The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-24 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

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(Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock
4 -tin, Bramwell, and Wilde.;
AN ATTORNEY ruslE-).

A rule had been obtained calling upon an attor-
ney named Paget to show cause why he should not
be struck off the rolls for misconduct in making cer-
tain untrue statements on affidavits of increase, for
the purpose of getting a larger amount of costs than
he was entitled to in five actions relating to a water-
course, which came on at the assizes at York, but
were referred for arbitration.
The report of the master, going elaborately into
the whole circumstances, had been read by Master
Fredk. Pollock to the court on a previous day.

Mr. Manisty, Q.C., on the part of the attorney,
now showed cause against the rule. lie admitted
that his client had made some unfortunate mistakes,
and had not exercised proper care and caution, but
urged as an excuse the many difficult and compli-
cated matters arising out of the five actions, and
said that the acts complained of were done inno-
cently, and with no intention whatever to make fic-
titious charges in his bills of cost.
Mr. T. Jones was also heard on the same sick.
Mr. Overend, Q.C. (with whom was Mr. Rew)
appeared in support of the rule, but said he was con-
tent to leave the case upon the report of the master
without any comments of his own.
The Lord Chief Baron, after a consultation with
his learned brothers, said this was one of the most
serious questions which could arise in the adminis-
tration of justice. An application was made to
strike an attorney off the rolls on the ground that he
had on several occasions made charges which he
had no right to make, and supported them with
affidavits which certainly turned out to be untrue.
It was one of the duties of the superior courts of
Westminster-hall to watch over the conduct of
those officers who carried on their business, and
this court was now called upon to pronounce an
opinion on the conduct of one whose counsel ad-
mitted had been guilty of great negligence and
carelessness, and considerable indifference to the
character and reputation of a very honourable
branch of the profession. On the integrity and
honour of that branch of the profession a great
part of the safety of the community depended. Per-
sons of large property entrusted their estates en-
tirely to them ; and vi lien any one employed a well
known and respectable member of the body be ge-
nerally reposed in him the most implicit confidence,
and it was satisfactory to the court to reflect that
in general that confidence was well reposed. The
court did not think they were called upon to strike
this attorney off the rolls for what might have been
only an Extremely slovenly and irregular mode of
conducting his business, but he appears to have
taken no pains to ascertain, as every one who made
an affidavit ought to do, whether the matters ho
swore to were correct. From the line of argument
pursued it would appear that this was very much
the mode in which a large portion of the business
in this and other courts were conducted. If
that were so it was high time that it should be
understood that it must not be continued, It
was high time that the court should interterc,
Int it was not necessary in this case, which brought
the subject first before the court, that they should
make a very grave example; but if the court now
showed any leniency, it must not be drawn into a
precedent for the impunity of those who might be
subsequently guilty of this practice. The judg-
ment of the court was that so much of the rule as
prayed that Mr. Paget should be struck off the
roll of attorneys should be discharged, but on con-
dition that he paid a fine of £lOO, and also paid
all the costs of the rule and of the proceedings
before the master.
Judgment accordingly.

ARREST OF AN ENGLISH AUTHOR BY THE FEDE-
RALS.—A Washington telegram of the 9th says :
"George B. Lawrence, author of the well-known romance,
Guy Livingstone,' was arrested a mile and a half beyond
our picket lines last night, while making his way to Rich-
mond. Lawrence arrived in this country two or three
weeks since from England, and has occupied his time since
with prominent Secessionists in this city and in Baltimore.
He was taken before Judge-Advocate Turner to-day, and
by him committed to close confinement in the old capital.
Lawrence dined with Lord Lyons when in Washington
and seemed to enjoy friendly relations with all the British

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ra Hy. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Stansfeld's address to the
electors of Halifax appeared on the walls of the town. la
this document the hon, gentleman says : "I have accepted
otlice under the Crown, and my seat, as your representative,
has
thus become vacant, and is again at your disposal, I
hasten, therefore, to solicit at your hands a renewal of the
trust which you first confided to me at the late general elec.
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right to take. I propose to be in Halifax towards the end
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PASSPORTS IN SWITZERLAND.—The following IS
an extract from a dispatch addressed to Earl
Russell by Admiral the Hon. E. A. J. Harris, her Majcsty'S
Minister in Switzerland, dated Berne, Jau. 29, 1863, re-
specting "cartes desejour" and passports, and published in
the London Gazette of Feb. 13:—" The decree of the Swiss
Federal Council, dated April 16, 1862, states that it is no
longer neceesary fur foreign travellers to exhibit passports
either on the frontier or in the interior ; but the Cantonal
Governments still retain the power of requiring from thoas
who prolong their residence beyond the period indic...ted by
the laws of each Canton the exhibition of passports or papers
for the purpose of obaining ' cartes de sejour,' for which
. a fee is to be paid. In the case of British subjects under
the Treaty of 1856 the scale of fees is the same as that di.
manded from Swiss citizens of other Cantons."
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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1863.

