The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-11 00:00:00

WHo's Youn DOCTOR ?-1110R1SON'S PILLS.

THE CHOLERA IN LIVERPOOL. —The crew of the
Helvetia have memorialised the Mayor for leave to
come on shore, and have declared than they will not re-
main longer on board. They asked also that the Jessie
Munn should be removed from alongside. The Mayor is
doing what he can to obtain warehouses and other places
in which to find acoommodation for the emigrants. Dr.
Trench had also expressed his intention to allow the pas-
sengers to land. The workhouse committee yesterday
considered what accommodation they could find in the
workhouse ; and it appeared that in six wards of the Fever
Hospital accommodation could be found for 150 patients,
and in the old cholera sheds (built in 1859) for some 200
more ; which it was deemed would be amply sufficient for
•any but a very extraordinary emergency. Yesterday it
was stated that cholera had appeared among the British
subjects on board the War Cloud. There is nothing fur-
ther from the Jessie Munn or from the depot at Birken-
head.

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HAZARDOUS BANKING.—The statistics of Barned's
Banking Company (Limited) are so startling that
they have actually " shocked" the Master of the Rolls, an
official who may be supposed to be pretty familiar with
folly and fraud in their wildest phases. It appears that
about a year ago certain parties trading as bankers at Liver-
pool, under the name of Barned and Co., took it into their
heads that it would be to their advantage to sell their
interest in their business for £160,000; and as Messrs.
Barned and Co. knew exactly what their business was then
worth, it is probable they did not make a very bad bargain.
Certain other parties, who were minded " to promote" a
banking company (limited), agreed to pay the above-named
sum for the business, and easily found people to bask
them in the transaction. It is possible that both vendors
and promoters may have made a good thing out of
the sale of Barned's Bank ; it is quite clear that the un-
lucky shareholders have made a desperate bad thing of it.
So recklessly did the managers of the company plunge into
the deepest and most turbiJ waters of speculation that
within eleven months from the date on which £160,000
was paid for the banking business it failed for £3,500,000.
The managers and shareholders of the bank now wish to
be allowed to wind up the concern privately, but the
Bank of England is a creditor for £300,000, and will not
hear of that, so that the Master of the Rolls has directed it
to be wound up compulsorily, in order that the folly and
fraud by which such an enormous financial disaster has
been so speedily brought about may stand on record, a
warning to future fools who are over-anxious to part with
their money for the benefit of "promoters " of limited-
liability companies.—Pall- Gazette.

The NATIONAL GALLERY.--According to the
returns just laid upon the table of the House of
Commons, the following acquisitions have been made by
the National Gallery since 1860. First of all, there are 22
pictures presented by the Queen from the Gottingen-
Wallenstein Collection, which we noticed at the time;
then ihere are 13 bequeathed, one of which is marked not
exhibited ; and seven from various donors. The important
pictures are those which have been added by purchase, at
a eost of £47,907 7s. 2d., and are 50 in number. The
"Raphael," Madona, infant Christ, and St. John, known
as the " Aldobrandini Madonna," was purchased of Lord
Garvagh for £9,000. The "Fra Angelico," Christ sur-
rounded by Angels, Patriarchs, &c. (£3,500). A Ma-
donna and Child enthroned and surrounded by Saints,
by Carlo Crivelli (X,182 lls. 5d.); and three others by the
same artist. "The Trinity," by Pesellina (x 2,100, if
indeed, it is rightly assigned, for Vasari supposes it to
have been the work of his grandfather, who was one of
the Giottesehi ; and a "Fra Filippo Lippi," which is
attributed by some Baldoviuetti. Of the Quattrocentisti
we have two pictures of Gfrolamo dai Libri (Jerome
Veronese) and Francesco Morone, purchased for £l,BlO
at Verona. A picture, ascribed to Previtali, a monk
adoring the infant Christ. "Of the school of Raphael,
the Madonna and Child enthroned, by Benvenuto
Garofalo," says the Post, "is a work of no high
merit, and scarcely worth the sum paid for it, £763. Of
the imitators of Corregio an altar-piece by Lanini has been
added. He is an artist whose drawing is not much com-
mended by the critics, and his best works were frescoes. It
might have been necessary to purchase this, as we find the
sum of £2,775 was given for the 'Lanini' and a 'Hobbema'
to Mr. G. IL Phillips. Among great names in the list are
Rembrandt (1), Vandyck (1), Hobbema (1), Andrea del
Sarto (1), Ruysdael (1), Velasquez (1), and one ascribed
to Velasquez. The undoubted Velasquez,' a head of
Philip IV. of Spain, cost, with the Ruysdael,' a land-
scape with ruins, £1,200. Of English artists there
are a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Captain
Orme, two portraits by Gainsborough—viz., Mrs. Siddons,
and Dr. Ralph Schomberg (£l,OOO each). The Cattle
Picture,' by James Ward, and a View of Mousehold
Heath,' by John Qrome, both admirable, and, probably, as
Mr. Wornum thinks, their masterpieces. Copley's 'Death
of Major Pierson ;' another' Gainborough,' a Study of a
Head ; an ' Experiment with the Air Pump,' by Wright,
of Derby ; and a Portrait of Sir David Brewster,' by Sir
John Watson Gordon. These nine pictures represent
British art, foreign art being shown by seventy-six pic-
tures. We say nothing of the seven English specimens
among the thirteen bequeathed pictures ; it will be kindest
to mention them as possessed of very various degrees of
merit."—The Reader.

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Union of London. 48
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ceylon Company, 9i
Cowmercial union, Insurance, 5
Credit r oncler and Hobilier of England, 1 oi
Gen. Credit and rillBllX olLJudon, iim..
Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., urn,. 10 116-41
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London Financial Association. lim , 8} 8
National Discount lompany, n 7 8
Overend, gurney, and Co., lim., 15 11i 14 In 11 di,

The Tribunal of Correctional Police tried, the day
before yesterday, M. Bonheur, money-changer, of
the Chaussee-d'Antin, charged with having passed
a number of forged Russian bank-notes, knowing
that they were counterfeit. The evidence showed that
on the 4th of September last Mme. Bonheur .pur-
chased 50 Russian 25-rouble bank-notes (each
worth 80f.), and that 46 of them proved to be forged.
The defendant immediately after offered these notes
to two bankers, both of whom refused to take them
unless with a guarantee of their being genuine, which
he declined to give. He then endeavoured, by the
agency of several relatives and friends, to get them
changed iu small lots and succeeded; but the notes hav-
ing been remitted to St. Petersburg, were sent back as
forged, and the defendant had to refund the sums
received for them. A complaint, however, having
been lodged with the police, an inquiry was insti-
tuted, and it was clearly established that he
bad passed twenty-seven of them, ropresenting
2,160 fr., after it was no longer possible for him
to have any real doubt of their real character. The
Tribunal, considering the proof of this fact conclu-
sive, decided that the defendant was amenable to
Acts 135 and 135 of the Penal Code, which impose
on any person passing forged foreign notes under
such circumstances a penalty of three times their
nominal value, and it accordingly fined him 6,480 f.,
and condemned him to pay all the costs of the pro-
secution.