The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-15 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

AN EXORBITANT CHARGE.—In the Rolls Court, on
Saturday, a remarkable case was heard. Dr. Clark, a
physician, of St. Mark's-square, Primrose-hill, appealed
from the decision of the chief clerk, who allowed £B2 13s.
instead of a bill of £3lO. Dr. Clark attended a boarding-
school at St. John's Wood, the two daughters of Mr. Win.
Sanger, whose estate is being administered in this court,
being among his patients. One of these young ladies had
a slight illness, which did not interfere with her school
duties, and for his attendance upon her Dr. Clark
charged £2O Os. Gd. Her younger sister had
a long and serious illness. Dr. Clark attended her, visit-
ing her at Brighton and IV orthin7„ and charging £2BO Hs.
Dr. Clark also charged forty guineas for letters, con-
sultations with solicitors, &c. The guardians resisted
the claim, which the chief clerk reduced to £B2, and
hence the appeal. The defence was that doctors were
justified in raising their charges in proportion to the means
of the patient, and the severity of the ailment. The
Master of the Rolls said that if such claims were encou-
raged, the Court of Chancery wculd lay itself open to the
charge of devouring the means of orphans. The case was
not concluded.

THE ORDER OF FORESTERS.—At Bow-street, on Satur-
day, Mr. Stimson, late secretary to the London district of
the United Order of Foresters, charged with embezzling
certain sums of money, the property of that society, was
sent for trial, but was admitted to bail in two sureties of
£lOO each, and his own recognisances of 5.:200.
THE OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.—At Clerkenwell, on Satur-
day, the case of the Highgate omnibus accident, which
occurred at Christmas time, was again inquired into, and
the omnibus driver was exonerated from blame. James
Duval, a carman in the employ of Pickford and Co., who
was driving the van which came into collision with the
omnibus, was fined 20s. for furious driving. Mr. Ilenitz,
one of the committee of Lloyd's, and a Mr. Street were
seriously injured.
A PAINFUL CASE.—On Saturday three respectable
young men were summoned by the Camberwell Guardians
for refusing to support their father, who had become
chargeable to the parish. lie is 57 years of age, hut ruined
by intemperance. The magistrate held that as he was
not incapacitated for work, it was not just to compel his
sons to maintain him in intemperance, and the summons

was dismissed.
SENTENCES OF DEATH AT MANCHESTEE.—Sarah Craw-
ford, aged 24, domestic servant, was sentenced to death
for the murder of her child. Michael Johnson, aged 20,
was indicted fer the wilful murder of Patrick Nurney, at
Salford. A quarrel arose in a beerhouse, when Johnson
stabbed Nurney, who died immediately. The prisoner
was sentenced to death.

PROSECUTION OF A BETTING MAN. —A betting man,
named Frank Salmon, of James-street, London, was sum-
moned before the Cinque Ports magistrates, at Margate,
last week, for keeping abetting stand at the Margate races
in September last. Salmon did not appear, but it was
clearly proved that he did keep a betting stand, and that
he touted for bets. He was fined £5O and costs, and, in
case of a distress failing, sentenced to three months'
imprisonment. Proceedings were taken against a number
of other professional betting men, but it turned out they
had all given false addresses.
RESCUE OF A WOMAN AND Two CHILDItEN.—At the
Stafford Assizes, on Saturday, a young married woman
was charged with having tried to murder her child. She
had thrown herself and her two children into a pool of
water owing to great mental depression from the ill.
treatment of her husband, who was in the habit
of drinking. An alarm was raised, and a young collier,
named Clay, leaped in and saved them all three with
great difficulty: The judge complimented him highly on
his bravery, and said he would take care that it was pro.
perly recognised. The jury acquitted the prisoner, think.
ing she was irresponsible at the time.
AN UNROMANTIC CASE. —At the Aylesbury Assizes a
case of breach of promise of marriage has been tried, in
which an elderly widower sued a middle-aged widow for
damages. The defendant had £7OO a year, and the
plaintiff appeared to hold an indefinite position, not
having paid his rent of ss. per week for twelve months.
The lady in September last signed a guarantee for the
rent and taxes of a house at Reading, taken by the plaintiff
for their joint occupation. The jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff for £3OO.
A CLERGYMAN COMMITTED TO PRISON.—The Rev-.
Charles Collins, a clergyman residing at Drayton, a few
miles from Stourbridge, has been committed to Worcester
Gaol in default of finding two sureties of £lOO each to
keep the peace towards Mr. John Harward, a Stourbridge
solicitor.

