The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-18 00:00:00

TIrE SUN, LONDON, TPIUTISDAY7EVENING, APRIL 18, 1861.

new Budget' As though it were some scheme
showing upon the face of it a deficit instead of a
surplus, as though it involved an increase instead
of a decrease, at once in direct and indirect taxa-
tion

Ministers could contrive, however, in defiance of
the sinister prognostics of the Times and Company to
enjoy even w ith a relish their ban quet,and as it mi ght
be called, without much exaggeration, their ovation
yesterday at the Mansion-house, as the guests
there, in the Lord Mayor's palace, of the chief
magistrate of the city of London. The majority of
the Cabinet Ministers, at any rate, were there to
enjoy it thoroughly; they could hardly do otherwise
than enjoy it under the circumstances. While both
the Colonial Secretary and the Lord Chancellor
spoke agreeably enough, and each of them
very much to the purpose the speeches
of the evening were indubitably those delivered by
the Prime Minister in speaking for himself and his
colleagues, and by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
in acknowledgment of the toast of the Commons
House of Parliament.

Among all the pleasant sentences that fell last
evening from the lips of those who spoke at the
Lord Mayor's table in the Mansion•house, not one
could well have been more agreeable to listen to
than the one which, uttered as it was by the
voice of the First Minister of the Crown,
may be said with literal truth to have
comprised within it an epitome of the whole finan-
cial and political situation :—" After a season the
most inclement," said Lord PALMERSTON, " which
in former times might have produced either a
famine or a financial crisis, my right hon. friend
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been able to
propose to Parliament and the country a surplus
of revenue over expected expenditure, which has
enabled him to propose a large remission of the
burdens of the people, without diminishing
in the slightest degree those military and naval
means of defence to have diminished which, in
the state in which the new world now is, would
have been a betrayal of the trust which
has been confided to us." Reviewing the whole
position, well might the noble Viscount observe
in regard to it—" This is most encouraging."
Adding these words, as happy auguries of the
future in Christendom—" The function of England
is to endeavour by the influence which she justly
possesses to maintain the peace of the
world. She has no ambitious objects, she
has no aggressive policy, she has no
warlike propensities. We wish not only to
enjoy ourselves the blessings of peace, but we Wish
by the legitimate exercise of our influence on other
countries, to secure for the rest of the world that
blessing which we prize so highly ourselves."
That is in truth the natural and rational policy
of England. Let but Ministers persist in that
policy, really and truly act upon that
policy, and the peace of the world
may yet, for a long while to come, be protracted.
Let them but begin, moreover, to show themselves
again really in earnest in their long since avowed
solicitude to ameliorate the political situation of the
country internally, and they may revive and re-
claim their dwindled popularity as Reformers—
they may still even now, before it is quite too late,
rehabilitate their almost shattered, their certainly
very seriously damaged, reputation as a Liberal
and Reforming Government.

Every Session of Parliament seems to charac-
terise itself by some peculiarity—that of 1860 was
distinguished as the "Talking Parliament ;" this

of 1861 will be known, probably, as the "Wed

nesday Parliament." Owing to the Government
having slipped out of its pledge to the country
which enabled it to overthrow the DERBY Minis-
try; owing also to its declining to make Govern.
ment measures of Bills for which it votes, which at
least it does not oppose, and which some of its
members strongly support—the Bills relating to
Civil and Religious liberty fall into the hands of
private members, and their second readings come on
on a Wednesday. That has become, therefore, the
day on which all measures springing from the love
of freedom and of equal rights for all—springing
from the deeply-seated sentiments which
are the glory of the Anglo-Saxon race,
and whioh have made us the country we are
—Wednesday has become the day on
which the genuinely English measures have
been all discussed this year. The day on which
the love of Equality fights with zeal to retain
Privilege ; on which the consciousness that Reli-
gious opinions and practice are no just ground for
civil disadvantages, contends with Ecclesiastical
supremacy and domination ; and on which the efforts

