The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-29 00:00:00

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LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING—(THIS DAY).
This afternoon the half-yearly general meeting of the
shareholders of this company was held at the International
Hotel.

Mr. Leo Schuster, whose retirement has been for a long
time announced, appears to have reconsidered his determi-
nation to resign, and again presided, and, with his usual
tact, laid before the proprietors the state of their affairs.
The report which was presented has already appeared in
The Sum.

'There was some discussion in the matter, but it resulted,
as will be the case in all successful undertakings, in the
declaration which has already been announced.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Miles Opened.
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Hallway%

Receipts.

1865.

1864.

1805 1864

i
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 4
2,310 2 Belfast and County Down 4O 49 . 1,003 820735
Blyth and Tyne 2B
121 122816 2,0734 27;216234
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian 28161 £4l 22.216 20,872
Cambrian
Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 316 ___ 41i
Cockermouth and Workin, .. 9 9 372 339
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 434 383
Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 6j si 243 331
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall
17 654 65
171 4,
536 463 1.775
Deeside 484
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,637 1.505
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2,;93 1.8 4
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid lO7l 911 4,226 3,594
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 51 3,511 3.25 ,
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 404 365 38,975 3 ,836
Great North of Scotland 99 93 3,600 3,048
(.1 tNorth.n. & Wes tn. (Ire].) 7ll 716 510 437
9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3Bl 887} 10,834 11.461
Great Western l2BO 1236 75,595 74,573
Hull & Hornsea
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno ll7l 1176 1,868 1,181
Inverness & Perth Junction 1.8 119} 2,225 2,078
Irish North-Western 145 145 2,075 1,961
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 45.401 43,370
Limerick and Ennis.. 241 241 231 211
Limerick and Foynes 2f 261 183 125
Llanelly 466
461 770 780
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall s} bl 2,188 2,162
London & South-Weitern
Lond. Brighton, &B. Coast
I
London, Chatham,
& Dover l27f 127 12,988 12.t.,29
all Metropolitan Extension 2,920 2,500
Do. Kent Coast - - 27 27 3,200 3.00'
Lon., 'Tilbury, & Southend
alan.,Sheineld,&Lincoinsh
blanch. S.Jun.&Altrineliam 9l ga 1,637 1,519
Slaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan - 2,319
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6631 641 49,898 49,390
Midland GtWestn. of Irind 262 2501 5,167 4.130
Monkland 716 716 1,657 1,689
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,871 2,762
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock & DarL 1188} 1159
North London 9 9
North Staffordshire 258 258
Rhymney l9l 191
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138
Somerset and Dorset 66 65
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB 303
Tall' Yale 6l 27
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31
Waterford and Limerick 77 77
West Cornwall 276 276
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10
Whitehaven Junction 33 13
Whit chaven & Furness Jun 35 35
FOIIEIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction . -
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 1851
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189
Dutch Rhenish lOB6 It 81
Eastern of France 1176 1428
Eastern Bengal - -
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1.335 23489 21,635
Great Central of Belgium 295 205 6,5.81 - -
Great Indian Peninsula 590 5531 23,270 11,126
Great Luxembourg 134 134 5,344 4.544
Great Southeen of India
Great Western of Canada 345 3i 5 10,598 9,311
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Aiicant 6Bl 650 20,1 2 17.423
Northern of Canaaa .......•
Northern of France 728 728 62,576 57,501
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1067 1781 135,302 133,459
Paris and Orleans 1616 1614 66,168 64.549
Recife and San Francisco, Ac. 771 771 1,089 63)
Scinde . - -
-.-• -
South Austrian, AC .. . 2296 1527 78,773 52,203
,
Southern of France 823 770 30 .78 28,294
Victoria
Welland.
25 25 4n9 5:4
West A N-Wn. of France

25,961 24,512
70,193 73,760
3,382 11,344
8,617 8.902
1,163 963
5,881 6,230
,299 5,878
1,149 874
8.116 4,207
28,43: 27.1,45
5,859 5,61190
3.v05 2.711
2 5 229
401 387
I,`3a 1,15

6 2 681
97 92
bOl 819

39,694 31,933
4 3 389
310 328
5,303 3,436
5,7 8 4,517
7,,P1 7,4:2
:72,645 65,104

Commission of Lunacy.--Extraordinary Case.