MEAT Far. THE NAVY.—We are glad to find that
the suggestion thrown out in reference to this subject has
already been acted upon. The Admiralty authorities have
resolved to make a trial of the preserved boiled beef pre-
pared in Australia, and imported into this country at a
price very much lower than the cost of that preserved at
the Victualling Yard. The contracts for which tenders
are invited are for 200,0001 b. of beef, to be delivered
between December 1, 1869, and January 31,1870. This is
about one-fifth part of the beef preserved in the same
way last year at Deptford.—Brli di Medical Journal.
HOD.SERACING EXTRAORDINARY. —The most sin-
gular race on record was ma at the last Bangor meeting.
For one of the stakes three horses started, and the
distance to be traversed was a little over three miles.
One of the animals, it is said, bolted into a neighbouring
village, hal a feed of corn, was brought back, remounted,
and eventually won the race by a mile and three quarters.
The third horse was three milesbehind the second, and the
time consumed in running was forty minutes. One or two
more such meetings as this, and Bangor will be as cele-
brated as Epsom—only after a different fashion.—Welling-
ton Journal.

A MONUMENT TO HUMEOLDT.—It is contem-
plated by the friends and admirers of the philosopher,
Alexander von Humboldt, to celebrate the centennia:
anniversary of his birth, the 14th of September next, by
erecting a suitable monument of marble in Central Park.
Mr. William Aufermann,
of N. 66, Exchan2;e•place:
a member of the committee, having the matter it
charge, has written to the North German Minister
at Washington on the subject, and has received in
reply the following. letter :—" To your inquiry as tc
whether you might add my name to these of the committee,
I beg to reply that I shall be proud and always willing tc
sign my name in glorification of the memory of our great
countryman, and to contribute my share towards the ere°
Lion of his monument.—Yours, &c., In. VON GEROLT.'
The Park Commissioners have given their assent to thr
project, and the work of raising funds, therefore, will be
commenced; _QlNC,—ifew York 2'imo.

MONEY AND BUSINESS.

(From the Springfidd Republican, Feb. 27.)

