The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-23 00:00:00

French Rentes, 5 per Cent 94f. 94f.
Exchange
Austrian,s per Cent.
Dutch 2 per Cent. 12 Guild.... 593/4% 69%
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ... -- 92:;4

COURSE OF EXCHANGE..--TIIESDAY.
Amsterdam 11 164 Gibraltar .............•
Ditto, three months.. 11 18.
Leghorn .............. 30 40
Botterdam ••• • •• •• 11 la 4 Genoa.. •••• •• •• •..... 25 40
Antwerp 25 224 Milan • • • • • • •• "
Brussels ••• • .. ••• . • 25 22% Venice..... ••••••• •• •• 41%
Hamburgh .. •. • • Bi.B .13 8 Naples .. •••• • • ** 124
lit"a ••••••• • • • • • • • Palermo, peros...• •• ••
1244
Paris, 3 daysesight .... 25 2% Messina
6334
Ditto, 3 month! •• .. 25 214 Llsbon.• ••••• • • • • • ••
534
Marseilles ,•••• •• .• 25 28 0p0rt0.... ••.• •• ••• • ••
Bourdeaux.... ... • • --Rio Janeiro •••• • • ••• •
Irrankforton Maine.... 119 k Buenos Area "••gight
Berlin. • •• • • --New York,6o day,
Vienna, ofec 80."... 11 50 Philadelphia .... •
•• ••
17 Os.
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Trieste, ditto.... •• •• .. 11 52 YAWED Or spLiio
Petersburgh,Sll.Rble•• 37U Foreign Geld in bars • . 9
Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Madrid •• .. • • ........ 49% Portall
a
Cadiz •• •• •• •• 60% 8-Danish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .. •• 0 411 • • 4
Barcelona ••••••.• • • •• Silver in bars 0 0%
BeTilla•• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••

ErPECTB Or RAILWAY COMPETITION.—A striking
instance of the results of competition in railways has just
occurred in Leeds, where the Midland and Great Northern
are struggling in a most extraordinary manner for the Ex-
hibition traffic. The consequence is that yesterday (Tues-
day) the third-class fares from Leeds to London and back
were only 4s. 6d. by the Great Northern, and ss. by the
Midland, with a prospect of a still further reduction, each
company having announced its determination to be 6d
lower than its competitor.

HoSPITALITY HINDERED.--11 is said that Mr. Hope
has purchased, for 10,000 guineas, the splendid malachite
door shown in the Russian department of the Great Exhibi-
tion. Should this be the case, it may prove a check to the
gentleman's usual hospitality, for when a friend comes to dine
with him, he will most probably show him the door.
A. requisition, very numerously signed by the
electors of Harwich, has been presented to Mr. Crawford,
asking him to come forward again as a candidate for that
borough.

RAILWAY FROM ALEXANDRIA. TO CAIRO._We are
informed that the preliminaries for this important under-
taking have been so far settled between Nubar Bey, on the
part of his Highness the Pacha, and Mr. Robert Stephenson,
the engineer, that arrangements aro now in progren
(Or
COMUltilGi,ag it Ortiliiith.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
Although plantation accounts are very unfavourable, the
demand is by no means active, at about stationary prices.
Duty 75,000/. to 90,000/.

WHITECHAPEL.
The general demand isheavy, as follows :—Beef, from 2s
2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ;
Veal, 28 8d to 3s 6d; Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per 8 lbs, by the
carcase.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
There was only one case tried, on a petition brought
on a promissory note for a small amount. There was
no defence to the action, and the only point of interest
in the case was the form in which the note was drawn.
The Learned SECONDARY said that the note was made
payable to the plaintiff or bearer.
The Plaintiff's SOLICITOR said that the payees re-
sided in Scotland, and that was the usual form accord-
ing to the Scottish law.
The Learned SECONDARY—A question might have
arisen as to who was entitled to sue.

Plaintiff's SOLDOITOR said that although defendant had
put a plea on the record that he did not make the note,
and was not indebted, yet he did not appear to sustain
the plea; any right of objection was therefore waived.
The Learned SECONDARY said that there was no
doubt the note was legal, but it was unusual to make a
note payable to so and so or bearer. There was also
another point—that the amount, 91. 145., was to be pay-
able at 168. per month, with 2} per cent. per month in-
terest, and in default of payment of any instalment the
whole of the amount then due should be recoverable.
The Learned Secondary directed a verdict for the
plaintiff.

