The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Mr. Watson, a baker, 167, Fleet-street, was summoned
before Sir Chapman Marshall for refusing to weigh a
21b. loaf at the desire of a customer.

John Raymond, of Stanhope-street, Clare market,
stated, that having purchased a loaf at the defendant's
shop, which he found to be two ounces -short of weight,
the nest time he had occasion to call he requested the
person who served him to weigh the loaf. This he re.
fused to do, saying, the best bread was never weighed
to the customer, but was weighed before it was put into
the oven, with a due allowance for the loss that would
occur during the baking. This was on Friday last.
There was a beggar m the shop at the time, and he re-
quested him to take notice of what had occurred. Upon
weighing the second loaf it was found to be an ounce
and a half short.

Mr. Watson said, he was sorry the complainant did
not produce one of the alleged deficient loaves—not that
the misfortune to send out a light loaf might not happen
to any tradesman. He had carried on business in F►eet-
street for above nine years, and his character had never
been impeached in this way before. His son, who was
an inexperienced youth, had served the complainant,
and his son's statement was that the former asked if the
bread was weight, and not to have it weighed. He could
rely on every word his son said. The ordinary course
he took was to weigh the loaves before and after they
were baked, from time to time, to ascertain the loss of
weight in baking, and render the weighing of the bread
before it was sent out to customers unnecessary. It was
only necessary to ascertain the rate of loss by baking at
intervals of a few days. He offered his son as a wit-
ness, and to call bis neighbours to speak as to his cha-
racter.

The complainant said, he did not see why the best
bread should not be weighed as well as any other. He
complained for the benefit of the public. The defendant
had no rcales in the shop for weighing bread.
Mr. Watson, with some warmth, stated that this was
not the truth. He should like to know how the com-
plainant got his living. _ _ _

- The complainant replied, that was irrelevant. He got
it as honestly as Mr. Watson.
Sir C. MARSHALL said he might inflict a fine not ex-
ceeding 405., but he would rather avoid disgracing Mr.
Watson by any fine, if possible, as he had conducted his
business as honestly and as respectably as his neigh-
'sours for many years, if that might be inferred from the
absence of any complaint. Mr. Watson did not deny
that the best bread was liable to be weigh( d at the re-
quest of a customer. The complainant had dhne his
duty in obtaining a summons under such circumstances,
and ought not to suffer any loss on that account. He
would abstain from inquiring further into the case if Mr.
Watson would pay the costs and give the complainant
some compensation for the loss of his time. He pre-
sumed such a circumstance would- never occur again at
Mr. Watson's.

Mr. Watson assented to this arrangement, and gave
the complainant ss. for his loss of time.

ASHRURTON.—EIeetion matters appear to interest
the inhabitants of this borough but very little. Many years,
we believe, will pass away before such scenes as was wit-
nessed at the elections of Charles Lushington, Esq., and Mr.
Jardine, opposition at that period being very great with both
Whigs and Conservatives. This borough has returned Re-
formers for many years, and now in the person of its repre-
sentative, James Matheson, Esq. Let the election come
when it may, his return is sure. Ashburton may well be
proud in having such a man as Mr. Matheson for their repre-
sentative. Long may he continue, we believe, is the heartfelt
wish of all classes of persons in the town.—From a Corre-
spondent.
THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. The
young woman who committed suicide by throwing herself
under the express train of the South-Western Railway. near
Wandsworth, on Wednesday morning, was 19 years of age.
Her name was Frances A. Arney. Her parents reside at
Barton, near Gosport. She left home to go to service at
Southsea, about three weeks since. On Saturday last she
was suspected of having robbed her mistress, and her boxes
were searched, but nothing was found. The suspicion preyed
upon her mind, and on Sunday she left the house upon the
pretence of going to church, but did not return. Her mis-
tress received a letter from her the next day, in which she
said that she had been disgraced by having her boxes
searched ; that she would never return either to her place
or family, but that she would take arsenic. An inquest was
held, when the above facts came out in evidence. The jury
returned a verdict, "That the deceased died from injuries by
a locomotive engine striking her, she being on the line of the
London and South-Western Railway, being at the time in a
state of temporary mental derangement."
SHAKSPEARE S HOUSE.—The preient proprietors
of the place of our great poet's birth are, it appears, com-
pelled to sell it, by the terms of the will of a former owner.
The house is a freehold, and is valued at something like
2,0001. This valuation has been formed on the number of
visitors. In 1846 it was calculated that something like 3,000
people had visited the house, though not more than 2,500
had entered their names in the bout( kept fur the purpose.
