The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1853.

task of their own defamation. According to these
'reliable advices, therefore, it would seem that
the troops of OMER PACHA have at length closed
with those under Prince GORTZCHAKOFF. The
upshot being the repulse of three thousand Rus-
sians by eleven thousand Turks, with a loss to the
former in killed of eight officers and twenty-six
privates—in wounded and 'prisoners of no less
in the aggregate than six hundred. Naturally
enough the Russian reporters of the struggle would
be disposed to underrate their own numbers in
the field, and to over estimate the amount of the
forces brought to bear against them by their
antagonists. Wherefore we would intimate, of
course, that it were perhaps advisable to receive
'with a certain degree of suspicion the statement
of our Muscovite informants to the effect that the
Cossacks in their first struggle with the Osmanlis
were outnumbered by nearly three to one as here
announced. It appears, to say the least of it,
improbable—especially seeing that the Russians,
according to their own showing, were the ones to
offer battle upon the occasion of this encounter.
The despatches narrating the event first to Paris
and afterwards to London being to the effect that
" eleven thousand of OMER PACHA'S troops were
attacked by three thousand Russians" on Friday,
the 4th of November. Whatever the likelihood
of the Russians exaggerating the strength of
their foes upon this occasion, and of understating
the power of their own armament, it must be
obvious they would be reluctant to'state that their
loss in the encounter was greater than what they
had actually experienced. Consequently it re-
mains before us as indisputable that a struggle
indeed actually took place between the Turks and
the Russians on the 4th of November.. Equally
clear is it that out of that struggle the troops of
the SULTAN have come forth victorious—those of
the CZAR have lost in killed eight officers and
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twenty-six privates, and in prisoners and wounded
no less on the whole than six hundred. If the
soldiers of NICHOLAS have triumphed in Asia, the
soldiers of AED-UL-MEDJID have won a glorious
revenge by culling the first laurels of the
campaign of 1853 on the European Conti-
nent. In this circumstance lies the value and
the significance of this remarkable information.
It demonstrates that we have not been talking
simply at random when we have insisted that
bloodshed must sooner or later prove the result of ,
our timorous and despicable negotiations. It
shows in bloody characters, lettered over the field
of battle, in the bodies of the dead and wounded,
that the soldiers of Turkey are not precisely the
kind of men their depreciators would fain have
argued down to the end of the chapter. It indi-
CAte3, in the commencement of a calamitous strife,
that Russians and Turks have been impelled
against each other (armed to the teeth and in-
spired by mutual hatred) whether they would or no,
by the force of those infamous motives in which the
evil and sinister ambition of the CZAR found its
most direct encouragement. The motives we mean,
coming from a selfish hankering to keep out of
harm's way, which have caused the nominal allies
of the Sublime Porte to deaden the energies of the
Councils of Constantinople by their intrigues, while
inflaming by the influence of their craven weak-
ness, the cupidity, the courage, and the fanaticism
of the Councils of St. Petersburg.
Consequent upon which pitiable policy of the
Coalition, we have had the abortive Note from
Vienna, followed by the tardy appearance of the
combined Fleets in the Sea of Marnaora, by the
Turkish passage of the Danube in answer
to the Russian passage of the Prutly,
and now by the blood which has been
shed in this memorable struggle on the 4th of
November. So much for the reiterated asser-
tions made by the Aberdeenites, to the effect that
war would be happily avoided, thanks to the skill
of their diplomatists, and the adroitness of their

inestimable opportunity his fate has afforded to
grance and England of drawing yet more closely
by.the blending of their sympathies the inestim-
able bonds of their friendship. As the spring-
time, according to the exquisite thought of Mr.
EMERSON,

"Engenders heats

Turning the sod to violets,"
so may it be with the memory of the young
and. gallant BELLOT—SO may it be preserved
" ever green in our souls"—so may it blossom into
good deeds and generous sympathies between
Frenchmen and Englishmen. Never more welcome
to us all can be the knowledge of this increasing
friendship between France and England than at
this hour, when we are listening, as it were, to the
distant reverberations of the Russian and Turkish
cannonade.

