The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-19 00:00:00

CITY NEWS.

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CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Less activity has prevailed in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days,
the discount orders preventing large speculative
operations. Tea has continued in moderate request
at previous rates, and sugars have been dealt in to
a limited extent without any material change in
values. For coffee the inquiries have been of quite
e..retail character, and the inferior qualities have
61Ightly given way in price. Rice, fruit and spices
have exhibited no change of importance. In salt,-
Petro and tallow the operations have been very
limited, and in the latter article they have been
Chiefly on speculative account. P.Y.C. on the spot
and for March delivery is now quoted 59a. 9d. to
GOs• per cwt.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market the demand
Yesterday continued very limited, and prices were
unaltered. Th e sales were about 5,000 bales.
There were n o bullion operations of importance at
the Bank of England yesterday.
The steamer }Pera, which leaves to-merrow, the
20th inst,, for India, China, &c., will take out
71,067—viz., £14,992 in gold and the remainder
In silver.

The proposed liquidation of the Commercial
Bank of London, in consequence of the fraud per-
petrated at the West-end Branch, still engages
attention, and the general opinion appears to be
Strongly in favour of the course pursued by the
directors in making over their business to the
Xondon and Westminstr, by which means the
alarm that might have otherwise been created
among the depositors has been entirely prevented.
Owing to the subsidence of pressure the appear-
ance of the money market is rather more satisfac •
tort', but the rates, except for the best qualities of
Short dated bills, continue very firm. A few trans-
actions have taken place in the class of securities
referred to at per cent. under the Bank minimum,
but an immediate reaction in the rates is scarcely
anticipated.

A firmer market has prevailed to-day for Public
Securities, Consols having advanced about 4 per
Cent, viz., 914 for money, and 92 92k for the
Recount. Speculation is inactive, but a few pur-
chases have produced a favourable effect. The
Nevi Threes and the Reduced are firm at 914 1;
Long Annuities at 161 ; Bank Stock is steady at
`3Bi and 240 ; India ditto at 221 ; ditto 5 per
Cents. at 100 ; ditto New Loan Scrip at 100 t ;
but Exchequer Bills are fiat at 9s. to 4s. dis.
Foreign Securities show little alteration,:with the
elception of Mexican stock, which has receded to
,„231 being fully per cent. lower than yesterday.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 694 to 70 ; ditto 1858,
65 to 561; ditto £lOO Bonds are fiat at 58. Por-
tuguese are firm at 461; Russian 4/ per Cents, at
ul 92; Spanish at 481 d ; do. Deferred are steady
at 401; Belgian 41 per Cents. are 98.
The Railway Share Market has been rather
'4ll, and in one or',,two instances prices opened
With increased depression. Eastern Counties have
declined ss. and South Western, ss. Great Wes-
tern have improved 55., Lancashire and Yorkshire,
".) Midlands, 10s., North Eastern (Berwick), 55.,
and South Eastern, ss.
The Foreign undertakings have been at about
110Illinal quotations.
t 0 98k,
the Colonial Markets East India have receded
Trunk
anti Great Indian Peninsula to 95f. Grand
`runk of Canada declined to 22, and Great Western
of Canada are steady at 11 to 11-1.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
been in limited request. London and Westmin-
Ater realise 611 61,1 ; Bank of Australasia, 68i ;
Palace
of Australia have improved to 39-3- ; Crystal
4-alace Stock is steady at 31; Red Sea Telegraph
at 18 ; and Royal Mail Steam at 49}.

it BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
a 41c Stock
a Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll A
ti.l)er Cent. Commas Annuities
A;!° 3 per Cent. Annuities 9l/ 1
--„ouities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —
1 Aiitto for 39yrs, expire ire sth April, 1885 l6/
India Sto k
Dtto c •••
-r,' a per Cent
&sift()
itt b •
it I
1, -to Ese
nlaVced Paper, 4 per Cent.
.. 1001
4-, 6i per Cent lOl
thtto Debentures, 1858
1-, Ditto 1859
tuitto Bonds £l,OOO ' l5 dis
_4Bols for Account, March 7
'lloquer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto £soo 9 4 dis
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK
tt • .
kaathan 5 per Cent
,eit,iCall 3 per Cent _
11:1Ltto Account
C,,Nlise 3 per Cent.. 1853.
"rail 6 per Cent. 1822, £ St ..
Ditto
4/ per Cent.
ir,, tto 3 per Cent, 1859
tish 3 per Cent
tii to New Deferred .. 4B/ 1
—,, tto Account ...
l'illiittioll
'l2.itni ....
of Coup, not funded....... 6i
kttosii, per Cent .
AACce:Wto
un. Loan
551 5
55
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Bet .Dividends on the above payable in London. •
1%14,1,1 per Cent., Ex 25f 9B
nixes° 6 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Consols TWO O'CLOCK.
M
, oney
Ditto Account 92 i

