The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-13 00:00:00

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EVENING SUN

...NgTv .11.AILWAY SIGNALS —A new system
'
. 14„ signals for railroads has been invented by Mr. Hall,
-ee Managing Director of the Eastern Counties Rail-
road,
intended to supersede the red and white slags now
tiirsied and exhibited by policemen at.
inadequate
distances,
!Id which have been sometimesl found inadequate to the
which Mr. Hall calls the
Purpose The
ranel or fan signal,".new siFhnaas, when put in operation, the
appearance of an uprigl t . st of about twelve feet high,
4ltraounted by a piece of woodwork resembling in shape
that
,of
t_. a closed
no fraeiew
ork. In the upper woodwork three panels
,encased,br which are worked by machinery, an when
aseught down to the iron framework before described,
4tuee the .
sq% . e appearance of a crimson. quadrant of a span
Iv cleat to be visible in a straight line for , two miles.
lb;,llen a train is due to start the thrce panels are lowered.,
seon as it has started and reached the signal, the
edirl. ,1 charge of it sets in motion a piece of machinery,
11:11ich iaidually works up the three panels in fifteen
111te, and the signal at the end of that time presentsne
qrsiyeriginal appearance. By this arrangement engine whi:hrsdvill be able accurately to calculate the t.
irete'',", elapsed since a train has passed ; one panel an h-L'g five minutes, two ten, and three a quarter of
ep4nr._ The new signal will in a few days be put in
/./7:4. en.the .Eastern. Counties Railway.
4, TTA,.,7:IWAY ROBI3ERY AND MURDEROUS
'iinis-;:—.,;(3a Tuesday last a man of the name of Cleod,
. good; C itoekheare, formerly a servant with Mr. Bid-
''' irl'eQtar-t Wilo travels the country selling tea, was sitting
sf. the Mali_ 411 Y with three other men at the Country Hotel,
sif wh„w43' house between Exeter and Honiton, two
lieu„,"fel kre thatchers of Whim le, The four left the
freet,"th'egetlier ; the two thatchers, when a few paces
L. ‘4teled'e inil,.parted company with the others, who pro-
`t+(.rw ("4 their way. Before they had gone many hun-
. "Yard 3 the man in company with Cleod took an
`4
1313.9rf4nit ' 4 own- jto get bahind him, when he knocked him
':-, AL.Pn(t robbed him of all his money, and left him
trli,•,''el. (-lead. rf be sufferer was afterwards found in
iirt;t.'ld, and taken to Rockbeare, where he now lies, his
.t,6 being despaired of. He is dreadfully bruised about
11, ead, his hands being much injured, showing that.
years is
resistance. He is about thirty
pit of Pr age. The constables went immediately in pur-
,. i. _
Tot the villain, but we have not yet heard that he has
flue'e 1. taen. Ire was dressed as a sailor, with a short
toliaket, and wore a fur cap. It appears that the un-
,L. nate man had incautiously taken out a sovereign,
ealieh i....
4To -,!‘, offered to be changed at the Country Hotel,
crr..ip,,73..1.1;--scerph probrdply tempted the wretch to commit the
evonshire Chronicle..
:,-`l., 11,z, OCT. 12.—Armed the Schiedam, from
I3teucton, for Portsmouth, with upper works and kill.-
''''lt'4ii...it.a....datilage,i, having been in contact with the Bourne',
, ea at -:\lart;:ixte.

