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 a
novel case, and he thought he had better receive the
evidence, and enter a verdict for the plaintiff; although
it %as clear it could not be maintained on moving for
arrest of judgment.
Defendant's Attorney contended that the Bill, being
on a wrong stamp, was positively void, and could not
be received in evidence, and that, therefore, plaintiff
mug 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 v. DYER..—In this case, which was an ac-
tion for trespass and assault, tried in 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 consicer-
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. .1. 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 105. 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 Ist of
July next. Simple letters are those which do not weigh
more than 7 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 recommandies) 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 bistre 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, colour 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-
vided 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 i._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 1,4001. 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 1,8471. 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. Bd. 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
thelinstitution. The number of in-patients admitted during
the past year amounted to 474, and since the opening the
total of this class was 1,994. 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 for
the past year, exclusive of 1,4001. already mentioned, was
2,8311. 10s., and the expenditure amounted to 9821., leaving
a balance of 9'21. The report was unanimously adopted.
After sour routine business, the proceedings terminated with
a vote of thanks to the chairman.

MUNIFICENCE OF CHARLES JAMES BEVAN, ESQ.,
(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 gif , 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 WO guir.eas subscribed by
the distinguished firm of which he is a member.

THE POST-OFFICE QUO'

The closing of the Poet-office on S-wpdaY6,
consinerab,e inent and iii-leeling
country, and the subiect has been mention B
Houses of Parliament during ttie week. Lora f,
questions the power of the Government to es,
regulations, and Mr. Locke has given noties
tention, on the 9th of July, to take tbo
House of Commons upon a motion to reeer,he
cent decision. Oa the announcement of I"it
tions of Government, we asked—" But Coal
line line to be drawn ? How can stop shop
The British Banner, in the following rem;
" Cab-office rest," suggests the same kind of 'll,
" We have just received a proof copy of 60,110„
strance and Appeal by '2OO of the carriage
drivers of Glasgow, respecting their employmeoto
Sabbath-day, addressed to the public
medium of the Glasgow Working Man's Ono%
tention Society. We know not whether tithe 1'00!
or John Bull was prepared for anything of 0/011
but it will be exceedingly difficult to show °,6e01
silence should obtain in all the Post offices of nad,
while a hustling and a tumultuous activity Olio!,
with three-fold increase in the stable-yard.
tj
200 men, cab -drivers in Glasgow, with 617 q.
ostlers, strippers, clerks, and so forth, ;10401
in the several yards. The statistics of °'lc?,
Sabbath are given, showing the e,l)
of 110 vehicles, having 215 ' lifts,' stri
115 were to and from places of public worsinP; or
to one against the chance " lifts." To this, it loplot
must be added at least 100 private carriages e.ptorJ
on the Sabbath-day. We must on the Pres:oftr
sion confine ourselves to the simple statemen4l
facts. This is not the place for a theological (1,
upon the Sabbath and its relatiOns to genersi to,
but these facts, and this case, supply an additie!,.lsl
statement on a former occasion, with respect to tt'levii
bath question,—tbat if a principle must be nahrrost
it will lead its advocates further than they Perull`
templated; and that they must either do notbingiolf
everything, or make a compromise; and then W
comes of the principle?"—Derby Reporter. „tog;
Much vexation was felt at Stamford on Stinuliirs
ing last in consequence of the non-delivery of 1;60
newspapers; and among those who on the f° portO,
day expressed the most indignation, were solnea
from Burghley House. That their complaint!: 'dye
in the proper quarter, were reasonable, few Iglu 010
but it seems strange that such persons should bey
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spleen upon the officials at the post-office,
Burghley was one of the 74 whu voted the ad;iol
the Queen which has led to the present unsgl""
state of things.—Lincoln Mercury. a
THE NEW POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTP7I
nesday a special meeting of the town nounen,lscolr,
castle-upon-Tyne was held, to take into consl49'
the recent suspension of post-office labours on r or,
bath. Several of the leading members strong, 10
demned the new arrangement, and a resolUn°ol,
petition against it were almost unanimously 5d02