Mr, ROEBUCK has yet once again nobly vindi-
cated his right to the title of—A Tribune of the
English People. As such, distinctly, he spoke last
evening from the floor of the House of Commons
The occasion, though one wholly different in its
character, was, to all intents and purposes, quite as
memorable and quite as important, of its kind, as
that other, upon which the hon. and learned gentle-
man, in the midst of the many frightful disasters at-
tendant upon the first outbreak of the Russian war,
" won golden opinions from all sorts of men" by his
chivalrous interposition in behalf of our gallant
but neglected soldiery. Weat yesterday excited,
—reasonably enough we will say at once—the
patriotic ire of this ardent Englishman, was
the long since all too flagrant fact of those
unprovoked insults and gratuitous outrages which
the Federal Government collectively, and one of the
Federal Admirals (the notorious ILKES) indivi-
dually, have now during many months past been
offering repeatedly to the banner of England
upon the high seas. Language expressive of scorn
and indignation could not have been stronger than
that used by the hon. and learned gentleman last
evening when referring to these same facts as facts
perfectly well known to all those who heard him.
As could alone have been expected from that great
assembly of Englishmen, the words uttered by Mr.
ROEBUCK yesterday in the House of Commons,
were received there with no merely ordinary ex-
pressions of approval, they were welcomed, sentence
after sentence, with reiterated bursts of acclamation.
What the words were that thus elicited the ringing
cheers of the British House of Commons, it is worth
while examining into very carefully. Like a wily
old master of fence, as he is, the " Veteran Viscount"
tried more than once to hush up this inconveniently
outspoken Hotspur of Debate. Lord PALMER-
STON, in fact, strove to prevent what to him-
self, as Premier, doubtless appeared excessively
rash, and what might prove, according to his view,
diplomatically embarrassing —by answering Mr.
ROEBUCK'S Question actually before it was Asked !
Whereupon Mr. ROEBUCK—wilier even in his blunt
ontspeakince; than the arch diplomatist who was
striving thus to twist the foil out of his grasp at the
first instant of its being crossed with his own—Mr.
ROEBUCK, we say, interposing—with a whimsically
opportune remembrance evidently of the familiar
adage asserting that " old birds are not to be caught
with ehaff "—exclaimed " No, no. I know the
noble lord is an older man than I am. Still, old as
he is, he won't take me in in that way." At which
--naturally—there came an explosion of laughter
from the House.
Feeling strongly, as a loyal subject, as a patriotic
citizen, as a member of the House of Commons, as
An Englishman, Mr. ROEBUCK not only spoke, bat
spoke right out. In one sufficient phrase, be it
said, that—feeling strongly, he spoke as he felt.
Alluding, in the first place, to the hopes he himself,
in common with so many others, had long cherished
in regard to the future, the social and political
future, opening up before the American people, he
said :—" I thought that they entered into that
overnment3 in a way which
experiment [of self-g
mankind had never before seen, and that, if fortune
should prevail, it would be shown that men had proved
worthy of governing themselves. When, there-
fore,'' continued the hon. and learned member for
Shtffield, " the news came that that great experi-
ment was at an end—for it is at an end—I say at
once my heart failed me, for then I was compelled
to acknowledge that men, under the most favour-
able circumstances, had proved themselves un-
worthy of government by themselves. That," added
Mr. ROEBUCK, " was my feeling, and then my feel-
ings were in favour of the North. But, as time went
on, their conduct was such—their whole conduct
proved them not only unfit for the government of
themselves, but unfit for the courtesies and for the
community of the civilised world ! " Tolerably
plain language that, we should say ! Language
uttered, no longer since than last evening, and in no
obscurer arena than within the walls of the Commons
House of Parliament ! Ard how received ? it may
be asked, in Europe and in America : how received
when uttered) by the English House of Commons ?
How ? Mark this ! One or two cries of " Oh,
oh," are heard (we know whence I)—answered im-
what way ?—" by Cheers" Listen-
mediately—in
ing only to those feeble interruptions, "Oh, yes, sir,"
cried out Mr. ROEBUCK upon the instant, " I know
that there are degenerate Englishmen who do take
the part of the North against their own
country ; and
whenever a matter comes
into collision between America and England
their voices are raised on the side of America."
The stinging truthfulness of •
which scornful
*ion to Somebody—don't we all wonder very much
who in the name of fortune that Somebody could
14"51b1y be?—called forth from a sympathising
Somebody else, last evening, a hysterical cry of

