The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-28 00:00:00

BILLS OF EXCHANGE.

This was an action to recover the sum of 81. on a bill
of exchange, of which the defendant was alleged to be
the acceptor.
Defendant pleaded that he did not accept.
Mr. Isaacs was called to prove the signature; but on
the bill being put in, an objection was taken to its being
read, as it was on an is. 6d. instead of a 2s. stamp. For
the plaintiff it was contended, that defendant having
simply pleaded that he did not accept, could not now
raise the question as to the validity of the bill.
The Learned SECONDARY said that it was rather St
novel case, and he thought he had better receive the
evidence, and eater a verdict for the plaintiff, although
it was clear it could not be maintained on moving for
arrest of judgment.
Defendant's Attorney contended that the Bill, being
on a wrong stump, was positively void, and could not
be received in evidence, and that, therefore, plaintiff
must be nonsuited.

Plaintiff's Attorney, in reply, contended that, at all
events, a verdict could be taken for the amount which
the stamp would legally carry.
The SECONDARY held that plaintiff must be non-
suited.

GIDNEY Zl. DYER.—In this case, which was an ac-
tion for trespass and assault, tried i❑ the Common Pleas, the
jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, one
farthing.

THE ORION.—It affords us pleasure to state that
the Admiralty have intimated to the Messrs. Burns their
readiness to co-operate with them in endeavouring to raise
the Orion. Yesterday morning a letter was received by Mr.
George Burns from Captain Caffin, R.N., expressing his sym-
pathy with him on the present melancholy occasion, and
offering at the same time his gratuitous services in rescuing
the ship. Captain Caffin, we understand, has had consider-
able experience in such matters, and is otherwise one of the
most active, intelligent, and efficient officers in her Majesty's
service. It was he who raised the Sphinx, a man-of-war
steamer of 1,110 tons burden, off the Isle of Wight, and he
has also been instrumental in saving other vessels. Many of
our readers, we have no doubt, will remember his name in
connexion with the Queen's visit to Glasgow, he having at
that time commanded the Scourge, which was one of her
Majesty's convoy. To the application of the Messrs. Burns
for their powerful aid, the Admiralty have responded most
handsomely. Two telegraphic dispatches were received yes-
terday by the Messrs. Burns, the first intimating that the
Admiralty would do all that was required, and that Captain
Caffin would leave last night for Portpatrick. The second
dispatch was to the effect that the Admiralty had ordered,
by telegraph, the Salamander, Trident, and Lucifer, now at
Liverpool, to proceed to Portpatrick immediately, and that
divers, diving apparatus, hawsers, &c., would be sent to the
scene of the wreck. These formidable preparations, and the
efficient measures which will succeed them, warrant the pleas.
ing prospect of the stranded vessel being safely raised. The
present state of the weather does not militate against this
idea ;:and hitherto, with the exception of the funnel being
swept away, the wreck has suffered but little from either
wind or tide.— Glasgow Daily Mail.
THE REIGATE BANK.—Yesterday a meeting of
the creditors of Messrs. Nash and Neale, proprietors of the
late Reigate Bank, was held at the White Hart Inn, at that
town. The Rev. J. C. Wynter presided, and on behalf' of
Mr. Neale several gentlemen addressed the meeting, and it
was stated that the suspension of payments had taken place
without his consent, and that he was prepared to meet any
overdraughts on his private account from his own property.
It was also stated that Mr. Neale had not committed any
act of bankruptcy; that some friends of Mr. J. Nash
had only a week ago drawn out large sums ; that he himself
had drawn out from 6,0001. to 7,000/. since his connexion
with the bank; that his connexion with it had enabled him
greatly to increase his connexion as a land-surveyor; that
the London and County Bank were prepared to offer a com-
promise of 10s. in the pound upon the securities which
Messrs. Nash and Neale held ; and, generally, that the assets
of the establishment were equal to its liabilities. The inte-
rests of the Messrs. Nash were not represented at the meet-
ing, and after some discussion the following resolutions
were agreed to:—" That this meeting having heard the
statements of the solicitor of Mr. Neale, has to express
its regret that so important a step as the closing of the bank
should have been taken without the concurrence of both
partners, and that a committee be appointed to wait upon
the Messrs. Nash, to endeavour to make such arrangements
as may prevent a bankruptcy, and give immediate relief to
the neighbourhood. That this meeting be adjourned to
Monday next, at half-past 12 o'clock, and that the committee
be requested to report the result of their proceedings this
day." The proceedings then terminated.