The Society for Promoting the Amendment of
the Law has resumed its useful labours on the
termination of the long vacation. On Monday
evening the first meeting for the Seseion, 1853-4,
was held, when a most satisfactory statement was
made by the respected and efficient secretary, Mr.
JAMES STEWART, respecting the progress already
made, and the prospect of other and even more
extensive measures of reform being speedily
brought into operation. He showed what had
already been effected by means of the investiga-
tions and inquiries instituted by the Society, and
the carefully prepared and elaborate reports, and
the valuable suggestions put forward by the
several committees to whom the different matters
had been referred, and which furnished the
ground-work of the improvments and alterations
effected in the procedure and practice of the
Courts of Equity and Common Law, in the Law
of Real Property, the Law of Evidence, the Law
of Lunacy, and other matters too numerous to
be here repeated. The .Society had, indeed,
ample cause for self-gratulation. No private
Association had ever rendered more important
services to the community, or had succeeded in
advancing their own views and feelings. No real
evil—no substantial grievance has been brought
under the consideration of a Committee without
being divested of its technical difficulties, and
exhibited in its true colours, so that the non-
professional reader might be enabled to under-
stand the propriety of the demands for reform in
reference thereto, and the extent and mag-
nitude of the impediments that intervened before
the required improvements could be effected.
The public soon began to place confidence in re-
ports displaying great erudition and clearness,
and placing the matter under discussion, whatever
it might be, in a popular point of view. It was
speedily seen that nothing was done for party pur-
poses, that the object of the inquiry was to elicit
the plain truth, without disguise or concealment,
and that strict and perfect impartiality might be
relied on. The references were not made for the
purpose of shelving an inconvenient question, or
removing a portion of the responsibility from the
shoulders of the Ministers of Government for the
time being, but with the bona fide object of effect-
ing an improvement where it was actuallyrequired,
and rendering it commensurate with the extent
of the grievance to be removed. There was no
halting at the threshold, no introduction of petty
alterations. The legal reformers proceeded vigo-
rously, as well as cautiously, and when the causes
of the disease were ascertained, they were not con-
tented with removing the decayed branch, but
struck at the root of the evil, effecting a per-
manent and radical cure. It was by following such
a course that the members of the Society succeeded
in acquiring the public confidence to an almost
unprecedented extent, that they effected so many
beneficial alterations in the law, and that they
obtained general support for every proposition
which they deliberately put forward. They went
in advance of public opinion, but so judiciously
that they were certain of being followed, so that
no suggestion has fallen to the ground or proved
a failure. The good seed that was scattered forth
has produced, or most assuredly will produce, its
fruit in due season.

We rejoice, then, to find that the attention of
the Society has been directed, among other inte-
resting topics, to one of peculiar importance,
which bears the same 'elation to other legal ques-
tions that Parliamentary reform does to the great
majority of those for which legislation is impera-
tively demanded. The propriety of the appoint-
men t of a Minister of Justice, in fact of an exclu-
sively political Lord Chancellor, who should have
ample leisure to consider the various abuses re-
quiring amendment, and the proposed remedies,
was referred to a committee to inquire and report
upon. Our views on the subject have been so
repeatedly put forward that it is almost
unnecessary to say how fully and completely
we agree with the suggestion. We have
long since, on many occasions, advocated the
complete separation of the political and judicial
functions of the Lord Chancellor—we have shown
that, from the multiplicity of his avocations, he
is unable to discharge his multifarious duties,
however efficient he may be, however profound
his learning or indefatigable his industry. We
require him to do the work of four men, and
wonder that he cannot do it well, and have time
also to consider the various reforms brought for-
ward, or about to be brought forward, so as to
pronounce authoritatively thereon. He is at the
same time a Cabinet Minister, bound to express
his views on every subject of national importance,
foreign or domestic—Chief Judge in Equity, to
decide on appeals from Vice-Chancellors and other
Judges—Speaker of the House of Lords, to preside
over the deliberations of that august assembly—
and Chairman of Committees, to take a prominent
and influential part in the decision of appeals from
his own decisions as Lord Chancellor. How then
can he bestow that attention on any new question
unconnected with these various avocations which
it may require. It is utterly impossible that he
should do so. It is not, therefore, by way of
censure, to any Noble and Learned Lord who has
filled the distinguished office, that we allege, as
a general rule, that the chief opponents of
legal reform have been the successive occupants of
the Woolsack—that delay and procrastination
have been repeatedly occasioned through the im-
possibility of a single individual getting through
a quantity of work which could not be disposed
of if the whole twenty-four hours were applied to
the purpose, without a single minute for neces-
sary rest or refreshment, to say nothing of re-
creation, without which even the " JACK" on the
Woolsack may prove " a very, dull boy." We
trust, then, that the ventilation of the subject by
the Association may once more bring it under the
Legislative consideration, and that the deficiencies
of the bill introduced and carried under the
auspices of Lord JOHN RUSSELL may be promptly
and adequately supplied.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and Lady
Cecilia Gordon Lennox, propose leaving Gordon Castle,
N. 8., on Tuesday, the 22d instant, for London. His
Grace will remain a few days in town to attend the
annual agricultural show of cattle, and then proceed to
Goodwood-park until the meeting of Parliament.
The Earl and Countess of Derby are entertaining a
few relatives and friends at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton and Lady Katherine
Grey Egerton are among the visitants.
MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE.—We understand the
builder's contract for this national institution was sighed
on Monday last by the treasurer (John Propert, Esq.),
on behalf of the council, and that the works are now
rapidly progressing.
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION.
—The late Mr. H. Nicholson, of St. Mary's-road,
Islington, ,and Furnival's Inn, by his will has be-
queathed the sum of 1001. to the Law Society, for the
benefit of the widows and children of professional men,
and a like sum to the Law Clerks' Society, in aid of the
objects of the Association.
AN INTERESTING CASE IN THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT.
—An author agreed to arrange materials and write
original matter for a book at a stated price per sheet.
Afterwards the publisher agreed that the author should
publish the original matter in. a separate form, and for
that purpose use the type of the publisher. On a bill for
an injunction by the author against the publisher, the
Court refused to restrain the latter from publishing the
original matter' in an altered form.

