The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-22 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

THE Wltosa GOOSE Szyr HOME.—William Richards, a
horse-keeper, was charged with being drunk and
disorderly.

Stuart, 348 S, said—Last night he saw the prisoner
outside a poulterer's shop in the Afaldon-road. He was
abusing the tradesman. It appeared that the prisoner had
bought a goose, and ordered it to be sent home. A goose
was sent home, but prisoner said not the same one, and
he went back to the shop about it. The tradesman said
he had not bought it at his place, but higher up the road.
He was the worse for drink, and as he would not go away
he was taken into custody.
Prisoner said it was true he was there. He was annoyed
at not having the same goose as he purchased sent home.
He paid 7s. 6d. for it, and the one they sent was not worth
ss.

Mr. Mansfield said under the cir cumstancos he should
discharge him.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.

The following appeared in our Third Edition of yester-
day evening :

Tha annual meeting of the directors and shareholders of
the Crystal Palace Company was held to-day at the Lon-
don Tavern—Mr. A. C. lonides, in the absence of the
chairman (Mr. Anderson), presided.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report
took the opportunity of referring to the various matters
mentioned in the document, which has already appeared
in The Sun. He said it was a great pleasure to
find that their prospects were so cheering. Their income
had increased so that after the payment of the dividend at
the rate of 21 per cent., they were able to carry over to tho
next year the sum of £3,272. (Hear.) The visitors had
reached the enormous number of over 2,000,000, a larger
number than had ever been received in any previous year.
The refreshment department had been very remunerative,
having yielded the shareholders no less than.£19,613 6s. 7d.,
added to which the directors were well satisfied with the
manner in which it was conducted by the contractors
With respect to the vacancy in the direction caused by the
death of Mr. Farquharson the directors did not recommend
the filling up of the vacancy. With respect to Rockhills
the directors had various ideas with respect .to the uses it
might be turned, one of which was to convert; it into an
hotel, or something of that sort, at which wedding parties,
pleasure parties, and resident visitors might be received.
It appeared that great advantages would accrue from
such an arrangement as the climate of the tropical depart-
ment was everything that could be desired for an invalid.
Nothing, however, NI as yet decided. He felt that the at-
tractions they intended offering for the coming new year
would be such as to largely increase the number of visitors,
which would, of course, benefit the shareholders. The
formal motion for the adoption of the report having been
put,

Mr. PtiNSHER complained that although the income
of the directors had increased they had not determined to
give the shareholders an increase in the dividend, which
he thought ought now to be 3 per cent. He thought there
were extravagant outlays which ought to be cut down,
because, if they were not, no matter how their property
was improved, they would never be enabled to increase the
dividend.

A SHAREHOLDER complained of the expense that was
incurred in taking down and refiring the screen which
separated the tropical department from the other portion
of the palace. He thought if the directors went to the
expense of constructing it on improved principles, which
would do away with the expense he complained of, they
would, although the outlay might in the first instance bo
somewhat large, save a great deal of money in the end.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. GEORGE hoped that the next year the directors
would abstain from having any descriPtion of racing in the
grounds of the palace. He considered such a mode of
swelling their income was highly prejudicial, because horse
racing brought down a certain class of visitors, and kept
away those whose presence was far more beneficial. He
did not think it would ever be possible to give the original
shareholders more than they at present received, and
therefore ho thought it would be far preferable that
the shareholders should surrender one half of their
shares. (No, no.) They would lose nothing by it,
because they would then receive just double the amount
they received at present, and such an arrangement would
give them a much more respectable look as far as dividend
was concerned. (No, no.)

. . .
After some further discussion the report of the airectors
was adopted, and the remainder of the proceedings was
confined to a very limited discussion of the advisability of
opening the palace on Sundays.

LONDON GAZE rE —Last Evening.

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FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEc. 18.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. W. J.
Whalley as Consul at Grimsby for the Republic of Hayti.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Senor
F. T. Barry as Consul in London for the Republic of the
Equador.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
Ernesto Bashi as Vice-Consul at Glasgow for her Majesty
the Queen of Spain.
CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 20.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TUE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Guildford—Richard Garth, of Wimbledon,
in the county of Surrey, Esq., in the room of Sir William
Bovill, lint., who has accepted the office of Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 20.

Royal Marine Light Infantry— The following named
gentlemen have been appointed Second Lieutenants :
Evelyn James Wheelock Noble, Edward Rea Milner
Crooke, O'Hara John Tobin, Arthur Clement Smyth,
John Ernest Bulwer Ward, Charles Baker Goodrich Dick,
Lourenco Edye, Algernon St. Leger I.3urrowcs, John Rich-
mond Jekyll, and Frederick John Short.
DEC. 18.

Commander Edmund Anthony Glynn has been this day
promoted to be a Retired Captain, under the provisions of
her Majesty's Orders in Council of Aug. 1, 1860, July 9,
1864, and March 24, 1866.

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DEC. 19.
The following promotions have this day baen made :
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Mr. John Watson (A) to be Engineer in her Majesty's
Fleet; Mr. William Landoll to be Engineer iu her Ma -
jestys Fleet; Mr. Alfred Lawton to be Engineer in her
Majesty's Fleet ; Mr. John Watson (B) to be Engineer in
her Majesty's Fleet.

THE SUSPECTED rOISONING IN NORFOLK.—ln-
quiry into this case has been adjourned. Mary Grief has
been admitted as evidence against an aged relative, who is
expected to have administered the arsenic to the unfor-
tunate children in whose remains the poison has been de-
tected. In all, three infants—the illegitimate children of
Mary Grief, and her sister Sarah Grief—have heen disin-
terred, and traces of arsenic have been observed in each
case. The coroner's jury has returned a verdict " That
the children died from the effects of arsenic, but by whom
administered there is no evidence to show." The further
inquiries which the police aro making may, perhaps, throw
some further light upon tho subject, but at present the evi-
dence given as to the administration of the poison is very
weak and inconclusive. In the body of one of the child-
ren enough arsenic was discovered to have caused 04
death of a fall-grown pascal.