The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THLTRSp A Y EVENING, SEPTEMI3ER 18 1845.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

RELATIVE CLC
RAILWA

SING PRICES OF
V SHARES

and Irish Union, 3/. 13s. 6d.-Caledonian, 12/. 55.-Cale-
donian Extension, 3/. 165.-Clydesdale •Junction, 13/. 15s.
-Direct Northern, 3/. 35.-Dundee and Arbroath, 37/. 10s.
-Ditto, New, 18/.-Dundee and Perth, 81.-Edinburgh and
Bathgate, V. 1 ls.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 901.-Ditto,
Quarters, 211. 155.-Ditto, New, 151.-Edinburgh, Glasgow,
and Dumbarton, 1/. 95.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton,
25/. IN.-Ditto, Preference, 20/. 10s.-Edinburgh and
Northern, 3/. 75.-Ditto, New, 1/. 155.-Edinburgh and
Perth, 21. 9s. 6d.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 731.-Ditto, New
Stock, 211. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 45L-Glasgow
and Greenock, 22/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 155.-
Ditto, Preference, 2/. 55.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle,
2/. IN.-Great North of Scotland, 3/. 125.-Inverness and
Elgin, 1/. Bs.-London and York, 61. 155.-Monkland and
Kirkintilloch, 331.-North British, 29/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves,
9/. 10s.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 9s. 6d.-Scottish Central,
Si. Ls.-Scottish Midland, 3/. 17s. 6d.-Slamannan, 19/.-
Stirling and Dunfermline, 2/. Gs.
EXETER, SEPT. 17.
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JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Sept. 17.

(Before Baron PLATT.)
THE QUEEN V. THE WEEKLY DISPATCH.

PRINCIP4L CITIES A]
SCOTLAND,

THE
D TOWNS IN ENGLAND
AND IRELAND.

This was an application for a procedendo against Mr. Ashley, the
publisher of:the Weekly Dispatch.
Mr. Wilde supported, and Mr. Ballantine opposed the application.
Last June an action was taken by Henry Austin Sherwood against
Mr. Ashley, as the publisher of the Weekly Dispatch, for an alleged
libel contained in a police report. The plaintiff dropped the action
and sent up a bill of indictment against Mr. Ashley to the grand
jury at the late sittings of the Central Criminal Court. The bill was
found, and a judge's warrant issued against Mr. Ashley, who was
arrested late at night in the office, and could not be bailed until the
following day. He then moved the case by a writ of certiorari to
the Court of Queen's Bench. Subsequently the plaintiff issued a sum-
mons for the defendant to show cause why the writ of certiorari
should not beset aside, and a procedendo granted.
Baron PLATT, having yesterday heard counsel on both sides, dis-
missed the summons, as defendant's pleas were under a new Act of
Parliament, the 6th and 7th Vic., c. 96, which might give rise to
points of law that would demand the attention of the full Court of
Queen's Bench. His Lordship also observed that the course of jus-
tice would not be interfered with by the writ of certiorari, as the
nature of defendant's recognisances bound him to the plea of guilty,
which he necessarily pleaded in the Central Criminal Court.
Mr. WILDE applied for costs, which were peremptorily refused by
the Learned Baron.

1 - Sept. I

Sept.
17.

IClos'd

:Sept.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Exeter and Crediton,
12—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, p.—Exeter, Topsham,
and Exmouth (Daws' line), % p.—Ditto (Head's), 1 p.—
North Devon, 1% p.

CENTRAL CRINIINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
THEFT FROM MADAME FORGEOT.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Mr. CiAaitsoN, after stating the case to the jury, called
Madame Forgeot, who stated that the female prisoner had been
in her service at the time of robbery. She (the prosecutrix) had a
jewel-box in her bed-room which contained, among other things, a
501. note. Upon opening her box, she discovered the note had been
taken from the box. I immediately spoke to the prisoner White
concerning my loss, but she denied all knowledge of it. I was in
the habit of leaving the key of my box in the bed-room, and the
female prisoner had free access to the room. I left town for Paris
on the 31st August, without finding or getting any clue to tho reco-
very of the lost note.

After several other witnesses had been examined,
Mr. Justice ERLE summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of
Guilty against both prisoners.
Mary White was sentenced to be transported for the term of ten
years, and James M'Mahon to be imprisoned in the House of Cor-
rection, with hard labour, for twelve calendar months.

