The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-11 00:00:00

S DT, DECEMBER .1117 1847.

Mr. P. BANKES, who appeared as counsel for the
noble defendant, on the case being called on, said Mr.
' Ronalds, his Lordship's attorney, had that moment re-
ceived a letter from the plaintiff, which he would read:
"
" 6, Northampton-square, Dec. 8.
My Lord,—This is to inform your Lordship that as
an acquaintance of your Lordship has promised to come
forward and settle the little pecuniary matter of 51. be-
tween us,:it now will not be necessary for your Lordship
to attend to the summons at the Westminster County
Court on the 10th inst.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's
most obedient servant,

" IN
F MILLER.
" Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., &c"
The plaintiff having withdrawn from the case, he (Mr.
Bankes), on the part of the Noble Lord for whom he had
the honour to appear, had to apply to the Court for
costs, as he should show that there was not the slightest
foundation for the claim, but that it was one of the most
impudent attempts ever made to obtain money from his
Lordship. He made the application for costs, although
there was every probability of their never being paid,
more for the purpose of deterring other persons, equally
unknown to his Lordship, from harassing him with
these attempts, than to punish the plaintiff: The plain-
tiff was totally unknown to his Lordship, and, from his
letters appeared to have no settled place of abode, as
they were addressed from several different places. He
(Mr. Bankes) would read some of theletters to show that
whatever services were rendered they were gratuitous.
The first letter was dated 48, Cromer-street, Gray's-inn-
road, August 3, 1847, and was as follows :
" My Lord,—Permit me to state that when I heard
your Lordship intended to put up for Marylebone, and
that Mr. Harvey intended to do so also—knowing no-
thing of your Lordship's character but what was most
honourable, and a countryman of which every English-
man ought to be proud of—having 50 nobly stepped for-
ward out of the common course of an idle aristocratic
life and selfishness to aid the oppressed and to relieve
the distressed, and that you well deserved the honour
yOu'sought for;_ knowing also from my own individual
experience that Mr.llarvey was amen unfit to be trusted
. . . . I determined with. myself to exert all my
humble powers in influencing all my friends in the bo
rough to serve your Lordship, exhibiting to them and
many others beside Mr. Harvey's character in contrast
with your Lordship's. And Ido think my humble ex-
ertions in your Lordship's behalf placed your Lordship
at the head of the poll, as well as have drove Mr. Harvey
from the field of election for ever. But, my Lord, I did
this at some little pecuniary sacrifice, which I am sure
your'Lordship,. after I state what my present circum•
stances are, will not suffer me to lose. Just at the cri-
tical moment of the Marylebone election, I deelined to
accept of 10s. a day to be employed on the City election,
which employ for sixteen days would have been 81., pre-
ferring, without any specific engagement from Mr.
Ronalds, to go into the field and work at once for your
interest, which I believe he knows I did, and Mr.
Ramsey knows also. Mr. Ramsey knows that
I worked for the ballot, as well as working for
the poll. But I should be ashamed of myself, as
a Reformer, to expect anything from your Lord-
ship for my services on such an occasion, when "England
expects every man to do his duty" free.—(Laughter.)
But, my Lord, now I have no property. I have been
made to sacrifice more than 20,0001. by the enemies of
liberty, persecuting me to the utmost, and I should like
your Lordship to hear my tale on some future occasion.
I have neither funded property, freehold property, or
household property, though I had all these once, with
carriages and horses. Time alone is the only property
I have at present, and having spent that in your Lord-
ship's interest, stating this, I hope—l more than hope, I
know—from your Lordship's generous disposition, I may
expect a favourable answer to this letter. Waiting your
Lordship's favour, I have the honour to be, &c.,
" JOHN MILLER."
Upon the receipt of this letter, his Lordship, thinking it
would be as well to avoid the plaintiff's importunities for
the future, for his alleged services in driving Mr. Harvey
from the field, ordered Mr. Ronalds to pay him 5/. This
was done on the sth of August to the great gratification
of the plaintiff; but on the 7th another letter was re-
ceived, in which he acknowledged the receipt of the
5/., but
" Never for a moment supposed that a less sum than
lot, would have been offered, when I can give
.indis-
putable proof of the fact that had it not been for my ex-
ertions Mr. Harvey would have gone. to the poll and
been returned; .consequently, your Lordship would not
have been placed in the present honourable position."
With respect to the power and influence of the plaintiff
he (Mr. Bankes) begged to say that he was not an
elector of the borough, and had not the slightest influ-
ence. In another part of the same letter, alluding to his
only property being " time," the plaintiff went on—
" All my friends (electors) say that I dishonoured my-
self and the cause too for accepting so trifling a sum for
rendering such important servic* s, and it is at their re-
quest, my Lord, to further benefit myself, that I make
your Lordship further acquainted with the fact, as they
are all certain that such a sum was never contemplated
to be given by your Lordship. I have done this, leaving
the matter solely in your Lordship's hands for further
consideration, and I am quite certain the result will re-
dound to your Lordship's honour and to the honour of
the cause your Lordship espouses."
The result was, that his Lordship referred the plaintiff
to Mr. Ronalds. To that gentleman, and also to his
Lordship's secretary, several letters were written, in
which he spoke of his Lordship's proud position in
Marylebone being due to him, for he only had caused
the retirement of Mr. Harvey. Finding it impossible to
get any more money out of Lord Dudley Stuart, another
letter was sent to his Lordship on the 24th of November,
in which the plaintiff says he has no alternative but to
appeal to the county court for justice; winding up the
letter with apathetic appeal in these words:—
" Your Lordship's kindness is known to the whole
world—reaches from pole to pole; let then this kindness
not be tarnished by my making an appeal to the laws
for a small mite of justice to one who has devoted
his life and fortune for the benefit of his fellow-
countrymen."
This feeling address had no effect on his Lordship, for
on the next day Mr. Ronalds wrote back, informing
plaintiff that he would appear to any process that
might be issued against Lord Dudley Stuart. The
plaintiff, however, issued process against his Lordship
personally, solely for the purpose of annoyance, and in
another letter said—

