The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AIA_RCH 15, 186 G.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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

IN RE MOSTYN.

This bankrupt was described as a gentleman of Lam-
beth, and he came to-day for his order of discharge upon
debts, £3,464 ; assets, nil.
Mr. Brough, for the assignees, said he was instructed
to ask that the bankrupt should file an account of certain
moneys ho had paid away.
Mr. Morton said that the money had been paid under an
order of the Court of Bankruptcy, and the affair was nearly
40 year's old.

His Honour ordered the case to be adjourned for the
production of the accounts.

POLICE INTELLIGEDCE.—This Day.
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MARLBOROUGH STREET.

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A CLERK SEVERAL FURTHER
CHARGES.—ilenry Baynes, clerk, in the employ of Messrs.
Rivington, publishers, of Waterloo-place, charged withob-
taining a cheque for £ll 12s. 6d. by false pretences, from
Mr. Francis Hansard Rivingtcn, was again brought before
Mr. Knox.

Mr. Wontner, jun., appeared for theprosecution, and Mr.
Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, for the
prisoner.

Mr. Wontner said that since the last occasion several
fresh cases had come, to light, amongst other, cases in which
the prisoner had obtained cheques to pay to the Morning
Post, the Owl, the Press, &c., for advertising; in one in-
stance the prisoner having obtained cheques for a much
larger amount than was due to the papers, and
pocketed the balance, and in others placed old stamps
to new accounts, and having the cross accounts to be due
much larger than they really were. The charges would
be for obtaining the cheques by false pretences, larceny,
and forgery ; the latter charge in connection with Notes
and Queries.

Mr. Knox said that he considered two fresh cases in
addition to the one already gone into respecting Notes and
Queries would be sufficient.

Mr. Rivington said ho found in the advertised ledger a
receipt, purporting to be that of Mr. Ives of the Press, for
the sum of £ss ss. ; the stamp to the account was an old
one, and in looking through the book he missed several
old stamps of the date 1861 and 1862. The stamp to the
fresh account corresponded with the old ones. On the 9th
of December he found a receipt signed by Mr. Ives for
£llos. 6d., which amount had been handed to the prisoner.
The stamp was one of the old ones and had not the face of
those now used. On the 7th October, 1865, found an entry
of £5 2s. Gd from the Notes and Queries.

Mr. W. Greigg Smith, publisher of Notes and Queries,
said that on the ith October ho did not receive any money
from the prisoner, and there was no one in his employ of
the name of S wan. Neither did he authorise any one of
that name to receive the sum of £5 2s. 6d. from the pri-
soner. (The name of Swan was on the receipt.)
Mr. Alfred Ives, publisher of the Press, said that Messrs.
Rivington advertised in that journal of Nov., 1864. The
sum of £3 ss. was duo to him, and on the sth Nov. he re-
ceived that amount from the prisoner, and signed a receipt
in the book for it. At the time he signed the receipt the
amount was not £5 ss. He found the amounts had been
alter in the prosecutor's book, so as to make them up to £5
ss. On the 9th Dec., 1865, he called for an account of £1
10s. 6d., and received it from the prisoner and signed for it
in the prosecutor's advertising ledger, but not on•a stamp.
The account was then £1 10s. 6d., and it now stood £4los
6d. By holding up the page to the light he could see
his signature under a stamp which had been put on the
account.

Mr. Wontner, jun., said that in the prisoner's desk was
found an account which was undergoing the process of
cooking, to make the accounts larger than they wore.

Some further evidence being given, the prisoner, who
appeared very dejected, was committed for trial.

THAMES.

A GANG OF FEMALE THIEVES.—Mary Brown, Cathe-
rine King, Sarah Ann Ryan, and Ann Dwyer, all well-
known thieves, were brought up on remand before Mr.
Paget, charged with hocussing Mr. Thomas Mann, of No.
4, Albert-square, Forest-gate, Stratford, Essex, and steal-
ing seventeen Bank of England notes from his person.
The prosecutor, about 40 years of age, met with two
females in Bishopsgate-street, a few nights since, and
accompanied them to a questionable house in Devonshire-
street, Commercial-road, St. George-in-the-East. He then
had twenty-two Bank of England notes for £5 each, £3
10s. in gold, and other moneys in his possession.
Be sent for a good deal of liquor and beer,
which the prisoners and the females he met in
Bishops-gate-street helped him to drink. After he
had drank a glass of beer, which was no doubt well drugged
with some narcotic, he became insensible, and fell back
in his chair. On coming to his senses a few hours after-
wards all the women were gone except Brown, an old har-
ridan, who acted as servant in the house, and who fetched
the liquors. His gold, silver, and 17 of the £5 notes were
missing. Brown was immediately given into custody. The
other prisoners were arrested on the following evening by
Sergeant Cox, 45 K, who said all the prisoners were noto-
riously bad characters ; that hocussing and robbery, and
sometimes brutal violence, had been:resorted to in the com-
mission of robberies in that street, in Tiger-bay, and other
horrible places adjoining. On tho first examination before
Mr. Partridge, when Brown only was in custody, the ma-
gistrate expressed his surpriso that any rational man
should accompany two strange women to a house with
£125 and upwards in.his possession ; and he was still more
surprised that seven of the 22 notes should have boon left
in the prosecutor's pocket-book.
The prosecutor said all the prisoners were in the house
in Devonshire-street while he was there, but the two
women who took him to the house were not among them.
Police-sergeant Cox, No. 45 K, said the two women who
purloined the 17 £5 notes had absconded. They were
well known to him. The numbers of the 17 notes and the
five saved were known, and notice had been given at the
Bank.

