The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

CROSBY HALL

Mrs. Butler, the widow of the celebrated tragedian
and lecturer, Samuel Butler, gave her second dramatic
reading last night at Crosby Hall. The attendance on
the occasion was, we were gratified to observe, very nu-
merous, and the exertions of the clever elocutionist met
with a degree of applause proportionate to their great
merit. Her recitations, evidently the result of intense
study
and
mostpassionateft
g ied attachment
authors,
w et or
eh
the inspiritingcaracter is
characterised by
work:
of our
chasteness of conception, exquisitely refined judgment,
and beautiful delivery, which afforded incontestible
dence that Mrs. Butler is possessed of decided genius..
Ifer powers of description and personation are of no or-
dinary stamp, and there is in her intonation an har-
monious sequence of melody peculiarly benefiting her
for enlisting the sympathies and admiration of her
patrons. Tho programme so judiciously selected for
last night's entertainment, comprised some of the finesu
passages from Shakspere, Hood, Arnold, and Ather-
stone. Mrs. Butler, too, appeared in the double capacity,
of authoress, and elocutionist, introducing an enchant-
ing, romantic sketch, entitled " The Daughter of Erin,"
her own composition. Throughout America and the
Continent of Europe, where Mrs. Butler frequently and
with creditable success, delineated the conceptions of the
master-minds of our admired dramatists and poet-, th's
andal sa
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ngw greatlyas
enjoyedthea damd
di rei Jlo,n
" Hamlet's Soliloquy
on Death," " The Last Days o
recognised by a British
of Herculaneum," " Hot-
spur's Description of a Fop," and "
faction of knowingthathe
audience.
literary efforts were fully
the painter is represented torturing the
I arrhasius, where
Athenian
Olyuthian captive, in order the better to understand th t
pains and passions of his Prometheus, which he was thelc
about to paint, were co
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treat
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she will often afford us similar opportunities of bearii
tribute to her unassuming merits.
M

_ER _AJESTT'S THEATRE.—The troupe has re
ceived another accession of strength in the perssn
( f
Signora Vietti, the well known contralto, who arriv, -
last night. Most contraltos having sought for man:(
years past to force their voice into soprano notes, (Tarsi
are no longer written for them, and they find employ
naent but rarely—still is the possession of such voices
necessary to the completeness of a troupe. News walk
received this day that Mdlle. Lind was coming direct byl
the most rapid conveyance.
AMATEUR PERFORMANCE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
—We understand that her Majesty has retained her bo4
for the amateur performance at the St. James's Theatr4
on the 27th inst. Her Royal Highness the Duchess
Gloucester, and her Royal Highness the Duchess
Cambridge, also intend to honour the performance wit
their presence.
WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENING.--This afternoo•
at a quarter before three o'clock, the Queen and U
Prince Consort, with the royal children, after a sojout ,
of twelve days only, left Windsor Castle for Bucking
ham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of lie' f
is daily improving in health, and purposes to remo
from Frogmore to Clarence House,
on Wednesday nest. The Queen, it is do
not intend returning to Windsor Castle beforeerthmaise6
June (Ascot Races); but it is probable
or
Reek that
two at Clar
St. James's Pala(
andmoa t the
previousßo yal
tFamilyohe bitlldpaayssd
drawing-room.
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formerly of the cor •
the past week
Captain Thomasßedvciianenadg
of Artillery Drivers,
:laanigt'en at Walcheren ISt.'
Cheltenham, aged 73. He was onle•nofthe few survivi'
officers of the disastrous
He had enjoyed the half-pay of Captain since 1814.

