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    the Minister of Wat that , the preparations at the camp of Chalons were not so forward as he expected . " The Emperor arrived in Paris from Biarritz on Monday morning . It is announced in the Morning Post that Louis Napoleon and the Emperor of Russia will meet in Germany towards the end of September . The Empress , together with the King of Wurtemberg , attended a bull-fight at Bayonne , last Sunday afternoon . The performance was interrupted by a heavy storm of rain and lightning , and afterwards by an

    accident . The people crowded for shelter into a gallery covered by an awning , in which the musicians were stationed . This , being overcrowded , gave way , and a great many persons were thrown to the ground . One man , it is supposed , was crushed to death ; and seven others were considerably hurt . The confusion having passed , the people clamoured for a renewal of the fight , though the rain was still pouring down . The manager , lio-wever , did not comply , and the malcontents tore up the benches and behaved in so riotous a manner that the military were called in . The Empress then departed .

    AUSTRIA . The Emperor returned to Vienna on the 15 th inst ., having for the present broken off his tour in Hungarj ' . The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and the Archduchess arrived at Venice on the 16 th . PORTUGAL . The Prince of Orange has arrived at Lisbon from Galicia . . The King has demanded in marriage the hand of the Princess Stephanie de Hohenfcollern-Sigmaringen . The necessary formalities will be fulfilled in the course of the autumn , but the marriage will probably be deferred until next year . The father of the future Queen of Portugal , who is a general in the Prussian service , resides at Dusseldorf .

    ITALY . The Pope is at present on a visit to Tuscany . A rumour was current at Genoa , on the 19 th inst ., to the effect that two steamers , under Neapolitan colours , coming from Marseilles , have been seized at Naples , several chesta of muskets having been found on board , which chests had been declared to contain sugar . The captains and several officials of the custo . n-hoiise are stated to have been arrested in consequence .

    TURKEY . The populace at Constantinople are much exasperated against the French . A few clays ago , at Therapia , a quarrel broke out between some French sailors and Turkish boatmen , and as they could not understand each other ' s language , they soon resorted to the use of their fists , and presently of their knives ; on each side several were badly wounded before they were parted by the guard . A second affray occurred on the bridge at Galata , where an officer of the French steamer Ajaccio , having been accidentally jostled by a Turkish officer , attempted to strike him with his whip , but the latter anticipated him with a blow in the face , and , the eyeglass or spectacles he wore being broken , he was dangerously injured by the fragments of the glass . Several Turkish soldiers came up , and would have killed the Frenchman , had not the same Turkish officer prote cted him . ;—Daily News Constantinople Correspondent .

    The Turkish Government has resolved on annulling tlie Moldavian elections , in compliance with the wishes of the great Powers . Euchdi Pacha has been appointed Minister at War , in place of Kiamil Pacha .

    SPAIN . The Queen is said to be plotting against the Narvaez Ministry . However , on his offering to resign , the offer was not accepted , though the Queon said that , if he insisted , she -would yield . Narvnez had been moved to this course by a scurrilous libel on him which ho traced tb some persons connected with the Palace . He has arrested and exiled ono Don Joao Montserrat , notwithstanding that hois employed in tho Royal Patrimony .

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    THE SURREY GA . RDENS BANKRUPTCY . TiiK bankruptcy of tlio Surrey Gardens Company seems to promise a companion to those other recent commercial failures whloh have startled and shocked tho English public . The petition for tho winding up of the Company was hoard in tho Court of Bankruptcy , before Mr . Commissioner Fane , last Saturday . Tho petitioner for -winding up tho company , under tho provisions of tho Joint Stock Companies Act , 1856 , is Mr . Horace Jones , the architect of the Music Hall and other buildings erected in tho Gardens . Mr . Roxburgh , barrister , instructed by Mr . Alfred Jones , of S »* o-lano , brother of tho petitioner , appeared in support of tho petition . Mr . Chappell , solicitor , appeared for M . JulHon , who was present , and other shareholders and creditors ; Mr . Fleming , of Trlnity-squaro . and Mr . W . A . Coombe , represented a large body of tho shareholders who had hold a meeting on tho subject .