Mr. Paget remanded the prisoners for another week.

MARKETS.—This Day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

There was a large supply of beasts on sale here to-day.
Amongst them were 96 from Scotland, 96 from Norfolk,
380 from Ireland, 400 from France, and 1,500 from Holland,
&c. The attendance of buyers was limited, and the demand
was heavy, at a decline in the quotations compared with
Monday of 6d. per 81bs. The top figure was 5s 2d per
81bs. Sheep sold heavily, at 2d to 4d per 81bs less money.
Prime Downs, in the wool, changed hands at 6s Gd to
6s 8d; out of the wool, 5s per 81bs. The few lambs on
offer produced 7s Gd to 8s per 81bs. Calves were very
dull, at a decline of 4d per 81bs. The supply was very
moderate. Pigs were inactive, on former terms.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING (THIS DAY).

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the governor and
company of the Bank of England was held this day in the
Bank parlour. H. L. Holland, Esq., Governor, presided.
The minutes of the last court having been read,

The GOVERNOR said he had to inform the court that this
was one of the courts appointed under the 12 bye law for
the making of a dividend. The net profits of the half-
year, ending on the 28th February, 1866, amounted to
.£769,49.3 Is. 4d., making the amount of the rest
that day. £3,775,394 7s. ld. After providing for a
dividend of £5 7s. per cent., the rest would be £3,011,761
178. ld. He had, therefore, to propose that a dividend of
that amount be declared without any deduction for in-
come-tax.

Mr. Moxox said two years ago he had asked a question
whether it was the intention of the directors of the Bank
of England to allow interest on deposits. At that time
the directors intimated that they had no inten-
tion of doing so. Ho should now like to know
whether there was any alteration likely to take place
in that direction. If branches were established in diffe-
rent parts of the metropolis, at which deposits could be
received, ho contemplated they would receive some-
thing like V 50,000,000 in deposits. He did not think
that that was an over-estimate, because in some of the joint-
stocks they amounted to no less than £150,000,000.
The public, he felt certain, would certainly deposit with
the Bank of England in preference to any other establish-
ment. The accounts that had been given by the pro-
prietors had been made out in the present form
for many years, but he thought the time had arrived when
they should know a little more about the securities the
Bank held and the terms they had to run• He was told,
last year, if he recollected rightly, that the Bank held rail-
way bonds to the extent of 41 millions.

The GOVERNOR—Three and a half millions was the
amount mentioned.

Mr. Moxox did not think it much matter, but he believed
that since that time the Bank had entered into an arrange-
ment with the Metropolitan Underground Railway for a
large loan, in the form of a fixed annuity loan. However,
he thought that the time had arrived for further informa-
tion, and he hoped the reply of the Governor to his ob-
servations would render it unnecessary for him to move
the resolution he had prepared.

Mr. L. LEVY agreed with the last speaker that the time
had araved when the proprietors-should be made a little
familiar with the mode of doing business. He also agreed
with the last speaker that the accounts ought to show the
nature of the securities held. Then again there were
rumours prevalent that the directors were about to ad-
vance a large sum to a dock company at something under
5 per cent. He should like to know whether such was
the fact. He should also like to know the whole amount
of capital at present locked up in railway debentures, and
the value of the Bank premises. There was another matter
that he thought called for immediate attention, viz., that
trustees should be entitled to vote on the same footing as
other proprietors. He knew he should bo met with the
observation that there was an Act of Parliament that pre-
vented such an arrangement, but to obviate that he had
prepared a resolution, which was to the following effect—
" That the directors of the Bank be requested to apply to
Parliament for an act empowering trustees to vote as other

proprietors."
Alderman SALOMONS did not agree with the opinions of
Mr. Moxon, because, applying them to the Bank of Eng-
land, they became perfectly impracticable and fallacious.

