The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

It is stated in an American pa that in the progress
of cutting the Delaware canal, four kegs of gunpowder,
containing about 100 pounds, were used for a single
blast, and had had the effect of rending in pieces more
than 400 cubic yards of rock. " This," it is added, "is
the largest blast ever made in the United States."
The net proceeds of the Polish Ball and Concert, ac-
cording to the report of the Committee, whose meeting
was held on Saturday last at Guildhall, amount to the
sum of 7521. 2s. 2d.

Lady-duellists have frequently avenged their own
wrongs. Henriette Sylvie of Molera, fought with an-
other woman in male habits. A lady of Beaucaire, and
a young lady of rank, fought with swords in their gar-
den almost to death. Mademoiselle Durieux fought in
the open street with her lover Antinotti, who had of-
fended her. But Maupin, a performer at the Opera, was
the most renowned female duellist, and killed many op-
ponents. Like instances have occurred as late as 1826.

The annual dinner of the Charterhouse took place on
Monday last •, 100 sat down to dinner, and 1001. were
collected for the orator.
Of some of Runjeet Singh's swords, the blades alone
were valued at 1,000/., and the gold and jewels on their
hilts and scabbards at five times that sum. The greatest
treasure he had was the great diamond called the Kohee-
noor, or " Mountain of Light." It is badly cut, set
plainly in gold, but valued at three millions and a half of
money.

The claim on the fire-offices for the amount of the pro-
perty destroyed by fire at the Exeter Railway station
has been settled, and the sum of 11,550/. has been ob-
obtained as a compensation for the loss.
On this day, in 1653, Cromwell was declared Protector.
The great and laborious Selden was also born on this
day, in 1584.

A Morning Contemporary says, that " Crockford's
Club-house was, on Saturday last. in imminent danger
of being burned." We can readily believe this, for what
more natural than that a Hell should be on fire ?
Ruraouns Or TEED DAY.
The Pope is so delighted with the turn religious
affairs have taken in England, that he is about to send a
Nuncio Apostolical to Oxford, to consult with Pusey and
Newman as to the most fitting time for receiving them
and all other good repentant Protestants into the bosom
of old Mother Church.
The Duke of Sussex, it is said, is to be omitted from
the list of sponsors at the approaching christening of
the Prince of Wales.

We regret to hear that Charles Day, Esq., the
eminent surgeon and one of the leading Reformers of the
Isle of Wight, lies so dangerously ill at his house at
Cowes, that his life is despaired of

FINE ARTS.

HULLMANDEL'S LITHOTINT ILLUSTRA-

TIONS.-[SECOND NOTICE.]