" His Lordship had not a leg to stand upon in a court
of justice, that he could bring forward many of the elec-
tors who would prove that the quality of his services ren-
dered alone gave his Lordship the victory, and that
in the course of a day or so he should wait upon Ser-
geant Shee (one of the candidates), and get him, if he
could, with all his witnesses, to maintain his action ;
proceedings which he greatly regretted being driven to,
as he was sorry the Liberal cause would suffer by the
expose." _

The Learned JUDGE said he thought the Learned
Counsel had stated quite enough to entitle him to the
costs, for it was not right that Lord Dudley Stuart, or
any one else should be brought their at their own ex-
pense, and the plaintiff withdraw from the action. Ac-
cording to the statement of the Learned Gentleman, he
supposed it did not matter wheter an order was made for
the payment of costs that day week or that day twelve
months.

Mr. BANRES said it was more for the purpose of pre-
venting annoyances that he asked for the costs.
'the .JuDGE—Then he will be ordered to pay the costs
coitn,“2l, attorney, and one witness in a month.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a

Bench of Magistrates.)
The Court sat this morning for the purpose of hear-
ing the appeals which had been entered for the Decem-
ber general session. The court was much crowded by
parties who are connected with steam-boats from its
having been understood the Bench would give judgment
in two of the cases wherein the defendants had appealed
against the decision of Mr. Yardley, the magistrate at
the Thames Police-court, who had convicted certain
persons for having acted as the commanders of steam-
boats without having taken out the necessary license.

