English
wheat were very moderate. There was no activity in the
demand, however, either for red or white produce ; never-
theless, previous quotations were supported. Nearly the
whole of the supply came to hand in excellent condition.
Only a moderate supply of foreign wheat was on the
stands. The business transacted was chiefly of a retail
character, but all good, and fine parcels changed hands at
fully late rates.

Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, at abou'
previous quotations.

The supply of barley on sale was moderate. The trade
was slow, and inferior qualities were rather lower in price.
Malt was in slow request, at late rates.
Oats were in. good supply, and there was a tolerably
active demand for nearly all qualities, at Monday's currency.
Beans and peas ruled firm, at full quotations.
There was a fair demand for flour, at quite previous rates.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Sootch. 410 20 250 270

:rish

Foreign 16,820 5,930

- 28,270

sks.
brls

COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending July For the corresponding week
8, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 56,954-428 5d Wheat 72,580-405 9d
8ar1ey......... 577-288 4d Barley l,lOB-270 2d
Oats

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN RE R. K. PIIILP.

This bankrupt was described as an author, of Colebrook-
road, Islington, and to-day was appointed for proof of
debts. The accounts already on the file show an indebted-
ness of £1,132, of which £5OO are due to Messrs. Kent and
Co., the publishers of Paternoster-row. The bankrupt
attributes his appearance in the court to the failure of a
work upon which he was engaged, and the non-success of
literary speculations.

SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT.
(Before 0. Coleman, Esq., and a Jury.)
GARRARD V. GRAVES.-FALSE IMPRISONMENT,

This was an action to recover damages in a case of false
imprisonment of a most singular character, Mr. Palmer
appearing for the plaintiff, who is a broker and house
agent at Hackney, and Mr. Harris representing defendant,
managing clerk to an attorney, who pleaded that he did
not give the plaintiff into custody.
It appeared that a person named Brett had taken a green-
grocer's shop in the Hackney-road in the early part of May
last from an out-going tenant, and he alleged that he made
an agreement with the landlord of the premises to pay the
rent quarterly. However this was, the landlord demanded
his rent at the end of the month, and upon the non-pay-
ment of the same, employed the plaintiff to distrain. Brett
sent for the defendant, who is clerk to Mr. Vann,

the well-known attorney of Providence Row, Worship-
street, and the defendant went to the house. It appeared

that when there he could not get plaintiff's man it; leave
the house, and after seeing the warrant he departed. The
next day Brett sent for him in consequence of the removal
of the goods from the house. A scene of considerable
confusion occurred while the van was at the door, and
plaintiff, with his men, was given into custody. Plaintiff
was conveyed to the station-house in a cab, but a mob of
idlers who had collected ran after the cab and broke a
window with a brickbat. At the station-house the ser-
geant said there could be no charge against the plaintiff,
who was subsequently restored to his original position in
the house. There being in the mind of the sergeant some
difficulty as to who had given the plaintiff into custody,
he deposed that he asked the question, " Who charges 2"
and Graves replied, " I do." No charge sheet, however,
was produced, and it could not be denied that there had
been great confusion.

On the part of the defendant, it was sworn by himself
that he did not give the plaintiff into custody at all. He
saw that a wrongful distraint was being made, and he, as
the managing clerk of an attorney, having been consulted
by a client, had advised that client to give into custody
the person taking the goods. An action was now pending
against plaintiff in the Queen's Bench for illegal distress in
this very matter.
Brett said, " I gave plaintiff into custody," and in this
he was borne out by other evidence.

His Honour, in summing up to the jury, pointed out the
conflict of testimony on the part of the witnesses, referring
to the evidence of the police-sergeant as to the person who
gave plaintiff into custody. He also pointed out that
whoever had given the plaintiff into custody had acted in
a most improper manner, because plaintiff was only obey-
ing his warrant, and the order of the landlord of the
house. If a broker acting under a properly constructed
warrant made a wrongful levy, then the parties had a
remedy against him at common law, bat to give
him into custody upon a charge of felony was most unjus-
tifiable. If the jury believed plaintiff and the sergeant of
police the verdict would be for the plaintiff, but if they be-
lieved that defendant, acting as the legal adviser of Brett,
only suggested that plaintiff should be given into custody,
and Brett acting up to that did give him in charge, then
the verdict would be for the defendant.

The jury retired, and, after a brief deliberation, found a
-verdict for the defendant.

Verdict for the defendant with costs.

CEN TRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day

OLD COURT.
(Before Chief Baron Pollock).
Thomas Debenham, surgeon, surrendered to an indict-
ment charging him with the manslaughter of Thomas
Solomons.

It will be recollected that the defendant was a surgeon
in the Commercial-road, Stepney, and that the deceased
was in the employ of a shipbuilder or rigger. On the
night of the unfortunate occurrence the deceased, whilst
in a state of intoxication, mistook tho garden gate
of the defendant's house for that of one of his
relatives, and the defendant, who had retired to rest,

thinking it to be some burglars attempting to enter
the premises, challenged the defendant, and threatened
to shoot him if he did not retire. The deceased, owing to
his intoxicated state, took no notice of the threatening,
whereupon the defendant discharged a revolver at him and
shot him dead.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine made a most forcible appeal to
the jury on behalf of the defendant, at the conclusion of
which,
The Chief Baron summed up the evidence, and told the
jury that the defendant had no right to resort to firearms
without his life was in actual danger.
The jury having consulted, said they could not agree.

The learned Judge asked whether there was any assist
ance he could give them.
The foreman said they were all agreed that the defendant
fired to alarm, and not to kill.

The Lord Chief Baron then informed the jury that the
question that remained for them to determine was whether
it was reasonable or discreet to fire a pistol loaded with
ball in the direction that he did. He understood the jury
all to be of opinion that the defendant did not moan mis-
chief, but only to alarm.
The Foreman said that was so.

The Chief Baron told the jury they had better retire for
deliberation, and they accordingly quitted the box for that

purpose.
After an absence of about twenty minutes the jury re
turned into court with a verdict of " Acquittal."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PICKPOCKETS AT THE MARYLEBONE ELECTION.—Edward
Daniels alias Sparkes, a young fellow with a peculiar
countenance, and Edward Brown, a sharp boy, were
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt for picking pockets near the
polling booth in Portland-place yesterday afternoon.
King, 76 D, proved seeing the two prisoners together
yeiterday afternoon in Portland-place. He watched them
a short time when he saw Brown try the pockets of several
gentlemen, and then beckon Daniels up to him. Daniels
then covered Brown while he picked the pocket of a gen-
tleman, and King then took the prisoners into custody,
when he found on Daniels a pocket-handkerchief marked
" R. F. 8.," which he said he had bought of a shoeblack
for a shilling, and another on Brown.

Brown—l found it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—ln a gentleman's pocket ?
Brown—Oh no! in the crowd.
Police-constable James Croske, 160 E, said that Daniels
was convicted with some others six years ago for a like
robbery.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for two months
•ach with hard labour..