The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-23 00:00:00

INTERNATIONAL CORSET.

PARIS TRIBUNAL CORRECTIONNRL.—An important trial
came on for hearing before M. Pinondel, President. In this
case, however, it was not a question of any collision be-
tween any French and English soldiers or sailors, nor of
any dispute as to the pre-eminence of the ocean. The
i'selligerents had neither swords nor sabres, knapsacks nor
schakos, blue jackets, nor trowsers, but advanced before
the tribunal enveloped in long shawls, their heads covered
with elegant velvet bonnets, and without the aid of any
herald at arms, it was announced that one was Madame
Dumon;in, living at No. 5, Rue Vingt-neuf Juillet, and
a Frenchoioman, and the other, Mrs. Farron, living at
No. 1, in the same street, a living representative of the
British people.
Madame Dumoulin demanded 6,000 francs damages,
while Mrs. Farron confined her modest demand to the
sum of 1,200 francs damages.
M. Ledin, the Advocate, thus stated the case :—You
are called upon to give ycur decision upon one of those
important questions which involves the right of patent—it
is a question concerning a pair of stays ; but before en-
tering into a legal discussion, I will attempt to inform you
of the details of the case. Mad. Dumoulin, listening to
the dictates of an irresistible impulse, has for the last seven
years devoted all her numerous talents to the art of stay-
making. A few months since she had the misfortune to
lose her respected mother. Nature had endowed, Madame
Dumoulin with an inventive mind, admirably adapted for
the profession which she had chosen ; but the art of paint-
ing was denied to her, and she pined for the image of her
beloved parent. Inspired, however, by grief and love, this
lady succeeded in taking a striking likeness of her mother.
It was probable that her varied talents might ereate a
emplete revolution in the art of stay-making. Time was
that our fair countrywomen encased their lovely persons
In regions of thick-ribbed whalebone, and even steel—
their cumbersome citadelaresisted all the attacks of science,
but at last the manifold discomforts of this female armour
felt before the skill and ingenuity of Madame Dumoulin,
who invented stays which would at once give ease and
elegance to the fair and fragile frames of their wearers.
M. Ledin here entered into details far more creditable
to his knowledge of anatomy than to his delicacy. For
this invention it appeared that Madame Dumoulin had
taken out a patent, but that Mrs. Farron had esta-
blished herself next door but one to the house, and set up
a board, informing the Parisian public that she was the
! inventor of these stays.
i On the other hand, Mrs. Farron declared that for the
last twelve years she had been in the habit of making stays
iis the manner claimed by Madame Dumoulin as a new in-
vention. Moreover, in the French capital nature had not
been bountiful in the busts which she bad accorded to the
1 fair Parisians. but Mrs. Farron had invented a stay which
sopplied this much-desired deficiency.
After a discussion, full of legal technicalities, the deci-
sion was adjourned for two months, to enable Mrs. Farron
to prone that her system had been in existence prior to
Madame Dumoulin's patent.