are made to extend political rights to wider circles,

and to expunge item by item the legislation of in-
tolerance and bigotry from our statute-book or our
judge-made law.
Hence it has fallen to the lot of this day to dis-
close or to seal the reactionary character of the pre-
sent Parliament. The Wednesdays of 1861 will be
black days in the calendar of civil and religious
liberty. With hardly one exception they have been
fatal to its demands. Church-rate abolition was
carried by a majority perfectly ignominious after
so long a discussion and in so plain a case.
Then, Mr. LOCKE KING'S measure and Mr.
BAINES' successively fell a sacrifice to the
open zeal of Toryism, and the covert zeal of
Whiggism against the extension of popular power.
And now, again, yesterday, Wednesday vindi-
cated its claims to be considered the field-day of
I political and religious bigotry by the rejection of
two of the most common-sense bills in the interest
of religious liberty which could well be conceived.
Mr. DISRAELI, if we can excuse his humbling
himself to such an alliance, knew well what he was
about, when he invited the political aid of all the
clergymen of the country, offering them in return
a measure to facilitate the collection of Church-
rates, not to abolish them. Nothing like a bold
stroke. He has thus converted sleeping friends of
Toryism in every village into active friends, and by
their help he has beaten the Liberal party in
numerous battles, and will, while the Liberal ranks
are officered by Whigs, beat them in many
more. He is on the right tack to upset
the Government. Even their Budget will
not save them. Indeed, we should not be
at all surprised if, emboldened by Wednesday
successes, the Tories should show fight on the
Budget itself, and should determine to have two-
pence off the Income-tax, or something off tea and
sugar, and so save the Lords the odium of rejecting
a second time a bill which repeals a tax. Should
Mr. GLADSTONE find the Opposition taking this
course, he may thank himself for it. He contri-
buted to the Tory triumphs of Wednesday, and if
they carry an amendment on his resolution for repeal
of the paper duty, his vote of yesterday will be like
the eagle's feather which winged the arrow to his
own breast.

As to Mr. DILLWTN'S bill, it was a measure of the
most obvious equity. Property is left to endow
schools. No religious limitations are elepressed in
the foundation deeds. One would suppose that in
such a ease no sectarian qualifications would be re-
qcourtsuired of either the masters or trustees.. But our
have laid down a rule that if religious or
godly persons Are required as trulteop, or if religion

