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

ITALY.

ROME, March 17.

• The Pope held a public Consistory yesterday in
the i,presence 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 precoguised
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 Mersey 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-
roons 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 Lisbon. All was quiet when the mail
left.

RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPAMES".

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 hands, 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, statng
the proposed terms by the Anglo-American Com-
pany, was signed by Mr. Morgan, a gigantic holder

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.
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COURT OF DIVORCE.
"Before 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-

[oiler is a lady prominently known to the pub-

lie 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 ZlOO a
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.-TMS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BREAKING A WOMAN'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 bad not been home more than five
minutes when my wife told me that a female,
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—l never spoke a word of anger
or friendship to you. I never struck you with a
bed-post.
Mary Ann Bond said—On the 28th February,

1867, 1 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. I
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 ;" ani 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 o❑ 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
llozpital, 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
we 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. Tyrwhitt (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 one month for the assault on the man.

of shares, in which three other gentlemen had trate. The reason he did not commit the pr
joined him, and these gentlemen commanded more soner to the House of Correction was that he was
than one-fourth of-the votes, rendering a majority in charge of the barge, and his master had given
of three-fourths of the votes impossible, so that him a good character. The Thames police were
Lord liedesdale and the law had given the power entrusted with the protection and security of the
into the hands of these gentlemen. The company floating-property on the river, and must be pro-
was in a position to return all the money subscribed tected. He sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of
for the new shares, but the law did not give the 50s. to the Queen.
directors power to offer the subscribers compensa- Mr. Chapman immediately paid the penalty.
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.

.3.
Cluairt -6;

IIER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR. CASTLE, March 16.

The Queen walked in the grounds this morning,
and drove, accompanied by her Royal 'Ugliness
Princess Louise.
Prince Leopold walked in the grounds,
Princess Beatrice went out.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Capt. Ellis,
rode out yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
drove out, attended by the Marchioness of Car-
marthen.

LITERATURE•

Samuel Lover's Poetical TVorlcs. One Vol., pp. 50G.

Routledge and Sons.

A charming volume is this elegant collection of
pathetic and humorous poetry, now published for
the first time in a complete form, by the Messrs.
Routledge. It is more than simply acceptable.
We are grateful for it. We place it side by side
with Moore's Melodies. We treasure it up on our
bookshelves as a work reflecting the genius of the
Irish race quite as vividly, quite as picturesquely,
as even those radiant effusions of the chosen Bard of
Erin, the author of " Lalla Rookh." The Poetical
Works of Samuel Lover in their hitherto scattered or
uncollected form have already received the timbre of
an immense, and, it might even be said, of a na-
tional popularity. The celebrity won by them need
only be illustrated by a passing enumeration of
several among them—as, for example, the Widow
Machree—Molly B awn—Rory O'More—the Angel's
Whisper—the Low-Backed Car—the Four-Leaved
Shamrock. The wit, the fun, the frolic humour—
the tenderness, the grace, the sweetness of these
charming ditties —who knows them not (who
knows anything at all of Irish songs), and who
(knowing them) bears them not in grateful
recollection? And so remembering them—grate-
fully that is—we hail with delight their appearance
now in this collective form, beautifully printed,
daintily bound, abundantly embellished with illus-
trative engravings, and adorned with that most
appropriate frontispiece of all for a volume like the
present—a volume containing the lays and lyrics of
one of the world's true song-writers a faith-
fully engraved portrait of the author taken from
a photograph. Altogether, the book is so delightfully
welcome of its kind that, while giving to the writer of
it the assurance of our unaffectedly grateful admira-
tion, we are fain to convey also to the publishers
some expression of our sense of obligation to them-
selves.

Dean Swift's Tale of a Tub : and Battle of the Books
One Vol., pp. 356. Wm. Tegg. .

