The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-16 00:00:00

EHE StTII LONDOJN, BATTIRDA7r- EVENING-, SEPTEMBER 16, 1i66

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Gibbons and a Jury.)
A BAD CUSTOM IN NEWGATE MARKET.

SKETCHLEY V. ELLIOTT.—This was a case in which the
plaintiff, a salesman, of Newgate Market, sought to recover
from defendant, a retail butcher, £1 13s. for some beef, Mr.
Beard appearing for
.the plaintiff, and Mr. B. J. Abbott
representing defendant, who pleaded payment.
This was a case which arose out of the custom pursues
by the salesmen of Newgate Market of not giving a receipt
when money is paid for meat. Upon a former occasion
his Honour (Mr. Gibbons) declined to decide between the
parties, as the plaintiff swore ho never received the money,
and defendant as positively swore he had paid it. To-day
Mr. Abbott examined the plaintiff as to the rule pursued
in giving tickets.

Plaintiff said that when a person had weekly credit, the
custom was only to put on the ticket the weight and price
of the meat, but when the customer was only casual, then
the price was carried out.
Plaintiff's brother said he was present when the defend-
ant was spoken to about the alleged non-payment, and
defendant said he would see about it.

Cleo. Larkin said that the meat was not paid for when
taken away, and defendant asked if plaintiff would mind
its being left till the morning.

Defendant declared that heNiad paid for the meat at the
time. The custom was when the meat was not paid for to
give a ticket with only the weight and price, but when the
money was paid the price was carried out.

His Honour—Do you mean. to swear that you paid for
this meat ?

Defendant—l do.
His Honour—ln what coins ?
Defendant—One sovereign and a half sovereign in gold
and three separate shillings.
His Honour summed up after Mr. Beard had addressed
the jury upon the evidence, and the jury found a verdict
for the defendant.

His Honour said he could not quarrel with their verdict,
though it was a kind of case he certainly should not have
decided himself. He did not think it was a case of hard
swearing, but a mistake had occurred somewhere, and each
party believed he was telling the truth.
Verdict for defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-S TREE T.

MR. TOMMEY.—Mr. Tommey, an old man, once a soldier,
afterwards a hotel keeper in Ireland, but now reduced to a
state of penury, waited upon Mr. Knox to receive £1 which
had been subscribed for him by two persons who had read
a statement of his case in a morning paper, and also to ask
the magistrate's advice.

Mr. Tommey said he wished to ask his worship's advice
how he was to proceed to get justice done him, as he had
tried year after year and could get no redress, being a poor
man. He had appealed to the House of Lords against an
unjust decree of the Court of Chnncery in Ireland, made
by Sir Edward Sugden, and a decision was given in his
favour, but subsequently that decision was reversed byLord
Cranwcrth.

Mr. Knox—You say there has been an unjust decree of
the Court of Chancery. How can an humble police magis-
trate assist you ? I know nothing of Chancery law, and
how do you suppose I can assist you ? I have not an atom
of power to assist you.

Mr. Tommey then retired, remarking as he did so that
his worship would probably have the matter before him in
another form, for he was determined to take some means of
getting redress for the injustice done him.

NEW FRENCH IRONCLADS.

A correspondent of the Patric (just returned from
attending the fetes at Cherbourg and Portsmouth,
and who has all his impressions of the French and
English ironclad squadrons fresh upon him) writes
as follows :