without limitation is mentioned in the deeds—that
the only religion and godliness known to the law
is that of the sect which forms but one half the
nation—which is the sect lucky enough to have
appropriated to itself the throne, and the high
offices, and the ecclesiastical patronage and endow-
ments of the country—and that hence, trustees and
masters must all belong to the Church of England !
Mr. DILLWYN'S Bill merely provides that when the
Church of England is not mentioned, suitable per-
sons of any other denominations shall be eligible for
trustee ships. We have certainly not one word to
say against the merits of the Church of England,
as a Church; but, living in daily intercourse with
men of all sects, we are prepared to deny utterly
that its members are more religious, especially that
its members show themselves more amenable to the
dictates of religion in social life, than those of other
Churches. Probably few who voted against Mr.
DILLWYN'S Bill would say they did. We are utterly
at a loss, therefore, to conceive of any but purely
party reasons for opposing a bill which would but
conform the law in this case to the state of society.
As each of us would now be ashamed to take note
of another person's religion as a bar to intercourse
on dealing with him, or appointing him to civil
office, why should notice be taken of it in such a
case as the upright administration of a religiously
open school trust ?
The rejection of the Bill to legalise marriage
with the sister of a deceased wife is equally reac-
tionary. The principle of the Bill has been affirmed
in four Parliaments ; it has passed triumphantly
in thirty-four divisions ; it has all but passed the
House of Lords, and now, in this session of 1861,
a Parliament which has enabled a Liberal Ministry
to take office has rejected it —by a narrow majority,
indeed, but still by a majority ! Mr. DISRAELI'S
clergy have whipped up the Tory members well,
the Liberals have been perfunctory, and so the
canon law of the Church of England is to be
fastened on the necks of Dissenters for another
year at least. The tables of the Prayer-book are
turned into law for those who never use the Prayer-
book. The half of the nation which rejects those
tables must obey them, or their marriages must be
treated as null in law, and their children as illegi-
timate. Reason may laugh at the absurdity of the
canonical prohibition ; Divines may tell us that it
has no more foundation in Scripture than in reason.
But it is in the Prayer-book of the Church of Eng•-
land—it was transplanted thither from the canons
of ascetic ages, reverenced with all their absurdities
by that Church, and therefore it is to be obeyed by
all Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen, whether
they respect the authority of the Church's set
canons or not ! Church supremacy is now the
battle-cry of Tories. They rally to it with zeal
for political purposes. But they must be ashamed
of it soon. Even Austria will make them blush,
for she has just denied the perfect civil equality of
all sects. Our Tories must brush up—they will
soon be behind their pet German Power.
The division was adroitly taken on an amendment,
which did not touch the merits of the case. The
Bill was limited to England, as so many other
Bills are. It was not wished, we presume, to com-
plicate the case with the difficulties of opposition
from Scotland and Irehind ; bigotry was known
to be intolerant in both countries, and not likely
easily to surrender the power to coerce those who
differed from Church formulas and standards. More
Liberal England was therefore the part of the
Empire to which it was proposed to apply the Bill,
with little doubt that the excellence ofits working
would cause it to be extended to all other parts of
the Empire. This moderation was now turned
against it, and a convenient pretext afforded to the
timorous to vote for its rejection. It was at best
but a matter for committee. But the error was
that Liberals made no muster while the Tories came
down in full force. The Treasury whips aro not
equal to the Opposition whips, for these divisions
against the Liberals are rapidly chilling their zeal
for the Government.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs
Gladstone have removed from their house in Carlton. house•
terrace to the official residence in Downing-street.

PORTSMOUTH, Thursday Morning.—The Mac•
duff, transport, arrived at Spithead with head-quarters o
the First Royals from China, under the command of Colone:
Holcombe.

We are authorised to state that his Royal High-
ness the Prince Consm t will hold Lev6es on the part of
her Majesty at St. James's Palace on Saturday the 4th of
May next, and on Wednesday the 15th of May next. It is
understood that the Queen will bold two Drawing Rooms
at St. James's Palace towards the end of June next.

At a meeting of the creditors of the Faringdon
and \Vantage Bank (Messrs. Fames, Medley, and Ansell),
held at Faringdon yesterday, Mr. H. P. Harding, accoun-
tant, explained the causes of the failure and the present
position of the estate. A composition was agreed to of 10s.
in the pound, ss. on or before the 4th day of May, and the
balance secured. The total liabilities arc about £96,000, of
which about £15,500 are expected, to become claims against
the estate. The assets available for distribution, including
the amount from the separate estate of Mr. Barnes, are
estimated to produce about £22,500.

SUICIDE OF A MASTER TAlLOR.—Yesterday
evening an inquest was held by Mr. Langham, the deputy
coroner, at the Bricklayer's Arms, King-street, Regent-
street, on the body of Mr. David Taylor, a master tailor,
aged 75, who committed suicide by hanging himself by
means of a white pocket handkerchief thrown over a room
doer, at his residence, 16, Poland-street, Oxford-street.
Family grievances were stated to be the cause of the de-
ceased's rash act. The coroner having summed up, the
Puy returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."

ANOTHER CONVICTION FOR MAKING AN IMPRO-
PER CENSUS RETURN.—Mr. Richard Evans, of Bugle-
street, has been summoned at the Guildhall, Southampton,
by James Potter, for having on the 9th of April unlawfully
refused to answer him, he being one of the census enumera-
tors for the parish of St. Michael, such questions as were
put to him touching his census return. The defendant
pleaded not guilty, but the evidence being conclusive, he
was fined 20s. and costs, and ordered to make a fresh return.
—Wiltshire Mirror.

DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—The death of John
Hill, who was believed to have been the oldest man in
England, he having reached his 10Ith year, took place at
Rochester, on Sunday last. The deceased was born at a
village in Sussex in the year 1758, and during the early
part of his life was employed in agricultural pursuits. He
was always remarkable for being a man of very abstemious
habits, and also an early riser, both of which, probably,
conduccd to his longevity. Until within the last few
months Hill was in the habit of taking his daily walks
about the city, and notwithstanding his advanced age had
the appearance of being a hale old man. The deceased
lived during the reigns of five English sovereigns, and
was in the frequent habit of conversing on events which
took place during the first few-years of the reign of George
111., of which he had a perfect recollection.
THE ADRIATIC.—A letter from Trieste, in the
Vienna Presse, says :—" We learn that contracts have just
been made here for a supply of provisions for an English
fleet which is expected in a few days, and which will re-
quire a dozen oxen daily. There are several indications
that for some time England is following with attention not
only the affairs of Syria and those of her own possessions
in the Mediterranean, but also the eventualities of tho
Adriatic."

POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDER-OFFICES) DEFAL-
cATIoNs.---A Parliamentary return shows that losses and
defalcations have occurred in the money order-offices of
the United Kingdom to the amount of £5,905 since 1841.
Thirty-one offices are returned defaulters ; one (Barnet)in
the considerable sum of £2,701, and another (Jersey) in the
C,11.1 of £1,135. The defalcation of lowest amount is
c 2 Os. 10d. in a Perthshire office. These losses and deal-
catio:as, it seems, have formed no charge upon the public
revenue, but have been made good from time to time out of
the proceeds of unclaimed money orders.
MURDER. IN GLASGOW.—At an early hour on
Sunday morning., a party of men, accompanied by some
loose women, were drinking in a shabeen in Meuse-lane,
Glasgow, when a slight quarrel arose between two of the
men—Patrick Keeney or INl`lienna, and Daniel Fraser. A
few moments afterwards the other parties left the house,
leaving Keeney and Fraser alone in the lane. At about 4
a.m., a police constable found Keeney lying dead on the
road, a fatal stab on the left breast having been inflicted.
Suspicion immediately fell upon Fraser, who was appre-
hended,
and a knife marked with blood found in his posses- j
Pi9nt The deceased 1:44/1 has bit widow and QIN 941,14,

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-APRIL 17.
TRUSTEES OF CHARITIES BILL.

Order for Committee read ; motion made, and question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair:—
Amendment proposed to leave out from the word "That"
to the end of the question, in order to add the words " this
house will, upon this day six months, resolve itself into the
said Committee,"—(Mr. Selwyn)—instead thereof :
Question put, " That the words proposed to he left out
stand part of the question :—The house divided ; Ayeo,
171, Noes 200.

