The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

BRIMS

Cam. Consol. Gold, Um
ehtverton
Clifford Amalgamated
Devon G. Cons. (Tavist
Drakewalls
East Bassett (Illogan)
east Caradon
East Cam BrPa
ast Grenville
East Gunnislake ..
East Love.l
h. W'l ltussell (Tavistk
StAubyn(G wen.
Great Laxey,
Great South Tolgus
Great Wheal Busy
G. Wheal Vor (Helst,,e
Grenville
Derod's Foot ••••
llingston Downs
Margaret ,tiny 'Mara
Starke Valley
11wyndy Iron Ore, llin
N ew Se ton
North Roskear 1

N. W h'l Bassett (I llogan
North Wheal Crotty
['romper IJtqlodl;.. ;:
1.1 A-13616e Uny L elan t
S. Caradon (St. Cleer)
South Condurrow

S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan
stray Park
Tin Croft
Vig-ra and Clogans lim
SVeet Itamsett tcyrom
W. eithltioa (Ltskeard
West Chi rerton
West Seton.
Wheal Bassett (Mogan
Wheal Buller (Redruth
Wheal Mary Ann (Men
Wheal Seton

Wheal Trelav!nty_o4.

X

2.1.0
224

3f
2.14.0
8.3.6
3.0.0
10.8.

all
0.14.6
14.9.6

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3.2.0
18.18.9
35.15.6

584
5.17:9

171 17

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Alliance, lim.. 17 1 17
Australasia, 65, 6
. hank of Egypt, 361
Chartered ter. of India, London, and China, 33_ 1
City, 141
Consolidated Bank, lint., 4; 5
English, Scotch, and Austral Cluttered; ISI
Imperial Ottonian, 81 1
Lard Mortg,kge Batik di India, Itm., 21
London ilantk di Sidki:.o and S. America, 11M.,13
London and Brazilian ;limb 33
London and River Plate, —3
Ditto, issued at 11 pm., ii
London Joint Stock, 4i,
London and 1% estminster, 971
Midland Bank, lim., 18
Oriental Bank Corporation, 411 1
Union of London, 451 1
11ta9'Ckttiniii18.
Ailed-American Telegrapb, 151 E
A ngl3-31exican Mint, 151
Atlantic Telegraph, 28:
Dit o, 8 per cent., 65
Ceylon Company, 91
City Offices, lint., 3h
Continental Union Gee;
Credit ',minim' of =Vann.
Cryttal Palace, 291 9 •
East India Irrigation and Canal, 121
Ebbw Vale, Ili
Fairb iirn Engineering, 51
Fore-street Warehouse, lint., 131
Gcn. Credit and Discount Lim _fl
Imperial Land. Pon4pikn.y ~ be ,ies, lim., 11
Intarnatinnal rinancial Society, lint., •44
Land Securities. lim., 2,

NzK E. LANDSEER'S LOX
Co__"r.uMm 4ont ilq4
"hc"Vo!s
1)1 114 l‘Aig eien accustomed for years to hear
itai time to time complaints about the delays attendant
on the completion of the monument to England's great
admiral, the public will gladly learn that "IA litsr one of
the long-promised litqtd hai been p.aoed at the foot of the
Nelson oOidtan In Trafalgar-spate. '12:.? 'rCi,al 1'444
arrived before tool4.;;;;Wte'rd#. in 'b. Watieti. four
kaa #tb:s to his pedestal without
i5.41„Y ittiid+Afti accident. Ile is placed at the south-western
tomer of the monument, and frowns majestically across
Cockspur-streot, or will doubtless do so as soon as the White
cloth which now covers him shall have been removed.
Despite this covering, however, enough of the contour of
the animal is perceptible to produce a fine effect, and to
enable the beholder to form some judgment as to the ulti-
mate grandeur of the monument when completed, as it no
doubt will be ere long. The outline of the lion is very
effective as seen from Charing-cross, though the appear-
ance of 'white marble which the covering suggests does
not harmonise well with tho surroundings. What is seen
gives good reason to expect that, when the four guardians
of the monument have been placed on their pedestals, the
public will acknowledge with satisfaction that they wore
worth waiting for, and that, long as the delay Las been
since they were taken in band, the time occupied by Sir
Edwin Landseer in thus perfecting his work bas been well
.