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THE FUNDS.-(CLOSING PRICES

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 98%14 ILA N 98A
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/. .. ......

South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Bank Stock for Account 213% 213%
Consols for Account - ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 46 48 pm. 46
Ditto 5001.

Ditto Small

Pm. 47

CLOSING
PRICES
90

03TE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 90
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... —
Ditto, Account —
Ditto, Deferred 17%14
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted —
Ditto, Account
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto Account 2714
Ditto Deferred —
Ditto 3 per Cent. .... ....
Ditto, Account ...... .. ..... ..... 3814 3811/x
French, 5 per Cent. —f. —c. 1171. 50c.
Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70e.
Belgian 4% per Cent. lOO% 1001,E
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific 9914 98%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 130
Ditto Extension
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Boston, Stamid, & Birm. 22s
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto New
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 41/I%
Ditto, New
Chelmsford and Bury
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester 1 -% 414
Cornwall
Direct Manchester
(Remington's)
Direct Northern -. 21,4 .178
`).-1/4, ILA_

...,..,N
Dublin and Galway..... 21,2 5l/2
Eastern Counties 141. 16s. 20
19%
Ditto New 4/. 16s. 6% X 6%
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—.5/. 13s. 4d l% lys p
Ditto ditto, No. `) l3s. 4d. %
Eastern Union 2O .
Ditto Extension . ... 11/2 5 45/8
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1% 2% 2%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 —
Edinburgh and Perth... 1% —
Exeter Yeovil, & Dorset 23/4 3% 3%
Gloue.;Abery stw it h, and
Central of Wales 1%... 2%% 2%
Goole and Doncaster .. 1% 6
Grand Union l% 45,4% 4%
Great Eastern &Western 2% ...... 33/4 33/4
LireatNorth of England..100
Great Western BO ......165 163 163
Ditto 1,4 Shares
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2% ... .. 33/4
Hounslow& Gt. Western 2
Hull and Selby 5O 104
Leicester & Birmingham 225.
Leicester and Bedford... 225. 3% p .......
London and Birmingnm tntock) 222% 221 221
Do. 1,4 Shares
.... 26%
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d.
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 25% 25 ....
Lon., Chel., 05.,G10., and
Hereford
Lond. & S.Westem 41/ 63 10d Bl 79%
„Do. New
Do. New
London and York 2%• 6% % ...... 52
...... 6
London, Warwick, and iti
Kidderminster 2% 43/4 % 5 ........ . 5
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil .. -2% 4% 3

r7/8 .....

.......
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2l/2 3% ...... ...,
Manchester and Leeds... 76
Do. Quarters 2
Manchester and Birnisn. 40
Do. Quarters
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 225....... 93/4141.4 9% p
Midland 100 l7l 172 170...... 170
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo 133 ............... 133
Newcastle and Darling-

ton Junction 25 ...... 555%53........................ .
...57r.33
Newcastle and Berwick 1% 16% 151,.;
Newcastle, Durham, and .-......-..-.
Lancashire Junction... 13
New Ross anti Carlow... 22s
Newry and Enniskillen. 2% 314 ............. iiii
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston
N. British (ex Dalkeith
and Hawick) l5 ..... ...............
Do. New (do.) 1
North Devon...
N. Kent & Direct Dover 231.... 4% ............... 4%
North Staffordshire 22s. . ... 51/6A p 5%
Norwich and Brandon... 14
Do~ New
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston 1% 43%
3%
Oxford and Worcester-. 2% 1214% 13% ... 131 A
Portsmouth Direct ...... 21; 6 53/f 6% • • 6V,
Preston and Wyre
Richmond
Rugby and Huntingdon 2
`sottish Central
Scottish Midland l%. 314% 3%
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. .... 9% 834........ 8%
Shrewsbury, Hereford,
and North Wales 2% 414 4 4
South Midland 22s 7%14 p 714
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d...
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond- 1
South Wales ..... -.... ... 2% ......
Tean and Dove Valley; 1% 3% •
5 LA
•• •• 3%
Trent Valley 2 ...... 19
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Warwick & Cheltenham 14 _
23102
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
Welch Midland
Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton
Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union ... .. 1%..... 4p
York and Carlisle 2% 6
York and North Midland 50 -
Ditto %Shama 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do Selby 2O
Do. Extension II,E 29 304 281.
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

