The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

ANECDOTE of SIR TOBY BUTLER.
Talking of law and wine reminds me of a mem-
ber of the horse-hair Body, who was well-known
to be incapable of acquitting himself with any
degree of credit if he had not previously fortified
his head-piece by what might be denominated
his aids to eloquence. Sir Toby Butler was his
name; and on the occasion of a trial in which Sir
Toby was to address the Jury, the agent of the
party opposed thought to muzzle the Counsel.
He accordingly bet Sir Toby fifty guineas " that
he could not speak to the Jury in the case of A
versus B,' without first drinking his allowance of
two bottles of claret." The Counsel accepted the
wager, and the attorney communicated to his
client that the leading Counsel of the defendant
was done for, it being well-known he could not
put two sentences together before he had finished
his modicum of wine.
The day of trial came, and the cause called on.
While the plaintiff's Counsel was stating the
case and examining his witnesses, Sir Toby was
observed very quietly to uncork a bottle of wine,
pour it into a howl beside him, and, taking a loaf
of fresh bread, dip it in the bowl, and, having sa-
turated each mouthful, eat it until wine and
bread had mutually vanished. He was not yet
satisfied, for having finished No. 1 he attacked
No. 2. A second bottle and loaf having gone to
keep company with their predecessors. Sir Toby
rose to address the Jury for the defence, and cer-
tainly -no change "came o'er the spirit of his
dream," for his masterly eloquence wanted
nothing of its usual vigour; the clearness of his
reasoning, the force and brilliancy of his rhetoric,
never exhibited greater powers; and the verdict
of the, Jury in favour of his client with costs was
the gratifying tribute to the abilities of the ad-
vocate.

" Hand over the fifty," said Sir Toby to the
attorney of the opposite side.
" Sir Toby, you have not kept your word with
me," replied the defeated man of costs.
" How do you prove that, old Six-and-eight-
pence ?"
" Was not your agreement not to taste wine ?"
"Not to drink you mean; I only ate. Come,
give me my money, or knock you off the
Rolls, and never let you darken the door of a
Court-house again." The loser thought it best
to post the coal, and Sir Toby added to his well-
earned fame as a wit.—Old Sporting Magazine
for July.

SUDDEN DEATH THROUGH EXCITEMENT
AT THE CITY ELECTION.—Last evening Mr. Payne held an
inquest at the School-room, Walbrook, on the body of Frede-
rick Beasant, aged 54, employed as messenger during the late
City election, on the Whig side. It appeared that about eleven
o'clock on Tuesday morning, as' deceased was hurrying along
through George-street, Mansion-house, he was seen to stagger,
and then fall down suddenly on the foot pavement. He fell at
Mr. Hampton's door, whose clerks rendered him every assist-
ance until the arrival of the police. Several medical men
were sent for, and Dr. Bell, of Walbrook, came ; when he
arrived he found deceased had died of an effusion of blood on
the brain, or apoplexy, caused most probably not by over-ex-
ertion, but rather by over-excitement. Verdict—" Died of
apoplexy."
SINGULAR HOUSEBREAKER.......EdWard King,
in the Bedford gaol, charged with housebreaking, has two
wooden legs, having lost his own in the Infirmary.
The Diario di Roma announces the death of
the Marches; Quarontotti, aged 112 years. It states that,
until two years ago, when shg. began to feel the infirmities of
age, she enjoyed perfect healtn, and all her intellectual faculties
were in full vigour.

BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER UNDER
31YsTwous CIRCUMSTANCES.—Yesterday Mr. Payne, City
coroner, held an inquest at the White Swan, Upper Thames-
street, on the body of Louis Schreder, aged 40. It was proved
in evidence that yesterday morning, Wilton, an inspector of
the 'lhames police, found the body floating down with the tide
on the west side of Southwark-bridge. It appeared to have
been several days in the water, and there were no marks of
violence on the botly. Deceased was a German boat-maker,
residing in Boyle-street, Saville-row, and on Thursday
morning last left his home, saying that he was going out
to try and obtain some money due to him from customers.
He had not since been seen alive: He was not in embar-
rassed circumstances, and lived on affectionate terms with his
wife. Though he drank occasionally, he never did so to such
an extent as to incapacitate him for business. He was not a
man whose mind was habitually dejected, but when he went to
collect his debts and was unsuccessful, he took it more to
heart than Englishmen generally do. The Jury, seeing that
there was nothing in the evidence to ace6unt for deceased
having been found drowned, adjourned the inquiry to Friday,
to endeavour to find out on what customers deceased had called,
and whether he had met with such refusals from them as would
affect his mind. It was stated that a French Count, now in the
Fleet Prison, was one of deceased's principal debtors.
THE PILLORY.—Arnaud Fabre, the, public
notary of Marseilles, sentenced to hard labour for life by the
Court of Assizes of Aix for the innumerable forgeries which
he committed in the discharge of his legal funetioni, was ex-
posed in the pillory at Marseilles on the 24th ult. Extraor-
dinary precautions had been taken to maintain order among
the crowd; `l'a detachment of horse chasseurs, gendarmes, and
soldiers of the line formed round the pillory a large ring,
which kept the spectators at a considerable distance. The
extreme corpulence of the culprit made it difficult jar him
to ascend the steps of the ladder leading to the platform, on
which he remained seated during an hour in a state of
complete irhmobility, his eyes fixed to the ground, and his
cap covering part of his face. During the whole time of his
exposure the crowd did not utter ,te word against a man who
had ruined so many families in Marseilles. However, after the
legal part of his sentence was over, the indignant people in-
flicted their own chastisement on the miscreant. The road
which he traversed from the Canebiere to the Prison of the
Presentines was one of ignominy. The crowd rushed for-
ward to otpin a close view of him, and the gendarmes and
escort could with difficulty open a passage for the cart in
which he was placed. Fabre was assailed all the way by the
most opprobrious epithets. At one place, the people were
preparing to pelt him with stones, but the police and the troops
prevailed upon them to desist from their purpose.
OPENING OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
ROAD, FROM TILE TERMINUS AT PADDINGTON, DIRECT
TO BRISTOL AND BRIDGEWATER.-011 Wednesday morn ••
ing, at eight o'clock, the grand opening of the Great
Western Railroad, direct from the terminus at Padding-
ton to J,lristol and Bridgewater, took place by a select
train, containing the directors, engineers, and others
connected with the great undertaking, quitting the ter-
minus at Paddington, with flags flying, and bands of
musicians, performing beautiful airs, on the occasion. A
few days since an experimental journey was made
throughout the whole line, for the purpose of trying the
solidity of the line of road, with carriages containing
immense weights, which proved highly satisfactory to all
those engaged on the line of road, the immense difficul-
ties which arose at Box-hill having been, after consider-
able labour and expense, overcome. At nine o'clock the
public train of carriages took their departure, and the
journey to Bristol, a distance from Paddington of
118+ miles, was performed in four hours, and that to
Bridgewater, of 151 miles, in five hours and a half.
Earl Spencer, the Lord of the Manor of Bat-
tersea, is about to erect a chain-pier near the Church, similar
to the one erected by Lord Cadogen at Chelsea.
ACCIDENT TO ONE OF THE DUKE OF BUCK-
INGHAM'S GAMEKEEPERS.—On Saturday night last,
about nine o'clock, Joseph White, one of the keepers on
the Duke of Buckingham's Wotton Underwood estate,
residing at Grenville Cottage, at the end of the avenue
at the back of his Grace's mansion, was " looking out,"
when within about thirty yards of his cottage he ob-
served a rabbit, and raised his gun to shoot it ; on his
'pulling the trigger, an explosion took place, the barrel
burnt in pieces, and with the stock, lock, and screws was
completely. shattered ; the poor fellow's left hand was
dreadfully injured, two of the fingers being blown off,
the thumb nearly so, and the whole hand cut and
bruised in a sad manner ; fortunately no other part
of his person was hurt. Richard Allen, another
keeper, went to his assistance, and accompanied him on
his way to Brill, that being the nearest place at which
a medical man could be found. After walking about
40 yards White' became faint and unable to proceed
further. Allen went on to Brill, and Mr. Knight, a
surgeon there, quickly attended to the wounded man ;
and after stopping the bleeding, and lending what as-
sistance was immediately requisite, accompanied 'him
to Aylesbury for the purpose of obtaining professional
aid in amputating the injured limb ; by two o'clock the
following morning amputation below the elbow
safely performed in the Buckinghamshire Infirmary,was
a native of Bedfordshire, and has been -linservice of
where White still remhafaiamnset ,
threethat
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old-fashioned,
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the Duke eisota' Buckingham
off
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been used to kill wild ducks with,
hAlislefinr.inglt was which had
and had been occa-
sionally White being a very careful man,
heavy loaded,
the charge which produced th
it not into
unfortunate result was
light, not more than is put emodernbf pieel;t
Allen had been using
are pleased to hear that his Grace hwasangieven instructions
for for White, his wife, and family of four children to have
every necessary found them at his expense.
FORMER OPINIONS OF SIR JAMES GRA-
IIAM.—" Nor will •
wiseue to stop even at this point ;
if the landowner is to give up his monopoly for the
public good,
shall the East India Company and West In-
dia proprietors be suffered, for one day, to retain the full
enjoyment of their exclusive privileges ? Shall the con-
sumer be forced to pay an exorbitant price for his
tea and for his sugar, that particular interests may,
be benefited, and shall the nobility andY gentry of
these realms, the owners of the native 'ail, alone be
sacrificed ? On the contrary, let us adopt the sound
principles of free trade ; but let us not limit their ap-
plication to the staple produce of our lad. Let us
ense de-
stroy the heavy duties on timber, whichn, at the exp
of every man building a ship or a house in
our the mother
country, are, at' best, a paltry premium to col
and since we are bent on establishing an on competi-
tion with the foreign manufacturer, let us a open reduce
The cours th, t
manufactures of our country.
largely those taxes which affect both the
e, commerce ando
be adopted is to consent to do evision of the Corn-laws,
at the sam 'eaue a revision of all
ing duty, but to force
to consent to a free importan with a moderate protect-
-Cyr?' and Currency.
very large amount."
other monopolies, and to carry a rtion of taxes to a
Cherbourg has just been the scene of a repeti-
tion of the story of attached and Leander, in the persons of a
sailor, belonging to the Friedland. The day before the smart and lively lass, to the culinary art, and a Dieppe
in-
tended sailing of the ship, the young tar was brought on board,
and put in irons, for having passed the night on shore without
leave.
Not willing to sail without taking a last leave of his
love, he contrived to free himself, and plunged into the sea ;
his reliance on his strength as a swimmer was fatal to him,
and three days afterwards his body was washed on shore. The
poor girl, who was much attached tohim, was taken to see the
corpse, and an affecting scene ensued. She then cut off a lock
of has hair, and wrapping it in his last letter to her, kissed his
lips, and wag conducted home,