THE NEW LORD MAYOR.—Yesterday Alderman Sid-
ney, the new Lord Mayor, was sworn in at the Guild-
hall in the usual form. There was very numerous at-
tendance of hig Lordship's fellow-citizens upon the occa-
sion.

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
JONES V. ISIORCIAN.

This was an action brought to recover 761. an tt bill
of exchange. The defendant was sued as the public of
and secretary to the Irish Submarine Telegraph
Company, and he pleaded first that he was not secretary ;
secondly, that if he was, he was not liable to be sued as
such, the company being a chartered concern ; and,
thirdly, that he did not accept the bill. At the trial,
the jury found for the defendant on the two first issues,
and for the plaintiff on the third. Mr. Hawkins now,
however, moved on behalf of the plaintiff for leave to
enter up jugdment non obstante veredicto, and he did so
on the following grounds :—lt appeared that in Febru-
ary last, Mr. Morgan went to plaintiff, and producing an
order purporting to be made by the board of the com-
pany, authorising him to accept bills in their behalf,
he wished the plaintiff to discount a bill for 701.,
which the plaintiff did, and the bill, while it was directed
"To the Directors of the Irish Submarine Telegraph
Company," was accepted in these terms—" Accepted by
order of the board ; payable at Spooner, Attwood, and
Co.'s. W. M. Morgan, secretary." It was afterwards
found out that in point of fact the defendant was not the
secretary, he having been dismissed from the office ; and
the plaintiff now contended that he ought not to suffer
from the defendant's own misrepresentations. He there-
fore prayed for judgment on all the counts.
Baron Parke doubted whether the plaintiff was entitled
to a verdict even on the third issue, for the declaration
alleged that he had accepted a bill which was directed
to him ; but he had done nothing of the sort. .
Baron Alderson—ln point of fact the plaintiff has sued
the company, and having failed to hit that bird, he now
wants to shoot at the other. It is quite clear that the
company being chartered, they cannot be sued through
theii public officer.

Mr. Hawkins insisted that as the plaintiff had been
induced to discount the bill by the misrepresentation of
Morgan, he ought to be held liable.
Baron Parke—The action is a blunder from beginning
to end, and if you were to have a new trial, it is possible
that the verdict on the third issue might be reversed, for
Morgan has accepted no such bill as that declared on.
You had better not take anything by your motion.
Mr. Hawkins—Under these circumstances, I think
that, my lord, between the two stools we have come to
,the ground, but it is a hard case.
Application refused accordingly.

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city, as the empty tills of shopkeepers would
abundantly prober
The procession was to start for. Guildhall at 11
o'clock, but it was not all on the move until just
12 o'clock. In the interval the crowd in this
neighbourhood found an ample fund of amusement
in the little incidents which now and then happened,
and one could not fail to see by their demeanour
that the " show" was looked upon in the light of
a joke. A poulterer's man passing along the
cleared way with a tray well filled with game and
geese, &c., was considered quite apropos, and
elicited a most boisterous shout of merriment ;
" an unprotected female" terrified at a mounted
Lancer, and getting in the way the more she re-
treated, was also thought excellent fun ; and the
sudden appearance of a poor costermonger with his
barrow just before the Lord Mayor, was treated
as the height of burlesque.
The following is the official programme of the
procession
Police Constables to clear the way.
The Boys belonging to the Royal Marine Society,
with banners.
City Marshal's Man.
Pensioners of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich.
Yeoman of the Guard.
Private Pensioners.
Mates.
Boat's Crew.
Coxswains.

