The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROME, March 17.

The Pope held a public Consistory yesterday in
the ipresence of the members of the diplomatic
corps and other distinguished personages. After
having taken the oaths the six new Cardinals re-
ceived their hats. The Pope afterwards held a
private Consistory, at which he precognised
bishops for the dioceses of Quito, Louisville,
Erie, and Buffalo, and appointed other bishops
in partibus. His Holiness then conferred the ring
and titles upon the new Cardinals. Cardinal
Bonaparte received the title of St. Puderitius, and
was appointed member of the Congregation of
Bishops and Regulars. The ceremonies concluded
with the usual rites and the granting of in-

dulgences.
Count de Sartiges, the French Ambassador to
the Holy See, gave a reception in the course of the
day.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, March 17.

Monsignore Bianchi, the Papal .Nuncio to the
Swiss Confederation, has sent in a protest to the
Federal Council against the prohibition that
Catholic nuns should superintend educational esta-
blishments.

SOUTHAMPTON, March 17.

The North German Lloyd steamer Union, sail-
ing to-day for New York, takes out gold coin from
London to the value of £30,000.

WEST COAST OF AFRICA MAILS.
LIVERPOOL, March 7.

The steamer Ethiope, with the above mails,
arrived in the Agrsey this morning with dates from
Benin, February 16 ; Brass River, 10 ; Fernando
Po, 13 ; Cameroons, 14 ; Bonny, 16 ; Lagos, 18 ;
Accra, 20 ; Cape Palmas, 23 ; Sierra Leone, 28 ;
Teneriffe, March 7; and Madeira 9th.
The different stations upon the coast were very
healthy, and trade was generally good. At Came-
room the traders report a bad oil season, but fa-
vourable accounts were received from Brass River.
A serious riot occurred on the sth March at Ma-
deira in consequence of the arrival of a candidate
for the Portuguese Cortes. The troops opened
fire upon the people, who refused to disperse until
the candidate went on board the ship that brought
him from Lisban. All was quiet when the mail
left.

RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

A special general meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the London Tavern to consider
the propriety of raising £1,300,000, and to attach
thereto a preferential dividend of 10 per cent. per
annum, and an additional privilege of participating
in the profits of the company ; Mr. J. S. Wortley
in the chair.

Mr. SAWARD, the secretary, having read the no
tice convening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said he felt much gratified at the
confidence shown by the public in the board in
having subscribed so largely towards the proposed
new stock. He had also to announce the disap-
pointment he felt in having failed to obtain the
sanction of the shareholders to raising the proposed
capital. He then explained that on a former occa-
sion they had been obliged to abandon the scheme
for amalgamating the Anglo-American Telegraph
Company with the Atlantic Telegraph Company,
owing to some differences as to terms. If a union
of the two companies could have been formed on
equitable terms, he believed they would have had a
company of greater power, and it would have had
the effect of postponing for a longer period the
probability of competition. They then proposed to
raise £1,300,000 to pay off the Anglo-American
Telegraph Company, and take possession of the pro-
perty in accordance with an existing arrangement
between the two companies ; but when the proposi-
tion for raising the capital was made to the last
meeting it was carried by a show of bands, upon
which his friend, the Rev. Mr. Nicholson, demanded
a poll, and the result was that the motion was re-
jected by a large number of votes being recorded
against it. This adverse decision was the result of
a pet clause of Lord Redesdale's being inserted in
their Act of Parliament. It required that before
the company could create and issue new capital
there should be a majority of three-fourths of the
votes recorded in favour of such a proposition. The
public had subscribed above £1,000,000 towards the
new capital, and if they could have carried the re-
solution to create and issue the new preference
stock, they would have got the remainder of the
money in the city of London, and thus been enabled
to pay off the Anglo-American Company ; but they
had been defeated by a small minority. He be-
lieved that seven-eighths of the shareholders were in
favour of the measure, but the clause referred to
enabled a very small minority of the shareholders
to defeat the proposal. They supposed, however,
on appealing to the shareholders generally, and by
' holding the present meeting, that so beneficial a
measure to the company would be sanctioned by
the requisite majority, but as the time approached
for holding the meeting the directors perceived from
the transfers coming into the office it was intended
to defeat the measure again, and it appeared that
about 30 or 40 shareholders were enabled to repre-
sent by proxies more than a fourth of the votes in
the company, and under those circumstances it
would be useless for the directors to submit the re-
solution for which the meeting had been convened.
Under those circumstances they had received from the
Anglo-American Company a proposition which was
not so favourable to the Atlantic Telegraph Company
as the directors thought they were entitled to. The
circular that had been sent to the proprietors, stating
the proposed terms by the Anglo-American Com-
pany, WaB signed by Mr. Morgan, a gigantic holder

of shares, in which three other gentlemen had
joined him, and these gentlemen commanded more
than one-fourth of the votes, rendering a majority
of three-fourths of the votes impossible, so that
Lord Redesdale and the law had given the power
into the hands of these gentlemen. The company
was in a position to return all the money subscribed
for the new shares, but the law did not give the
directors power to offer the subscribers compensa-
tion. He then went through the circular issued by
Mr. Morgan, embodying the elements of the pro-
posed agreement between the two companies.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the Chairman.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.

efore the Right Hon. Sir J. P. Wilde and a
Special Jury.)

