The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

Now ready, G. SHELTONS Derby Guide, Is Glenie,
Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park ; Sunday Times Office,
Fleet-street; and all agents.

LOCXET'S Derby Analysis at a glance shows what the
field for the Blue Riband will be selected from ; and con-
tains also selections for all the great three-year-old contests,
selections fcr Manchester meeting, Waterloo Cup, &c.
Price one shilling; had from Sunday Times office, and all
the usual agents, or from E. Locket, Box L 2, Manchester.

FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.—A. serious collision
has taken place this week nine miles south by east of the
Lizard. The smack Lemon, of Padstow, came into collision
with the schooner Catherine, of Barmouth. The latter vessel
sank almost immediately, and five seamen were drowned.
The captain was saved by clinging to a rope until he was
picked up by the Lemon. The lost vessel was laden with
slates, The cause of the accident has not yet been stated.
ARREST OF MR S. HARDINGE.—A few months
since we announced the marriage of Mr S. Hardinge, an
ex-lieutenant in the navy of the Northern States of Ame-
rica, to Miss Belle Boyd, a young lady whose patriotic
devotion to the South had induced her to take an active
part in the warfaro raging between the two sections of the
American republic, and who, under circumstances which
gave proof of much courage and devotion, repeatedly pene-
trated into the Northern lines and returned to her friends
the bearers of important information. The marriage took
place under romantic circumstances, as the lie tenant,
smitten with the charms of Miss Boyd, connived at her
escape from the vessel in which she was being cony eyed a
prisoner; and afterwards, resigning his commission in the
Northern service, followed her to London, where they
were united at St. James's Church. We now learn that
Mr Hardinge has been captured, He had crossed the At-
lantic to visit his friends and relatives, and in the:hope that
he would be able to bring to Europe his wife's younger
sister, who, residing with her mother at Martinsburg, in
Virginia, was exposed to the brutality of the Northern
soldiery, and was daily in danger of meeting with the
grossest outrages at their hands. So far as is at present
known he was seized, while at Mrs Boyd's house, by
General Stephenson, commanding the post at Harper's
Ferry, and is now lodged in the very prison at Washington
in which bis wife was confined during some portion of her
adventurous career, The danger which Miss Boyd ran may
be estimated when it is stated that the country around her
mother's house has been repeatedly the scene of desperate
engagements, that the estate itself has been laid waste by
the Northern troops, and that all the male members of
the family are absent in the service of the South, the only
person left to protect the mother and daughter being an
old negro.
THE ROYAL " BARON OF BEEF."—On Thursday
the royal baron of beef was roasted before the great kitchen
fire at Windsor Castle, and forwarded yesterday to Osborne,
where, with the "boar's head" and "game pie," it will
deck the Christmas sideboard of her Majesty.
VOLTAIRE'S HEART.—The evening Itioniteur gives
the following account of the translation of the heart of
Voltaire to the Bibliotheque Imperiale, which event has pro-
voked commentaries of the most divers kinds :—" When
Voltaire died, his heart, after a post-mortem examination,
Was extracted from his body on the 31st of May, 1778, by
order of the .Marquis De Villette, in whose house he
stayed after his return to Paris. and wherein he died.
The friend, the admirer of the great writer, desired to
save this heart from the destruction which death occa-
sions, and it was placed in a metallic vessel and steeped
in a chemical preparation calcu'ated to preserve it from
decay. When, in execution of the law of May 30, 1791,
which enacted that " the ashes of Voltaire should be trans •
erred to the church of St. Genevieve, where they should
receive the funereal honours due to great men," the
funeral procession of Voltaire passed through the streets
of Paris on July 11 of the same year, a halt was made
before the mansion :of the Marquis De Villette, situated
at the corner of the Rue de Beaune and the Quai
Voltaire, and the Moniteur of July 13 records the fact
that the reason for the pause was that Voltaire's
heart was there. Shortly afterwards the heart. was re•
moved to the Chateau do Vilette, in the arrondissement of
Pont St Ma' ence(Oise) where it ever since remained, and
was kept with veneration. But the Marquis de Vilette, his
widow, and his son are dead; and their heirs having con-
sidered it a duty to give up this relic to the State, M. Leon
Duval, a member of the order of Advocates of the hope.
rial Court of Paris, having taken the Emperor's plea-
sure, his Majesty desired that a national asylum should
be given in the Bibliotheque Imperiale to the heart o