TILE WEATHER.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS

Thies` __........,..u1vi.a.mr.u./.A.0 Akea-vnua.
betw Dal,
S
*-- 8 and B. E. M. D. F. C. I. S.
~...._9 a.m.
Ic4-------____
. 1ii)..r0.. ---- ---
9 o. 6
.s. ei,,• ..... . 2945 39 37 E.S.E. 6 Greei,"e,,L..•. 29•60 33 37 S.S.E. 5
ter..,AeX 29'38 43 41 E. 4 90.
lird,i.,•ez 29'63 42 40 S.S.E. 8 9r. 6
NeldBB42l 29'28 45 43 S. 4 4C. 3
izta,b„. ... , 29'53 42 41 S.E. 8 5 T.
"q1..11.11 "rwugh 29'59 42 41 S. 3 BM. 5
..),e,_ 29'57 42 41 S.S.E. 3 4 O.
1.41.,i,`15001 ... 2943 46 42 S.E. 5 3 c.
73
tl.o,cgotith 29/1 42 41 S.S.E. 3 7 1.
tgladt" 29'65 46 44 S.S.E. 23b.
Do.k "extreme 29'64 42 S. 2 sc.
.• •
Pori!
Ntt?lllouth
'alld
Pe' ,„outh S.W. 5 -"Alice
b. 5
toa,,XPLAIIATIoN.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
cali:. deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
do„.111g about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
),'„,_ltbove 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
epr,s_sed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
toteoration and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
(1 tottgnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
f.'
'3t• , h,,in
4. 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky; c., clouds (detached);
IN, •hail ; 1., lightning ;
~ misty (hazy) ; 0.,
re Cast (dull) ; r., rain ; s., snow ; t., thunder. A letter
Netted o
augments—thus,9) r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
Ivp,,,
qt, AND WEATHER REPORT, THIS DAY, 9 A. 31.
.y, ley, S. ; cloudy Inverness, S.W. ; dull
kw -t..N.E. ; mild Leeds, S.E. ; fine
4447 S. by W., blowing Leith, E. ; dull
ti),..(?ng; wet Limerick, 8. ; fine
13,(4..,1ngbara, S.; fine Lowestoft, S.W. ; rain
L.Nford, N.E. dull Manchester, S.W. ; fine
t'Aton, S.W,'; dull Middlesborough, E. ; dull
NI 1 N•
• fine a,„,,° 7 • f Milford Haven, S.'. ; gale
(I,,,eridge, S• ; fine Newcastle on. Tyne, N.E. ;
Ciff, s.; fine rain
CiitiNe, E.S.E. ; fine Newmarket, S.E. ; fine
S.E. light ; dull
Do"ilam,southerly,moderate Norwich,
14 8.8. W. moderate Perth, E. ; dull
Doh.tib, S.S.E.; fine Peterborough, S. S.E .; cloudy
1)1h- ties, N.E. ; fine Port Glasgow E.; breezy
ci-i',;1(1 ,e N.E. ; windy Southampton, S.W. • unset.
,
Q.18,71.14gh, E.S.E.; stormy Stockton on Tees, S.W.; fine
Goo(1vr E N E • rain Sunderland, S. ; rain
le ~,; • • • ;
Wakefield, S.E. • fine
GrEt, , 11. W. • fine
11 `end, W. • fine Weymouth, S.S.N.' ; cloudy
1-lat",`!Pool, S.i. ; rain. Whitehaven,•S.E. ; fine
liol"tch; S. ; cloudy Wolverhampton, S.; fine
Yhead, s.E
rain York, W.; tine
~ gale ;
Bret CONTTNINTAL STATIONS, FRE. IS.
1148) .S.W.; Very foggy Madrid, S. ; cloudy
ehe els, s.s.E , rain_n
''• l'bo— _ • , slight fig Marseilles, E.5.E..;
rain
~-;p,4,`,:rg, S.A.; fine Mot.tpesl.li!rc,
.4.,.-"1114;,4tge...119 N.E.; cloudy Paris, : E, • foggy
~..,,‘, o. • fine St. Petersburg, 7
loNudEy. '
Ltil, S.W' •
~14101:1 8. ,foggy.
;gain
tr a Stockholm,sbou r o NE.. E;
. ;snowe
44-04,;: g.s.W.; cloudy, rain Toulon, i.N.E.
• i fug
Vienna, N.N.E. ; fog
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Asti,, • report of the Thames and Mersey Marine
reeet74lce Company, preparatory to their firsthalfarl
receive
Oh the 28th inst., states the amount of premiums
in hand eel to the 31st of December at £94,365, and the balancee.
liw• , after writing off £7,816 for the whole of theB pre-
, 'hat
The , ePeses, and paying all losses, &c., at £9 ,5 directors having been established only six months, the
me rs do not recommend any dividend.
whitell.t4Tl LBh, 'ek, or great anxiety changes the blackest h. air
by he
ri- "IS colour, however, is to be restored with certainty
regard. them nlagnetic brushes, &c. Dr. Hassan says—" I
respects theire as the most perfect brushes hitherto made,. as
i aCti rih alechanical construction and their ns.agnetica
_l•2ll,e4unstnat 'rheumatism, are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia,
N. 13.—Counterfeits are being made. Odices,
el asingtall-atreet, undue.

