The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-17 00:00:00

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CRYS lAL PALACE COMPANY:

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
I Paid. Leasing ,Closing Business
Railways.
Co. s Price. Done.
Birkenhead
Buckingh-mghire lOO Do.
Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do 55 67
Do. 5t per cent 100 Do.
Do. .5 „ 100 Do.
Clydesdale Junction 100 Cledon.— 103 105
Colchester, Stour Vai. 100 E.U.&G.E (8 70 69
E. Lincolnsh. gopr c. 100 Gt.Nerth. 136 138
Gloster &Dean ores all Gt. West.
Gt.Eas tn. Newmarket
&c., 5 per cent lOO Gt.Eastn.
Do.E.U.llarwch. 4 p.c 100 D 0.......
Do.Wodbrg. Ex. 4 p.c 101! Do —
Hun and Selby all Yk.N. Mid,lll 113
Lancaster & Carlisle- 100 Ln.&N.W 203 206
Lon. and Chat. Ext. B
0 per cent ...... all Lon.&Clit 112 12
Do It per cent lOO D ... 87 89 882
Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all Do . • • •
Dp.New ShlB6l, 4tp.e. all D 0........ 22 24
Do.Wn. 14] XtA,44 p c. all Do B2 0
London & Greenwic 100 S. Eastern 64 56
Do. Preferen ,
-•t'tend 100 Peto &Co B9 01
Lnd'dr. &Ennis. orig. 100
Do. A' 100 irish N.-
Do. - 11. 100 Western.
Do. C. 100
Lowestoftgua. 4p c.. 100 Norfolk
Do 6 per cent lOO Do.
111nc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& .11
Mid. Bradt ord Prefer-
ence stock
Nor.Dev.Rail & Dock lOO L.&S.W.
Do A stock lOO from Ist
1)o B stock
Pr,ference lOO
Northn.&Eastn. sp. c. all Gt. Eastn 57 59
Do. 6 per cent. ....i all Do.
N. Eastn—Hartlepool 100 N. E. Ber
North Western
Not. Gran. RI. & Cl. 100 Gt. North. 951 961 952
L&N.W
Preston and Wyre. 1 all s 5 L. yk. 3 44 46
Do. t shares A. all Do. •• • •
lboystn.llitch.&Shep. 100 Gt. North. 136 138
Shrewsby & Hereford 100 L.&N.W.. 135 137 1361
Do. Do.
South Staffordshire lOO Ln.&N.WI
West London, Cis A all W.Ln.Ex)
Do do B all Ln&N.W.I
Do do C all & Gt.Wst.i
Wilts and Somerset ) 100 Gt. West. 92 91
Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&Brgtn I 81 4

The MEETING THIS DAY.
eern ordinary half-yearly meeting of the Crystal Palace
mr13411,7 Was held this day at the London Tavern.
Thearquhar, chairman of the directors, presided.
haorng rePort which has already appeared in The Sun
been take s read.
A
T-0 n ato move its adoption. He
cot IRNUN proceeded
ratulated the shareholders upon the present prosperous
rte the Company,and the amount of dividend it was
815,,70.t
in
distribute. Their.. magnificent structure he
ne— w thorough condition, and altogether the pros-
e' 'E for the future were most cheering.
aeco—Tledenad,otion for the adoption of the report having been
A
the
PROPRIETOR said he hoped the directors would add to
old
present attractions the model, on a small scale, of an
English homestead, with its quaint picturesque fitting.
th©aa determination would give a great opportunity for
cliq)lay of taste,and would be a source of great attraction
to was of opinion that if the directors gave the public a
"e more art and a little less Punch and Judy, there would
o 0 falling off in their annual receipts. He did not ob-
dc
LJtie,t t° a proper quality of amusement being given, but he
,u not think that it should be altogether allowed to odie-
higher works of art.
After some further discussion the report, which declared
riri4ezld at the rate of 3 per cent., was agreed to.