TEIE LATE SIR jOl,. BA_ , .r, 't.
1 its estimable and learned Judge, who was ler twenty-
five years the highest ornament of the Bench,
Jr '
~', e, aatlated his lineage from Isaac Bayley of Chesterton, in the
t.n 'county of Huntingdon, who, in the year 1732, married
le a,a .. into a branch of the famous Bigland family, of Bigland,
in the county of Lancaster. The second son by this mar-
' 3`llkaa •, riage was John Bayley of Elton, in Huntingdonshire,
(father of the late Judge), who himself intermarried
tada sf„.-c,aeith the great Church family of the Kennetts, one of
aci:ci; ;Whom, in 1790, was the Bishop of that diocese.
, 7 • i . Sir John Bayley, at the age of twenty-seven, mar-
iaatta red, on the 20th of May, 1790, the youngest daughter
aaz ; of John Markett, Esq., of Meophain Court Lodge, in
41 .;':' the county of Kent, by whom he has issue—John Ed-
ial• ward George, . of Updown House, Kent, who is forty-
, 11,, seven years of age, and who now comes into his father's
lc, title and estates; a second son, Kennett-Champain Bay-
-5111aP,; 'ley, forty-three years of age, who is in holy orders, as
le de` :a Rector of Acrise, in Rent ; and a third son, Francis
Bayley, barrister at-law, who is thirty-eight years of
..,, age, and has been employed for some time in editing his
father's valuable book upon Bills of Exchange. Besides
these he has three accomplished daughters, the eldest of
• whom is married to a clergyman ; the other two ladies,
Lucy and Elizabeth-Magdalen, the former of whom is
twenty-one
years of age this year, are, we believe,
. unmarried.
(..V A q - Alrajustice Bayley was a man of liberal education and
r hra- . enlarged Lotions; his language had no peculiar neatness
sai at Or brilliancy, but it was perspicuous, plain, and pointed.
-w1 e, ~,I.Nature had designed hirn for a .lawyer, and ho wisely
~,flpufsued her bias: his knowledge of practice and cases
eaCaaa ,•left him without a competitor, and his strong natural ca-
- We' sia
,pacity and clearness of intellect adapted itself to the
Texiiamost heavy labours.
.em, aid., , He was elevated to the bench in 1808. One of the
.1. a,,,,.,.ate05t remarkable
as look of his decisions, which by the profession
looked • -°naa a high authority, touches upon medical
aarisprudence It stands singular, because it is opposed
to Baron
~ supported, too, by
It stands
decision in a similar case, which was
' 1829
The o • • an antecedent opinion of Lord Hales.
March Pin was one given on a case tried at Lancaster,
14
i,er_ , 7 when a sailor,
ton was
a - • P°ol Infirmarywdischarged from the
lafter undergoing saliva
as cure(
recommended by another patient to go
•a cif aisol-P the prisoner, an old woman living at Liverpool,
I tin ff 1 !Ind occasionally
get the mercury out of detain.. • ' ' for an emetic to
hiiiis bones 1;
n este
tion of white ' gave him a solu-
-1 h• a vitriol, or corrosive sublimate, one dose of
am ; %. le caused •
' • , a ,
,„ his death. Judge Bayley thus delivered
mi
,opinio • " T
' I.- = 11 . ... take it to be quite clear, that if a
ieisl , PPPou, o
f • of medical education, in a case where pro-
-anion aid •el might be obtained, undertakes to administer
Inedi ••• •
a.ine which may have
, occasions death, suchis
i' a • Ile Inc ha` • person guilty of manslaughter.
''anal • • but h hase no evil intention, or may have a. good one,
~atoa • 0 no right to hazard the consequences in a case
'a ate °'t':: %flare, medical assistance mayabe obtained. If he does
tour t), It is at his peril." Lord Hale, as we before observed,
1:':
.., rl..!' fury energetic to a contrary decision, saying,
`-',"l forbid that any mischance ofthis kind should
re... 4 Mt ae a
~i Person guilty of murder or manslaughter I." This
port Ns •
Wilcock's
• Law Peeting Judge Bayley is taken from
Laws relatin
~ Tho gto the 'medical profession. • App. ccxxvii.
~,, , eourteu,
u.,gh Mr. Justice Ba I ' decisions were always
yey s 1,, . sat a yet the most memorable case upon which he
the s Judge, V'as the action for libel brought in 1819 by
izo.,, , r e Attorney• General against Richard Carlisle, for the
i • • Ipublication of Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, and
:'a°(:',,ais; .1100 other infidel, commonly miscalled " Theological,"
likrilete. 'f. rks of that write-, and which, when it came on for
lu, trial before him or] the
exeitie ~ • • 12th of October, occasioned such
;lase e 'thereat. The circumstances connected with this
0 case "re
.„,•: th_,
us, . of too fresh occurrence to need our reverting to
" ;it is sufficient k that the number of copies
of ad,. ,
~to miner
a ' bock already disseminated over the world, had
• an,
-hal, ed, prior to the injunction, to 3,000, sold at
.., ow' rl-1 guinea a copy : that Mr. Carlisle conducted his
,Jtf
', ' an ease himself, and on the third day of the trial actu-
-4,r:
~..ItY desired to be permitted to call the Archbishop of
2- oanterhury, the nigh Prie.st of Jews, and the leaders
.4.,