LAW INTEL LIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

GARDNER V. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER
RAILWAY COMPANY-DRAWBRIDGE V. SAME-GARDNER
(NO. 2) V. SAME -THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT

ASSOCIATION (LIMITED) v. SAME.
The court gave judgment in these four suits. The first
suit was instituted by Mr. Gardner, on behalf of himself
and all the other mortgages of what is known as the
"General Undertaking" of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company, against the company, for the
purpose of realising his and their securities. The second
and third suits are of a similar nature. In thefourth suit the
Imperial Mercantile Credit Association (Limited) seek to
establish an equitable chtuge to the amount of £185,000
upon the proceeds of the sale of the superfluous lands of
the "Metropolitan Extension" of the railway company.
Their lordships were of opinion that in the case of Gard-
nor and Drawbridge the order ought not to apply to the
sale of lands or the surplus rents of the company, and
in the Imperial Mercantile Credit suit there ought to be a
receiver, but perhaps to save expense some officer of the
company would act gratuitously. The costs in the cases
to be costs in the cause.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings in Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Byles and a

Common Jury.)
BARNES V. SCHOFIELD.

Mr. Robert Barnes, the plaintiff in this case, is an iron-
monger, and resides at Barnes, in Surrey, and the action
Is as brought to recover compensation in damages for an
alleged assault on the part of certain porters in the employ
of the defendant, who is an auctioneer in business at
Vincent-square, Westminster. The defendant pleaded
not guilty.

Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. Pearce were counsel for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., and Mr. Laxton
for the defendant.

The plaintiff, in his evidence, said that early last Sep-
tember he wont to the auction rooms of the defendant and
obtained a catalogue, which detailed, amongst other
articles of sale, a hogshead of sherry. He wont to
the yard where it was placed for the purpose of
tasting it, and found three persons whom he un-
derstood to be parties on the establishment around.
He was supplied with the bottom of a bottle to taste the
wine, but, without tasting it, he at once discoveied it con-
sisted of the lees of wine bottles, and he made some obser-
vations in respect of it to the porters. The defendant
came down the yard and asked what was the matter, and
one of the porters said he had been drinking wino, upon
which the defendant said, "Put him out," at the same time
calling some other porters. He was then soizsd by three
men, and dragged from the yard into the auction room,
when they fell over some shovels or spades, he being
under them. If he had not caught hold of the shirt of one
of the men he would have been severely hurt by falling
against one of the shovels. He was then dragged out into
the street, and thrown with violence on his back, and his
hat, which had fallen off, was thrown out after him. He
went to the nearest police station, and acting on the advice
he received there he returned to the auction-room; and
asked for the names and addresses of the men who assaulted
him. He said, "If you do not hold your noise I shall
order you to.be served in the same way again." He suf-
fered very severely from the violent treatment to which he
had been subjected, and was a fortnight under the care of
his medical attendant.

The witness was cross-examined at some length by Mr.
Digby Seymour, and denied most positively that he had
tasted the wine. He identified one of the partes in court
as one of those who assaulted him. He was not talking
particularly loud when the defendant came up the yard.
There was .no outcry on the part of the persons assembled
in tho auction room to turn him out, and he was making
no noise when he was assaulted.

The evidence was very conflicting, it being deposed on
the part of the defence that the plaintiff created a disturb-
ance in the auction room at the time the sale was going
ou, which rendered his expulsion necessary.
At the conclusion of the evidence, the Jury found a ver-
dict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGESCE.—This Day.

WESTMINSTER.

IMPUDENT FEMALE ROBBERY.—Margaret Revel, a re-
spectably-dressed young woman, was charged with the
following impudent robbery.

Mr. John Barnes, linendraper and mercer, 101, Lupus-
street, Pimlico, said that on Friday afternoon a large roll
of coloured flannel shirting was at his door. Part of the
roll was exposed at the end for show outside, but the roll
was inside the door, fastened by a wire. Prosecutor was
standing inside his shop, wren he saw the prisoner and
another woman come up to tha door together and examine
the flannel. After looking about them, to satisfy them-
selves that they were not observed, the prisoner stepped
inside, and having unfastened the wire, rolled her shawl
round the flannel and crossed the road with it. Ho has-
tened out of the shop and followed the two women, who,
seeing him, separated, the ,prisoner throwing down the
roll of flannel, which was worth above £2. Prosecutor
got a person to pick up the flannel, and followed the pri-
soner. The latter resisted very violently, but was at
length taken into custody.