W. J. PATTISON V. THE CONVICTION OF E. YARDLEY,

ESQ.
At a former sitting of the Court this and another
case of a similar character were argued, and the Court
took time to consider its judgment.
The defendants had been convicted of having acted in
the capacity of captains and commanders of steam-vessels
without having obtained the requisite license according
to a bye-law of the Court of Aldermen. The defendants
appealed, and
The Learned JUDGE now gave judgment, and said
that this was an appeal by William John Pattison
against a conviction of Mr. Yardley, the effect of which
was that the appellant had been condemned to pay a
penalty for having acted as the captain and commander
of a steam-vessel plying between Yantlett Creek
and Windsor, he not being at the time duly licensed
according to the provisions of a certain bye-law for re-
gulating steam-boats plying on the river Thames.
The Court had most carefully considered the arguments
which had been advanced by the Learned Counsel who
had appeared on behalf of the corporation on the foirmer
day when the appeal had come before him in support of
the conviction, as well as those which had been sub-
mitted by the Learned Counsel in opposition to the con-
viction, and in maintenance of the appeal. The Court
had also carefully perused the bye-law upon the subject
which had been framed by the Court of Aldermen, and
the conclusion to which it had arrived, as regarded that
bye-law, had been that that byelaw was illegal and
contrary to the law of the land. By that bye-law it was
enacted, " that any person acting as commander of any
lighter, wherry, or other craft," plying for hire between
certain points not having a license as directed by that
bye-law, should be liable to the payment of a certain
fine for every trip performed in such "lighter, wherry,
or other craft." Now the Court of Queen's Bench had
decided that "steam-vessels " came within the statute
fo

__)r regulating watermen, and that Court was therefore
bound by that decision; but except for that decision be
should have entertained great doubts upon the point.
It was, however, quite clear that a "steam-vessel" was
not a "lighter," nor was it a "wherry;" and notwith•
standing the Court of Queen's Bench had held and de-
cided that a " steam-boat was within the comprehension
of, and was comprised within the term ' Teasel,' " yet

[PR-.

that Court was unable, to arrive at the conclusion that
the term "craft" meant and includbd "steam-boats."
In the cases which were at present under consideration
and before the Court it happened that the appellants
were freemen of the Watermen's Company; but the
Court was furthermore of opinion that the Court of
Aldermen of the city of London were net armed with
any power, without fresh bye-laws and regulations, to
compel the captains and commanders of " steam-boats"
plying on the Thames to be freemen of the Watermen's
Company. It was not upon that one point only that the
Court was about to decide the present cases, because
these appellants were in reality freemen, and, therefore,
the conviction had been, not for not being freemen, but
because they had not possessed a license to use that
privilege in commanding steam-boats. The bye-law in
question had made it imperative that the captain or
commander of a steam-boat should not only hold a
license, but that no such license should be granted unless
the sum of ls. was paid for it. Now, the Court of
Aldermen, which had thus exacted this fee, clearly had
no authority . whatever to do so. The statute under
which this bye-law had been framed gave no power to
the Court of Aldermen to issue licenses upon any such
terms ; and in framing such a bye-law the Court of
Aldermen had manifestly forgotten that without the
direct authority of an Act of Parliament no body, cor-
porate or otherwise, had the power to impose a Mx upon
any of her Majesty's subjects. The only power to levy
taxes was vested in her Majesty and the Houses of Par-
liament, and thus in demanding the payment of this one
shilling the Court of Aldermen, it might be humorously
said, were reviving the old question of " ship-money,"
which was so celebrated in the days of Charles I.,although
in the present time that matter would not be attended
with the mischiefs consequent upon it at that period. A
freeman of the Watermen's Company might, under the
statute, be compelled to take out a license to navigate a
steam-boat on the river Thames as a captain or com-
mander, but it did not follow that he was compelled to
take out such a license as this bye-law of the Court of
Aldermen required. That bye-law was _clearly illegal;
and, therefore, as the appellant had been fined for not
1 having that license, ft was Impoleible that the Court
could confirm such conviction. The bye-law was clearly
defective, and therefore, supposing that the judgment
which the Court was now expressing was correct, it was
quite apparent that new bye-laws were required for the
regulation of the Thames. The question which was in-
volved in the matter was, without doubt, one of too
great and general importance to be finally determined in
that court. It was important to the Court of Aldermen,
inasmuch as it affected their powers and jurisdiction; it
was important to the Watermen's Company, it was im-
portant to all those persons who aeted as the captains
and commanders of steam-vessels, and it was of im-
portance, especially to all those who had a large capital
embarked in the steam-navigation of the river and the
traffic of steam-boats. Taking the point, therefore, as
to the mode of' granting license as the main ground of
its decision, the Court made an order for quashing the
conviction.

STEPHEN MACKLEY V. THE CONVICTION OF E. YARDLEY,

ESQ.
This case was the same as the above, and the ruling
of the Court was, therefore, held to be applicable to both.
Conviction quashed.

