The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, A EJG UST 22, 1866.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BREAKING A JEWELLER'S WINDOW AND DARING ROB-
BERY.—John Camtnell, a strange looking fellow, described
as having no home or occupation, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with breaking a pane of glass in the shop win-
dow of Mr. Samuel Reid, jeweller, No. 161, Oxford-street,
and stealing a gold Albert chain and other articles.
Eliza Elliott, assistant to Mr. Reid; said—Yesterday
evening after 8 o'clock, while serving some customers, I
heard two blows on the window, and a third, which broke
the glass. I went outside, and saw the prisoner struggling
with some gentlemen about ono door off, and saw a gold
Albert chain hanging on the prisoner's shoulder. The
chain was lost in the struggle which took place, but several
other articles were picked up by a poor man and brought
into the shop. Besides the chain I have already spoken of
several other articles aro missing. I picked up a piece of
stone inside the window.

The Prisoner Did you soo me break tho window ?

Witness—No, I did not. I was in the shop.

James Smith, porter, 974, Star-street, Edgware-road,
said I was standing talking to a young man, and heard a
crash of glass, and saw the prisoner run from the window
with something shining in his hand. I with others stopped
the prisoner. _ _ _

Mr. Edward Carter, pork butcher, Malden-road, Kentish-
town, said—While on an omnibus yesterday evening in
Oxford-street I saw the prisoner go up to Mr. Reid's win-
dow and smash it, and take a lot of chains out of it. The
prisoner was seized by the last witness and another person,
and I assisted them in taking the prisoner to the station.
The Prisoner —What did I do it with ?

Witness—l cannot say what you had in your hand, but
as a piece of stone was afterwards picked up, I think it
probable it was done with that.

James Chalkley, 199 received tho prisoner in cus-
tody, and afterwards went to the shop and found a pieco
of stone in the window. This morning the prisoner said
that he was hard up, had no work, and that he broke the
window and meant to take some things away.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed tho prisoner for trial.

Messrs. Overend, *Gurney, and Company's
Meeting. —This Day.

--_--

An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders
of this company was held-at the London Tavern to-day,
in consequence of a memorandum which had been circu-
lated by Messrs. ICingscote, Gressel', and Oppenheim, who
on the 11th June last were appointed a committee of
supervision. They stated that immediately on their ap-
pointment they felt it necessary to communicate with the
liquidators, but they regretted to say that although
the liquidators had expressed their willingness
to give them information on any points connected
with the liquidation, they felt themselves, by
reason
_of the want of a legal status, to be en
tirely without any such power of supervision as
would enable them effectually to control the affairs of the
winding-up in such a manner as they might consider con-
sistent with the interests of those by whom they wore ap-
pointed. By accepting the position of a committee they
had undertaken practical duties which they had not the
power to discharge.

Mr. GitESSELL was moved to the chair, and expressed
his regret that Mr. Kingscote was detained in Scotland by
the Government, and therefore they were necessarily de-
prived of the assistance of one of the most prominent mem-
bers of the committee. In what he had to lay before them
ho had the full concurrence of Mr.- Kingscote, and the only
difference of opinion between them was as to the time of
holding the present meeting. They met the liquidators
once a week ; but, as was stated in the circular convening
the meeting, the powers with which the shareholders were
invested gave them no other power than merely to carry
out what the liquidators proposed. Having gone in detail
through the different proceedings which had taken place
in Chancery, with which our readers are already acquainted,
and by which it was decided that the shareholders who
had. deposited £400,000 in the pockets of Gurney, Over-
end, and Co., were partners, and wore not entitled to any
dividend until the calls had been paid, he said the creditors
who were not shareholders were placed. in a very different
position to the shareholder creditors. The committee were
dissatisfied with the proceedings in connection .with the
bank from the time of its becoming alimited liability com-
pany. In the first pllce, they should never have been
made a limited liability company, because at the time they
were insolvent.' The fact was, they had only £552,000 to
meet their claims. They had a guarantee for £1,500,000,
but that was not under,the control of the company. It
was probable no doubt that if the ow ners sold the property
what it realised would be placed in the hands of the liqui-
dators, but still they worn riot placed in the position in
which they were led to believe they had been placed. He
did not moan to say that everything had not been done for
the interests of the shareholders that could possibly
be accomplished, but they knew nothing of what had
taken place. The liquidators did not refuse the committee
information on certain points, but it was given reluctantly.
He did not charge the old company with any misconduct
since the stoppage of .the business of the bank; on tho
contrary, he believed they had done everything that was
fair and honourable. (Cries of "Oh, oh.") He contended
that what was required. in the interests of the shareholders
was that there should be more power at 65, Lombard-
street. If that power were not conceded they
would be called on to pay the whole £35 on their shares
for the benefit of the creditors, and it would take 10
years to wind up the affairs of the company, but if the
power were conceded, it would not take half that
time to effect a settlement of their affairs. (Hear, hear.)
Ho adverted to some letters ho had received, in some of
which some of the writers suggested that certain parties
should be indicted, but there would be considerable diffi-
culty, and he -could not approve the adoption of that
course.

