The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-22 00:00:00

LAW INT.

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COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lords Justices.)
APPEAL MOTION - ZLDEItTON V. CAMROUS COALBROOXB
STEAM AND SWANSEA RAILWAY COMPANY.
This was an appeal motian from a decision of Vice-
Chancellor Sir John Stuart, declining to adjudicate in
this cause pending arbitration. Objections were taken to
surcharges of two sums of £1,200 and £l,BOO in accounts
taken before the Master, and the proof tendered before
the arbiter.

Their lordships were of opinion that it was not compe-
tent to dispose of these preliminary objections at present, and
refused this appeal motion, with costs, without prejudice to
any question that may be raised on the merits.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

IN RE EVANS.

This was a certificate meeting, and the bankrupt was
described as a solicitor of Farnham. The official assignee
informed the court that the bankrupt was absent, and the
solicitor to the assignees expressed an opinion that the bank-
rupt would not make his appearance to-day; in fact, he
had written a letter setting forth that, in consequence of
his property not having been converted, he should not at
this time apply for his certificate.
Mr. Lawrence, for the creditors, urged upon the court to
proceed with and determine the case. An attempt to serve
the bankrupt with a summons to attend had been unsuc-
cessful. _ _ _

The Commissioner doubted if he could go on, the bank-
rupt not being present.
Mr. Lawrence quoted the 198th section of the act, and a
case in which Commissioner Fane heard a cause in the
absence of the bankrupt, and refused the certificate. This
was a case in which the bankrupt (Evans) disputed the
adjudication, but in March, 1858, he had absconded.
The Commissioner asked if, under all the circumstances,
a criminal prosecution ought not to be ordered ?
Mr. Lawrance—What is the use of doing so in the ab-
sence of the bankrupt ? The bird has flown, and the bank-
rupt was too estate a lawyer to remain within the jurisdic-
tion of the Court. This was a case in which, although
uneertificated as a bankrupt, the bankrupt had obtained
his certificate, enabling him to practise as an attorney, and
it was a matter that ought to be well ventilated for the
protection of the public.
Mr. Commissioner Holyroyd hero arrived, and advised
that a special jury should be appointed, and that some
exertion should be made to notify the same to the ab-

aentee.
Mr. Lawrence agreed to the, and an adjournment was
ordered for one month.

POLICE LATTELLIG EN OE-( THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

A PICKPOCKET AT TILE HAY MARKET THEATRE.—Thos.
Welsh, 22, was charged with attempting to pick pockets at
the Haymarket Theatre.
Charles Brown, 304 A, said that about 12 the previous
night, as the audience were leaving the theatre, he saw the
prisoner, who was inside the theatre, place himself beside
two ladies as they were passing out, and while they were
waiting at the door for their carriage, he saw the prisoner
put his left hand into one of the ladies' pockets. The lady
looked him full in the face, and he did not succeed in
getting anything. The prisoner then walked back to the
dress-circle, and followed two other ladies from that
place to the door, and again put his left hand into one of
their pockets, but was again unsuccessful. He (Brown)
then followed him into the theatre again, when he followed
two ladies and a gentleman outside up to their carriage
door, and he there saw him put his hand down by the left
side of ono of the ladies, and he then took him into custody.
Prisoner put some questions to the constable, but they
only had the effect of strengthening the case against him.
Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that in 1855 he had the prisoner
in custody, when he was discharged ; on May 2.5, 1857,
prisoner had three months for picking pockets; and on
April 21, 1858, he was tried at the Westminster Sessions
for felony and discharged.
Mr. Beadon committed the prisoner for three months
with hard labour.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE—STRANGE CASE.—Phoebe Taylor,
of 9, West-street, Golden-square, was charged with attempt-
ing to commit suicide by taking laudanum, appearing in a
very dejected state.
Weal, 204 C, said that on the previous night about a
quarter past 11 while passing along Grosvenor-street, Gros-
venor-square, he heard a sound as of a cork being pulled out
of a bottle, and on looking round saw the defendant with a
bottle at her mouth. He took the bottle out of her hand
and at the time she exclaimed, " I've done it again." He
asked her where she got the laudanum, some:of which was in
the bottle, and she said she had bought one pennyworth at
the chemist's in Davies-street, and a second pennyworth
at another chemist's. Oa going to the chemist in Davies-
street, he said he had sold her a pennyworth, and offered
the defendant an emetic, but she refused it. Upon this he
took her to the St. George's Hospital, where an emetic was
administered, but the doctor said he could trace no lauda.
num.

Mr. Beadon asked the defendant what induced her to ac
as she had done.

Defendant said she did not know.
Weale said she told him that she had taken two penny.
worth before, and that she meant to make away with her
self.

The defendant again said she had nothing to say, and
she was remanded for a week.

