The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-10 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1865.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Ceylon Company, 9;
City of London Real Property, lim., 21 1
City Offices, lim., 5
Commercial Union, Insurance, 81
Continental Union Gas, lim., 101
Credit Fonder and Mubilia. of England, 81
Ditto (£2), 51 3
Ebbw Vale, 5 41
Egyptian Com and Trading, lira., 53 ;
Financial Corporation, e 3
Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 71 1
Hudson's Bay, 161
Humber Iron Woks, 21 31
Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 84
International Financial society, Bin., 71 1
International Land Credit, Um., 6i
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour, 91
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 82; 2
Joint Stock Discount, 51
London Financial Association, lim., 231
London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Ship, lim., 91 2
Natal Land and Consolidation company, lim., 5
ational Discount Company, lira., 151 16
National Provincial Marine, 21
North British and Mercantile Insurance, lim., 183
Oriental Inland Steam, 21
Otago and Southland Investment, 1 1
Panama, New Zealand, and Australian R. Mai', aim.,

Ditto, new (Z 5), 31
Scottish Australian Investment, Urn., 128
Societe Finaheiere d'Egypte, Um., 5
Telegrat h Construe. and Maintenance, Jim., 3
Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., 72
Universal Marine. Insurance, lim., 6j 6
Upper Assam Tea, lim , 64
1% arrant Finance, lim., i -1

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(?his Day.)

COURT OF BANKKUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Winslow.)
IN RE J. SWIFT-A PROFESSIONAL SINGER IN COURT.

This bankrupt was described as a professor of singing,
of Drummond-street, Euston-road, and to-day he came up
on his last examination and order of discharge. The ac-
counts show that Mr. Swift owes 2471., with no assets.

The bankrupt was sworn, and said ho had no property,
and for the last 12 months had earned almost nothing.

Mr. Levy—As he has lost his voice, of course he could
not earn much.

His Honour—What has been the matter with you, Mr.
Swift ?

Bankrupt—l have had a very bad cold, and could not
sing.

His Honour—Have you not been able to sing for the past
.welvemonth ?
Bankrupt—Very little.
His Honour—You are discharged.
The order was then granted in the usual form.
IN RE LEE.-AN EDITOR'S FAILURE.

This bankrupt was described as an editor, of Grafton-
street, and the accounts showed, debts 3821. 19s 9d, and
property in the hands of creditors 4801., leaving an esti-
mated surplus of 97/.
Mr. Brough supported the bankrupt, who passed without
opposition.

(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE PAUL BEDFORD.-A COMEDIAN'S FAILURE.

In this matter Mr. Lewis applied for an adjournment, as
no accounts had been filed.

His Honour pointed out that as there had been other
previous adjournments in this matter, it must be now
allowed to stand over at the bankrupt's expense.
Mr. Lewis said there was no estate, and, in fact, an
attempt had been made to settle matters out of court.
An adjournment was then ordered until Feb. 2d, but our
reporter is informed that a composition of 5s in the pound
has been offered and accepted by all but one creditor.

LENTRAL CRIMINAL COITRT—This Day.

♦
OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
MAJOR LUMLEY AND HIS CHALLENGE.

This morning Major William Brownrigge Lumley was
indicted for sending to Mr. Lawrence Desborough, solicitor,
a challenge to fight, also a libellous and threatening letter.
Sergeant Parry, who had been for some time in conver-
sation with the Major and his friends, came to the counsel's
seat while the indictment was being read.

Major Lumley, in answer to the usual question from the
clerk of arraigns, pleaded guilty.

Sergeant Parry said that he and Mr. Sleigh had seen the
Major, and had pointed out to him the illegality of the
course he had pursued. Major Lumley was unaware that
sending a challenge was an offence against the law. He
was certainly aware that sending the second letter was an
illegal act, but that he had sent it under the influence of
strong excitement. Major Lumley had pleaded guilty, and
had expressed to Mr. Desborough his sincere regret at hav-
ing written those two letters. He trusted that Mr. Des-
borough would consider those letters as withdrawn, and as
never having been written. That Major. Lumley was sin-
cere in this, he (Sergeant Parry) was thoroughly convinced,
for he was most anxious to make an atonement for the
offence which he had committed. He had consulted Mr.
Metcalfe, who, he believed, had no objection to the major
entering into recognisances to keep the peace.
Mr. Metcalfe said he was instructed, after the handsome
speech which Sergeant Parry had made, to state that Major
Lumley's apology was considered quite sufficient. The
only object Mr. Desborough had in view was to secure the
reputation of his own firm, and to protect the public, and
at the same time to. protest against a practice—that of
duelling—which the public voice had emphatically con-
demned.