THEATRICAL DIVORCE CASE.-CRABB V. CRABB.
It will be remembered that in this case the peti-
ioner is a lady prominently known to the pub-

lic at large as Miss Herbert, the manageress of the
St. James's Theatre, and at present performing at
the Lyceum Theatre in the character of Madame la
Pampadour. She was married to the respondent in
1855, and in 1857 she was confined of a son. At
this time her husband was carrying on an adulter-
ous connection with the female servants in the
house. In the year 1857, while she was recovering
from her confinement, a separation, which appears
to have been mutual, took place between them.
The petitioner was to have an allowance of £lOO w
year. The respondent went to India, and has not
since returned to his wife.

The question for the court to decide was whether
this deed of separation did not nullify any petition
for the dissolution of marriage. Sir James Wilde
said that it appeared that the separation was mutual,
and that although the court, the petitioner having
proved her husband's adultery, would have granted
a decree, for a judicial separation, yet, as that had
not been applied for, there was no alternative but
to dismiss the petition.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BREAKING A Wo3fAN'S LEG.—Michael Neal, a
powerful man, living at No. 24, Little Coram-street,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a warrant with
assaulting Charles Bond, a spar-maker, living in
Lloyd's-court, Crown-street, Soho, and also with
assaulting Police-constable Joseph Jacobi, 72 F,
and he was further charged with assaulting and
breaking the leg of Mrs. Mary Ann Boni.
Charles Bond (who has a wooden leg) said—On
the 28th Feb., 1867, I went home to No. 4, Lloyd's
Court, and had not been home more than five
minutes when my wife told me that a Jemale,
who lived with prisoner in the same house,
had a day or two before thrown a
pail of filthy water over her. I told
the woman that I would not put up with it, and
the prisoner came downstairs, and, without saying
a word to me, gave me a violent blow in the eye,
and then another, and as I was falling he gave a
violent kick at my wooden leg and broke it, and
also kicked me on the hand so as to prevent me
working for six weeks. My wife, who was lying
ill in bed from the effects of previous illusage she
had received, got up and asked the prisoner if he
was going to murder me, and the woman then
gave my wife several violent blows and
the prisoner gave her such a kick that it broke her
leg, and she was in Charing-cross Hospital for
several months in consequence.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Then he broke two legs?
Witness—Yes, but one was a wooden one.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Was the prisoner taken then ?
Witness—No, sir. Although there were five per-
sons in the house at the time, not one of them would
go for a policeman, and so the prisoner escaped. I
applied for a warrant, and seeing the prisoner yes-
terday caused him to be taken into custody.
By the Prisouer-1 never spoke a word of anger
or friendship to you. T never struck you with a
bed-post.

Mary Ann Bond said—On the 28th February,

1867, I was in my room. The woman the pri-
soner had with him had tried to throw a pail of
filthy water over me, and had illused me.
told my husband what had occurred, and he
said he would speak to the prisoner in the morn-
ing, thinking he was not then at home. The
woman seeing my husband, said, " Go down and
give it to him ;" and the prisoner then came down
and knocked my husband down. I went to the pro-
tection of my husband, when the woman caught
hold of me and struck me, and the prisoner gave
me a violent kick on the leg and 1 fell, and on my
trying to get up I found that my leg was broken ;
and while 1 was lying on the floor and unable to get
up, and my leg bleeding, the woman threw a pail
of water over me. I was taken to Charing-cross
Hozpital, having received a compound fracture of
the leg, and there was a piece of bone yet to come
out.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—When did you leave the hospital ?

Witness—On the 17th of October.
Police-constable Joseph Jacobi, 72 F, said-1
was called yesterday by Mr. Bond to take prisoner,
who was in a public-house, into custody. I told
the prisoner the circumstances of the case, and that
there was a warrant out for him. He asked to see
the warrant, and I told him that he could see it at
the station. The prisoner refused to go, and struck
me a violent blow in the mouth, cutting it, and it
bled a great deal. With the assistance of Dowdell,
173 F, after a good deal of trouble I got the pri-
soner to the station, and he was then charged on
the warrant.
The prisoner said he was assaulted first, but that
was denied.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Has the prisoner shoes on?
Mr. Bond—Yes, with iron plates on them.
Mr. 'fyrwhitt (to the prisoner)—You are one of
those bad and violent fellows who haunt London
unhappily. You broke the woman's leg, and you
will go for three months with hard labour for that,
and ono month for the assault on the man.