This decision, if we remember rightly, is in direct op-
position to that delivered a week or two since at the
London Sessions by the Recorder.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
W ORSHIP-S TREE T.
A young married woman, named Elizabeth Gardner,
was charged with violently assaulting and threatening to
stab her husband, Henry Gardner, with a knife.
The husband, who was evidently in great apprehen-
sion of the prisoner, though a very little woman, stated
that he had only been married to his wife a short time
when ho had the misfortune to get into some trouble,
which led to his being confined for a considerable period
in the House of Correction, and that about a fortnight
after his incarceration commenced he received a letter
from the prisoner, in which, while protesting the most
devoted affection for him, she stated, that the
whole of their goods having been seized upon, she had
had been compelled to apply for support to the parish
officers, who had afforded her two nights' shelter in the
workhouse, and that, as she had received an offer of
protection front a male friend of the witness's until he
was liberated, she hoped he would not object to her ac-
cepting it. He felt very indignant at such an extra-
ordinary communication, and refused to answer it, the
result of which was, that the prisoner took his silence
for consent, and although she had accepted the other
man's offer, and lived with him as his wife, she never-
theless wrote him five or six other notes (which he
handed up to the bench), all of them filled with the most
affectionate protestations, and in the last of which, re-
ceived the day before he was liberated, she expressed her
intention to quit the other man, and meet witness next
morning on his discharge at the prison-gate. Punctual
0) the moment he found the prisoner there to receive
him, when she pointed out so forcibly the destitution
she had her r' thrown into by his imprisonment, and
so pathetically appealed to him for forgiveness, that,
thinking she had been driven to misconduct
by necessity, he reluctantly agreed to receive
her, and accompanied her to some lodgings she
had hired in Spitalfields. There, however, some cir-
cumstances came to his knowledge which induced him
to revoke his resolution, and he expressed to her his
determination never again to acknowledge her ; upon
which she became dreadfully excited, smashed Vie win-
dows to pieces, held him by the throat till he was nearly
black in the face, kicked him furiously on several parts
of his person, and finally declaring that she was resolved
no other woman should possess him if she could not,
and that she would " finish" him to prevent it, seized a
table-knife, and attempted or threatened to stab him
with it. A violent struggle ensued between them, in
which he was obliged to use her roughly to escape her
violence, and having succeeded at length in wresting
the weapon from her, he applied to this court for pro-
tection.
A woman named Montgomery, who was present at
the time of the contest, described it in nearly the same
terms as the husband, but added, that the latter struck
his wife two very severe blows across the face in the
course of it.
When called upon for her defence, the prisoner, who
had been sobbing hysterically from the commencement,
said that although she knew she had so acted that she
could scarcely expect to be forgiven, she had been forced
to act as she had done, as her husband: returned her no
answer to her letters, she was in a state of the utmost
destitution while he was in prison, and had no home to
go to or friends to receive her. The instant the com-
plainant was liberated she hastened to meet him, and
begged for his pardon, which she thought he had granted
her; but he suddenly changed his mind, and ordered her
out of the house, and told her to go to the workhouse,
an order that so hurt her feelings that, in her despair,
she scarcely knew what she did, but she certainly did
not attempt to injure him until he had several times
struck her cruelly.
The complainant expressed a wish that his wife should
not be severely punished, but he wanted security from
her uncontrollable temper, and the Magistrate, therefore,
after forcibly animadverting upon her conduct, ordered
her to put in two substantial sureties for her peaceable
behaviour for the next six weeks—a virtual sentence of
imprisonment for that time, as she could not find them.
On hearing the decision the prisoner rushed towards
her husband, flung herself upon her knees, and implor-
ingly entreated his forgiveness, but the complainant was
iue:.orable, and it was with the foreeatheeart thathduittisbeaunitdvfrom
her grasp, she clung to him with such tenacity.
LAMBETH.
Alderman, the gaoler, c
could release
•

