The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-24 00:00:00

STOCKBRIDGE RACES—FRInAY.

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The Thruxton Stakes of 10 sows each, with 50 added by W.
Etwall, Esq. Three miles. Twelve subs.
Duke of Richmond's Confusionee, 3 yrs, fist 61b, W. Day ... 1
Mr. Sadlel 's Diamond, 3 yrs, 6st 10Ibs
Mr. Etwall's Alumnus, 6 yrs, Bst 10Ib, and Mr. Wreford's
bl f, by Camel, out of the dam of Stockwell Lass, 3 yrs, fist 61b,
also started, but were not placed.
Betting-6 to 5 agst Alumnus ;7to 4 agst Confusionee (t);
and sto 2 agst Diamond. Won in a canter.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for two-yr-old colts, Bst 91b,
and fillies, Bst 61b. T. Y. C. Six subs.
Gen. Grosvenor's f Diploma Conelly I
Lord G. Bentinck's b f Sal Volatile

The betting began at 7 to 4 and 2 to 1 on Diploma, and 6.
nished at 6t05 on Sal Volatile. Won easy.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. One mile. Five subs.
Gen. Grosvenor's 3lerrythought, 5 yrs, 9st Conelly 1
Mr. Etwall s Alumnus, 6 yrs, 10st 81b 2
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Wre-
ford's Wasp, 3 yrs, bst ; Hon. S. Herbert's Caracole, 3 yrs,
ist 41b ; and Mr. Sadler's Specimen, 7st 21b.
Bettin;-6 to 4 agst Alumnus, 2 to 1 apt Wasp, and 4 to I
agst Mcrrythought. Won rather cleverly by three parts of a
length. Wasp broke a blood-vessel, and was pulled up tome
distance from home.

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER—FAIDAr.
THE LIVERPOOL cur.
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The field agst 10
11 to 1 agst Cardinal Puff
13 to 1 agst Lanereost
17 to 1 agst St. Martin
18 to 1 agst St. Bennett
20 to 1 agst Jagger
20 to 1 agst Compensation
20 to 1 agst Toothill—taken
20 to 1 agst The Hydra
23 to 1 agst Alzira

ST. I,ECER.

7 to 2 agst Bloomsbury
9 to 1 agst The Commodore—(offered)
15 to 1 agst The Provost
15 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

