The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

rIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 180,

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCES.

Henry ' harwood and John Bryan, charged with obtaining
30 barrels of flour by forged orders, and William Day and
William Reed were charged with receiving the same well
knowing they were stolen.
The Messrs. Bovill and Co., the parties defrauded, are
wholesale dealers, carrying on business at Bolton's Wharf,
Shad Thames, and on the 27th March an order was pre-
sented to them for the delivery of 30 1-arrels of flour.
The property was delivered in cart, and it was proved
that in a short time afterwards part of the flour
was left at the premises of Day and Reed, tradesmen in
Bermondsey. After the property had been obtained, the
order was discovered to be a forgery, and on the matter be-
ing placed in the hands of the police, the four prisoners
were taken into custody.
Evidence having been adduced,

Mr. Baron Martin said there did not appear to be the
slightest case against Reed and Day. Oa the contrary,
they appeared to have given straightforward answers to the
police, and therefore it would the duty of the jury t,
acquit them. With respect to the other two, there was
quite suffi..dent evidence to go on with the case.
Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the prisoner Bryan, said
he felt certain after the jury had fully considered the whole
facts of the case, they would be of opinion that the two
poor men at the bar were the dupes of other parties, and
that when they presented the order for the flour they had
not the slightest idea it was a forgery.
The jury acquitted Sherwood, but found Bryan guilty.
Baron Martin sentenced him to seven years' penal ser-
vitude.

account of himself he should take him into custody. He
then stated that he was waiting for his mate. Witness then
took him to the station-house.
Mr. Selfe—Did he tell you where he came from ?
Constable—Not till he got to the station-house.
Mr. Selfe—Was anything found upon him?
Constable—Only a key and a tobacco pipe. A few days
ago there was a house roboery in Lupas-street.
Mr. Selfe (to prisoner)—Lupas-street is a long way from
Clerkenwell. What were you doing in Lupas-street ?
Prisoner—l was waiting to meet a young woman.
The prisoner was remanded forinquiries to be made about
him.

The Fine Old English Gentleman,

(From the Daily Telegraph.)