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LONDON, Feb. 22.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. ;
moderate breeze and cloudy.
rota6lt9uTn, Feb. 25.—Wind, W.N.W.—Sailed—Her
Majesty's stoamer Alecto, for Coast of Africa—H.M.'s str.
Falcon, for the eastward.
PLYMOUTH, Feb. 21.—Wind, N.E.—Sailed—Mariner,
for the Cape of Good Hope.
HULL, Feb. 21.—Arrived—Alster (ss.), from Antwerp.
Sailed—Warjakka, for Moulmain.
BRIDLINOWN, Feb. 21.—Wind, N.E.—Arrived—The
Holyrood (ss), from Rotterdam for Leith—Jane Hughes,
from Port Madoc for Newburgh, with damage to bows, loss
of bowsprit, slipped both anchors, &c., having been in con-
tact with the Holyrood (ss.)—Ariel, from Yarmouth to
Newcastle, with serious damage to broadside, having been
in collision with the Margaret, from Southampton to Sun-
derland.
PILL, Feb. 21.—Wind
from Bremen for St. Thomas ; Purge, from Cork for Gre-
nada.
DOVER, Feb. 21.—Wind N.N.W., strong.—Arrived—
British Oak, from Charleston, with damage in midskips,
hating been in collision.

(litY ELIICTRIC TELHGRAPII.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning..

Wind N.
Arrived, Feb. 20.—Tiber and British Lady, from New
port ; Alceste and Ceylon, from Cardiff; Dispatch, steamer,
from Jersey ; Meridian, from Rouen ; Satelle, from Neath.
Sailed, Feb. 20.—Ceylon, steamer, for Alexandria ; Cou-
rier and Atalanta, steamers, for Jersey ; Georges and La
Poulo, for Cherbourg; Alliance, steamer, for Havre.
Arrived, Feb. 21.—New York, steamer, from 'Bremen ;
Havre, steamer, from Havre; Foyle, steamer, from Lon-
don; Empress Eugenie, steamer, from Liverpool; Violet,
from Waterford ; Abbotsford, from Sunderland ; Welling-
ton, from London ; Pursuit, from Hartlepool; Virtuo, from
Cork ; Martha, from Cardiff; Elizabeth and Richard, from
Port Madoc ; Bird, from Cowes.
Sailed, Feb. 21.—St. Nicholas, for New York ; Dispatch,
steamer, for Jersey ; Foyle, steamer, for Dublin • Empress
Eugenie, steamer, for London ; Theodore, for janelly.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.

Wind S.SW.
Arrived—lndefatigable, from De Greave.
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(Eff SUBMARINE AND RUTTISH TELEGRAPII.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Moraine.
Wind N.W. ; tide sesond hours' flood ; weather cloudy.
Arrived, Feb. 21—Raphael, from Algoa Bay.
Arrived, Feb. 22.—Leo, steamer, and Batavia, staemer,
from Rotterdam ' • Sinai, from Havre ; Orontes, from Ja.
maica : Triton, steamer, from Calais.
Sailed.—Belgium, for Ostend.
D EAL, Wednesday Morning.

Wind N., light.
Passed.—Her Majesty's ship Doe, from Woolwich, for
Portsmouth; Empress Eugenie, screw steamer, from the
West ; Queen of Clyde, from Calcutta—both for London ;
Zodiac, from London, for Brest; Balgowrie, barque, from
the North for the West.
Sailed, in tow.—All the homeward bound, for London.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about f per milled, and the short exchange on London is
25.121 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the
English Mint price of £3 17s. 10fd. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is at about 1-10th per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the
price of gold is 422 per mark, and the short exchange on
London is 13.31 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the
English Mint price is therefore about 1-10th per
cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at GO days' sight is
about 1081 9 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint
proportions between the two countries, shows that the ex-
change is slightly against England ; and, after making
allowance for charges of transport and difference of inte-
rest, the present rat? loaves no profit on the importation
of gold from the United States.
VERY LIKE THE SEA SERPENT.—WhiIe the ship
Typhoon (just arrived at Liverpool from Bombay) was on
her voyage home, and when tin lat 5 24 N., long. 22 W.,
the captain saw a large tree, upwards of 90 feet long, and
without branches, but with long fibroas roots, extending
from Bto 10 feet from the trunk. Tho tree was very thick,
and, from its general proportions, the captain believes,
would be very destructive in the event of a collision with a
ship. This is probably the great sea serpent, and the fibrous
roots the mane so much talked of by other navigators.

THE SOCIAL EVlL.—Last night, at twelve
o'clock, a second meeting of an extraordinay description
took place at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly. At the hour
named some 300 females of the unfortunate class, many of
whom were most fashionably attired, assembled (in accor-
dance with invitations which were indiscriminately issued
at the cafes and other places of resort, in the locality) to
partake of tea, coffee, and refreshments. Subsequently ad-
dresses were delivered by several ministers and gentlemen
with a view to induce any females of the class named to
enter their names as candidates for admission to various re-
formatories, arrangements having previously been made
for this purpose. The vicinity of the hall was crowded by
persons anxious for admission, who were refused unless
provided with tickets from the committee who organised
the movement. A similar meeting will shortly be held at
the End end of London.