    Mr . Roxburgh , In opening tho case for tho petitioner , eaid tho Company was formed in March , 1856 . The capital was 40 , 000 / ., in -4000 shares of 10 / . each , deposit 27 . per share . Of ( Ma number , 0740 shares were aubabrtbed for , but only 8250 paid , upon whloh a sum of

    33 , 546 / . was raised . Not only had that sum not been expended , but there was a mortgage of 14 , 500 / . upon the buildings and gardens . The company had failed and was unable to pay its working expenses ; the capital of the company was entirely ' exhausted , lost , or become unavailable / and the debts incurred were about 26 , 000 / . —namely , the 14 , 500 / . mortgage , and 11 , 000 / . of other debts , which the company were unable to pay . That being the case , his client , who was the owner of twenty shares , as well as a creditor of the company , felt it his duty to come before that court and present a petition for winding up the affairs of the company . Some technical objections were raised by Mr . Chappell , on behalf of M . Jullieh , who , in conjunction with Messrs . Beale and Co ., is at present bearing all the current expenses of the concern ; but these objections were overruled by the Commissioner .

    Mr . Fleming said he appeared before the court on behalf of Mr . Samuel Cooke and cither shareholders , and he had to present a memorial to the court , if it was the practice of the court to receive it , showing the grounds upon which they objected to the reception of this petition , and the order of the court issuing thereupon ; or , at all events , that the order of the court for the winding up should not issue until the shareholders had time to investigate the truth of the allegations in the petition , many of which they believed to be untrue . In the first

    place , he took an objection to the petition , which , in one point , was notoriously untrue ; that was in the statement it contained * that the paid-up capital of the Royal Surrey Gardens Company had been entirely exhausted , lost , or become unavailable . ' He asked the Commissioner how the whole of 33 , 000 / . could be said to be lost or unavailable , ' when there , was the Music Hall , which had cost 18 , 313 / ., and the other buildings iri the Gardens . Could it be said that these buildings , with all their fittings , were worth nothing at all ?

    The Commissioner : " If a company is unable to meet its engagements , then it matters not what buildings it has ; it is a case for winding up . Here in the petition it is stated that the company is in debt 26 , 000 / ., and has no means of paying . " Mr . Fleming further stated that up to a late period the shareholders had been deceived by flourishing statements as to the prosperous condition of the company ; that , in a recent balance-sheet , a balance was put down of 1160 / . in favour of the company ; and that the shareholders never heard a word about a mortgage until the petition was presented . An adjournment was therefore requested , in orJer that there might be time for investigating the accounts . —This was resisted by Mr . Roxburgh , who said that in that case creditors who had obtained execution might

    go intu the Gardens , seize whatever they could lay hands on , and do immense mischief . Mr . Coombe , a solicitor and shareholder in the company , said the shareholders had strong grounds for suspecting that the petition for winding up was actually the petition of the directors themselves , and , although an official liquidator might be appointed by the court , they believed that the petitioner , the secretary , the attorney , and the other officials , were in collusion with the directors to get this petition received , so that they might have tho matter wound up in a way favourable to themselves . Tho shareholders , having been refused the accounts , had had no time to investigate . —Mr . Jones repudiated the assertion that ho was in any way in collusion with the directors . —The Commissioner consented to adjourn the hearing of the petition till the following Thursday . At this announcement there was loud applause .

    Mr . George , of tho firm of King and George , solicitors , of Cheapside , said he had attended there to watch the proceedings on the part of Mrs . Seacole , in whose behalf a series of military fetes had recently been given at the Surrey Gardens . Although they were led to believe that these Jete * produced a very considerable sum of money , which it was agreed should be kept as a separate ' account , no return whatever had been made , and Mrs . Seacolo had never received ono single farthing of the proceeds . His application to tho court was that his honour would issue an order for his inspection of the books and documents of the company , on behalf of Mrs . Seacole , to ascertain how the funds collected specially for her use had been appropriated . The Commissioner said ho should certainly not ontertain any of these isolated applications .

    At tho meeting of tho shareholders on Friday week , statements similar to those mentioned above wore made ; and one shareholder said tho uffuir was worse than that of tho British Bank . Another meeting of the shareholders was hold on Tuesday in tho Refreshment Hull of the Gardens . Tho directors abstained from being prosent . Mr . Coombe was called to the chair , and M . Jullton was ono of tho chief speakers . Mr . Fleming having stated tho main facts connected with tho position of tho company , Mr . Nicoll followed in tho same course , and alluded to tho benefit for Mrs . Seacolo , when M . Julllon , with some animation , exclaimed : — " That is a robbery . She ought to have had her money ovory night—that was agreed on- Tho man who took that money ought to bo brought boforo you . It was paid away for bills whloh woro written by tho parties themselves . Tho Duko of Oambridgo would not allow it , nor would tho other

    distinguished officers connected with that lady ' s benefit . The Woman had been robbed . The whole cry is , ' Mr . Coppock ! Where is Mr . Coppock ? Why does he not come here ? ' " Loud and vehement applause followed these remarks . M . Jullien subsequently again asked where Mr . Coppock was , and asserted that , after the Seacole festival , he never went near the place . Where had the money gone to ? He himself ( Mi . Jullien ) " had had no money this season , except a part of his salary paid in shares . "—Mr . Tyler said that the money was taken up to his room every night , and in the morning placed against the cheques and sent to the bank , and it was the same in the Seacole week . —M . Jullien : " That is wrong , for at the end of that week I went with this cheque ( holding it up ) , and found nothing at the banker ' s . "—( Loud cheers and some confusion . ')

