The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-15 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Mr. Beckwith, jun., a share agent, appeared before Mr.
Alderman Musgrove to answer a complaint preferred b) Mr.
Fennell, a warehouseman in Aldermanbury, for detaining ten
shares in the Essex and Suffolk Railway.
The matter was heard some days ago before Mr. Alderman
Wilson, who allowed it to stand over for arrangement; but
no shares having been tendered to Mr Fennell, he now
prayed the order of the magistrate that the ten shares, or
the value of them, should be delivered to him by Mr.
Beckwith.

Mr. Fennell repeated his statement that he employed the
defendant, as his broker, to buy two letters of allotment, at a
premium of about ten shillings, vnd having paid the deposit
on the fifty shares, he handed the bankers' receipts to the de-
fendant, to obtain the scrip at the company's offices. The
scrip, as to one letter of allotment for twenty-five shares, was
obtained forthwith ; but upon the other it could not be ob-
tained, as the deed was out of town, and the party to whom
the letter was allotted could not sign. After a lapse of seve-
ral days, the defendant ceased to be found at his usual resort,
but Mr. Fennell met him, and insisted on having the remain-
ing 25 shares. The defendant gave him 15 shares, and said
he should have the rest i❑ an hour, but they had never been
delivered, and Mr. Fennell resorted to the magistrate to re-
cover them. •

Mr. Beckwith's answer was, that on the day the complain-
ant met him and pressed for the shares, saying he had en-
gaged to deliver them, and must have them, Mr. Fennel's
bankers' receipt had not been, nor was capable of being, con-
verted into scrip, as the secretary of the Company could prove.
With the previous knowledge and sanction of the complainant
he borrowed the 15 shares, which were then at 11. premium.
They had since fallen to par, and the loan of the 15 shares
bearing premium could not be repaid with 15 shares at par.
The difference, the 151., must of course be paid—the money
value of the loan, not the actual thing lent. He claimed to
hold the ten shares to cover this loss.

Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE endeavoured to get a distinct
answer from the complainant, whether, at the time he re-
ceived the 15 shares, he understood they were borrowed for
him, or were part of his own shares, the bankers' receipt
being at that time convertible.
Mr. Fennell avoided giving a plain answer.
Mr. Beckwith said be could bring the secretary to prove
the shares were not convertible; and Mr. Bloxam, a share-
broker, in Sutherland-square, could also prove all the facts
as he stated them.

Mr. Alderman Muscnova did not see why the magistrates
should be troubled with settling disputes about these
stagging transactions. If Mr. Beckwith bad ten shares, the
property of Mr. Fennell, the latter bad a remedy in an ac-
tion of trover.

Mr. Beckwith begged his, pardon for interrupting him, but
these were not stagging transactions.
The Alderman requested some definition of a stag.
Mr. Beckwith explained that he was not merely an out-
side man, but one who wrote to various companies for letters
of allotment, giving different and false addresses all over the
country.
Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE declined giving any opinion on
the case, and dismissed the summons.
THAMES.

Benjamin Barnett, aged 34, described as of no trade, and
lately residing in Spitalfields, was charged with bein con-
cerned in an Outrage upon Joseph Bray, No. 43 11, and
EcbVard Burgess, No. 198 H. Both constables appeared in
a woeful plight with their heads bound up. Burgess had
received a cut on the nose, which completely divided it, and
there was an incised wound of considerable depth on his
temple.
Mr. Pelham appeared for the pi isoner.
Bray, who was in an exceedingly weak state, said he was
called by Burgess on Thursday night, between eight and
nine o'clock, to secure a horse and cart, supposed to contain
stolen property, and convey it to the station 'house. He
was suddenly attacked by a mob of bad characters, who
said the horse and cart should not be removed. Exclama-
tions of down with them, knock their heads off, were heard,
and a furious attack was made upon him and Burgess. He
saw a knife brandished. He received a most tremendous
blow from a deadly instrument called a life-preserver, the
end of which was loaded with iron or lead. He was dragged
away from the horse's head, and received other blows from
the life-preserver, and was carried off insensible. He swore
to ;he prisoner having struck him with the life-preserver,
and he had a brown coat on.