We noticed these admirable illustrations some 1
weeks since in The Sun, and at the same time
took occasion to speak of the important improve-
ment which Mr. Hullmandel, after many years
of unwearied perseverance, had succeeded in
effecting in lithography. As we anticipated, this
improvement has excited the attention of artists
in no ordinary degree, and bids fair, at no distant
period, to make the humbler classes of society as
familiar with the chefs d'oeuvre of the great
masters of Art, as the wealth and aristocratic
connoisseurs and amateurs now are. Nothing
more effectually contributes to elevate and refine
the mind of a nation than the spread of a taste of
this sort; pictures are nearly, if not quite, as
serviceable public teachers, as books; and,
thanks to Mr. Hullmandel's valuable discovery,
the day is not far remote when the cottages of
our peasants and artisans may be embellished with
cheap and first-rate engravings from the
master-pieces of Raphael, Titian, Rubens,
Claude, and those other gifted spirits who have
done so much to instruct and delight huma-
nity. And here, before we commence our notice
of the handsome Lithotint Illustrations now
lying before us, we will take the oppOrtunity of
correcting a mistake which appeared in our for-
mer criticism. In alluding to Mr. Hullmandel,
we spoke of him as a " German artist," whereas,
it seems he is an Englishman ; and we may add,
too, that he has shown by his twenty years'
strenuous devotion to Art, that he is not
sparingly endowed with those well-wearing qua-
lities of courage, patience, and perseverance, for
which John Bull has always been remarkable
Such being the case, time only is needed to give
all the effect he could desire to his present im-
provements in the art of Lithography. Let him
go on then with unabated zeal, for assuredly he
will soon reap the full reward of all his labours.
And now to the Illustrations before us. An In-
dian Scene is in every respect a characteristic one.
In the foreground we see two native Indians broil-
ing the day's meal before a wood fire, just at the
edge of a thick jungle, and in the immediate
neighbourhood of a small tank or stream ; and
behind them rises the tall, graceful palm-tree,
apparently motionless, for from the dull,
sultry look of the fixed clouds, one may
easily see that there is not wind enough
to stir even a leaf. The artist, with
consummate skill, has contrived to impart a
thoroughly oriental aspect to his landscape. One
almost expects to see a tiger crouching among
the tangled underwood of the jungle, and prepar-
kg for a deadly spring on the unsuspecting In-
dians. A Mountain Village is a sketch of a
totally different complexion. The little hamlet,
with its quaint, old-fashioned, patriarchal look-
ing tenements, is nestling at the foot of a lofty
precipitous crag, and under the shelter of a
castle which crowns the summit of the precipice.
In the distance, huge mountains rear their ridgy
backs to the sky; and right in front, a turbulent
mountain stream dashes in its headlong course,
with one or two cottage-gardens shelving gently
down to it. Nothing can be more peaceful than
the character of this picturesque landscape. It
is the very emblem of repose and contentment.
The broken shadows of the dark crag in th
restless waters of the streamlet are handled with
masterly adroitness. A Groupe in an old.
English Baronial Hall, reminds us of one of
Leslie's clever pictures. An elderly man in
the Court dress, apparently of the days of
Charles the Second, is dragging forward by the
arm a reluctant youngster into the presence of an
arch-looking dame of quality, who laughs at the
fellow's evident bashfulness—and well she may,
for he looks as if he would rather face a cannon
than the bright, perilous black eyes of the lady.
Nothing can be more humourous, or truer to
character, than the constrained And awkward
position of the embarrassed stripling. Instinct
would prompt him to go up and address the
laughing dame ; but his nervous sensibilities are
too strong for the promptings of impulse ; so he
hangs back, perfectly convinced that to go for-
ward, will be—to quote Falstaff's expression—
"to write himself down an ass." The great
merit of this sketch is its happiness and appro-
priateness of expression. Dalgetty feeding his
favourite war-horse, Gustavus, will instantly re-
mind the spectator of one of the most entertain-
ing incidents in Sir Walter Scott's " Legends of
Montrose !" The shrewd, worldly, veteran
trooper, whose days of romance and sensibility
are for ever gone by, and who draws his sword
for that party only who offer him the greatest
amount of pay, is pourtrayed with great tact, and
fully works out the novelist's conception. The ex-
pression, in particular, of the sly, small, twinkling
eye is capital: A. Scene in a Cathedral represents
a female in deep mourning attire, with a long
veil floating behind her, moving towards a hand-
some mausoleum, on which reclines, at full
length, the effigy of a mailed warrior, with the
banner of his house suspended above his tomb.
The attitude and half-averted countenance of the
solitary mourning lady, have a very touching
character, and realize the idea intended to be
conveyed by the artist. We here conclude our
brief; imperfect sketch of these admirable thus'.
trations, which must be seen and examined with
attention, before they can be truly appreciated.
They have little in common with the old litho-
graphic engravings, for the lights and shades are
defined with extraordinary beauty and distinct-
ness, and the perspectives, some of them of a
very difficult character, are managed with an
ease and a propriety, of which few would sup-
pose lithography was capable. Viewed at a dis-
tance, they might pass for the best seppia or In-
dian ink sketches, and, when framed, would
show to as much advantage as paintings. We
hope shortly to see the master-pieces of our
great painters engraved by Mr. Hullmandel,
who, by means of his improved system, can copy
the originals with the closez,t fidelity, and mul-
tiply his copies almost ad infinitum.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 15.—We have
had rather a dull market to day, the sales comprising
about 3,000 bales, wholly to the trade.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 15.—A limited
business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange to-
day ; Grand Junction, 198 ; Eastern Counties, 8 ;
North Midland, 70i. In Bank or miscellaneous Stock
nothing doing.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 15.—There
is much animation in the Share Market, and prices are
progressively advancing. The sales are, London and
Brighton, 36i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28 ;
South Eastern and Dover, 18 184- ; ditto, New, 30s.
prem. ; North Midland Thirds, 15i ; Union Bank of
Manchster, 61. 11 s. 3d.