41/4
3%
414
6%
.... ..... ... .. 113

Anglo-Belgian 4
Boulogne and Amiens... 6
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and :,
Cette (Espelete's)
Do. (Mackenzie's) ... 2 .... . 214 N% ..
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... ~.. ss.
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... OA IA
Jamaica Junction........ 1
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 5
Luxembourg
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
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Paris
PRoe rya
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iLaomuyn r
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pal onae n'g
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41, 0 , f,
Wert
tartincroianan 2
Flanders
..
..
...... 2
Verona and Ancona 3
51/4 li ...... ....
MINE

HATCHAM-PARK. PAUL—A fair, on a large scale,
will he commenced on 'Monday next, and Park days, on
an eXtensive piece of ground known as ilatcharn. vrtlich is
attuated on the left Of the Old Keut-road, in Surrey.

ng to those locally interested the merits of the line, and with '
a view of ascertaining their sentiments. It is intended to
form a direct communication from the seaport of Southend
to Chelmsford, there crossing the Eastern Counties, and
proceeding to the north-west of Dunmow, and forming a
junction with the Northern and Eastern at or near Saffron
Walden. Branches are projected from the main line at
Rochford to Burnham, a good seaport ; from Great Baddow
to Maldon, from Dunmow to Braintree and Coggleshall,
to join the Eastern Counties at Marks Tey, and from
Dunmow to Bishops Stortford. The line runs nearly
at a right angle with the Eastern Counties, affording com-
munication from the south-west to the north-east portions of
the county, also connecting the Thames, by a direct line, rid
Ely, with the principal northern and manufacturing counties.
The arguments adduced in favour of the scheme were ge-
nerally of the same character as those mooted at the meeting
at Chelmsford on the 12th inst. The meetings, after hearing
the several statements of the promoters, adopted a series of
resolutions approving of the undertaking aS being calcu-
lated to improve the trade of the county, and determined
upon consulting the acting provisional committee, with a
view of appointing provisional committees for their respec-
tive districts.

SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES IN COMPANIES NOT
COMPLETELY REGISTERED.

It has been a question much debated amongst respectable
stockbrokers, and others deeply interested in railway stock,
whether the sale of shares, represented by letters of allot-
ment, bankers' receipts, or scrip, in companies only pro-
visionally registered, is or is not legal, under the new Joint-
stock Companies' Act, which came into operation on the Ist
of November last. It is very much to the credit of the
members of the Manchester Stock Exchange—which, as a
body, we believe, stands high for the careful conduct of its
business—that hey should have taken the best possible
course to set this question at rest. Through their solicitors,
Messrs. Sale and Worthington, the Manchester Stock Ex-
change proposed a case for legal opinion, and we have been
favoured by these gentlemen with a copy of the queries, and
of the answers thereto given by the authorities consulted.
When we state that those authorities are amongst the lead-
ing counsel at the English bar, namely, Sir Frederick The-
siger, the Attorney-General ; Mr. Ogle, of the Western ;
and Mr. Cowling, i.f the Northern Circuit, we need say no
more to recommend their deliberate opinions (for we under-
stand that the Attorney-General bad the case before him
some time, for the express purpose of giving it his most care-
ful consideration), to the serious attention of all connected
with railways, and especially to the Boards Of Provisional
Directors of ompaniesestablished since the Ist of November
last. The following is a copy of the case :-
1. Whether as to the Companies established before the Ist
of November last, and therefore not within the provisions
of the new Act (7th. and Bth Victoria, chap. 110), the sale of
letters of allotment, bankers' receipts, or scrip, or any of
them, is legal ?
We are of opinion that sales of letters of allotment,
bankers' receipts, and scrip, issued by companies esta-
blished before the Ist of November last, are not within the
provisions of the statute 7th and Bth of Victoria, c. 110, and
that, consequently, the sales of such documents are legal.
2. Whether railway companies are within the restrictions
as to the sale or transfer of shares, or other restrictive clauses
of the above Act; and if so, whether, after provisional re-
gistration, and before complete registration, the sale of letters
of allotment, bankers' receipts, or scrip, is legal or illegal?
We are of opinion that railway companies established after
the Ist of November last, are within the restrictions con-
tained in the 26th section of the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 110,
and we think that sales of letters of allotment, bankers' re-
ceipts, and scrip, attempted to be made after the provi-
sional, but before the complete registration of the company,
are illegal.
3. Whether, after complete registration, but before ob-
taining an Act of Parliament, the sale of such scrip (as
scrip will then have been issued; and then of scrip only), is
legal or illegal?
We are of opinion that sales, after complete registration, of
scrip issued by railway companies established subsequently
to the Ist of November last, are legal. It is evident from the
latter portion of the 26th section, that the Legislature in-
tended that railway companies, on complete registration,
and before the Act of Incorporations, or other Act giving autho-
rity for executing the works, should have all those powers
conferred by the first part of the section, which are most
qualified or retained by the latter part; and we do not find
anything either in that, or in the preceding section, frOna
which it is to be collected that the Legislature intended to
render illegal sales of scrip by such companies, until their
Acts of incorporation should be obtained.

