The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

FEBRUARY li, 1652

of the deepest gratitude, this kind and flattering ex-
pression of your feelings. Of the entire sincerity of
what you have said I do not entertain a doubt, and
though lam painfully conscious that the sentiments
you have expressed are beyond what I have deserved,
yet I shall not be guilty of the affectation of supposing
that such praises, coming from so large and deserving
a body of men as you, can be wholly unmerited.
Mine is one of many cases which show that if a public
man, without any pre-eminent ability, will exercise
such talents as God has been pleased to give him
honestly, without ostentation, and independently, he
will receive public approval, commensurate with and even
exceeding what he deserves. I thank God if I have
not been found wholly deficient in the use of those
talents with which He has entrusted me. It is with
great regret that, while still in possession of much of my
intellectual and bodily strength, I feel myself compelled
to retire from a profession in which I take and always
shall take the greatest delight. It is not now that for
the first time I have contemplated such a necessity. I
have found it difficult to avoid on the one hand the pre-
mature surrender of my office while I felt myself cipa-
ble of performing my duty, and on the other of clinging
to it when a physical infirmity might bring the due ad-
ministration of justice by me into jeopardy. I endea-
voured with the kindest advice of my brethren, and with
the assistance you have rendered me, to avoid either ex-
treme. I am sadly afraid that I have deferred my re-
tirement too long. You know that I have for some years
been obliged to use ingenious instruments, which have
much assisted me in hearing, and which are great com-
forts both in public and private life; but they cannot
prevent the increase of the infirmity. Of this lam con-
fident and sure—that nothing but the unceasing kind-
ness of the bar, and constant exertions on my behalf,
painful and indeed sometimes distressing, and the affec-
tionate and unceasing support of my brethren on the
beech, could have enabled me to continue, so long as I
have done, in the discharge of my duties. I am aware
that in some instances I have given way to impatient
expressions to the bar, and to the witnesses, as if they
were to blame, when in fact it was my own deficiency. I
have been, and am, heartily sorry for such a want of
command over myself—l have striven against the repe-
tition of it earnestly, but not always with success. My
brethren, you and the public have been very kind to me,
and a grateful recollection of that kindness will remain
with me and be a solace to me as long as my life shall
last. I bid you farewell affectionately. I wish you many
years of health and happiness, and success in your ho-
nourable profession, the duties of which require not only
zeal and learning, but high honour and integrity, and a
deep sense of responsibility to God and man, and which
being so performed are, in my judgment, eminently con-
ducive, with the blessing of God, to maintain the just
prerogatives of the Crown and the rights and happiness
of the subject.

At the conclusion of this address the strangers again
applauded, but as before the applause was checked. The
bar again bowed to the Learned Judge, who kindly re-
turned the salutation, and the Court then broke up.

BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT COURT OF
BANKRUPTCY, Feb. 10.
(Before Mr. Commissioner BALGUY.)
THE BTOURBRIDGE AND BRONSGROVE BANKS.
This was the first dividend day. Messrs. Motteram,
Knight, and Co., appeared as solicitors for the assignees,
and Mr. E. Wright for certain benefit societies.
Mr. KNIGHT drew the attention of the Court to the
fact that in the first instance the petition of bankruptcy
was issued against Messrs. Rufford and Raiford, carry-
ing on business as bankers at Bromsgrove, under the
style of Rufford, Rufford, and Biggs. Subsequently that
petition, previous to the choice of assignees, was an-
nulled, and merged into the proceedings under a fiat
issued and confirmed against Messrs. Rufford, Raiford,
and Wragge. Bat, before the first petition was annulled,
a considerable number of proofs had been taken by Mr.
Minshull, and these proofs were now presented to the
Court as against the estates of Messrs. Raiford and
Wragge. The accounts so proved were perfectly right,
and he (Mr. Knight) now suggested that, to save time
and expense to a large number of creditors who resided
at a distance, these proofs should be admitted. The
proofs were against the two Ruffords, bat not against
Wragge.
His HONOUR decided that the parties must prove again.
They were given under a petition which did not at pre-
sent exist.
Mr. E. WRIGHT applied to the Court that a certain
sum of money (about 5,0001.) should be set aside to meet
the claims in full of certain benefit societies, for whom it
was contended that the bankrupts acted as treasurers.
His Honour had recently decided that the societies were
not entitled to receive their claims in full; and against
that decision an appeal was about to be made to the
Lords Justices. A petition for that purpose had been
presented, and it was to await the decision of their Lord-
ships that he now asked the retention of the money
claimed by the societies.
Mr. KNIGHT thought that under the circumstances an
adjournment of the dividend would be the best course
which could be adopted.
Mr. Waterfield, the registrar, concurred in this opinion.
His HONOUR declined to make any order for setting
aside the money, as suggested by Mr. Wright, and. after
expressing his wish that the opinion he had given might
be reviewed by a higher court, adjourned the dividend
until the Bth of March.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Tho following officers attended the levee of the First
Lord of the Admiralty at Whitehall, yesterday:—Rear-
Admirals Ferguson and Fisher; Captains G. D. O'Cal.
laghau,: G. Gifford, W. Chambers, T. C. D. Hay, J.
Scott, W. Sandom, C. 8., Hamilton, and Sir T. Mait-
land, C. 8.; Commanders J. Hope, T. B. Marsh, H. E.
Wingrove, W. Kirby, H. G. Austin, H. Harvey. T. H.
Bridges, T. Woollcombe, J. Rawstorne, G. T. Napier,
J. A. Paynter, and J. Bigge; Lieutenants E. H. Gun-
nell, D. Spain, B. Pym, S. Osborn, H. Hannant, J. H.
Craig, T. Clayton.

APPOINTMENTS.
Captain Kingcome, who commanded the Belleiale as
a troop-ship, has been appointed to commission the iron
screw steam troop-ship Simoon, at Portsmouth.
Lieut. Charles G. Rigge (1838), of the steam service
at Devonport, and who formerly commanded the Trident
steam-vessel, has been appointed to the rank of com-
mander.

Master. G. A. Waters, to the Simeon
Assistant-Surgeons—James Whither to Greenwich
Hospital, vice Doraville promoted; Richard King to the
Victory, flag-ship, Portsmouth.
Second Master—F. B. Youel, to the Simoom.
Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, Commaner Be!grave, with
General Cathcart and suite on board, en route from
Portsmouth to the Cape, put into Plymouth on Monday
afternoon, with her rudder-head wrung. As we antici-
pated, she encountered the heavy weather of Saturday
night and Sunday. She ought not to have gone to sea
in the late weather.
Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., weighed anchor at
eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, and made all plain
sail, with the wind at N.N.E., down Channel.
Malabar, Indiaman, and the Sir Robert Peel, Ame-
rican packet, arrived at Portsmouth from London yes-
terday morning. Fresh breezes and squally; wind at
N.N.E.

Orders have been received at this port to pay off the
Pilot, 12, Commander V. G. Hickley, on her arrival
from Portsmouth.

DEFENSIVE PREPARATIONS.—The vacant embrasures
on the land side of the Citadel at Plymouth are to be
forthwith mounted.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 10.—We are enabled to state that
Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling is selected to fill the
vacancy at the Admiralty Board caused by the retire-
ment of Rear-Admiral Dundas.

The Investigator, Indianian, sailed to-day for Madras.
SHEERNESd, MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 9.—Her Majes-
ty's ~;team-frigate Cyclops, during her late passage
home from the Cape of Good Hope, sprung her bow-
sprit and jibboom, and while aground off the Isle of
Wight carri©d away part of her forefoot. Her bowsprit
was removed to-day, the new one being nearly ready to
be fitted. She is reported ready to be removed from the
drydock into the basin by the 18th inst., but it is not
expected that she will be complete in her fittings before
the end of March.