Burgess, who was also in a weakly condition from loss of
blood, said he was in plain clothes, and saw a horse and cart
drive up to the King's Arms, Whitechapel-road. There
was a quantity of straw and a sack covered over something
in the cart. He suspected it contained stolen property.
After seeing two men alight and go into the public-house,
he stopped till Bray came up, and desired him to take
charge of it. He went into the King's Arms for the pur-
pose of securing the parties, but could not see them. He came
out again and was about to drive the horse and cart to the
station-house, when he and Bray were surrounded. The pri-
soner, who was known to him, struck him. The prisoner
was the most active among them. After a desperate strug-
gle a knife was used upon him. He received a dreadful
wound across the temple, and another cut across the nose,
which hung by the skin until his wounds were dressed at
the hospital. _ _ _

In cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, Burgess said he
stopped the horse and cart became he was certain something
wrong was going on. He knew the prisoner well.

A certificate was then put in, stating that Bray was in
danger from the injuries he received, and he was imme-
diately removed in a coach to the hospital.
Inspector Donegan said the prisoner was apprehended at
ten o'clock the same night, and officers were in search of other
persons concerned in the affray.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the case was a most serious one, and
must be further investigated. He remanded the prisoner till
Friday next.

The following property was found on Barnett :—A half-
plate, engine-turned, double-bottomed silver watch, jewelled
in six holes, maker's name "William Haslett, London, No.
377," with a heavy gold curb chain attached; two gold
mourningxings, one marked outside "In memory of" and
inside "John Richardson, Esq., Obit. 13th of Aug. 1840, in
his 70th year ;" the other with an inscription inside only,
"Benjamin and Anna Bond, also Charles Bond ;" and 6/. m
gold. The property has been deposited for inspection at the
Denmark-street station-house. _ :

Friday night both policemen were in the London Hospital,
and reported to be in a dangerous condition.

FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.— On Friday the
bakers of the metropolis reduced the price of bread, of the
second quality, ld. in the 41b. loaf, being equivalent to a re-
duction in the price of wheat of I ls. the quarter. Good house-
hold bread can now be obtained at from 60. to 7d. the 41b.
loaf, although in some neighbourhoods the price is kept up to
Bd. Excellent flour may be had at Sd. the quartern. The
price of the best bread remains unchanged.
THEFT.-... On the night of Sabbath week, the cash-
box of the Secession Church in Moss-street was stolen from
the chapel. There was a congregational prayer meeting on
the evening of Sabbath, and it is supposed that the thief or
thieves had secreted themselves under the seats, and re-
mained in the church after the meeting dismissed, as one of
the church doors was found open on Monday morning. There
was no money in the box.—Elgin Courier.

Week Last
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. :t,t:
bo-
Uw
.£
Nov. 8 Arbroath and Forfar ••••••-• • • • • • • • 203 112
- Bristol and Birmingham .•••• • • ..
7 Chester and Birkenhead ..• .. •.•. • • • • 565 383
6 Dublin and Drogheda.... •••••• • • • • • • 822 624
11 Dublin and Kingstown • 698••.•••••••• 656
9 Dundee and Arbroath . •.
8 Durham and Sunderland •. • ..... ••• • • 764 245
S Edinburgh and Glasgow • ........ 2,843 2,154
9 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 6,105 3,845
8 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 1,882 1,361
8 Glasgow and Greenock ••••• • • • • •• • • 769 663
7 Grand Junction .••.•. • • • • • ......... 14,206 12,024
8 Gravesend and Rochester .•.• -
Great North of England • • • • • • • - • • • • -
9 Great Western . •
10 Hartlepool . • -
8 London and Birmingham
9 London and Blackw all • •
8 London and Brighton ..... •• • ....... 5,054 4,279
11 London and Croydon ..•
- London and Greenwich . ... •• . • .....
8 London and South Western .• • • ..... 6,126 5,182
9 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 930 824
7 Manchester and Birmingham • ....... 3,933 2,822
8 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc•• 6,594 5,318
8 Midland Counties...
8 Newcastle and Darlington .......... 2,658 953
8 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,660 1,611
9 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 453 126
9 Norfolk 1,185 197
7 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,552 1,474
10 Paris, Corbel', and Orleans.- .... 6,419 5,593
10 Paris and Rouen •• •
8 Preston and Wyre •••. • • • • • •• • •• • 446 294
8 Sheffield and Manche5ter............ 1,142 580
8 South Eastern. •••• • . •
8 Taff Vale 1,093 717
9 Ulster . 642 632
- Yarmouth and Norwich •• • . •..... • -
8 York and North Midland ........... 4,907 4,833