4. If the ;ale of scrip, after complete registration, be legal,
whether it is not the duty of the Provisional Directors to
lodge the subscription contracts, and other requisite docu-
ments, at the registry office, so as to obtain a certificate of
complete registration, and thus enable scripholders to sell
scrip ?
We consider it to be the duty of the Provisional Directors
to lodge the subscription contracts, and other requisite docu-
ments, at the office, for the purpose of obtaining a certificate
of complete registration.
5. If the restrictive clauses of the Act do not apply to rail-
way companies, whether the sale of letters of allotment,
bankers' receipts, or scrip, be or be not illegal, notwithstand-
ing they are so excluded ? •
Being of opinion that the restrictive clauses of 7 and 8 Vic.,
c. 110, apply to railway companies formed after the Ist of
November last, it only remains for us to observe, that as to
companies established before the Ist of November, we do not
think, independently of the statute, that the sale of letters of
allotment, bankers' receipts, or scrip, would be legal.
H FRED. TESIGER.
Inner Temple, Sept. 12, 1845. RICHD. OGLE.
The same queries have been submitted to Mr. Cowling, who
has given a similar opinion.--211-anchester Guardian.

THE LATE FIRE at SIR CHARES

PRICE'S.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARSTA.I9 OFFICIAL REPORT.
From an early hour yesterday morning until late last evening a
large concourse of persons continued to assemble in William-street,
ltlackfriars, the scene of the late dreadful fire, many for the purpose
-of inquiring as to whether or not any other bodies had been found.
Notwithstanding the strong fears that were apprehended at one time
that several parties had lost their lives by plunging Into the water,
it is now generally believed that every man who was immersed was
afterwards rescued. Two hats only remain at the police-station
which have not yet been owned, and the reporter yesterday was in
company with a gentleman who lost his hat whilst jumping from
one of the burning barges into a boat, and returning home he had
neglected to call at the station-house for the same• The only doubt
that now remains is whether the owner of the otherhat had perished ;
it is, however, quite probable that he was saved in a similar way
to the other party. Between 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday a male and
female called at the Bridewell Hospital, and requested permission to see
the remains of the man who had perished, as they had lost
a brother, and knowing that he was assisting in working one of the
engines, they were fearful that he was burnt. That request was
immediately complied with, when they identified the remains as
being those of their relative, a young man named George Spencer,
of Black Bear-alley, Farringdon-street. The state of the parties
upon seeing the blackened mass of all that remained of their brother
can be more easily imagined than described. The poor fellow, it
appears, was one of many who occasionally earn a few shillings by
calling the firemen to and working the engines at fires. A man
named Wilford, who was working at the same engine, said that he
was talking to the unfortunate fellow, when all of a sudden the fire
rushed out of the windows and through the doorway, completely
enveloping the whole of the men who were then working. Such
was the fury of the blazing turpentine, that before they had let go
their hold of the engine the machine became ignited, and they were
forced to jump into the stream—the only place they could run to
escape being burnt to death. He noticed Spencer running at the
same moment with himself, but the passage not being safficicntly
wide for all to pass at the same time, the deceased must have been
driven by the flames into the corner where the remains were found.
Somo idea of the extent of the fire may be formed when it is stated
that at one time there were between forty and fifty puncheons of
turpentine, from eight to ten tons of cod oil, and a quantity of other
oils in a thorough state of ignition. The former article was kept in
large wooden vessels, lined with lead, and there is no doubt that, as
the fire reached those compartments, they exploded, and to that cause
may be attributed the rapid progress of the flames. Mr. Inspector
Woodruffe, and a gentleman named Richmond, of Broadway, Lud-
gate-hill, had both very narrow escapes, and one of the firemen,
named Ilitchin, who was standing on a ladder directing the water
through one of the upper windows, was blown down by the explosion
of one of the cisterns of turpentine.

