The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1854.

575, fine ord small to f fine ord, at 53s to 53s 6d, good
and fine of favourite marks at 63s to 75s Gd, low mid
brown to good mid bold greyish at 54s to 60s, f fine ord
at 53s to 545, triage at 35s 6d to 535, and peaberry at Gls
to 65s Gd. Native ord to good ord has been taken in at
45s Gd to 4Gs. Rio at 43s 6d for ord and good ord, and
Costa Rica at 52s to 54s per cwt. Jamaica brought 45s
6d to 495, for good ord to f fine ord pale and mixed.
RlCE.—Cleaned Java has been taken in at 25s to 28s for
mid. and good, and Carolina at 31s to 33s for mid seconds.
SPICES.—A large quantitity has been offered. White
pepper sold steadily at B,id to 93d for mid. and good Pe-
nang, and at 88d for mid. Madras ; Long was taken in at
8d ; Cayenne went at 5d ; cultivated Madras ginger real-
ised 36s 6d. to 39s Gd, and Pimento brought s:}d to 5d for
ord. and mid. coarse ; nutmegs are cheaper—Penang and
Singapore obtained 3s 7d to 4s 9(1 for good and fine bold ;
mace also declined, ord to good dark selling at is lid to
2s 3d, and fine at 2s 10(1. Cloves went at 9A to 10d for
mid and good. bold. Cassia Vera ord, dark and mouldy,
realised 30s Gd to 355.

SALTPETRE.—Higher rates have been current. Born-
bay sold at t2s to 22s 6d for ord and low, 31i to 11 per
coat refraction, and Bengal 12i to S, was taken in at
24s Gd to 255. Madras, 111 per cent, brought 23s Gd for
good color.

TEA.—The market has been quiet.
TALLOW.—This article has been dull.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

TATTERSALL'S-THURSDAY.

Owing to the Steeplechase Meeting at Harrow the
room was very thinly attended. Only the following beta
were laid :

DERBY.
3,200 to 200 agst Mr. Howard's Oulston (taken).
3,000 to 100 agst Mr. Payne's colt, by Cotherstone
out of Polydora (taken).
1,000 to 15 agst Lord John Scott's Rambling Katie
(taken).

THE DUKE OF RICIDIO.ND AND THE
VETERANS OF THE PENINSULA.