" The cupola ships of the English are well known.
The cupolas, which we have had occasion to see and
describe, are round iron towers, intended to protect
the guns of the ironclad ships. They turn by means
of mechanism tolerably simple of itself, but which,
in certain cases, may be entirely paralysed. These
cupolas, or towers, have another inconvenience—
that of overloading the vessels, and of depriving
them, as in the case of the Royal Sovereign, of their
sea-going qualities. In France we have been very
circumspect with regard to this curious invention,
and facts now prove us in the right. While reject-
ing the system of towers, observation and study have
not been neglected, and a very ingenious conception
has at last been arrived at and will be carried out
in the Jeanne d'Acre and the Atalanta. In each of
these two corvettes, which will be 68 metres in
length (220 feet), there will be constructed a central
fort, formidably protected by means of a system of
cuirass and revetment such as no projectile will
be able to pierce. This central fort is to receive all
the artillery of the ship, which will not be numerous,
and will consist entirely of heavy guns mounted on
siliding carriages, and so constructed as to be able
to deliver a plunging fire. This system appears
extremely ingenious. It has -all the advantage of
the cupola without its inconveniences. The two cor-
vettes just commenced at Cherbourg are intended,
like the Belliqueuse (just launched at Toulon), to
carry the flag of admirals commanding distant
stations. They will have a very powerful artillery,
excellent internal arrangements, the smallest possible
draught of water, and are thus calculated to render
great service. They constitute the first application
of the cuirass to ordinary navigation. In shape
they will be slender and graceful. The spur at
their prow will act not only as an arm in war time,
but also as an instrument for the acceleration of
their speed. It has been remarked that the spur
of iron-clads ought, by its way of dividing the
water, to assist their progress. We understand that
special experiments will be made with respect to
this. Besides these corvettes other vessels are to be
forthwith laid down at Cherbourg. Among them
are named three ironclad guardacostas, in the style
of the Taureau, which the port of Toulon has just
turned out. They are to be called the Belier (ram),
the Boule Dogue and the Cerberus. We are not yet
acquainted with the plans of these special ships,but,
according to what we hear, they are very remark-
able, and will perfectly comply with the conditions
of the programme decided upon for the defence of
our coasts and ports. It is also said that the
cuirassed frigate Suffrene will be turned over to
Cherbourg. This new fighting ship, which is much
spoken of, will be subjected, it is said, to numerous
improvements. It is evident that the greatest acti-
vity reigns in our arsenals, and that our navy con-
tinually seeks and strives after progress. In about
two years the magnificent programme of the Em-
peror will be attained, and France will possess the
elements of a fighting fleet worthy of her greatness
and her destinies. The creation of that fleet, con-
structed in barely ten years, will be one of the
greatest services that has been rendered to the
country. But it must be kept up ; it must unceas-
ingly be maintained upon a level with the progress
of science in the art of war, and that will be a
new work, a new mission, of which our navy will
show itself in all respects worthy."

The Davenport Brothers outdone i;y Ro

the Conjuror.

The latter (that is, Robin the conjuror) has been
performing the feats of the Davenport Brothers,
only without the help of spirits. He shut himself
up in a wardrobe on the stage of his little theatre,
bound hand and foot, and having with him various
musical instruments, and, according to the evidence
of eye-witnesses, accomplished all the prodigies the
Davenports have been in the habit of doing. Then
he repeated the performance with the doors of the
wardrobe open, and the effect, judging by the fol-
lowing extract from an account given in the Ga-
zette de France, was most ludicrous :

" The thing, at first seemingly inexplicable, is in fact
easily explained. The cord with which the medium who
is shut up in the wardrobe is bound is 14 metres long;
it is a common rope, but skilfully knotted round the arms
and legs of the patient, it undoes itself, no matter the art
of those who make use of it, by means of an adroit com-
bination, the result of much trouble and pains ; once free,
the medium has arms and legs at his disposal, and pro-
ceeds to make the various strange noises, the sighs, the
rattling, all the infernal din, in short, spoken of by those
who have seen the Brothers Davenport. Like them, he
puts his hands through the little hole in the wardrobe,
and even throws through that same opening weights of
201 b. and fragments of his broken orchestra. All that,
when the doors are shut, produces an illusion, but when
they are open the impression is quite different ; the
blows of the medium, striking right and left upon his in-
struments, excite peals of laughter, and the amusement of
the audience reaches its climax when he is seen, after hav-
ing untied himself, to re-entwine himself with his chains
of cord without the assistance of any other person, and ap-
pears in his wardrobe completely bound, as at the begin-
ning of the experiment."

