The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-26 00:00:00

THE BERKELEY RUNT.

CHELTENHAM, SATURDAY.—A dinner took place at
the Plough Hotel, Cheltenham, last r vening, on the cc-
c ision of the presentation to Earl FitzhArdinge, by mem-
bers Hunt and other sport-men of this
district, piece of plate, subscribed for in
testimony
Berkeley
subscribers' appreciation of the Noble
ers of
of
of
a sthe p
. id
n
Lord's generosity in maintaining a pack of fox hounds
and noble stud fer hunting the 13,rkeley and Chelten-
of 'holler's Hail, Earl Faizhardi;ge sitting on his
Han-
ham country. Theford,
ford, chair was taken by Mr. C. E. Han-
right, and Sir Charles Morgan on his left. Most of
the members of the BA keley Hunt were pre-
sent. The Duke of Beaufort sent en apology,
excusing himself on account of the state of
his health. After the usual introductory toasts
had been given, the chairman, in the name of the sub-
scribers, presented the testimonial to Earl Fitzhardiege.
It is a massive piece of silver plate, intended to repre-
sent an incident in the history of the Berkeley family.
Earl Fitzharchoge, having acknowledged the testimonial,
entered into some remarks on the duties of a master
of foxhounds, and traced his own ardent love of the
chase to his perusal, when a boy,
of Somerville's poem
of The Chase, from which he quoted largely. He be-
came master of hounds at 21 years of age. He had a
liberal allowance, but not enough to keep two whippers-
in. and therefore he became first whipper-in himself.
But he had great difficulties to encounter. The first of
these was want of experience,
so that in giving his health
after dinner his friends used to name it as •• The pack
and the puppy." Then his was not a regular pack of
hounds. He was obliged to take what he could get—
the refuse of other kennels—those whose capital sentence
commuted to transportation, had been so teat he looked
upon his kennel as a sort of penal settlement to which
the reprubatss of all ether packs guilty of serious
offences had been drafted. He had mute hounds, and
babblers, and shirkers, and hounds so slack that they
would not hunt onythi:ig, and other hounds so wild that
they would hunt everything. He was, however, not to
be daunted, or his first essay might have put him down.
His Lordship then gave an amusing account of his first
day's sport at Newent Woods, on the 24th of Sept.
1808, when his hounds, instead of I,x hunting, gave
chase to a cur, and afterwards worried a fleck 01 she- p,
and after that another cur. But, though so untrained,
there was good stuff in them, and they were the an-
cestors of his present pack, which were acknwledged to
be good hcuads. The past season was admitted to be
one of the worst ever known, but his hounds had been
out 108 days, and had killed 112 foxes. But his Lord-
ship added, the formation of a pack of foxhounds was
not solely confined to the sports of the field; there were
a great many friendships formed and cemented in the
hunting field, and charmingly interwoven with the other
relations of lice. After soma further remarks his Lotd•
ship resumed his seat, and other toasts followed, the
party sitting late.
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A POWERFUL MICROSCOPE.
A German named liasert, residing in Cincinnati, has
inznntactured a microscope which has a magnifying
power of 600. The Cincinnati Times, speaking of i,s
extraordinary poviers, says that the dust which, by con-
tact with the wings of a butterfly, adheres to the finger,
was shown to be a number of feathers; on these little
feathers are observed longitudinal and transverse lines,
but this has been, so far, the utmost that has been seen.
This new micrsscope, however, shows that between each
pair of longitudinal lines there are five or six rows of
scales, like those of a fish, and appear to have the same
form in all the feathers, differing only in size. A
dust particle, taken from the back of the body
of a sphinx, which is the largest of these feathers
shown, measuring one fifteenth of an inch iu
length, and one two-hundredth of an inch in breadth,
;
had 104 longitudinal lines. Between each pair of lines
would 2 b e
six rows of scales were visible, making the number of
itghmegseitulidttilnealslcya,ledso,wlnatwearardllsy; 6
lthe number of scales
2,228; therefore,
the entire number of these scales on this little feather
amount to one million four hundred thousand, which
gives the number of fourteen thousand millions to one
square inch. On a very minute particle of dust from
the wing of a jimos, measuring only one five-hundredth
of an inch in length, and one-thousandth of an inch in
width, the number of scales is found to be 84,000, which
gives the enormous sum of 42,000,000,000 to one square
inch. We observed, also, large sizes of the cat and
common house fl-a, the eye of a fly, and the wing of a
small bug, the latter presenting the most brilliant co•
lours and beautiful shawl pattern we ever beheld, with
a magnificent border, elaborately ornamented.

DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR 'AUSTRALIA.—
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, about three o'clock, the new
ship Falcon, said to be the finest sailing vessel that ever left
the port of Liverpool, quitted the Mersey, bound for Port
Philip, with between 300 and 400 emigrants on board. The
friends of the latter remained in the neighbourhood of the
docks until a late hour on Saturday night, and as the Falcon
stood out to sea, she fir€d two guns as a parting salute. The
same signal is given by in-coming American mail. steamers.
and many persons who expected the Canada from Boston
were aroused from their beds and proceeded to the landing-
stage in full anticipation of meeting the United States
mails; and great was the mortification of the disappointed
parties on finding out the mistake.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, April 24.
(Sittings upon Crown Cases Reserved.—Present—Lord
CAMPBELL, Chief Baron PoLLcCli, Mr. Baron PARZE,
Mr. Justice ERLE, and Mr. Jastice WILLIAMS )
THE QUEEN V. NASH
Mr. H. T. COLE stated that in 'Alia case he had at-
tended before the Recorder, and suggested to him that
the case should be amended; his Lordship had kindly
attended to his request, and had amended the case, but
he (Mr. Cole) had not received it till late last night,
Ha had not, therefore had an opportunity of altering
the case which had been laid before their Lordships.
He would therefore submit that the case might stand
over. _

Mr. HUDDLESTONE said, as the case had been altered,
it presented a different feature for consideration, and ha
was not, therefore, now prepared to argue it.
The COURT directed that it should stand over.

ARCHES' COURT, April 24.
(Before Sir J. DODSoN )
THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY HODGSON
AGAINST GLADSTONE.

Mr. Gladstone appeared when this case was called on,
and, addressing the Judge, expressed his regret that he
was not prepared to hand in his allegation, as he had
been admonished to do. The allegation was of great
importance in reference to the trial of the case. The
documents which he had to consult and to procure, es-
pecially with reference to the time of bis residence in
the diocese of Norwich and his incumbency there, were
voluminous, and he prayed to be allowed to deliver in
his allegation on the next court day, Monday, May 3.
Sir J. DODSON said he would so f.r indulge Mr.
Gladstone as to give him till Thursday, April 29, to
deliver his allegation, if he would undertake to be ready
then.

Mr. Gladstone gave
the required undertaking, and so
the matter rests for the present.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYL EB ONE.
Mr. Charles liPmble, the veteran actor, attended at
this court, before Mr. Long, in pursuance of a summons
obtained against him by a cabman named Styles, the
amount of whose claim against defendant was 2d.
Mr. Kernble, who looked remarkably well, took his
seat by the bench.
Complainant stated that on last Monday week he took
up detendant in the Old Bailey, and drove him to his
residence, No. 6, Albany-terrace, Regent's-1)11.k, where
he alighted, and the servant who opened the door for him
gave him (witness)
Is, 6d. as his fare. He observed that
•he was entitled to Is. Bd., upon which the servant went
into the passage to speak to his master, and presently
returned, telling him (complainant)
that he would have
no more. Complainant added, that having ascertained
the name of his fare, he went away, and shortly after-
wards spoke to some cabmen upon an adjacent rank, and
he felt bound in justice to himself to take out a sum-
mons; the distance for which ho claimed was two miles
and a quarter.
Thomas Chamberlain, Mr. liemble's servant, deposed
that complainant made a positive demand of 25.; had he
mentioned that his fare was I?. Bd., the extra 2d. would
only, readily
in a moment hate been paid to him.
but he
summons
or
Mr. Lose felt satisfied from what he had heard that
complainant would, if' he had demanded his proper faro
have had the same paid to him, and or-
rhfeu:hoiusl
ad
ttr
eencediavnaceth: 2d. which he sued tor
but he would not tinder the circumstances be allowed
any costs, either as regarded what he had paid for the
11r. humble, after thanking the magistrate for his at-
tention to the case, quitted toe court.

