The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her OSBORNE,TUESDAY.
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
took their usual early walk yesterday morning.
The Earl of Malmesbury, Secretary of State for Fo-
reign Affairs; Viscount Stratford de Redeliffe, and Lord
Howden, arrived from London at half-past one o'clock.
The Earl of Malmesbury had an audience of the Queen.
Viscount Stratford do Radcliffe and Lord Bowden
were presented to her Majesty by the Earl of Malmes-
bury, on their return from abroad, and also had audiences.
The Royal dinner party included her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, Lady Caroline Murray, Lord
and Lady Downes, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Phipps,
the Hon. Colonel Liddel, and Mr. Gibbs.

His Serene Highness Prince Charles of Hohenlohe
Langenbourg arrived in town yesterday morning, and
after visiting the Houses of Parliament, Westminster
Hall, and exhibition of the Royal Academy, returned to
Frogmoro in the afternoon.
Mr. M'Crill, of Montreal, had an interview with Sir
John Peking ton yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS FOR
IRELAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—As one of the very many persons to whom
the perusal of the letter ofahe Master of the Rolls for
Ireland, which appeared in The Times of Wednesday,
the 14th inst., has given, and must always afford the
most sincere and thrilling gratification, and in which
is enunciated the lofty power and noble principle
worthy of a Mansfield, or an Erskine, or a Hale, when
he said, " I did not vote at the election of iessrs.
Grogan and Vance, because I am of opinion it is better
that those, to whom the administration of justice is
intrusted, should not take part in politics,"—perhaps
I may be permitted, through your kind indulgence,
to relate a forensic anecdote in connexion with him,
whilst he was Attorney-General for Ireland, of a
kindred spirit with those principles and illustrative of
the high sense of honour, which throughout a
laborious but brilliant and truly successful career
at the bar, that dignitary of the law
was pre-eminently distinguished. He held a
brief in the cause of Batchelor v. Boyle,
there were several thousand pounds pending the issue,
and, as may be expected, the brief was rather volu-
minous; the fee thirty guineas. The Attorney-
General had read and noted his brief thoroughly, as
appeared upon the many consultations in the progress
theto aeashe. eariHnge,
wasen and no
in Parliament. e doubt made
ebeimt.self master of
The cause
was in the list for hearing several days, during which
he attended in court to make his statement
when the
case would be called on. At length, finding that it
was not likely to be on for a day or two, and that he
was obliged to attend his Parliamentary duties in.
London, he sent for the solicitor of his client, told
him how he was circumstanced, and expressed a
desire to return the fee. The solicitor, rather asto-
nished at the idea of counsel returnin
a fee, replied,
awaregthat
Mr. Attorney-General, I am
you have read and noted your brief, and have lost
your time
in waiting to make your statement
as leading
h acannoti t
hthink w . of taking Tile A ts.ool Attorney
solicitor
i
othoeunfeseel,,
and an
tdhe n I
General then sent a brother barrister to the
to say, that if he did not take back the fee he would
have it left at his house. The solicitor was constrained
to wait upon him; fh and
--- the Attorney-General addrctshe
ing him said—" Sir, from the day to I was called t°
bar to this hour I have acted upon this rule, never
retain a fee I did not fully earn—it is true I have read
to
my brief and lost some time in waiting for the
!rocome on, but I have not made my state
therefore have not fully earned my fee, and 03,„
'suiting the action to the word,' gave back the thirty
guineas to the solicitor."
as
One word of comment on such high-mindedness
lfitly
or 11"37
this would be as vain as the effort "to paint
d his letter
or gild refined gold." I shall leave it ah-
the pure
to win the admiration of all who would seek
fountain of honour in the advocate
and spotless
'legrity in the judge.—l am, Sir &c. TER.
13 AVIUS

Gray's Inn, July, 1852.

