The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1865.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

THE CARRIERS' ACT-SNELQAR V. THORNTON.

This was an action to recover damages for the non-deli-
very of certain wine to the consignee named by plaintiff in
his address, defendant being a common carrier. Plaintiff
said that if the carrier could not find the place named in
the direction on his parcel he ought to return it to the
carrier.

His Honour said the carrier was not bound to do so. The
contract with him was to deliver the goods to a certain
place, and there it ended.

Plaintiff inquired what was to be done then ?

His Honour replied that he held the goods to the order
of the consignor. It had been expressly decided in a case
in which the South-Western Railway Company were con-
corned that a carrier was not bound to return goods.
Plaintiff declared that ho could not understand this views
of law at all.
His Honour said it was very plain.

Defendant assured the Court that ho had not only used
all due diligence in the matter, but had actually personally
exerted himself to ensure a delivery of the parcel.
His Honour said he must find for defendant, with costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

BOW-STREET

PLATE ROBBERY AT THE ATHENMUM CLUB.—Joseph

Cocking, an elderly man, was placed at the bar, charged
with stealing a quantity of silver plate, the property of tho
trustees of the Athenaeum Club.

Mr. Bennett said he was butler at tho Athenmum Club.
There were two under butlers, the prisoner being one of
them. He left on the 17th of January. Previous to his
leaving he had been informed that there was to be an

examination of the old and unused plate in his care. He
went away the next morning without notice. On going
to the drawer in which the plate was kept, he (witness)
found a letter in which the prisoner said he had been in-
duced to pawn some of the plate through trouble at home.
The property had all been recovered, it having been
pledged with pawnbrokers in the neighbourhood of the

prisoner's residence.
William Joseph Caseley, assistant to Daniel Brown,
pawnbroker, Cranburn7street, identified the spoons and
ladles as property pledged at his master's shop by the pri-
soner. He obtained £3 10s. on them. He pledged them
on the 9th of February.
Mr. James Aldhous, of 67, Berwick-street, Soho, pawn-
broker, produced four silver table spoons and other articles,
pledged at his shop on the 25th of April. The sum of
£3 was advanced on them. He recognised two other dup-
licates relating to plate issued from his shop. One was for
a silver cup, September, 1863, for £2, and the other four
gravy spoons for £5, in 1864. He could not identify the
prisoner. The property was pledged by a person giving
the name of John Cos.

Charles:Halford, assistant to Mr. Stephens, Brewer-
street, Golden-square, pawnbroker, produced two silver
punch-ladles, pledge at his master's shop for 125., and 12
silver wine labels for 15s. in the latter end of last year. The
name of the party pledging was given as John Cox. He
could not identify the prisoner as that person.
William Harrison, assistant to Mr. Fleming, pawnbroker,
Brewer-street, Golden-square, produced 8 silver wine-
labels, pledged at his employer's shop on the 10th of
August, 1864.

Mr. Bennett was recalled, and identified the articles pro-
duced as the property of the trustees of the Athenaeum
Club—viz., Earl Stanhope, Sir R. Murchison, Lord Over-
stone, Sir C. Eastlake, and General Sabine.
Charles Bulcher, 197 C, said about one o'clock this
morning he went to 16, Broad-street, Golden-square, and
saw the prisoner. He asked if his name was Cocking, and
he said it was. He told him he belonged to the police and
that he should take him into custody for stealing a quantity
of plate from the Atheneum Club. He said he was not
the person, but that it was his brother, and that he was up
stairs. Witness went up stairs to the second floor and there
he saw the prisoner's wife. He told him he was the man
that was at the club and that he should take him into
custody. Prisoner said it was a bad job, and that when
he took the articles he thought he should be able to re-
place them. He also said he was in hopes, as it was se
long ago, that the matter was blown over. He then took
him to the police—station.
Mr. Flowers—You did not see the prisouer's brother
when you went upstairs?
Witness—No, your worship.

On being asked what he had to say in answer to the
charge,

The prisoner said he had been induced to pledge the pro-
perty through distress and trouble.
Mr. Flowers said it ought to be stated at the time the
prisoner was tried that the property was old silver articles
out of use, as that might give a colour to the prisoner's as-
sertion about being able to replace the property.
He was then fully committed tor trial.

