The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY.

• Mr. KEENE applied to the Court for a peremptory
mandamus to compel the directors of this company to
allow the shareholders to inspect the register and books
of the company, which they had refused to do at the 17th
and lust half yearly meeting of the proprietors.
A similar rule had been obtained, and male
absolute, no cause being shown in reference to
several previous meetings, and the writ was now on the
point of being issued.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Then why do you require a
peremptory mandamus now?
Mr. KEENE said the directors, although the previous
rule had been made absolute, had thought proper to
disobey it, and no doubt if it were not peremptory this
rule would meet with the same fate.

Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Has the writ bean issued
and served?

Mr. KEENE replied that it bad not.
Mr. Justice CULERIDGE observed that for aught the
Court knew the directors would make a good return to
the writ, and he could therefore only grant now a rule
to show cause.

Rale nisi accordingly.
TEE QUEEN V. SWIFT.
Mr. ROBINSON applied to the Court to make a rule
absolute for a mandamus to admit the prisoner in this
case to bail. The prisoner had been committed, under
a coroner's warrant, on a charge of manslaughter. The
prisoner was a journeyman butcher, and the death in
question unhappily arose out of a public-house quarrel.
The death was caused by a blow inflicted by the pri-
soner on the deceased, who had previously been very
abusive, and had much irritated the prisoner by his un-
justifiable conduct; the blow, however, was, not a severe
oue, and it was by no means unlikely that the death was
more the result of an internal disease than of the blow.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE granted the application,
directing the prisoner to put in bail, himself in 501., and
two sureties of 25/. each, or four of 151. each.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner POTTER.)
SLOMAN V. EXLEY.

The plaintiff in this action is owner of the Thames
and Elbe trading vessels between Hamburgh and London,
and the action was brought to recover the sum of 141.
3s. 9d., for the freight of 200 bags of oats consigned to
the dt fondant.

The defence was that Mr. Bardgett, a cornfactor of
Mark-lane, was to be held as the principal, as he had
paid 8/. on account of the freight, but for the plaintiff,
Mr. Breumer (of the firm of Slick, &turner and Co.)
proved that the dwendant called and directed the goods
to be delivered to the order of Mr. Bardgett, and the
latter was treated as the factor on the occasion, and the
defendant had subsequently promised to pay. The wit-
ness said that defendant was formerly a cornfactor, but
was now out of that business, and the whole course of
proceedings showed that Mr. Bardgett was not the prin-
cipal in the case. The dispute appeared to have arisen
from the depreciation in value of the oats.
The jury gave a verdict fur 14/. 3s. 9d.
Tins was the only case.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THISDAY.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICE• CoNSTABLE.—
Edward Ives v; as brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged
with violently assaulting Police-constable S;xximons,
42 C.
Complainant, whose head was bound up with adhe-
sive pilaster, stated that about three o'clock this morn-
ing he was on duty in Sheppard•street, Oxford-• trees,
when he saw the prisoner, who was very much in
liquor, quarrelling with some females. Witness went
up to him, and requested him to leave the spot,
when the prisoner turned round upon him and
struck him a tremendous blow between the eyes,
and knocked him down. While lying on the
ground, the prisoner kicked him most un-
mercifully about the body, and had not some
other constables come to his aid, he had not
the least doubt but that the prisoner would have killed
him. Witness added that in consequence of the severity
of the injuries he had received he was rendered totally
unfit for duty.
Three other constables, who went to the assistance of
complainant, proved that the prisoner was most violent
and resisted all their efforts to convey him to the
station. After a considerable degree of resistance,
they managed with the aid of six others to take him to
the station.
The prisoner, who pleaded drunkenness as an excuse,
was committed for two months.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
M. Paul Taglioni has achieved what we had hitherto
eonsidered to be an impossibility. Re has composed a
pas surpassing in every Terpsichorean element of perfec-
tion even the far-famed Pas de Quatre and the glori-
ous Pas des Deesses. Les Graces, such is the title of
the new Pas de Irole, was produced last evening, and
created a furore such as has seldom been equalled. It
was a palpable hie, and Les Graces will run through the
season. And who are Les Graces? Who should they
be but Marie Taglioni, Amalie& Ferraris, and_ Carlotta
Grisi' the three Graces, par excellence. who realise the
must beautiful visions of the poets, and who, last night,
brought us back to the classical days of ancient Greece.
The scene represents a green slope in Arcadia, and at
the rising of the curtain groups of sleeping nymphs are
discovered dispersed over the slope in the most pictu-
resque attituces. The ensemble resembles a glorious has-
relief, fresh from the hands of the sculptor. The nymphs
awake, and, after a few preliminary groupings, each
of which resolves itself into a series of triads (and
herein has the inventor shown himself a master of hi
craft), the great, the glorious triad appears—theahree
Graces emerge from the midst of the foliage; and there
upon follows a series of groupings by the three, the most
poetical, the most classical, the most beautiful that ever
were imagined—groupings, to see which would make
a painter grieve that his art could not give motion and
vitelity to the figures Oil his canvass, would drive a
poet to despair that he could not by language convey
the faintest idea of their exquisite beauty, but would
make the sculptor proud at the thought that he, by fixing
one only of those groupings in mari,le, could acquire tor
himself an immortality. These classical groupings are
followed by a series of pas, which afford to each of the
Graces an opportunity of displaying her own peculiar
excellences. First of all, Marie Taglioni
comes bounding like a fawn, the very impel.-
aunation of youth rejoicing iu power; then comcs
the lovely Amelia Ferraris, whose marvels of execiviosi,
whose grace, whose beauty, whose aplomb elicited the
in. st rapturous applause. Her aerial flights were perr. f, cr.
miracles of lightness, of grace, and at the same time of
strength. M. St. Leon alone possesses the power of ap-
parent aerial susp nsion, which is so graceful in Amelia
Ferraris, and which has never been even attempted by
any other danseuse. The finale of her pas was com-
posed of a series of twinkling step:, executed with the
most extraordinary celerity, and which were as
brilliant as they were graceful and difficult. Then
came Carlotta Grisi who brought her pientommie
powers to bear with most telling effect,
and who, by the elevation of her arms, her gestures, and
the play of her few urea, became positively eloquent,
though mute. The audience were enthusiastic in their
applause, and when she concluded, by a series of Ellsler-
like steps, the enthusiasm wasakits height, and when the
Pas de Trois immediately followed, in which all
danced together the same steps, the furore created re-
, ambled that which one sees occasionally in a theatre
in Italy, but to which, in our "cold and chilly Clime,"
we are totally unaccustomed. The Graces were called on
three times at the conclusion of the ballet, and there were
also calls for Pugm, whose music (composed for thispas) is
men t graceful and appropriate. The pas was pre ceded by
La Sonnambula, Madame Sontag resuming her old part
of Amine, and Mr. Sims Reeves appearing for the first
time on this stage as Elvino. Mr. Sims Reeves' perform-
ative of E,vino, last evening, confirms us in the opinion
which we expressed of his Elvino some two years since,
when he first appeared in that character on the English
stage, and we now repeat it as our deliberately
arrived at opinion, that there is not at present,
any Italian, German, English, or French
tenor singer who can be at all compared to Mr,
Sims Reeves in this character, nor has there
been since the retirement of Itubini. Never has the
agonizing finale to the second act been given with such
intensity of pathos as it was given by Mr. Sims Reeves
last night, and the audience appreciated it justly, and
called him on at the conciaaion of the act.