Mr. Selfe—Did she say anything?
Prosecutor—Yes, denied the robbery.
Prosecutor—She got away.
Prisoner said she had got no home, and was wandering
about from place to place, and had slept the night before
last at Paddington. She would admit that she took the
flannel, but it was entirely through distress.
Prosecutor said that she had had another woman, but
she did not know anything about her. ' That was a
mistake.

Mr. Selfo asked her whether she wanted him to dispose
of the case or desired to be sent to the Sessions ?
Prisoner said that as she had stolen it she would rather
tho magistrate dealt with her at once.
Mr. Selfo said ho should commit her for three months
to hard labour in the House of Correction.

THAMES.
SHOCKING CRUELTY TO DONKEYS.—James Townley, a
coke dealer, of
Joy cottage, Well-street, Poplar, was
brought before Mr. Paget charged with cruelty for tortur-
ing two donkeys by Working
thew in an unfit state in the
public streets.

Inspector Beare, of the K division, said his attention
was called to the prisoner yesterday afternoon. He was
driving two donkeys yoked to a cart laden with coke. The
animals were the moat wretched ones ho ever saw, and
there was a general feeling of indignation at the prisoner's
cruelty. The smallest of the two donkeys had wounds,
from which an offensive discharge was issuing, on
the tail; Witherg, acid shoulders. ft was alsd mangy.
The poor animal fell down from weakness, and
he had much difficulty in raising it again
The larger donkey had a wound on the off shoulder, which
was raw, and in a very
offensive state. This animal was
also in a poor ecnditioli generally. A clumsy attempt had
been ihade tti nOnticial thd V,Ontids faint the gtinnii df the
tail to the back, by
covering them with black grease,
which added to their sufferings. The prisoner, who ap-
peared in as wretched a plight as his donkey, said ho was
a very poor man, and having no work to do as an iron
shipbuilder; bought_L
key belonged td bat* *ell:strent; POP Ile gave
a donkey rind eta: The larger don-
the small doutay a "hot mash" of bran on Friday morning.
Inspector Beare was of opinion the two donkeys ought
to be killed. They could never be worked with safety
again. It would be torture of the worst kind to attempt
to work them or yoke them to a cart to their present con-
dition:

Mr. Net hit:4(W at the ttnithalsc and *its baits dis-
gusted and indignalit at their miserable aud disfigured ap-
pearance. He never saw animals in a more wretched
condition. _ It was disgraceful to
.work them at all: He
should issue a summons against Parit adjourti the case
fdil iifeek: The prisoner might go at large on his own per-
sonal recognisance, but if he dared to work either of the
doukeys until this case was disposed of he would be surely

MARYLEBONE.
poor, dirty-looking
named Jeremiah Moriarty, aged 9, of 14, Gray's-
buildings, Marylebone, was charged with bogging.
yrs or TowNsmIND.—A.
Cavendish-square, and
17TyEMmAtirqRQiiiii Of ,1161IhIlelid ii td —On, iii 4 Rtiqthis
outside a confectioner's
andin Ii
other are-streetlada ,
shop, begging. There are always a number of juveniles
saw afternoont
13i-w prisoneras
about the sill !ralliW:i! 4. r:11.41,?;1?oy Ao
„the„ police_
station'., am b itred Li= 1 eliecra his mother sends him
out to beg, and she is in the habit of begging herself.
In reply to Mr. Mansfield the child said it was true he
was begging.
'• ' •
Mr. Mansfielli,reniancled him; with D. vifiw to get him
bald ag litativii-ictiai:

The Marquis thanked his worship and retired.
George Miller, of no home, who said he was sailor, was
committed for trial for assaulting a roomnamed, Henry
WillittiM gegiht itca 011Yer *atnoli
in the Edgotkiare=roac, at, i,o;chieh hu the iiierning.

Ilt A . t t ectinli o) the
boliniaee of the 'Shipwrecked Mariners' Society yesterday
--Captain the Hon. Francis Maude, R.N., in the chair—
the secretary, Mr. Lean, presonted 111 cases for relief
arising out of the late g 3 WidoWS and 88
allipkVroateti 6a,finels, for atiielatite to teplate their
clothes lost b ship Wreck. After*aicip tiie biittithittee
proceeded to inVestie.ii3 the Ciaims of 808 widows of
drowtiod mariners, who, having orphan children, though
relieved at the time of the death of their husbands, are
allowed to apply annually for ftirther relief- while their
children are young, say for five or six years, when they
are struck off the list to make room for others. The
whole of these were relieved at a cost of £949 ss. 9d.

