The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1866.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

DARING ROBBERY.—Jamos Pagden and Wm. Bromley,
two young men, wero charged before Mr. Alderman Finnic
with stealing a leather hamper containing patterns of
woollen goods, the property of Lewis Moir, a commercial
traveller, from the passage of Mackie's Hotel, Ironmonger-
lane.

Police-constable Whitney, No. 98, said that yesterday
afternoon he was in company with Green, a brother officer,
in Friday-street, and he saw the two prisoners and another
man, not in custody, loitering about, and he and Greer
followed them through Wood-street to Ironmonger-lane.
Pagden was carrying a bag over his shoulder, which he
gave to the man not in custody.. They stopped opposite
Mackie's Hotel, and Pagden and Crawley went into the
passage, and almost immediately after came out with the
hamper in question. When they reached Gresham-
street Green rushed up and stopped them, and
Pagden threw the case at witness. Crawley ran away
with the other man not in custody, and they were followed
by Greer. He took Pagdeu to the station, where ho gave
a false address at St. John's-square, Clerkenwell, where his
mother was living, but where he had not been for two
mouths. He knew nothing of him, but he had some know-
ledge of Crawley, which induced him to watch the pri-
se ners.

Police-constable W. Greer, 280, corroborated the evidence
of Whitney, and said ho took the prisoner into custody. On
searching him at the station ho found on him 6s. in silver
and two knives ; and on Crawley some coppers and a knife.
He knew Crawley, who had been convicted of stealing an
umbrella, and was sentenced to six months in the House
of Correction at Holloway. The lady to whom the pro-
perty bolodged took an interest in the prisoner, whom she
visited at Holloway, and got into a situation on. his release,
in which he remained only a short time.
James Brown, a porter at Mackie's Hotel, deposed to
having seen the hamper in the passage about half-past 3
o'clock.

Mr. Moir identified the property as being his, and also to
the hamper being deposited at the hotel at 10 o'clock in the
morning.

The prisoners were remanded for a week in order that
the officers might endeavour to apprehend tho man who
had escaped, and who was known to Green.

BOW-STREET.

In reference to the case of George Andrews, who was
yesterday placed at the bar of this, court, charged with
obtaining goods by false pretences from Messrs. Thresher
and Glenny, of the Strand, the prisoner gave his address at
the Somerset Hotel, Strand. Mr. J. W. Curran, the pro-
prietor of that establishment, requests us to state that no
such person has been staying at the hotel, neither had any
goods been taken in for him. Mr. Amery, the witness who
gave evidence on the occasion, was reported to have stated
that the goods were sent to the Somerset Hotel, which was
a mistake. The goods, we believe, were ordered to be
forwarded to an hotel at Margate.

Atlantic Telegraph Company.

An extraordinary general meeting of the directors and
shareholders of this company was held to-day at the Lon-
don Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the consideration of
the present position of the company, with a view of adopt-
ing measures to extinguish the amount now payable pre-
ferably to the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, viz.,
thd sum of .£12.5,000 a year and half the surplus profit be-
yond the eight and four per cent. to the preference and or-
dinary stock of the company.

The lion. J.) S. WORTLEY occupied the chair, and,
in opening the proceedings, congratulated the meeting
on the faVourable circumstances under which they now
met together. Formerly lie had had to encourage the timid
and animate the strong to complete the great work they
had in hand,, but now the task was simply finished, and
their perseverance was the theme of universal admiratiOn.
The chairman then stated the steps proposed to be taken
with respect to the financial position of the company, the
effort that was being made to reduce the charge of ..£2O per
message, and he then moved the following rosolutions,
whichwere carried by the meeting

" That the directors and shareholders of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company assembled at this extraordinary general
meeting, desire to convey to the commanders, officers, and
crews of the respective ships employed in the recent expe-
dition, and to the engineers and electricians, together with
their respective assistants, engaged in the laying of the
new eable, and in the restoration of the cable of 1865, their
earnest thanksl and congratulations, and to express their
sincere admiration of the eminent nautical and scientific
skill and ability, in conjuction with inflexible courage and
patient perseverance, which have been displayed by all in
their several departments, and whereby the success of this
remarkable enterprise has been so satisfactorily realised."
" That the directors be, and they are hereby authorised
to issue for the general purposes of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company, the balance of the company's unissued capital to
the extent of £BOO,OOO, either as ordinary capital. or as
second preferential capital, bearing such a rate of dividend
as the board may deem it necessary to attach thereto ; and
that the directors be further authorised to issue the said
capital at such time, in shares of such amount, and on such
other conditions as may seem to them desirable for the in-
terests of the undertaking."
"That the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Com-
pany be, and they are hereby authorised and requested to
apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for power to
increase the capital of the Company, with the consent of
the shareholders, from its present nominal amount of
£2,000,000, to anominal amount not exceeding £5,000,000,
inclusive of the existing Capital. And they are hereby,
further authorised and requested to make similar applica-
tion for such other additional powers as may be deemed
advisable for the more convenient and successful carrying
out of the undertaking.

