The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1853.

punity—until at length all bounds are disre-
garded, and the wretch proceeds to such extremi-
ties that forgiveness or forbearance is no longer
possible, and he is called on to answer before a
legal tribunal and to receive some punishment,
however inadequate, for his offences. It some-
times happens that this partial vindication of the
law is too long deferred, that the violence has
attained a pitch that ends fatally to the victim,

and• makes the assailant responsible for the
highest crime known to the law. In these
cases, several of which have recently occurred,
we find the same invariable principle—that
the practice had grown up by degrees—had
increased gradually but steadily, and that it would
have been a mercy to all parties concerned had
the offender been called to an earlier account, and
mown that the law affords some protection to
females. The accuracy of the ancient apophthegm
"nem repente fait turpissimus" is established
beyond the possibility of dispute. The most
sceptical must have his doubts removed by a
perusal of some of the sickening details of a few
of these horrible and disgusting narratives. It is
not necessary to be careful in the selection—they
all exhibit a painful similarity in the leading
features. It is not necessary to go far back—one
or two days will be amply sufficient to furnish
suitable illustrations. Nor are we tied down to
a single locality. The record of the Police Courts
in any of the larger towns of England, Ireland, or
Sccitland, will afford abundant materials for con-
sideration.

From the proceedings at the Glasgow Autumn
Circuit Court we find two cases where the parties
have been sentenced to perpetual banishment—the
one for attempting to murder his wife by cutting
her throat with a razor while tranquilly sleeping

by the side of her would-be assassin, with their
child sleeping between, them—the other for murder-
ing a kind-hearted individual who had interfered

on behalf of the wife, and for the time being suc

cessfully—a courageous and vigorous man being
seldom encountered by one of these cowardly

ruffians. The moment, however, when, supposing
he had quelled the disturbance, his back was
turned, in the act of leaving the room, the trucu-
lent scoundrel, whose malice he had foiled, seized
a heavy iron fender, and with it struck a terrific
blow that fractured the skull of the unfortunate
peacemaker, who shortly afterwards died from the
injury. In this case seven of the jury were in
favour of finding a verdict of wilful murder ; and
it was only by a majority of one (7) or by eight to
seven (for the verdict of the majority is received
at the other side of the Tweed) that the assassin
escaped the extreme penalty of the law for his
atrocious outrage.

It is quite certain from these and many other
instances, that the existing law is totally inade-
quate to remove this fearful blot upon the na-
tional escutcheon—even where it is fully and
fairly carried into operation, as we rejoice to say
it is, with some few exceptions. In the city,
however, " under the shadow of the grasshopper,"
the same undue leniency of which we formerly
complained is still exhibited towards offenders,
and woman-beating is still a cheap amusement in
the district of the Mansion-house. Indeed, the
Lord Mayor appears to regard any kind of assault
as a mere ebullition of animal spirits, not requir-
ing more than a slight reproof from the civic
SOLON occupying the bench for the time being.
Last week a scoundrel, named THOMAS MAGRATII,
was brought up for assaulting his wife so violently
that she had been obliged to remain several days
in the Hospital for " lacerated wounds of the fore-
head and lip, and injury to the nose. The un-
fortunate woman did not appear, but the out-
rage was brought clearly home to her cow-
ardly assailant, who was (credat Juckeus
Apella) fined twenty shillings (!), or, in default,
21 days' imprisonment. Another person who,
while drunk, had knocked down and severely in-
jured two policemen, was the same day fined 40s.
by his Lordship, which, it is almost unnecessary
to say, was paid with alacrity !
But the evil is not merely with those who re-
fuse to put the law in execution. Others who
strain it beyond its legitimate objects, and
thereby render the Legislature unwilling to
enhance powers thus abused, are no less respon-
sible. Thus we find Mr. YARDLEY, on Saturday,
bringing the Act, which he acknowledged was in-
tended "to apply to the case of men who beat
women," into force for a dispute between two
women. It is this straining of the law beyond
its intended operation that prevents the additional
authority being conferred. The reason of the in-
crease of the summary jurisdiction was because
the wives were tampered with, and prevented
from coming forward, when the case was sent to
sessions or the Central Criminal Court. Mr.
YARDLEY'S only duty is to carry out the law ac-
cording to the spirit in which it was framed ; and
he occasions much mischief by endeavouring to
add the legislative to the magisterial functions.
Increased powers should be conferred on the pre-
siding Justices, but they should be exercised with
. discretion, and under the vigilant supervision of a
controlling power, or the nuisance will never be
abated—the stain never removed from the Eng-
lish character.

TRANSMISSION OF TROOPS TO THE EAST.

By telegraph we learn that orders arrived yes-
terday (Monday), at Dublin, for six regiments to
hold themselves in readiness for the Mediterranean.
The 17th and 91st Infantry, in Dublin garrison,
are to proceed to Cork for embarkatioi. The ru-
mour is, that this sudden movement is connected
with the Turkish question.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, OCT. 9.

