The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-27 00:00:00

DIAMOND DUST.

Ships and fishes may make their way when steered by
the tail ; but when we attempt to guide or impel
youngsters by a similar process, we only retard or turn
them oat of the right line.
Conquest is the child of hearts which trust themselves.
Society, like shaded silk, must be viewed in all situa-
tions, or its colours will deceive us.
Infancy is lovable, notwithstanding fretfulness and the
hooping-cough.
Men are never placed in such extremes but there is a
right to guide them.
Sin mid punishment, like the shadow and the body,
aro never apart.
The man who works too much must love too little.
The intention of a sin betrays itself by a superfluous
caution.
There is In every human countenance either a history
or a prophecy.
Sorrow shows us truths as the night brings out stars.
For children there is no leave-taking, for they ac-
knowledge no past, only the present, that to them is.
full of the future.—Eliza cook's Journal.

GLIMPSES OF POETRY.—As far as truth and sim-
plicity are above lying and crookedness, so far is the wisdom
of the heart above the cunning of the world ; and it is in
this wisdom of love that the poet is wise. It is to teach him
this that the magic land is opened to him ' • that even from
his childhood he is permitted to behold, to hesr, to feel, and
to commune with shapes, sounds, sensations—beings of an-
other creation, which are beyond the perception of the multi-
tude. The woods to him are eloquent, the streams speak a
sweet language, and appeal to him as with a living voice.
We know from the collected experience, each of himself, of
many of his class, that the poet is such before school-time;
a poet in grain not in polish only, " Poeta nascitur, non. fit."
From the time his intellect has passed its infancy, learned to
stand upright and walk; when it is loosed from the bands of
weakness, grown out of the swaddling-clothes of inaction—
from the time when it first goes abroad, the child is uncon-
sciously devising poetry, gathering from all he beholds, all
he is taught—from whatever impresses him, new and strange
meanings; tracing vaguely at first, more decisively as he
proceeds, the analogies of passing,. things and circumstances
with his own being and hisfate. A flower does not droop by
the wayside as he posies, nor a blossom fall, a bird or a
shadow does not flit, without yielding something with which
fancy may unike its own more delightful play than that
which is the common joy of boyhood.—Aliza (look's Journal.
CONTRACTS FOR HORSES PORTLIER ROYAL ARTIL"
MOM—Several officers from Woolwich have been appointed
to proceed to Yorkshire and other counties renowned for the
breed of cavalry horses, to enter into contracts for supplying
her Majesty's Royal Horse Artillery with young and strong
horses suitable for that branch of the service.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD COURT.

THE TRIAL OF ARNOLD GERBER, WILLIAM WAGNE

AND PHILIP KEBSLF,II.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterd
Several other witnesses were then examined, whose
evidence tended to confirm the statement made by the
man Krahcour, in many important particulars. Ilia
evidence with regard to the places he had gone to with
the prisoners was shows to be correct; and the waitress
at Osmond's coffee-house proved distinctly that on the
day mentioned by Krahcour the prisoner Wagner was
at the house, and that he told her to call him it any one
should inquire for a person named Sims. Various other
facts were also proved, which left no reasonable doubt
that the accomplice had given a true account of the
share the prisoners and himself had taken in tho nelari-
OW transaction.

The Learned Counsel for the prisoners severally ad-
dressed the jury on their behalf, the principal point re-
lied upon by all of them being that the accomplice was
unworthy of credit, particularly after he had himself
admitted that he hoped to free himself by the evidence
he gave against the prisoners.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS having summed up the whole
case, the jury, after a very short deliberation, returned
a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners.—Sentence
was deferred.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-IVortbamptoit, Feb. 26.
(Before Mr. Justice ?MULE and a Special Jury.)
BLACK AND WIFE V. BIOUBLEY.
This was an action by the indorser against the ac-
ceptor of a bill of exchange for 500/., at two months,
duo in Ootober, 1647; to whi h the defendant had
pleaded, among other things, that after the bill became
due, and while Cooper, the drawer, was the holder of
the bill, the defendant paid him the amount of it; and
that Cooper afterwards, and in fraud of the defendant,
endorsed it to the female plaintiff before her marri r
marriage.
Mr. Mr. Mellor, Q.C., and Mr. Brewer, appeare(dl
C
plaintiffs; Mr. Ilumfrey, Q.C, Mr. Macaulay,
.., sue
Mr. Hayes, for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Dr. Black, is a physician at Torquay,
recover the amount
who sued, jointly with his wife, to
of the bill in question, which had bere:ne:toinndforhsat to her
in August, 1848, in exchange
which one Ingsley was indebteeflotrotiher iwn
The defendant is a solicitor at Derby,
for Sir W. Massey
year 1847 agent and receiver, ho suwma s o ifn3st the
Stanley, of 1100 ton-halt, Cheshire, an hsatdanlaecy:
cepted this bill on the r_
expecting to be paid ou,paofttetnhaeurnie.ntssrineccee
ivtbedatbytimbieti3S?iff
Sir W. Massey Stanley
W. M. Stanley, having
Mousley had made a claim
fallenu into pecuniary difficulties,
w aTa
ien
had left the country, noi
against his estatewtno the anninnoucnot 1817
oopfer2,°;Zol.
l in
quesi„tionxuwass
tadnra'y's land steward, and who was in the
habit of ttimes inhe defendant money for Sir W.
cash, and sometimes in ac-
M. Stanley, some
The bill upon which the present action was
eberPot'anhc,—;var, at the end of 1847, endorsed by Cooper to
ug
to whom
_Cooper was indebted at that time in
Ingslt 1eY,600/.; and, according, to the plaintiff's case,
abou
Insley was the holder of the bill until August in that
year, when be exchanged it with the female plaintiff,
who was Cooper's sister, for his own note of hand. The
case on the part of the defendant was, that in Decent-
bar, 1847, there was a settlemeut of account between
the defendant and Cooper, and that Cooper being in-
debted to the defendant on another bill for 7501., it
was agreed between them that this bill for Soul.
should be set off against that, and so the balance duo'
to Mr. Mousley was reduced to 2501. Cooper was
called as a witness by tne plaintiffs, and denied the
making of any such agreement. He stated that there
was no settlement of account at all, but that Mr. Moutley
said that if he brought back the 500/. bill he would.take
it as cash. The female plaintiff was also examined as a
witness to prove the circumstances under which she re-
ceived the bill. Aa objection was made that she was
not au admissible witness on behalf of her husband, but
the Learned Judge thought that as she was herself a
plaintiff she was admissible. but
The evidence was, to some extent, conflicting;
when the Learned Counsel for the plaintiff was about to