The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-31 00:00:00

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Flt A N CE.
M. Qiatremere de Quincy died on Saturday at
the advanced age of 95. This venerable litteratuer
and antiquarian was the oldest member of the Institute.
The Estafette states that a split has taken
place among the members of the ra-actionary club of
the Council of State. The parti pretre, headed by
M. Montalembert, wished to induce the members to
vote that the discussion on the Education Bill of M.
4-de Falloux should have precedence over that
on ,the Bill proposed by the Government,
and carried their motion by a small majority. The
conduct and language of M. de Montalembert was so
nffen,ivc to the Ministry that they determined to
secede from the club, and they have announced their
intention of forming a new club. Among the
seceders are MM. de Broglie, Daru, Leon de e-
yille, and Pi:icatory. It is thought probable that
M. Mole will join the Bonapartist Club, of which
MM. L)ariste, Abatucci, and Vaudrey are members.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT)
DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING, DEC. 30.—The wea-
ther still continues intensely cold, and all the still
water in city and suburbs is frozen over, but not
strong enough to bear skaters, who, notwithstanding
the noted insouciance of the Irish character, are by no
means so prone to involuntary suicide as the patrons
of the treacherous Serpentine. The officers of the
Custom-house were all at their posts to day, as per
order, to give a meat reception to the "high tide,"
which did net once show its face, nor even give a
glimpse of' its plethoric entity--the weather still con-
tinuing most unpropitious for an impressive entree,
and the tide at Dublin bar not even reaching the
ordinary altitude.
But if we have not been inundated by Neptune,
the Graces have visited us with a perfect deluge of
the ornamental, in dress and bijouterie. In the latter
line all Golconda would seem to have been
ransacked by an English company, who are selling
" stones of the first water," at " less than the cost of
carriage." In the last intimation there may be more
truth than is meant, albeit, there is no lack of pur-
chasers. But the " tremendous sacrifice of bankrupts'
stocks, " to the value of 200,000/. sterling," has all
Dublin agog. If your witty friend Punch were here,
he would indeed have many a joke to crack
at the expense of agonised Benedicts, impressed
into the Rotuo, "only just to look at nothing
more"—the 100,000 shawls of "Messrs. Howell,
Baird, and Co., of London." If this wondrous firm
had not had the good luck to make bankrupts of half
your London tradesmen—or if the latter had not
become Po for their accommodation—the " unprece-
dented opportunity" now afforded could never have
arisen. This "important sale, duly legalized by
the scarlet sanction of the Crown" (she phrase
I'll be bound, is more novel than the geode), com-
prises, according to the advertisement; as many
ertielrs as, if heaped together, would fill all the
buildings in St. Thomas's parish, not to talk of the
Rotundo.
Your leading article and the two It tters in
Teurstley's number, in reference to the extinction
of the Lsw courts here, have excited
gr.( at ser ae,at ion amongst legal circles. The entire productions I have heard ascribed to the one
hand—and that hand not one of an Irish practitioner.
I feel convinced that it is as feasible for the Irish
lendloris to obtain protection, as for its advocates to
succeed in the abstraction of Irish legal jurisdiction.
In !his all Irishmen are unanimous. The scene of
liti,otion must still be at their own doors. They all
agree that they shculd fight with each other at home.
Another great man has declared against protection.
I ;Mil be accounted justified in applying the epithet
to the Earl of Bosse, the constructor of the most
magnificent telescope in the world, the friend of art
and science, a good landlord, and an honest man.

CANADA COMPANY—(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly general Court of proprietors was
held this afternoon at the company's house, in St.
Helen's place, for the purpose of dttermining on a
dividend, for the election of two directors in the room
of James Godden, Esq., who had resigned, and John
Fullarton, Esq., deceased, and for the transaction of
other business.
There was a very small attendance of propietors.
Charles Franks, Esq , Governor of the corporation,
preshled.
After the minutes of the last meeting were read,
The CHAIRMAN said, the first business was the
election of two directors, and they were no doubt aware,
that when the number of candidates corresponded
with that of the vacancies, the election would take
place by a show of hands. The gentlemen who
offered thewselves on the present occasion were Capt.
Charles John Boeanquet and Mr. Alderman Carden.