    Mr . Fleming then moved a resolution to the effect that , the gentlemen who were appointed to make an investigation into the accounts having made their report , it was considered necessary to institute the strictest inquiry into the affairs of the company ; that therefore a committee of investigation be formed of shareholders for that purpose , and generally to conduct the affairs of the company in its winding-up ; that the committee seek what professional assistance they , may require , and that an application be made to the Court of Bankruptcy to get rid of that petition . —Mr . Macdonald having seconded the motion , it was carried unanimously . —Several gentlemen handed in subscriptions towards defraying the expenses of the movement .

    The chairmen then made some very feeling observations on the position in which M . Jullien had been left , and called on the meeting to give him a cordial vote of thanks for the manner in which he had always endeavoured to promote the interests of the company . The motion having been carried with acclamation , M . Jullien rose , and , greatly affected , said " he had been very miserably treated for the fifteen months that he had been connected with the company . He had found his thirty years' experience had here been thrown away . The directors hail not understood his endeavours , excepting in the case of Mr . Beale and Mr . Chappell . For the past four or five months , he had been very badly situated , for he had had to keep his poor fellows inthe band for hours for their money ; but he could not get his cheque for 2000 / . through the bad management . Many of those poor fellows , only getting 21 . a week , and having had many years to learn their profession , could their

    had to wait for hours before they get money to get food for themselves and families . For himself , he had been called to the bosom of his family to rest , but he could not ; he had commenced with this , and he would sink with it as the last man of a ship should do . ( Cheers . ) He had many times gone into the orchestra when told by his doctor that he would die , but he said itr would be an honour to die in his orchestra . ( Cheers . ' ) It had been supposed he was rich , but he was not , for he had very heavy expenses to meet in obtaining new music aud extending his orchestra . { Hear , hear . ) He was a most economical man , for the cost of himself aud family at home was not 21 . a week . He trusted to God , however , that the concern would next year succeed . He had spent a largo fortune in one affair in establishing a national opera , and it had driven him to the Bankruptcy Court . He hoped he should never figure again in anything connected with bankruptcy . " M . Jullien here " abruptly left the room , being overcome with

    emotion . The usual compliment to the chairman terminated the proceedings . At the adjourned meeting in the Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday , Mr . Coppock , tho late manager and oneoi the directors of the company , was present , and made some statements in defence of himself and colleagues . He said he was a solicitor and the largest shareholder in the company . Ho held ono thousand one hundred 10 / . shares , and was a creditor for between 400 / . and 500 / . money lent . Ho was opposed to winding up . Ho and interest hostile

    tho other directors had not the slightest to the interests of tho other shareholders , and in the course which Die directors had taken their object was to prevent tho property from being sacrificed . The Commissioner : " There is no blamo imputed . " Mr . Coppock replied that grave aspersions had been thrown upon them . Those aspersions they repudiated , and challenged tho fullest inquiry . They wanted to protect the property , and also to protect themselves from charges ma « o against them by persons who should have been ashumoa to bring thoso charges . . . attach

    Tho Commissioner : "I do not see that any has been made . " Mr . Coppock said that attacks had boon mado day after day , and allusions had boon tH r r 0 WU out as to criminal proceedings against them . -I hoy might not have acted wisely , but they had done tiic best they could , and , if they had failed , it was not their fault . Ho was not tho mnn to bo charged with embezzling money . Tho Commissioner : "I repeat there w no charge against you . " Mr . Coppook stated that im had never received any advantage whatever from tno company , and ho was heavily involved in it . After some further discussionMr . Goorgo bogged that

    , Mrs . Seacolo might have permission to inspect tho booite , Mr . Ooppook stated that with Mrs . Seacolo tho director . ! had no communication directly or indirectly , f ho mo-

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    /¦ - , •¦ 824 T H 33 LEA D E R . _ ffig : _ ggg » ^ Au « tf mp 29 , 1857 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 824, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2207/page/8/