At a sale of postage stamps held in London some high prices were realised. The catalogue consisted of 286 lots, of which all but seventeen were the collec tion of the late Mr A. F. Sheppard. The seventeen lots consisted of a number of rare British Guiana stamps. The chief attraction was lot 94, a good specimen of the 4c blue stamp of 1856 (used), which excited much competition, and was knocked down to Mr Theodor Buhl, the London dealer, for £37. The auctioneer announced that he had been commissioned to put up another copy of the same stamp, but much finer and unused. After compe tition between Messrs Wilson and Buhl, this was also knocked down to the bid of £50 by the latter gentleman, who has thus purchased the most expensive stamp ever put up for auction. At Westminster County Court recently the case of Morris v Moser came before Deputy-Judge Scott by way of a judgment summons. The defendant did not appear. Plaintiff said defendant had recently re ceived £1400 from Mr Soames for "pro curing evidence for the Special Com mission, and plaintiff thought that the fact of having received that money was sufficient evidence of means. The Judge, however, said that was not strict evidence" _nd the order of committal was suspended (or a month.
LORD ONSLOW.
