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London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE-- This Day.

MA.II,LBOROUGH-STREET.

•
THE UESANCES REMOVAL ACT,—Tho owner of the
house, No. 3, Steel's Court, St. George's, was summoned
before Mr Tyrwhitt, under the following circumstances.
It appears that on the Bth of July, the owner of the
house was summoned before Mr. Mansfield, who was then
sitting at this court, for having several rooms in his house
in such a filthy state as to be a nuisance and injurious to
health, the yard of the house, owing to the overflowing of
the water closet and the bad supply of water, being in an
exceedingly loathsome state, and endangering the health
of the persons residing in the house. After evidence had
been given by Mr. James Grant, the Inspector of Nuisan-
ces, and the medical officer of St. George's, Mr Mansfield
made an order that the premises should be cleansed within
ten days. From that time to the present no notice has
been taken of the order, and Mr. Grant stated that the
premises, when he examined them on Saturday last, were
in the same filthy state.
Mr. Capson, the solicitor for St. George's, said that the
present proceedings were taken under the 14th section of
the Nuisances Removal Act, under which the owner of the
house, by his neglect to obey the order made, had rendered
himself liable to a penalty of Hs. a day for every day of his
default.
After some conversation and evidence that the original
order had not been obeyed, _ _

Mr. Tyrwhitt made an order against the owner of the
house who, as on the former occasion, did not appear, and
was said only to be at the house once a week, when he calls
for his rent, for the payment of a penalty of 2s. 6d. a day
for 26 days, and costs, Mr Tyrwhitt observing that perhaps
that would have the desired effect in putting an end to the
nuisance.

THE EXILE OF ST. HELENA..

Under the quaint heading of "The man with the
Tortoise-shell Spectacles," Mr. GEORGE AUGUSTUS
SALA, one of the most brilliant and ready-witted
men of letters now upon the English press, has
contributed a remarkable paper to the new num-
ber of the Temple-Bar Magazine for ibp.
tember. Enumerating in this bold and
honest, this thoroughly outspoken and perfectly
truthful paper, some of the many infamous and des-
picable cruelties inflicted upon Napoleon the Great

in the days of his misfortune by the British Govern-
ment of that time, a Government that was at the
very least anything but magnanimous—Mr. Sala
has the following remarks in one part of this con-
tribution, in reference to—
THE EMPEROR AND HIS PERSECUTORS.
"There was something about this man on the Atlantic
rock that was awful, imposing, grandiose, wen in his last
and darkest days of desolation and decay; even when he
was squabbling with the hyena Hudson Lowe and the
jackal Gorrequer over disputed rations of coffee and
cheese. The sordid shame of such miserable transactions
rests with them, not him. The High Tory English ene-
mies of Napoleon strove, after Wellington had annihi-
lated his power in the field, to complete his demolition of
his memory by contumely and derision. Their hack-
writers and led-captains were ordered to say that he was
no soldier,lthat he was profligate, that he was ignorant,
that he beat his own servants, that he was false to his wife.
What has become of his High-Tory slanderers now ? Liver-
pool, who wanted to give him up to Louis XVIII. as a
'rebel,' and 'to be dealt with accordingly'—that is to say,
to be shot in the same spot of the ditch of Vincennes where
d'Enghien was slain—Liverpool went mad, and died drivell-
ing. Castlereagh cut his own throat! The superb Prince
Regent, who was too high and mighty to answer the letter
addressed to him by the kidnapped captive of the Bellerophon,
became 'A king, and died in corporeal rottenness and mental
execration, leaving a memory so abhorred even in his own
family, that the Queen of England would not suffer the
bodies of her mother and her husband to lie in the dis-
honoured sepulchre of George IV. Of the crowd of hack-
writers whom High Toryism incited to spurn the dying
lion, John Wilson Croker, the chief libeller of the Quar-
terly Review, is quite forgotten as Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, but is remembered and contemned as the pander to
an infamous nobleman; and Theodore Hook expired a
pauper with a nutmeg liver, and the bailiffs hammering at
his outward gates. And were poor Sir Walter Scott (who,
although he had the misfortune to be a High Tory, was
also a Christian gentleman) alive at this moment, I am in-
clined to think that he would spend his last penny in buy-
ing up the remainder of his calumnious Lite of Napoleon,'
and burn every copy for shame."