In consequence of the frequent absence of jurymen,
and the difficulty in forming a jury to-day, Mr. Hudson.
the clerk sitter of the court, gave notice that the Secon•
dary will fine any absentees on the next court day.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)
W. Smith, errand boy in the service of Messrs. Wickham
and Yelland, of 162, Strand, booksellers, was brought up
on remand before Mr. Henry, charged with stealing several
letters containing money and Poet-office oru•.Srs, and also a
great number of books, the property of his employers. In
the evidence, it was shown that the ,prisoner, who was an
unfriended youth, was taken into the employment of Messrs.
Wickham and Co. about sixteen months ago, as messenger
or porter at wages of fifteen shillings a-week. Mr. Wick-
ham, having lately missed a great number of letters contain-
ing money, entertained a suspicion that the prisoner,
who otherwise maintained an excellent character, and
was very well conducted, intercepted the letters. On
Thursday, the 14th inst., Mr. Wickham expected re-
mittances of money from (amongst others) a gen-
tleman of the name of Parker, residing in Exeter;
but the expected letters did not come to hand.
It was proved that the prisoner on that morning received
the delivery, and actually banded to the counting-house a
portion of the letters. The next day, Mr. Wickham went
to the lodgings of the prisoner, accompanied by Sergeant
Thompson, the principal detective officer of the F division,
who asked the prisoner to go with him, which he did.
Thompson seeing some clothes of the prisoners thrown
loosely on the bed, first applied himself to an examination
of them, and on lifting up two coats, he observed under
them two letters in envelope. He found that the seals of
the envelopes had been broken open, but neither the letters
enclosed, nor the Post-office orders which were contained
within them, had been abstracted. One of these letters
was from Mr. Parker, of Exeter, and contained a Post•office
order for 11/. 12s. ld., the balance of an account, but, by
the activity of the Post-office constable Peak, two letters,
which had inclosed each a 5/. note, were distinctly traced to
his hands, and it was proved that they never reached
Messrs. Wickham or their counting-house. It was also I
found that he had lodged 41. in the savings bank of St.
Clement Danes. In his room were found upwards of
ninety volumes, taken from the library of his employer, and
bearing their mark.
The prisoner denied that he had taken the letters with a
felonious intent. He had put them in his coat-pocket, and
a bunch of keys, which he carried with them, broke the
seals. Finding this he was frightened, and did not know
what to do. He knew nothing of the other letters; and as
to the books, he had bought them of a person in the shop.
The person so referred to gave the charge a distinct de-
nial, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—TrAffic for
the Week ending July 19, 1851:
Passengers (32,726), Goods, &c.,
and Horses and Carriages ... £4,639 12 8
Corresponding week in last year
for Glasgow and Ayr and Glas-
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle
Railways —.4%131 7 3
Glasgow, July 21, 1851.

METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY COMMITTEE.—
Yesterday long drawn out evidence was taken on the water
trade of Edinburgh, Dunfermline, and Dundee, with the
view of showing the well working of the water system in the
hands of private companies. A diverting point during the
day, as illustrating the scarcity of the aqua pura at one
period in Dundee, was the declaration of a witness that,
" when they- could not get water, they shaved themselves in
small beer."—(Laughter.) Mr. Williams, one of the mem-
bers of the local Board of Health at Worcester, spoke to the
insufficiency and inferiority of the water supplied to that
for statistical writet
town, and which was under the administration of the mu-
nicipality. Mr. Phinn, one of the counsel for the Govern-
ment Bill, lodged a complaint with the Committee
teffect
requisitionth at the
of
fntlhye companiescommttee whichcng had complied to the
turn of their working for three years were, thea East London,
the Grand Junction, the Southwark and
gent Water Companies. Vauxhall, and the

CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY RAILWAYS—The Bill
brought into the House of Commons to oblige railway
com-
panies to carry mail-bags at the ordinary rates of charge f
parcels, and Post-office officers at the ordinary charge for
the
pas-
sengers, has had two clauses added to it in Comm'
first regulating the services of notices to railway companies,
and the second providing that existing contractsbetween
the Postmaster-General and any railway company should
be affected by this Bill.
NUNS TARING
not
nesNdauyNl GyoTullnE
womenbVEil i I
made
aG4 A
theirse o w
it is termed, in this city,g .p7of°eslisiolnV,"eda-a
g the white veil of the
postulant and assuming the black veil of the nun. The
ceremony took place in St. Andrew's Catholic Chapel, Great
Clyde-street, and is described as having been one of a highly
imposing character—the Catholic clergy from nearly every
part of the western district having been present. The
young ladies were—Miss March and Miss Condon, Miss Fitz-
patrick, Miss Robertson, Miss B. A. Mackintosh, Minis
Hannah and Mary
WSwiney, and Miss Barry.
TEI FATAL RIOTS IN LIVERPOOL.--ADJOURNED
INQUE6L—LIVER.FOOI., TUESDAY.—The inquiry before the
Coroner of Liverpool, concerning the deaths of the two men,
Malin and Jones, who died from injuries receivectduring the
recent riots, was resumed to-day. The inquiry as regards
Jones, was postponed in consequence of the absence of a ma-
terial witness, but that in the case of Malin was proceeded with.
Several witnesses were examined, who described the riot
which took place subsequent to the attack on the procession.
It was clearly shown that deceased was engaged in these
riotous proceedings, and that in the melie he had been killed
by a pistol shot, but in the absence of any witness who could
identify the individual who had discharged the weapon, the
inquest was adjourned until Friday next. The body of
Jones, who was an Orangeman, was interred in St. John's
Churchyard on Sunday last ; that of Malin on the same day,
in the burial-ground of St. Patrick's Chapel, Toxteth- park.
The bodies were followed to the grave by hundreds of their
respective partizans, but no further indication of riot oc-
curred.

A " FOWL" NutsAlicm.—Lord Londes has sued
Mrs. Holford, one of his neighbours in Grosvenor-square, in
the Westminster County Court, for 51. damages, because she
keeps fowls which "crow and make a great noise and disturb"
his Lordship and his family. His Lordship, in answer to a
question, admitted that Mrs. Holford's cocks did not crow
Igiader thala other cocks. Wile Wirt reserved l judguleat.

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INTERESTING CASE IN NEW ORLEANS.
A very interesting and exciting case was tried yes-
terday before Judge Larue, of the First District Court.
The plaintiff in the case was Mrs. Wilhelmina Fabler,
who petitioned the Court for a writ of habeas corpus
against Mrs. Josephine INwey, to require her to pro-
duce in court the body of a certain infant child,
named Augusta Wilhelmina, aged twelve months, whose
lawful protector and custodian she claimed to be by
virtue of the following facts:—When the said Child
was about two months old, it was left at the door of
a house in Rampart-street, adjacent to the residenon ce
of Mrs. Fabler, who, at the request of some perss,
undertook its charge, and faithfully performed her
duties, until about seven months ago, when, saving
to go to Havannah, she left the child in charge of
another person, who delivered it over to the father of the
corporation, our worthy mayor, by whom it was delivered
to Mrs. Dewey, who now refuses to surrender it. Mrs.
Dewey, in answer to the writ, produced the child in
court, but contended that she had the nine points of the