The Recorder, in addressing Major Lumley, said he had
heard the statement which his counsel had made, and he
presumed that it was an expression of his own feeling of
regret, and that he was desirous of making a public
apology to the prosecutor for the outrage he had committed.
Some punishment he had incurred already by appearing in
Court to answer the indictment, and some punishment
also in making himself an object of public ridicule. Under
these circumstances he (the Recorder) thought he was
justified in. not passing any sentence more severe than that
Major Lumley enter into his own recognisances in 5001,
and one surety of 2501, to keep the peace towards Mr. Des-
borough for twelve months.
The recognizances were at once entered into, and Major
Lumley left the Court with his friends.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STREET PREACHING.—AIderman Sir R. W. Carden
waited upon Mr. Tyrwhitt this morning, and said—l wish
to call your worship's attention to an inconvenience—an
inconvenience amounting almost to a positive nuisance—
which arises of a Sunday morning in Portland-place, at the
top of Great Portland-street, opposite the railway station,
and near Trinity Church. A person is in the practice of
coming there every fine Sunday morning, getting on a
chair and preaching to what he calls " the people,"
gesticulating loudly, getting a large crowd toge-
ther, sometimes as many as 200 persons being col-
lected, completely obstructing the thoroughfare, inasmuch
as any one coming from the railway station has to go out
of the way to get into Great Portland-street. I believe the
person is a clergyman of the Church of England, and he
appears in full canonicals. I do not object to out-door
preaching, as I believe it does great good, but I have lis-
tened to the doctrines preached by this person, and they
are almost those of a Chartist—the preacher making it a
rule to abuse the rich, and he frequently points in the di-
rection of Trinity Church, and says " There's a church full
of aristocrats."

Mr. Tyrwhitt--He does not say anything about the
"bloated bishops," "pursy squires," and "foolish dukes,"
those being the favourite expressions made use of by such
persons. All I can say is, that I have nothing to do with
the person's doctrines, but if an obstruction is caused, there
is great negligence on the part of the police if they do not
remove it.

Sir R. W. Carden—The parson preaches far from the
doctrines of peace, for in speaking of workhouses, he
calls them " prisons" and " }stiles." On speaking to the
constable on duty at Trinity Church, he said he would not
allow it on his side of the way, and I then spoke to another
constable, who said he could not interfere, as he was
ordered to watch the barrows, but that he was aware that
it was going on for some time.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—lt is desirable it should be known that,
though called police magistrates, we have nothing to do
with the police. We are above the police, and totally in-
dependent of them. It is for the police authorities to put a
stop to the matter, and it should be put a stop to.
Sir R. W. Carden—l should like to find out the person's
name.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—The matter is entirely one for Scotland-
yard, and not for the magistrate. They are the executive,
and this the judicial part. There is an encroaching power
springing up, but we shall soon find out who is the
strongest. There is a strong under-current going on, but
it will not do.

Sir R. W. Carden thanked Mr. Tyrwhitt for giving him
a hearing, and retired.

THE MAGAZINES.

THE DUBLIN.—" Who is the Heir" is continued,
and becomes very elaborate as it proceeds. It is
written in an agreeable style, and some of the
sketches presented to notice are good. An air of
impenetrable mystery as yet surrounds its atmos-
phere, which will, of course, heighten its attraction
for many readers. The sketch of Lily is very pleasing,
and the error her father committed in keeping her im-
mured in comparative seclusion will doubtless be produc-
..

tive of very disastrous consequences. A new tale is com-
menced called " Guy Deverell." It is of the old-fashioned
style of haunted chambers, and already in this first instal-
ment we find the old housekeeper giving warning because
her master proposes to put a guest into the "green cham-
ber," which is supposed to be for ever untenanted except
by its restless supernatural visitors. "An Irish Actress"
brings " Elizabeth Trevor" before us, and other incidents
of a histrionic nature, which are very interesting. It is
mentioned that it is curious to reflect upon the strength of
talent concentrated in Drury-lane for many years at the
close of the last century. The two theatres then in
London, instead of its present " thirty," were not flou-

rishing. " Sheridan was on the point of bankruptcy when
Pizarro' and the dog Carlo retrieved him for the moment,
and Covent-garden, under the classic sceptre of John
Kemble, fled from Shakspere to horses and a live elephant."
"Two Remarkable Executions—Governor Wall and Col.
Despard," will prove entertaining to those who like to
dwell upon such gloomy subjects, and on the last hours
of the condemned. The governor was hung for a mur-
der he had committed twenty years before, while the
colonel suffered the penalty of the law for high treason.
" The Crisis of British Rule in India" is a very interesting
article, which pays a very deserved compliment to Mr.
Raye's recent work. " Gentlemen Past and Present" is a
smart sketch, which considers the Hon. Grantley Berkeley's
book in no very favourable style. The paper contains,
however, some noticeable comments on the change which
has ensued in the manners of the day, and certainly it is
one for the better in every respect. "Lectures on the
Science of Language" is a clever exposition of that elabo-
rate theme that cannot fail to profit its reader.