The house will be sold by auction in the course of the sum-
mer, and one or two enthusiastic Jonathans have already
arrived from America, determined to see what dollars can do
in taking it away. The timbers, it is said, are all sound, and
it would be no very difficult matter to set it on wheels and
make an exhibition of it. We hope and trust that no such
desecration awaits it. Wholly irrespective of Shakspeare, as
one of the few existing examples of an English yeoman's re-
sidence of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it merits to be pre-
served and retained among us.
CASUALTIES OF WHALE CATCHING.—The Facto
has on board 2,lso):arrels black, and 35 barrels spermr
having taken about 180 barrels since leaving Sydney on.
the 19th September last. The following vessels have
been reported by her. At Stewart's Island, December
7, 1846, the Fortitude, barque, of Hobart Town, Cap-
tain Bailey, one month out, clean ; lowered after a large
sperm whale, off Solander's Island, on the evening of
the sth, and killed him, but lost sight of the barque, so
remained by the whale all night (the three boats). At
daylight the weather was very bad ; they saw the ship
to leeward, distance three leagues. Captain Bailey left
the whale with the two boats, with the intention of going
on board. When within three hundred yards of the
vessel a sea broke into the boat and capsized her. They
saw this accident from the ship, but lost their presence
of mind, and were consequently unable to render any
assistance. As soon as the mates arrived alongside with
the whale, the people on board informed them of the
accident, but knew not where to direct them in search
of the captain. When at last they did find the boat,
the captain was delirious and nearly dead, and dreadfully
bruised, having been in the water three hours. All the
rest had perished. Singular to say, the captain was the
only man in the boat who could not swim. The mate
left the whale, and took the barque into Paterson's
River, Stewart's Island. She was spoken off the Solan-
ders, December 26, Captain Bailey much better, able to
go on deck ; and again, January 11, 1847, the captain
able to go in his boat.—Sydney Morning Herald.
BEAUTIES or- NATURE.—IIOW beautiful to the
eye in a pastoral region, the silent
green dissolving snow-wreaths that yet
and
hills the
from
heartem
seemed
bleakest create
deso-
lation. e
s o .
a
linger at their feet ! A few warm sunny days, and a
thefew sweet
ty seasonand moeflstpinrgingnioguhttos,f havewinter's
believe that ouch brightness to
itness of
verduren•could
We
eceenlyshrouded in the snow, blending
ahr
itilee
havean sscarcely
itself, as it now does, so vividly with the deep blue
of heaven. With the revival of nature our own souls
feel restored ; happiness becomes milder, meeker, and
;
richer in pensive thought
while sorrow catches a
faint tinge of joy, and reposesitself on the quietness of
earth's opening breast. Then is youth rejoicing, man-
hood sedate, and old age resigned. The child shakes
his golden curls in his
glee—he of riper life hails the
coming year with temperate exultation—and the eye
that has been touched with dimness, in the general spirit
of delight, forgets, or fears
not the shadows of the grave.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HO OF 6(1,1 I MONS, June 14. •
for a
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition, praying
repeal of the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Act.
PORTUGAL—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
Mr. BORTH WICK resumed the adjourned debate,
Ho regretted that the present question did not come
fore the the House for discussion at a much earlier periQd'
The Nob'e Lord said, that in the then state of the liege"
tiatiens he could give no direct information, but that
the interference, if made, would be effectual for the
protection 01 the Queen, and fur thst eilso of the British
residents in Portugal. The Noble Lord had given the
same reply, and this was all the information which titter
the House or the country could obtain until a Fro('
newspaper published the protocol on which
all
interference was founded, to all Europe. I°, °
the foreign politics of the country he (Mr. Borthwiesti
had always, to use the words of a Right Hon Frio, .
near him, adopted the plain and open course preserib 1
by the eonstitu'ion. This was what he had adviseud
when her Majesty was about to pay a visit to a foreig_
potentate, but neither in that instance nor to
this had the Noble Lord adopted such a eours
He could not but blame the Government for interfer!!
pursued 11i,..
pith the affairs of Portugal until they had
usual constitutional course of taking the opinion sod ad-
usual
vice of that House upon the subjset, as Air. Canning "1,.
in 18e6os hen a similar interference a as asked by Furor
The Noble Lord said that it was necessary to interioewre
for the interests of Portugal and of this country. N 4
if it should be proved that the result of this interterrn,
had not been attended with these benefits, but, on the con'
trary, tended to alienate the aflections of the Portuguese,
people from this country, and to disturb th ileace
and
Europe, what then would bi came of the argtiloer!"
the course of conduct pursued by her MeiestY su
vernment? He wished to know frig the Noble Lord t
at the head of the Foreign Affairs whether the prsea_
prisoners of war in Portugal, who had been in ores
under Sada Bandeira, were not entrapped into their
present position ? He hoped the Noble Lord would giv
i on this pint,
by giving it the means to form a correct judgment oc.
them. It was to this description of violation of systei
ments, it was to the present description of the
sadebed.
and enable the House0
law that tho Queen of England's name
name of Parliament was asked to be atts de.