CIIIIFNEY.—On Tuesday, in the Insolven
Debtors' Court, an application was made in the case of the
well-known jockey William Chifney, to dispense with the usual
amount of sureties on bail. It was stated that the insolvent
could get bail to the extent of 10,0001., as regarded freehold
property, but the Court could only accept sureties on tangible
P property, which could be taken under a distraint. He is in
Cambridge Gaol. He had given a warrant of attorney to his
\
detaining creditor, on a debt incurred before his bankruptcy.
'Ow security was given, as an act of honesty, after he had ob-
tain vd his certificate ; and it was feared he would not be able to
give I>eil for double al: the judgment debts. It was, however,
hoped, ander the peculiar circumstances of the case, that the
Court would not require Mr. Chifney to include the debt on
the warrant of attorney in the list of judgments. The Court
seemed inclinNl to grant the application, and required an affi-
davit of the circ:tmstances detailed.
ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY FROM THE
HIGIILAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.
—The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, at the
Anniversary meeting of that most influential public body, held
01,A the 14th instant, on the recommendation of the Board of
Vireetors, unanimously voted a loyal and dutiful Address to the
Quisen,.on the happy occasion of her Majesty's marriage, and
remiti`ul it to the Directors to prepare and present the same at
the prover time. There was•a very full attendance of members,
consisting of tbe Duke of Argyle, the Earls of Dalhousie and
Roseberry, L ant Wm. Douglas, Right Hon Sir George War-
render, Sir Jan:aes aardon, Sir Neil Menzies, gir Charles G.
Fergusson, Sir Janes Ili.
Riddell, Sir A. C. Maitland Gibson,
Sir G. Macpherson Grant, ~.„Ir Charles G. S. Menteath, Barts.;
Admiral Sir David Milne, K. C•B
Sir John Robinson, and a numeta:
in the army, and men of extensive
parts of Scotland. The Right Hon. til;
one of the Vice-Presidents in office, in the
ing also discussed the important subjs.- 'lelist of gentlemen of rank
subject George
the motion of Sir George Warrender, Bart.
eeige Ballingall,
u
poperty connected with all
e Earl of Dalhousie,
Chair. The meet-
t,:ration ; and on
pag„,l a resolu-
tion expressing their satisfaction that the Bart.,
had di-
rected their attention to it as a national object, by the esta:-4ish-
mant of a Board in connection with the Colonial Office, ..''''
the allotment and disposal of vacant lands in the colonies ; and
that this subject has also been taken up by proprietors of the
Highlands and Islands of Scotland, to whom it is a matter of
the utmost importance, at a meeting held by them on the 10th
current; and the Society therefore recommend the Noblemen
and Gentlemen, its members, connected with the Houses of
Parliament, to give their support and aid to those Highland
proprietors in their application to Government on the principles
approved of by this Society at their general meeting in July last.
PETITION FROM FINSBURY IN FAVOUR OF
FEOST AND OTHERS.—" To the Queen's most Excellent Ma-
jesty, the Humble Petition of the Females of London most
earnestly sheweth,—That your Petitioners, deeply regretting
the lamentable disturbances that have lately taken place in
Isome parts of your Majesty's dominions, respectfully submit to
your Majesty that a considerate and merciful course pursued.
t„ awards those who have participated therein, will be most con-
dm rive to \ the maintenance of loyalty, and the prevention of
the like disturbances. That your Petitioners humbly submit
that the punishment of death is a measure from which the
more elevated and Christian feelings recoil, and that the awful
and in
into etOc"
Your Pe.
Tonceivably great sacrifices made by carrying such laws
in-
terest of itli•°n'
realm, sineo.6;e7v
else the Sovei•cell.
cannot be productive of any beneficial results.
tit.;eners, therefore, after anxiously regarding the in-
sentences pass
High Treason. .
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Aprlaajyesty, and all classes in your Majesty's
that your Majesty will graciously exer-
n Prerogative of the Crown in remitting the
AnJohn Frost and ethers found guilty of
a your Petitioners will ever pray, &c."
BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.--On Monday even-
-1 .ing an inquest was held near the Watford Station, on the body
The reezias 0, f Charles Jones, one of:the consttbles_e_mployed. u'pon thee hne,
wl:to was killed on Saturday night;
CeaCed presented a most dreadful
sloes, -waren the. I:efattillebele-
,the right
broken in several places. The deceased
hed to atoms, the whole of thellibs broken, and ing
leg also crushed and d
passed • and on the night
had I'm:Tidy been appointe a policeman on the line, and his
duty a:vas .to watch the trains as they I' ,
the rails near the tunnel
in queseien, about half-past ten o'clock, he was in the act of
showing the ght of his lamp upon
\
before
d twenty minutes its
while the cloven train was passing, and at the same, time the up
train, which it .spiaeared bad arrive
usual time, came up, and the deceased, not being able to get ou
of the way, was knocked down by the " buffer" of the carriage,.
and driven upon the rails,stated.
and the whole of the train then passed
over him, crushing him in the frightful manner above
Verdict—" Accidental Death."
Colonel Deane Pitt, formerly of the 80th Itegi-
, ment, and now inspecting field officer at Leeds, is to be re-
Got,"l°n M‘
I moved to the London yecruiting district, in succession to the
late Colonel William
Bissell Harvey, K.H
,resent Fort 111ajor oFEdinb'ir
11 'itt, at Leeds.— United Service6-
(,::zette.
REVIVAL OF ORANGEISM.—• -
, Thursday informed us, by ad •
131 '.. that the Orange
else ... 'c)Gregor. Lieutenant-Colonel
on ~:,e half-pay of the Royals, and at
h Castle, will replace Colonel
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under the sanction of the opinion of Ed.;
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and Litton,
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10th of January, 1840," and
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SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

COMMON COUNCIL.--(THIS DAY.)

