The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-27 00:00:00

EAST LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY

(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the proprietors of the
East Lincolnshire Railway was held this afternoon, at
No. 36, Groat George• street, Westminster; Mr. George
Hussey Packe in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the meeting was a
formal one, under Lord Wharncliffe's Act, to agree to
the several Bills the company had pending in the present
session of Parliament.

Drafts of the following Bills were then submitted to
the meeting and approved of :
"A Bill to amend the East Lincolnshire Railway Act,
1846, and to authorise a deviation in the line of such
railway, at and near Boston ; and the construction of a
branch railway to join the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Junction Railway, near Grimsby."
" A Bill to authorise the East Lincolnshire Railway
Company to purchase an existing lease of the Louth
Navigation."
And also " A Bill to enable the Great Northern Rail-
way Company to take a lease, or to purchase, amongst
other things, the Eist Lincolnshire Railway."
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting terminated.

LYONS AND AVIGNON RAILWAY

(THIS DAY.)
A meeting of the English shareholders in this rail-
way took place this day at the London Tavern, for the
purpose of considering the necessity of an immediate
dissolution of the company. D. Paul Esq., in the chair.
The SECRETARY having read the advertisement con-
vening the meeting,
Mr. WILKINSON addressed the meeting at some
length. He said that there was some analogy between
the case of the present company and that of the Bor-
deaux and Cette Railway Company, yet that in many
respects they were very different. In the latter case
there was no course open to them but to dissolve, but
there were far brighter and better prospects for their com-
pany. The object of the present meeting was to express
strongly and unanimously to the French Government
the conviction of the English shareholders, that unless
some important modification was made in the terms of
the contract it was impossible to carry it into
execution, and that if these were not made it
was necessary to abandon it at the risk of losing
the caution money, namely 400,0001., but that if the
French Government acceded to reasonable terms the
English shareholders were prepared to carry out
their engagements to the letter.—(Hear.) The Journal
de Chemins de Fer showed that there were 200,000 French
shareholders who were wholly favourable to the part which
they were desirous of taking. A long discussion ensued,
which was very uninteresting ; resolutions were, how-
ever, agreed to, embodying Mr. Wilkinson's views, and
a committee was appointed to carry them out—the ex-
pense to be borne by a levy on the shares of sixpence
per share.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE In Banco.)
COLLINS V. NEWSTEAD.
Mr. Sergeant SURE moved for a rule for a new trial,
or that the verdict should be set aside in a case tried
at the Surrey assizes, at Guildford, on the sale of a mare
which ultimately turned out to be unsound. It was con •
tended on the part of the plaintiff that the verdict of the
jury had been given on insufficient evidence, or from a
peculiar bias which had been obtained over their minds
by the peculiar testimony of Mr. Harding, one of the wit-
nesses, who was well known to them. It wascontended by
Mr. Bovil, on the other hand, that the jury had had a
view of the mare, for she was trotted out in the streets
of Guildford in order to show what the nature of the
ailment was to which the mare was subject, but they had
seen no reason whatever to doubt her soundness. Mr.
Greenlake, who had bred the mare, had seen her before
she went to Malton to be sold, and then had observed no
fault about her. She had been brouzbt to London partly
by rail and partly by hand, and had then been kept in a
hot stable without any work whatever, after having been
used to carry a farmer of sixteen stone weight, and the
consequence was, that if the horse had become unsound
at all, the disease had occurred since she came into the
possession of the plaintiff.
Mr. JAMES said that the mare had been purchased by
the plaintiff for Mr. Benedict, a horse dealer at Paris,
and he it was who first perceived that the mare was
labouring under lameness in her feet. The mare had
been brought from Yorkshire and placed in the stables
at Lambeth, where she had the advantage of
exercise in the ride attached. to the establish-
ment, and while under supervision there she
exhibited that peculiar dotty step which indicates disease of
the venicular bone—that is a bone of a shuttlelike
form, intended by its moving backwards and forwards
to give expansibility to the hoof. ;Mr. Sergeant Shee,
in his address to the jury, had improperly influenced
them by representing himself as the farmer's counsel,
and calling upon them to give a verdict for a farmer in
opposition to the evidence of the veterinary surgeons of
London. In order to influence them still further he had
called a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Guildford,
of the name of Harding, engaged in the same business,
who was well known to the jury, and through whose
inducement they had given their verdict.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said that they were bound to
take the general rule of looking at the evidence on both
sides, and, considering the observations of the judge, as
well as the evidence, he thought that the verdict ought
not to be disturbed.