THE CHURCH-RATE VICTIM.
(From the York Herald.)
Mr. William Baines, after suffering an imprisonment
of more than seven months in Leicester Gaol, for con-
scientiously refusing to pay a Church-rate, and the addi-
tional expenses which civil and ecclesiastical law saddled
upon him in consequence thereof, was set at liberty on
Wednesday last. Mr. Baines has not paid the rate, nei-
ther have any of his friends ; there is, therefore, some
little mystery attached to the source whence he has re-
ceived his liberty.

One thing, however, we may be sure of, it is not
through any Tory influence. An Act was brought into
Parliampt by the present Ministry for the express pur-
pose of opening the prison doors to those who were suf-
ferpg on account of this harsh and conscience-oppress-
inf impost ; but the Tory Lords and Lord Bishops did
with it as they had done with many other excellent mea-
sures for the extension of civil freedom and religious li-
berty, mutilated it of those clauses which constituted its
life and spirit, and sent it down to the House of Com-
mons a mere useless excrescence among the multiplicity
of Acts which swell our statute laws. •

It is thus that the House of " hereditary wisdom "
will continue to deal with the Liberal measures that may
be passed in the People's House, unless the people them-
selves assume au attitude which shall convince the aris-
tocracy that they will not be trifled with. The oppor-
tunity for doing this is now placed in their hands ; and
if an overwhelming majority of sterling Reformers—no
ha -

ensure men.—no conciliators—be returned to the
new Parliament, the obstructors of Reform in the Upper
House will be constrained to surrender to discretion,
what sound argument could never gain froM them.
Their opposition to Liberal measures, recently, be-
came so annoying and so obnoxious to the people, that
a reformation hi the House of Lords was a subject of
serious argument with the country; and not a few peti-
tions were presented and motions made in Parliament,
for the exclusion of the Bishops for mixing themselves
up with political debates. With such a Parliament as
the people ought now to return, in answer to the strong
appeal of our patriotic Queen, a check would be placed
upon the proceedings of the Lords which they dare not
disregard, and a prudent concern for the privileges of
" their order," would deter them from interfering with
the privileges of the people.