Yesterday, at the Clement's-inn Hall, au inquisition in
unacy was taken before Francis Barlow, Esq., and a
special jury of 17, in the case of William Backwell Tyning-
ham, Esq., of Tyningham, Bucks, who, it was alleged, was
of unsound mind, and who was an inmate of Dr. Blanch's
establishment, near Paris.
Mr. Karslake, Q.C., appeared in support of the commis-
sion ; Mr. C. Hall watched the case on behalf of the unfor-
tunate gentleman ; and Mr. Wickens attended on behalf of
some members of tho
The Master in Lunacy explained to the jury that inqui-
sitions were not now of frequent occurrence, but where a
party was residing out of the jurisdiction of the Court of
Chancery, as in this case, and there was no power to bring
him over to England, it was necessary that the question
should bo submitted to a jury, and they would have to
determine whether he was capable of managing his
affairs, because if he was not, then the Court of Chancery
could take his property under its control, allow a sufficient
sum for his maintenance, and protect the other portion for
those who were entitled to the same. Mr. Karslake stated
the ease, and described it as one of a romantic character. It
appeared that Mr. Tyningham, who is'36 years of age, and
possessed of considerable landed estates in Buckingham-
shire, having been educated at Eton and at Oxford Uni-
versity, was married to a young lady on the 25th of
March last, and left the Westminster Palace Hotel on that
day, for the wedding tour, accompanied by a German
widow, Mrs. Herman, who acted as lady's-maid. Mrs.
Tyningham was described as a person of great personal
attractions, with whom he had been acquainted three
months. They proceeded to Dover, and reached Paris on
the 25th March. On the following day he became excited,
and declared that he was " fire proof." In a few days his
malady developed itself ; and on one occasion he challenged
the statue of Napoleon I. to come down to fight him. On
the Ist of April Mrs. Tyningham became alarmed, and Sir
Joseph Olive, the physician to the embassy, was consulted.
On the 2d of April Mrs. Herman enticed him into a car-
riage, and he was taken to Dr. Blaiich's establishment,
where he still remained. The learned counsel read the
evidence, taken under a commission, of Dr. Blanch, Sir
Joseph Olive, and an attendant at the establishment. Tho
unfortunate gentleman was described as having been very
violent and assaulting several persons ; he picked up and
chewed leaves and grass.
Dr. Rogers was called as a witness before the jury, and
described the four interviews he had with him at the esta-
blishment, the last being on Thursday ; he was not violent
but was clearly a lunatic. The complaint was acute mania,
and he might become an idiot. Knowing that he
Oxford man Dr. Rogers spoke to him on theartemeee,n to which
wasOx an
Oxford
•
election, and asked him if he was a Consory
he replied that he liked "black beer and coal heavers."
Mr. C. Hall said he appeared on thopart of M
r. T yning:
ham to watch the proceedings, and after hearing the evi-
dence he had nothing to say on the matter.
A Jurorsuggested that another physician should see him.
The Master said the evidence was brought down to the
present period, and he could not order further evidence.
At the desire of the jury,
Mrs. Harman was called, and described the conduct of
the unfortunate gentleman from the day of the marriage
to the 2d of April, when he was taken to the asylum.
It was also proved in evidence that his physical health
was goo, d and that he did not wish to leave the place.
Master Barlow told the jury that the question was,
whether at the present time Mr. Tyningham was capable
of managing his affair; and the evidence was brought down
to Thursday last. It was necessary that twelve of the
jury should be unanimous in their verdict.
One of the jury required further evidence, but the other
sixteen were of opinion that Dr. Tyningham was of un
sound mind, and the verdict was recorded.

Mr. Lawrence, the senior surgeon of St. Bartho-
lomew's, has this week retired from the surgeoncy
of that hospital. "By this retirement," says the Lancet,
" Mr. Wormald becomes senior surgeon, and Mr. Luther
Holden becomes surgeon after some 30 years connection
with the hospital. Other changes have already been
arranged at the close of the last session, by which Mr.
Paget and Mr. Holmes Coote became the lecturers on
surgery, and Mr. Heiden and Mr. Callender the lec-
turers on anatomy. Among the candidates for the vacant
assistant-surgeoncy are mentioned Mr. Willett and Mr.
Baker."