COMPLETION OF THE
SUBMARINE TEL
RE.
TITRES PORTPATILICX AND ,ONAGHADEL. On Saturgay
" the final fetter," as it has been facetiounsly_g-I,
other words, the " cable of international it has
also been termed, was sunk andfeo cal" ”leasd, or, in
to Portpatrick, on the Scottish therebysuccessfully
completing the
submarine line of electric communicationcoat,
from
ponaghadee
brought home
Ir.
between Ireland, Scotland, and England, Th
the • ed
d last week
con-
for operations of
expedition, which were prudently susPen-eand
..more favourable tides, were resumed on FridaY, ttnned without interruption thron bout the whole of Satur-
___a
ay, on the evening of which da g,
by ten o'clock, the cable
tails
securely anchored on the Scyottish coast ; but as no de.
Yetconnected with the operations of the expedition have
t transpired, it is impossible to know bow the communica-
tion works. The additional length of cable sunk was about
fourteen miles, seven of it having been previonslY submerged,
making a •
ditfere distance of 21 miles between the two coasts, or a
T,O nce of 44. miles over the route between Holyhead and
linl wth. The cable at Portpatrick will be immediately placed
i.,. connexion with the Electric will be
Dumfries, and it is understood that both
companies
Telegraph Company's wires at
Dumfries
connected with one another. The wires from
to Portpatrick subterraneously in a trench
of a foot and
crook, Newton St e, t roug and from Dona-
Stewart, quPart re hrun h Stranraer, Genoch, Whit-
crook,
on the Opposite coast, they will
enrt, and New Galloway ;
ultimately be carried
to Dublin, Belfast', the northof Ireland' and all its principal
towns, where the o toffices will be used for telegraph
stations, the proposed ssy-stem being intended eventually to
embrace the whole of Ireland.
DEATII OF MR. SCROPE.—WiIIiamSerope—author
of two good books, " Days of Deer Stalking,' and " Days
and Nights of Salmon Fishing," known by these as the
know little of any.
Marquis of Newcastle of the reign of Charles I. was by his
work on horsemanship to readers who
other books —died on Tuesday lasL at his house in Bel-
rave-square, in the eighty-first year of his age. Mr. Scrope
was the last male representative of the famous family of his
name seated e..t Castle Combe, in Wiltshire—of which they
Possessed the manor and estate as early as the reign of Ed-
ward 111 —aud boasting among its historical worthies the
name of Lord S Tope, of Bolton, Lord Chancellor of England
in the reign of Richard 11. Mr. Scrope was proud of his
descent, but prouder, we believe, of his skill with the gun
aud rod, and, our g, j proud his
what is moe to
classical attainments and of his skilllikin with the pencil. of
His
boelcs above-named are accessories of importance to that
class of literature to which IValton's " Angler" and Davy's
" Scilmonia" belong. fir Mr. Scrope had an eye alive to the
varieties of nature, and a skill in communicating to his
ictures in
readers what he had seen ald what he knew. With his
pencil he was, we think, not so good ;. and his p
spite of the touches which the late William Sirnson would
frequently throw into them, are inferior to those of his fellow
amateur, the late Sir George Beaumont. It may be well to
add that Mr. Scropss e was married in early life to Emma,
le
daughter and I • - of Mr. Charles Long, the
youngest
ire brother of Sir James Tilney Long, of Draycott, in Wilt-
shire, by whom he had an only child, Emma, married in
1821 to Mr. George Poulett Thompson, brother to the late
Lora Sydenham —who thereupon took the name and arms
of Scrope, in lieu el those of Thomson. Mr. Scrope was an
active—some artiste have said an over-active—director of
the British Institution.—Atllenrum.
ANGLING IN IRELAND.—The angling on the mo,
unbu
river hay been better this year then ever. Major B '
ry
and Mr. Gowran have killed, on an average, seven salmon
a
day e
and Mr. G. A. Pollock and Captain Lees killed forty.
!ix salmon in three days, the former gentleman having
taken twenty tw fish to his own rod in two dap.— Westmeath
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