JUiLLIN'ST" PROMENADE CON'

• OERT§—COVENT GARDEN TrIEATRE.
M. Jullien commenced his annual series of promenade
concerts at this theatre last evening, and we are sorry to see,
from his programme, that the season is to last for one month
only, as he cannot have the theatre after Christmas. He has
rallied round him in his orchestra all the great performers of
instrumental music, and Barret, Platt, Richardson, Lazarus,
Jarrett, Prospdre, Baumann, Harper, and Kcenig, are still
among his principal solo performers. Tolbecque and
Nadau I are his leaders, and Jullien himself
wields the baton of conductor, with all that
vigour and energy which has hitherto been his distinguish-
ing characteristic. The stage and refreshment-room have
been fitted up with a new and elegant decoration. The pro-
gramme of the concert is to be changed every evening, and
various novelties, in the shape of new quadrilles, polkas,
waltzes, and overtures, are promised. We could not but ob-
serve the marked improvement which has taken place in the
performance of the orchestra in pieces of classical music.
Having been used to each others' play for four years, they are
now enabled to produce that perfect ensemble which
nothing but constant practice can ensble an or-
chestra to attain. It is not a very difficult
matter to drill an orchestra into the performance
of quadrilles an 1 tarantellas and dancing music, but it re-
quires constant and assiduous practice for years together to
enable an orchestra to do justice to the mighty works Of the
great masters. This M. Jullien and his orchestra have done.
Never have the allegro and storm movements in Beethoven's
pastoral symphony been more finely given than they were
last night at Covent-garden. The symphony wits admir-
ably conducted by M. Jullien—all was quiet, tasteful, mnsi
clan-like. It was evident that he felt, appreciated, and un-
derstood the ideas of the great master which lie was deve-
loping, in the only universal language—music. The solo
pei.oriners of the evening were Kcenig on the cornet-a-piston,
and Richardson on the flute. The performance of the latter
was truly marvellous. The house was crowded to suffoca-
tion in every part. There could not have been less than
three thousand persons present.