Boatswains,

Inspecting Boatswains.
Two Police Constables.

The Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Innholders.
Watermen bearing the following Banners :

....,c7) The Royal Standard. nit
71 '''' The Arms of the Innholders' Company. 6-1--1
A 0 The Arms of Sir Chapman Marshall. The Arms 4 0_
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a a of Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Wire. a Cr'
mc' The Clerk of the Company in his Chariot. .f 4 Fm.--).
-a The Court of Assistants in their Carriages. 0
Ft The Master in his Chariot.
The Under-Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Girdlers.
A Military Band.
The Barge Master.
Watermen bearing the following Banners :
F 3 • The Royal Standard. )-.3
G c;' The Union Jack. The City Arms. Pr
~. The Arms of Alderman and Sheriff Wire. 5 0
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CD 0 The Arms of the Lord Mayor. r• a
co 0 The Arms of the Company. - ..:1 ii-).
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g:,. The Clerk of the Company in his Carriage. tii,

The Wardens in their carriageS.
The Upper Beadle of the Company.
The Master of the Company in his Chariot.
The Under City Marshal on Horseback.
The Lord Mayor's Beadle.
The Lord Mayor's Bargemastor in State Dress.
The Bargemen bearing the various colours.
The Banner of the Lord Mayor.
The Captain of the Thames Navigation Barge.
The Principal Assistant Water Bailiff.
The Watermen with Colours.
.A Grand Military Band.
The Common Council of the Lord Mayor's Ward in
Carriages.
The two Under Sheriffs.
The City Solicitor.
The Remembrancer.
The Comptroller.
The Secondary.
The Three Common Pleaders.
The Judge of the Sheriffs' Court.

The Tows Clerk. it
The Common Sergeant.
The City Chamberlain.
Farrier on Horseback. 5 Kettle 'Farrier on Horseback.
Guard on Horseback. 1 Drums. f Guard on Horseback.
Trumpeter on Horseback.. Trumpeter on Horseback.
Guard on Horseback. Guard on Horseback.
Mr. Sheriff Wire, in his State Carriage.
The Aldermen who have not passed the Chair.
The Recorder.
The Aldermen who have passed the Chair.
The late Lord Mayor.
Trumpeters on Horseback.
Banr er of Justice.
A Car, drawn by Six Horses, three
abreast, containing
" Justice."
Banner of the Nations borne by Herald.

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Standard Bearers of the following Nations on Horseback,

in the Costumes of their several Countries :
France Spain
Italy Germany
,
Turkey Persia
Russia Greece
China India
North America South America
A Cart of Australia, drawn by two Oxen, containing

an Australian-Digger.
Banner of Peace and Prosperity.
Countryman with Country girl with
Implements of Industry. Implements of Industry.,
Country Girl with Countryman with
Implements of Industry. Implements of Industry.

4 0 A Car, drawn by Nine Horses, three abreast, f,' Ft,
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F'a containing
o " Peace and Prosperity." 16 "
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The Lady Mayoress, in her State Carriage,
joined the Procession on its return from Westminster.
The Lord. Mayor's Servants, in State Liveries.
The Baud of the Life Guards, mounted.
The Upper City Marshal, on horseEack.
Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's Household.
The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR,
in his State Carriage, drawn by Six Horses,
attended by the Chaplain, Sword-bearer, Common Crier,
and tie Water Bailiff.
Guard of Honour, on Horseback.

It may be as well to mention that Mr. Sheriff
Wallis's " state chariot" was no where to be seen,
though it was included in the list. It is said that
the hon. gentleman was not only not disposed to
make an exhibition of himself, but was so ungallant
as positively to refuse to supply his share of the ex-
pense in getting up the show. But what he left
undone was more than compensated for by his
more liberal brother sheriff, Mr. Alderman Wire.
This gentleman's equipage was one mass of bright
red, dazzling the eyes of the beholders, and, by
its reflection, making the pale-faced citizens ac-
tually appear to blush. This important little
functionary was himself enveloped in robes of the
same startling colour, and his smiling countenance
was almost lost in an abundance of white frill.

