The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-06 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

Sharel Railways.

I Paid. Closing I Business
Price. Done.

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

(Antwerp & Rotterdam
Ardennes
Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c
Belgian East. Junction
Beziers to Graissessaa
Carmeaux Mine & Rail
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France
Euphrates Valley
Great Central of France
Gt. Luxem., Con. shs
Italian Junction
Lake Constance & Bale
Lierre and Turrihout
Lombardo Venetian
Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.c.pf
Lyons and Geneva
Maria Antonia
Do. do. New
Namur and Liege
Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref
Northern of France
Do. New Shares
Norwegian Trunk Pref
Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent
Paris,Lyons, and Medit.
Paris and Orleans
Recife& S. Fran. (Pern.)
gua. 7 p. ct. (Lim.)
Riga and Dunaburg
Rome and Frascati
Royal Danish
Royal Swedish
Do. 7 per cent. Pref.
Sambre and Meuse
Do. 5} per cent. Pref.
Southern of France
'est Flanders

51 5f
P
d
41
28 28
—p

IN RE GOWER.

This bankrupt was described as a stationer, of Bull's
Head, Newgate-street, and to-day was appointed for his
examination.
From the preliminary statement of Mr. March, of Basing-
hall-street, it appeared that the debts though comparatively
small in amount the assets are very inconsiderable.
Mr. Pook appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Anderson
for the bankrupt.
A medical certificate was put in, by which it appeared
that the bankrupt was suffering under such severe illness
that he had not been able to give his assistance in making
out the account.
An adjournment was granted till the 12th Dec.

71 8

4 4;pl

244 254

71 21241 23
381
—p
81 91
3 1 ti
341 351
53 54 4
id par

7E, 8
221 21
5 5 -
2c3i 24

Do. 54 p. C. Preference .
W. do N.W. of France
Western of Austria
Western of Switzerland
Wiesbaden

Do 8 per. cent. Pref
Zealand

TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY• EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1858.

" Alfred Jenkinson, Esq."
Nearly £BOO was announced in donations, being
the largest amount subscribed at any anniversary
within the last three years, and additional annual
subscriptions to the amount of nearly VO were
announced in the course of the evening.

Mr. Robert Keating, Mr. W. H. Cosvrey, Mr. Antonio N.
Harman, Mr. A. G. Church, Mr. A. Macnamara, Mr.
Willing, Mr. Carterel, Mr. Brewer, and Mr. Hartley—
connected with the General Company, as directors, &c.,
and about 40 of the servants of the London General Com-
pany, drivers, conductors, &c. &c.
The charge against the General Omnibus Company was
for conspiring.

Mr. Edwards, in opening his case, said he felt certain
that the evidence he should lay before the court would
clearly prove that a conspiracy of no ordinary character
existed, on the part of the General Company, to injure the
trade and libel the members of the Metropolitan Saloon
Company. In 1855 the whole of the London omni-
buses were bought up by a French company, with
a view of assimilating the omnibuses of London to
these of Paris. The proceeding was received with great
pleasure by the inhabitants of the metropolis, as the French
omnibusses were considered to be models of ease and con-
venience. The Saloon Omnibus Company was in a short
time afterwards started, but no sooner was this done than
a system of " nursing " commenced by the General,
which was to run an omnibus both before and behind the
opposing company. Not content with this, the Metropolitan
Company had been libelled and subjected to vexatious and
ruinous proceedings by the defendants, whose sole object
was to compel the Metropolitan Company to quit the field.
They had imputed to them bankruptcy, and that net suc-
ceeding they had induced a person to purchase a single
share, which they extensively advertised for sale two or
three per cent. under the price at which the shares wero
selling, a course of proceeding which, in a commercial
country like this, was calculated to do irreparable mischief.
The first witness called was—
Mr. Thomas Hall—l am a clerk in the General Omnibus
Company. Alfred was a clerk in that company. 1 don't
know where he is now. I entered the service of the com-
pany in August last. Mr. Chadwick is one of the council.
They held meetings and issued reports. The document put
into my hand is one of the reports. Mr. Chadwick,
Mr. Macnamara, and Mr. Coswey form the council
sometimes. They met once a week. I received my orders
from Mr. Church. I don't know for what purpose the
council met. Mr. Church is the secretary, Mr. Macnamara

and Mr. Willing were the servants of the company. I have
never seen Mr. Macnamara with one of the reports.
Mr. Edwards—ls not Mr. Macnamara's name painted on
all the omnibuses.

Witness—l don't know. I never saw them all. (Loud
(Laughter.) Brewer Heartley and others were road direc-
tors of the crossing. I don't know the names of the com-
pany. I can't say I ever saw the whole of papers (reports)
before. I can only speak to one.
This concluded the examination of the witness, and it was
arranged that the cross-examination should be taken when
the case was more advanced.

Mr. Malcome said I was originally an inspector of the
omnibuses on the Bayswater-road. I afterwards became a
coachman, then time-keeper, and then the manager of the
Hammersmith Association. I knew Macnamara and Mr.
Willing, who were general managers of the London Gene-
ral Company. They were constantly at the offices of the
company. Mr. Hartley and others held offices in the
company as directors of roads, &c.
[The case was not concluded when we went to press.]

THE PRINCE OF WALES A WATERMAN.

The nineteenth anniversary of the Royal Free
Watermen and Lightermen's Asylum was cele-
brated on Thursday night at the London Tavern,
under the presidency of Mr. W. Roupell, M.P.;
necti•ly 200 gentlemen, including the most eminent
firms connected with the river trade of the Thames,
were present. The asylum was first publicly
opened for the reception of inmates in 1841. There
are now 41 houses fully occupied, containing 12 mar-
ried couples,6 widowers,and 23 widows, many of them
now upwards of 80 years ofage—the average age was
74 years. The married in -the asylum receive
weekly the sum of 7s. each, and the single
persons, ss. ; the present expenditure amounting to
£6OO a-year. The chairrean,-in. proposing " Pro-
sperity to the Royal Free Watermen and Lighter-
men's Asylum," pleaded the -cause of the charity in
a very effective and practical manner. An appli-
cation had been made for the purpoce of procuring,-
the patronage of the heir to .the throne, and the
chairman had great pleasure in reading to the
meeting the following letter in reply :
" St. James's Palace, Oct. 30, 1858.
" Sir,—l have had the honour to submit to her
Majesty the Queen the memorial which accompa-
nied your letter to me of ~he 27th inst., in which
the Committee of Management of the Royal
Free Watermen and Lightermen's Asylum re-
quest that their Royal Highnesses the Prince
of Wales and Prince Alfred may be permitted to
grant their patronage to that institution. I am
commanded to inform you in reply, that it has
been considered advisable to decline for the
present similar applications from other esta-
blishments for the patronage of the Prince
of Wales, but his Royal. Highness having,
during the past year, resided for some
time in Richmond-pack, and, in conseqUence
the proximity of the residence to the Thames,
the young Prince having passed some time
in the exercise of rowing upon that river, her
Majesty has thought that this might be considered
an exceptional case, and I have therefore the plea-
sure to inform you that the Queen has been pleased
to approve of the Prince of Wales granting the
prayer of your memorial, and I am commanded to
forward to you the enclosed cheque for X5O, as a
donation from his Royal Highness towards the
funds of the asylum. Prince Alfred is too young
to bestow his patronage upon public institutions,
and being at present from England, the application
as relates to him cannot be complied with.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your obedient humble servant,
" C. B. PHIPPS.