The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

THE SUNI LONDON, T crE S DAY E V NINING, DEC:RUB E R 23, 1862.

LA W---THIS DA

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
HUDSON V. SIR P. SLADE AND OTHERS.

LONDON, Dec. 23.—Wind this day at noon—North.
Westerly; light breeze, and cloudy weather.

The evidence being concluded.
Sergeant Shee proceeded to address the jury in reply. He
contended that although the evidence appeared to exculpate
Sir F. Slade and others from giving the plaintiff into cus-
tody, yet it clearly showed that Mr. Bradshaw :was re-
spons Lie for the act, as ho accompanied the police to the
station-house when the officers were first called into the
Parliament-chamber of the Temple.
The case will occupy the whole of the day.

, .
OFF HURST CASTLE, Dec. 23,—Arrived—Pera, steamer,
from Alexandria.

GLOUCESTER; Dec. 22.—Sailed—Undaunted, for Si
John's.

DOVER, Dee. 22.—Wind N.—Arrived—Antelope, from
Curacoa, for Amsterdam, with loss of an anchor and
chain.

TORBAY, Dec. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Princess
Alice, from Tayforth, for Havannah.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Golden
Horn, screw steamer, from London, for Melbourne, having
lost both anchors and chains off the North Foreland. Sailed
—Minerva, for the African Coast.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 22.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Her
Majesty's ship Dromedary, for Ascension; General Caul-
field, for Madras.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE STRICKLAND.

This was a meeting for last examination and discharge.
Mr. Pook supported, and said that the case had been
adjourned for the bankrupt to furnish a goods and defi-
ciency acccunt, which had been furnished, and he believed
that the trade assignees were satisfied, as there had been no
objection taken.

, esday Morning.
Arrived--- New York,SOUTHAMPTON steamer, fromTu Bremen ; Tartar,
steamer, from Lisbon ; Havre and Alliance, steamers, from
Havre ;Pera, steamer, from Alexandria; Dispatch, steamer,
from Jersey,
Sailed—Alliance, steamer, for Havre.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesda Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 22—Sara, from Aarhuus ; y Sea Flower,
from Guernsey,
Arrived, Dec. 23—Cock o' the Walk, from St. Michael's ;
Sir E. Banks, from Calais.

A clerk of the solicitor to the assignees appeared, but his
Honour said that he could not hear him. The solicitor
ought to have been in attendance in person ; he wis allowed
a fee of a guinea, and ss. for his clerk. He should there-
fore direct a memorandum to be placed on the proceedings
that, on the taxation of costs, the solicitor's fee should not
be allowed.

:DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passsed, Dec. 22—Fairlie, for Sydney; Porchester, for
Calcutta—both from London.

Mr. Pook said there was no ground for opposition, and
no creditor opposed.

His Honcur granted an immediate discharge.
IN RE GURNEY'.
. _

SUNRISE FROM MOUNT ETNA.

This bankrupt was described as a wine merchant, of
Upper-road, Islington, and this was a meeting for last exa-
mination and discharge; but being stated by Mr. E. Reed,
for the assignees, that an arrangement was pending for
winding up the matter out of court, an adjournment was
taken. The accounts are said to be heavy.

In the Diary of the Duke of Buckingham, just published,
is the following picturesque bit of description :—" Behind
me rose the giant cone (Etna), looking pale and streaky and
snowy through the uncertain light. By degrees the streaks
of purple, which are the first avaunt couriers of the sun,
began to spread themselves over the heavens and the bosom
of the sea, which lay, like a vast mass of uncertain gloom,
I know not how far before me. Almost in an instant, in
the twinkling of an eye, shoots of vivid red ran up from
the edge of the sea to the zenith, filling the sky with masses
of crimson shot with golden threads ; and after I had con-
sidered this extraordinary spectacle for perhaps two or three
minutes, the streaks of golden light getting momentarily
more intense and vivid, giving the effect more of a golden
aurora-borealis than anything else, a speck of dazzling bril-
liance became visible on the surface of the sea; and, break •
ing an awful silence which had lasted from the moment we
km ur tuu mountain, my guide exclaimed,
in a low tone, as if in fear, Ecco it sole ! ' Many men
have sat down in their studios after having seen this great
sight, and have contrived to put together phrases to describe
it. I shall not make the attempt. The only idea which T
think goes near to express anything like a similitud e
to it, is to suppose that one could have been a
solitary being standing upon chaos when God said
';Let there be light 1 '—and there was light ! I have
been told by those who have seen the sun rise amidst the
higher Alps, that the scene is grander there, but they have
exclaimed their meaning to be that the sun has risen on
Alps crowned by Alps in almost endless succession of vista,
gradually developing each sunny peak,and lighting up each
glittering glacier. It may be so; but so, during the first
period of his early course, the sun appears to rise like a bene-
ficent Deity upon a new and beautiful creation. Man does
not appear, and his cities are lost in the haze—nothing to be
seen but the immense expanse of the sea, and of a beautiful
world below. Gradually the mist rises, and the objects de-
velop themselves byslow degrees; forests show their colours,
mountains their moving shadows, rivers their silver courses,
and at last, best of all, the habitations of man their dimi-
nutive white cupolas, spires, and fronts."