The names of these candidates were then put and
carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN observed that the remaining busi-
ness to be transacted was the consideration of the
half-yearly dividend, and perhaps it would be
advisable first to give the court some information with
respect to the financial state of the company. The
quantity of land sold in 1849 amounted to 5,620
acres; the price per acre of the Crown reserves was
133 4d., and of the land oe the Huron tract 135., and
the total receipts amounted to 24.0001. In
1848 the number of acres sold was 12,260,; the
price of the Crown reserves being 16s. 6d. an acre, and
of land on ;the Huron tract, 13s. 4d., and the total
amount of receipts was 31,1001., thus showing a de-
crease of about 7,0001. in the last year. By far the
greater portion, however, of the land was let on lease.
In 1848 the quantity disposed of by way of lease was
55,427 acres, while in 1849 it had increased to 71,969
acres. The total receipts of the company in 1849
amounted to 23,9911. 12e., and in 1848 to
31,398/, showing a decrease of about 7,400/
The amount due to the company, but yet unpaid,
was 35,9501. Up to the present time 133 2001. had
been raised upon debentured. During 1849 there
had been transmitted by the company, on behalf of
emigrants and their friends, altogether 1,712 different
sums, averaging 51. 9a. 7d. each, and amounting in
the aggregate t0:9,378/. 12=. 101. In the year.lB4B
the sums traiismitted amounted to 822 altoge-
ther, averaging." 51. 4s 6d. each, and amounting to
a total of 9,5231. Thirty-four thousand emigrants
had landed at Quebec in tire course of the year.
Before stating the conclusion to which the directors
hal arrived with respect to the amount of dividend,
he thought it right to call their attention to the most
important feature which appeared in their last report,
viz , the extent of distress which prevailed in Canada,
and which tended so materially to diminish the receipts
of the company. Now he was happy to say a very
favourable alteration in their affairs might be expected
to take place during the next ix months. The colony
bad just been blessed with a very abundant harvest.
It was perhaps known that the farmers in Canada
were in the habit of growing large quantities of
spring wheat, which, owing to several circum-
stances, was considered a very convenient and econo-
mical crop, and was also consumed very extensively.
In 1848 this particular crop failed all over the
province, and was the chief cause of the distress
which prevail, d, and the diffieulties which they hal
to encounter in collecting their money.; but a good
result had been effected, for the farmers had now gene-
ra!ly adopted the course of sowing winter wheat, which
was of good quality, grew abundantly, and brought
a ready price. Fortunately since this change there
bad been a remarkably good harvest, and as soon as
it could be di.pused of the company would, no doubt,
receive a sum suffi lent to compensate for former
deficiencies in their income. In the United States
the harvest had been very indifferent, and a good
market would probably be found there for
Canadian wheat, fs.ir the Americans would find
that by mixing it with theirs, a better quality
of fl Jur would be produced. The company
were not in possession of funds to pay a dividend, but
they hoped that within a reasonably short space of
time they would be in the receipt of a considerable
sum; and they thought it right, therefore, to recom-
mend the continuance of the usual dividend, at the
rate of 61. per cent. for the year.
Mr. ANDERTON said, as they would require 20,0001
for the dividend, it was material they should consider
where the sum was to come from. The number of
sales of land had very much decreased, and in pro-
portion as the sales declined did they glut the market
with leases. If they went on granting leases with
the option of purchasing after a certain number of
years, it would be about 1890 before they
relapsed and the capital of the proprietors
was redeemed. They had been in existence twenty-
five years, and it appeared pretty clear that fifty
years more must pass befbre their affairs would be
brought to a termination, so that their posterity only
would receive the benefit of a heavy and increasing
capital. Toe period had now arrived when it was
most imperatively necsssary to reeise their system of
leasing. By this time he had hoped that, in addition
to the six per cent., they were creating a fund by
which their capital might be redeemed.
The CHAIRMAN was understood to state that the
dividend would be pail out of advances obtained from
their bankers in amiticipation of the receipts fur the
List six m niths. The directors considered the leasing
vit:s the most beneficial mode they could adapt to
dispose of lands in such a colony as Canada, because, if
at the end of the term the tenant ceased to occupy
the land would be much increased in value by cultiva-
tion, and should he be disposed to purchase its full
value would be required.