THE IRISH CHARACTER.
The dis'.nal monotony of our Irish intelligence is
lagreeably relieved this morning by a very unexpected
novelty. It is absolutely startling in its extraordinary
singularity. A Roman Catholic clergyman, in a discourse
from the pulpit, is reported to have lectured his Hock
upon their ignorance and indolence. His language is
'nothing short of high treason against the Irish character :
Interested and designing knaves," says this apostle
sof truth, " have told you you were the finest peasantry
sea earth ; those who told you so were impostors. You
etre a patient people, warm-hearted and religious ; but
Dtou are an unenlightened people, not half educated, and
every few degrees removed from barbarism. . The
gime is arrived when you must help yourselves, and the
first step to that is to till the ground. . . . Sympa-
thising nations feel your sufferings, and are ready to as-
sist you. But if you do not shake off this apathy, this
torpor, which seems to be taking possession of your very
souls, and do all in your power to produce food for the
nest year, instead of exciting their sympathy, you will
arouse their contempt, and you will become a byword to
the nations of the earth, as a lazy, indolent, mean people,
who would rather trust to the bounty of others than exert
themselves." The place where this unparalleled audacity
was perpetrated is Tralee, an assize town a few miles
poor and
north
of the Lakes of Ra- in
llarnty, but situated
ill-cultivated country. The very Reverend Dr. WEnery
was the perpetrator, and his name deserves to be enrolled
among the benefactors of his country. His conduct
shows to us like real
he he roism. Dependent upon the
sod will of the people,
does not flinch from setting
before them the most unpalatable truths. The mass of
mankind in all ages and in all countries has loved dark-
ness rather than light- Populus vult decipi. The passion
is eto 1 and universal, in the democratic assemblages
of the Athenian forum and the king-loving demonstra-
tions on the Irish hills. Individual vanity working in
the aggregate and calling itself patriotism—to this the
mob-orator must appeal, flatter, cajole, and keep the flame
alive. All who trade upon the sympathies of the
people, whose stake is popularity, who live upon com-
mon fame and reputation, whose dependence is on the
many-headed monster, who exist only in the smiles
and would perish by the frown of the capricious
multitude—to all such—and how many are they in
Ireland I—truth is forbidden, honesty is a luxury be-
yond their means, and integrity a thing impossible.
They are the victims of circumstances. It is a struggle
with them between conscience and prudence —a per-
petual conflict between honest impulse and sordid ine
terest. A strife of this kind can never have but one
termination. It is too strong for the weakness of hu-
man nature. Conscience, in the end, is inevitably
stifled. Very few days are passed since we commented
upon the absence of all public exhortations to labour on
the part of the Roman Catholic clergy. They had not
seemed to us to have used their influence with the
people for the best purposes. It appeared such a simple
thing to inculcate the primary duties of civilized man—
industry and obedience. Patience was much recom-
mended—a passive virtue, the attribute of brutes ; but
we do not recollect to have met with any instance before
this at Tralee of a spiritual exhortation of the character
of Dr. M'Enery's. The occasion was obvious enough.
Time pressed. Nature was advancing in her course, but
man stood still. The fatal consequence was pointed out
in many quarters, but not by the priests. Why not ?
Let those reverend gentlemen explain the matter as they
may. For our part, we can conceive but one answer,
and that is sufficiently indicated in the foregoing re-
marks.— Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Sir J. Duke and Mr. Alderman Gibbs were engaged
for three hours in hearing an information for an in-
fringement of a registered design, which appeared to
excite great interest in the lace trade.

Mr. J. Payne, the barrister, and ill.. Tippets, a soli-
citor, appeared to support the complaint ; and Mr.
Clarkson and Mr. Wordsworth attended as counsel, and
Messrs. Devonshire and Wilson, as solicitors, for the
defendant.

The information charged that Mr. Webb, of Wood-
street and Manchester, had registered an original design
for a protective rouche tray, and that Mr. Hesketh
Hughes, of Cripplegate-buildings, had sold a fraudulent
imitation of such design.
" Rouche," it was explained, is a piece of thin lace,
about two inches in width, and a yard in length. The
lace is first crimped (or ;offered, as it is termed) ; a
thread is then run down the centre, and next the lace is
folded in half. It is then ready for use, either as ladies'
" whiskers," or as a double frill border round a cap, &c.
Mr. Payne said, he understood the question was to be
met upon its merits, but he was prepared to go into the
preliminary proot by putting in the certificate of regis-
tration, proving that notice was given to the defendant
not to infringe on the register, mid that he had, never-
theless, sold- the fraudulent imitations of the design
subsequently.
Mr. Clarkson said he would give him no trouble on
these points.