SIMBE 11ARKET.-(77-IIS DAY.)

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

f Share Railways. !paid. Closing I 81181110811
Pride. Done.
50 Belfast and Ballymena all
13.14 jßir., Wol , and Str. Val. all 84 84
stock (Birk., La., and Ch June lOO 80 82
25 !Myth and Tyne all
10 Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.Co all 61 7
stock Bristol and Exeter 100 99 161
stock Caledonian
10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all
50 Cork and Bandon all
20 Cork, Illrock., .t Passage all
20 Cornwall .
f A refs no div.! ail 6 64
10 11° A 11113H-I'6p p f all
de.r1.301.1i all 44 45
10
Dog hasbeenc,
50 Dublin & Belfast. June.] all
25 Dun., Perth, SzAb.Junal all 8 Si
stock East Anglian ! 100 151 164
stock Eastern Counties i 100 486 494 48 s4.Bi
stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 37 39
stcoc Do do Bdo 100 26 28
25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds 135
stock East Suffolk
stock Edinburrh & Glasgow 100 86 88
stock Eslin. Perth, & Dundee 100 261 261
10 Forth & Clyde Junction all
stock Furness
stock Masc.. and S. Western 100 115 117
10 Great Nthn. of Scotland all
stock Great Northern lOO 110 112
stock Do do A stock
stock Do do B do
stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 110 112
stock Great Western
stock Do Str Val orta. stock 100 61 64
12 Irish South-eastern all
stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1111 1125 112 11;
stock London and Blackwall 100 62 64 634
stock Lon., Bright.. & S Coast 1100 1135 1141 1134
stock Lond., Chat., and Dover 100 48 50
stock Load. & Nth. Western 100 994 100 100 994 100 j
stock Lond. & gth. Western lOO 935 941 94
25 L'derry & Coleraine .. all
25 L'clerry & Ennisaillen all 10/ 111
stock Man. Shef. & Lincoln.. 100 51 511
50 Maryport and Carlisle.. all
125 Do do shares.... all
10 Metropolitan 6 3/ 24d
stock Midland
6.4.0. Do new
stock Do firming. & Derby 100 104 106
50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all
25 Do shares zit
25 Mid Kent.
10 Do, Cray Line
100 Newcastle and Csrlisle all
10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 7 6 d
20 Newry, Warnpt..is Ros all
stock Noilolk lOO 52 14
stock North British .. . 100 645 65
stock Vor.Dev.Bail&Dk.7.tock 100
stock D, A stk ; A recs no d.
until flpchas beenpd.B 100
stock Do B stock
stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 102 1021 1024
25 Do do , purchase 16134 p 1p
stock Do Leeds .............. 100 58 59 58 I
stock Do York
stock North London
10 Do new 5
9.16.4 North Staffordshire..., 175 34 3 1
10 N. and S. W. Junction,. all 105 101
12 Not. & Grantham Rail;. 11 8 85
10 ftebles ........ all
20 Portsmouth
10 Rhymney.....-
tock Scottish Central
took Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 335 345
took Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 86 88
took Shropshire Union...— lOO 49 51
10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all 55 65
Lock South Devon ..
50 Nthn. Counties Union
25 S. -Durham & Lane. Un 224
tock South Eastern
tock South Wales
tock S. York. and River Dun 100 90 100
20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 4 7
25 Stockton & Darlington I all 41 42
25 Do do J •11 104 116 p
25 Do New (1860) 3 665 p
lock Taff Vale •
lock Do Pref. IN-() 1 lOO - -
25 . ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 --
50 Ulster "
25 Do
!10 Do 2 d p
`ock Cale of Neath
10 Victoria Sta. and Pim. all 115 114
:oca Waterford & Kilkenny. 100
50 Waterford & Limerick all
20 West Cornwall
20 West London • all
10 Do Ist class
20 Do 2d class .. .
ock West-Hartlepool Uarbr
and Rail lOO
ock West Midland—Oxford] 100 45 47 46
ock Do. Newport; 100 41 43
ock Do. Hereford( 100 82 84

