The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

SIMT, LONDON, TIUE,SDAY, DVCEIVIIItn 7, 1841.

EXCHEQFJEIt-(T 111 S tiAY.)

BunN V. BEATLY.
This was an action upon a bill of exchange for 1001.
of which the defendant was the acceptor.

Mr. MILE contented himself with proving the hand-
writing of the defendant to the bill.
Mr. KELLY, fur the defendant. said that was one of the
most impudent actions which had ever been brought into
Court. He would most clearly show that-the bill was
given to Guiness, who appeared on it as an indorser, for
money lost at his, house at play. In the latter part of
1840, a brother officer and the defendant belonged to a
reginient, then lying in Dublin; got introduced to
Guiness, and were by him taken to his hazard table, to
which they became frequent visitors to the great detri-
ment of their fortunes. After losing near 2,0001. they
were again at the table, and lost to the amount of 804
and, being short of cash, Guiness proposed that if they
would play at his tables again he would advance them
201. making4oo/. in all, and he would take their joint
bill for the amount. They agreed to this. The
bill was given, they played, and lost the 20/., and
so invariable had been their losses that they took
away with them two of the dice With which they
played, and on breaking them they were found to be
loaded in such a manner as to make them al A ays turn
up in favour of the bank. The regiment did not stay
long enough in Dublin to give these plundered gentle..
men an opportunity of indicting Guineas, and although
they would, as honourable gentlemen, have paid losses
if fairly won of them, they felt bound to resist the pay-
ment of money so unfairly taken from them. In such
an action he would consider it his duty to take advan-
tage of every technical objection that presented itself.
It would turn out that the (late of the bill had been
altered since the time it was made by the defendant.
If he proved that fact, then he would be entitled to
their verdict.

He then called the drawer of the bill, who deposed as
above. The date had undoubtedly been altered, because
he obtained leave of .absence on the 15th of November,
and he went to the country on the.l7th. He believed it
was originally dat6d 13th'Nefektnber.
The Jury founda verdict .for the defendant on both
grounds.
ovin V. PARKER.
Mr. BAGEEY said; the plaintiff in this case was a wine-
grower in Ay, in Frithee, *ho had supplied the de-
fendant, a wine xnerchtint, in Lower Thames-street, with
a quantity of champagiV, for whi9h the bill for 1691.,
now sought to be repokairedi Waa:gi*n. He would prove
the acceptance of tio& he *as totally unable to
form even a conjecture to what defence could be set up.
Mr. Bonassi, the' pini:ntiff's -agatt, proved the delivery
of the wine, and the.licesptauee'.,i)f -the bill by the de-
fendant. In his cross-exarnination by Mr. Dasent, he
said he never knew [My bat'ene John Parker; he had
always dealt with him, ae-d .uever with his brother. He
had seen the brother in the counting-house, but he hsd
always considered him merely as clerk to his brother.
Mr. DASENT addressed the'JuTy,:and suggested that
the witness had got confused between the 'two brothers.
The action was brought against Benjamin Parker. The
wine was sold to John Parker and Co.; and John Parker
was the party liable.
The Jury immediately found for the plaintiff for the
sum claimed.

COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY).

CLARIDGE V. 3I'KENZIE.

This was an action for trespass and illegal distress,
brought to try the right to certain premises in High-
street, Marylebone. It appeared, from a voluminous
mass of documentary evidence, consisting of leases, as-
signments, and the various licences and assignments
(from 1751) of the Marylebone Coffee-house (now Wa-
terloo Arms), which was originally a parcel of
the same leasehold property as the premises in ques-
tion, that the father of Miss M'Kenzie, the
defendant, holding by lease under the Duke of Portland,
demised in 1810 •the remainder of his term, or "24
years " in the premises north and south of the Maryle-
bone Coffee-house, to an architect named Tilbury. The
latter having built on both lots, let the houses to two
persons, of whom the plaintiff was one. In 1828 Tilbury
informed his tenants that his interest had expired, and
that the Duke of Portland was thenceforth their
landlord. Miss M'Kenzie, however, insisted that
after the expiration of the 24 years, the property
reverted to her under the will of her father, whose term
had not yet expired. Claridge, at first acting under
Tilbury's advice, refused to pay to her, but ultimately
he voluntarily proposed to acknowledge ler as landlady,
on condition that she consented to reduee the rent from
40 guineas to 35/. In Jur.e, 1839, he paid one quar-
ter's rent, but the next quarter not being paid,
distrained, wherupon the plaintiff paid the broker.
Again defendant distrained for the Christmas quarter,
and the plaintiff having sued upon replevin, was non-
suited. In 1840 and 1841, the defendant levied two dis-
tresses, for one of which the present action was brought
in trespass, and for the other an action of replevin, which
is now in the paper for trial.
Mr. Sergeant SHAW, for the defendant, contended that
it was nut competent to a tenant to try the right of his
landlord in the form of trespass, having acknowledged
the landlord's right, under a full knowledge of all the
circumstences, as the Learned Sergeant was prepared to'