FIELD V. AUSTEN.
Mr. MAUNSELL opened the pleadings in this case.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD (with whom were Mr. F.
KELLY and Mr. MAUNSELL), in stating the case on behalf
of the plaintiff, said he was sure the Jury would agree
with him, that this was a case of the utmost anxiety and
importance to his client. It was an action brought by a
gentleman in the medical profession for a libel upon his
character; and the defendant had not been satisfied with
denying, by his pleas, the publication of the libel, but had
averred that the charges which it contained were true.
The plaintiff came there to afford the defendant an oppor-
tunity of subtantiating those charges; and upon his part it
waa a struggle for existence, because of all the pro-
fessions in which a man could be engaged,
there was none for which a character for skill, and
care, and prudence, was so absolutely requisite
as that highly honourable and useful profession to which
the plaintiff belonged, end which was necessarily admitted
into the most intimate domestic relations ; and if, there-
fore, a charge of want of skill, care, and judgment, were
preferred against a medical man, he had but one course to
pursue—he must at once meet it boldly, and defy his
assailant to the proof. Mr. Charles Ventris Field had
been practising the medical profession for seventeen or
eighteen years in one place in the parish of Rotkerhithe,
where his practice had been very extensive. Originally he
had been a pupil of Sir Benjamin Brodie for some time,
and was subsequently the assistant and partner of a
gentleman in the neighbourhood in which lie now
lived. The defendant, Mr. Austen, was fully capable
of apl reciating the value to the plaintiff of character
and reputation for skill and attention in his profes-
sion,for Mr. Austen was himself a medical man,
much youagm r, he believed, than the plaintiff, for he bad
only been in practice about feur years; he had, however,
been fortunate enough to obtain the situation of medical offi-
cer to the Board of Guardians elected for the purpose of
superintending the maintenance of the poor in the parish of
Rothe' :lithe, in which both the plaintiff and defendant re.
sided. Nosy, it appeared that last year a complaint had
been made to the Poor. law Commissioners to the m ffect that
a poor iceman of the name of Daly, upon being taken in la-
bour, had not received proper care and attendance from the
defendant. An inquiry into the case was instituted before
the Beard of Guardians, and the result was that they con-
sidered there was no substantial ground for the complaint,
and they expressed themselves satisfied as to the con-
duct of the defendant. lie (Mr. Sergeant Talfourd)did
not refer to that ease for the purpose of making it any ground
of charge against the defendant; 'but he adverted to it
shortly for the purpose of introducing the other circum-
stances of the case, with which it was connected ; for Mr.
Austen had taken up the notion that the plaintiff was the
person who had instigated the complaint. It was stated,
and probably truly stated, that an anonymous letter had
been written to the Board of Guardians or the Commis-
sioners; that letter was set out on the record ; and it was
so spelt as to lead to the inference that it came from a
person in a humble station in life ; the probability was that
it came from one of the friends of the poor woman herself.
Of course, be Itticss nothing of that letter; he had not seen
it.. He eiliala not tell whether it would be attempted to
prove that it was the handwriting of the defendant. If so,
there were many persons in Court who knew the plaintiff's
handwriting, and could easily decide that question. Mr.
Austen, however, charged Mr. Field with being the
author of that letter ; that charge the plaintiff most
solemnly denied ; and it would require the very
strongest evidence to induce the jury to believe
that 'he had been guilty of the base artifice of
misspelling the words of the letter for the purpose of
s. reening himself from the consequences of a rding that
letter. The defendant, however, had acted on that sus.
picion, or rather, he was afraid he must say, on a long-
cherished determination to seize every opportunity which
presented itself for the purpose of destroying the character
of Mr. Field, and preventing him from exercising his
profession in the place where he had practised for nearly
twenty years. Mr. Austen, without any communication
with tee plaintiff, had addressed letters, containing the
gravest charges, to each of the Board of Guardians, and,
amongst other respectable persons in the neighbourhood,
to the clergyman of the parish. Not content with that,
and as if to inflict the greatest possible pain and annoyance
on the feelings of the plaintiff, Mr. Austen had enclosed
one of those letters to Mr. Field himself, with an envelope containing terms which aggravated the injury still more.
The Le iroed Counsel then read the letter, which con-
eluded thus :—" Of his character, I should say that he was
shunned and avoided by every medical man as a dangerous,
ignorant, presuming fool, and cowardly poltroon. This
ar.irnal answers to the name of Charles Ventris Field. and
he lives in Paradise-row. In all my transactions I like to
act openly and gentlemanly, and not to do timings sneak-
ingly Ike you ; and I have therefore enclosed a letter,
which I have sent to the Board of Guardians, concerning
your late handsome treatment of rne.

"EDWARD AUSEN."
Witnesses( were called to provethese statements,T andalso
to bear testimony to the professional skill of the plaintiff,
when

Mr. THESIGER addressed the Jury on the part of the de-
fendant, and stated shortly the facts of the several cases
upon which the defendant relied in support of his justifica-
tion. lie then called witnesses, who were examined and
crone-examined at great length.
Mr. Justice VAUGHAN, in summing up the evidence to
the Jwy, said that they were relieved of all trouble about
the libel, because the defendant had frankly admitted that
he was the author of the defamatory publication on which
the action cs as founded. The only question, therefore,
which they would have ti determine vas that raised by the
justification which had been placed en the record. The
Learned Judge went minutely through the evidence, corn-
mentino cn it as he proceeded, and concluding by leaving
it to the Jury to say whether the plait tiff had been guilty
of malpractice, an] that he had exhibited unskilfulness in
the several instances alluded in the pleas.
The Jury retired for about three quarte-s of an hour, and
then returned into Court, finding a verdict generally on all
the pleas for the plaintiff—Dama3-es, 1001.
The trial occupied the Court for two days.

LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE 22 —Wind W. S. W. moderate. 23.
ditto, fresh breeze.—Arrived, the Simon Taylor, Slader,
from Jamaica; Charles Brooke, Bell, St. Vincent ; Pre-
mier, Ruth, Trinidad; Coronation, America.
PouTsmouTn, JUNE 22.—Wind S. to W., strong
bre( zes an i squally. 23.—Heavy squalls from the west-
ward.—.4.-rived, her Majesty's ship Apollo, from Trinco-
malee, sailed March 3, Cape April 23, St. Helena Bth
ult , and Ascension 13th ult. ; Mediator, Champion, New
York.