Mr. Justice MAULE and Mr. Justice CRESSWELL ex-
pressing their coincidence with this opinion, the rule was
refused.

DROWN V. RICHARDSONe—RESTRAINT OF A CA. SA.
Mr. WELLS applied for an order of the Court to re-
strain the execution of a ca. sa. pending the return of a
bill of exchange in return of a promissory note which
had been given to prevent the arrest of the applicant.
It appeared that a suit had been instituted by a person
of the name of Brown against Richardson, which ulti-
mately went to judgment. To avoid this Richardson
and a friend went to Brown, and offered the promissory
notes of two other persons as security for the debt, pro-
vided the judgment was stayed. Brown assented to this
if he was furnished with the promissory note of some
third person, but took one of the notes then presented,
engaging both to restrain the judgment and to return
the note which he held on receiving the one which he
required. He had done neither, for, although applied
to, he had neither returned the note nor withdrawn the
ca. sa., and the application was to restrain the judg-
ment pending the return of the promissory note.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN directed the rule to beissued.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)

SIMMONDS V. MENTZ AND ♦NOTHER.

Mr. MARTIN appeared to show cause against the rule
obtained in this cause, which was obtained last Hilary
term by Mr. Humphrey, to set aside the verdict for the
defendant, and to enter the same for the plaintiff for 501.
or 100/. on the indebitates count. The plaintiff in the
case was a traffic-taker, and had engaged to take the
traffic upon a certain projected railway, of which the
defendants were members of the provisional committee.
The line was stated to be about 60 miles in length, and
the terms of the contract were, that 151. per mile should
be paid to the plaintiff for his services by three
instalments, the first of which was to be paid upon the
commencement of the work, the second upon Os de-
livery of the traffic tables, and the third was made con-
tingent capon the passing of the Bill. When the traffic
tables were completed it appeared that the line was
slaty-ilve miles in length, and a claim was made by the
plaintiff for this extra amount of mileage, and also
further sums alleged to be due for services performed by
the order of the solicitor of the company, in the
remodelling of the tables of the traffic, in consequence
of an alteration in the course of the proposed railway.
The defendant had paid plaintiff the amount of the first
instalment, 3001.; previous to the action having been
brought, the second also, amounting to 3001., was paid
into court. The third instalment of 3001., the Lord
Chief Baron, who said the cause decided could not be
reviewed, the condition upon the payment was made
contingent, not having been complied with. The ques-
tion raised by the rule was, whether the plaintiff could
rya was h
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The COURT decided that the rule ought to be dis-
charged.
Rule discharged accordingly.

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN.
The Rev. William Gillmor, M.A., perpetual 'curate of
Illingworth, Yorkshire, has been presented by.the ladies
of his congregation with a handsome set of robes, as a
tokeno dischargeftheir resp
of his
respect and e
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dutiesrhis y ery zealous
and faithful ni.. 0n g
his
parishioners.
days RONESTY REWARDED.—A few
woman, named Guerin, living in a miserable garret in
the rue de Sevres, found in the rue St. Maur a sealed
letter. Not being able to read, she took it to a person
who found upon it the name of Madame viard, without
any address. To gain further information, he opened
the letter, and found in it a bank-note for 1,000 francs.
Listening only to the dictates of honesty, she immedi-
ately took the envelope and its contents to the prefec-
ture of police. It was soon discovered that Madame
Viard keeps a boarding-school, and that the bank note
had been sent to her by the father of one of her pupils,
through one of her teachers, who had dropped it.
Madame Viard, on recovering the note, liberally gave
the poor honest woman who found it .50 francs.,. and
promised to be a friend to her for the rest of her life.
DISEASE AMONGST VIE GROUSE.—The same disease
which prevailed many years pact has made its appear-
ance this season. Large quantities of these birds are to
be found dead on the " margin of the rivers and by the
side of the rills" on our heath-clad hills, which does not
augur welt for the future prospects of the sportsmen on
12th of August next.—Montrose Standard.
BAD NEWS FOR SFORTSMEN...--Me regret to learn
that the young birds on the moors are dying in great
number's. We hope the fine weather which has now
cOultati4d Will frop the cliOasep.'Socich Paper.