At Edinburgh, on Wednesday evening, the Duke of
Richmond was entertained at dinner by a company of
above 50 war medal officers in the different services, in
recognition of his Grace's services in procuring for the
regimental officers and men who had served in the Penin-
sular and in other campaigns the distinctions of the war
medal. Major-General Geddes, K.H., presided, and
Rear-Admiral Montgomerie occupied the vice-chair.
Nearly all the company wore decorations of the Penin-
sular, Waterloo, or Indian campaigns. i
The customary loyal and military toasts having been
given and received in a spirited manner,
General GEDDES proposed the health of their noble
and gallant guest. He said—We owe the Duke of Rich-
mond a deep debt of gratitude, and if we poor soldiers
and sailors are unable to pay it we will, at any rate,
honestly acknowledge it. No war medal recipient can
ever forget the Duke of Richmond. To use a soldier's
phrase, he " spoke up" for us with a kindness and feeling
that said much for the goodness of his heart, and with
an earnestness and an energy that could not fail to be of
good service to us. The Duke cf Richmond is a soldier
himself, and a gallant one, as you all know. (Cheers.)
He was in the personal staff of the Great Duke who
so often led the armies of England to battle. He served
in the ranks of one of our most distinguished regiments,
the 52d, and he has scars, as well as decorations, re-
ceived in battle. (Cheers ) When his Grace sheathed
his sword after the long war he did not fall back upon
a life of inactivity. He takes his place, wo are proud
to think, in the councils of his Sovereign and of the
nation ; he gives time, talent, means, and energy to the
improvement of agriculture ; and now that we have
again entered on war we find him at the head of one of
the regiments of defence—the militias (Cheers.) I am
sure that, if I have failed to do all the justice to this
toast that it deserves, you will not fail to drink with all
respect and in all sincerity " The health of the Duke of
Richmond." (Prolonged cheering.)
The Duke of Rsonstosrn, in reply, said—Gentlemen,
General Geddes has said that my humble services in
favour of the army and navy can never be repaid. Gen-
tlemen, I beg to tell you that these feeble services have
been more than amply repaid by the kindness which I
have received from the recipients of the war medals both
in London and on the present occasion. It is true, as
has been said by your President, that it was my good
fortune to be a humble sharer in the glories of the Pe-
ninsular and 'Waterloo armies. When peace was esta-
blished I returned to this country, and I then felt that
the people of England bad forgotten the services of
those to whom they were indebted for the peace—the
long peace which has since existed. It is most true that
the Government of the country then recommended the
Sovereign to give medals to the general officers and other
superior officers, and to the admirals and those command-
ing in the fleet. Gentlemen, I do not think that they
conferred one honour more on these gallant and illus-
trious individuals than they were justly entitled to ; but
still,'as I have been A regimental officer, and had wit-
nessed with admiration the sailors and marines doing
their duty to the country, I felt regret that the regi-
mental officers of the army, the lieutenants of the navy
not commanding, and, more than all, our non-commis-
gonad officers, our warrant officers, our private soldiers,
and our sailors had received no decoration or proof of
our regard ; and, speaking of rewards to our heroes new
engaged, 1 would say that I do hope, before this war is
at an end, many gallant sailors and soldiers will be pro-
moted to the peerage, to add lustre to the roll of the
hereditary nobles of England. (Cheers.) But, with
he conviction that no general of oers or admirals can
win victories alone, and that they must be ably and
efficiently supported by those who hold rank under
them, and by every soldier and sailor under their com-
mand, Ithought it my duty to ask thatevery man who had
done his Sovereign and his country service should be
enabled to wear on his breast the distinguishing mark
that he had done his duty. (Cheers.) It was certainly
a novelty to make so large a request, and therefore a
considerable delay intervened before it was granted. I
did not ask it as a boon ; I asked it as a just reward for
honourable service, and as such I stated in the House of
Lords I would alone receive it. I was met by the state-
ment that, even though the officers and men received the
medal, they would not be got to wear it ; but I well
knew, gentlemen, that those who held that language had
collected it from the red-tapists of Downing-street...
(Laughter and cheers.) I knew that they had never
watched at the picket-fire, or listened to the seamen's
yarn, else they would have known that each one of our
gallant men would be as proud of his medal as the
proudest peer of the country. (Cheers.) But, gentle-
men, I had no claim in this matter, save that of bring-
ing it before the notice of her Majesty's Government,
for I knew full well that the kind heart of the Sovereign
under whose rule it is our pride to live would only be too
happy to show her feelings of regard for those who had
supported her predecessors—the kings of this country—
in the late war. (Cheers.)
The Duke of RICHMOND, in proposing "Lord Raglan
and the British Army," said—l rise with the greatest
possible pleasure to propose the toast which has been
placed in my hands—with the greatest possible pleasure,
because it is to the good health of one with whom I was
a boy at Westminster School, who afterwards was a
comrade of mine on the staff of the Duke of Wellington,
and for whom and with whom, from that time to the pre-
sent, I have been on terms of the deepest friendship.
On public grounds "I are quite sure that there is no meet-
ing that can take place in any part of Groat Britain or
Ireland that would not receive with acclamation the pro-
posal of drinking to the health of Lord Raglan and the