A PROPRIETOR thought it highly improbable that the
dividend of the Bank of England would never be equal to
the London and Westminster, because the latter traded
upon what he might call credit, whilst the Bank of Eng-
land traded on capital alone. Notwithstanding, he thought
that the bank proprietors ought to have a better dividend
than they at present received.
The GOVERNOR said that he was certain that no director
had any interest adverse to that of the Bank. The obso-
lete act of Parliament, for the prevention of trustees voting,
was no less than their charter, and by that no person could
vote in respect of stock held for other people. The great
question of the dayappeared to him to be that with
respect to the interest on deposits. The directors had come
to a conclusion adverse to such a course for the present
There might be a time when such might become advisable,
but that time had not yet arrived. The directors were of
opinion that allowing interest on deposits was not pure bank-
ing, but a dealing in money which, if carried on by tho Bank,
might become of very doubtful advantage. With respect
to-the meagre account they published he had to say that
no other corporation had to publish their weekly balance
in hand and the amount of their assets. He thought
their accounts highly favourable to the Bank. No value
was put down for the premises of the Bank ; they were in-
cluded in the accounts as an asset. With respect to the
value of the branch premises they were entered at the figure
they cost.

The resolution for the 51 per cent. dividend was then
agreed to.

A vote of thanks to tho directors terminated the proceed-

ings.

Liverrool Cotton Market. —This Day.

Market steady. Sales probably 15.000 balm

Foreign Mail Packet List
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MAILS DUE.
foistralia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. ...Mar. 2.1.

Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet April 6
Ditto, by French packet Mar. 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. llelena Mar. 24
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Mar. 22.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16
Faikland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 21

Ditto, via 3lar6eilles
• Mar. 16
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 16.

Ditto, via Marseilles . Mar. 25
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 16.
Ditto, via Marseilles ~Mar. 16.
.
gatu-itius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles April 7.
Newfoundland ..• ‘ April 11
Portugal .
• •• .....April 6.
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet Mar. 22

Ditto, by United States
ton
Ditto, via Curk •.• •
PaCket, via Southamp-
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry„ Mar. Mar. 10
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico Mar. 16

Cuba and Mode° Feb. 31,
Bahamas, via New York. April 4.
Bermuda. ditto April 1
West Coabt of Africa. lladeira, and Teneriffe .... April 12

At the third ordinary general meeting to-day of
the shareholders of the Surrey Commercial Dock
Company, a dividend of £3 per cent., free of income
tax, was declared on the ordinary stock and on pre-
ference stock A for the six mouths ending the 30th
The third ordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the Merchant Banking Company of
London was held to-day, when a dividend at the
rate of 8 per cent. per annum was declared.
The Allemania, from New York, has arrived
with £12,400 for France and £2,400 for Hamburg.
The Graphotyping Company is a new association
established for the purpose of purchasing a patent
for illustrating books, &c., the cost of which will be
only a few shillings instead of pounds by the pre-
sent system.

The average rate of interest actually allowed by
trustees of Savings Banks in England to depositors,
for the year ending 20th of November, 1865, has
been £2 16s. 6d.

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Agra and Masterman's Bank have issued a report
for presentation at the forthcoming meeting. It
states that the available balance for the year ending
Dec. 31, is £250,254. The direloctnosrsofhlaovepepraciednta.
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£10,254 is carried forward to the next year's ac-
count.

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son, M.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor of the nasfteenrsehdiponof
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the University and the College,
A large number of mechanics and labourers in
each of the departments of Woolwich arsenal have
received notice of dismissal, in order to meet the
scanty expenditure allotted for the remainder of the
present financial year now about to close. They
will be restored to their former strength on the Ist
of April—the commencement of the financial year
1865-6.

Two SHOCKING SUlClDES.—Yesterday a Pole,
named Franz Browzow, aged 37, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor, at his lodging in Clare-
mont-place, Judd-street. A man named Fenning, aged 46,
the son of a late tradesman in the Poultry, was discovered
hanging and dead in his bed-room on Saturday morning.
Deceased had led a very dissipated life, and his friends had
raised some money to send him to Australia, vvli4er ho
was to have proceeded on Monday next.

Fire in Wilderness-Row--This Day.