John Simpson, alias Scott, and Mary Ann Simpson,
alias Taylor, who have been in custody for nearly a
month on a charge of stealing a silver tea service and va-
rious articles of jewellery, of the value of 1001., the pro-
perty of Mr. John Edwards, a gentleman residing in
Camberwell-green, were placed at the bar before Mr.
Norton for final examination.
In addition to the evidence already published in The
Sun, from which it appeared that the property had been
stolen from the bedroom of Mr. Edwards on-the evening
of Sunday, the 31st of October last, while the family
were at church, and two days after was seen in the
pos-
rnsdt
en witnesst
of
f police yesterdayatiiid
dwear
session of the prisoners, one of whom, the woman, had
been in the service of Mr. Edwards.
that between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock on the night
was Mr.
inisrt.e rj, owh n
hoPde et ep
or ss'e da
of Friday, the 12th of last month, he apprehended the
prisoners at the Wheatsheaf Inn, Kidderminster. He
superThei n tfie
found them in bed together, and told them that he took
them in custody on a charge of stealing a quantity of
plate and other property, belonging to Mr. Edwards, of
Camberwell-green, upon which the male prisoner ex-
claimed, " Well, I suppose we'll be both sent over the
water for it." The woman said nothing. He (wit-
ness)__ told the servant at the inn to examinecarent
thef
carefully
the bed in which the prisoners had been,
henand
then
following day he received the mourning-ring
now present. He also re-
produced, from Harriet Hill,
ceived from the mother of the female prisoner eight
rings
ir of ear-drops, a broken seal,
and a small 9 silver knife, two brooches, apa
which she said she had received
from her daughter, all of which were identified by Mr.
Edwards as his property, and stolen from his house.
In reply to a question from Mr. NORTON, the witness
said he had known the female prisoner from childhood,
and was not aware that she had been before guilty of any

offence.
•
Harriet Hill, chambermaid at the Wheatsheaf Inn,
Kidderminster, stated that on the night of Friday, the
12th of last month, about eleven o'clock, the prisoners
came to her master's house and engaged a bed. They
retired to rest almost immediately after, but were not in
the house more than half an hour when Mr. Peters
came and apprehended them. On their being taken out
of the bed-room witness locked it up, so that no person
had access to it until the following day, when she went there, and on examining the bed she found a mourning-
ring similar to that which she had seen the male pri
soner wear on the night before.
Inspector Campbell, in reply to the questions of the
Magistrate, said he had communicated with the autho-
rities at Liverpool, where the prisoner had been three
times convicted, and where he was at present charged
with a daring attempt at highway robbery, and that he
expected the presence of an officer at the Old Bailey to
prove these facts.