At the extraordinary general meeting to-day of
the shareholders of the English and Swedish Bank
the report presented states that the gross profits
for the half-year, including a sum of £2,492 4s. 10d.
brought forward from the last account, amount to
£26,171 13s. id., which, after writing off ascertained
bad debts, deduction of current expenses, and rebate
of interest, leaves a net profit of £12,569 18s. 7d.
The amount of calls outstanding on the 30th June
was £22,420. This has been reduced by subsequent
payments to £5,075, and the directors have the in-
tention to forfeit all shares on which the call shall
remain unpaid on Sept. 30. The recent financial crisis
in England, which also extended to Sweden, was na-
turally not without its influence on the business of the
bank, and in consequence a portion of its funds is for
the moment unavailable. The amount inoperative
does not however exceed the sum of £140,000,
against which the bank holds securities. The
realisation of these securities must necessarily be
a work of time, and until this has taken place
it is impossible to state with certainty what pro-
portion of the above amount may be ultimately
irrecoverable, / but the directors, after a most
careful investigation of the several accounts, beg
to express their opinion, supported by that of
their general manager in. Sweden, that under the
most unfavourable eventualities at present to be
apprehended, the utmost loss cannot exceed
£100,000; while, on the other hand, the altered state
of the money market will, in all probability,
considerably diminish this estimate by enhancing
the value of the securities in question. Mean-
while the directors regret that under these
circumstances, the payment, on this occasion,
of an interim dividend cannot be made. It there-
fore becomes the duty of the directors to state
what, in their judgment, is the best 3ourse to pur-
sue; and they propose and recommend to reduce
the working capital of the Bank, by writing off £5
per share from the £25 now called up, thus reducing
the paid-up capital from £25 to £2O per Snare.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1866. 1865.
Great Western 77,957 76,742
North Western .
125,834 123,623
South Western 27,701 26,949
Brighton
Midland
South Eastern 28,568 30,821
Great Northern

Lancashiro and Yorkshire 45,820 43,671

Bristol and Exeter

7,702

7,580
__
__

North Eastern 77.550 73,927

Manchester, Sheffitlld, and Lincoln 19,580 19,569
Great Eastern
London, Chatham, and Dorer 12,642 13,181
These returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, show an increase
of £1,215 on the Great Western, £2,211 on the
North-Western, £517 on the Brighton, £2,620 on
the Midland, £1,947 on the Great Northern,
£2,149 on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, £122
on the Bristol and Exeter, £3,623 on the North-
Eastern, on the
.Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, and £lBl on the Great Eastern, while the
North-Eastern shows a decrease of £2,250, and
the London, Chatham, and Dover of £537.