Share

Railways.

100
stk

tAtlantic & St Lawrence
Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind
Gu. 5 per cent..
Do, Do.
Buffalo and L axe Huron
13.1f30°: lee Terence
uffalo,Brant,&Godrich
6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
Do. do. July 1. 1873
Do. do. June 1, 1879
Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim'
ICape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.'
,Cape Town & Dock Scrip
Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c.
Demerara.
Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c
East Indian, gu. 5 p. c.
Do. F Shares Ext
Do. Jubbulpore
Do. 4i p c. Debentrs
Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864
Do. 1855-1870
;Grand Trunk of Canada

20
20i
10
100 I
100
100

Do. 6 per cent. Pref..
Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et..
Do. 6 per et. Debentr.
Do. 7 per cent. 1862 ..
Do. do. 1867..
Do. do. 1872..
Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.e.
Do. New trua. 5 p. c...
Gt. Soutkoflndia (Lim)
guaranteed 5 per cent.
Do. do.

Gt. W. of Canada Shares
Do. New
Do. Bonds pay. '76, with
opt, till '6O
Do. do. '73 till 'BO
Do. do. '73 without opt
Do. 5i p. o. do. '77 do
Do. 5 p. c. do. '7B do
Madras, guar., p. c
Do. do. 5 per cent
Do. 41 p. c. Extension
Do. Fourth do
Melb.Corp. 6 p. c. Bnds
Newßrunswick x Canda

Ry.ttLand(Lim.)g.6pe
Class A Capital Share
Do. do. Landd0........

Paid.

all
all
all
100
100
100
all

stock
6.4.0.
stock

Do. do. B Capital d 0...
Do. do. Land do. ......
Oude (Limited) ........
Scinde .......... i d
re,
Do. Punjaub .... Ls
Do. Do. ........ w c.?
,Do.lndus.St. Flo.
4424
Trinidad (Lim.) Sc p..

all

f 100
10
all
100

stock
stock
stock
stock

stock
stock
25
stock
stock
stock
10
MUSA

stock
stock
stock
stock
10
stock

stock
stock
stock

all
all
all
all
all

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71 8
19 20
37i 38i
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8 9
36 37
66 67

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stock
stock

12 10
stock
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stock

stock
stock
stock

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1
190 200
390 400
105 110
14 114
6 oil
22 24
74 8
1
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2i
34 16
2 21
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62 54

8f
947 f 1 12

4 -
300 311 0

3} 3

185 155
37 39
2 21
5; 5/
17 18
80 82
345 855
113°24 PIP
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12 13
18 20
11 13

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40 42
8 10
24 2}
20 22
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9 10

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all
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY v EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1861.

Closing
Price.