Her Majesty's ship Horatio, 24, screw steam guard-
ship, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, has her top-
masts fidded, and has commenced setting up her topmast
rigging.
The strong winds which prevailed (from S.W. to W.)
during the greater part of the past week subsided on
Saturday, but came on the following morning with in-
creased violence, continuing until this afternoon to such
an extent that her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, could
not be removed, as was intended, to her moorings in the
harbour. Should the weather permit, she will be taken
out of the basin to-morrow, or, as the tides aro falling,
she will have to remain here 12 days longer.
Among the regulations recently promulgated relative
to the entry and qualifications of masters'-assistants, it
is ordered that in future they are to be placed under the
instruction of naval instructors, who are to receive the
usual tuition-money, which is not to be deducted from
the.pay of the master-assistants, as is the case with mid-
shipmen and naval cadets, but the expense thereof is to
be defrayed by the Admiralty.
WooLwicH, FEB. 10.—Captain Stephen G. Fremantle
(1842), having completed a course of study of steam at
the factory at Woolwich dockyard, was examined on Sa-
turday last and yesterday by Mr. Charles Atherton,
chief engineer, and passed in a very satisfactory manner,
having obtained a high certificate of his knowledge of
steam and the working of marine steam engines.

NATIONAL MELODIES.—If we mistake not the
Messrs. Robert Cocks and Co., of New Burlington-street,
were foremost in bringing out the beautiful melodies of
Scotland and Ireland, arranged as " Morceaux" for the
drawing-room (by Vincent Wallace). That firm (who do
not let grass grow under their feet) are now issuing a selec-
tion of the favourite national melodies of the Principality,
newly arranged for the piano-forte, 'by that favourite com-
poser and pianist Brinley Richards. The title of this series
is " Recollections of %Vales." The melodies are treated in a
style as novel as it is masterly and captivating. The same
accomplished artist—who is rapidly winning for himself an
European fame—has composed two lovely romances for the
piano-forte, full of poetry though without Words. They
always heard with rapture, and in public elicit repeatedare
cores. We allude to " The Vision" and 4, The en-
Song"—the latter of which sweetly interprets that ununtgteel;-8
able thought of Longfellow—
" Ye sounds so low and calm
That, in the groves of balm,
Seemed to me like an Angel's psalm."
THE RAWMARSII COLLIERY RELIEF FUND.--The
fund collected for the widows and orphan,
Colliery,
40o0n1. the
Of this
the awful explosion at the Rawmarsh Coll9f the
sufferers
by
of December, has reached the large sum
9 ioOdoo/f.w ..2y2Fsr. o m
weekly this f fund
amount Sheffield alone has contriuted
it is in contemplation to allow to each vi
life, and 6d. per week for each child until 14 years of age.
This will require a sum of 3,9001 , and the amount collected,
with interest at 5 per cent., and'
probable marriages of widows the deductions from the
will Amply allow of pr„....1,u1d the deaths of children,
"WM.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FEB. 10.
The following were the additions to the Royal dinner
party yesterday—her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness, Lady
Frances Bruce, the Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Mu!-
grave, and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Seymour.
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in
the Castle, and performed the following compositions:—
Overture " Marguerite de Anjou" Meyerbeer.
Qaartetto, Op.llB. Allegro ma non tante,
Scherzo, Andante, Minuetto and Trio
Allegro. Finale, 2 violins, viola, and
Violoncello, Messrs. Sainton, Day, Hill,
and H. Chipp •.• ••• ••. Beethoven.
Romance, Chceur et Marche du Band Apis
" L' Enfant Prodigue"
... • ••• Auber.
The baud of the Royal Horse Guards performed a
Matinale in the Scotch Terrace this morning.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home
Park and Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal. and the
Royal Children, took their usual walking end pony ex-
ercise.

Her Royal Highness the Duchebs of Kent arrived in
town on Monday morning from her residence, Frogmo' e,
near Windsor. Her Ro) 41 Highness visited the Duchess
of G-loucmter, at Gloucester House, Piccadilly, and in
the afternoon left Clarence House, St. James's,for Frog-
more.