LITERATURE.
THE WORLD'S COMPLAINT; and Other Poems. •
By Charlotte Young.
Among the many absurd notions now prevalent not
one is more absurd than that which is so frequently
expressed, that the age of poetry has departed. It is
presumed that we are become so thoroughly an
utilitarian generation that we are wholly incapacitated
from participation in the divine and spiritual regions
of the Poet. Our hearts are somehow considered to
be case-hardened against all the gentler and holier
emotions. Men are depicted now-a-days as though
they were digesting automata, thriving upon a heart-
less system of materialism, and yearning only for the
acquisition of wealth and the extension of a dry and
debasing knowledge. Monstrous as have been the
popular delusions by which the energies of the com-
munity have been from time to time weakened and
misdirected, we maintain this to be the grossest
delusion by which society has ever been afflicted.
We maintain it to be a grosser delusion than that
excited by Sternholt and Hopkins, than the credulity
in alchemy, than the belief in El Dorado, than the
superstition of the Chinese cobbler who refused to kill
the ducks waddling about his garden for fear that
peradventure one among them might have originally
been his grandmother. We maintain that Poetry
would now find as many appreciators as in the days of
Cowley or Byron—if not more! Notwithstanding
that our sylvan scenes are being marred by the en-
croachments of railways, that the picturesqueness of
the "pebbly dips" is destroyed by a gradient, or the
loveliness of the dingles interrupted by enormous
cuttings, we are satisfied that the worshippers of
Nature are more numerous than in the days of the
most bucolic minstrels from Virgil to Shenstone. To
express our meaning in the language of mythological
allegory, if the strings of the Orphean lyre could
again vibrate—even though it were in the vicinity of
some branch of the Great Western Railway—the
trees, and the rocks, and the brambles, and the brutes
of the field would have as much inclination to dance
to the sound of its melody as they had in the days of
ancient Greece, and that is saying a great deal ! Talk
as we may of our having become a more money-
getting race than formerly, we are convinced that the
ears of the million are not impervious to the voice of
the Poet, that they are not one jot less ready to wel-
come that voice than their predecessors ; that on the
contrary, the Poet may be certain of a more numerous
and discriminating, and even a more enthusiastic
audience than at any anterior period whatever. Mr.
Payne Collier may tell us of the Roxburghe ballads,
and Bishop Percy may become garrulous upon those
relating to Robin and his merry men of the thicket,
but we would ask them if ever ballads penetrated the
ears and the hearts of a whole nation so instantaneously
and earnestly as did the ballads of Thomas Hood ?
That is one instance out of a multitude in proof of our
argument. Let the name of your poet be as un-
poetical and uncaptivating as you please—let it be
James Hogg, or Thom the weaver, or Ebenezer Elliot,
or Motherwell, or what not—let his theme be as lowly
and uninspiring as it may be, upon a broomstick, or a
debate fin Parliament, or a milliner, or even a suicide
of a class that shall be nameless—in spite of all this

in spite of the jeers and derisions of. the unsympa-
thising few, in spite of that utilitarianism of which we
are so perpetually reminded, the voice of a true poet
is always listened to with attention, and his words
chronicled in the memories of the people. In this
manner, unassisted, unpuffed, and unparaded, Alfred
Tennyson has gradually grown up into a classic. A
goodly number of poetical writers now living, have,
in this manner, surrounded themselves with thousands
of admiring enthusiasts. Even the poetaster can collect
an audience now by his small pipings. We are satis-
fied therefore that the old outcry, that poetry is a
drug in the literary market, is all nonsense ;
and we are rejoiced whenever any one is
adventurous enough to put in his denial
against the clamour by the publication of
verse—especially when it happens to be particularly
excellent. The World's Complaint, therefore, and
other poems, by Charlotte Young, are welcome to us.
They are certain, moreover, of a cordial greeting and
an unbiased perusal from the public; like all similar
attempts to enshrine household thoughts and loving
principles in the amber of song. Schiller, indeed,
has shown in a magnificent allegory, that at no period
can the magic of poetry be wielded in vain over the
multitude. In his exquisite poem of " The Partition
of the Earth," he describes how the Deity on the
formation of the globe distributed the different por-
tions of the creation to different classes—the forest to
the hunter, the plain to the husbandman, the flood to
the fisherman, the main to the merchant. When the

partition is completed, "a figure comes listlessly on."
Lord Francis Leveson Gower has translated the Ger-

man original into English, with so much elegance,
that we quote a fragment of his version :