Money has been rather easy in New York at comfort-
able rates, but at Boston it is not so, for the banks are
lean and discount very sparingly. The last Boston Bank
statement shows a decrease of deposits, in one week,
amounting to almost a million and a half, while the aggre-
gate loans have shrunk nearly half a million. There is,
fortunately, no very pressing demand for money, else the
market would be quite stringent. The western money
markets show no changes of special importance. Pacific
• mail continues to be the shuttlecock of Wail-street, and be-
tween bulls and bears is-getting badly bettered. The latter
seems to be winning the game, as the stock, with its varied
ups and clowns, stands 10 per cent. lower than it did a week
ago. Although it recently sold at 120, it has this week
been below par. There has also been a sharp decline in ex-
press stocks, on account of a threatened renewal of the
war against the express companies by the railroads simul-
taneous with the campaign egeinet "fart freight" lines.
Ties, latter have got to cuff r, if the New York Central,
Erie, and other prontin•nt ro ,ds can work w: tit t Lei,. wit,
and to drive them off they have this veek taken freights
to and front the Wert at the lowest tariff ever known.
Negotiations are in progress between the Erie and Fort
Wayne roads that will give the former road the outlet to
Chicago ch sired. The Atlantic and Great Western roil,
now leased by the Erie company, crosses the Fort Wayne
road at Mansfield, 0., and there is no necessity of building
a new road. The Fort Weyne will either lay a third rail
from that point to Chicago, or transship the freight upon
their own cars. This arrangement will give New York
two thr,eigh lines to Chicago. The managers of the Hud-
son, Harlem, New York, Central, Lake Shore, Columbus,
and Toledo, and Buffalo and Erie roads are now harmo-
nious, and by making an arrangement with the Michigan
Southern road a through line will be had via the Now
York Central. The most important financial legislation
in Congress for a long time was the passage in the House
of Mr. Schenck's bill "to strengthen the public credit"
by a very decided majority. The title of the bill is no
misnomer; it undoubtedly will strengthen the credit of
the nation, especially abroad, as it embodies an official
and indisputable guaranty that the l rincipal of our
bonds shall be paid in gold, and so settle the bond ques-
tion raised by Butler, Pendleton, and other repudiators in
the late Presidential campaign. The Senate ought to
give the bill its first attention, notwithstanding the late-
ness of the session, for it is of a far greater importance
than most of the measures now before it. It is sure to
produce an advance in the price of our bonds, both at
home and abroad, and this effect is Already apparent.
Gold, which has been growing weaker for several
days past, is likely to be sent still lower by it, unless kept
up by the large demands for export and for the payment
of customs. No less than $915,000 in coin were paid to
the government at New York custom house on Wednes-
day --a larger sum than was ever pail in any single day
before. The total receipts of specie at New York since
January 1 are $1,730.140. The market for cotton fabrics •
continues to be controlled almost exclusively by the state
of the cotton market, and prices advance or decline in
almcst exact proportion to the fluctuations of cotton. Stan- •
dard sheetings and shirtings, however, have ruled compa-
ratively firm, owing to a small supply, and the fact that
they cannot be profitably replacel with cotton at its present
price. Almost all other kinds of goods run down, a few days
ago, where cotton was, prints leading off with a decline of
from 1 to 2c. a yard. Since then the market has been firmer
in sympathy with the cotton market. Although some of the
leading city wholesalers are doing a good business, trade
iu general is very dull and very unsatisfactory. Woollen
goods are quiet with firmer prices sustained. The exports
(exclusive of specie) from New York for the week and
year are $3,261,173 and $20,665,571 against $2,968,819
and 525,912,129. The importations of last week were
$7,439,293 gold, against produce exports of $3,228,06 in
currency, equal to about $2,400,000 iu gold, showing an
increase of $5,000,000 gold imports beyond exports. The
total imports since Jenuary 1 amount to $37,090,402 in
gold, against produce exports of $20,665,571 in cur-
rency, equal to about $14,500,000 in gold, showing an
excess in imports of about $23,000,000 gild, or about
160 per cent. This excess of $23,000,000 in importations
has been settled in part by shipments of 55,352,395 in
specie, leaving a seeming balance of $18,000,000 (geld) to
bo settled by remittances of bonds or other securities.
Although the receipts of live stock at Cambridge and
Brighton this week have been much smaller than usual,
tater° has been no improvement in the merket, and the
amount of stock seemed to be fully equal to the demand.
The wool market continues active, and holders have, neon
able to obtain extreme figures for all desirable lots of do-
mestic fleece, in good condition. Manufacturers have been
free purchasers, and stocks are fast disappearing. A firmer
and higher market is predicted, as a continuance of the
present demand must soon clear the market. Choice Eas-
tern super has advanced to 57c, and large lots of Ohio and
Pennsylvania are now held at 60c, although the ruling
price has been 55c to 6:c.

(From the Wall-street Journal)

FRIDAY EVENING, Feb. 20.

Money continues very easy at 6 to 7 per cent. en stock
collaterals, and at sto G per cent. on Governments. Dis-
counts are readily obthined at 7 to 81 per cent. ou first-class
names. Government Bonds are advancing, and are to-day
Ito 2 per cent. higher than the prices of yesterday. The
Serale Finance Committee having unanimously reported
in favour of the Public Credit Bill we look for much higher
prices, more especially as the demand from Europe is be-
coming rampant., and the supply of Bonds must henceforth
be limited.

Foreign Exchange is active, and lite remitters are buy-
ing freely. The rates are _ _

