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

rHE LcorioN, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 180,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OP BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr; Registrar Brougham.)
IN RE WOLLHEINI.

This bankrupt was described as of 14, Charles-street,
Westbourne-square, merchant, lately trading in co-part-
nership with Joseph. Wollheim and Charles 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.

MARKE TS—This Day,

MARK-LANE.

Tho 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 is. 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 riled fiiin, 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 wtEx.
Wheat.Barley.Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch.. 280 110 390 220 290

Irish—
Foreign 1..17,070 5,990 43,320

430 sks.
brls

Comparative Quantities and Prices of Grain.—Vor the
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, 19s. Bd.

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 magitrates 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. Ho thought that the magistrate, in justice to himself,
his decision having been overridden by the magistrates,
ought 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. lle 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. Tho
same ballet and the same accessories would be put in evi-
dence.

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

again.

Mr. Roberta 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.
lie would say that his opinion remained the same as it was
when he gave judgment.

Mr. Roberts said the 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, he 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 taken few days to decide upon the
application for another summons.

WDTE.—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,
Ste. lii tha paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences,
M. de Vergnette-Lamotte adds some observations of his own
on the subject. In 1846, M. Costa 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 wino 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 wino frequently from the cask
is au 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. M. 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 wino, 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 in the neck of the bottle.

OZONOMETRIC 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 he 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 S.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 TIIE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY. -
FLOODING OF THE LlNE.—Yesterday afternoon during the
heavy thunder and lightning storm, an old sower which
passed under the North London Railway, between the
Kingsland and Stoke Newington stations, burst in conse-
quence of the great rush of water, and flooded the lino 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 tho 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 cum 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 half-yearly
inspection of the Chatham battalion of Royal Ma-
rines, resuming it at the point at which the previous
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-
partments, both naval and military.