Mr. OPPEXITEIM, after some preliminary observations,
defended the conduct of the liquidators, and said it was
necessary that there should bo a call of £lO. He strongly
condemned the conduct of the new company, which had
undertaken a business with a lock-up of £300,000 debts.
These debts were contracted by loans
to St companies
shame.)
in. England and abroad, and yet, notwith-
standing,
dm,sinco the formation of the limited liability com-
pany anhn yaineg
X 60,000 had been lent up to the stoppage of the
business.
Dr. CHANDIIRS expressed an opinion that the company
which had commenced in a state of insolvency were the
parties who should be made to suffer, and not the share-
holders. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. TURQUAND (one of the liquidators) said ho consi-
dered that they had been treated badly by the committee
who were acting with them, and yet there had been an
undercurrent of dissatisfaction with reference to what
was taking place. He contended that they were
merely • the officers of the Court, and not of the
shareholders. He then repeated in substance some
of the statements he had made at the meeting on
Monday, a report of which appeared in The Sun. Ho said
that there had been very little difference between the
liquidators and the committee of supervision expressed,
until the call for £lO a share. Mr. Gressoll was under an
erroneous impression when he stated that the committee
had been ;referred to a list of the shareholders, and
he was told that the list might bo inspected or
copied by him or his solicitor. As to a copy not
being supplied immediately, it was a very long document,
and took four days to copy. There had been some techni-
cal difficulties in getting a transfer of the estates to the
liquidators, but the title-deeds of the estates were in their
possession, and whenever they wished the liquidators
could lay their hands on the balances of the partners at
the bank. Ho said that it would be a useless and an in-
jurious proceeding to publish a list of the names
of the depositors, which might have the effect of operating
very prejudicially to their credit. He now detailed at some
ength the course pursued by the liquidators, and again
complained of ill treatment on the part of the committee of
supervision, and was frequently interrupted in the course
of his address.

Mr. HARDING (the other liquidator) said that during the
visits paid weekly
by the committee of supervision, it
would have been impossible for him and his colleague to
give even a resume of the results of their labours during
the week, and could not possibly anticipate what was the
exact information that would be required.
Mr. PEAKE said that, unfortunately, he wasa large share-
holder and depositor, and thought with others in the same
position, that they should be making progress, and for that
purpose he moved the following resolution: —" That this
meeting is of opiniOn
that it was highly desirable that
some other gentleman should be associated with the liqui-
dators, and that the Committee of Supervision be re-
quested to apply to the Court of Chancery for that pur-
pose." (Hear, hear.)
Dr. DAmmtrEE seconded the motion, and suggested
at. Ho maintained that unless
that the committee of supervision should be the parties as-
sociated with the liquidorsthe pressure were put on those who were engaged in wind-
ing up the aftairs of the company a great delay would ne-
cessarily result in dealing with the vast amount of the
strongly condemned the conduct of the com-
panyassets of the company. -
Mr. HAYEs
in giving £500,000 for a bankrupt business : it was
nothing loss than collusion and robbery. (Hear, hear.)
He concluded by expressing his approval of the motion,
but objected to Mr. Oppentein, who suggested that there
should have been an immediate call of .£3s—(hisses)—a
shareholder should be one of those associated with the
liquidators.

After some further discussion, and a vote of thanks to
the Chairman, the proceedings terminated.

Miraculous Escape of a Lady from Fire.