The " fine old English gentleman" is a type
which, we trust, will never be ranked as extinct
with dodos and ichthyosauri. Even clad in the old
doublet and trunk hose, and wrapped round with
Tory prejudices, the genial worth of the class was
irresistible. They stood like pillars of the state,
propping up a world of rubbish and antiquated no-
tions; but so valuable in themselves, that people
spared the superstructure along time for their sakes.
When that crumbled away, despairing Tories cried
that the race was disappearing—it never could sur-
vive Reform Bills and Eeeencipation Acts; if old
port and bigotry were to go, the " fiae old English
gentleman" must go too, like one of the victims of
Mr. Darwin's " natural selection," for whom the
conditions of existence had ceased to be available.
But have we lost him ? Have modern legislation
and modern ideas buried him and his fellows fathoms
deep in the " new sandstone" of thought and things ?
Not a bit of it. Like the grand old boy he is and
was, he holds his own with civilisation, and is to be.
found at his wonted diversions and virtues, as much
an institution as ever. Time has taken off his full-
bottomed wig, and changed the cut of his flowered
waistcoat. It has hung his hall about with breech-
loaders and fishing-rods, insteads of " pikes, and
bows, and staves ;" and whereas " when Christmas
came" the worthy old man was apt to be found under
his table towards the small hours, he "lives cleanly
now, and forswears sack" beyond a justifiable degree,
and is fit company for the ladies after dinner, which
is more than could be said for his ancestors. It
was picturesque, perhaps, to see him at his
great door serving out a share of his good
things to the poor; but it is ten times better that
these poor should be honest workmen nowadays,
and not beggars, and that the English gentleman
should keep up this part of his character by being
an intelligent chairman of the board of guardians,
or a sensible justice of the peace. In a word, the
doe old fellow is changed, but changed for the better
rather than the worse, and we only hope that he
will long survive the process of such melioration.
We like to come across him ; it does us good, in the
stormy atmosphere of politics and the confusion of
wars, to catch a glimpse of his honest, beamy coun-
tenance, and his contented, substantial air. We like
to hear of him from time to time, founding museums
and institutions at Liverpool, giving his hat-full of
thousand-pound notes at a time to the poor of Lon-
don. taking his pleasure and performing his duties
in the thoroughgoing way peculiar to his kind; and,
fife's jolly, easy, innocent, and yet earnest business
ovcaying without a voice to speak ill of his silver
hairs.
We need these men—large-hearted, big-
manly-thoughted Britishers—and we do
well to be proud of them, for it is an indigenous
strain. They don't set the Thames of science on
fire with discoveries, nor take always kindly to
those who do; they are largely given to Conserva-
tive politics, as being comfortably suitable to diges-
tion, which is usually more or less disturbed by
thinking. But, all in all, they are a worthy set,
and when we lose them it is a melancholy tribute
to " make a note of it."
Such
Van one just departed from among us in
e Joe Weld, of is
Lulworth Castle," as his neighbours
affectionately called him. Perhaps because he was
as good a Catholic as he was landlord, friend, citi-
zen, and yachtsman, we are expected not to rank
him with the class we have described. Saving
the presence of Mr. Newdegate, the circumstance
does not weigh with us in the slightest degree. The
theory of the constitution is that a man's con-
science is his own business—the practice of society
is to make it that of everybody else. We prefer the
theory, and consider it essentially a matter of in-
different detail, of what particular communion a
good, honest, truthful, and dutiful gentleman may
be. And nothing is more obvious than the healthy
set of public opinion towards this view of the
matter. It is not the priestly view on either side,
because its tendency is to disregard the dogmas and
rubrics of this and that Church, and to select and
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ambition or the apology for heathenish animosities.
There are two sides to Catholic profession in
1863, when, logically, it seems an anachro-
nism. There is the priestly and- propagandist
side, with which we can have no manner of sym-
pathy, but au intensely contrary feeling; and there
is the hereditary and reasonable side, upon which
it comes to us invested with many an estimable
association. There are families in England amid
whom the profession of the old creed has descended
through generations, and by these it is reverently
kept, like a household jewel, precious for its asso-
ciations and setting, rather than for any intrinsic
fascination in the heir-loom. Mr. Weld's house has
in this way inherited its tenets, and honourably
maintained them. But, to one who never himself
asked whether an honest man was of this creed or
that, Protestant or Catholic, we owe the same
rational liberality. On Joseph Weld's ancestral
estate the religious screw was never turned down,
nor did any man ever link the name of " 111 eld of
Lulworth" with anything so mean and absurd as
religions persecution. The best recompense we
can i
gmake to his memory is gladly to forget that he
didrel not worship with the majority of his country-
men, or go towards the Heaven that is near all
by qaite the same road as they. The proper way
to extend and propagate his example is to imi-
tate it by ignoring, as we do hero, in ranking
him with our " fine old Eaglish gentlemen,"
the slight difference in the religious sanctions of
his manly life. His breviary in one hand shall never
make us overlook the brave old yachtsman as he
stood with his tiller in the other, guiding one of his
white-winged beauties to the winning-buoy. We
have touched here upon the pursuit which has made
his name known wherever the pleasure navy of
England carries its bright and saucy bunting. He
twhaast haetbrmigkilyachtsman, and the fleet vessels
launched and sailed from time to time are
coast.known
bysight and fame in ail the ports of the
Tae Alarm must hoist her flag half-mast,
for the old eyes that brightened when they saw her
stately hull careening to the leeward wash, her
spreading sails as white as a swan's pinion, and as
deftly set, "are glazed in death." If it was but a
pastime which uncle his name known, it was a play
for men, in whose blood runs salt. The dancing
Lulworth, and the unconquered Alarm, if they were
playthings, were playthings for a man with manly
heart and tastes; and the liberal and tolerant lord
of Lulworth Castle blended these, and a hundred
other virtues, with the faith of the founder of
stoneyhurst.

A CATHOLIC CHIIIICH of large dimensions,
beautifully decorated inside, and built upon the plan
of one of thelßoman basilicas, has very recently been erected
upon Highgate Hill. The cost of the whole structu
na-
re
has been considerable, and notwithstanding large do
tions from various members of that community, there is
still left a heavy debt to pay. The clergymen have, in
order to liquidate this debt, improvised a distribution of
prizes on a large scale, calling upon the whole world to
ease, with gold
send them something. Accordingly many valuables have
been sent from all quarters. One dressing
requisites (value L 100), was the gift of a lady, who, in send-
ing
it, simply remarked that she had no further use for it.
Several gold and silver watches have also been contributed.
Homan princesses and nobles have sent costly
cameo cameos
of and
mosaics. Pope Pius Ix. has sent an exquisite the
1 Saviour set in gold. The collection, in tact, is said already i
to .7xeeed in value £l,OOO. And now that it is nearly eon:-
become
pieta), ft is to be distributed again on the Art Union plan
of tickets at a small cost.—Camden Journal.
MISS BATEMAN'S LEAH.--As she enters, drive,
you cannot strip ff
by howling and infuriated peasants, we
aware that a genuine artist has appeared. We believe that
the actress, the silent maiden, surrounded by the throng,
is penetrated with the deepest feeling
tfi:'untouched. There is,
in truth, reaction Wien -
a slight . character and leave the woman
she first speaks. Nature
has given 1.a.7 li
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somewhata hard 'voice ; nor is her accent
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entirely pleasin„ n English. ear. But the speechless
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer and
Lord Lyttelton.

