The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-Aug.
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THE TAILORS' STRIKE.
[The following appeared in our late edition of yesterday
c ventng :---]
At the conclusion of the evidence, Sergeant
13allantine addressed the jury for the prosecution
for
;
Air. Keane for Partridge, Sergeant Parry
Shorrocks, and Idr. Ribton for the other defendants.
The Judge summed up the evidence, remarking
in, the outset that his address to them would
ury
be
precisely the same as that he delivered to the j
yesterday.
At the conclusion of the summing up, the jury,
retired, and after an absence of half an hour re-
turned into court with a verdict of guilty against all
the defendants, except Shorrocks and Stokes.
The learned Judge said he should postpone pass-
ing sentence until to-morrow, when all the other
defendants would be in attendance.
The defendants were all admitted to bail, Part-
ridge findings urety for £lOO, the others £25 each.

Bank of England Returns.—Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Aug. 21, Vict
oria,
cap. DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued .."07,358,310
Other Securities 3,981900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

.C 37,358,810

£37,358,310

BANKING DI
Proprietors'Capi-
tal ... . .„........:614,553,000
Rest ................ 3,399,931
Public Deposits
-finding Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div.
Accounts 6,526,514
Other Deposits.. 19,46+,445
Seven Days and
other ..... 517,910

:PARTMENT.
Governmt. Seen-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... 512,812,373
Other Securities.. 17,02,659
Notes ............... 13,426,420
Gold and Silver
Coin .4. 1,174,351

£44,465,803

L 14,446,803

JUPITER'S MOONS.

The disappearance of all the four moons of Ju-
piter on Wednesday night proved an object of at-
traction to all astronomers, because of the rarity
of the phenomenon, not because it was of any prac-
tical astronomical value. From the number of
clouds about the evening proved very unfavourable.
At Twickenham Observatory Mr. J. R. Hind,
F.R.A.S., watched for the disappearance of each
moon, but did not see the phenomenon in any
single
instance. Several times after the moons had dis-
appeared, Jupiter was seen apparently without his
satellites, through openings in the clouds, the great
length of time the disappearance lasted apparently
from 10.4 p.m. to 11.49 p.m., favouring observers
in this respect. When the phenomenon was pre-
viously seen, on the 27th September, 1843, Jupiter
appeared without satellites only from 11.63 p.m. to
12.28 a.m. The little observatory at Twickenham,
whence several gazers saw what they could of the
apparent loss of the moons on Wednesday night, is
very pleasantly situated on the opposite side of the
Thames, from the Star and Garter Hotel, on
Richmond Hill. Originally the observatory stood
in Regent's Park, but in 1863 it WAS moved to
its present position, where it now remains,
the property of Mr. George Bishop, F.R.G.S.
The principal work done at the observatory is the
mapping of the positions of large numbers of the
fixed stars, in order to form charts to assist in the
discovery of planets. On turning the telescope to
a part of the heavens which has previously been
mapped, and finding an orb there not laid down in
the charts, the probability is that the new body is a
' planet. In this way, at Twickenham Observatory,
Mr. Hind has discovered no fewer than ten new
little planets, on the following dates : —lris, August
13, 1847 ; Flora, October 18, 1817 ; Victoria, Sep-
tember 13, 1850 ; Irene, May 19, 1851; Melpo-
mene, June 24, 1852 ; Fortuna, August 22, 1852 ;
Calliope, November 16,Thalia, December
15, 1852 ; Euterpe, November 8, 1853 ; and
Urania, July 22, 1851. Au sistant at the obser-
vatory, Mr. A. Marth, discovered the planet Am-
phitrite, March 1, 1854. There are no fewer than
75 little planets like these between Mars an man 480
piter,
the largest of them probably not more tha
miles in diameter. The observe pecial work of this
useful observatory is the tion of some of the
double stars, and their 'notions with regard to each
other. There is an iustrilment there of low power
and large aperture, made for the purpose of sweep-
ing the heavens with rapidity, for the discovery of
of
new comets, and this gave additional good views
Jupiter on Wednesday. The large equatorial tele-
scope, which does most of the work, has an object-
lass 7 inches in diameter. This, according to
modern notions, is not a very large instrument, but
it has done good service in its time.