PLVNiOUTII, JUNE 22.—Strong breeze from S.W.--
Arrived, the Henry Alt:under, Pike, from Zante ; Ce-
cilia, tirunoe, Nantes.

FALMOUTH, JUNE 21. Wind W. S. W. to S.W., fresh
breezes. 22.—Fresh gales from S. S. W. to W. S. W.—
Arrived, the Petrel packet, from Halifax, sailed 2d inst.
Off port, the Fairfield, Beard, Jamaica.
LIVERPJOL, JUNE 23.—Arrived, the Rochester, Wood-
man, from Now York; Republic, Woodman, ditto; Co.
lumbus, ditto.

SHEERNESS, JUNE 22.—Sailed, her Majesty's ship Win-
chester, fur the West Inclie;.

MARGATE; JUNE 23.—Off port, the Ralph Ihrnal,
Bridges, from Jamaica ; Clarendon, Fisher, ditto.

Yesterday the acceleration in the speed of the
rl ails took place. The mail bags, which had left London
tl.e previous night a little before nine, arrived in Lancaster
at hall.pzst nine on Friday morning, being little more than
twelve hours on the road. On Thursday night, at ten
o'clock, a letter arrived which had been franked in London
on the same mom i ig.—Lancaster Guardian.
THE SIIIIIEVALTY.—A Common Hall will he
holden tomorrow for the election of Sheriffs and other
civic officers. On Friday an active canvass commenced
amongst the members of the corporation, with seeming
success, in favour of two new canditates for the important
office of Sheriff. One of them is Mr. Wheelton, a mem-
ber of the Court of Common Council for the Ward of Far-
ringdun- Within, and the other is an equally well-known
Liveryman of th•.,, Distillers' Company,
firm of Seager, and Co., distillers. Mr. Evans, of the
The Synod of the Scottish Church in New South
Wales appear to be anticipating the movement of some of
their friends in this country. hey declared themselves
independent on the 25th of Dec.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

LATE DREADFUL STORM.