TICE VALUE OF AN ATTORNEY.— An attorney in
Dublin having died exceedingly poor, a shilling subscrip-
TNtiooolnrebrwu:ay.s. set on foot to pay the expenses of his funeral.
Most of the attorneys and barristers having subscribed, one
of them applied to Toler, afterwards Lord Chief Justice
. 4,
"tiv`.
p`Or;ly_aagusitieloli,nggo taonabubruyryaonneataTdneoy„!;tysa,oidf
them.'

Mr. Seely, M.P., on Admiralty

Mismanagement.

Mr. Seely, M.P., and Mr. Heneage, M.P., ad-
dressed a meeting of their constituents in Lincoln
on Wednesday night. The latter gentleman, who
was subjected to some interruptions and allusions to
" the Cave," defended his votes during the last ses-
sion of Parliament, and showed that he had sup-
ported Mr. Gladstone's Reform Bill in principle,
although he had voted against it in the detail raised
by Lord Dunkellin's motion. In concluding his
remarks, amidst cheers mingled with groans and
hisses, the hon. gentleman hoped the Liberal party
would again become united, aAd that Mr. Gladstone
would remain the leader.

Mr. SEELY, M.P., addressed his auditors in a
speech of great length, stating that he was and ever
had been an advocate for household suffrage, and
was not the least afraid of the bugbear called the
"working man." Having taken some pains to
show that there was not the slightest reason to fear
that under an extended suffrage the working classes
would all vote one way, the hon. gentleman proceeded
to a demonstration of the proposition that there was
abundance of room for improvement in the Legisla-
tion and Government of the country. He confined
his remarks on this head chiefly to Admiralty mis-
management and the shortcomings of Parliament in
dealing with that mismanagement, going over in
his statement much of the ground traversed by him
in his speeches on the subject during the last session
of Parliament. The following are extracts from his
remarks :—On examination of Royal dockyard ac-
counts, I found that in four years, from 1863 to 1866
inclusive, there were £2,000,000 not accounted for.
The Frederick William cost —adding the items which
a private shipbuilder would have to charge—the sum
of £281,691 in repairing. She could have been built
for £134,453, so that the loss on that transaction
was £147,138. (Laughter.) I have picked out five
ships, and the repairs, adding the items I have re-
ferred to, amounted to £230,090, and the vessels
could have been built new for £152,148, so that you
actually repaired five old vessels at a cost of
£79,942, more than you could build them new for.
(Laughter.) Now, the Admiralty have never dis-
puted my figures with regard to the cost of ships,
or, if they have, they have afterwards had to admit
that I was correct. Of course they did not like it.
(Laughter.) Besides this, I pointed out that in one
dockyard an article was produced for 14s. 3d.—
these figures aro taken from their own published
accounts—and that in another yard the same article
cost £1 lls. 9.0. I pointed out that in one yard
they made more offal timber than they ought to
have done, according to their own authorities,
which caused a loss to the country of £35,126. I
showed that they manufactured sheet lead at a cost
of
.355., when they could have bought it for ss.
(Shame.) One boat cost £35, which ought to have
been only £lO 10s. ; another cost £3O, instead of
£9 165.; another £2B, instead of £7 10s. ; and so
on. I pointed out that for some cause or other—l
cannot tell what —a particular firm, Brown, Lennox,
and Co., had since the year 1842 supplied the Go-
vernment with anchors, and that the cost of those
anchors during that period had been about £170,000
more than the market price. I charged this upon
the Government in the session before last, and, as a
matter of course, one of the officials—l think it was
Lord Clarence Paget, now gone to the Medi-
terranean as Admiral of the Fleet—with his
usual audacity, said, " Yes, but we must take
care of the lives of our seamen ; we cannot have
bad anchors." Well, who wants them to have
bad anchors ? We want them to have the very
best anchors possible. But it so happened that
the anchors which were supplied to the navy
by Brown, Lennox, and Co. are anchors of a par-
ticular pattern, which was condemned by a com-
mittee appointed by the Admiralty, I think in the
year 1852, as being the wort of seven anchors which
were submitted to the committee. I further pointed
out that there was some iron ballast, familiarly
called pigs—(laughter)—and I think it is probable
that these pigs will give a squeak when Parliament
meets again. (Laughter.) At a most moderate
estimate, there is £150,000 or £lBO,OOO wasted in
this atrocious manner. Of course, some of my
statements have been disputed, but the matter
cannot rest here. I have endeavoured, to the best
of my ability, not to discredit my constituents by
ever making statements that I could not maintain.