-their aarious sects of Christians, to show the discrepancy of
religious belief.
Air. •
, . Justice Bayley'a speech upon this occasion, in
•'••• passing sentence for blasphemy on the libeller, in Nov.
Na 6, 1819, was published in a threepenny form by Chap-
'of the Royal Exchange. The address is solemn
~7;
1.1 ZIA
.mpressive. Carlisle, he said, was convicted of at-
e, la aa•caPmg the purity of that which we believe to be true,
,a, of attempting to undermine that faith upon which
~
~
.• i.`" our hopsoe of happiness here and hereafter are
--
a,9',..1111dcd attacking those bonds and rules which em-
:d „:tee together all our moral and social institutions in
tal,
I,
,17'isarre ; of attacking the faith of the country, and our
al,) '' la, and holy religion, upon which all hopes and ex-
le, Peetations are founded.
.1„_,
~ . Judge Bayley finally sentenced him, according to the
"!•tidgraent of the Court, to a fine of I,OOCL, and imprison-
•• a,a forln• in Dorset gaol for two years, with a minor penalty
• tb
•.:, ( j e publication of another blasphemous work.
• Zan, udge Bayley's work, entitled "The Summary of the
e Lof Bills of Exchange," which has been a standard
4tllll7lPok in the profession for years, and of inestimable ser-
14ilae to the commercial world, demands some notice.
-"Is work was given to the public when the venerable
~ i• 1•1111'../eet of this memoir was a barrister-at-law. It col-
','''l'' 4e,eted to
almost all the learning upon this branch
931 law, which had been scattered to the four winds, and
"1 • "ncent d into focus all determinations upon the
af-1 rate one
' Ina of bills and notes, explaining at the same time the
" : a Principles of those determinations in a methodized and
I:uutorehensive form. Mr. Bayley published this work
'3l
:'4/1 41 1789, and on the 25th of May, 1797, issued a second
!, edition, greatly enriched with his own notes and ex-
a, tracts.
On his elevation to the Bench, he had not
wearree„.. leisure to prepare a new edition. W. E. Barnes,
ftrii ,e barrister, produced a third edition of it in 1812,
of 111,p book be' '
g one, as allle al and commercial men must
I:a be aware, in which new casesg are continually arising.
The death of Mr. Barnes left the Editorship again
("pen, and in 1822 Sir ,john Bayley devoted himself to its
revision and re• editing, which contained, in addition to
leav cases, a new chapter upon the Forgery of Bills and
••• 4.-etes.' The last and most valuable edition, however, is
that which appeared in 1830, edited by Francis Bayley,
•-• -I.'s h third which, in addition to all former en-
.,, .., Ile isson, .
,at alehments and additions, carries it down to a very recent
period, and the tenth chapter, particularly,
' l'e-written. ' Saunders and Benning are, we believe, the
' ',publishers.
In 1831, Mr. Justice Bayley was removed, at his own
-se,request, from the Court of King's Bench, where he had
sai for 22 years, to the Exchequer.
To a most benevolent heart, this Learned Judge added
,lh dignified manners of the gentleman, ee die d
a and a degree of
•a profeasiOnal erudition that ever placed him in the first
' ink of Westminster Hall. His exquisite amenity of
a,nner was proverbial ; his countenance was remarkable
Itor its philosophic composure ; his person was tall, while
4ill unalterable kindliness of disposition rendered him
Itniversally beloved by the whole profession—judges, bar,
l''' %It saitors. No Judge ever obtained a higher or more
des
*m-
-eved character for honour, integrity, and
.1
Petal ai
ic ma., tY• All party feelings he utterly. disre-
•and "tki on occasion of State trials, and this just
and praiseworthy conduct has been alleged as a bar to
:hi y
las elevation to the office of Chief Justice, which
arias as so well qualified to fill. On criminal
4a-as he was ever the humane and merciful
'ge• In the Court of Queen's Bench lie was
iseinor J itioaJudge for many years, and pronounced the deci-
us of the Court with that mildness u for *hich his whole life was remarkable. From his eaten-
wee eTequaintance with the law, his clear intellect, and his
1,7:141-established character for impartiality, his opinion
..Tud,er looked up to with great respect by his brother
'CO be 3 In a celebrated ease in which this Journal was
iiincereed
„, a Mr. Justice Bayley decided • the Court
Will ° i favour, by a well-timed remark, which
The "cmg be remembered in Westminster Hall.
Iva Attorney•General (Sir Charles Wetherell)
ghat,
endeavouring to lay it down as an axiom of law,
f $.l-' diplomatist was not be judged by the strict rules
l)".lath as other men, and might be excused for dating a
4ell on board one of his Majesty's ships in the Ta-
anis . •
ho t Vhile he actually wrote it in London. "I like
a l_iesty in all places, Mr. Attorney," said the virtuous
7al_l_wge. The Judges consulted for a few minutes, and
_ 14 Tenteeden announced, with apparent reluctance,
tuat the Court did not consider it expedient to confirm
the rule.