92 93

16 16i di
4/1 b d

6 7
75 80
67 72
65 70
i pr

111 d
I Id

li lid
98 99 I

97 99
100 101
22 23
73 75
CO 63
44 46
50 55
42 47
42 47
95 96
11d ; d

12 1
111
9} d

84
93
87
11 0

IThusiness done

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BLACKIFA

COIIIPANY.

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of tie shareholders in
this company was held this day at the London Tavern,
Bishops, ate-street.

The minutes of the last meeting having been confirmed,
and the report, which has already appeared in Ihe Sun,
taken as read,

The CHAIRMAN briefly moved the adoltion of the report.
He said the net profit for the six motths amounted to
£35,298 10s. 2d. ; and after the payment Df £7,589 13s. Bd.
for interest, there would remain a balance of £27,708 16s. 6d.
for distribution. It was consequently reLolved to declare a
dividend at the rate of 4 per oent. per anium.
After some discussion, the report was 'greed to.

TEE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT
WILYBLEDON.

The adjourned investigation into the civumstances con-
nected with the death of Dr. Bali, at Wimbledon, on the
28th ult., was resumed this morning at the White Hart
Tavern, Wimbledon. The coroner commenced by reading
over a portion of the evidence given on Friday last by Mr.
Joseph Beattie, the locomotive superintenent of the South-
Western Railway, which related almost entirely to the mode
of fastening the tires on the wheels and the question of
break power required to a train going 30 miles an hour.
The coroner having concluded reading the former evidence
resumed the examination of Mr. Beattie, who said every
theory of the accident which.had been presented was sur-
rounded with so many difficulties that he was completely
and entirely at a loss to assign it to any cause satisfactory
to himself.

(The inquiry was proceeding when we went to press.)

LA TV .INTELLIG.ENCE—(Dis Day.)

5 7

HOUSE OF LORDS.

5 7

Peers Present—The Lord Chancellor, Lori St. Leonardo,
Lord Cranworth, Lord Chelmsford, and ether Peers.)

97 98
2,1 lid

APPEAL-SAUNDEAS V. EVANS, 11T AL.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Lords Justices
discharging an order of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley. The
contention is whether the testatrix, Ann Lewis or Evans,
validly executed the power of appointment contained in
her marriage settlement with John Evans on the 19th of
April, 1794, by deed or will in favour of her trustees. And
whether the trustees have tendered a good and valid title
to the purchaser of her property.

90 92
$ f d

,ATLWAYS.

-
21
111

11i 12i

Mr. Green, Q.C., resumed, and concluded his arguments
for the appellants.

31 211
31
23 24

The Lord Chancellor, without calling on the Attorney-
General to reply, delivered judgment, arming the decision
of the Lords Justices, declaring the deed valid, and dis-
missed the appeal with costs.
The other learned and noble lords entirely concurred.

APPEAL-EVANS V. WLOUGHLAN.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Second Division
of the Court of Session in Scotland, and the question raised
is whether the Court of Session or the Court of Exchequer
have jurisdiction to take cognisance of a commitment for
breach of the Excise laws for smuggling. The Lord-
Advocate is now being heard for the appellant, and con.
tends that tho Court of Exchequer only has jurisdiction in
such cases.

SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.

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

81 5i /
Ai
14. lkd,
4 214 I di
20

IN RE TIIE SHOREDITCH BANK-DAVIES AND TROUGHTON.

ledged on all hands to be a great and finished perform.
ance, renders it unnecessary for us to remark further upon
it than to say it was marked by all those fine touches that
have already rendered it famous.' With the Falconbridge
of Mr. Edmund Phelps we were highly pleased; it was a
performance that showed he had got "the stuff' in him,
and that at no distant day he would become a finished and
accomplished actor. Throughout the whole of the part
he wisely abstained, in order to draw down a round of ap-
plause, from appealing to the free and easy denizens
of the upper regions ; all was given with the con-
ciseness of a true Shakesperian actor, and a suc-
cessful and highly satisfactory result was arrived at.
To Mr. Hermann Vezin, for his admirable
rendering of Hubert do Burgh, we must award our unquali-