" Order." Turning in the direction of the Speaker
—" I want to know," quietly remarks Mr. ROE-
BUCK, " where lam out of order." Whereupon—
the House " Cheers." Louder " Cheers," however,
than any of those which were so frequently elicited
by the burning words uttered last night by Mr.
RoEBtcY. in the En glishHouse of Commons —loudest
of all the Cheers from the earnest throng of mem-
bers who were listening to him yesterday with
manifest delight—were those called forth by hia in-
dignant reference to Mr. ADAMS, the American
Ambassador to the Court of St. James's as occupy-
ing virtually at this moment the anomalous
position of " Minister for Commerce " here in
England! The derisive cheering of the House of
Commons marking at once, the instant recog-
nition by the:members generally, of the perfect just-
ness of Mr. ROEBUCK'S taunt. Nor, by the way,
would it, we may be sure, have tended to hush the
words of Mr. ROEBUCK or the respondent Cheers of
the House, could he and they the next instant have
heard echoed mysteriouslyto them from the House of
Lords, the no less (perhaps we should say, the still
more) energetic expressions of indignation with
which the noble Earl the Foreign Secretary was at
that very same time, in " that other place," reprobat-
ing (as Lord RUSSELL can reprobate when he
pleases!) the late extraordinary conduct of the Ame-
rican Ambassador here in London.

" There could be no doubt," Earl RUSSELL
was then remarking in the House of Lords,
" that the conduct of Mr. ADAMS had been
entirely unwarrantable. However," continted the
Foreign Secretary, he (Earl RUSSELL) "should not
think of complaining to Mr. ADAMS. He would
bring his conduct before the consideration of the
United States Government, Ic was for them to say
in what manner such an act should be visited."

" Cheers," at this too—even in the usually staid and
decorous House of Peers.

Returning, however, to the House of Com-
mons and to Mr, RGEIWCK, the latter thus
forcibly summed up what it was, precisely,
that he was desirous of asking from the noble
lord at the head of the Government. "The
noble lord," he said, " has shown himself hitherto
the friend of the honour, the dignity, and the
prosperity of England. He never showed that
more," continued Mr. ROEBUCE, " than in his
conduct as the head of the Administration in the cir-
cumstances of the Trent. We have been subjected
[since then] to every species of violent language—
not of insinuations, but of accusations. We
were threatened with war, and King Cotton was
to be the power to reduce us. Well, King Cotton
tried his power and has failed ! We then resented
an act which was flagrant, insolent, and overbear-
ing—we called them to account, and they truckled
in their answer ! Well, sir, now again another
insult is given, and by the conduct of the same
man who perpetrated that deed with respect to
the Trent." Having recapitulated then the cir-
cumstances with which we are all of us by this time,
unhappily, only too painfully familiar—the English
Tribune thus put his closing inquiry thereupon
point-blank to the House, to the Noble Lord, and
to the Government. " Now, sir," he said, " I would
put it to the noble lord, who :las hitherto shown
himself alive to the dignity and honour of England,
and would ask whether the Government, of which he
is the head, has come to any determination on this
matter, and if he has come to any determination,
whether the noble lord will tell Parliament now
what that determination is. Sir, I know the con-
sequences of the action which he may take. It may
lead to war ; and I, sir, speaking here for the
English people, am prepared for war. Aye,
and that language may strike the heart of the
Peace Party in this house, but it will strike the
heart of the insolent people who govern America
now and we shall have justice done to the honour
and dignity of England, and the commerce of this
country will no longer be subjected to the overbear
ing and domineering insolence of an upstart
race—(CHEERS)." To this—the reply vouchsafed by
the Prime Minister was, almost as a matter of course,
under the circumstances, remarkable merely for its
brevity and reticence. It will have to be answered,
however, and that quite plainly, one way or the
other, a very little later on. Last night, in point of
fact, the answer simply was evaded and postponed.
It will, however, sooner or later, have to be given,
we repeat : and upon its purport may probably
depend the fate of the present Government.