Co7l T

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A new live act comedy, from the pen of Sheridan
Knowles, and bearing the promising title of Old Maids,
was produced at this theatre last evening with complete
success. It is neither a.satire on, nor a defence of, the
antiquated sisterhood from which it takes its name,
but is rather an apology for those young ladies, who, for
the cause of old maidism,
" Contending with more zeal than heed,"
are at length—. _ _

Ta'en captive by the common foe,"-
man, and compelled, without regret, to put on wed-
lock's chains. The opening scene takes place in a room
in the house of Sir Philip Brilliant (Mr. C. Mathews.)
We cannot better describe his character'. than' in the
words of our author--" Sir Philip Brilliant is h butterfly
in the drawing-room, but a man in the field. - His nature
is of the true stuff, He is a blade of proof in a dainty
scabbard; you may laugh at the scabbard, but you won't
at the blade." Sir Philip discusses the merits of a
new suit, with which he means to "affront all comparison"
for its fashion and splendour, with his valet, Master
Robert (Mr. W. Lacy), a pleasant incontinent rogue—
but a frank one and honest withal—a rogue for the
humour only, and after having settled. the impor-
tant matter of a wrinkle near the seam of the left
shoulder, he sallies forth to Ludgate-hill to chide Master
Blount (Mr. F. Matthews), the jeweller, who so slightly
set his beaver jewel that lie lost it in ,the street., This
Master BlOunt has two sons, the eldest, John (Harley),
to all appearance a plodding artisan, and his father's
favourite—the youngest Thomas (Mr. G. Vandenhoff),
loves his father, 'but not his father's craft; He is the
favourite of his mother, Mistress Blount (Mrs. W. West),
who defends his cause with great eloquence and energy.
Sir Philip arrives, rates and insults old Blount, whose
cause is taken up by his son Thomas. Sir Philip, won
by his manliness of bearing, challenges him, intending
to change a pass or two with him to prove him.
They meet, and the result is, that Sir Philip
takes upon himself the charge of Thomas Blount's for-
tunes, who bids farewell to desk and counter. In the
second act we find Sir Philip and Thomas (now Colonel
Blount) returned from the wars, and visiting Lady
Anne (Mrs. Nisbett) and Lady Blanche (Madame Yes-
tria) the two would-be old maids. Of Lady Anne it
is said—
" She glories in her single state ; and train'd
To mastery in studies men affect,