Freemason Government in Portugal.

Letter 111.

A. B. SAP.AIVA.

Cabinet resigned, but to be soon reinstalled in power, only
changing two of the former Ministers, viz., that of war,
and that of finance. Before this change had taken place,
the budget had been presented to Parliament, of course in
the name of all the Cabinet then existing, and with the in-
dispensable approbation of the head of the same Cabinet,
the Prime Minister Louie. The modification of the Cabi-
net took:place ; the same men, with the exception of two,
remained in power, and the new Minister of Finance pre-
sented a new budget different from the former one. The
very same Duke do Louie, President of the Council now,
as he was before the alteration in the Cabinet, and after
having defended in Parliament the former most lavish
budget, declares now that he had not shared with his for-
mer colleagues the responsibility of their budget, and de-
nounces to-day what ho proposed and maintained yester-
day, and in what they call a constitutional Government,'
the Prime. Minister repudiates the responsibility of the
measures of his own Cabinet!

A deputy, Pinto de Magalhaens, argues against a most
onerous and defective contract made by the Government
with a company, for the steam communication between
Portugal and the colonies. A Ministerial Deputy, M.
Garcez, gets up, and says that the House's duty was merely
to approve the contract, and had no business to discuss it,
or to interfere at all with its clauses, or alter them—that is
to say, whatever the Freemason Ministers do is well done,
and the Parliament and the nation have only to submit,
and, above all, to pay.
Now, I shall simply translate faithfully from the Portu-
guese paper the following article :
"Is there no more in this land any ecclesiastical
authority ? Have we already become altogether Pro-
testants, Mahomedans, or Jews ? Have they succeeded
already in placing this most faithful Kingdom out of the
pale of the Catholic Church ? Does it no more exist, a
law, so much talked about, so highly praised, wherewith
we were told they were so much in love, in whose sixth
article we read that—' The Roman Catholic and Apostolic
religion shall continue to be the religion of the Kingdom' ?
If such law (the charter of Don Pedro) is now abolished—
if the Portuguese still are—if those who govern them still

call themselves—Catholics, how can we read in the Por-

tuguez (a Ministerial journal) or 7 last Sunday, the public
sale advertised of a work prohibited by the Church, and
adding in the paper the express declaration that it is a
prohibited work, in order that the contempt of the prohi-
bition may be more manifest ? These are the words of the
advertisement :

" ' A prohibited book.
" ' Fulminated by the Index Expurgatorius at Rome.
" Synopsis of Religions and Sects.'
" And then adding who is the author, and where it can
be had.

" Is this possible, and that no voice should be raised
against it? Is there no one bound to raise his voice, and
bo demand from the public powers the observance of tho
laws? Is it only by constant dumbness, by blind submis-
sion that the mission of watching and teaching is to be
fulfilled? Will they not, at least, demand from the civil

authority to fulfil that to which the governing party are
bound by their own law ? Must human considerations
prevail even in presence of the most insulting scandal ?
What a disgrace!!"

This article, as anybody will see, is addressed to the
Patriarch at Lisbon, and to the Portuguese Bishops whom,
with the honourable exception of one or two, the revolu-
tion and Freemason Government (with which British
Catholics so much helped to favour us) have succeeded
in turning to the point of quietly sharing with the waves
the latter's depredations upon the flock which the former
were bound to defend and preserve.
April 5, 1865.

A. B. SARAIVA.

Metropolitan Board of Works.

The usual meeting of this Board was held yesterday, at
the offices in Spring-gardens. The president, J. Thwaites,
Esq., took the chair at 12 o'clock.

FINANCE,

The cash statement for the current week shows a tot&
general balance of £592,993 2s. id.

GENERAL WORKS-WESTERN DISTRICT.

The Board received tenders for the execution of the
general works in the above district, and Mr. Thirst's, being
the lowest, was accepted, subject to the usual conditions.