Last night Lord PALMERSTON proposed the
grant of £50,000 towards the expense of erecting a
suitable memorial to the late Prince Consort. The
noble lord began by alluding in touching terms to
the irreparable loss which the nation has sustained
by his premature decease. He then went on to
state that every one felt "it was an occasion
on which it would be becoming, both for the
satisfaction of the public feeling and as a tribute
of respect to the Sovereign, that some permanent
and substantial memorial should be erected to
commemorate the virtues of the man whom we
had lost." Lord PALMERSTON then gave a brief
outline of the arrangements concerning this memo-
rial. It was intended from the first by her Ma-
jesty's Government not to leave the commemoration
of a great national loss entirely to the result of
private contributions. They believed that, besides
that testimony from individuals, it was fitting that
Parliament should offer something of a more
national character. Various events had arisen
which had prevented in many quarters
so large a sum being obtained as WhS
at first expected. The magnificent public
generosity which had in a great measure supported
the workpeople of Lancashire was one important
reason that ho might cite. The noble lord then
expressed himself in eloquent terms concerning the
practice of monuments. He said that they answered
a double purpose, since they not only gratified the
feelings of those who were contemporaries of the
individual this honoured, but they also served as
landmarks to future generations. In that twofold
capacity no one more deserved to have his name
recorded and his memory honoured than did Prince
ALBERT. He concluded by saying that he was sure
hon. members would consider the vote one worthy
of that house to conced,' to. They had to consider
their SOVEREIGN to whom her people looked with
such deep attachment, an d that house
of ctohueldnatnieovneari
prove itself a more fittingexponent
sentiments than when it sanctioned a pro-
posal like the present one. He believed
that if they now granted tt e sum he asked
for, "it would be amply sufficient to erect a
memorial that would be worthy of the nation, and
do adequate honour to the memory of the PRINCE
CONSORT, while it would be soothing to the feelings
of those to whom the house and the country were
wishful to do honour." Mr. DISRAELI said that
he considered the Government had taken a judici-
ous course in the matter, which was one that was

not free from embarrassment. He thought that the
Ministers had come forward and appealed to the
common sense of the house to terminate a state
of things thatihad become from unforeseen circum-
stances, one of awkwardness. The right hon.
gentleman said that there could be no doubt as to
the real sympathy that pervaded the length and
breadth of the land, on the occurrence of the
death of the PRINCE CONSORT. Much confusion

had arisen in the desire felt by the provincial towns
to evince their sense of the national loss without
awaiting the general decision or co-operating with
the plans laid down in the metropolis. In
refering to the personal characteristics of the
late Prince, Mr. DISRAELI said that he was a
man who combined qualities that were often con-
sidered incompatible—namely, contemplation and
action. Ho was distinguished alike for profundity
of thought and quickness of organisation. The
country began by this time to appreciate more
of the real character of him whom they had lost than
they had done at first ; and, indeed, something of
the influence of posterity was now mingled with
our retrospective glance at his career. Mr.
DISRAELI then adverted to the speech of Mr.
CONINGIIAM, and said that he did not agree with
that gentleman's view on the subject in naming a
" purpose of utility" as the object of the subscrip-
tions. That meant some particular feature in the
PRINCE'S career that they might wish to illustrate,
but a public memorial which the House
and the country expected to erect should
be of an universal and complete character.
It should resemble his own character in the beauty
and harmony of its proportions, and in the appro-
priateness of the ornament, and it should appeal to
the general sentiments of the country, and, as it
were, represent, as far as art can represent, the cha-
racter and remembrance of the living man, so that
those who come after us, as the noble lord observed,
may see something which they may receive of in-
struction and encouragement ; it should be some-
thing significant, direct, and choice, not indirect
and in reference to some narrow-minded prin-
ciple of utility, referring merely to some frag-
mentary portion of his life and acts ; it should
above all things be direct as well as appropri-
ate, so that those who who come after us may
say, This is the type and the testimony of a sublime
life and a transcendent career, and thus they were
recognised by a grateful and admiring nation."
After some further remarks the vote was agreed
to, and it may therefore be trusted that this grand
national undertaking will soon be completed in a
manner creditable alike to the memory of the man
it seeks to honour and the people who are willing
to place his record among their chronicle of the
departed worthies of the State. From what has
appeared in the description of the design it
seems likely to prove generally satisfactory. In
some explanatory remarks which Mr. GILBERI
SCOTT has written on the subject, he mentions
several interesting facts, among which appears
conspicuous the mention that Prince ALBERT him-
self approved of the erection of a Gothic style of
memorial in Hyde-park, when there was a discus-
sion on the relative merits of the Guards Crimean
Memorial. Taking everything into consideration,
we have ample reason to be satisfied with the pre-
sent plans laid down for observance by the corn
mittee regulating the Prince Consort Memorial,
and the "Eleanor Cross" which has been fixed
upon is a fitting suggestion in many points of view.
It bears the stamp of old association, which is in
itself a recommendation to the tastes and sympa-
thies of those whom Mr. DISRAELI appropriately
described last night as "a proud and ancient
people." Let us trust, then, that this work will
be happily completed, and remain a lasting tes-
timony to future generations of the respect which
attended the life, and the regret that accom-
panied the death of one who did his utmost
in the short day of human trial that
precedes the night when no man can work. The
closing period of earthly existence can hardly come
more suddenly to any man than it did to the late
Prince Consort. But while the dead rest from their
labours, the living may appreciate their work, and
this is eminently the case with him whom we now
seek to honour. It has been truly declared—