To-day was appointed for a dividend meeting in the
matter of the Shoreditch Bank. The various legal gentle-
men were engaged as upon previous occasions, and although
nothing decisive was determined upon, it was confidently
stated that ss. in the pound would be the dividend declared
in about ten days.

fled praise. He brought out all the beauties of the charac-
ter to the full, without the slightest attendance of that
stagyness which always mars the performance of some of
our reputed great actors. His acting in the celebrated
scene of the tragedy which occurs within Northampton
Castle, where he is about to burn out the eyes of the
Prince, was of the highest order, and the applause was
both enthusiastic and unanimous. Space, of coarse, would
forbid us noting at length the scholarly taste and elegance
with which he repeated all the lines of " the great master
spirit," but as a specimen of passionate declamation we
don't remember ever to have heard the following lines more
finely gives--

HEAVY CITY PAILCRE-IN RE RYDER,

The bankrupt was described as of Leadenhall-street,
City, and to-day was appointed for his examination meet-
ing.

The accounts show—Debtor to creditors, £7,116; ditto
holding security, £54,583 ; profits, £75,574. Creditor, by
consignments, £65,315; expenses, £5,328; losses, ,E 6,915,
The bankrupt was expected to pass.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)

PISSEY V. MURDOCK- IMPORTANT DECISION ENDER

Stand back Lord Salisbury, stand back, I say,
By Heaven, I think, my sword's as sharp as yours :
I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,
Nor tempt the danger of my true defence ;
Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget
Your worth, your greatness, and nobility.
The acting of Miss E. Josbphs as Prince Arthur in the
prison scene waspretty, natural, and unaffected, and a better
little prince we have seldom seen. Miss Atkinson sustained
the part of Constance, but in this instance she was not as
successful as she usually is in the delineation of Shakespere's
female heroes.

THE STATUTE OP LIMITATIONS PLEA.

This was an action upon a tailor's bill for goods sup-
plied in 1850. Defendant pleaded the statute of limita-
tions.

Mr. Abbott (for the plaintiff)—Defendant went abroad.
Does your honour think, under such circumstances, that
plea will stand ?

His Honour—Yes, if the statute had begun to run.
Mr. Buchanan (for defendant)—Of course, the plea is
perfectly good.

Mr. Abbott—Defendant went away directly the debt was
contracted.

Mr. Buchanan—That is not so, and otainuionts ShoulCl
not be made.

Plaintiff—He went away six months afterwards.
Mr. Buehanan—Ah, the statute had a. nice little run
for six months.

His Honour held that the plea was perfectly good, and
found for defendant.
TUCKER V. GEARING—PLEADING INFANCY—IMPORTANT
DECISION AS TO PROOF.

This was an action upon a promissory note. Defendant
pleaded infancy.

32} 11 2}

The niece was put upon the stage with much eleganoe
and minuteness of detail, and will, no doubt, prove attrac-

Ave every evening it is performed.

His Honour called upon defendant to prove he was an
infant.

Defendant put in a document.

His Honour (reading)—Well, this shows that two per-
sons were married upon a certain day, and that on the 14th
July, 1840, a boy named Theophilus was born. That is no
proof. How do you Show that you are that Theophilus ?
Defendant called a witness, who did not answer, and his
honour, holding that the infancy was not proved, found
for plaintiff.

POLICE IN7ELLIT:iENCE—(This Day).