fThe depositions were read over, and h moneys
were fully committed for trial.
WESTMINSTER'.
Mr.
a Thomas
thisoma
courtsi to preferAnsley,shoima
M.P.against forYo
George
übl,at-
ten
charge-
Lamb, a cab-driver, under the following circumstaaoitces:—
, Mr. Anstey stated that he hired defendant's cab at
envie- bar at about 4 o'clock on the- previous after-
n on, and ordered him to drive to the House of Com-
ns. As be was rather late, he alighted hastily at
e Members' door, and as a gentleman who had ac-
companied him, and who had some books with him,
was to be conveyed back to Temple-bar, he left him to
pay the fare. Complainant told the cabman at the time
he was set down that he was late, and that the gentle-
man would go back with him, but he did not remember
whether he told the defendant that the gentleman would
pay him. About three hours afterwards, on going into
the cloak-room, he found the books belonging to the
gentleman before alluded to, and on leaving the House
with some other Members at half-past twelve o'clock,
complainant found the defendant waiting, and he de-
manded 12s. as his fare. Complainant asked to see his
badge, expressing his willingness to pay him if he would
produce it, as, in the event of its turning out upon inquiry
that anything was wrong, he might have his remedy.
Defendant asked the gentleman for his card, when he
told him that he would prefer paying him and taking
his number to giving it. Defendant said he had not got
his badge, but if he would come with him to where his
cab was standing, he could take the number of it. Com-
plainant told him that he did not want the number of his
cab, but the production of the badge only would satisfy
him ; upon which defendant repeated that he had not
got it, adding, that he did not conceive he wanted it, as
he was not then driving. Complainant had some papers
of importance in a bag, and as it was raining hard,
he walked on to, get a cab, lest they should be
wetted. Complainant was about placing the bag in
a cab when the defendant shouted to the
driver, " I give you notice, you cannot take
that gentleman, he is my fare." Defendant then
thrust himself between complainant and the cab, and
prevented his getting in by laying his hands upon him,
but not striking him. Complainant had to ward him off, „
and it cost him some effort to put him aside. Defendant
resisted him with great force, and finding it difficult to
get into the cab withouts personal struggle with de-
fendant he gave him into custody. Complainant, on
concluding his statement, said that if the defendant had
shown him his badge he should at once have paid him.
In reply to an inquiry from defendant,
Mr. Anstey said be told him that he would pay him Si.
if he demanded it, if las would show hiS badge.
Defendant. in-reply -to the charge, said the getitleman
g•ot out, and the CODIARMO on duty at the Houses of Par •
hament ordered'hiir to draw over to where cabs stand..
He (defendant) found- .the booki in his cab, and asked
the policeman what was to be done with them, when
he referred him to the superintendent of the lobby,
who said he thought they belonged to complainant,
and he sent a clerk to inquire. Defendant waited
till complainant came out, and asked him to pay
him, when he replied that he never told him to wait,
but would pay him :504 if he demanded it. He,
however, never offered to pay him anything. Ha told
complainant that the badge was in his cab, and he would
fetch it, or he (complainant) might if he liked. Defen-
dant admitted that he followed the gentleman, and got
before the cab door to prevent his entering.
The constable who took defendant proved seeing him
take his badge from out of his cab as he:passed.on his way
to the station.
Mr. BRODERIP inquired whether Mr. Anstey knew
whether the fare had been paid by the other gentleman ?
Mr. Anstey replied that he was unable to say, as he
had not had an opportunity of seeing the gentleman
since.
Mr. BRODERIP observed that he was not at all sur-
prised at a gentleman refusing to give a cabman his card,
as it was impossible to say to what use it might be put.
He remembered an instance where very unpleasant cir-
cumstances resulted from a gentleman haling done so.
If Mr. Anstey prayed the judgment of the Court against
defendant for his misconduct, he would give it at once,
or adjourn the matter if Mr. Anstey wished to see his
friend first.
Mr. Anstey having expressed a wish to inquire of his
friend, with respect to the fare, before the matter was
decided,
Mr. BRODERIP ordered defendant to find bail for his
appearance on Monday next.

STORM IN THE FRITH OF FORTH.