FRASER'S.—The principal article in this number
is the first, which gives the views of an American
abolitionist on the career of President Lincoln. In
a clear, straightforward, and uncompromising
manner, he shows up the hypocrisy of the sudden
emancipation fervour which seized the presiding
party in Washington, and of the ingenious manner in
which they continued to defeat the terms of their own
proclamation. Mr. Lincoln before his election denounced
slavery as a wrong, but his convictions were not strong
enough, or his moral courage was not great enough to
maintain such a theory when it grew inconvenient and
embarrassing. We commend this article to the attentive
perusal of those members of the Emancipation Society, who
recently presented a fervent address of congratulation to

Mr. Lincoln on his re-election. " The condition and pros-

pects of the Navy " are considered at length in a paper
founded upon a late French work. The nominally standard

writer Richardson, whose works are, however, very little

read now-a-days, being happily ill adapted to the modern
manners, is the subject of a careful criticism in which his
merits and demerits are frankly inquired into. Miss Cobbe
contributes the first part of an essay on the hierarchy of
art, which may fairly be termed deep reading,_and the

spiritualist will be attracted by a paper entitled " Spiritual-
ism as relates to Religion and Science," with whose conclu-
sions, however, he will scarcely Le disposed to agree. The
story of " Gilbert Rugge" proceeds with interest, and
reaches a crisis. The old sibyl's prophecy seems to indi-
cate that the unlucky hero has no claim to his professed
position, while Capt. Hunswood appears destined to be in
some way his evil genius. There are also papers on Moun-
tain Beauty and on the London Drama, besides several
short poems of various merits.

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.—This number con-
tains several good articles pertaining to questions of
the day ; but the first takes us to the Court and
people of Siam in other times before we became
acquainted with the famous specimens of twins ; nor
need we expect to find any more samples in this
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article which deals with the adventures and rivalries of the
French and Dutch more than a century ago. The article
is to be continued. A paper on the military spirit of na-
tions and the discipline and morale of armies, is penned in
a smart military spirit, and enters fully into the individual
characteristics of European armies, their discipline and
morale. They are all more or less brave, but much depends
on discipline and the spirit with which their officers lead
them to action. Tho French are strongly imbued
with the passion for glory. With the Russian
obedience is the first principle, but with the British soldier
duty is the order of the day. The Englishman considers
it to be his duty to conquer, and he generally performs it,
no matter the obstacles in his way. The Russian is praised
for his obstinacy and inaction. Trained to hardship from
his birth, he struggles on, despite the many privations to
which he is subject, and scarcely knows when he is beaten.
When the tenacity of the Russian soldier was praised,
Napoleon, whilst admitting their other military qualities,
justly objected to their lack of soul and passion. " Give
me," he exclaimed, " soldiers for proclamation !"—and
truly ho found the French to his mind. Conceding to dis-
cipline all its efficacy, the reviewer says that most of the
continental armies greatly depends upon the morale of the
soldier. Morale, then, means the soldier's spirit, his being
"up to the sticking place," his " game," and " pluck."
This morale is everything to the French soldier—without
it he is nothing. So thought Napoleon. It is a favourite
saying with the French, " 'Tis the heart that makes a
grenadier"—Cest le cceur qui fait le grenadier. This feeling
in the French army is considered to be in the ratio
of two to one over the physique, but the advan-
tage is occasionally neutralised by its being closely
allied to panic, which sometimes occurs when the furor
evaporates. But with the British soldier his courage is
ever stimulated by the home conviction of what he must
do, and that nerves his soul to daring, as Colonel Mliurdo
said, when only 2,500 men under Sir C. Napier at the battle
of Keane beat 28,000. But independently of the best dis-
cipline and spirit, a gallant officer inspires his men to
valiant deeds. It is said that an old Scotch general, when
the Highlanders used claymores, thus addressed them
before the enemy :—" I'll tell you what, my lads, it's cus-
tomary for the general to make a speech to the sojers, but
hoot ! we've no time for that. All I have to say is—
there's the enemy, and if ye don't cut them, they'll cut you."
" Hygiene of the Army in India" is a notice of
an article on that most important subject. The

great point is to provide pure water, good ventilation,
and other requisites, which at a certain outlay of money
would repay itself in a couple of years. Surely it is the
best economy to incur such an expense, for what is more
valuable than the lives of our soldiers in the wasting
climate of India ? " The Campaign of Marengo" awakens
old associations, and " Oswald Hastings" is extremely
interesting. " A Tour in Canada and the Northern States'
is very opportune at this critical period. The Admiralty

and Naval affairs we leave for the present, until they can

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make a better defence for putting aside the Royal Sovereign
turret-ship, without giving that experiment a fair trial.

Prejudice-is a sad stumbling-block in the way of improve-
ment, whether it be on dry land or salt water. The mili-
tary and naval intelligence of the month is given as
usual.