brave army serving with him in the Crimea. (Loud
applause.) Gentlemen, at an early period of life
Lord Raglan joined the Duke of Wellington's staff.
He was soon made his Military Secretary. He went
through the arduous campaigns of the Peninsula
with him, and was present at the crowning victory of
Waterloo. Many of you must also be acquainted with
his services is the post he kince occupied at the Horse
Guards. I believe I speak the sentiments of the great
1 body of the old officers of the Peninsular war when I
1
say that he always treated them with kinilne-s, while
in the administration of the duties of his office he showed
the utmost desire to do his duty to his country. In
short, he always showed a clear head and a kind heart.
(Cheers.) Now that he has been most properly sent out
to the Crimea, I will not here enter into the disputed
1 subject of whether our army went out there too late,
I or whether they ought to have gone out at all. That
is no business of Lord Raglan and the brave and heroic
men under his command. (Hear, hear.) They were
ordered on a particular service ; they have gone on that
eltrs ice, and as you must all have read those despatches
of Lord Raglan which, I think, do him more credit
than, perhaps, all his career at the Horse Guards, you
may have been led to suppose, from his own modesty
as to his own services, and from his desire to give the
army all tke credit, that he himself had not been there
at all. (Applause.) his army has been exposed to
great hardships and great privations. In Bulgaria they
lost large numbers of men by cholera and other dis-
eases, which, though they have been experienced by
our armies in India, they scarcely expected to encoun-
ter in Europe. That decreased the strength of the bat-
talions, and, thus diminished in force, they were sent
to the Crimea, where they have found more difficulties
to contend with than probably they anticipated when
tyley left the shores of England. I again repeat that
I will give no political opinion at all. My views in
politics, as is well known, are strongly opposed to the
present Government, but I have no politics when the
question of supporting the war is concerned. (Cheers.)
I throw them aside—l fling them away with the
scabbard which we have cast from us, and I say that
at the present moment, when the battle for the
freedom of the civilised world is to be fought in the
Crimean land, I would, if I had the supreme power now,
send every native sailor, marine, and soldier who is fit
for foreign service out to the Black Sea, with this excep-
tion alone, that I should reinforce the fleet in the Pacific.
(Cheering.) Gentlemen, we cannot afford, as the Duke
of Wellington said, to have little wars. Never mind
expense; that is a secondary affair. You owe it to the
bravery and the heroism and the gallantry of our sol-
diers who are now in the Crimea that they should be
reinforced, and that their brigades should be stronger
than battalions ; and you owe it to the country at large
that they should be strongly reinforced, and the sooner
the better. (Renewed cheering.) At the risk of in-
truding on your time, I would call your attention for a
moment to the gallantry of the blue jackets in that
country. I happen to know that there are no men who
have worked better or more heroically in the batteries
than those men who have been landed from the ships.
It is complained that they have not done impossibilities.
Now, they have done what they were ordered to do,
and you have no right to ask more : petrait me to say
I should have blamed them had they done more than
they were ordered to. But, gentlemen, I do feel that
one of the great advantages that have accrued from the
peace is the kindly feeling that is now shown and that
has so long existed between our army and navy, and
which I hope and trust will ever continue to exist, with-
out anyrivalry between the professions except that honest
emulation of each attempting to do better service to his
Sovereign and his country than the other has the oppor-
tunity of doing. (Applause.) Certainly, I cannot sit down
without expressing the high satisfaction it has given me
to find that the heroic soldiers of France—those men
whom we,- or most of us, were opposed to for so many
years—are now our allies, and with whom, almost from
the Peninsular war to the present moment, our officers
have so cordially and entirely " fraternised," as the
new phrase is. I am not one of those who are surprised
at this. (Hear, hear.) There is no Peninsular officer
here present who will not remember that, when we were
opposed to the French troops in the Peninsula; the mo
meet our cross-belts were off, the soldiers of the two
armies would meet beside the same rivulet, washing
their muskets in the same stream, and sharing with
each other their brandy and their biscuits. (Cheers.)
There always was a feeling of respect on the part of the
English towards the French in these wars, which was
also felt by the French towards the English. (Applause.)
We fought not as savages —(" hear, hear," and cheers)_
and I hope and trust that, in performing the important
duty which we owe to the land of our birth, we shall
never degrade ourselves into being barliarians—(cheers)
—and, if be true that some of the Russian troops mur-
dered our wounded men, I only hope that no retaliation
of their inhumanity will take place. (Chsers.) We
must look for their punishment to the universal con-
tempt of all mankind. (Cheering.) Gentlemen, I give
you " Field-Marshal Lord Raglan's Health, and the
British Army," I had only hoped that I should have
been enabled, in doing so, to designate him by that step
in the peerage which I think he has so gallantly won.
(The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.)
After some other toasts,
Admiral MONTGOMERIE proposed " The health of the
Duchess and Family, including his Grace's son-in-law,
Prince Edward of Saxe \Veinier."
The Duke of RICHMOND, in reply, said, as a soldier's
wife, and as a soldier's daughter, he was quite satisfied