Voltaire, to the end that it may henceforth belong to
France, pursuant to the intent of the law of Nth May,
1791. In obedience to his Majes;rs orders on Friday last,
the 16th of this month, M. Duruy, the minister of public in-
struction, :proceeded to the Bibliotheque Imperiale, and
there in presence of the Administrator-General of the estab-
lishment, accompanied by members of the Consultative
Committee, he received from the hands of M. Leon Duval
the heart of Voltaire enclosed in a recipient of gilt metal, on
which is engraved these words :—" Le cont. de Voltaire,
mort a Paris le XXX Moi MDCCLXXVIII." The
Minister- declared that he took possession of this pre-

cious deposit, and ordered that it should be provisionally
kept with all the respect due to the mortal remains of
this great man, in the best part of the Bibliothcque Impe-

riale—that is to say, the department of medals—until the
time when the new works shall be sufficiently advanced to
permit of its definitive installation between the departments
of manuscripts and prints, on the first floor of the Rotunda,
between the junction of the Rues do Richelieu and Neuve
des Petits Champs, where a room is destined to receive not
only the heart of Voltaire, but also the original statue by
Houdon, the medals struck in his honour, and the manu-

script correspondence and printed works of the immortal

writer. Proces verbal (i. e. a written record) was at once
drawn up of this delivery and reception."

The Official Gazette of Bavaria, in confirming the
statements made by several journals relative to an autograph
letter adlressed by King Louis to the King of Hanover on
the question of the Duchies, announces that the reply
received from Hanover is conceived in the most friendly
terms. A communication from Berlin remarks that
to deceive oneself as to the views of the Hanoverian
Government would be unwise, as since the separation of
the Duchies from Denmark Hanover has not concealed her
antipathy for the cause of the Prince of Augustenburg, and
has supported in a visible manner the candidateship of the
Grand Duke of Oldenburg. If, however, the change an-
nounced on the part of Prussia is confirmed, there is no
doubt that Hanover will also modify her dispositi as.
The Courrier du Bas.Ehin stales that the cola
tivation of hops bee been greatly developed in that
department within the last seven years, but more
especially in the cantons of Birchwiller and Hague.
nau. In the former, the area under this crop in 1857

was 743,0.2 perches (about 4,650 English acres),
but in 1664 it had increased to 1,509,182 perches,
or nearly double. The number of planters had also
risen in the same period from 900 to 1,602. It is

estimated that the cultivation of hops in the Bas
Rhin now produces at least 10,000,000 f. annually.

THIRD EDITION:

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

FRANCE.

The France states that, according to advices from
Rome, the Franco-Roman postal convention has
been signed, and that all that remains to be now
done is to exchange the ratifications.
_ _

Marshal Megnan, in command of the Ist Corps
d'At mee, yesterday reviewed at the Fort of Bieetre,
the Ist battalion of foot chasseurs recently arrived
from Mtxico. This fine body of men rephices in,
the garrison of Paris the 16:h Chasseurs, which hrie
left for Algeria.
-