(Continued from our First Edition.)
Mr. Alderman WHITE—He maintained that had Lord John
Russell pursued a different course to what he had done, he
would have been a traitor to his historical name and the prin-
ciples he professed. He believed there was now a confederacy
against popular rights ; and he was afraid the Judges had
allowed their political opinions to influence their judgments.
Although he would trust the Judges with his person and pro-
perty, yet he would not trust them with the meanest of his po-
litical rights any more than he would the Bench of Bishops.—
( Oh, oh.)
Mr. DAVISON rose to order. He' would ask whether it
was fit and proper that the conduct of the Judges, who
merely administered the law, should be thus animadverted
upon ?—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. Alderman WHITE—The Judges and their decisions were
in collision with the House of Commons, and therefore were
in collision with the people. It became necessary, then, to in-
quire into their powers—ay, and their principles ; and he
would ask what were their political predilections? How many
of them (he knew there were some) were members of the Carl-
ton Club ?—( Cries of " Oh, oh !" and " Order, order.")
__ The LORD MAYOR must call the Hon. Member to order.

He hoped his good sense would induce him to refrain from such
observations.

Mr. TAYLOR—Anything that is said against the Judges
will only lead every body to admire them the more.—( Hear,
hear.)
Mr. Alderman WHITE—I have said nothing against the
Judges.—( Great laughter, and cries of " Oh, oh, oh.")
Mr. Alderman Ha ampa—That only shows my hon. friend
does not know what he has been saying.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Alderman WHITE concluded by saying that the Judges
were men' with passions like themselves, and that might be
some excuse for their conduct.—( Hear, hear.) He thanked
them for the attention with which they had listened to him, and
he should not have occupied so much of their time, had he not
been interrupted.
Mr. PEWTRESS thought, that if the opinion of the Judges
were to be acquiesced in, the doors of the House of Commons
as well as the door of that Court might be as well closed.—
( Hear, hear.) He very much esteemed their worthy Sheriffs,
and he regretted that the House of Commons had not brought
itself in conflict with the real parties. ( Hear, hear.)
Sir PETER LAURIE would make but a few observations. Ike
thought the House of Commons was not worth petitioning.—
The House of Commons that passed the Penny Post Act was
the most contemptible Assembly that ever existed.—(Laugh.
ter, and cries of " Oh.") Was the law of the land to be
usurped by one branch of the Legislature ? The House of
Commons was now in a cleft stick, and he hoped that Court
would not help them out of the difficulty, and would not go
before them with any petition.—( Hear.)
Mr. JONES cordially supported the resolutions.
Mr. ANDERTON did not consider that this was a question
between the House of Commons and the Sheriffs of London
merely, but that it was a question in which all the Sheriffs of
the United Kingdom were concerned and most deeply in-
terested. He should vote for the resolutions that had been
proposed; but he hoped that, if the Sheriffs were not
liberated in a few days, the people of England would take
the bull by the horns.--( Hear, hear.) He trusted that Court
would set the example, and would petition the Queen to dis-
solve the Parliament.—( Hear, hear.) The great Lord Bur-
leigh had said that if ever England was ruined it would be
through the instrumentality of the House of Commons.
That House was now endeavouring to bring the laws of
the country—which every body venerated—into disre-
pute.—( Cheers.) They were endeavouring to take from the
Crown the right of issuing processes, and the right of executing
them. He concluded by expressing his approbation of the
resolutions, and if they had even gone further, he would have
supported them.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND hoped that the petition would be
deferred. If he were the Lord Mayor, and he said it with
all humility, he would let the citizens of London have an op-
portunity, in Common Hall, of expressing their opinion on
this subject—(Hear, hear.) He considered the proceedings
of the House of Commons on this subject had done more to
strike at the root of the independence of the Judges, of
Trial by Jury, and the liberty of the subject, and all that
Englishmen held dear as birthrights, than an act perpetrated
by the most tyrannical power.---( Cheers.) He lamented to
see a Minister of the Crown, backed by the Attorney-General,
retrograde, as Lord John Russell had done, from the bold front
which he assumed on the first night of the Session, when he
stated unequivocally that it was their determination not to punish
one party merely, but that if the House of Commons should
state it was a breach of privilege, to punish all parties impli-
cated. He (Alderman Copeland) had told the Noble Lord
that he would not dare follow up that statement.—(Cheers. )
He honoured the Judges, he honoured the Sheriffs ; and he would
tell his brethren of the Corporation, that if they had witnessed, as
he had, the sympathy shown their worthy Sheriffs by the
first men of the land, they would be delighted with the public
spirit that had manifested itself.—( Hear, hear.) He was de-
cidedly against petitioning, but he would vote for the resolu-
tions. —( Hear, bear. )
The LORD MAYOR said that when he appointed the Court
for that morning he had a great wish that the subject
should be discussed calmly and temperately. The • Court
must recollect that whatever they did in this matter would go
forth to the whole world. The Sheriffs were well advised, and
if that Court would adopt the same course which the Court of
Aldermen had done—not take any steps at present—he thought
they would act wisely. He thought the Members of that
Court had shown that the Sheriffs were placed in a most
enviable position.—(Hear, hear.) He would, of course, be
ready to give every attention to what any Gentleman might
have to say, but he did hope the discussion would be at once
closed.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON thought, after the opinion he had
heard, that the least prudent course would be to adopt the
suggestion made to the appointment of a Watching Committee,
and he would, therefore, not persevere with his proposition to
petition.—( Hear, hear.)
After a desultory discussion between a few of the members,
and a long speech from Mr. Wire in reply, the resolutions were
put and carried unanimously.
A Ward Committee was then appointed, including all the
Aldermen present, to co-operate with the Committee of this
Court of Aldermen.
Mr. WIRE proposed that the foregoing resolutions be signed
by the Town Clerk, and presented to the Sheriffs by the Lord
Mayor, attended by the whole Court.
The RECORDER observed that the place of custody of the
Sheriffs was a peculiar one—it was within the pre-
cincti of the Palace, and also within the precincts
of the House of Commons. Now, without wishing to
give any opinion as to what course that Court ought to adopt,
he would merely suggest to them the difficulty they would meet
with in gaining admission, if it should be refused, the Sherif.;
being in actual custody. Besides the whole Court could not
get into a room eight feet square, which he believed was the
size of the apartment in which the Sheriffs were confined.—
(A laugh. )
It was ultimately agreed that a Deputation only, instead of
the whole Court, to be selected from the Committee appointed,
should attend the Lord Mayor, and that Mr. Remembrancer
should ascertain from the Sheriffs when it would be convenient
for them to receive the visit.
The Resolutions were ordered to be advertised in the Morn-
ing and Evening Papers and the other business having been
disposed of, the Court adjourned.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