The Davenports, after performing at Genevilliers,
in the suburbs of Paris, have transferred themselves
to the Salle Herz. It may be doubted whether they
will find many followers, or make much money, in
this unbelieving capital, and with the competition of
clever corjurors bent upon explaining the true na-
ture of their spiritual exercise.

Voluntary Efforts Needed to obtain Sanitary
improvements.

The following able letter appears in the Builder
of to-day :
Eleven years have elapsed since I addressed you upo n
the subject of the preventive measures required to be re-
cognised and adopted against the spread of cholera and
kindred diseases.
I then submitted a report of the labours of the Local
Board of Health for the parochial district of Regent-square
Church, St. Pancras, during the year 1854.
Whether or not the suggestions contained in that report
and noticed several times in your journal, have been acted
upon elsewhere, I cannot say, but my experience has since
confirmed me in the opinion I then held previous to the
passing of the bills presented to Parliament by Sir Benja-
min Hall—viz., that no Acts of Parliament are ever likely
to render individual exertion unnecessary.
Local self-government has many advantages ; but it has
also its disadvantages, and one of the chief is the difficulty
of finding a vestry willing to augment the taxes of the
parish by adopting sanitary measures of a preventive cha-
racter.

The most that is commonly done, is the reception of the
complaints of the ratepayers, and requiring the abatement
of the nuisance complained or; though sometimes, unless
the matter is followed up by the complainant, the Sanitary
Committee ceases to interest itself in the matter, and the
guilty parties effect a compromise,—at least as much con-
sideration being shown for the pocket of the owner as the
health of the occupier and the public generally.
Fevers still exist, generating and fostering disease ;
sometimes through the ignorance of the people themselves,
and sometimes from the apathy of the authorities and the
indisposition of intelligent individuals to act as informers.

Consequently, notwithstanding successive sanitary Acts
of Parliament, there seems to be still the same want which
was felt by the Incumbent and Committee of Regent-
square Church during the cholera of 1854, viz., a want of
some well-informed person or persons, backed by an in-
dependent and public-spirited committee, whose business
it should be to discover and report the nuisances existing
in the district, that they may be referred to the action of
the constituted local authorities in the event of their obn-
tinuance after a proper notice to remove them.

In the experience of the Regent-square Board it was
found to be unnecessary to do more than to serve a notice
upon offending parties, pointing out the nuisance, and re-
quiring its removal in accordance with the provisions of the
sanitary Acts of Parliament ; while many were glad to en-
gage the services of the inspector to superintend the works
required to be done, and thanked the Board for its valuable
suggestions.

Just as there are district visitors among the poor at-
tached to every church, so there might be a sanitary com-
mittee and a paid inspector, who should be under the

direction of an honorary consulting architect or surveyor
upon the plan adopted at Regent-square Church.

EDWARD C. BOBINS.