A.YVI-171.
Adair, H. E. Dunkellin, Lord Mines, R. M.
Agar-Ellis, Hon. L. Dunlop, A. Mitchell, T. A.
Alcock, T. Dunne, M. Monson, W. J.
Antrobus, E. Enfield, Viscount Morris, D.
Ayrton, A. S. Ennis, John Norris, J. T.
Bagwell, J. Evans, Sir De L. North, F.
Bailey, C. Evans, T. W. Onslow, Guildford
Baines, E. Ewart, J. C. Owen, Sir H.
Ball, E. Fenwick, Henry Padmore, R.
Barnes, Thomas Fermoy, Lord Paget, C.
Bass, M. T. Finlay, A. S. Paxton, Sir J.
Baxter, W. E. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Pease, H.
Bazley, Thomas Foley, Hon. H. W. Peto, Sir M.
Beaumont,Somerset Foljambe, F. J. S. Pigott, Francis
Bellew, R. M. Forster, W. E. Pilkinr,ton,•James
Biggs, John Fortescue, lion. D. Pollard Urquhart W
Black, Adam Fox, W. J. Pousonby, A.
Blake, J. A. Freeland, H. W. Powell, F. S.
Bouverie; E. P. French, Fitzstephen Pryse, Capt. E. L.
Brady, John Gard, R. S. Ramsden, Sir J. W.
Brand, H. B. Gavin, Major Raynham, Viscount
Bright, J. Gilpin, C. Ricardo, 0.
Briscoe, J. I. Goldsmid, Sir F. Robertson, D.
Bristow, A. Gower, F. L. Roupell, W.
Brown, James Greene, Capt. J. Russell, A. J. E.
Browne, Lord J. T. Gregory, W. H. Russell, Sir Wm.
Bruce, H. A. Gregson, S. St. Aubyn, J.
Buller, J. W. Hadfield, Geo. Salomons,Alderman
Buller, Sir A. lianbury, R., jun. Scholefie,d, W.
Burke, Sir T. J., Bt. Hankey, Thomson Seymour, Sir M.
Butler, C. S. Hardcastle, Jos. A. Shelley, Sir J. V.
Caird, James Headlarn, Thos. E Smith, J. B.
Carnegie, lion. C. Henley, Lord Stacpoole, W.
Cavendish, lion. W. Hodgson, K. D. Stansfeld, J.
Cavendish, Lord G. Holland, E. ' Steel, John
Cholmeley, Sir M. Jackson, W. Sykes, Col. IV. IL
Churchill, Lord A. Jervoise, Sir J. Talbot, C. R. M.
Clay, James Kershaw, J. Thornhill, W. P.
Clifford, C. C. King, Hon. L. Tollemache, Hon.F.
Clive, George Kinglake, A. W. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
Cogan, W. H. Kinglake, Serj. J. Vivian, H. H.
Coke, W. C. Knatchbull-Hugess Vyner, Reginald
Coning-ham, Wm. 1.%77:.'"r1, Ti. G. Waldron, L.
Craufurd, E. H. J Lawson, W. Warner, Edward
Crossley, Frank Leatham, E. Watkins, J. L. V.
Dalglish, Robert Lee, W. Wemyss, J.
Davey, R. Locke, John Westhead, B.
Davie, Col. F. Lysley, W. Whalley, G. H.
Denman, G. M`Cann, J. Whitbread, S.
Dent, John Dent McEvoy, E. White, Jas.
Dodson, John G. Mackie, J. Wickham, H. W.
Douglas, Sir C. McMahon, P. Willcox, B. M.
Duff, M. E. Maguire, J. F. Williams, W.
Duff, Major. Marjoribanks, D. C. Wrightson, W. B.
'Duke, Sir James Martin,J. Wyvill, M.
Dunbar, Sir Wm. Massey, W. N. TELLERS.
Dundas, Frederick Miller, William Dillwyn, Lewis L.
Dundas, Sir David Mills, T. Mellor, John

war.

L A fir,
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CIVIL WAR IMMINENT IN.

AMERICA,

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

QUEENSTOWN, THIJASDAY, APRIL 18.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Steamship Company's screw steamer City of Balti-
more, Captain Petrie, from New York on the 6th
inst., has arrived here.

She brings mails and passengers.
The steamers Vanderbilt, Illinois (the latter char-
tered by the United States Government as a trans-
port), and the John Bell had arrived out.

The New York Herald states that warlike
rumours and the naval preparations of the Govern-
ment created intense excitement throughout the
city. On the sth inst. a panic prevailed among
stock operators.
The Federal Government had received no intelli-
gence from Fort Pickens for several days. This
caused the belief that the fort had been attacked
and telegraphic communication cut of by the
Secessionists.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald says the country is on the brink of a civil

A despatch from Charleston, dated the sth, says
a terrible moment is evidently at hand.
News from Washington and New York corro-
borates the general impression that within 24 hours
war will be upon us. Every man has been ordered
OR duty, and the utmost activity prevails. The
highest officials declare that the present state of
things can last but a short time lq,nger. The excite-
ment is intense. Everything wears a warlike
aspect.