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Between the hours of three and four o'clock in
the morning the inhabitants of Wilderness-row,
Clerkenwell, were thrown into a painful state of ex-
citement in consequence of a fire, which was nearly
attended with fatal results to nearly a dozen per-
sons, happened in the premises belonging to Mr.
Tarner, a watchmaker and jeweller, situate No. 12
in the before-named thoroughfare. The discovery
was made by Police-constable 87, of the G
who at once raised an alarm, and after con-
siderable trouble he succeeded in arousing the in-
mates, but the fire was by that time so great, and
the heated smoke so dense, that the inmates of the
third floor, consisting of Mrs. Ferguson,
aged 59, a daughter, a widow, named Louisa
Reynolds, aged 21, Thomas Ferguson, aged
7, and Mr. Gibson aged 21, were unable to descend
the stairs, and were nearly stiffied with heat. These
parties made their rppearauce at the third floor, cry-
ing piteously for help. At this critical moment Con-
ductor J. Shaw arrived with the Royal Society's
escape, from the Aldersgate-street station, and
having placed his machine in front of the building,
he ascended the same, and brought down the whole
of the above persons in safety. One of the young
women fainted in Shaw's arms as he was carrying
her down the fly-ladder. The inmates of the first
and second floors had also a vory narrow escape, and
were compelled to rush out into the street in their
clothes. The sufferer was insured in the Phcenix
Fire-office.

ARGYLL ROOMS.—Mr. Levy, the celebrated and
truly wonderful artist on the cornet-a-piston, is
meeting with very great success at the Argyll Rooms
which are nightly crowded to hear this wonder of the age.
The proprietor has engaged him for the season, so that he
can play at no other place. Since his musical tour in the'
United States, whence he has lately returned, his improve-
ment is striking, and we should advise all amateurs to hear
"his brilliant solos, so wonderful in execution." In the
orchestra department Mr. Levy is assisted by the well-
known Argyll Band of 50 eminent performers, which is
truly the finest in the metropolis, its several members being
most judiciously selected from her Majesty's household
troops, the two Royal Italian Opera Orchestra, and the
Philharmonic Concerts. Among the most renrarkable
artists in this band may be cited Signor Luigi Curti, chef-
d'orchestre ; Signor Mosea, on the euphonion ; Messrs.
Eleney and Prosper, cornet players ; Mr. Chatterway, solo
trombone ; Mr Snelling, clarionet ; Mr Sloman, violoncello ;
Mr. Drury, piccolo, &c., &c. The valses, which are prin-
cipally German, are charming. The selections from ope-
ratic music are excellently arranged by Signor Curti. As
a musical treat this opportunity should on no account be
missed. The saloons aro tastefully decorated, and it is
altogether a most delightful place for promenade and
dancing—indeed, it is unique of its kind. The manage-
ment is under the sole direction of Mons. Grenet.

GAS AND WATER MONOPOLY.—It must never be
forgotten that the public concede enormous pri-
vileges to gas, water, and railway companies. For these
enormous privileges the public has a right to demand that
it shall have fair service at a fair price, and that is all the
public ever did expect, and it has over been most easy-
minded in respect of its just claims and dues. Our high-
ways are monopolised, our public buildings defaced or de-
stroyed, the general public convenience largely so!. at nought,
and at the end of the chapter there is instituted a monopoly.
It is all done for public convenience on the one hand, and
private profit on the other. It is the duty of a wish legislation
to determine, as near as possible, what is the fair balance be-
tween them. Let private enterprise have sufficient to re-
ward it for its labours and risks, but let the public have the
conveniences it bargained for in making the first conces-
sion, and between the two draw a definite line of demar-
cation in the shape of a scale of prices. Generally speaking
the balance is all in favour of the side which has profit for
its ultimate end, and only in an extreme case, such as the
one now before us, does the injured public rouse from its
complacency, like a lion refreshed from sleep, and with
ponderous determination effect a revision of the balance.—
City Press.