In another part of the same contribution the editor
of the Temple-Bar Magazine goes on to describe
some of England's many
PALTRY INSULTS TO THE GItLAT CAPTIVE.
"Arrived at St. Helena, he was not permitted to occupy
the only decent residence in the island, Plantation House
—that was set apart for the high and mighty governor,
selected by the Tories at home, and now on his way out—
but after living for some weeks in a hovel at the end of a
garden, in which there was scarcely room to swing a cat,
and which belonged to Mr. Balcombe, the gentleman
appointed
to supply his future establishment with
chandlery and butchers' meat, he was thrust into a barn
patched up with boards and pitched paper, nailed toge•
ther by ships' carpenters, and called Longwood. There,
encamping a regiment of infantry at his gates, and posting
sentinels at every corner and on every goat-path leading
to the sea, and focussing hundreds of cannon upon him,
and spying upon him if ever he chose to ride on horseback
or walk in his arid garden, they left him to the heat, and
the dust, and the mosquitoes, and his own miserable
thoughts. They sent him to read only such English news-
papers as were filled with abuse of his policy, his family,
and himself : and even then the Tories took care never to
let him have a complete file, but ingeniously broke the
succession, so that his views of contemporary history
should be muddled and obscure. The high and mighty
governor, whose name was Lowe, and who had been an
orderly clerk to Marshal Blucher, and the commandant of a
horde of Sicilian bandits hired to cut throats by the British
Government, came cut in due course; installed himself at
Plantation House; insulted the prisoner by asking him to
a ball as General' Bonaparte; confiscated the present
sent out by good Lady Holland, merely because they bore
the inscription To Napoleon the Great;' discovered that
the party at Longwood ate too much bread and drank too
much salad oil, and insisted upon the expenses being cut
down accordingly; and stated to Barry O'Meara that he
considered Ali Pasha to be 'a much more respectable scoun-
drel than Bonaparte.' I forgot to say that he gobbled up all
the sound partridges and pheasants which could be procured
from the Cape for the exile's wretched table, and only sent
to Longwood such game as was utterly putrescent and
uneatable. These delicate attentions, combined with
some thousand more outrages and insults which I have not
space to enumerate here, but which I mean to put some day
in a big book (dedicating it to the infamous memories of
Liverpool and Castlereagh, not forgetting the master of
these wretches, the Regent), produced, in a surprisingly
brief space of time. the desired effect. The object of the
Tories in sending Napoleon to St. Helena was to kill him
by inches; and by inches he was killed accordingly."
The following is Mr. Sala's reference in this
same paper' to the foremost man in England in those
times, one who might, had he cared to do so, have
tnitig
by l atec the anguish of the Great Napoleon's cap-
tivitymerely deprecating the continuance of
these infernal cruelties : meaning no other than

"With
What THE IRON DUKE!
an astonishing amount of base and sense-
less adulation has this perfectly trustworthy, straight.
forward
, clear.sighted, clever, selfish man (the Duke of
Wellington) been bespattered ! He knew remarkably well
an Which side his bread was being buttered, and adhered
to the buttered_were side with commendable pertinacity. His
public Jaatiresolute
roud; clean—albeit in private he was cool,
Excelsior and gamester. His motto should have been
;" a
for he was continually meunting, knowing
that at
the
coronet, top of the mountain was fortune,
and a
Ilet, and a field marshal's baton. As a
Minister—a
the Tory
hatred of Minister—he justly earned the
English people; and in his decline h
mended respect Gni
contemporaries hadY because he had lived so long that his
generation had forgotten his misdeeds, and another
gm
but the fame of his up, too young to remember anything
in his last rides u great achievements. In his last days,
passed into the mythical .Constitution-hill, Duke Arthur had
capped and bowed the k
hical state •and , as a myth the mob
that he was never nee to him. I only wonder, seeing
to any human being, knownth to do a kindly or charitable action
since his:demise, g Arthur the
he has not been nicknamed,
publication
Good.'
Accused since trshescpaz. 'cation of this article in the
Temple Bar
accused by one of hinal° for September, bitterly
reviewers, of having in it
written "several pages
of nonsense, introducing a
very improbable story and
history, which is, in fact,
equally improbable
" himself has
a fiction of Mr. Sala's
brain —Mr. Sala
has taken the trouble to
answer this preposterous
accusation by replying to
his reviewer thus :
" I should, therefore, advise
him, if he wishes to make
good his charge of falsehood
against me, to refer-1, to
Santini's book ; 2, to the (Memorial de Ste. Helene,"
by the Count de Las Cases:- '
Captivity of Napoleon," b., General 3, to the " History of the
•/'
(London : Colburn, 3846) ; 4,
to
" A Voice from St.
Count Montholon
Helena," by Barry O'Meara
Marshall, 1822) ; 5, to " Letters
: Simpkin and
Majesty's Ship the Northumberland,'; Bwritten on board his
surgeon (London : Ackermann, i•g by William Warden,
ters to his Kinsfolk," by Sir Walter
; 6, to "Paul's Let-
same author's "Life of Napoleon Scott, Bart.; 7. to the
burgh : Ballantyne, 1827) ; 8, to l3uonaparte" (Edin-
burgh Revisited," by
John Scott; 9, to " Paris after 4Waterloo,,, by James Simp-
son, advocate (Edinburgh: Blackwoodse , 1853) ; 10, to the
" R4lation des Evenements qui
sent
pass6s en France
:lepuis le debarquement de Napoleonituonaparte, au ler
Mars, 1815, jusqu'au traittl du 20 overabre, traduit de
l'Anglais de Miss Helen Maria Willis,
MartiniZre (Paris: Dentu, 1816)) ; 11,T8'" by Buton de la
" Sainte Henne,"
by Adolphe Thiers, the last volunie of tho"llistoire du Con-
teeely in 1862; 12, your
sulat et de l'Empire," published separately
period the proceed-
critic may read in the newspapers of the
ings of the coroner's inquest,
the body of Lord
t
Londonderry (Castlereagh) ; 13, I refer
of the Quarterly Balm from 1815
u lB22him to the pages, the foul
forker, C
abuse lavished on Napoleon by John Nilson
secre-
tary to the Admiralty; 14, to the report of the trial of
Nicholas Suisse, for information as to the nobleman to whom
Croker was the pimp ; 15, to the ear]
_against Napoleon,
Y numbers of the
John Bull for the calumnious article;
by Mr. Theodore Hook; 16, to Mr.
arhatu's " Memoirs
or Hook, for an account of the death of
that brilliant
writer, the circumstances in which he
2 Government,
seizure of his effects at the suit of the Torydied and the
whose predecessor he had served so
regard to the character of George IV lcuslY. With
. °,that Which I ,
said of him, after the elegies of Byron, of
Walter Savage
Lander, and of Thackeray, need little vindicat;(3'n' Respecting
the trifling incident of the putrid pheasants
and partridges
sent to Napoleon at St. Helena, I refer Your critic to
pages of Careme (Le Cuisinier Royal), 'where ho will find
the anecdote precisely as I have set it downcook as related to
Careme, by Chandelier, Napoleon's
at Longwood.
These sources of information are not very recondite, but
they are extant, for all the world to read.
uortholTone authen-
ticity of the statements made by
n and Las
Cases are not denied even by Mr. Forsyth, the conscientious
and impartial apologist of Sir Hudson Lowe. All the books
I have mentioned are very much at the serve.
be happy to
ice of your critic
if he will honour me with a visit; anedl shalldown
before
show him the passages marked by m
write the article upon which he has animadverted."
After having had which timely and
evidently
essential "refreshers'' administered to his appa-
rently as yet very smallamount of
historical know-

