The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

The usual half-yearly meeting of this Company was
held in Dublin on Thursday last ; George A. Hamilton,
Esq., in the Chair. From the Report of the Directors,
it appeared that the works are rapidly progressing, and
that the expenditure will not exceed 14,0001. per mile,
including the purchase of land. The finance Report of
last year stated, that, after the payment of expenditures
to the amount of 10,584/..195. sd. the Company had a
balance on hand of 13,5711. Os. 7d. The accounts pur-
ported to have been audited on 31st July last. The
whole line between Dublin and Balbriggan will be soon
in operation, and the remaining portion of the line will
not be commenced till next summer, as the work on that
division is very light, and will be completed in about
twelve months from its commencement. The Report
being approved of, it was resolved to form a friendly
Society for the purpose of ensuring, in cases of accident,
relief to the labourers employed by the Company. The
usual vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman,
and the meeting separated.

TIMOROUSNESS OF THE AGE.—The sinew
and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are be-
come timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid
of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of
each other. Our age yields no great and perfect per-
sons. We want men and women who shall renovate life
and our social state, but we see that most natures are in-
solvent ; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambi-
tion out of all proportion to their practical force, and so
do lean and beg day and night continually. Our house-
keeping is mendicant ; our arts, our occupations, our
marriages, our religion we have not chosen, but society
has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. The
rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.—
Emerson's Essay onSelf-Reliance.
1 A week of brilliant weather has at length re-
joiced the hearts of the farmers, and enabled them to
secure as fine a crop of wheat as their most lavish
hopes could have expected. A vast breadth of ground
has been cleared of its burthen, and already ploughed up
for succeeding husbandry. The damage occasioned by
the unsettled and bad weather, experienced at the be-
ginning of the harvest, though unquestionably consider-
able in some districts, is not of great extent throughout
the country ; and if we have a few more bright days,
will occasion a very slightly disadvantageous character
on the samples of wheat in general.---Bath Chronicle.

It was impossible for us to publish, as we did yester-
day, the orders, just issued by Lord Cottenham fur the
better regulation of the business of the Court of Chan-
cery, and which may be regarded as his parting legacy
to the profession over which lie has so usefully presided,
without feeling that some public expression of the sense
universally entertained of his services was due to the
Noble and Learned Lord. It is usual, when an eminent
Judge retires from the Bench, for the leaders of the bar
to deliver, in the name of their brethren, a parting ad-
dress in acknowledgment of his claims upon their respect
and esteem, and we may be very sure that such a com-
pliment would not have been omitted in the present case
bad the Courts of Equity been sitting at the time of
Lord Cottenham's retirement. We think it highly pro-
bable, from our knowledge of the opinion which prevails
on the subject of his merits, that the bar will even now
find for themselves some opportunity of performing
this pleasing duty, notwithstanding the acci-
dent which prevents them from doing it in the
customary manner. •In the mean time, we trust we
shall not be considered to be intruding improperly upon
their province, if we take advantage of the delay which
must intervene to anticipate, in some degree, the senti-
ments which they may be expected to express.
It has been the peculiar good fortune, or rather merit,
of Lord Cottenham, to have sustained with universal ap-
plause an elevation for which his qualifications were not,
at the beginning, appreciated by the public. To a
per-
fect familiarity with the practice, and acquaintance with
the recorded decisions of those Courts, he brought an
enlarged common sense, and a mind disposed to recur, to
the fundamental principles of equitable jurisdiction.
Few Judges have approached more closely to the true
medium between a slavish adherence to forms and prece-
dents, and a carelessness about tampering with established
principles of action. There has been nothing technical
in Lord Cottenham's judgments, and yet he has never
departed from the settlertificial system of his Court,
but has left it devebpet more consistent, and
more legitimate proportions than when it began to re-
ceive modification under his hands. He has always ap-
peared to feel the importance of checking undue litiga-
tion, not by delays and harassing costs, which render
justice inaccessible, but by throwing a steady light upon
the principles of the law, and marking out as clearly a.s
possible the rules which ought to govern the practical
intercourse of mankind. Great indtistry, and an intellect
apprehensive of principles, and quick to detect and dis-
card secondary and irrevalent matter, have enabled
him to despatch the business of his Court with
comparative speed, without withholding from the
most trifling case that full attention and con-
sideration which was its due: Its decisions have
given an unusual degree of general satisfaction ; and
it has been a remarkable merit, that instead of shrinking
from making precedents, aetd endeavouring (as Lord
Eldon was apt to do) to confine the principle, and there-
fore the public utility, as well as the personal responsi-
bility of his judgments, within the narrowest possible
limits, he has always manifested a desire to exhaust,
as far as possible, the questions at issue between par-
ties, and to take every fair opportunity of settling the
future law of the Court.
Lord Cottenham's demeanour towards counsel, and all
other parties concerned before him, has been uniformly,
and without exception, and in an equal degree to all,
courteous and attentive. No Judge was ever more free
from the weakness of lending his ear with an undue bias
to particular individuals. The youngest member of the
bar, when arguing before him, was under no apprehen-
sion that the effect of his case or of his arguments would
suffer on account of his personal obscurity, or the
eminence of those who might be retained on the oppo-
site side. Lord Cottenham was in every respect the
master .of his own Court.