The novel part of the procession, in which Mr.
Cooke's equestrian troupe was seen to very great
advantage, excited general admiration. One of
his best riders, attired in a handsome Ty-
rolese habit, and mounted on a beautiful
piebald charger, and bearing the banner of
" Peace," led the way.alle was immediately fol-
lowed by a car drawn by six fine horses, three
abreast, on which was mounted at a considerable
height a modest girl in white classic robe, ba-
lancing scales in her hand, having before her a
city mace, and though rather pretty looking, " as
stern as Justice." Then came horsemen clothed in
the garb of different nations, and a varied and
interesting sight they presented. There was a
groan at the Russian, which the Turk mistook
for himself, and turned round to see from whom it
proceeded, but this move resulted in a loud and
enthusiastic cheer. The Chinese participated in
the good wishes of the spectators, and seemed
mighty proud of it. The representatives of North
and South America were amusingly tatooed and
completely covered with dabs of various paints,
and occasioned much merriment. What, however,
brought the laughter of the people to a climax was
the Australian digger with his red woollen smock,
his sun-burnt countenance, his huge overgrown
beard, about to split asunder with his pick axe a
gigantic piece of quartz. Last of all in this groupe
came " Peace and Prosperity," two young ladies
appropriately attired and mounted on a large globe,
which was drawn by nine horses three abreast.
It is unnecessary to make any comments on the
other parts of the pageant.
Having, after some difficulty and delay, been com-
pletely formed, it left Guidhall precisely at twelve
o'clock, passing from King-street, through Gresham-
street, Princes-street, Lombard-street, Fenchurch-street,
Mincing-lane, Tower-street, Eastcheap, Fish-street-hill,
Lower Thames-street, to Billmsgate &c. ; from thence
by water to Westminster.
The Lord Mayor embarked amidst loud cannonading,
as brisk, perhaps, but not so destructive as the firing
which the Turks encountered from the Russians when
Making the pass of Giurgevo.
When the ceremony at Westminster had con eluded,
his lordship returned from Westminster to Blackfriars%
bridge, by water, and passed through New Bridge-
street, Ludgate-hill, Ludgate-street, St. Paul's Church-
yard, Cheapside, and King-street, to Guildhall.
• At Bridge-street the procession on its return was
joined by the Ambassadors, her Majesty's Ministers of
State, the nobility, judges, members of Parliament, and
other persons of distinction invited to the banquet at
Guildhall.

THE SCREW-STEAMER CRUMBS, which is advertised to
leave England for Australia on the 10th of January next,
will take out ship letter-bags for all the Australian ports.
She is advertised to start two days after the mail for
Australia is despatched from England, by way of France
and India, and will afford a most favourable opportunity
for again testing the relative merits of the Cape and
Indian routes to the gold colOnies. The Crcesus is 700
tons burden, and 50 horse-power more than the Argo,
the last steamer that competed so successfully with the
Overland Mail.
ARRIVAL AT CORK OF AN EMIGRANT VESSEL DIS-
ABLED.—An emigrant vessel in a battered and disabled
condition arrived on Monday in Cork harbour. She is
an American full-rigged ship, the Queen of the West (one
of the Swallow-tail line of packets), and has 550 emi-
grants on board. She sailed from the Mersey on the
morning of the Bth of October last, with a pretty fair
wind, but soon got into unfavourable and contrary winds.
On the 21st they were off the Old Head of Kinsale, and
soon after, off Cape Clear, were met with a severe gale,
they having, as we are informed, all their sails set. The
bowsprit was carried away, and then the foremast, and
she subsequently suffered such damage that she has ar-
rived in the harbour with nothing but the stump of her
main and mizen-masts, and a jury foremast. During the
time passed at sea after these disasters the sufferings of
the emigrants were extreme, both from the condition of
the vessel, its violent and continuous pitching, and the
consumption of their stock of provisions. The emigrants
(says the Cork Examiner) complain of the conduct of
the officers, which they say was the cause of the mishaps
he vessel met with.

1a .'EST FOREIGN NEWS.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

A telegraphic despatch received at Paris from
Bucharest, states that the Consul of France there
in writing to M. de Bourquency, under the date of
the 6th inst., says :

"On the 2d and 3d of November the Turks
crossed the Danube from Turtukai to Oltenitza, to
the number of about 18,000 men.
" On the 4th General Parlof attacked them with
9,000 men, and, after a brisk cannonade, a combat
with the bayonet took place between the two
armies.

" The Turks maintained their positions at Olte-
nitza, and have fortified them.

" The combat lasted three hours.
" In it the Russians lost several officers and 136
privates killed, and 6 superior officers, 18 subal-
terns, and 479 privates wounded.