DEFAULT OF A RATE COLLECTOR.
A report was brought up from the finance committee
stating that the defalcations of Mr. Boult, late collector of
rates in the parish of Marylebone, had been ascertained to
amount to the sum of £352, and that after a careful inves-
tigation of all the circumstances, and communicating
with his sureties, the committee were of opinion that an
offer made by the latter (who are not in very good circum-
stances) to pay £2OO in full discharge of their liability
should bo accepted.

The recommendation of the committee was, after some
discussion, adopted.

RESIGNATION OF A MEMBER.
A letter was received from Mr. °relic; an old member of
the Board, stating in substance that as the Board had
negatived his motion, made at a former meeting, that two
dissenting ministers should be invited to the opening of
tie Main Drainage Works, he felt it his duty to resign.
He thought it unfair that Churchmen should have been
invited and Dissenters excluded.

The other business disposed of to-day was of a routine
character, and the Board adjourned at an early hour.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, April B.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.
CLYDE, April 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Sydney,
from Demerara.
Pm; April 6.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Elizabeth Emily,
for the West of Africa.
PORTSMOUTH, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Fury, for London.
OFF MOUNT'S BAY, April 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Urania, from St. Domingo, and sailed for Hamburg; had
experienced heavy weather.
SOUTHAMPTON, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Gilmore,
for Quebec.
TORBAY, April 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mary Blake,
from London for Bermuda.
OFF DARTMOUTH, April 7.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—
Emily, from Ghent.
HOLYHEAD, April 7.—Wind S.—Arrived—Coral Queen,
from Liverpool for Matanzas.
SUNDERLAND, April 6.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Mina,
for Quebec.
CARDIFF, April 7.—Wind S.—Arrived—Therese Asis-
tide, and Louise, from Bilboa. Sailed—Old Dominion, for
New York.
OFF DovEn, April 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Patrician
from Calcutta.
MUMBLES, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Georgiana
Grenfell, from Caldeira.
LAMLASH, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Washing-
ton, from tho Clyde for Quebec ; Prince of Wales, from
the Clyde for Bombay.

SHIELDS, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Hotspur, for
Shanghai ; Wenershaum, for Quebec.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, April 7—Maria Stewart, from St. Michael's;
Gogstad, from Moss; Industry, from Arendal ; Henry
Parr, from Drobag ; Maria Beerta, from Groningen;
0. P. Q., from Ponterson.

DEAL, Saturday. Morning.
Anchored—Southern Cross, for San Francisco ; Star of
Peace, for Port Phillip—both from London.
Passed in tow--Lincelles, from Demerara, for London.
Passed—Urania, for Prince Edward's Island ; Meridian,
for New York—both from London; Diligent, from China ;
Montrose, from St. Vincent; Mary Ellen, from St. Michael's
—all for Louden.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.— Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett announce the following among their new
works in preparation :—" The Memoirs and Correspondence
of Feld-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., from his
Family Papers." " The Life of his Eminence Cardinal
Wiseman." " Historic Pictures," by A.l3aillio Cochrane,
M.P. "Religious Life on the Continent," by Mrs. Oliphant.
"Yachting Round the West of England," by the Rev. A. G.
L'Estrango. "Life of Josiah Wedgwood, from his Private
Correspondence and Family Papers," by Eliza Meteyard.
" Violet Osborne," by the Lady Emily Ponsonby. "Bri-
gand Life in Italy," by Count Maffei. " Adventures
among the Dyaks of Borneo," by Frederick Boyle, Esq.
"Impressions of Life at Home and Abroad," by Lord
Eustace Cecil. "Alice Forbes of Howglen," by George
MacDonald, M.A. "My Life and Recollections," by the
Hon. Grantloy F. Borkeloy—vols. 3 and 4 completing the
work. "Social Life in Florence," by Count C. Arrivabone.
" Sport and Sportsmen—a Book of Recollections, by Chas.
Strotton, Esq. "Agnes," by Mrs. Oliphant.
THE PRITCHARD CASE.—The strictest secrecy is
still preserved regarding the progress of the chemical an-
alysis in the case of the late Mrs. Taylor ; but we believe
we are in a position to state that the process, as it advances,
leads to an increase of the suspicions as to the causes of
that lady's death.—,Scotsman.

support they gave to the introduction and establishment
of Freemason Government in Portugal.

