The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

THE FOOD OF A LIFETIME.

Take seventy years of the life of an epicure, beyond
which age many of that class of bon vivants arrive,
and even above eighty, still in the full enjoyment of
degustation, &c. (For example, Talleyrand, Camba-
ceres,:Lord Septon, &c.) If the first of the said epicures,
when entering on the tenth spring of his extraordinary
career, had been placed on an eminence—say, the top
of Primrose-hill, and had had exhibited before his
infantine eyes the enormous quantity of food his
then insignificant person would destroy before he
attained his seventy-first year—first, he would
believe it must be a delusion ; then, secondly, he
would inquire where the money could come from
to purchase so much luxurious extravagance ? 13ut
here I shall leave the pecuniary expenses on one side,
which a man of wealth can easily surmount when
required. So now, dearest, for the extraordinary fact;
imagine on the top of the above-mentioned hill a
rush-light of a boy just entering his tenth-yea!,
surrounded with the recherché provision and deli-
cacies claimed by his rank and wealth, taking
merely the medium consumption of his daily meals.
By closely calculating he would be surrounded
and gazed at by the following number of quad-
rupeds, birds, fishes, &c.—by no less than 30 oxen,
200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs; in poultry,
1,200 fowls, 300 turkeys, 150 geese, 400 ducklings,
263 pigeons, 1,400 partridges, pheasants, and grouse.;
600 woodcocks and snipes ; 600 wild ducks, widgeon
and teal ; 450 plovers, ruffes, and reeves ; 800
quails, ortolans, and dotterels, and a few guillemots
and other foreign birds; also 500 hares and rabbits,
43 deer, 120 Guinea fowl, 10 peacocks, and 360
wild fowl. In the way of fish, 120 turbot, 140
sal~xo.n, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 mackerel, 300
whitings, 800 soles and slips, 400 flounders, 400 red
mullet, 200 eels, 150 haddocks, 400 herrings, 5,000
smelts, and some hundred thousand of those delicious
silvery white-bait, besides a few hundred species of
fresh-water fishes. In shell-fish, 20 turtle, 30,000
oysters,l,soo lobsters or crabs, 300,000 prawns, shrimps,
sardines, and anchovies. In the way of fruit, about
5001bs. of grapes, 3501b5. of pineapples, 600 peaches,
1,400 apricots, 240 melons, and some hundred thou-
sand plums, greengages, apples, pears; and some
millions of cherries, strawberries, raspberries, cur-
rants, mulberries, and an abundance of other small
fruit, viz., walnuts, chestnuts, dry figs, and plums. In
vegetables of all kind 5,5,475 pounds weight, and about
2,4341 pounds of butter, 684 pounds of cheese,
21,000 eggs, 180 ditto plovers. Of bread, 41 tons,
half a ton of salt and pepper, near 2f tons of sugar;
and, if he had happened to be a covetous boy, he
could have formed a fortification or moat round

the said hill with the liquids he would have to par-
take of to facilitate the digestion of the above-named
provisions, which would amount to no less than
11,6781 gallons, which may be taken as follows :-
49 hogsheads of wine, 1,3681 gallons of beer, 584
gallons of spirits, 342 liquor, 2,3941 gallons of coffee,
cocoa, tea, &c., and 304 gallons of milk, 2,736 gallons
of water, all of which would actually protect him and
his anticipated property from any young thief or
fellow-schoolboy, like Alexandre Dumas had protested
Dante and his immense treasure from the pirates in
his island of Monte Christo. You now, dearest,
fancy I am exaggerating in every way ; but, to
convince you, and to prevent you puzzling your
brain to no purpose, I also: enclose you a medium
scale of the regular meals of the day, from which
I have taken my basis, and in sixty years it amounts
to no less than 33 tons weight of meat, farinaceous
food and vegetables, &c., out of which I have named
in detail the probable delicacies that would be
selected by an epicure through life.—Seyer's Modern
Housewife.

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TERMINATION OF TUB LONG VACATION.—To day
(Wednesday) the long vacation terminates, when the
several law offices will be opened for filing declarations
and other matters in actions brought in the superior
courts. From the 10th of August to the 24th of October
there is a cessation of law proceedings, save the issuing
of writs of summons at the commencement of a cause
and executions on judgment signed. Term begins on
Friday week. The retirement of Lord Denman on
account of ill-health is again rumoured in the profession.
COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON. A special
meeting of this company was held at the offices, in
Lothbury, yesterday, when Mr. Hunter was added to the
direction.