show.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE asked if the defendant
was prepared to disprove the fact in evidence, that her
interest expired with the lease of Tilbury ?
Mr. Sergeant SHEA submitted, that even granting
that all the plaintiff's evidence was true, he could not
raise objection to his landlord's title after the formal re-
cognition of the former's right, which would be proved
by defendant's witnesses.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said he would see what
hat evidence was.

The case occupied the Court from its sitting, and had
not concluded when we went to press.

Mr. Prtit.t.itis—lt it will be any satisfaction to the
Court, will your Lordships put Mr. Mamie into the box?
The COMMON SERGEANT—The Court has the power
to discharge this prisoner, but it is for, them to consider
whether they will exercise that poweior not.
Another conversation here took place between Mr.
Manic and the Recorder, which was carried on privately
although in the Court.

Th.-REcoRDER—i think it right, out of respect to
the Learned Counsel who have made this application, to
state the resolution of the Court. I propose that the
case shall remain over till the conclusion of these Ses-
sions, and then that the prisoner be discharged, unless
application should be made from the proper authorities
to detain him.

There was considerable noise in the Court throughout the
proceedings, and owing to the conversations being carried
on in an under tone, and our being situate at considerablt
distance from the bench, it was with some difficulty that
we could catch the observations. The Sessions will be
concluded this evening.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(Tuts DAY.)
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF CASH, BANK OF ENGLAND
NOTES, PLATE, &c.—An Irishwoman named Elizabeth
Price, with two of her daughters, Elizabeth Brown, mar-
ried, and with an infant at her breast, and Ann Price, be-
tween 14 and 15 years of age, were charged with stealing
two 101. and four Si. Bank of England notes, 150 sove-
reigns or upwards, some silver moneys, spoons, a gold
finger -ring, and other property belonging to Mr. Wm.
Osborne, the head cooper at Messrs. Goding and Broad-
wood's brewery in Broad- street, Golden square. It ap-
pears that the prosecutor, who is very aged, and his wife.
were lodging at No. 19, Berwick-street, Soho, and that
the youngest Price came there daily to take care of ano-
ther of the lodgers' children. About 11 o'clock on Monday
morning Mrs. Osborne went down stairs to fetch some water,
leaving her room-door open. The hoard of property-
was then sate in a drawer, with the key left in the lock.
In about half an hour afterwards the property was miss-
ing. At that time not the slightest suspicion attached to
the youngest prisoner. Information being given to the
police, Sergeant Grey, C 14, traced the prisoners, and while
conveying them to the station-house, he observed Brown
fumbling about her dress, and, seizing her hand, found in
it one of the silver spoons. A few yards further on, as
he was walking close beside her, he felt something heavy
fall inside her gown, the next moment a bag rolled at
his feet, which was found to contain the stolen notes,
with sovereigns and silver to the amount of 188/. 155.,
three other spoons, the missing ring, and other articles
The prisoner Brown exclaimed, as the bag fell on the
ground, " Oh, it's there ! You'Ve got what you want.'
They were remanded.

ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA, &c.

FOR 1842.