I that the Duchess of Richmond would feel deeply grate-
ful to the veteran officers of the war who had conferred
so many acts of kindness on her husband. The man-
ner in which the company had received the mention of
his son•in-law was also deeply gratifying to him. He
(the Duke) was no young soldier ; and he would tell
them that he was proud of the conduct Prince Edward
had pursued. Of the rank and position which
would have entitled him to go upon the staff, where,
as they all knew, there was so much greater comfort
to [be obtained—if comfort there waa in war—he had
gone out with his battalion, and at the head of his com-
pany, from which he had not been absent a single day.
(Applause.) He (the Duke) felt as all felt where one
so much beloved was undergoing the dangers and pri-
vations of war, but he trusted in Providence that his
son•in-law might be,restored to them. (Applause.)
Among other toasts were, " The Memory of Welling-
ton," " The Heroes of the Peninsula and Waterloo,"
" The Memory of those who had fallen in the Crimea,"
&c.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 30.

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

The bankrupt was a tailor in Essex-street, Strand,
California, and Melbourne ; in the latter being also a
commission agent and merchant. He was adjudicated a
bankrupt at Liverpool ; but the proceedings have been
transferred to this Court. This was a meeting for the
proof of debts and choice of assignees. Mr. Evans (of
Liverpool), Mr. Murrough, and Mr. Robins appeared
for creditors.

The bankrupt (examined) said he left Melbourne in
July last with his housekeeper. Her name was Mary
Ann Ward. He booked himself in the name of John
Smith—no, Francis Smith. He booked the young lady
in the name of Clara Smith. She came with him as
Mrs Smith. He said, in an examination at Liverpool,
that all the money he had was 21. 10s., and produced it.
In the presence of Mr. Commissioner Perry he took
from his pillow 4001., and handed it to Mr. Evans.
Several debts having been proved the case was ad.
j owned.
IN ItH HENRY JOHNS.

The bankrupt was the proprietor of the Latchmore
Distillery, Wandsworth. His liabilities, of various kinds,
are estimated at upwards of 32,0001. The amount of
assets is not yet known. The bankrupt was, it is stated,
engaged in a firm at Birmingham, in connection with
which his liabilities are supposed to be still more consi-
derable. Mr. Young, accountant, of Basingball-street,
was chosen trade assignee ; Messrs. Lawrence, Plews,
and Bowyer are the solicitors, and Messrs. Paul and
Turner the accountants in the case.

(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
IN RH DHAN.

The bankrupt was a builder, of Bath-street, London-
road. This was a last examination meeting. Mr. Chidley
appeared for the bankrupt ; Mr. A. Jones for the as-
signees.
The bankrupt passed.

penalty of 1001. in this case, but I shall fine the defen-
dant in the sum of 251., which is the lowest I am em-
powered by the act of Parliament to impose, and in de-
fault sentence him to be imprisoned fir three months.
The defendant was then committed.

