The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Earl and Countess of Derby left Longshaw-
lodge, the seat of the Duke of Rutland, yesterday, for
Knowsley, Lancashire.
Mr. Deedes, M.P., Mr. Percy Henry Crutchley,
and Mr. Ormsby Gore, had interviews yesterday with
Mr. Secretary Walpole at the Home.office.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIE,—A leading article appears in your impression
of Monday last, which, if unnoticed, may lead your
numerous readers to the inference that the Working•
ton magistrates have done a flagrant act of injustice
in committing three boys to prison for offences against
the game. laws.

Asimple narrative of the facts will, I think, satisfy
the public that, in the present instance, there has been
no unnecessary straining of the law, but that the
justices, in dealing with the boy 3, only performeia
duty which, in the gratuitous exercise of their public
trust, the law imposed upon them.
Joseph Pocklington Senhouse, Esq., of Netherball,
himself a county magistrate, laid the informations
against the three boys ; two of whom were charged
each with killing a salmon trout, and the other with
attempting to kill one, in that part of the river
wherein Mr. Senhouse has the exclusive right of
fishery, both banks of the river belonging to him.
Two of the boys, namely Hetherington and Nichol,
pleaded guilty to the offences, as charged in the in-
formations ; and with respect to the other boy, San-
derson, the evidence against hi Ellen
in was deemed suffi-
ciently strong to warrant the justices in convicting
him. It was represented to the bench by Mr. Sea"
house, that having repeatedly
forgiven the boys for
previous offences of a similar character, he felt him-
self compelled, to prevent. a continuance of the daily
depredations going on in the river, to press for con-
victions ; and the justices were thus reluctantly
obliged to impose upon each of the boys a penalty of
five pounds, the lowest sum fixed by the SolvraY
Fishery Act, under which the informations were laid;
and in default of payment they were each sentenced
to one calendar month's imprisonment the
punishment the magistrates had power to award by
virtue of the same Act. smallest

I feel sure that, itijustice to the bench of magi!'
trates, for whom I act as clerk, you will give this
letter a space in your columns.
I am, Sir, yours, SEc.,
GEOEGE ARMSTRONG.
Workington, Sept. 1.

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SCHEME.
MRS. CHISHOLM'S EMIGRATION
We have received from Mrs. Chisholm copies of
the
first and second remittance rolls of money sent frm
emigrants in Australia to their friends in England. The
number of persons contained in the first schedule amount
to 137, in the second to 28. The total remitted by the
first roll is 2,824/., and the amount of loans required to
meet them, at the price calculated when the money was
paid in, would be nearly 6001. The total remitted by
the second roll is 605/. 2s. 6d. This makes an average
of money saved by each person rather more than 20"
Our readers will be glad to find that of these remittances
most are destined to assist the emigration of the sender s
carpenter
father or mother, brothers or sisters. One
44 for mother,
sends 171. for his mother-in-law; one servant, aged 38'
31,,' remits 281. 15s. 9d. for his mother and sister. ,13-
bopurer sends as large a sum as 811. Bs, from the Ithis
is; a baker, 501. 12s. 6d. to aid the emigration of
_1
remitsr father,aged
.313,
her and
mother bro,
tahgeerd.
sends 4/..
mit! 101. for her aged parent. A st-Trawl
for his adopted child, aged nine. So strong is th° affecA
an.
lion of our 77. A dressmaker,
Another
dressmakeT.
poor countrymen for those dear friends
peep.®
relatives they have left in Enland. Charitable peer.,
scheme
tit.
would greatly aid Mrs. Chisholm's benevolent
distribut-
ing they. would inspect these lists, and, instead of
mg their charity over a large field, gather
if vi, it
u!ithey
assist in the emigration of one or other fion---0 at. The
might_ think beat, or as Mrs. Chisholm would direct.
„o
difficulty is to meet those cases where the ell° pitied! ars
emigration, is so disproportionate to the so,m,fire.q6ud (the the prices of passage have • free" 12i. i-- -' •
bitter
price this time last— B risen
amount of
year) to 211. The numerous
disappointment that has resulted therefrom to
and, in
honest, hard-working, but unfortunatelY pOOT! _
an
conceived, d
many cases, agedhardly be
people, can .1 may enable
it is hoped that this statement and app e° it .
Herald.
Aber remove , Mrs. Chisholm •
to alleviate, if nut altogether
Herald.

-------:70 Proposals vier
Montsal with the United States shipping
e issuedyesterday
to the Quebecline of 100 miles,
Of the
_toMtaelscsarl
and Richmond Railway, ,a
the contract recently been
taken by for which, at 6 500/ per mile, has .
those places, and also to the far subscription 3
cboonthnect with the American steamers andids,Bettsr.iiiway to Chicago.
The. road is to
join the St. Lawrence aranadeAtalantic line, which connects
!n, twenty
e, and will thus form the highway from Quebec to
along the great
Canadian lines now in process of construction, and which
6850,0,8001
debentures at
eflpro r t of Portland,
years, with the 0 lion,
into stock on or before the Ist of IlilaY,
ow/ is stated to have
been, subscribed in Canada, and the rema►nder is to be raised
in London, in shares of 10/. ss. each, and debentures of 1001.,
seems a needless
1857. Each the latter latter to bearsix per cent. interest, and to be repayable
meanwhile, of conversion
warrant its being regarded scriber of twenty shares is to be allowed to take one of these
complication, since --nee, as the shareholders and debenture-
holders will thus be the same parties, it would apparently
have been as well to raise the whole sum at once in the
tux
form of stock. Estimates are given in the prospec-
usof the probable returns of the undertaking', and the link
which it will obviously supply in existing routes appears to
sound one.
ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLII2,I.—Tbe quarterly
general court of the of the above institution, ad-
vertised to take guardians .
n the ball of the Scottish
Hospital, C place yesterday i
rane 'court, Fleet-street,for the purpose of placing
candidates on the list for election,and upon other business,
v, as adjourned,
there
not
beinsu
g sufficient members present to
form a quorum. Mr. F. Crew, the secretary, reported to
those in attendance that there was at the present time 96
children (48 of whom were girls) in the asylum, all of whom
were in health, and making great progress in the various
educational studies pursued there.
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