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BRUSSELS, JUNE 20.--A great number of persons yes-
terday left their cards at the residence of Baron De
Stassart, who is still confined to his bed.
We hear that M. Gustave Leclercq, Clerk to the
Chamber of Representatives, is going shortly to London ;
it is supposed on a mission from the Government. On
the 18th at seven in the evening a terrible storm from the
west burs over the city of Ghent, with a degree of vio-
lence such as the oldest inhabitants never before witnessed.
After a heavy rain, accompanied with thunder and light-
ning, an enormous quantity of hail stones fell, which were
of extraordinary size, several were picked up that mea-
sured two inches in diameter. The stree's were covered
with ice in less than a quarter of an hour. The storm
continued twenty-five minutes without interruption. All
greenhouses, all the skylights, and a great number of
windows were broken to pieces; almost all the cellars are
under water. The crops in the surrounding country are
destroyed. The damage is immense.
BRUGES, JUNE 19.—Jerome Bonaparte arrived here yes-
t(rday evening from Ostend, he set out from Brussels this
morning by the railroad.
BRUSSELS, Jt xa 21.—8 y a decree of the 13th the army
is to be reduced to the peace establishment by the Ist of
July next.
The Echo du Luxemburg says that the ceded portions
of the territory are to be evacuated on the 22d of June.
The first boat bearing the Dutch flag arrived at Brussels
this morning by the canal of Willebroeck.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes (in thirty
columns) the definitive treaties of peace concluded on the
19th of April, 1539, at London. 1. Between Belgium
and Holland ; 2. between Belgium on the one part, and
Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, on
the other, with various annexed notes, and all the several
acts of ratification. Among the notes is one relative to
the palace of Laeken (which has been mentioned in the
Dutch journals.) The declaration of her Britannic Ma-
jesty given by the Moniteur in the original English, as
e ell as in French, is as follows :—ln preceding to the
exchange of the ratifications of the treaties relative to
the Netherlands and Belgium, signed at London on the
19th April, 1339, between their Majesties, the Queen of
the Un.ted Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the
King of the French, the. King of Prussia, and the Em-
peror of all the Russia!, on the one part. and their Ma-
jesties the King of the Belgians, and the King of the Ne-
therlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, respectively, on
the other part, the undersigned Plenipotentiary of her
Britannic Majesty is commanded by her Majesty to ex-
plain and declare :—That the Government of her Britannic
Majesty does not consider the 16th article of the annex to
the treaties above mentioned, or the corresponding article
of the treaty, concluded on the same day between Bel-
gium and the Netherlands, to be applicable to cer-
tain tenements and parcels cf land, belonging
to the House of Orange-Nassau and situated at Lacken,
and intermixed with the Crown property at that Royal
residence ; because it has been understood between the
Governments of the Britannic and Netherland Majesties,
in consequence of communications which took place be.
twren them before the signature of the treaties of the
19th of April, that the before-mentioned tenements and
parcels of land are to be sold by the house of Orange
Nassau to the Crown of Belgium at their fair value; such
tenements and parcels of land being necessary for the con-
venient occupation of the Royal residence of Laeken.
Her Britannic Majesty's ratification of the aforesaid
treaties arc exchanged under the explicit declaration and
understanding above mentioned.
Done at London the Bth day of June, 18:39.
PALMERSTON (L. S.)
The declaration of the Belgian Plenipotentiary is to the
same effect, but shorter. It contains nothing correspond-
ing with the reservation in the last paragraph.
The declaration of the Plenipotentiary of the King of
the Netherlands is as follows :
" The Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands having read
the declaration made by the Plenipotentiary of his Majesty
the King of the Belgians, and by the Plenipotentiary
of her Mspsty the Queen of Great Britain, has de-
clared, that as he i 3 not furnished with any instructions
respecting the exception alluded to concerning the
patrimonial domains in the environs of the palace at
Lacken, he thinks it his duty to require that it be under-
stood that the declarations cf the Blegian and British Pleni
potentiarics do not invalidate the rights of his Majesty, the
King of the Netherlands, es proprietor of the said domains,
( Signed) BENTINCK.
London, June 8, 1839.

ROME, JUNE B.—Letters 'from Naples say that the king
will go in person to Sicily, with some troops, to put an end
to the excesses of the banditti. Very rigorous measures
a~e said to be in contemplation to prevent the recurrence
of such scenes.

Letters from Calabria say that on the 20th of last
month, srolent shocks of earthquakes were felt in several
parts of that country, but it was not known that any con-
siderable damage had been done by them.
VIENNA, JUNE 13.—Five per Cents., 108 ; Fuur per
Cents., 101 ii ; T:see per Cents., 821; Bank shares, 1,513.
—Allgenzeine Zeitung, June 18.
AMSTERDAM. JUNE 19.—Yesterday evening, about half-
past eight o'clock, three heavy thunder storms met and
burst over the city with extraordinary violence ; the light-
ning was incessant, so that the air was constantly illumi-
nated for two hours ; in some places hailstones of immense
size fell and broke some windows. We do not hear of any
accidents in the city; at Gedang, a village about a league
from Hoorn, a farm-house was struck and reduced- to
~shes—at Osdorp a miller and his child were struck and
killed on the spot.
Yestt-relay being the anniversary of the battle of Water-
loo, and likewise the day of the marriage of his Royal
Highness the Ilereditary Prince of Orange, there were to
have been splendid fireworks in the parks. Though num-
ber of persons were kept away by the bad weather, there
was, however, a considerab'e aslt.mbllge, the storm, how-
ever, prevented the full exhibition of the fireworks, but
that the people might not be wholly disappointed, one
piece, representing a military trophy, with the bust of our
hero of Waterloo, the Crown Prince,; in Bengal-fire,
was loudly applauded.
TIIE HAGUE, JUNE 18.—His Excellency M. Gericke
Van Heridynen, his Majesty's Extraordinary Commissioner
invested with the superior civil government of the province
of Limburg, left the Hague for Maastricht.