CLERKENWELL.—CharIes King, a gentlemanly-
looking man, who described himself as a coal agent, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with obtaining various
sums of money under fraudulent pretences.
Mrs. Frances Wilcox said—l reside at 2G, Mary-
street, Hampstead-road. On the 23d of October
my husband wrote a letter to the Great Northern
Coal Company at King's-cross, desiring them to send
him a ton and a half of Silkstone coals. In a few
days after we received a reply by a letter, signed
" Herbert Clarke," stating► that the particular coal
ordered could not be supplied until the 30th of November,
but that if " Walls-end Main " would do they could be
sent in a week.. My husband agreed to the alteration,
but the day before we received the answer from the coin-
pa,ny, the prisoner called and said, "I am conic to solicit
orders for coal-from the Great Northern Railway Com-
pany." I replied, "We hayed ordered some." He at
once replied, "I am an agent to the company ; I can
send you Silkstoncs, for we have no Walls-end, but they
will be 28s. a ton, for coals have rose." I replied,
" Yes, I know they have, and I am sorry you did not
call before now, for you might have had the order, but
if you are passing at any time again this way you may
have them in future." From what he said, I imagined
that I was to have the coals direct from the station at
King's-cross. Orr the 31st of October the ton and a-half
of coals was delivered at our house. I did not like the
appearance of the coals at the time, and I questioned
the carman twice, and he positively told me they were
" Walls-end." My suspicion was, however, excited, not
alone by the quality of the coal, but also because the re-
ceipt for the money was signed and dated from the
"Coal-office, Bidborough-street—Charles King, agent."
The waegoner's delivery ticket was made out in the same
way. The latter circumstance—recollecting that the
•riginal letter was signed " Herbert Clarke "—induced
me to go to the railway station to let them know in
what way I had been treated, but before I went there I
went to the prisoner's office in Bidborough-street. He
was not at home, but as I was leaving I met him in the
street, and before I said anything to him he said, " Oh,
I suppose you come about the coals ; I will see Mr. V, il-
cox about them." I at once said, "Who gave you the
order to send them I " He replied, " A little girl called
at my office and said I was to send them." I said, " I
never seat any one to order them of him."
The prisoner declined to ask the witness any ques-
tions.

Henry Bowen, foreman to the receiving coal depart-
ment of the company, said—l went to Mr. W. Wilcox's
to examine the coal in the cellar. The coal now pro-
duced is not Wall's-end, but it is Barnsley inland coals..
Mr. Tyrwhitt—What is the difference between the
coals produced ?
Bowen—Why your Worship, Wall's-ends are "firsts,"
Barnsley and Silkstones are "seconds," because they are
" inlands."

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Can you tell me what are the selling
prices of these coals !

Bowen—l only am a judge of the quality ; I know
nothing of the value of them.

Mr. Williams, superintendent of the company's line of
railway, deposed that the prisoner was in no way con-
nected with the Great Northern Railway, and that Mr.
Herbert Clarke was the sole agent in the coal depart-
ment, and his offices are at the King's•cross station.
Prisoner--Are not coals about 225. a ton.
Mr. Williams—l do not know myself that that is the
price, but on the list just issued by Mr. Clarke it is as
stated.

Lackerby, 23 S, said—This morning, about 2 o'clock,
I arrested the prisoner at his lodgings, 23, Clarendon-
street, Somers•town. About a month since I received
information of the prisoner's proceedings, and I inspected
the coals at Mr. Wilcox's this morning. I went to the
house and brought this sample (produced and identified
Uy Bowen to be Barnsley coals) from the cellar. I have
been searching after him for the last month.
Mr. Humphreys—Your worship, I wish for a remand
in this case to produce other cases in which the prisoner
has obtained money by the same fraudulent practices.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—l will remand him, and I am quite
pleased to see those vile impositions, not alone on the
poor, but on the public generally, justly exposed.
Prisoner—l hope your worship will allow me to go out
on bail, as I want to consult with Mr. Lewis, of Ely-
place, who I expected would have been here to-day.
Mr. Humphreys—l have no objection to your worship
admitting him to good bail for appearance, for he has
absconded already, and put the officer 'to a month's
trouble to find him.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—l have no objection to receiving two
respectable and solvent sureties in 1001. each, and the
prisoner himself in 2001.
Although it did not come out in evidence, the re-
porter ascertained that the manner of acting by sham
agents is, that when they catch a dupe for coals, they
agree for 28s per ton, best, cash on delivery ; they then
proceed to the railway station, and, ordering the deli-
very of cheap coals at 19s per ton, pocket the difference ;
thus a few tons sold in the day, say three tons, puts 27s
in their pockets without any trouble.