.
Mr. Payne proceeded to explain the state of things
before the invention was registered by his client. The
rouche lace was kept in round boxes containing three
tiers, and the mischief was that only one-third of the
lace could be shown at a time, and no part of it could
be removed without disturbing the rest. The com-
plainant, who is a rouche maker, invented a box for his
goods which enabled a draper to exhibit the goods bet-
ter, and to remove any portion without disturbing the
rest. Instead of a round deep, he had a long shallow one,
and instead of laying strips of paper between each row of
lace he folded a sheet of paper so as to form a series of ridges
The lace was then put into the troughs between the
ridges, two of which troughs held a complete length of
lace. It contained 12 yards, like the round boxes, but
presented the whole to view at once. About six weeks
after the registration the defendant registered the in-
fringement. By ripping open the top of each ridge, he
was enabled to put into the tray nearly double the quan-
tity. This might he an improvement, but it was neither
law nor common sense, that if a man added some little
improvement to another man's original and novel design,
the improver should take the benefit of the whole. In
such a case the improver inti:t either make an arrange-
ment with the inventor, or wait till the inventor's term
of registry or patent expired. Ile referred to Words.
worth's work on the Patent Law, and urged that the
cutting open the tops of the ribs or ridges, all the rest
being precisely the same, was bit a colourable change,
and, in fact, a fraudulent imitation.
Philip Capelain, a registration agent, deposed that he
prepared the specification. The ridges were all com-
plainant claimed as novel, and the defendant had copied
these, slitting the ridges open at the top.
Cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson—The defendant's
tray exhibited the plain edge as well as the two goffered
edges, which the complainant's did not. The com-
plainant's box was ten inches wide, and the defendant's
about six inches. The length of each was the same.
Mr. Clarkson said, there was no infringement in this
case. The specification of the complainant's invention
was insufficient, for it did not specify what parts were
new and what were known before, as particularly re-
quired by the Act. It was not new to put lace into an
oblong paper box, nor to put slips of paper between the
rows of lace; but it was mew to fasten the strips of paper
to the box, of which the specification took no notice;
and it was new to have a sheet of paper folded so as to
present a series of ribs instead of having separate loose
ribs. The specification contained no reference to what
was old, and what was therefore defective. The Act had
reference only to matters of form. It was nothing
that the same principle or idea was taken up if the
form and means were different. Principles were
protected by the Patent-law, and mere shape by the
Registration-law. If he showed the shape was
different, and essentially more useful, ho should
relieve his client. The complainant's invention was a
series of triangular ridges. The defendant's was a
series of detached pieces of paper, folded to form three
sides of a square, the bottom side being pasted to the
bottom of the box, and the effect was to obtain a saving
of nearly half the space, and show the plain as well as
the crimped edges of the material. Space was a great
object in sending goods into the country or abroad.
The complainant's divisions were like a V inverted,
thus " A," and if a square was a different form from a
triangle there was no imitation here of the shape re-
gistered by Mr. Webb. He called several witnesses.
Reuben Hansoll, from Messrs. Grocock's, said, they
were the largest dealers in Rouche lace in the world,
They sold about 1,800 boxes per week. Mr. Webb in-
vented the ridges, but Mr. Hughes's
plan *was much
better. It was important to see how both edges (the
folded and the goffered edges) were made, which could
not he shown by the ridges. The space saved was a
great object, and they sold 12 of Hughes's to one of
Webb's on that account.

Mr. Brooman, the patent agent, and other witnesses,
were called on the same side.