The lion. Gentleman then proceeded to relate, IP,ice
tail, the political intrigues which had lately taken Tol_,,
in Portugal, under the influence and direction of
.Ull.
Cabral, remarking that those intrigues produced °_ir.„
and eventually
content throughout the whole country,
Costa Cabral was obliged to retreat from
Duke of Pahnella was then called into office, coca
pd
proclamation and proceedings of that honest °ilea erce
in
uad all but restored tranquillity and revived eein the
Portugal, when the Queen acting toe undeireso
advice ot the Cabralists, drove that patriotic No e els
from her Councils, and re lacin him by the
who
office. d
the
of Saldanha, and the creaturesPg of Cabral, !lee-
succeeded in bringing that unhappy country to bee
sent lamentable condition. The- Noble Lord et f
head of the Government had represented that stale' °"
attics'
things to be the result of the proceedings of threehr oaf
who had possession of the country, nadu'lY'r.l;tee; and
attached to the cause of the Queen—the sPu-- ' but
those who followed the fortunes of Don oguel;
r)
/Heart hes
' that representation was not correct.--s be the
The true cause of the discontent evinced
the v.
people of Portugal was produced by (!lase)t
rannical intrigues and unblushing bere
The Hon. Member for Cork was a repealer, bat! that
was never any objection made to taking the vote ei Ti
to
Hon. Member on subjects which came before the liteod to
of the House, neither was it fur a moment attewPto be.
be insinuated that the Government were inclined _ that
come repealers. The case was decidedly parallel le u
Lord
of Portugal in the present instance. The Sab'blooll
had said, that had the Junta of Oporto succeeded,
would have flowed in the streets. 'There was "O ibullree*
tion at all for such a charge, neither was there aquatire
son for supposing that more acts of cruelty or itii bad
already been committed by that party of
Noble Lord called the constitutional party e' stated
tugal.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord ha 3 tiiiot'pted
that by the course the Government had a such
an end would be put to despotism. It was as° dead
thing. All that he had secured was the ghost 0. tintiea
constitution. The charter of 1826, of which ille by
had been made, had been gambled and frittered allele its
a thousand Acts. Why, the Queen herself was fi
e" and
fortune itself, and she had violated her promises bet
pledges to the people as often as she had rose froilloto
rest, He wished to know from the Noble Lord,po of
the Government intended to bring back the Prisan-tbere'
Torres Vedrato and whence they intended to bring t eeen
They talked largely of an amnesty, but they didLord° .tbe
know where those prisoner. were. The Noble OO,
Member for Lynn knew positively that theYs in'i•
already bOund to, if not arrived at, Angola. fbee-aor t°
riners were to have been sent to the Agfore's feles.
adeira, or to some other place rather than `''',,titell
of
this was communicated in secret to the represemorter
her Britannic Majesty in Portugal, but it "stetted
wards discovered by Mr. Southeron, and coPilliehn't tbe
to the Noble Lord the Foreign Secretary, trill' 00!
engagement entered into was not to be kept' Payee,
the prisoners were sent to Angola. The reaso".o atou
for this breach of faith was the interference of v°,7, tbe
on their behalf. He would ask, then, when this;drsst
case with regard to the prisoners of Torres weet•
what guarantee had they that any other eligmagebe 0h;
with regard to the affairs of Portugal, w" e. marl
served by the Queen of that country ?—(11e11,•:, pie °A
What security did the Noble Lord giro the Papeete
Portugal that their liberties would be aeu-r lit
new that the insurrection was said to be ' aso
ri
He (Mr. P. Borthwick) said in his tiger'le hs-
the House of Commons that no intimation whe ,geli
been given to Das Antes that hostilities ' tild be ri
VI.
vso mese
against him by time British force. The Non' 7 ut 1,
read several extracts from the instructionwshssertnee°l.l3bl:ii
Colonel Wylde, to show that no notice
been given him that such were the intentionalo. theen 00
tish Government, and no such instructions ba be ge de.
out to him by the Noble Lord.—(lieer, bear) edeau-;
nied that the Noble Lord had made any such cfeeve
cation, and he now called upon him to get op waded, had
the conduct of Colonel Wylde, who, he maintain Ole
used a threat to Sa Da Bandiera which was conteageer.)
in its nature and false in its foundation.—(llea' iseince
0- the s. ..
of Orange and that of the
There was no similarity between the cases 1
.in the
one ease the people sought the Poncee t 0 bec.ors- to
were disuni deresdte,
monarch ; in the other, the people
The people :ill such
whom should be the sovereign.
united and distracted, and whilst the country w:
Queen ortugal _ their
a state it was impolitic in the for this
country to interfere. In 1830 tithe peopletbis B
cow] tri
rose and deposed their sovereign' but
I constitution.