F REFERENC
Dividends contingen

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Do. do. 41do. shares
Lond'n, Brig'tn, Ate 4il
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Do. do. 4 per ct. IS6')
Do. do. 41 per ct. 1861',
Do. do. 4i per et. 1861',
Ln.Ctit' m,&c. 6p.c.2d pf
Do, Metrop.Extll46 p.c.
Lon. &S.Wcstern 4i p.c.,
North British £lO Gua.
Shares, 1861
Do Ed,P;th,,stin'dee,4p cl
Scottish Central 44 p.c. 1
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1013 108

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92 96
103 105

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104 106

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101 101
101 10
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Belgian East. Junction
Cuplapo ................
Ditto Extension
Dutch Rhenish .......

7! 74
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Eastern of France
Grand Rue Guar. 6 p.
Gt. Luxem., Con. s:is 1
Italian Junction ..
Namur & Liege
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Northern of France
Do. New Shares

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N.Rail of BuenosAyres
Gua. 7 p c., Lim
Norwzgi an Trunk Pref
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Paris,Lyons, fz Mcditer.
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iiecife et S. Fran. (reru.)l
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Riga & Dunaburg......
Royal Danish.-
Royal Swedish
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Sambre & Meuse ......

9 91
20 21
401 411

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San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c.
S.Aust.&Lomb Venetia
S. East Portugal 7 p et.
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Turin and Savona
West Flanderti
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Can. Gov. 6 p.c..ia &July
1877-S4
Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug
Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Septa
Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July.!
Do. 5 Inscribed stock
Cape G.llope, 6 p 0,1873'
Do.Ap & Oct. 1880'
Do. 1890
Do. Jan. & July, 1891..
Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p c'
N.B.Gov. 6 p.0...1 a.&July
1.".0. 6 p. c.Ap. & Oct.,
N. S.W. G ov. 5 p c., 1866'
Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876
Do. d0.,1888 &upwdel
New Zealand 6 p. cent.;
Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c '
sterling, 1875
Queensland Gov. 6p. C
b. Aus G6p.0.1873.& up
Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Julyl
Do. to 6 p.c. An-&00t..

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'lO6 108
106 108
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111 113
112 114
114 116

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Uhllord Amalgamated
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East Bassett (Illogan)
East Clog-au Gold Ltd
I East Caradon .....
'East Carn Brea...
E. WI Russel (Tavistic.
Garn..tSt.Aubyn(Gwen.)
Great South Tolgus
G. Wheal Vor (Helston
Grenville
Herod's-Foot
Hingston Downs
Lady Bertha
Margaret (Uny Lelant
Hark e Valley..
yndy Iron Oro (Lim )
New Setun
North Downs
'1 Basset (1110 4-an
North Wheal Crotty
Par Consols (6t. Blazey)
Providence (Uny Lelnt.)
South Caradon(St.Cleer;
S. Cam Brea (Illogan)
Wheal Fran. (11109-s.n
Stray Park
Tamar Silvat Lead Min.
Pin Croft
West Basset (Illogan)
1V Caradon (Liskeard'
West Seton

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Bank of Egypt
Rack of London
British North America
Ch. Bk. of B. Columbia
Chtd.Bank of India, &c.
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Corn. Bank of Canada
Enr.r,., Scot., k Aus. Ch
Gen. Bk .of Switzerland
Ilin'stan,ChinakJapan
Imperial Bank Limited
Lon.& Brazilian (Lim.)
Lon., B.Ayres&R.Plate
Lon. Char.Bkof Austral
'London and County
London Joint Stock
!London & Middlesex
London and S.African
!London & Westminster
Metrop. & Provinl. Bnk.
Nat. Prov. of England
;Do. new
,Do. do
,National Bank
New South Wales.-
;Orient. B. Corporation
!Ottoman Bank . .
Do. new
'Provincial of Ireland
Do. new..
'South Australia ..,-
Union of Australia
Union of Ireland, Lim.
Unto., of Loudon

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97 99
49 51
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Atlantic 11. All. Stin (1d)
Australian A gricultural
Bahia Steam (Limited).
Berlin Water (Limited)
'Bombay Gas Limited.
' British American Land
13.&1.1\ lag. Tel. A. (Lim.)
Do. 8,7p.c.t1111552 (Lim )
Canada Land
China tic Japan Coast &
River Steam Naviga.
Cop.lllin.ocEn g. & Smltg.
Do. Pref. 74 per cent.
Crystal Palace
Do. Preterene.
Do. 6 p et. Perpet. Deb
E. Ind. Cot ton Agency
& Lon. Ship A.
Do. B.
E.lndia Irrign. & Canal
Electric Telegraph

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English &Aus. Copper
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Do 174 p ct Preference
Indian Carrying (Lim.)
Italian Irrigation Canal
Lon. District Tel. (Lint.)
L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.)
Lon. & S.lrel.Dt.Tel.L.'
Madras Irr. and Canal
Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ),
Do. 8 per cent, pref
National Dirt. Co (Lim )
Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim )
Netherlands Lan 0,8p.c
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THE SUM LONDONI WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1862,

Business done

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LA W---THIS DAY.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Before Mr. Justice Willis.)