There will be five eclipses next year, three of the
sun and two of the moon : one of each luminary will be
visible in this country. An annular eclipse of the sun
takes place on Tuesday, the 11 th of January, but it
will be confined to the southern hemisphire. On Wed-
nesday, January 26, in the evening, the moon will be
partially eclipsed, visible to England, the whole of
Europe, Asic, and Africa, and will extend to Nova
Zombie and the Noah Pole. Beginning of the eclipse
(Greenwich time) 17 minutes 36 seconds past 4, even-
ing ; moon rises 33 minutes 42 seconds past 4 ; great est
obscuration 43 minutes 42 seconds past 5 ; and 9
minutes 42 seconds past 7. The third is a total
eclipse of the sun on Friday, the Bth of July, very
early in the morning, and will prove very large
throughout Great Britain, and total in the southern
parts of France. Commencement of the eclipse 53
minutes 20 seconds past 4 o'clock ; greatest obscure-
tion 46 minutes 22 seconds past 5 ; and, 42 minutes
54 seconds past 6. The greatest obscuration will be 9
degrees 42 minutes 30 seconds on the southern part of
the sun. At Marseilles the eclipse will be total lot
two minutes, like that which took place in the south of
England on the 22d of April, 1715, which was care-
fully observed by the Rev. John Flamstead, the Astro-
nomer Royal at Greenwich, by Dr. Halley, and other
scientific gcntlanen in London, who spoke of the dark-
ness impressing " a sense of horror on the minds of the
spectators." Along the track of the central eclipse (the
North Atlantic Ocean), and for some distance on each
side of it, the darkness will be such as to render the
stars visible, which circumstance will be no small terror
to those spectators who are unacquainted with the prin-
ciples of astronomy. On Friday, the 22d of July, there
will be a partial eclipse of the moon, and an annular one
of the sun on the last day of the year, but both will be
invisible in England. The only lunar occultations worthy
of notice are, one of the Eta Tauri, a star of the third mag-
nitude on the 22d of January ; one of Delta Geminorum
on the lat of September ; and on the 7th of November
the beautiful planet Jupiter will be occulted ; although
the phenomenon occurs in the day-time, it will pro-
bably be observable with the naked eye. The most
favourable time for observing the planet Mercury in
the ensuing year will be in the evening about the 15th
of February and the 11th of June ; and in the morn-
ings about the 29th of July and the 17th of November.
This planet will not be a striking object this year.
Mars will not be in opposition to the fun during the
year, and on that account less favourable for observe-
tien. He will be seen in the evenings of January,
February, March, and April ; and in the mornings of
September, October, November, and December. From
the beginning of June to the middle of November Jupi
ter and his four satellites may be frequently observed
to advantage. In the summer and autumnal months
the fine ring of Saturn will be an interesting object to
the telescopic observer. It is a remarkable fact that
while the mean temperature of the month of December,
1840, at Greenwich scarcely reached 32 degrees, at
Aberdeen, in Scotland, it was 39 degrees.

CAVANAGH, THE " FASTING IMPOSTOR."
—This fellow is not yet sufficiently recovered from the
effects of his nine or ten days' partial abstinence from
focd in Reading gaol to undergo the exercise of the
wheel; nor has he yet been allowed by the medical offi-
cers of the prison, in consequence of the weak state of
his stomach at present, to take any animal food. This
" fasting" worthy, however, is allowed two pints of
pretty stiff gruel and four rounds of toast daily, with the
addition, every alternate day, of a pint of soup. The whole
of these allowances he regularly consumes, and with a
capital appetite into the bargain. Cavanagh admits that
he managed to gull the public pretty well outside of
the gaol, but that as soon as he got inside he expected
to be " bowled out." His hopes were, that if he
could have contrived to keep up the deception for a week,
the Magistrates would have been impressed with the be-
lief that he was not an impostor, and have therefore libe-
rated him. Before he was detected ho was generally
found in his cell upon his knees, a posture he has not
since been once seen in. Tiernan, who acted
as a sort
of showman to the " fasting" knave, and who is incarce-
rated in the same prison, states that when the fellow ex-
hibited himself in Dublin as " a miracle," he received as
much as 201., and sometimes 3CI. a day, from the hun-
dreds of visitors who flocked to see him. It does not ap-
pear that Tiernan was wholly in Cavanagh's confidence.
He says he never saw him eat while he was with him,
but he always had his suspicions that " he got some
grub by the sly." How the impostor managed, when
he was locked and sealed up in London for eleven days,
to be able to leave his place of confinement, in appa-
rently good health, still remains a mystery, especially as
only nine or ten days' partial abstinence in Reading gaol
completely " did him over," and nearly cost him his life.
Letters have been received at the prison from two pro-
fessional gentlemen (one from Abingdon and the other
from London) evidently in search of practice, offering
their services to the prisoner, and guaranteeing to bear
him harmless from all costs and expenses, in prosecu-
ting an action against the Mayor of Reading, on the
part of Cavanagh, fur false imprisonment. Whether
anything will arise out of this, upon hi: liberation, re-
mains to be seen.

GIBRA LTA it, Nov 25.—Yesterday morning,
at the Exchange Room, the merchants, landowners, and
other inhabitants of this place, in public meeting assem-
tiled, agreed upon 103 al, respectful, and congratulatory
addresses to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, to
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and to her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, on the auspicious event
of the birth of a Prince, the heir-apparent to the British
Throne. It was resolved that the addresses should be

.gned, on behalf of the community, by the Chairman,
Mr. Thomas Godfrey Turner, who presided on the oc-
casion, and who was directed to forward the same with a
letter to her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, soliciting that his Lordship will be pleased
to present the addresses to the Royal and Illustrious Per-
sonages to whom they are directed.

