The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1859.

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LAW INTELLIGENOE-(THIS Ditz)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lords Justices.)
APPEAR-LINDSAY V. GIBBS.

At the conclusion of the arguments in this case, Lord
Justice Turner annotnced that judgment would be given
on Tuesday week.

APPEAL.-ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DA.VET.
Mr. Daniel, Q.C., is now being heard for the appellant
in this Charity Trust Conveyance in Norwich.

ROLLS COURT.

(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)

JTJEGMENt.--BLUCK V. MALLALUE.

His Honour, the blaster of the Rolls, said—This is a
suit arising out of a loin joint-stock company, limited, and
there is an application by the plaintiff for an injunction to
restrain some of the ditectors as a board of management, or
a committee of management of the joint-stock loan com-
pany from doing certain acts complained of, on the ground
that they are a corporation, and that the acts complained of
are contrary to the rules of the dEtporation, and
contrary to their duties as a corporation, limited.
The acts complained of are three. First—That the
defendant, Mr. Mallalue, in his capacity of cashier of the
company, took bills and promissory notes in his own name
only, without the name of the company. Second—That
the loans made by the directors were mado for their own
benefit, contrary to the rules of the corporation. And,
third—That the directors had not fulfilled their part of the
contract, but had failed to take, as required, a certain num-
ber of shares of the company. That by the provisions of
the contract they were bound to take a certain number of
shares, and they had not done so. Upon the first
part of the case his Honour did not consider
that the assertion; were proved. He did not think
that the second wasi sufficiently proved so as to constitute a
breach of the 47th and 67th regulations of the company.
But his Honour did think that the third branch of the case
was proved, that the directors had not taken and retained
the requsite number of shares in the company. His Honour
considered the case of the North Midland Railway Com-
pany v. Hudson as a case in point, and granted the plaintiff
an injunction against the defendant as asked, with liberty
to apply.

Mr. Yardley—How do you know him ?

vaccinated.

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STATE 01 TRADE.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION.

At the Thames Police-court,this day, Mrs. Susan
Mason, an elderly woman, of Bedford-row, Maict-
stone, Kent; Mrs. Catherine Walker, of No. .ft
Hanover-court, Hanover-street, Rotherhithe ; and
Mr. James Johnson, proprietor of the Eastern

Saloon, better known as the Penny Gaff, opposite
LimehQuse Church, came before Mr. Yardley to
claim a boy about 12 years old, whose name is
either Brotherton or Walker, and who has been
for many years in "the service of Johnson as a
tumbler, and who was for one season engaged as a
sprite in a Christmas pantomime at a minor theatre.
The boy, a sharp fellow, with an intelligent face,
was present.
Mr. Livingston, chief usher, said that -the boy
was given up to his mother upon her application a
few weeks ago, and she then said that the child was
stolen from her in Kent a few years ago, and sold
to Johnson for 30s.
Another woman, Mrs. Mason, claimed the child
as her grandson yesterday, and said that her
daughter (since dead) was his mother, and James
Brotherton, basket maker, of Canterbury, his
father, and that he was born in that city.
Mrs. Walker said the boy was born in Ber-
mondsey, and put in a certificate of baptism in the
Roman- Catholic Church, Dockhead, from which it
appeared that Jeremiah Walker, son of Jeremiah
and Catherine Walker, was baptised. on the 4th of
July, 1846. He was now within three months of
13 years of age.
Mrs. Mason—He is my grandson. •
Mrs. Walker—lt is false ;heis my son, and you
are not my mother.
Mr. Yardley said he was not going to try a
question of the identity of a mother or the identity
of a son. He asked the boy which of the claimants
he preferred ?
The boy clung to Mrs. Walker, and said, " This
is my mother, and I wish to be with her."
Mrs. Walker—To be sure, he is my own darling
boy.

Mrs. Walker—By a mole on his left side, and
five cowpox marks on his left arm. I saw him

Mr. Yardley—Millions of people have cowpox
marks on their arms. Is his father alive ?

Mrs. Walker—My husband, his father, is alive.

Mrs. Mason was then questioned, and said she
believed her daughter was dead. Her daughter
gave birth to a son, and she was afterwards informed
that child was stolen by another woman, and sold
to a showman.

Mr: Yardley said that no doubt Mrs. Mason's
daughter lost a child, but that did not settle the
question that the boy was Mrs. Mason's grandson.
Mrs. Mason said she claimed the boy of Johnson
five months ago.
Mr. Yardley—Why let him remain with him ?
Mrs. Mason—l thought he was in good hands,
and in a fair way of obtaining his living.
Mr. Yardley made inquiries of the boy how he
had been treated by Mrs. Walker, to which he re-
plied, very well, and that he was sent to a ragged
school.

Mr. Yardley said two women lost a child eight
and a half years ago, and the boy could not be the
son of both. He would recommend that the child
be left in the care of Mrs. Walker, whom he pre-
ferred for the present. He asked what sort of a
place Hanover-court was ?

Inspector Bean, of the K division, said it was a
most wretched place.

Mr. Yardley directed that the police in Itother-
hithe should look after the welfare of the boy, and
take care he was not stolen or sold again. The
boy was very lively and intelligent, and he hoped
every care would be taken of him. Mrs. Walker
was a person of drunken habits ; but if she was the
boy's mother she had a right to his custody.
William Collins said he was formerly in the
employ of Johnson as a musician, and saw that
person ill-use the boy in a shameful manner, and
compelled the boy to relieve his necessities on the
floor. He expostulated with Johnson, who said,
" He is not my child ; I bought him for a shilling
and a pot of beer."

Mrs. Mason—The mother took that child from
he house.

Mr. Yardley said he had done with the case, and
the only way Mrs. Mason could pursue her claim
for the child was by application to the judges for
a writ of habeas corpus ; and, if she made out the
child was her grandson, he would be delivered to
her.

The parties then retired, quarrelling with each
other.

LEICESTER, Feb. 16.—There is a fair amount of
business doing in the hosiery trade for the period
of the year; all useful goods are in request, at
fair prices. The fancy trade continues dull. At
Loughborough, Hinckley, and other country
hosiery districts, trade continues tolerably active,
and the framework knitters, both in Leicester and
the districts around, are well employed. The pro-
spects of aheaithy spring trade are good. Spinners
are pretty well employed.

NOTTINGHAM, 16th.—The lace trade has slightly
improved during the week ; more is doing in plain
nets, Mechlin nets, and Mechlin quiltings, and,
indeed, the cotton branch generally is in an im-
proved condition ; future prospects are also good.
In silk goods the trade is exceedingly quiet. The
hosiery trade continues extremely brisk, nearly all
branches partaking of the buoyancy. Manufacturers
have plenty of orders on hand, and all are antici-
pating a good spring trade. The home department
is brisk, and all useful goods are in demand. Stocks
on hand are extremely low, and have been so for
some time past. In the country districts, where
hosiery is the staple manufacture, the operatives
are well employed. Yarns are in good request,
and firm.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 40s 11d;
barley, 33s 6d ; oats, 22s 4d ; rye, 31s 2d ; beans, 41s 2d ;
and peas, 41s sd.
THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 41s 2d ;
barley, 33s ld ; oats, 21s 9d ; rye, 31s Od ; beans, 40s Id ;
peas, 41s 7(1
ENGLISII GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 120,103;
barley, 86,310; oats, 15,810; rye, 39; beans, 5,174, peas,
1,529 quarters.