The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-25 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1265 .. 1265
Northern
New ditto . 995 ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1100 .. 1102 50
Geneva
Southern ' 852 60 .. 850
Western
Eastern .... ... 550 .. 552 60
Sardinian
Austrian
Lowbard 615 .-- .. 616 25

FRANCE AND MEXICO.

La Patrie publishes the following :
" We are assured that the last despatches from

Mexico announce that the Expeditionary Corps of
General de Lorencez occupies an excellent encamp
ment in the province of Puebla, the most healthy
and the most fertile of the country ; that he is well
supplied with provisions, and that he may, without
any danger, pass in that position the season of the
great heats, which terminate on the 15th September.
In presence of these reassuring facts it is proposed
to delay for some days the departure of the rein-
forcements, to make them leave France in such guise
that they will not reach Vera Cruz till early in Oc-
tober. Our troops will thus avoid the great heats,
and will have for the operation in Mexico the four
most favourable months of the year as regards
climate and salubrity : that is to say_October,
November, December, and January."
La Presse has the following :

" The contingents of the troops which are now
preparing for departure in various points will not
go directly to Mexico: they will stop at Martinique
and at Guadaloupe, so as to reach Vera Cruz to-
wards the end of September, when the great heats
will be over. The last despatches from General de
Lorencez allow this delay in the despatch of the
reinforcements. Our little Expeditionary Corps
is encamped at Amazoc, in an excellent position,
and it is scarcely probable that the Mexicans will
attempt to dislodge it. In consequence of this in-
telligence the departure of General Forey seems to
have been postponed; it will probably not take
place till after the return of M. Dubois de Saligny.
As regards Admiral Jurien de la Graviere, who is
much esteemed in Mexico, he will sail at once. He
will have under his command one of the finest
squadrons in the world,conststing of the three follow-
ing divisions :—The Mexican division, the Antilles
division, and the American coast division. It is
also said that Captain Roze will be raised to the
rank of Rear-Admiral, and will retain the command
of the Mexican division, which he is exercising ad
interim since the Admiral's departure."

La Patrie says that the other divisions will be
commanded by Rear-Admirals Reynaud and de
Cande.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN A COALPIT.—On Friday
evening last, Charles O'Connell, redsman, residing at 21,
Charlotte-street, Bridgeton, was killed in EastbeanaCt
Patrick
Coal-
pit, Shettleston, while he and another man,
uhaerad k
roof fell in
M‘Lachlan, were propping up the roof. a
and killed him on the spot. W.Lachlan
esca‘ped unhurt.
LICENSING REFRESHMENT-HOUSES.—yesterday
morning, in pursuance of orders issued by the Home
Se-
cretary, a number of constables were employed in each of
the thetropolitan divisions of policestaole of refreshments in
visit all coffee-houses
and other places kept open for th
their several districts, and all who° were found trading with-
out licenses
.xtvere informed that, unless they took out the
same forthwith w,
they would be proceeded against for the
penalties they had incurred. The whole of the night
saloons in the vicinity of the HaymarketansclL, to
ocetshteerir-
square were visited, as a preliminary, it is said,
suppression.
DIE COURT OF CHANCERY.—The sittings for
after Trinity Term commenced yesterday. The cause list
of the Court of Chancery shows an entry of nine appeals
and five causes before the Lord Chancellor and tha Lords
Justices; 117 causes, &c., before the Master of the Rolls;
43 causes, &c., beforeVice-Chancellor Sir R. 'I. Kindersley;
57 causes, &c., before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart ;
and 163 causes beforo Vico-Chancellor Sir W. F, Wood, I

At the Manchester County Court yesterday,
before Mr. E. Ovens, the new judge, the case of
John Dixon and James Whaley v. John Chadwick,
Joseph Ingham, and Abraham Howard, was heard.
Mr. Leresche appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr.
Hopwood for the defendants. The case was argued
at length before the late judge, Mr. Brandt, on the
3d of January. Mr. Brandt took time to consider
his decision, but he died before he had given judg-
ment, and a new trial was consequently neces-
sary. The plaintiffs, as trustees of the Steam
Engine Makers' Friendly Society, which has its
head-quarters in Faulkner-street, Manchester,
sought to recuver the gum of £Bl 12s. ld.
from the defendants, as trustees of the North-
east Manchester Branch of the same society.
The Steam Engine Makers' SociLty consists of
various branches, distributed throughout the coun-
try, and is managed byan executive council,to whom
branches are required to make a periodical return of
their receipts and expenditure. From this return
the general secretary " equalises" the funds; that
is, he orders the branches whose funds are above a
certain proportion to each member, to pay the
overplus to those branches whose expenditure has
reduced their proportion below the average. On
the Ist of June, 1860, the North-East Manchester
Branch received, in pursuance of this rule of the
Society, the sum claimed. Subsequently, a dispute
arose between the branch and the executive, which
ultimately resulted in the branch withdrawing
from the general body and joining another
Society called " The Amalgamated Engineers,"
taking their funds with them. Application
was made to the Court, under the 44th section
of the Friendly Societies' Act, which, it was stated,
conferred upon the Judge all the:powers of the Lord
Chancellor, and left no appeal from his decision.
One of the rules of the Steam Engine Makers'
Society provides that the funds of the various
branches shall only be used for the purposes of the
Society, viz., for the relief of the members in cases
' of sickness, accidents, &c., and it was contended on
behalf of the plaintiffs, that the defendants having
used the funds for purposes other than those of the
Society, were bound to make restitution. The facts
of the case were admitted by the defendants, but
it was argued that, inasmuch as the members had
subscribed their fair proportion towards the
funds, the moneys in hand were their own,
and not those of the Society, and therefore they
had a right to do as they liked with them.
The judge interrupted Mr. Hopwood's defence, and
said it was quite clear that the defendants had no
right to the money ; it belonged to the general
society. The money they received that year they
might have been called upon, had they remained
attached to the society, to pay to some other
branch the following year. It was, therefore, clear
that they had no private property in it. He should
give judgment for the plaintiffs, the money to be
paid in a month.—The judgment was afterwards
rpritirpri to 41...4 aLe ..-
mainder had actually been appropriated to the
purposes of the society.—This decision was looked
forward to with much interest, as it was stated that
other branches were in the same position as the
North-east Manchester.— Manchester Guardian.