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

FRANCE.

BOURSE, dune 24.—The market maintains the
buoyancy it had acquired yesterday, and the im-
proved tone has been strengthened by the arrival of
the English funds with higher quotations. Threes
are now firm at 68f. 60c. The Railway Share
Market has been also firm, with an advance on some
of the lines. The market closed as follows :-
4t per per Cents ... 97 65 Bank Shares 3185
Do. end month.... Credit F oneier 1665
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 50 Italian Loan 72 85
N'ew 3 per Cents .. 63 55 ltoruan
Do, end month.... 68 60 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 852 50 Spanish Threes 52 50
Do. end month.... 857 50 Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1265 .. 1265
Northern
New ditto . 995
Lyons and Mediterranean 1100 .. 1102 50
Geneva

Southern 852 50 , , 850
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 615 ,-- .. 616 25

THE HUMAN SKULL IN THE GREAT
EXHIBITION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sitt,—ln accordance with the suggestion of a
leading morning newspaper, we have examined the
gold-mounted skull in the Chinese Department of
the Exhibition. Without speculating too nicely
upon what might have been the character of the
occupant of this skull, like Hamlet over " poor
Yorick," we pronounce it a full-sized and well-
formed skull, an evidence that it belonged to a male
adult who was no idiot. It is well developed in the
coronal region, indicating that it has been the
casket of a cultivated mind. Indeed, it may have
been the head of a poet, a philosopher, a statesman,
or one in authority—possibly an Emperor. It has
not the appearance of a thief, a robber, or a male-
factor ; on the contrary, all the phrenological indi-
cations are that this deserted mansion was once
occupied by a sensible, refined, and religious man.

We are, Sir, yours, &c.,
FOWLER AND WELLS.

149, Strand.

IMPORTANT CASE UNDER THE
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' AC7.

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 recover the sum of £Bl 12s. ld.
from the defendants, as trustees of the North-
east Manchester Branch of the same society.
'lnc) oteam .r.Juglue =rTstlirra' lJuulc tJ wualaLa or
various branches, distributed throughout the coun-
try, and is managed by an 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 Mancheider
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, arid 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, bat
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 plaintiff's, the money to be
paid in a month.—The judgment was afterwards
reduced to £7O, on the representation that the re-
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.

THE LATE FAT /I DISPUTE AT

BALROTHERY.

(From the Dublin. freeman.)
A report having reached the town of balbriggan
on Friday, at about four o'clock, that a man named
James M'Guinness had been strangled to death by
a person named Owen Callaghan, in a dispute which
originated about a small piece of land, a party of
constabulary, under the command of Sub-Inspector
Carey, were immediately afterwards on the spot ,•
they made search for him in his own house and in
several others in the village of Balrothery. Shortly
afterwards word having been sent by a mounted
policeman to the surrounding stations, the parties
from those barracks, together with the Balbrig-
gan constabulary and Mr. Carey, scoured the
demesnes of Hampton and Ardgillan. Callaghan
was arrested at about half-past five o'clock by Mr•
Madden, J.P., about half a mile from Callaghan's
house,from information received by that gentleman,
Head-constable M'Gonigle being within a feW
perches of him in pursuit.
Henry Davis, Esq., coroner, arrived at Balrothery
on Saturday, 21st, at three o'clock, p.m., where he
was joined by Messrs. Hans Woods, G. F. Black-
burn, John Madden, and John Baker, magistrates.
Shortly after the prisoner arrived under an
of constabulary, in charge of Mr. Carey, 51113-
inspector. escort

The coroner having sworn a jury, took the fol-
lowing evidence :

Alicia Kelly sworn—Saw Callaghan seize hold of
M'Guinness by the collar and shove him twice; be
fell, and Callaghan took him up and shook him
against the wall until he got black in the face ; be
then let him out, and in a few minutes after
M'Guinness fell down dead.

Anne M'Namara sworn—Saw Callaghan seize
hold of deceased. by the neck and chuckle him.
John Murray sworn—Saw Callaghan take a grip
of deceased's neck by the handkerchief, his knuckles
being next his neck ; saw him fall shortly after,
aLia hia math and lips black and
a few bruises on his neck.'.