Mr. ANDERTON expressed himself satisfied with
the explanation.
After seine discussion, a motion agreeing to a
dividend at the rate of six per cent., payable in
January, was agreed to, and after a vote of thanks
to the Chairman, the court separated.

SUPERSTITION AND QUACKERY.
An extraordinary development of the existence of
superstition and quackery has just taken place in the
course of the proceedings of an inquest held on the
body of a child at East Dean, Gloucestershire. It
seems that the children of a shoemaker,
named Haynes were playing together, when
one of them, aged four years, named
Louisa, put the tongs into the fire, heated
them, and then wantonly seiz3d her younger sister,
Emma, with them by the neck, thereby inflicting two
very severe burns. The children-were left in the care
of an elder brother, who did not perceive the inten-
tions of his mischievous sister until too late -to prevent
them. Flour, linseed oil, and lime water, were ap-
plied to the burns, and for -four days the child's
wounds were healing in a satisfactory manner,
when, by the advice of some old women in the
neighbourhood, the parents of the child suffered a
Mrs. Milling, living near, to apply an ointment
spread upon cabbage-leaves to the wounds, in lieu of
the previous application of linseed oil, &c. This had
the effect of creating considerable local inflammation ;
and, after two days, the cabbage- leaves were removed
and another quack doctress was allowed to practise
upon the little sufferer. The second woman, whose
name is Jane Yemen, and who lives at Cinderford,
in the Dean Forest, and who professed to have cured
many people by the application of an ointment and
pronouncing a mysterious charm," got her sister,
Ann Bradley, to prepare the salve, which she (Ye-
man) applied, at the same time muttering the follow-
ing charm, as she called it, in a peculiar oialect :
" Three angels come out of the whoxt;
One cries Fire;' another Frost?
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
The poor child gradually got worse. The inflam
oration and sloughing of the wounds increased, but
the infatuated parents believing in the supernatural
powers of the woman (Yetnan), and putting implicit
faith in the pronounced charm, suffered their off.
spring to linger in torture for five days longer, when
death came to her release. Medical assistance was
at band, and might readily have been obtained
at any time, but the ignorant parents refused to call
for it, and the child died in consequence. Of course,
when the facts came to the knowledge of the authori-
ties, a coroner's inquest was held, and, after one
adjournment of the jury, who hesitated whether it
was not their duty to find a verdict of manslaughter
against Yeman, Bradley, and Milling, returned
a special and lengthy verdict, finding, "That Ann
Milling had prescribed a dangerous and rash remedy,
and was otherwise guilty of negligence." They
also found " that Yeman was rash in relying on the
ointment applied by her, and in her impious and
presumptuous charm ;" and also in prohibiting the
parents calling in medical advice at a time when the
deceased was in danger and gradually sinking.
Lastly, they found that " Although the conduct of
Jane Milling and Ann Yemen amounted to great and
serious culpability, rashness, and negligence, yet the
same does not, in our opinion, amount to a legally
criminal and felonious culpability, rashness, and
negligence." The jury also expressed their
opinion that it was the duty of the parents to
have had recourse to better assistance, and to the
easily available medical assistance is their immediate
neighbourhood, and they expressed.a hope that the
result of the investigation would lead to a discon-
tinuance of the system of quackery, which prevailed
to a considerable extent in the neighbourhood of the
Forest of Dean.

IMPROVEMENTS IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.--In
these new works the Honourable Commissioners
would seem to have taken seriously in hand the Augear
task of purifying the Serpentine. In the first place
they have cleared oat the feetid bed which the pre
viously ill-arranged sewage system at the head of
that piece of water had so deeply deposited. With
the progress of that operation frequenters of
the gardens have been familiar. Their next and more
recent proceedings have been to bring a supply of pure
water (fat them if they please, say purior etectro) to the
rustic bridge head at the Bayswater end by a line of
metal pipe communicating with the Artesian well at
Charing-cross. This, together with a contribution from
the Chelsea water-works, which have hitherto given that
strange caricature of a fountain—by which this scene has
bees, but is no longer, disfigured—its aquatic gush, wilt
replenish fur tf.e future our metropolitan lakelet.