Numbers of vessels have sought refuge in out
harbour, where, notwithstanding the violence of the
gale, they have rode in safety. The Sound has a most
formidable appearance, as, in, addition to the men-of-war,
a fleet of merchant vessels, of almost every description,
are lying at anchor under the shelter of that great
national structure—the Breakwater; the Catwater and
the Pool are also crowded with shipping, wind-bound or
put in here in distress. The country appears to have
been visited by the most extraordinary rain, and
to such an extent have the rivers swollen, that
bridges, houses, cattle, farm stock, indeed everything
within the scope of the floods, have been carried away.—
Devonport Independent.
A few months ago a loud detonation was heard
in one of the rooms of the chateau of the Count de Ro-
talier, in the Jura, but as it was not unusual for the
members of the family to discharge their arms out of,the
window, no notice was immediately taken. The hour
of breakfast having arrived, and the young Viscount
Aldonce de Rotalier not appearing, a servant
was
sent
up to his chamber to call him, but found him lying on the
floor, dead, and bathed in blood. It is believed that this
melancholy accident arose from some mismanagement of
his fowling-piece in preparing it to go a-shooting, as he
had intended.
LADIES WANTED.—In the parish of Llanelly,
Breconshire, including Bryn-Maur and Beaufort, thi,
males exceed the females by more than 1,000. Al
Brighton there is a great excess of females over males.
WHAT'S TO BE DONE WITH THE STAGE-
COACHMEN ?-" Do you know what the Tories are going
to do with us old coachmen ?" Mr. Bond shook his
head, and murmured—" Not I " Well, then, I'll tell
you, Mr. Bond ; they're going to plant us for milestones
along the railroad."—Cruikshanles Omnibus.
DEFINITION OF CHERUB.—A lady had tht
misfortune to be troubled with a sqUalling brat, whom
she always addressed as "My cherub." Upon being
asked why she gave it that appellation, she replied,
" Because that it is derived from cherubim ; and the
Bible says the cherubim continually do cry."

CoIiNaLAWS.

We have feßsOn to believe that the great arid
good cause of Corn-law abolition is making con-
siderable, progress amongst those classes who
have hi t!lerto preferred contending by themselves
for the Charter to contending with others for
one of the main benefits which the Charter,
were it granted, could bestow. To use the words
of Mr. CARPENTER, in his well-written little
work on " Relief for the Unemployed,"
which we can praise with the better grace as
it advocates emigration to which we are opposed,
the Chartists begin to think, we apprehend, " that
they ought not too exclusively to occupy them-
selves in discussing political or other theoretical
questions where numbers of our fellow-country-
men are plunged, or being plunged, to the very
depths of poverty and destitution." They are no
longer justified, they think, in selfishly refusing
to lift them up into a better state of society, lest
in so doing they should weaken the motives
of our rulers to reform that legislative
process which inevitably produces these
calamities. The Chartists begin to feel
that the repeal of the Corn-laws is of
more pressing necessity to relieve the distresses
of the people than the reconstruction of the law-
making machine. At Huddersfield, last week, a
considerable number of them met Colonel
THOMPSON, listened to his lecture with great at-
tention, and afterwards calmly discussed the
subject with him. Such proceedings on the part
of the known friends of the people will soon, we
are persuaded, elicit truth and establish convic-
tion. From Colonel THomrsoN's exertions in
the good cause, a great progress has been made
n convincing some and exposing the dangerous
errors of others. We hope that he will continu e
his labours, and be rewarded by accumulated
success.

The next proof we have to notice of our pro-
gress is, that a meeting was lately held at Stock-
port, at which it was bdldly resolved, that " the
Corn-laws could not be repealed by winning
over the electors, in consequence of the great
preponderance of the landed interest in Parlia-
ment; and that the only mode was for the
people to show their determination not to submit
to the oppression." That was the language of
an influential meeting at Stockport; and, should
the people in numbers act on such a resolution,
it will hardly be safe for the landlords, though
supported by the army, to attempt to dragoon

them into submission to starvation. The late
census has again reminded the people that they
are millions, while the landowners are but hun-
dreds, or at most thousands.
Again, at a great Anti-Corn-law meeting at
Bristol, on Thursday last, at which upwards of
:2,000 persons were said to be present, Mr.
BlfowN delivered an animated lecture, in which

he did not hesitate to accuse the Corn-laws of
felony and murder. That part of the proceed-
ings is thus described:—