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

" COMING TO LONDON FOR A HOLIDAY."—Too BAD
FOR A REFORMATORY.—A lad of 18 who refused to give
his name, was charged before Mr. Beadon, withbeing found
in the house of Mr. Fisher, 11 Stephen-street, Tottenham-
court-road, for the purpose of committing a felony.
A warehouseman, named Warnford, living in the houso,
proved finding the prisoner, at one this morning, secreted
behind a partition, and on seizing him, the prisoner put his
hand in his pocket with the intention of taking out a knife ;
he struck him a blow on the arm with a poker, and detained
him till the arrival of the police. There were spikes on tho
area railings over which the prisoner must have got to get
to the place where he was found.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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TAT TERSA.LLS'—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
7to 1 agst Franc Picard (taken)
10 to 1 agst Emperor (taken)
10 to 1 agst Jealousy (taken)
10 to 1 agst Anatis (taken)
15 to 1 agst Old Ben Roe (taken)
15 to 1 agst The Freshman (taken)
15 to 1 agst Tattler (taken)
Nto 1 agst Redwing (taken)
25 to 1 agst Xanthus (taken)
25 to 1 agst Bridegroom (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
11 to lon the Field (offered)
33 to 1 agst North Lancashire
40 to 1 agst Wild Rose (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STARES.
7to 1 agst Klarikoff (taken)
Bto 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
9to 1 agat Diophantus (offered)
10 to 1 agst Preceptress (take n)
10 to 1 agst Mosley (taken)
DERBY.
7to 2 agat Dundee (taken freely)
25 to 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
25 to 1 agst Klarikoff (taken)
40 to 1 azst Knight of the Thiello (taken)
4U to 1 agst Folkestone (taken)
50 to 1 agst Preceptress (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Russley (taken)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER, MONDAY.
There was not a great amount of speculation on future
racing events 'A
-day; the settling upon the past Lincoln
Meeting occupying the greatest share of attention. Very
few missed laying against the winner of the handicap,
although on Saturday he was so little thought of that 20
to 1 was laid against him.—For the Great National Steeple
Chase, Franc Picard, Jealousy, the Emperor, and Old
Ben Roe were supported, and an offer was made to take
100 to 7 about Anatis. For Chester Cup 10 to 1 would
have been taken against Chore Arnie, but no one seemed
inclined to lay it.

GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE.
Bto 1 agst Franc Picard (taken)
9to 1 agst Jealousy (taken)
11 to 1 agst Emperor (taken)
100 to 7 agst Anatis (wanted)
100 to 7 agst Old Ben Roe (taken)

TWO THOUSAND GUINBAS STAKES.
7to 1 agst Diophantas (taken and off.)
9to 1 agst Klarikoff (offered)
25 to 1 agst Walloon (taken)
25 to 1 agst Deucalion (taken)

THE DERBY.
4to 1 agst Dundee (taken)

,ITIE S.

Prisoner said he only went there to sleep, when the man
came with the poker. He belonged to Barking in Essex.
Mr. Beadon—Then what were you doing up here ?
Prisoner—l had come up for a holiday (laughter.)
Appleby, 489, here stepped into the box, and said he had
known the prisoner for two or three years. He took him
into custody, and on asking NI hat he had the knife (a large
clasp one) for, he said he was "sorry he had not got it out.'
About two years ago he took him for having a baker's
barrow, and he had been taken for robbing his father. He
once escaped from a Reformatory, but on taking him back
they stated that he was so bad that they would have no-
thing more to do with him. He believed after then he had
been got to sea by Mr. Bingham, but for some time he had
been about the district of the C

Mr. Beadon committed him for 'throe months' hard

Labour.

THE CHESTER CUP.

10 to 1 agst Chere Arnie (offered to take)
40 to 1 agst North Lancashire (taken)
66 to 1 agst Sycophant (taken)

The announcement of the performance of Shakepeare's
tragedy of "King John," last evening, in which Mr.
Phelps, Mr. Edmund Phelps, and Mr. Hermann Vezin.
would respectively represent the parts of the King, Philip
Falconbridge, and Hubert de Burgh, appeared to excite
much curiosity in the minds of the critical and, to an extent,
fastidious habitues of this theatre. The interest was created
more particularly by the latter two kentleraen, as it was
thought the character of the blunt and chivalrous
Falconbridge would afford Mr. Phelps, junior, an ex-
cellent opportunity of showing his qualities as an interpre-
ter of Shakspeare. In the parts he has already performed he
has acquired much success, although in some of them the
master-hand of the father was clearly visible; but nature
had endowed him with the natural qualities for the por-
trayal of Falconbridge, and that being so it was naturally
expected he would rely, in this instance, upon his own
unaided qualities as an actor for a successful result. With
respect to Mr. Vezin, the character of Hubert de Burgh
was looked upon as one that woull afford him a
better and larger field for the development of
those great abilities which have rendered him a
favourite with the frequenters of the theatre. The
'ng John of Mr. Phelps is too well known and appre-
ciate it-of any speculation as to his embodiment of
the part, all expected a great intellectual treat, and it is
needless to say their expectations were fulfilled to the very
letter. The fact of Mr. Phelps' King John being acknow,
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