Letters from Alexandria of the 9th instant state
that the overflowing of the Nile has taken place this year
under the most favourable conditions, and that the harvest
prolitio t 9 u 0 lanwliiitt,

Railway and Other Companies.

GREAT WESTERN.
The net balance as shown by the accounts of this
company for dividend on ordinary stocks for the six
months ending 31st July last, is 1132,800, mit-
ting of the following dividends :—On Great West-
ern Original Stock at the rate of 11 er cent. per
annum ; do. (West Midland) Oxfordp, ss. ; do. do.
Newport, 10s. ; do. South Wales Ordinary, 3; ;
do. Vale of Neath Ordinary Stock, 5 ; carrying
forward a balance of about £20,000.

SOUTH EASTERN.

The directori of this company have resolved to
reccommen 1 the proprietors at their next half-
yearly meeting on the 'nth inst. to declare a divi-
dend at the rate of £2 per cent. per annum.

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT.

Yesterday an adjourned special meeting of this
company was held at the offices, Victoria-street,
Westminster ; the Earl of Devon presided.
The CHAIRMAN said that under the original act
of 1860, constituting the company, power was given
the directors to borrow a sum not exceeding
£750,000. The Railway Companies' Act, which
had just passed, contained provisions the effect of
which was that for the whole or any part of the de-
bentures which under their original act the direc-
tors had power to issue they were empowered to
issue debenture stock, at such rate as the Board of
Directors might deem it expedient to recommend.
Debenture stock was more marketable than deben-
tures were, and by the issue of the former the
directors would be enabled at an earlier period than
otherwise to get possession of the necessary lands,
and -push on the works with rapidity. The direc-
tors believed that there were many persons more
disposed to invest their money in debenture stock
than in debentures. Ile concluded by moving a
formal resolution authorising the Board to create
and:issue debenture stock under the powers of their
special acts, the provisions of the Companies
Clauses Act (1863) and of the Railway Companies
Act (1867), not exceeding preferential interests,
rights, and privileges, as the board may from time
to time determine; that this resolution shall not
prevent the directors from issuing debentures in
lieu ~f debenture stock if the board think inad-
visable, provided that the whole of the amount
raised either by debentures or debenture stock do
not exceed the amount which the company might
legally borrow.
Mr. WORMS seconded the resolution.
Replying to a shareholder, the CHAIRMAN said
that, although the meeting was a small one, the
Board of Directors held proxies sufficient to con-
stitute a legal meeting and to carry the resolution.
The proxies held by the board represented shares to
the amount of £116,067.
Mr. ALEXANDER deprecated the use of proxies
to carry an important resolution like that sub-
mitted to the meeting.
The resolution was carried with two dissentients.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND.
The report of the directors states that the revenue,
as furnished by the lessees, showed that the receipts
for the half-year ending the 30th of June amounted
to £24,532 and the expenses to £18,619, leaving a
balance of £5,913. Compared with the correspond-
ing period of the previous year, there was a decrease
of £855 in the receipts, and an increase of £647
in the expenses, making a total decrease of £1,503
in the balance of the present account. The return
of passenger tolls and proportions of goods receipts
derived by the Great Eastern and North London
Railway Companies during the half-year amounted
to £10,155, which, added to the above receipts,
£24,532, made the gross receipts during the half-
year, for Tilbury traffic, £34,687. A new Order in
Council, prohibiting the movement of cattle im-
ported from abroad in the New Metropolitan Cattle
Market, except by railway, had workel beneficially
for this line, and another Order in Council, dated
the 3,1 inst., partly withdrawing the prohibition in
regard to the importation of cattle from Holland,
led the directors to hope that at no distant time the
restriction would be altogether abo!ishel The bill
promoted by the North London Railway Company
for effecting a junction with the Tilbury line at
Bromley had received the Royal assent ; and an
agreement, under seal, had been entered into with
the London and North-Western and North London
Companies, granting them running powers over the
Tilbury line, upon the principle of a mileage
division of the receipts from traffic passing to and
from the respective railways. The capital account
showed that £798,677 had been expended.