GRAND BALL AT GUILDHALL.
Yesterday the Committee appointed to superintend and
carry into effect the grand ball and concert to be given on
Wednesday next, at Guildhall, for the benefit of the Ward
Schools of the City of London, met most numerously, in one
of the new chambers of that building.
Mm. Brown, the Deputy of Dowgate Ward, of which the
Lord Mayor is Alderman, was called to the chair. Soon
after the proceedings commenced, the Lord Mayor, Lord
Dudley Stuart, and Mr. Philip Sa!onions entered the room,
and heartily joined in the spirit of the undertaking.
The CHAIRMAN said he had the strongest reasons for be-
lieving that the citizens of London, who had so zealously
supported the balls and concerts given in that building in
favour of the unfortunate Poles, who bad been compelled by
their necessities to appeal, through the excellent nobleman,
now one of the Ward School Committee, to the benevolence
of the public, would show at least as much zeal in a work of
charity involving the dearest interests of their own poor.
He had everywhere been met with the hearty good wishes
of his fellow-citizens for the success of the experiment, and
he expected to witness, on Wednesday, one of the grandest
spectacles which ever appeared in Guildhall upon one of the
noblest occasions.—(Cheers.)
The Loan MAYOR said he had no doubt that be should,
at the next meeting of the Committee, have to inform them
that he must be supplied with a far greater number of tickets
than had already been sent to him, and which he had already
disposed of.—(Cheers.) He was convinced that the bankers
and merchants in all the wards would most liberally contri-
bute to the charity, and he had already received several
announcements to that effect; but he should reserve himself
for the occasion of which he had spoken, and merely say
that such a commencement in doing good in the new
mayoralty as the approaching entertainment promised,
would stimulate him to the most active use of his energies
in the service of his fellow-citizens to the close of his official
duties.—(Cheers.) He knew it was unnecessary to entreat
the warm co-operation of those gentlemen by, whom he was
surrounded in the work of charity to which they were in-
vited, but he should, through the medium of the press,
which had upon all occasions so generously and powerfully
assisted in crowding their Hall for the relief of indigence,
call upen the opnlent members of the several wards who no
longer resided in the City, but were removed, by the vast
changes which had of late years taken place in consequence
of the erection of extensive docks and warehouses, to other
parts of the town, to aid him in his humble but strenuous
endeavours.—(Cheers.)
Mr. EAGLETON (tile Treasurer) assured the meeting that
he had already sold more tickets for the charity than he
bad sold upon any future occasion, and he bad for several
years been treasurer to the balls given in the Guildhall im-
mediately after the 9th of November. —(Cheers.)
Lord DUDLEY STUART spoke with confidence of the issue
of the exertions of the Committee; and superintended the
minor details of the arrangements with much industry and
skill.
The Committee broke up in high spirits.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
POST.—The tendency of the foreign exchanges is just now
worthy of the most careful observation, since it would appear
to have, as, in fact, it must, so immediate an influence on the
movements of the Bank. With a decline in the rates on the
principal points of Europe, the Directors would, perhaps, have
no hesitation in again increasing their minimum of discount
on an early board-day, possibly the very next. A proper re-
gard for the public interest, as well as a reasonable view to
the profits of their own proprietary, might have seemed to
be a sufficient justification of the measure. But, with the
market for foreign bills still greatly in favour of this country,
and the indication there is of a continued advance, they can-
not, without incurring censure, venture at present to create
renewed alarm by persevering in the restrictive course they
have been lately taking. Three months' paper on Paris was
again negotiated this afternoon at 25 95, or nearly a franc
above par, while, on Amsterdam also and other leading
cities, somewhat more was paid for the pound sterling than
on the last foreign post-day. At the Stock Exchange money
was not only easy, but in very considerable abundance. On
the authority of several leading brokers, we may state that
loans, on the deposit of f.• it guarantees, were to be bad, for
limited periods, at the rate of four per cent., and, at the
reduced value of stocks and other descriptions of security, a
preponderaece of buyers is beginning to be perceptible. 'Tile
share and foreign stock accounts have proceeded in a very
satisfactory manner, and may be said to have been virtually
concluded. Two failures were Lamed in the course of the
day, but they were not of a magnitude to make any im-
pressicn. Only a very few thousands will cover the
liabilities of the parties in default. An inimen,e aggregate
of ditferencew•has, therefre, contrary to the general expec-
tation, been adjusted without any sensible derangement of
the markets.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—We understand that
a Privy Council will be held at Windsor Castle on Thursday
next, the 20th instant, when a proclamation will be agreed
upon for further proroguing Parliament from the 27th to an
early day in January, then to meet for the dispatch of
business.
I 'COLONIAL ACCOUNTS.—A thick blue book has just
been issued, containing a report of the Committee appointed
in the late session of Parliament to examine into the accounts
of the colonial receipts and expenditure, and to report on the