LLEwELLIN V. IVII"TDHANC.-TILE LATE LVNACY CASE.

The plaintiff in this case is Mr. Llewellin, who keeps a
boarding-house in Duke-street, St. James's., and the de-
fendant is Mr. iVilliarn Frederick 'Windham, who some
time ago resided at this establishment,

The action was brought for the recovery of a sum of
money for board and lodging. The defendant paid £25
into court, and pleaded infancy for the remainder.
Only tight of the special jury answered, and after the
Judge had remarked with some :severity on the conduct of
the absentees, fined them £lO each. At this time a num-
ber of excuses were handed in, and some more of the jury-
men having arrived, bringing the number up to eleven.
The Judge having waited a considerable time asked
counsel on either side whether they would pray a tales, only
one juryman being required.
As there was no response, the learned Judge said he was
sorry the jury had had the trouble of attending, and he had
no alternative but to discharge them, Tho jury being
incomplete, the case must drop.
A large number of persons who were witnesses in the
late lunacy case were present for the purpose of being
examined.

CRIMINAL COURT--THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
MANSLAUGHTER.

Frederick Smith, aged 36, smith, was indicted for felo-
niously killing Thomas Seville.

Hannah Wheatley, single woman, said she occupied a
room at 12, Wood's-buildings, Gravel-lane. The prisoner,
with his wife and three children, occupied the rooms on the
first floor above the witness. On the 22d of November she
heard singing in the prisoner's room. She saw her daughter,
Hannah Pearce, with some beer in a can. Soon after she
heard voices, and some one called out, " Give mo the
change." She then heard the prisoner say, " I'll not."
The voice she heard first then replied, " Then I'll have it
out of you." A. scuffle ensued, when the table was turned
over. Presently she heard a man fall down stairs. She
afterwards saw the man at St. Thomas's Hospital dead.
A police constable said when he first saw Searle he had
three severe wounds in his head. The prisoner admitted
ho had committed the assault, and added that Searle should
not have come after his wife. He also told the police that
Searle had two or three times got his wife away from him,
and he had great difficulty in getting her back again.
The man was much affected, and said he should not care
what became of his own poor carcase, if it were not for his
own poor children.

The Surgeon said the man died from the injuries he had
received in his head. Over the right eye there were two
cuts one inch and a half in length.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Baron Martin sentenced him to nine months' im-
prisonment.

William Cairns, 62, carpenter, was indicted for feloniously
killing and slaying Alexanler Norden.
It will be recollected that the death of the unfortunate
man was occasioned by a chisel, thrown by the prisoner,
entering his body. The men in the shop in which the pri-
soner was engaged had been throwing bits of wood at each
other, and one of these having hit the prisoner, he caught
up the chisel and threw it, .when it accidentally struck
the deceased.

On the prisoner being asked to plead, he said he should
plead guilty to throwing the chisel which caused death, but
he had no intention of killing Norden.

Mr. Baron Martin said he would look over the depositions
before he passed sentence.
ALLEGED MURDER.

Salome Newmann, aged 17, was indicted for the wilful
murder of her infant child in the parish of St. John,
Hackney.

From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was a
domestic servant to Mrs. Bolton, a widow lady, residing at
h, Navarino-road, Dalston. In October last the mistress
of the prisoner found her in great pain, and evidently in
labour. Afterwards she gave birth to a child, concealed
the body, and denied it. The dead body of the child was
afterwards found on the top of the register of the stove in
the prisoner's bedroom, with a string tied tightly round
its neck.

