The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-29 00:00:00

SHERIFFS COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

MARIE MULOT V. AMELIA DEUTICII.
This was an action to recover the sum of 12/. 145., for
toods sold and delivered, to which the defendant pleaded
het indebted.
Mr. Thomas conducted the case for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Doane appeared for the defendant.
The plaintiff is a milliner and dressmaker, carrying on
business in the Lowther Arcade, and the defendant re-
sides in Bury-street, St. James's, and who was stated to
a modiste.
The first witness called, Mrs. Bassoine, stated that
She recommended the defendant as a customer to the
ttintiff and that she ordered several satin dresses, at
fferent times, several of which she,had seen her wear.
_ Bulow, a porter in the employ of the plaintiff,
said he recollected taking home in October last several
dresses to the house of the defendant. He gave the
dresses to the defendant, and she paid him 3/. on account.
Cress-examined—Well knows the dresses to have
been made of satin, as he was to have a stock out of
each.--(Laughter.) When he took the dresses home,
Z,ree young ladies were called down stairs to look at
i—em, and witness heard the say " How well we shall
'ook when we go out to night.m "—(Laughter.)
Martha Mountain proved the value of the dreises. A
dress in the present fashion would require 15 or 16 yards.
„ The COURT—That is allowing for a few stocks, I sup-
v°se. Witness—No, Sir, without cabbage.—(Laugh.)
This being the case for the plaintiff, Mr. Doane ad-
dressed the jury for the defendant, urging that the
dresses were never intended or ordered for the defend-
_ ant, but for parties lodging in her house, and called wit-
, hesses to prove his case.
The first witness called stated that three ladies lived
'with the defendant of the name of Florient, and the
dresses in question were ordered for those ladies; but they
had since left the house without paying their bill.
, Mr. THOMAS—Did those ladies ever bring gentlemen
aeme with them ? Witness, who was a French woman
its were nearly all the witnesses, answered, " that she
never looked, she merely opened the door, that was her
duty,—(A laugh.) ,
Mr. Thomas—To turn the key and keep the counsel,
suppose.—(Laughter.)
The whole of the witnesses for the defence having
been examined. Mr. Thomas addressed the Jury.
lie said that this case was one which had caused more
amusement than, perhaps, cases for goods sold and deli-
vered usually displayed. But he thought that the de-
fendant had failed in supporting her plea on the record,
and he should therefore leave it in the hands of the Jury.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the plain-
tiff for the whole amount.

ItESTORATION OF THE POST-
AGE REVENUE.
In Mr. Rowland Hill's paper, read to the Statistical
society, on the Results of the New Postage Arrange-
Ments, it is shown that should the present rate of in-
"ease of letters continue, a space of five years from the
commencement will suffice for the complete finaerial
success of the plan, that is to say, fur the cPmplete re-
storation of the gross Post-office revenue. In the case
of the reduction, in 1825, of the duty on coffee, a re-
duction of only 50 per cent., it was not till the fourth
year that the revenue recovered its former footing ; and
had that measure been judged of by its immediate re-
sults, or even by those of the second or third year taken
abstractedly, it must have been pronounced a financial
failure, whereas it is at present recognised as a measure
of eminent and undoubted success ; and indeed the last
Year, which was the sixteenth since the reduction,
yielded a revenue more than double that obtained under
the high rates. Nor is there any reason to suppose that
the benefit has yet obtained its maximum.

A SAD EVENT.—" There was a village here,
Plaze yer honour, not long ago, and in one night it was
ant body and bones, swept away—no, nut a taste of it,
no more than there is now, was there in the morning—
it was overnight the greenest spot in the glen. A party
of Highlanders who were sent from Crosmolina to still
hunt through these lonely hills, were benighted on their
Way, and they asked shelter for the night in the biggest
house
in the village. The night was wild and stormy,
the rain came down in tubsful, the river roared as it
swept along, and from every gully and cleft in the hills
Came dawn a moaning, as if death and destruction were
to be keened for. No doubt the soldiers were glad to
find shelter ; and what they sought was given them,
and a thousand welcomes ; for though the people knew
,that they were going to rack the neighbours, and destroy
their little
wee
venture, they also knew that the poor
fellows were under orders, and could not help it, and
Maybe a little civility would make them not so hard or
Sharp in racking the crathurs and bringing on a ruina-
ti°ll. Anyhow the Highlanders were admitted into
Jemmy (Mara's, the tailor's house' and they had share
of all the good tratement he could offer : they had a
roaring fire to warm them, lashens of praties and milk,
and when sleepy they had the floor strewn with rushes,
and there they might sleep their fill, with their feet to
the fire, and mighty pleasant before they lay down was
the chat; the tailor had a pair of breeches on his board
• making for a boy that was about to make himself
double, and there was many a joke cracked between the
breeches-maker and those who thought it was pleasant
and cool to oas father Adam did ; anyhow there was
fun and frolic within, and the play of honest and light
B▪
eans, when 'a rush and roaring came on, a sweeping
ourge of waters bursting in, carrying stones, mud, and
81Udge along; the walls could not stand an instant ; the
Whole village was swept off the face of the flat in the
twinkling of an eye ; the cry of the amazed and over-
, whelmed inmates was lost in the universal roar of flood
and storm : and When the morning sun looked in upon
what was overnight a neat and snug village, nothing was
be seen but what now meets the eye, a waste of sand,
stones, and bog stuff."—The fact was, in consequence of
".. the continued rain in: this; surprisingly wet climate; a
mountain tarn had burst its banks, and leaving the bog
Confined, it came like a liquid wall a-down, forcing
-everythhig along, boulders, bog timber, and sludge,
until, as it were, in an instant, it broke upon the houses,
carrying all before it—stones, timbers, and bodies—and
it was only 'some days after that, at the estuary of this
liver in Tullohan Bay, the bodies of the poor people were
found.. Otway's Sketches in .Erris.

LITERATURE.
SCOTT'S MISCELLANEOUS PROtSE
WORKS.
Cudell, Edinburgh, 1841.
In addition to his far-famed " Letters of Ma-
lachi Malagrowther," " Provincial Antiquities of
Scotland," and " Old Mortality," each of which
is comprised in one cheap half-a-crown Number,
we have here the first part of Sir Walter Scott's
"Life of Napoleon," which is devoted exclusively
to the rise and progress of the Revolution up to
the period of the trial of Louis the Sixteenth. In
this portion of his work nothing is more remark-
able than the keen, sarcastic powers which the
author shows when discussing some of the prin-
cipal events and actors in the Revolution. He
was imbued with ,a perfect scorn and hatred
of this great national outbreak,' and these feel-
in.'s are constantly escaping him. Of all the
leading personages who figure on the stage
during the years of ferment, 1789 and 90—indeed
down to the time of the Consulate—there is
scarcely one on whom he condescends to bestow
a good word, with the exception, perhaps, of
young Barbaroux, in whose fiery and romantic
character he seems to have found much to ad-
mire. However delightful the style, and ani-
mated the descriptions, we fear the "Life of
Napoleon" will not be among the enduring
works of its author. In correctness of facts it is
surpassed even by Hazlitt's, who, in general, is
anything but a correct writer.