(Hear, hear.) I assure you I have no wish
whatever to gain notoriety by making statements
which I cannot substantiate. I simply want " the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,"
and so long as I am favoured with your confidence,
so long shall I endeavour to elicit the truth in the
House of Commons. (Applause.)
The proceedings closed by the passing of a vote
of confidence in both hon. gentlemen.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Jan. 25.

A ceremony of a very novel character took place
in the Mansion-house yesterday. The Lord Mayor
received in State at the 'Mansion-house a deputation
from the tenants of Lord Annaly, in the county of
Clare, who presented an address to Lis Lordship
and the Lady Mayoress, with a beautiful and costly
servica of plate, as an expression of their gratitude
for his conduct as Lord Annaly's agent, and his
efforts to promote their welfare in various ways, as
well as of their personal regard and esteem, and
their hearty congratulation on the high position to
which Mr. Lane Joynt had attained. The address
having been read by Mr. M. Kelly, tin Rev. Mr.
Quaid, parish priest of O'Callaghan Mills, county
of Clare, who accompanied the deputation, said he
endorsed every word of the address, and paid a
high tribute to the public usefulness and private
worth of the Lord Mayors His lordship delivered
a lengthened reply, which contained some fat's
worthy of notice. He ascribed the chief merit of
what he had done to the landlord, who has extensive
estates in the counties of Clare, Limerick, Longford,
Meath; and Publin; He declared that Lord Annaly
never turned out a tenant, and that he Wished every
farmer on his property should have an interest in
his holding, should be secure in his improvements,
and encourage I to increase the produce of the land,
so as to gratify the honest desire of every tenant to
be able to hand down to his children, with increased
valtie, the place where his children grew up around
him; which the dearest aisOCiations of youth and
manhood had hallowedr=the, home to which he
clings with all detotioo of mi Ii sli heart: The
Lord Mayor continued :

These are noble and honest feelings. They are making
their ly,t,o,th9.acceptance of all great thinkers and states-
''~6L:
21:6 lie long
therm , et disregard the the
statesmen whose ambition is to rule the country
nizo and embody them in law; they are founded in justice,
they will be enforced by justice also; they aro recommended
by the oi,.pritett 17:que,r1'sitgrelltlley are recommended to the
plainest understandings of there geEtccitttedi as I
am, with the working of the Irish land system. I do nO.i:
ce-
liove in the proposed plans of buying up properties and sell-
ingthop in small lots to tenant occupiers. I believe the
tene.rt-farniet.s rant thAt, Most, if not all,
prefer to got their land at a fair rani—.'or
secured by a 31 years' lease; and I believe with you, under
such circumstances, the value of tho agricultural produce of
Ireland wold be doubled even sooner than the period you
•
menacn-7_ etirs. o§t to:irii.eri would e.vect from their
capital a greater return than 4or 5 per emit., !-!.c'et
di
the good landlords of Ireland—and I believe they aro more
numerous than is usually believed'—can afford to purchase
lands itpd let OW I:ten/ore moderately than the small class
of purchasers which the not;;sitgi-ei2:l.: t•:t‘'nOtMett woo.. hi re-
7nerate the country. Now, you know that the ttbilant
farmail of ri-oti:tid fearpins, ;9 much as that of the smal
capitalist who bfi s a iiY^ li Ti.ot 61 laud, and as I have known
in many cases, trebles, flak, ritiadriipleo; tin the occupying
tenant the rent before Ito has been sin Months its owner.
I could qtitite IhStaii6en of this fli dlarei but I it odd not; you
are too familiar with them. I trust, therefore, in the inte-
rest Of the landlords themselves; many of whom do not
know their true interest, a bill rimy be prepared and brought
in during the coining session to settle the land question.
There is no insuperable difficulty about it, and if her Ma-
jesty's Government will not settle the question they must
give place to a Government who will. Gentlemen, you
have alluded to emigration. It is the hemorrhage which
drains the life-blood of Ireland away, and I deeply regret
that a noble lord of hereditary talents, of groat parts and
accomplishments, should have re-animated the Sangrado
prescription of more bloodletting and hot
warewatr. Ireland
has too much of that already. I fear to the future,
when ono half million of our population is to be reduced.
I fear to face the deep and untold misery to thousandas - the
quelched fires, the household gods scattered, adi
clauses in the towu6 ptill further reduced and ruined, and