LAMBT.
Mrs. Elizabet Lififield, E a
singular-looting old
woman, who 4O ,nt five years ago ocquired considerable
. G. ''.6.
abortion but
by
wh° w is her commitment from th court on charge
of wilful murder, in having caused the death of a re-
spectable young woman, by using instruments to cause
iiiiilurtiottnedfoart
protection
tl
on Bailey,ag ain st 3
young mu), whom she had brought cp from infancy,
ap-
plied to the lion
and whom she had always treated as her son. The ap-
plicant said that the young man bad been for some time
subject to fits, and had also a violent attack of cholera,
and both had so impaired his mind that he had on more
than one occasion attempted suicide. Latterly, however,
his malady had taken a different turn, and he now de-
clared that nothing but her blood would satisfy him.
Besides, he weot beyond were ibreats, for be bad act_

ally attempted to eat her throat, and infl,cted a wound
oh he: throat which still remain, d tuthea!e,i. On tbat
nl,rnintt he locked her oot of hi-r h(isf,, and Irom she
violence of hi 3 manner she very much feared that if he
c3ught her alone he would carry out hia threats, and
murder her.

Mr. NORTON—Ii this the same young mm echo some
time ago had bent charged with you at this cow t?—
Mrs Linfiekl—r!s, Sir, the same.
Mr. NORTON—It I mistake not, there was some mys-
tery connected with his history. Hay- you any objec-
tion to stare what it was? Mrs. knfield—Not all all,
Sir. The f,cts are that I had been called in to attend
a female in her confinement, and it was the intention of
the mother to have thrown the child into the canal, and
no clothes were provided for it. It was such a fine child
that I undertook to bring him up as my own. I ac-
cordingly took him, and sent him to nurse, but, after
some years, the mother found out where he was, and
took away the poor child. Instead of taking care of the
little fellow, she nearly starved the poor boy, anti for
this I had her punished at the ..lioion-hall Police-court,
and have not since seen her. The real name of the
boy is D vas, but he has always gone by the name of
William

Mr. NORTON thought the case was one which the
officers of the parish of Newington should take cogni-
zince uf, and have the young man taken proper csro of,
and directed LoAyer, one of the summoning officers,
to accompany the applicant to Newington Workhouse,
and request one of the relieving officers to attend to ic

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Oci Thursday a court was httd fur the dispatch of
business.

NEAP STREET iROM EARL-SrRELT TO CANNON-STRELT

WE3L.

Mr. T. H. HALL br0,g,.11, u.o a ropoN with rtierence
to Ulla matter, is a, luilovofti—
" tie .1-LtoghL Hon. hti Lrd M Lyor, Aldermen, and
Comatina ut tnd city L,lLuadua iu COL:WI:101a Culit.Cil

" We, whoie Lanni tare her,unto subscribed, your
Committee for Improvements within 1112 city of London
to whom it has been referred to carry into execution tt,e
provi:ions of the Act of Parliament for making > n,w
street tr,,ta King William stuter. to St. Paul's, do certify
that we have arrived at the time at which it has ceeom.'
necessary to contract for the formation of the vaults for
the new building troth Queen-street to the Old Change,
but before finally determining upon the same, we are
ciedir,us of obtaining the opinion of this Honourable
Court us to the propriety of cur malting proviei, ns for
the projected new street from Earl-street, Blackiriars,
to f,ll into Cannim-street west, at the point hod Joan
by the City architect in his repors to your committee
of the 21st day vs Sr, ptember, .std the 12th day of Oc-
tober, 1846. We have therefore telt it our duty t., re-
port die same accuroingly, and to draw the immediate
attention 01 this Lionouranie Court to the subjtct, and
to (Attain their c lisent thertio.

" Ail which We tubont to the judgment of this ho
noucaOle court.

DALed 22nd day of Aril, 1852.
(St tad)

"THOMAS PEARCE,- THOMAS BARKLEY,
HENRY BLAKE, JEREMIAH EVANS,
HENRY PATTEN, WM eIi(,UCHER,
W. A. PEACuCK., M !)AWS,,N,
HENRY WM LISSEN,
BENJ. BoWER, JOHN LEAPS,
THOS ;'PRAGUE, JAS. M. BARNARD."
T. I_l. HALL.
He would submit as u motion, "that tbo Court do agree
with the committee in it report."

Mr. ANDERT.,N seconded the motion.
Mr. HAWKINS moved as tin am« ruiment, " That the
further corAideration of die question be adjournrd."
Mr. MuGnEatncE seconded the amendment, which
upon being put was declared to be lost.
Tne now street will co❑trquently he constructed as
soon 1:s the necessary arrangeuat3als can be entered into.
Adjourned.