law in her favour—to wit possession—that she had
taken good care of the infant, and would continue to
do so ; she therefore resisted the pretensions of
Mrs. Fabler. The little unconscious infant
lap of Mrs. Dewey during the argument of the case, and
amused itself by crowing, and cutting other infantile
capers, very much to the delight of its assumed parent,
the annoyance of the sheriff, and somewhat to the
discomfiture of the learned lawyers in the case,
whose grave expositions were interrupted in rather
lay in the
an undignified manner by what old Horace called
the vagitus infantum. The testimony, which was
to the foregoing purport, satisfied Judge Larne that
neither claimant bad a natural right to rule laid
For this reason be did not consider the rule Isla
down by Judge Solomon in a celebrated case, re-
ported in the books of the judges, as a p.roper ctrlcl
for this case. His honour the mayor having wee _
all claim to the property in dispute, the contest was
between two ladies, whose characters did not
satisfy
Judge Larue that they were either of them very fate
bright r
Jo uund die apc
ire
:odi
depositories and guardians of a little tender blossoe
of womanhood. So, after hearing both parties, sn.d,
. e
yve very
cebxupbrbeys s.
ceeded to render a decision. The Judge said he
with
not consider it would be safe to leave the child
icvheel chubby-checked eat
cthheer u bl i,
t t lteh e
either claimant, and as it was the duty of courts to pro;
tect the unfortunate and helpless, he should direct
uOne
ist child to be sent to the Camp-street Asylum, where,cbi.
der the care of those noble matrons, the Sers a -a
rity, it would be properly taken care of, and reared up.l _
Orphan asylum,
virtue and usefulness. He therefore ordered that the adds
should be taken by the sheriff and delivered over tobt.
self. The fat, jolly deputy sheriff then advanced to Men.
Dowey, who with a loud outburst of sorrow and half
.„
and the entrance fee he would pay _ irii.
tation delivered the child into the outstretched arms oot, the
officer, whereupon the little Wihelmina• in sPitee •181-;
very amiable and fascinating look assumed by th
hsnrol
for the occasion, raised a most vigorous outer'', whic - of
through the court buildings, to the great alarm., At
many anxious papas who were there assembled
habeas
beca
the same time Mrs. Fabler, the plaintiff in Os these
corpus, also joined in the general cry,
three voices together with the urgent
in basso of the sheriff, made as effective a (Allow.
as we have heard for a long time. Finally', a ,
_.
Lt by
ever the.
• little one was borne off in triumPwrite,
the deputy sheriff, and is, no doubt, whilst we o,ew,, little
sleeping sweetly and innocently in a neat (345'.f• all
cradle, ;faithfully watched by those tenderest nbilay.
p_arents—those Sisters of Charity, virtue, and P
tthecrt"Y' who devote their lives and affections to the- s,
ion and nurture of the children of misfortunee''
;
Orelans Delta. .
.0,
expio:tdulatiroccess
-!. ,
HER MAJESTY'S THEA:II4I.'
then re'.
Want of space prevents us from doing more 0, No ;
cording the fact, that Auber's last new °Pea, ""er for
ou la Corbeille d'Oranges, was produced here last e io.
mense success. The music is brilliant,
iag, and that Alboni, as the heroine, achieved an ,a
to hear
replete with deliciousmelody. We Pec3t
ex . „ I, eel
Alboni's • " • aria, Dolci frutta arailci eletti, o
outh.
handT organ and street piano in the course of as rano),
The scenery is beautiful (the scene is laid al r,,„ee wist
and the dances graceful and characteristic. " which
defer until to-morrow the • •of Thetice ' w
publication t hose •se
we bad written of this delightful opera. -
crowded. sparkliP,Dear

