The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-02 00:00:00

THAMES.

John Devey, aged 14 years, wad brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with stealing £l4 in gold and
some sits er, the moneys of his father, Mr. Horace
Dewey, a clerk. The prosecutor received £22 18s.,
his quarter's saliry, on the previous day, and paid
away a good deal of it before he reached home at
ten o'clock at night. He was perfectly sober. He
pulled his clothes off in the parlour and laid them
on a sofa previous to going to bed. He was moving
about the house for some time afterwards with
nothing on but his drawers, because he came home
tired. Before he went to bed he had occasion to
go into the parlour to get: some papers out of his
pocket, and discovered that his clothes had been
disturbed, and missed fourteen sovereigns and some
silver from his trousers pockets. The father sus-
pected the prisoner, his own son, but he most
strongly denied it. However, during the examina-
tion, he admitted taking some of the money ; but
the other evidence being very confused, the magis-
trate discharged the prisoner.

CHARGE AGAINST A PUBLIC COMPANY.

EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS.

LONDON, FRIDAY.

The Great Oceanic Telegraph Company (Limited), of
101, Gresham House, Old Broad-street, was this afternoon
summoned before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House
on the complaint of Mr. Francis Perry, of 172, Fenchurch.
street, for not having a registered office in compliance
with section 39 of the Joint Stock Companies
Act. Mr. George Lewis appeared for the complainant,
and Mr. Hare (from the office of Messrs. Sewel and
Edwards) for the company. In opening the case, Mr.
Lewis said that an infringement of the section in question
was viewed by the legislature as a very serious offence, and
the penalty was a fine of £5 for every day on which the
office was not registered. It will be remembered that on
Tuesday the company were summoned for not keeping
their office open for the inspection of the register of share-
holders, but on that occasion the case failed for want of
sufficient proof.—Mr. Frederick William Lewis, a clerk
in the office of the Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies,
was now called, and formally proved that the com-
pany had no registered office. He said that
by the articles of association a sum of £6,000
was to be paid as promotion money to Mr. G. Drew,
civil engineer, of Notting Hill and Birmingham.
Mr. Thomas Snow, ledger-keeper in the National Pro-
vincial Bank, the bankers of the company, and the com-
pany opened their account in the month of September
last by a payment in of £25 from Mr. Perry, the complain-
ant. The amount standing to their credit on the 26th
March was £57 12s. Since that time there
had been an attachment lodged for £B2. The
highest amount at which the account had stood was
£149115. Bd. No payment was ever made to the bank by
any of the directors on account of shares. The money
would have come into the bankers, who would have given
the usual banker's receipt. The greater part of the
cheques drawn were in favour of newspapers,
in payment of advertisements. The newspapers
included the Investors' Guardean, the Methodist
Recorder—(laughter)—the Record, . and Fun. (Renewed
laughter).—Mr. Perry was examined, and said he ap-
plied for one hundred shares, on which he paid £25.
Before the allotment was made he wrote cancelling the
application, and requesting a return of the money, but
had not succeeded in getting it.—The Lord Mayor held
the case proved, and inflicted a penalty of £254 stating
that if the money were not paid a warrant ''would be
issued.

TIM NORWICH BRIBERY PROSECUTIONS.
Yesterday morning Mr. Justice Byles summed up the
evidence in the case of the " Queen v. Banfather." Ban-
father was chargeded with having given five shillings each to
two voters, namvarinoch Coleman and Charles Morse,
at the Norwich
them to poll for Sir H. election of 1868, to induce
with having promised bribestracey. He was also charged
to other voters, named
Thorpe and Cutlock. The
their verdict in court and r4'ry were unable to agree upon
turned into court with a verdictired. gnuoilotiyi
againstthe jur By
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NORWICH, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
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Ban-
father.
The case against
pened the case at
Mr. Flulme has been found guilt .
Mr. Edward Stracey, son of Sir H. Stracey, is now pro-
ceeding. The Attorney-General has o
some length, stating that on the election dag:lr. Mr. Stracey
borrowed two hundred pounds of
Pilr
Webster
the landlord of the Maid's Head inn, for corrupt
poies. The money wa,i distributed among various -sub-
bribery agents late in the election afternoon. Some of
the money was retained by these agents, but a sufficient
amount was dist-it-1443d 1-) materially influence the elec-
tion. Mr. Stavelv Hill lia.s been 'specially retained for
Mr. Stracey.