By the arrival of the packet•ship Hendrick Hudson at
Portsmouth, and the Roscius at Liverpool, papers from
New York to the 28th ultimo have been received,
being four days later than the last advices. The papers
do not contain any political news of the least interest.
Exchange on England is last quoted at 91 10. United
States Bank Shares are not quoted at New York, but at
Philadelphia they arc quoted at 4* per share.

_
THE FUNDS.
A further advance of per cent. has taken place in
Consols this morning ; they are now quoted at 89i f, for
the Account ; Three Der Cents. Reduced have also im-
proved to 841. Spanish Active Stock is now quoted
at 24,k ; Portuguese Five per Cents.. 321 33.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Loudon and Brighton 5O ...... .. to 37}
London and Blackwall
Ditto New 4/. 6s. 8d....... 5/. 161. 8d
London and South Western 3B& s7i to
North Midland
Ditto Thirds

PRIGS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 1r...
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 973 /Grand Canal Stock
Ditto Reduced
Ditto New 1830 9B;' Ditto 4 per cent •
3i per Cent. Debs. 90i ißoyal Canal Stock

HALF-PAST ONE.
The advance which took place in the English Securi-
ties is fully maintained, Consols being still quoted at 89k
894 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89 891 ; Bank Stock,
1661 1651 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 ; India Bonds, 1
premium.

There has been but little doing in the Foreign Market.
The brokers being principally engaged in settling the
half monthly account, which is going on without any
difficulty. Spanish Active Stock is now quoted at 24;
Portuguese Five per Cents., 328 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 51,1.
Very little doing in Shares. London and Brighton
has advanced to 371; London and South Western are
578; Great Western, 847}. •
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols, 891 *; Mexican, 268 ; Spanish, 24k.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CHANCERY COCRT.—(THIS DAY).
This being the third seal after Michaelmas Term, the
Court took motions to-day.

IN RE AMIOT.
This case came before the Court upon motion to dis-
solve an injunction which had been granted by his Lord-
ship a short time since, upon petition, under the fourth
clause of the Administration of Justice Amendment Act,
which provided, that in all cases where the Equity Ex-
chequer (which was abolished by the Act) had
hitherto granted distringas upon stock, the Court
should have the power to grant injunctions upon
petition, without the filing of a bill. The fifth
clause of the same Act was rather inconsistent with the
4th, and under that clause it was contended that the
Court could not grant the injunction in the way it had
been done in the present instance.
Mr. Wilbraham appeared on behalf of the application
to dissolve the injunction, and Mr. Wakefield and Mr.
Beale were in support of it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought this a case in which
it was necessary that he should consult with the other
Judges of the Court as to the practice to be adopted
under these clauses. His Lordship did not think the
parties who had conducted the bill through the House
were at all aware of the nature of those two clauses.
From what he had heard, the second of those clauses
was intended as a substitute for the first. They must
however, take the law as they found it, and the Judges
of the Court must consult together as to how it should
be carried into effect.

JONES V. SQUIRE.
This was a motion to discharge an order of the Vice-
Chancellor of England, and that the plaintiff's bill might
be dismissed out of Court.

The arguments were proceeding when we went to press.

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
The Master of the. Rolls was occupied up to the time
of our going to press with motions of little public in-
terest.

VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
DIUUTZ V. VIVIAN.
This was an application for an injunction to restrain
the defendant from making use of, or counterfeiting, a
certain manufacture of metal-plates, applied to the
sheathing of the bottoms of ships, and for which the
plaintiff, Mr. Muntz, the Member for Birmingham, had
taken out a patent in the month of October, 1822.
It appeared from the statement of Mr. Bethell, who
opened the case for the plaintiffs, that the plates, which
were now extensively in use, consisted of an alloy of cop-
per and zinc, mixed in the proportions of 60 per cent. of
copper, and 40 per cent. of zinc. The great value
of the composition arose from its durability, and
from its oxidating with salt water, which kept
it always clean. The plaintiff had enjoyed the sole and
undisputed possession of the patent until the year 1839,
when the defendant, who is the principal partner in a
foundery at Bristol, manufactured a similar composition
for the same purpose, which he still continued to do. The
defendant, however, rolled the metal cold, while plaintiff
rolled it hot, this last process being stated by the plain-
tiff to be less expensive and more expeditious. Various
affidavits were put in, for the purpose of showing that
the invention of Mr. Muntz had completely succeeded,
and had attained the objects set forth in the patent.
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAH.)
DIEU% V. BELL.

His Hormun gave judgmeniTiTihis cause. The sub-
ject of this interpleading suit was a bond dated July 5,
1824, by which certain persons, including Thomas Star-
ling Benson, became jointly and severally bound to Mary
Jeffries, now Mary Jordan, in the penal sum of 16,0001.,
with a condition for making the bond void on the pay-
ment of 8,0001., with interest. On the marriage of Mrs.
Jordan the bond was assigned to trustees, in trust for
the benefit of herself and children, and after her death
for the benefit of her husband, so long as he remained a
widower. The bond, by means which did not appear,
came into the possession ,of Henry Jordan ; and in the
year 1832 the defendant, Mr. Bell, advanced 7,0001. to
Jordan, upon the security, amongst other property, of
the bond in question, upon the faith of a representation
made by Jordan to Mr. Bell, that his wife's real estate
had been settled upon her and her children, and
that the :bond had become his property. In
support of this statement Henry Jordan produced to
Mr. Bell a settlement, which he alleged to be the only
settlement upon the marriage, and from which it ap-
peared, contrary to the fact, that he was in legal posses-
sion of the bond. Mr. Bell made no inquiry whatever
of the obligors of the bond before he advanced the
money. In March, 1833, Mr. Bell, by his solicitor, gave
notice of this security to the obligors of the bond. The
question, therefore, to be decided was whether Mrs.
Jordan and her children, or the defendant, Mr. Bell, had
the best equity upon the money secured by the bond.
The sole question was, whether at the time when Mr.
Bell gave notice of this incumbrance to the obligors of
the bond, such notice of the marriage settlement of
Mrs. Jordan had been given to the obligors, or any of
them as would deprive Mr. Bell of the benefit
of the rule of law. Thomas Starling Benson,
one of the obligors of the bond, deposed that he had no-
tice at the time of Mary Jordan's marriage that the
bond was settled on her and her children. That testi-
mony was not contradicted. If it were necessary to'fix
the other obligors of the bond with notice, he would
have great difficulty in acting upon the Master's Re-
port. But it had been decided in the case of Smith v.
Smith, in a full Court of Exchequer, that notice to one
trustee was sufficient to bind the rest during his life ;
and the case of Tenison v. Ramsbottom, before the Mas-
ter of the Rolls, had confirmed that decision. In both
these cases the question of sufficiency of notice was
treated by the Court as a question of substance, and he
entirely concurred in that principle. The judgment in
this cause must therefore be in favour of Mrs. Jordan and
her children. If Henry Jordan were in Court, there
could be no question as to who should bear the costs oc-
casioned by his iniquities. He could not give Mr. Bell
his costs, because if he had made proper inquiry he
would have escaped that loss to which the judgment of
the Court would subject him. He could not acquit the
trustees of all blame in the transaction, for if they had
used proper caution the bond never would have come
into the possession of Henry Jordan. He could give 'no
costs against the co-defendants ; the plaintiffs must have
their costs out of the fund.