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LAMBETH PALACE.-011 Wednesday P.-inw,
the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury gave a verY.„;;V
entertainment, according to ancient usage, to the 1126090
the Lord Mayor, and the stewards of the sons of euetojoo,
The guests assembled at the Palace at half-past sil,,be
Divine service in the private chapel previously_Weyd
quet. Amongst those present were the Right 1100.:4Y,,
Mayor, the Lord Bishop of Manchester, the 1100.
H. Legge, Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir Walter G. Stir j
Alderman Copeland, M.P., Alderman Sir Chapnlarl 51,,F
Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., Mr. Alderman 51310,,,
Lawrence, Mr. SherieNicoll, the Chamberlain °`
the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, the High Sheriff of 02 fv
Rev. B. James, Mr. H. F. Prosser, M.P., the Rev'
chinson, &c.
SOCIETY OF DANCERS.—Yesterday the el,
meeting of the Provident Society of Dancers and rof",
of Dancing was held in the saloon of the TheateLiev,
Haymarket; James Byrn, Esq.. in the chair. 'llloeie
tary read the report, which, in effect, stated that the e ar,
though still young, had received the support of edffli
most influential and talented professors of dancill;d,
native and foreign. The affairs of the society Y,,aor,
steadily, if not as rapidly as could be wished, t 0107,00,,
attainment of its object—the raising a fund for /Agreed:
aged and infirm dancers, should they unfortunately not V
assistance. Appended to the report was a statement .
society's income and expenditure for the last ye';of,
chairman afterwards addressed the meeting, forcibly of
upon the attention of all present the benefits confer ee
n
the aged dancer by this society, a society not coaO
of.
natives of England, but which admitted all member'
profession. The report was unanimously adopted.
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The accounts of the state of the Vice-Cho° •
tlo,l
of England are more favourable. He is now comerto;
free from pain, and the danger is much diminished/ DeV
cannot for some time be in a condition to attend e° I
business.

INSTALLATION OF THE DEAN OF HEREFORD' bold'
9 Very Rev. Richard Dawes, A.M., rector of King's 030;
Hampshire, was duly installed, with the customary ios
the cathedral church on Tuesday morning. There
fashionable congregation to witness the ceremonial. 0
AMATEUR HANGING.—On Sunday week bi4"?4,41#
men belonging to Stourport performed a very rernimill
feat. They were drinking at the Cross public-house e 0
one Levi Rowley, a man thirty. years of age, intio37,o,r
the other, Josiah Burton, who is much his junior,
was tired of the troubles of the world and would halt or
self. Burton offered at once to be his executioner, no,i ,
cordingly they procured a piece of rope, and adjour e,
neighbouring spot, where a tree, well calculated forif
lows, was standing. Rowley got up upon a block of 004
and Burton soon had the rope fixed to bough and 010
then, kicking the wood away, he started his friend ul)(10bV
journey to another world. He then returned to the PA
house, and told his other companions what he 13,A
cleverly performed, but nobody believed that he was ' tri
the truth, so nobody moved. Burton presently WeAlahr
again alone, and found that the features of his frien...di!
undergone considerable change, so he thought he had nil
cut him down, and ascertain if he still was serious '",titi
determination to bid farewell to mortal things. This
down was, however, a work of difficulty, as his klin' „/,
dull, but at last he succeeded, and laid his companion ;tlO
the turf; but believing that the insensibility whic
hanging man exhibited to be all sham, he again stet
into the house, end left him to his fat. The otherrd
in the house, thinking at last that something serious
really have occurred, went out and found Rowley appcipi
dead. They immediately got him in doors, and after
(100
the proper means for recovering him, they at last 10,00
satisfaction to see their efforts successful. It is said tbP
has had enough of hanging, and is now resigned to life. /
PERFORMANCES OF THE ATLANTIC STEAM SO ill'or
The performances of the Cunard steamers and those Mot
ing to the American Mail Company having become rsol6interesting, we have had sent to us the following tab
statements as to the respective passages of the •rdw
Atlantic, and Asia :
The Europa left New York, June 15, at 12.20 noon. ll'
P. 4O
Arrived at Liverpool, 16th, at 8 A.M.
Deduct difference of time 0 4 40
Deduct for call and detour at Halifax 0 15 0 40
0 19
--- v
Net time lO 0
The Atlantic left New York, June 15, at noon. ,0
Arrived at Liverpool, 26th, at 5 &.MlO 11 40
Deduct difference of time 0 >4
---
10 1/ 0
Europa's passage, as above
,
0 _,
The Asia left Boston, June 12, at 12.20 noon. ,g 40
Arrived at Liverpool, 22d, at A.M. .........
Deduct difference of time, and call, &c., at 40
Halifax
0
8 23

In favour of the Europa