The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-07 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

James David White, an attorney's clerk, aged twenty-one
was indicted for forging and uttering a cheque or order for
the payment of the sum of 2121., with intent to defraud
W. Osbaldeston, Esq.. to whom he was a servant.
The prosecutor was called, when he stated that the pri-
soner had been in his employ six years, and down to the
present transaction his conduct had been unexceptionable.
Several gentlemen (many being in attendance) deposed
to the good character of the young man, and the high re-
spectability of his family and connexions.
Mr. Justice PATTERSON said that the Court had no dis-
cretion but to sentence the prisoner to transportation for
life. He supposed, however, that the object of giving that
evidence was that it might find its way to a higher quarter
where power existed to mitigate the punishment.
Eliza Smith, a well-dressed young woman, was indicted
for stealing a 101. bank-note, a watch, four rings, and other
articles of jewellery, value 151., the property of Charles
Topliss, in the dwelling-house of William Burrows.
It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutor, that he
occupied apartments in the house of Mr. Burrows, and at
the time of the robbery his wife was on a visit in the
country. He met the prisoner in the street, and became
enamoured of her.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN.—And I suppose you took her
home as a substitute for your lawful wife ?—(Laughter.)
The prosecutor admitted that fact, and said they went to
bed in the regular way. When he awoke the next morn-
ing his companion had left him, after rifling his pockets and
rummaging the drawers, from whence she purloined the
money and articles named in the indictment. The 101. note
had not been recovered, but the other property had been
traced. He used every effort to apprehend the prisoner
but failed to do so for ten days, when he identified her.
Several pawnbrokers produced the watch, &c., which
were either pawned by the prisoner or by a person in her
presence.
The prisoner said the prosecutor had told a good many
untruths, and that was all she had to say.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The prosecutor applied for his expenses.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN—Sir, how dare you have the ef-
frontery to make such an application ? Stand down, Sir ;
and I hope your wife will be informed of your shameful
conduct.

AGES OF THE PRISONERS.
The following is a statement of the comparative ages of
,he prisoners for trial at the present Sessions :
Above 10 years, and under 20

20
30
40
50
60

Total

COACHING—ENGLISH and FRENCH.

BY NIMROD.