' And seldonvi progress in as well as she,
Looks down on all our sex o'erbearingly,
And leaves the field to lovely Lady Blanche,
Who, though she smiles on courtship, looks as cold
On matrimony as her scornful friend ;
While troops bec.iege her."
Lady BlancLe is a finished coquette ; shehas,,how-
ever,- once been touched when, disguised as a yeoman's
daughter, she went to a certain goldsmith's to make pur-
chases, and there saw that goldsmith's son, and won his
heart. She recognises the goldsmith's son in the person of
Colonel Blount, who still dearly loves the yeoman's
daughter, but does not recognise her in the fashionable
Lady Blanche. Sir Philip fancies that he loves the Lady
Manche, and so firm is his faith in the old maidism of
Lady Anne, that he seeks her advice how to woo the
Lady Blanche. She advises him to dreSs• less and study
more, undertakes to superintend his studies, and, to
use his own words, makes him from nothing what
he is—a man. The result may be easily guessed—.
they fall desperately in love with each other, he
forgets Lady Blanche, she consents to love, honour,
and obey, and thus end her visions of single blessed-
ness. Meanwhile Lady Blanche endeavours to cap-
tivate the Colonel, but without success ; he • still
cherishes the remembrance of the yeoman's daughter,
and although Blanche assumes male attire and forces
herself thus disguised into his company, she has no
idea that the yeoman's daughter is the object of his
affection, although she ascertains that he luves not her
as Lady Blanche, and is very miserable in consequence:
Turn we now to the fortunes of the Colonel's brother
John. The old goldsmith has given up his business to
his worthy son, " who sells off stock and trade and quits
the shop," and becomes a frequenter of race courses and
places of amusement, where his vanity lays him open to
commonest observers. He meets with Master Robert,
and hearing Robert addressed after the fashion of " Iligh
Life Below Stairs," by his master's title, scrapes 'ac-
quaintance with him, and fancies that he is the intimate
of the veritable Sir Philip, and of his goodness prays an
introduction to some lady he thinks may suit him. Ro-
bert introduces him to Charlotte (Mrs. Humby), Lady
Blanche's maid, as Lady Blanche, and lest she should
refuse him as plain Master Blount, he assumes,
by Robert's desire, the title of Colonel Blount.
Blanche is confiding her sorrows to Lady Anne, when
Jane (Miss Lee), Lady Anne's maid, enters, and re-
minds her mistress that she has given her leave to spend
the afternoon with Charlotte, and, in answer to her
mistress, tells her it is a wedding, and that she believes
Charlotte is about to marry Colonel Blount. Lady
Blanche determines to be present at the nuptials,
in order to satisfy herself as to the fact, and to escape de-
tection attires herself as the yeoman's maid. It is needs
less to say that when the Colonel recognises the yeo-
man's maid in Lady Blanche, he takes her in all
humility and thankfulness and love ; while John,
on whom no serious design has been ever en-
tertained by Charlotte, after being well laughed at
for his folly, is by the intercession of Thonias pardoned
by his father and mother, whose society he had cut as
much too vulgar for the aristocratic alliance he had in
perspective. The comedy is replete with exquisite
poetry, and sound and healthy and manly poetry too.
Take as an example the following reply of Colonel
Blount to the question of Lady Blanche:—
" What is a battle ?" •

" Glory, Madam,
In a just cause ; but at the best bought dearly
When men destroy their brother men, like them
Framed in the image of their common Maker."
Or the following extract from the same scene :
" Can he who games have feeling ?—yes, he may !
But better, in my mind, he had it not !
For I esteem him preferable far,
In rate of manhood, that has not a heart,
To him that has, and makes vile use of it :
The one is traitor unto nature, which
The other can't be call'd."