Prince Albert went out deer-stalking yesterday. Her
Majesty accompanied his Royal Highness to the forest,
and then returned home.

In the afternoon her Majesty and the Princess Royal,
attended by the Viscountess Canning, drove to the
Fall of the Garrawalt.

Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson, of Invercauld, had the
honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Viscount Pal-
merston, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. and Sir William Moles-
worth. The Council sat two hours and a half.

The Duke of Newcastle left town on Sunday night, to
attend her Majesty at Balmoral.
Sir William Molesworth arrived in town yesterday
morning, from his seat, Pencarrow, Cornwall.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday
for Manchester. . .

Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office, yester-
day, from the Governors of the North American pro-
vinces, the Governor of New Zealand, and the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent and suite will leave Abergeldie Castle
to-day for Frogmore Lodge, via Edinburgh and Carlisle.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—It is said Lord George
Paget will shortly lead to the altar his cousin, Miss
Agnes Paget.
APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—A marriage
is on the tapis between the Hon. Edward Bligh, brother
of the Earl of Darnley, and the beautiful and accomp-
lished Lady Isabel Nevill, youngest daughter of the
Earl of Abergavenny.
THE STOREKEEPER-GENERAL.—We regret to state that
the Storekeeper-General, the Hon. Robert Dundas, has
been suffering from ill-health for some time past, and
that a tour on the Continent has not restored him to
convalescence.
GOLD.—The Oriental Queen has arrived from Sydney,
whence she sailed on the 23d of June, with 18,000
ounces of gold, valued at 72,0001.
THE ROYAL NAVAL COAST VOLUNTEERS.—The orga-
nisation of this new force has been offered to the comp-
troller and deputy-comptroller of the coast guard, Cap-
tains Ellice and Ommanney, and the onerous service has
been declined by both these officers. It is now stated
that the entire force, officers and men, will be placed
under the direction and superintendence of Rear-Admi-
ral Berkeley, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty,
and that under this arrangement he will not only keep
hiq seat at the board, but the representation also of
Gloucester city.
PHOTOGRAPHIC FORGERIES ON THE BANK OF ENG-
LAND.—A rumour which has been circulated by our con-
temporaries, of photographic forgeries of Bank of Eng-
land notes having been successfully attempted, is
incorrect. Some experiments have recently been made
at the Bank with the view to ascertain whether any
precautions may be desirable ; but, whatever resolution
may be adopted, there is no reason to suppose that such
forgeries could be presented without immediate de-
tection.

NEWMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
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BRADSHAW'S MAP OF RAILWAYS.