MURDER OF A BAILIFF IN IRELAND.—On Wed-
nesday the body of a man named Thomas Devlin,
agent on the estate of Mr. Archibald Godley, Ladyrath,
Navan, who h4l been.missing from his home for the last
10 days, was found in a ditch, at Mountainstown, dread-
fully mangled, There is no doubt that ho was foully and
brutally murdered. Those who discovered his body wore
attracted to the spot where he was lying by the smell
arising from the putrefaction of his remains.—lrish Times.
FATAL FOOT RACE AT MIDNIGHT.—On Thurs-
day an inquest was held in Pownall-road, Dalston, on the
body of Mr. Robert Griffin, aged 50 years, who died from
disease of the heart after racing with a young man on
Saturday night shortly after 12 o'ciock. The jury returned
a verdict in accordance with the evidence.
INTERDICT AGAINST THE SALE OF PORTRAITS OF
THE PRITCHARD FAMILY.—We are informed that interdicts
have been served on two persons in Dundee against the
sale of photographs of the family of Dr. Pritchard; on the
ground that such sale is unauthorised and injurious to the
feelings of the friends of the family.—Dundee Advertiser.

TIIIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK.

PRUSSIA.

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The King of Prussia, when on his way to Gastein,
dined with the Archduke Louis-Victor at Klesheim,
near Salzburg. King. Louis I. of Bavaria, who is
at the present moment residing at his seat of Leo-
poldkron, in the neighbourhood of that town, went
in the afternoon with his son, PriAce Luitpold, to
pay a visit to King William, but the latter had gone
on an excursion to Reichenhall, so that the two
monarchs did not meet.

Great Fire at Bethnal-green.—This Day,

This morning shortly before ono o'clock the inhabitants
of Bethnal-green-road, leading from Shoreditch to St.
John's-church, on Bethnal-green, were alarmed by loud
cries of fire, and their worst fears wore soon realised, forty
houses having in a very short space of time having been
utterly destroyed. So great a fire was never witnessed in
the neighbourhood. The fire seems to have broken out on
the premises of Mr. George Sharpe, a cabinet maker, 72,
Bethnal-green-road, the discovery having been made by
the policeman on duty. Engines from the various stations
were soon on the spot, and actively at work, which soon
told upon the fire. There was every hope that by means
of this powerful engine the fire would speedily have
been extinguished, but, unfortunately, a strong south-
west wind sprung up, and the fire communicated itself to
the adjoining houses, defying all the exertions to arrest its
progreste At this moment 20 houses at least took fire, and
the scene was of the most agonizing description. Hundreds
of people, most of whom appeared to be very poor, rushed
.rom their room, carrying with them such of their clothes
and scanty furniture on which they could lay their hands,
in the confusion and excitement that prevailed. Unhappily
none of them, or very few at all events, are insured.
While the fire was thus raging a fresh alarm was raised
in consequence of its seizing upon certain houses in South-
street, 15 of which were speedily destroyed, although every
exertion was made to save them. Five or six houses in
Squirres-street were also burned. One of these houses was
in the possession of Mr. Bvenill, a timber merchant, all
of whose stock was destroyed. Amongst the principal
sufferers are Mr. George Wagstaffe, tin-plate worker; Mr.
Elsam, clothier ; Mr. A. Wilson, cooper ; Mr. W. J. Bond,
saw and tool maker; Mr. Samuel Kelting, umbrella manu-
facturer ; Mr. H. Mourse, surgeon ; Mr. Edwards, con-
fectioner; Mr. S. Cox, saddler; Mr. Mitchell, furrier;
Mr. G. Robinson, cowkeeper ; Mr. Westall, tailor ; Mr. J.
Avowal, packing-case maker ; and Mr. W. Sandford, con-
fectioner. The scene presented this morning is a very dis-
tressing one, the streets being filled with the furniture
which has been saved from the fire, while the owners aro
for the most part homeless and ruined. The leading in-
habitants, with the Rev. S. H. Hansard, the rector of
Bethnal-green, at their head, are already actively engaged
in getting up a subscription, by means of which it is hoped
the distress of the unfortunate people may be to some extent
alleviated.