evidence, whether a plan could not be introduced to attain in
the colonial accounts uniformity, regularity, correctness, and
completeness. A good deal of evidence was given before the
Committee on the examination of 17 witnesses. The Com-
mittee sat 12 days to hear the evidence, which evidence ap-
pears in the book. There were 19 resolutions passed by the
Committee, to be acted upon in the colonies with regard to
future accounts, with instructions for their arrangement. The
Committee seem to be of opinion that in order:to insure uni-
formity, an Act of Parliament must be passed on the subject.
OUR INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE.—The army has
succumbed, and Runjeet Singh's grandmother ascends the
Punjab, with the title of Provisional Begun of the Grand
Duchyof Tar tary. The Divan is under a cloud, probably on
account of that immense cigar, Ben Bolin, who is fuming with
vengeance. The Sheikh had fallen sick at Alicampane, and
was cot expected to rise for the present. His maternal aunt
has promised to aid him ; "leut the perfidious woman is said
to be in league with Runjeet Singh, who has given himself
up to the wildest excesses, drinking gallons of Carrara water
and eating the shells of the delicious cocoa-nut with extra-
vagant recklessness. Should the Sheik rally, the contest
must be fearful; but the British resident has received in-
structions to look on with his arms folded as long as possible.
If a blow is aimed at him, he is to demand his passport, and
retire to the frontier to await further orders.—Punch.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last evening an inquest
was held in the Committee-room of the Visiting Magistrates,
in Horsemonger-lane gaol, before Mr. Carter, one of the co-
roners for the county of Surrey, on view of the body of
Thomas M'Namara, a wire-worker and traptnaker, aged 32,w ho
was in inmate of that prison, and the particulars of whose
case on a charge of stabbing his wifo, have so recently been
before the public. The first witness called was Mr. John
Keene, the Governor of the prison, who produced the warrant
of commitment for the prisoner's remand from Monday last
to that day (yesterday), and said that the prisoner had been
in his charge from the 3d instant. On Thursday morning
last he was informed by the principal turnkey that the de-
ceased bad hung himself, and he, in consequence, hastened
to his cell, when he found the decased quite dead and cold.
He, however, dispatched a messenger to Mr. Meyinott, the
prison surgeon, who promptly attended, and pronounced him
to have been dead for several hours. Mr. Keene, at the con-
clusion of his evidence, said the present was the first occur-
rence of the kind that had happened during his residence
there as Governor, a period of twelve years. The jury, after
some deliberation, returned a verdict to the effect, that the
deceased had destroyed himself by hanging, but that they
had no evidence to enable them to form any accurate opinion
as to the state of his mind at the time he committed the act.
Major Creagh and the officers of the depot of the
Regiment,supper
to thequarteredrank, ea
at Fort
andrtß egent gave a grand
fashion
of
Jersey, on
Monday evening, at the theatre, which was splendidly titled
up for the occasion. The entertainment was given in honour
81stball and
of the Prince of Wales's birth-day.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, Nov. 14.—The sup-
plies of all grain are liberal, more especially barley. The
wheat trade was firmer this morning, and all tear of any pre-
sent alteratian in the corn-laws having subsided, we had a
good demand for the old and new wheats, at an advance of
Is. per quarter; common sorts also were easier *ales. Fine
barley Is. and inferior qualities 2s.
per quarter cheaper. Oats
rather lower, and shelling in li • nuted request. Malt as before.
ILLNESS OF THE DOWAGER LADY HOLLAND...—We
regret to announce that her Ladyship, who has been indis-
posed for some time past, is in an alarming and critical situa-
tion. Her Ladyship's symptoms are of a kind which give
but faint hopes of her recovery. Sir Henry Webster and
Colonel Fox (her Ladyship's sons) arrived in town yesterday
from Paris, having left that capital immediately upon the re-
ceipt of the alarming intelligence.
HER MAJESTY'S Buc K 110UNDS...•NOtWith3tand.
ing the extremely dense fog which prevailed from an early
hour, the meet, which took place yesterday at Riching's
Park, was attended by a field numbering upwards of three
hundred, amongst whom were the Earl of Rosslyn, Captain
Seymour, and several of the officers of the 2d Life Guards
and the Grenadier Guards stationed at Windsor. The cele-
brated deer, Rory O'More, which afforded several excellent
runs last season, upon being uncarted near the Crooked
Billet, at Iver, made for Black Park, where it twice crossed
the water, and thence in the direction of the Great Western
Railway, which it crossed near Two•mile Brook, between
Slough and away through Maidenhead. Rory then made
Mr. Aldridge's farm, at Cippenham, crossing Chalvey-ditch,
to Dorsey common, and was taken near Salt-hill, after a
capital run of two hours and a half. In some places the fog
was so thick that the hounds could not be discerned at a dis-
tance beyond 80 or 100 yards. Several falls and some half-a-
dozen duckings occurred at Chalvey-ditch, a locality well-
known by the sporting gentlemen who hunt with the Oueen'a
hounds for mishaps of that nature. The pack was whipped
off; and the stag secured, before it had sustained the least
injury.
A curious fact is mentioned in a letter to the
_Evening Post, ;dated at Wexford, that "no potato, sound
when dug, and which accidentally had been cut with the
spade, became spoiled in the house, but remained perfectly
untouched, fresh, and sound."