Gtifi Sporting Magazine.)
MY DEAR Ma. EDITOR—:tt Vttmt;eA,l writer has ad-
dressed me in your December Number—see d!tfttlr.signed
" A Dragsman"—on the interesting subject of coach a:dr
dents, expressing himself, as such writers alone can do, very
much to the purpose. The point we differ upon is not
worth notice—in fact, when looked into, there is no diffe-
rence between us—l stating the cause of broken axletrees
to be inefficient substance, and he, " the tremendous quan-
tity of
,goods, independent of passengers' luggage to be
carried,' alids a superincumbent weight, which, he says,
no axles in the world cad stand.' The last assertion,
however, is somewhat doubtful. How are the loads of our
road waggons and the ponderous French diligonces sup-
ported ? It is true the pace tells in axletrees, as well as in
horses ; but I never heard of an instance, though there
may be many—of a road waggon axletree breaking, nor
but one of that of a diligence, which I happened to see,
and gave you an account, stating also that it supported the
ponderous machine for nearly two miles after it was broken,
because it had a security which our axletrees have not.
But then comes the question, why have not our English
coaches this same " security," or at all events something
equal to it ? As to accidents from losing wheels, Ido not
go so far as " A Dragsman" does, in passing sentence of
transportation on proprietors of fast coaches who " use the
old linchpin in preference to screws ;" but I would recom-
.mend to juries to give such compensation for damages, oc-
casioned solely from their use, as would in the end cure
them of thus trifling with human life, for the sake of a very
small extra expense not worth consideration. They will
tell you they have two linchpins ; but if the principal one
breaks, or falls out, the second is not to be depended upon,
as the swag of the wheel breaks it, of which I have al-
ready given instances. Indeed, as all coaches, whose
wheels are not secured by screws, have them, the fact is at
once established by the several accidents we have lately
heard of from the loss of wheels—one, indeed, and a most
extraordinary one, last week only, in the North.
" A Dragsman," says a first-rate coach-builder and con-
tractor for pearly all the northern coaches, tells him, " it is
ridiculous attempting to put iron strong enough into the
fore axles, while they load the coaches as they now do,"
adding the consoling fact, that " what he uses is proved
doubly proved."* This being the case, then, there is no
other remedy than an Act of Parliament to restrict the
weight of a coach-load, as well as the height of its luggage,
for which we know an Act is now in operation, and has
been a little fortune to informers. But, to come at once
to the point, there should be some means resorted to, to pre-
vent a coach being upset in the event of an axletree giving
way, because, from the present rapid rate of travelling, and
the necessary high courage of the horses, the accident is
almost certain to be attended with fatal results—at all events
with broken bones, or contusions putting life to the hazard.
The idle wheels would at once afford the security, but
they are objected to on account of their weight, and perhaps
justly so. Yet I think something might be contrived to sup-
port a coach under such circumstances until the horses could
be stopped. Suppose, for example, a strong perpendicular iron
stay were to be affixed to each shoulder of the fore axletree—
the hinder one very rarely gives way—with a small cast-
iron roller at the bottom of it, somewhat similar to the
castor of a large dinner table ; would not—l ask the
question—such an instrument produce the desired effect?
As the roads now are, there being no obstacles to surmount,
the roller I speak of need not be many inches from the
ground ; but, indeed, if any obstacle were to present itself,
no inconvenience would arise from it, any more than from
the common wheel, as it would turn on its axle. I can
only say, were a coach to be announced as being made
secure against the dangers of broken axletrees and the
loss of wheels, I would answer for its being preferred to
any other on its road. I have an account of many, but
wish I could name all the casualties of the last 20 years on
the road—from these two causes, for I think that the sum
total of fractures, amputations, and deaths, would form an
appalling amount, and show the necessity of a remedy
being found from some quarter.
About six weeks back I was called upon by Mr. —,
the greatest coach proprietor, I believe, in London, who was
on his return from Italy ; and he expressed a wish to have
some conversatien with me on a matter which so nearly
concerns himself : having, as he admitted, had his full
share, with his brother proprietors, of the evils arising
from accidents on the road, to which I had lately directed
the public attention, by my remarks at various times
in this Magazine. He gave me to understand that
he considered the cause of the axle-tree giving
way to be often attributable to the act of putting on the
shoulder at what is called welding heat ; and therefore af-
fecting the temperament of the arm on the one side of it,
and of the whole axle on the other, as far as its influence is
felt. It is certainly true, axle-trees generally break near to
the shoulder, because it is there that the greatest stress is
laid upon them ; but as shoulders can be, and often are,
beaten out of the bar-iron, at one and the same time that
the entire axle-tree is made, this objection is removeable.
My opinion is, that the fracture arises often from flaws in
the irbn, but principally from axle-trees not being made suf-
ficiently substantial to bear the superincumbent weight, and
the jars given to them by the coach coming suddenly in
contact with pavement or any other strongly resisting ob-
stacle.

By the way, I have read in the newspapers of the mira-
culous escape the passengers of that old-established drag,
the Leeds and London Rockingham, had lately by the
breaking of the reins. This is an accident which can
always be guarded against by common attention on the part
of proprietors, and therefore passengers ought to obtain
heavy damages for injury sustained from that cause. I
have more than once asserted, that it is neither in the power
of coachman or horses to break good reins by fair pulling.
It is by not observing the wearing points—at the head, or
back, terrets, or in the billets, that such accidents occur.
Nothing but horses falling down should be admitted as an
excuse for broken reins.