He should like to take the Iron Duke to some of the
cellars and hovels of Manchester, that he might see the
misery of the poor, and learn how difficult it was to pre-
vent a dying man, with his starving wife and children about
him,from breathing his last breath in a bitter curse on his
oppressor. In such circumstances, a man was not fit to
receive the beneficent truths of the Gospel, when he saw
their promises falsified by the hand of man ; and it was
nots urprising that the poor, king of starvation, should
say, we want not Bibles, but bread !—(Hear.) It was no
wonder that tho poor Norwich weavers, on a recent oc-
casion, should say, they wanted " more pigs and fewer
parsons, more bread and fewer Bibles."—(A round of
repeated cheers followed this quotation, nearly the whole
meeting rising.) He accused the Corn-laws of felony.
The law which compelled a man to do sixteen hours' .
work for the price of twelve, or caused him to pay.la:
for a loaf which he might otherwise get for 6d., robbed
him of the difference ; and it was a robbery of the worat.
kind—it was a robbery of the poor by the ich—of the
weak by the strong—of the unrepresented my by tke.
self-elected few ! But he accused this monstei,monop+
of a crime still more terrible ; he accused irof.murcl4,
foul and most atrocious murder !
Against such sentiments, spreading,' throttgti
the length and breadth of the land,
stand, unless it be pinned through the fri.eastsit'
the people by the bayonets of a soldiery, yrtr
the command of a despot. The circurnatartdes Of
England forbid that. More than half our pbpula-
tion are a new people within the century, who
have preserved few or none of the traditional
attachments of their ancestors, and they canna
be governed by a system which is neither. theo-
retically just nor practically wise, and which
derives its whole strength from such at-
tachments.

We must add, that on the 9th proximo, there
is to be a great Anti-Corn-law meeting of the
Midland Counties, at Derby, from which we ex-
pect a bold and decisive line of conduct. Mr.
SALOMONS, in his recent pamphlet on the Sliding
Scale, says that there is now no influential body
of respectable persons who will support the total
abolition of all duty on corn. We hope that the
meeting at Derby will undeceive him, as he
seems to shut his eyes and his ears to the lan-
guage and conduct of the Corn-law League, and

inform him that all the influential Anti-Corn-
law men are for a total and immediate repeal.
They may, perhaps, follow Colonel THOMPSON'S
advice, and go further, demanding compensation
for the sums already taken from them during the
last twenty-five years, as well as a bounty on the
introduction of foreign corn, to save our manu-
facturers from being overwhelmed by that com-
petition with which they are now threatened.
On the whole, we think that the prospects of
repeal arc brightening, and the people growing:
more bold. The Tories, even, cannot avoid coun-
tenancing our exertions. They are compelled to
admit the existence of great distress; and Sir

ROBERT PEEL is sending emissaries abroad to
inquire into prices and wages. If he thinks,
however, to make the industrious, skilful people
of England, content with semi-starvation, be-
cause the subjects of the CZAR are in slavery, and
the subjects of LOUIS PHILIPPE are not much

better, he is mistaken. Such a design will be
discreditable to him, and its success would be a
reproach to the people. They must not allow
themselves to be beaten down to the lowest state
of human beings. They will turn their eyes for
an example to America, and not to Belgium or
Prussia.

We must, in conclusion, return our thanks to

a Correspondent, who has made us aware that, by
a transposition of the marks of quotation in our
leader of Saturday, the words " to which end
they will obtain the Charter, and then be able
to divide the soil," were printed as if they were
our own, whereas they were the words used by
the Chartists at the Halifax meeting, and should
have been marked as a quotation.

We find the following account of a trial before
the Criminal Court of Martinique, in the journals of
that island :—" Gorce, an estate in the Commune of
Sainte Marie, had for several years sustained great
losses from numbers of oxen and mules being killed by
poison secretly administered. At length a fine and
healthy young negro was ascertained to have been
sent out of life by the same means. In Janu-
ary last, Madame Bonneville Bonneterre, the wife
of the proprietor, having a cold, took a cup
of sedative drink given to her ; immediately
she complained of burning heat in her throat and
stomach, and, after lingering in torture for some days,
died, and, as it was afterwards proved, from poison,
which had no doubt been surreptitiously- infused into the
drink. Some time elapsed, when a conversation over-
heard between Modeste, a negro, and Tassianne, a negress,
excited a suspicion that they were privy, at least to these
atrocious murders. Modesto, on being arrested, con-
fessed that he had killed the young negro, by giving him
verdigris mixed with meal of Manioch, and declared that
Madame Bonneville Bonneterre was in like manner poi-
soned by Tassianne. They were both brought to trial
and convicted. Tassianne was sentenced to hard labour
for life, and Modeste to the like punishment for twenty
:years'
Charles 111. of Spain was particularly fond of
the chase, and went often to the mountains of Toledo
with the intention of destroying wolves. The Govern-
ment of that city had, from time to time immemorial,
awarded three ducats to any one who killed a wolf. The
King was never better pleased than when he had this
good fortune, and readily accepted the reward. "Of all
the revenues," he used to say, "this money is most agree-
able to me, as I obtain it through my own exertion."
A SINGULAR FACT.--_A few days since a
wayfaring man, journeying from Brixham to Galampton,
Warborough, fell over a stile, and broke one of his le gs
and he immediately cut off the other. He then, like the
chivalrous knight at the famous battle, Chevy Chace,
stood on his stumps. Afterwards he wended his wayto
his destination with little inconvenience. To gainthe
credence of the reader,_ however, it may be added, that
both legs were of wood.—Somerset Gazette.

