The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1870.

SHARE LIST.

AUTION BY THE PROPRIETORS OF
" ONCE A WEEK."

RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

FRIDAY.

Closing Business
Paid. Name. Quotations. done.
St Bristol and Exeter lOO 77 79
St Caledonian 1.00 751 76 731 4
St Cambrian lOO 15 20
20 Cornwall all 21 31
St Dublin and Belfast Junction 100 . . . .
St Dun, Prth, and Aber. Jnnc 100 7.0 72
20 East London all 4 6
20 Do
20 1)o
St Glasgow and S.Western 100 111 113
St Great Eastern lOO 371 394 411 1
St Do East Anglian, No. `2 100 61 74
St Great North of Scotland 100 13 16
St Great Northern 100 119 120 121/ 1
St Do A 100 126 127 124 71
St Do 8...., lOO 126 1-28
St Gt. So. and West (Ireland) 100 98 100
St Great . Western Consolid 100 71 ' 711 72 14
St Do South Wales 100 68 70
St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45
St Do do Newport 100 36 38
St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 1254 1274
St Loud, Briglit'n, and S.Coast 100 43 434 46
St Lond, Chatham, and Dover 100 141 154 164
St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11.
St London and North Western 100 1261 1274 128
St Loudon and South Western 101 f 881 891 921
St Mauch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 511
St Do New, issued at £5O dis 3O .... ... 314
St Metropolitan lOO 791 80 771
St Do Preferred... lOO ... ...
St Do Deferred 100 ... ...
10 Do Redeemable • all 94 104 10
St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 384
St Midland lOO 1244 125 1264 4
St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94
St North British. lOO 34 35 36
St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde 100 13 15
St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1264 1271 135/ 6
St Do Leeds 100 89f 904 901
St Do York
St Do Stockton and Darlingts 100 178 180 1821
St North Loudon 100 120 122
10 Do New, 1868 6l 14 14
St North Staffordshire 100 59 61 614
St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105
St Rhymney lOO 52 54
St Shropshire Union 100 62 63
St South Devon 100 46 48 46
St South Eastern 100 76 771 784
St Do Preferred ...100 1091 114
St Do Deferred 100 41 414
St Staines, Wok'ham, Jr Wok'g. all 121 134
St Taff Vale
10 Do C 6 3 6
St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100 ... ...
10 Waterloo and Whitehall

At the Nisi Prius sittings of the Court of Exchequer
to-day, before Baron Channell and a Middlesex jury,
Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the well-known publishers
of Bouverie-street, brought an action against a Mr.
Streeter under the following circumstances :—ln the
beginning of last year the defendant, who is engaged in an
extensive way of business in the jewellery trade, his name
being more especiallyknown in connection with his 18-carat
gold manufactured jewellery, called upon the plaintiffs
and wished them to insert his advertisements on the
wrapper of the monthly part of Once a Week, one of the
periodicals of which they were publishers. It was agreed
that the advertisements should be so inserted for six
months, ninety pounds being the sum to be paid to the
plaintiffs. The advertisement duly appeared on a
richly-illuminated wrapper of Once a Week, but at
the expiration of the six months Mr. Streeter
failed to pay the sum he agreed to give
for the insertion of his advertisement, his defence
for not doing so being the neglect of the plaintiffs to pub-
lish in the periodical, simultaneously with the appearance
of the advertisement, a translation of Victor Hugo's
novel, "L' Homme qui rit," but such a contract was
denied by Mr. Quain, Q.C., on the part of Messrs. Brad-
bury. A sum of £5O had been paid into Court, and the
residue of the £9O was the sum now sought to be re-
covered.

ACTION FO.II LIBEL AGAINST A COMIC

PAPER.

FRIDAY.

The, case of Allsop v. M`Gowan and another, was
heard before Mr. Justice Wines and a jury, in the Court
of Common Pleas (nisi prius) to-day. It was an
action for libel, which arose in the following manner :
The plaintiff, a solicitor, living at Brunswick House,
Bromley, gave a beggar into custody in February last
on a charge of attempted burglary. The beggar told
the magistrate that the plaintiff had hounded a large
mastiff on to him, which had bitten and torn him, and the
criminal charge against him falling to the ground, he was
discharged. Upon the facts then elicited, the Will o' the
Wisp, a comic paper published in London, com-
mented severely, holding up plaintiff's conduct with
respect to the dog in a most odious light
although there was no evidence in support of the charge,
and plaintiff himself denied it. The defendant, Mrs.
M`Gowan, was shewn to be the proprietor of the paper ;
but the evidence connecting Banks, the printer (the
other defendant), with the proprietorship was not very
clear. Counsel on both sides waived their right to address the
jury, and after his lordship had summed up the case the
jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £5O against Mrs.
McGowan, and found for the defendant in the case of
Banks.