The magistrates retired, and, after being absent some
time,

Sir J. DiaKE said, they felt great difficulty in deciding
on the case, and they therefore left the parties to pursue
any other remedy they had.
'rera questions put by the magistrates it was evident
that they h d formed different opinions ; Mr. Alderman
Gibbs nlZing the Defendant's plan a piracy of the corn-
plainant's
tially differentaud Sir .Duke that the shape was essen-
to the trade. . and the defendant's tray far more useful
The complaint, therefore, was in effect dismissed.
Lydia Bossy, a rather eizide%Tv.voman,
...0w
shabby mourning, was eh with having dressed in
the Admiralty, whomonaYittr defrauded
naval officer, to a Pension dneeoiLled widow Qf a
granted. Per annum was
in
to
On the death of Lieutenant James Guttery,o t
the pension was granted to his vridolwB4,ll;u 1833,
receive it up to her own death, in
band of the prisoner, with whom the deeeateeCltilevilhuL"
been lodging, in Reynold's-court, Cripplegate coat'
to disguise her death from the Admiralty, and, by Turley:dna
of a false declaration, to get the money into his ow,
hands. This continued up to about a year ago, when he
died also; since which time the prisoner, by continuing
to personate Mrs. Guttery, had still received the pension.
Information of the fraud, however, now reached the Ad-
miralty, and Inspector Haines apprehended the prisoner,
at a house in Prince's-court, where she appeared to be
living with her children, one of whom was afflicted with
blindness, in a most impoverished condition. She at
first denied all knowledge of the matter, but at the police
station made several admissions establishing her guilt.
She said that the pension was originally bequeathed to
her husband by Mrs. Guttery, and that, at his death,
he left it to her. It was quite clear that a third party
(said to be a woman) had assisted them in effecting the
fraud.
Mr. Whalley, from the Paymaster-General's office,
produced certain declarations, signed by two clergymen,
and representing the
.woman as the widow of Lieutenant
Guttery, upon t e faith of which declarations the pay.
ments were continued, through the navy agents, Blears.
Pettet and Newton.
Mr. EWA marked upon the
_iiigsvigerMi wise.

quences of signing declarations without possessing any
knowledge of their contents—a very common practice,
but one which he had invariably declined at Bow-street,
at the risk of being thought uncivil and disobliging.
The prisoner was remanded for n week.
A man named Harrison, keeping a public-house called
the Peacock, in Iloughton•street, Clare-market, was
charged with a felonious assault and robbery, at the
Tailors' Arms, Clement's-court.
The landlady of the Tailors' Arms, a Mrs. Turner,
said that she had retired to her bed-room for a little
nap during divine service on Sunday week, when the
prisoner, who had been drinking in the tap-room, forced
his way into her bed-room, and, throwing himself
upon her, attempted to violate her person. She escaped
him, and sat down exhausted in a chair, when he re-
peated the attempt. She pulled his ear and scratched
his face, upon which he struck her several times with
violence, and then left the room, taking with him 11.155.
from a work-box on the table. Her husband
being out of town, she took no steps in the matter till
his return on Friday, when he caused the prisoner to be
apprehended.
A lodger in the house, afflicted with paralysis, saw
the prisoner break into the room, and heard the scuffle.
The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was fully
committed for trial.

MARYLEBONE.
Mr. Rawlinson was occupied for nearly two hours in
the investigation of a charge against a number of persons
who had been taken into custody for having been con-
cerned in stealing property to the amount of nearly
6001. from a van belonging to Messrs. Crowley and Co.,
which firm had by handbills offered a reward of 801. for
such information as would lead to the apprehension and
conviction of the thieves.

The names of the prisoners were John Freer,
William Martin, Henry East, Samuel Freer, John
Cherry, Joseph Taylor, James Taylor, Joel Taylor,
Joseph Cooper, and William Pellin. A considerable
degree of interest was excited in consequence of the
numerous robberies which from time to time have been
perpetrated at the different stations, and the court was
therefore much crowded.

Mr. Vann attended for the prosecution; Mr. Wilkin-
son, manager to Messrs. Crowley, the well-known rail-
way carriers, also attended, as did Mr. Barker, superin-
tendent of the Railway Company's police, and Inspector
Pasco, of the N division.
A great deal of evidence was gone into, from which it
appeared that several of the prisoners had carried off
from the terminus a quantity of goods in a van, and that
they had no right whatever to do so. A portion of the
said goods was ultimately met with by Sergeant San-
ders, at 3, Colnbroke•place, Hoxton. It was further
stated that at the house in question much of the pro-
perty stolen was discovered.
Other evidence was gone into touching the robbery,
and the six prisoners first named were remanded till
Tuesday next; and the others were discharged on their
promising to appear on the day named.