TO RATEPAYER.
TO rim EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Spin--May I request you to insert in your liberal paper
the following important facts namely, that all rates made,
or collected, after the 31st inst., will be illegal, unless
stock in trade is included, as the Act to exempt the same,
passed by the Whig Ministry, expires the last day of this
year. This circumstance, if no other, may induce Sir
Robert Peel to lose no more time in ordering his Parlia-
ment to assemble. I am your obedient servant,
London, Dec. 7. A RATEPAYER.

ON THE NEW BARRACKS, PRO-
POSED TO BE ERECTED IN THE MANU-
FACTURING DISTRICTS, BY THE PRESENT
GOVERNMENT.
" Unfetter our trade, let us work and cat,"
Is ringing throughout the land ;
Our artisans, starving, prolong their lives
From Charity's feeble hand.
" There is plenty of food, tho' for want ye die ;
More barracks, more barracks," the Tories cry.
Our merchants and traders are failing fast,
And the banks they are shaking too ;
No hope does appear that the sky will clear,
Wherever we turn our view.
Whilst our ships in our harbours rotting lie,
" More barracks, more barracks," the Tories cry.
Our workmen have industry, energy, skill;
No favour unjust seek they ;
No foreigner's rivalry would they fear,
If fairly their trade had play.
But whilst for their rights they peacefully try,
" More barracks, more barracks," the Tories cry.
Our Army, as ever, is gallant and true,
For Britain thro' blood they would wade ;
But, remember, the source of our glory and power,
Our Navy, is nursed by our Trade !
Whilst patriots true o'er our danger sigh,
" More barracks, more barracks," the Tories cry.
As selfishness, sure, is a private vice,
So monopoly's public sin ;
Our arms at present keep foes at bay,
Our ruin it comes from within !
Hark, hark ! " Down, ye murmurers, quietly die !
More barracks, more barracks," the Tories cry.
BERANGER, JUN.

THE NIGER EXPEDITION.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS )
PORTSMOUTH', ,MONDAY.—The Horatio transport,
Lieutenant Chapman, arrived here on Friday from St.
Helena and the Coast 0f...1 &lea, and has brought home
some of the officers who have becm invalided belonging to
the Niger expedition, and wl,O 1;:,Id come down the river
in the Soudan steamer. The accounts they bring home
are up to the Ist of October, and arc nto::;
deplorable.
(These we published yesterday)
,;n4
The steamers make very slow progress id mem._
the river ; none of them are remarkable for their speed.
The current of the stream is about three miles and a half,
and the average speed of the steamers is six miles, conse-
quently their progress is not more than two miles and a half
per hour. The Albert was to proceed up the Niger, and the
Wilberforce up the Tchadda, while the Amelia schooner
was to remain at Mount Stirling, where the farm is to be
established, and where thetent lately used at the Eglinton
tournament has already been pitched. The natives were
very friendly ; at Eboe, a town containing 8,000 or
9,000 inhabitants, several of the officers went on shore,
the natives crowding to see them. At the Queen's
palace they were received by her sable Majesty, who
was squatted at the door surrounded by her ladies, the
principal of which were decorated with heavy ivory
anklets, weighing from eight to ten pounds each. They
seemed much pleased with the visit, and laughed immo-
derately, and in return for some little trinkets given by
the officers, her Majesty presented them with a fowl and
some Gooza nuts, the bestowal of which is considered
highly complimentary there. The King of Eboe went
on board the Wilberforce, accompanied by his son and
the interpreter, and others of his suite. A bottle of port
wine was placed before him, which he did not pass round
to any of his attendants, but drank it all himself, and
then gave a broad hint, which, however, was: not taken,
for some grog. The King of Attah was more dignified,
and upon the Commissioners waiting upon him he
told them he was perfectly aware that they were the sub-
jects of a Sovereign to whom they paid every respect,
and he should expect the same respect paid to him. He
should not go on board, because he considered he was
entitled to as much attention as their own Sovereign.
He said they might have the command of the water, but
he had the command of the land. He looked with per-
fect indifference on the elegant and valuable presents
of velvet robes trimmed with gold, but seemed much
taken with the spectacles worn by the chaplain, and gladly
accepted several pairs that were given him. He, as well
0 the King of Eboe, entered most willingly into all the
arrangements of the Commissioners, and they both ex-
pressed their desire that their subjects should be in-
structed. He sold them the land at Mount Stirling,
where they intend to establish the settlement, which he
sala was just within the extent of his dominions. The
.veers belonging to the expedition who came home in
tt!4Horatio are--Lieutenant Harston, Mr. Beim, master,
I: uti As.sistant Surgeon John Stirling, of the Soudan.