THE PERILS OF UMPIRES.—The three gentlemen
present have all been at different times maltreated or
threatened at their bands. The office of referee at great
prize fights has been filled by each of them, and that re-
fined-looking man writing at the table in the corner was
beaten until he was insensible a few weeks ago. A fight
was in progress, and he had been appealed to as umpire
whether a certain blow came within the conditions laid
down by the rules of the ring. The backers of the two
men, not unnaturally, took different views, ono party
maintaining it was "a foul." and claiming the victory
for the man struck, the other insisting it was legiti-
mate, and that the combat must proceed. Some shout-
ing and strong language, amid which the second of the
man said to have been improperly hit appealed to the re-
feree, " Vosn't that a foul, now, sir?" and almost in the
same breath, "Oh! it weren't, werent it ? —then take that,
yer (noun substantive), and that, and that!" accompany-
ing each " that" with a savage blow under the ear, in the
region of the heart, and upon the head. The referee fell
insensible, and his physical monitor, Mr. Ross Filer,
having thus satisfied his Spartan sense of justice, went
back to his corner with the air of a man who had
done his duty in spite of opposition. Legal redress
for the outrage was of course impossible, the business of
the gathering and the gathering itself being alike forbidden
by law ; but retribution has, for all that, fallen upon Mr
Filer. That energetic zealot unites the business of a pub-
lican with the pastime of prize fighting, and he has, since
his brutal conduct, been declared dead to the world of
sporting readers. His name is properly tabooed by the
sporting press, his sparring displays and benefits are never
chronicled, and the professors themselves speak of him as
a blackguard whom there is no redeeming. So much for
Mr. Filer, who had, at a previous fight, encouraged another
of the gentlemen before me, in the impartial discharge of his
judicial' functions, by the cheering speech, "If he doesn't
do wot's right (i.e., what it suits the pocket of me, Ross
Filer, to call right), we'll murder him !" A previous
editor of the Sleepless, while acting as judge at a prize-
ring, received a blow from a bludgeon, from which he never
really rallied, and which caused
.his death. His imme-
diate successor has been hitherto more fortunate, never
having been actually struck, though frequently threatened.
He pointed out a particular corner of the room we were in
between the window and the fire, where, by placing your
back firmly against the wall and seizing the poker, you
may, always supposing you are a good hand at single-
stick, protect yourself effectually against violence. This
was no imaginary hypothesis. The speaker has had to
adopt these precautions more than once when conversing
with the professors, and when the arguments of the latter
have assumed the shape of clenched fists and foul threats.
—Dickens's All the Year Round.

MR. DISRAELI AND THE PARLIAMENTARY OATHS
AMENDMENT BILL.—Mr. Disraeli has altered since Mon-
day the terms of the oath which he proposes to substitute
in Clause 1 of the above bill for the oath now inserted.
The terms of the oath as now proposed aro as follows.
We italicise the alterations :—" Clause 1, for oath now in-
serted to substitute the following oath :—I, A. 8., do swear
that I will be faithful and boar true allegiance to her Ma-
jesty, Queen Victoria (her heirs and successors omitted).
And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and de-
fend the succession to the Crown, as the same stands
limited and settled by an act passed in the reign of King
William the Third, intitultd An act for the further limita-
tion of the Crown, and better securing the right and liber-
ties of the subject.' And I do further solemnly declare
that her Majesty is, under God, the only supreme governor
of this realm, and that no foreign prince, prelate, state, or
potentate hath any jurisdiction or authority in any of the
courts within the same (instead of in her courts). Bo help
me God."

NOVEL RACING.—HORSES V. MEN.—TWO novel
and highly interesting matches, man v. horse, have
very recently taken place at Oxford. The first was on
Bullingdon-green on Wednesday, the 7th inst., on the oc-
casion of the St. Aldate's Club, chiefly members of Christ
Church, having their annual sports, and was between the
Hon. Walter Verney and Mr. T. Watts-Russell, the former
to ride his horse Oxonian fifty yardsout and fifty yards in,
rounding a flag at the extreme distance, whilst the latter
ran the same. The betting was in favour of Mr. Watts-
Russell, who had the best of the start, and in rounding the
flag had great advantage, the horse took up so much
ground in turning that he could not get into anything like
a pace until his opponent had passed the winning flag by
half a dozen yards. The other match came off on Mon-
day last, in Mr. Charles Symond's training grounds, be-
tween two members of the University, viz., Mr. T. M.
Colmore, who was backed to run 90 yards straight, and
Mr. O'Neill's riding his Sparkling Hock 100 yards. The
speed of the horse proved too fast for Mr. Colmore, al-
though one of the fastest runners iu the University; the
latter lost by a few yards.

CONVICTION FOR LIBEL AND ONE FARTHING
DAMAGES.—At the Nottingham Assizes, on Tues-
day, Mr. Heath, a solicitor, guardian of the poor, ex., of
the town, brought an action for libel against the pro-
prietor of the Nottingham Guardian. The libel originated
is some local squabbles, and insinuated that the plaintiff
had, in 1861, when he acted as the election agent of Sir H.
Clifton, turned certain ss. pieces entrusted to him into half-
croWns, pocketing the difference, and that he had in other
ways misconducted himself. It appeared from the evi-
dence that the plaintiff himself had not been very choice
in his remarks respecting the newspaper, and with refer-
ence to persons opposed to him on local questions. The
jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and gave him one
farthing damages.
THE NEW COURTS OF LAW.—A court will be set
apart for the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,
whose sittings will then be transferred from the Council
Chamber at Whitehall, where theia lordships now meet, to
the intended new building.