(THIS DAY.)
A fire broke out which, had it not been for the prompt
arrival of conductors T. Last and F. Thompson, of the
Iloyal Society for the Protection of Lifo from Fire, must
have resulted iu a horrible death from that fearful element.
About half-past 3 o'clock a.m., as a police-constable of the
E division was passing the prerilises belonging to Miss
Pitts, No. 13, Lamb's Conduit-street, Bedford-row, Hol-
born, ho found them on fire, the second that has occurred
'necessary
the land steamers by Shand,
Mason, within 24 hours in the same neighbourhood. The officer
at
alarm, and sent off for the
Royal
e ss
e s .c
an
oepr
tc
unately the whole of the inmates,
es nwith the exception of a lady named Emmeline Sarah Bed-
well,andgaveSociety'sCo. managed to effect their escape in safety. Unfortu-
nately the lady in question, who was in the third floor
back, was unable to leave the room owing to the density
of the smoke. Conductor Last mounted his escape and
found the lady in the third floor back, almost suffocated
with the heat and smoke. Tr
gallantly seized her, and
carried her from the third floor to the second floor, and the
escape being in front of the building conductor Last
handed the lady over to conductor Thompson, who taking
tho female in his arms carried her down to terra firma, but
she was in a very exhausted condition. The police, the
conductors of the Society, and the firemen of the brigade
and the salvage corps managed to confine the flames to the
loweipart of the premises. The fire was caused, it is sup-
posed, by an escape of gas. The sufferer ward' insured.
The conductor who saved the female, in searching for other
persons supposed to be in the building, fell through a hole
in the flooring of the ground floor, but he was not mate-
rially injured.

._
__-
The advices received by the Agra and Master-
man's Bank from the Calcutta branch are consi-
prospects of the liquidation.
no jurisdiction, the liquida-
tionhe business will now be
Thed er e dh
oif ag :Car
that portion
tbi
rl et ht vti hn ego f t
conducted in harmony With the proceedings in
London.

An application was made yesterday on behalf of
parties interested in the petitions filed at the Rolls
Court for the winding up of the Preston Banking
Company, the object being to dismiss the petition,
so as to enable the bank to resume business on
Friday. An order was made discharging the liqui-
dator, and all impediments -to the re-opening the
bank on that day.

IRELAND.

(From a Correspondint of the Times.)
DUBLIN, Aug. 21.

For the first time in the ecclesiastical history of
Ireland a Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop's
levee has been held in the Irish metropolis itself.
Yesterday Cardinal Cullen held his first reception
in the Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, situated clOse
to the city, on his assumption of his- recently-
received dignity as Cardinal Archbishop of Ireland.
If an outdoor demonstration . had been very pru-
dently abandoned, no " let or hindrance " was
placed on the effect and gorgeousness of the indoor
display, the•scene.about to•be described reminding
the beholder•rather of a reception at Rome than of
a friendly Meeting-of an old friend by a number of
contemporaries under a new dignity in the prosaic
capital of Ireland. The reception was held in the
spacious hall of the College, in which a crimson
dais, set off by hangings of a yellow colour, had
been erected for the occasion. On this his Emi-
nence took his seat at an early hour yesterday,
dressed in full pontificals, and wearing the Cardi-
nal's hat, and thereupon throughout a protracted
sitting received the obeisances of a crowd of his
clergy and of a number of the\ laity. The Cardinal
was surrounded by some eight or ten of his
Bishops, but in his quiet and very unobtrusive man-
ner appeared, as his address subsequently showed,
rather to deprecate the formality and display of
the day's proceedings than to enjoy or glory in
it. On his assuming his throne of state, the
Cardinal was loudly cheered by all present, the
cheering of the throne-room being taken up and re-
sponded to in the flagged and bannered corridors
leading to it by the crowds of the laity waiting out-
side for their turn to pass before him. Numerous
addresses were delivered to Cardinal Cullen from
various Roman Catholic bodies, such as the Catholic
University, All Hallows' College, Holy Cross Col-
lege, the Christian Brothers, St. Vincent de Paul
Society, United Confraternities, Young Men's
Society, and Carmelite Confraternity. The most
ambitious was that of the Dublin Roman Catholic
clergy, from which the following are extracts :
" On a former auspicious occasion we hailed with delight
your Eminence's arrival among us as the successor of our
great national Apostle, sent by Pius, as Patrick was sent
by Celestine ; but with still livelier emotions, if possible,
do we beg to salute you to-day, returning to us a Cardina
Priest and Prince of the Holy Roman Church, the Mother
and Teacher o all the Churches, into whose bosom the
Prince of the Apostles poured, with his blood, the pleni-
tude of his heavenly doctrine and power.
" Time was when an Archbishop, arriving from Rome,
saw before him the almost certain prospect of purpling his
garments in a martyr's blood ; but better days have arisen,
and with good reason has your Eminence been selected to
prove that the spirit of our fathers lives on, and that, in
weal as in woe, adhesion to the 'chair of Peter is still
Ireland's proadest inheritance."