NEW POSTAL TARIFF IN FRANCE.—The following
has just been issued :—" The Director of the Post-office has
the honour to inform the public, that in conformity with
the law of finance of the 18th May last, the postage on simple
letters will be raised from 20 to 25 centimes from the lst of
July next. Simple letters are those which do not weigh
more than i grammes (about a quarter of an ounce). The
letters weighing more than 7i grammes, but not exceeding
15 grammes, will pay 50 centimes. The decree of the 24th
August, 1848, is maintained with respect to the postage on
letters exceeding 15 grammes in weight. The pre-payment
of registered letters (lettres recommandees) will be optional.
These letters will pay, besides the ordinary postage for
weight, an additional and invariable postage of 25c. They
'must continue to be deposited in the post-office in envelopes
and closed with at least two seals in wax, with an impression
on the seals. The tariff of 20 centimes is maintained for let-
ters addressed to sub-officers and soldiers of the army, and
to sub-officers and sailors of the navy in active service. The
postage stamps or figure heads sold by the Post-office for
the prepayment of letters, will be of five different sorts : Ist,
at 10 centimes, of a bistro colour; 2nd, at 15 centimes, of
a green colour; 3rd, at 25 centimes, colour blue; 4th, at 40
centimes, colour orange; sth, at one franc, colcur red. The
public will be at liberty to combine as it may please the use
of the postage stamps. The pre-payment will be valid when-
ever the postage stamps employed shall represent an amount
at least equal to the postage due. No reimbursement can
be exacted, in the event of the stamps exceeding this
amount. If the letter destined for a French post-office
shall bear postage stamps sufficient to cover the postage, the
surplus of the legal postage must be paid by the receiver.
The pre-payment with double postage remains obligatory
for what are called lettres chargees. Persons who, after the
Ist July, may have in their possession postage stamps at
20c., may receive money for them in the post-offices, pro-
vidd the stamps be intact."

GERMAN HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday the annual gene-
ral meeting of the governors and subscribers of this excel-
lent institution was held at the London Tavern, the Rev. Dr.
Kuper in the chair. After the usual preliminaries, the re-
port for the past year was read, from which it appeared that
the charity was in a very flourishing condition. The com-
mittee were enabled not only to defray the curreut ex-
penses of the year, to discharge the debt of 5001., the
balance of the purchase money of the premises, but to in-
vest 1,0001. in the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Consols.
The increase of the receipts was to be attributed in a
great degree to their having effected a sale of a portion of
the ground of the hospital to the East and West India
Dock Company and Birmingham Junction Railway Com-
pany for the sum of 1,400/. It was not, however, to be
concealed, that eventually the locality of the institution
might have to be changed, in consequence of the noise
incidental to the vicinity of a railway. Among the regular
sources of income, the anniversary dinner had been
very productive, no less a sum than 1,847/. 13s. 7d.
having been realised on that occasion by donations and sub.•scriptions, including those of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the King of
Bavaria, and the Senate of Frankfort. There was an in-
crease in the receipts of the West-end Auxiliary, and
641. 7s. 6d. was received which was realised by Id. sub-
scriptions among those employed in sugar-houses. The
hospital had sustained a severe loss in the death of the
Queen Dowager, who was a warm and liberal supporter of
theiinstitution. The number of in-patients admitted during
the past year amounted to 474, and since the opening the
total of this class was 1,9114. The number of out-patients
during the same period was 2.895, and the total of this class
was 8,494, making a grand total of persons relieved since the
establishment of this institution of 10,484. The income tor
the past year, exclusive of 1,4001. already mentioned, was
2,831/. 10s., and the expenditure amounted to 9821., leaving
a balance of 9521. The report was unanimously adopted.
At ter some routine business, the proceedings terminated with
a vote of thanks to the chairman.

MUNIFICENCE OF CHARLES JAMES BEVAN, ES Q.,
(MESSRS. BARCLAY, PERKINS, AND COMPANY).—Yesterday
a deputation from the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum Chapel
Committee, consisting of Mr. Larby (first chairman of the
institution), Mr. Clifford (present chairman), Mr. Franklin
and Mr. Anderson (present governors), and Mr. Thomas
Jones (secretary), had the honour of waiting on Mr. Bevan
by appointment. The object sought was met in a most libe-
ral and satisfactory manner, and on the deputation with-
drawing, Mr. Bevan expressed his desire to be allowed to
present the society, as his individual gir, with a service of
communion plate. So handsome and unexpected an offer- '
ing was most gratefully acknowledged. Mr. Bevan has al-
ready contributed 20 guineas towards the erection of the
chapel, beyond the liberal sum of 100 guineas subscribed by
the distinguished firm of which he is a member.

