The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

mon ial to its long-desired and by many long despaired-
of state of completion.

Simultaneously with these honourable efforts to
"set the finishing touch" to the principal among the
national tributes to Lord NELSON, there have been
making other efforts yet more honourable to compen-
sate to some small extent the deplorable neglect shown
for forty-seven years towards one of the officers of
that heroic and immortal commander. During the
last few days we have had the satisfaction of referring
in our naval intelligence more than once to the recent
bestowal upon Lieutenant Jour" POLLARD of the
lieutenant's out-pension of Greenwich. It is griev-
ously characteristic of the naval service of England
that such should have been the tardy recompense ac-
corded to a brave old tar who was born as far back as
1787, and who entered the maritime profession, in
which he has been so disgracefully overlooked, as early
as 1797. Lieutenant POLLARD, the .signal midshipman
on board the Victory at the memorable battle of Tra-
falgar, has thus, it will be observed, had to wait until
1852 for even a feeble recognition of his eminent claims
upon the country—and this recognition bas only
been accorded now that the Board of Admiralty is
presided over by a distinguished brother officer like
the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND.

Whenever the Great Unpaid have a chance, they
notoriously distinguish themselves ; at times they
move us to anger by the pertinacity with which they
apply themselves to the persecution and prosecution
of unhappy violators of the Game Laws ; but some-
times, also, by way of relief—mingling comedy with
tragedy—they indulge the public with a touch of the
ludicrous. As a matter of course, the Great Unpaid
know very little of the law; nor can they be blamed,
though they may pitied, for their ignorance—save
and except, indeed, that they are scarcely justified
in undertaking the performance of judicial duties,
without possessing a requisite knowledge of the law.
On Saturday, the complaint of the Anti-Cruelty to
Animals Society versus Cremorne Gardens—with
which the public have been dosed, usque ad nauseum,
—was brought before the Magistrates at Ilford Petty
Sessions. It was then and there known (for it
had been publicly announced previous to that day)
that tha proprietor of the gardens had determined not
to allow a repetition of anything of the sort com-
plained of. The Society, however, having got a po-
pular case, went in for their " pound of flesh "—in
the shape of
a fine or conviction. Now and then,

by Way of showing that it lives, the Society niakes a

grand display : we earnestly wish, that, for the sake
of humanity, they would be half as vigilant as re-
gards the ordinary cases of cruelty to animals which
are daily cccurring in the streets. They have such
magnanimous sympathy for ballooned ponies and
bulls, that they take them from Acton to West-
minster, and thence into Essex. But we never
hear of their watching and prosecuting the bull-
biitings and bull-rushings in the classic vi-
cinity of Smithfield. Let then Mr. Thomas
only take his stand in Snow-hill on any Friday
in the year, and we promise him an abundance
of cases to bring before the magistrates. This Cre-
morne case, however, by its notoriety, will be " meat,
drink, food, and clothing" (like the ale of the Lich-
field Boniface) for the next twelve months.

