The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-03 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, riunAy EVENING, NOVEMBER a. 184

pearatica—old P. T. Candle at astra to 65i 6d on the spot,
new 65s 6d to 66s ; all the year 65s 3d ; South American
GOs to 663 Ocl ; Australian Mutton 63s to 66s ; Beef 62s to
to 655, and home melted 66s cash. Fat is 3s 8d per stone.
OILS.— Sperm in demand, and 40 tuns in auction realised
1091. to 1091.105, being fully 1/. advance.
TAR.—Stockholm rather easier to purchase at 30s Gd to
31s. Archangel steady, as quoted.

COURSE OF EXCH,
Amsterdam ............ 11 16
Ditto, three months .. 11 17%
Botterdam ............ 11 18
Antwerp .............. 25 35
Brussels .... • • ........ 25 35
Ilamburgh 13 7
Altona • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • •
Paris. ....... • • .... 25 12%
Ditto, three months .. 25 35
Marseilles ............. 25 37%
Bourdeaux ... • ........
Frankfort.on-N1 aine .• 118 h
Berlin .
Vienna .......... 12 5
Trieste ........ •• • • .... 12 7
Petersburg 34%
Madrid ............... 50
Cadiz .. 50%
Barcelona ............
Seville . ...• .........

ANGE.—Tnis DST.

Gibraltar ••••• • ••
Leghorn . ... 30 50
Genoa ...... 25 50
Milan : ............ • •
Venice ........• • ......
Naples
, Palermo
iMegsina . 128%
Lisbon .......... •• .. • • 53 '4
Oporto • • 53%
Rio Janeiro ..... . •• .. • •

Buenos Ayres.... •
srew York, 60 days' sight
'Philadelphia ..........

PRICES OF RIILIICN, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
l'ortugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
11exican Dollars .... 0 5 0
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
;liver in bars . 0 5 1%

stead had last night agreed to recommend to the go-
vernors at the next half-yearly meeting to place 20 free
admissions at the disposal of the commissioners.
(Cheers.)
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
_ .

Mr. J. DILLON moved the third resolution :—" That
the several bankers and joint-stock banks of the city of
London be requested to receive subscriptions, and that '
a committee be formed for the purpose of promoting
the collection of funds by such means as they may think
fit, consisting of the following gentlemen, with power to
add to their number :—The Chairman of this meeting,
the Lord Mayor for the time being, the Governor of the
Bank of England, Mr. Hubbard ; the Deputy Governor
of the Bank of England, Mr. Weguelin ; the Chairman
of the East India Company, Major Oliphant; the Deputy
Chairman of the East India Company, Mr. Macnaughten;
Captain Shepherd, Deputy of the Trinity House ; the
Masters and Prime Wardens of the Livery Companies ;
John Masterman, Esq., M.P. ; the Baron Lionel de
Rothschild, M.P. ; and Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P.'
He had been requested to state that the Chief Commis-
sioner of Police had requested him to announce that the
City police intended to appropriate to the fund one day's
pay, which would amount to upwards of 611. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR elect seconded the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.
Mr. M. T. SMITH, M.P., moved a vote of thanks
to the Chairman, which was seconded by Alderman
WIRE.

His Lordship, having briefly acknowledged the com-
pliment, the meeting adjourned. During the course of
the proceedings the Lord Mayor read, at various times,
several long lists of subscriptions, the principal contri-
butors being the Corporation, 2,0001. ; the Bank of
England, 2,000/. ; the Goldsmith's Company, 1,0001. ;
the Grocers' Company, 1,0001. ; the Fishmongers' Com-
pany, 5001. ; Mesa's., Gibbs, 5001. ; Messrs. Barclay,
5001. ; Messrs. Bury, 500/. ' • Messrs. Rothschild, 5001.;
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 500/. ; the Sun Fire
Office, 5001. ; the Indemnity Mutual Marine Insurance
Company, 5001. ; Messrs. Glyn, 5001. ; Sir R. P. Glyn,
2001. ; Messrs. Pickford, 5001., &c. The total amount
of the subscriptions already received was upwards of
16,0001.

The committee appointed will meet at the Mansion
House at 3 o'clock this day (Friday) afternoon, to carry
out the object of the meeting with vigour.

INNS OF COURT.

The following prospectus of the lectures to be deli-
vered during the (aligning educational term by the several
Readers appointed by the Inns of Court has been issued
by order of the Council of Legal Education :

"CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY.

" The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History
proposes in the ensuing term to pursue the history of con-
stitutional law durinc, the reigns of the Stuarts and Wm.
111., and during such further period as time may permit.
" The books to which he will chiefly refer are : Hal-
lam's Constitutional History,' Slillar's Constitutional
History,' `Tindal's Continuation of Rapin," Parliamen-
tary History,' " Blackstone's Commentaries,' `Marten's
History of France,' Clarendon's Life,' Temple's Me-
moirs,' Somerville's History,' Burnet's History of his
Own Time.'