AFRICAN 87EAMSHIP COMPANY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The jury found the prisoner guilty of concealment of
birth, and she was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

The half-yearly meeting of the African Steamship Com-
pany took place to-day. Mr. Patrick Douglas Hadow in
the chair. The report, which was unanimouely agreed to,
stated that, under a " Deed of Covenant with the late Mr.
Macgregor Laird, it was agreed that for ten years, from the
Ist September, 1852, he should be paid one-fifth part of the
amount, from time to time declared to be profits, available
for distribution ; and at the expiration of that period, which
took place on the 31st August last, an account was to be
stated of all the assets and liabilities of the company, and
any surplus of assets was to be considered surplus profits,
one-fitth part of which was to be paid to Mr
Laird. A settlement has been arranged between
your directors and Mr. Laird's executors, and a resolution
confirming same was laid before the meeting. The direc-
tors regretted to report the total loss of the Cleopatra at
Shebar, on the 19th August last, while on her homeward
voyage. The chief engineer was unfortunately drowned
while going on shore, but the passengers and crew were
all saved. The mails, cargo, and passengers' luggage were
lost. The Cleopatra will be replaced by a vessel similar to
the Macgregor Laird, which had proved to be a very efficient
ship. With the exception of the loss of the Cleopatra,
the directors had much pleasure in reporting that, during
the past six months, the mail service had been performed
in a most satisfactory manner, the ships having kept their
contract time, and they were all in a thorough state of re-
pair and efficiency. The balance remaining to the credit of
revenue account, after making all these charges is £5,245
17s. 6d., out of which the directors recommend the pay-
ment of the usual dividend of 7s. per share, free of income
tax, for the half•year ending 31st October, 1862. This
payment, together with the amount the directors propose to
pay the executors of the late Mr. Laird, will absorb £4,852
16s. Od., leaving a balance of £393 ls. 6d. to be carried to
the credit of next half-year's accounts.
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, and
after reverting to the loss of the Cleopatra, said that the
company had sustained since the publication of the state-
ment another disaster by the wreck of the Dee, destined
for trading service on the Sierra Leone coast. This vessel
was overtaken by a tempest 400 miles on the north side of
Madeira, and after being abandoned she sunk. Notwith-
standing these losses, and the large provisions made for
future contingencies, the directors were enabled to recom-
mend the payment of the usual dividend, viz., 78. per
share.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant:)
FELONIOUSLY WOUNDING.

A vote of thanks to the directors terminated the pro-
ceedings.

Joseph Stennentz, 26, labourer, was indicted for feloni-
ously wounding Susan Osborn with a poker.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to 18 months' imprisonment.

POLICE-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PRISONS PREFERABLE TO WORKHOUSES.—EIiza Bryan
an inmate of St. Martin's workhouse, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt, as follows :

Mr. George Leonard, surgeon, of 2, Salisbury-street,
Strand, temporarily acting as surgeon at the St. Martin's
Workhouse, said that on the previous afternoon, the pri-
sonar, while in a state of intoxication, came into the ward
where he was attending the patients and made use of very
bad language, calling him an old --, and making a great
disturbance. She was then given into custody.
Richard Randle, the porter at the workhouse,corroberated
Mr. Leonard in some respects, and said the prisoner was
drunk.

BURGLARY.

John Banister, labourer, was indicted for burglariously
ontoring the chrcilin6 house of llulry Marriof, at Enfield,
and stealing therefrom a quantity of articles, his pro•
perty.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Sentence, eighteen months' imprisonment.
MORE GAROTTING.

Two men named Johnson and Brown, alias Pratt, were
indicted for garotting and burglary. It appeared that they
had garotted a gentleman in John-street, Goodge-street,
Tottenham. court-road, and afterwards attempted to commit
a burglary in the same street. .

As soon as the police-sergeant to whom the capture of the
ruffians was due had finished his evidence, Johnson took
eff his great heavy shoe and threw it at the officer. For-
tunately the fellow missed his aim. The dock was soon
filled with officers who handcuffed the prisoners for the re-
mainder of the proceedings,
The Common Sergeant said it was evident that the pri-
soners were ruffinly follows, whom it would be dangerous
to allow to go at large, and he would therefore sentence
them to penal servitude for 15 years.
The prisoners, who affected to be astonished at the leni-
ency of the sentence, exclaimed—" Is that all? Oh,
thankee."