According to the New York Times, General
Beauregard had declared to Major Anderson that he
must evacuate Fort Sumpter or it would be shelled
within 48 hours. Major Anderson's supplies were
to be cut off immediately.

The United States frigate Powhattan was fully
equipped for sea.
The Government had chartered the steamer
Atlantic, which, with the Powhattan and the
Illinois, would sail immediately under sealed
orders.

Jamaica dates are to the 23d ult. His Royal
Highness Prince Alfred met with a royal reception
at Barbadoes. Preparations were making to give
him a magnificent ball at Jamaica.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, APRIL 5, EVENING,

The panic announced elsewhere caused an ave-
rage fall of 2 per cent, in stocks. New York Cen-
tral closed at 7717 Erie, 291 ; Exchange, bankers'
bills, 1071 to 108. Cotton and corn less active ;
flour opened dull, but closed firmer ; wheat heavy ;
pork advanced; sugars and coffee steady ; freights
firm.

NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 4.
Sales of cotton to-day 3,000 bales; middling, 12/c
to 13c.

TURIN, APRIL 18.

The Opinione of to-day announces that the
National Guard have energetically repressed the
reactionary attempts in the Neapolitan provinces,
whither troops have been sent. Tranquillity
has been everywhere re-established.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 10.

The issue of the new caimes has commenced. The
amount to be issued is 300,000,000 piastres. No
official explanation has yet been given on the sub-
ject, and serious local complaints are made in con-
sequence.

The report of the Syrian Commission is so volu-
minous that it will be sent back for revision and
abbreviation.

All the commissioners, with' the exception of the
representative of France, recommend the appoint-
ment of three Kaimakans for the Lebanon, namely
—a Muse, a Maronite, and a Greek.

The French Commissioner insists on the appoint-
ment of only one Kaimakan to be a Maronite.
The Commissioners are to remain at Beyrout.

PARIS, APRIL 18.

The following telegram, dated Constantinople,
April 17, evening, has bean received here to-day .
Omar Pasha has been appointed Generalissimo
of the army in the Herzegovina, and will conduct
the inquiry in Bosnia.

War materiel and reinforcements have been sent
to Antivari.

Prince Garatchanine has arrived in Constanti-
nople, and has demanded the evacuation of Bel-
grade by the Mussulmans.

CRACOW, APRIL 17.
The state of things at Warsaw remains un-
changed.
Arrests continue to be made.
The number of the killed, wounded, and arrested
amounts altogether to 1,000.
The exasperation of the people is increasing
throughout the whole country.

THORN, APRIL 17.

General Paniutin, the military governor of
Warsaw, has published a proclamation sternly pro-
hibiting the wearing of political emblems, and
limiting the followers of a funeral to the family of
the deceased.

The city of Warsaw is ordered to contribute
daily the sum of 2,000 roubles for the mainte-
nance of the troops, and to pay 1,500 roubles to
defray the expense of burying those who fell in
the recent disturbances.

ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY.
A resolution of the Imperial Council, dated the

11th instant, and published to-day, permits the
merchants of Kiachta to trade unlimitedly with
China either by barter or by payments in gold or
silver..

The same resolution also permits, from April,
1862, the importation of merchandise by sea from
Canton into Russia and Poland.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, MARCH 27.

Fears are entertained that the famine will extend
to the Madras Presidency. The cotton question is
attracting much attention. Political affairs aro
quiet. The Army Amalgamation Committee is still
sitting at Calcutta. The result of its deliberations
is impatiently awaited by the army.
Lieut. Fryer, of the 35th Foot, was drowned at
Meerut on the 16th inst. Colonel Knollys, of the
75th Foot, has died suddenly.