At Ilford, on Saturday, the complaint was, that
Madme POITEVIN had gone up on a heifer attached to
a balloon, which bad ascended from Cremorne Gar-
dens, of which Mr. SIMPSON is the lessee. (We may
state, parenthetically, that we really have been unable
to discover the interest, in any way, of pony or bull
ascents. They are, to our taste, as absurd as what
are magnificently called "polanderic feats.") The
magistrates present, at these Petty Sessions, are said
to have been Mr. W. DAVIS, Chairman ; and Messrs.
G. FRY, 0. MASHITER, and M`NAUGHTEN. Mr.
THOMAS, the secretary of the Society, appeared for
the prosecution ; and Mr. PARRY, as counsel,
and Mr. LEWIS, solicitor, for the defendants. At
the commencement of the proceedings Mr. THOMAS
said be wished to inform the magistrates that a course
had been suggested by Mr. PARRY, who appeared for
the defendants, which was this, that they should plead
guilty, and consent to pay the full penalty of 51. each,
they undertaking that in future no such exhibitions
should take place at Cremorne. They also proposed
to take the opinion of the magistrates as to whether
Madame POITEVIN was legally liable to the penalty,
as it was alleged that she was at the time acting under
the direction and control of her husband. If the
Bench approved of such a course, he, on the part of
the prosecution, had no objection.
This, which involved the great point sought by the
Society (namely, the conviction), might have settled
the matter, one would have thought. And so it
would before a Stipendiary Magistrate who bad
common sense—but not so with the Great Unpaid.
They determined to make a field-day of it, to hear
what the lawyers bad to say, "to confine themselves
to the legal points," and to have the honour and glory
of speechifying thereafter. So they heard counsel
at great length, his last sentence being, " I need cite
no authorities to show that it has been uniformly held
that where a woman acts in concert with her husband,
and in his presence, she is taken to be under his con-
trol, and is not in any way liable in point of law. I
am grateful for your courtesy in allowing me to
make this brief statement; you have given me a lati-
tude wich I know I could only have received from
your courtesy; and I rely upon the strong feeling
and sense of justice that characterise English tribu-
nals, that you will take into consideration not only
the fact itself, but all the circumstances connected
with it, and that you will be of opinion that Mr.
SIMPSON was not altogether unjustified in entering
into the original engagement. I will say on his be-
half that no man feels more, after what has been said
upon this topic, than Mr. SpiPson, that he never
again ought to allow, and he pledges himself per-
sonally that he never will allow, any ascent of
animals to take place."
The Chairman is said to have then delivered the
following remarkable speech :
" We all of us feel the deep importance of this offence,
and the question was one which—l believe I can speak
truly—we were all determined previously to come to a
conclusion this day upon the subject. We now, is this
situation, are not sitting as an ordinary tribunal—we
are here as judge and jury upon a most deeply-important
question regarding the welfare, and peace, and morality
of this kingdom. I have no doubt, in my humble
aitliatiml--1 have n.
o doubt whatever but that the eyes, not
only of the E
perhaps the
pleasre, retire with pub/to are on us at this instant, but
let us
matter......(seeres all Europe are upon this most serious
I therefore shall, with the greatest
the two points which brother. magistrates to consider
we shall enter into
first point—and _think have been selected. The
the details
understand it—is whether
formation; and the nextetail? of the accusation or in-
shall ores
under point is whether, as regards
theoireum control of her husband or
the lady, she was
not? Under these
we must take care
this that high feel-
that no decision of ours
Jed (?) for many years. Therefore
jog which has prevailed in
on this sub-
°Wuittrvirill retire and
consider the subject.
L
Personating
EUROPA on a heifer attached to a balloon.
(mark the gram-
mar of
this
offence"--madame
tne
_Madame POITEVIN, to
ef!Le breath 1 • "The pup
public
morals would be swamped—unless the Essex justices
"as judge and jury"
gistrates sitting,
-
morality of this kingdom"—trade
mar !), on a matter "involving. the Welfare, and
peace, and morab would
decline, war with France would ensue, and
discussed the question, after the defendants, having
erred through inadvertence, had pleaded guilty ! And
then, the exquisite finish, that " perhaps THE EYES OF
ALL EUROPE are upon this most serious matter." With
the exception of Justice SHALLOW and Sir R • PEEL'S
" three tailors in Tooley-street, calling themselves
we, the people of England,' " there never was such
grandiloquence as this. " The eyes of all Europe,"
we assure the public, are not directed either to Essex
calves or Essex magistrates ! _

•
After another speech from the Chairman—thrice as
wordy and six times as absurd as the above—in which
he is made to say (we hope erroneously), " As a
boy I was schooled in a public-house, and there were
constantly scenes of riot and disgusting exhibitions,"
—each defendant was fined 51. and costs, being
exactly what had been offered, in submssion, at the
opening of the cased But, then, had the matter been
cut short at the commencement, we should iv have
bad the Chairman's " eyes of all Europe" harangue.
So, he appeared as a magisterial " Sir Oracle," and
said his say. It is true that he attempted to explain
why he was diffuse and tedious. "Perhap," said
he, after alluding to his own early schooling, "per-
haps I am extending my
observations a little more
than is needful ; but I think the case does require a
little more expression of opinion on the part of gentle-
men like ay.rselves than any ordinary transaction that