James and Eliza Black, being two of the pas-
sengers saved from the wreck of the William Brown,
gratefully acknowledge the receipt of 51. from the Ship-
wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society,
No. 46, Bucklersbury.
MEETING OF NON-ELECTORS IN SALFORD.
—A most important meeting of non-electors took place
n Thursday evening, on Shaw's Brow, Salford. -Up-
wards of 4,000 persons weee present. Mr. John Scott,
a working man, who was called to the chair, opened the ,
proceedings in an appropriate speech ; after which he
called upon Mr. M. Savage, who, after dwelling upon the
ruinous effects of the Corn-laws, the fallacy of the as-
sertion that wages would be reduced if those laws were
repealed, and the necessity of union on the part of all
classes of Reformers, Moved the first resolution. Mr.
J. F. Finnigan seconded the resolution, which was put
and carried unanimously, amid loud cheers. Mr. Abel
Heywood was loudly cheered : he dwelt upon the rela-
tive merits of the two candidates, denounced the alliance
between " professing Liberals" and the Tories, and con-
cluded by calling upon all to support Mr. Brotherton—
and by unfurling a white flag, on which wqs inscribed
" Brotherton, and no Bread-tax," which was greeted by
three times three hearty cheers. At this moment J.
Brotherton, Esq., arrived upon the ground, and was tri-
umphantly escorted to the platform. His arrival was
the signal for the most tumultuous applause, which lasted
for some minutes. When it had subsided, Mr. Joseph
Stanley seconded the resolution in an eloquent speech.
The resolution being carried unanimously, loud calls
were now made for Mr. Brotherton, who presented him-
self, and was again loudly cheered ; he addressed the
meeting very effectively. The resolutions adopted were
as follow :—" That this meeting of non-electors, and
other inhabitants of Salford, consider the total, imme-
diate, and unconditional repeal of all monopolies, but
more especially of the corn and provision laws, is a mea-
sure essentially necessary to the prosperity and even exist-
ence of the labouring millions.—That this meeting of
non-electors and others, suffering dreadfully under the
direful effects of monopoly, and having no .other means
of influencing the electors or of counteracting the inti-
midation and corruption exercised by the enemies of the
people, solemnly' pledge themselves to support by all
means in their power those shopkeepers and others who
will pledge themselves to vote for the candidate who ad-
vocates the total and speedy repeal of the Corn and Pro-
vision-laws.—That a Committee of nton-electors, consist-
ing of the Chairman and the movers and seconders of the
resolutions, with power to add to their number, be ap-
pointed to wait upon the electors, and to report their
answers to this meeting."—Manchester Times.—[Let other
non-electors do likewise.]
CARLISLE.—About three o'clock on Saturday
there was a violent assault committed on a police-officer,
by two Yellow " lambs ;" the man, I am sorry to say, died-
through the course of the night. About ten last night an
outrageous attack was made on the coffee-house, thequar-
ters of Messrs4l. and M., when about twenty windows
were broken. The military were called out, about 15
persons taken into custody, including two implicated in
the police-man's death, who are ideptified, and now in
custody. A similar attack was ntade at the Bush. Inn,
though much less damaged. The Royal Hotel is the,
head-quarters of Goulburn; not.a single pane of glass_da,
maged there ; this morning, at ten o'clock, another man,
acting as a special constable, died of wounds received last
night. The town, at this time, is comparatively' quiet,
though this is the first day of the races.—Letter from
Carlisle, dated Wednesday.
TORY ATTACK UPON ALDERMAN WOOD.---
Wednesday aaernoon, shortly after the close of the poll, the
worthy Alderman, who had been conversing with some friends
at a house in Basinghall-street, upon leaving, in company with
a friend, was grossly assailed upon passing the Tory Commit-
tee room, in Basinghall-street, by a rutfia:nly mob of long-
shore-men in the pay of the Conservatives, who hissed and
hcoted the Alderman, and were proceeding to violence, when
Mr. Shillibeer, the omnibus-proprietor, and a friend, who
seeing the danger of the worthy Alderman, manfully fought
off the ruffians, and ultimately forming a body-guard to the
Alderman, succeeded in getting him safely into a cab in Cole-
man-street, but not until he had been severely handled by the
mob, who, as soon as they saw the Alderman drive off, at-
tacked Mr. Shillibeer and his friend, tore the clothes off the
former, and otherwise injured him.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 27.—The six persons con-
demned to death by the Court of Assize of Brabant, have, ap-
pealed to the Court of Cassation. June 28.—The Marquis of
Hertford arrived at Brussels yesterday evening. His Lord-
ship came from Paris, and is going to the waters of Tyrol.
The Court of Assizes of Montbrison has just
tried over again, in consequence of the decision of the Court
of Cassation, the three men who had been found guilty at Lyons
of having carried off M. Millon from that city, and attempted
to extort money. The criminals have again been found guilty,
and sentenced, the two principal, Poncet and Collett, to
twenty years' hard labour, and the pillory; and Gervals, their
accomplice, to ten years' solitary confinement, instead of hard
labour at the hulks, according to the first sentence.
FINE ARTS.—M. Gudin, marine painter, and

