The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1863.

No. 22,207.

gains. And all these people are war patriots. Why
with their notions should they not be ? Would
not peace make as certain an end of them as the
first frost does of the mosquitoes ?
The case of the Peterhoff, recently decided by
Judge Betts, of this city, in favour of the captors,
bas excited by little interest or attention. It is
believed that Earl Russell is so satief ed with the
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of the rank of such men as Lord Stowell or Dr.
Lushington ; but an attorney, elected to the office
for a term by universal suffrage, and paid by a
salary that would have no attractions for a third-
rate, much less for a leading professional advocate ;
and in the second place, that no reporters regularly
attend his court—and that no official record what-
ever is kept of the proceedings or the judgments
delivered. The judge keeps his own notes, and such
professional gentlemen as are employed in the several
cases doubtless preserve a private record of the
proceedings. But beyond this there is nothing to
show the exact terms or phraseology of any judg-
ment that may be delivered, or the evidence on
which it may be founded. As these decisions be-
come precedents, it is obvious that it is highly im-
portant to the commercial public of Great Britain
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and other countries that there •should be some
official record of them. Butt there
to a considerable extent, the
Judge Betts, whose professional status is not su•
perior to that of a police magistrate in London,
may decide upon the most delicate questions of
international law, without other remedy open to the
aggrieved owners of ships and cargoes than a costly
and protracted appeal to the Supreme Court of the
United States. There are certain circumstances,
too, in connexion with the case of the Peterhoff that
ought to be better known in England than they
appear to be. The Peterhoff, it may be remem-
bered, was seized, to the south of Cuba, on the regu-
lar track to Matamoras. Her papers were all regu-
lar, and all made out for that port. Her insurance
was on the voyage to Matamoras, and nowhere else.
She drew too much water to enter any port in
Texas or the Rio Grande, except Matamoras. She
was laden with saddles, horse-shoes, boots, and vari-
ous other articles that Admiral Wilkes deemed to be
contraband of war and destined for confederate use.
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to this very time, when a British vessel was not
allowed to trade between a British and a Mexican
port, no less than 59 American vessels had cleared
out from New York to Matamoras laden with ex-
actly the same kind of articles as were seized 03
board the Peterhoff; besides six, or some say nine,
other vessels from the ports of Boston and Phila-
delphia, bound on the same errand, with similar
ventures.

the great manufacturing Nurth does not stand still;
nor does its population decrease.
A three months' circuit is clearly impracticable.
It is proposed, it is said, to make all things work
well by taking off York and adding it to the Mid-
land Circuit. Yorkshire has now a fortnight al-
lotted to it ; with an additional assize town, it is
assumed, it will require three weeks. Take three
weeks from three months, and will an eight or nine
weeks Northern Circuit be less oppressive than it
now is? And yet the circuit, if two Judges do the
work to be done with York, and with the proposed
change, will cleaEy require that time.
But, add three weeks of Yorkshire to the Mid-
land Circuits which now requires five weeks, and
give the Midland Circuit a new assize town for
Birmingham, which it urgently demands, and ought
to have, and. which would probably add another
week to that circuit, and you make a nine weeks'
circuit of the Midland, which is found to be almost
impracticable on the Northern. And, again, York-
shire and Warwickshire will not stand still, nor
their population decrease,
It is clear that some other adjustment of the cir-
cuits is needed. whether that be to divide the
Northern circuit simply into two circuits—York-
shire and the north-eastern counties, and Lanca-
shire and the north-western counties, which would
require two additional Judges for the additional cir-
cuit; or by dividing the Midland Circuit between
the Norfolk Circuit on the south side and the north-
eastern side of the Northern on the north side, thus
making two good circuits, constituting Lancashire
and the north-western counties a distinct circuit,
and thus equalising the business of the three cir-
cuits, without increasing the staff of the Judges, is
the real question which the Lord Chancellor and the
Government have to determine. Anything less
than this will simply be useless, ineffectual, and
mischievous.-7inzes.

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HISTORY OF ROME, Translated by the Rev. IV.
PITT DICKSON.
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A, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, wiil be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's
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Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
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Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &C.
Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene,
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Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACIT on his
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The HALL hex just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
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affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal-
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A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im-
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of eye that characterise the teats of Ca ffyn at .
. athe
bat or Tom Lockyer keeping wicket seem be-
yond their aim and reach. B their dancing is
decidedly attractive, and some of. the Highlanders
on the present occasion displayoi:.,d ~ great,_ neatness
and dexterity in the execution Gillie CAllum"
(the sword dance) and their exmitingstrathspeysand reels. A Farquharson maa ulmed
lackrobenzbile;
carried eff the dancing honours—ahough
for grace of movement and variety of step a Cor-
poral Forbes, from Dundee, who mitered in the
test for all corners, won most admiration. The.
objection to his performance, however, was
that it showed too much art, and consequently
was wanting in the untutored naturalness, so to
speak, demanded in true " Highland" dancing. The
Prince and Princess seemed much inteiested in the
games—more especially the dancing—and did not
leave the ground till nearly 6 o'clock, when they
drove off amid loud cheering for Mar-lodge.
The games were finished shortly after 6 o'clock,
and by 7 the Highlanders and the spectators had also
left the ground for Castletown, where the former
were entertained to dinner by Lord Fife, and the
latter entertained themselves as best they could—
the whole resources of Messrs. Fisher and Hunter
and the villagers generally being in constant and
urgent demand.
At Mar-lodge the Earl and Countess of Fife en-
tertained the Prince and Princess of Wales and a
distinguished company to dinner, and the evening
was closed with the following tableaux:—
I.—Mary Queen of Scots at Wemyss Castle.
Queen Mary
Mary Beaton
Mary Carmichael
Mary Seton
Mary Livingstone
ll.—Mary Queen of Scots, attended by Rizzio.
Mary Stuart
Rizzio
11I.—Elaine.

Elaine
" Lay the letter in my hand
" A little ere I die, and close the hand upon it;
"I shall guard it even in death.
" And when the heat is gone from out my heart,
"Then take the little bed on which I died
"For Launcelot's love, and deck it like the queen's
" For richness, and me also like the queen
" In all I have of rich, and lay me on it
" So that day there was dole in Astolat."
—" Idylls of the King."

IV.—The Soldier's Return.
Lady AIM Duff. I Lady Agnes Duff.

Master of Lovat.
"The wars are o'er, and I'm come hame,
"And find thee still true-hearted I •
" Though poor in gear, we're rich in Love,
"And mair, we'se ne'er be parted."—Burns.
V.—Charlotte Corday contemplating her Picture before her
Execution.

Charlotte Corday ...... .. Hon. Miss White.
Gaoler
Vl.—Faith, Hope, and Charity.
Faith
Hope
Charity ....
Child
The various " tableaux" were admirably presented,
the steadiness of the figures, so requisite for the
proper effect in these " living pictures," being as
nearly as possible perfect. The Prince and Princess
joined heartily in the applause bestowed upon the
" distinguished performers," and the encores were
frequent. During the night watch and ward was
faithfully kept at the lodge by a picked body-guard
of the Fife Highlanders.