Now, then, for a bit of French coaching: On the last
day but one of the old year, business called me to the fine
but sombre old town of Dunkerque ; and as you know my
abhorrence of a Diligence, I need scarcely say that, with
a good hackney in my stable, I had no intention of being
conveyed thither in one of them, at somewhere about the
rate of a good pedestrian's shuffle. It has, however, been
justly remarked that, when we monnt a horse, we never
know how or where we are to dismount him—and such was
my case this day. On reaching Gravelines, just half way,
the rain drove me into the inn for shelter, and seeing no-
thing for it but a wetting, I awaited the arrival of the Lisle
Diligence, which I was told would deliver me at Dunkerque
precisely at five o'clock.
" Pray, Sir," said I to a French gentleman, who was
eating his dinner in a well-sanded room at the hotel in this
well-fortified little town, " at what hour will the Lisle Di-
ligence be here ?" " It must be here at three o'clock," was
his reply, " because it must be at Dunkerque—twelve
miles distant—at five, as the table d'hote dinner is served
exactly at that bour." No " must" in the case, thought I
to myself, and at half-past three it arrived. Well—after a
good quarter of an hour spent in changing horses, and in
jaw, off we went—myself seated in the back seat of the
Rotunda, and one of eight passengers. We had only four
horses, considered strength enough for a Diligence on good
pavement, which this is—and as they appeared to have
the use of their legs, I calculated, from the pace at which
they started, that we should arrive at Dunkerque
somewhere about what is called pudding-time. But,
alas! how vain and delusive are most human cal-
culations. We had not quite cleared the town when the
ponderous wheels ceased to turn on their axles. Full five
minutes elapsed, and I thought little of the delay. A rope
trace might have been four inches too long, or six inches
too short ; a rein might have snapped, for the only time I
ever travelled by this diligence before, a leader's rein
snapped short off, as the horses were ambling along at the
rate of five miles an hour, on good pave, and for the soul of
me I could not imagine what broke it, unless, like the two-
lengthened beam, it could not bear its own weight. But
guess my surprise, friend Editor, when, at the expiration
of these five minutes, the conducteur, or guard, as we call
him in England, started at a brisk trot up a long street,
and then vanished. Well—another five, and another five
'minutes elapsed, and no conductcur to be seen ; but at the
end of the seventeenth minute he arrived, accompanied by
a butcher, with something well packed in straw, which I
have reason to believe was a fresh-killed pig! Now all
this may appear very strange to English travellers who are
scarcely allowed time even to look at a pig in any shape,
much less to wait for his death ; but the strange part of the
story is yet to come. It is the almost incredible fact that
not a murmur escaped any one of the passengers durin,,
this unaccountable delay, whereas had they been English,'
instead of French and Flemish, as many damns would have
been bestowed on Monsieur le Conducteur and his pig as
there were spokes in the wheel of the machine in which
they were sitting.
Now comes the climax. At 10 minutes to six we ar-
rived from Dunkerque ; and myself and another passenger
were ushered to a dinner—a scanty one at best—which
about a dozen hungry persons had been at work at, for good
fifty minutes before our arrival. The result may be imagined.
A few cold scraps were put before us which we would not
eat, but which my fellow traveller—a stout Hibernian—de-
clared would have found ample stowage under his own waist-
coat with some room to spare. Such conduct as this is
too bad ; but don't let it be imagined that it is peculiar to
France! English innkeepers are for the most part shame-
lessly indifferent to the comfort of coach passengers, and
ought to be shown up for it oftener than they are. What
must a Frenchman think of the supper set before those of a
Dover night coach ? And 1 could never account for this
want of respect towards coach passengers ; as innkeepers
must be aware that some of the wealthiest of the Aristo-
proved? •
* Query-11°u'