STATE OF TRADE,

-s

~~~

MANCHESTER, DEC. 23.—The market for cotton
goods generally has continued to improve since
Tuesday, and on Wednesday and yesterday a good,
deal of business was done, with a gradual advance
in prices. Shipping yarns are gradually strength_
ening in price, and to-day—though there has been
no excitement—higher prices have been paid for all
descriptions as compared with yesterday. For
home trade yarns the market is very strong, with
a fair business at Id to ld per lb. advance on the
rates of Tuesday morning. In cloth there has been,
a good business, with gradually improving pricQa
ever since Tuesday. Yesterday a rather consider-
able business was effected, and probably more would
have been done but for the check constantly aris-
ing out of the advance. The quotations of buyers
have been constantly a little in advance of the
prices. Buyers have been willing to give, and tha
bulk of the business has been in goods ready for
immediate shipment, or for which an early delivery
could be guaranteed. Today there has been hardly
so much business as during the two preceding
days, but the tone of the market is exceedingly
firm and the inquiry still keeps good. The princi.
pal demand has been for cloths suitable to the mar-,
kets of India, but other descriptions have shared to
a fair extent in the attention of buyers.
NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 23.—There was a fair attend-
ance at this Exchange to-day. The demand for
lace yarns, although slow, was firm, and prices had
an upward tendency. For hosiery yarns rates had
also a tendency to stiffen. Silks were held at prey
viou3 rates, but there was not much doing. For
brown nets the demard was very fiat, but prices
were much the same as heretofore.

Hooker v. Burnaby.

--~-- --

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SIIN.

Sin,—lt was far from toy desire to bring my name before
the public in connection with this painful matter, which no
one can more regret than myself; but Mr Hooker's letter
in your columns of Tuesday leaves me no alternative, in
common justice to Mr Burnaby, but to reply thereto, and
give my statement of this unfortunate affair.
I have for some time past had a shooting arrangement
with the plaintiff, Mr Hooker, he finding the land and I
paying all the other expenses, including gamekeeper. I
very seldom avail myself of this shooting, and when I do
generally stop at a farm in the neighbourhood belonging
to my father. In September last I had invited Mr Burnaby
and Lieut. Adderley (another brother officer), and upon
their coming down I asked Mr Hooker to meet them. 'We
dined together, and in the course of conversation atter din-
ner Mr Burnaby and Mr Hooker, who are both gentlemen
of athletic proportions, discussed various subjects in con-
nection with throwing weights, and each boasted of his
strength; some trials took place between them, and Mr
Hooker to some extent lost hie temper, but at the close of
the evening all parted on friendly terms, arranging to
meet on the following day and shoot together. 'We did
not meet in the early part of the day, as arranged, but
eventually came together, and upon Mr Hooker propos,
ing to shoot over some ground that we had been trying
prior to our meeting, Mr Burnaby. objected, say,
ing we should find no birds, to which Mr
Hooker replied " that he did not understand
shooting there, although, perhaps, he might in his own
country," adding some taunting expressions as to Mr Bur-
naby's shooting. We had very little sport, and Mr Bur.
naby about 2 o'clock in the day made an observation to the
effect that he should advise me to give up the shooting.
This seemed greatly to annoy Mr Hooker, who asked Mr
Burnaby what he meant by interfering between him and
myself, and also if Mr Burnaby imagined that he (Mr
Hooker) had been over the ground before, to which the lat-
ter replied that he thought it probable he had. This remark
appeared to further annoy Mr Hooker, who lost his temper )
asked Mr Burnaby if he intended to call him a poacher, say-
ing, "that although he might be an architect he got his
living honestly. aed did not, as Mr Burnaby did, make
money by swindling his brother officers, attending prize
fights, and going into training for all sorts of blackguard
affairs," that he, Mr Burnaby, " wished to get up a quar.
rel," and then taunted him with being afraid to hit him for
fear of getting a licking, adding, "if I did lick you you'd
take the law of me." Upon this being said Mr Burnaby
fired off his gun and offered to fight the quarrel out, when
Mr Hooker said, " If you hit me, I'll blow your brains out."
From this moment the dispute was carried through on
both sides in a spirit of bitterness which, although most
lamentable, it was futile to attempt to moderate. To me the
