The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-02 00:00:00

TO DR. LINDLEY.

My complaint is, that the Council have compromised the honour
and importance of the Society.
First, by publishing a most inefficient and improper circular,
in which the public was invited to exhibit productions for cer-
tain prizes, and which list betrayed a total want of knowledge on
the part of the framers, and by forbidding any productions to be
placed on the tables, except such as were mentioned in the cir-
cular ; and, secondly:by, allowing the respective merits of the pro-
ductions to be decided either by incompetent or partial persons;
and by withholding the prizes promised for the best productions,
and thus acting dishonestly to the competitors.
Sir, I would pass over the first charge lightly, because the
greater part of the mischief lay in one single paragraph, which
paragraph forbade any production to be placed on the table except
those mentioned in the list, a measure which banished from the
exhibition very many of the most interesting fruits, flowers, and
plants ; for instance, strawberries, cherries, apples, pears, plums,
gooseberries, oranges, shaddock, currants, &c., hardy rhododer.-
(irons, tulips, ranunculuses, dahlias, all hardy annuals, and in fact
every othor production not mentioned in the list. The paragraph
cannot be mistaken.

....
N.B. "No EXHIBITION CAN BE PLACED ON THE TABLES
UNLESS THEY BELONG TO SOME ONE OR OTHER OF THE
CLASSES ABOVE DESCRIBED." . .

Thus, I have in a few words called your atttention to that cir-
cular, which betrays, upon the face of it, the incompetence of the
parties who concocted it. Productions in great number were
placed on the tables, belonging to none of the classes above enu-
merated, and prizes were actually given for such productions.
For evidence to prove the second charge, I will appeal to the
visiters, to your own gardeners, or to any nurseryman among all
who have attended the exhibitions. If you desire cases, they will
cite them, for there are plenty.
There were cases in which the medals were withheld unjustly
there were case• when silver ones were substituted for gold ones—
there were gross cases of ignorance or favouritism in the judgments
—and there was universal disgust at the novel and disgraceful mode
of controlling the judges, by the deputation of the Council.
, Yours, &c.
AN ORIGINAL FELLOW OF THE HORTICUL-
TURAL AND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES.

These Letters are followed by several others addressed to the
Editor of the " Horticultural Journal," complaining of individual
cases of unfairness; among these, one from Mr. Glenny, from which
we take the following passage :
But, Sir, to show that so far as it was safe, I was to be curtailed,
and was curtailed, I have the most unquestionable authority for
saying, that I had a right to the gold medal for the best six single
specimens of stove and greenhouse plants. I had a right to the
large silver medal for twenty varieties of China and noisette roses,
all of which were exhibited on standard and dwarf plants : and I
had a right to the medal for hardy azaleas, because I was the only
person who exhibited them, according to the circular. Now, these

three medals were withheld.
Upon these points, I have the opinions of the best cultivators in
the kingdom ; for being now quite inured to tfie illiberality and in-
justice of the Horticultural Society, and fully prepared to expe-
rience it, I never troubled myself about it, until the injustice was
pointed out.

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
GEO. GENNY, S.
We leave our readers to draw their own conclusions.

His Grace the Duke of Bedford has signified his
intention of presenting to the Russell Institution Haydons
painting of Xenophon. The Noble Duke is the Patron, and
Lord John Russell the President, of the Institution.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—An especial Grand
Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of England has been
convened to be held at the Freemasons'-hall, Great Queen-
street, on Tuesday, the Bth inst., for the purpose of consider-
ing an Address to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in
terms of congratulation on the success of the operation which
has recently been performed on his Royal Highness, and which
has been the cause of great satisfaction to all classes of per-
sons throughout the kingdom.

Twenty years have elapsed since Sir Nathaniel
William Wraxall had the temerity to publish the " Memoirs
of My Own Time," which excited so much and such power-
ful animosity against the revealer of intrigue, the relater of
anecdote, and the free sketcher of character. The prosecu-
tion and persecution to which he was subjected by his deter-
mination to " speak his mind," and put the public in posses-
sion of facts and fictions, moral, political, literary, and fashion-
able, which he had picked up in his career, are detailed in the
introduction to the present volumes. The only commotion
they will excite will be of eagerness to procure them for the
sake of amusement, which they are so calculated to afford.
Amongst our own readers especially, Sir Nathaniel will afford,
we hope, a cordial welcome, and certainly they will find in
him an indefatigable entertainer. This is the character that
may fairly be given of our courtly chronicler ; he saw all that
was to be seen—remembered all he saw—and relates all he re-
members. We have not time to run through the three vo-
lumes, story by story ; nor is it possible to quote at any length
this week ; but the " Memoirs" we commend as an unfailing
and delicately seasoned dish for th© lovers of anecdote, inci-
dent, fashion, philosophy, character, personal and political, and
chit-chat upon everything and everybody of note that has
" happened to happen" in the last century. —Court Journal.
PRESERVING PASTE.—Paste made by putting
acetate, or sugar of lead, into it, instead of the old way of
mixing it with alum, keeps it from moulding, and quite moist
for months together.—Neto Monthly Magazine.