Dr. Symes, of Skerries, made a post mortem
examination of the body ; found his left lung
in an apoplectic state, and also a small abscess
and rupture of blood-vessel in left lung, which,
in his opinion, caused death; the rupture
of the blood-vessel would be caused by passion,
excitement, or violence ; examined his brain, and
it was not congested.
The Coroner addressed the jury, who consulted
together for about ten minutes, and returned the
following verdict :—" That lames M'Guinness died
at Balrothery, on the 20th inst., of apoplexy of a
diseased lung, caused, in our opinion, by excitement
in a quarrel about land with Owen Callaghan, and
in which quarrel Owen Callaghan assaulted de-
ceased by shaking him by the neck, and although
we do not find the assault has caused his death,
we are of opinion that Owen Callaghan should be
made to answer for such assault before the magi"
s trates."

The prisoner was immediately afterwards dig-
charged from the custody of the police.

GARIB-4LDI IN GENOA.

A letter from Genoa, dated June 21, says
sent off a few lines just as the Tuscan post came in,
but before I had even time to read the letters a
messenger from Albaro brought the news that
Garibaldi was to embark at 4 p.m. He has been
staying with Teresita and her husband in their
villa in Albaro, and spent the greater part of this
morning with Cattabene, in his cell at Sant Andrea.
The detention of this officer is a great grief to Gari-
baldi. He was with him in America. It was be
who, with 300 men, defended Cajazzo against 4,000
Neapolitans, nor ceased defence until half his men
were killed. Himself, with ten officers and ninety'
nine soldiers, carried wounded prisoners into Capes'
I saw him there really covered with wounds the day'
after, and I remember all his anxiety was to say a
few important words inEnglish,which had no refer
ence whatsoever to his own condition. And la°W
to see Cattabene ill, still suffering from his wounds
in prison, on charge of complicity in the Pare°,
Bank affair, is grievous beyond words to his Wive
chief. True, Cattabene's passport was found on one
of the thieves, but when confronted, none of the°l-
- him, and common sense would lead one to
conclude that a man, intending to participate iii
such a deed would not give his own passport to
his accomplice. Of course, we cannot expect
magistrates and judges to feel that absolute faith
in his innocence that is felt by his general and
fellow officers and soldiers; still, to say the
least, here the course of justice is very, veil
tardy. From Cattabene's cell Garibaldi passed to
that of Serafino Melis, a Sicilian, and one of the
thousand new belonging to the Royal Marines. He
also has been lying 52 days in prison without hay'
ing once been examined.
After these visits the General went back to
Albaro, and returned to embark about five a.m.,
looking so young, so radiant, and contented that ago
said to each other, he looks as if he is not to stay'
long at Caprera. One or two outsiders ventured to
ask his companions if they knew where they were
going, and were answered by a smile of compas-
sion. Not one of them has any definite idea of
their destination, but they do not seem exactly
aware that Garibaldi would have chosen to plant
cabbages or trim the vines of Caprera. Missori and
Nullo, " the bravest of the brave," as Garibaldi
styled them on the lst of October; Civinni and
Guastalla, and Chiassi, men of the pen and of the
sword ; Guerzoni, ex•secretary of De Pretis, old
Dr. Ripari, and the faithful Basso, with his tlvoi
sons, are his companions, and never was the genera
better surrounded. Bixio and Medici, Masto and
Mario were with him to the last on board the Tor-
toll, a small new steamer hired from Rubattani.
faint hope has been excited that Ratazzi, finding
himself hedged in by command of the Emperor on
one hand, and the threatening aspect of the Italian
people on the other, has adopted the audacious ex-
pedient of sending Garibaldi to Naples. Should
this prove the case, all Ratazzi's sins will be for-
gotten, and Naples rescued from the anarchy or-
ganised at Rome. It sounds too good to be true,
and it is rdther to be feared that the Government
seeks to place a few leagues of ocean between Italy
and Garibaldi.