BOMBAY AND EXTRA CALCUTTA MAILS.
The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 1 p.m. yesterday (Wednesday). The
mails left at 2 p.m. for London;

The Pera, with the heavy portion of the mails,
left Malta at 10 pn. on the 14th, and may be ex
pected at Southampton on the 23d inst.
_

The Malta brought tb,e mails from Calcutta, And

the Salsette those from Bombay, arriving at Suez
on the Bth and 10th respectively.

OUTWARD MAILS.

The Ceylon, from Southampton on the 4th, ar-
rived at Malta at 11 a.m. on the 13th, and sailed
at midnight for Alexandria.

The Valetta, from Marseilles on the 12th,
reached Malta at 7 p.m., and sailed at 11 p.m. on
the 14th.

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL - .1 1 .

BOURSE, April 17.—The market has been dull,
without any variations of importance. A rumour
was current of a diminution in the Bank of France
discount, and prices have varied from 2,860 f. to
2,825 f. Threes, for the Account, have fallen from
67f. 75. to 67f. 60. The following were the last
quotations :-
41 per per Cents ... 95 Credit Fonder 925
Do end month.... 95 10 Belgian 4k —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 10 ! Roman
Bank Shares 2830 I Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 655 Spanish Threes 4B
Do. Account 655 I Home Debt .. 47a

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1332 50 .. 1333 75
Northern
Now ditto B9O
Lyons and Mediterranean 947 50 .. 946 25
Geneva 390 .. 390
Southern 541 25 .. 550
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 457 50 .. 458 75

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(2IIis Day).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
IN RE THE UNION DISCOUNT COMPANY.

To-day was appointed for proofs and settling the lista of
shareholders. Various legal gentlemen appeared, and
debts to some amount were ',loved.
The usual arguments ensued as to the liabilities of sjiare•
holders. (Case proceeding.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner Gculbourn.)
IN RE HUTCHINSON.

The bankrupt was described as of Mark-lane, raer‘lantt
and to-day came up for his certificate.
The Commissioner, in reviewing the facts of the case,
remarked that the bankrupt had kept a stud of race-horses,
one of which, though stated to be a valuable animal, had
been sold for £2O. In addition to his conduct to a livery
stable keeper there was this feature in the case, the bank"
rupt's personal expenditure had been immense. That
was, immense to a person in his position. The benhnlPl
had petitioned this Court some time ago, and then he peid
Os. Bd. in the pound. Now he would not pay le.; so his
assets became "small by degrees and beautifully less!,
Complaint had been made by two ladies; but the bankTuPt
had really done all he could to relieve them, and there did
not appear to be any charge against him in that respect.
But he had obtained credit when he must have known he
was hopelessly insolvent, and for that his certificate would
be suspended (with protection) for nine months from the
date of the petition, and when granted to be of the third
class.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

BOW-STREET.

ALLEGED RAPE-AND ASSAULT.—John Delobt, a native
of the East Indies, and a woman who resides with hint, were
placed at the bar on remand, charged with a rape on a girl
named Oliver, and an assault on a person named Hooper.
Mr. Henry Allen attended to watch the case on behalf
of the Associate Institute for the Protection of Women.
It will be recollected that the girl Oliver stated )11 her
first examination that she was a servant out of place and
was a little over 14 years of age. On Wednesday night, the
10th instant, she met the prisoner Sullivan in
Drury-lane, a little before midnight, and, being
without a lodging, she asked the prisoner where
she could get a bed. Sullivan replied, " I have a
very nice lodging. Come home with me, and you
can stop till morning if you like." Witness went with her.
On the way they entered a publichouse, where Sullivan
gave her some rum, upon drinking which she became so
stupified that she did not know what she was doing. Sul-
livan took some money out of witness's pocket and p aid for
the rum. Sullivan then took her to the house in Parker-
street, where she went to bed. She had not been there
long when the male prisoner entered the room, and, having
stripped himself absolutely naked, got into bed. She
screamed out for assistance and endeavoured to resist. him,
but the female prisoner assisted him, holding her down in
the bed and pressing the bed-clothes over her mouth, so se
stifle her cries. Sullivan then left the room, after which
Delobe repeated the offence, notwithstanding her cries and
struggles.