NEW LAMP.—A lamp of a new construction,
which describes a circle of light of about thirty feet in diametro
of the apparent intensity of sunshine, showing the objects within
its sphere as distinctly as on the table of a camera obscura, has
been erected at the head of the inclined plane in St. Leonard's
depot. Its object is to enable the engine-men to a distinct view
of the inclined ropes during the night, and this has been fully at-
tained. The lamp consists of an argand burner placed in the
focus of a large speculum of a peculiar form, by which the
whole light is distributed just on the space where it is re-
quired ; it is computed that the light on the above space
is equal
to that of twenty-five or thirty similar burners in
common lamps. A lamp of this kind we have no doubt
would be useful for other purposes ; it appears to us that the
largest assembly-room might be brilliantly lighted by one placed
at each end of the room, and one would be sufficient to light
the stage of a theatre. The cost of this one is said to be
about 2001., but we. understand it saves an annual expense of
about half that sum. The inventor is a Mr. Rankin, and b?
names it the Conoidal lamp—probably because the light Is
thrown from it in the form of a cone.—Caledonian Mercury.

KING'S BENCH.-FRIDAY.

THE KING V. HUNTER, GARDNER, WRIGHT, THOMAS AND

ELIZABETH WORTS.

This was an indictment against the defendants for con-
spiring to defraud one William Wilkinson out of a large
sum of money, by fraudulently representing that a rever-
sionary interest belonging to the wife of Gardner, was un-
ncumbered when it was charged with the payment of se-
veral sums of money ; and, secondly, with fraudulently re-
presenting Elizabeth Worts to be the wife of Gardner.

- The defendants had pleaded " Not Guilty."
Mr. THESSIGER stated that the prosecutor was an inn-
keeper residing at Alresford, in Hampshire, and the fraud
*vas attempted to be committed under the pretence of se-
curing to him an annuity on a fund which consisted of the
reversionary interest of the wife of Gardner, expectant on
the death of her mother, Mrs. Graham, that fund being over-
charged with incumbrances at the time. Some short time
before this fraud was committed, Gardner was confined itr
the King's Bench prison for debt, and was living there
with a woman named Elizabeth Worts, he having for
some time separated himself from his wife. Mrs. Gardner
was, under the will of her uncle, Mr. Moser, entitled to
one-fifth part of the sum of 7,7701. in the 3i per Cents.,
but her interest therein was reversionary, being expectant
on the death of her mother. On.the 2d of August, 1834,
this fraud was committed.

Lord DENMAN, after hearing evidence, summed up the
case, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all
the defendants, except Elizabeth Worts, but recommended
Wright to the merciful consideration of the Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Yesterday the Loan, MAYOS adjudicated in a case o
very considerable importance to those who are interested
in the navigation of the River Thames. The decision,
it is calculated, will have a most beneficial effect in causing
the removal of the many impediments which have been
every hour presenting themselves amongst the crowded
shipping.
Mr. Thomas Brocklebank, acting-manager of the Ge-
neral Steam Navigation Company, and Mr. Henry Whit-
tingham, Captain of the City of Hamburgh steam-boat, be-
longing to that Company, appeared before his Lordship,
upon a complaint that the vessel had obstructed the navi-
gat ion of the river, and had not been removed after notice
given to that effect by one of the Harbourmasters, whereby
certain penalties are claimed, as incurred under the provi-
sions of the Acts for regulating the port of London.
Mr. Ryland, upon th part of the City anthorities, stated
that on the 20th of May last the City of Hamburg steam-
boat was lying off the Custom-house, in a situation to ob-
struct the navigation of the river, and Captain Rowland,
one of the Harbourmasters, at eleven o'clock in the fore-
noon of that day, put a notice on board, requiring that
the vessel should be removed to the lower steam-boat tier
within three hours. The vessel was not moved as required ;
but, on the contrary, remained for several hours after the
time expressed in the notice, whereby the owners of the
vessel had become liable to pay 51. for every hour she so
remained after the time expressed in the notice, according
to the provisions of the 10th George IV., cap. 124.
Mr. Charles Philips, for the Company, said, that as
there was no dispute about the facts of the case, he consi-
dered it to be unnecessary to go into evidence. He would
admit that the steam-boat had been in the situation de-
scribed ; that the notice had been put on board ; and that
the vessel had not been removed till she sailed next morn-
ing on her voyage to Harnburgh. He contended, however,
that by the by-laws a vessel could remain for twelve hours
after notice from the Harbourmaster.

The LORD MAYOR said the only question was whether
the vessel could have been removed within the time
specified?
One witness on the part of the Company, and Captain
Rowland, were examined on this point, and
The LORD MAYOR was satisfied that the charge was
established ; but as he hoped that the object sought would
be obtained by the conviction, and being satisfied that the
General Steam Navigation Company would do everything
in their power to conform to the regulations, he thought it
would be sufficient to convict in the lowest penalty. His
Lordship mitigated the penalty to 50s. accordingly. Had
the whole of the penalties been sought, the defendant
would have had to pay the sum of 301., besides the costs
of the prosecution.

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