Another of those charming little pocket-volume
reprints of our English classics with which Mr.
Tegg has already enriched our bookshelves, here
conveys to us two of Jonathan Swift's most famous
masterpieces. Happy for the world of letters and
for his own reputation as a believing Christian
would it have been, however, had Swift's " Tale of
a Tub" been conceived in a more reverent spirit.
But for its flagrant indecorum as an audacious satire
upon themes the most holy, the Dean of St. Patrick's
would have been raised to a bishopric. As it is,
the wit, though great, redeems not the profanity of
this eccentric disquisition. The other treatise, again,
entitled the "Battle of the Books," is too fragmen-
tary ever to be regarded as more important than a
humorous trifle.

Palmer's Index to The Times. One Vol., pp. 165.

Autumnal Quarter of 1867. Samuel Palmer.

Here at last is what so many have long been
wishing for--actually accomplished, actually placed
within our reach, as a thing substantially realised !
A comprehensive and compact " Index to The Times"
most carefully compiled and most admirably
arranged. The ingenious compiler of this Index
dedicates it in so many words to the proprietors and
editors of The 1 imes newspaper as " The most im-
portant and influential journal in the -world," and
as one " whose moral influence directs the minds of
the people, the senators, and the Government of the
nation," profferingto them this Index as au attempt to
classify and arrange the immense mass of informa-
tion contained iu the columns of that unquestion-
ably first and greatest of all newspapers. As
the motto to this experimental or tentative issue of
his volume—Mr. Palmer has selected a sentence
from Lord Macaulay to the effect that " The only
true history of a country is to be found iu its news-
papers." A far more effective motto, however, we
cannot but think, might be chosen for all the sub-
sequent volumes of the series—a motto selected
from Lord Lytton, who once remarked very finely
in the House of Commons, that if he were asked to
addace some distinct exemplar of all the forces and
resources and evidences of Modern Civilization,
he would suggest as the most appropriate, the
file of a Daily Newspaper—the noble lord may
have said yet more tersely, pointedly and empha-
tically (for we don't recall his precise words to
mind : " Hansard " would give them, of course,
exactly, if looked to)—the file of the Times news-
paper. The Index here submitted to the public
it is intended shall be continued quarterly—each
quarterly volume thus published containing, like the
present one, fully as many as 30,000 distinct refer-
ences. In it are given in extenso : " the Births,
Deaths, Marriages, Bankruptcies, Wills, Civil and
CriminalCases,ParliamentaryProceedings,Speeches,
Lee:Aland Foreign News, Naval and Military Intelli-
gence, Court Journal, Railway News, Money and
other Markets, Foreign Intelligence, &e., all being
classified in full, and the index so arranged as to do
for any file without any paging or marking." The
volume now published is a very treasury of infor-
mation, and deserves—what it will doubtless com-
mand—an immense circulation.

FIRE AT A LICENSED VICTUALLER'S.--"
(This Day). .

This morning at a few minutes before 3 o'clock a
fire of an alarming character, and well-nigh attend-
ed with fatal consequences to a whole household,
happened in the premises belonging to Mr. J.
Mortimer, licensed victualler and proprietor of
the King and Queen Tavern, No. 34, Three
Colt-street, Limehouse. It appears that as 3
police-constable of the K division was passing along
his beat his attention was directed to an unusual
glare of light in the bar, which was accompanied
by the cracking of wood and the breaking of glass'
Feeling satisfied that the premises were ou fire, 1:1°
raised the necessary alarm. At that time Mt'
Mortimer and the whole of the other inmate°
were iu bed, soundly asleep. The officer, 1)/
repeatedly knocking at the shutters and springing
his rattle, managed to make the residents more
that they had not a moment to lose in saving they
lives, lives, for the bar by that time was burning furl
ously, ously, and the heated smoke was ascending in silo
bodies as to nearly stifle the parties. They, ho'ir;
ever, managed to reach the street in safety. ill_
fire escapes and the engines of the Metropolitan°
Brigade both quickly attended, and plenty of tb
East London Company's water having been pro-
cured, the firemen managed to get the flames aof
tinguished, but not until a serious amount
damage was done, which is thus officially returned
by Capt. Shaw :—" The bar and contents sore_
ely
damaged by fire and heat, and rest of house 11/1:0
contents by heat, smoke, &c. The origin 0f
fire unknown. Insured in the Phoenix Fire-(Ae.
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