The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, Arndt, 9.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice, drove
out yesterday, attended by Lieutenant Colonel Du Plat.
The Countess of Gainsborough has succeeded the Coun-
tess of Caledon as Lady in Waiting.
Ladyand Miss Bowater have left Osborne.

It is reported that the Queen has offered to give
up Buckingham Palace to the Emperor of the French dur-
ing his visit to see the International Exhibition, and that
the Emperor will occupy it for. ten days or a fortnight
during the season. Such an event would do something to
make up for the absence of the Court from London, which,
notwithstanding all the bustle and business to be expected
from the crowd of visitors, will have a very injurious in-
fluence upon some classes of tradesmen in the metropolis,
with whom Court festivities count as an important element
of gain.

The Earl of Derby continaes to improve in
health.

The Earl Cowper and the Hon. Henry Cowper
have arrived in town from a tour on the continent.

The Baroness de Clifford has arrived on Carlton-
house-terrace from her seat,KirbyMallory, nearAtherstone.
Vicomte Jules Treilhard (Premier Secretaire de
la Legation Francaise a Washington) with the Vicomtesse
Treilhard, have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn.
street.

We regret to learn that the Bishop of London
has been suffering from a rheumatic attack for some days.
His lordship held a large confirmation at St. James's, Pad-
dington, and, we believe, attended a meeting at the House
of Lords on Monday, and was for a short time in his seat in
Parliament. On inquiries in St. James's-square yesterday
it was stated that his lordship was not so well, and the Lord
Bishop of Worcester consequently confirmed at St.
Michael's, Highgate, yesterday afternoon, for his lordship.
At the Cavan Quarter Sessions on Saturday, a
medical gentleman was sued by a labourer for £l, a fee
charged by him for a certificate as to the state of health of
the plaintiff's son, then a prisoner in the county gaol, and
whom he was attending in his capacity of dispensary phy-
sician. The certificate was required to support an applica-
tion for mitigation of punishment, and the plaintiff con-
tended that the doctor should have given it without fee, as
part of his ordinary duty. The defendant proved that it
was the professional practice to charge a fee in such cases,
and the bench decided in his favour.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAIL-
WAY,-The sufferers by the accident on the Great Northern
Railway, reported a day or two since, are progressing fa-
vourably, Mr. Clarke, of Ulceby Grange, who sustained
the most severe injury, has so far recovered as to be re-
moved to his home. The other passengers, whose nervous
systems were affected by the shock, are pretty nearly re-
stored. The accident is believed to have arisen through the
slight sinking of the rails from the great amount of rain
which has recently fallen, or a deflection of the rails at the
points beyond Algarkirk station.

PARISIAN DISSIPATION.—A Paris letter says:—
" For the present every one here belonging to the upper
classes seems to be bent upon pursuing a round of dissipation
too fatiguing to be sociable. The Countess Persigny has
brought in, by giving her last ball at midnight, a fashion
in a fair way of being widely adopted, as well as one
that will make the sociability of the brilliant world
more life-consuming than it ever has been. Soirees now
commence long after 10, private concerts at about 11, and
balls at 12. When they end may easily be inferred from
the time of their beginning. The wearing effects of such
unnatural hours on the constitution are warded off by the
ladies, and, indeed, often by gentlemen, in a manner so in-
genious that it deserves to be recorded. Dinners are
ordered half nn hour earlier than they are usually served,
and, instead of being finished at half-past seven or eight,
are over at seven and half-past seven, so that persons of
quality can go to bed and have a long sleep before they
dress to go out at midnight."

A WORD ABOUT THE WARRIOR.—It is quite
evident that the Warrior is not to be the final specimen of
marine architecture on our ocean empire. Well, it is a
victory worth fighting for, labouring with heavy purse and
intense mechanical skill and industry to achieve the final
end of war by rendering it impossible. Oar American
cousins will scheme hard at this, if only their purses shall
hold out. And wo will scheme, too ; and it shall go hard
with our schemes but we will better all instructors than our
own. And so to your guns all ye who believe it practicable
to drive an unrifled shot in at one side of the Warrior and
out at the other, making a yawning breach for the green
tide of ocean to pour in, and perforce driving us to a more
perfect structure, Only do not let us build more than one
novelty at a time, lest the next should prove a waste like
the last. The gain so far is in favour of nations threatened
with invasion by sea. With wooden ships and iron
rails, it is quite clear that any amount of impregnable
shore batteries migit be improvised at a low cost, and at a
week's notice, but not so with Channel transports.—Once a
Week.

FEES FROM WITNESSES FOR PRISONERS,-At
the Somerset Quarter S- ssions, which commenced at Wells,
before Sir IV. Miles, Bart., M.P., on Tuesday, Mr. W.
Moody stated that at the last session the Recorder of Bath
had startled the Court by an announcement that the crier
was in the habit of getting a shilling fee for swearing
every witness called on behalf of a prisoner. In consequence
of what then passed, ho gave notice of a motion which he
now proposed, that the taking of such fees was illegal,
and ought to be discontinued. It was monstrous that in
an English court of justice a prisoner should be obliged
to pay such a fee in order to get a fair trial, and he con-
sidered that the Court would not do its duty if it did
not adopt his motion. The crier had expressed his
willingne2s to abide by the decision of the Court. Mr.
Dickenson, in seconding the motion, observed that such
fees were entirely contrary to the spirit of Magna Charta—
that justice was not to be bought. Sir W. G. Hayter dif-
fered as to the illegality of taking the fees. In former times
the prisoner could not examine his witnesses upon oath at
all. When prisoners' witnesses were allowed t..) be sworn,
then for the first time the shilling was taken, and they all
recollected that it used to be the termination of every oath
so
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at so grievous an injustice, as it was
termed, not satisfied as to its illegality, but was
nevertheless willing that the practice should be abandoned.
After some further discussion, Mr. Moody's motion was
adopted, with the omission of the word "illegal."
_LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett announce among their works in preparation—The
Life of the Rev. Edward Irving, illustrated by his Journal
and Correspondence, by Mrs. Oliphant (in April) ; The
Church and the Churches; or, the Papacy and the Tem-
poral Power, by Dr. Dellinger, translated by W. B. M'Cebe
(in April) ; Italy under Victor Emmanuel : a Personal
Narrative, by Count Charles Arrivabene, private secretary
to Count Cavour ; Thirty Years' .Musical Recollections, by
Henry F. Chorley ; The Court and Society from Elizabeth
to Anne, illustrated from the Papers at Kimbolton, edited
by the Duke of Manchester ; Adventures among the Anda-
mans, by Dr. Mouat ; Female Life in Prison, by a prison
matron. And the following new works of fiction :—Owen,
a Waif, by the author of " High Church;" Saturday
Sterne, by E. Reade ; a new story by the author of
"Margaret and her Bridesmaids;" Mrs. Blake, by Mrs.
Newton Crosland; Walter Langley, by the Hon. C. S.
Savile ; Lucille, by the Hon. Mrs. Macdonald; Bryanston
Square, by Nooll Radcliffe, author of " Alice Wentworth,"
ctc,