r ledge, in regard to the treatment undergone by the
greatest man of modern times when lingering out
the last six wretched years of his wonderful life as
the captive of ungenerous England, Mr. Sala's
unthinking assailant would do well to complete his
labours by reading the noose and affecting stanzas
addressed in reproach to England in this matter
by as truehearted an Englishwoman as she was
one rarely gifted in intellect—the late Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORVING INTELLIGENCE.---This Day.

LY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
WAR IV ICK RACES.---This DAY.
TRIAL STARES.

General Hiss .
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RACING STASES.

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Acceptance
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AVON STAKES.

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Coimbra
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CASTLE PARK STAKES.

Phemy filly
King George:
Union Jack

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QUEEN'S PLATE.

Caller Ou .
Sir William
SHORT'S HANDICAP.

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Paddy O'Rourke .. 3

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LATEST BETTING.
ST LEGER.
5t3 1 cgst Ranger (taken)

6to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
13 to 2 agst Avenger (taken)
9to 1 agat Golden Pledge (taken)
18 to 1 agat Blue Mantle (taken)
20 to 1 agat Lord Clifden (offered)
25 to 1 agst Donnybrook

tazue Plibip Hall Gray to be First Lieutenant, vice
O'Grady, demised,

BANKRUPTS.

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the Gazette :
Fredk. J. Rees, builder, Liverpool
Wm. Taylor, draper, Stockport
William Bishop, upholsterer, Birmingham
Isaac Smith, saddler, Liverpool
John Gilderthorpe, printer, Nottingham
John Bradley, tailor, Manchester
Robert Masters, appraiser, 'Woolwich
Alfonso Galzini, clerk, Maida-hill
John Berry, fishmonger, Heywood Lancaster
Robert Purchon, grocer, Leeds
Charles Lorimer, coal dealer, Huddersfield
James Mills, farmer, Windford, Somersetshire
John Charles, plumber, Walvern Link, Worcestershire
Frederick Newman, publican, Cambridgeshire
Alfred F. Eden, optician, Clarendon-square

BANKRUPTCY ED.
Andrew George Hu Hunter and Edward FANNULLotit Ferris, alkali
manufactureis, Mark-lane

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Duncan Brown, grocer, Glasgow
John A. Nnier, builider, Rothsay
John Miller, grocer, Airdrie
Alexander Macleman, fleshsr, Inverness
Alexander Melville, plumber, Galashiels