quarrel was from the first a source of regret, knowing as I
did both parties, having been acquainted for some years
with Mr Hooker, and Mt Burnaby being my brother officer
and guest. I did my best to make peaoe, and, having spoken
to Mr Burnaby, who professed himself willing to adopt
any course myself and Mr Adderley would suggest, I re-
peatedly spoke to Mr Hooker, and urged upon him to apolo-.
gise for the gross insult he had offered to my friend in apply-
ing the term "swindler" to him ; and this term I insisted
he should withdraw. Mr Hooker, however, positively re.
fused to give any apology or to withdraw the word; and,
after again conferring with Mr Adderley, we both felt we
must leave matters to take their course, and that we had no
alternative but to intimate to Mr Burnaby that he was, in
our opinion, bound to resent the affront, and some two hours
after the commencement of the quarrel, during which time
both Mr Adderley and my-elf had anxiously attempted to
amicably arrange matters, Mr Burnaby went up to Mr
Hooker and demanded an apology, to which Mr Hooker
replied " That he would not apologise to a bully like him-
self." That, afterwards took place has been described by
Mr Burnaby in his letter, which has already appeared in
The Sun, and I am prepared to pledge my word of honour
to its strict accuracy. I state most positively that Mr
Hooker was never upon the ground at all; that Mr
Burnaby kicked him twice only; those kicks were adminise
tered behind ; and Mr Burnaby did not strike Mr Hooker
until the latter had seized his leg, and was endeavouring to
throw him over. I wish to add that the statement I have
now made I furnished to Mr Burnaby's solicitors; that Mr
Adderley and myself attended the trial of the case, and both
were prepared tcoaginvoet, t icy w
evidenceoto the effect
knowledge,effect efmystate
whether present
statement. I n
the offer to settle upon payment of £5O
was made, except that Mr Burnaby himself so
informed me when in the court, and stated he had refused
to compromise the matter.

I must express my regret at addressing you at this
length, but I feel that I have only one course to pursue,
and that is to place the correct facts before the public. I
should have as readily done so had Mr Burnaby been in the
wrong, and 1 only regret finding myself called upon to give
the most explicit denial of the accuracy of Mr Hooker's
statement, as it again appeared in hie letter of to-day—and,
in addition, I avail myself of this opportunity of publicly
contradicting the allegation advanced by Mr Hooker to
the effect that I introduced the name of, or hinted at, Mr
Burnaby's having beeu mistaken for another gentleman.
In making these remarks, I feel that a very faithful state-
ment of a scuftla of this description can seldom be expected

from the immediate parties.
In conclusion, I wish to add that Mr Adderley is ac.
quainted with the purport of this letter, and that I have
his authority for saying that the statement I now beg the
favour of your affording a place in your columns is, in his
opinion, strictly correct.--I have the honour to remain, sir,
your most obedient servant,

H. E. WRSTCAR,
Royal Horse Guards, Regent's-park Barracks, Dec. 20.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU N".

Westcar, of my regiment, has written you a
letter in connexion with this affair, for the strict accuracy of
which i
as myself and brother officers
do, trial were true in substance,
thath I
if
f vouch
the ;
report
oftthis
and if Mr Burnaby hadscommitted the brutal assault laid to
his charge, he would be unfit to remain our associate, I
look to that spirit of fair play which is always accorded by
the press to all classes to ask the favour of your permitting
me through your columns to state most positively that Mr
Hooker and his witness most grossly exaggerate the real
facts of this case. I speak as an independent eyewitness of
the entire affair from beginning to end, and pledge my word
that Mr Burnaby never kicked Mr Hooker in any part of
his person, save in the first instance giving
him one or two
kicks behind. The scuffle did not occupy two minutes ;no
blow was struck by Mr Burnaby until his leg had been laid
hold of by his opponent, and immediately he was released he
ceased striking. In fact, however much the matter is to be
regretted, it was one of those fracas of the moment between
two hot-blooded men equally matched as to size and
strength, and the plaintiff and his witnesses have enlarged
this into an assault of a most violent and disgraceful
character.
I have the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient
servant,
M. B. B. ADDERLEY, Royal Horse Guards.
Regent's-park Barracks, Dec. 20.
[With these communications the correspondence must
(Am in our eolumns.7