The Privy Council which was appointed to be held on
the 13th instant, at Buckicgham Paltee, will be holden
this day at Windsor Castle, instead.
Lem Rendlesham and a deputation had an interview
with Lard John Russell yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
The Cambridge 'University Commission hal a meeting
yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present, the Bishop
of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel, and
the Rev. W. H. Bateson (Secretary).
The Attorney. General of Ireland had an interview
with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.

THE UN TEIIOI. STATES.
(Extract of Letter.)
CINCINNATI, JAN. 23, 1852.—The winter in the
United States is unprecedented in the memory of the
oldest inhabitants-15 below zero! What are they in
the north? East, west, north, and south it prevails:with ex-
treme severity, and the roads are impassable. The
mails have occupied six days in the transit usually ac-
complished in forty-eight hours. Such is the novelty—
such a thing never having occurred before—.that every
ridiculous species of article that can be converted into a
sledge are made available, as soap and candle-boxes,
sugar vats, wine baskets, &c., and the streets are
crowded. It has snowed here incessantly for two
months.

Extraordinary to relate, letters state that at New
Orleans they have snow from four to six inches deep.
Near Lake Erie there have been two avalanches, and
nine persons and eleven horses have perished.
Kossuth is not a favourite in the slave states. They
shy invitations to him. The State of Virginia requested
him not to go through their territory to come to Cincin-
nati; consequently he will pass by Pennsylvania, and
not proceed further than this.
Here is a taste of their quality from the Daily Cincin-
nati Commercial of Jan. 19:—
" EXPENSES OF KOSSUTR'S SUITE.
" Otsego," the Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Herald, states that the wine bill of Kossuth's
suite, at Brown's Hotel, was 75 dollars a day, and the
cigar bill 15 dollars a day. One day they employed
thirty or forty hacks. The average daily expense was
about three hundred dollars."
The same writer says great things were promised
Kossuth in Ohio. One speaker said five hundred thou-
sand dollars could be raised, and ten hundred thousand
men. If Kossuth relied on these promises, he will cer-
tainly be disappointed.
Daniel Webster will not be President. He is too
clever.

FRARGUS O'CONAOR, M.P.
The Hon. Member for Nottingham, who was removed,
pursuant to his sentence, to Coldbath-fields Prison in
the ordinary criminals' van on Monday night, was re-
ceived by the officer on duty, and the charge against
him duly entered. Shortly after his entrance, however,
the necessary search of his person was commenced; bat
offering some slight resistance thereto, it was deemed
prudent to request the attendance of the Governor of the
prison to see that the ordinary rules of the gaol were com-
plied with. Mr. Chesterton was soon in attendance, when
Mr. O'Connor said that as he was a Member of the
House of Commons, and that as he had been confined
for two years in York Castle, where he had been treated
as a gentleman, and as he had only come there for a week,
he should now expect similar treatment. Mr. Chester-
ton informed him there was a great difference in the
two cases. In York Castle he was confined for a poli-
tical offence, and he was, of course, entitled to cer-
tain liberties ; but in the present case the charge was
of a criminal nature, by an assault on a police-consta-
ble whilst engaged in the preservation of the public peace,
and therefore ho could snake no:other allowance to him
than the rules of the prison required. The search was
then proceeded with, and, as the public are aware, from
the reported proceedings in the case of the National
Land Company, the Hon. Member indulged freely in
the luxury of the snuff-box, and was liberal in his
offers of it to the master and others engaged in the case.
The deprivation of his snuff box was a source of great
annoyance to him, and when at length finding demands
were useless, he begged as a favour, only a single
pinch," which was peremptorily refused. From the no-
toriety the conduct of Mr. O'Connor attained by the
case of the Land Company, considerable doubts existed
whether Mr. O'Connor was a responsible agent for his
actions, and it was deemed the safest course at once to
transfer him to the care of the surgeon of the prison
until the point of his sanity was determined, under
whose care he at present remains.
The only person of importance who called upon Mr.
O'Connor yesterday was Mr. Wakley, but whether his
visit was professional or not was not ascertained.
As Sunday intervenes in the period of the sentence,
Mr. O'Connor will be discharged on Saturday next.