interfered to re-establish the rnonarchia
difference
he,
Of this he did not complain, because the a, es wall/
tween the case of Belgium and of Portugal w"titi being
Wisest degroe f
_eigioo3
great. The interference being
looked upon with jealousy, and as a wantolli, notigmill,
called for act by a vast mass of the people of K°tioo °'
they would find that it would result in the lessen e
tbs
the country, in the annihilation of her trade, sod his
bloodshed of her people. In order to illustrate ti at
argument, the Hon. and Learned Gen
impolitic, a a
_d
00.
demist% refev.evot,
somee length to the works of Grotius and „,°stiie
g importance
was f r o
ofm 0
panpt
ohseaemldli,
antoetebathte.tl
of
England"
The
and Portugal was admitted by betweenhaew :Ohl? this riii; at: il
I°,l Veri
every olie,tord.
by no one with greater force titan the N ''.• Noble
...aell
There was no r g eater fallacy in the Noble Lord'sr 0
than that the interference of thisooto
country would P_robitci
and strengthen our alliance with Portugal, but thesi Os
which it had in view was opposed to the will °f The
people, anti therefore could
end of it would be this
—either
to that (.'n_ci ~,f its
end destrectioen_h.o.
Crown, the establishment of a republic in Port E;tesn
the absorption of that country by Spain—an aci of
would be
against
the whole vile - ••to f
which this „so
had pursued for centuries. HePdelmyed that there - t°
wed
ogrroundfor believing that the Miguelites iotteetiss
the gantse a conspiracy for the purpose of sti"",,- ode
sovereignty of Portugal. Louis phinstoe We—Are
the throne of France, - --, r„„ to 15-
because he was pieebi- ele"-m°
utterance and to support the doctrines of the Pe°l ph"
support popular principles ; and was it not rein° pee l
that he should have lent himself to this interter one to
but there was nothing in the documents to lead Gtest
believe that France would have interfered 4'
en s° for
Britain had declined. He a 1 " d to the s'll°-5d
the length to which his Po
apologised
de, 00 r
address had exten cote 9
conclusion begged to ask the Noble Lord, the eaiontibl°
of State for Foreign Affairs, upon the broad unrio,es' of the
principle of the law of nations—upon a koevviergoef arrsi
the state
erect
alliance and amity subsisting between
Britain and Portugal, with a view to the Prstoeiti
benefit of Europe, and of the main cape of' that...soff
he could lt;o of
and that friendly and close alliance, how
the course which he had adopted
the people
the Prte:i
outraged humanity, in the name of the people 0' olio,
gal, who had been deprived of their liberties, Itesti,
of her D45J,,.000
upon the Noble Lord the • •
representative ons" be
to stand up in
his place, and to vindicate this te 3 to
exception—for he tLord Palmerston) admitted I , fo'
AA our ;0
an exception to the general rule which guide facts'
reign policy. He asked him to show by some eh
one _
addition to that already published not even in the
ete-be
of the Noble Lord at the heed of the Gorernlneed bile
asked him to explain the necessity that bad ago tole
to depart' from the universal rule—from the goer 0.
SO ~f
of diplomatic practice
at a loss to know why they protected the s'4" hear',
Portugal rather than other tyrant--(, bets
All any
All the
heirs,
save one, to the Crown of Spat", re tad
married to persons beneath their rank, and ".'peedda
prevented from inheriting the Crown; one re bat
00
that was the Duke de Montpensier; and wunotbitigr
wanting to render his claim complete? Whio brad efett
but the severance of Portugal and Spain; and i al fl•°-
been the policy of this country to prevent rortug ties,
being absorbed by the latter country; and wllV'talteli.
should we desert the course which we had eateyerteo.
He would again apologise for having occupied O
tion of the
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF -,-House. bet-r. do99.ese
a Lb°
Messengers from the House of Lords brong
certain Bills, which were bid upon the table
the
House. bi e
H Mr. CRISTIE defended the course takeLloie tba
Government, which had taken measures to l?un ',eV;
Queen's consent to the terms of the constitutlelee 1•:ti
they consented to interfere. The Hon. lideo asit„r
Wycombe demanded more for the people that''", ferh-t
for by the Junta, and his notions of liberty Wen' 0
-a OA 'Ol
than those whom he represented, for he sat , „ otigim
he desired was, the charter of Don Pedro in 'trtt eot ';e:
integrity.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord di tin of
ntber, ~.„ o
terfere to give ore party a triumph over Souse chorib of
order to restore peace to Portugal; end I' co°-,t
aiding ar.d abetting despotism in snothed: igeiflo
was as unfounded as if it were tea tit
aSsibnet
the Presbyterian gentry of England who foug_o
the Crown, in order to obtain Oonstitutionsti 117,