M. Alaux, historical painter, have been named officers of the
Legion of Honour ; Messrs. Delorme and Grenier, painters,
and M. Etez, sculptor, have been named knights of the same
order. The King has just purchased a charming little picture,
exhibited at this year's salon, by M. Jollivet, l'lnterieur d'un • .
Atelier, in which an artist, who has passed his soixantaine, •
coolly mining his colours with his back turned to a lovely model
sitting by the stove, attired like the Venus de Medicis, and
doing the most unromantic thing in the world—reading
a newspaper 1 His Majesty has also purchased for the Museum
of Versailles the spirited picture by M. T. S. Robins, repro-
sentinithe Veloce steamer entangled in the jetty at Calais.
The Minister of the Inter* has purchased the Odalinque, a
marble statue by M. Pradief, exhibited this year ; the Desil-
lusion, by M. Jouffroy ; the Faune, by M. Brian (this is
really a good purchase), and the Andromede, by M. Lescome.
The Minister has presented to the Ceramic Museum at Serves,
and to the Bibliotheque Royale, antique vases discovered at
Propriano, in Corsica.
The tesult of the Westminster election is attri-
butable to two causes—one, the too great confilehneere
ttf the
Liberal Candidates in a certainty of succeas--#!_e_
surd conduct of the Chartists, who have ter Ily. cut Off their
ildelnadect men waited
nose to be avenged of their face.
until the afternoon, to see how maantteerses went, and when they
chance they voted for
found that the Tory Candidate had
" to spite the Whigs,"
him
and Mr. Leader, in order, as
forgetting that they were they
more likely to spite themselves.
On the 21st inst., says the Journal de Loiret,
a man named Morel,
as condemned to two years' im-
prisonment by the Cor:relacott wnal
eTribunal, at Chinon, for an
al finding that he was to re-
attempted outrage a
turn to the prisontrevault, oufPfontrevamult, from which he had but just
much excited, and in a tit of rage left
been released,
thebeyearaTeof the prison, at Chinon, and entering
his work in
the cell of a prisoncrl named
.Ga.llard, who was asleep, beat
out his brains with a arge paser.tg stone which he had picked
He had previously said that, in order to
up in the yard..
prevent his being sent to Fontrevault, he would either kill
himself or somebody else, so that his destination might be
changed.
A few days ago, says the Echo de Vienne, the
Baron de Jouvenel, of Bagniere, near Veyrac, in the Lot, while
on his way to Cuzance, at half-past nine in the morning,
received a pistol-shot from a man who was behind a wall-
The ball broke his right arm and passed through his body.
On turning round the Baron received a second ball which
broke his left arm and also entered his body. The assassin
then fled. The Baron, notwithstanding his wounds, attempted
to regain his home, but soon fell exhausted by loss or blood.
He was conveyed to his house by some persons who saw him,
and died in a few hours. The motive of this crime is not stated.
A disastrous conflagration broke ont a few nights
since in the commune of Ham, near Douellens, and in less than
two hours twelve large buildings were totally destroyed. A
woman, the mother of five children, lost her life in endeavour-
ing to save some furniture. A strong detachrtent of troops
trom the garrison of Douellens came to give assistance, and be-
hared in the most exemplary manner. The cause of the ca-
lamity is believed to have been aceidetal.
MATHEWS AT TIIE JARDIN DES PLANTES.
—I took Mr. and Mrs. Mathews to the Jardin des
Plantes to-dpy, and was much amused by an incident
that occurred there. A pretty child, with her bonne,
were seated on a bench near to which we placed our-
selves. She was asking questions relative to the ani-
mals she had seen, and Mr. Mathews having turned his
head away from her, gave some admirable imitations of
the sounds peculiar to the beasts of which she was
speaking, and also of the voice and speeches of the per-
son who had exhibited them. Never did he exert him -
self more to please a crowded and admiring audience
than 'to amuse this child, who, maintaining an im-
movable gravity during the imitations, quietly observed -
to her nurse, " ilia bonne, ce Monsieur eit Lien drole:"
The mortification of Mr. Mathews on this occasion was
very diverting. " How !" exclaimed he, "is it pcsdble
that all my efforts to amuse that child have so wholly
ailed ? She never moved a muscle I.
"—Lady Blessington's
Idler in France.
A Stockholm letter, in mentipning the expected
arrival of Mlle. Taglieni in that city, observes, that it will be
the first time of her visiting the place of her birth for 23
years. It adds that the fair dansatrice was born in 1604.
tier graucbuother, Mute. Kamen, is -still alive there.