THE POST-OFFICE QUESTION.
The closing of the Post-office on Sundays, is creating
consirl,rob'e xei•etnen+ end ill-reelirg throughout the
country, and the subject has b,eu mentioned in both
Houses of Parliament during the week. Lord Brougham
questions the poaer of the Government to enforce such
regulations, and Mr. Locke has given notice of his in-
tention, or: the 9th of July, to take the sense of the
House of Commons upon a motion to reverse the re-
cent decision. Ge the announcement of the inters-
G.tins ot overnment, we asked—" But where is the
line to be drawn ? How can vv,4 stop short here ?',
The B,itish Banner, in the following remarks on
" Cab-office rest," suggests the same kind of inquiry:---
" We have just received a proof copy of a Remon-
strance and Appeal by 200 f the carriage and cab-
drivers of Glasgow, respecting their employment on the
Sabbath-day, addressed to the public through
the
medium of the Glasgow Working %, an's Sabbath Pro-
tection Society. We know not whether either Sawuey
or John Bull was prepared for anything of this sort;
but it will be exceedingly difficult to show cause why
silence should obtain in all the Post offices of the realallt
while a bustling and a tumultuous activity should reign
with three-fold increase in the stable-yard. Here are
200 men, cab-drivers in Glasgow, with about 70
ostlers, strappers, clerks, and so forth, required
in the several yards. The statistics of a Glasgor
Sabbath are given, showing the employment
of 110 vehicles, having: 215 lifts,' of which
115 were to and from places of public worship, as dve
to one against the chance " Hits." To this, it is stated+
must be added at least 100 private carriages employed
on the Sabbath-day. We must on the present ()ens'
sion confine ourselves to the simple statement of these
facts. This is not the place for a theological discussion
upon the Sabbath and its relations to general society;
but these facts, and this case, supply an addition to our
statement on a former occasion, with respect to the Sab'
bath question,—that if a principle must be carried out+
it will lead its advocates further than they perhaps eon'
templated; and that they must either do nothing, or do
everything, or make a compromise; and then what be-
comes of the principle?"—Derby Reporter.
Much vexation was felt at Stamford on Sunday morn-
ing last in consequence of the non-delivery of letters and
newspapers; and among those who on the following
day expressed the most indignation, were some parties
from Burghley House. That their complaints,
if made
in the proper quarter, were reasonable, few will dispute;
but it seems strange that such persons should vent their
spleen upon the officials at the post-office, when Lord
Burghley was one of the 74 who voted the address to
the Queen which has led to the present unsatisfactory
state of things.—Lincoln Mercury.
DIE NEW POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENT.—On Wed'
nesday a special meeting of the town council of New"
castle-upon-Tyne was held, to take into consideration
the recent suspension of post-office labours on the Sah*
bath. Several of the leading members strongly con'
demnod the new arrangement, and a resolution and
petition against it were almost unanimously adopted.

LAMBETH PALACE.—On Wednesday his Grace
the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury gave a very splendid
entertainment, according to ancient usage, to the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor, and the stewards of the sons of the Clergy
The guests assembled at the Palace at half-past six, to join lit
Divine service in the private chapel previously to the ban;
quet. Amongst those present were the Right Hon. the Leta
Mayor, the Lord Bishop of Manchester, the Hon. and Rtr''
H. Legge, Sir R. H. Inglis Sir Walter G. Stirling, 31r;
Alderman Copeland, M.P., Alderman Sir Chapman Marshal',
Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Lawrence, Mr. Sheriff Nicoll, the Chamberlain of London
the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, the High Sheriff of Surrey, the
Rev. B. James, Mr. H. F. Prosser, M.P., the Rev. J.-Hut-
chinson, &c.

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SOCIETY OF DANCERS.—Yesterday the genetsi
meeting of the Provident Society of Dancers and Teachers
of Dancing was held in the saloon of the 'Theatre Royal,
Haymarket; James Byrn, Esq., in the chair. The secre'
tary read the report, which, in effect, stated that the society',
though still young, had received the support of some of the
most influential and talented professors of dancing, both
native and foreign. The affairs of the society progresg
steadily, if not as rapidly as could be wished, towards tbe
attainment of its object—the raising a fund for supportiog
aged and infirm dancers, should thz,y unfortunately need it3e
assistance. Appended to the report was a statement of tb
society's income and expenditure for the last year. 'O6
chairman afterwards addressed the meeting, forcibly urgiob,,
upon the attention of all present the benefits conferred upon
the aged dancer by this society, a society not confined to
natives of England, but which mitted all members of 036
profession. The report was unanimously adopted.
The accounts of the state of the Vice-Chancellor
of England are more favourable. He is now ccmparativelY
free from pain, and the danger is much diminished, but 11.,
cannot for some time be in a condition to attend to publi."
business.