Sixty Days. Three Days
Londcn Bankers
1091. 1091-1092
Lci_c:.n Prime Commercial lOBl-108-
Paris, litnkei s 5.18/ -- 5.164 5.15 —5.131
Bremen, Bankers
Hamburgh, Bankers 351 - 36
Frankfort, O.M
2
Berlin and Cologne
Antwerp 5.18/-5.161
Amsterdam, Bankers - 40/
Swiss
Express Stot ks are lower, it being understood that one
or more of the leading Railroad Companies intend to be
their own carriers of express matt.:T. We quote--
Adams
••• ... 511 to 584
40 to
67
American Merchants' Union
01
Do. Old Stock •... ••,. ••• 16 to lhy
II
6 to 0 United States
..
Wells, Fatgo, and Co. ... 30 to 304
Quotations for specie :
Amer. silver... 95 to 951
Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 104
Eng. silver ..... 480 , 485
Five francs 954 „ 964
CLOSING QUOTATIONS pi
N. Y. Cez:trsl Gs, 1883... 92
N. Y. Central Os, 158 i... 91
N. Y. Central Cs, 11 87
N. Y. Cent.
al 87
N. Y. ( 'entr.d 7s, 1876_1004
N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 ..
N. Y. Cell. 7s, '65-'76 ...110
Er.e Ist Mort, Ex 100
Erie 7s, 2d M0tt,1879 101
Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883
EH.. 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 8,4
Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888
Long Dock Bonds 924
BufeN.Y. & E.lst M, '77. 89
Hod. R. 7s, Ist M,
Iled. R. 7s, 3d M, '75...
Harlem Ist M, '6B '79...101
Mich. C. Ist M,
_llB
Mich. new ISt M 85,'87„118
Mich. So., 7p. c 2dM... 93
N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B
Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 964
111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O. ........ 1174
Alton & T. 11. Ist M
Alton & T. H. 2d pfd ,„ 821
Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 772
Han.& SU. Land Grants
Il an. & St. J. C0n.....
B. & Q., Ist M ........111
Chi. & N. West, S. F.... 95
Chi. & N. W. Con Cony. 934
('hi. & N. W. Ex'n 8.... 85
RAILROAD AND MISC
N. Y. Central 164
Erie
Hudson
Reading
Mich. South. &N. I 964
Illinois Central
Cleveland & Pittsbrg 9l
North-West
North-West Preferred 91
Canton 604
Rock Island
Cleveland and Toledo 1054
PUBLIC FUNDS OF 1
Sixes, 1868, registered ........................
Sixes, 1868, coupon ... ........................ to
Sixes, 1881, coupon 1154 to 1151
U.S. Os. Pacific Rails oad
1014 to 101/
Five-twenties, 1862, coupon .........,•„•„117/ to 117
Five-twenties, 1864, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new
Five-twenties, 1867, coupon
U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll2 to 1124
Ten-forties, coupon .. . llO4 to 110+
Seven-thirties, 2d series
- to

Eng. sous 486 to 489
20 francs 381 „ 386
Tbalers

)R RAILROAD MORTGAGES.
Chi. & N. W. Ist 31 91
Tol. & Web. 2d 31 Ex 84
Gt.. Western lstM 'BB 103
Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M
Gal. & Chic. Ext 95
Gal. & Chic. 2d M
Chi. & R. I. Ist 31 OOl
Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 94
Cleve. & To!. S. Fund 99
N. J. Central Ist M
N J. Central 2d 31 102
Pitts. Ft.W., Ch. Ist 31 101 i
Pitts. Ft. W , & Ch. 2d M 9B
Pitts. Ft. W., & Uh.3d M —
Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M
Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc 94
Chic. & Alton, 5.F.1801 101
Mil. & St. Paul Ist 31 9l
Mil. & St. Paul 2d M B5
Marietta & Cin. Ist M —
Morris & Essex Ist M 97
Morris & Essex 2d M
Joilet & Chic. Ist M —
Chi. & Gt. East'n lstM Bli
N. Y. &N. 11 6s
Dubuque & S City, lst M 9O
Peninsula Ist 31 B5
Ohio & Miss. Ist M 94
Ohio & Miss. Con.. —
Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D B6
Atlantic & G. W. Ist M —

rELLANEOUS STOCKS.
Fort Wayne
Pacific Mail lO4
Atlantic Mail
Quicksilver
W. 11. Telegraph
Mariposa Preferred
Ohio and Mississippi B3l
Boston Water Power l5
Cumberland
Bankers and Brokers._ 107
M & St. Paul
IM & St. Paul Preferred 78+,
CHB UNITED STATES.

Seven-thirties, 3d series
Oregon War LOW], Sixes. 1881 —
Petroleum Stocks continue to be largely dealt in, par-
ticularly Brovoort, Buchanan Farm, Central, National,
Rynd Farm, United States, and in fact all stocks of those
companies either producing oil or owning territory in fee

A dinner to the Hon. Carl Schurz, United States
Senator elect from Missouri, was on the 27th of February
given at Delmonico's by the German members of the Grant
and Colfax Club of last Fall. Mr. Sigismund Kauffman
presided, and Dr. Schuetz, General Sigel, and numereu-
other influential citizens, were present. General Schurz
is the first native-born German ever elected to the United
States Senate.

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