Long before the hour set down for the examinatiott:of the
witnesses, a large number of persons assembled in the
lobbies of the court with a desire to catch a glimpse of the
parties as they entered the police-court, but by order of the
magistrate the outer doors were closed, and the court was
kept closed during the whole of the hearing of the case.
Mr. It. B. Painter, surgeon, of 33, Brydges-street;, said
I have examined the girl Oliver twice. On the first occa-
sion I found no appearance of violence about her person.
She was not a virgin. On the second occasion I saw two
slight bruises on the lower part of her person ; but I do not
infer from that that she had suffered any extreme violence.
Sarah Asbury, the mother of the girl, said—Mary Oliver
was fifteen next birthday. Her father was dead. -Until
the last eight weeks she had been residing with me, and I
then told her she ought to look out for a situation. She
said she would do nothing for me, and accordingly she get
a situation and went to it. It was very near the place
where 1 resided. I did not neglect her. I told her I hoped
she would be a good girl, and keep her situation. Sho went,
but about a fortnight ago she told me she was going to
leave.

The girl Oliver was called, and asked by the magistrate
why she Old him on the first occasion that she had neither
father nor mother.

Oliver—Because I did not go back to my mother after r
left my place. I never saw the girl Sullivan until I met
her in Holborn. I spoke to her first. I asked her where
1 could get a lodging, and she told me I could go home
with her. I had previously asked other people.
Sullivan—What kept you out till one o'clock in the
morning ?

Oliver—l had been told by another woman to meet her
at twelve o!clock, but she did not keep her appointment.
Sullivan—Why, you told me you had left your place,
and you were determined to go on the streets.

Oliver—l never made such a statement.
Mr. Hooper—When the male prisoner rose to strike zae
in the room, he was in a state of nudity. I can feel the
effect of the blow the prisoner Delobe struck me.

Mr. Hall—l forgot to ask you, Mr. Painter, but the girl
stated on her first examination that the male prisoner hit
her on the breast, did you find any marks of such violence ?
Mr. Painter—There was a mark, but it was very slight.
Oliver recalled—lt was but a few minutes after I took
the rum which Sullivan gave me that I became stupified.
Sullivan I know paid for the rum, but I can't say whether
it was out of the five shillings I had when I first met her.
The last time I recollect having the money in my pocket
was when I was in Dean-street.

Constable F 73—When I went up to the male prisoner's
room he was quite naked. When I went back to look for
Mr. Hooper's handkerchief, I found the female prisoner
going away with Oliver's clothes.
On being asked what they had to say to the charge,
Delobe said the girl first came into the room while I woo
in bed, and began to undress herself, and came up to me e!
I was in bed and said, "Dear, don't you love me."
asked her to come into bed, and she did so. Altar that
she told Sullivan that there was a shilling in her
pocket, with which she could go and get some rum. Sala'
van said she did not want it. A gentleman (Hooper)
then came in, and I asked him what he
wanted and he said to smoke a pipe. He was quite druut
and laid down on the floor for a quarter of an hour. I
'Afterwards got up and said something to Sullivan, when
she struck him in the mouth. He said he had got two
6ompanions down stairs, and that he would call the
police. He called Sullivan a bad name, and then
the landlord came in and I told him the gentleman
had been breaking the windows, and when the constable
came in I wished to give the gentleman in charge, but after-
wards I said I would not do so if he would go away. The
policeman refused to take the gentleman in charge, but took
me instead. I never hit Mr. Hooper with the poker.
Sullivan said she had given the girl a lodging merely
from charity. She did not take away her money.
Both prisoners were fully committed for trial.