Their united current will be brought through the arch
ways of the bridge—and as their volume cannot, at best,
be very copious, its flow being unfortunately a drain
incessant expenditure, measures seem to have bren judi-
ciously taken to give it as much strong h as possible.
These consist in raising the Led where the waters
break forth by a gradual ascent to the mouth of the
arches, and, at the same time, drawing in the
hank: on each !MP, till narroe ed to the bra
adth
of the bridge. This is at once simple and obviously
effective. The change, has, however, to be made as 3et
complete by ornamental details ; in which we trust that
the Honourable Commissioners, moving, as they now are,
original design with
spontaneously in the right direction, will not be found
wanting.
What has been done tends, pro Canto, to com-
plete the
which this regal domain
was laid out, in which stateliness and inartificial beauty
—the rich in general effect, the beautiful to closer Bern-
tin) —were happily intended to be combined.—. Architect
and Building Operative.
REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH NOTTS —lt Is said
that, in consequence of the ill-health of Mr. Bromley, a
vacancy will shortly be declared in the representation of
this division of the county. Several candidates in the
Protectionist interest are already talked of.

GUILDHALL.
Daniel Blackmon, of No. 30, Fleet-lane, shc2-
maker, was further examined before Sir Peter Laurie,
on a charge of stabbing, with intent to murder, Henry
Alexander Mattham, No. 213, on Sunday week. The
following additional evidence was then produced :
Mr. John Abernethy Kingdon said—l am house-
surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The wounded
policeman was brought to the house on Sunday night,
about a. quarter to 12 o'clock. I examined him, and
found he was in a very faint state from a punctured
wound which had penetrated the abdomen about two
inches above the navel on the left side. The wound
was about five-eighths of an inch in length, and nearly
two inches in depth. It did not penetrate perfectly
straight, but glanced in an oblique direction. The
blow did not wound any of the organs in the cavity of
the abdomen, although it had a very dangerous ap-
pearance. It was very likely that the wound wia•
inflicted by such an instrument as the knife produced.
"The knife was a shoemaker's knife, with a blade from
two and a half inches to three inches long. It was
slightly bent.
Sir Y. LAURIE—Is the policeman in a fit state to
attend and give evidence ? Mr. Kingdon—He is not.
Sir P. LAURIE—HOW long do you think it will be
before he can do so? Mr. Kingdon—Probably in
about a week's time.
Sergeant Harding said there were the two gentle-
men who first of all helped the wounded man, arta
also others present to give evidence.
Sir P. LAURIE—Then we, will take their evidence.
Mr. Thomas Ridley, of No. 6, Portland-place,
Edgware-road, stated that he was crossing from New-
gate-street to Skinner-street, about half-dast eleven
o'clock on Sunday night, when be heard a policeman
call out, " Murder, murder, I am stabbed." He
instantly went up to the officer, who said, " For God's
sake take me to a doctor's." Witness put his right
arm under the officer's left, and he directed witness to
a surgeon's at the corner. At that moment a police •
man came up and put the wounded man into a cab,
and drove off to the hospital, after which witness left
his address .at the station-house, and then found his
coat, trousers, and hands covered with blood.
Mr. John Hill, of No. 11, Canterbury-place,
florsemonger-lane, stated that he was in the neigh-
bourhood of the Old Bailey on last Sunday night,
when his attention was arrested by the cry of
"Murder," and the springing of a rattle. He im-
mediately went to the spot, at the north end of the
Old Bailey, and saw the wounded man staggering in
the street. Ile asked him where he was stabbed,
when the prisoner, who was standing on the footway,
instantly called out, "I did it, I did it." Witness
assisted in taking the officer to the hospital, and when
he gave his address he saw blood over his clothes and
hands.

Some other corroborative evidence having been
given, the prisoner was remanded for a week.
THAMES.
James Balls and William Jones, both farriers,
were charged with robbing Mr. Joseph Calvert, a
master scavenger, and attempting to murder him.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor
that he was passing Balls' house, adjoining the Re-
gent's Canal, when he was invited in to drink with
Balls and Jones. That he was given some liquor
out of a bottle which stupified him ; that he then
asked his way into the yard, and was shown out by