" The mien of disorder, the wreath which he wore,
And the phrenzy that flashed from his eye,
And the lyre of ivory and gold which he bore,
Proclaimed that the Poet was nigh ;
And he rushed all in tears at the fatal decree,
To the foot of the Thunderer's throne,
And complained that no spot of the earth or the sea,
Had been given the Bard as his own.
The earth, said the Godhead, is portion'd away ;
And I cannot reverse the decree ;
But the Heavens are mine, and Me regions of day,
And their portal is open to thee."
There is a poet's guarantee that his art can never
become old ! The little volume before us then comes
not in an unfitting season. It has been written as

the writer professes in her miniature preface, in the
hope that its readers " may find scattered here and
there some stray thought that may beccme a happy
one." As such it must be received then. The pieces
are fugitive, upon odd and capricious fancies associated
with life, and death, and home, and nature. That
_

the author has a natural capacity for the art is shewn,
we think, in a single line in the " Song of the Turret
Clock," when tne spirit of the clock—not the Chimes
a-la-Boz—has been commenting upon the fact of the
hands having been crumbled into clay by which it
had been constructed, and of it, a mere creature of
metal, still throbbing on after its creator is dead.
But, " Alas!" it cries, .

" tis in vain to sigh,
I've heard 'tis a glorious thing to die!"
Occasionally we perceive a sympathy between the
imagination of Charlotte Young and that of some of
her contemporaries. For instance, her lines upon
" Frost" at once recall to our recollection some charm-
ing verses upon the same subject written by the wife
of the author of " Paracelsus," late Elizabeth Barrett
Barrett. Again we can detect a similarity between
the ideas and language of the former that sometimes
almost amounts to plagiarism. Take as an example
the piece beginning—
" How strange it seams, while looking round
Upon the leafless trees,
To think this piercing winter blast
Will yield to gentlest breeze ;
That brooks in icy fetters bound
Once more will flow along,
And once again the echo mock
The amorous blackbird's sung."
The notion of this—very prettily and newly ex-
pressed, it is true—is however identical with those
quaint but delicious stanzas of Keats, beginning—
" In a drear-nighted-December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity :
The north cannot undo them,
With a sleety whistle through them ;
Nor frozen thawings glue them
From budding at the prime."
As a specimen of the writer's poetical strains we give
these dainty verses:—
Sing on, gay birds !
Tbo' leaves are falling fast,
And one by one
Your summer joys go past,
Yet still sing on !
Bloom on, fair flowers I
Tho' blows the autumn wind,
And pelting rains
Fall dismal and unkind,
Yet still bloom on
Smile on, bright eyes !
Tho' you have seen depart
Your youths' best hopes,
The childhood of your heart,
Yet still smile on !
Hope on, young hearts !
Tho' you have learn'd to call
All hope a cheat,
That cheers but to enthrall,
Yet still hope on !
Of happy thoughts like these the book has many ;
the expectations of the authoress will therefore be
realised.

KNIGHT'S ONE-VOLUME BDITIOIV OF

SHAKSPERE. Parts I. and 11.

The present work is about the cheapest and most
valuable that has perhaps ever been printed—com-
prising the whole of the immortal writings of William
Shakspere in twelve shilling parts, with concise but
piquant introductory remarks, a lavish abundance of
explanatory marginal notes, and the frontispiece to
each of the dramas from the pencil of 'William Harvey
—the notes, the text, and the embellishments being
identical with those contained in Mr. Knight's more
voluminous and more costly edition. To the people
this publication must prove an inestimable boon, for it
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GILBERT S DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH
LANGUA.GE. Parts XVI.—XX.
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