Bradshaw's Map of the Railways, &c., of Great
Britain. Engraved by John Dower. W. J.
Adams.
It is difficult to afford any adequate notion of
the merits of this remarkable production by a mere
account of it—no matter how scrupulously accu-
rate, or laboriously minute the description. A
single glance over its broad surface would tell more
than two or three columns of explanation. Never-
theless, a few particulars as to the variety of infor-
mation here compacted together, may enable those
who have not already examined the map for them-
selves, to conjecture the extent, the value, and the
novelty of its elaboration.
Unlike any similar work of art yet produced,
Bradshaw's Map of Great Britain comprises in one
comprehensive chart what has hitherto been scat-
tered over a number of entirely distinct publica-
tions: Hitherto the public has been furnished
with maps variously devoted to one or other
of the different subjects here presented to the
eye simultaneously. It must be remembered,
moreover, that we speak thus not in dis-
paragement of any preceding enterprise, but
rather out of the fullness of our appreciation
of the one which has at last been accomplished.
" It-is not that I love Caesar less, but that I love
Rome more." Several -of the former maps already
alluded to, several of those maps which have been.
restricted to the delineation exclusively of some
one among what are here but the various features.
of a larger and more ambitious undertaking, have
been distinguished by peculiar excellence both in.
purpose and in the manner in which that purpose
has been realised. Without going any farther for
illustration, we may specify for example Macaulay's
Map of the Railways as beyond all doubt the best
of the kind yet issued from the press—giving, as
it does, with surprising exactitude the whole of the
different trunk lines, as well as of the various
branches, marking out at the same time each of
the numerous sations, and doing all this with
especial regard to completeness and authenticity.
Insomuch that we take the result of all this labour
on the part of the originator to be about tho hap-
piest that could have been witnessed under the
circumstances., But, excellent as it is, it is simply
a map of the railways. And so on, we might enu-
merate a long catalogue of similar productions,
dedicated now to this system in the commercial
enterprise of the country, now to that fea-
ture in its appearance geographically. The
superiority of Bradshaw's Map of the Rail-
ways, &c., of Great Britain, consists in this—
that it embraces the whole of those diversi-
fied advantages in one bold and comprehensive
publication. Its principal characteristic is its ver-
satility. Admirable as its accuracy unquestion-
ably is in its delineation of the complex webwork
of the English railways, that is by no means its
paramount merit as a compilation. Briefly, in
the title of the Map before us the word " Rail-
ways " implies less than the significant.
" dsc.," most suggestive of typographical hie-
roglyphics ! Under that mysterious sign, there
are hinted all the motley attractions of the
chart as the medium of an astonishing amount.
of valuable and important information. For
a careful scrutiny of the Map here unrolled before
the community will speedily enough assure us that.
something else is supplied by it beyond merely a.
huge store of useful railway intelligence. It de-
picts the Railways, of course, minutely—particu-
larising as well those which have been positive:ly
commenced as those which are, up to the present
moment, in actual operation. It portrays the
Rivers threading the surface of the island—distin-
guishing those which are from those which are not
navigable. It delineates the Canal System, and
with what scrupulous care may be conjectured when
we observe that there are here marked, in fact, the
height, above the level of the sea at low water, of the
principal pools and points of communication. It
specifies, in like manner, the respective altitude in
feet (above the same world-wide level) of the British
Hills and Mountains. Beyond the boundary of
the coast, it points out the numerous Sands and
Shoals, together with a really extraordinary num-
ber of Soundings. These soundings, of course,
are in every instance expressed in fathoms, and
they extend frequently into the wide sea, as, for
example, midway between the Isle of an. and
the port of Birkenhead. In this manner we
can perceive at a glance not merely the depth
all along the different portions of the coast, but
detect the precise spot where it is only 19 fathoms
in the very midst of St. George's Channel, nearly
midway between Wicklow and the extreme point
of Carnarvon. In the same manner we can dis-
tinguish the several localities in the middle of the
Straits of Dover, where the water runs as shallow
as 14, or 10, or even 6, or actually, at some parts,
not more than 4 fathoms. Besides giving us in
this way, as we have observed, the sands,
and shoals, and soundings, Bradshaw's Map
of Great Britain carefully particularises the
Anchorage. It does more than this—it indi-
cates the Buoys and Rocks, and the Beacons, and
the Lighthouses. Added to all which it defines -with
admirable distinctness the Mineral Districts of Great
Britain, indicating by appropriate symbols coal,
lead, tin, copper, slate, gold, silver, marble, granite,
china-stone, lime-stone, free-stone, iron-stone, co-
balt, antimony, and manganese. The mineral
wealth of England, by the way, is sufficiently well,
we conjecture, intimated by that same marvellous
enumeration.
It is perhaps to be regretted that, having adven-
tured so far in their remarkable enterprise, the
originators of Bradshaw's Map of theßailways, &c.,
of Great Britain, had not yet ventured yet a little
further so as to carry it out at once to what we be-
lieve must inevitably prove its ultimate develop-
ment. It is to be regretted, we mean, that having
extended the limits of the chart westwards to a
portion of Ireland, and northwards to a portion of
Scotland, they were not extended yet more north-
wards and yet more westwards so as to expand the
map from a large oblong into a larger square—
thereby embracing the whole, instead of a division
of the United Kingdom, in one noble publication.
This extension of the undertaking we look to, in
the end, with the utmost confidence. Until it be
effected, the map, however masterly in other
respects, must still continue capable of an
obvious improvement. It may appear captious to
talk thus of a production in all other particulars
so entirely satisfactory. Nevertheless, in speaking
thus, we are by no means carping at the good
already accomplished ; we are only eager that it
should be rendered yet more brilliantly and in-
structively apparent. Besides—we are alluding to
a change which, we believe, in the progress of
time must prove absolutely unavoidable. The inter-
nal development of the resources of Ireland especially,
the improvement of its commercial arrangements,
the multiplication of its canals and railroads, and
the gradual transformation of this island into the
channel of social, political, and mercantile inter-
course between the mother country and her North
American possessions—must, before many years
have elapsed, so wonderfully affect the interests of
the three kingdoms, that Ireland can no longer be
excluded from a map like this, representing the
power, and the wealth, and the industrial activity
of the British population.
Regarded simply as it is, Bradshaiw's Map of the
Railways, &c. of Great Britain, must be recognised
as a marvel of" ingenuity, and the fruit of a really
admirable enterprise. It constitutes a visible epi-
tome of the mighty conquests made by the Anglo-
Saxon race in their memorable march—a march not
of decades but of centuries—along the broad and
- I holy track of civilisation.
Lea-

THE REGISTRATIONS.

WEST SURREY.

Archer Ryland, Esq., the Revising Barrister, held
his Fourth Court at the Bush Inn, Farnham, on Satur-
day last, and revised the following parishes :—Ash and
Normandy, Elstead, Farnham, Frensham, and . Seale
and Tongham.
Mr. G. Edgar Dennes, solicitor, of London, and Mr.
Holiest, solicitor, of Farnham, attended for the Re-
formers. The Tories were not represented.
The result of the day's revision was, that the Re-
formers sustained all their objections and all their new
claims, and had a majority of 58. There were no Tory
objections.