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 last bait 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 serv.d?

Mr. KEENE replied that it had not.
AIL Justice Ct LERIDGE 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.

Rule 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
oi.e, 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 50/., and
two sureties of 251. each, or four of 151. each.

SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY,
(Before Mr. Commissioner POTTER.)
SLOMAN V. ERLEY.

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 defendant.

The defence was that Mr. Bardgett, a cornfactor of
Mark-lane, was to be held as the principal, as he had
paid 81. on account of the freight, but for the plaintiff,
Mr. Breumer (of the firm of SLlck, Breumer and Co.)
proved that the defendant 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 %atue of the oats.
The jury gave a verdict fur 141. 3s. 9d.
This was the only case.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THISDAY.)
MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTABLE.—
Edward Ives w as brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged
with violently assaulting Police-constable Simmons,
42 C.

Complainant, whose head was bound up with adhe-
sive platstt,r, stated that about three o'clock this morn-
ing he was on duty in Sheppard. street, Oxford-• treat,
when he saw the prisoner, who was very much in
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
grottos], the prisoner kicked him most un•
mercifully about the hod), 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 addrd that in consequence of the severity
of the injuries he had received he was rendered totally
unfit for dal.
Three other constables, who went to the assistance of
complainant, proved that the prisoner was meat violent
and resisted all their efforts to convey him to the
station. After a c,nsidetable degree of resistance,
they manage'd 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
*considered to be an impossibility. He has composed a
pas surpassing in every Terpsichorean elementof perfec-
tion even the far-famel Pas de Quatre and the glori-
ous Pas des Deesses. Les Graces, such is the title ci
the new Pas de I rols, was proauced last eveninc, and
created a furore such as has seldom been equalled. It
was a palpaele hit, and Les Grapes 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
most 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 attitucee. The ensemble resembles a glorious has-
relief, fresh from the hands of the sculptor. The nymphs
awake, and, after a sew preliminary groupings, each
of which resolves itself into a series of triads (and
herein has the inventor shown himself a master of his
craft), the great, the glorious triad appears—the three
Graces emerge from the midst of the foliage; and there
upon follows a series of groupings by the three, the most
poetical, the most &metes!, the most beautiful that ever
were imagined—groupings, to see which would make
a painter grieve that his art could not give motion and
vitality to the figures OH his canvass, would drive a
poet to despair that he could not by language convey
the faintest idea of their exquisite beau's, but would
make the sculptor proud at the thought that he, by fixing
one only of these groupings in marble. could acquire tot
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 holier
sonation of youth rejoicing in power; then comes
the lovely Amelia Ferraris, whose marvels of execution,
whose grace, whose beauty, whose aplomb elicited the
most rapturous applause. tier aerial flights were perf et
miracles of lightness, of grace, and at the same time of
strength. M. St. Leon atone possesses the power of ap-
parent aerial suspension, which is so graceful in Amalie
Ferraris, and which has never been even attempted b 3
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 pentom into
powers to bear with most telling effect,
and who, by the elevation a her arms, her gestures, and
the play of her few ure.3, 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 was akits height, and when the
Pas de Trois immediately folloaed, in which all
danced together the same steps, the furore crewed re-
sembled that which one sees occa,.ionally In a theatre
in Italy, but to vrhtch, in our "ct Id and chill) Clime."
we ate totally unaccustomed. The Graces were called on
three times at the conclusion of the ballet, and there were
also r ails for l'ugni, whose, ea usie (compoead for thiepas)is
most grateful and appropriate. The pus was preceded by
La Sannanibula, Madame Sontag re eunaieg her old part
of Amine, and Mr. s,#w Reeves appearing for tee first
Mutt on this stage as Etvino. Mr. :lima Reeves' perform-
w-te of &vitro, la.t evening, confirms us in the opinion
which we exsressed of his &vie° aurae 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 t'ere is not at present,
any Italian, German, Esgtish, or Freuch
tenor singer who can be at all compared to Mr,
S ma R, eves in this character, . nor has there
been since the retirement of Rubin'. Never. has the
aeoritzinefinaie to the second act been given with such
intensity of pathos as it was given by Mr. Sims Reeves
last night, sod the audience appreciated it justly, anti
culltd him on at the conclusion of the act.