_ _
ATTENDANCE OF COUNSEL.—The sudden
fermination of Michaelmas Term at the unusual hour of
eleven o'clock in the morning by Lord Denman has
caused a considerable sensation both with the profession
and the public. We are rather surprised to see that
Lord Denman has been blamed by some of the news-
paptrs for his conduct in this matter. The public would,
we conceive, come to a very different opinion, if they
knew the real state of the case. There is a considerable
arrear of business in the Queen's Bench, and the Judges
are doubtless anxious to reduce it ; and we must say
that it is the duty of the bar to assist them to the utter-
most in accomplishing this wish. Now, do they so ?
We would ask any one in the habit of attending this
Court if there is not frequently very great difficulty in
proceeding with business, arising from the absence of
leading Counsel. The Judges do all they can to get
them to attend—they remonstrate, they linger, they
complain—all without effect ; at last they act, and
probably they may now be attended to. If the
administration of the law were to be carried
on purely for the benefit of the profession, the
practice of the bar in this respect might be all very
well ; but is not the suitor to be considered a little
in this matter ? He is told that his cause is put off till
next term, by reason of the absence of Counsel; his at-
torney tells him that he retained such a Counsel, and
that if the cause had only come on, all would have been
right, but that unfortunately he was not there. What
are his feelings on the occasion ? They are not the most
agreeable, and surely deserve consideration. Now, if
all this grumbling were to end in nothing—if the suitor
must bear it—we should not say a word; but we have
repeatedly pointed out the remedy. The leading Com-
mon Law Counsel should fix on some one of the Superior
Courts (as the Queen's Counsel in the Courts of Chan-
cery have recently done) and adhere to that. We
should then hear no more of the Courts adjourning from
the absence of Counsel. Whether this would injure the
individual Queen's Counsel we do not know. We con-
ceive not. Was Mr. Knight Bruce injured by confining
himself to the Vice-Chancellor's Court ? We believe
that his profits were as great as those of any man of
whom there is authentic record. But if the Counsel
were injured, we humbly conceive that this is a case in
which the superior claim of the public comes in, and the
particular interest must give way. We trust, therefore,
that the result of the present sensation may be that the
course we have pointed out may be adopted.—Legal
Observer.

The Railway Bridge, in consequence of the
heavy rains (across the Bath road), has so far given way
as to be considered quite insecure, at which from 50 to
100 men are engaged day and night, in order to prevent
its falling. It is intended, we believe, to lengthen it.—
Salisbury Herald.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last evening, at seven
o'clock, an inquest was held in the Board-room of St.
Bartholomew's Hospital on view of the body of Ann
Brett, aged 12 years. The deceased resided with her
parents at No. 54, Leonard-street, Shoreditch, and about
12 o'clock on Sunday was in the front room on the ;
second floor with an infant, who is between two and ;
three years old, when she came running down stairs with ;
her clothes in flames, shrieking " Oh, oh 1" Before any ,
assistance could be rendered her she had proceeded into
the back yard, and from thence into the street, where
some of the neighbours succeeded in extinguishing the
flames, but her clothes were so much burnt that they
fell from off her. She was directly brought to this hos-
pital, and expired from the effects of the severe burns
she bad sustained about ten o'clock yesterday
the
t
morning,
She stated that she was sweeping the hearth of the fire-
place, and that her pinafore caught fire, and that she
could not untie it. Her mother was at chapel a
time. Verdict—" Accidentally burnt to death."
Yesterday afternoon a serious accident occurred
in the carriage-drive of the Regent's Park, to the
.
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MR. BEAUMONT SMITH.—The unhappy Beau-
montn Smith, who on Saturday received the sentence of
transportation for life at the Central Criminal Court,
for forl Exchequer bills, was twice married. His
second wife, to whom he had not been many months
united when the recent discovery was made, is an ele-
gant and accomplished woman, about the prisoner's own
age, and was before he marries: her the widow of a clergy-
man of the Church of England. Mr. Smith was much
esteemed and respected by every one who knew him,
and so little was he suspected of being implicated in the
affair, even after the forgeries had been discovered, that
Mr. Maule, the Treasury Solicitor, after a partial inves-
tigation of the circumstances of the case, went to him
and said, " A mine is about to be sprung, Smith ; but
thank God, it will not affect you or me !" The re-
sult, however, unhappily proved how little ground
there was for Mr. Maule's confidence, as far as Smith
was concerned. Until after he had resolved to divulge
his guilt he preserved his self-possession in an extraor-
dinary degree; and two days only before he was known
to be involved in the transaction, an intimate friend
asked him what was the meaning of the rumours in the
City, to the effect that there was something wrong in the
; Exchequer Bill-office, when he replied in an apparently
indifferent manner, " Oh, we never talk of these things.'