The storm which visited this coast on Monday night
and yesterday morning has left traces of its effects
which will cause it to be long remembered at Leith, and
along .the southern shores of the Frith. . It was felt also
very severely in the streets of Edinburgh; but, beyond
the fall of a few chimney cans, we have heard of no da-
mage in the town. By 8 o'clock P.m. the wind,
which had been for some time increasing, was
very violent, and, with the rise of the tide, became
in every sense a complete storm. The tide rose to an
unprecedented height, about eight to ten feet higher than
usual, and the waves ran thirty feet further in shore
than they ever were known to reach before. Many, if
not all, of the vessels in Leith Roads drove with their
anchors, while some of them set sail, and with much
difficulty, and at great tisk, succeeded in gaining the
harbour. A stone stair at the upper drawbridge has
been 14) shaken, by a vessel having comp :n contact with
it, that the stair, along with a part of the m usury of the
quay, will require to be rebuilt. Te the eastward of
the town, the tide, driven up through the avenues at
the glass-houses to the public road, inundated many of
the dwelling-houses, and deluged the seep-works and
other establishents with sea,water to the extent of three
or four fret in depth,. causing consi•ltrable loss to the,
tenants. Indeed, so Impetuous: was the gale, that the
Hater was lashed with irresistible force over the high
railway embankments opposite Seatield to the public
road. To the westward of the town matters were,
if possible, still worse. A complete embargo was
put upon everything in the shape of pedestrianism
on the road between Leith and Newhaven. 'I he embank-
ments at variou3 places have been literally p!oughed
op and washed away, more especialty at the foot of
Albany street, near the Port, a great part of the bul-
warks and embankments have been carried away.
The place, too, generally called the " Murder Trap,"
which was repaired lately, has also suffered a
good deal ; for, although the piles are still stand-
ing; the surrounding earth, in which they were im-
bedded, has been washed away, as also a part of
the stone bulwark near the Sarno place. The effeots
of the storm at Newhaven were truly disastrous. yes-
terday morning the beach, all the veay iron the Stone
Pier at Newhaven to Granton, was strewn with the
wrecks of fishermen's boats and yawls; the remains
of those which been lying on the besch before the
tide cngulphed them. Judging from the appearance
on the beach, there must have been from thirty to
forty of them complete wrecks. Besides, we un-
derstand that twenty-six boats left Newhaven in the
course of Monday afternoon for the herring fishery.
The sea was perfectly calm at the time, but, fortunately,
they had not proceeded far when the squall was observed,
and the boats, it is believed, with the exception of two,
which are missing, ran with all possible speed, some for
Granton, others for Newhaven, and another portion for
liurntisland, where they remained safe till the gale began
to blow from the north, which deprived them of all shelter.
The result is, we regret to say, that out of the twenty-
six boats which put to sea, twenty foundered and went
down, many of them with their nets, inflicting a loss
upou the unfortunate owners averaging in each case from
601. to 701. This catastrophe could not be avoided, as
fishing boats are uninsurable. To the industrious
fishermen and their families such a state of things is
indeed very lamentable and distressing. Three sloops,
which were riding at anchor off Granton, have been
cast ashore ; two of them have gone to pieces, one
of them named the Tontine, of St. David's. An-
other, called the Ann, of St. David's, is lying oil the
beach with her bottom out. The sea-wall of the rail-
wey from Trinity to Granton Pier is, the greats part of
it, washed down. Pere and tilers portions of it
remain standing,. but, more e•pecially towards Gran-
ton Pier, it is a mass of ruiti,. ne of the jetties at
the eastern side of the pier, as also a slip or low
water pier, which has been in course of erection at
the same aide, together with the stage for the divin-
bell, have been completely washed away. The
sea-wall to the westward of Granton Pier, extendingoli
with
as far as the Duke's Quarry, has alsobeennaeorrterla .y
destroyed, the quarry being filled seaA
large barque, named the Georges, of Leith, laden with
timber, from America, drove on the bank, between the
extremity of Leith Pier and the beacon, lost her
rudder, and filled with water, but is expected to
be got off next tide. We regret 'to learn,.. also, that,
the pier at Cockenzie, about twelve miles east, has
been destroyed, and all the boats belonging to the place
t two. The steamers in the
have been swamped except
Frith did not make their usual trips on Monday, and
fortunately the Aberdeen boats had just du' contiaued
plying on Mondays. We fear we have mentioned only
a few of the lamentable casualties attending this dread-
ful storm. Earnestly is it to be hoped that the disaster
at sea may not prove to be so groat as the severity of
the tempest in this quarter may naturally have led
many to anticipate.
DUNBAR, DEC. 7.—Last night was a perfect hurri-
cane. It is said we have not had such a 'torus for these
six years. Great damage is done to all property lying
along the coast. The number of wrecks spoken of is
fearful; but it would be wrong to give particulars until
authentic accounts have been received. It is said
fifteen wind-bound vessels left Eyemouth yesterday,
none of which have yet been heard of. A Belgian
saden loop, Le
wh Rodeur, from Bruges for Glasgow,
appl
las at saved. A coal keeles, liesis nearhore her ; crew saved.Skateraw; Increw the
Cove Bay, the schooner Agenora,
of Berwick, on shore,
all hands lost. At Siccar Point, a foreign barque is on
the rocks, crew, to the number of thirteen, on the rig-
ging, seen from the shore. The Preventive men have
left by the train, with Manley's apparatus, in the hope
of getting them on shore, as it is impossible to get near
them by boats in the present state of the weather. The
barque is to pieces, and crew lost.—Edinburgls Evening
Post.

The Obtervateur des Pyrexees relates the following
amusing anecdote of Mme. Dorval, the celebrated actress:
—" The diligence, after stopping at the Hotel de la Dan-
rade, at Pau, was about to start again for Tarbes, when
a crowd was collected at the door of the coup. It ap-
peared that two lofty dames of the chief town of the
department were exclaiming with indignation at the idea
of being obliged to travel side by side with an actress,
and protested against her being admitted, although she
had engaged and paid for her place. Mine. Dorval
treated their pretensions with contempt, saying, Well,
ladies ! you shall have the honour of riding with ray
servant, whom she immediately seated in the coupt,
contenting herself with taking the seat of the 'errant,
on the top of the diligence."