The power of awakening and keeping alive a
general interest is ono talent among many which may be
envied. Every richly-gifted person has received with his
rare gifts the obligation to make them effective in the
widest possible circle. If he does not do so he is hoard-
ing up his treasure, whether it bo gold or talents.—
Eliza Cook' Journal.

LAW IN TEL LIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 23.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EVANS )

An application was made under the new Act on a
petition for adjudication (which is now substituted
for a fiat) against a trader who had been in business
for four months only.
The solicitor for the petitioning creditor called the
attention of the Court to the 55th clause, by which
the persons therein enumerated are to be deemed
traders, liable to become bankrupt, and in which there
is no restriction as respects the period of their carry-
ing on business.
The 89th section, however, enacts that the petition
shall be in the form mentioned in the schedule M,
supported by affidavits ; and in reference to the form,
it will be found to apply only to traders who have
resided or carried on business for six months imme-
diately preceding the date of the petition within the
district of the court in which the petition is presented.
In the case before the Court the trader had only been
in business for four months.

The COMMISSIONER inquired whether the trader
had resided within the district for six months preced-
ing the petition, and being answered in the affirma-
tive, he directed the petition to be altered by the in-
sertion of that fact, and the omission of the statement
as to carrying on business.
The SOLICITOR stated it was important to know
whether his Honour would have adjudicated in case
the bankrupt had not resided or carried on business
for the six months within the district.

The COMMISSIONER refused, however, to give any
opinion, saying he would not take upon himself to
decide more than he was compelled under the Act.
The alteration was accordingly made, without any
decision of this important question.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD COURT.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.—In the course of yes-
terday the foreman of the grand jury, accompanied
by several of his brother jurors, entered the court
and applied to the Recorder to be permitted to avail
themselves of the services of the Solicitor to the Trea-
sury, as they were about to enter upon an investiga-
tion of this unfortunate case. They conceived that he
would facilitate their labours.

The RECORDER immediately acquiesced, and in
order that the fact should be put upon record, directed
that Mr. Hayward, who attended from the office of
the Solicitor of the Treasury, should be sworn as
a witness, and his name placed on the back of
the indictment. Being familiar with the evidence
Mr. Hayward would doubtless be able to marshal it
in such a way as to save much time, and yet lead to
the fullest inquiry. lie must not, however, inter-
fere with the course of investigation which the grand
jury might think proper to pursue.
The Foreman thanked his Lordship, and withdrew
with Mr. Hayward.
The trial of the accused is expected to commence
on Thursday, and not to terminate before Saturday.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
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of nuisances, &c., for the parish of St.
Pancras, was
placed at the bar before Mr. yrw T h. t , charged by
Jane Williamson Collins, a girl
between eighteen and
nineteen years of age, with having
violated her
person.
The prosecutrix, who was much excited, said that
her parents were in respectable business in the
country. They had sent her to London, where she
had been in the service of a Mrs. Anderson, of Judd-
street, Brunswick-square, whom she had served for
upwards of twelve months, and left with a good
character. She was then living under the protection
of Mrs. Kidner, her godmother, of No. 17, Bruns-
wick-grove, Camden-town. On Thursday morning
last, between ten and eleven o'clock, she was at her
godmother's house, when the prisoner came there,
in order, as he said, to examine the sewers, which
were out of repair. He inquired of witness whether
she had a situation. She said she had not. He then
said that his housekeeper was very ill in the hospital,
and he required some one to take care of his place;
and would she ( witness) undertake the
situation, and come that evening ? She told
him she would consult with her godmother,
and he left the place. She informed her godmother,
who said she had better not go that evening, and on
the following day her godmother's landlord was spoken
to on the subject, and was asked if he knew the pri-
soner to be a respectable man. The landlord said he
had no doubt as to his respectability, or he would not
have been appointed to a responsible situation in the
parish. The prisoner called again and asked why she
did not come on the night before. She replied that
she would come that evening at six o'clock. She
went at seven o'clock, when he complained that she
was very late. He occupied two rooms in the upper
part of an
unfinished house in Hamilton-street,
Camden town. lime were beds and bedsteads in