THIRD COURT.
(Before Commissioner Kerr.)
ROBBERY BY A TRAVELLER.
William Trowbridge, 43, traveller, was indicted for steal-
ing 94 dozen of linen shirt collars and 288 shirt fronts, the
property of his employer, Charles Lea.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
On being asked what he had to say in arrest of judgment,
Tho prisoner said he was driven to commit the offence
through distress. His income was but twenty shillings a
week, out of which he had to provide for nine persons.
Commissioner Kerr told him that was no excuse, and
sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment.

GARDNER'S SISTER AN ALLEGED
LUNATIC.

Prisoner said that when she went into the workhouse
with her three children they were perfectly healthy.
Before long they were infected with a thousand diseases,
and removed to the foul ward, where one of them, a girl
of eight years of age, died. The other two were still in the
ward.

Direr Tyrwhitt said it was very foolish for her to go on in
the way she had done, because the children must be cured.
Prisoner said that her children were put to sleep in the
same bed with other children who were belly diseased, so
that there was no chance of their being cured.
Mr. Leonard said they were put in the same place as all
those with infectious diseases.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was not a doctor, but he did not
see how a child could be cured if put to sleep and rub
against another child labouring under an infectious disease.
They might brimstone the child as much as they liked, but
he should think with very little effect. It was not to be
wondered at that persons in workhouses should complain,
and it answered the question asked why prisons were pre-
ferred to workhouses, when gaols were so clean and com-
fortable. Tho prisoner had been proved to have been
drunk, and he should commit her for seven days, but as to
the children, he should suspend his judgment entirely.

One very pa'nful circumstsnce has resulted from the
trial of Gardner, the sweep, who was convicted at the Old
Bailey for murder, but whose sentence was recently com-
muted to penal servitude. The convict has a sister named
Susannah Jacobs, whose husband is stated to be in a very
good posit ion in life. It appears that the poor woman went
to hear her brother's trial, and, as a natural consequence,
she felt very much for the terrible position in which he was
placed . According to her story, however, there were some
who did not fed the matter quite so seriously, for she
says that the evening was spent at a Music Hall,
notwithstanding her entreaties. At length medical certifi-
cates were obtained, and the poor creature found herself re-
moved from a home of comfort and her two little children
to the lunatic ward of the Bethnal-green Workhouse. fez
only offence appears to have been brooding over the fate of
her brother, and a day or two since she was taken to one of
the metropolitan police courts, attired in workhouse cloth-
ing (despite the alleged means of her husband), to await an
examination before the magistrate. During the interval,
and although in a place which would naturally associate
itself in her mind with the cause of her melancholy, she con-
versed most lucidly, detailing her harrowed feelings
at being taken to a music hall to hear comic
singing (a somewhat fearful climax to the episodes
of the day) and she complained that they gave
her nothing to do at the workhouse. "If," said she, " they
would only give me a little sewing I should be all right, but
they will not; and so I sit and think, and then I get ex-
cited, and then they are sharp to me," There was some-
thing inexpressibly touching in the manner in which she
begged to be allowed to take a last farewell of her dear
children before she was put away; and, looking down at
her livery, she asked " Not to be taken back to that place.',
The pol;ce magistrate conducted his inquiry in a private
room, and he refused to grant any order for Mrs. Jacobs'
removal to Colney Hatch, and after this refusal perhaps the
Foor Law Board may feel inclined to investigate the matter.

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SELLING INDIAN CHILDREN.--The Alta Call.
for nil says :—" Mr. August Hess, who has returned to
this city from a prospecting tour through the lower part of
Lake county, informs us that he saw a number of men
driving Indian children before them to sell in Napa, So-
lano, Yolo, and other counties of the Sacramento basin.
In one iastance he saw two men driving nine children; in
another, two men with four children; in another, one man
with two girls, one of them about 14 years of age, appa-
rently. The age of these children varies from six to 15
years. Rumour says that about 100 children have been
taken through Lake county this summer for sale. They
do not follow the main roads, but usually take by-paths.
Rumour says, further, that the hunters catch them in Men-
docini and Humboldt counties, after killing their parents.
If the children try to escape, and are likely to succeed, the
hunters shoot them."
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Constantine was attempted by an officer in the Guards
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