4, That those bright laurels ne'er shall fade with years,
Whose leaves are watered by a nation's tears."
And the respect and reverence which enshrine the
memory of the Prince Consort" are the most lasting
and imperishable proofs of his name being handed
down to posterity as one of those illustrious men
whom a nation has delighted to honour. 'The de-
cision of the House will be ratified by the approval
of the country, and the Sovereign may reflect in bar
hours of sorrow that,if taken too soon from his family
and friends, her lamented consort has not departed
before his worth was appreciated, and his character
comprehended by the mighty people over whom she
reigns. Monuments are " fruitless wreaths of fame"
unless they typify a feeling and represent a prin-
ciple, but the memorial to be raised in Hyde-park
will not be an empty or an insignificant affair. Near
to where the Prince in the prime of life and the
fruition of his plans, witnessed the opening of the
Great Exhibition, will be reared the solemn witness
of his departure from the busy scenes and brilliant
pageants among which he took a prominent place.
This will be a warning to those who look on so to
employ their opportunities, and exert their energies
that when the superficial has passed away, some-
thing sterling may remain to influence and
interest the generation that succeed them.
It is not the glories of birth and state, or the power
of the sceptre and crown that can attract esteem
or command homage, but the qualities of the indi-
vidual that appear through the trappings of royalty,
and are revealed amid the artificial life of courts.
It is, inasmuch as Englishmen have recognised
these higher attributes in the character of the de-
parted Prince, that the Memorial now about to be
erected to his honour is precious and praiseworthy.
The QUEEN and her children may regard it in ith
just pride, since it is the spontaneous offering of a
nation's goodwill, and those strangers from afar,
who visit our shores, may pause to contemplate the
memento that we have raised to the memory of one
who, with no definite position or recognised respon-
sibilities of his own, made for himself a glorious
vocation as the worthy husband of our Queen, and
the

" Noble father of our Kings to be."

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, Prince Alfred, and Prince Louis of Hesse visited
the Exhibition of the Old Society of Water Colours, Pall-
mall, this morning.

The Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, held a levee yesterday, which was well attended.
The funeral of Field-Marshal Lord Seaton took
place at Newton Ferrers, near Yealmpton, Devon-
shire, this day. The ceremony was private.
Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last
evening, at her residence, Eaton-place, their Royal High-
nesses the Comte de Paris and the Dan de Chartres, the
Duke of St. Albans, his Excellency the Italian Minister, &c
The marriage of Major the Hon. Charles
, Wemyss Thesiger, second son of Lord and Lady
Chelmsford, with Miss Charlotte, daughter of the Hon.
George Handcock, and niece to Lord Castlemaine, was
solemnised yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square, in
the presence of a numerous circle of the relations and
friends of the two families.

ELECTION OF A COMMON COUNCILMAN.— A. ward-
mote was held yesterday afternoon in the vestry-
room of St. Magnus Church, Upper Thames-atreet, for the
election of a common councilman for the ward of Bridge,
in the place of Mr. James Low. deceased. Mr. Alderman
Abbiss took the chair. There were three-candidates pro-
posed for the vacant office, namely, Mr. George Pay, Mr.
Charles Muspratt, and Mr. John Thomas Moss. A show
of hands was taken, and Mr. Pay was elected, the other
the
candidates declining to demand a poll. Mr. Pay, in ex-
pressing his acknowledgments, strongly condemned the
attempt on the part of Sir George Grey to interfere with
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