The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-05 00:00:00

MR, SERGEANT SHEE,

Our contemporary the Morning Advertiser,
after quoting in its impression of to-day the para-
graph giveu by us on Saturday from the Law
71ines in reference to the late legal appointments,
observes:—

" We entirely agree with our law contemporary
that an ast of greater injustice than that of passing
over Mr. Sergeant Shea was never committed by
any Government. For years the learned sergeant
has not only been at the head of his profession, but
it is admitted on all hands that no one in West-
minster Hall possesses in a more eminent degree the
leading qualities necessary for the Bench. To pass
him over in favour of a gentleman of no note is,
therefore, an outrage on all those principles of jus-
tice which ought to guide the conduct of Govern-
ment in making their judicial appointments."

THE NEW LEGAL CHANGES.—Ou Saturday the
Hon. Mr. Baron (late Sergeant) Pigott, of Sherfield
Hill, near Basingstoke, was sworn in as one of the Puisne
Barons of the Court of Exchequer, before the Right Hon.
the Lord Chancellor, at his private mansion, Hackwool
Park, Basingstoke. At the same time Sir Roundell
Palmer, Q.C., the late Solicitor-General, took the oaths as
Attorney-General; and Mr. R. P. Collier, Q.C., one of the
members for Plymouth, was also sworn in on his appoint-
ment to the office of Solicitor-General. The two latter
appointments create vacancies for the boroughs of Rich-
mond and Plymouth. Both the hon. and learned gentle-
men have issuod addresses to their respective constituents,
offering themselves for re. election.—Observer.
OZONE is still a mysterious agent. If we do not
yet actually comprehend the fullness of its agency,
C. Barder has, after eight years' study, discovered
something of its whereabout. Wind, which has recently
come over the sea, he tells us, is almost invari ►bly heavily
charged with ozone; while land breezes bring but little of
it on their breath.

A GOOD AMERICAN PUN about Prince Alfred
is mentioned by Manhattan in the midst of
the dismay caused throughout the North by the
news of the disastrous defeat of Rosencranz in
Tennessee. It is this :—" Why would not his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred have anything to do with foreign
Greece ?" The answer being, "Because his Royal English
Highness preferred his own domestic and native Ile."
MUNIFICENCE OF PARSEE LONDON MERCHANTS.
—An eminent Parsee merchant firm i't the City
of London, has presented £2,000 to the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution, through its chairman, Thos. Baring)
Esq., M.P., to enable it to form a lifeboat establishment on
the English coast, and permanently to keep it up. Their
firm is now under dissolution, and in order to show their
gratitude to the people of this great metropolis, from whom
they have received for many years every courtesy, they
have presented this munificent amount to one of England's
greatest and noblest benevolent institutions, whose lifeboats
know of no distinction of race or religion when their ser-
vices are required during the storm to save the drowning
shipwrecked sailor. Between 500 and 600 lives are thus saved
every year by its lifeboats, and by the crews of shore boats to
whom it grants rewards for tneir gallant exertions. The
eminent philosopher, Sir David Brewster, has just written
in a popular miscellany :—" In order to enable the Lifeboat
Institution to maintain its existing life fleet of 125 boats in
a state of efficiency, and to place a lifeboat on every danger-
ous shore, the public must add liberally to its funds. There
is not a family in the land that has not a relative or a
friend exposed to the dangers of the sea; and there is not a
family or an individual that can escape from the obligation
of contributing to the grandest and holiest of our societies—
the National Lifeboat Institution. If it is a high privilege
and a still higher duty to feed the hungry, to clothe the
naked, to heal the sick, and to teach the ignorant, it is surely
a higher privilege, and a higher duty still, to save from
sudden death lives that have long to live and that are to live
for ever,"

How " STONEWALL" JACKSON BECAME A
SOLDIER.--When Jackson Was in his 19th year,
the member of Congress for that section of Virginia had a
presentation to the military
academy at West Point, in the
State of New York, which was offered to, but declined by, a
boy in the neighbourhood. Jackson was seized with an
eager desire to avail himself of such an unusual advantage,
for he had imbibed a great ambition to become a soldier. In
vain his uncle attempted to dissuade him; in vain did his
friends point out the deficiencies of his own education, and
the obstacle his age presented, he being nearly three years
beyond that usual on admission. Nothing daunted,
though fully alive to these drawbacks, the youth
resolved to go, and set to work to prepare himself for
the ordeal. One day, in a pelting rain, he burst into
the office of a friend—an intimate acquaintance of
Mr. Hayes, the member of Congress who could procure
him the cadetship. The rain was streaming from his
clothes, and he was in the
highest state of excitement
His friends, starting and wondering at his unexpected.
appearance, inquired what had brought him hither in
such a storm. Young Jackson blurted out his errand.
He wanted a letter of introduction to Mr. Hayes, at
Washington—he was going to set off for that place
immediately—being desirous to obtain the cadetship, and
fearing his opportunity would be lost. His friend regarded
the scheme as an utter absurdity, said that Jackson could
never stand the preliminary examination,
discouraging things. Jackson was hopeful and importunate
and finally obtained the letter. That very evening he
bor-
rowed a horse to ride to Clarksburg, where the stage, proba-
bly
a weekly one, was about to start on its eastern journey.
He He mounted the steed ; a negro boy, who was to rideehibnd
him.
and the roads
business was
return it safely to the owner, being
can fall only in Western Virginia,
Thus and then did the youthful aspirant take leave
asrains
na-
tive county. Heavy rains had been falling for weeks,
in such a
state as they can be nowhere else. Not much
travelled in
transacted in those parts ; not many
people
before or after
An hour
those days, and in such weather.
with
the postmaster,
time was of no great moment, and •
l bags and the
prudent foresight, had despatched his mail perched and
over those the
great unwieldy stage that conveyed
ul
time. No toil-
somein-
roads, a full hour before the
usualbreak his promise,
ducement could tempt young Jackson
to break
the borrowed
and the negro boy was duly sent back
from his horse; nor was he himself to be easily
turned
mud, he set off,
and such .
pur-
pose;
so in the midst of such rain
miles an hour ison foot, in pursuit of the stage.:Four
in those mountain toler-
able travelling at the best of times
h on a dark stormy
mare
dis-
tricts; but this was a toilsome
;t g were traversed
night, and thirteen weary E°° -
I am not before the youth overtook the
stTide stage was bound
ac-
curately informed how far this skil
either city being
towards Richmond or AVashingto,
and several days jour-
near upon 200 miles from his home,i
he indulged in this
ney over the mountains. Probe 3'
Rowley, or at most to
mode of travelling only as far asl e
alley'
It would
Winchester, or or to Staunton, in tl v
to be obtained at the
pear that his first introductions were
of his being there;
State capital, Richmond, for
eve
hear
carried his scanty
but ono thing is certain—that be
ter part of his long
wardrobe in hand, and made the
greater
on his arrival at
journey on foot ; for we are assured that„
"all muddy as he
Washington, he presented his letter, a
kindly, and, in his
was" to Mr. Hayes, who received him
War, who turn, presented him to the Secretary of
and perseverance by
re-
warded his praiseworthy ambition
......
life of " Slone • granting the much-coveted presentation.
wall Jackson."bm
ea
on:
his ochera
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THEATRICAL Ox A new nautical
drawl," says the Sunday Times, "is in active rehearsal at
the Surrey. Mr. Leigh Murray will shortly re-appear at
the Straud in a now and original character. The Lyceum
is definitively fixed to open on. Saturday, 24 la October."_