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert left town at five minutes'
past twelve o'clock yesterday in a carriage and four,
escorted by a party of Hussars, for Windsor Castle.
The Infant Prince was in the same carriage with her
Majesty and his Royal Highness. A chariot and four
followed, containing Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in
Waiting on the Queen, and Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. Her
Royal Highness the Princess Royal and her attendants
occupied the next carriage. The two following carriages,
and four conveyed the Ladies and Gentlemen of thee
Royal Suite, consisting of the Countess of Gainsberough,.
Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness
Leimen, Viscount Hawarden, and Mr. J. R. Ormsby Gore.
Her Majesty and the Prince were conducted to their
car.riage by the. Lord Chamberlain the Lord Steward,
the 111.2-ster of the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, and
Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting on his Royal
Highness.
Immediately on her Majesty's departure from Buck-
ingham Palace, the lima Klndard was lowered from
the marble arch.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess P
Majesty on Sunday afternoon. f Kent visited her
Their Serene Highnesses the Duchess ;Ida of Saxe
Weimar, the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and i'riooe Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar, arrived at the terininOs of the
London and Birmingham Railway in Euston-square,
yesterday evening, from Sudbury Hall, the resideecq of
their August Relative the Queen Dowager. Their SO-
rune Highnesses immediately proceeded to Marlboreugh
House, Pall-Mall, where they arrived at half-past :Nix
o'clock.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Visited
the Duchess of Gloucester, on Sunday, at Gloucester
House. His Royal Highness, attended by Col. Jones,
returned to his residence at Kew in the evening.
Sir James Graham arrived in town yesterday from Ida
residence, Netherby, near Carlisle.
A deputation from the East India Cotton Company;
consisting of Sir John Campbell, Sir Peter Dillon„
Messrs. H. Tuckett, John Howell, and William Shep-
pard, Directors, Mr. E. Lawrence, Solicitor, and Mr. F..
Maxwell Dawson, and Mr. William Pare, Secretaries,
had an interview with Lord Fitzgerald, President of the
Board of Control on Saturday.
A deputation of lace manufacturers, had an interview
with the Earl of Ripon, and the Right Hon. W. Glad-
stone yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert,.
accompanied by the Infant Prince and the Princess.
Royal, and attended by the Royal Suite, arrived at the
Castle from town a few minutes after two o'clock this
afternoon. _ _

The Royal Party in four carriages and lour, were
escorted to the Castle by a detachment of the Royal Re-
giment of Horse Guards.
The bells rang out a merry peel in honour of the oc—
casion, and cannon were fired both at Windsor and Eton.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
A j-w engagements were entered into on the Derby,
but the al. punts in most cases were small, and the odds
pretty nearly the same as those quoted on Thursday last;
nothing, in fact, fvas done to call for any introductory
observations lot —iaken
:
8 to 1 agst Col. Pee;',."
9 to 1 agst Cot Anson's Ati,l4—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Vernlatn's Robe,' de Gorham
25 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord of Zolderness—t..
35 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre
40 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's William do Yortibus—
taken and afterwards offered
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor—t. and aft'd. offered
45 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland--taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Phulail—
taken and afterward offered
50 to 1 agst Mr. Cooke's Palinurus—ditto
60 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Canadian—taken
1000 to 10 agst Lord Albemarle's Robin—taken
1000 to 10 agst Lord Westminster's Primrose c—taken
1000 to 45 agst all the mares--taken
1000 to 20 each agst Espartero and St. James—in One
bet, and 1090 to 15 each agst Palinurus, Canadian, and
Brother to Phm-nix, in one bet—taken.
THE OARS.
6 to 1 agst Mr. Etvc7,tll's Passion—taken
30 to 1 agst Lord AlbemZrle's Dorothy—taken
The Hampton Victoria Coursitf:x Club will course at
Epsom on Wednesday and Thursday,
the 15th and 16th
inst ; Mr. Lumley having given up to th.clin the two days
granted him by Mr. Ladbroke.