March 29th, 1865.
P.S.—lf you are kind enough to publish in your Catholic
paper my letter of last week, I should be thankful by your
adding to it the following appendix :
I received by the last mail from Portugal a number of
Lisbon journals, of which, owing to obligatory occupation
of other sort yesterday, I have only been able to read two
numbers. From the first, the Nacao of the 21st last, I will
give you a few extracts, most beautifully exemplifying the
advantages gained to my country, and through it to reli-
gion, morals, and sound policy, by the happy system of
liberty and reform, which the British Catholics so much
contributed to impose upon the Portugese people, thirty and
some years ago.
The Duke do Loul6—it must never be forgotten—avowed
himself in full Parliament a Freemason, and has been noto-
riously the Grand Master of the precious order or craft
in Portugal. Of late, as is well known, he and his

The Great Oxford and Cambridge Eight
oared Match,

(TIIIS DAY.)
Incidents have multiplied upon incidents during the last
few days to render the contest for the blue ribbon of the
Thames this year the most exciting race that has ever been
contested between the Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge.
Time was when the attractions of this race were mainly
confined to members of their seats of learning, but, ere
many repetitions, it was soon found that the race in itself
possessed merits which must not only render it gratifying
to the public, but which must perpetuate its popularity,
and time has confirmed its reputation,while experience has
convinced us that in this race only is rowing practised with
the closest approximation to perfection. The following
aro the crews, with their 'weights :
CAMBRIDGE. st lb
1. Mr. H. Watney, St. John's... ~. 11 1
2. Mr. M. H. Beebee, St. John's... ••• 11 0
3. Mr. E. V. Piggott, Corpus 11 12
4. Mr. R. A. Kinglake, Trinity ... ... 12 7
5. Mr. D. F. Steavenson, Trinity Hall ... 12 4
6. Mr. G. H. Borthwick, Trinity ... ... 12 0
7. Mr. W. R. Griffiths, Trinity ... 11 10
8. Mr. C. B. Lawes, Trinity ... 11 9
Mr. F.H. Archer, Corpus Christi (cox.) ... 7 3
st lb
• 11 1
• 11 2
... 12 13
• 11 12
• 12 6
„. 12 2
• 11 11
11 4

OXFORD
1. Mr. R. T. Raikes, Merton
2. Mr. P. Senhouse, Christ Church
3. Mr. E. F. Henley, Oriel ...
4. Mr. G. G. Coventry, Pembroke...
5. Mr. A. Morrison, 8a11i01...
6. Mr. T. Wood, Pembroke
7. Mr. H. Schneider, Trinity ...
8. Mr. M. Brown, Trinity ...
C. E. W. Tottenham, Ch. Ch (cox.) 7 13
The race, although not an annual event at first, has now
been so for many years, and has invariably taken place on
the day before Palm Sunday, which now necessarily fell on
Saturday, April 8, above a fortnight later than last year.
The task of chronicling the excitement in the prepara-
tion for the enjoyment of the consummation of the event
is of a somewhat arduous character. Amongst all classes
bustle and excitement have been apparent in the metropolis
of aquatics, and the note of preparation has sounded
merrily amongst the various rowing clubs and all the boat-
yards of the Thames, above and below bridge.
Throughout the early time of training, which has been
in progress for nearly two months, the continued severity
of the weather excited doubts and apprehension in the
minds of the community respecting the condition of the
opposing crews, but within two or three days after the ap-
pearance of the Oxonians at Putney it became more genial,
and upon the whole was exceedingly favourable for practice.
The crowds that have thronged Putney for many days
have abundantly testified to the popularity and interest of
the event, and the ardent lover of rowing has been in some
sort rewarded for his patient toil upon the towing-path or
across the heath and common between Putney and Mort-
lake, by the gratifying exhibitions which he has witnessed
by the many hard, spirit-stirring trials and gallant races in
anticipation of the great contest which it is now our duty
to detail—of that all-engrossing event the issue of which
was to reward the self-denial and endurance to which tho
competitors have cheerfully submitted themselves for the
last two months, with the laudable desire of sustaining the
acquatic honour of their respective institutions.