"In his private classes, the Reader will treat of the
progress of constitutional law in England, and of the most
remarkable State trials from the commencement of the
reign of Charles I. to the Revolution of 1688.
" The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History
will deliver his public; lectures at Lincoln's-inn Hall on
Wednesday in each week (the first lecture to be delivered
on the Bth of November), commencing at 2 o'clock p.m.
The Reader will receive his private 'lasses on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday mornings, from half-past 9 to
half-past 11 o'clock, in the Benchers' Reading-room, at
Lin,,:olu's-inn

" EQUITY.

" The Reader on Equity proposes to deliver, during the
ensuing educational term, a course of six lectures on the
causes which led to the separation of the equitable from
the legal jurisdiction in England ; the leading principles
on which the equitable system has been establishe_. the
origin of the superior tribunals and the distinctions be-
tween the modes of procedure adopted in the C,mrts of
Chancery and Common Law; the history of the Court of
Chancery, and the recent alterations by which a partial
amalgamation of the two jurisdictions has been effected.
" The Reader on Equity will deliver his public lectures
at Lincoln's-in-hall on Thursday in each week during the
ensuing educational term, commencing at 2 o'clock p.m.
(the first lecture to be delivered on Thursday, the 9th of
November). The Reader will receive his private classes on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, from 7 to 9
o'clock, in the Ranchers' Reading-room, at Lincoln's-inn-
hall.

" LAW OF REAL PROPERTY, ETC.

"The Reader on the Law of Real Property, (Sze., p -
poses to deliver, in the ensuing educational term, a course
of six public lectures, on the following subjects :
"1. On the law of mortmain ; statutory restrictions on
the alienation of lands ; licenses to hold land in mortmain;
statute of the 9th of George IL, c. 36.
" 2. On the law of charitable uses; statute of the 43d
of Elizabeth, c. 4 ; construction put upon the statute by
courts of equity; effect of the Statute of Limitation upon
testamentary gifts in favour of charities.
" 3. On the accumulation of income ; statute of the 30th
and 40th of George 111., c. 93 ; accumulation independent
of the statute.

" The lectures to be delivered to the private classes will
comprise the following subjects :—With the senior class
the Reader proposes to discuss the application of the rule
in Shelley's case, as illustrated by modern decisions; and
with the junior class, the leading principles upon which
thelearning of powers and contingent remainders is founded,
and the application of those principles to the practice of
conveyancing.
" The public lectures will be delivered at Gray's-inn-hall
on Friday in each week, at 2 pan. (the first lecture to be
delivered on Friday, the 10th of November). The private
classes will be held in the north library of Gray's inn on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, from a-quar-
ter to 12 to a-quarter to 2 o'clock.

THE BETTING-HO USE ACT.

At the Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, John Harding
appealed against a conviction of Mr. Hardwick, police
magistrate, for an offence under the Act for the Sup-
pression of Betting-houses, 16 and 17 Vic., c. 119.
Mr. Huddlestone appeared for the appellant, and Mr.
Bell, of the Midland Circuit, in support of the convic-
tion.

The conviction set forth that "he the said John Har-
ding did assist in conducting the business of a room in
the house No. 22, Panton-street, in the parish of St.
Martin-in•the-Fields, in the, county of Middlesex, &c.,
the said room being used for the purpose of betting with
persons resorting thereto, and did, on the 4th day of
July aforesaid, in the said room, unlawfully receive of
and from one Lionel Benjamin Rayner a sum of money
(to wit), the sum of ten shillings, as a deposit on a bet,
on condition of paying thereafter a sum of money (to wit),
the sum of three pounds, on the happening of an event
relating to a horse race, contrary to the statute, &c. ;
and I adjudge the said John Harding, forhis said offence,
to forfeit and pay the sum of fifty pounds." The alter-
native in case of default was three months' imprison.
ment in the House of Correction.
Mr. Huddlestone submitted that the conviction was
'bad on the face of it, as there were two distinct and
separate offences set forth. Under the 3d section of the
act, it was an offence for the owner or occupier of any
house, room, office, or other place, to permit the same
to be opened or used for the purpose of betting ; and any
person aiding or assisting in the management of the
same was also to be deemed guilty of an offence, for which
a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds was to be
inflicted. Now the 4th section provided that any per-
son, being the owner or occupier of any such place so
used, or any person acting on their behalf, or any per-
son having the care or management, or in any way as-
sisting in the management or conducting of the business
thereof, who should receive, directly or indirectly, any
money or valuable thing as a deposit on a bet on con-
dition of paying a sum of money or valuable thing
on the happening of any event or contingency of or re-
lating to any horse race, or other race, &c., should be
deemed guilty of an offence, for which, upon conviction,
a penalty not exceeding 501. might be imposed. He
contended, therefore, that the conviction was bad for
duplicity and uncertainty, because the double offence of
keeping the place and taking a deposit was set forth,
and the adjudication was for "the said " offence. It
might be suggested that to support the conviction it was
necessary to allege that a person committing an offence
under section 4 came within the provisions of section
3 ; but the allegation in this conviction was not by way
of recital, but a positive averment of two offences—sone
under the 3d section, and one under the 4th.
Mr. Bell called the attention of the court to the 14th
section of the act, which he submitted would meet the
objection.
The Assistant Judge, after referring to such sections
of the act as were applicable to the case, and to the
conviction, said that he was afraid Mr. Huddlestone
was right, and the conviction must be quashed.
. Quashed accordingly.