PERTH ELECTION.
PERTH, MONDAY EVENING.—The nomination of can-
didates for the representation of Perth, vacant by the
appointment of the Right Hon. Mr. Fox Manic to the
Presidency of the India Board, took place here to-day,
on a hustings erected in front of the County-buildings.
Mr. Maule came forward to ask for a renewal of the suf-
frages of the electors of Perth, whom he had repre-
sented now for a period of upwards of ten years, and his
opponent was Mr. Charles Gilpin, of London, to whom
a number of the constituency had been previously
pledged. Each of the candidates was attended to the
hustings by a large body of supporters; but Mr. Gilpin
was decidly the favourite with the crowd in front, which
is supposed 'to have arisen chiefly from the broad con-
demnation given to the ballot by Mr. Fox Maule in his
address to the electors on Thursday evening last.
Sheriff CRAWFORD appeared on the hustings precisely
at 12 o'clock, and read the writ and the Act against bri-
bery and corruption.
Mr. MAULE and Mr. GILPIN then addressed the
electors.

A show of hands having been taken, it was declared
to be in favour of Mr. Gilpin, when Mr. Maule demanded
a poll.

-.61.r. GILPIN said, although the show of hands was in
his favour, he considered it to be the most gentlemanly
and considerate course not to go to the poll at present.
On this announcement being made, the Sheriff declared
Mr. Maule to be duly returned; and after a few words of
thanks from the Right Hon. Gentleman, the assemblage
broke up.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
BLAcKwALL.—We are informed that the dividend will
be 25. 6d. a share, leaving about 1,3001. to be carried to
the current half-year's amount. The dividend for the
year 1851 will therefore be 4s. 61, as compared with
2s. for the year 1850.
SOUTH-WESTERN.—The forthcoming report of the
directors will contain the announcement, that 10,000/.
from the revenue account has been put to areserfve
account, in order to pay for the extra carriages
required for the extraordinary traffic of 1851
and for such other wants as may arise; and also that
'
future additions to the main and completed lines,
sidings or stations, or any further expenditure thereoonr,
shall be charged to revenue, and liquidated in the
same
way as has already been established for the rolling
stock.
—GRRaiElteeTay Times.NOß
NORTHERN.—Owing to certain slips from the
late wet weather, the Great Northern will not be opened
The promoters of this
Western board to allow
before May, if then,
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RAIL y
AND OTHER BILLS ON
STANDING ORDERS.
AND BIRMI
the standingRY
SIIREWsBu
of this company's
RAlLWAY.—Yester-
day NGHAM
to.n, and Stour Valley
orders were complied with in the case
opanin and Bill, to authorise the completion,
g, working of the Birmingham, Wolverhamp-
ton,
Station in Birmingham, and fur convert-
Railway, and the use of the Na-
nag the share capital into stock.
NEWMARRET RAILWAY.—The standing orders were
declared not complied with in this case, to melee altera-
tions, and to construct a new line between Newmarket
and Bury St. Edmunds. The non-compliances were
slight miscalculations in the financial declaration of the
funds in the company's possession.
LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.—The
standing orders were complied with for the Bill to ex-
tend the line to Enniskillen, and other works, at a cost
of 152,0001.
LONDON AND COLERAINE RAILWAY—Also in this
case, for subscription toword.et,.
s construction of bridge
over river Foyle, and other ()W
NEW RIVER COMPANY.—The standing orders were
complied with hi the c,kso of this company's Bill, for
proposed new works, and arrangements with the river
Leo trustees.
Tao following Bills also complied:—Londonderry
Bridv, Ulveratone Waterworks, Ikley Waterworks,
British Empire Mutual Life Insurance Stockton
Extension and Improvement .

The offices of Paymaster-General and Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade have been offered to and acceptedlderley, who in the year
by Lord Stanley of A 1841 filled the
office of Paymaster-General.