Although every inquiry has since been instituted as to the origin
of the disaster nothing that could be depended upon could be learned.
Some parties imagine that the flames arose from a spontaneous igni-
tion, and others that it was caused by a flue in the cooperage—this
department is under that portion of the:premises where the fire was
first perceived.
The total damage done it is at present impossible to tell; but it is
believed to be under 10,0001. The following is a copy of Mr. Super-
intendent Braidwood's official report :
" Tuesday, Sept. 16, forty minutes past one P.M.—A fire broke out
on the premises belonging to Sir Chas. Price and Co., William-street,
Blackfriars.—Cause of fire unknown. The turpentine warehouse
and contents destroyed on west side of wharf. The windows burnt
out, and roof considerably damaged, of oil warehouse on the east side
of premises. Most part of cooperage and stock at the water side
severely damaged. Insured in the West of England and Imperial
Fire-offices for stock ; the buildings, which belong to the Bridewell
Hospital, it is unknown at present whether or not they are insured.
"C. Hoppe, Pig Quay Coal Wharf.—Counting-house severely
damaged. Three or four barges extensively Scorched, and one sunk.
Insured for stock in trade in the Licensed Victuallers'-office.
" Messrs. Capel, coal-merchants.—Windows burned out of count-
ing-house, and several barges damaged by fire, &c. Insured in the
Phcenix Fire-office."

The fire was extinguished by engines belonging to the parish, the
Eridewell, nine land engines, with a floating one belonging to the
London Establishment, and the West of England and County ones,
with their firemen and assistants.

BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON, PRICE SIXPENCE—
SUNDAY, SEPT. 21.—Doncaster Meeting—Portrait of the
Winner of the St. Leger—The late Disgraceful Contest for
the Championship of England. Bell's Life, Sept. 14, price
Sixpence, containing the battle between Bendigo and Caunt,
to the extent of five folio columns, has been reprinted,
and will be kept on sale all this month of September. A
Sixpence inclosed to Mr. Clement, jun., No. 170, Strand,
will ensure a copy by return of post. The enlargement of
Be?l's Life will take place Oct. 12. No extra charge. Only
6d. when considerably enlarged.
ADVERTISEMENT. - Deafness. 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly. —Acoustic Instrument, which can be
sent to any part of the country by post. —lnvisible Voice
Conductors, when fixed it; the cavity of the ears, are not un-
comfortable. nor more percepti, than having a small piece of
wool in its place. They enable indi6luals at an advanced age,
and of extreme deafness of 40 and 50 yezrs' standing, instantly
to join in general conversation, and to cai-A the sound of a
distant low speaker at church, theatre, &c. They pour the
conversation into the ears to such an extent tha' the most
severe cases of deafness cannot be observed. Also, or-s,,inal
Ear Comets, French, German, and Spanish Artificial Ears,
and Improved Hearing Trumpets of every description. Many
of those instruments have received the approbation of the
Royal Society and Royal Institution of Great Britain. The
newly-invented Spectacles, immediately they are placed before
extremely imperfect vision, it is brought to its youthful, natural,
and original state. Also, Achromatic Telescopes, Opera
Glasses, Microscopes, &c. Caution—Messrs. S. and B. Solo-
mous, Opticians, are not in any way connected with a person
of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood, nor in any
part of the country. To prevent mistakes, be cautious, and
Observe—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.
opposite the York Hotel. Can be sent in the country by post.

BURGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur-
poses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand
for it continuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most
respectfully to offer thus their best acknowledgments to the Public
for their liberal patronage of the same ; its utility and great conveni-
ence in all climates have recommended 1, to the roost distinguished
oreign connections, who have all spoken highly in its recommenda-
tion. It is prepared by them only; and for preventing disappoint-
ment to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each
bottle being sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well
u each label having their signature, without which it cannot be
genuine.

JOHN BURGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them after
the same manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many
years._ _