The services of Lord Cottenham to the country have
not been confined to his excellent administration of jus •
tice. He has introduced several useful measures into
Parliament, for the purpose of facilitating justice ; and,
had he met with the support which was due both to his
character and to his measures themselves from his col-
leagues
in the late Government, the public would, ere
this, have had the benefit of the chief of those improve-
ments. As it is, he has succeeded in procuring the
enactment of a statute by which new powers have been
conferred on the Lord Chancellor, with a view to changes
in the practice of the Courts of Equity. The first points
of that enactment we yeAerday laid before our readers,
in a series of judicious regulations, which, although
they do not carry the work of simplification by auk
means so far as may hereafter be found advantageous,
are an exceedingly valuable step in a right directiOn,
As a politician, we have differed from Lora Cotten-
ham. We believe him to be a very decided Whig par-
tisan, and to have exhibited that partisanship in the use
of the influence and patronage of his office. It may
fairly, however, be inferred from the circumstance that
his official conduct has never been impeached with suc-
cess in any point of detail, that it has not been possible
to lay to his charge, as a Minister of the Crown, any
action unworthy of his high character as a Judge and as
a private gentleman.

There has been for some years an increasing opinion
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in Equity political functions which make it neces-
sary to remove that officer upon every change of Ad-
ministration. In that opinion we coincide : we can
see no more ground, in reason or practical conve-
nience, for making the Lord Chancellor a member
of the Cabinet, than for making the tenure of the
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench equally preca-
rious. On the present occasion the public will
probably be less impressed with these considerations
than might otherwise have been expected, on account of
the vast capacity and long judicial experience of Lord
Cottenham's successorthe first Englishman, we be-
lieve, who has ever received the great seal thy eetlifferent
times from the hands of his Sovereign. But on that very
account, and because under such circumstances there

can be nothing invidious in the suggestion, we would
now urge upon the Conservative Ministry that the prin-
ciple of arrangements which might have deprived the
country of Lord Cottenham's services at the present mo-
ment, even had there been no man competent to succeed
him, cannot be good.
ue word more and we have done. If there is any
mark of Royal favour and distinction which Lord Cot-
tenham, on leaving office, would be willing to accept, it
would be universally felt to be a tribnte due to his ser-
vices, and we are sure that it must be an equal satisfac-
tion to Sir Robert Peel to advise, to her Majesty to be-
stow, and to the nation to witness, it.—Times, of Friday.

THE WEATHER.—NOON, SEPTEMBER 3.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE—STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 73 Highest 75 j Lowest ...... 42
Wind S.--Freezing Point 32 Deg.

ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS REGISTRA
TION SOClETY.—Yesterday evening the members of this
Society, met at the Cambrian, in Castle-street, Leicester-
square, for the purpose of affording information to the
electors, in reference to the means of supporting their
claims in the Registration Courts, and which tended to
the satisfaction of many applicants. It was stated by
one of the members that many parishes had adopted the
plan suggested by the 'Westminster Reform Society, and
the effects of their own individual efforts, had been to
increase the number of objections this year to 716, while
in the last they were but 200, and the Society calculated
upon the certainty of maintaining at least 500 of them.
TORY QUARRELS.—A grave difficulty has
arisen to embarrass the Administration of Sir Robert
Peel. Three " Ministerial morning prints" have been run-
ning a race for the post of first earwig of the Treasury;
and the Herald has broken out upon the Times, fur dar-
ing to brush past her. It seems that the Times, precisely
at twelve o'clock at noon, published a " third edition,"
containing a very full, true, and particular account of the
New Administration, all signed, sanctioned, and gua-
ranteed by itself ; and the modest Herald, scandalised at
the audacity, asks how the deuce it could do it, when
Sir Robert Peel only left the Royal presence at " two
o'clock, P.M." (to a hair), and could not reach Printin7-
house-square till some convenient period thereafter. We
once heard a flying stationer bawling out the " last
dying speech and execution" of a poor fellow
who was at the very moment warm in his shoes ;
but the Times surpasses him in hideous enor-
mity. If we were admitted to the confidence of him
whom one of the speakers in the recent debate
termed " the Right Honourable Member the Baronet
for Tamworth," we would try to get him out of his diffi-
culty. We would divide the " leadership" between the
Post and the Herald, and let the Times go hang. It is
able enough and impudent enough to take a lead for it-
self ; and Sir Robert owes it a kick or two-" Catholi-
cus" to wit. At the same time, and apart from all spiteful
considerations, the very idea of the Times becoming a
mere " Ministerial morning print" is quite horrifying to
us. To change the gallant " Bogle" hunter into a mere
lickspittle ; to reduce the " great bear" of the opposition
into a common Treasury hack, is an absolute horror.
What no more cakes and ale ? No more screeching
about the navy ? No more groans about our foreign re-
lations? No more chewing of opium? And, worse than
all, no more atrocious Poor-law ? Caliban serves a new
master, and must be a new man. And yet the Times,
if it have any despondings for the future, should take
up the prayer of the poor fellow who believed in
transmigration, and who besought all the gods and
goddesses, that, whatever they might do, they would
not turn him into a braying donkey. After all, we think
the Herald is right, and that the Times is not yet regu-
larly acknowledged as a pure and unmitigated Treasnry
messenger. It cannot give up its habit of reading Sir
Robert a lecture. Only yesterday it tells him to mind
his weather eye, or it is all up with him. Now, this
won't do for a Treasury hack. If it does mean to pub-
lish third editions at twelve o'clock precisely, it must
learn, like a good dog, not to bark at those who are in,
but at those who are out. We are perfectly disinterested,
and, in the pure spirit of good-will, proceed to advise
our all but fallen Contemporary. Let it abandon the official
duties of Downing-street to its morning rivals, who are
both dying with eagerness to get it shelved. Let it give
up the chopping of Treasury logic to the Post, and the re-
tailing of twaddle to the Herald,—and in its old effec-
tive " brickbat and bludgeon spirit," set to work to de-
molish the " lath-and-plaster Cabinet." In that case we
—even we—will be content to play second fiddle ; and
who knows but, ere long, another announcement may
appear in its columns—" The Queen has done it all
Morning Chronicle.

Fashion.)
Gros d'Afrique, taffetas, poult de soie, bareges, fou-
lards de Chine, moires d'ete, &c., are the materials most
in request, and the favourite colours are Oriental blue,
purple, vest scarab°, orange, and noir de Chine. The
make of dresses continues much the same ; the skirts
are still ornamented en tablier, the bodies are
tight and a emir, and the sleeves very generally
tight, with different styles of ornament, gimp, tas-
sels, folds, &c. &c. ; tucks and folds on the skirts
are still fashionable. The newest style are those
headed with a rouleau of the same material as the
dress ; others are edged with a lace or a ruche, the
corsages a coulisses are sometimes made with the run-
ners placed horizontally, which have the effect of lessen-
ing the size of the waist. Inlets of lace are much in use
for fischus, caps, or handkerchiefs ; for the latter borders
have been formed by six small inlets, divided by an in-
terval sufficiently wide to admit a single row of em-
broidered spots. Cuffs and collars for neglige have also
been made in this style. Small caps, both in cambric
and muslin, are worn without any ribbon, and form the
prettiest style for neglige ; the bands which turn back
are tied on the top of the head ; the embroidery on them
is light, and they are trimmed with lace.
Some of the latest accounts from Paris state the re-
introduction of combs in the coiffure : they are said to
be worn by ladies, ornamented, carved, or cut out, of
elegant forms, and suiting all styles of head-dress.
The form of bonnets is undergoing some slight altera-
tion ; they are not thrown so backward, and begin to
incline a little more on the forehead. The straight cot-
tage is still in favour, and the materials, as yet, continue
much the same, but the flowers, &c., indicate the autum-
nal season : some bonnets have the brides placed inside,
which prevent their closing very much. Velvet is used
both on straw and- Leghorn bonnets. The latter are
also ornamented with a voilette entirely covering the
front, -confined on each side up the brides by a nceitd of
green sarcenet ribbon ; sewed Leghorns are also genteel.