Mr. Serjeant Cox has been appointed Deputy-
Assistant Judge of Middlesex, in the place of Mr, Joseph
Payne, deceased.
The Local Board for Maidstone have decided on
having a steam road-roller for use on the roads of that

Closing Business
Paid. Name. Quotations. done.
St Bristol and Exeter lOO 77 79
St Caledonian 100 775 78 785
St Cambrian lOO 15 20
20 Cornwall all 25 35
St Dublin and Belfast Junction-100 . . . .
St Dun, Prtb, and Aber. Jane-100 70 7.2
20 East London. all 4 6 45
20 Do
20 1)o
St Glasgow and S.Westorn 100 111 113
St Great Eastern lOO 371 38 38
St Do East Anglian, N 0.2 100 61 75
St Great North of Scotland 100 13 16
St Great Northern 100 114 115 115
St Do A 100 119 1195 119 4
St Do B 100 126 128
St Gt. So. and West (Ireland) 100 98 100
St Great Western—Original lOO 67 68 68 5
St Do South Wales 100 68 70
St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 41 45
St Do do Newport 100 36 38
St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 1255 1271 129
St Lond, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 435 434 4
St Lond, Chatham, and Dover 100 144 154
St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11
St London and North Western 100 1234 1231 1234 4
St London and South Western-100 884 895
St Ma,nch, Shef, and Lincolnsh.loo 51 515.52
St Do New, issued at £5O dis 3O
St Metropolitan lOO 795 80 775 4
St Do Preferred... lOO ...
St Do Deferred 100
10 Do Redeemable 111 94 101 10
St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 405
St Midland lOO 1245 125 125 4
St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 91 94
St North British. lOO 34 35 345
St Do Ediu, Perth, and Dunde 100 13 15
St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1265 1274; 1345 4
St Do Leeds 100 845 851
St Do York
St Do Stockton and Darlingte 100 178 180 1805, 4
St North London lOO 116 118
10 Do New, 1868 65 14 15
St North Staffordshire 100 59 61
St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105
St Rhymney ...100 52 54
St Shropshire Union 100 62 63
St South Devon 100 46 48
St South Eastern 100 744 754
St Do Preferred ...100 1095 1105
St Do Deferred 100 41 415
St Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok'g. all 125 135
St Taff Vale 100 158 162
10 Do C 6 3 6
St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100
10 Waterloo and Whitehall

LOCAL TAXATION.

I FRIDAY.
_
The special committee on the Local Taxation Bill, met
again to-day. -Mr. Goschen in the chair.
The incidence of rating in Somersetshire formed .the
principal topic of inquiry. According to evidence
given by Mr. Andrews, a landowner of Somersetshire, the
rents and rates of that part of the country have greatly
increased, and the whole additional burdens have had to be
borne by the occupier. The aggregate rates paid in the
union in which Mr. Andrews resides is now 2s. 6d. in the
pound. Thirty years ago, when he first went to reside
in Somersetshire, the rates were not more than half that
sum. Rents have increased in a somewhat similar propor-
tion. Mr. Andrews possesses a farm of 700 acres. His net
profit last year by this land amounted to £65, and the
gross amount of rates was £l.BO. He considered that it
would be absurd to -propose to divide the burden
of the rates between the owner and occupier.
Although an owner himself he would put the whole
burthen of the rates on the owner. He had no doubt that
the result would be the present rents would be raised;
but he could not see any injustice in that, when
the occupiers would be relieved of the payment
of rates. He looked upon rates as a thing parti-
cularly appertaining to property, and that the
owners of property should be alone asked for payment.
He thought such a system was more simple, and would
work much more-satisfactorily to all parties concerned. It
would be also well, in his opinion, to give into the hands
of the owners the administration of the poor law. He would
make the owners collect the rates, pay the rates, and ad-
minister the poor law.
The committee adjourned.