We hear that his Majesty's steam-boat the Zeeuw
shortly leave Rotterdam for :Mintz, where it is to be in rea-
diness on the 26th of this month, to receive the Heredi-
tary Prince and Princess of Orange.
AMSTERDAM, JUNE 19.—The storm of yesterday evening
did great damage in the environs of this city, especially on
the west side and in North Holland. In some villages a
vast number of panes of glass were broken; some churches,
too, suffered in the same manner.
MAESTRICIIT, JUNE 14.—Orders have been received to-
day at the Government Hospital, to have the supplies in
readiness for the garrison of Reremonde and Venloo.
AMSTERDAM, JUNE 20.—Nothing more is necessary for
travellers from this city going to Belgium, than to provide
themselves with an ordinary foreign passport.
ZIELAND, JUNE 18. —The 24th anniversary of the battle
of Waterl..o was celebrated at Flushing in the usual man-
ner. No change has yet taken place in the position of
the squadron on the Scheldt or in the strength of the se-
veral r arrisons.

BREDA, JUNE 19.—W0 had a terrible storm yesterday
afternoon, n hich did great damage in the city and environs.
We learn that the Magistrates of this fortress, in an-
swer to the notice issued by his Excellency, Baron Chasse,
the Governor, of the cessation of the state of war, have re-
plied that though every well disposed citizen must rejoice
at the return of a state of peace, they consider it as a most
pleasing duty to thank the General, in the name of the citi-

fens, for the paternal manner in which his Excellency has
exercised his high authority.
THE HAGUE, JUNE 21. —His Royal Highness the Prince
of Orange arrived on the lath at Frankfort, on his way to
Stuttgard. He took Darmstadt on the way to visit the
Grand Duke of Hesse and the Russian Crown Prince who
bias still at Darmstadt. His Royal Highness arrived at
Stuttgard on the 17th.

Prince Frederick, of the Netherlands, returned to the
ague on the 19th.

We have most afflicting accounts from Nimeguen and
other places, of the damage done by the storm of the I elth,

DEMERARA.

We have received British Guiana Papers to the Bth
ult. Their contents are on the whole highly satisfactory;
and the colony, under the generous decision of the mother
country in favour of the coloured population, and the
wise, forbearing, and impartial administration of Mr.
Light, seems likely to attain a degree of prosperity
which, under the old system, could scarcely have been
dreamt of. Improvements of various kinds are either
in progress, or in contemplation. Even the party
(for as Homer has his Battle of the Frogs and Mice no less
than his Siege of Troy, so we in our distant and least peo-
pled colonies, no less than on the grand arena of home,
have our party rage and party contests) even the party the
must indisposed to change, seems to have caught some-
thing of the spirit of our age, and talks of the need
of macadamising the roads, of establishing omnibuses, of
forming a steam-boat company, and above and beyond
all of educating the new race of freemen I It is pleasin;
thus to see " the extinguishers on fire." We trust they
may unite with their more liberal and enlightened brethren,
in endeavouring to promote such plans as these ; and are
certain that the more they rise above selfish interests and
narrow views, the more cause will they have to rejoice in
such a policy—and to confess that it, like " charity, is
twice blest, blessing him who gives, no less than him who
receives."

Five of the bodies of the unfortunate young men
who were drowned in the Thames on Thursday night have
been found: one was found yesterday afternoon about six
o'clock a little below the Red House, and was carried to
that place; it was supposed to be the body of Mr.
Griffiths.

REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW.—At a
meeting of the electors and other inhabitants of Glasgow,
held in that City last Tuesday, a series of resolutions was
adopted in favour of Mr. Roebuck. " A Committee was
appointed to wait on Mr. ...'swald to request him to with-
draw in favour of Yr. Roebuck, who was first in the field "
SUPPOSED MURDER.—An inquest was held on
Tuesday and Wednesday last at the Talbot Inn, Rugeley,
on the body of Collins, a married woman, who was
found drowned in the Trent and Mersey Canal, near the
aqueduct, in the parish of Rugeley. As the inquest is not
yet concluded, but stands adjourned to Monday next, in
order to give time for collecting further evidence, we for-
bear to comment on this melancholy event. It appears
that the poor woman had taken her passage from Preston
Book to London, where her husband is believed to reside
somewhere in Edgeware Road. At Hoo.mill lock, a few
miles from the place where the body was found, she was
seen in the condition of being forced into the cabin of the
boat by the men who are now in custody on suspicion of
murder. What took place subsequently is at present mat-
ter only of conjecture—but of conjecture the most fearful
and terrible.--St7frordshire Gazette.