The following description of mens' gaits, which is put
into the mouth of Sir Philip, is quite Shaksperian :
" There's matter in men's gait, good Robert !
Therein you have the impress of their callings ;
There is the clerk's gait, which implies obedience ;
The shopkeeper's, half service, half command ;
The merchant's, o'er-revolving speculations ;
The lawyer's, quick and keen at quirks and flaws ;
The student's, ponderous as piles of folios ;
The courtier's, supple, prompt for courtesies ;
The soldier's, keeping time with drums and trumpets ;
And twenty others—all most common-place !
But there's one gait that's paramount of all—

The gentleman's—, that spealls not any calling."
This description was excellently given by Charles
Mathews, who was throughout the very Sir Philip of the
author. Mr. G. Vandenholf is much improved since his
last appearance on these boards ; his Colonel Blount is
a most powerful piece of acting. This gentleman
has taken a giant's stride in his, professional career.
The part of Lady Blanche was just suited to Madame
Vestris, and she made the most of it. Her coquetry
was most fascinating ; and in the last act she exhibited
a pathos and tenderness for the possession of which we
had not previously given her credit. Mrs. Nisbett was
excellent as Lady Anne ; her transition from the stiff
primness of the premature old maid, to the
naivete and joyousness of loving four-and-twenty, was
perfectly true to nature. We were not surprised at Sir
Philip Brilliant falling in love with his charming in-
structress. Mrs. W. West had but little to do as Mis-
tress Blount, but that little was done so admirably,
that we wished to see more of her. Harley was
exceeding quaint as John Blount. The author, how-
ever, in writing this character, has committed the mis-
take of supposing that there is something witty in the
constant repetition of a pet sentence by the same cha-
racter at all times and in all places. The only
disapprobation manifested throughout the piece was,in
consequence of the constant repetition of John Blount,
of the phrase,
"If there is one thing I am better in
" Than any other thing."
This, however, is a mistake which may be 'Very easily
rectified. Knowles was loudly called for at the fall of the
curtain—he however was not forthcoming. Cooper then
came forward, and after stating that Mr. Knowles was
not in the house, announced the comedy for repeti-
tion every evening amidst loud applause. It is
almost a work of supererogation to say that
everything that the most elegant taste could do for
the comedy, in the way of scenery, dresses, and decora-
tions, has been done. The house 'was crammed, and
long before the rising of the curtain there was not even
staning room in the pit.

ABERDEEN, OCT. had a most violent
night, which continued ;with little
]lio
till 941WaYednzsday morning. The Dee was
asthoartmemn
swollen about six feet above its usual Inark__,
elearn andl a great
ithfartom a
deal of .farm produce was floated down.
the country that some laughs were swept,lV and r
great deal of damage was done to the crops.
Mr. William Shaw, who died at West Derby on
Tuesday week, has left the munificent sum of 9,0004 to
the following public charities in Liverpool, namely—
Blue-
Coat Hospital, 500/. ;to the Infirmary, 3001 to
the Dispensaries, 3001. ; to the School for the Blind,
3001. ; to the School for the Deaf and Dumb, 3001. ; and
to the District Provident Society, 3001.
THE STRIKE OF THE MASONS.—On Satur-
day there was 1G men at work, and the number yesterday
was increased to 57, of this body there is only one man
that was working previous to the strike, and previous to
his recommencing his labour he ceased to be a member
of the Union. The men now at work have all come
from the provinces, and it has required the greatest
exertions on the part of the contractors to prevent them
being eithlr intimidated or led away by bodies of the
Unionists, who wait the arrival of each train at every
Railway Station. As yet there is not an Unionst
amongst the masons; but the contractors say they will
not refuse a man belonging to the Union employment,
but they will not allow him, or any body of them, to
dictate to them as to what work shall be done: The
contractors are also most desirous of letting the body
of masons know that they have most positively' deter-
mined to retain Mr. Allen in his situation. They do it
as a matter of principle • they say he has been a most
fi.ithful servant to them; and
andtheywill keg) him while
he lives. Indeed sooner than they would discharge Mr.
Allen they wot.ld give this
and abide the result, if it
oft-IT-es ruino,r
was crowded with Unionists, him to be the victimbecause
ttsa othert h
ecyo contract,
yesterday
It'u
distribution age was
b
btlnietirthlaan
ipno lainc es
outsideu toll Inspector Taylor, both
interfering with those going to and coming from work,
more than jeering them as they passed along.
ncle r
thethe
work; d i)eorc:ntki Oaenrabetoadney:oo(fi nsatsi slapi tFffeas :et Palace
-yard
lietsrrni ;dolt efii
oeaegrisfi;