The coming of age of the Hon. C. J. Lyttelton,
the eldest son of Lord Lyttelton, is being celebrated
at Hagley with considerable spirit and good feeling
by all classes there. Amongst the guest at Hagley-
hall is the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, who was present at a
dinner given to the cottagers on Wednesday,
At the conclusion of the repast,

Lord LYTTELTON announced the order of the pro-
ceedings. His son was to be presented with an
address, and his health drunk. After his son bad
acknowledged this, somebody else's health was to
be proposed. Whose it was, it was of course im-
possible for him to conjecture. (Laughter.) lie
was sorry to say that the toast was going to be pro-
posed by a gentleman of no experience in public
speaking, and of no reputation in that country or
any other. (Laughter.)
After the presentation of the address,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said—l rise
for the purpose of communicating to you the secret
to which Lord Lyttleton has alluded—(laughter)—
and as I think it is better on this occasion, since time
is scarce, to dispense with all preliminaries, I had
bettor tell you at once that my proposal is that you
should drink his health. (Cheers.) I think that
the manner in which you will drink it will be
worthy of him, and equal to the manner in which
you have just drunk the health of his son, If
indeed, this had been a toast which had required
the exercise of persuasive powers, I feel that it would
have been one I ought not to have undertaken, be-
cause I cannot profess to appear before you as a
wholly disinterested witness, or look with eyes
entirely impartial on any question which affects the
honour and happiness of Lord Lyttleton and his
family. Perhaps, gentlemen, there is another
reason why I ought to have scrupled to obey the in-
structions which have put it down upon me to dis-
charge this duty. I cannot help recollecting, what
indeed you would remember if I did not remind
you, that the very fact of my appearance here to-
day, together with the other friends and relatives
of Lord Lyttelton. must recall to your minds one
who was the immediate link, and the earliest link,
though I hope now far from the only link between
Lord Lyttleton and myself. lam certain that,
amidst the festive sounds of joy, and amidst the
happy anticipations of the future and recollections
of the past, there is not one among the inhabitants of
Hagley whose mind has not also been possessed in
the midst of these festivities with the recollection of
the gracious presence and of the boundless good
works of that person whom you would have desired,
had it been permitted to you to govern her destiny,
to see amongst you to-day, that she might have en-
joyed with you the realisation of her hopes. But
likewise I believe you feel—l am sure we all feel—
that the Wisdom which has ordered it otherwise
has ordered it better far for her, and has called her,
not to the loss of any joy she could have felt
here, but has called her to the additional and the en-
during reward of her Christian life. Gentlemen, it
has pleased the Almighty to lay upon Lord Lyttel-
ton the heaviest burden that can be laid upon man;
but it has pleased Him also to grant him extraor-
dinary satisfactions and compensations. Ido not
believe that in the length and breadth of this land
there is a person to be found who more entirely
fulfils in his own individual character all that can
be desired from an English nobleman, an English
landlord, and an English gentleman. (Cheers.) 1
do not believe there is one who enjoys in a
greater degree the affections of friends and rela-
tives. I do not thing there is one the hopes of
whose family spring up around him in greater
abundance, or with greater brightness. And as
regards that most conclusive of all testimonies to a
man, the opinions and feelings of his neighbours,
the assemblage we see here to-day, the testimonials
of joy with which the whole village is full,
and the feelings that you have exhibited, every one
of you, upon every occasion when you have been
called upon to manifest your sense of what he is,
render it wholly unnecessary, nay, impertinent, for
me to dilate upon them. We have assembled here
upon an occason pre-eminently English, for it is in
this happy country beyond all others that men value
the traditions of their forefathers, and hope and
earnestly strive to make those traditions fruitful as
examples fur the future. You have among you
Lord Lyttelton, presenting in himself the virtues
and distinctions of his ancestry, and I may ven-
ture to say, without disparagement to them,
adding to those virtues, and raising those distinc-
tions to a higher post. (Cheers.) It is well
upon occasions like this that you should appeal to
the noble susceptibilities of a youthful mind and
character, by setting before the young what
their fathers have done in their times, and what
they are now doing. You present thus to their mind
the highest mark, not of a rnere temporal and worldly
ambition, but the highest mark of moral, civil, social,
and Christian excellence, for no mark can be too
high to offer in order that our endeavours may be
ever striving upwards to what, after all, we cannot
fully attain. On this great English occasion—and
one, I believe, more full with every essential fea-
ture of such rejoicings has never been celebrated
even in England—l call upon you to add one more
to thealmost innumerable marks you have given to
Lord Lyttelton of—l will not say your regard and
respect, for these are but cold terms to describe the
feelings of your hearts—one more testimony and
proof of your devoted affection, by drinking upon
this occasion to his health, his prosperity, and his
happiness. (Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm, and
was briefly acknowledged_____by his lordship,