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(di
omu
betr,clmi merchants of
of alltil
em nationsplit aa:4e
ioftenin
against inns in which they have been both negleetek.,
as
imposed upon. Neither are all coachmen so respect' ,
Payers-- v"v_r
they should be to their passengers—outside ones in I:',z_ritelli,
cular, although they are generally the best
is` dot, only in bad taste, but to their loss ; and th 9-, n.eline a
know wiltd they have got about their coaches. ')
i to
what you are abeta vvith your outsides," said I, one "Y, ~
tli :im: book, ,t,,1016Ei:
e You have
Jack Peers, as the Nimrod was leaving town.
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pc .
yaeaWr,eltsil,iols(74uhirheeindothn,et gloar inifeehiota:r,d worth ten thousand 11,.
awake to him, and
might have to thank mefellov-tra:
As I liked the appearance of my Hibernian
yeller, we drew our chairs together after dinnr, and Wl_
some chat. I found he was a large occupier of land, :
breeder of horses, and a sportsman, and a near neighbohuo
of my old friend, Mr. James Smith Barry, of whom
_.
gave a most favourable account amongst other part.
still better
culars, that he had a new team of grays,
for"T asa
n 0 f
extrac
~ you take :It
than the old ones. " I suppose," said I,
Sporting Magazine." "I do not," he said ;" I left: 1,,
it.
off :about a year after Nimrod ceased to write indef
By the word " it" I perceived be had never card a 4
the " New Magazine," which he said he should arderk;
soon as he arrived in Ireland. We parted with a 'lll, 3,,a
of the hand ; and, after the manner of Irishmen, wt' -
Cor.lt: ,
invitation to his house, if ever I visited the county of
On New Year's morning
one hour after its time, which the waiter a slight
hotel prepared me for, as there had been a slit',
fall of snow in the night, and frost. We bad (.),1
I was in the diligence ag-I"__
one wheeler and one leader down, in the twelve 1111,1,e,9_
which was less than I expected from the miser :7,
way in which the horses of these drags are put togetnsel
never feeling support from the rein till it is of little a'
to them. The wheeler was dragged some distance
the other horses could be pulled up, but fortunately 085
not injured. Now I have a word to say to my countrynnt
which the above remarks remind me of. It has boa it
contemplation to convey our mails in two-horse drags. _
weathe''
won't do. Two horses cannot contend against
general'
The Paris and Calais two-horse mails keep time
but a f d bk I ' l h 1 °°s-t
ew ays ac met it at three o'c oc ,w en is
to have met it at eleven. It had been a rough night' it 0
true, but nothing that would have delayed our four-11°,0.v
mails five minutes. I also saw one of the diligences aro, e,
at Calais at .six, p.m., which should have arrived at eigni:
a.m. But these machines cannot make way against a big
wind with the aid of any reasonable horse-power, nor 00 be
horses be made to face rough weather, in the comparative I
powerless manner in which they are driven. be
beforre
I was surprised to hear my Irish fellow-traveller say
er
was fourteen hours in a night coach from London to Day f
—from six in the evening to eight the next ranzg.
What must Frenchmen think of this, after all our wOO%
of quick travelling ? That Dover night-work is a nationen
disgrace. There is no excuse for such delay, and in open
weather, too, when the foothold on the hills is good, as "
the case here. Surely this wants reform.
. But to return to New Year's day. The road this Orin;
mg was all alive ; that is to say, the public houses °°,ti lg
road were alive, for they were all full of people eaPAlynt
the happy combination of smoking and drinking. Arn- 'see
I thought this rather a queer start of a fresh year, 'or 01
temperate a people as the Freneh are ; as some of them
were sprung at this early period of the day—fron iiiiiiebei••
eleven ! And then to see the men kissing each t;‘,.u..
IWell, there is no harm in this, that I know of; Pa,"„,li..
arly in a public road ; on the contrary, there is ni,sulrt
city about it somewhat indicative of benevolence' of a •
A three days' beard, however, must be a sorry excliftnge
see
fmtohrneitdhle softvv haennd downychheerekhoeffnareowsNhaene.ww.!,_Then, t° t i g
change that had taken place in the Gravelines 06"- --(1
in wretebe
outl.suppose she also expected to be kissed—she
previous dimensions
dishabille, and in wooden shoes. Year's inerail'fi
takenin was tOgices
all sleeves
of her
Ipnerssloionr,tl having
now have exclaimed with Ovid— . __

" -Pars minima est ipsa puella sui."
Yours, evserbiliciop.

Calais, 1836.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE•,

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT TO SUS'
CUP
TOM-HOUSE, APRIL 6. guy'
The Endraght, Hunt, from Amsterdam: Grasso vonfiniono
ster, Ulricks, Amsterdam; Active, Lath, Rostock; '1
ostoot
Winter, Harlingen ; Fame, Hollman, Harlingen; l','sbigen,
Stiles, Memel; Mathilda, Voltz, Memel; Prover, L'lburg ;
Copenhagen ; Bertha, Schmidt, Pillau and Kon.irstolt.
Margaret, Pitkethly, Mogadore ; Gjertinde, Frederic 6.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOAING, Charles'
The Thomas Bennett, Hayne, for New York and roe
ton; Joshua Carroll, Toby, Swan River ; Diana,
Rees'
Coast and Acra ; Caleb Angus, Laurence, Honuras' 6.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. Valencia
The Nora Signora de Beyona, De Salvia, for 14pe-
Alicant, and Barcelona; Britannia, Belens, Guernsey'
well, Dales, Rochfort and Quebec; Active, Snell, FaY!"hon •
Michael's, and Terceira ; Will-o'-the-Wisp, Clark, L's,," ft:
Eliza Stewart, Millar, Canton and Lintin,• Liberty, Ow' c
son, Stettin; Pink, Whituall, Dunkirk; Christine, Tborss
Philadelphia.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Arm'. 6''
The Albion, Nixon, for Quebec; Blenheim, Will;
Quebec; Orion, Adamson, Riga; Jollenes, Dunforddieme
tor,
Fox, Lindsay, Gottenburg; Fanny, Lane, Quebec; Mell
punns, Quebec.

ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, APRIL 5.
The England, Waite, from New York; Jumna, Tetbear
ton, Canton ; Lady of the Lake, Banks, Lisbon ; e
cb,
Holmes, Savannah; Harriet, Moble; Orange PT,k.
Adams, St. Michael's; Aurora, Tuscan, St. Domingo; 1a

son, Jackson, Bermuda.ETERED FOR LOADING, APRIL 5. Cow.
The Kirkman Finlay, for Bombay ; Pilot, Davies? Der..
stantinople and Smyna ; Betty and Jenny, Qualtrougn• Hope,
byhaven ; Matilda, Hodgson, Genoa and Leghorn'
aiding,
M'Cullum, Hobart Town and Sydney; Louisa, SPau ion
Naples and Messina ; Aurora, Roales, Montreal • rbec;
George, Friend, Quebec ; Wakefield, Pashleh 'Que
Cato, Crossman, Quebec.
CLEARED OUTWARDS, APRIL b. ~,1,13;
The Pearl, Cove, for Algiers; Johanna, Carl, fiallihu„-g—eoo;
Blucher, Horn, Trinidad ; Union, Dougall, CoPen"ft
Prince of Orange, Friends, Quebec ; Lord CantrieZtloveri
Trough, Quebec ; Amity, Hodless, Grenada ; Star, 'wick ;
New York ; Fenwick Keating, St. John's, New 13runsEileor
Norval, Humphreys, St. John's, New Brunswick ;ich' ers;
Ward, Quebec ; Nama, Quebec ; Lynx, Rider, St.
San Jose, Cadiz.
TELEGRAPHED. NOY
Off Great Ornishead, inward bound, Scipio, fro
Orleans ; Maria, British brig, in want of a pilot. rIV
The Tweed for Bombay has returned into do'''. f
tb
Ann, for London, has put back, having been foul of one 0
buoys, and unshipped her rudder.

The Eleanor, Mann, EASTfrom ItNheD poifn9'
in the Feb.;
sailed 28th Oct., Cape 22d Jan., and St. Helena 61 'lea
Princess Charlotte, M`Keen, from Bombay, at Liverpool, ssoloul
Mltiritius
11th Nov., Alleppy 30th, and St. Helena Bth. Fe.b..•
4,;.hitr0.64.,
Wells, Stanwood, from Manilla, ff Dover, sailed Ivi rob
and St. Helena 25th Jan., Eliza, Harris, from the Mnti.isfis'
ato Bristol, sailed 6th Jan.; Elizabeth, Felkens, fro '11„11-12t11
Feb.; Dover (for Rotterdam), sailed and St. kieLe---Folir
' Warblington, Crosby, from the Mauritius off rgs-
stone, sailed 13th Dec., passed St. Helena 26th 'Jan' pot,
eorge
senger per Princess Charlotte, from Bombay--G
Say, Bombay Establishment. 27+ froesA
ARRIVALS AT TIIE MAURITIUS —The Alary,,Nguttamial/;;
Algoa Bay ; Samuel Brown, Nov. 28, from
Madras; Edmond Castle, ov. 30, from Calcutta ;
Jan. 4, from London and Madeira. proicth
a „nu 1 •
DEPARTURE FROM TNE MAURITIUS.—The N-A-- -e, st On
foreua Pondicherry, and put back Bth January, having '6'
mizen mast in a hurricane. it LW
ARRIVAL AT ALLEPPY.—The Carnatic, Nov. 23, fr° r, foto
don and Cape; on the 9th Oct. fell in with the Ma
laba
London to Bombay, and kept company ten clays-
bay to Cork, &c., lat. 35. S., frail! DOW
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Hero of Malown, ~,„,g sr-
long. 31. E., Y
rived at Bristol. maurithl9
CASUALTIES.-711e
Arcturus, from London to the i ~„, boat,
and Ceylon, put into Plymouth with loss of rudder, sails, , put
and bulwarks. The Emma, from Liverpool to 13003P3)/ her
into Falmouth 31st March, and must discharge PtScuttos
cargo. The Mary Ann, Webb, from Liverpool to
put into Cowes with damage.
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with accurately finished jewelled m ts Gold case 'Rev
in Silver cases, price Five Guineas each ' each ;or in aker,
Nine Guineas each, at " I. COX SAVORY'S, Watcbm
b the FJ..--,
ler, and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London.
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surgeon, Madras Army, to Sarah youngest daughter of
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Dyson, Esq. surq);.'
On the 2d inst., at St. Matthew's Church, 13,6„91ritter of •I‘i
Mr. W. Frackleton, of West Brixton, to Agnes, cia—•
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Majesty's ship " Imaum," aged 19, John James, so" ~f
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