IN THE CASE OF THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON.

In the course of the morning, Mr. RICHARDs ap-
plied to the Court to ask if their Lordships would
permit him to bring forward the motion which he had
been about to make yesterday.
Lord DENMAN—This is not the only Court in
which a motion can be made.
Mr. Iticumtos said this was a motion affecting the
liberty of the subject.
Lord DENMAN—We have appointed our times for
hearing motions, but if you have no opportunity of
moving in any other Court we will hear you here.
Mr. RicHARDS did not think he could make this
motion in any other Court. As the affidavits had been
sworn here he could not, without fresh affidavits, move
in another Court. His motion would be to discharge
the Sheriffs from the custody in which they were at pre-
sent, and to which the affidavits had been sworn.
Lord DENMAN—We shall proceed with the new
trials to-day until four o'clock, and we will hear 3ou then.
At 4 o'Clock, Mr.RICHARDS applied for a habeas corpus,
to be directed to Sir W. Gosset, the Sergeant-at-Arms,
to bring up the bodies of the High Sheriffs of London
and Middlesex, in order that the cause of their impri-
11.0nMent might be inquired into. These gentlemen
were now prisoners, but the affidavit set forth that
they verily believed they had done nothing to incur
the displeasure of the House of Commons, except
vhat they had done in obedience to the Queen's
writ issued from this Court. The Learned Counsel
then read the affidavit of the Sheriffs, stating the facts
of the case, which are already known to the public.
The affidavit also set for.h the resolutions of the
House of Commons relative to the Sheriffs, and the
Sheriff's also stated that they verily believed they were
imprisoned solely for what they had done iu obedience
to the orders of the Court, and that they would not
have been committed to custody if they had consented
to pay over the money to the Messrs. Hansard, and
that they had seen no warrant authorizing their com-
mitment.
Lord DENatax said, that without adverting at all to
the affidavit, there could be no reason why the writ of
habeas corpus should not issue, so that the bodies
might be brought up, and the cause of the commitment
inquired into. The fact of their being imprisoned was
sufficient to entitle them to that.
Mr. Ricca ARDS then stated he had a further application
to make to their Lordships, which was for an attach-
ment against Sir Wiliiam Gossett for daring to im-
prison the officers of that Court, and obstruct them in
the execution of their duty.
Lord DENMAN—We cannot listen to that applica-
tion until we see what the return will be to the writ of
habeas corpus.