Considerable discussion having arisen at the bar in
reference to the situation and rights of the several parties
to the suit, his Honour made the following addition to
his decree:—" Declare that Bell is entitled to stand in
the place of Henry Jordan during his life (provided he
remains a widower) in the event of his surviving his wife,
and declare that he is entitled to a lien on the fund to
that extent. Declare that the fund subject to the inter-
est of Bell, belongs to the trustees of the settlement made
on Mrs. Jordan's marriage upon the trusts of that settle-
ment. Let the fund be transferred to the trustees of that
settlement, and let the cash in Court, or stock, arising
from dividends invested, be paid to Mrs. Jordan, and if
necessary, let the Master ascertain how much of the fund
in Court has arisen from dividends accrued since the
fund was transferred into Court. Declare that this order
is without prejudice to the claim of the trustees to be re-
imbursed their costs out of the trust fund."

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord DEN➢IAN and a
Special Jury.)
CRAIG, BART., AND OTHERS V. FENN AND OTHERS.
Mr. KELLY stated the case. It was an action brought
by the plaintiffs, Directors of the Northern Reversionary
Company, against the Asylum Life Insurance Office of
London, to recover a sum of 2,0001., being the amount of
a policy of insurance effected upon the life of the Hon.
George Talbot, brother to the Earl of Shrewsbury. It
appeared that Mr. Talbot was desirous of raising a sum
of 15,000/., and the contract for repayment depended en-
tirely upon his succeeding to the Earldom and estates—
if he failed to succeed nothing at all was to be paid.
A sum of 2,5001. was advanced in hard cash by
the plaintiffs, and to cover the risk which they ran,
as in the event of his dying before the Earl
of Shrewsbury, they would receive nothing, they ef-
fected an insurance on Mr. Talbot's life for such a sum
as they thought would cover their risk. They insured
in several Scotch offices, and in one London office, the
Asylum. The Scotch offices paid the sums in which
insurances were effected, but the Asylum office had
thought proper to refuse. The result was, that they
thought it proper to file a bill in Chancery against the
plaintiffs, and extorted from them, upon their oaths, an-
swers regarding every fact that could affect the case, and
furnish them with the means of defence, and which they
could now make use of if they thought proper. He
would establish the fact that at the time when the loan
and insurance were effected, Mr. Talbot was in good
health and of temperate habits, and when he had done
that, he was really at a loss to know what defence could
be made with any shadow of justice to the present action.
The only question for the jury being, whether he was not
of intemperate habits in the month of August, 1837, when
the insurance was effected.

George Caulfield—l am a solicitor, carrying on busi-
ness in Harloy-street. I was acquainted with the late
Mr. George Talbot, who was brother to the Earl of
Shrewsbury. I acted as his solicitor from 1836 down
to the time of his death, which occurred on the 11th of
June, 1839. I was in the habit of seeing him almost
every day when in town, and I frequently lunched and
dined with him. He was living at Broadstairs, and came
up to London occasionally. I scarcely ever saw him
drink anything. I negotiated the loan for him with the
Northern Reversion Company, and by desire of one of
the Company I made arrangements for insuring his life.
The Company carry on their business in Edinburgh. I
made a proposal on their behalf to the Asylum Life Office
in London, the 28th July, 1837. [The proposal to effect
an insurance on the life of Mr. Talbot, for the sum of
2,000/. was then put in and read. On the margin was a
note " 4/. ls. for former intemperance."] The ordinary
premium according to their scale would be 21. 15s. per
cent. and the increased premium of 41. ls. was for former
intemperance. My communications were with Mr.
Farren, the resident director. The policy was effected
on the 11th August, 1837. I thought Mr. Talbot was
at that time leading a moderate and temperate life so far
as I knew it. I saw him repeatedly during the
re-
mainder of the year 1837, and his habits were the same
I have seen him;fake as much as five or six glassesbottle of
sherry after dinner, and there was sometimes a of
claret afterwards which he did not partake of.
Erot —;hle firstst
Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-
GNE
saw him on the business of the insurance a
or 2d August, 1837. I had seen him previously in April
or May. The business I saw him about on the Ist or 2d
August was another loan. I saw him every day till the
4th or sth, n
October, and
sometimes easlstOvJicae a day. I recollect see-
in~ him
for effecting tee. insurance.
Mr.nuary, 1838. My share
of 2,5001. was nothinFarren o paid a
coursei d me a I com-
missionwa
also paid for my trouble and loss ottime. I dined once