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THE _HIPPODROME. whilst
In these days of wonder, when each novelthos to
exciting the admiration of the beholder, bet ",„", hire
I whet his appetite for somethieg that shall serProosted
still more, the visitor to the Crystal Felice? aotrisl
after his half-dozen hours spent amidst the 1%i5 es 3
splendours of the world, looks round him n„0„ degree
in search of an evening's entertainment in enTeft and,
commensurate with the scene that he has fast he 'coil
) within five minutes' walk of the World's ilr ii witl,',
. upon an exhibition that may well be allowed to dome,
. anything that he has hitherto seen. "The I:DPP
- - °OlO (3°61
, a building like an'ancient circus, raised at the 6,0 pro.
and risk of a private individual, Mr. Batty' the
prietor of Astley's Amphitheatre, is calculated t 0 hats
yore
modate between,l4,ooo and 15,000 persons. A '?„ itself.
ago it would have been a world's wonder l'aeses i!
:The equestrian corps engaged for the perfellnremisee
. unparalleled in magnitude. The novelties Pere
and produced—perfect in the meaning of the wor 0 of the
unheard of before. The extraordinary esoensi° „rebel'
Globe Arienne by M. F. Debach is quite iner,reiritieg
Bible. The ladies' chariot race is a most „hors I°
cs
seeiiga thet sight,
teha
enedst
combinationtherer i
eh r areaee . fewßefu t
elegance
twhoo willthese
ww notth.t
oh 0
sabkaei‘
sad i-cii,
eygreee. poop° ra
31
00:,
mend a careful study of the performances of x-
fully sei"
pmeesneithinileitSyoeuflliietre abnedinMg. Debach on his heat/t,";" -e! It:
ragediitmhag i n e
dh oares eh.e t
nSgpwa ciitohuins
the
is the
as already occurred. Yesterday no less era Ow has
as
150/. pof th
was refused at the doors after 17,000
Royal household honoured the
been admitted. Nearly one hundred Ineleberldi their
presence on the occasion. ee rrcarnogwed
ee overcrowded
ecooeutlida re
ear; 0 sot
In the evening Madlle. Palmyra Garneroni_efroto this
her balloon, the "Rainbow," for the first tin' neut gale
arephita_ Vol
v.,
establishment. At six precisely the fairl,re°ot in the
the word for the ascent, which was feign— of nesrli
extreme. After a safe and pleasant "Pigs
t. most
,
ll la
one hour she descended in perfect sofa)? a•
performance with
iti
et kindly
t
a field adjoining the church, where eh° was illowho MO'
received by Dr. Remington and his daughter, _„d rev
hospitably invited her to the parsonage
dered her every assistance until her vehicle, Vi 1...., her
lowed the direction of the balloon, arrived to 00'J
and the machine to the place of its transit.
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It is with sincere regret that we announce
oda,
death of Louisa, Viscountess Beresford. She died on 24°
night, the 21st inst., at Bedgebury-park, Kent.
AfOn'
house, it...,.6 foi,
PORTLAND-TOWN RAGGED SCUOOLS.-.-011
day last the annual meeting of this school was held in
•-_,,,,,,
130';r1,8
street, Portland-town; Mr. Silk Buckingham presided' '..j.,
report having been read and received, several gentlemen, !e0
dressed the meeting. It appeared that much good badPryor
done by the establishment or the school, and thank,„P tips
pests for the future were cheering.
.A vote of "so
dissolved.chairman having been carried unanimously, the meeting
,A at
MONEY MANKEY.—The quotation of gold the
Paris is 4 per mills discount (according to of
new tariff), which, at the English Mint Pry eV
31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold,
()gala—done at
change of 25.07; and the exchange at Paris
shortdear e r being 25.02
Paris2s .02i,
than iti followsn 1, on London.
0 tnh. a t
burgh the price of gold is 427 i per mark,adod9vihs2iic3ce.hatti at
pniPt
ebe:eLlticElfillgidl:
lish Mint price of 31. 17s. mid. per
gbuivregshal exchange
a tof
shortfl3 te; ounce which,
Standard Poi.
bisetOw.2ee3npEenrgclaenndt.
adnedarAerminagndl3tzneitxcfholainowgee taltaorogadooold.
The course of e Hamburgh than
once of interest
leaves a profit ot
exchange at
New York on London for
exchalig
60 days' sight is 1101 per cent., and the par of _ cow
inrica beinggg;ll
it follows that
favour of England; and after making allowance for t rate
States. nahnetdheexchiemharapgnoegrsteaotiisfonntroaomringpaoolrlidty:
fOrt.oh9mo2
pp el
tufr:rres
ecbiljedilite e
a:,
roe"
SERIOUS FIRE AT TUE SOUTH Docxs, Livsl- t 0
—An extensive fire broke out on Monday last in the COt le
:warehouses of Messrs. Isaac and Conolly, in this tovr°' the
is said to have been occasioned by sparks caused h9_,,0„,
wheel of a cart loaded with sulphur coming into violente
tact with the kerbstone and igniting the mineral. bags
could surpass the
and the police. By the efforts of the former the damage wits
promptitude displayed by the fire brigt'as.
confined to the two end warehouses. The fire first made
__
The quantity of cotton in the warehouses to which it was
appearance about three o'clock,
confined was not less than 2,000 bales; of this little was a_ _
tually consumed, but the whole was more or less injured.l
fire and saturation. The loss is calculated at 15,0001., Whlfe
is covered by insurances
thea offiyes, among others te e
Royal Insurance and and lasted nearly three howuro:.
WlLLleBßooms. A matinee took Standard
of
Stir.--bwerpiool
Friday. rail
place yeste 01
at these rooms, at which Madlle. Rachel, assisted by "vette
members of the French company of St. James Threa,io.:
gave a series of dramatic readings from the Athalie, -11-1,i5,-.t.
thrope, Polyeucte, and Phedre.g The room 3 were well ~,,-ed
tendedet by a fashionable audience. Fantasias were P.aliett
h ween the selections by M. Blumenthal and M. Vivirtlio
French their
respective instruments--namely, the pianoforte an ,
horn.
CHIMNEYSWEEPERS.—Lord Shaftesbury has just
'
laid on the table of the House of Lords a Bill for the fat ,
regulation of chimneysweepers. It is proposed that Forly..
son under the age of '2l shall use the trade of a them are
sweeper, unless duly apprenticed. Persons under 16 Yteto,
similarlyre to b
proheibimitepde,sedexfceerptdistoebecyairarg they th
tieesweP es
gals-
Penalties
are
tons.
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