INSTALLATION OF TUB DEAN OF HEREFORD.---06
Very Rev. Richard Dawes, A.M., rector of King's Somboroa,
Hampshire, was duly installed, with the customary form, iri.
the cathedral church on Tuesday morning. There was '
fashionable congregation to witness the ceremonial.

AMATEUR HANGING.—On Sunday week two fish.
men belonging to Stourport performed a very remarkable'
feat. They were drinking at tne Cross public-house, when'
one Levi Rowley, a man thirty years of age, intimated to
the other, Josiah Burton, who is much his junior, that 11er
was tired of the troubles of the world and would hang /10:
self. Burton offered at once to be his executioner, and se-
cordingly they procured a piece of rope, and adjourned to
neighbouring spot, where a tree, well calculated for a
wok
le
and was standing. Rowley got up upon a block of oi',!
and Burton soon had the rope fixed to bough and neck'
then, kicking the wood away, he started his friend upon 111-
journey to another world. He then returned to the public'
house, and told his other companions what he had °,„(7*
,
cleverly performed, but nobody believed that he was tellinfr,
the truth, so nobody moved. Burton presently went euct"
again alone, and found that the features of his friend had
undergone considerable change, so he thought he had better
cut him down, and ascertain if he still was serious in 11i5
determination to bid farewell to mortal things. This cutting-,
down was, however, a work of difficulty, as his knife wit.
dull, but at last he succeeded, and laid his companion upe.":,
the turf; but believing that the insensibility which till'
hanging man exhibited to be all sham, he again staggereie,
into the house, end left him to his fat. The other peoPv
in the house, thinking at last that something serious inig,ll.,.
really have occurred, went out and found Rowley apparentv,..
dead. They immediately got him in doors, and after usirit'
the proper means for recovering him, they at last had ttla.
satisfaction to see their efforts successful. It is said that 11'
has had enough of hanging, and is now resigned to life.
PERFORMANCES OF THE ATLANTIC STEAM SLIMS"...
The performances of the Cunard steamers and those belong:
ing to the American Mail Company having become rattle L's
interesting, we have had sent to us the following tahuls
statements as to the respective passages of the EuroPl
Atlantic, and Asia :

The Euiopa left New York, June 15, at 12.20 noon.
D. H. )1
Arrived at Liverpool, 16th, at 8 A.3r.
Deduct difference of time 0 440
Deduct for call and detour at Halifax 0 15 0

0 19 4 °
.------'
Net time lO 0
...--/.

The Atlantic left New York, June 15, at noon. d
Arrived at Liverpool, 26th, at 5 A.m
Deduct difference of time 0
10
„.
12 24
Europa's passage, as above
In favour of the Europa

The Asia left Boston, June 12, at 12.20 noon. 4d
Arrived at Liverpool, 22d, at 7 A.M. ......... ... 9 1.8
Deduct difference of time, and call, &c., at 40
Halifax
----- 4
Add difference between a voyage from New 8 23
York to Liverpool and Boston to Liver- d
pool 0 18
........---- °,4
9 17

D. H. M.
Passage of Atlantic
Asia, as above, would be 9 17 0

Difference in favour of Asia 0 19 40
BALLOONING IN PORTUGAL.—A Frenchwoman, 0
the name of Bertrand, ascended in a balloon from List)°, 13,
few days since. In a couple of hours afterwards Binot
prepared to come down. A gentle breeze had iver co
her slowly across the Tagus in a S.E. direct°
and at five r se. having passed over Alclegn gl
lega, and seeing a village conveniently situnP
for her purpose, she began to make her preparat'To
for what she flattered herself would be a quiet and d
descent, little dreaming all the while of what was going
below. The villagers who had assembled as usual on
days, were in the thick of their sports, when the terriiio ap
parition presented itself to their view. Great was tho cO,l
sternation among them. Their first movement was a g rb
uplifting of right hands, with the thumb inserted between no
index and fore finger, which when accompanied, as it wa 9 11%, •
this occasion, with a loud proclamation of defiance to
Devil and all his works, may be recommended as an 01,';;$1
lent preservative against witchcraft and all sorts of dia.l)o,"
devices. As the monster approached, many, losing faidu ;
to
their specific, took to their heels, and when the fair feronfei_i
addressed the others through her speaking trumpet, most
them, feeling quite sure that it was the archangel coming s_",
call them to their last account, went down on their knee',
and roared for mercy. A few stout hearts, however, rs-
mained, who, cudgel in hand, stood their ground manfu_,,
11p.,
determined to do for the witch as soon as she came wittne
their reach. The witch, however, seeing these demonstrE,
tion, threw out ballast, rose again, and with much difflcultlo
succeeded in effecting a safe landing some miles off.--Lisbon
Correspondent of the Morning Herald. •
The Chairman of the Customs had an interview Wl'
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday.
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