The Forests of Scotland,

(From the Inverness Courier.)
Some very fine stags have been " accounted for" since
,ur last. The heaviest of which we have heard fell to the
Strathconan party, Mr. Leigh and his sons—weight 19
stone. The head was a particularly fine one of 13 tines.
On Saturday they had three stags, averaging 16 stone ;
and on Monday two stags, weighing respectively 14 stone
and 15 stone. Lord Dacre and his friends at Strathvaich
have had good sport. Since the 20th of August they have
killed 32 stags with good clean heads, and weighing from
14 to 16 stone each. Of these, 22 fell to Lord Dacre's
own rifle. Sir Arthur Chichester had 10 stags, up to the
end of last week, at Glenelg. Mr. Bristow and party at
Glenquoich, 16 stags. At Lochinver, Mr. A. Smith
secured a very fine head last week; and at Lairg, Mr.
Hopwood, M.P., two good heads. At Balmacaan, on the
sth, the Hon. Wm. Stuart went out stalking, and shot
one stag. On the 6th, Hugh R. Hughes, Esq., went out
stalking, and got two stags. On the 7th, the Marquis of
Ailsa went out early to the forest, and got one stag. In
the afternoon, the Earl of Sefield and party had a drive, and
got 3 stags. On the 7th, the Earl of Seafield shot a particu-
larly fine fallow buck. Same day, 13 brace grouse, 5 brace
black-game, 7 hares, 1 snipe, fell to two guns. Lord H.
Bentinck has left Inchroryfor Laggan Forest. His lordship,
on the 4th inst., killed 2 stags ; on the sth, 2 stags ; and on
the 6th, 1 stag. The Earl of Fife, on Tuesday week, went
out deer-stalking in the Mar Forest and killed a splendid
stag. On Wednesday, another very handsome and beauti-
ful stag fell to his rifle. The Hon. G. S. Duff, on Friday
last, was out for a brief interval in the Altonower Forest,
when a couple of fine stags fell to his rifle.
The Banfshire Journal notices a roe hunt at Advie :—On
Friday last, Mr. Munn, accompanied by a number of tenants
in the district, and the party from Tulchan Lodge, had a
day's roe-hunting in the Knockfrink plantation. After
beating for some time with good success, the party resorted
to an elevated spot on the margin of the wood, where they
met with a kind reception from Mr. and Mrs. Munn, and
found an excellent luncheon spread "among the bonnie
blooming heather." Mr. Bass, M.P., in proposing the health
of Mr. and Mrs. Munn, expressed a wish, which was
heartily concurred in by all present, that they may long be
spared, and may often return to visit the Highlands. After
ample justice had been done to the luncheon, the party re-
turned with new vigour to the chase, which they continued
till about five in the afternoon, when, on reviewing the
work of the day, they found the result to be as follows :-
7 roe deer, 21 hares, and 2 brace black game.
The Perthshire Advertiser mentions some good partridge
shooting ;—On Saturday a party of four guns succeeded,
in the course of six hours, in bagging 65 brace of partridges
and 27 hares. On a single farm on the banks of the Earn
two gentlemen shot, in the afternoon, 221 brace of partridges
and a number of hares. The coveys are unusually numer-
ous, and the birds have seldom been in better condition; and
as the fields are in the course of being rapidly cleared of
grain, sportsmen will soon get full freedom at partridge
shooting.

MRS. MOORE'S FUNERAL—The grave which
contains all that remains of Tom Moore was opened
on Friday last, to receive "the last rose of the poet's glo-
rious summer"—she of whom he was so justly proud during
the heyday of life, and whose loveliness and gentleness
were ever uppermost in his thoughts. Moore married her
in 1811, and her history is summed up in this one phrase—
that she was the delight of his life ! And well might she
have been. A more amiable, gentle, kind-hearted creature
never lived than Mrs. Moore. The sorrows of life had,
'alas! fallen upon her in her latter days. Deprived of all
that was dear to her—of her husband, the joy of her life—
of all her children—she had (as she calmly observed,
shortly before her death) nothing to live for in this world;
and for years past she had been preparing herself for that
better land, to which all her thoughts were directed. The
poet's grave in Branham churchyard has thus closed over
the last of Moore's family. As a last 'act of respect to the
memory of Moore, the Marquis of Lansdowne was present
at the funeral, with Mr. Merewether, Capt. Meredith, and
Mr. W. Murray (Mrs. Moore's nephew, and only surviving
relative). To Mr. Murray descends whatever property
may be left ; but it cannot be much, as the principal por-
tion of Mrs. Moore's income was derived from a pension
granted to her by the country since her husband's death,
and nearly all the furniture and relics which Sloperton
Cottage contained, are " ticketed " as gifts to old friends
and faithful dependants. There will consequently be no
sale ; indeed it was Mrs. Moore's special direction that
there should be none. Sloperton Cottage is now the pro-
perty of Major Spicer of Spye Park.—Devizes Gazette.
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