Entering at considerable length into a review of
the exertions of the Archbishop in swelling the im-
portance of Roman Catholicism in Ireland, the ad-
dress concluded as follows :
" Earnestly do we pray for your Eminence long life and
health to guard these holy trusts, and vigorously to dis-
charge the solemn duties which they impose. Long may
you watch successfully, from the exalted post assigned to
you on the towers of Sion, over the Holy City to which you
aro now bound by closer ties than before ; over the Uni-
versal Church of which you have become a Prince as well
as pastor ; over our own dear fatherland, and especially
over this diocese and your faithful mid loving children."

The Cardinal, in reply, simply returned his sin-
cere thanks for the spirit prompting the addresses,
and regretted that he had not had time to prepare
more elaborate answers. He felt, he said—

" That he had no claims or merits that would entitle him
to the distinguished honour which his Holiness had been
pleased to confer on him; he felt sensibly that he was a
useless servant. However, his Holiness had determined to
promote him, and, therefore, however unworthy he might
be, he considered himself bound to accede to the wishes of
his Holiness, because he understood perfectly well that it
was not a mere compliment to himself that was intended.
It was a mark of his appreciation which he was happy to
give to Ireland the country which had firmly struggled
for the faith, and had always preserved its fidelity to the
Holy See; and a mark of hisestoem and respect for all tho
clergy of Ireland."

In the afternoon, an ode, composed especially for
the occasion, by an Irish bard of modern times,
commencing, " Sing, Christian muse, at length a
joyous strain," andforming a perfect paean of praise,
was chaunted before his Eminence, the general ad-
mission of the laity then commencing. Most promi-
nent among these were—the Lord and Lady
Mayoress, Mr. Justice O'Brien, The O'Donogbue,
M.P., Sir John Gray, M.P., Sir Percy Nugent, the
Right Hun. W. 11. F. Cogan, M.P., Mr. J. B.
Dillon, M.P., Mr. Butt, Q.C., Mr. Palles, barrister-
at-law ; Mr. Hammill, barrister-at-law ; Mr. Wood-
lock, barrister-at-law ; Mr. Carton, barrister-at-
law ; Mr. Lombard, J.P. ; Mr. Mathews, J.P.,
Mayor of Drogheda; Alderman John Reynolds,
Alderman Tarpcy. The remaining names of those
attending occupied several columns of the Roman
CathOlic journal.
Outside the College the humbler class of devotees
made " high holyday" throughout the day and to
a late hour in the evening. Several amateur bands
performed popular airs to beguile the time. "The
Sprig of Shillelagh," " Patrick's Day in the Morn-
ing," and other airs usually given on this side of the
Irish Channel during times of popular excitement,
being rendered with more power than music ;
the spirits and devotion of the outside assem-
blage being revived from time to time by the
appearance of his Eminence on a balcony calling a
blessing on their heads. In the evening the Car-
dinal was entertained at dinner by the Dublin Chap-
ter of his order, about 70 sitting down. Consider-
able contributions came in for his Eminence pre-
viously as well as during the reception, and amount,
it is stated on good authority, to some £4,000. The
income he will enjoy will be about £1,200 per an-
num, derived chiefly from two parishes in Dublin
Marlborough-street and Westland-row. In con-
cluding this brief account of an event which is the
most novel and notable occurring in Ireland, it may
be remarked that the most common sense members
of the Roman Catholic religion here rejoice in the
abandonment of any outdoor display ; while liberal
minded Protestants think it quite natural that the
leaders of a Church having in this country an im-
mense number of followers should pay a harmless
semi-private tribute of respect to their accredited
head. —Time s