COUNT BAcioc9HT, who died on Sunday night, at
the age of 63, was the son of Count Francis
Baciocchi, colonel of the Noble Guards of the Grand
Duchess of Tuscany, Elisa Bonaparte, who was married to
Prince Baciocchi, his relation. He was a senator, first
chamberlain of the Emperor, superintendent-general of
theatres, grand officer of the Legion of Honour, and deco-
rated with most of the European orders. He had no less
than 18 grand cordons. From a biographical sketch of him
in La France of the other evening we take the subjoined
extract :—" The Empress gave him many proofs of affec-
tion, and recently, before her departure from Biarritz, she
paid him a last visit. He wept, he who was little apt to
Weep, when the Sovereign and the young Empress, with
touching effusions, pressed him in their arms. He wept
again when relating it to his doctor. On the morrow of that
visit the Empress, by an act of unexampled favour, sent to
him to keep in his room so long as his illness should last—
as she had kept in hers at the moment of the birth of the
Imperial Prince—a jewel which is assuredly the most pre-
cious of the Crown of France. This is a reliquary, the
skilful work of Fremont Meurice, in which is seen a piece
of the Swaddling clothes of our Saviour, a portion of the
Virgin's veil, a fragment of St. John the Bapti§t's wind-
ing-sheet, and in the middle, suspended in the manner of
a pendulum, Charlemagne's talisman which the magistrates
of Aix-la-Chapelle gave to Napoleon I.; finally, a frag-
ment of the bone of the great Carlovingian's right arm.
The talisman, of the dimensions of a 5f.-piece, is formed
of an aqua marina, which contains, and.through which one
perceives, two fragments of the true Cross, themselves
crucially disposed. The letter which accompanied ,the
reliquary, and which the count showed only to a few pri-
vileged friends, is a monument of fervent piety and of
lofty reason, in the most elevated form, worthy of an Em-
press of France." According to the Count's wish no
funeral honours will be done him in Paris ; lie is to be
buried in a patrimonial chapel at Ajaccio, his birthplace.
A PARTY OF ENGLISH DBOWNED IN THE NILE.—
A letter from Alexandria in the Messager du Midi states
that an accident lately took place on the railway bridge
over the Nile at Kafres-Zaiat from the bursting of a boiler,
by which seven persons were killed and a great many
wounded. " I have also," says the writer, "to mention the
catastrophe to an English family, whose boat was capsized
on the Nile, where all were drowned except a young girl
rescued by an Arab. Since then the friends of the victims
have been strenuously demanding that search should be
made for the discovery of the bodies, but the Arabs have
shown a marked reluctance to act, and the bodies of the
father and one of the female servants were brought up in a
net without their aid. Two Greeks afterwards found the
corpse of another servant on the opposite bank. A finger
and the extremities of both ears had boon cut off to obtain
possession of the gold ornaments. Just as the body was
being bnried a great number of Arabs came down and
forced the Greeks to throw it back again into the river to
prevent discovery of the mutilation. You may imagine
that the English here are greatly irritated at all this, and
their Consul has demanded prompt and severe justice from
the Viceroy. The cheick of the village where the act was
committed is personally responsible, and has offered a large
sum to prevent the affair being followed up ; but the Eng-
lish have rejected all proposls of that nature, and it is
hoped that the Government will continue inflexible."

HORSEFLESH seems—horrible to relate—to be
becoming popular in Paris. According to the French cor-
respondent of the Standard a working man advertises that
he will offer a grand banquet at a place in the suburbs on
the 30th inst., at which nothing but horse will be con-
sumed. The menu is a curiosity. Horse-soup to begin
with ; saucisson de cheval to follow as a remove, then boiled
horse au ?laurel; horse ala mode, as an entrée; for vege-
tables, beans fried in horse oil; horse for a roast; and,
finally, salade a l'huile de cheval. This equine repast is to.
be open to all who choose to pay two francs—"ladies ad-
mitted," adds the prospectus.

NOTES

FROM
TRAINING DISTRICTS.

(THIS DAY.)

NEWMARKET.

Gardevisuro has returned home. Breeze has got into
much better work, and this morning had a long gallop
by herself over Long Hill, her usual companion, Lothario,
being indulged in trotting only, after his severe race with
Knight of the Crescent and Saveruake, whom he divided
yesterday in the Newmarket St. Leger, which must give
him a groat chance for the Cesarewitch, which we have
all along said he bad. Jollity again had a two mile gallop ;
and Python, Nukuheva, and Volunteer were following
Vulture. Hippia and Jasper galloped steadily with
Guinivere ; and Emigrant was leading Gas and Marmite.
Tragedy was schooling the Rake ; and the Hermit was
at exercise with Breadalbane, Knight of the Garter, Satyr,
and Problem. Friponnier was trotting, but Miss Harriette,
Qui Vive, Artesian, Ceerops, Littleport, Chapel Royal, Ly-
tham, Friday, and others of Joseph Dawson's strong team
exercised freeely. Mazurka led Court Card a mile, and
Stradbroke went about the same distance. Gladiateur gal-

loped all two miles, going as strong as ever. Jennings
was also schooling Imperator, Dragon, and Trocadero, who
look very big and well. We had several other Derby
horses working nicely, including Julius and Bombastes
from Mat Dawson's, who were accompanied by Pericles
and Opoponax. The Hatter was galloping with La Dau-
phine. 11 Re Galantuomo has gone into Mr. Ten Broeck's
stable ; and Baron Rothschild's Robin Hood and Lord
Stamford's Gownsman have broken down. Saladin went
a mile and a quarter, but is very big. Master
Richard galloped a mile and a half. Others of
of John Day's cantered smartly two or three
times. Star of India, Lochaber, and Sister to Hippolyta
did good work. Bumblekite was very fidgetty. Blink-
hoolie and Verulam looked very fit, as did Ettrick, Reign-
ing Beauty, and Sour de Charite. Nightingale has re-
turned to Dover's charge, .and has gone northward.
Pedagogue is not ripe yet. Anti-Macassar and Mount
Palatine galloped a mile splendidly, as did Vespasian and
Broomielaw.